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DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Toronto’s community development and recreation committee has approved a new way to designate priority neighbourhoods — one that will shift resources through communities across the city. The policy change must still be approved by Toronto Council when it meets in April. But if it goes ahead, it will mean that the total number will increase to 31 from the current 22 – including Regent Park. The new neighbourhoods are eligible for additional programs and capital funding based on a new metric, called a ‘Neighbourhood Equity Score’. It looks at various categories including unemployment levels, education level, voting rates, physical surroundings and health levels. The revision is the first major one since 2005, when the city instituted the priority neighbourhood system following a rash of shootings. Don Valley East Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong came to the Monday committee meeting skeptical about the new system. He pointed out that the designation of at-risk neighbourhoods for additional resources doesn’t have any way to measure the success of investments. “Previously or up until now >>>CREBA, page 9

Irish eyes are smiling: Parade walkers, left, make their way down Yonge Street during the St. Patrick’s Day parade Sunday, while memb ers of the St. Andrews Pipes and Drums play a few tunes. More photos on l in e at h t t p : / / b i t . ly/1j0eYlK Staff photos/DAN PEARCE

Island airport debate set to take off DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Next week, Toronto’s executive committee will finally face the question of whether Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport should be allowed to expand to accommodate jet aircraft. It’s a debate that has been

deferred twice in the past three months by Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly, a supporter of the airport expansion, who faced opposition to the plan from city staff who have been engaged in a $1.2 million investigation of the possibility. The Toronto Port Authority and Porter Airlines have been

asking the city to open a tripartite agreement that doesn’t permit jets to land at the airport on the Toronto Islands. Doing so would allow Porter to accept an order of new, socalled “whisper-jet” CS-100 aircraft, and expand the number of destinations it can offer passengers.

City staff have been studying the proposal since last spring, when Porter came forward with the idea – and late last year recommended against going ahead with the plan, because too many questions remained unanswered. Kelly has postponed debate >>>monday, page 6

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Scadding court gardening program grows with new greenhouse JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Scadding Court Community Centre has long offered a gardening programming with an eye to feeding those in need. The centre has added a new greenhouse made out of an old shipping container, matching the style of its Market 707 vendors. The greenhouse was

donated by Giant Container Services and was officially launched at Scadding’s Seedy Saturday event on March 15. “We started by planting seeds in it on Seedy Saturday and we’ll use it to grow seedlings that we can plant out in the community or sell at a plant sale,” said Scadding Court community and urban agriculture worker Krista Fry.

It will be fitted with a shade cloth in summer to facilitate the growing of hot weather plants and a heating blanket in the fall to help green, leafy plants grow. “We started with eggplant, which needs a longer growing season, and we’ll do tomatoes and peppers next. After that, we’ll plant cucumbers, pumpkin and squash,” she said. The first Seedy Saturday saw more than 400 eggplant

seeds planted, of which Fry is hopeful 300 to 350 will actually sprout. Once the seeds become seedlings, they will be transported to a large 1,500-foot garden plot in Alexandra Park, where community volunteers will tend to them. Proceeds from the plant sale will go back to Scadding’s gardening program, while additional food grown there will go toward after-school

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JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com With the 20th anniversary of the sudden death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain rapidly approaching, a trio of fans of the band have decided to use his legacy to promote the arts and raise awareness of teen mental health issues. Nicola Spunt, Liane Balaban and Kathleen Munroe teamed up to create In Bloom: A Celebration of Teen Spirit and the Arts as an homage to the revolutionary but conflicted artist. “In January 2013, Liane, Kathleen and I were chatting and we realized April 2014 was the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s passing,” said Spunt, who lives in the Brockton Village area. “We started to play around with the idea of putting together a community arts event to commemorate him but also one that was associated with a cause of some kind.” They quickly decided to hold the event in support of Delisle Youth Services, a midtown agency that

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Both the celebration and the cause being supported fit well with Cobain’s legacy. He was a staunch advocate for equality and was outspoken in support of queer rights. He himself also had mental health challenges with which many young people could relate. “He was a complicated icon, not just a reluctant celebrity who was so much cooler than anyone else,” Spunt said. “He struggled with a lot of the same issues so many teens and people of all ages struggle with – anxiety, depression and substance abuse.” In Bloom will feature two events in the coming weeks. The first is a youth-led showcase of the arts featuring students from Lawrence Park

Collegiate Institute, the Etobicoke School of the Arts and Delisle Youth Services. “We linked up with those partners for a special community arts event and had a mentorship program with professional artists,” Spunt said. “While the kids are leading the show, we want it to reflect (Cobain’s) politics and values.” In early May, In Bloom will feature a talented array of professional musicians performing covers of Nirvana songs to raise funds for Delisle Youth Services. The benefit concert, SiriusXM Presents: Come As You Are, will take place at the Great Hall, 1087 Queen Street West, on Thursday, May 6. The organizers have also set up an IndieGogo crowd-funding page (http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/in-bloom-a-celebration-ofteen-spirit-and-the-arts) in hopes of raising additional funds.

