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Kevin Brooks has delivered more than 1,000 presentations across Canada and the U.S., sharing his story of drinking and driving.

ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com Every morning Kevin Brooks wakes up, there’s a wheelchair beside him that reminds him of his “nightmare”: killing his friend in a drunk driving crash.

It began as a typical warm Saturday in June 2000.

Brooks, then 21, was hanging out with his high school sweetheart and watched her ride in a horse show. He then went to

his youngest sister’s ballet recital.

After the event, Brooks attended a house party where he thought he’d have a few beers and then call it a night.

But that never happened.

“I ran into some old school hockey friends I’d grown up with, and one thing led to another, and we were down to have a wild night,” Brooks said.

And they hopped from one party to another.

At one point during the night, Brooks

returned home to get more beer. The British Columbia resident wasn’t yet “blackout drunk” and stopped in front of his car thinking something bad could happen.

“We all have that voice inside that warns us at times,” Brooks said.

“That was one moment where I was still consciously aware of what was going on and had that opportunity to make the better choice and chose not to.”

Brushing off the warning, Brooks con>>>a mistake, page 3

Taste of the Danforth on this weekend TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com The best of Greece and Toronto will be on display, and on the menu, again this year at Krinos Taste of the Danforth.

The 23rd annual festival takes place along Danforth Avenue, between Broadview and Jones avenues, this Friday through Sunday. An estimated 1.6 million people are expected to attend the free event, presented by The GreekTown on the Danforth BIA. The 10th annual Danforth Dash Bed Race, presented by the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113, will help kick off the festivities again this year.

At 1:30 p.m. Friday, be two blocks east of Broadview to watch fundraising teams race hospital beds down the Danforth in support of Michael Garron Hospital.

Olympians, NHL athletes, Toronto team mascots, community groups and local celebrities will be participating and cheering on the teams in their bid to win the Golden Bed Pan Trophy.

This year, the Garron family is matching donations raised through the race. Visit www.bit. ly/2aBrtT6 to sponsor a team or support the event.

While sampling a variety of Greek and other cuisines, for $5 or less per plate, festival-goers can enjoy live music, danc>>>taste, page 12

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THE NUMBERS Impaired driving occurrences in OPP patrolled areas for the past five years:

2010 Alcohol: 6,324 Drug: 214 2011: Alcohol: 6,267 Drug: 184 2012: Alcohol: 6,423 Drug: 178 2013: Alcohol: 5,636 Drug:: 248 2014: Alcohol: 5,151 Drug: 219

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Above, Kevin Brooks’ crumpled car after the crash that killed his friend and left him paralyzed; Brooks standing with his two sisters at his sister Allison’s graduation. Right, this was taken the night before the car crash - June 23, 2000 and was the last photo ever taken of Brooks standing with his family.

2015: Alcohol: 5,373 Drug: 195

A mistake that lingers, more than 16 years later >>>from page 1 tinued drinking and partying hard.

“By the time we were leaving the last house party, we were all really drunk,” said Brooks. “We were double digit drinks for sure. I’d say well over 10, probably pushing 20.”

Three of Brooks’ buddies got in a cab, but before it left, one friend, Brendon, got out and opted to travel with Brooks.

“I was like the stubborn idiot who wanted to drive drunk,” Brooks said. “From what I’ve heard, people were trying to get my keys away from me, but I had an extra pair in the glove box. ... In hindsight, too bad somebody didn’t just punch me out.”

Brooks and Brendon were speeding to another party.

“Going 110 to 130 in a 70 zone, just stupid.

Beers are open, tunes cranked, totally not paying attention,” Brooks said. “I don’t remember what happened. I missed a corner, and the car hit a road divider and went airborne, hit the ground and rolled multiple times.”

Weeks later, Brooks woke up in an intensive care unit and learned that he had been in a crash and that he was paralyzed from the chest down.

“A little bit later, I asked about who was

with me and found out my buddy Brendon passed away. That was the worst thing I’d ever heard in my life,” Brooks said. “He’s gone and dealing with that was a nightmare.”

Brooks contemplated suicide but was confined to a bed, too weak to even move.

With the support of his family, best friend and Brendon’s family, Brooks’ outlook began to change.

“It allowed me a chance not to totally give up,” he said of the support.

After a two-month hospital stay, Brooks was transferred to a rehabilitation centre where he learned to dress himself, roll over in bed, sit up and get around in a wheelchair.

It was a new life for Brooks, who had been an active man.

“I could play every sport decently. I skateboarded, I snowboarded, I played hockey. I was just go, go, go, and then all of a sudden, boom, I’m in a chair.”

