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BEAN BAG TOSS: Lily Picherack, 6, plays a bean bag toss game at Gledhill Public School Friday afternoon during the school’s Family Fest event. For more photos from the Family Fest, please see page 6.

Parkview Hills Community Association set to host picnic Parkview Hills Community Association hosts its 23rd annual picnic this Sunday from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Proceeds from the event will continue to support local charities such as The Toronto East General Hospital Foundation.

A special guest from the

Toronto FC soccer team is also expected at the event.

There will be a barbecue and cafe, silent auction, raffle and more. Admission is free.

The 23rd annual picnic is taking place at PresteignWoodbine United Church, 2538 St. Clair Ave. E.

Residents of three Thorncliffe Park highrises will take to the streets on Saturday, June 8, to protest what they say are unfair living conditions.

Hosted by the Thorncliffe Park Tenant’s Association, the rally aims to raise awareness of tenant issues at 71, 75 and 79 Thorncliffe Park Dr. The association said the protest follows talks with building management, regarding issues including air conditioning, transfer and visitor parking fees, as well as security concerns, and maintenance delays.

The rally is set to begin at 11:30 a.m. at 71 Thorncliffe Park Dr. For more information, visit www.thorncliffetenantsassociation.wordpress.com/

Police recover body of baby Police have recovered the body of an infant girl who was apparently left in a clothing donation bin last month.

The mother, an East York resident, has been charged with first-degree murder.

The investigation began May 23 after North York General Hospital called police regard-

ing a woman who had recently given birth but the baby was unaccounted for.

The woman was arrested the next day.

Last Thursday, as a result of information from Oasis Clothing Bank, police searched a tractortrailer at a storage facility in Cambridge and recovered the

baby’s body.

Police didn’t release the results of an autopsy that was performed Friday.

Charged is 25-year-old Angelica Spanidis.

Police are asking anyone with information to call the homicide squad at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-8477

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bylaw meeting in East York wZoning Ward 29 Toronto-Danforth Councillor Mary Fragedakis will host a community meeting on the city’s new harmonized zoning bylaw in East York.

The meeting will take place at the East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Ave., on Monday, June 17, starting at 7 p.m.

Until recently, local residents had been operating under the old East York and Toronto bylaws. The purpose of the harmonized bylaw is to simplify and clarify zoning rules across the entire city, while maintaining characteristics uniqe to local neighbourhoods.

Fo r m o re i n f o, c o n t a c t Fragedakis’ office at councillor_fragedakis@toronto.ca, or call 416-392-4032.

Gardens of leaside tour planned The Magical Gardens of Leaside Tour is slated for Saturday, June 22.

Hosted by the Leaside Garden Society, the tour features a crosssection of garden spaces including a variety of trees, flowers, vegetables and herbs. Special garden features such as a koi pond with waterfall, a “unique” Irish shed, a pergola, garden art,

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and a “Japanese stroll garden” are among some of the highlights on this year’s tour.

Tour times are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Passports for the tour, which include the addresses of the participating gardens and a map, are $10. They can be purchased at a number of local businesses.

For more info and a list of locations where tickets can be purchased, please visit www. leasidegardensociety.org or call 416-481-8919. offers pet microchips locally wCity

Toronto Animal Services will be offering mobile microchipping for pets this summer.

Locally, the ‘chip truck’will be at Stan Wadlow Park this Saturday in the parking lot across from the pool, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Cost for the microchip and a pet licence is $25 for cats and $35 for dogs.

For more information on the city’s microchipping service,

please visit www.toronto.ca/ animalservices. of Dimes fundraiser slated wMarch

Canadian celebrity Alan Thicke is headlining a fundraising dinner next month for East York-based March of Dimes Canada.

The charitable organization, at 10 Overlea Blvd. southwest of Eglinton Avenue and Don Mills Road, provides services for people with disabilities and their families and caregivers across Canada.

Thicke will entertain guests at the Ability and Beyond Gala, presented by Bell, on June 13 at the InterContinental Toronto Centre on Front Street.

Funds from the gala will support Peers Fostering Hope, an initiative of Stroke Recovery Canada, which sends stroke survivors into hospitals to visit patients who have recently had a stroke.

