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YMCAs go NUIT BLANCHE green with TD Group donation A $1 million donation from the TD Bank Group will help ensure three Toronto YMCA locations are green. The donation will benefit a YMCA centre that serves as a shelter and program site for street-involved youth on Vanauley Street, the nearlycompleted Cooper Koo YMCA in the Canary District and a YMCA building on Kingston Road in the Beach. “This donation allows us to put in high-efficiency HVAC systems at the Vanauley and Kingston Road sites and it will also go toward a 30,000 square foot green roof at Cooper Koo with native grasses, bushes and shrubs,” said YMCA board chair Tim Penner. The Cooper Koo green roof will be even larger than the one atop the Metro Central YMCA on Grosvenor Street in downtown Toronto. The benefits of the Metro Central green roof are well-known to those who use that facility. “In the summer months, we have yoga classes and stretching on the green roof, and 450 kids (in various children’s programs) use it as a green space,” Penner said. “We also rent out the space to other organizations. It’s a great space.” The $1 million donation will be split between the three sites.

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POPULATION: Visitors at Maximo Gonzalez’ Scotiabank Nuit Blanche installation, ‘Walk Among Worlds’, at Ogden Public School Saturday night. The project fills a public space with 7,000 beach ball globes representing the world’s population. See page 9 for more photos from Nuit Blanche.

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includes an affordable housing pilot project.” The plan for the $26-million Bayside Pilot Project is to construct 80 affordable rental homes within a mixed-use market condominium building. This project will be built and operated through a partnership between the City of Toronto, Waterfront Toronto as well as developers Hines/ Tridel and Artscape. “It’ll be a discreet envelope within the building,” she said, adding the space would include its own entrance and rooftop amenity space. “Where ever we go, we’re trying to get affordable housing into these projects. That’s a major part of my work,” McConnell said pointing to the 11-storey, Toronto Community Housing building at 60 Richmond St., an 85-unit rental apartment with 59 units designated as Regent Park replacement housing and the remainder as affordable rentals. McConnell also spoke about some of the big projects coming down the line, notably the future of the St. Lawrence Market (north), the effort to bring back the site of Canada’s First Parliament buildings between Parliament and Berkeley streets, and south of Front Street, into public ownership, and the new Jack Layton Ferry Dock Terminal. “We’ve got a lot of work to do but we’re on track,” she said, adding improving transit, especially advocating for a downtown relief line and a light rail transit line along the waterfront, is a top priority. McConnell said one of the biggest accomplishments in her last term has been the development of Corktown Common, an 18-acre former industrial site-turned-urban park just west of the lower Don River. Roughly 19 times the size

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of Yonge-Dundas Square, Corktown Common is built atop a flood protection landform designed to prevent a flood on the 245-acre area that extends over to the city’s Financial District. “It was a very big one and it accomplishes the flood proofing of the whole downtown core,” she said, calling Corktown Common a “gathering p l a c e” f o r everyone in the new West Don Lands community. Cindy Wilkie, a 20-plus year downtown east resident who serves as the co-chair of the West Don Lands Committee (WDLC), a coalition of community-based organizations advocating for positive and timely development on the waterfront, couldn’t agree more. During a recent interview, she shared her excitement about the new green space at the foot of Bayview Avenue. “Everybody’s talking about it. It’s a spectacular success and it’s beautiful,” Wilkie enthused. She said the next major

effort would be to build out the second half of the West Don Lands after the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games. “It’s not totally in the city’s hands. The province, hopefully, will continue to work to develop (this neighbourhood) in a way that is consistent with the West Don Lands plan.” Wilkie said the last four years have been very exciting times for the waterfront, especially with the accelerated development of the West Don Lands due to the construction of the Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games’ Athletes’ Village. She said she’s looking forward to seeing people of all ages and backgrounds, including post-secondary students, moving into the new neighbourhood. Wilkie also said Ward 28 has also seen notable development in the Corktown as well as St. Lawrence Market neighbourhoods in the last four years. She said these changes bring about a need for

