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Police know the human trafficking charge will be the hardest one to land a conviction on, mainly due to the victim’s unwillingness to testify or memory lapses, and will often take pleas for lesser offences.

The total number of human trafficking convictions in Toronto since 2014 now stands at nine; in the first week of July alone, Toronto police arrested seven men within a four-day

span on human trafficking charges, one case involving a victim as young as 14.

And one York Region cop has no problem dropping human trafficking charges if it means pimps will land in jail.

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The provincial government unveiled the long-awaited human trafficking strategy Thursday, June 30, which calls for an investment up to $72 million aimed at increasing awareness and coordination, enhancing justice-sector initiatives and improving survivors’ access to services. Currently, Ontario is grappling with roughly 65 per cent of police-reported human trafficking cases in Canada.

The strategy involves nine ministries and is based on four pillars: strong leadership through an anti-human trafficking office through CommSoc, which will collect and share information; increased awareness and community supports to help survivors heal; justice sector initiatives to identify trafficking earlier and hold traffickers to account; and indigenous-led approaches.

Det. Sgt. Nunzio Tramontozzi of Toronto Police Service’s human trafficking team called the strategy a great start, noting specialized Crowns are a police asset.

If Crowns don’t understand “trauma bonds” between the victim and pimp, it’s hard for them to wrap their mind around why a girl would protect a guy who brutalized her for years, he said, adding instead of forging ahead and

putting the victim on the stand, they tend to take pleas for lesser offences.

“As of last summer we only had one (human trafficking) conviction in Toronto,” he said. “One guy. It’s pretty sad.”

Ontario’s Attorney General Yasir Naqvi, who was on hand for the strategy’s release, called human trafficking an increasing, complex problem.

A specialized team of Crown attorneys will ensure cases are prosecuted effectively and consistently across province, he said, adding expanded quick response programs will be in place to help victims, including paying for things such as travel costs, identification replacement, and enhancing 24-hour crisis assistance.

But not everyone was pleased with the strategy.

Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MPP Laurie Scott, who put forward a private member’s bill Saving the Girl Next Door, which calls for victims to obtain restraining orders against their trafficker and sue them for damages, said while the strategy is a step in the right direction, it ultimately falls short.

The Conservative MPP took issue with the lack of permanent multiyear funding and firm deadlines for establishing a multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary task force.

In an interview with Metroland

Media Toronto prior to the strategy’s release, she said the province needs to take the lead in human trafficking enforcement.

“It’s modern day slavery,” she said.

“Will all survivors sue? No, but it’s a means of justice.”

Michelle Smith, executive director of Women’s Support Network of York Region in Newmarket, which runs a human trafficking help line, called the issue a “provincial and national crisis.”

She hoped the strategy would include long-term core funding, along with people specialized in human trafficking and infrastructure for couselling.

Trafficked women sometimes require “eight, nine, 10-hour care”, with psychological and emotional trauma the most pervasive aspect.

“We have women that are servicing eight to 10 men a day, against their will,” she said.

Besides a strategy, greater emphasis on social media literacy must be taught in schools to help combat human trafficking, said Debbie Gordon, director of kidsmediacentre at Centennial College.

Being able to share case studies about other young victims works, but voices of young people who question the sensibilities of the social media culture need to be heard, she said.

“Kids will listen when it’s one of their own.”

Like the York Regional Police campaign ‘The Other Side’ that is helping victims hurt in the sex trade find a way out, there are other people and organizations offering assistance to survivors of human trafficking in the Greater Toronto Area. Here are a few: • Covenant House: 416-598-4898, www. covenanthousetoronto.ca/homeless-youth/ Home.aspx • East Metro Youth Services: 416-4523018, http://emys.on.ca/ • Women’s Support Network of York Region: 905-758-5285, www.womenssupportnetwork.ca/ • Toronto Police Service human trafficking team: 416-808-8385, www.torontopolice. on.ca/sexcrimes/htet.php • York Regional Police human trafficking team: 905-758-5581, www.yrp.ca/en/about/ human-trafficking.asp

MORE ONLINE VIDEO: Watch this Covenant House Toronto video: a dramatization of the reallife experience of “Amy” – a teen who found herself enslaved by a man she believed was her boyfriend. (bit.ly/covenantvid) STORY: Read this story from York Region about a real court case from 2014 involving a man who police alleged was pimping out a 16-year-old girl, and the subsequent verdict. (bit.ly/yorkcase) STRATEGY: Get more details about the provincial anti-human trafficking strategy and the four areas of action the strategy will be focused on. (bit.ly/ontariostrategy) STATISTICS: See statistics from Toronto Police Service about the number of occurrences, arrests, charges and victims related to human trafficking in the city since 2013. (bit.ly/policestats)

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n hastily-snatched hindsight, it’s fair to say that last week probably wasn’t the best time for Toronto Council to vote to ban texting while walking.

