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Cabbagetown author Eric Murphy’s first book has earned plenty of accolades, but few are more meaningful than having it used to boost literacy at Regent Park schools.

M u r p h y ’s n o v e l , T h e Phantom’s Gold, was chosen for Regent Park Reads, a pilot project undertaken at Nelson Mandela Park Public School and Lord Dufferin Public School.

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through a partnership with the Daniels Corporation and the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation.

Murphy was thrilled to have had his debut novel selected for the program.

‘DIDN’T HURT’ “It didn’t hurt that I was a local author, I’m sure, but the people at Daniels read the book and really liked it,” he said. “I definitely didn’t target Regent Park and didn’t think anything like this would happen. If I could predict that, I’d be buying

lottery tickets and betting on the ponies.”

The Phantom’s Gold follows the story of 13-year-old Will, who runs away from his Cabbagetown home to live with his grandparents in the Maritimes following the death of his father. Once there, he and his grandfather wind up racing a phantom sailboat in search of gold in a bid to save the family’s home and business.

It deals with such universal themes as loss, bereavement and anger management.

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saw Grade 7 students at Lord Dufferin do reading comprehension exercises and students from Grades 6 through 8 at Nelson Mandela Park enjoy writing workshops.

He loved the experience, and exposing local students to the joys of reading and writing.

“My philosophy is that it’s very hard to be the author of your own future if you can’t read or write,” he said.

Writing came naturally to the actor and video producer. The Phantom’s Gold was originally written as a screenplay which >>>REGENT, page 8

The city must do everything possible to fight two proposed midtown buildings at the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), said Eglinton-Lawrence Councillor Karen Stintz.

For about two years, the city and residents’ associations tried to work out a settlement with the developers, who are working together hoping to build two residential buildings at Yonge Street and Helendale Avenue.

However, the developers, who could not be reached for comment, have appealed to the OMB because they accuse council of failing to make a decision in a timely manner as set out in the Planning Act. Now, it’s time for the city to fight back, Stintz said.

The city needs to “go to the OMB with everything we have in our arsenal to fight this application. Because, once again, we came to the table with a view that we would find a compromise and we were willing,” Stintz said at the May 13 meeting of North York community council.

“We never fought the developer every step of the way. In fact, we gave them every single opportunity to come with something that might make sense but >>>HIGH, pg. 13

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York library Harbourfront wT hFort w opens its doors Centre turns 40 e To ro n t o Pu b l i c Harbourfront Centre has Library is launching its 99th branch at historic Fort York on Thursday, May 29.

The library boasts 35,000 new items in its collection, including books, magazines and audio materials.

The new branch, located on Fort York Boulevard, overlooks Garrison Commons and has seating for 80.

Also unique to the library is the digital innovation hub with 3D printing and digital design workshops.

This branch is one of two in the city, along with the Toronto Reference Library on Bloor.

However, there is no current access to the librar y via Bathurst St re e t . T h e To ro n t o Public Library recommends reaching the Fort York branch through the pedestrian bridge on Front Street.

a full slate of weekend activities planned as it gets set to turn 40.

Acts and attractions on tap include the Canadian C h i l d r e n ’s O p e r a Company, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, the Leslieville Flea Market and more.

The festivities will take place on May 30 and 31.

For more information, visit www.harbourfrontcentre.com/40 at wTheactivities Metro Central y Metro Central YMCA

will host a series of free family activities for YMCA Healthy Kids Day. The Y, at 20 Grosvenor St., will feature group fitness classes, a bouncy castle, martial arts demonstrations, family gym time, dancing and preschool soccer.

The event takes place from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, June 1.

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The market will feature local and organic produce, baked goods and other food items, plus demonstrations, crafts and special exhibits Tuesdays from 2 to 7 p.m. June 3 to Oct. 14.

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A PASSION FOR PUPPETS Lillian Smith Library hosts Puppetry Day fun with chickens: Left, puppet educator Sarah Granskou demonstrates one of her creations during Puppetry Day events on Saturday at the Lillian Smith Library. Below, Christopher Sealy makes sock puppets with his daughters Estelle, 6 months, and Naima, 4. Right, Emma Knowles, 8, works with her chicken puppet.