better public transit, notably improved streetcar service along King and Cherry streets and a proposed light rail transit line along Queens Quay, to get people moving in and out of these new areas easier. “That is a huge issue coming up in the next term,” she said, noting the WDLC is on the record in favour of removing the eastern portion of the Gardiner Expressway. “A new GO transit stop would also be really interesting for Ward 28 and also for the port lands.” Wilkie also said residents of Toronto Centre-Rosedale are concerned about the impact of the Island airport, the future of the old Korex site at Lake Shore Boulevard East and The Don Roadway, the renaturalization of the mouth of the Don River, and what it will mean for Ward 28 if the federal riding boundaries are redrawn along Mill Street. The Mirror reached out to all Ward 28 candidates inviting them to share their thoughts on the last term and the next four years in Toronto CentreRosedale. Here’s what those who responded had to say: Raj Rama said people in Ward 28 have had “many challenges to deal with since the last election” including the TTC’s inability to keep up with the demand in the area. He said one way to address this problem is with a downtown relief line. Rama also pointed to traffic gridlock and said he’d “introduce a toll system similar to London, England in the downtown core and waterfront areas to ease congestion and allow emergency vehicles, transit and taxis to be able to move around better and faster.” Rama also spoke about “scandals that have grown since 2010” and said there needs to be a public inquiry

into what happened to “all the money that was supposed to fund the Sony Theatre, for the additional density given to the developer.” He also said cost overruns on Union Station and the new streetcar garage should also be investigated. Jonathan Hughes said his focus is on moving forward. “Major development will be (my) focus in Ward 28, from the birth of a new Waterfront to the continued revitalization of Regent Park. To be successful, we need to focus on the supporting infrastructure, from community space to networked transportation,” he wrote in an email to The Mirror. “We have a tremendous opportunity to integrate our neighbourhoods from St. James Town to St. Lawrence, from the Distillery District to Cabbagetown. We can build one great community by connecting our neighbourhoods through widened walkways, pedestrianization (sic), cycle lanes for commuters and recreational users and improved transit options.” Miguel Avila spoke about his last five years as a “regular” at City Hall where he learned about the important issues in Ward 28 as well as the rest of the city. He raised several points including the amount of funds the provincial government intends to allocate to the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games for security and safety, the need to “tame” the Toronto Police Services’ budget, and better native representation, notably hiring practices, an inquiry into murdered and missing aboriginal women and the establishment of a 24-hour drop-in centre for women in Ward 28.

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ere’s the challenge to Toronto citizens for this municipal election: let’s keep increasing the voter turnout. In 2010, the voter turnout in the city was 50.5 per cent. While that figure may not seem impressive, it is actually the highest total in amalgamated Toronto’s election history. It is a remarkable double-digit increase from the 2006 municipal election total of 39.3 per cent. It’s also more than 12 per cent higher than the 2003 vote. So was the election that swept Rob Ford into the mayor’s chair just a spike or a sign of a more engaged populace? We hope it’s the latter. Stronger voter turnouts mean more people are heard from and a more accurate portrayal of the city’s desires is presented for our representatives to act upon. So how can increased engagement happen? Know that multiple voting options are available. If your schedule is tight on our view Oct. 27, advance polls run – one location in each ward – from Oct. Make your 14 to 19. While online voting in Toronto voice heard is not yet a reality, one location in each of the city’s 44 wards on Oct. 27 is equipped with a Voter Assist Terminal that will be available for both the advance vote and on Election Day. The city’s website, toronto. ca, lists accessibility information for all voting locations. Secondly, check to see that you’re registered. Paper cards are being sent in the mail to 1.6 million eligible voters this week. Citizens can also check the eligible voters list or get on it by visiting www. toronto.ca/myvote Finally, and most importantly, there are no shortage of issues – city-wide and neighbourhood-focused – for citizens to explore. If you live in the city, there is something out there that impacts you. Visit our election website at insidetoronto. com/2014torontovotes to familiarize yourself with the candidates and the issues. If you don’t find that a concern is being voiced, why not voice it yourself? Elections are the perfect opportunity to do exactly that. There’s less than three weeks to go until Election Day, and less than a week before Advance Voting begins. Whenever you do it, whomever you cast your ballot for, make sure your voice is heard.

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How flexible is John Tory’s SmartTrack plan? John Tory’s plan for surface subway rail has been getting a lot of attention over the past months of the mayoral campaign, much of it skeptical. Indeed, Tory’s opponents have been attempting to use this rapid transit plan as their primary means of transporting themselves ahead of the popular Tory in the polls. They have good reason to: Tory is extolling the feasibility of his transit-fornothing plan like a Revival tent preacher. The financial plan for SmartTrack is built primarily on his faith that Toronto development might continue to boom over the next decade or so as it has in the past – and that in particular it will boom around specific transportation nodes. For the western portion of the run, through Etobicoke, Tory places his faith in engineers to lay new track around, under and (who knows?) over houses and community facilities and roadways to

