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A birthday bash in celebration of the late Stompin’ Tom Connors promises to rank up there with the best Sudbury Saturday Night. The Canadian icon, who died in 2013, would have turned 80 on Feb. 9, and while he may be gone, he is far from forgotten. His upcoming birthday party will feature his former backing band Whiskey Jack, former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson and a lineup of special guests who will sing Stompin’ Tom songs, regale the crowd

with stories and remember the folk and country legend. Duncan Fremlin, a downtown resident and co-founder of Whiskey Jack, has produced two prior birthday celebrations in memory of Stompin’ Tom. He noted, aside from singing such well-known Canadian tunes as ‘The Hockey Song’ and ‘Bud the Spud’, Connors made an indelible impression on the Canadian music scene. “He was a very principled man who had issues with the Canadian music establishment,” Fremlin said. “Back when he was an aspiring singer/ >>>CANADIAN, page 5

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Wychwood Open Door hosts annual trivia night fundraiser Wychwood Open Door, which provides social services in t h e St . C l a i r West area, is Sat. hosting its eighth annual Tr i v i a N i g h t Fundraiser. The event takes place Saturday, Feb. 6 at Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie

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St., at 7 p.m. Hosted by Global TV’s Liza Fromer, the event will include a cash bar with craft beers and fine wines, silent auction and food from local restaurants. Tickets cost $30 per person or $300 for a table of 10. For tickets or more information, visit www.wychwoodopendoor.org/events

Central Tech may go without a playing field due to dispute JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com

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Students at Central Technical School could find themselves without a playing field this year due to a dispute between Razor Management and the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Razor Management has been working to fix up the field with a plan to replace the tattered grass with artificial turf and erect a dome over a portion of the playing surface. The plan was approved at the Ontario Municipal Board last year after much debate, with many residents in the area vehemently opposed to the plan from the get-go. The field refurbishment process also revealed that the soil in the old grass field was contaminated, leading to the field being unavailable for student use since Nov. 2013. Now, the project is facing more delays, with Razor Management saying it will stop construction on the field because it did not receive a tax exemption for the field. “Razor will likely be getting an exemption from the Peel District School Board for another project it is planning to build this year, and if the TDSB decides not to create a level playing field, the field will not get completed,” said Razor Management president Matthew Raizenne in an >>>EDUCATION, page 5

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Basement Flooding Remediation and Water Quality Improvement Master Plan Class Environmental Assessment - Study Area 40 (Eglinton Avenue & Yonge Street) Notice of Study Commencement Study Overview The City of Toronto is starting several Class Environmental Assessment (EA) studies to identify causes of flooding and develop solutions to reduce the risk of future surface and basement flooding, as well as, improve stormwater quality before it is discharged to watercourses. Study Area 40, located in the Yonge-Eglinton area, has experienced basement and surface flooding during extreme storms in the past. In response, the City of Toronto has initiated this EA to address flooding that originates within the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s property such as roads and sewer infrastructure, as well as, to identify solutions for stormwater quality improvement in the area.

The Process

The study is being planned as a Master Plan in accordance with the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment process and will result in a series of recommended basement flooding remediation and water quality improvement projects. The Master Plan will define the problem, consider and evaluate alternative solutions, assess impacts of the preferred solutions and identify measures to lessen any adverse impacts.

Public Consultation

Two (2) Public Information Centres (PICs) are planned for this Study Area. The first PIC is expected to take place in late 2016. City staff and the consulting team will be present to answer questions and discuss the next steps in the process. Notification of the PICs will be advertised in the local community newspaper and information mailed to residents within the study area.

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Muslim Welfare Centre serving up free lunches

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More than 18,000 Sunday lunches served at CRC since Thanksgiving 2014 JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The ongoing revitalization of Regent Park is bringing together people from all walks of life, and the Muslim Welfare Centre (MWC) is doing its part to ensure that goal becomes a reality. E v e r y S u n d a y, t h e Scarborough-based MWC hosts a community lunch for more than 300 residents in the CRC, formerly the Christian Resource Centre. In addition to providing hot meals, the event often also allows guests to take their pick of donated clothing, toys, and other necessities, have a talk with health care professionals, or enjoy other benefits. “We launched the program on Thanksgiving 2014 and since then we’ve served well over 18,000 meals,” said Firaaz Azeez of the MWC. “We have meals that are sponsored by people in the community, corporate spon-

The people who serve you are all extraordinarily friendly and polite.

sorships, and a lot of volunteers who do everything from prepare the food to serve the guests.” The end result is a restaurant-like experience with balanced and healthy meals. Guests get their own coffee or tea, but everything else is brought to them, and volunteers clear off the tables once the guests have finished eating in order to make for a quick turnaround.

