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Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts, along with Ontario’s Minister of Transportation Steven Del Duca, hosts a transit town hall this coming Monday evening. The event runs from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Hope United Church, Monday 2550 Danforth Av e . a t M a i n Street. Both Potts and Del Duca will be discussing and taking questions about a range of transit issues including fare integration, rail electrification and the expansion of Danforth GO, among other things. Everyone is welcome to attend to ask questions and share their ideas for transit in east-end Toronto. For more information on this meeting, please visit www. arthurpotts.onmpp.ca

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Students of Greenwood College School protest over the recommended closure of their building. The school houses two programs, one for recent immigrants which would be moved to Danforth Collegiate, and another being an alternative school for Grades 10 through to 12 which would transfer to Monarch Park Collegiate.

Students protest plan to close Greenwood school TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com More than 100 Greenwood Secondary School students walked out during class, filed to the front lawn of the school and held hands, forming a human chain and chanting.

“Don’t move Greenwood, don’t move Greenwood,” they yelled in unison, their chants ringing out over the cold winds blowing last Friday morning They were protesting a recommendation to close their school at 24 Mountjoy Ave. and relocate its program to

nearby Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute at 800 Greenwood Ave. The recommendation is the result of a government-mandated pupil accommodation review committee (PARC) process to close a school building in the TorontoDanforth area to address low

enrollment and share resources more effectively. The Greenwood students came prepared. Along with several chants, they had several signs imploring the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) to keep their current building. >>>GREENWOOD, page 3

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Legion honours Remembrance Day contest award winners Young Toronto residents were honoured by the Royal Canadian Legion last Saturday as the Remembrance Day poster, literary and public speaking contest awards were presented at Branch 11 on Dawes Road. Each year, students from across Canada enter black and white and colour posters, essays and poems, along with presenting their speeches in public speaking events as part of the Legion’s Remembrance Day contests. Participants enter through their local schools which then forward the students’ works to their neighbourhood Legion branches. This year, Toronto Legions saw three of the entries from their local youngsters named among the best in Canada. And all three of those entries came from Scarborough students. Scarborough’s Ivy Leung Arts Studio student Juliana Jiang’s colour poster won first place in Dominion (best in Canada) in the intermediate division. Francis Libermann Catholic High School student Maria Singson was second in Dominion for her black and white poster in the senior division. Sir Oliver Mowat Collegiate’s Kate Shackleton’s essay was first in Dominion in the intermediate category. Singson’s poster was made in honour of her grandfather the late Arthur Blomfield, who had served in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War and had been a longtime Legion member. Provincial winners

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Along with the Dominion awards, Legion members from District D, which basically covers Toronto, honoured winners at the city and provincial level. Special guests at the presentation ceremony included a number of veterans, Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts and BeachesEast York Councillor Janet Davis. Provincial winners honoured at the event were: Eliza Yip, second in junior colour poster; Nora Li, second

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Juliana Jiang, left, Kate Shackleton and Maria Singson were honoured for being tops in Canada and winning Dominion poster and literary awards for the Royal Canadian Legion’s Remembrance Day contest. The presentation took place at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 11 on Dawes Road.

in senior colour poster; Maeesha Biswas, second in senior essay; and Rachel Yan, third in black and white junior poster. Toronto winners District D winners were as follows: FIRST PLACE - Yolanda Sun, primary colour poster; Mia Elliott, primary black and white poster; Ashley Nichols, intermediate black and white poster; Justin Lair, junior poem; Shree Joyee Dey, intermediate poem; Kimberly Torio, senior poem; Lara Chehime, junior essay; Maeesha Biswas, senior essay. SECOND PLACE - Rushaida Zahid, primary colour poster; Aliza Shoaib, junior colour poster; Nicole Outkine, intermediate colour poster; Olivia Dubuc, primary black and white poster; Sophia Edus, junior black and white poster; Rudana Zahid, intermediate black and white poster; Saher Haq, senior black and white poster; Pavinaya Thayanathakumar, junior poem; Lauren Catanus, intermediate poem; Sally O’Keefe, senior poem; Persephene Ocol, junior essay; Talia Levitt, intermediate essay; Zara Ahmad, senior essay. THIRD PLACE Christopher Bar, primary colour poster; Samia Islam, junior colour poster; Afiyah Islam, intermediate colour poster; Jose Clement, primary

