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Though it took longer than anticipated, students in the Regent Park community were finally able to return to Nelson Mandela Park Public School once March Break ended. Like much of the surrounding Regent Park community, the school underwent a massive transformation that saw the

historic building repurposed to meet the needs of modern staff and students. The school’s redevelopment went over time and over budget, with the original $21.7-million price tag having been overshot by some $8 million. The students were supposed to return to the school in September, but that process was delayed due to a variety of factors, including the discovery of contaminated

loaded corridor with a lot of beautiful classrooms, but only classrooms,” said Maureen O ’ Sh a u g h n e s s y o f C S & P Architects, the team behind the redesign. “We wanted to retain the heritage while adding new features.” The school’s new highlights include an amphitheatre in the centre of the school that links two levels, a 310-square-metre >>>AMPITHEATRE, page 20

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soil and the need for more extensive repairs than originally anticipated. The fact the school building itself is a heritage site added yet more wrinkles to the redevelopment, both in terms of protecting the heritage features and in terms of bringing the school up to speed with current education needs. “It was what we call a cells and bells system – a double-

JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Over the course of several years working with Aboriginal Legal Services Toronto, Christie Pits area resident Johl Ringuette noticed there was something missing in Toronto: authentic First Nations cuisine. Ringuette noted meetings would start with food, a smudge ceremony and an opening prayer, but pointed out he and those he worked with “could never find any of the food we wanted – it was always just sandwiches or soup from some local catering place.” To remedy that situation, Ringuette started up RingFire Productions in 2005. The company brings a variety of Anishnaabe foods such as game, freshwater fish and traditional soups to Toronto’s culinary landscape. “It was hard to get venison here, or moose and partridge, I hadn’t had since I was a child,” he said. “Someone needed to provide this food, and I love food and cooking.” The meats offered, which include buffalo, elk and venison, are high in protein, which Ringuette said is crucial in an Aboriginal diet. Prepared properly, he said, the food provides nutrition and can help to combat the high

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Drink beer, help The Stop Drink beer while supporting The Stop Community Food Centre. The Brew Benefit, organized by Yashy Murphy of dishcrawl Toronto, a company dedicated to re-imagining the way people experience food, drink, and their communities, takes place April 7. Participants will sample 12 beers at six venues in the Esplanade and Front Street area. Tickets, which cost $40 in advance and $45 the day of the event, include the cost of beer at each participating location. Visit dishcrawl.com/ BrewBenefitTO for details about this self-guided tour.

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Mothercraft, an organization that helps set children on the right path in life, is looking to recognize others who give back to their communities. The organization, which operates out of the Bathurst Street and St. Clair Avenue West area, has launched the biennial Bill Bosworth Memorial Award. Named for a former longtime Mothercraft board member, the award comes with a $1,000 prize and will go to someone involved in the community-based not-forprofit sector. Applications are open until Friday, April 19. For details, visit www.mothercraft.ca

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Scadding Court Community Centre’s Market 707 is searching for new applicants looking to launch a business or test market a product. The market, which features vendors operating out of shipping containers, is accepting applicants for pop-up retail opportunities. Five new containers will offer space for short periods of time, typically a month in duration. Those looking to apply for space are asked to contact Nikki Toten at 416-392-0335, ext. 230 or marketplace@scaddingcourt.org offers call for exhibitors wArtscape

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Cabbagetown resident Anne Pastuszak has created a set of greeting cards to celebrate her community while helping improve a local park. The cards come in two styles – one with images of Cabbagetown and the other featuring a map of the neighbourhood. She is selling the cards for $2.50 apiece or $9 for a set of four, with proceeds going toward improvements to Riverdale Park West.

Artscape has put the call out for exhibitors at the Barns Art Market, a monthly fine art and craft show that will take place at Artscape Wychwood Barns this summer. Taking place one Saturday a month from May through October

and coinciding with The Stop’s Farmers’ Market, the market gives visual artists, craftspeople and designer/makers a chance to showcase their goods. Applicants will be selected by a jury of professionals, and winning applicants will be welcome to participate in as many as three dates per summer. Submissions are due Monday, April 1. To download an application form or for more information, visit http://torontoartscape. org/barns-art-market-2013/ exhibit of 1812 exhibition now on wWar

The Toronto Reference Library is hosting a special exhibit to mark the 200th anniversary of the invasion of Toronto – then known as the Town of York – by American forces. American military forces occupied the town in April 1813 as part of the War of 1812. The upcoming exhibit, War Stories: Toronto and the War of 1812 to ’14 will feature letters written by Toronto residents during the conflict, musket balls and medallions from the war, the original, hand-written Terms of Capitulation between the British and the U.S. and other artifacts.

