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Deal with school crowding, MPP tells province TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com East York’s overcrowded and decaying classrooms are a critical situation that must be addressed, Beaches-East York MPP Michael Prue told education minister Liz Sandals this week at Queen’s Park.

Prue called on Sandals to fix the problem during question period on Tuesday.

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raccoon-infested portables,” he said. “Why is the government compromising the health and safety of children in these schools by refusing to provide capital funding for these essential repairs that were in last year’s provincial budget?”

Parents from Secord, Parkside, George Webster, Crescent Town and D.A. Morrison have been fighting for funding for the schools, worried how the current conditions are affecting students’ health and ability to learn. >>> PARENTS, page 7

Riverdale health forum slated Riverdale residents are invited to learn how community involvement can improve personal health during a community forum and discussion this evening.

At the event, guest speakers will share how becoming active in their communities helped their health and well-being.

Speakers include Plain Language Group’s Elsie Petch, as well as representatives of environmental initiatives, the health and strength action group and the health centre’s membership and outreach committee.

As part of the event, residents will learn about opportunities to become more active in their own

communities, including joining the South Riverdale Community Health Centre’s board of directors.

The meeting takes place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. this evening at the centre, 955 Queen St. E. Admission is free, including light refreshments, as well as free child care by advance request.

Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting, which is fully accessible.

For more on this evening’s meeting, call Susan Bender at 416-4611925 ext. 353.

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For more on the South Riverdale Community Health Centre and its programs, visit www.srch.ca

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Man punched during robbery

A 31-year-old was punched unconscious and robbed during at attack in the Danforth and Pape avenues area.

Police said the victim was in the area at about 11:30 p.m. last Friday when he was approached by a man who pushed him to the ground and demanded his wallet and cell phone. The victim refused and the suspect punched him into unconsciousness and took the items.

The victim was injured but refused medical attention.

The suspect is described as black, age 20, five-feet, nine inches tall, weighing between 165 to 176 pounds, with short black hair.

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Police search Jones and Danforth home Toronto police searched a residence in the Danforth and Jones avenue area recently after the seizure of a gun and arrest of man at Billy Bishop Airport recently.

As a result of that arrest, police searched a Danforth and Jones residence where drugs including cocaine, were seized, as was ammunition and a taser. A man faces 27 charges in connection with the incident.

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Bike-riding suspects sought in robbery Two bicycle-riding suspects are sought after a 42-yearold man was robbed in the Westwood and Burley avenues area.

The victim was approached from behind by the suspects at about 9:25 a.m. last Friday.

The victim was struck on the back of the head and robbed.

The victim was not injured.

There is no description of the suspects.

Anyone with information on these or other crimes is asked to call Toronto police at 416808-5500, or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-8477.

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Pop-up shops revitalize Danforth Local community association helps bring new life to empty storefronts Tara Hatherly thatherly@insidetoronto.com The Danforth East Community Association’s pop-up shops are breathing new life into storefronts and businesses.

After just three months of operation, the pop-up shops initiative has rented out two empty stores, and helped two businesses rent two other spaces on the Danforth.

Four empty stores have been filled permanently, and more shops are popping up.

Pop-up shops are a collaborative effort where landlords with vacant stores lend their unused space to temporary tenants looking to grow small businesses. In exchange, landlords get work such as cleaning and painting done free of charge by DECA volunteers, while also getting free advertising to help rent their spaces permanently.

As well as help landlords rent space, and revitalize the commercial strip, the initiative gives small business owners a chance to try their hand at running a storefront.

A Scarborough couple is currently taking advantage of that chance, with their business Fa.real, which makes personal and bulk-order

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Tracey and Allister Thomas are the owners of Fa.real, a T-shirt business that is taking advantage of the Danforth East Community Association’s Pop-Up Shop program.

custom T-shirts, along with their own brand of street wear designs.

Run by Allister and Tracey Thomas, the home business has long been ready to break into a storefront, but hindered by the high cost of doing so.

“This opportunity is the vehicle that we needed to really give this a shot,” said Tracey.

“When you’re a small business from home, trying to transition into being a storefront, generally it’s very hard to do if you don’t have a lot of capital upfront. Because like anybody who goes in to rent a store, they have to pay down a chunk of money, whereas with DECA, we had very little to pay, and it’s giving us the opportunity to build

the business, build visibility and let more people know about us.”