black and white poster; Kyla Marie Supat, junior black and white poster; Angela Chen, intermediate black and white poster; Natalie Garcia, junior poem; Ella Brenton, intermediate poem; Ayesha Ahmed, senior poem; Tasha Mackenzie, junior essay; Mark Karlov, intermediate essay. The winners in District D public speaking were also presented at Saturday’s event. Provincial finals for the Legion’s public speaking contest are still to take place in Owen Sound later this month. Public speaking Top three finishers in public speaking for District D were: PRIMARY - Safia Panekh, first; Jessica Iafrate, first; Safia Panekh, second; Terryn-Anne Trudeau, third. JUNIOR - Sam Iafrate, first; Matthew Wayland, second; Ronald You, third. INTERMEDIATE - Michael Ca r i n o, f i r s t ; A s h l e i g h Lindayen, second; Sean Pourgoutzidis, third. SENIOR - Saharan Shafaque, first; Saher Haq, second. For more information on the Royal Canadian Legion’s Remembrance Day contest, please contact Sheila Harris, the Youth Education Chairperson for Toronto’s Legions, at stharris@rogers. com or visit www.legion.ca/ youth/contests

Petition calls for coroner’s inquest into murder of Domenic Parker JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Beach Triangle resident and mother of two Zilla Parker wants to prevent other families from going through the pain hers has endured in the last three years. On Sept. 14, 2013, Parker’s 45-year-old husband Domenic, who worked as a firefighter in Markham, was off-duty when he was stabbed to death at the former Rotana Café at 1530 Danforth Ave. Nabil Huruy, who has a mental health disorder, was initially charged with first-degree murder in connection with the unprovoked, random killing. Late last year, Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer found Huruy, who was known to police, not criminally responsible for Parker’s death. At the time of the ruling, Parker posted a statement on social media indicating this case highlights the need for more understanding of mental health issues and more resources. “We need more funding in our health-care system, more funding for research, more education and

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Beach Triangle resident Zilla Parker, second from right, has started a petition to improve Canada’s health-care system for those with mental illnesses. Parker’s husband Domenic was stabbed to death in a random attack by a man suffering from mental illness on Sept. 14, 2013.

awareness,” she wrote. “There is obviously a huge need for improvement on our current system. This is the conversation I believe we should be having. Maybe we can prevent this tragedy from happening to another family.” Parker, who is seeking a coroner’s inquest, has recently launched an online petition at change.org calling on Ontario’s Chief Coroner Dr. Dirk Huyer to identify what changes can

be made to improve the health-care system so that those with mental illness can be better diagnosed and receive the treatment they need in the early stages. “During the trial, I learned about a lot more details in relation to what happened,” she said earlier this week. “I learned that the man who killed my husband clearly had mental health issues and had several inter-

actions with the police.” Just days before Parker’s husband was killed she also learned Huruy had been behaving abnormally. The court heard he was found on the roof of a school with bags of clothing he had taken from a mosque. Huruy reportedly told police he had been on the roof playing soccer. Police gave him a trespass notice. That same day, he was found standing on an overpass above Hwy. 401 with a large ring around his neck. Huruy told police the ring was part of him, wrote Nordheimer in his Dec. 10 ruling. Nordheimer also wrote Huruy had previously made statements about people and the government being after him. “Mr. Huruy was paranoid, had armed himself with two knives and was the subject of delusions, including hearing voices,” he wrote. “He believed there were people, apparently on behalf of the government, who were intent on causing him harm, if not death.” In the case of Huruy, Parker said she feels Bill 68, which is also known as Brian’s Law, should have been invoked. This law, which was named

after Brian Smith who, in 1995, was fatally shot by a person suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, allows for a community treatment order by an attending physician. This order is intended to provide comprehensive treatment outside of a psychiatric facility. “If they had held him for 72 hours, my husband would still be alive,” Parker said. “What happened to Domenic is not an isolated incident. More early intervention is key to protecting the public and individuals with mental health issues.” So far, upward of 2,500 people have signed the petition, which can be viewed/signed by visiting www. mentalhealthletsact.com Parker said her goal is for 100,000 people to show their support and down the line for improvement in Canada’s national mental health care strategy. Parker said she also intends to approach various levels of government to discuss improving the health-care system for those with mental illnesses and in turn prevent future tragedies like the one her family has endured. -with files from Torstar News Service