The exhibit will be on display in the Reference Library’s TD Gallery from Saturday, March 30 until Saturday, June 22. the yoga of love at Saturday event wLearn

Learn about the yoga of love March 30. Hosted by The Hare Krishna Centre at 243 Avenue Rd., the Evening of Bhakti teaches people about bhakti yoga, the yoga of love. The evening will teach people about bhakti yoga and includes chanting, wisdom, dancing and more, followed by a vegan dinner. The event takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. Visit www.tinyurl.com/eveningofbhakti to register. now for the best in green in toronto wVote

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ayle Chernin, once a bright star on the Canadian film and theatre scene, is continuing to impact the arts even after her death. Chernin, who lived much of her life near Bloor and Bathurst streets, was perhaps best known to film-goers for her role in the seminal 1970 Canadian film Goin’ Down the Road, though she later appeared in a bevy of other productions, including Queer as Folk, Little Mosque on the Prairie and Monk. She also made her mark as a documentary filmmaker and served for a time as co-chair of the Toronto ACTRA Women’s Committee. Now, more than two

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years after she lost a battle with ovarian cancer, the Cayle Chernin Memorial Fund and Equity Showcase Theatre are seeking applicants for the second annual Cayle Chernin Award. “This is the second year for the award and it alternates between film and theatre,” said Chernin’s widower, Dwight McFee. “My wife did everything – wrote, acted, produced – so it’s fitting that the award goes back and forth between the two.” The Cayle Chernin

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The Cayle Chernin Award was named after the late actress Cayle Chernin. The award, which is currently seeking submissions, offers a cash prize to up-andcoming female filmmakers and actors to help them complete a project.

Award offers a $1,000 prize to a woman in the arts and aims to support the recipi-

ent in starting up a new project. It keeps Chernin’s legacy

alive both as a performer and one who was dedicated to ensuring others succeed in the arts. “She was a big part of the Monday Nighters, a group of people from the (show business) industry who get together Monday nights (downtown),” McFee said. “Cayle knew she was lucky to have what she had and she always loved talking about acting and supporting others.” That the award goes to a woman also keeps with Chernin’s values. She knew full well how difficult it could be for women to make a go of it in the entertainment industry, particularly in a behindthe-camera or offstage capacity. “Cayle was amazing because she was able to plow through it all and keep

going and creating works,” McFee said. Chernin remained dedicated to her craft until the end. She was first diagnosed with cancer in June 2010 but eschewed treatment as she was set to film Down the Road Again, a sequel to Goin’ Down the Road. “The doctor said, ‘If you don’t have chemo and radiation, you’ll die by September’ and Cayle just said, ‘You don’t understand. I have a film to do,’” McFee said. This year’s award will go to a woman in the theatre industry, with last year’s inaugural Cayle Chernin Award being awarded to Collette Micks, the creator of the web series Redheads.

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Filmmakers will show pieces at ReelWorld Film Festival Actors take their turn behind the camera JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com While young actors Philip Stonhouse and Clara Pasieka are accustomed to making their mark on the stage, their latest ventures have brought them behind the camera. Both actors have short films in the upcoming ReelWorld Film Festival as part of the ACTRA Toronto YEAA (Young Emerging Actors Assembly) Shorts program. Stonhouse’s film, The Sound That Broke the Silence, follows three families in a w o r l d w h e re e ve r yo n e simultaneously loses their hearing. The subject matter is of particular interest to the actor as he himself temporarily lost his hearing at the age of seven. “I had Q-tips in my ears and my friend came up behind me and smashed them into my ears,” he said. “Thankfully, slowly over the next six months, I regained my hearing, but since then the idea of silence has always had a strong meaning for me.” St o n h o u s e a d m i t t e d

his film relies on a “sci-fi moment” when silence falls over the world, but The Sound That Broke the Silence serves more as an examination of human dynamics than as a fantasy piece. “It’s about the world of today, where we’re lacking communication,” he said. The short plunges the audience into total silence as well, without so much as a musical score while the characters have lost their hearing. Stonhouse made his mark in musical theatre, falling in love with the stage when he played the role of George Bailey in a production of It’s a Wonderful Life at the age of 19. That production, he said, showed him the power theatre can hold over audiences. “It’s the first time I ever saw my father cry,” he said. Raised in Saskatoon, Stonhouse has lived all over the downtown core since moving to Toronto five years and has settled near the St. James Town area. “It’s my favourite place of all the places I’ve lived,” he said.

