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Male and female athletes, including Toronto’s Crispin Duenas, front, line up their shot during the ranking round for Pan Am Games Archery Tuesday at Varsity Stadium.

Pan Am archers take over Varsity Stadium JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The University of Toronto’s Varsity Centre Stadium’s inauguration as a Pan Am Games venue on Tuesday morning was a soggy one, but it was nonetheless successful with a sizable crowd filling the stands to watch archery.

Having two Toronto-based athletes – Scarborough’s Crispin

Duenas and Etobicoke’s Kateri Vrakking – no doubt helped drum up excitement in the host city. Vrakking, a Grade 7 teacher at St. Matthew Catholic School, noted she had a fair number of friends, family members and both current and former students in the stands.

“To have this at home, to have this here in Toronto and to have this at Varsity Stadium with the youth (attending) is

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Vrakking finished 14th in the ranking round among the women and tops among Canadians, something that would have been unthinkable just more than a month ago when she was cut from the team. Despite finishing third at the Pan Am qualifiers in Montreal, the 42-year-old archer had been left off the team in favour of a lower-ranked,

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The centre, on the third floor of 73 Regent Park Blvd., officially began serving the community on Monday, a few days after it held an open house to showcase its health care offerings to community partners and a few potential clients.

It will be the sixth facility within St. Michael’s Hospital’s Department of Family and Community Medicine and Academic Family Health Team.

“For residents in the area, the proximity of the clinic to their home will make a big difference,” said Sumac Creek clinical leader manager Jacqueline Chen at the open house. “We have an interdisciplinary team of health professionals whose job is to be able to address all our clients’ needs in one facility.”

The health centre will be home to 11 physicians, who will make use of 29 examination rooms. A nursing pod will be near the patient intake area to ensure nurses are on hand to >>>SUMAC, page 2

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The south end of the facility will feature its own laboratory and diagnostic imaging area, ensuring patients don’t have to make a separate trip for blood tests, X-rays and the like. That side of the building will also be home to Sumac Creek’s Flexible Outreach Community Urban Support (FOCUS) program, which

will offer around-the-clock services for those dealing with complex mental health and addiction issues.

There will also be on-site professionals to provide care in specialized areas such as chiropody, healthy eating and psychiatry, and it will be work closely with other service providers in the area to help ensure a holistic spectrum of care.

“One of the nice things

about this centre is it’s looking at the whole of a person’s health,” said St. Michael’s Hospital program director of inner city health Judy Shearer. “There will be staff members here who will be able to deal with everything from health issues to income security, health promotion and even helping people do their income taxes.”

On Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons, the

clinic will also host health promotion events, looking to better educate the public on issues such as healthy lifestyles, dealing with health issues such as pre-hypertension and pre-diabetes, and other issues targeted at keeping clients out of the health care system.

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cation and literacy.

“We’re involved in the Reach Out and Read program which really encourages literacy skills in youth and children,” Chen said. “It’s important to get kids involved in reading at an early age and as a health provider, we feel we should play a strong role in education.”

In addition to the reading material on hand, a special kids’ corner which will soon be added will feature computers

with educational games in four different languages.

The clinic’s already-packed schedule – the appointment book for its first day filled quickly – showed a real need in the community, where an estimated 10,000 residents did not have a regular family doctor.

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Badminton medallist hopes to strike gold twice JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com

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aving already claimed gold for Canada in the 2011 Pan Am Games in women’s doubles badminton in Guadalajara, Mexico, Deer Park area resident Alex Bruce is looking to double up on her success by bringing home two medals for Canada this year.

Bruce and partner Michelle Li defeated American sisters Iris and Rena Wang in 2011.

They then went on to finish fourth in women’s doubles at the 2012 London Olympics for Canada’s best-ever Olympic badminton result.

This time around, she is competing in women’s doubles with Phyllis Chan of Vancouver and teaming up with Toby Ng for mixed doubles competition. Both pairings enjoyed early success at

the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, making their way through to the semi-finals.