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400 meals a day “We can seat 110 people at once, and we can do as many as 400 meals on a given day,” Azeez said. On Sunday, Jan. 24, hundreds of guests were treated to tandoori chicken, potatoes, rice, and salad with pineapple for dessert, courtesy of sisters who wanted to do something nice in memory of their late mother. “I’ve been volunteering for the Muslim Welfare Centre for a long time, so I’ve come

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Volunteers work in the kitchen at the CRC on Sunday preparing food as part of the Muslim Welfare Centre’s Sunday meal program.

here (to the CRC) a lot,” said Jean Moosajee, one of the sisters who sponsored the meal. “It’s great seeing all the people coming in and doing a little bit to make their day better.” The sisters’ children and

spouses pitched in to help make sure the day – as always – was a huge success. Fazela Haniff, another of the sisters, said the MWC’s Sunday meal program was an ideal way to honour their mother. “She always liked to feed

and help people who didn’t have a lot,” she said. Patrick Burton, who lives in the CRC building’s housing component, said the MWC’s lunch program does more than just offer up good food and a positive social experi-

ence for guests; it helps build bridges and foster understanding between faiths and cultures. “The people who serve you are all extraordinarily friendly and polite,” he said, noting their work belies the mistaken negative impression some have of Muslims. “They’re doing a great job here, from the tablecloths to the food to the volunteers.” The lunches take place every Sunday at 11:30 a.m. at the CRC, 40 Oak St., in Regent Park. Azeez said in the coming months, residents will be able to take advantage of free tax clinics when they come in for a meal. For more information on the MWC’s Regent Park Lunch Service, including volunteer and sponsorship details, visit www.muslimwelfarecentre. com/causes/regent-park-lunchservice-7

Program aims to help student entrepreneurs launch summer businesses JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The provincial government is offering support to high school and post-secondary students looking to start up their own businesses. Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport Michael Coteau and Trinity-Spadina MPP Han Dong dropped by Central Toronto Academy on Monday to announce the program is now accepting submissions from students aged 15 to 29. Selected entrants will receive grants of up to $3,000, plus training and mentorship. “This year, we’re hoping to add 900 new success stories... and we know future prosperity here in the province of Ontario really depends on the success of our young people,” Coteau said. “That’s why we’re continuing to build this program.” Last year, the province

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Designer Hamdi Ali, right, presents sweaters to dignitaries at the launch of the province’s Summer Company program on Monday at Central Toronto Academy.

invested $250 million in a Youth Jobs Strategy, which aims to tackle the issue of youth unemployment and underemployment in Ontario. That investment will aid programs like Summer Company, which has helped young people launch businesses in

the technology, health care, recreation and other fields. “With renewed funding, the Summer Company program can help twice as many young people meet mentors and create their own summer business employment programs while continuing their

studies,” Coteau said. Dong said he has heard from plenty of young people and parents who are concerned over the lack of opportunities for summer and part-time employment for students. The program will ben-

efit youth like Hamdi Ali of Central Toronto Academy, who designed sweaters with his own Toronto logo. While the design has proven popular among classmates, Summer Company would provide him with the means to expand their business. “I’m trying to get into the program to launch my own company,” Ali said. “It’s not only the money – I would get training I need. I would get mentorship and make connections.” Youth Employment Services (YES), which helps connect young people with work, will facilitate Summer Company training and mentorship for some 50 youth in Toronto. YES vice president of development, programs and human resources Sinead McCarthy said the program will do more than simply provide work, it will help young people build valuable skills. “They’ll be able to meet with highly qualified busi-

nesspeople over the course of the summer who can help them not just with their business itself but with things like marketing and finance,” she said. “Sometimes the training will be skill-based, sometimes it will be business-based and sometimes it will be something like media relations.” She added participating youth will meet with mentors by phone at least every two weeks, but will also be able to connect in other ways between meetings. “The access to a mentor is probably one of the most important aspects of the program,” she noted. Summer Company will start in late June/early July and run through Labour Day. Applications are now open and will be accepted until May 6. For more information on the program, visit www.ontario. ca/page/start-summercompany-students

