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Leaside Curling Club hosts Curl for Heart The Leaside Curling Club will host the Curl for Heart bonspiel in February in support of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. The one-day event is set for Saturday, Feb. 8. The goal is to raise $10,000. Those interested in taking part can visit www.fitforheart. ca/curlforheartTO The Leaside Curling Club is
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STOPPING TO SAY HELLO: Top, Toronto District School Board Trustee Cathy Dandy, BeachesEast York MPP Michael Prue and Toronto-Danforth Councillor Mary Fragedakis meet members of the community during the annual New Year’s Levee held on Sunday at the East York Civic Centre. Top right, residents line up to meet their local politicians, including public school trustees, MPPs, MPs and councillors, at the levee. Right, Olivia Chow, MP for Trinity Spadina and the widow of former Toronto-Danforth MP and federal NDP leader Jack Layton, gets a hug from a well-wisher at the levee.
East York couple welcomes New Year’s baby at TEGH REBECCA FIELD eym@insidetoronto.com The end of 2013 came with power outages, ice storms, frost quakes and deep freezes, but one family is feeling the warmth this New Year with the birth of Toronto East General Hospital’s (TEGH) New Year’s baby. At eight pounds and four ounces, baby boy Aryus was the first to ring in the New Year at TEGH at 3:18 a.m. Early arrival Not due until Jan. 13, his East York parents Stephanie Jahnel and Andrew DuncanStevenson were planning a quiet night in on New Year’s Eve with their two-year-old daughter Serenity. Instead, Jahnel woke up at 4 a.m. with contractions, and headed to the hospital at 7:30 a.m.
“It’s pretty cool. I always talk about, you know, it would be so cool to be born on New Year’s,” said Jahnel. “And now to actually have your child born on New Year’s – he’ll get a lot of attention. It feels like everybody is celebrating your day,” said Jahnel who joked about her son’s future of having a paid vacation every year on his birthday. Jahnel’s labour started to slow down during the day and eventually doctors induced labour leading to the early morning birth. Quiet night at home “It went pretty fast. I was pushing for I’d say 20 minutes,” said Jahnel who had a harder time with Serenity’s birth with three hours of pushing. She hadn’t been planning
anything for New Year’s except a quiet night at home. “I was like ‘two weeks, what am I going to go out and do?’” said Jahnel. “I’m tired, with a two-and-a-half year old, you’re tired already.” “The nurse that was there basically the whole time, I can’t tell you her name, but she was very nice,” said Jahnel who said everyone at TEGH was very welcoming to her and her son. Dad Duncan-Stevenson is excited to welcome a baby boy. “He really wanted a boy,” said Jahnel. “He always thought he was going to have all girls. His grandma has all girls and his mom has all boys so he’s like ‘maybe I’m going to have all girls.’”
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he heat is on. The race to the Oct. 27 municipal election is going to be complex, and hit residents where they live – in their wards. The high-profile race always focuses on who will become the mayor of the City of Toronto. With former councillor and David Miller-era budget chief David Soknacki filing his paper on Monday, the first big name to challenge Rob Ford for the seat is in. Let the sound-bites begin! However, the mayor is just one vote on council. He or she leads an agenda, but the real races – the races that matter most – will be fought in the individual 44 wards across the city. In 2014, there are many issues that need addressing across the city, and each ward has its own unique issues, as well as a shared vision for the city. our view Knowing the people vying to fill your ward’s council seat – Opportunity their values and platforms – is to dig deep into extremely important. Knowing that they have their own opincommunity ions, and will not be on a mayoral ticket, following the lead of those who would be mayor, is essential. It is through these 44 councillors decisions impacting your local parks, streetscapes, safety and business concerns are voiced and brought to the bigger council chamber. Also, one councillor can impact the thinking of others – sometimes from clear across the city. Could a councillor in Ward 2 (Etobicoke North) impact a decision in Ward 36 (Scarborough Southwest) or Ward 27 (Toronto Centre-Rosedale)? Certainly. Residents should meet, find common ground on important issues such as development – the city isn’t getting any smaller, and development and intensification are but two examples of pressures every resident will feel. Then there are city-wide issues such as transit, where knowing how your candidate sits on the issue is important for both your ward and the economic viability of the city. The 2014 municipal election is an opportunity for residents across the city to dig deep into their communities, attend all-candidate debates, and pose questions that need answering. The glamorous nature of the mayor’s race will take on a life of its own, but it’s the grassroots, nuts and bolts races in each ward that truly deserve the attention of each and every Torontonian.