david nickle the city complete the whole grand vision. So assuming the whole thing goes ahead, and Tory’s faith is not rewarded – Toronto could be paying back a shortfall in funding to a city-spanning ‘surface subway’ that will wreak havoc on a west-end community ruing the day they turned their back on the Ford family. There is, however, a more likely outcome should Tory prevail: the realities of economics, politics and engineering will make the plan Tory’s pitching now impossible. To begin with, there is that Tax Increment Financing (TIF) plan, which relies on the marginal increase in property taxes from new development. Even if the rules permit it and the development bears out Tory’s projections, there will be significant political problems in actually col-

lecting the cash. The TIF scheme will keep tax dollars away from municipal services associated with the growth, and, more significantly, could keep funding away from the province’s education system. And of course engineers are not magicians: the problems raised by Olivia Chow are significant. Tunnelling for what could be kilometres through the loamy soil of Etobicoke will increase the financial cost of the operation; tearing through neighbourhoods and roadways will inflate the political cost. Now, Tory will still want to do something to fulfill his mandate, and even if a majority of skeptics are elected to council, he will be bound to use political capital to see that something through. He might be able to do so. One could imagine a compromise SmartTrack plan that avoids all that west-end trouble entirely, by not going there at all and concentrate on

beefing up and accelerating the electrification of the GO Stouffville line through Scarborough, extending it slightly to the west to Liberty Village and up to the Bloor subway line. Doing so would provide rapid transit to parts of Scarborough that don’t have it now, and also deal with the considerable transportation infrastructure deficit in Liberty Village, while avoiding many of those costly engineering problems. Which means that the whole scheme need not rely so heavily on the worrying TIF plan. It would also, in the strictest sense of the word, represent a broken promise. But since Mayor Rob Ford claimed the Scarborough subway compromise following the failure of his Sheppard subway plan was a “promise made, promise kept,” the term ‘promise’ has taken a certain elasticity.

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Hayden got idea from playing Neil Young’s famed Bridge School concert JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com When indie rock star Hayden Desser takes the stage at Massey Hall as part of the Dream Serenade concert later this month, his performance will be a true labour of love. Desser, better known in music circles simply as Hayden, is but one act on a star-studded bill that also features Feist, Aaron Dessner and Matt Berninger of the National, Kevin Hearn of the Barenaked Ladies, Sarah Harmer, Jason Collett and others. The concert will serve as a fundraiser for the Beverley School, a small downtown school for children with special needs. Desser organized the show with his wife Christie Greyerbiehl after seeing first-hand the good work done at the school. The couple, who live in Parkdale, have a young daughter who was born with a rare chromosome deletion. Their child has attended Beverley for the past two years.

“It’s an unbelievable place,” Desser said. “It’s pretty spectacular and this is an effort to help it remain spectacular.” A portion of the proceeds from Dream Serenade will go toward creating a new green playground for Beverley School students, replacing the school’s old playground, which is on hard cement. Another portion will be used to start up a respite fund for parents and caregivers of children with developmental disabilities. “I know for certain, having a child with special needs, you have to still find time to connect with your partner and have a break now and then,” Desser said. “Even just a little time makes a huge difference.” Desser and Greyerbiehl have been working on Dream Serenade for a few years, but the seed for such a show was actually planted when Desser played at a Bridge School concert hosted by Neil and Peggy Young in 1996. That concert, too, was

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Hayden Desser has teamed with his wife Christie Greyerbiehl to create the first Dream Serenade concert. The event will benefit the Beverly School.

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ever,” Desser said. “The amazing thing about it is they had a few kids from the school sitting behind the performers as they played. It was really something else.” When it came time to find talented acts for Dream Serenade, Desser was thrilled at the response. First and foremost, he was looking for artists he knew and whose music he enjoyed. When he approached the artists he wanted to have play the show, they jumped at the chance. “I don’t have a huge list of people I call friends in the music industry,” he said. “The people who are playing all have a connection to me and to my family, and it really means a lot to have them come out.” While each act is slated to play a short set, Desser said the concert will feature some crossover numbers with performers taking the stage in support of one another. He also hinted at unbilled special guests.

“I’m terrified and excited,” he said of putting on a big show in support of a cause so close to his heart. Should this year’s Dream Serenade be a success, Desser and Greyerbiehl said they hope to make it an annual affair. The charities the concert will support may vary, but they will likely all be organizations that work with children with special needs. “Throughout the last five years, one thing my wife and I have noticed is that there are a lot of good people and a lot of good organizations doing what they can for children and parents who find themselves in the situation we found ourselves in, but they need help as well,” he said. This year, he said he is just thrilled to be able to support a school that has helped his daughter flourish. “They use a lot of cutting-edge technology to help kids who can’t communicate or who can’t communicate in traditional ways,” he said. “She’s done really well there.” Dream Serenade will take place at Massey Hall at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25.