Greenwood students consider it a ‘special school for newcomers’ >>>from page 1 Students Tolin Abuaziza and Zahra Afshar organized the protest. “We need to keep Greenwood here, because it’s a special school for newcomers,” said Tolin, who recently moved here from Palestine. She is one of more than 200 students currently at Greenwood, which offers a unique program for Toronto immigrants and refugees who don’t speak English. After spending a semester or more learning English at Greenwood, students transition to a high school in their respective neighbourhoods. They share their current building with approximately 150 TDSB students from the School of Life Experience (SOLE), an alternative school for Grades 10 through 12. The small population helps foster a sense of community among Greenwood students, while unique features of the building offer non-verbal

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ways for students speaking different languages to connect. There is a greenhouse, bowling alley and meeting area to help students bond at their current building, attributes they don’t want to lose. “We feel safe here, and we’re all like a family, and if you move us to Danforth, then I don’t think that we will have all of those feelings that we have here right now in Greenwood,” said Zahra, who recently moved here from Afghanistan. “That’s why we want to stay here.” Tolin and Zahra participated in the PARC process, but feel their voices weren’t taken as seriously as those from other schools. They worry an inability of their parents to speak enough English or take time off work to participate in the process put them at a disadvantage. School superintendant Mike Gallagher said Tolin and Zahra represented their school well. He

noted the two young women had community representatives with them and were also provided TDSB representatives when Greenwood parents could not attend PARC meetings. He said the committee heard and considered all students, parents and community representatives from all involved schools, and he met privately with Tolin and Zahra three times to talk about their concerns. Recommending the closure of a school building is not an easy task, he added, and the PARC committee made its decision reluctantly. “The recommendation actually says that we said reluctantly,” he said. “I do think that it’s a challenging situation, and it was a very difficult set of recommendations for the committee to come up with.” Greenwood students will have their own area in the basement of Danforth CTI, which will be renovated for them. The TDSB is con-

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sulting with the students about the design of the Danforth space. Greenwood student Mashroor Jamil Neel said their current, separate building is an important part of their program. “It’s a good place to start (school in Canada), because from every place you’ll get support.” The province required the PARC to consider all area schools operating at less than 65 per cent capacity, and Greenwood is well above that. “We always include other schools in the neighbourhood,” explained Gallagher. “Because the schools in this area are so closely proximate to each other, back in March (2015) when the board approved this PARC, it was approved with 10 schools.” The 10 schools share eight buildings. The PARC committee recommended the creation of a transition committee, made up of students and staff, to help facilitate Greenwood’s move.

“We absolutely recognize, and the students have told us, that they’re frustrated, and that change is difficult,” said Gallagher. “We absolutely acknowledge their concern and frustration and commend them for exercising their ability to advocate for themselves.” The students, who are also worried some of their teachers will lose their jobs if their program is moved, hope their protest helps. If the recommendation to close Greenwood is approved, Tolin said the students may take their concerns to the Province and file a human rights complaint. In June, TDSB trustees will consider the PARC recommendation and make the final decision on what building to close. If Greenwood’s current location closes, SOLE students will relocate to Monarch Park Collegiate. The moves would happen in 2017.

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new pilot project that allows library patrons to borrow a musical instrument simply with their library card is a big step in the right direction. The Sun Life Financial Musical Instrument Lending Library officially launched this past week at the Parkdale library, now giving the opportunity for aspiring musicians to sign out instruments ranging from violins and guitars to a full-size keyboard and a banjo. It’s a step in the right direction in making music more accessible to the community especially for the youth as well as those who can’t afford to buy goodquality instruments. Just as several organizations have seen the value in youth playing sports by subsidizing expensive equipment, this program shines a light on the value of youth playour view ing music to enrich their lives. It’s also a step in the right Pilot project direction in making Toronto a opens music to music city by cultivating homegrown talent. everyone It was fitting that in attendance at the launch event were two successful Canadian musicians – Juno Awardwinning artist Chantal Kreviazuk and her husband, Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida. Maida told Metroland Media Toronto that he didn’t have access to musical instruments until his brother bought one when he was 12 years old. To ensure more kids have that opportunity to play music, Maida and Kreviazuk donated a guitar and keyboard of their own to add to the 100 instruments already in the collection. The community can support this initiative, too. Residents can donate their own gently used or new musical instruments to this pilot program, which runs until the end of 2017, and help it grow and expand to libraries across the city. Instrument donation drive

There’s a Musical Instrument Donation Drive, which continues until May 7, and things are off to a great start. Calls have already come in from people wanting to donate such instruments as bongo drums, French horns, flutes, erhu (Chinese fiddle) and midi controllers. Library staff noted more diverse instruments from different cultures are welcome. Call 416-393-7686 for details or to donate.

