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LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Whether on land or in the water, there are a number of species that are wreaking havoc on their surrounding environment and threatening the creatures and plants whose habitat they overtake. They are bullies infiltrating Toronto’s ravines, prairies, wooded areas and waterways, keeping the city’s small, but ardent Parks, Forestry and

Recreation staff, and such conservation organizations as the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH), on their toes staving off these alien pests. There are four different species of Asian carp – bighead, silver, grass and black – that OFAH’s invading species awareness program, in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, are keeping tabs on, preventing

these invaders from establishing populations in the Great Lakes. “They can cause quite a bit of danger,” said Sarah Chadwick, the invasive species spokesperson for the OFAH. “There are no established populations in the Great Lakes, and we want to keep it that way.” However, there have been reported sightings of Asian carp as close to home as Lake Ontario, Chadwick added. Asian carp have the capability

to destroy aquatic ecosystems while negatively impacting the environment and economy. “They could damage sport and commercial fishing in Ontario, which brings in millions of dollars,” Chadwick said. Asian carp consume as much as 40 per cent of their body weight daily leaving little food for native fish to eat, reproduce extremely quickly enabling them to dominate habitats, and >>>WETLANDS, page 3

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The bighead carp, part of the Asian carp family, is an invasive species. Others include silver, grass and black carp. Common carp is also an invasive species, but not part of the Asian carp family.

Wetlands, forests, birds at risk as invasive species start to spread >>>from page 1 increase the murkiness of the water making it difficult for native fish to find food. Grass carp specifically destroy wetlands that are key habitats for native species. “It’s important to educate the public on what they look like,” Chadwick said. “Our mandate is education and awareness.” Bighead and silver carp have spread the most aggressively through the U.S. and pose the greatest threat to the Great Lakes. The bighead can be identified by its small scales with dark blotches, short dorsal fin and eyes below the centre of its body; the silver carp has small, shiny scales; the black carp has large dark scales in a crosshatched pattern, and a pointed snout; the grass carp also has a short dorsal fin, and large, dark crosshatched scale pattern. Brought to North America in the 1960s and ‘70s, Asian carp are often mistaken for common carp, Chadwick said. Unlike Asian carp, the common carp has a long dorsal fin and two barbels (slender, whisker-like sensory organ at the mouth). Fisheries and Oceans Canada continues to monitor for the presence of Asian carp. “We’ve had lots of calls from the public. People are keen to help,” spokesperson Becky Cudmore said. There is a reason why these species are deemed invasive. They’re highly adaptable and can tolerate a variety of habitat conditions. Parks

and forestry staff are currently battling the dog-strangling vine. Although it is not new to Toronto – it arrived from Eastern Ukraine and Southern Russia in the 1900s – the herbaceous vine invades meadows and forest edges.

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“It prefers open spaces,” said Cara Webster, acting supervisor of tree nursery and natural resource management within Parks, Forestry and Recreation. “It grows in vine form, twining small trees and shrubs. It chokes them out. If we don’t keep up on control, it will overtake newly planted species.” It grows in large patches, outcompeting other species, Webster said, adding it poses a threat to native species like the black oak savannah in High Park. It can impact recreation areas because once it establishes a huge colony, “you can’t walk through it,” Webster said. Grassland birds, such as the Bobolink meadowlark, are particularly at risk. That’s because the vine alters their habitat preventing them from nesting. Toronto first began controlling the vine in the late 1990s when staff and volunteers

would manually remove it. The challenge is that the dog-strangling vine has a very deep root system. “Now, we use a method of applying a herbicide by wiping it on with a sponge. That way, it doesn’t hurt other species,” Webster said. “It’s very widespread in Toronto. It’s in every watershed and transportation corridor.” Agriculture Canada has introduced a biological control moth, a natural predator, which eats the leaves on the vine, as a method of control because the dog-strangling vine began impacting agriculture. The vine is not the only menace Toronto is fighting. The Japanese knotweed, a five- to six-feet tall bamboo-like plant that out competes other vegetation, can be found along streams and at the bottom of ravines. It spreads by its roots travelling down streams, Webster said. It blocks access to water, reducing all other native vegetation. Green frogs, native to Ontario, are being displaced because they are losing their habitat. “Every ravine in Toronto has a little bit of it,” she said. Control methods include cutting it down twice a season and using herbicide on the root system. “When people don’t stay on trail systems, they’re spreading species,” Webster said. For further information about Toronto’s invasive species, visit http:// bit.ly/29Pl5GL. Find out more about Asian carp at http://bit.ly/1ofcfZ7