His future career as an electrician was over, his girlfriend of two-and-a-half years left him and he faced criminal charges from the crash.

“And dealing with the fact that I killed a buddy, there was so much to deal with,” he said.

Brooks pled guilty to dangerous driving

2016 (to date): Alcohol: 2,147 Drug: 81

causing death; a charge of impaired driving causing death was dropped.

“I lost my licence for three years. There were community hours and probation but no jail time,” Brooks said. “I still look at it as light.”

Brooks said he felt something good had to come from the tragedy, and about two years after the collision, he began sharing his story at schools in the hopes of preventing drinking and driving.

“I used to be a server and I’d be scared if I had 10 people at a table, so getting in front of an entire gymnasium of teenagers was terrifying, but once I started talking, I just sunk into a bit of a groove,” he said.

“Then after, I was just mobbed by kids and they were crying, thanking me and shaking my hand. There was a connection made.”

Brooks has now delivered more than 1,000 presentations across Canada and the U.S. “It’s been a saving grace for me to have a positive outlet for what happened,” he said.

“I can’t say I’m proud of the journey that led me on it, but I found it and I just keep looking forward.”

MORE ONLINE One toke over the line: Police are prepping for a possible spike in drivers who are one toke over the line as Ottawa prepares to legalize marijuana for recreational use. bit.ly/1toke The grey area of pharmaceuticals: How prescription use can lead to impaired driving charges. bit.ly/pharmadrugs A survivor’s story: In a matter of seconds, an impaired driver changed Cherie Daniels’s life forever. bit.ly/ crashvictim

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t’s sad we still have to warn people about the dangers of impaired driving; one would have hoped the message had been received loud and clear by now, but that is unfortunately not the case.

In today’s editions of our papers, we look at the consequences of impaired driving, from the standpoint of a woman whose life was forever altered after being struck by a driver who was impaired, and from the perspective of a young man who killed one of his best friends after crashing a car while driving drunk.

These are tragic stories, and in both cases they could have been avoided.

We ask all our readers to think hard about the toll impaired driving can take on the lives of so many people and to make sure they take the necessary steps to avoid such tragedies.

We can’t emphasize enough the importance of not driving impaired – be it from alcohol, prescription drugs or marijuana.

It’s critical for all to remember OuR ViEW that alcohol is not the only cause of impaired driving.

Be responsible As our stories show, there’s concern among police before getting growing about what impact Canada’s behind wheel new marijuana laws will have on impaired driving.

Police are preparing for a spike in drivers “one toke over the line”, and the Ontario Provincial Police are training officers to specifically detect drug-impaired drivers.

While police admit that it will remain to be seen whether drug-impaired driving increases in Canada, evidence from the state of Colorado (where marijuana is legal) indicates one in eight of its impaired driving citations in 2014 involved pot use.

Clearly, as the federal government moves toward relaxing Canada’s marijuana-use laws it will have to take into account how drug-impaired driving is determined by police, and what standards the courts will be setting for criminal charges.

It is critical that the message gets out that drugimpaired driving is as socially and morally unacceptable as drunk driving.

Further complicating the dangers on our roads is the “grey” area of those driving (often unknowingly) under the influence of prescription drugs.

Patients and doctors must improve their level of understanding about the impact of prescription drugs and medications on the ability of a person to drive, and make sure that information is available.

We all need to take a greater level of responsibility about our actions, and the decisions we make, before we get behind the wheel of a vehicle.

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Bloor bike lanes address city’s growing cycling needs I’m usually pretty careful riding a bike on Toronto streets, but last week I had a near thing.

Riding down Coxwell Avenue on my way to a Mayor John Tory press event, I thought I could make it past some road work that pushed very close to streetcar tracks, and as it turned out, I couldn’t, not quite.

So when the front tire slipped into the streetcar track, it went over and I nearly did too; somehow managing to get off the bike without really falling myself.

Lucky me.

Seriously.

Lucky me.

In July, a study by Ryerson University and the University of British Columbia on bike accidents in Toronto found that fully a third of the serious ones were caused by cyclist’s tires either getting caught in the tracks or slipping across them.

Usually, there were no

david nickle the city bike lanes and the cyclists reported trying to maneuver around parked cars or other obstacles.

And it happens a lot.

Between 2005 and 2014, the city has charted 1,232 cyclist collisions – a number that doesn’t include simple mishaps.

The whole thing adds a bit of perspective to the new pilot project that got underway this week to try out separated bike lanes on Bloor Street.