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Walking a thinning line at the hair salon Well, it looks like I’m a tad overdue for a haircut. Ah, whom I trying to kid? Truth be told, it’s actually several tads. I should have gone a long time ago. What can I say? It’s the thinning hair thing. Putting off salon visits kinda goes with the territory. Of course, thinning is just the politically correct term. Truth is, evaporating is more like it. David Copperfield couldn’t make mine disappear any quicker. (I mean it. He tried in one of his shows in Vegas. You can look it up on YouTube.) Which brings me back to the premise of this column. When you have thinning hair, you avoid getting it cut. Your rationale is simple: why pay a professional to lop off what few measly follicles you have left when they’ll inevitably disappear on their own – for free. Alas, you have to get it trimmed as regularly as those who are not thinning challenged. You have no
jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY choice. When what little thinning hair you have gets long, it makes you look sloppy, unkempt, absent-minded professor-ish. And if you wait too long to get it shorn, you may spook the neighbour’s dog and face the prospect of having the pup snap your scary picture and put it on his Facebook page to get even. So you get it done eventually and that’s when things get really embarrassing. You see, when a guy like me with thinning hair slinks into a salon, he can feel all the energy get sucked right out of the room. Not so when a hunk with a mane like a young Antonio Banderas sashays in through the doors. The moment a Banderas clone arrives, the hairstylists fight over him like it was a 20-girl Battle Royale in
Wrestlemania. And then the lucky winner does the samba to a Gloria Estefan medley while cutting his hair, pausing only occasionally to drool. Meanwhile, the poor soul who draws the short straw and has to do mine grumbles to herself all the way through, stopping only intermittently to hum Peggy Lee’s Is That All There is. And that, sadly, is the good news. The bad news is what happens after she’s done. She makes a huge production over what my hair looks like from behind. She gives me a gigantic mirror to hold and spins me around and around and around in the chair so I can get more angles of the back of my head than those 50 camera crews give you of the winning touchdown at the Super Bowl. The only thing missing is slo-mo, instant replay and me getting my head doused with Gatorade. Hey, my hair looks look
great from behind after she’s done, no question. But it never thins in the back so it always looks pretty good back there. Besides, where else do you check out the back of your head except in a salon? The rest of the world sees only the front and it’s the front that’s the problem here and it’s doing what it always does, thinning away like there’s no tomorrow. It was thinning when I dropped into the salon. It was thinning while it was being shampooed. It was thinning while it was being cut. It was thinning while it was being blow-dried. It was thinning while it was being styled. And to add insult to injury? All that spinning around in the chair makes it thin twice as fast. I tell ya, I can’t catch a break. Jamie Wayne is a lifelong columnist, who takes writing very seriously. The topics? Not so much. His column appears occasionally. Contact him at jamie.wayne@sympatico.ca
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Choose peace in a dangerous time Trees and hydro wires don’t mix To the editor: We live in a dangerous time; a time when religious differences, economic disparities and political ideologies are threatening to rip apart the fabric of humanity. Anger and violence is rampant in a world where individuals and nations have replaced reason with ignorance. Now more than ever, peace seems to be an elusive dream that continues to haunt us. What is peace and how can we achieve it? We may think of peace as a pact or agreement between countries or as some kind of truce between warring factions. We place our belief in peace in the form of military armaments or in papers signed by government leaders or even in economic treaties. In doing so, we materialize peace into something tangible, specific and quantifiable. In short, we have reduced the concept of peace into something we can see, or touch, or even buy. Perhaps it is because of this reason that real and lasting
peace continues to elude us. For peace, like love, or faith, or hope, is that which springs from within our individual consciousness. Its definition is not linked to a particular god, or religion or ideology. It is realized not by that which is extrinsic to us, but by embarking on a spiritual quest deep within ourselves to find a stillness of the mind and the spirit. Peace is the awakening of an inner tranquillity that gives us strength and clarity in an otherwise ever-changing and ever challenging world. Peace therefore begins with the individual and not with the society. For societies and hence, for nations to become truly peaceful, it is imperative that we, as individuals, first seek the true meaning of peace within ourselves. Only then can we hope to lead more tolerant and fulfilling lives within our communities and with our fellow human beings throughout the world. Just as anger and misunderstanding can manifest into
cacophony and violence, so too can peace manifest into harmony and understanding. A peaceful individual is the precursor to a peaceful family, society, and ultimately, to a peaceful nation. In a time of increasing intolerance and militarization in many parts of the world, let us each make a common resolution to actively seek out the meaning of peace in our lives. Let us stop blaming each other for our problems and start listening and becoming more accepting of our differences. Let us stop placing our hope for peace in guns, and bombs and war. Each of us has a choice to make. We can choose to continue down the path of violence and ignorance. Or we can choose to seek out a new path that leads us in the direction of peace and reason. For the sake of our children, our future and our planet, let’s choose wisely and effect positive change in the world. Let’s choose peace. Jeevan Bhagwat
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Japanese Garden Design WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Public Library, 165 McRae Dr. CONTACT: bethparker@sympatico.ca COST: Free Wolfegang Bonham speaks on Japanese Garden Design.