For more information, visit www.marchofdimes.ca/gala to Fight Arthritis at Brick Works wWalk

10:05 a.m. The walk begins at 10:30 a.m.

Residents are invited to take part to help raise awareness about arthritis and raise funds to support The Arthritis Socieity.

There are walk routes of one kilometre and five kilometres.

Free parking will be available for participants.

The Brick Works is located at 550 Bayview Ave. For more info, visit www.walktofightarthritis.ca East York Farmers Market The East York Farmers Market takes place every Tuesday at the East York Civic Centre from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The market runs until Nov. 5.

The East York Civic Centre is located at 850 Coxwell Ave.

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The fourth annual Walk to Fight Arthritis is this Sunday at the Evergreen Brick Works.

The event opens at 9 a.m., and will feature a flash-mob “arthritis friendly dance” ceremony and

Saturday in East York.

The event takes place at the Royal Canadian Legion, 1083 Pape Ave., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

There are expected to be more than 40 vendors at the event with a multitude of vintage, rare, new and custom built guitars, and other musical gear.

For more information on the trade show, please email Tundra Music at epicentre@tundramusic. com Expressway meeting slated wGardiner

Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto have resumed the preparation of the Gardiner Expressway /Lake Shore Boulevard Reconfiguration Environmental Assessment (EA) and Integrated Urban Design Study.

Residents’ input is being sought on the plan. A public forum on Thursday, June 13, will allow people to learn more about the project. The forum consists of an open house at 6 p.m. and a presentation from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 701, South Building, 222 Bremner Blvd.

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Proud East Yorker Donna-Lynn McCallum remembered East York’s ‘official’ photographer loved her community, fought to preserve it Tara Hatherly thatherly@insidetoronto.com

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onna-Lynn McCallum lived in East York, not Toronto, and don’t you forget it.

The passionate East York advocate, volunteer and community member died May 29 at age 69, at Toronto East General Hospital, following an illness.

“It was her pride in this community that I will remember most. If ever there was a true East Yorker, it was her,” said BeachesEast York MPP Michael Prue, East York’s last mayor before amalgamation, and a close friend of McCallum’s.

Perhaps East York’s most vocal opponent of amalgamation, McCallum fought tirelessly to keep East York from becoming part of the Toronto megacity, worried the merger would strip the community of its independent spirit, and accessible government and services.

Fight for East York After East York residents lost the fight to remain independent, McCallum continued to fight for the community, delivering hundreds of deputations to Toronto council on its behalf, determined to ensure East York was not forgotten or diminished by its new Toronto government.

“After amalgamation, I think many people in East York found it hard to connect with city government, but Donna-Lynn always made sure that she had her voice heard, and I believe she reflected the opinions of many in East York,” said

She also volunteered there for all the important as Prue’s official photogevents that made our rapher, and took thoucommunity an important sands of photos for other place and a better place,” politicians, including Davis, VanDette said. “Her presMary Fragedakis, Peter ence will really be missed.”

Tabuns, Jane Pitfield, Case He hopes McCallum’s Ootes, Matthew Kellway passion will not be forgotand Jack Layton. Her ten. photos can be found in “I hope people rememhomes, offices and Legions ber her sense of commuthroughout East York, even nity pride, that she loved hanging in the NDP caucus the Borough of East York, room at Queen’s Park, and I hope if anybody noted Prue. could take something “She was a community from her, it would be that person who loved the compassion about our commumunity and nity,” he said. everybody “She was in it,” Prue She was a community one heck of a said. spokesperson person who loved for East York, “She felt that her the community and and a chamtalent was for the everybody in it. pion taking phocommunity.”

– Beaches-East York tographs, A condoMichael Prue and she lence motion wanted to will be share it with them, and she introduced at city council, wanted them to remember by councilors Davis and this community and their Fragedakis, to honour part in it.”

McCallum and her dedicaThe prolific photogration to her community. pher could always be found “Donna-Lynn wanted to wearing her East York pin, keep alive the traditions, and a bulldog, the symbol and values and identity of East York, on a chain of East York, and never around her neck. stopped reminding us all For her unwavering serthat East York was unique, vice and dedication to East and we should be working York, McCallum received to preserve what made East an East York Bulldog Award York so special,” said Davis. and a Queen’s Diamond “I know that there will be Jubilee Medal. many people who will miss Right up until her death, Donna-Lynn. She was a she remained engaged in very active member of our news and politics, reading community, and made an newspapers in her hospital important contribution.” room, and discussing the A funeral service for issues of the day with the McCallum was held June 3 many friends and loved in East York. Condolences ones who came to visit, may be made online at noted her close friend www.giffenmackdanforth.