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A cappella band Eh440 hits right note on Dragon’s Den Toronto-based band held CD release party May 27 JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com There are a few ways to make a name for yourself in the music industry, but the members of Toronto-based a cappella group Eh440 certainly took the road less travelled.

The five-person band, which officially released its debut album this week, pitched themselves on the hit TV show Dragon’s Den and actually received offers from three of the dragons, settling on one put forth jointly by Arlene Dickinson and David Chilton. That appearance was just one more step on the road to success.

“It was really nerve-wracking,” said singer and Forest Hill resident Stacey Kay. “We’re used to performing but for this, we had to actually pitch ourselves as a product.”

The band had already

made a name for itself outside of the small screen, with its five members each bringing something different and unique to the table. Kay started out singing country before studying musical theatre. Now, her strengths lie in pop, top 40 and rap.

Other members include folk-roots singer Mike Celia, beatboxer Mike Stapleton and a cappella veterans Janet Turner and Joe Oliva, formerly of a cappella mainstays The Essentials.

“When I think of a cappella groups, I picture four guys in ties singing doo wop songs, but we have a fresh sound,” Kay said.

The Forest Hill resident was introduced to the band by Turner, with whom she had a friendly – if contentious – history.

“We used to compete against each other in singing

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Eh440 – Mike Celia, left, Stacey Kay, Joe Oliva, Janet Turner, and Luke Stapleton – launched its new album May 27 at the Drake.

competitions, but we always got along great,” Kay said.

Eh440 has performed in countless venues, with the money from their successful Dragon’s Den pitch going toward funding international

showcase performances.

Celia, who lives in Little Italy, said the band’s disparate styles mesh incredibly well together despite the fact that when they first got together, they had no idea what the end

product would sound like.

“It was a bit of an experiment,” he said. “The idea was kind of throw five people in a room together who don’t belong together and see what happens.”

Just over a year after the band formed, the experiment has proved successful.

Eh440 won a Galaxie Rising Star Award and is embarking on a tour to promote a full-length record notable for its disparate styles and influences.

“Joe and Luke, our rhythm section, are what holds the sound together,” Celia said.

“The amazing thing when you listen to the record is that every sound on it came from our mouths.”

The band’s debut album, Turn Me Up, even features a cameo by acclaimed singer Serena Ryder, whose keyboardist produced the work.

“That came as a surprise,” Celia said. “She had heard our music and our manager said she really wanted to be on it, which is amazing for us.”

The band hosted a concert and CD release party at the Drake Underground on Tuesday.

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Excitement over World Cup builds

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he World Cup soccer championship officially kicks off June 12 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a game between the host country and Croatia, but the excitement in Toronto is already starting to build.

Short of being in Brazil, Toronto has to be the best place in the world for soccer fans to watch the World Cup. Most residents are already very familiar with how our city gets all dressed up and celebrates World Cup. Beyond the flags waving from cars, there are vendors selling hats, shirts and flags, and fans gathering in locations across Toronto to catch the action.

Everybody will be talking soccer between June 12 and July 13, when the tourney wraps up with the championship game in Rio. There are 32 teams taking part in the World Cup and Toronto has significant our view demographic links to many of those teams. For instance, the Italian, Greek, Portuguese, German, English, French and Dutch diasporas are large and well established throughout the city.

We’re all familiar with scenes of flag-waving fans filling the streets and celebrating after their teams win. Parts of Little Italy, Little Portugal, Corso Italia, and Greektown on the Danforth are seas of celebrating fans after wins by their teams.

What’s especially interesting and makes the World Cup in our city so much fun is the mixing of fan bases, and how the Brazilian fans will watch and celebrate in Little Portugal, and parts of Corso Italia along St. Clair West have also become home-base for many fans with links to South American teams other than Brazil.

North York has a strong centre of fans of African teams, and is also where Iranian fans gather.

It’s all a part of what makes Toronto great.