For a month in a storefront, businesses pay just $250, which covers electricity costs, with a small percentage used to market the pop-up shops.

“I’d really, really like to give credit to DECA for this, because honestly if it wasn’t

for them, we wouldn’t have been able to give this a try,” Allister said, giving credit to real estate agent John Cassan as well, who worked with DECA to share the storefront Fa.real uses at 1900 Danforth Ave. DECA is always looking for new landlords and businesses to get involved with the project, which benefits the community as well.

“Empty storefronts breed more empty storefronts, a cracked window breeds more cracked windows, a street that looks abandoned or spaces that look abandoned breeds more spaces that look abandoned,” said DECA member Natasha Granatstein.

Fa.real has garnered lots of attention since opening on the Danforth, with many residents excited about ordering custom designs by Allister, a professional artist and graphic designer.

While many custom T-shirt businesses are limited to using text and pre-designed graphics, Allister works with clients to create personal designs for any occasion, and event T-shirts, team jerseys and more.

For more information on DECA, visit www.danfortheastcommunityassociation. com. For more on Fa.real, visit www.fareal.com

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Centennial president donates $150,000 to college To kick-off Centennial College’s upcoming fundraising campaign, college president Ann Buller has donated $150,000 to the college.

The donation will support the college’s bursary program, to help students in financial need access post-secondary education, while also aiding

with expansion plans to bring more students and programs to Centennial.

Since 2004, Buller has ser ved as president of Centennial, Ontario’s first community college.

“I’m delighted to be able to grant these funds to this life-changing institution.

Many of the people who have witnessed transformations in the students who pursue an education with us are inspired to do the same,” Buller said.

“I am very proud to be counted among the many faculty and staff who donate generously to this institution.

Centennial has a long tradi-

tion of helping individuals access education to overcome socio-economic barriers.”

Buller is a strong supporter of the college. As well as contributing annually to the school through its golf tournament, she has established three scholarships – The David and Isabel Buller

Scholarship, The Lesley Russell Scholarship and The Ann Buller Aboriginal Entrance Scholarship.

For more information on Centennial College, which has campuses in East York and Scarborough, visit www.centennialcollege.ca

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he city’s Chief Planner, Jennifer Keesmaat, hosted the first in a series of roundtables Feb. 26 where residents could speak to her, and 12 city building experts, about the city’s future.

What a brilliant idea, especially when City Hall often feels like a place where residents are not heard.

The city is facing many challenges – chief among them, transit. However, there are many others on the horizon as we move toward building a truly worldclass city with an ever-increasing population. Those very challenges should be seen as great opportunities, and Keesmaat’s roundtables will, hopefully, help harness them.

The first roundtable discussed the concept of designing and creating public spaces, in the hope of enhancing the public realm. The roundtable discussed partnerships between the city and its agencies, private developers, and BIAs. On Tuesday, the topic was ‘The Resilient City’ – a discusour view sion on how to achieve a vibrant, and resilient city. As things More locations strong change – demographics, enviwell worth the ronment degradation, income, access to healthy food, infraadditional cost structure, etc. – how does a city stay resilient?

But all praise aside, there is a glaring issue: these roundtables take place at City Hall between 9 a.m. and noon – which limits this process from the get-go. Most people work during those hours. If the city is truly interested in public engagement, the roundtables should be open to more Torontonians by having one session during the day, another one at night – and perhaps across the city.

It is this point that is most important when considering the April 2 topic: ‘The Next Generation Suburbs’. Discussing the suburbs during the day at City Hall seems short-sighted. And, the idea of calling anywhere other than the old city of Toronto a ‘suburb’ also breeds a disconnect across the city. It definitely doesn’t ‘build’ a common direction.

Every neighbourhood has its own unique needs.

The needs of East York are not the same as south Etobicoke or northeastScarborough. They are definitely not the same as those of downtown Toronto.

We realize opening the roundtables may be more costly, but this is a cost well worth absorbing in order to engage the entire city – especially if the promise of these roundtables is to produce, according to the city’s website, a “series of actions that will identify immediate steps and set the stage for future initiatives.” newsroom

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Remembering SARS, Dr. Sheela Basrur

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his week many people are reminded that it is the 10th anniversary of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak that threatened the City of Toronto.

It was a period of confusion and conflicting priorities where more concern was made of the economic impact of the disease than the impact upon people.