Justin VanDette. com/.

“There’s only one For more stories about the Donna-Lynn McCallum, East York community, please and she was very special to visit us online at www.eastyorkmirror.com our community. She was

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Donna-Lynn McCallum still had the signage at her East York home more than 10 years after the megacity amalgamation battle.

Beaches-East York councillor Janet Davis.

“She didn’t hesitate to come down and tell politicians what she thought, and I think that was important.”

And she didn’t hesitate to tell anyone else either.

If companies addressed McCallum’s mail to Toronto, instead of East York, they were promptly directed to change the address, or lose her business. She refused to open mail addressed to her that read Toronto.

Until it had to be removed this past year due to old age, McCallum proudly displayed a large sign on her fence urging residents to save East York

by voting no to amalgamation.

She was a key player in many important battles, including saving the East York Civic Centre from closure when Toronto was looking to reduce its community centres.

Known as much for her photography and volunteerism as her advocacy, McCallum was East York’s “official” photographer for the last 20 years, documenting the community’s events and members.

“She was just such a warm and giving person, and the thing about her, the most amazing thing, was she did it all on her own expense,” said Prue.

“She refused, throughout those entire 20 years, to take a single penny, even for supplies. And you have to remember when she started out it was all film, and she would develop every single picture.

“And then she would take the pictures out that she liked, and she would get them blown up, and she would give them to individuals who she had taken the pictures of free of charge, and often times put them in frames as well, and all at her own expense,” he continued, admittedly holding back tears.

“All she said she ever wanted was for someone to smile and say thank you.”

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hen it comes time to decide on how we’re represented at city hall – specifically the size and number of wards in the city and how they’re divided – Toronto Council must be open to a variety of ideas.

Next week, there’s an Executive Committee report going to Toronto Council on a Ward Boundary Review for the city. Toronto, currently divided into 44 wards, last undertook such a review in 2000.

Since then, the wards’ make-ups and populations have changed. A city manager’s report to the executive committee notes “significant discrepancies among Toronto’s ward boundaries that warrant a review.”

According to the report, any adjustments undertaken would be in place for the 2018 municipal election. our view Mayor Rob Ford, meanwhile, has made his position clear. In his comments at the Executive Important Ford said he believes debate needs Committee, a 25-member council can do the Noting Toronto is expected to citizen input job. receive three more federal ridings (bringing the total to 25), Ford said it’s an opportune time to consider reducing Toronto Council’s ward allotment from two wards per riding to one.

“At the rate we’re going we’re going to have 50 councillors,” Ford warned. “And you see the problems we have with 44 councillors.”

There’s no denying the current 45-member size of council (44 councillors plus a mayor) can be unwieldy at times. There is merit to Ford’s argument. But it’s early in the process. We need to hear many voices.

Toronto Council will do Torontonians a disservice if it restricts itself – without considering any other factors – when defining new ward boundaries. Doing so may discount a more creative solution – one that gives a more effective voice to Torontonians – before it can be even explored. Figuring out what’s best for a diverse, multicultural city and its 140 neighbourhoods will be more complicated than shoehorning them into some cookie-cutter solution.

For Torontonians, this is not only about your representation at city hall. This is about how your neighbourhood fits into the city. This is an important debate that needs your input.

As the process moves along, we urge citizens to take advantage of the “broad engagement and public consultation process” referenced in the report.

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Donna-Lynn McCallum – East York’s daughter

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his week I attended the funeral of a person who did not just represented the community but carried its heart and soul.

That was Donna-Lynn McCallum who passed away at 9 p.m. on May 29, far too early in life as far as her friends were concerned.

Donna was born on Sept.

6 1944 to the late John and Edna McCallum and grew up in East York, attending Monarch Park School and then East York Collegiate.

She was active in the Brownies as a youngster and loved music and singing, which she would often do at weddings and funerals.

