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The nomination deadline for the East York Agnes Macphail Award is tonight.

The Agnes Macphail Recognition Committee is asking residents to nominate an outstanding East York citizen for the 2015 award which honours Macphail (1890-1954) who was Canada’s first woman MP. The ceremony will be held on the birthday of Macphail, March 24, at 7 p.m. at the East York Civic Centre.

Last year’s recipient was Sheila Lacroix, honoured for her volunteer worth with both the Canadian Federation of University Women and Leaside United Church.

More information on the award is available at www. toronto.ca in the Living in Toronto, Awards section.

The deadline for nominations is Jan. 29 at midnight. Please email your nominations to councillor_davis@toronto.ca

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Indian arts centre grand opening celebration DRUM ROLL: Top, Razak Pirani, left, Aaron Fernandez, and Shamir Panchal perform during a grand opening ceremony for the Toronto Tabla Ensemble’s new centre for Indian arts Saturday afternoon. Right, Shamir Panchal performs during the ceremony. Bottom, Akhilesh Mishra, Consul General of India, left, and Ritesh Das, of the Toronto Tabla Ensemble cut the ribbon at the celebration.

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Bridgepoint and Mt. Sinai merger taking shape The merger between Bridgepoint Active Healthcare and Mt. Sinai Hospital is now taking shape.

The two major Toronto hospitals officially announced the formation of the new Sinai Health System last Thursday.

Circle of Care, a midtownbased provider of home care and community support services, is also on board as an affiliate.

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A man suffered minor burns to his legs following an industrial fire in East York on the weekend.

Fire crews were called to 10 Canvarco Rd. near Laird Drive and Eglinton Avenue at 11:53 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24.

Capt. Mike Strapko said there was heavy smoke and lots of flames when firefighters arrived.

“There’s propane and gas (cans) lying inside a shed that was on fire,” he said. “Several propane cylinders, paint cans

and gas cans were removed away from the fire...so they wouldn’t rupture.”

The cause of the blaze wasn’t determined. Damage is estimated at $50,000.

“One male had minor burn injuries to the back of his legs,” Strapko said. “The fire was knocked down at 1:25 in the morning and we cleared at 4:26 (a.m.).”

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working for the government or a related agency.

His first job was in East York as a receptionist at the True Davidson Acres longterm care facility. A few years later, he accepted an administrative role with the Ontario Association of Homes for the Aged before moving on to the Ontario Bar Association.

Left without a leader for the last two years, Campey is poised to take the top spot at the Ralph Thornton Centre.

His history and affinity with RTC goes back to his early days living in Toronto when he called north Riverdale home.

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think it’s really important to spend a little while listening to what the staff, the board and the community has to say,” he said during a recent interview at his bright, yellow-hued office at the Ralph Thornton Centre.

“Developing relationships is important.”

From his years of experience in public service, Campey knows many of the local agencies and non-profit organizations in the east-end, but said as the new executive director of the Ralph Thornton Centre he wants to make connections with as many different groups in the neighbourhood as possible.

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The Ralph Thornton Centre (RTC) has a new leader.

John Campey, who previously served as the executive director of Social Planning Toronto, is now at the helm of the Riverside centre.

Campey, who has an extensive community service background, officially started his new role as the executive director of the Ralph Thornton Centre on Jan. 12.

“We are thrilled to have someone of John’s calibre to lead us through the coming years of growth,” RTC Board president Andrew Chong said in a release.

“He will help make the Ralph Thornton Centre a vibrant hub for community engagement and community conversations. His record of supporting communities and fostering inclusion is excellent.”

An energetic and out-ofthe-box leader experienced in both local and city-wide issues, Campey said the first thing he intends to do is listen to the community.

“I have lots of ideas, but I

“I want to hear what the community feels the Ralph Thornton Centre should be,” he said, adding he wants people to know his door is open and everyone is welcome to drop by and say hello.

Campey also said he’d like the Ralph Thornton Centre to play a key role in bringing the ever-evolving community together.

Further, he’s eager to get to work on RTC’s goal of focusing on inclusion.

“Hopefully that’s a place where some of my strengths can play a role. Part of that is developing programs and initiatives that involve all people from the community,” said Campey, who said the next step would be to look at the gaps and come up with ways RTC can support filling them in fun and creative ways.

Campey, who presently sits on the City’s Poverty Reduction Advisory Group, would also like RTC to play a role in helping the City of Toronto attain its poverty reduction goals.

He’s called Toronto home for 35 years.