The In Bloom Multi-Arts Show takes place tonight from 7 to 9 p.m., with a 5 to 7 p.m. reception, at Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas St. E.

Plan Canada book highlights Malala Yousafzai’s courage JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The story of Malala Yousafzai, the young girl who survived a Taliban attack for standing up for her right to an education in Pakistan, is wellknown around the world. Now, midtown Toronto-based organization Plan Canada is looking to highlight her courage through the release of a new children’s book. Every Day is Malala Day, written by Plan Canada president and CEO Rosemary McCarney, showcases Malala’s struggles as she continues to fight for the right of girls to go to school. That message dovetails perfectly with Plan Canada’s mandate of supporting social justice for children around the world. McCarney said that while Malala’s story caught people’s attention, her story is hardly uncommon in many countries. “The fact is that there are 65 million

girls who are out of school around the world,” McCarney said. “People might view the violence against Malala as an isolated incident, but we know it’s not.” Malala herself has spoken up, noting she was just one girl among millions who are denied the right to an education. Every Day is Malala Day serves as a letter to Malala, with McCarney providing a number of different girls’ voices. “I have the privilege of sitting with girls from all over the world and hearing their stories,” she said. “The voices in the book – some of them are composites – but they’re all things I’ve heard again and again.” The story of Malala may seem like heavy fare for young readers, but Every Day is Malala Day offers a story of hope and courage rather than a bleak tale led by violence. McCarney, who lives in the Beach, said she wanted specifically to write

a children’s book to raise difficult issues and instill social justice values at an early age. “You don’t want to start too late with these things,” she said. “There are subjects like early forced marriage or violence, but it’s important for parents and kids to understand the issues so many people are facing.” The messages conveyed by the book are hardly confined to developing countries. McCarney noted while conditions are better for girls in Canada than in many other places around the world, there are serious issues that need tackling at home, as well. “Girls are stigmatized here, they’re cyber-bullied here, they’re portrayed in advertising as sexual objects. The statistics show that one in five girls in Canada will be sexually assaulted before the age of 16.”

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n hour of darkness. That’s what the annual Earth Hour event calls for, this year on Saturday, March 29 between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. Organized by the World Wildlife Fund, the event encourages residents and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour as a symbol of support for the planet. It is a worldwide event, which, according to organizers, has participation from more than 7,000 cities and towns in 154 countries worldwide. But the concept isn’t front of mind for all Torontonians. In the city last year, according to Toronto Hydro, there was a seven per cent reduction in energy use. In 2009, the city experienced a 15 per cent reduction in energy use. So what’s happening? For symbolism to have strength, there needs to be measurable momentum. There has to be growth. If there isn’t, the impact of the overall message – however powerful it may be – is our view blunted. One way of ensuring that momentum takes place is seeing Bring Earth new and interesting ways of Hour to your integrating the event into community life. community We’re encouraged, for example, that some pockets of the city build a neighbourhood gathering around Earth Hour. Last year, there was an outdoor concert in Roncesvalles Village. This year, in Etobicoke, there’s a concert at Islington United Church celebrating the 20th anniversary of the church’s organ. In North York, the Yonge-Sheppard neighbourhood will once again have its annual Earth Hour community walk. It’s a fine idea to consider joining a local Earth Hour event. So, too, is using our creativity to come up with our own localized Earth Hour events. Either way, you have people getting together, united in a common cause. Everyone can appreciate the environmental and cost benefits of saving energy. It’s great that Earth Hour can help bring that message to the forefront. Ideally, respect for the environment and energy conservation is a constant, front-of-mind proposition – not just for one hour in a year. For some, Earth Hour is a place to start. For others it’s one simple activity in an ever-mindful drive to preserve the environment.

