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Spring cleaning isn’t just about clearing the clutter from people’s homes anymore thanks to the advent of the City of Toronto’s annual community cleanup events. This weekend will see more than 100 groups of volunteers out and about in parks

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community event at wThespring Gardiner museum Gardiner Museum welcomes budding horticulturists and those looking to celebrate spring at its Spring Awakening: Gardiner in Bloom. The exhibit brings together designers and leaves the museum awash in colourful flowers. It takes place at 111 Queen’s Park from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday to Sunday.

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Heritage Toronto fundraiser for wHeritage w walking tours refugees The Church of the Holy Toronto hosts its annual series of walking tours to teach Torontonians more about their city. This year’s series kicks off with a tour of Corktown starting at 83 Power St. at 1:30 p.m. Saturday with tours of Spadina Avenue and Cabbagetown North on Sunday.

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Cressy runs wJoeJoe for federal NDP Cressy, social justice activist and senior advisor for the Stephen Lewis Foundation, announced the start of his campaign to replace Olivia Chow as NDP MP for TrinitySpadina. The seat became available when Chow resigned and announced she would run for Toronto mayor. Vaughan to run wMore for Liberals Trinity-Spadina news: Ward 20 Councillor Adam Vaughan will be running as a Liberal in the upcoming byelection. He agreed to run for the post after meeting with Liberal leader Justin Trudeau. No date has been set for the byelection. Doors Open wMark Toronto your calendars for Doors Open Toronto May 24 and 25. Visit www.toronto.ca/ doorsopen

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Easter events: Bettie Martindale, top left, adds another completed flower to a bunch on Saturday at Christ Church Deer Park’s Elliott Hall. Volunteers made more than 1,000 plastic flowers for the church’s annual Easter display. Marlowe Barrett, 20 months, top middle, and Charlotte Coristine, 18 months, top right, both wade through a meadow of plastic flowers outside the church. Volunteer Steven Hoeg, left, prepares the gravy containers on Sunday for the Yonge Street Mission’s Easter Dinner for families in need. Bottom, Floyd Kuptana, left, Red McKinnon and Al Stewart tuck in to their meals while Sarah Bartley, right, checks out plates of treats at the Mission.

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ith the changing season, and a sense of renewal in the air, Torontonians are heading outside to clean up their homes – and their

city. This weekend, kicking off with corporate and school cleanup day on Friday, the city will be getting a good (spring) cleaning at the hands of residents who want to make sure their city, their neighbourhood, and their own street is as pleasing as possible. These seemingly small actions by a group of residents helps build not only a sense of pride in the neighbourhood, but also a connection between those who live in it as they undertake a common goal. “It creates community,” said David Juliusson, program officer at Fort York National Historic Site, who is leading the cleanup of the historic site this Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon. “A lot of people in the neighbourhood are new... Something like this gives them a our view chance to meet other people.” What started in 2001 as a 20-minute cleanup initiative Help the by amalgamated Toronto’sfirst mayor, Mel Lastman, has turned community a three-day city-wide all year long into cleanup where people get out of their homes, grab a garbage bag and get working. The City of Toronto kicked off its annual spring cleanup campaign earlier in the month with the removal of graffiti, cleaning up garbage and hauling away debris from city property, which gathered over the long winter months. Coinciding with Earth Week (April 22 to 27), the cleanups are happening across the city – from Etobicoke to Scarborough, North York to the Beach, Parkdale to Bloor West. Too see what cleanup projects other Toronto communities are taking on and tips on how to get involved, see our special feature at http://bit. ly/1lxd5hY Not only do these cleanups make the city look great, but they bring out residents, students, businesses, organizations and community groups – many leading the cleanups, others joining in just because they care. These cleanup initiatives should be seen as just one of a multi-pronged approach to community building. Why not extend this kind of community exercise more often than once a year? You can find a community group / organization across the city. Look into joining one, and make a difference in your community.

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Potential for a predictable council next term is high What an upset it would be if Councillor Adam Vaughan had his hat handed to him in the federal byelection in Trinity-Spadina. Anything is possible in politics. But in this hometurf byelection in a riding whose outgoing incumbent is busy with her own election, it’s hard to see Vaughan doing anything but winning, taking over Olivia Chow’s former riding the same way he took over her former ward in 2006. News of Vaughan’s expected Liberal candidacy emerged last week after a meeting with Liberal leader Justin Trudeau. In the Liberal caucus, Vaughan would take the lead on cities. No doubt he’ll also make an impression in Question Period. At city hall, Vaughan has been one of the more effective opposition councillors – asking tough questions, deflating fatuous arguments and goading the Fords and their allies into red-faced rage (by my

david nickle the city completely unscientific observations, about once a meeting). It’s behaviour like that that has helped make the former journalist a very electable commodity in the downtown communities he represents – and less than that, across the breadth of the city – as became clear when earlier in the term he was seriously contemplating a run for mayor. As such, his departure leaves an interestingshaped hole in Toronto Council. It would be an exaggeration to say that Vaughan’s departure could mark a return to collegiality at the council that has become the Road-Warrior model of municipal government. But looking at the next term, there are going to be a number of departures that might just put the ‘order’ back in Robert’s

