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PLAYING THE BLUES: Jack de Keyzer performs a set and talks on the history of the blues, during the Winterfolk Blues and Roots Music Festival at Black Swan Tavern Sunday. The festival hosted performances at a number of venues along Danforth Avenue.

T h e Po c k e t Co m m u n i t y Association is hosting a neighbourhood skating party Sunday afternoon. The event will include skating from noon to 2 p.m. and hockey from 2 to 3 p.m. It will take place at Phin Avenue Parkette, 115 Condor Ave., which is east of Jones Avenue and south of Danforth Avenue. All are welcome to come out and enjoy the skating, along with hot chocolate, cider, and treats/snacks. Funds raised from the event will go toward the construction and maintenance costs of the outdoor skating rink in the parkette. Volunteers are needed to help with the barbecue, fire pit, and music/games among other things. Email jeffotto@sympatico.ca to get involved.

Beaches-East York MP named to international parliamentary group Beaches-East York MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith has been selected to represent Canada on the Inter-Parliamentary Union

(IPU), an international organization comprised of more than 140 parliaments from around the globe. Erskine-Smith, who was

nominated and acclaimed for a one-year term as the Canadian group’s president/ chair Jan. 27, said he views this opportunity as a chance

to help restore Canada’s role and standing on the world stage. He said he’s looking forward to helping bring

attention to key issues his government strongly believes in on a global scale, notably human rights. >>>MP, page 2

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>>>from page 1 “I’m excited for the future and I’m looking forward to rep resenting Beaches-East York, but also representing the country as a whole,” Erskine-Smith said during a recent interview. On Feb. 8 and 9, the Beaches-East York MP was one of two Canadian representatives who took part

in a two-day parliamentary hearing on the global war on drugs at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. While there, ErskineSmith spoke about alternatives to incarceration for dealing with the issue and Canada’s approach to making marijuana regulated instead of viewing it through a criminal lens.

“I think we can help move the global view of the public,” he said, pointing to directions taken that are based on evidence from a harm-reduction perspective. In March, Erskine-Smith will be attending a global conference on engaging youth in politics along with upward of 650 parliamentarians in Zambia. While

there, he’ll also be giving the opening address on behalf of the Canadian delegation. Erskine-Smith has also recently been appointed to serve on the public safety and national security as well as access to information, privacy and ethics committees. – Joanna Lavoie

The IPU, which was established in 1889 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, works in co-operation with the United Nations to foster dialogue among parliamentarians around the world. The union also contributes to the defense and promotion of human rights and serves as the focal point for worldwide parliamentary dialogue, while working for peace and co-operation among peoples and for the firm establishment of representative democracy.

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Birthday party planned at Chester station The Artists Newsstand will be hosting a birthday party for the 50th anniversary of the Bloor-Danforth subway line next Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m.. The festivities will include live performances, music, complimentary cake, balloons and prizes. The fun will begin with a February historical character per formance about the subway construction. At 6:30 p.m., burlesque artist Dainty Box will present a family-friendly performance. In between, a DJ will play tunes from 1966. The Artists’ Newsstand is a former Gateway Newsstand kiosk at Chester station (22 Chester Ave. at Danforth) that has been transformed into a whimsical newsstand and artists’ space. Visit facebook. com/artistsnewsstand

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A community consultation on state of good repair improvements scheduled for Fairmount Park is set for Tuesday. The meeting will address the park’s soccer field, baseball diamonds, wading pool, and tennis courts. It will be held at Fairmount Park Community Centre, 1757 Gerrard St. E., west of Woodbine Avenue, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The improvements at the park are set to take place in the fall and possible into next spring. All are welcome to bring their ideas for projects.

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The quarterly meeting of the 100 Women Who Care Toronto East chapter, an organization that raises funds for local charities, is set for Tuesday. The gathering will be held at The Grover Pub, 676 Kingston Rd., east of Main Street. Registration will get underway at 7:15 p.m., followed by the meeting from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. A social will run from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. All are welcome. For more information, please email torontoeast100women@rogers.com or go to www. 100womenwhocaretorontoeast.com

‘baking’ a world record At top, volunteers organize the cookies during the Guinness World Records attempt for the Largest Cookie Mosaic Monday at Evergreen Brick Works. Centre, volunteer Tyson Coady organizes the treats. Below, once the title was achieved everyone was invited to take a bite out the record-setting mosaic.

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It’s time to ladle it up at Co m m u n i t y Ce n t re 5 5 (CC55). The centre’s annual souptasting competition is set for today (Feb. 18) from 5 to 7 p.m. This year’s contenders are Melanie’s Bistro, The Grover Pub, AMS Pizza and Wings, and the Gull and Firkin. The winner will be going home with the coveted silver ladle as well as bragging rights. In honour of CC55’s 40th anniversary, this event is free. CC55, is at 97 Main St. All are welcome. Call 416-691-1113 for details.