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NDP crisis has been a long time in the making Last weekend, the New Democratic Party membership did what is unthinkable among mainstream Canadian party politics and ousted their leader Tom Mulcair. The shockwaves carried across the land: the NDP, stalwart voice of Canadian progressive thinking, is in crisis! Of course, the NDP has been in crisis for years and particularly for those of us watching from Toronto. Although you certainly can’t blame the late Jack Layton, it’s easy to mark the beginning of that crisis with the former federal NDP leader’s electoral success and then his death, both in 2011. The NDP was briefly the Official Opposition in Ottawa. As Stephen Harper’s Conservatives used their majority government to alienate much of the country, the NDP became a de-facto government in waiting. But it wasn’t just that collection of newly elected MPs that walked away with expectations raised. Layton

david nickle the city himself offered inspiration from his death bed. Love, he told the country, is better than anger. Hope is better than fear and optimism, better than despair. New Democrats at least politically, cherry-picked: Optimism and hope, that the party that had traditionally been a third-party left-of-centre conscience, might persuade voters to allow them to lead; and also fear, that if they led too much with their leftof-centre conscience then they’d never win. It was a bad and selfdestructive lesson. The Ontario NDP forced a costly provincial election in 2014, rejecting in conscience the most left-of-centre provincial budget that a Liberal government had ever put forward. Leader Andrea Horwath made some gains for the party,

but in Toronto lost some of the party’s most historically secure seats. The same year, Olivia Chow turned a commanding lead in the polls to a third-place finish in the Toronto mayoralty race, with a campaign that did tack more to the left, but was timid and unambitious. And last year, Mulcair did much the same thing federally, when he led the party to a place somewhat to the right of the Liberals, and predictably, collapsed. It was enough to wipe the slate clean for New Democrats in Toronto. Now there seems to be strong interest in the grassroots of the party in turning back to its progressive roots, embracing as many members have, the so-called Leap Manifesto, which urges the party to return to its environmentalist, socially- and economicallyinclusive roots. But don’t count out the lure of power to eclipse conscience. Alberta New Democrat Premier Rachel

Notley is still providing a lone successful example of the pragmatism that has proved so toxic to the party. At the convention, she provided a reminder the only way to make that stick for more than one term is to lighten up on the pipeline opposition. You’d like to think that in this age of surging U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and “Sunny Ways” Justin Trudeau, the original Canadian party of hope and social justice and change would be in an unambiguous position to capitalize on the mood, and maybe use that to take their shot at forming a serious progressive government one day. Instead, the NDP is tangled in its own ambitions. Disentanglement will take time, and when it’s over, who’s to say what will be standing in its place?

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in the 200m freestyle – behind Etobicoke’s MacLean, a longtime member of the Etobicoke Swim Club. “It’s been my dream since I started swimming and the fact that I can go this year makes it so much better than I could ever dream,” she said in the media scrum following her opening night win which qualified her for Rio. MacLean, the 22-year-old Olympic vet, won all three freestyle events she entered (200-, 400- and 800-metre), setting new Canadian records in the 200- and 400-metre events. She now holds just about all of Canada’s freestyle records, including at 200-, 400-, 800and 1,500-metres. While her meet-concluding 800-metre win (in eight minutes, 21.40 seconds) may have been her only one not to break a record, it was still impressive – the third-fastest time posted in the world this year and more than 12 seconds under the Olympic qualifying standard. “I wanted to post a really fast time,” said MacLean after the race. “I’m happy with that right now. I know there are a few things I will go back to my coach and I need to work on. For now, it’s a good starting point.” McCabe punched her ticket

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Leaside Garden Society April Meeting WHEN: 7:30 to 9:15 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Public Library, 165 McRae Dr. CONTACT: Donald Beard, donald5llir@hotmail.com COST: Free Lorraine Flanigan will speak about the New York City High-Line. There will be a spring mini flower show.