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omething needs to change. In the last four years, four people in mental distress have been shot and killed by Toronto police officers. All four shootings happened within minutes of the initial contact with police. In none of these deaths was a mental health crisis worker on scene. On Monday, Const. James Forcillo was convicted of attempted murder in the shooting death of 18-yearold Sammy Yatim. Yatim was behaving erratically on a streetcar July 27, 2013, brandishing a knife. But it seems clear from a YouTube video that members of the public were not in harm’s way and neither were Toronto police officers in imminent danger. Yet, police took a confrontational approach. A situation like Yatim’s required calm behaviour and verbal deescalation. Yatim required a gentle approach to encourage our view him to drop his weapon and walk off that streetcar alive. Time to He did not need to have a gun pointed at him while being change yelled at to drop the knife. But training is now what ultimately cost Yatim his life was less about Forcillo’s approach than the fact that no officer on the scene knew how to handle the situation differently. That’s a major failure of our police’s training when it comes to dealing with people in mental distress. Mayor John Tory said something needs to change when it comes to that training, and we agree. Just hours after the verdict, Tory said, “We must learn and make sure that Sammy Yatim’s death, a dark moment for our city, results in real change.”As a member of the Toronto Police Services Board, Tory will be able to not only demand better police training, but ensure it happens. Police Chief Mark Saunders said his officers’ oneday training in crisis management is adequate and stressed Yatim’s death was an isolated incident. We feel one day is not adequate training for officers. A coroner’s jury looking into the police shootings of Michael Eligon, 29, Reyal Jardine-Douglas, 25, and Sylvia Klibingaitis, 52 – all shot after approaching police with knives or scissors and all considered mentally ill – released its findings in Febraury 2014 and called for better and longer training for police in dealing with such situations. Here we are almost two years later waiting for that training to get better. It can’t happen fast enough.

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City’s public housing portfolio starts with funding It’s hard to be hopeful in the best of circumstances, and when you look at the state of public housing in Toronto, it can be difficult not to despair. On Tuesday, Mayor John Tory and Senator Art Eggleton did their best to put a hopeful face on the prospects for Toronto’s public housing portfolio, as managed by the Toronto Community Housing Company. The occasion was the release of the final report from the Mayor’s Task Force on Housing. The task force was one of the first things Tory kicked off after his election in 2014. Headed by Eggleton and made up of blue-chip executives and community leaders, the task force has been doing yeoman’s work trying to find a way out of the housing weeds. Task force members, to their credit, did what they could. Last year, they found a way to permit the corporation to renegotiate some of its mortgages to find

david nickle the city more operating dollars. They identified problems with services to tenants on matters such as repairs and safety, and offered up some solutions. And finally, at the end of their tenure, they’ve recommended a bicameral structure intended to divide up the management of existing buildings and the construction of new ones between two new non-profit companies, at a somewhat greater arms-length from city council than the current Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) as it’s currently constituted. Essentially, that plan would put Toronto’s public housing stock into a co-op model. As Tory noted at the news conference, there are 240 co-op-run housing corporations in Toronto, and little is heard of them, presumably because they’re well run.

Going co-op would let the corporation play with its mortgages more aggressively, borrowing against assets to cover the cost of maintenance and also expand the housing stock. And that would allow the corporation to create more mixed-income communities, where more units are rented out at market rates. Without doubt, this all is a step forward. But again, it’s hard to be too hopeful that implementation of the recommendations will be a success, when TCHC is so woefully underfunded. Eggleton made this point right off the top. The giant portfolio of public housing is crumbling, and the repair backlog totals $2.6 billion. Soon, many of the units will be uninhabitable. The TCHC is also operating under a growing operating deficit that could become as high as $200 million in a decade. The federal government has given good indication there might be some

money from Ottawa going to housing renewal and construction. The provincial government, according to Tory, is in a trickier situation and is unlikely to be able to provide much funding in the foreseeable future. In that scenario, what is foreseeable is something a little more sinister: an arms-length, non-profit company determining that the best way to deal with its unbalance-able books is not to take out mortgages, but to begin to sell. Ultimately, Eggleton was right to frame the problem as he did. There are changes that can make Toronto’s public housing portfolio more manageable and the lives of tenants better. But the first of those changes must involve funding. Anything else is just shuffling deck chairs.

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Voicing Perspective WHEN: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Ave. CONTACT: 416-924-6211, COST: Free Voicing Perspective will showcase paintings and photographs by artists with intellectual and physical disabilities, exploring themes of identity and community and inviting viewers to shift their perspective on disability. Teddy-Grans Picnic WHEN: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Lillian H. Smith Library, 239 College St. CONTACT: 416-3937746 to register COST: Free Bring your grandma and grandpa to the TeddyGrans Picnic for stories, activities and snacks. Don’t forget to pack your stuffie. Roundhouse Winter Craft Beer Festival WHEN: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Steam Whistle Brewing - The Roundhouse, 255 Bremner Blvd. CONTACT: holly@steamwhistle.ca COST: $20 ( in advance) $25 (at gates) Ultimate outdoor festival for craft beer and food truck lovers.

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Pet Loss Support Group WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Purina Pawsway Event Space, 245 Queens Quay W. CONTACT: RSVP to pawswaypetlossgroup@gmail.com The purpose of this group is to create a safe and supportive environment where everyone’s grief matters. Participants will have an opportunity to express their loss and share memories of their companions. WHEN: 8 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Garage, 477 Church St. COST: Free Adrienne and Chantel’s resolution is to somehow be gayer. This month’s lineup is OFF THE CHAIN with opening acts Cara Connors and Lucy Gervais.