The same time as councillors supported a motion

by York South-Weston Councillor Frances Nunziata to ask the province to change the Highway Traffic Act making it illegal to text and otherwise distract yourself while walking, Torontonians were downloading the walking, distracted gaming app Pokemon Go to their smartphones.

The provincial government, no doubt sensing trouble, made it clear that Toronto can make an antitexting bylaw if it likes, but really, should Toronto enact such a bylaw, compliance will be, to put it mildly, an issue.

It’s not to say that pedestrians shouldn’t take some responsibilOuR ViEW ity for their own safety, or that streets aren’t safer when Council fails by Toronto everybody has their eyes on the not speeding road.

But really: it doesn’t take a up plan trending gaming app to tempt reasonable adults to check their smartphone for texts, emails or just to make a change to the music they’re listening to, as they move around the city. And frankly, pedestrians aren’t the ones who are responsible for the genuinely deadly players on Toronto streets; the multi-ton motor vehicles that almost inevitably come out on top when collisions occur are.

Nunziata’s motion came as Toronto Council was considering a broader, $80-million plan to make Toronto’s roadways safer. To councillors’ credit, they unanimously supported that plan, and bolstered it beyond its original scope. So over the next five years, speed limits will be reduced on key roadways in the downtown and beyond, more signalized crossings will be installed and slow-speed zones around schools will be implemented.

All good – although it’s a shame that councillors didn’t support an amendment from another councillor, Kristyn Wong-Tam, to accelerate the so-called Vision from five years to two. That failure, and the scolding fingerwag of the amendment by Nunziata that council finally did support, inspires little confidence. While they were at it, they might have approved another bylaw – preventing dyspeptic amendments being passed late on the third day of summer council meetings, when legislators are clearly too tired to think straight.

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Council leaves behind subways, spending for summer reprieve A quiet has descended on Toronto City Hall in the wake of last week’s marathon July council meeting.

It seems almost peaceful.

Councillors won’t be getting together again to disrupt that peace until September rolls around – and it would be nice to think that when they and Mayor John Tory meet once more, it will remain in a spirit of peace, and reconciliation.

The debate over the Scarborough subway, after all, appears to be over.

Whatever one thinks of the one-stop subway extension to the Scarborough Town Centre (coming in now at $3.4 billion and probably a good deal more), council decided on its second day of meeting that it was fine with the plan, and the expense.

The fight, between critics like Josh Matlow and Gord Perks and boosters like Deputy Mayor Glenn De Baeremaeker and Tory himself, had been seismic until then.

david nickle the city When the vote finally came late in the day July 12, it wasn’t even all that close: just 16 councillors voted in favour of an amendment to scrap the subway plan and build light rail there instead, with 27 siding with Tory.

It might have been closer, but Tory’s team made a point of rewarding its allies. In addition to the Scarborough subway’s continued approval, council also approved studies for no less than three additional transit projects not on any list but the ones on certain local councillors’ election literature.

So in the coming months, we’ll hear about a westward extension of the Bloor-Danforth Line 2, from Kipling Station to Sherway Gardens (courtesy of Etobicoke Lakehsore Councillor Justin Di Ciano); a subway

connection between the Yonge-Sheppard interchange and Downsview Station (a long-held dream of York Centre Councillor James Pasternak); and a Sheppard subway extension from Don Mills Station to McCowan Road (championed by Scarborough Agincourt Councillor Jim Karygiannis).

The studies aren’t, of course, anything approaching a commitment, but they are the sort of thing that has a limited but real effect of papering over possible divisions – both on council and inter-regionally.