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Jump Into Spring! Kids’ Club WHEN: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Presbyterian Church, 670 Eglinton Ave. E. CONTACT: Phyllis Spence, 416-422-0510, www.leasiidepresbyterianchurch.ca, admin@ leasidepresbyterianchurch.ca COST: $30 to $50 Open to children in JK to Grade 7. Grade 8 students wekcome to help out. Cost is $30 per child or $50 per family. Call to register. Entertainment at the Legion WHEN: 8 p.m. to midnight. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-4253070 COST: Free Every Friday.

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Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser WHEN: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416425-1714, rcl22.com, jimb.farrell@yahoo.ca COST: $6 Support the 48th Highlander Army Cadet Corps as they present their annual pancake breakfast: pancakes, sausages, fruit and beverage. All are welcome. Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www. east yorkmirror.com Read listings from your East York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto. Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: Free For children from birth to age six and their caregivers. Registration not required.

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Welcoming the well aged Tiger to our home I have a new buddy who has just recently moved in with my wife and I, and he’s happily taken over the house and our lives. This is Tiger, a well-aged orange 14 year old Tom cat who has one eye, a number of battle scars on his ears, and a big purr. I first met Tiger on the pages of Facebook where his rakishly handsome face appeared along with a request for a foster home. I took one look at him and said to myself ‘that’s my cat’ and proceed to make inquiries as to how to connect up with him. I have to admit to being a hard-core cat person, and have had several cats over my lifetime. It’s actually been a while since I have had a cat (two together actually) but recently I have been thinking it was time to take in a new furry companion. Tiger was definitely a special cat, living at the Blue Cross Animal Hospital at the west end of the Danforth, he had an interesting history.

joe cooper watchdog He had been a member of the clinic’s staff, so to speak, for about a year due to some sad circumstances. He had lived his entire life with an older man who lived alone, and unfortunately his companion had become ill and gone into the hospital. Neighbours volunteered to feed and take care of Tiger while his companion was away, but unfortunately the length of time began to stretch out. Finally a relative of Tiger’s companion took the cat to the Blue Cross Animal Hospital for boarding because he needed more care. Sadly, while Tiger was at the clinic his companion passed away and more troubling, the man’s family were not able to take Tiger in with them. So the clinic decided to adopt Tiger and let him have the run of the upstairs office area, which he promptly took over.

When I heard this story, it made me think; how many people with pets actually have a plan of action in case something happens to them? If you are a pet owner, do you have a document or instructions readily available with your companion’s history and instructions on how you wish them to be taken care of? Tiger was lucky because the clinic took him in, rather than sending him off to a shelter where, frankly, older animals are not popular for adoption. Don’t just put it away where it will not be found, but make sure someone you trust has it so they can act on your instructions in the case of an emergency. Our pets are our precious companions and should be well treated if you are no longer able to do so, rather than just leaving their future to an uncertain fate. Joe Cooper is a long-time East York resident and community activist. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at eym@insidetoronto.com

This program recognizes all types of paid and unpaid caregivers, including family members, neighbours, friends and health care workers who selflessly provide skilled and compassionate care. Nominees might include a wife caring for her chronically-ill husband, a son helping his elderly mother live independently, or a personal support worker whose home visits are essential to a person with disabilities. Caregivers such as these are the everyday heroes in our midst – and Heroes in the Home is an opportunity to recognize them for their contributions. It’s easy to nominate someone special and you can acknowledge as many individuals as you like. All nominees will receive an invitation to attend a recognition ceremony and a certificate of appreciation. Nominations can be made until April 22, 2016. For more information or to nominate a special caregiver, please visit http://healthcareathome.ca/torontocentral or call 416-217-3820, ext. 2506. Heroes walk among us. Nominate the heroic caregivers you know today!

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the private member’s bill will be tabled by one of his fellow MPPs as he’s already presented one. Constituent concern Potts said he first heard about the problematic practice after constituent Nadine Blum, who lives near Danforth and Woodbine avenues, and her friend/colleague Kelly Doctor came in to discuss it with him. During their conversation, Potts said he was “shocked” to learn Blum, who has a twoyear-old son, was repeatedly asked to pay non-refundable fees of $20 to $150 to put her child’s name on daycare wait

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