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Older Lesbians Book Group WHEN: 1 to 3 p.m. WHERE: 519 Community Centre, 519 Church St. CONTACT: Eleanor Batchelder, 647-235-0843, eob62@yahoo.com COST: Free The group will discuss ‘Suite Francaise,’ a novel by Irene Nemirovsly.

w Wednesday, Feb. 3 An Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation for Persons with Arthritis WHEN: 1 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: The Arthritis So-

ciety, 393 University Ave., Suite 1700 CONTACT: 1-800-321-1433, ext. 3381 to register COST: Free By attending this twosession program you will learn to identify and apply basic principles of mindfulness meditation strategies, to help manage the physical and emotional impacts of arthritis.

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Tokens4Change WHEN: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: ING DIRECT Cafe, 221 Yonge St. CONTACT: Jesse J. Bernstein, jbernstein@environicspr.com COST: Free More than 400 student volunteers will inspire commuters spoken word poetry, theatre, dance, visual art and music. Volunteers will be collecting donations with proceeds going to support transportation costs and essential support programs at Youth Without Shelter.

Education director scheduled to meet Razor Management to discuss issues >>>from page 1 email. Under the deal between Razor and the TDSB, Razor was to clean up the contamination and build a new stateof-the-art field, at a cost of $7 million. Razor would then permit out the field at night and on weekends. The field is currently about 25 per cent complete, Raizenne said, but the company has warned that it will stop work on the field on Friday, Jan. 22 unless a tax exemption is granted. Razor received a three-year retroactive tax bill last October, and was told to pay $505,000 by the end of January. The company accused TDSB trustees Ausma Malik and Jennifer Story of ignoring a staff report recommending

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Razor receive the exemption. “The TDSB is saying that (the issue) is ‘complex’ but it has been three months and TDSB senior staff wrote a report saying that the trustees should grant the exemption, but the trustees are refusing to listen to their own staff,” Raizenne said. “We believe it has to do with politics at the City and TDSB.” Razor Management said the trustees have not made themselves available to discuss the matter. The TDSB replied in a statement noting that the trustees voted at a Dec. 9 meeting to defer the tax issue, adding that the board of trustees pledged to support Razor in an assessment appeal.

“It is important to note that the agreement between the Toronto District School Board and Razor Management Inc. (RMI) states that RMI is responsible for payment of any taxes assessed on the property,” the TDSB statement read. “That being said, RMI is a valued partner in completing this Central Tech project and that is why a meeting with the Director of Education has been scheduled to discuss the issues. All trustees and TDSB staff remain committed to the project and its completion because of the importance to the students at Central Technical School.” A meeting between the two sides is slated to take place on Wednesday, Jan. 27 to discuss the issue further.

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Canadian icon wrote popular ‘The Hockey Song’ >>>from page 1 songwriter, he was upset with the way Canadian artists were not given the same consideration by radio people as the American singers did.” Connors went so far as to return Juno Awards and withdraw from the music business for over a decade in protest over the fact that artists he called “turncoat Canadians” – Canadian-born, but living and working primarily south of the border – were often awarded Junos over singers who stayed in Canada. Despite the controversy, Fremlin said Connors was the

furthest thing from a blowhard. “I recorded with him over the years – we (Whiskey Jack) were his go-to band when he needed one – and he was probably the most unpretentious superstar Canada’s ever had,” he said. “When I first toured with him in 1990, people at every stop would come up to him after the show and say ‘Tom, remember that time in ’62 when you came over to my house after the show and we drank beer all night?’” Connors’ ability to connect with all Canadians is exem-

plified in his popularity from coast to coast. ‘The Hockey Song’ is nearly as much a staple at NHL games as ‘O Canada’, and his fans range from long-time country music lovers to younger musicians from across all genres to dignitaries such as Clarkson. “(Connors and Clarkson) have known each other since her early days working at the CBC and they became pretty good friends,” Fremlin said. “When I wanted to host a celebrity party for (Connors) last year, I emailed a bunch of people close to him and she said ‘yes, I definitely want to

be part of it.’” Clarkson will sing ‘The Marten Hartwell Story’ with backing from Whiskey Jack in tribute to her old friend, while other acts will sing other songs from Stompin’ Tom’s catalogue in honour of the late Canadian star. Fremlin said the celebrations he has held in memory of Stompin’ Tom have always brought in a few unexpected special guests. “A show like this, you never know who’s going to show up,” he said. The show, titled Songs and Stories of Stompin’ Tom, will take place at Hugh’s Room at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9.

For tickets, call the Hugh’s Room box office at 416-5316604.

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Former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, left, performs with Duncan Fremlin of Whiskey Jack. The pair will be playing at an upcoming 80th birthday celebration for the late Stompin’ Tom Connors.

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