Rules. At least one Ford brother – Etobicoke North Councillor Doug Ford – isn’t returning for 2015. Scarborough-Agincourt Councillor Mike Del Grande, the former budget chief whose frequent rages at disruptive behaviour at council cause almost as much disruption, is retiring. York West Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti – he of the vote-pulling thumbs and bizarre anticommunist rhetoric – is showing every indication of coming back for now, but he’s facing a serious court hearing about his election expenses that could derail those plans. If all those people go – well of course we’ll miss them. The thing about outrageous characters like the aforementioned is they’re all eminently watchable, and therefore electable. What a dull and potentially productive council

we could have at the end of 2014. And it would be interesting to see what Vaughan can do in Ottawa. As a councillor, his reputation for a sharp tongue is matched by his track record as a deal broker – getting as many concessions as he can from the various developers looking to plant towers in the downtown neighbourhoods he represents. Vaughan has a genuine expertise, won on the ground, when it comes to urban issues. If Vaughan does indeed win the seat, and Trudeau does indeed win enough other seats to form a government, there’s a lot he could do in pushing the federal government into taking a greater role in urban life and infrastructure. He wouldn’t even have to be particularly nice about it.

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Fairlawn Avenue United Church Book Sale WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. today; noon to 9 p.m. Friday; 10 to 1 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Fairlawn Avenue United Church, 28 Fairlawn Ave. CONTACT: www.fairlawnchurch.ca/events/ book-sale COST: Free Selection of gently used books (including children’s), CDs, DVDs and LPs. Free admission. Cash or cheque only. |FAT| Arts & Fashion Week WHEN: various times until April 26 WHERE: Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas St. E. CONTACT: Vanja Vasic, media@fashionarttoronto.ca COST: $35 or $100 week pass |FAT| Arts & Fashion Week features more than 50 runway shows and fashion-focused photography exhibits, art installations, performances and films.

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Forest Hill Art Club Show and Sale WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Forest Hill Art Club Studio, 666 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Janet Skelton, 416-481-2514 COST: Free The annual show and sale of mem-

Book Bash: Samba Squad WHEN: 3:30 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View Blvd. CONTACT: 416-393-7610 COST: Free Follow the path of the drum from Brazil to Toronto with Samba Squad, led by award-winning percussionist Rich Shadrach Lazar! Enjoy the sounds of this 16-plus-member ensemble as they drum Book Bash!: Canadian Children’s Literature Festival to a resounding close.

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she said. “It was going to be in Lithuanian or maybe in Russian if the film was going to be set there.” She finally settled on Yiddish for the sake of authenticity, though she was not the only one for whom the film served as an immersion into the language. Neither of her lead actors, Milda Gecaite and Grisha Pasternak, spoke the language. “I tried to find Yiddish actors, but I couldn’t find two fluent-speaking kids who were also actors and who would appear in a film with some nudity,” she said. That resulted in an unusual casting process. The actors originally auditioned in English and then did their callbacks in Yiddish, learning the language phonetically. Once they were cast, Gecaite and Pasternak underwent months of intensive Yiddish lessons and Jaye had a dialogue coach on set at all times to ensure the pronunciation was correct. “It was pretty intense and people thought I was crazy, but I wanted to make sure it was authentic,” she said.

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Volunteers welcome to join in cleanup >>>from page 1 Ben Park that haven’t been associations to parks groups looked after, so we’ll be lookgetting involved. ing to get groups of five or That list includes three six people in there getting cleanups being organized their hands dirty.” by Friends of Roxton Cuthbertson said Road Parks (FRRP), the garden in the who will tackle area has some Fred Hamilton white pines that Park, George are struggling Ben Park and to grow given the Roxton the weeds Road Parkette that spring i n t h e up in the garden, and College and Ossington volunteers will do their streets area. The volunpart to get rid teer organizaof unwanted tion will be plants and help the trees along. joining in the DOES YOUR SCHOOL OR Community She added that OFFICE HOLD A CLEANUP volunteers will Clean-Up DAY? DOES YOUR FAMILY movement for also be enlisted HELP TIDY UP THE PARK? the first time to move park ★★★ this year. benches back “The group’s We want to hear how you to their original only three years locations and contribute. Contact us at old and we had letters@insidetoronto.com some will also committed investigate the ourselves to possibility of four events a year to start, planting trees in the parks. but now we’ve gotten to Depending on the number the point where we can do of volunteers who come out, more,” said FRRP chair Jill the group may split up to Cuthbertson. tackle the parks or they may While the impetus behind work together, going from one the Community Clean-Up park to another. Given that initiative is to clean green this year will be FRRP’s first spaces, Cuthbertson noted foray into the Community the parks in her area are fairly Clean-Up, Cuthbertson isn’t well-kept by the City. While sure what to expect. volunteers at this weekend’s “If I get five volunteers, event will tidy up the area, I’ll be happy,” she said. “If I FRRP is using this weekend get 20, I’ll be overwhelmed as a means of getting people with delight.” together and offering other T h e So u t h Ro s e d a l e programming. Ratepayers’ Association “We’re planning to do a (SRRA) will also hold little free library (used book clean-ups in two locations exchange) in the area, so we’ll – Craighleigh Gardens and the Prince Edward Viaduct be trying to get all the materials and people we need for Parkette. that together,” she said. Don Hogarth of the SRRA “There are also some garsaid the event has become dens the City put in at George one he and his fellow vol-