“It looks out on the Don Valley and I love the view.” Pasieka, a Cabbagetown resident, set her short film Bejide in the St. James Town area. The first-time filmmaker’s short examines the relationship between a schoolteacher and a Rwandan refugee as they discuss the refugee’s godson after the Rwandan genocide. “A lot of people have asked me what compelled me to write a story where the lead character’s a Rwandan refugee when I’m a young white woman,” she said. “Really, there are parts of myself in both characters.” The film was also inspired by the Wellesley Street fire in the fall of 2010 that saw hundreds of Toronto Community Housing residents evacuated from their building and unable to return. “I initially started writing the play based on that idea of dislocation,” the filmmaker said. Bejide is based on a full-length play Pasieka is developing with Nightwood Theatre, Canada’s oldest women’s theatre company.

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Both films are part of a partnership between the ReelWorld Film Festival and Toronto YEAA, and Pasieka is the co-chair of the latter group. “ReelWorld really believes in nurturing voices and people were able to pitch ideas they wanted to work on,” she said. “It’s great because the experience of making this

film opened my eyes that this is something I can do, something tangible that I’m proud of.” Pasieka said she loves the Cabbagetown community, in large part because of the strong sense of community there. “There’s a pride in the area where people will get together for events and just sing and hold events on street

corners,” she said. The films will be screened as part of the ACTRA Toronto YEAA Shorts program at the Famous Players Canada Square Cinemas, 2190 Yonge St., at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 14. For details on the ReelWorld Festival, including a full programming schedule, visit www.reelworld.ca

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enants in many Toronto rooming houses are living in unsafe conditions due to crowding, poorly built rooms made with materials that don’t meet fire codes, lack of security and lack of smoke alarms. In some cases, tenants are at the mercy of unlicensed operators, and nearby residents also face risks associated with illegal rooming houses in their neighbourhoods. Toronto is in a limbo of pre-amalgamation rules in which rooming houses are legal in some parts of the city and banned in others. It’s been 15 years since the megacity was formed. Presently, there are 351 rooming houses that are legal or with a licence application. Estimates suggest hundreds of illegal rooming houses are operating in the city. Not all are a bad idea. For instance, students depend on these houses – legal our view or not – around post-secondary campuses in Toronto. Many have good experience. But there are Fair, consistent athose who offer substandard rooms with substandard safety. approach This needs to be addressed. required Council has had more than enough time to come up with rules that can be applied fairly and consistently. As of now, rooming houses are illegal in all of Scarborough, East York and North York. They are legal in the old City of Toronto and are allowed in limited parts of Etobicoke and York. To learn about rooming house issues in your community, see our special report on page 6. Stories from the situation across the city appear at www.insidetoronto.com With such inconsistent rules, it’s no surprise illegal rooming houses are sprouting up, especially in areas surrounding universities and colleges. Making rooming houses legal across the city does not mean they will be allowed in every neighbourhood. Designating where they can and cannot be located will be a key part of the law. They should be allowed on main roads, and areas that are already made up of multiple-unit buildings. They should not be allowed in single-family neighbourhoods. Legal and licensed would also mandate safe living conditions for tenants. Clear rules would also make it easier for the city to pursue illegal operators successfully in court. As it stands, it’s far too easy for someone who operates an illegal rooming house to plead ignorance of the laws, or even run a defence saying that if it’s legal in one part of Toronto they assumed it was legal everywhere.

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Is Ford properly fulfilling his job as mayor? Does Mayor Rob Ford have an alcohol addiction? It’s impossible to say. The only addiction that Ford has admitted to in his time as mayor is one of stress – eating ice cream late at night. But whether he does or not, and whether he likes it or not, the mayor needs to face that other question. The Toronto Star this week published a long article laying out the case that he just might have a drinking problem – and that it, or some other affliction, is affecting the performance of his job. The article quoted sources as saying he’d been asked to leave the Garrison Ball last month while there in his official capacity. It alleges he got into trouble earlier at a Toronto nightclub. The story also said members of the mayor’s staff past and present have been attempting over the past two years to get the mayor to seek help with his drinking. The mayor denied the

david nickle the city story in its entirety, calling it “an outright lie.” That’s his prerogative. But Ford is on shaky ground when it comes to the question of alcohol. In 2006, he was caught lying about having engaged in a drunken harangue with two out-of-town visitors at the Air Canada Centre. During the 2010 election, he had to field questions about a driving-under-theinfluence charge in Florida, back in 1999. And earlier in March, failed mayoralty candidate Sarah Thomson called out Ford for allegedly boorish behaviour at a party for the Canadian Jewish Public Affairs Committee. Accompanying the accusations was a photograph of the mayor next to Thomson, looking disheveled and unwell. In that incident as well, it should be noted, the mayor

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The question we’ve got is the same one that’s dogged us for the past few years: is Rob Ford fulfilling his role as mayor in a manner that Toronto needs and deserves?

denied everything. Ultimately, though, the question is not for us: it’s a question for him and his family. The question we’ve got is the same one that’s dogged us for the past few years: is Rob Ford fulfilling his role as mayor in a manner that Toronto needs and deserves? And if he is not, can he make whatever changes are needed in his life so that he can fulfill that role?