Here at The City Centre Mirror, we know how important the World Cup is to our city. That’s why we’ve got special coverage in today’s paper to introduce soccer fans to our website dedicated to the World Cup in Toronto.

You can access the website by going to www. insidetoronto.com/worldcupTO There’s information there about all 32 teams, the culture and demographics related to those team’s countries in the Greater Toronto Area, and information on the best places to watch games locally.

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Tory’s transit proposal compelling & speculative Oh, John Tory is a coy one.

All this time when the mayoral candidate was talking about building a “Yonge Street Relief Line,” we assumed that he was simply renaming the Downtown Relief Line – and that his promise to start building the thing right away, at the same time as the city and province built a subway to Scarborough, was pie-inthe-sky.

Well, it turns out the reason Tory didn’t call his secret transit plan the downtown relief line was he doesn’t intend to build the downtown relief subway line any time soon.

His Yonge Street Relief line is something else: a 52-kilometre, 22-stop SmartTrack line, using GO Transit rail lines for an above-ground subway that will stretch from the western reaches of Etobicoke to the middle of Scarborough, and dip south to Union Station

david nickle the city touching Main Station in the east and Dundas West station in the west.

It will cost $8 billion divided between three levels of government, and the city will pay for its portion using Tax Increment Financing (TIF), the same system of borrowing against future property assessment increases that Gordon Chong advocated when Mayor Rob Ford hired him to come up with a funding plan for his failed subway proposal on Sheppard Avenue.

The idea itself is a refinement and expansion of a proposal that failed 2010 mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi proposed – to use GO lines as an interim downtown relief line.

And it is a compelling idea.

It provides rapid com-

muter transit to places that are pretty far off, and gives commuters from the edge of the subway system an alternative to clogging up the Bloor-Yonge interchange as they head to work downtown.

It is also, in the context of this election, a too-cute game of rope-a-dope: an attempt to get his opponents to spend their energy attacking and questioning a suspected plan that is nothing like the real plan. For a short time after its revelation, it forces Tory’s opponents to basically call him on his semantics.

It also, however, allows his opponents to accuse him of hiding a flip-flop behind semantics.

Earlier in the campaign, Tory did make it clear that a downtown relief subway line was essential, and sharply criticized Chow and Ford for not embracing it as a number-one priority.

And while it is true the

new plan sidesteps some of the logistical problems of getting a downtown relief subway going right away, it raises other problems.

To begin with, the TIF model of financing is another semantic trick: it is debt by another name, and with the billion-dollar Scarborough subway plan, Toronto will have nearly reached its debt ceiling.

And like Chow’s downtown relief plan, Tory’s surface rail plan relies on a massive federal and provincial buy-in to go ahead, and in that sense, is just as speculative.

The plan also doesn’t obviate the need for the TTC’s downtown relief line – the city has to find the money for that too.

And as Tory himself pointed out not too long ago, that needs to come sooner rather than later.

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Lunch & Learn: Terry Fallis WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

WHERE: Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park CONTACT: Tara Fillion, tara@gardinermuseum.on.ca COST: $25 (includes brown bag lunch) Terry Fallis is the author of The Best Laid Plans, winner of the 2008 Leacock Medal for Humour, and the 2011 CBC Canada Reads crown as the “essential Canadian novel of the decade.”

Bonspiel for SickKids WHEN: 4 to 11 p.m. tonight; 9 a.m. to noon Saturday WHERE: Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club, 141 Wilson Ave. CONTACT: http://celebritybonspiel.com/ contact A starstudded field of curling c e l e b r i t i e s has been confirmed for the fifth annual Capital One Celebrity Bonspiel in support of SickKids Foundation.

Green Party Town Hall WHEN: 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Medical Sciences Building, JJR MacLeod Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle CONTACT: Jon, 613-407-7188 COST: free Join Green Party national leader Elizabeth May and Green Party of Ontario leader Mike Schreiner. Green Party of Ontario candidate for Trinity-Spadina Tim Grant hosts this Town Hall event.

Midnight MRKT WHEN: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

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w Saturday, May 31 Farmers’ Market WHEN: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

WHERE: Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview Ave. CONTACT: www.evergreen.ca/whats-on/eventdetails/9536 COST: Free More than 60 farmers and food producers.

