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Mosaic Storytelling Festival returns for its fifth year East York will be home to a storytelling festival slated to run from January to March.

The Mosaic Storytelling Festival enters its 5th year of gathering storytellers from across Toronto to present a series of tales for all ages.

The festival opens with Joanna Chapman-Smith on Sunday.

Chapman-Smith is a singer, songwriter and storyteller who’s currently creating a new album of stories with producer Ken Whitely.

Ongoing ever y other Sunday until March 15, the festival will feature Norman Perrin, Diana Tso, Phyllis Walker, Marylyn Peringer, Sage Tyrtle, Anna Kerz and Leslie Ogilvie. The series will close with the stories of Dan

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Performances start at 3 p.m. and are hosted in the parish hall of St. David’s Anglican Church at 49 Donlands Ave. Admission is “pay what you can” but $5 per person is suggested.

Tickets are available at the door.

The Mosaic Storytelling Festival is brought to East York by the Open Door East End Arts Collective, an association of artists and performers Liisa Repo-Martel, Trish O’Reilly-Brennan and Jerry Silverburg.

For more information on the festival, call 416-466-3142, email opendooratstds@gmail. com or visit the website www. mosaicstorytelling.ca

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Ward 26 Don Valley West Councillor Jon Burnside is hosting a seniors information meeting on fraud prevention Friday, Jan. 23.

East York residents are invited to attend the meeting, which will be led by Toronto police.

The information session

aims to inform seniors to the steps they can take to prevent fraud.

The meeting runs from 10 a.m. to noon at the Trace Manes Park Community Centre, 110 Rumsey Rd. Residents are asked to reserve a seat by contacting Burnside’s office at 416-392-0215.

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The select few The heart of the Canadian winter means plenty of hockey tournaments, and we caught up with some east-end teams in action last weekend at the Don Montgomery Memorial Select Tournament in Scarborough.

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EAST YORK BULLDOGS: East York’s Peter Govostis tries to stuff the puck past Scarborough goalkeeper Russell Robaco during atom action at Commander Park Arena on Saturday. East York went on to win the game.

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Eight new officers on the beat for 55 Division JOANNA LAVOIE

jlavoie@insidetoronto.com A diverse group of eight new police officers have hit the streets of 55 Division.

The new police officers, part of the 88 new constables welcomed to the Toronto Police Service (TPS) late last week, officially started their career in policing at the eastend station on Monday.

Graduates of the Toronto Police College in south Etobicoke, the new recruits come from a range of ethnicities, backgrounds and walks of life.

They speak a multitude of languages including Serbian, Croatian, Hindi, Urdu, Kutchi, French and Cantonese.

Several new constables have worked in law enforcement or related fields, while others have no notable background in the field aside from a concerted desire to serve the community.

Supt. Peter Yuen, who

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This is one of the largest injections of new officers at 55 Division and it’s much needed.

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in 2015 vowed to work on making 55 Division – which basically covers the east end, south of Danforth Ave. – more representative of the community and city it serves, was happy to welcome the new staff members to 55 Division.

The eight new constables round out his team of officers to 244.

“I’m extremely thrilled. This is one of the largest injections of new officers at 55 Division and it’s much needed,” said Yuen, the TPS’s first superintendent of Chinese heritage, Tuesday.

“Obviously, they reflect the community we serve and

have excellent backgrounds and experiences.”

T h e n e w re c r u i t s a t 55 Division are Martina Kovacevic, Charles Colaco, Jennifer Valino, Rahim Peerwani, Stella Shum, Calvin Au, Damian Creighton and Matt McCarroll.

Depending on the budget, the Toronto Police Service usually does four intakes per year of new recruits.

The average age of those applying to work for the TPS is 27 and most have a university degree.

All recruits must undergo a comprehensive, six-stage screening process before being accepted into police college, which they must also successfully complete. The four-month long program takes place both in Toronto as well as at the Ontario Police College in Aylmer, Ontario.