David Nickle is The Mirror’s city hall reporter. His column runs every Thursday.

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Spring through the words of a nine year old This is a poem written by nine-year-old Cassie while scootering around the block with her friend during March Break. Spring. Where the wind blows, And the trees grow, Birds tweet, Our feet, Stomping on the sidewalk, Scootering ‘round the block. Rain puddles, Children huddle, Turning and twisting as we please, Opps, I think I scraped my knees, Quarter after, What a lovely thing, My neighbourhood in Spring. Cassie Graham

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A closer look at rooming houses in midtown City’s Rupert Hotel served as an example of dangerous living conditions JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com On Dec. 23, 1989, a fire at 182 Parliament St. claimed the lives of 10 men and women living there. Known as the Rupert Hotel, the building became emblematic of the substandard and dangerous nature of rooming houses, a topic that remains one of Toronto’s unspoken bugaboos. Rooming houses are illegal throughout much of the city, though that only exacerbates the problem, with those living in substandard sites afraid to speak out lest their building be closed, leaving them out on the street. “We’re supposed to pretend they don’t exist,” said long-time housing advocate Michael Shapcott, Wellesley Institute director of affordable housing and social innovation. “We’re supposed to close our eyes and say ‘la la la la la’ but the fact is they do exist and they provide an affordable housing alternative for a number of different segments of the population.” Shapcott noted rooming houses are an integral piece of the housing puzzle in Toronto, particularly for students and newcomers. With an affordable housing waiting list of 87,000 in Toronto alone, he feels banning rooming houses throughout much of the city has created more problems than it has solved. “You get people desperate to find inexpensive accommodations and when you put that together with predatory landlords, you get the Rupert Hotel fire,” he said. Shapcott said the deadly fire that consumed that building and killed 10 residents served as a wake-up call for a time, but pointed out those lessons have been largely forgotten and the illegalization and lack of regulation of rooming houses means it is “only a matter of time before we have another catastrophe.” He pointed out building inspectors have been known to turn a blind eye when they happen upon a rooming house, but knowing they are inspecting an illegal building – particularly when those buildings have safety concerns – are put in an almost impossible position. “Do you shut the place down, which will lead to homelessness for five, 10, 20 people, or do you turn your back and hope for the best?” he said. Shapcott knows first-hand solutions are possible. As part of the Rupert project, which was established following the Rupert Hotel fire, he helped develop 525 units of affordable housing in the east

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William Bowe, right, mourns the passing of Vincent Clarke, a friend who died in the Rupert Hotel fire on Dec. 23, 1989. Mourners and housing advocates gathered on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fire, which killed 10 tenants at the downtown rooming house.

banned. downtown and Parkdale areas with funding help from the province and “They’re not going to organize the City of Toronto. The money went into a powerful and compelling toward bringing residences up to voice,” he said. “The powerful and code and providing programcompelling voice comes from ming for residents dealing the NIMBY people in our with mental health issues and neighbourhoods.” addiction. The city will revisit the issue a “Then in 1993, the recesin October, when a staff report closer look sion hit and the governments regarding the possibility of basically said, ‘That’s great, permitting rooming houses Inside you’ve proved your point, we Toronto across the city is considered can’t afford that,’” he said. by Toronto’s planning and The harmonization of growth management committee. bylaws following amalgamation could have offered the city a chance That action is long overdue, to get rid of legislation banning according to many housing advorooming houses throughout much cates. of Toronto and its inner suburbs. Nora McCabe, an activist who Instead, it left rules regarding roomworked with various groups in the ing houses patchwork at best. 1980s and ’90s to address the issue He noted, however, fear of evoking of rooming houses across the city, noted Toronto has “pushed the poor the wrath of landlords or having their buildings shut down creates a cone to the fringes of our city.” of silence whereby rooming house Her son has lived in legal boardresidents will often keep mum on ing homes since the late 1980s, and health and safety violations, much she noted she would fear for his less speak out for the legalization safety were that type of housing of rooming houses where they are not available.

She said harmonized bylaws permitting rooming houses across the city would help alleviate some of the housing stress and keep more people off the streets. “It is an unmitigated civic failure that we don’t have a single policy to cover housing for the disadvantaged from one end of the city to the other,” she said. “But not only do they have to harmonize the rules around housing, you also need to preserve the existing stock and you need to make sure the services needed by those living in boarding homes are accessible to them.” Shapcott concurred, saying gentrification has resulted in the net loss of more than 1,000 licensed rooming houses in portions of downtown Toronto, which means a net loss for the city itself. “You see it in city after city,” he said. “When you lose rooming house stock, you see the homeless population increase.”