She spent her working life with the tax department of the federal government until her forced retirement at age 55 at which time her mother also passed away.

It was at that point that she felt that her life had no further purpose and she realized that the thing that

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she cared for most was her community.

So she went to then mayor Michael Prue and asked if there was anything useful that she could do that she could contribute to her community. Prue asked Donna what she liked to do to which she answered photography.

As the Borough of East York’s official photographer had recently passed away, Prue passed the position on to Donna.

She took it on with an attitude of pure professionalism.

From that moment on, Donna attended every single East York event and documented them using professional equipment and techniques.

As a result of Donna’s efforts, we have a legacy of a detailed photographic

record of the borough’s history of its last days before its forced amalgamation.

This includes the antiamalgamation protests and the period after.

The demise of the borough did not bring about the end of Donna’s photographic connection to Michael Prue, nor to East York.

She continued to document politicians, events, personalities, and locations; all of which have been collected and cataloged.

On a personal note, she was also a friend of mine, who would often call with comments on my column, particularly when she felt it wasn’t supportive enough of East York.

I’d often come home and find my answering machine full because she certainly knew how to hold an opinion and could out do me with a point of view anytime.

We would disagree at times and agree at others

on different topics, but both agreed that amalgamation was a disaster for East York.

She out did me in attending council meetings and speaking out on issues directly to politicians.

Her name lives on in the official records at the municipal, provincial and federal levels on many different topics, showing democracy in action.

Rightfully she received many awards for her contributions to the community.

She certainly left an example as to how to be a good citizen and now its up to us to keep her memory alive by living up to that high standard.

Rest in peace, DonnaLynn; you’ll always be, in my opinion, East York’s greatest daughter.

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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Case made for airline’s We’re not all part of the same transit challenge expansion at island To the editor: I’m an aviation enthusiast and want to share my opinion on why Porter Airlines should be permitted to expand.

Why, you ask? It’s due to the fact that the CSeries jets which Porter is planning to purchase are the most environmentally friendly and quietest in their class.

They are even comparably quieter to the Bombardier Q400s that Porter is currently operating out of the airport right now.

Keep in mind that Porter is asking for an extension of the runway of only 168 metres on each end, which does not go beyond the marine exclusion zone.

Porter is also asking for an exemption of the “no jets allowed” regulation for only the CSeries jet. The airline is not asking for new noise restrictions, different flight paths, or alterations to the marine exclusion zone.

What many people fear is

that once Porter is allowed to expand, other (dirtier, and noisier) jets will be allowed to fly in and out of Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport, however, that won’t be the case.

The Toronto Port Authority (TPA), for over 30 years, has made it clear that only aircraft which comply with the TPA’s noise limits (such as Porter’s proposed CSeries aircraft) are allowed to be operated out of the airport.

My point? We need more competition for flights and lower fares, especially in Canada.

If Porter expands, more jobs will be created, and will further benefit Toronto’s economy.

Before we rush to deny Porter’s expansion, let’s all do the research and number crunching, and listen to everyone’s take on the matter.

Then, only then, do we make the final decision.

Albert Przylucki

To the editor: Re: ‘We’re all part of the same transit challenge,’ Editorial, May 30.

We are not “all part of the same transit challenge”. Those who made the effort to live near their work, who work from home or who can time their travel do not have the problem.

The problem is that too many people who chose short-term savings (low price and taxes) or a lifestyle that uses lots of land now want everyone to fund their transportation.

I rarely go more than 10 stops on the TTC but pay the same as someone who travels the length of the system. If the proposed

routes would solve the transportation problem, I could support them.

An examination of the Sheppard subway should quickly dissuade anyone

from believing the projections.

The original proposal projected annual riders of 20 million.

In 2009 to 2010, the TTC reports about 15 million people used it. The subway has several bus routes feeding it so most of the revenue is split.

The board of trade claims a cost of $5 billion a year in congestion costs.

Assuming we could cut that in half (impossible), we are going to spend $5 billion a year to save $2.5 billion (maybe) and add a huge subsidy to the city’s budget for public transit.

The proposed solution is not an investment – an investment is supposed

to have a positive return – it is an expense that will limit the city forever.

Most bus routes are subsidized near 50 per cent for each rider and the further out generally take a much larger subsidy.