That success should not be surprising, though Bruce knows not to take anything for granted.

“As a badminton team, Canada’s pretty strong (among the teams) in the Americas, but you still have to go out and actually do well,” she said.

While many world-class athletes start out in their sport of choice from a very young age, Bruce was a relative latecomer to badminton.

“I started to play when I was about eight years old but it wasn’t really a big focus for me early on,” she said. “Getting more involved in it came very gradually for me. It wasn’t until I was in high school that I started competing more around the country.”

The Bishop Strachan School graduate continued to pursue

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Alex Bruce will compete in badminton during the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games.

the sport throughout her time at the University of Western Ontario.

She said the Pan Am Games give her and her fellow players a chance to showcase the skills involved in playing high-level badminton.

“It will be great to show people what we can do,” she said. “A lot of the sports in the Pan Am Games don’t get a lot of media attention in Canada.”

Bruce said having the games on home soil makes them extra special.

She admitted to being nervous to be playing in front of home crowds, but said she will be able to channel those nerves into something positive.

“I think I’ll be nervous because of (playing at home,) but for me it’s all about nervous excitement,” she said.

“When I get nervous, I get nervous-excited and that usually works to my advantage.”

She knows she will have supporters following her both on television and in person at the Atos Markham Pan Am/Parapan Am Centre.

“I heard badminton ticket sales were going really well,” she said before the games started.

“It’s really great to see the excitement building across the city for the games.

The semifinal events in which Bruce was scheduled to compete took place Tuesday after Mirror deadline.

The women’s doubles finals was scheduled for Wednesday, and the mixed doubles finals for today.

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Little Italy’s Aaron Sanderson volunteering at Pan Am Games JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com For most volunteers at the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, the event marks a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pitch in and help ensure the success of a massive multi-sport games.

For Little Italy resident Aaron Sanderson, the chance to volunteer at such an event is at least twice-ina-lifetime.

Sanderson moved to Toronto from Vancouver roughly three years ago, and prior to moving he volunteered at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

His experience there cemented his desire to join the party for this summer’s Pan Am Games.

“There are only a few points in time where you’ll get to experience a multi-sport games like this,” he said. “I was lucky enough to be able to volunteer in Vancouver in 2010 and I enjoyed it so much, when this opportunity came up, it was a nobrainer.”

Sanderson is working as a press

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Pan Am Games volunteer Aaron Sanderson will be working at the gymnastics events throughout the games.

operations supervisor at the Toronto Coliseum throughout the Pan Am gymnastics competitions. His role is specifically to coordinate volunteer crews and ensure photographers

capturing the action are steered to key positions near the field of play.

He worked with the press ops team at the sliding centre in Whistler at the Vancouver 2010 games, but noted

his current role is perhaps a bit more up his alley.

“I trained and coached in gymnastics for 15 years in Vancouver and competed provincially out west,” he said. His work as a volunteer certainly keeps him busy – sometimes even too busy to fully appreciate everything taking place around him.

On the first day of competition, he was so engrossed in his work he missed watching a huge crowd filter into the Coliseum.

“I was running around all day getting ready and it wasn’t until the announcer had everyone in the crowd cheer that I realized it was completely packed,” he said on Saturday, the first day of competition. “Of course that’s good for me. It makes for much better photos when the place is full.”

Sanderson expects those capacity crowds to continue throughout the games. That will almost assuredly

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be the case if Canada continues to medal – the women’s artistic gymnastics team won silver on Sunday, and Canadian Ellie Black won gold in the women’s all-around competition on Monday.

Beyond his volunteer work with the Pan Am Games, Sanderson is devoted to helping others. His career includes time spent working on several good causes, from his current role as director of development with War Child Canada to time spent with the SickKids Foundation and its Children’s Miracle Network to a stint as a philanthropy officer at the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation.

The Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games have given him a chance to both volunteer his time and enjoy a sport he loves.

“And living in Little Italy, it’s so convenient because I can go straight down Bathurst to the venue,” he said.