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he coming long weekend is known as Simcoe Day and now is a good time to learn a little bit more about Upper Canada’s first lieutenantgovernor and the founder of our city. John Graves Simcoe is honoured across the province with a lake, county and more streets than we could ever mention. But it is only Toronto that celebrates the first Monday in August as Simcoe Day. The August long weekend holiday has many other names across Ontario and Canada ranging from the fairly bland civic holiday to the City of Vaughan’s Benjamin Vaughan Day and the City of Ottawa’s Colonel By Day. Simcoe, though, deserves a special place in the hearts of Torontonians. Named Upper Canada’s lieutenant governor in 1791, he founded York, which later became Toronto as the capital city, and also had a key role in naming Scarborough OuR ViEW because the bluffs reminded his wife Elizabeth of Scarborough, Simcoe has England. Though only lieutenant goverspecial place nor until 1796, his accomplishwere many, including in our hearts ments taking a strong stand against slavery and banning it in Upper Canada years before it was abolished across the entire British Empire. He also laid out Toronto’s famous grid street system of north-south and eastwest roads, earning the thanks to this day of those travelling through and around the city. So how do we celebrate him some 230 years after his time as lieutenant governor ended? Well, like all long weekends in Toronto, we have fun. There’s numerous events set for our city this weekend, many drawing huge crowds of both local residents and tourists. There’s the Toronto Caribbean Carnival on this weekend, which features the King and Queen competition Thursday night at Lamport Stadium and then the Grand Parade Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Lake Shore Boulevard and Exhibition Place. Also, there’s the 15th annual Scarborough Rotary Ribfest from Friday through to Monday at Thomson Park and the Veld Music Festival at Downsview Park Saturday and Sunday. And if you’d like to step back to a time closer to Simcoe’s, you can take part in Simcoe Day activities Monday at Fort York. Whatever you do, have fun and stay safe whether you are in the city, travelling the highways or enjoying Ontario’s lakes and wilderness.

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Michael Ford continues family’s political dynasty What with all the sound and fury south of the border Monday night as Democratic Party conventioneers girded their loins for what could be a worldchanging political battle royale with the Trump family, it would be easy to have missed the quiet, civilized affair that ushered the late Rob Ford’s nephew Michael into that family’s office at Toronto City Hall. America may have a stark choice ahead of it – but the voters in Ward 2 (Etobicoke North) made their choice a long time ago, and on July 25 they simply confirmed it. The Ford family – first the late Rob Ford, then his brother Doug Ford, and now Michael – are the dynasty of choice for Toronto’s northwest. Nothing, not even Rob Ford’s toxic, drug-andalcohol-fuelled meltdown during his single term as mayor, seems to be able to shake that loyalty. And so it comes to pass

david nickle the city that Toronto Council has a new member, maybe not the same but quite similar to the last two members, in Michael Ford, the 22-yearold son of Rob and Doug’s sister Kathy. By all accounts, Michael Ford is a bit different than his uncles politically, although it is early to say: he hadn’t yet completed a single term as a school trustee before Rob Ford’s death necessitated his candidacy in the Ward 2 byelection. He has developed a reputation in that time as a consensus-builder, curious and prone to evidencebased decision-making. He is said to admire Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. If this is so, it will be a relief to Mayor John Tory, who also seems to admire Trudeau.

Since Rob Ford’s death earlier this year, Tory has governed without a real critic on the right. If the Ford family had sent Doug Ford back into the Ward 2 trenches, Tory would have been faced with having not only a critic, but also his most formidable foe in the 2014 municipal election. It is possible that Michael Ford will grow into that role. On election night, Michael Ford’s grandmother Diane opined that he might one day follow in his uncle’s footsteps and become mayor himself. But it will be a while, likely, before the new councillor for Ward 2 moves into that part of the Ford brand, because so far he’ll be doing the work that established the family in Etobicoke to begin with and has endeared them all to those constituents: which is to say, answering phone calls, showing up at doorsteps, solving small problems definitively and

optionally, dealing with large problems at a policy level. Michael Ford’s Uncle Rob treated that last element of the brand extremely optionally. Even as mayor, he paid policy scant attention – focussing on keeping taxes low, pointing out waste and gathering political capital as much from the votes he lost at council as the ones that he won. There seems to be hope that Michael Ford will be different in that regard, and examine the needs of his constituents collectively as well as individually. Because let’s face it: the voters of Ward 2 have collectively done much to elevate three generations of Fords to public office. It will be interesting to see how the latest generation repays that loyalty.