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ith Black History Month starting Sunday, members of Toronto’s black community are looking at not only their history but their

future.

In today’s edition (see story on page 6), we look at the Black Experience Project that will be seeking input on what it means to be a member of the Greater Toronto Area’s 400,000-strong black community.

Some 1,800 residents will be interviewed as part of the project, and organizers expect the answers to be as diverse as the community itself. A project of such scope has never been undertaken in the local black community before, despite a history that goes back to the 1700s in the Toronto area.

Karen Carter of Heritage Toronto, one of the more than two dozen partners in the project, said the GTA’s black community has layers of identity – some tracing their ancestors to the Underground our view Railroad, others arriving from the Caribbean in the 1970s or more recently from Africa.

Black How those different ancestries community view themselves as a community, many of differing faiths spread out has layers in neighbourhoods across the GTA, will be one of the key findings the of identity project is aiming to discover.

“It’s going to answer some questions we’ve all asked,” said North York filmmaker Ryan Singh of the project.

The project’s organizers are clear there is not a single black experience, but rather many different experiences. However, organizers say there are also experiences that all members of the black community share that are unique to them and not experienced “by most other immigrant or ethnic communities in the GTA.” The information from the project should be both fascinating and valuable. For more on the Black Experience Project, go to http://bit.ly/1uTgPiZ For those looking to learn more about events planned in Toronto for February’s Black History Month, we’ve also got lots of information in our story today, including local listings.

Many of Toronto’s libraries are hosting events during the month, but there are also concerts and dinners to celebrate Black History Month in Toronto.

For Black History Month events taking place across the city, visit us at www.insidetoronto.com/torontoevents

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Are you prepared if disaster strikes?

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ell New York City didn’t have the storm of the century that was predicted, but New England was certainly hit by a significant blizzard.

It brings to mind our own ice storm of last year that left many areas of Toronto without power for long periods of time.

East York and Toronto have definitely had their own disasters, both historical and contemporary, but have you learned from them.

My wife and I always have three days’ worth of food and water on hand and have spare batteries for radios and flashlights.

In addition, we have cash money, all of our identification papers ready and even a set of inexpensive walkies-talkies to keep in touch if we became separated.

To back that all up, I have electrical adaptors in the car that will allow us to charge up cell phones or other devices from the car

joe cooper watchdog battery. I also make sure the car is filled with gas and even have spare clothing, food and water stored in it.

In addition both my wife and I have first responder medical training and first aid kits in the house and in the car.

Lessons learned All of this preparedness came out of the lessons of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Great Ice Storm of 1998 and the Great Northeast power outage of 2003.

The truth is that most people do not plan for emergencies and are caught totally unprepared.

We have had serious disasters take place in our own backyard, such as the transformer explosion on Secord Avenue in 2008 for which the majority of

people were simply not prepared.

If you had only seconds to leave your home, would you be ready?

Could you gather all your medications, credit cards and identification documents at a moment’s notice?

Do you have a photo of a family member that you can show to emergency crews to help find them?

Do you have copies of important documents or policy numbers to help you rebuild your life?

If ATM or credit card machines were inoperable, would you still be able to purchase necessary items with cash?

If you have pets do you have pet carriers ready, along with extra food for them?

Yes, the City of Toronto is compassionate and there is a social safety net available to help you and your neighbours in your time of need.

However, as we have also seen in the past, the sheer numbers of those who are in need can quickly overwhelm caregivers and emergency personnel.

The city has made available an excellent personal emergency preparedness check list and can direct you to organizations that can help you create your own personal emergency disaster plan.

Call the city’s information line at 311 and have them direct you to the information you need in order to be in personal control if disaster strikes.

You can be an asset to your community in a time of disaster or a liability and a burden.

It’s up to you to be prepared and not be dependent upon other people.

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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Knitting and Craft Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Toronto East General Hospital, 825 Coxwell Ave. CONTACT: Angela, 416469-6580 Ext. 2309, apapp@tegh. on.ca COST: Free Afghans, mitts, hats, baby clothing, dolls and much more. All handmade hospital volunteers. All proceeds from the sale are returned to the hospital in support of patient care.

Hirut Hoot WHEN: 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

WHERE: Hirut Restaurant, 2050 Danforth Ave. (at Woodbine, just a few doors west) CONTACT: Kevin MacDonald, 416-551-7560, hiruthoot@gmail.com COST: $5 Comedy veterans and rising stars.