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hen a gun falls into the hands of a child or a teen, the blame for it cannot be placed on one person.

It’s a community’s collective failure to provide opportunities, outreach and ongoing dialogue for these youth that allows gun culture to take root around them.

For there to be a meaningful change, it has to be more than just the police coming to the door and patrolling the streets. There needs to be change fostered from within these neighbourhoods, but it has to happen in tangent with support from those on the who may have the means our view outside to help keep up the momentum.

The Jamestown community in Collectively north Etobicoke is mourning the loss of 14-year-old Lecent Ross, we can do who died from a gunshot wound in a friend’s home last week. Though something police continue to investigate and have not laid charges, nor said who fired the gun, they did say the weapon was an illegal, semi-automatic handgun – a .40-calibre Smith & Wesson. Lecent was the third resident on this particular street to be killed by a gun in the past two years.

Pastor Allan Bowen, of Abundant Life Assembly in north Etobicoke, told Metroland Media Toronto his community needs saving from drugs, guns and gangs.

He says they need a champion to come forward to change the community’s fate.

And while the police have their obvious role in eradicating crime from these areas, there are other players that need to come to the table.

We, the media, need to keep the spotlight on these issues and these communities. It defeats the purpose of serving the broader, public good when we swoop in on tragedy and fly out at the first sniff of the next breaking news story.

Politicians can help push for change within government. They can secure funding for community investment and investment in at-risk youth.

But their actions rely significantly on the will of the people. And it’s people who live outside of these neighbourhoods who need to start caring. There are world issues that get more support than the problems happening in our own backyard. This is our city’s problem and these people need our support.

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The live press conference is just part of the story An epiphany came upon the city hall press gallery Tuesday, after Scarborough-Agincourt Councillor Jim Karygiannis finished a morning news conference offering a scaremongering interpretation of the Highway Traffic Act. It was not that Karygiannis was being irresponsible when he warned Torontonians and visitors that they could be fined up to $20,000 for booking an Uber ride.

He was being irresponsible, of course, selectively reading sub-clauses from the act to conflate the responsibility of a customer with that of a driver and dispatcher.

It was straightforward work for journalists at the event to dismantle that fallacy.

Had Karygiannis consulted a lawyer in coming to this position?

He had not.

Had he spoken with the police about the likelihood of such charges being laid

david nickle the city against passengers booking a ride with the Uber app?

He had written them, but not heard back.

Had he heard of anyone in any jurisdiction being charged for calling an Uber cab?

No. Epiphany The epiphany didn’t really have much to do with Karygiannis. It had to do with us.

Because the fact is that while the councillor and former Liberal MP was twisting facts, cameras were rolling – and his words were going out live on CP24, to dental office waiting rooms and airport lounges across the Greater Toronto Area.

And before anyone got a chance to ask any

questions – including CP24’s own journalists – Karygiannis had the floor.

People who were called in to see the hygienist before questions began might have come away thinking this imaginative scare tactic was a real thing.

And that is the epiphany: the institutionalization of live-TV coverage of press events has made it easier than ever for demagoguery to take hold.

The Ford brothers used live television news conferences to great effect – shouting down reporters who challenged assertions that were flat-out and selfevidently wrong.

Former councillor Doug Ford was a master at this live-TV obfuscation – often picking out a particular journalist by name, and insisting their questions were inspired by personal animosity to his poor brother mayor Rob Ford.

One wonders how much of Ford Nation is comprised of people waiting to get the

keys to their car from the muffler shop, watching half or two-thirds of these ohso-distorted spectacles?

Karygiannis’ bit of mischief will likely have a similar but smaller effect – driving uninformed visitors and inattentive Torontonians from Uber cars to the waiting arms of Toronto’s licensed taxi drivers, a group that has enjoyed the unwavering support of Karygiannis at committee and council this term.

Others, who read newspapers, watch news conferences to the end and partake of the good, balanced work that broadcast journalists do piecing the story together for newscasts, won’t be so easily fooled.