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Call for Volunteers! Help Needed! WHERE: True Davidson Acres Home for the Aged, 200 Dawes Rd. CONTACT: Carly Wolf, 416-397-0364 COST: Free True Davidson looking for retired or semi-retired volunteers to assist with a variety of resident activities including feeding, visiting and participating in activities for volunteers. Training provided. Call to sign up for an orientation date. Pole Walking Club (Toronto) WHEN: 9:30 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Mosaic Home Care Services & Community Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave/ Suite 215H CONTACT: www.mosaichomecare.com COST: Free Mosaic Home Care Services & Community Resource Centre hosts its annual Summer Walking Club Thursdays. Walking takes place around the areas of Bayview and Eglington and Sunnybrook Park.

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Jazz Vespers - Jim Clayton Duo WHEN: 4:30 to 5:15 p.m. WHERE: Hope United Church, 2550 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Brian Stevens, 416-691-9682, hopeunited.ca COST: Free Jim Clayton on the piano and Steve Lucas on bass.

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CHECK OUT OUR complete online community calendar by visiting www. insidetoronto.com where you can read listings from your East York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto. WHEN: 7 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: jimb.farrell@yahoo.ca COST: $2 A night of strictly fun darts. Blind draw doubles and a $2 entry fee will get you a night of truly fun and non competitive darts. Entertainment at the Legion WHEN: 8 p.m. to midnight WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-4253070 COST: Free Every Friday!

◗ Saturday, July 30

Withrow Park Farmer’s Market WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE:

Withrow Park, 725 Logan Ave CONTACT: www.withrowpark.ca COST: Free All produce, food items and other goods sold at the market have to be certified organic or ecologically and sustainably produced. Family Storytime WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: Free Stories, songs and rhymes for children from birth to age six and their caregivers. Drop in, no registration required for this ongoing program at the library.

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Jazz Vespers - Jim Clayton Duo WHEN: 4:30 to 5:15 p.m. WHERE: Hope United Church, 2550 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Brian Stevens, 416691-9682, hopeunited.ca COST: Free Jim Clayton on the piano and Steve Lucas on bass. Kitchen Basics WHEN: 4 p.m. WHERE: St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 904 Coxwell Ave. CONTACT: 416-421-6878, ext. 21 COST: Free Suitable for anyone new to cooking, struggling to cook on a limited budget or who may need a refresher. Each evening, organizers will cook, share a meal and take away leftovers. Materials and food are provided for free.

◗ Monday, Aug. 1

Dusk Dances WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Withrow Park, 725 Logan Ave. CONTACT: www.neighbourhoodartsnetwork. org/toronto-arts-online/attendan-event/events/dusk-dances-%287%29 COST: Free A dance festival that brings highquality contemporary and traditional dance to public parks.

◗ Tuesday, Aug. 2

Art Bar Poetry Series WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Black Swan Tavern, 154 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: artbarpoerty@gmail.com COST: Pass The Hat The Art Bar Poetry Series – featured readers plus an open mic.

◗ Wednesday, Aug. 3

Mixed Snooker League WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-425-3070 COST: Free Spares welcome.

◗ Friday, Aug. 5

Taste of the Danforth WHEN: noon WHERE: Danforth Avenue, Danforth Avenue CONTACT: http://tasteofthedanforth.com COST: Free A celebration of taste and culture with food, music and more.

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PROJECT UPDATE AND SECOND SERIES OF PUBLIC INFORMATION CENTRES Leaside to Main Infrastructure Refurbishment Project Earlier this year, Hydro One Networks (Hydro One) launched a Class Environmental Assessment (Class EA) to refurbish two sections of underground 115 kilovolt transmission cable 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. In conjunction with this work, but not subject to the Class EA process, Hydro One will take the opportunity to replace and upgrade the overhead shield wire, used to protect our equipment from lightning, between Todmorden JCT and Lumsden JCT. Hydro One has now selected its preferred routing option for underground cable replacement between Leaside Transformer Station (TS) and Todmorden Junction (JCT), following analysis of technical, environmental and socio-economic factors, and First Nation, public and stakeholder feedback. The preferred route for the cable replacement is shown on the map above. The underground cable between Main TS and Lumsden JCT will be replaced along the existing route, as no feasible alternatives were identified. PUBLIC INFORMATION CENTRES The Class EA process provides opportunities for consultation, and your feedback is very important to us. We invite you to drop in to one of our upcoming Public Information Centres (PICs). Members of the project team will be available to