◗ Saturday, Jan. 31

Digital Images of Nature WHEN: 1:30 to 4 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Dr. CONTACT: Margaret McRae, 416-429-7821, www.torontofieldnaturalists.org COST: Free Toronto Field Naturalist members will project their digital images.

Super Bowl Sunday WHEN: 6 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240

history of Valentine’s Day. Refreshments provided. For children age 6 and up; children must be accompanied by an adult.

◗ Thursday, Feb. 18

Canadian Federation of University Women WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Northlea United Church, 125 Brentcliffe Rd CONTACT: 416-385-1055, COST: Free Canadian Federation of University Women, Leaside East York. Lawyer Alan Redway answers questions about wills and estates. Visitors and new members welcome. A university degree is not a prerequisite for membership. For more information please visit www.cfuwleasideeastyork.ca

◗ Wednesday, Feb. 11

Valentine’s card workshop WHEN: 4 to 6 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Public Library, 165 McRae Dr. CONTACT: 416-396-3835 COST: Free; call to register.

For those aged 10 to 25 years old.

◗ Saturday, Feb. 14

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Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, rcl22.com, jimb.farrell@yahoo.ca COST: Free Annual party. Traditional tailgate.

Everyone welcome.

◗ Monday, Feb. 2

Topham Park Minor Softball WHEN: 12:01 a.m. WHERE: Topham Park, St Clair and O’Connor area CONTACT: Topham Park Minor Softball League, http://www.tophampark. com/, info@tophampark.com COST: See web site Registration opens for new players. aged of 5 to 21. Season runs from late April to late June.

◗ Friday, Feb. 6

Puzzle Piece Pendant Workshop WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart, 170 Memorial Park Ave. CONTACT: 416-396-3975 COST: Free Learn how to re-purpose puzzle pieces into friendship pendants.

Supplies provided. Ages: 11-18. Call to register.

◗ Sunday, Feb. 8

Valentine Card Workshop WHEN: 1 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, 67 Pottery Rd. CONTACT: 416-396-2819, COST: Adult $15, child $8 (plus tax) Create personalized valentine cards to share while you learn about the

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East York Historical Society WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Dr. CONTACT: 416-429-7821, www.eastyork.org/eyhs.html, marg. mcrae@gmail.com COST: Free Afternoon discussion group with Jim Lister showing slides of historic buildings in East York. Refreshments will be served.

Canadian Journalists and Coverage of the Gaza War WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Danforth/Coxwell Branch Toronto Public Library, 1675 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7783 COST: Free Veteran investigative reporter Andrew Mitrovica explores how the war was covered by Canadian journalists.

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East York Garden Club WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Stan Wadlow Clubhouse, 373 Cedarvale Ave. CONTACT: www.eygc.ca, info@ eygc.ca COST: Free Guest Speaker Frank Kershaw will discuss The Recycled Garden.

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survey seeks complete picture of people’s lives in our black communities MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com

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oronto’s black community is not unified, not one. It’s many.

Organizers of the Black Experience Project know this: 400,000 people in Greater Toronto say they’re black, but each of their lives is different.

Finding out how different is a monumental job, but next month – Black History Month – the project’s interviewers will start asking around 1,800 residents what it’s like to be black in the GTA. They’ll be asked about the strength of their identities – black, ethnic, and otherwise – their goals, religious beliefs, and where they feel they belong.

Nothing like it has been done with Toronto’s black community, or communities, before.

“It’s going to answer some questions we’ve all asked,” as well as shed some light on misconceptions, North York filmmaker Ryan Singh said last week.

“More people will say, ‘The black community is a viable community, and we want to know more about it.’”

Its supporters, including members of more than two dozen non-profit groups, say the project, when completed and released later this year, won’t simply sit on a shelf.

“We’re going to get a really complete picture of people’s lives,” added Keith Neuman, executive director of the nonprofit Environics Institute, one of the project’s partners.

The study is an important exercise, said Karen Carter,

executive director of Heritage Toronto and one of hundreds of “trailblazers” who volunteered time to shape it during 2012 and 2013.

Black people in Toronto have layers of identity – whether they’re from families whose ancestors arrived on the Underground Railroad, or who came from the Caribbean in the Trudeau era, or from Africa more recently – complicated by the spaces in Greater Toronto they live in, Carter said.

After its findings are known, Carter hopes the community, or communities, can “look within ourselves at these complications, as we grapple with them.”

As chairperson of Black Artists’ Network in Dialogue, which uses culture “as a way to educate the average Canadian and average fellow citizen about who we are,” she said she avoids featuring just works from artists of Caribbean background, though artistic excellence must be shown by all.