Toronto Fitness Challenge WHEN: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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looking ahead w Sunday, June 1 Toronto Island House & History Tour WHEN: noon to 5 p.m. WHERE: Wards Island Clubhouse, 100 Cibola Ave. CONTACT: Liz Rose, www.torontoislandhousetour2014. eventbrite.com, granniesinspirit@gmail.com COST: $45 per adult, $20 per child; discount for group of four plus Tour distinctive homes and community buildings on Wards and Algonquin Island, meet Island residents, find out about Island life and gain insight into one of Canada’s most historic - and unique - communities. Proceeds go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers Campaign to fund grassroots projects in Sub-Saharan Africa that provide grandmothers, and the AIDS/HIV-orphaned children in their care.

Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.citycentremirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your neighbourhood as well as events from across Toronto. torontofitnesschallenge. com COST: one day, $41; two-day, $64 The Toronto Fitness Challenge are challenging people to survive this two-day fitness challenge by conquering numerous fitness classes, and fundraising to raise money for the SickKids.

Proudly Pinoy: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao WHEN: 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

WHERE: Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School, 1107 Avenue Rd. CONTACT: Jody Huang, 416-222-8282, ext. 2682 COST: Free The event is a way to acknowledge and support the Filipino families with performances, workshops and more.

Notes and Tones Art Auction and Concert WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre, 422 Parliament St. CONTACT: http://cabbagetownarts.org COST: $20 in advance, $25 at the door The Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre presents a fundraising art auction and concert. Proceeds to the Arts Centre.

Oriana Women’s Choir Concert WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m.

WHERE: Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd. CONTACT: Julia Lee, info@orianachoir.com COST: Adults $25, seniors $20, students $10, www.uofttix.ca Join Oriana as they present works featuring many languages and natural or instrumental sounds.

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YMCA Healthy Kids Day WHEN: 9:30 to 11:45 a.m.

WHERE: Toronto Central YMCA, 20 Grosvenor St. CONTACT: 416-975-YMCA COST: Free Come out to YMCA Healthy Kids Day and celebrate the national day dedicated to improving the health and well-being of kids. Drop into your local Y to join in on arts and crafts, fitness classes and family activities.

Kidney Cancer boot camp fundraiser by Jully Black WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

WHERE: University of Toronto Varsity Stadium, 299 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Dustin Hamilton, dhamilton@environicspr.com COST: Donation Four-hour boot camp brings Toronto’s top fitness trainers and men and women who want to get moving for a good cause.

Toronto Cactus & Succulent Club’s Plant Show and Sale WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Allan Gardens Conservatory, 19 Horticultural Ave. CONTACT: info@torontocactus.org Club’s annual event.

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Public Open Houses Join us at Public Information Centre Round #1: Monday, June 9, 2014 6:30pm-9:00pm Scarborough Civic Centre (Rotunda) 150 Borough Dr. (McCowan Road & Ellesmere Road) Subway: Bloor/Danforth Line to Kennedy, then Scarborough LRT to ScarboroughTown Centre or McCowan

Monday, June 16, 2014 6:30pm-9:00pm North York City Centre Memorial Community Hall (Burgundy Room) 5110Yonge St. (Yonge Street north of Sheppard Ave.) Subway:Yonge Line to NorthYork Centre

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“I was set to give up, but I had a school principal friend who said ‘it’s a great story. You can’t let it die, you have to turn it into a novel,’” Murphy said, a longtime Cabbagetowner.

He took writing workshops and classes at Humber to learn the nuances of novelwriting and brought his story through various drafts before it was published.

“They say it takes 10 years to be an overnight success,” Murphy said. “I have to apologize for my tardy arrival.”

The Phantom’s Gold is the first book in a series, with the second installment, The Dead Man’s Boot, currently in the works.

While the in-class portion of Regent Park Reads has finished, participants will join Murphy on a schooner in Toronto Harbour in mid-

“There are a lot of great literacy initiatives in the city,” said Marianne Fedunkiw, the program coordinator for Regent Park Reads. “When we have a debrief once the whole program’s finished in the middle of June, we’ll see whether we should partner with some of those or whether it’s best to keep it local.”