The Scarborough subway, now that it’s going ahead, is going to eat up a huge amount of money and resources. As we must remind ourselves, it is the only major transit project in the city’s long-term transit plan that is fully funded, and the only other one that’s even partially funded is also in Scarborough: the Eglinton Crosstown line that will actually service Scarborough neighbour-

hoods. The downtown relief line, which transit planners have noted is essential to stave off unacceptable levels of crowding on the Yonge line, is not funded, nor is light rail servicing the city’s waterfront.

And as was revealed this week, it will likely be more difficult than not to wrestle more money from the provincial government. Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office noted in a report released Tuesday that the province is in danger of over-extending itself on transit spending as matters stand, with an extra $50 billion in provincial debt in 2021 due to transit alone. So fulfilling those dreams – of subways, eventually, everywhere – will be a long shot. In the short run of these summer months, as pleasant and peaceable as these dreams are, dreams are all they are.

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Sailesh Nankani, 18, (left) and Ken Wong are the two Toronto District School Board top scholars, both from East York Collegiate. Sailesh completed his high school career with a 99.7 per cent grade average while Ken finished with 99.8 per cent.

noted Wong.

“He’s always motivated me, indirectly and directly, to do better,” he said. “I think it’s very important to have good friends that support you.”

Along with each other, the two credited their teachers for helping them achieve their accomplishment.

Last year, EYCI student Albert Loa was a 2015 TDSB Top Scholar. It’s not something in the water at EYCI, it’s the teachers, said this year’s hon-

ourees.

“The teachers are very good at making you feel that you are important, and really do a fabulous job pushing you and guiding you,” Wong explained. “The teachers here really are like a second family to me. They are all very kind. They take time out of their lives to help you.”

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Presented by Children’s Peace Theatre, the parade leaves at 10:30 a.m. from Shoppers World Plaza, 3003 Danforth Ave. It will travel west along Danforth Avenue to Dawes Road, and north on Dawes to Taylor Creek Park, 260 Dawes Rd. There will be a picnic lunch at Taylor Creek Park, before a free performance at Children’s Peace Theatre, 305 Dawes Rd. This year’s Peace Camp production, “i,” explores individual and collective identities and freedoms.

People can watch a rehearsal performance of “i” at 1 p.m. today. The gala performance of “i” is at 5 p.m.

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The Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) 2016 Top Scholars are both from East York Collegiate Institute (EYCI).

Kenneth Wong and Sailesh Nankani had the highest marks of this year’s 27,448 TDSB Grade 12 graduates, earning averages of 99.8 and 99.7 per cent respectively. The Top Scholars were celebrated during an event at EYCI on Thursday, July 14, where they spoke with The Mirror about the honour. As well as being this year’s top TDSB graduates, the two are also friends.

“It’s nice to have one of your friends also one of the top scholars,” Wong said. “I think it’s quite special.”

Nankani agreed, saying it’s awesome to share the accomplishment with Wong after they spent the last few years pushing each other to excel.

“Kenneth’s immensely talented,” Nankani added. “He has always been helpful to me. He’s been suggesting things, encouraging me, motivating me, asking me about my future plans and suggesting things.”

And Nankani has done the same,

rounded young men, he added, and it was a treat teaching them.

“It was a privilege to have had them,” he said.

“It was an amazing experience to have that level of achievement in one classroom.”

Both active volunteers, the two encouraged other teens to use their high school years to get involved with their community as well as focus on education. Read as much as possible, and remember the most important thing about high school is to show up and put the best effort forward, they added.

“Just do what’s interesting to you, be passionate about what you are doing and really be open to everything, then choose whatever really excites you,” offered Nankani. “Just grow overall, not just academically.

If you grow in every single possible way and try to improve, that’s really the key.”

Whatever they end up doing, the sky’s the limit, said Kralik.

“They both have lots of options, and I think they’ll be successful at whatever path each of them chooses,” he said. “If you Google their names in 10 years, you’ll learn about the great things each of them have done in whatever field they’re in.”

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Reflecting on this great community Now that July has arrived, so has some really hot days that has us all sweating; the kind of days you long for in middle of winter when you are shoveling snow off the sidewalk or getting slush down your boots.

One of the things that I like most about the summer is the way that it transforms the neighbourhood into a true community.

