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LEASIDE FLAMES IN ACTION: Leaside Flames player Kayla Briggs, red sweater, fights for control of the puck in front of diving Don Mills Flyers player Simon Chapman and goalie Higan Ohkane during the Don Montgomery Memorial Minor Hockey Tournament. The Flames and Flyers skated to a 2-2 tie. For more on the tourney, see page 6.

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Car ends up on lawn after two-car crash A parking enforcement officer was shaken up but otherwise unharmed after his car and another vehicle collided at Coxwell and Glebeholme avenues yesterday morning.

The other vehicle ended up on a lawn following the 9 a.m. accident, police said.

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Hospital officially opens Child and Teen Clinic Rebecca Field rfield@insidetoronto.com

‘Hospitals are generally uninviting spaces for children and can be a scary place for some.

When the children are comfortable, it’s easier to do assessments.’

Toronto East General Hospital cut the ribbon to open its new Child and Teen Clinic recently.

The clinic, which opened last Thursday, consolidates the unique services for children that were previously spread out across the hospital.

“This hospital is over one million square feet of space. We’ve been sending families and kids to the far corners of this organization for far too long,” said hospital president and CEO Rob Devitt.

“It really helps us better meet the needs of the community into the future.”

Linda Young, director of Maternal and Newborn Child Services at TEGH to do assessments.”

The clinic was created with a colourful, bubble theme that appeals to children, said Young.

Happy patients They will host clinics from general pediatrics, cardiology, neurology, to some highly specialized programs that are unique to premature babies and infants, said Constantine Petrou, chief of pediatrics and co-director of Maternal Newborn and Child services.

The clinic also has space for a stroller park to help parents with young children.

“The kids have had a big 180 degree difference in their predisposition and perception of what’s going on,” said Dr. Petrou on a trial cardiology clinic.

“They were much happier, quieter, smiling versus being fussy in

McGregor students

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R.H. McGregor Elementary School students sit patiently on a special children’s bench while Toronto East General Hospital chief of pediatrics Dr. Constantine Petrou makes his address at the hospital during the opening ceremonies for the new Child and Teen Clinic.

the old clinics.”

The new clinic is welcoming to youngsters, said Linda Young, direc-

tor of Maternal Newborns and Child Services.

“Hospitals are generally uninvit-

ing spaces for children and can be a scary place for some. When the children are comfortable, it’s easier

More than 50 people and a class of children from nearby R.H. McGregor Public School attended the event, which took place in the colourful lobby of the new clinic.

Co m m u n i t y m e m b e r a n d Sportsnet anchor Ken Reid, whose wife is expected to give birth in about five weeks, hosted the opening celebration event.

“This is pretty cool to be having a facility here, a five-to-10 minute drive from our house,” said Reid.

Children’s entertainer, Robert Davis, led the Grade 1 and 2 students in song while refreshments were provided.

Cut of fire truck at Gerrard station protested Five fire trucks across the city appear to have been saved for now as city council voted on a number of amendements to the budget yesterday morning.

The city had proposed a $12.7 million cut, which will lead to the elimination of 101 firefighting jobs, five trucks and Fire Station 424 on Runnymede Road, which has one of the truck.

Toronto Council voted 35-10 in favour of a motion yesterday morning by Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher, with an amendment by Councillor Paul Ainslie, to restore $3.1 million to the fire budget, allowing all positions to be filled and fire stations to remain open until July – when council was able to consider any updates to the Toronto Fire Services Master Plan.

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About 100 community members near Station 324 at 840 Gerrard St. E. rallied last Thursday to prevent the loss of one of its trucks. The station currently has two trucks.

“When we’re left with one truck, if that truck’s on call there’s nothing left,” said Judy Oaks, co-owner of Bill’s Lobster at Gerrard Street and Broadview Avenue, post-rally.

She has both lived and worked in the neighbourhood for more than 20 years and noted buildings are close together with a lot of restaurants and rooming houses.