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Chair of Friends of Roxton Road Parks Jill Cuthbertson will be taking part in the cleanup of Fred Hamilton Park in the College St. and Ossington Ave. area, this Sunday at 11 a.m.

unteers have come to look forward to every year. “We want to keep our public park areas as clean and nice-looking as possible,” he said. “It’s a great time of year for it, after all the snow has melted and all the nasty stuff is evident for the eye to see.” Hogarth said the SRRA cleanups usually bring out about 30 to 40 residents, including some students from local schools who can get their mandatory volun-

teer hours by participating. He added that the event is an opportunity for people to do more than just clean. “We reacquaint ourselves with the green space around us and we get to meet up with our neighbours,” he said. “Sometimes, people show up from outside the neighbourhood to help clean. It’s basically a day for anybody with an appreciation of our park lands.” With nearly a decade of cleanups behind them, the

SRRA has gotten the cleanups down to a fine science. As for the strangest things volunteers have come across while cleaning? “I don’t think they’d be suitable to print in a family newspaper,” Hogarth said. The Community CleanUps focus on parks, but those living in areas where green space is at a premium also get into the act. YWCA Toronto and the Elm Centre women’s residence organized a cleanup of a few streets in

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downtown Toronto, cleaning litter in the Elizabeth and Elm streets area recently. “It was the tenants at the Elm Centre who took the initiative,” said Grace Costa, manager of the YWCA Elm Centre. “It’s right downtown, across from the bus station, so the tenants felt they needed to go out and clean up the area.” Following the cleanup, Elm Centre residents will get to work on planting a vegetable garden in the courtyard of their building. The FRRP clean-up will take place at 11 a.m. on Sunday, April 27, with volunteers meeting in the bocce courts at Fred Hamilton Park. SRRA will hold its events in Craigleigh Gardens and the Prince Edward Viaduct Parkette at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 26. Volunteers at the various events are asked to bring work gloves and shoes and clothing that is weather and event-appropriate, along with any rakes or other implements they would like to bring along. Garbage bags will be provided. We’ve got more. Read all about the work happening throughout the city online at bit.ly/1lxd5hY

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church. “It was a group of spirited professionals who wanted to give kids an opportunity, an alternative, something different in the community because when kids aren’t engaged, that’s when they get in trouble,” Marsella said. Last year, the RPSM offered instruction to some 1,300 kids at its various locations, and that number is set to swell even further, with a goal of reaching roughly 2,000 students through a growth spurt from September of this year through June, 2015. “We had bought the house (the school operated out of) on Queen Street and got some money from selling it,” Marsella said. “Now we’re paying rent here (at Daniels Spectrum) and we’re looking to make the most of the space.” The school now charges students a nominal fee to participate, both to support its burgeoning programming

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and to give parents of its students a sense of ownership over the musical education the children are getting. RPSM also collects donated instruments and gets a large portion of its revenue through fundraising events. “The model has evolved over the years,” Marsella said. “When you go from 71 students to 1,300, you’ve got to find a sophisticated way to approach the whole thing.” The school is set to host its annual fundraiser, Crescendo!, at Daniels Spectrum starting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, April 28. The concert will feature Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo fame along with the Devon Cuddy Band and performances by RPSM students. The evening includes hors d’oeuvres, an open bar and a silent auction.

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Northern District Library has a fun day planned for kids as part of the Keep Toronto Reading Festival. The library, at 40 Orchard View Boulevard, is hosting a Book Bash to give kids a chance to meet children’s authors and illustrators, enjoy puppetry and storytelling, take part in a writing workshop, do arts and crafts and dance to music from Samba Squad. They can also learn to make their books more interactive through “book hacking” sessions, in which they will learn the joys of adding their own illustrations, pop-ups and other designs to books. While the event is free of charge, kids must register to take part in the writing workshops due to limited space. The event will take place from 12:30 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, with sign-up for the writing workshops starting at noon.