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Fun at the library: Teen Gaming WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart, 170 Memorial Park Ave.CONTACT: 416-396-3975 COST: Free Play Wii, PS3, or 360 game time. Future dates: Jan. 24 and Feb 14. For ages: 11 to 18. 6th Toronto Scout Group Community Euchre WHEN: 7:15 p.m. to 10 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 11, 9 Dawes Rd. CONTACT: 6thtorontoscouts@gmail.com COST: $6 Prizes, draw and refreshments.
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East York Community Kitchen WHEN: 3 to 6 p.m. WHERE: East York Community Centre, 1081 1/2 Pape
Tour of the Wildflower Preserve WHEN: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, 67 Pottery Rd. CONTACT: 416-396-2819 COST: Adults $6; children $2; youth and seniors $3. Tour the wildflower preserve to learn how birds, animals and plants adapt to and survive harsh winter conditions. Enjoy mulled cider after the walk.
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Knitting and Craft Sale WHEN: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Toronto East General Hospital, 825 Coxwell Ave. CONTACT: Angela Pappaianni, apapp@tegh.on.ca COST: Free Hand knit sweaters, gloves, hats and blankets for infants to adults. All proceeds are returned to the hospital
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Riverdale Community Arts and Letters Club WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale Branch, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: Riverdale Branch, 416-3937720 COST: Free
Bring your own book or suggestions for books to be read by the group. Discussion, book swap and door prizes. Everyone welcome.
Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714 COST: $6 Come out Monday evening and play some cribbage.
Author Talk WHEN: 7 p.m. to WHERE: Leaside Public Library, 165 McRae Drive CONTACT: Leaside Public Library, 416-396-3835, , COST: Free Nate Hendley speaks about his latest book: Steven Truscott: Decades of Injustice.
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Visual Artists Show and Share WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Art Cave, 155 Lamb Ave. CONTACT: Naz Rahbar, info@eastendarts.ca COST: Free Receive and share friendly feedback on your visual artwork. Participants are invited to bring one to three pieces of their work for discussion.
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Monday Afternoon Book Club WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Public Library, 165 McRae Dr. CONTACT: Leaside Library, 416-396-3835, COST: Free This month’s theme is Powerful Women. A lively discussion on suggested titles. Registration not required. Cribbage WHEN: 7:15 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240
Toddler Playtime WHEN: 9 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Monarch Park Stadium, 1 Hanson St., 1 Hanson St CONTACT: Alicia Lashley, 647-267-9904, www.monarchparkstadium.com, alicia@monarchparkstadium.com COST: $3 to $6 per child Fun games and activities for the kids. Each session includes a structured activity such as parachuting, obstacle races and soccer games.