Ed Kennedy, president of the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ Association (TPFFA), spoke at the event, along with firefighters, to spread awareness in the neighbourhood and across the city. “The fire service has been a very lean service to start with, but now to try to close stations and take trucks out of service is ridiculous,” Kennedy said.

Councillors Fletcher and Mary Fragedakis, as well as MPP Peter Tabuns and MP Craig Scott were also at the rally. Kennedy noted there are more than 300,000 more people in Toronto since the amalgamation of fire services in 1998, but the number of trucks, 128, has remained the same.

– with files from Rebecca Field

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Firefighter Dennis Graba, right, hoists a sign during a rally outside fire station 324 on Gerrard Street against proposed cuts to fire services in the city and specifically the loss of one truck from Station 324.

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To the editor: Re: ‘Controlling violence begins with our own attitudes,’ Watchdog, Jan. 10.

If we could ever convince the movie, TV, music and news producers to curb the violence, we might be on the right track.

So much of what we are subjected to these days contributes to our angst.

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oronto residents need to continue to make their voices heard when it comes to the transit issues facing not only our city but the entire Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).

The Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance released an update of its Your 32 campaign this week, and it shows a growing support among GTHA residents to not only improve transit but to also accept some of the responsibility for paying for it.

John Tory, co-chair of CivicAction, said transportation challenges have become the top issue for GTHA residents who deal with one of the longest commute times in North America.

He called it “seven-day-aweek paralysis” that deeply our view affects families and business in the area.

Transit The Your 32 campaign asked ‘paralysis’ residents what they would do if they had 32 minutes they other- hurting city wise would have had to spend on transit. Spending more time with family was one of the main responses.

What really stood out, though, was what Tory called the human cost of our inadequate transportation system. The campaign was done to show support for the regional transit system improvements being proposed by Metrolinx. The Big Move aims to infuse some $50 billion worth of transit improvements in the GTHA over the next 25 years.

The campaign helped residents realize the real costs of transit congestion and what it would be worth to them to make things better.

We have said before in this space that we in Toronto, and the surrounding regions, will get the transit we are willing to pay for. Yes, provincial and federal governments must shoulder their share of the cost, but residents are also going to have to be willing to accept funding tools such as tax increases dedicated specifically for transit.

To that end, the City of Toronto’s planning department is beginnings its own set of public consultations on transit. Chief Planner Jennifer Keesmaat said the meetings are being driven by the need to provide information to Metrolinx on what Toronto’s transit priorities are. We urge Toronto residents to participate in these meetings, and play a role in creating a regional transit system that works for all of us.

Exact dates have not been finalized, but once that information is available we will let our readers know when and where these meetings will be. newsroom

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It’s rare we can watch/hear something that calms us.

Do you think we could pool together and boycott all of it?

We could try - regardless of being accused of naivete or idealism. It can’t hurt.

Leona Adam

Community safety depends on collective caring

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ne of the great blessings that the people of East York have is to be able to live in one of the most crime free areas of the city.

In the annual reports put out by the Toronto Police Service, you can see a breakdown of crime on a street-by-street basis.

East York has fared even better than most of the suburbs, where only small parts of North York and outlying Scarborough were equal or better in terms of public safety.

What is it then that makes a community safe, while others are not?

A local convenience store owner once told me how people sometimes came into his store who were obviously not from the neighbourhood and were casing the place for a hold-up.

Yet they didn’t follow through.

Instead they looked ner-

watchdog

Joe Cooper

vous and uncomfortable, then quickly left.

What seems to deter them is the fact that they are aware that they are in a community where their escape from the crime scene would not be easy.

There are simply too many people around who obviously care and would report to the police what they had seen.

The question then is how do we - as a community - continue to work together to maintain this valuable shared resource of safety through public vigilance and caring.

Right now, I do not see fear in the eyes of store

owners as I have seen in other parts of this city.

Likewise, you can still walk down the street at all hours and see people going about their business peacefully.

The presence of this confidence in the bearing of the people who live here clearly says, “This is my community and I live here.”