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She made 12 recommendations, which all relate to complying with existing policies and practises when it comes to human resources matters, and ensuring that senior executives are trained to use those policies. The conflict of interest policy also needs to be expanded to include past business relationships between applicants for jobs and those responsible for hiring. The TCHC has responded to the report, in a letter co-signed by Jones and TCHC board chair Bud Purvis. “We accept your findings and will act swiftly to address the deficiencies that you have identified,” the letter reads in part. “Guided by your recommendations, we will move forward to complete the task of modernizing our human resources function along the timelines set out in your report.”

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GO proposal faster than subway Air-rail link first for electrification RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com A transportation proposal unveiled last Thursday by the province for frequent express GO train service promises faster travel than the subway. If completed, the GO Regional Express Rail plan would expand GO train service from a commuter service limited to peak period trips to all day, everyday service, making for a faster alternative to the subway and reducing travel times in some cases by as much as half, said Premier Kathleen Wynne. “This will be a faster option for those who are travelling in and out of Toronto’s downtown core,” said Wynne who announced the plan alongside Ontario Transportation Minister Glen Murray at GO’s Willowbrook maintenance facility in Etobicoke. According to the plan, the new service would allow GO customers to get from the Kennedy subway and Go station in Scarborough to Union

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Premier Kathleen Wynne, right, and provincial Transportation Minister Glen Murray promise ‘faster option’.

Station in under 20 minutes at anytime, compared to the same route via subway, which would take almost 40 minutes. Train travel from any Toronto GO station would be faster by at least eight minutes than a similar route on the TTC. The express trains would also be fully electric, said Murray, with plans to phase out existing diesel units which

make up the bulk of GO service currently. “Electric trains will run frequently and they will be moving people much more quickly,” Murray said. “There will be increased capacity and higher connectivity,” he added. Murray also said the Union-Pearson Express air rail link service between Pearson International Airport and Union Station to debut next year will be a part of the service. Funding for the project is unknown, but Wynne said money would come from a recent $15 billion transit commitment to the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area over 10 years. She also said Metrolinx was committed to introducing the service within the same time frame. Two-way, everyday GO Train service was launched on the GO Lakeshore East and West lines last year.

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RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Converting the UnionPearson (UP) Express air rail link to an electric train service will be the first step toward electrification of the entire GO rail network, said the president of Metrolinx. Speaking to reporters following last Thursday’s announcement from Premier Kathleen Wynne on plans to introduce frequent-service electric trains across the GO network, Bruce McCuaig said electrification work on the UP Express could start as early as 2015. That’s the same year the frequent rail service launches, and the UP Express will begin by running diesel trains between Pearson International Airport and Union Station. “The initial piece is UP, it was always intended to be the first step,” McCuaig said. “We’re starting electrification of UP Express next year subject to an environmental approval and funding.”

Completing electrification work would take three years of construction and would require the building of additional infrastructure along the UP route as well as the conversion of the diesel trains already purchased for the four-station route, which includes stops at Bloor and Weston GO stations. Metrolinx estimates the project will require funding in the neighbourhood of around $450 million, money which has not yet been provided by the province. $29-billion funding But McCuaig said he was confident the money would be made available within a $29-billion funding announcement made by the province this week, which includes a $15 billion commitment over 10 years to transit improvements that are part of Metrolinx’s Big Move transit plan for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). “We’re gong to be looking

at how we can deploy these funds to increase the level of service on GO Transit and also to electrify the service,” he said. Earlier in the month, Metrolinx announced it had completed a provincial environmental assessment (EA) studying how to best electrify the service, which will run on the Georgetown South GO rail corridor, also known as the Kitchener line. The full report is available at www.gotransit.com/electrification/en/default.aspx until the end of the month. Prior to that, another report was prepared by Metrolinx on how to electrify the Lakeshore and Kitchener corridors. But with the announcement from Wynne and Ontario Transport Minister Glen Murray on the plan to electrify all GO rail tracks within 10 years, McCuaig said more study will be necessary.

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Fi t t i n g l y, t h e t o k e n s handed out as incentives to those who drop off goods are reused computer chips that have been turned into key rings. Inorganic Market makes its money through eco-fees collected when electric and electronic goods are purchased, along with nominal fees collected when they bring goods to the processing centre. While these fees may not make a trip to that centre worthwhile for single-family homes, by bringing goods up in bulk, Inorganic Market is able to sustain itself. Inorganic Market currently runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays outside Scadding Court Community Centre at 707 Dundas S. W. Coutts said the hope is that those hours can be expanded in the summer.

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