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In small parts of Etobicoke and York they are allowed. In Scarborough, North York and East York they are banned. Rooming houses are often not welcome due to concerns about property values, noise, garbage and the character of residential streets. When the city’s planning and growth committee passed a bylaw harmonizing zoning rules across Toronto this month, it deliberately avoided setting city-wide rules for rooming houses. “There is a feeling that they don’t fit the suburban community, physically,” said Councillor Norm Kelly. The chance to license and legalize rooming houses “would be ignored by the guys looking for big illegal dollars, which you don’t have to report,” said Kelly. Councillor Shelley Caroll called that view shortsighted. “People always attempt to break laws. Does that mean you don’t create them?” she said. “Because we have no legal rooming houses in the suburbs, which would be licensed and inspected we have a whole lot of people living unsafely.” Numbers of legal rooming houses in old Toronto have fallen, but as new Canadians and poverty migrate to Toronto’s suburbs, and as university and college campuses grow there, so does demand for illegal rooming houses. It’s been hard to have a conversation about them, but a staff report this fall is expected to launch a community consultation on the issue, Carroll said. Rooming house advocates argue that suburban rooming houses are necessary for lowincome tenants, but those tenants face abuse and poor or dangerous conditions as long as the houses remain unlicensed. Suburban councillors respond to complaints about rooming houses by asking city inspectors to shut them down. Ken Hale of Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario said for councillors to pretend they don’t have rooming houses in their ward or that they can get rid of them through enforcement, “is not being honest with their constituents.”

Police liaison committee, 14 Division, discusses community happenings The Community Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) for 14 Division holds monthly meetings. Here are some highlights from the March 19 meeting of the CPLC. Project Walk-In in TCHC Buildings Police in 14 Division updated the CPLC on a two-day search – dubbed “Project Walk-In”. At the end of February, police executed searches of Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) public spaces such as lobbies, laundry rooms and underground parking garages. This initiative started in 31 Division and then was brought to all divisions. In 14 Division, searches uncovered a small quantity of crack cocaine at one location and a small amount of methamphetamine at another. In collaboration with TCHC, police searched buildings in 12, 14, 22, 23, 41, 42 and 54 divisions.

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portion of the airport where he was arrested by police. On the same day, officers executed a search warrant at a home in the Danforth Avenue/Jones Street area where they seized a quantity of drugs as well as ammunition, Tasers, security-guard uniforms and one gram of ammonium nitrate. will be in parks this summer wpolice

As the weather warms up, police are planning to increase their visibility in Toronto parks. This is the third year the Toronto police will increase their visibility in public parks from April to September. Fundraising for scholarship The CPLC is currently fundraising for its 2013 Community Safety Scholarship. The 14 Division Youth Scholarship Fund is in its third year and the goal this year is $10,000. The fundraising deadline for the 2013 scholarship is April 19. The aim is to award four scholarships of $2,500 to students who otherwise wouldn’t be able to attend post-secondary education. The deadline for students

A sub-committee of the CPLC is planning their first Youth Scholarship Gala, scheduled for May 16 at Revival on College Street. The gala will raise funds for the 2014 Youth Scholarship Fund. So far the committee confirms newsperson Dwight Drummond as the master of ceremonies, and Jessica Tyler, of the television show Degrassi: The Next Generation, will perform. The scholarships are awarded annually through the Investing In Our Diversity scholarship program, which is overseen by Scadding Court Community Centre. Visit the CPLC website for updates on this event. not stepping into casino debate wPolice

If a casino were to be built at Exhibition Place, it would be located within the boundaries of 14 Division. However, 14 Division Supt. Mario Di Tommaso told the CPLC the Toronto Police Service and 14 Division will not be taking a stance on the casino debate. The superintendent did encourage community members to engage themselves in the discussion, whether for or against. The next 14 Division CPLC metting is April 8 at 6:30 p.m. at police headquarters, 40 College St.

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 Le Papillon On Front  Mr. Greek  Souvlaki Express

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 Ventisette

FISH & CHIPS

 Wine Not Inc

MARTIAL ARTS CLUB

 Mandarin

CHILDRENS ENTERTAINMENT

 LeFeuvre’s Inc  The Chocolate Messenger

 Caffe Latte  La Boheme Cafe Patisserie  Second Cup

LIVE THEATRE

 O’Connor Bowl

 Europe Bound  Sporting Life

CHOCOLATE STORE

 Toronto Premier Gymnastic Centre  Caplansky’s Deli  Pascale

 St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts  The Panasonic Theatre

CAMPING EQUIPMENT  Al Flaherty’s Outdoor Store  Bass Pro

 South China  Spring Rolls

 Chocolarte Collingwood Inc  Chocolatease

GYMNASTIC SCHOOL  Kidnasium  The Rosedale Gym Club

BAKERY

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LEATHER STORE  Dr. Fleas Flea Market  Lyn Leather Co Ltd