However, one person who acted as a guiding light of leadership during that medical crisis was Dr. Sheela Basrur.

For her efforts during the SARS outbreak and her contributions to public health in general, she was awarded the Order of Ontario for her outstanding contributions to the field of public health in this province.

She was also the head of East York’s public health department before becoming the head of the department for the new City of

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Toronto after amalgamation. Born in Toronto in 1956 to Indian immigrants Pari and Dr. Vasanth Basrur, she received her doctor of medicine from the University of Toronto in 1982.

After spending a year in Nepal and India in the mid-1980s, she became interested in public health as a career, and obtained a masters of Health Sciences degree in 1987. It was during the 1990s that Dr. Basrur began her practice in her field in the capacity of East York’s Medical Officer of Health.

The former borough was an ideal environment for Dr. Basrur to develop her skill and competence due to the community’s diverse multi-cultural population.

Dr. Basrur’s background

provided her with an unique perspective on the complexity that health issues can take on in a large urban community, particularly when mixed with the varying attitudes towards health found in different cultures.

With East York’s amalgamation into the new City of Toronto in 1998, our local health office was dissolved, along with Dr. Basrur’s position.

However, due to the strong reputation she had developed through her work in our community, and recommendations provided by former mayor Micheal Prue and others, she became the Medical Officer of Toronto.

This was a significant undertaking, as she became the head of one of the largest public health bodies in North America, with a staff of 1,800 in 30 offices, with a budget of $160 million.

It was during the SARS outbreak of 2003 that the

full measure of her skill and ability came forward as she became the voice of reason for a nervous population during a true medical crisis.

The community of East York can take pride in having been able to provide Dr. Basrur with a career opportunity that laid the foundation for her future achievements.

Her former colleagues from the East York civil service and municipal council recently offered her our collective thanks for all she did for the former borough by awarding her one of the last East York “Bulldogs”.

Sadly, she passed away, in 2008, from cancer During this time of reflection on the SARS outbreak it would be only fitting to remember Dr. Basur’s contributions as well.

Joe Cooper is a longtime East York resident and community activist. His column appears every Thursday in The Mirror. He can be reached at eym@insidetoronto.com

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Layton, Chow docudrama packs an emotional punch I n a few days, those of us so inclined will have an opportunity to relive the summer of 2011 — when Jack Layton, the first New Democrat federal Opposition leader and almost prototypical progressive Toronto politician, succumbed to cancer.

It was emotionally wrenching then; and watching the new telefilm Jack, it is nearly as wrenching now.

Sunny picture The film, which was screened for the family, supporters and some media earlier this week, airs Sunday night on CBC. Jack is far from perfect.

It paints an at-points absurdly sunny picture of the very political life that Jack Layton and Olivia Chow led together, and for a biopic offers frustratingly few clues about the things that contributed to Layton’s politics and his political drive.

As my companion at the screening pointed out, there’s no “rosebud” moment in Jack.

With that said: The telefilm packs an emotional punch.

Much of that can be credited to the eerily-

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by Rick Roberts as Layton, and Sook-Yin Lee as Olivia Chow.

For those of us who’ve spent time with Layton and Chow, watching the couple’s last months and earlier days re-enacted so uncannily on screen is extraordinarily and unexpectedly moving.

It will be curious to see how the film is received by viewers outside the bubble of Toronto, and national politics.

Because like it or not — Jack is more than a film about a politician.

Rallying call Coming less than two years after Layton’s death, when Layton’s successor Thomas Mulcair is aiming to be prime minister in 2015, and Olivia Chow is likely considering a run for mayor in Toronto a year earlier, Jack is something of a rallying call for progressively-inclined voters.

This, of course, is an extension of what Layton clearly intended when he handed off his death-bed

letter to Chow, and the rest of the country, with that stirring call toward optimism and love and kindness.

It is also an extension of his detailed instructions, delivered earlier in that same letter, telling his party how best to mobilize in the months following his death.

Layton was a politician to the core — even in his final moments.

Idealism It’s tempting to be cynical on that basis and dismiss Jack as nothing more than an exercise in publicly-funded NDP propaganda.

It would be easier to do that if the sometimes hokey idealism depicted in the film weren’t so accurate a reflection of how it manifested in the real lives of Layton and Chow; if the story of a generally decent, earnest and publiclymotivated political couple who finally won and then lost again, weren’t the story we’d all lived through just two years past.