The new routes will be no exception.

In regard to David Nickle’s The City column (Metrolinx shows leadership; unlike councillors,’ May 30) neither the board of trade nor Metrolinx people have to get elected.

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Toronto Zoo’s elephants deserve much better future To the editor: While we are basking in the pandas who are costing a great deal to keep at the Toronto Zoo, maybe we could give a thought to the

poor elephants.

They looked pathetic last year when I saw them.

I think we could do better than that. Who is being selfish to keep them from going.

I would like to hear that every animal lover in Toronto has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to approve a cargo plane to take the elephants to

where they need to go before they have to stand another summer here.

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Seven suspects sought after teens robbed Police are looking for seven males after three teenage males were swarmed and robbed near Blake Street and Strathcona Avenue early Saturday, June 1.

Police said the victims, ages 16 to 19, were robbed of cellphones, prescription glasses, keys and cash around 1:15 a.m.

The robbers fled south on Blake.

One suspect is black, 18 to 19 years old, 5’10” tall with a medium build. Police don’t have descriptions of the others.

Anyone with information can call police at 416-808-5500 or Crime Stoppers at 416222-TIPS (8477). robbery at pharmacy wAttempted

A man is being sought following an attempted robbery at a pharmacy Monday.

Police said the man entered Pharmasave at 1021 Kingston Rd. and produced a note that demanded prescription drugs around 2:55 p.m.

The man also indicated he was armed though no weapon was seen. Two female employees didn’t comply, and the suspect fled.

Neither employee was hurt.

The would-be robber is white, about 25 years old, 5’4” to 5’5” tall, 200 pounds with a heavy build.

People with information should call police at 416-808-5500 or Crime Stoppers at 416222-TIPS (8477). cycling strategy promised wProvincial

Ontario Transportation Minister Glen Murray has promised a revamped provincial cycling strategy by the end of summer in a bid to ensure cities across the province are more bike-friendly.

Murray served as keynote speaker at the Ontario Bike Summit on Wednesday, May 29 and spoke to a crowd of roughly 200 cyclists and cycling advocates of the importance of active transportation both for the health of residents and to help combat gridlock.

While Ontario has a cycling strategy, the

Minister said it is in need of an overhaul to make cycling a safer and more attractive transportation option. “When I became Minister a few months ago, I looked at (the existing plan) and thought we could do a lot better,” said the Toronto Centre MPP, adding he would like to see Ontario cities rank regularly among the world’s most progressive and bike friendly.

Murray, an avid cyclist himself, is in favour of an enforceable one-metre separation between cyclists and passing motorists, though he could not promise such a plan, noting it would need to gain the support of the Legislature.

The Legislature has voted down a similar proposal in the past. Nonetheless, Murray said the health and environmental benefits of cycling as a form of transportation make better bike infrastructure crucial. “We have to think of streets as a whole experience for everyone,” he said. “Let’s (encourage) people actually burning fat instead of burning fossil fuels.”

The Minister said the province’s Places to Grow plan outlining ideas for growth and development across the province must be strongly integrated with the Big Move transit plan.

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The Environmental Assessment The proposed study area for the EA is shown on the map below. Key components of an EA include consultation with government agencies, Aboriginal communities and interested persons; consideration and evaluation of alternatives; and the management of potential environmental effects. Conducting an EA promotes good environmental planning before decisions are made about a proposal.

Get Involved Your input into this important project is critical. The Project Team will be hosting a number of public forums, live webcasts, workshops and online opportunities for interested persons to participate in the EA planning process. We invite you to the first public forum where you can learn more about the project, the alternatives being considered and what other jurisdictions have done with elevated waterfront expressways. You will also be able to ask questions and speak directly with members of the project team, offer input and submit comments.

Gardiner Expressway East Public Meeting Thursday, June 13, 2013 6:00p.m. – 8:30p.m. (open house will begin at 6:00p.m. followed by presentations at 6:30p.m.)

Metro Toronto Convention Centre Room 701, South Building 222 Bremner Boulevard Please register for the event at: http://gardinerconsultation.eventbrite.com If you can’t attend the meeting in person, you can participate and watch the meeting online. Please join us at www.gardinereast.ca where you can learn about the project and contribute your insights, ideas, and views. For more information or to be added to the project mailing list, contact info@gardinereast.ca, or call (416) 479-0662.