If you’re an east ender south of Danforth, check out your police division at http:// www.torontopolice.on.ca/d55/

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Now serving you: eight new recruits to 55 Division hit the streets on Monday.

Former mayor Alan Redway authors book panning amalgamation DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Anyone who thinks that Toronto’s experiment in civic government started when the provincial government created amalgamated Toronto in 1998 hasn’t been paying attention. For former federal Member of Parliament and Mayor of East York Alan Redway, understanding the state of affairs in Toronto in 2015 means going back to the late 19th century — 1883, when the village of Yorkville asked to be annexed into the then much smaller City of Toronto.

That’s where Redway’s new book, Governing Toronto: Bringing Back The City That Works, starts.

Using copious historical research and interviews with politicians, civil servants and Toronto residents, Redway takes a trip from the city’s humble beginnings as a swath of land bounded by the water, Bathurst, Dundas and Parliament Streets, through the establishment of the old cities of North York, Etobicoke, East York, York, Scarborough and

Toronto under the umbrella of Metropolitan Toronto – a time when he served as a local East York Alderman, Mayor and Metro Councillor from 1972 to 1982 – to its current status as Canada’s largest municipality: the so-called megacity.

And as far as Redway is concerned, the experiment has not been a success.

Amalgamation, he writes in his introduction, has “diminished resident access to and participation in Toronto’s decision making process. In many instances, the roles of residents has been replaced by lobbyists… As a result of amalgamation, Toronto’s residents have lost control of their neighbourhoods and communities.”

Redway’s book is an argument for at the least a comprehensive provincial review of governance in Toronto, woven in with an insider-view story of the makings of Toronto. As a history, Governing Toronto is exhaustive.

In it, we learn through inter views with former Premier Mike Harris, former Deputy Municipal Affairs

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(Amalgamation has) diminished resident access to and participation in Toronto’s decision making process.

– Former East York Mayor Alan Redway in his new book Governing Toronto: Bringing Back the City That Worked is available through online retailers and from Redway’s website www. alanredway.com

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Minister Dan Burns and former Municipal Affairs Minister Al Leach some of the politics behind the forced amalgamation of Toronto in 1998 – about Harris’ stated intention to bolster the Ontario economy with a larger and more cohesive city, more able to economize.

It didn’t work out that way.

As Redway demonstrates, Toronto in fact became more costly to operate – and while the reduction in the number of elected politicians might have saved a bit of money, it meant that residents were farther removed than ever from

local decision making.

Local government, in other words, was the casualty.

“The way I describe it and I try to make clear in the book is that people are interested in what I describe as… local government,” says Redway in an interview. “Local government where people control their own decisions for their own community.

Now, with 44 councillors and a mayor, Redway says that residents he spoke with for the book find that they are at sea in the megacity, without an adequate voice in deciding the future of their

community.

Seventeen years after the amalgamation experiment was begun, Redway argues that it’s time to go back and get it right.

“I think it’s still a very essential topic: to try to make our city work properly,” says Redway. “There has been quite a bit of talk in the media and to some extent in council about the city being a divided city. I think that was clearly demonstrated in the last two municipal elections.

“The way I describe it and try to make clear in the book is that people in suburbia are interested in, and to an extent people all over the city are interested in local government… local government where people control their own decisions for their own communities.”

Redway’s book forms the argument that the divided city, split broadly between suburbs and downtown, cannot be healed by anything less radical than a rethinking of the big-government solution that amalgamation made.

“I do believe that we need to decentralize the decision-

making process from the one place downtown to a number of other places. That can be done by strengthening the community councils, which doesn’t really address the problem, or setting up some form of de-amalgamation – or going to the Montreal solution of creating 19 individual boroughs.”

Ideally, Redway argues that Toronto might return to a model similar to what he frames as Toronto’s “golden age” between 1967 and 1987, when local municipalities sent their mayors and several local councillors to the regional Metropolitan Toronto government.

But whatever the solution, Redway argues it needs to come at the end of a proper review, and in this respect addresses himself to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne.