The hustle and bustle of people getting out and mowing their lawns or tending their gardens brings out the true small-town charm of the area.

Yet at the same time, one can see that some real changes that have taken place with the community.

The community used to be filled with Second World War veterans and seniors, but it has now become one of young families and professional couples.

The community has become a bit more focused on home life and work, which is only natural.

What used to make the

joe cooper watchdog East York community rather unique was the high level of volunteering that was part of its character.

There is a need to ask what’s best for the community.

There are many who are withdrawing into their personal shell and will say they will get involved when they have “more time” to participate.

Already there are far too many people whose reaction is “let someone else do it”.

Worse, there are those who simply shrug their shoulders and say, “it’s someone else’s problem, nothing to do with me.”

So we are seeing decades of hard work that has gone into protecting the quality of life of the community simply being taken for granted.

The key thing is that just because our community is doing well today, it’s no excuse to think that this will

go on forever.

Yes, there are cycles where communities go into decline and then are brought back through gentrification and other factors.

However, what we have seen is that those types of changes tend to favour one particular group of privileged people over the needs of the whole community.

In truth, a really healthy community is one that can support a range of people, not just a narrow group who happen to be economically well off.

Understanding these issues and acting upon them is going to have a very important impact upon our community’s long-term health and prosperity.

You can be either selfish or community minded in your decisions, but personal neutrality is a luxury we’ve lost in the 21st century.

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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Culture Jam WHEN: 1 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Dentonia Park, 80 Thyra Ave. CONTACT: Arts in the Parks, www.torontoartsfoundation.org COST: Free registered and drop-in workshops for children and youth, Peace is Possible Parade and a final performance at Children’s Peace Theatre.

The Bard’s Bus Tour WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Withrow Park, 725 Logan Ave., northeast corner of the park CONTACT: Arts in the Parks, www.torontoartsfoundation. org COST: Free Driftwood Theatre returns to Withrow Park with a 1980s inspired produc-

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Culture Jam: Parade WHEN: 11 a.m. WHERE: Shoppers World Danforth, 3003 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Arts in the Parks, www. torontoartsfoundation.org COST: Free Participants will create work to be displayed in a Community Peace is Possible parade, which begins from the parking lot of Shoppers World and ends in Taylor Massey Park where there is a community picnic.

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Players compete against each other at the ‘Battle for the CN Tower’

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>>>from page 1 hundreds of fans. Tanisha Grewal was one of the lucky ones to get a picture with the mascot.

“I’ve always been a huge Pokémon fan since I was two years old – I’ve watched all the anime series and played all the games,” she said. “I am so excited to see Pikachu here – it’s like my childhood dream came true.”

Matthew Cashman, 30, the organizer of the “meet-up” and co-founder of Legacy Gamers, a Toronto-based gaming events organization, created the event “on a whim,” and was surprised at the turnout. He thought it was a great way to celebrate an important game in many people’s childhood.

“I used to play Pokémon back in the day when it first came out, on my Game Boy black-and-white screen,” he said. “As a kid, I was pretty passionate about it.”

Developed by American software company Niantic, Inc., Pokémon Go operates very much like a fantasy Google Map. The game is set in augmented reality, where players physically walk to “capture” Pokémon. The game also includes PokéStops that are city attractions, historic sites and art instillations for players to collect extra PokéBalls, lures to attract Pokémon to the area, as well as other items.

Pokémon Gyms, located at various physical locations, are places where players

Even before it was available here this week, Nintendo’s augmented-reality phone game Pokemon Go was showing numbers to rival social-media giants like Twitter; filling parks and boulevards with giant mobs of like-minded players, hunting for virtual sprites in parks and boulevards, through the camera-lens of their smartphones.

As viral phenomenon go, Pokemon Go is near the top of the heap. But it may well signify something more significant than even that.

“It’s important not to underestimate how important this phenomenon is on different levels,” says Natalie Zina Walschotts, a Toronto-based game critic and designer who’s been playing and watching the game since it first emerged.

“Literally a third of the world is playing this game,” she says.

“More people are playing this game than anything else, and that’s important. The other thing that’s crucial is that it has already changed the discourse with which we move through the world.”

Moving through the world – and interacting with objects that are not in fact in the world – is a cornerstone of a suite of applications known as augmented reality (as opposed to virtual reality, which through devices like the Oculus Rift immerse users in a completely invented space).