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Date: June 14, 2013

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Location: East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Ave. For more information please call Louise at 416-645-6000 x5222 or llalonde@woodgreen.org

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Family Movie - Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted WHEN: 2 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Danforth/Coxwell Branch Toronto Public Library, 1675 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7783 COST: Free Their journey takes them through Europe where they find the perfect cover: a travelling circus. PG-93 min.

Teen Night @ the Movies WHEN: 5 to 7 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Dr. CONTACT: 416-396-3975 COST: Free Agent J travels in time to M.I.B.’s early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history. Ages: 13-19.

Rated: PG - 106 mins.

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Withrow Park Farmers’ Market WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Withrow Park - north-east end, 725 Logan Ave. CONTACT: http://www. withrowpark.ca COST: Free Seasonal local produce, prepared foods, and special market guests.

Bring an old cookbook in good condition for the Cookbook Swap, some clothing to mend at the Repairathon, or a bike that needs some free TLC.

Toronto Cat Rescue Adopt-a-thon WHEN: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Wag on the Danforth, 1918 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: 416-5388592 COST: Adoption fee $100 cats over 6 months; $175 for kittens under 6 months; $250 for a pair of kittens under 6 months.

The fee also includes 6 weeks of free pet insurance.

Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.east yorkmirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your East York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto.

Street Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Monarch Park, 115 Felstead Ave. CONTACT: jimb.farrell@yahoo.ca COST: Free Two blocks of Monarch Park, south of the Danforth (rain date Sunday June 9).

Victoria Park School Fun Fair WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Victoria Park Elementary School, 145 Tiago Ave. CONTACT: teresamathews1974@hotmail.com COST: Free Bouncy castles, inflatable obstacle course, face painting and more. Rain or shine.

Trip to the Highland Games in Georgetown!

WHEN: 10 a.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-425-3070 COST: $20 bus plus park entry fee Highland dancing, pipes and drums, athletic competitions and more.

Fun Fair at Secord Public School WHEN: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Secord Elementary School, 101 Barrington Ave. E. CONTACT: secordfundraisingteam@gmail.com COST: Free Auction, games, prizes, bake sale, pizza, popcorn, cotton candy, bouncy castle, face painting, flea market and

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Thursday Night Ride with Ward 29 Bikes: To the Beach we go WHEN: 6:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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Jammers WHEN: 8 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 11, 9 Dawes Rd. CONTACT: J. Haden, 416-264-6466, bjhaden@rogers.com COST: Free Friday night jam session.

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Yard Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to Noon WHERE: Withrow Park, 725 Logan Ave., Northeast corner of the park CONTACT: Frankland Community Centre COST: Free Rain or shine.

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Summer Sizzle On The Green WHEN: 5 to 8 p.m. WHERE: St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church - Leaside, 1399 Bayview Ave. CONTACT: Colleen Connachan-Hasserjian, 647-8995971 COST: Adults $30; ages 6 to14 $10, children aged 6 and under free Fundraiser for St. Cuthbert’s Church features Southern food, entertainment and cash bar. Tickets available at St. Cuthbert’s, please call 416-4850329.

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Nellie’s shelter marks 40 years, begins fundraising campaign Rebecca field rfield@insidetoronto.com Hidden in the neighbourhood surrounding Broadview Avenue is a 136-year-old Victorian home with 36 beds.

The house fits into the neighbourhood inconspicuously, but its windows shield the interior with bulletproof glass.

Inside, women are living sheltered from violence, poverty and homelessness.

Opening in 1973, Nellie’s women’s shelter has reached its 40th year with no signs of being less of a necessity in the Toronto community – they housed 122 women and 22 children last year alone.

“For us, anniversaries are a little bit different in that it’s not always a celebration so to speak,” said Wendy SungAad, development manager at Nellie’s.

“When the founders of Nellie’s established this women’s shelter, they prob-

ably never imagined that 40 years later it would still be needed.”

The shelter only had 16 beds when it opened, at a time when there were only 40 beds for women in the City of Toronto yet more than 400 for men.

Four decades later, the shelter not only provides housing, but helps women with legal aid, counselling, and transitioning into more permanent housing.