“Prior to standing as a candidate for provincial office our present Premier Kathleen Wynne was a leader in the fight against amalgamation,” he writes.

“She knows its problems and she knows that another review of Toronto city government is long overdue.”

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rganizations grow. Sometimes they shrink.

But they have to evolve to remain relevant and cost-effective. In the case of United Way Toronto, sometimes they merge with another organization – the United Way of York Region.

That’s one example of charitable merger aiming to have the whole of the two parts better serve the people of the region.

We think it’s worthwhile for smaller, communitybased organizations to look around at like-minded groups, or others competing for the same charitable dollar and see if they can serve their community better through merger or at least a partnership.

Some questions to ask: Is the organization meeting its stated goals? Is the organization having the community impact it desires? Is there overlap or duplication of effort happening with another organization?

Is it a struggle to find members our view to do the volunteer work or to sit on oversight boards? Can admincosts be reduced? Could Merger can istrative fresh ideas surface when two help improve groups work together?

These are just a few of the quesorganizations tions that can provide healthy introspection.

Think about it. If an organization finds there are certain challenges that are increasingly difficult to overcome, why wouldn’t they explore different ways of approaching those challenges by reaching out to other organizations and considering ways they can join forces?

It doesn’t have to be an outright merger. An informal partnership can go a long way toward helping both parties out.

For example, perhaps the opportunity exists for the pooling of resources, which can help streamline costs, avoid duplication and ensure the efforts of the volunteer base are deployed as efficiently as possible.

The opportunities that can be created are intriguing: knowledge-sharing, new ideas, an energized volunteer base. All contribute to the combined strength of a collective whole.

The keys to any successful partnership – however formal it may be – are the ability to incorporate the unique needs of the component parts to create a whole that’s better equipped to face the challenges of the day. It’s that standard by which partnerships should be measured. When opportunities exist to better serve a community’s needs, it’s always worth exploring. Organizations that ask themselves those questions will get those opportunities.

The East York Mirror welcomes letters of 400 words or less. All submissions must include name, address and a daytime telephone number for verification purposes. We reserve the right to edit, condense or reject letters.

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Have your say on ward boundary review You can attend a public meeting or complete a survey

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s I have written before, East York is changing, and that includes Thorncliffe and Leaside as well.

Not only are these changes taking place in the form of renovations and new homes, but also population.

With infill housing, as well as housing developments, our population is increasing.

Not only is this population increase having an impact on the way that we live, but it may also impact the way we are governed.

I’m speaking specifically of the current initiative to re-examine, and possibly re-draw, our municipal ward boundary lines.

Some of the wards in the city of Toronto are more than 30 to 45 per cent above the population of

joe cooper watchdog the average city ward.

As a result, some citizens are not being represented equally at city council and this needs to be changed.

This fact has already been presented to the Ontario Municipal Board by some citizens in the form of a complaint.

As a result, if Toronto does not undertake a review and make changes on its own, the OMB will impose a solution.

So there is a very open and publicly accessible inquiry into current and future boundary lines being undertaken.

A consultation team brought together by the City of Toronto last March has been given a mandate of studying the situation and gathering public input.

One important component of that mandate is that ward boundaries

should avoid dividing traditional neighbourhoods or communities with common interests.

However, while that goal is important, the goal of “effective representation” is seen as being the most important outcome.

What that means is that the population of a ward, be it existing or proposed, will have the most “weight” in making the final decision.

Quite frankly, the population factor is going to have a significant impact upon Thorncliffe and Leaside due to their dense populations.

Likewise, old East York could be looked upon as a single ward, as we know there was an attempt to create one several years ago.

Any of these changes could have a direct impact on community identity and representation at city council.

There already has been one round of public con-

sultation and the turnout for our area was not high, being about 30 people.

Given that the changes will affect more than 100,000 people that is not a significant representation.

There will be a second round of consultation beginning in May. In the meantime you can provide input by visiting www. drawthelines.ca or calling 416-365-0816, ext. 224.

If you can’t attend a meeting you can complete a survey where you can provide your interests and concerns.