Pokemon Go is not the first AR technology or application – several years ago, Google introduced an experimental device “Google Glass,” which projected images and text on a pair of camera-equipped eyeglasses – but Pokemon is the first to catch on. Given its success, it is not likely to be the last. Walschotts was immediately struck by the power of a game that takes the imaginary friends of childhood, and places them in a familiar environment.

“You are literally doing the thing you were pretending to do in a video game, and you are doing it in a real physical space,” she said.

And because it is a game – one shared by millions of other users – it is safe, in the way that Google Glass, with its cameras and potentially disturbing and voyeuristic applications, might not be. But make no mistake.

Augmented Reality will soon enough have numerous practical applications.

“Augmented Reality makes the invisible, visible,” says Toronto-based science fiction writer and strategic foresight expert Karl Schroeder. “It has the potential to be a kind of heads-up display showing us what’s going on around us in a much more live and detailed way than traditional news or word of mouth. Our phones already show us where the nearest restaurant or gas station is… Everything from dating to political activism can be supercharged by AR.”

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Sarah Musso brings Pikachu along to the Pokémon Go players’ Canadian launch party at the CN Tower plaza on Monday evening.

become trainers and battle other Pokémon players on different teams.

The event is dubbed by Cashman as “The Battle for the CN Tower”, meaning players will compete against each other for Toronto’s most iconic Pokémon gym.

“It’s Canada’s icon as well – so I thought it would be the

best place to celebrate the launch of the game,” he said.

Jill Vienneau came to the event to accompany her son Jackson, but ended up installing the game on her phone as well. She became a level five Pokémon trainer in one day.

“I was skeptical at first,” she said. “But I must say, it’s been a lot of fun. You definitely get

sucked into the game.”

Chris Mackinnon, 28, came all the way from Etobicoke with his friends. He says Pokémon Go gave them a purpose to go outside.

“We’re all out here to live out our childhood dreams of becoming Pokémon trainers,” he said. “We have proven this game is better to play with friends and we’re so glad the game is out for everybody in Canada.”

However, Mackinnon admits the game poses a safety risk for people.

“I think the most dangerous thing is that you’ll end up in areas that you’re not familiar with,” he said.

Toronto police Const. David Hopkinson says safety plans are in place and police officers are on site to make sure everyone is able to have fun in a safe manner during the event. But more importantly, he advises the public to be in charge of their own safety and not get carried away when playing the game.

“The app does not account for your safety, as it does not take into consideration any traffic or trespassing onto private property,” he said.

“Be aware of your surroundings, and be aware of how it might affect those around you.

A Squirtle is not worth your safety.”

MORE ONLINE Safety tip list issued for young Pokemon players at bit.ly/pokesafety

THE EVOLUTION OF POKÉMON — 1995 TO 2016 1995

The franchise is created by Satoshi Tajiri.

The first Pokemon trainers battle for glory.

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1998

Pokémon media, Pokémon Red and Green, are released.

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8 and the game is launched in the United States on Sept. 30.

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Hospital puts smiles on kids’ faces TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com An innovative new program at Michael Garron Hospital (MGH) is putting smiles on the faces of kids in the community.

The hospital has teamed up with local pediatric dentists for Project O.R. Smile, to help kids from low-income families get complex dental surgery.

“No family should have to choose between rent or dental care,” said Carmine Stumpo, vice-president of programs at MGH, while sharing details of the program with The Mirror.

Through Project O.R. Smile, kids needing lots of dental work are able to have it done, all at once, more comfortably.

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Pediatric dentists Dr. Arja-Liisa Peltoniemi (left), Dr. Aisha Romain and Carmine Stumpo, Michael Garron Hospital vicepresident of programs, get together in support of the hospital’s new Project O.R. Smile program, which helps children from low-income families get complex dental care.

gical setting, using general anaesthesia, saves children the trauma of undergoing such intense work, but for families with limited or no dental insurance that can be out of reach.

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“If you’re unable to concentrate in class, because you’re in pain and you have to wait to get treatment, this is going to have a huge impact on learning, on your daily life, on your ability to smile.”

While there are similar programs at SickKids and the University of Toronto, MGH is the first local community hospital to offer one.

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