But really, that’s just damage control. The medium itself has already delivered its message.

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Hometown athletes on target >>>from page 1 hand, it’s all about putting down arrows,” she said. “If I’m here competing, that’s what I’m focused on.”

She said she did not feel the need for validation after being cut, adding any validation there was to be had took place prior to the start of the Pan Am Games.

The archer said she was pleased with her showing, saying neither the drizzle that broke out intermittently throughout the event nor the large hometown crowd affected her.

“We’re from Canada, we get weather,” she said. “And I’m not new to the Games. I’m a veteran archer, so I don’t think nerves really affect me.”

Vrakking’s 612 points will earn her a head-to-head match with Cuba’s Elizabeth Rodriguez in the first elimination round Wednesday, which went beyond our press deadlines.

She said she feels confident she has found her groove in Varsity Stadium.

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I came out here feeling pretty prepared, but nothing could have prepared me for the crowd here.

– Crispin Duenas

“I feel like I had a good ranking round,” she said.

“My shots felt good – they were not all exactly where I was wanting them to be, but such is archery.”

Duenas, the world-ranked No. 9 player on the men’s side and third-ranked player at the Pan Ams, was disappointed in his finish, placing ninth out the 32-deep men’s field in the ranking round.

He is slated to face off against Puerto Rico’s Jose Irizarry in the men’s first elimination round today.

He said he felt a bit nervous in the early going, due in part to the large, raucous crowd that filled the Varsity Stadium stands.

“I came out here feeling

pretty prepared, but nothing could have prepared me for the crowd here,” he said.

“Having a really big crowd was a surprise for me.”

Duenas made it clear he was not complaining about the turnout for what he said is normally a very low-key event.

He simply needed to take a bit of time to get used to having hundreds on hand to watch him perform.

“I took the first half to get used to it,” he said. “The second half, I was shooting better.”

Both athletes spoke glowingly of Varsity Stadium’s Pan Am Games setup.

“It’s a beautiful venue and I love what they’ve done with the space,” said Duenas, a University of Toronto alumnus.

Vrakking called it “gorgeous” and said she was not adversely affected by the wind, which she said was “playing nice.”

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Scarborough’s Crispin Duenas collects his arrows.

It’s just exciting to see the games up close and not on TV. My family’s originally from Mexico, but I was born in Canada, so I guess I kind of have two teams.

– Mike Rodriguez

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It’s a little wet, but you don’t get to have these kinds of games in your city very often, so of course we came down to cheer on our Canadians.

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Etobicoke’s Kateri Vrakking competing in the ranking round.

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It’s pretty cool seeing how good they are.

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Toronto Island resident pens a ‘New Urban Agenda’ JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Toronto has its share of strengths, but it also has various areas in which it can and should improve if it is to truly stand out as a worldclass city.

Toronto Island resident Bill Freeman outlines some of the key issues facing Toronto and the surrounding area, from divided politics to transit and traffic congestion to the need for affordable housing in his new book The New Urban Agenda.

Freeman, an urban issues writer, has penned plenty of books, including some Canadian historical fiction for young adults. It is in writing about cities and the issues that plague them, however, where he is most comfortable.

“I’ve written a lot about cities – I’ve written four books just about Hamilton,” he said. “There are a number of key issues I wrestled with for this book and I’m certainly not the only one.”

Freeman said transit is one of the greatest problems facing Toronto.

While he credited the provincial government with stepping up and providing funding for rapid transit,

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he noted the city itself needs to do more to keep its citizens on the move, suggesting more buses on the roads would be a good start.

“The cost of transit is a big issue and there’s always going to be a conflict between cars and a lack of cars (due to alternative modes of transportation,)” he said.

“The Gardiner Expressway is kind of at the centre of the whole debate. If we keep building expressways, we’ll actually be harming the city.”

The author added affordable housing is also a key plank in any plan to revitalize Toronto. While low-income living was once limited almost exclusively to the downtown core, that has changed in recent years.