The key point is to ensure that East York, as well as Thorncliffe and Leaside, are seen as being connected to each other through common interests and history.

We’ve been divided enough as it is.

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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At Home Alone WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: PapeDanforth Public Library, 701 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7727 COST: Free A workshop to help families prepare their children to be home alone safely. For 10- to 14-year-old children with a parent. Presented by Toronto Public Health. Call to register.

Prelude to a Fantasia WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Chris MacLean, www.academyconcertseries.com, admin@academyconcertseries.ca COST: Free Each musician will perform a solo prelude (by Bach or Telemann) before each of the main works as a way of demonstrating the Baroque practice of ‘improvising’ a short piece of music as a way of warming up and checking the tuning of the instrument. The concert will feature works by a range of Baroque composers from Italy, Germany and England.

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Foot Care Clinic at Mosaic WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Mosaic Home Care Services & Community Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: Moira, 416-425-3070, rclbr10@inbox.com COST: $25 Steak pie, neeps and tatties (turnips and potatoes) and haggis

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Friends of Monarch Park Skating Party WHEN: 3 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Monarch Park Rink, Monarch Park CONTACT: Carolyn Baxter, 416-463-1247, carolyn.baxter@yahoo.ca COST: Free Friends of Monarch Park invites you to its annual skating party where you can skate to music, sip hot chocolate, enter the jellybean contest.

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Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www. eastyorkmirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your East York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto.

Bayview Ave., Suite 215H CONTACT: 416-322-7002, info@mosaichomecare.com COST: Community clinics $40, in-home treatment $55 Clinics will run every third Tuesday of the Month. Call to book an appointment.

WHEN: 2 to 2:45 p.m. WHERE: PapeDanforth Public Library, 701 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7727 COST: Free Join us on the PA day for musical fun for the whole family Space is limited.

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Celebrate Family Literacy Day with Lenny Graf WHEN: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Danforth/Coxwell Library Branch, 1675 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: 416393-7783, dastaff@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Join us for a musical event featuring Lenny Graf for some fun music and activities. Drop-in. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Robert Davis Kids Show

Live Music at the Branch WHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 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 We present Blaze and Glory for your listening and dancing enjoyment. All are welcome.

Robbie Burns Supper WHEN: 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE:

Outdoor Guided Walk: Winter in the Valley WHEN: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, 67 Pottery Rd. CONTACT: 416396-2819, todmorden@toronto.ca COST: Adult $5.31, youth/senior $3, children $2 Tour the Wildflower preserve to learn how birds, animals and plants adapt to harsh winter conditions.

Enjoy mulled cider following the walk.

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East York Historical Society WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Rd. CONTACT: 416429-7821, www.eastyork.org/eyhs. html, eyhs@eastyork.org COST: Free Two speakers are scheduled: Karen Carter from Heritage Toronto will speak about Black History Month and Karen Fraser from Women Like Me will speak about “Do You Know About the Boys?”

Movie Afternoon at Mosaic Home Care Services, CNIB Centre WHEN: 1:30 p.m. to 3 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 ‘All of Me’ with Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin. RSVP by Jan. 26. Light refreshments will be served.

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Super Bowl Sunday WHEN: 6 to 11 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 All are welcome to come out and cheer on their favourite team, enjoy some traditional tailgate food and have a few libations.

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Making lemonade from lemons Playing opposition at City Council is delicate work.

With no official party system and in its place a coalition of disparate interests in orbit of a – usually – popular mayor, it’s tough to get traction.

Contrarian councillors outside that orbit are left to find ways to get their ideas in front of the public.

The pitfalls are many.

During the David Miller era, right-of-centre councillors stumbled around for years before forming a coalition called The Responsible Government Group that tried with scant success to critique the mayor’s agenda.

Councillors on the left took a different approach with Mayor Rob Ford in 2010, taking the give-him-rope-tohang-himself tack until finally, he did so.