Last year, Nellie’s served 40,000 meals, answered 2,000 crisis calls, and created around 300 safety plans for women to escape their situations without harm.

“There are not a lot of permanent homes out there that people can afford,” Sung-Aad said. “The length of stay at shelters has really increased.”

Sung-Aad attributes longer stays to the near-elimination of second-stage housing in Toronto.

Most women stay at the

shelter for approximately four months, but some with unique circumstances stay up to nine months.

“Shelters aren’t a place that are meant for women to stay long term,” said SungAad, who noted the shelter has several housing support workers who try to locate housing for the women.

“If they don’t, women are left cycling around in the shelter system, or they’re forced to go back to abusive situations, or worse, they just end up homeless on the streets.”

Nellie’s is run entirely by women. The shelter was the first in the city to offer a home for the homeless as well as abused women.

Nellie’s is campaigning to improve the lives of women with a new shelter project, and a goal to raise between $3- and $5-million for a new home.

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For more info on Nellie’s and its fundraising campaing, please visit www.nellies.org

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oronto’s City Council recently voted, by a wide margin, not to allow a casino in Toronto. We can take down our lawn signs. We can celebrate, at least for now, this local victory.

As I went door to door over this past year I could tell the depth of feeling that our community had on this issue. There were quite a few who opposed the casino but told me it was a done deal, that the wellconnected types had made a decision and we were going to have to put up with it.

Well, it seems that the well-connected don’t always get their way.

Thank you for putting up a lawn sign, or contacting your councillor or the mayor, or going to a meeting.

It’s because so many in our community took the trouble to participate, to express their opinions, that council made the right decision.

Councillors Mary Fragedakis and Paula Fletcher worked hard to stop the casino. They were leaders on council and in the community. Hundreds of others — volunteers — went door to door, talked to their neighbours, and came out to public meetings. You all deserve our thanks.

Although a few councillors might say they voted against a casino because the province would not guarantee enough money for city coffers, I am sure councillors voted against the casino for the same reasons so many in our community opposed it.

Casinos do not reinvest in local communities. Most of the profits end up with outside investors. Casinos do not attract more tourism. In fact, they drain money from existing local businesses and attractions.

Casinos do contribute to crime as they are hot spots for money laundering. Studies also show they contribute to an increase in alcohol-related crime.

In the short term a casino could mean more tax revenue, but the social costs would soon outweigh this.

While we were successful in stopping a casino in Toronto, the Liberal government is still pushing for casinos in the rest of Ontario. They’re still working on privatizing gambling. And, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation still plans to close slots at racetracks, which will cut up to 60,000 jobs in what used to be Ontario’s excellent horse racing and breeding industry.

This fight about casinos is over, for now. What continues is the broader, province-wide discussion on this vast expansion of privatized gambling.

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on PearsonUnion air link wMeetings More public meetings are planned by Metrolinx on the progress of future electrification of the Union Pearson Express air rail link.

Both the provincial transit planning agency and the Ministry of Transportation have pledged to convert the link running along the GO Kitchener rail corridor from diesel to electric, but only after the express service between Pearson International Airport and Union Station is completed in 2015.

While no confirmation has been given for a completion date for the conversion, Metrolinx has indicated it would like to electrify by 2017 and is conducting an environmental assessment to be completed next year.

Four meetings are planned to update residents on the EA and address concerns about the controversial project. w Monday, June 10 at Metro Hall, Room 314, 55 John St., 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. w Tuesday, June 11, Mimico Presbyterian Church, 119 Mimico Ave., Etobicoke, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT For more info on the meetings, please visit www. metrolinx.ca Twitter weighs in on transit funding Mayor Rob Ford’s Twitter account, @TOMayorFord, which usually posts innocuous announcements about city initiatives, took a decidedly political tone last week when several tweets were posted taking shots at taxes and fees proposed by Metrolinx to improve transit.

“I don’t suppor t the Province’s @Metrolinx plan to slap new taxes onto the backs of hard working families,” stated one of the tweets.

Another tweet was directed at the premier: “Until @Kathleen_ Wynne exhausts every avenue I will not support new taxes on residents, who are telling me they can’t afford it.”

