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The Hub: A place of connection for Syrian refugees TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com Syrian refugees settling in Toronto now have a place of their own on the Danforth, thanks to East Toronto Families for Syria (ETF4S). The group recently celebrated the grand opening of The Hub, a pop-up donation shop and community space for Syrians beginning new lives in Toronto. The Hub’s storefront at 1803 Danforth Ave. is sponsored by Re/Max Hallmark Realty, the Danforth East Community

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Association, and WoodGreen Community Services’ pop-up shop project. Started in September to help Syrians transition to life in Canada, ETF4S quickly started amassing more donations than group members could hold and put a call out for assistance securing storage. Instead, it was given the Danforth storefront to use until March 31 and The Hub was born. Community members can drop off donations at The Hub, where refugees can pick up items >>>drop off, page 3

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ADDRESS TO A HAGGIS: Pete Finlay recites ‘Address to a Haggis’ during the Kiwanis Club of East York’s Robbie Burns Supper on Saturday at the York Banquet and Event Centre.

The Winterfolk roots music festival is back, running on Family Day weekend along the western end of the Danforth. Discount tickets are available until Jan. 30. A $15 wristband includes admission to the three-day festival except for five extended paid shows (two of them featuring two-time Juno Award winner Jack de Keyzer) each of which cost an additional modest $20. With the January discount, however, the $15 wristband

becomes $10 (plus a minimal postage fee to deliver the wristband) while the $20 paid-stage tickets are reduced to $10. The 14th annual blues and roots festival runs Feb. 12 to 14 but not on the actual Family Day holiday on Feb. 15. The four Danforth venues are the Black Swan Tavern (upstairs and downstairs), Dora Keogh Irish Pub, Terry O’s, and Mambo Lounge. For more information, visit www.winterfolk.com

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Monarch Park party ON THE ICE: At left, a young skater gets a hand, during the Monarch Park Skating Party on Sunday. Above, Lindsay, right, laces up Willow’s skates before they take to the ice. The event was hosted by the Friends of Monarch Park stewardship group. Staff photos/BENJAMIN PRIEBE

Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office receives gifts for Syrian refugees TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com Students who raised money to make gift bags welcoming young Syrian refugees to Canada are hoping their actions will inspire other kids to lend helping hands as well. Students at Mary Shadd Public School in Scarborough wanted to do something to help Syrian refugees, so they decided to raise money with a school dance to make welcome gifts for Syrian children settling in Toronto. Those gifts were donated to the Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office recently for distribution. The students chose and shopped for the supplies, decorated the gift bags, and included hand-written letters saying how grateful they are to have the children here. “We wanted to welcome the Syrians to Canada,” said Grade 7 student Karthika Nagarajah. “They’re going to have to learn a completely new language, a new lifestyle, but if we welcome them, I think

they will feel like Canada is a home to them instead of an outside country, which is what everyone here wants the Syrian families to feel like.” The school’s Grade 6, 7 and 8 students raised money with a December dance. Normally, money raised through the dance would support the Grade 8 students’ graduation trip, but the graduating class decided to donate this year’s proceeds to the young refugees. “We’re really proud of them,” said teacher Sherene Quadir of all the students involved. “I think if our future generation is comprised of kids like this, we’re pretty lucky. They have come here early in the morning, they’ve given up their lunch, recesses, in order to make this effort come to fruition. Leading the presentation ceremony of the gifts to the Thorncliffe Neighbourhood, Grade 7 students Pranitha Rathakrishnan and Prathusha Manmathan, and Grade 8 student Darin Satar, spoke about different people in need of help in the community before

landing on an image of Alan Kurdi, the young Syrian boy whose lifeless body was photographed by Nilüfer Demir and seen around the world after washing up on a Turkish beach. “This image was heartwrenching, it had a profound impact on many of us. The image was pivotal in our decision-making to help Syrian child refugees,” said Pranitha. Students decorated the gift bags beforehand, colouring the front with “Welcome” and Canada’s maple leaf. They took the bags down an assembly line, adding scarves, notebooks, pencils, toothbrushes, toothpaste, lip balm, toys, treats and welcome letters, before tying them with ribbon. Hoping to inspire other youths with their efforts, the students started a social media campaign using the hashtag #KidsDoMakeaDifference. Through the hashtag and their Instagram account, @KidsDoMakeADifference, they hope to encourage charitable work.