It’s clear neither approach is going to work with sober, steady old John Tory – who has an ambitious agenda and the resolve to keep potential opposition away from committees that might affect that agenda.

david nickle the city And so it is that on Monday, progressive councillors adopted another strategy: if the mayor gives you lemons, make lemonade.

The lemons Tory gave Gord Perks, Mike Layton, Sarah Doucette, Joe Cressy and Maria Augimeri were seats on the Parks and Environment Committee: a committee historically known for light agendas and little influence.

That will likely not be the case this term. As of Monday, the committee has a subcommittee: the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Subcommittee. Chairing it will be Perks, who has had a long career as an environmental advocate. Also on the committee are Doucette, Layton and Cressy.

The subcommittee will begin holding public meetings promptly, to talk about ways in which the city can move into a leadership role

in battling climate change, worldwide. Following from that, the subcommittee will likely bring recommendations to the Parks and Environment Committee – which, owing to its membership, will send those recommendations to council – into Tory’s lap.

It will be awkward: climate change mitigation can be expensive, and politically challenging, as it enters into areas where Torontonians are divided: everything from green energy programs to anti-car initiatives and the dreaded “bag tax” from the Miller era.

One courting the support from Ford Nation will have a hard time backing much of that agenda.

But failing to back some of that agenda will play just as badly with the centre-left and pure centre voters, for a mayor hoping to maintain a broad base of support.

It will be interesting to see how this uniquely passive act of aggression plays out.

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David Nickle is The Mirror’s city hall reporter. His column appears every Thursday.

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“We probably engaged over 2,000 people in asking key questions around the priority of the city and what really mattered, etc,” she said. “And much of that consultation actually informed the decision that we took to pursue this conversation with York Region. That, for us, was really an important and an informative process.”

As talks began with York

Region last fall to possibly unify under one umbrella.

McIsaac said she quietly reached out to “key partners, community leaders, agency leaders and key stakeholders” to seek their feedback – conversations she said were “hugely helpful and, frankly, very positive.”

“We heard very positive feedback, because, I think, there’s a notion that there’s unbelievable alignment between our organizations: alignment on mission and alignment on priorities.”

The final decision to merge the two United Ways was announced Friday, following a special meeting late Wednesday evening in which the boards for each organization voted unanimously in favour of the union.

Vince Timpano, chair of the United Way Toronto board, said the timing of the merge felt right, given his organization’s history of collaboration with York Region.

“Now feels like the right time to take it to the next

level,” he said in a statement released Friday. “We’re both at the right points in our strategic plans to adopt a more regional focus. Working together, we’ll accomplish more than we ever could separately. The opportunities this merger will make possible are incredibly exciting.”

Several examples of “significant alignment” between the two United Ways was cited in the boards’ merger recommendation, including: the fact that they fund some of the same community agencies; that the people they serve (as well as their donors and volunteers) live and work on both sides of the Steeles Avenue boundary that separates Toronto and York Region; that the two organizations have the same mission, vision, and core values; and that their strategic plans share the same three community priorities – supporting youth, improving neighbourhooods and

strengthening community services.

“Together, we have much greater potential for impact, because there’s such alignment between our two United Ways,” McIsaac said.

“This way, I think we can really leverage the great assets of both organizations – the thought leadership from York, the work we’re doing here and the success that we’ve had – and really leverage and optimize that for the benefit of both our agencies.”

As for impacts at the grassroots level in Toronto, McIsaac said while several stakeholders she’s spoken to have cautioned her to ‘remember to think local’, she doesn’t anticipate any negative impacts on Toronto member agencies as a result of the merge.

“If you were to ask our agencies what matters about United Way, the first thing you’d here from most of them is “money”, because they like

us for our funding. So, the immediate impact on them is that there will be no negative impact,” she said.

“Through the strategic plan, we did a lot of thinking about funding moving forward, and frankly, we continue to have a real commitment to core funding, we have a very strong strategy around keeping the sector whole, we have a strong place-based strategy, and none of that will change.”