The mayor’s sentiments echo a recent poll taken by Forum Research that shows a majority of Ontarians don’t support raising taxes to benefit

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transit transit. Metrolinx has said the charges are necessary to build the Big Move plan, which will need $2 billion in funding to complete. on City transit announced wconsultations

At a public meeting in Riverside last week, the city’s chief planner announced a second phase of public transit consultations.

Speaking at the Ralph Thornton Centre where she was a panelist for a transit discussion, planner Jennifer Keesmaat said the next phase of the Feeling Congested? public campaign would focus on specific transit project priorities for the city.

The first meeting is today from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at St. George Subway Station (at St. George Street entrance, on east side of St. George Street just north of Bloor Street West).

For more information on the dates of upcoming meetings, visit www.feelingcongested.ca Rahul Gupta is The Mirror’s transit reporter. His column runs every Tuesday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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e news media are stalkers these days at city hall.

We perch outside Mayor Rob Ford’s office, waiting for his noon-hour arrival to demand to know about allegations of smoking crack, cover-ups and staffing changes.

Early on in the multiweek stakeout, a woman passing through City Hall called a group of us “vultures.” A few days later, the mayor apologized for calling us “maggots.”

Can’t say we weren’t told where we stand at city hall these days.

In truth, since the story broke of the possible video of the mayor allegedly smoking crack cocaine, the media has mostly been standing in the hall outside the mayor’s office.

In refusing to answer the pertinent questions in this story, the mayor has all but invited us in. And we’ve tried to be good house guests.

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david nickle the city this short-term standoff with the mayor’s office could warp accountability and accessibility at City Hall for years to come.

Absent his press secretary and communications staff, Ford has taken to seconding city hall security staff to escort him between his parking garage and office doors.

Security has meanwhile made a space to the rear of the mayor’s office, inside the councillors’ secure area, inaccessible to news media who are accredited to enter the space.

There’s nothing illegal in doing this; indeed, the press gallery (and full disclosure: I’m serving as president of the gallery) had lost a battle in negotiating new council-approved security access rules, requiring reporters not to linger in the councillors’ common

office area.

But the enforcement of the policy is new, and the purpose of that enforcement can only be to allow the mayor and his staff to continue to evade embarrassing questions from reporters — in this case, on a matter of city-wide interest.

This is not a new problem, or one endemic to the Ford administration.

The city’s security team along with a number of politicians have been looking for ways to restrict and even remove media access to councillors’ office areas since former mayor David Miller administration.

Some councillors were very keen on such a move — often because reporters would, when a politician got into hot water, show up at their office doors with cameras in hand to ask hard questions.

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Lower-than-expected energy prices and higher-than-predicted revenues from parking, land transfer and investments mean the city has about $248 million more than its finance staff expected when Toronto council set its 2013 budget.

Today, Toronto’s budget committee will be looking at the Operating Variance Report for 2012. The report is the penultimate word on the health of the city’s books – finance staff still have to complete the audit of the 2012 financial statement.

But for now, at least, the news is good.

Toronto has about $248 million in unanticipated revenues and savings from 2012. That comes from a variety of sources.

The mild winter and a slightly lower Ontario Works caseload, as well as vacancies in the civil service that went unfilled saved $65 million by the end of year.

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Toronto police, meanwhile, underspent by about $15 million.

Other savings There were other savings.

The city underspent by about $182 million, and revenues from the Municipal Land Transfer Tax and the Third Party Sign taxes were higher than anticipated as well.

And the city’s investments also did better than expected.

Once the city had allocated nearly $60 million to comply with various legislative requirements, the $248 million surplus remains. Staff are recommending it be allocated to capital financing reserves and other reserves.

Parkdale-High Park Councillor Gord Perks called the variance a product mainly of good fortune.

“This is not a result of a deliberate plan, this is having a really good year on the revenue side,” he said. “Frankly, we should be putting more money away for an operating tax savings account.”

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The Pocket neighbourhood street sale ON THE STREET: Above, Carla Fisher holds a geranium, muffin and coffee bought at The Pocket neighbourhood community street sale on Saturday to benefit the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation. At left, Alison Rogers looks through items at the sale. Some residents donated a portion of their sales to help the foundation. The national garage sale raised $364,000 with 155 sales taking place across Canada.

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