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Torontoberfest WHEN: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview Ave. CONTACT: Brewer’s Backyard, www.brewersbackyard.com COST: Free Join us at the Evergreen Brick Works (Holcim Gallery & Koerner Gardens) for the final Brewer’s Backyard of the season, Torontoberfest. This is our take on Oktoberfest, and we’ll have craft beer plus sausages and oompa music! Admission is free and the event is all-ages. Reel Indie Film Festival WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: The Royal Cinema, 608 College St. W. CONTACT: http://reelindiefilmfest.com COST: Single tickets: $10 regular and $5 student

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Eco Home Renovations WHEN: 6 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Ave. CONTACT: The Conservation Council of Ontario, 416-533-1635, www.weconserve.ca COST: Minimum $5 donation. Voluntary donation for students/ seniors The Conservation Council of Ontario offers a panel discussion on ways of saving money and reducing energy demand in your home.

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Michelangelo: Quest for Genius WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: Art Gallery of Ontario, 416-979-6648 COST: Adults: $25, students/youth: $16.50 and Seniors: $21.50 Featuring 30 drawings by the Renaissance sculptor, painter and poet.

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JOHN TORY: frontrunner fending off the Fords DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com It’s two days after the boisterous debate where councillor Doug Ford made his stormy debut in the mayor’s race, and John Tory is still processing the experience. “The interesting thing about the other night was the audience,” he muses as he sits down for an interview. “I don’t remember a debate we had in 2003... the only one I remember was the one where the audience got into a tiny bit. But this was... like... well the Fords had loaded up the audience, and it was just... it was loud. It was just very different.” T h e d e b a t e a t Yo r k Memorial Collegiate was, as reported by York Guardian reporter Clark Kim, quite raucous, with a large crowd of supporters chanting and EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one in a series of profiles on the leading contenders to be Toronto’s next mayor

heckling – while Ford, Tory and Olivia Chow hammered one another’s platforms and bona fides. At times, the heckling took on racist and homophobic overtones. “My kids (who were in the audience) told me about that, a lot of the discourse in the room. It was not nice stuff. There was a woman who got thrown out — she was a completely homophobic person. You would never hear anybody say that,” Tory says. The evening hasn’t precisely rattled the 60-year-old mayoral candidate. It would be tough to be rattled, after all, consistently leading in polls just four weeks away from the Oct. 27 election. Ford is at this point Tory’s closest competition – Olivia Chow’s once-formidable popularity having dwindled to the mid-20s – and at this point, it’s not that close. Tory’s treating it as if it is that close, of course. The previous evening, he issued a statement indicating he’ll be assessing debate

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attendance based on whether Ford decides to attend. And he’s mindful of all those Ford supporters – even the ones who say bigoted things in high school auditoriums. “If you want to fashion a victory, and more important if you want to fashion a win, that includes people from across the city,” Tory says. “I really believe this in my heart – if you stick to a message that’s a positive message

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Bay railpass. The new location will allow GO buses to avoid the underpass. To get the space, Metrolinx agreed to sell the property and air rights to 141 Bay, the home of its current Union GO bus terminal, to Ivanhoe. Metrolinx will make a minimum investment of $30 million toward the cost of the new bus terminal. Prichard said the valuation was fair and the existing bus bay, which opened in 2000, is in urgent need of replacement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our existing site is very constrained. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very narrow, running from Bay Street over to Yonge,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is not, on a stand-alone basis, an attractive development site.â&#x20AC;? Ontario Transportation Minister Stephen Del Duca said the bus terminal would open at the same time as 45 Bay, which is scheduled for completion by late 2018. That will allow GO to continue using the exist-

ing bus bay right up until the new facility is ready. But during construction he said commuters will have to prepare themselves for more traffic congestion caused by a major work project. The area is currently under heavy construction with the Union Station modernization and construction of a new plaza along Front Street. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unavoidable, but what it will produce is an outcome thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extraordinary to the people of this region,â&#x20AC;? Del Duca said. W h i l e Pr i c h a rd p ro m i s e d Metrolinx will spend only up to a maximum of $106 million for the project, Ontario Conservative Transportation Critic Michael Harris was concerned there are too little details regarding the project. In a statement, Harris said he looked forward to grilling Del Duca and Premier Kathleen Wynne over the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s financing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will have to watch this carefully to ensure government lack of oversight doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stick Ontario taxpayers with the bill once more,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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