“With gentrification and the condo boom, people with low incomes have moved out into the suburbs,” he said.

Freeman pointed out the complexion of the downtown core is changing at a breakneck pace, with more upwardly mobile young professionals moving into high-rises in the heart of the city.

“Whereas earlier generations wanted to escape the city, the newer generation wants to come down and be part of the city,” he said.

The New Urban Agenda looks at these issues and more, with Freeman offering details and data, along with his evidence-based views and perspectives.

While the book is heavy on information, it is nonetheless accessible even to those without much grasp on politics and the issues that grip Toronto. Ensuring everyone could understand the issues, he said, is key to effecting change.

“We need people to get involved in this because one of the things about cities is that the good ones value quality of life,” he said. “If the city’s going to function well, people have to contribute to that.”

Freeman’s time on Toronto Island helped shape his views and changed his perspective regarding city living.

“There are no cars there, and there’s a very engaged community,” he said. “People know each other and look after each other. I think other communities do that – I know people from across the city who tell me about their neighbours and what works in their neighbourhood – and that’s important, basing our lives around our communities.”

That will become all the more important in the coming years with 100,000 new residents coming to the GTA every year.

“We’re going to be a city of 10 million in 20 to 25 years,” Freeman said. “We have to start getting ready for that now.”

The New Urban Agenda is currently available in book stores. Freeman’s views on urban issues and citybuilding can also be found online at www.newurbanagenda.com

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JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com

The CIBC Pan Am Park has something for everyone and is set up to be the social gathering spot of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games for neighbouring communities and the entire city.

The festivities kicked off Saturday, July 11 and transformed the grounds at Exhibition Place from empty parking lots into “action central.”

The park boasts 52,249 square feet of space that has an array of activities, from testing out OLG’s All For Here virtual reality booth where participants can kayak, cycle or run with the Pan Am torch for 45 seconds; to the Chevrolet Volt-powered slot car track, where you can go head-to-head against friends by powering your race car with pedal power. (Warning: This event will turn your legs to mush once it’s over.); to checking out some Parapan

A year ago, teenager Myles Lynch would never have imagined he would become a Pan Am Games torchbearer.

Of course, a year ago, the concept of running 200 metres for any reason was nearly unfathomable to him.

Lynch, 17, was born with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that causes serious breathing difficulties. Some have likened it to breathing through a narrow straw, which makes the notion of running any distance seem virtually impossible.

Following a double lung transplant last October, however, the teen was able to become more active, taking up longboarding, hiking, swimming and cycling.

On Friday, July 10 – the opening day of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games – Lynch

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Pan Am Torch Relay torchbearer Myles Lynch, with his parents Linda and Bernie, is greeted by a crowd at the Hospital for Sick Children as he carries the Games’ flame Friday. Myles was born with cystic fibrosis, and received new lungs at SickKids.

carried the Pan Am torch into the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), where he received his new lungs.

Hundreds packed into the hospital atrium off Elizabeth Street to welcome him upon his arrival, exploding into applause and boisterous cheers the moment he walked through the doors.

“Today was absolutely incredible,” he said after arriving at the hospital.

“This turnout was huge... but I really want to share that support with SickKids. They’re the hospital that kept me alive today.”

“I hope people recognize that it’s not just me; it’s everybody in this hospital.”

The torch made a brief stopover at the hospital before heading to the official Pan Am opening ceremony.

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pan am games venue Am sports in the Play Zone.

If you’re into the more laid back atmosphere, why not lounge in one of the Muskoka chairs at CIBC PanAmazing Square, where various events will be streamed live?

In the 10,000-foot-square area, spectators can take pictures with the torch used in the relay, chat with athlete mentors from Team Next, which pairs mentors with rising stars of Canada’s athletic scene, and entertain the little ones in the exercise area complete with pint-size equipment.

You can also enjoy one of the many free goodies from the hospitality cart including a poncho, should it rain, sunglasses, flags and water bottles.