Drop off donations at Danforth storefront >>>from page 1 for free. More than just a donation centre, the space also fosters connections between refugees, sponsors, and the community. “The storefront has given us a base for our operations, it’s given us a very tangible way to connect people,” said group member Jennifer Scott. “Instead of just giving people things, we can actually have them come to the space and interact.” Currently open noon to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, and weekdays by appointment, The Hub will have regular weekday hours in February. It is staffed by volunteers, with refugees also volunteering recently to help with Arabic translation. The ETF4S group has grown ten times its size in just a few months. Led by the eight women who started it all, it now has 800 members. Along with the storefront,

mix & mingle The Hub’s next event is a mix and mingle from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. Refugee sponsor and support groups, and refugee families, are invited to connect with each other to share info and resources.

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The Hub support centre founders Caroline Starr, left, Jennifer Scott, and Sarah Cassel sort through donations Saturday at the opening day of The Hub donation centre, organized by East Toronto Families for Syria on Danforth Avenue.

ETF4S supports refugees through welcome basket and backpack programs. It provides newly arrived families with a basket of kitchen and bathroom items, and also offers “Taste of Home” pantry baskets with traditional Syrian cooking supplies. Its backpack program gives Syrian children backpacks filled with school supplies so they’re ready to start class. During the grand opening Saturday, Jan. 23, students from Sunnybrook School presented more than 100 backpack care packages

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omething needs to change. In the last four years, four people in mental distress have been shot and killed by Toronto police officers. All four shootings happened within minutes of the initial contact with police. In none of these deaths was a mental health crisis worker on scene. On Monday, Const. James Forcillo was convicted of attempted murder in the shooting death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim. Yatim was behaving erratically on a streetcar July 27, 2013, brandishing a knife. But it seems clear from a YouTube video that members of the public were not in harm’s way and neither were Toronto police officers in imminent danger. Yet, police took a confrontational approach. our view A situation like Yatim’s required calm behaviour and Better training verbal de-escalation. Yatim a gentle approach can’t happen required to encourage him to drop his weapon and walk off that streetfast enough car alive. He did not need to have a gun pointed at him while being yelled at to drop the knife. But what ultimately cost Yatim his life was less about Forcillo’s approach than the fact that no officer on the scene knew how to handle the situation differently. That’s a major failure of our police’s training when it comes to dealing with people in mental distress. Mayor John Tory said something needs to change when it comes to that training, and we agree. Just hours after the verdict, Tory said: “We must learn and make sure that Sammy Yatim’s death, a dark moment for our city, results in real change.” As a member of the Toronto Police Services Board, Tory will be able to demand better police training, and ensure it happens. Police Chief Mark Saunders said his officers’ oneday training in crisis management is adequate and stressed Yatim’s death was an isolated incident. We feel one day is not adequate training for officers. A coroner’s jury looking into the police shootings of Michael Eligon, 29, Reyal Jardine-Douglas, 25, and Sylvia Klibingaitis, 52 – all shot after approaching police with knives or scissors and all considered mentally ill – released its findings in February 2014 and called for better and longer training for police in dealing with such situations. Here we are almost two years later waiting for training to get better. It can’t happen fast enough.

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Funding key to fixing public housing portfolio It’s hard to be hopeful in the best of circumstances, and when you look at the state of public housing in Toronto, it can be difficult not to despair. On Tuesday, Mayor John Tory and Senator Art Eggleton did their best to put a hopeful face on the prospects for Toronto’s public housing portfolio, as managed by the Toronto Community Housing Corporation. The occasion was the release of the final report from the Mayor’s Task Force on Housing. The task force was one of the first things Tory kicked off after his election in 2014. Headed by Eggleton and made up of blue-chip executives and community leaders, the task force has been doing yeoman’s work trying to find a way out of the housing weeds. Task force members, to their credit, did what they could. Last year, they found a way to permit the corporation to renegotiate some of its mortgages to

david nickle the city find more operating dollars. They identified problems with services to tenants on matters such as repairs and safety, and offered up some solutions. And finally, at the end of their tenure, they’ve recommended a bicameral structure intended to divide up the management of existing buildings and the construction of new ones between two new non-profit companies, at a somewhat greater arms-length from city council than the current Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) as it’s currently constituted. Essentially, that plan would put Toronto’s public housing stock into a co-op model. As Tory noted at the news conference, there are 240 co-op-run housing corporations in Toronto, and little is heard of them, presumably because they’re

well run. Going co-op would let the corporation play with its mortgages more aggressively, borrowing against assets to cover the cost of maintenance and also expand the housing stock. And that would allow the corporation to create more mixed-income communities, where more units are rented out at market rates. Without doubt, this all is a step forward. But again, it’s hard to be too hopeful that implementation of the recommendations will be a success, when TCHC is so woefully underfunded. Eggleton made this point right off the top. The giant portfolio of public housing is crumbling, and the repair backlog totals $2.6 billion. Soon, many of the units will be uninhabitable. The TCHC is also operating under a growing operating deficit that could become as high as $200 million in a decade. The federal government has given good indica-