This is more of a deterrent to crime and incivility than most people realize.

As has been pointed out by those who support the ‘broken windows’ theory of crime prevention; criminals can quickly take over a neighbourhood once they believe the people who live there have stopped caring about it. This can even take place in areas of wealth, where people’s community interests stop at the property line of their homes or business.

In this regard, many little things symbolize caring.

Examples are keeping areas in front of stores clean,

maintaining sidewalks in residential areas, and just keeping up the appearances of homes.

Maintaining the public appearance of East York should continue to be an important focus for community groups and local politicians.

As the new City of Toronto continues to evolve, let us all make certain that we do not lose this valuable community resource due to the indifference of a few selfish people. With the cutbacks or reduced services that seem to be popular among some politicians at city hall today, we are increasingly going to have to rely upon our own community for a good quality of life. n Joe Cooper is a long-time East York resident and community activist. His column appears every Thursday.

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hen Jennifer This is a view entirely THE CITY Keesmaat turned consistent with the city’s up as the City of progressivist planning Toronto’s new chief planner legacy — so not entirely last summer, it raised a few new. But so long as Toronto eyebrows. continues along the route It’s not to say the former that Mayor Ford began, it’s DAVID NICKLE planning consultant wasn’t clear that Keesmaat is fighta good fit. Keesmaat cut ing against the grain. her teeth on city politics, bourhood-based agenda.

In a moment of candor working as an executive Next month, she and that seemed almost unbeassistant for New Democrat the city will be launching a lievably politically naïve for councillor Joe Mihevc and public consultation plan to a civil servant, she admitted Progressive Conservative see just what level of transit as much.

Councillor Jane Pitfield in improvement Toronto resi“We, of course, have a the early days of amalgamdents are willing to pay for. political culture that’s very ated Toronto.

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not be put on taxpayers To the editor: When I was a community care physiotherapist, I was required to sign a conflict of interest document annually, as a condition of the renewal of my contract.

If I was in doubt about what that meant, it was clearly recorded in the document.

If I was still not clear, then I was given the opportunity to ask my manager any questions.

There were no exceptions.

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document, it seems there is no such document.

However, Mayor Rob Ford was given many warnings and advisements regarding his conduct around his football charity and he chose to ignore or dismiss these notices.

He was convinced that because his charity was a worthwhile cause and the amount of money relatively small, he did not need to adhere to any due process about his activity.

And it seems that many residents are of a similar mind and I can only guess that these people are uneducated about this process and are willing to turn a blind eye towards the mayor’s behaviour.

Etobicoke North Councillor

Doug Ford seems to think that the people of this city should decide who is going to run this city: not politicians, not judges, not generals.

But if a mayor is seen to be taking liberties with the due process of the law, then I am glad that there are citizens who will challenge improper activity and judges who uphold those challenges.

Four years is too long for the residents of this city to endure improper conduct.

There is no left wing plot.

Mayor Ford brought this all onto himself.

And as such, the mayor should definitely be paying for his own byelection and not the taxpayers.

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The East York Bulldogs tier 1 minor novice squad took the championship at the recent Don Montgomery Memorial Hockey Tournament in Scarborough. The East York team went undefeated in five games throughout the tournament.

Bulldogs take top spot at Montgomery tourney The tier 1 minor novice East York Bulldogs not only won the championship of the Don Montgomery Memorial Hockey Tournament in Scarborough, they also went undefeated through the tourney last weekend.

And to top it off, the team of seven year olds were playing against teams of eight year olds.

The Bulldogs beat the Kanata Jet Hawks in their first game of the tournament on Jan. 11 with a final score of 9-1. Cole Cooksey scored four goals. Kei Hagiwara notched two along with Cameron Dale and Clarke Needles who also scored.

“Our Bulldogs dominated this game,” said Erin Dugwell, team manager, adding it was the boys’ passing that stood out during the game.

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“They worked like a team and the results showed.”