Once you’ve worked up an appetite from cheering on your country of your choice, you can head over to the Rest Zone, where you

can get some gourmet eats from food trucks or, if you’re of age, you can seek refuge in the city’s largest temporary beer garden at the Molson Canadian House, where the Molson Canadian global beer fridge is waiting to be opened, and prizes awarded, when visitors say “I am Canadian” in six languages.

There’s also a chance to take pictures with the medals and get your hands on them (with special gloves of course).

And if you haven’t had a chance to check out the athlete’s village, no problem!

Beanfield Metroconnect has a six-foot-tall vertical TV screen with two-way connection that takes you to the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Athletes’ Village through a live feed.

CIBC Pan Am Park is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. until July 26. Admission is free.

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CAMH renegotiating lease Rent could triple for mental health facility

zoned for institutional use, its value is only as great as what a hospital would pay for it, whereas Brookfield is looking at the market value of the land if it were redeveloped into condos.

“The lease was written specifically for CAMH to operate a hospital on the site,” said CAMH executive vice-president of corporate service and redevelopment Dev Chopra in explaining his side’s $26-million valuation.

Chopra added CAMH has already seen its rent jump from $830,000 to $1.2 million in April 2013.

The new rent under B r o o k f i e l d’s p r o p o s e d $100-million valuation would be roughly $4 million a year starting at the end of 2018.

Losing the use of the site would jeopardize a vital piece of CAMH’s spectrum of care.

“That is the hub of our access to CAMH,” he said.

“It also has the only psychiatric emergency department that’s open 24/7 in the prov-

JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s site at College and Russell streets could be in danger of closing due to its rent potentially more than tripling.

CAMH has occupied the building, the former site of the Clarke Institute, since 1998, operating under a 20-year lease with two 20-year options to renew. The building was formerly owned by the province of Ontario, but was sold to a numbered company owned by Brookfield Asset Management in 2004.

A dispute over the site’s fair market value has left CAMH and Brookfield $74 million apart in renegotiating their lease. CAMH is arguing because the land is

ince (serving) 9,000 people in dire need of help.”

The facility has 94 beds for long-term inpatient care, and specific services for women in distress and young people dealing with early episodes of psychosis. It is also home to CAMH’s research operations.

Trinity-Spadina councillor Joe Cressy, in whose ward the hospital stands, said neither he nor the City of Toronto’s planning department would support rezoning the land for anything other than institutional use.

Brookfield’s senior VP of communications Andrew Willis read the company’s statement, which reads: “At Brookfield, we value our relationship with all our tenants, including CAMH, and we are working hard to resolve this issue.”

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A recent meeting at the Fort York Visitor Centre sought public feedback for Stadium Road Park which is located south of Queens Quay on Stadium Road and is split into a south portion adjacent to the waterfront and a separate north section; and also for the Martin Goodman Trail.

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The capital budget for Stadium Road Park and the Martin Goodman Trail improvements is $600,000, while the restoration of Coronation Park is budgeted at $350,000.

Stuart created three different concepts for Stadium Road Park – community, classic and active.

As the names suggest, each concept has a different focus that caters to a certain feel of the park: ‘community’ has the park used as a gathering space for picnics and possible performances with a small amphitheatre; ‘classic’ is more low-key where people can sit and enjoy the view of the water; and ‘active’ suggests increased physical activity for

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Residents in attendance were more in favour of the active option.

“I think the more we bring the community together and give people things to do in the park, as opposed to sitting and just looking in the water, is much better,” said Beverley Thorpe, a Queens Quay resident. “The more we can actually be active the better.”

For the Martin Goodman Trail, Stuart focused on two “pinch points” that need immediate attention due to safety concerns at the curve near Stadium Road Park north and the curve near the west side of Tip Top Lofts.

Stuart proposes each curve be widened to accommodate the multi-use trail that sees a lot of foot traffic and cyclists.

“It’s an expensive proposition,” said Stuart, whose budget is $600,000.

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