discuss the preferred route selection between Leaside TS and Todmorden JCT, environmental studies, considerations and mitigation, and proposed construction methods. All sessions will provide information about the entire project. NEXT STEPS This fall, a draft Environmental Study Report (ESR) will be available for a 45-day review and comment period. Information on where to view the document and how interested parties may comment on the draft ESR will be advertised and posted on the project website.

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Subway study finds homes near Vic Park station most affordable If you want to raise your family near York Mills subway station be prepared to pay upwards of $3.5 million for a three-plus bedroom home. This was the most remarkable finding of a recently released infographic by Sky View Suites titled the Toronto Housing Prices Subway Map, which compiled data on the average sale price of three-plus bedroom homes near each Toronto subway stop from June 2015 to June 2016. In contrast, the most affordable homes can be found by the Victoria Park station. Information was not available for three-bedroom dwellings near the Bathurst, Museum, St. Patrick, and St. George subway stations. Further, data on three-plus bedroom home sales could not be adequately collected for the majority of the subway stations in the lower “U” portion of the Yonge-University line and as a result three-bedroom condo data was used. This explains why the prices are lower than expected for this area. Overall, the information gathered shows that the average household income needed to afford a “modestly” priced home of $1.4 million in Toronto is roughly $250,000 per year. With a 20 per cent down payment of $280,000 plus the City of Toronto’s land transfer tax, which amounts to $48,200, as well as a lawyer fee of $1,500, those interested in purchasing a $1.4 million home must come up with at least $329,700. Further, the cost of carrying that purchase can easily reach $6,200 a month considering a monthly payment of $5,100 for a 25-year mortgage with a 2.5 per cent annual interest rate, $900 in property taxes, and $200 for hydro. This $6,200 figure doesn’t include the cost of occasional repairs to the property. According to a Statistics Canada study, only 0.3 per cent of the population earned more than $250,000 in 2013, leading those in the real estate investment community to believe foreign ownership is inflating home prices in the GTA. The federal government is currently in the process of doing surveys to better understand the impact of foreign ownership and shape its foreign ownership policy. Sky View Suites previously released a Toronto Rent Map, which shows the average one- and two-bedroom condo rents near each Toronto subway station. – Joanna Lavoie

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The hot weekend that has just passed was a good time to stop and reflect on the current events taking place in the city. Fortunately, that big storm that came through early in the week brought some much needed rain to help bring back some green to our parched city. We are more fortunate, though, than our neighbours to the south who have seen punishing heat in the 40 C range for far too long. So while it’s been hot here, we still have people moving about and many interesting events taking place to keep the summer lively and enjoyable. There are a lot of things happening in the community that shows the area is alive and well. Woodbine Heights has seen some new businesses move in, and an art gallery opened recently. East York Village and the Donlands area are both seeing a good flow of customers on a daily basis. Pape Avenue has new housing and no lack of customers in cars and on foot.

joe cooper watchdog Bayview Avenue and Eglinton at Laird is booming. The question now, though, is how to keep this economic momentum going. Is it a bubble that will burst, or is this how it will continue be for many years to come? I am old enough to remember Bayview Avenue before the trendy shops and restaurants moved in, and when people began to use their cars to go elsewhere to spend their money. I can also remember when Danforth and Woodbine was one of the best places to shop in the city. Unfortunately, today this same area is what people politely term as being “in transition”. The point here is that the city, and our community, is in a constant state of change. It is next to impossible to predict the way things will change for one particular neighbourhood at any

time. The key thing is that while our community has had a large degree of political power taken away from it through amalgamation, people can still make a local influence with their pocket books. How often do you buy a product or a service from a local business? We have a great number of small and large businesses that you may see on a day-today basis, but are you really using them when a need comes along. Really and truly, even though we may work outside of our home area, it’s not wise to spend outside our community. We need our local businesses as much as we need our city-provided services. They provide that muchneeded sense of small town comfort and local prosperity required for healthy community life. 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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