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rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT hour for assistance during Tuesday morning’s frigid temperatures. The daily volume of calls in winter averages around 3,000, with the number usually doubling during storm days, according to the CAA SCO. Councillors’ transit votes posted The city’s largest advocacy group for transit users has posted the voting records of Toronto councillors on key transit funding votes ahead of a budget vote. TTCriders posted the results of votes held between 2011 and 2013, which resulted in service cuts to the TTC and are the reason, according to the group, transit fares were hiked again this year. “Many councillors might ‘talk the talk,’ but don’t ‘walk the walk,’ states a press release posted on the group’s website. “When it comes to
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My Pop Choir members de-stressing by singing together. When it comes to feeling more energetic, positive and relaxed, Sharon Ricci thanks her newfound passion: singing in a choir. Anyone who knows Sharon will be surprised to hear that. Why? Because until joining My Pop Choir, Sharon would say: “I am not a singer. But I love to sing mostly in the shower and the car, of course!” So how did she make the leap from “fear of singing” to “loving being in this choir”? Sharon credits the comfortable and fabulously fun My Pop Choir, the fastest growing group of ‘everyone’ choirs in Southern Ontario.
Jacqueline wasn’t alone. My Pop Choir started in September 2011 with 1 choir and now has 7 choirs with over 300 members in the GTA!
According to Jacqueline Curtis, the founder of My Pop Choir, “You don’t need experience, musical skills or even know how to read music and there are no auditions or solos. The experience is about fun, energy and comfort. You leave your worries at the door when you come to a My Pop Choir session.”
The first two sessions are free Pop-Ins so you can see if My Pop Choir is for you. There’s nothing to lose, but your stress. The 10-week winter term for the current 7 choirs begins the week of January 13th. The Lawrence Park choir sessions are on Mondays. The Riverdale My Pop Choir runs on Tuesdays starting January 14th. The Sessions are from 7 to 8:30 pm.
Choir members agree that there are tremendous physical and psychological benefits to being a part of My Pop Choir. “It’s virtually impossible to think of anything else when you’re at a session. It’s therapeutic! There’s almost as much laughter at My Pop Choir sessions as there is singing,” says Oakville choir member Jenny Anderson. “No one thinks they’re a particularly good singer but together we sound great!”
Etobicoke choir member, Bob, said “Joining My Pop Choir was one of the best decisions I’ve made. Just learning great songs like California Dreamin’, Hallelujah, Summer Breeze together, in harmony, is amazing but then there’s this sense of community you feel when you’re gathered together singing, laughing, making mistakes and then getting it.”
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DJ Li based out of Greenwood and Gerrard area >>>from page 1 old funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, R&B, Reggae, and Brazilian beats. “It will be great because it will probably give the night and the music exposure outside of its normal type of audience as well,” said Li who started Footprints as a way to seek out a warmer, more inviting atmosphere for his
music than at a club. He hopes that DJ Skate Nights will give the same type of vibe. “It’s for the community – for people to get together and to expose people to different talent in the city, whether it be DJs, musicians and other kinds of art. It’s important and it’s fun,” said Li who lives near Greenwood Avenue and
Gerrard Street. This is an annual event for DJs held by the Harbourfront Centre, but this is the first year that event programmer Sergio Elmir is booking preproduced Toronto-based events such as Footprints on Ice. “Footprints is one of Toronto’s longest-running parties,” said Elmir.
Other events include Yes Yes Valentines, Soca on Ice as well as Pop! Goes the World – a Korean pop dance party themed night to celebrate the Lunar New Year. “It’s always a good time,” said Elmir. “It reminds you that there’s still a spirit, still a vibe in the city even though we’re all sort of bunkered down and
want to just stay in our homes under a blanket.” Up to 500 people attend the weekly event, according to Elmir. Who’s boss The centre also provides hot chocolate, skate rentals, a fire pit and a warming centre along with the music.
“Skating is obviously a long running tradition and we’re trying to bring it into the new era,” said Elmir. “We’re trying to give you a reason to get out of your house and show winter who’s boss.”
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Tree debris clean-up Toronto’s city-wide tree debris removal started Friday, January 3, 2014 and is expected to take approximately eight weeks, weather permitting. The City will haul away all tree branches from front yards and roadsides and will include those that have fallen on private property if they are less than 15 cm (six inches) in diameter and have been taken to the curb. Please neatly stack limbs/ branches with butt ends towards the road for City pick-up. Place wood debris at the front edge of your property as close to the sidewalk or road as possible without blocking either.