tion there might be some money from Ottawa going to housing renewal and construction. The provincial government, according to Tory, is in a trickier situation and is unlikely to be able to provide much funding in the foreseeable future. In that scenario, what is foreseeable is something a little more sinister: an arms-length, non-profit company determining that the best way to deal with its unbalanceable books is not to take out mortgages, but to begin to sell. Ultimately, Eggleton was right to frame the problem as he did. There are changes that can make Toronto’s public housing portfolio more manageable and the lives of tenants better. But the first of those changes must involve funding. Anything else is just shuffling deck chairs.

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So, I was wandering aimlessly through the neighbourhood Saturday night when I bumped into Gord in his driveway. He was about to remove a gigundo TV out of the trunk of his SUV and was smiling as if he’d just cashed in one of the three winning tickets from the recent $1.5-billion Powerball lottery in the U.S. Before I had a chance to say hi he pointed at his new prized possession and proudly beamed, “I have just two words to say to you, Jamie: 4K.” I took the mitten off my left hand and proceeded to count the number of words he had spoken on my fingers. I came up with a grand total of zero. Just to be on the safe side I took the mitten off my right hand and tried there, too. Again nada. I didn’t bother to remove my socks to check things out on my toes. It was obvious he was trying to pull a fast one. He cleverly accentuated the “4” and the “K” while pausing in between, to make it sound like two words. But the former is a number and the latter a letter.

I know because I checked out both on Google. I didn’t have the heart to tell him it wasn’t even one word, let alone two, because I had other things on my mind. As in, trying to figure out what the heck he was getting at. “Any chance you could elaborate, Gordo?” I asked. “It’d be my pleasure,” he replied, his grin wider than it had been earlier, as if he’d won a $1.5-trillion Powerball all by his lonesome. “I have just two words to say to you, Jamie: HNIC/ACC.” Again the “just two words” declaration and again none in sight. Just two acronyms. True, acronym is indeed a word, but acronyms themselves are not. He could tell I was even more confused so he attempted once more to clarify. “I have just two words to say to you, Jamie: Habs/ Leafsies.” Oh brother, nicknames. I

had the feeling a trend was developing so I checked Twitter. Lo and behold his incompatible phraseology was trending at No. 5. In No. 4 was Norm Kelly retweeting them. Well, it was clear I wouldn’t be able to make any sense of what he was saying on my own, so I gazed to the heavens for help. Amazingly, no sooner did I look up, than it all came to me in a flash. “I’ve got it,” I screamed. “You got a brand new 4K TV to watch Rogers first 4K NHL telecast. A game on Hockey Night in Canada at the Air Canada Centre featuring the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens. Is that about right?” “How did you manage to come up with that with all the nonsense I’ve been spewing?” Gord asked. “Touche...or should I say, two-che?” Jamie Wayne is a lifelong columnist who takes writing very seriously. The topics? Not so much. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at jamie.wayne@sympatico.ca

UberPool, the new service from Uber that allows two passengers headed in the same direction to save money, might be more trouble than it’s worth, say UberX drivers. Uber is promoting the feature as a way to save 30 per cent off regular fares, but two drivers interviewed last week said UberPool was creating headaches for some passengers since the savings also means a potentially longer trip. “One guy, he had to wait an extra 45 minutes, so he saved money, but not time,” said one driver, who did not want to be identified. “It’s more of a hassle right now.” City director doored by Uber passenger A senior bureaucrat with the city’s cycling department was injured after she was doored while riding downtown this weekend. Hillary Holden was cycling near Bloor Street and Bedford Road Friday evening when the incident took place. Holden, the city’s director of transit

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT and sustainable transportation, reported she was struck by a passenger getting out of an Uber car. “I’m a bit achy and have a small bash between my eyes (from car door?) otherwise I’m all good,” Holden, who was wearing a helmet, tweeted after the incident. On Monday she was back riding, albeit with a new helmet. your thoughts on the Gardiner wShare

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Toronto is often accused of copying New York City when it comes to style and culture, but the Big Apple, it seems, is looking north for inspiration on revamping its subway trains. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which is responsible for managing transit in the New York Metropolitan Area, is considering bringing in TTCstyle open subway cars to that city. According the New York Daily News, the MTA this week released design renderings of an open gangway design that allows riders to walk unfettered down the entire length of the train. Rahul Gupta is Metroland Media Toronto’s transit reporter. His column appears every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT AND INVITATION TO PUBLIC INFORMATION CENTRES Class Environmental Assessment Leaside to Main Infrastructure Refurbishment Project Hydro One Networks Inc. (Hydro One) is initiating a Class Environmental Assessment to refurbish existing transmission infrastructure in the eastern part of downtown Toronto. This work is critical to ensure an adequate and reliable supply of electricity to the area, and to minimize the risk for future power interruptions.