The challenge was taken up by the Robin Hood Baking Team on Family Day in support of We Bake for Change, an initiative of WE Day. The sweet mosaic was made up of more than 13,000 shortbread cookies and designed to resemble a map of the world. Each cookie was individually wrapped to help counter any food wastage. After the record was established the cookies were shared with guests and local food banks. Photos/EDUARDO LIMA

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Sadness at the heart of the Uber-taxi battle There have been few issues at Toronto City Hall so consistently suffused with sadness as the Uber-X ride sharing fight with taxi drivers has been this past 18 months or so. From the outside, it’s been easy to confuse that sadness with rage. At the early February meeting of Toronto council, taxi drivers’ rage was certainly on display: several had to be removed from the council chamber as they watched councillors step away from seeking an immediate court injunction to stop Uber-X from operating in the city. Last week, Paul Sekston, one of those taxi drivers, took that anger to the airwaves and announced the new United Taxi Workers’ Association would be staging a protest to disrupt the NBA All-Star Game and run-up to it. It would have been a bad scene had it happened, but it didn’t. The same day, Feb. 11, he and other members of the taxi industry had a

david nickle the city sit-down with three city councillors – Janet Davis, Glenn De Baeremaeker and Kristyn Wong-Tam – after which, they decided to call it off. What clinched it? They simply needed to hear city councillors say aloud the thing that is undeniably true. Uber-X, as it’s currently operating in the city, is illegal. And there it was: the heart of the sadness beating beneath the crumbling front of rage. Taxi drivers, or at least Sekston, need if not a hug, then at least some clear allies in what they perceive, correctly, as the fight for their vocational lives. Mayor John Tory has tried to provide some assurance after he mused about the inevitability of disruptive technologies in a way that seemed to be giving Uber-X a moral if not entirely legal break.

And from the perspective of taxi drivers seeing their livelihoods dry up, Uber-X has gotten an easy ride from almost everyone else on the legal front. Yes, it’s complicated. When cab drivers came to the Toronto Police Services Board demanding more drivers be charged, Chief Mark Saunders explained doing so en masse is legally and operationally challenging. And when cab drivers demanded Toronto enforce its own bylaw – passed just last fall – setting up requirements for UberX’s continued operation that the ride-sharing app and the drivers who use it couldn’t and wouldn’t meet, council demurred. Again, it was for strategic reasons: if an injunction can’t be heard for three months, and the city’s new regulations governing ridesharing apps will be before council in two, the entire matter may become moot. Meanwhile, Uber Canada continues its charm offen-

sive, delivering kittens to stressed-out office workers and experimenting with shuttle services to underserved communities near the downtown – and, of course, by undercutting taxi fares for customers who are becoming used to trading fare savings for the invisible risks of riding an unregulated service. And to add to the sting: the Toronto licensed taxi model isn’t a sterling alternative. While taxis are regulated, the vehicles more rigorously inspected and drivers more comprehensively insured, Toronto’s system of commodified plates and absentee owners still makes for an ugly feudalism under which drivers work now. It’s been awful to watch, no doubt awful to live, and it’s hard to see anything near a happy ending to it all.

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No gravy to be found in budget Making sense of the City of Toronto budget is not an easy thing, but it is not impossible. The city staff and our local councillors make considerable effort to summarize it. There were several town hall and community meetings during January to review its contents. One was held at East York Civic Centre, where a group of concerned citizens were given a detailed overview of the proposed structure of the 2016 budget. At this point the budget is still at the consultation stage. It still has to go to city council for final debate and approval, so it is far from complete. The key points regarding the 2016 budget lay in the areas of public transportation, service improvement, and infrastructure expansion. However, there are still key issues that need to be addressed due to the urgency of many of the public concerns they cover. For example, there is a poverty reduction strategy that has been proposed, but while it sounds good on paper, it is still underfunded. Poverty in Toronto is a

joe cooper watchdog growing issue as many groups in different locations around the city remain marginalized from the economic benefits that are offered here. Likewise, the city still remains behind most modern urban centres when it comes to having a truly effective public transportation system. Rather than expanding, child care in the city was actually reduced by one per cent last year, which may not seem a large number, but the effects are noticeable. To r o n t o Co m m u n i t y Housing continues to be a public embarrassment as the city’s public housing needs repairs that are months, if not years, behind schedule. Our wonderful resource of parks and the associated equipment remains precariously underfunded, while more and more people come to use them. Critical services, such as the city’s fire prevention operations, remain underfunded despite the city’s increasing population.