Carter also hopes the project demonstrates the usuallyoverlooked economic power of Toronto’s black people, and that the results make their leaders more confident, able to go “walking in the door (of institutions) and saying, ‘Hey, I’m here,’ even if you weren’t invited.”

Michael Hall, a vice president of YMCA of Greater Toronto, said his organization, a project partner whose black staff examined the proposal and got involved in designing the research, is committed to use the project afterwards to serve the community better.

The YMCA supports any chance to “understand who (the black) community is,”

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A video on the project can be found at http://youtu.be/JKezwsr7N10 A question is asked: What does it mean to be black?

People’s answers included the following powerful words: identity • judgement • freedom • rhythm • connection inclusion • strengths • endangered species • strength empowerment • cultural values • trendsetter

what’s on locally w monday, Feb. 2 Half: The Story of a Chinese-Jamaican Son Pape-Danforth Library, 701 Pape Ave, 2 to 3 p.m.

A documentary film by Jeanette Kong tells the story of Vincent Lee who was separated from his Jamaican family for two decades due to the premature death of his Chinese father. The film examines issues of family, identity and belonging. A question and answer session with Kong is also slated. Call 416-393-7727.

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Keynote speaker and former Scarborough East MPP Mary Anne Chambers addresses the Ontario Black History Society’s Black History Month kick-off brunch this past Sunday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

share your view What are your thoughts on the successes and challenges of the black community? Email us at eym@insidetoronto.com including its needs and aspirations, Hall said.

Though a report on the project’s “trailblazing” first phase concludes “there is no single ‘black experience,’ but rather ‘black experiences,’” and “the diversity with the community needs to be emphasized,” it also finds Toronto’s black people, as a whole, face challenges “not similarly experienced by most other immigrant or ethnic communities in the GTA.” Singh said he sees the project as a way to unite the black community’s factions and fragments.

“There’s power in unity,” said Singh, adding his work within the community has reflected a “love-hate relationship” for years.

“I love because I love my people, but I challenge because I find we’re so fragmented,” said Singh, who directed a call-to-action video (http:// youtu.be/JKezwsr7N10) for the project.

The research won’t answer every question, but it will start

conversations to help heal the community, and will change the way advertisers and governments look at black people, he predicted.

“It’s the beginning of understanding a people.”

Singh joins a five-person panel discussing black experiences, moderated by author and broadcaster Dalton Higgins, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5 in the Maria A, Shchuka Toronto Public Library branch at 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. Each person speaking at the free event is a black storyteller or educator.

The city’s other scheduled Black History Month events are, unsurprisingly, quite diverse, presenting everything from personal histories and spoken word poetry to culinary delights.

For the Ontario Black History Society kick-off brunch this past Sunday, Mary Anne Chambers, a former Scarborough MPP, said she planned to speak about “selfempowerment,” her call to people in black communities “to see themselves as part of the solution.”

“We are capable of, and we have made, these huge contributions to the world, and we need to continue to take our responsibility to define who we are and write our own history,” she declared last week.

Chambers said she’d reflect on achievements of black inventors, “people whose names we don’t hear as much as maybe we should,” but whose brilliance improved lives around the world.

“Notwithstanding challenges too many people still experience as a result of poverty or not-too-subtle racism, we’ve come a long way,” added Chambers.

Drop-out rates for black high school students are unacceptably high, relations with police are strained, and the community is over-represented in Ontario’s child welfare system, said Chambers, a former provincial minister for children and youth.

Expressing sympathy for young people in these situations – “They need the village to support them today” – she also said she’d encourage youth to seek careers in law enforcement or justice system, to make changes from inside.

When black youth and police meet under positive circumstances, stereotypes diminish and respect increases, said Chambers.

“I hear this from the kids and I hear this from the police.”

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Price to pay for Tory’s budget In 2011, former mayor Rob Ford and Toronto City Council made a very short-sighted move. Faced with a budget surplus from the previous administration, the council and mayor decided to use it all, offer a property tax freeze that no one asked for and wasn’t sustainable.

In subsequent years, it made Toronto’s financial system more precarious, because by using one-time funding (in that case a surplus), city services were instantly outsized as compared to reliable revenue.

It develops that in 2015, John Tory and the new council are doing something similar.

In order to provide a budget that improves city services on a number of fronts, Toronto will be borrowing $86 million from the provincial government, to be repaid with interest.

That loan will pay for services the city has now as well as for improvements, reversing many cuts made during the Ford years and adding more.

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david nickle the city in 2015 on a number of fronts.