The Class EA process provides opportunities for public and stakeholder consultation, and your feedback is very important to us. Members of the public, businesses, stakeholder groups, First Nations and Métis communities, government agencies and other interested parties are encouraged to participate in this process. We invite you to attend one of our upcoming Public Information Centres. At the Public Information Centres, Hydro One will provide more information about the project, discuss an alternative route for replacing the cable section between Leaside TS and Todmorden JCT, present environmental considerations and explain the approvals process. We encourage you to drop into one of the sessions to provide your input and discuss any issues or concerns.

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Craft Sale WHEN: 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Michael Garron Hospital (formerly Toronto East General), 825 Coxwell Ave. CONTACT: Angela Pappaianni, 416-469-6580, ext. 2309, apapp@tegh.on.ca COST: Free Blankets, dolls, children’s clothes and winter wear – all handmade and knitted by volunteers. Proceeds from the sale will be returned to the hospital in support of patient care. Options for Living at Home as Long as Possible WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Dr. CONTACT: Leslie Burns, 416-720-3730, www.goldenyearsrealestate.ca COST: Free Are you over 50 and wondering how reverse mortgages, government credits and tax implications apply to you? The Peer Project 2016 Spinathon WHEN: Noon to midnight WHERE: Energia Athletics, 702 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-932-1919, http://thepeerproject.com COST: Registration $50 includes a swag bag and T-shirt Participants will have fun, get fit, and support The Peer Project by fundraising for a mentoring program for at-risk and newcomer youth. Spin for one hour or for all 12 hours and enjoy non-stop music, snacks, refreshments, and prizes. Register online at http://bit.ly/spin2016registerinfo

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Live Music @ the Branch WHEN: 7 to 11:30 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-4251714, rcl22.com, jimb.farrell@yahoo.ca COST: Free Listen to some acoustic music by Bryan Gauer. All are welcome. A donation of non perishable items for the food bank would be appreciated.

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Deadline approaching for Agnes Macphail award nominations Do you know an East Yorker whose outstanding contributions to the community deserve to be honoured? Nominations are now open for the 23rd annual Agnes Macphail award. The award recognizes East York residents who make significant community contributions through volunteer work to support women’s rights, fairness to seniors, criminal justice, penal reform, and international peace and disarmament, as well as access to education, housing and

health care, among other areas. Candidates should embody Macphail’s motto, “Think globally, act locally.” Nominations must be received by Thursday, Jan. 28 at midnight. Please visit www.toronto. ca/macphail_award for nomination forms, or East York libraries and community buildings. Award winners will be honoured on the anniversary of Macphail’s birthday, March 24, at the East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Ave.

For more info, contact Lorna Krawchuk at 416-425-4431. Donations in support of the award can be made through The East York Foundation, addressed to G. Piercey, 55 Merritt Rd., East York, M4B 3K6. Receipts will be issued for donations, which will be directed to registered charities chosen by recipients. The first woman to serve in the House of Commons and Ontario Legislature, Macphail (1890-1954) was a strong supporter of equality and social justice.

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Gerrard India Bazaar BIA seeks South Asian festival consultant The Gerrard India Bazaar Business Improvement Area (BIA) is looking for qualified consultants to plan, manage and produce the two-day 2016 Festival of South Asia, which is tentatively scheduled for July 23 and 24. The deadline for submis-

sions is Sunday, Jan. 31. Interviews of short-listed candidates will begin in mid-February with the goal of awarding the contract by March. All proposals and enquiries should be submitted electronically to Tammy Rogers,

Gerrard India Bazaar BIA coordinator, at gibbia@gerrardindiabazaar.com. Don’t forget to include ‘RFP Festival of South Asia 2016’ in the subject line. Proposals can also be mailed to the Gerrard India Bazaar BIA, 1426 Gerrard St. E., Toronto, ON, M4L 1Z6.

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Bowmore Road Junior and Senior Public School, 80 Bowmore Rd., is hosting a series of workshops for parents and guardians on tackling anxiety and stress through mindfulness.

The first workshop, which will feature Jennifer Kay, a child and youth councillor and a mental health advocate, will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 3 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. It will discuss childhood anxiety, parental intervention and how to help your

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