There are no streetcar tracks on Bloor Street, but there are an awful lot of cars, and the stretch through the Annex is a well-documented hazard for cyclists trying to get across town.

It’s been a pain for auto drivers, during this relatively short construction period, with two of the

four lanes of traffic there shut down, and there will probably be some more pain – or at least mild discomfort – as the pilot runs its course.

Drivers are going to have to get used to it, because the status quo is a precarious place right now.

More people are choosing to bike to and from work than ever.

And while the city has provided some good cycling infrastructure – a total of 558.4 kilometres of on-street bike lanes, before the Bloor project is counted – Toronto also has 82 kilometres of those tirecatching streetcar tracks to contend with.

Cycling is safer in Toronto, but it’s hardly as safe as it might be.

The authors of the study that appeared in the BMC Public Health journal in July had a couple of recommendations short of getting rid of all those streetcar tracks.

Bike lanes, obviously,

are crucial – but they also recommend fully-separated streetcar tracks, like those on Spadina or St. Clair.

The city can do other things, too.

Simply patching potholes on well-cycled routes – or all routes, for that matter – would go a long way to making a safer, smoother commute for cyclists.

Providing more places to safely lock bikes might not make things safer, but might be more effective.

But in the short term, running a successful pilot project along one of the great, city-spanning streets, and working diligently to build out the bike plan that Toronto Council approved earlier in the summer, is an excellent step toward syncing the city’s form with the needs of a growing number of its residents.

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At one time I noticed that one of my neighbours had been absent from the community scene. Normally you would have found this quiet man standing in front of the local beer store on Saturday, where he sold a newspaper.

It costs two dollars, and is published for the poor, the homeless, and unemployed to distribute. I had wandered up to him and bought the paper, which I always find useful and enjoyable to read. Then I asked what had been keeping him away from his post.

It turned out that he had been taking some training courses to improve his work skills. He still liked to sell his papers, he said, because it kept him busy during the weekend, while allowing him to keep in touch with people in the neighbourhood. I also asked was whether he had had any problem with the store, or the customers, because of selling the paper. Fortunately the answer was no.

As long as he was not being aggressive in his selling, and that asked the store manager for permission to be there,

joe cooper watchdog he was welcome to sell his paper at that spot. While the people of East York have had a good record of accepting people who are different, others in the city of Toronto appear to be promoting an attitude of intolerance. When a justification for this attitude of intolerance has been put forward, sometimes a theory called “Broken Windows” is used. This term came from an article published in The Atlantic Monthly magazine in 1982. The theory was based on a social science experiment that involved two identical cars. One was placed in the Bronx, where it was stripped clean in one day.

The other car was placed in a middle class neighbourhood, where it sat untouched for a week. It was only when one window in the second car was broken did vandals come to wreck it. The broken window, it was theorized, encouraged people

with criminal tendencies to commit the crime. The article’s conclusion was that by keeping neighbourhoods free of run-down buildings with broken windows one would observe a drop in crime.

Further study has proven this to be true.

East York is a good example of this theory in action as crime is kept at bay by keeping homes and businesses repaired and clean.

However, the same article went on to say that by removing panhandlers, squeegee people and the homeless from the streets, major crime would also go down. While sweeping marginal people from the streets has been tried in some cities, it has never been proven to help reduce major crime.

The motto of Toronto is “Diversity is our strength”. Yet this only works if we respect the differences of others, including our poor.

Joe Cooper is a long-time East York resident and community activist. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at eym@insidetoronto.com

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Lolita’s Lust Restaurant and Bar/Chinchilla Lounge, an eclectic, two-level Mediterranean eatery with DJ music on the weekends, was located at 513 Danforth Ave., between Logan and Carlaw avenues.Owner Sam Scanga broke the news last week via a website post. “After considerable consideration I have decided to close our doors effective immediately,”

he wrote. “As I look back at the restaurants long history, I remember fondly at all the parties, groups and iconic movie stars that have dined at Lolita’s. BUT - what I will always remember most is the love and patronage Lolita’s received from the Danforth/ Riverdale Community (and beyond).”

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Through the area, two lanes of traffic will be open during peak periods, with one lane in each direction outside peak hours.

Between Moore and River Streets, work will take place during the same hours, with the addition of some overnight work on weekends at the intersection of Moore and Bayview. One lane in each direction will remain open through the area.

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“There are many cultures and religions in Toronto, and newcomers that may be unfamiliar with the idea of organ transplant or did not trust the health care system of their country of origin,” Holdsworth said. “But it’s on us to educate the public and to show them that organ transplant works.”

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