But because the marginal service improvements rest on a marginal revenue source, 2016 will be another matter.

Whether children can continue to ride free on the Toronto Transit Commission and catch their buses more quickly will depend on whether council can bear to cut services somewhere else.

The Ford administration brain trust was well aware that the 2011 tax freeze meant city council would have no choice but to impose austerity measures in 2012. One might expect the Tory administration’s brain trust is similarly far-sighted.

Tory has made promises to that effect: that he would find efficiencies in subsequent years, once he’d had a chance to settle into the job. It’s a nice promise to make, but more difficult to achieve.

Last year, city manager Joe Pennachetti, thinking to retire, told council very seriously that Toronto’s public service is running lean now, and that the city’s service levels cannot sustain more trimming. Taxes would have to rise if council is to afford the services that it had in 2014. Putting children on the subway for free, adding subway cars and buses to make rush-hour more bearable, sheltering the homeless adequately… Pennachetti had not even contemplated such wonders last fall.

So what is to become of us next year? It is difficult to say.

Over the course of the campaign, Tory displayed his conservative bona fides; in the months following, he reached out to a more broadly based constituency.

And with this budget, he will have settled us into a corner.

How we get out of it is anybody’s guess.

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At first glance the site www.transitpass.ca appears to be a federal government page, albeit with an older design template, providing helpful information on claiming a tax credit for regular use of a transit pass – and even displaying the official logo of the Canadian Urban Transit Association, which supposedly helped co-develop the “promotional” site.

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A quick search via www. whois.net shows a private company holds ownership of the transitpass.ca domain until 2019.

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The official web page with information on claiming a federal tax credit is www.cra-arc.gc.ca/transitpass CYCLING MANAGER STARTS AT CITY HALL wNEW

The city’s newest cycling infrastructure manager took her post this week.

Jacquelyn Gulati officially replaced Daniel Egan on Monday.

She comes from a similar post at the City of Mississauga, where she worked on improving active transportation planning to improve cycling and walking.

In Toronto she’ll be tasked with continuing the slow-moving expansion of the city’s network of bike lanes.

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The TTC’s chief financial officer is defending a pro-

posal to raise Metropass fares, which if approved will see the monthly cost for the unlimited travel pass rise by nearly six per cent this year.

Vince Rodo said increasing the Metropass cost, which will likely become $141.50 beginning in March, is part of a “proportionate” fare hike recently announced, and says TTC trip data shows card users are taking more transit trips.

The TTC has promised to reveal further details about the fare hike and other budget items as part of a special public meeting Monday, Feb. 2.

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GO Transit users can also expect a fare increase that was pproved by Metrolinx’s board of directors late last year The move means an average price hike of five per cent for the estimated 80 per cent of GO users who own a Presto fare card.

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Smith working to improve housing >>>from page 1 “Governance is a big issue. It’s important to make sure the oversight and operations are meeting the needs of the city and the tenants who live in the housing,” said Smith, who made the time to chat with The Mirror while in London, England, attending his son’s wedding.

He said the task force will be preparing an interim report by this summer.

“I think it’s a really important piece of work that will be done,” he said.

“Hopefully we can avoid the politics and focus on the business of the corporation serving the people of Toronto and that tenants that live in it.”

Smith, a native of the Beach who has lived in the city’s north end for a number of years, lauded Tory for being pro-active on working to improve Toronto’s social housing system.

“I give the mayor high marks for taking this on off the bat because it’s such an important issue,” he said.

“I feel quite pleased that some way I might be able to contribute to making Toronto a great city and place where all can benefit and live safe and have decent housing.”

Smith, who was approached by Tory’s

office earlier this month to take part in the task force, said he’s looking forward to helping better an organization he called a “tremendous resource for the city.”

Having worked for more than three decades to eradicate poverty and help marginalized individuals secure safe, affordable, quality housing, Smith was instrumental in the transformation of Riverside’s New Edwin Hotel into First Step to Home, a residence for homeless and streetinvolved men.

He also spearheaded WoodGreen’s innovative Homeward Bound program, which provides a range of services to help inadequately housed or homeless mother-led families earn college diplomas, start careers and achieve economic self-sufficiency. The program’s residence in East York being renamed the Brian Smith Centre for Opportunity.

Further, Smith’s unwavering dedication to eradicate poverty and provide marginalized individuals and families safe and affordable places to live has been forever honoured with Brian’s Fund to End Homelessness (http://www.woodgreen. org/briansfund.aspx). The fund was launched on

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