‘Coolest thing’ Fedunkiw said having a local author working with students was a boon, particularly for young boys, who are less likely to read than young girls.

“The coolest things for the kids is seeing a successful author who wrote a book they love who lives right in their neighbourhood,” she said.

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>>>from page 1 it didn’t happen, they did not.

They chose another path.

We’re at the OMB because of the developers’ choice.”

“Now, we need to put our best foot forward to make sure this tower as it’s currently configured is not approved at the OMB because it will not add to the community. In fact, it will take away. It will create wind and it’s too high and it’s too dense, we don’t have the infrastructure to support it. It will not fit in the urban form, it will not add to the pedestrian experience on Yonge Street, it will shadow all the cafés on the east side of Yonge and it’s nothing but a bad development.”

The first building at 2360 to 2378 Yonge St. at Helendale Avenue would be 28 storeys, including a six-storey base and a 22-storey tower, with 234 residential units and almost 2,700 square metres (29,000 square feet) of commercial space, according to a city planning report.

The second building at 31

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to 37 Helendale just to west of the first building would be a 24-storey apartment building, including a five-storey base and a 19-storey tower above, with 242 residential units, the report said.

The developer is seeking to demolish 19 affordable and mid-range residential units on the site.

Pre-hearing July 17 & 18 An OMB pre-hearing was held March 17. Another prehearing conference is scheduled for July 17 and 18 and a full hearing has been scheduled for Nov. 12 to 26.

While the development site is north of Yonge and Eglinton and is a reasonable location for development, “high towers” are not acceptable, Stintz said, “We said to the applicant, ‘Listen, you know what, you’re right near the subway, the LRT is coming through, we want to be reasonable in terms of how this area gets re-developed’,” she said.

But while something

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C. Ann King, chair of the community liaison committee for the neighbouring Stanley Knowles Co-op, Tom Cohen, chair of the Eglinton Park Residents’ Association, and Frank Peters, president of the Avenue Road Eglinton Community Association, told councillors they are still hoping to negotiate a settlement with the developers.

But if that’s not possible, they urged the city to fight the developments at the OMB. “Hopefully, a spirit of cooperation and compromise will prevail, but if it does not, we must fight for the protection of principles of good planning whenever and wherever they are threatened,” King said.

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ONTARIANS ARE HEADING to the polls June 12 to elect candidates who will form the next provincial government.

The following candidates are set to run in the riding of Eglinton-Lawrence: MPP Mike Colle for the Liberal Party (who has held the seat since 1995), Thomas Gallezot for the NDP, Robin Martin for the PC Party, Lucas McCann for the Green Party, Independent Erwin Sniedzins and Michael Bone of the Freedom Party. The Guardian sent questionnaires to candidates from the four main parties.

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Tell us about one local issue that you plan to champion as MPP.

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What would you do to ensure immigrants in the area have a smooth transition?

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What will you do to improve transit for your constituents?

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Thomas Gallezot | 647-8988457 | thomasgallezot@ontariondp.ca | @ThomasGallezot

■ Increasing the minimum wage to $11 per hour and then further based on inflation would help many newcomers. Since 2003, our government has increased the minimum wage by 60 per cent from $6.85 to one of Canada’s highest minimum wages at $11. We must increase the hourly wage for personal support workers to $16.50/hour. This raise was included as part of our 2014 budget, and will raise the minimum wage for 34,000 publicly paid workers.

■ We have already invested over $16 billion in building the Eglinton Crosstown Line, extending the York-University line up to the centre of Vaughan and the new air-rail link train between Union Station and Pearson Airport. We also budgeted for an additional $15 billion in improving public transit across the Toronto area.

■ Before entering politics I was a history teacher at St. Michael’s College School. I was then elected as a Metro Toronto councillor; commissioner and chair of the TTC from 1988 to 1994.

As an MPP, I have worked to build vibrant main streets and great local schools through Shop Local campaigns and a $275-million investment in full-day kindergarten. I have also headed the charge to save the historic postal station “K” and protect Bannockburn Park.