In game two against Cambridge on Saturday, Cooksey scored a pair and Kieran Hunter notched one as the Bulldogs blanked Cambridge 3-0.

“All the boys played with their heads up, made some great plays and passes and that’s what won them the game,” Dugwell said.

She added it was also goalie Jayden Tang’s first shutout of the season.

In game three later that day, the Bulldogs beat the Cumberland Dukes 6-3 with Cooksey netting a hat trick, Hagiwara scoring two and Kristian Lamanna adding a single.

In the semifinal game against the host

Scarborough Ice Raiders on Sunday, the East York boys won 5-0 with goals by Cooksey, Luca Marrelli, Lamanna, Brendan Cooper and Hagiwara.

Dugwell said the boys worked together as a team, as reflected in the game stats with five goals scored from five different players.

In the championship game, the Bulldogs faced the Ted Reeve Tornadoes and won 7-0.

Lamanna scored two along with Hagiwara, while Aiden Pitblado, Kieran Hunter and Brendan Cooper scored one apiece.

Played hearts out “The boys played their hearts out all tournament and brought home the trophy,” Dugwell said.

The Bulldogs ended their 2012 fall season with seven wins, three losses and two ties and were in third place starting the winter season.

Team players are Robert Palermo - defence; Clarke Needles - forward; Aiden Pitblado defence; Brendan Cooper - forward; Evan Alexopoulos - defence; Aidan Hollyoak- forward; Landon English -forward; Nate Dugwell - defence; Kei Hagiwara - centre; Kristian Lamanna - forward; Cameron Dale - forward; Cole Cooksey - centre; Kieran Hunter - forward; Jayden Tang - Goalie; Luca Marrelli - defence.

Head coach is Anthony Hollyoak, assistant coaches are Chris Cooksey and Steve Dale, trainer/assistant coach is Tony Lamanna and team manager is Erin Dugwell.

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Mosaic Storytelling Festival Tales from Around the World WHEN: 3 p.m. WHERE: St. David’s Anglican Church, 49 Donlands Ave. CONTACT: Trish O’Reilly-Brennan, http:// opendooratstds.blogspot.ca, opendooratstds@gmail.com COST: Suggested donation $5 per person Multicultural storytelling performances every two weeks from Jan. 20 to March 17. Five afternoons of storytelling with tellers and tales from all across the globe. Schedule: Lorne Brown and Diana Tso kick off the season.

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Family Story Time WHEN: 10 to 10:45 a.m.

WHERE: Danforth/Coxwell Branch Toronto Public Library, 1675 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Danforth/Coxwell Library, 416393-7783, dastaff@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Stories, songs, rhymes and activities for children 19 months to 5 years old with their parents or caregivers. Call 416-393-7783 or register in person.

n Tuesday, Jan. 22

Home Security and Crime Prevention WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170

Memorial Park Dr. CONTACT: Daniel Colangelo, 416-396-2141, dcolangelo@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Const. Hannah from Toronto police’s 54 Division presents a program on home security and crime prevention.

n Wednesday, Jan. 23

Community Skate WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Victoria Village Arena, 190 Bermondsey Rd. COST: Free Support the East York CI Breakfast Program. Even if you don’t skate come by for the 50/50 draw, complimentary hot chocolate and cookies.

n Friday, Jan. 25

st.luke@ca.inter.net COST: Free Furniture, silver, collectibles, glassware, toys, china, books, jewellery, lots of good household items, snack bar and much more.

You’ve Shaken off the Blues Now Come out and Chill WHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416425-1714, www.rcl22.com, jimb. farrell@yahoo.ca COST: Free Two of Us, just good music for your listening enjoyment. Come out relax and listen to some really fine music.

n Sunday, Jan. 27

It’s Family Literacy Day! WHEN: 2 to 2:45 p.m. WHERE: Danforth/Coxwell Branch Toronto Public Library, 1675 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Danforth/ Coxwell Library, 416-393-7783, dastaff@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Celebrate with a reading sit-in.