David Nickle is The Mirror’s city hall reporter. His column appears every Thursday.

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Mayor has right to pick executive committee To the editor: Regarding Councillor Adam Vaughan not getting a seat on the mayor’s executive committee.

I see no reason what-soever for the mayor to place anyone on the executive committee who does not fully support him. That would be akin to Prime Minister Stephen Harper or Premier Kathleen Wynne placing a New Democrat in their cabinets.

The fact not a single councillor from Toronto-East York Community Council sits or has sat on the executive committee since 2010 confirms my reference to provincial and federal cabinets.

Out of 12 councillors representing those wards, only Mary Fragedakis might have an outside chance of being considered.

The other 11 councillors all proudly claim leftist roots.

Why would any politician surround themselves with the enemy?

Mayor Rob Ford has already swallowed the bitter pill through Karen Stintz that it is not always a good idea to keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.

It is just too bad that there are so few conservatives on council from which Ford can select from.

But, that is par for the course as it is usually the

people who are “socially engaged” that run for any political office, eventually.

Ford needs to surround himself with people who believe in his mandate and who are stricter conservatives than he is.

In that way, he may even be able to take on the appearance of being “inclusive” by comparison.

Toronto is spending annually a billion dollars more than it actually needs to run and manage this city, simply due to the leftist agendas of the past 15 years. What Ford does not need is someone on his executive that loves to spend public money.

Clifford J. Layne

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Income Tax Clinic WHEN: 1:30 to 4 p.m. WHERE: WoodGreen Community Services Danforth, 815 Danforth Ave., Suite 100 CONTACT: 416-645-6000, volunteer@woodgreen.org COST: Free WoodGreen Volunteer Services holds its annual clinic for marginalized communities on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays until April 27 at the Danforth location.

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Parents frustrated by finger-pointing >>>from page 1 “I am happy Michael Prue raised the issue of facility conditions — at Queen’s Park today — and that the provincial government was made aware of the urgent situation,” said Peter Saros, a representative of the parents’ group, and co-chair of Secord Public School’s parent council, in an interview with The East York Mirror on Tuesday.

Ignored too long “These East York schools have been ignored too long, and the province needs to release funds to restore facility equity.”

Parents watched in frustration as $70 million in previously approved funding for the schools was frozen, while funding announcements for renovations and additions at other Toronto schools continue.

Equally frustrating for parents has been that the TDSB says the lack of funding is a provincial issue, while the province maintains it is a

board issue.

“What is most frustrating is minister Sandal’s comments that TDSB mismanagement is the reason capital funding for essential repairs and construction at Secord, D.A. Morrison, and George Webster, which also affects the Parkside and Crescent Town communities, has been frozen,” Saros said.

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the minister is seeking to shift the blame to the Toronto District School Board, and I am not sure that’s where it is, because the ministry officials, in last year’s budget, were very, very clear that the money was available and was needed by the Toronto District School Board, particularly in these underserviced schools,” Prue said.

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“This useless finger pointing between the TDSB and province is leaving 800 children without FUTURE SHOP CORRECTION NOTICE adequate facilities to NEWSPAPER RETRACTION FOR THE FUTURE SHOP learn and enjoy school.

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TTC wins award for Victoria Park reno The TTC announced it has received the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ 2013 Sustainable Communities Award for its eco-friendly renovation work at Victoria Park station, which was completed in 2011.

The station now has a new bus bay, a green roof and more windows creating opportunities for natural lighting.

Chair Karen Stintz accepted the award at the TTC’s board meeting last week.

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Posted last week, the survey received almost 150 responses in the first two days, with 93 per cent of respondents in support of the idea, and some raising concerns about traffic and parking.

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CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM AT HOSPITAL Toronto East General Hospital will launch its East Toronto Mobile Crisis Intervention Team (MCIT) with a special event this afternoon.

The MCIT will help connect east Toronto residents experiencing a mental health crisis to the appropriate place for help in the community.

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HOME RENOVATIONS he Handy C uple Plumbing / Electrical / Carpentry / Ceramic Tiling Painting (int. & ext.) / Drywall / Windows & Doors Bathrooms • Kitchens • Basements • Complete Renovations And All Home Repairs No job too BIG, no job too SMALL. Weare the Handy Couple, we do it ALL! Reasonable Rates... Free Estimates CALL JOANNE 416-714-0740 • joanritchie@live.com

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