City crews will not collect large limbs (more than 15 cm or six inches in diameter) from private trees that have fallen on private property. Property owners should contact a private contractor for this. A City permit is not required to remove damaged or downed trees that are hazardous, however many trees can be saved with proper care and pruning.
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BATTLE FOR THE PUCK: Chloe Gonsalves of the Leaside Wildcats and Sophia Papaioannou of the Scarborough Sharks fight for the puck during a bantam AA game at the 30th annual Scarborough Sharks New Year’s Classic hockey tournament Friday afternoon. Leaside won this game 2-0 and went on to complete the preliminary round undefeated with two wins and two ties but bowed out of the tournament with a 1-0 loss to the North Bay Boltz in their semifinal game (after the two teams had tied 1-1 during their preliminary round game).
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Toronto Crime Stoppers program marks 30 years ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com Toronto Crime Stoppers tips last year led to arrests in sex assaults, violent robberies, a kidnapping and an attempted murder and reduced the Dirty Dozen bank robbers to the Terrible Tens. “Toronto Crime Stoppers is an extraordinary example of the power of a successful partnership between the police and the community,” Toronto Police Services Board chair Alok Mukherjee said Tuesday during the launch of Crime Stoppers Month. “Through this program, the public plays an integral role in keeping our neighbourhoods safe, providing our police service with an enormous volume of beneficial tips.” This year also marks the 30th anniversary of Crime Stoppers in Toronto. Current Toronto Crime Stoppers chair Gary Grant was the co-ordinator of the program when it was launched back in July 1984.
made drug dealers stand up and take notice and be fearful because not only were people calling in about the sale of illicit drugs – heroin, cocaine, marijuana – fellow drug dealers were calling in, their competitors, and really I don’t care who was calling in, and in some cases it was a parent.” Worldwide
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Crime Stoppers chair Gary Grant speaks from the podium during the Crime Stoppers Month media conference at Toronto police headquarters on Tuesday. Crime Stoppers is marking its 30th year of operation.
“I was sitting in an office with one desk and one officer as my call taker and we pretty much did everything ourselves,” Grant said. “CityTV was really the first TV station that jumped in; they filmed a
weekly re-enactment for us, which was quite fun and exciting to do at the time.” Toronto was the second city to launch a Crime Stoppers program in Ontario. Hamilton was first.
“It gave people an opportunity to report criminal activity without fear of repercussion or without fear of going to court,” Grant said. “One thing I noticed that Crime Stoppers did was it
Today there are more than 1,200 Crime Stoppers programs worldwide. Last year, Toronto Crime Stoppers fielded 8,906 tips, leading to 132 arrests, 473 charges, the recovery of $424,134 in property and the seizure of more than $9 million in drugs. Also last year, the program launched the Tattle Tails initiative that focuses on generating tips on animal cruelty and neglect. “An arrest was made recently in December for a German shepherd that was kept in a shed that was
unheated, no water and in horrible living conditions: feces, urine-stained floors,” Grant said. “The police attended as a result of a Crime Stoppers tip.” Since its launch in 1984, Toronto Crime Stoppers has received more than 107,000 tips, resulting in more than 10,000 arrests, 36,000 charges and the seizure of more than $302 million in drugs. Former drug squad investigator Det. Chris Scherk took over as program co-ordinator, replacing Det. Darlene Ross, last week. “In my own very recent experience, just before Christmas, my drug team was able to successfully deal with a chronic neighbourhood drug issue due to the information contained in a Crime Stoppers tip,” he said. Callers to the program’s 24-hour hotline, 416-222-TIPS (8477), remain anonymous and are eligible for a $2,000 reward.
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Board of trade launches Think Twice, Vote Once campaign Higher standards of performance sought from Toronto politicians RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com The president of the Toronto Region Board of Trade called on prospective election candidates to heed frustration being expressed by residents and get on with improving public transit. Noting the likelihood of two elections taking place within a single year, the first time it could happen since 2011 (federal and provincial votes), Carol Wilding said it was critical for candidates in both the municipal and provincial campaigns to show their support for improving transit within the Toronto region. “We’ve got a pressing issue around transit, and it’s now time for candidates and politi-
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At Wellington St. W. and Simcoe St. 416-955-6286
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