Metroland Central VicePresident and Regional Publisher Ian Proudfoot (which includes The East York Mirror) has served on United Way York Region’s board and campaign cabinet for more than five years. He said he is optimistic, with a caveat, about the pending partnership.

“It will work if York Region gets to keep its United Way voice, but if York Region gets lost in the merger and is without focus, it’ll be a failure,” he said.

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posed amalgamation’s success will be founded on leadership. He has worked closely with York Region United Way CEO Daniele Zanotti and is a longtime media sponsor.

“Daniele is enthusiastic.

He has a history of caring and advocacy for the needs of people in our communities who need help. I’m enthused,” he said.

In the coming weeks, both United Ways will reach out to stakeholders, engage community agencies and consult other partners. Members of United Way York Region – which serves Aurora, East Gwillimbury, Georgina, King, Markham, Newmarket, Richmond Hill, Vaughan and Whitchurch-Stouffville – will vote on the recommendation March 4. Toronto will vote on new bylaws this summer, formalizing the partnership

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There wasn’t much change compared to last year in the number of impaired driving charges laid by the OPP during the holidays.

The OPP’s annual holiday RIDE crackdown, which took place from Nov. 24 to Jan. 2, resulted in 593 impaired driving charges for Ontario motorists compared to 587 during the 2013-14 holiday period. This time around, one person was killed because of impaired driving compared to three in the previous year.

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Winners were recently announced for a contest organized by the city to promote its mobile app used to log the frequency and distance of trips made on bicycle.

Since it was launched last May, the Toronto Cycling App has recorded over 65,000 trips made throughout the city, giving cycling planners a better idea where Toronto’s bike network could be strengthened in the future.

As part of the contest, prizes were given to users of the app ranging from memberships to Bike Share Toronto to the grand prize: a new bike worth $700. The app is available for download for Android and the iPhone.

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Rave deaths prompt Crime Stoppers to post YouTube warning video ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com Toronto Crime Stoppers has jumped on the cooking show bandwagon. They released a video called Cooking with Molly, and while it may have humourous overtones, the message is very serious.

Toronto Crime Stoppers co-ordinator Det. Chris Scherk said Cooking with Molly was made in response to last summer’s “rave tragedy” in which two young adults died after consuming an unknown narcotic pill they likely believed was ecstasy, which goes by the street name Molly.

“Molly isn’t made in a pharmaceutical company. It’s made in basements, garages and on the streets,” Scherk told reporters at police headquarters Friday.

“We’re hoping that this is a video that will resonate with youth and young adults.

Truly, you don’t always know that what you’re told is what

you’re given.”

Toronto Crime Stoppers is also working on a youth engagement campaign that will run in schools this spring.

“The campaign will feature encouraging social responsibility at the high school level and encouraging youth to use Crime Stoppers as an alternative to remaining silent,” Scherk said.

Toronto Crime Stoppers fielded 8,740 tips in 2014, resulting in 90 arrests, the laying of 300 charges and the seizure of drugs worth more than $3 million.

“Crime Stoppers tips were responsible for solving homicides, robberies, break-and-enters, severe child abuse cases, and a previously unknown Internet child-luring predator was arrested,” Scherk said.

“It’s a partnership between the police, the public and the media. We can’t do it without the public, so I thank them for

making those tips.”

Toronto Crime Stoppers began in 1984, and since then the program has received 116,155 tips resulting in 10,725 arrests, 36,416 charges and more than $305 million of drugs seized.

Crime Stoppers takes tips on crime and turns them over to police anonymously.

“Information that results in an arrest may qualify you for a reward. A process is in place that allows us to provide you that reward (while) never having to provide your name or meet with Crime Stoppers in person,” Scherk said.

Crime Stoppers is a charity run by a civilian board of directors independent of police.

Tips can be submitted by phone (416-222-TIPS), online (222tips.com) or by text (text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637).

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Apartments for Rent

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Articles Wanted

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PET SERVICES BIG YELLOW Dog Walking and Pet Services

Group walks, private walks, cat visits, in-home boarding and puppy training.

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