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Fringe candidate raises question about taxes Mayoral races are a long haul in Toronto – and that leaves plenty of room for little epiphanies. On Monday, one of those showed up to file papers at city hall – Ari Goldkind, a 40-year-old criminal defence lawyer. He made some headlines saying that he has a nose for B.S. and referring to the current mayor as Sideshow Rob. If past experience is any indication, an ambitious but untested outsider such as Goldkind will go exactly nowhere in this race. Goldkind is a fringe candidate. But it’s rude not to ask what ideas he brings to the table, and so that’s what I did. He started out sounding a bit like David Soknacki and Olivia Chow, advocating a return to the LRT in Scarborough over the council-approved subway. And then he kind of sounded like Soknacki on the land transfer tax, but it turned out I’d misunder-

david nickle the city stood when I thought he said that exemptions to the tax should go to more lower-priced houses and purchasers of homes worth more than $1.1 million should pay more. What Goldkind actually wanted to see was the land transfer tax increased on million-dollar homes, and everybody else pay the same. That, along with higher property taxes, would pay for repairs and improvements to Toronto’s public housing. Goldkind may throw around words like B.S. pretty freely, but for him, taxes are not a dirty word. After we spoke, it struck me: higher taxes shouldn’t be a de facto taboo, as they’ve become. Because while Goldkind might not have a hope at winning the election, if he actually pulled it off, his

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But maybe it’s time that we shook our heads and stopped believing that we can have a great or even decent future, paying only a little more than we did in the past.

program of tax-and-spend government would probably make life a lot better here and drive almost no one from their homes. Taxes are low in Toronto and yet services are slipping. Subways are crowded and buildings are crumbling and according to this year’s Ombudsman’s Annual Report, even basic customer service isn’t sustainable. As this year’s budget debate wrapped up, City Manager Joe Pennachetti laid it bare, that property taxes will practically have

to rise more dramatically in coming years than they have in the past, just to maintain status quo. Toronto is circling the drain. And yet, the collection of miserly landholders that make up Toronto will almost certainly shuffle out and cast their vote for one of five or so A-list mayoralty candidates with well-known resumes and no stomach for pitching the larger-scale tax hikes the city needs to pull out of its spin. Now, I can’t say that anybody should go to vote for the unknown criminal defence lawyer who just joined the long list of fringe mayoralty candidates. But maybe it’s time that we shook our heads, and stopped believing that we can have a great or even decent future, paying only a little more than we did in the past.

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World’s Biggest Bookstore closes It will be a bittersweet time for bibliophiles as the World’s Biggest Bookstore prepares to close its doors for good. Set to shut down after 33 years, the store is offering a 50 per cent discount on everything store-wide until it officially closes Sunday. The store is at 20 Edward St., near Yonge and Dundas streets.

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Court drop-in for kids wScadding Scadding Court’s Indoor Park Drop-in is opening its doors to children up to six. The indoor park lets kids ride bikes, play games and socialize in a supervised indoor environment. Parents/ guardians must stay with their kids. It takes place Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon until the end of the school year. helping residents with relocation The Regent Park Neighbourhood Initiative is looking to pair up people who have already returned to the community with others about to relocate back in the neighbourhood. Regent Park Relocation Mentorship mentors will donate one hour each month to help others reacclimate themselves in the community. To take par t as a mentor or a protégé, call 647-775-8145, ext. 7041.

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amenities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This review has concluded that the expansion of an airport in a downtown area and on an active waterfront must consider, firstly, the fit of that airport within its surroundings,â&#x20AC;? the report reads. In an interview March 14, Porter CEO Robert Deluce was optimistic that by the end of the week there would be an updated report. He said the aircraft would either come in under the guidelines in the tripartite agreement, or Porter wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take the order. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think there are some real solutions on the table now between the two parties, to ensure that the airport goes ahead with the process of being modernized on a basis thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s respectful of the waterfront revitalization plan,â&#x20AC;? he said. Deluce said there was a great deal of support for jets at the airport across the city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We find that there is considerable support across the city across every ward for the Porter plan, and for jets, and

even for a modest extension of 200 metres of the runway into the water as long as thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no material impact on the location of marine exclusion zone buoys. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know the aircraft can be deployed and handle those guidelines. With respect to councillors, there is very strong support for what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about doing... and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a small group who are opposed and who have been opposed to any development on the waterfront.â&#x20AC;? The issue was scheduled to come to executive committee on Tuesday, March 25. AIRPORT MEETING SET FOR MARCH 24 â&#x2014;&#x2014;ISLAND

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tured photographs and poems written by Lapum based on her interactions with heart surgery patients and readings from journals they kept throughout the recovery process. The exhibit’s title came through one of Lapum’s interviews with a patient, who alluded to a sense of simply feeling like a number throughout the treatment process. “One of them said ‘though I may be the 7024th patient, I don’t want to be treated like the 7024th patient,’” Lapum recalled. Lapum, who once worked as a nurse, acknowledged some practitioners take a more humanistic approach than others, providing emotional support in addition to performing the actual lifesaving surgery. She noted, however, some tend to focus more on following protocol and routines. “Some do get caught up in that, and for good reason – you want to make sure patients don’t die,” she