FITNESS CLUB  Flirty Girl Fitness  Goodlife  Totum Life Science Inc

SHOPPING CENTRE  Atrium  East Tork Town Centre  Eaton Centre

 Kidding Around  Kidstuff Toy Store Inc  Rona  Rotblott’s Discount Warehouse  Mastermind

 Alive Health Centre Ltd Retail Stores  S N D Toronto

 World Sewing Centres

SHOE STORE  Balisi  Birkenstock - Circle Shoes  Foster’s Shoes

HARDWARE STORE

HEALTH FOOD STORE

CHINESE RESTAURANT

 Staples

PET GROOMER

 Marcheleo’s

 Canadian Tire  Home Depot

DANCE SCHOOL

 Broadway Arts Centre  Front and Centre Dance Academy  Cha Liu Dim Sum Shop  Conservatory of Dance and Music  Groove School of Dance  Mandarin

 Staples

OFFICE SUPPLIES

 Sporting Life

 No Frills

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MUSICAL STORE  Ring Music

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MENS CLOTHING  Harry Rosen  Jeromes

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HAMBURGER RESTAURANT  Gourmet Burger  Stockyards Smokehouse & Larder

 Burger Shoppe/BQM  Burger’s Priest  Craft Burger

ICE CREAM/GELATO  Jedd’s Frozen Custard  The Mad Italian  The Village Chill

 Dutch Dreams  Hollywood Gelato  Hotel Gelato

INDEPENDENT GROCERY STORE  Bruno’s Fine Foods  Pusateri’s Fine Foods  Sunny Foodmart

 Tremblett’s Valu Mart  Whole Foods Market

INDIAN RESTAURANT  Biryani House  Earth Indian Restaurant & Wine Bar

 Kamasutra Indian Restaurant & Wine Bar  The Host

ITALIAN RESTAURANT    

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 Ferraro Restaurant  Pizzeria Libretto  Terroni

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 Ferraro Restaurant  Terroni

LOCAL PUB    

Granite Brewery & Restaurant Paupers Pub Red Lantern Pub Rose and Crown

 Safari Bar & Grill  Scruffy Murphy’s Irish Pub  Unicorn Pub

OUTDOOR PATIO  Celestin Restaurant  Earth Indian Restaurant & Wine Bar

 Granite Brewery & Restaurant  Safari Bar & Grill  Spacco Restaurant and Bar

PUB FOR WINGS  Duff’s Famous Wings  Rebel House

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SEAFOOD RESTAURANT  Bright Pearl Seafood  Lobster Trap

 Mezzetta Restaurant & Tapas Bar

BEST PLACE FOR FOOD AND DRINK

BEST FOR THE HOME

STEAK RESTAURANT  The Lobster Trap  The Steak Pit Restaurant

 Barberian Steak House  Steakfrites Bistro  The Keg

SUSHI RESTAURANT  Sushi Rock

TEA ROOM  David’s Tea  Say Tea

 Tea Shop  Tea Tasters Cafe

THAI FOOD RESTAURANT  Thai Basil  The Thai Grill

 Cravings  Royal Elephant  Sorn Thai Restaurant

BEST AUTOMOTIVE OIL CHANGE AND LUBE  AML Auto Service

 Canadian Tire

OVERALL CAR DEALERSHIP    

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Downtown Lexus Downtown Subaru Grand Touring Auto Infiniti Downtown

RADIATORS  Toronto Radiator & Auto Cooling Parts

 Yorkdale Radiator

TIRE SHOP  Active Green & Ross Tire & Auto Centre  Hercules Automotive

 North Toronto Tire  Save On Tires Ltd

TRANSMISSION  Diamond Transmission Ltd  Power Shift Transmissions

 Star Automatic Transmission

USED CAR DEALERSHIP  Leading Edge Motor Cars Inc  Legacy Motors Cars

 Automotive Pro Sales & Service Inc  Hilltop Motors

BEST FOR THE HOME APPLIANCES  Barcelona Used Home Appliances  Commonwealth Appliances  Capital Appliance

BLINDS AND CURTAINS  A Sweeter Shade  Parallel Interiors

 Sun Shades

BUILDING MATERIALS  Home Depot  Home Hardware

 Lowes  Rona

CARPET  Atlas Rug  Carpet Plus

 Hakim Rugs  Selyan’s Flooring Inc

DOORS AND WINDOWS  Alton Windows & Doors  Brock Windows and Doors  Dundas Wood Windows & Specialties Inc

 Green Energy Home Improvements Windows & Doors

 The Fireplace Specialist

PAINT, FLOOR & TILE STORE  Deco-Tile Inc  The Tile Store  Tile Mart Ltd.