■ I propose to initiate a conversation between tenants, owners, developers and the government about quality of infrastructure, responsibilities, ways to settle disputes outside of court, existing regulations that are unnecessary, and non-existing regulations that are necessary. I propose to implement creative solutions to make daycare more accessible, more affordable and more reliable. I propose to keep schools open after hours for not-for-profit groups. I propose to be a voice for immigrants.

■ I would help not-for-profit groups offering activities like sport and recreation, arts and culture, English classes, cultural skills and similar available to immigrants in their own language.

I would similarly support mentoring programs, networking groups and the diffusion of tool kits to help companies better integrate skilled immigrants into their workplaces, like what Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council proposes. I would organize community forums where immigrants can voice their concerns.

■ I would engage all stakeholders to start a global discussion about transit. We need to take transit out of the partisan battleground and solve this problem in a Canadian fashion: reasonable, respectful and democratic. I would propose to lawmakers in all levels of government not to cancel anymore existing transit initiative of whatever nature. I would invite transit experts and new Torontonians from other cities to community forums about transit to provide a different angle.

■ I came to Canada from France in 2007.

A former engineer and patent attorney, I now work as a bilingual actor, a cultural entrepreneur and a community organizer. In addition, I am actively involved in promoting French language and culture in Toronto and helping Francophone immigrants understand Canadian culture, way of working and way of life. I’ve lobbied for the creation of the French Language Advisory Subcommittee and created the Forums CFVT. org

■ I want to focus most of all on helping people reach their full potential. Whether it is a child with autism, a new immigrant who has skills and wants to work, a business trying to create jobs but caught up in red tape, I want to work locally to find solutions that will allow people and businesses to thrive here in EglintonLawrence.

■ The best thing we can do to ensure a smooth transition is to help new immigrants find jobs. We need to break down barriers that prevent people from using their skills and working in their areas of expertise. I will work along with a PC government to break down artificial barriers to credentialing, and utilize the Provincial Nominee Program, to match immigration to the jobs we need in the community.

■ We absolutely must build the relief subway line. This is a critical subway line that will relieve congestion across North York and in particular on the Yonge subway by giving people more options to get downtown. This is the most important thing we can do to create some breathing room for commuters. This is the number one transit priority for me and for the PC Party.

■ Robin Martin practiced as a trial lawyer, and then worked in government as a senior policy advisor where she developed her expertise in health policy. Robin later worked as a public policy consultant, developing substantive expertise in the area of energy policy. Robin was instrumental, working with health organizations, in getting a universal cancer screening program adopted by the Ontario government – the first of its kind in Canada.

■ Eglinton-Lawrence is a riding of older, mature homes where energy efficiency can be an issue. I believe it makes sense to help people save money by saving energy, through making their homes more energy efficient.

We have huge untapped potential to save energy. New York State has similar geography and climate to Ontario, yet our energy consumption per person is 50 per cent higher. Clearly, we have opportunity to reduce demand.

■ I understand the value new immigrants place in drop-in centres, where they can obtain advice and support during this very challenging time in their lives. I would review the resources of this kind that are available for new immigrants in the Eglinton-Lawrence riding to see how they can be improved.

■ As MPP, I would promote continued investment in transit systems and work to build on the benefit that will come to our riding from the Eglinton Crosstown line.

Improving transit, however, will require investment. We must have the courage to say we are willing to pay for what we need.

I, along with other Green MPPs, will demand that Ontario establish a dedicated fund to build new transit and support the operation of existing transit.

■ Lucas McCann is a small business owner and director of communications of the Management Consultant Association at York University. Through his doctoral work in organic chemistry, Lucas came to realize the importance of science-based policy development and how these affect environmental issues important for Ontarians.

Lucas is also an artist and is deeply rooted in the fine arts community in the Greater Toronto Area.

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oronto soccer fans are getting ready to wave their flags next month when the World Cup of soccer begins in Brazil.