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Pathways to Privacy Symposium WHEN: 6:30 p.m. WHERE: University of Toronto, Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks Ave. CONTACT: Dora Chan, dchan@ccla. org COST: Free The first event is a public panel discussion on surveillance and privacy issues affecting Canadians, while the second event is a full-day research symposium, Helping Canadians Find Pathways to Privacy, funded by the Contributions Grant Program of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Friday, March 21, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. These events will provide a forum for academic researchers, civil society and public interest groups and individuals to discuss important privacy issues and their relevance for Canadians. The event materials and symposium will also be available in both English and French. http://ccla.org/home/ pathways2privacy/

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Action Potential Lab, Toronto’s first laboratory for science and art, grand opening! WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Action Potential Lab, 451 Christie St. CONTACT: Action Potential Lab, 416-538-4100, hello@actionpotentiallab.

First Post Office, 260 Adelaide St. E. CONTACT: Karen Millyard, www.JaneAustenDancing.ca COST: Tickets $20, $15 for students and seniors The YRS presents a talk on Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent (father of Queen Victoria) by special guest Nathan Tidridge, historian, writer and recipient of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. The meeting includes afternoon tea, writing letters with a quill pen and admission.

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IFOA Weekly presents Lorrie Moore WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. CONTACT: 416-973-4000, http:// ifoa.org COST: $10/free for supporters, students and youth 25 and under Author Lorrie Moore reads from and discusses her new story collection, Bark, with interviewer Jared Bland.

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About Face: Celebrated Ontarians Then and Now WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Queen’s Park - Main Legislative Building CONTACT: Parliamentary Protocol and Public Relations Branch, 416-325-0061, http://arts.lgontario.ca/aboutface COST: Free About Face: Celebrated Ontarians Then and Now is an exhibition of photographs showcasing the diversity of our province from the past 150 years. The exhibition closes March 31. Rotary Luncheon Speakers WHEN: 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Wednesdays WHERE: The Badminton and Racquet Club of Toronto, 25 St. Clair Ave. W. CONTACT: Pat BartlettRichards, pbartlett@ webcanada.com COST: $25 Weekly speakers’ luncheons featuring various speakers. Complimentary Chair Exercise Class WHEN: 11 a.m. to noon Mondays WHERE: Rosedale Presbyterian Church, 129 Mt. Pleasant Rd. CONTACT: Eric, 416-450-0892 One-hour class focusing on balance, coordination, strength, flexibility and posture. Facilitated by a qualified Older Adult specialist. Call to register. Also at Leonard’s Anglican Church from 1 to 2 p.m. Mondays and from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Grace Church-On-The-Hill Wednesdays. Contact Eric to register.

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ties in communities.â&#x20AC;? Committee chair Anthony Perruzza, who represents the Jane Finch community, took issue with the fact the neighbourhood had scored so low, and was tarred with headlines labelling it the least liveable neighbourhood in Toronto. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why some editor in some dark room somewhere would concoct such a headline based on this kind of a study, and say to everybody this is the worst place in the city (I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know),â&#x20AC;? said Perruzza. Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher, however, pointed out that many of the neighbourhoods â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jane-Finch included â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were places with high concentration of public housing the province downloaded to the city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a no-brainer that

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This week the province introduced tough new penalties for drivers caught using a mobile device while driving. Announced by Ontario Transportation Minister Glen Murray on Monday, the measures are part of a proposed amendment of the provincial Highway Traffic Act intended to improve road safety in the province and curb distracted driving, which kills almost as many people annually as impaired driving. If the bill is passed, fines for distracted driving would increase to a maximum of $1,000 as well as tack on an additional penalty of three demerit points. The proposed bill also increases penalties for “dooring” - when a

TO in TRANSIT driver opens a car door in the path of an oncoming cyclist - and requires automobiles to keep one metre apart while passing cyclists. Cyclists would also face a penalty of up to $500, up from $20, for not having lights or some kind of reflector. Regardless if the measures are passed, fines for distracted driving officially increased to $280 as of Tuesday. March 18. has reason to celebrate wToronto

If a new rating system tracking convenience of accessing public transit is to be believed, Toronto is number one in the country. Walk Score, an American

company best known for rating municipalities and neighbourhoods based on their walkability, released its first-ever scores for transit access. It gives the city a score of 78, one higher than Montreal, which falls in the category of providing excellent transit service in a city of more than 500,000 people. “Toronto has great transit — a subway system, streetcars, extensive bus service, and GO Transit rail lines serving the outer suburbs,” reads Walk Score’s entry for the city. The rating finds downtown areas such the Bay Street Corridor be the best for transit use and convenience. To see the ratings visit www.walkscore.com Rahul Gupta isThe Mirror’s transit reporter. His column appears on Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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