FURNITURE STORE    

Ante Modern Furniture Detail Iron Age On The Out

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HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING  A Plus Quality - Heating & Air Conditioning  A1 Air Conditioning & Heating  Comfort Experts Inc

 Laird & Son Heating & Air Conditioning  Toronto Heating & Air Conditioning Company

HOT TUB  BonaVista LeisureScapes  Ponds In The City  Discounter’s Pool & Spa Warehouse

BANK TRUST COMPANY  Bank of Montreal  CIBC

 Downsview Kitchens  Irpinia Kitchen

LAWN SERVICE

BANQUET FACILITIES  Blake House  Casa Loma

 Eglinton Grand  The Estates Of Sunnybrook

BINGO HALL  Bingo Country

CAR WASH  Avenue Road Car Wash  Crosstown Car Wash & Auto Service

 Shiny Time Car Wash

 Casa Di Luce  Eric & Susan Custom Lampshade Makers

 Luminart Lighting Design Inc.  Royal Lighting

MAID SERVICES  Homestead Maid Service  Maid-For-You Home Services

 Merry Maids  Rent-A-Wife Home Services

CELLULAR PHONE

 BFuture Shop  CMobile Zone

CHIROPRACTOR  Forest Hill Chiropractor Health Centre  Listro Chiropractic & Massage Clinic

PATIO FURNITURE  E D D O Furniture Store  Indoors And Out

 The Sign Of The Skier  Veranda

PAVING CONTRACTOR  Mancuso Paving Ltd  Melrose Paving Co Ltd  24 HR Pest Control  Affordable Wildlife Control

 Exterminex Pest Control Services

PLUMBING CONTRACTOR  Core Mechanical Services Inc  Handy Canadian Inc  Royal Flush Plumbing & Renovations

 Shanks A & G Plumbing & Heating Ltd

POOL COMPANY  Aquaman Pool Service Ltd  Holiday Pool Service Ltd  Frisco Pools

 K & G Construction  Sure Cut Pool Demolition

ROOFING CONTRACTOR  Ontario Shake and Tile  Alpine Roofing  Roof Maintenance.ca  Avenue Road Roofing  Keating Roofing Contractors Ltd.  The Tile Store

SECURITY SYSTEMS  API Alarm Inc  Omni Security Ltd

 Reilly Lock  Securely Yours

VACCUM CLEANER STORE  North Avenue Road Appliance Service  Vacsmart Inc

 Vacuum King Ltd.  York Appliance

 Touch Wellness Centre  The Urban Athlete

DAYCARE CENTRE OR AGENCY    

 Nissena Paving & Interlock  Vem Building Supplies Ltd

PEST CONTROL

 Rogers at Yonge and Eglinton

Casa Vera Montessori School The French Connection Gatehouse Family Day Care Special Moments Child Care Centre

 St Monica Child Care Centre  Little Tots  West Prep Children’s Centre

 Merit Decorating  Primetime Paint and Paper

INSURANCE COMPANY LAW FIRM  Andrew Stein  Glover & Associates  Futerman Partners LLP Lawyers  Shiffman Gary

MONTESSORI SCHOOL  Cornerstone Montessori Prep School  Messorah Montessori Pre-School

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NATUROPATHY  Continuum Wellness  Insight Naturopathic Clinic  Forces of Nature Wellness Clinic

OPTICAL STORE  Saigon Optical  Vered Optical

 Hakim  J.C Williams  LensCrafters

PICTURE FRAMING STORE  Izzy Framed By

 The Framing Depot

PRINT SHOP  Direct Copy Ltd  Print 2 Go

 Reprodux Copy Centre  UCC Press

PRIVATE SCHOOL

 World Driving School  Young Drivers of Canada

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 Pine Villa Retirement Amica at Bayview Gardens Residence Living Life On The Avenue Meighen Retirement Residence  The Claremont Nine Twenty One Millwood

SHOE REPAIR & SHINE

 Cumberland Shoe Repair DUCT CLEANING  Moneysworth And Best  Fresh Air Duct Cleaning  People’s Choice Duct Cleaning  Nick’s Shoe Repair  Metrowide Duct Cleaning Inc  Total Duct Cleaning

FLORIST  Bayview Blossoms  Gilded and Green

 The Flower Nook  Village Flower Shoppe

FOOT DOCTOR  Alvin Avenue Foot Clinic  Foot Clinic  The Complete Foot Health Clinic

 Yonge Eglinton Chiropody Clinic  Happy Foot Spa

FUNERAL HOME  Bedford Morley Funeral Services  Heritage Funeral Home  Humphrey Funeral Home A W Miles Chapel Limited  Alexis Hair Experts  Mazz Salon  Nilli Salonspa