This past week’s cold snap underscores the fact that the city’s emergency cold weather drop-in service is being pushed to its limits. Major transportation initiatives, such as Mayor John Tory’s SmartTrack proposal, are at risk of being shelved or seriously downgraded as there are no funds to finance them. Plans to revamp the rapidly deteriorating Gardiner Expressway are no further ahead, despite being approved by council, simply due to a lack of funding. On top of all of this, there is $30 million in “ordinary” capital projects that are on hold due to lack of funding. Only 34 per cent of the operating costs come from property taxes. The majority of the money paid out goes to emergency services, transportation, infrastructure, and core services. Not frivolous items as some would have you believe. There is no gravy. 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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East York Garden Club WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Stan Wadlow Clubhouse, 373 Cedarvale Ave. CONTACT: Susan Bartlett, 416668-7872, susanhirst@gmail.com COST: Free Kyla Dixon-Muir will speak about Cold Frames: Get an Early Start in your Spring Garden. Doors open at 7 p.m. for refreshments, speaker is at 7:30 p.m. Family Storytime WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: Free Stories, songs, and rhymes for children from birth to age six and their caregivers. Registration not required.

w Monday, Feb. 22

Cribbage WHEN: 7:15 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, jimb.farrell@ yahoo.ca COST: $6

w Tuesday, Feb. 23

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Mosaic Storytelling Festival WHEN: 3 p.m. WHERE: St. David’s Anglican Church, 49 Donlands Ave. CONTACT: 416-466-3142, opendooratstds@gmail.com, www.mosaicstorytelling.ca COST: Pay what you can, $5 per person suggested Storytellers Hugh Cotton and Clare Nobbs share fantastical tales from England, Scotland, and Ireland. Every second Sunday until March 20. Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.east yorkmirror.com and read listings from your East York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto. munity Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave., Suite 215H CONTACT: 416-322-7002, info@mosaichomecare.com COST: Clinic $40, in-home treatment $55 Clinics run every third Tuesday of the month. Call for an appointment. Riverdale Historical Society WHEN: 6:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Matthew’s Clubhouse, Riverdale Park East at Langley and Broadview CONTACT: riverdalehistoricalsociety. com COST: $5 at the door; free for members Topic: George Leslie (1804 to 1893), owner of Toronto Nurseries. Speaker is historian Joanne Doucette. Riverdale Family Book Club

WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: Free A book club for children aged eight to 12 and a parent. For our first meeting we will discuss ‘Save Rafe!’ by James Patterson. Additional meetings will be on March 29, April 26, May 31, and June 28. Call to register.

w Wednesday, Feb. 24

Hearing Loss Screening WHEN: 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Mosaic Home Care Services & Community Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave., Suite 215H CONTACT: 416-322-7002, info@mosaichomecare.com COST: Free Call to register.

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w Thursday, Feb. 25

Heritage Presentation Series WHEN: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Presteign-Woodbine United Church, 2538 St. Clair Ave. E. CONTACT: 416-755-8352, www.presteignwoodbineuc.com, presteignwoodbineunitedchu@bellnet.ca COST: $7 per presentation

w Saturday, Feb. 27

Live Music @ the Branch WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, rcl22.com, jimb. farrell@yahoo.ca COST: Free Featuring Blaze and Glory.

w Wednesday, March 2

Seniors Hypertension Info Session WHEN: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Cecelia Murphy Building, 11 Coatsworth Cr. CONTACT: Janet Keenan, 416-691-7407, ext.224, jkeenan@ neighbourhoodlink.org COST: Free Offered in collaboration with Coxwell Pharmacy and Neighbourhood Link Support Services. For seniors aged 55 plus. Call to register.

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The East York Bulldogs peewee A team competed in the Scarborough Hockey Association tournament last weekend, winning this game 3-1 over the host Scarborough team. Scarborough, however, got revenge in the championship game downing previously undefeated East York 2-0. Above, East York Bulldogs player Kayden Seguin fires a shot. At left, East York Bulldogs player Dylan Rogers, centre, pushes up the ice.

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Leaside heads into the game with 53 points out of 37 games while Toronto, with a game in hand (hosting Brampton Saturday at 3 p.m.) sports 51 points in 36 games. That was good enough to leave Leaside tied for second place in the 20-team league (Top 16 make the playoffs). Unfortunately for Leaside, they’re unlikely to hold on to that lofty position, for two reasons: One, they’re in the midst of a bit of an uncharacteristic late-season swoon, having lost three of their last four games (albeit, all against strong opposition). And, two, Leaside is in a

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