Find a favourite book and read along with your child.

Annual Community Variety Show Auditions WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Presteign-Woodbine United Church, 2538 St. Clair Ave. E. CONTACT: Tricia, 416-755 8352, www.presteignwoodbineuc.org, presteignwoodbineunitedchu@ bellnet.ca COST: Free A family night of singing, acting, dancing and musical entertainment.

n Saturday, Jan. 26

n Tuesday, Jan. 29

St Luke’s Midwinter Madness White Elephant Sale WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

WHERE: St. Luke’s Church, 904 Coxwell Ave. CONTACT: 416421-6878 x21, www.stluke.ca,

Riverdale Historical Society WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale Public Library, 370 Broadview Ave. Wayne Reeves, chief curator of the city of Toronto Museum

Services, will be speaking on the work of R.C. Harris in Riverdale.

R.C. Harris was the architect of the Prince Edward Viaduct and the R.C. Harris Water Filtration Plant amongst many other city projects. Free to RHS members and $5 to non members.

n Thursday, Jan. 31

Movies on a Thursday Afternoon WHEN: 1 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Danforth/Coxwell Branch Toronto Public Library, 1675 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Ying Chiu, 416-393-7784, ychiu@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. PG13, 124 min.

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Councillor calls for work on subway second exit to stop An East York councillor wants work on a controversial plan to add an additional exit at Donlands subway station halted.

Mary Fragedakis told council during Tuesday, Jan. 15, budget deliberations she was following up on a recent pledge by TTC CEO Andy Byford to suspend work on the Donlands Station Easier Access and Second Exit plan for the next two years.

At a community meeting in East York last November, Byford said work on the second exits projects for Donlands should be deferred, which would make it possible to be considered for a stop on the eastern portion of a proposed downtown relief subway line (DRL). An environmental assessment on the DRL is expected to be completed in two years.

The TTC also wants to halt similar

work at Greenwood station until 2017.

The Donlands project is part of a $117 million capital investment by the TTC to add additional exits at various subway stations over the next 10 years.

The TTC recently came under fire from the city ombudsman following severely-criticized public consultations for the second exits plan.

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CAMPAIGN Tory, who is also a popular radio host, presented an update along with CivicAction CEO Mitzie Hunter of the group’s threemonth-old Your32 publicity campaign for better transit.

He said an “evolution” was taking place in the minds of residents regarding the toll congestion takes on their personal lives.

“Individuals are coming to realize congestion caused by a grossly inadequate transportation system is negatively affecting their jobs and

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“They have come to the conclusion major action is necessary to improve the quality of their own lives.”

That action, according to the CivicAction, is investing billions of dollars for a meaningful transformation of the existing transportation network to come directly from both governments and residents.

“I think the public have given the signal they want the leaders to get on with building transit and find fair and balanced ways to pay for it,” he said.

Hunter said over the course of its Your32 campaign the group asked residents to weigh in on what they would do with 32 extra minutes of time per day.

That’s the amount of time the transit planning agency Metrolinx says will be lost if the $50 billion Big Move regional transportation plan is not completed within the next 25 years and commute times rise even further from 77 to 109 minutes as a result.

“We asked people to tell us how traffic congestion is affecting them,” said Hunter.

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To r y, w h o w a s o n c e the leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives also said CivicAction had plans to consult further with the main Ontario political parties, including Tim Hudak’s Tories, and had also held a group event for municipal leaders, which was also attended by Toronto mayor Rob Ford.

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In addition to updating the progress of its Your32 media campaign, Hunter also announced the addition of three more members to CivicAction’s council of regional “champions”, private and public sector individuals who advocate for better transit throughout the GTHA. The list of 44 appointees also includes former chief city planner Paul Bedford, who was in attendance at the event.

Bedford, who has traveled the GTHA speaking about improving transit said residents, when informed about the costs of congestion are will pay to improve transit.

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TTC chair Karen Stintz was present as an observer but didn’t speak with reporters.

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