 Murray E Newbigging Funeral Home Clinic  Turner & Porter Funeral Directors Limited

 Niro Orno  Topcuts Inc

HEARING CENTRE    

Advance Hearing Centre Bay Bloor Audiology Centre Inc Connect Hearing Global Hearing Aid Clinic

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 Right Away Movers  The Box Spot

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 Montessori For Children St Clair Inc.  Montessori Manor School  Sunflower Montessori Daycare

MOVING COMPANY  A+ Consolidated Moving & Storage Ltd  Augusta Movers

DENTAL CLINIC  A Dunec Dr, Yonge and Davisville Dental Centre  Altima Dental Centres  Bloor Dental Clinic  Eglinton Way Dentistry  Forest Hill Dental

 Student Assistance In North Toronto For Seniors

 Chris Mellor Insurance Brokers Ltd  TD Insurance Meloche Monnex  State Farm  Economical Insurance

 Delta Bingo Inc

CATERER  Berg Property Maintenance Ltd  Progressive Lawn Maintenance & Snow Removal  Executive Property  Hannah’s Kitchen  All The Best Fine Foods  Weed Man Maintenance & Landscaping  Daniel Et Daniel Event Creation  Pickle Barrel  Performance Landscaping & Catering  Pumpernickel’s Gardening & Snow Removal LIGHTING CENTRE

IN HOME SENIOR CARE  Elder Connections  Eldercarecanada  Senior Peoples Resources In North Toronto

 RBC

KITCHEN RENOVATIONS  Cabinet Price Warehouse  Davenport Kitchens

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ACCUPUNTURE  Health Solutions  Asian Acupuncture & Shiatsu Clinic  Toronto Pain & Headache Clinic  Greenway Acupuncture & Tuina

HAIR SALON

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 Penny Loafers Shoe Shine Company

SKIN CARE

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 Skin Care Centre By Olga  The French Spa

TAX PREPARATION  All Year Taxation Ltd  Liberty Tax Service

 Softron  Tax Doctors

TRAVEL AGENCY  Expedia CruiseShipCenters Toronto Central  Express Travel

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 Enviro Tree Care  Viking Tree Service

VETERINARIAN CLINIC  Davisville Park Animal Hospital  The Animal Clinic  Veterinary Emergency Clinic  Front Street Animal Hospital  Downtown Animal Hospital  Lawrence Veterinary Clinic

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Johl Ringuette is the proprietor of Nishdish Marketeria & Catering, a company that offers Aboriginal fare in Toronto. Ringuette was recently named the Toronto Aboriginal Business A s s o c i a t i o n â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2 0 1 2 Businessman of the Year.

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While the current plan is to open a location in Toronto, Ringuette said he hopes to someday expand to other major Canadian cities. Born in North Bay, he has called the Christie Pits area home for the past 21 years. His kids went to school in the area, and he has made the most of the area he calls now. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of green space here, which is important to all people, but particularly to me as an Indigenous person,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve trained in Christie Pits, jogging and running up the hills and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping to organize a small pow wow there this summer to show more people my culture.â&#x20AC;? For his work in starting up Nishdish Catering & Marketeria, Ringuette was recently named the Toronto Aboriginal Business Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2012 Businessman of the Year.

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Ampitheatre, early years centre are part of new transformation >>>from page 1 library, an early years centre and a courtyard surrounded by the school and the stillunder-construction Regent Park Community Centre that will provide play opportunities for younger children. The amphitheatre will provide opportunities for collaboration, active play and performances, while the early years centre will provide space for all-day kindergarten classes, a parenting centre and a City of Toronto-run child-care centre. The school will also be greener than its previous incarnation. “We did an overhaul of the ventilation to bring fresh air into the school, which (the school) never actually had before,” O’Shaughnessy said. While the delay inconvenienced students, the new school will undoubtedly improve the quality of education it will offer in the future with the addition of a data centre and other features.

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While awaiting the reopening of Nelson Mandela Park, students attended nearby Regent Park/Duke of York and Lord Dufferin Public Schools. a letter In a letter sent to parents, Toronto District School Board Trustee Sheila Ward said she, the principal and the school superintendent were under the impression the redevelopment was on schedule until last August, weeks before the school was set to re-open. “When it became clear this

Ward said early estimates that the project went over budget by as much as $11 million were inaccurate and that a consultant hired to look into the matter found that no funds were misused. She wrote the students were moved back into the school in mid-March “because a number of graduating students have told me that they are really looking forward to spending time in the new school, after so much anticipation” and said the revitalized Nelson Mandela Park is “a great new/ old school that will serve our community well for generations to come.”

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