Being one the of most diverse cities in the world means that when the World Cup takes place every four years, there is no shortage of fans cheering for the 32 teams taking part in the tournament. And this year will be no exception.

The World Cup kicks off on June 12 with a game between host Brazil and Croatia in Sao Paulo.

Scarborough’s Josie Tanga is of Italian descent and she is already looking forward to this year’s World Cup, in which Italy will be making its 14th straight appearance.

“It’s great,” said Tanga of the World Cup and its importance to Toronto’s huge Italian-Canadian population.

we won it in 2004,” said Kouzoukas, who grew up in East York playing soccer.

“That was the pinnacle for Greek fans,” he said of the 2004 Euro championship which Greece won 1-0 over host team Portugal.

That win led to thousands of fans pouring onto Danforth Avenue, waving Greek flags and celebrating for hours.

It also established Greektown on the Danforth, between Chester and Jones avenues, as the epicentre for Toronto’s Greek soccer fans during major tournaments such as the Euro and the World Cup. REALISTIC OUTLOOK

FIERCE SUPPORT “We have a huge fan base, and we love our Italian team. We support them no matter what.”

Tanga said family and friends often gather at her home to watch the games when Italy is playing.

“We have family and friends over and we get all dressed up for the game; wearing the bracelets and the hats,” she said.

“Everyone gets very excited.”

Of course, food is a big part of the celebration when it comes to watching the World Cup for Toronto’s fans supporting the countries taking part.

“We make rice balls and pizza,” said Tanga.

After enjoying the game in the relative calm of the home environment, Tanga said heading out to celebrate on Corso Italia, in the St. Clair and Lansdowne area, is also usually on the agenda providing Italy wins the match.

Go online to our World Cup site to find individual pages for each team with the latest news, blogs and cultural connections.

>> insidetoronto.com/worldcupTO It was Toronto’s Italian fans who started the tradition of massive World Cup celebrations in the city with huge turnouts and street parties during the 1982 tournament when Italy won over what was then West Germany.

As for picking a winner this year, Tanga likes Italy. No surprise given her heritage and the fact Italy has won the World Cup four times; second only to Brazil’s five World Cup championships.

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who else,” she said when asked to predict this year’s champ.

“My kids might have a different opinion, though. (Cristiano) Ronaldo is a great player; maybe Portugal. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for Italy, though.”

For Sam Kouzoukas, the participation of Greece in this year’s World Cup makes him proud of the team he supports.

“Historically, we’ve done better in the Euro (the European soccer championships) and

Kouzoukas is proud that Greece is making its second-straight World Cup appearance, but is realistic about his team’s chances of winning it all.

“It’s a great accomplishment that Greece made it,” he said.

He pointed out that Greek fans did not have a lot to cheer about in the 2010 World Cup during which their team went winless in their three preliminary round games, and were eliminated.

However, Greece did advance to the quarterfinals of the 2012 Euro.

Given his background of playing soccer and his Greek heritage, Kouzoukas said he finds it interesting how everyone in Toronto becomes a soccer expert once the World Cup begins.

“When the World Cup comes, everyone is watching and everyone has an opinion. About two weeks before the World Cup and during it, everyone’s talking about it.”

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Being such a diverse city, interest in the World Cup is huge. It’s of extreme importance to those whose heritage is linked to the 32 teams taking part, and of great interest to so many others.

Check out our www. insidetoronto.com/worldcupTO website. We have info on the 32 teams and where in Toronto fans will go to watch games during the World Cup from June 12 to July 13. The closer to the games the more exciting it gets to follow with activities throughout Toronto.

Here’s how it works: • Enter www.insidetoronto. com/worldcupTO and you will see the flags of all 32 teams. Click on your favourite.

• On your country’s site, you can see stories on the best places to catch events linked to the team, stories on the teams, news and ultimately viewers’ guides about the World Cup. • There are recipes from all 32 countries. Other stories will celebrate the many cultures who enjoy the World Cup. • We have a number of bloggers writing about the teams. Follow a team and willing to blog? We’re looking for more contributors!

• Bookmark www.insidetoronto.com/worldcupTO and follow along as Toronto celebrates the World Cup.

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