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Clinic’s focus on health, not marijuana TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com New Age Medical Clinic aims to bring back an old-fashioned style of health care and help people fight drug addiction, not sell marijuana, says its owner.

Though he’s open to selling medical marijuana from the new clinic if Health Canada allows it, Sam Mellace said the issue has no bearing on the

operation of his facility.

“This clinic has been under construction for two years. ...

We did not open a clinic based on the fact that doctors can dispense,” Mellace said. “We had no idea that Health Canada was going to potentially allow doctors to dispense.”

Health Canada is considering shifting distribution of medical marijuana to commercial operations. Mellace, a

well-known medical marijuana activist and grower, stressed the change is just a consideration at this point.

While media are pegging New Age Medical Clinic as Canada’s first commercial medical marijuana dispensary, for all he knows, he might never be able to sell marijuana from the facility, Mellace said.

“Everybody, all the newspaper people and everybody,

started hitting up on medical marijuana. I guess because of who I am,” he said. “We didn’t have an intent to distribute marijuana from here at all. ...

Whether we can dispense out of here or not, it doesn’t matter to us.”

Once up and running, the clinic will provide services Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mellace said he >>>NEW, page 6

East York Rotary hosts Lobsterfest fundraiser TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com Enjoy a taste of the ocean for a good cause at the Rotary Club of East York’s seventh annual Lobsterfest next Friday, April 5.

Lobsterfest organizers promise some of the East Coast’s biggest and most succulent lobsters at the event, which also features steak and vegetarian dinner options.

Along with the food, the evening offers a chance to dance the night away to live music by Playback. The Toronto group, back at the event by popular demand, will play hit songs by The Beatles, Elvis and other popular music makers from the 1950s,’60s and ’70s.

A 50-50 draw and short auction of Toronto Blue Jays merchandise will add more fun to the event, along with more funds to support local initiatives and organizations.

“Proceeds from this event enable us to fund local charities such as the Children’s Breakfast Program, WoodGreen Community Services and The East General Hospital,” said Dave Pyette, incoming East York Rotary president.

“We also support a literacy program in Guatemala, and the End Polio Now campaign, >>>ROTARY, page 18

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Celebrating Greek National Independence on the Danforth WAVING THE FLAGS: At right, Raphael Alexopoulos, 4, and his sister Eva, 2, walk in the annual Greek Community of Toronto’s Greek National Independence Parade Sunday along Danforth Avenue. At right, centre, Blake Akouris walks in the parade. At bottom right, participants show their Greek national pride.

At bottom centre, Nick Douzenis carries his son Angelo, 2, at the event, which takes place each year on Danforth Avenue. At bottom left, Stelios Plaitos takes part in the parade. Below, massive Greek flag is carried along the Danforth during the parade.

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Clarity needed on rooming houses

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enants in many Toronto rooming houses are living in unsafe conditions due to crowding, poorly built rooms made with materials that don’t meet fire codes, lack of security and lack of smoke alarms.

In some cases, tenants are at the mercy of unlicensed operators, and nearby residents also face risks associated with illegal rooming houses in their neighbourhoods.

Toronto is in a limbo of pre-amalgamation rules in which rooming houses are legal in some parts of the city and banned in others. It’s been 15 years since the megacity was formed.

Presently, there are 351 rooming houses that are legal or with a licence application. Estimates suggest hundreds of illegal rooming houses are operating in the city.

Not all are a bad idea. For instance, students depend on these houses – legal our view or not – around post-secondary campuses in Toronto. Many have good experience. But there are Fair, consistent athose who offer substandard rooms with substandard safety. approach This needs to be addressed. required Council has had more than enough time to come up with rules that can be applied fairly and consistently.

As of now, rooming houses are illegal in all of Scarborough, East York and North York. They are legal in the old City of Toronto and are allowed in limited parts of Etobicoke and York. To learn about rooming house issues in your community, see our special report on page 6. Stories from the situation across the city appear at www.insidetoronto.com With such inconsistent rules, it’s no surprise illegal rooming houses are sprouting up, especially in areas surrounding universities and colleges.

Making rooming houses legal across the city does not mean they will be allowed in every neighbourhood. Designating where they can and cannot be located will be a key part of the law. They should be allowed on main roads, and areas that are already made up of multiple-unit buildings. They should not be allowed in single-family neighbourhoods.

Legal and licensed would also mandate safe living conditions for tenants.

Clear rules would also make it easier for the city to pursue illegal operators successfully in court. As it stands, it’s far too easy for someone who operates an illegal rooming house to plead ignorance of the laws, or even run a defence saying that if it’s legal in one part of Toronto they assumed it was legal everywhere.

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Volunteers help neighbourhood serve needs of community

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he quality of life found in a community is based on more than the homes, businesses and institutions found there. Often it is something that you cannot see or touch, but must be experienced in order to be properly understood.

A good example of this is volunteerism, something that the East York and Riverdale communities have excelled in.

Indeed the levels of volunteerism in East York have been noted as having been some of the highest in all of Canada.

I have highlighted many good organizations in our community in past columns that have achieved success through their volunteers.

Recently, I had the opportunity to meet with Neighbourhood Link Support Services, located at 3036 Danforth Ave. This organization provides a number of impor-

joe cooper watchdog tant community services through helping people gain employment, assisting seniors and providing support for new Canadians.

This is done through the assistance of more than 500 volunteers who provide different skills for the various programs. program One program that was focused upon during my visit was the weekly community dinner that provides a hot meal for up to 80 people.

In particular, I was introduced to Eugenio Marrelli who is the head cook and supervisor of the dinner.

Eugenio was born in Italy and came to live in East York as a child in 1958 when his family moved to Canada.

When I was introduced to him I found him to be a quiet gentleman with a warm smile that was open and welcoming.

This stood in stark contrast to his life story which included many dark periods of personal struggle and setbacks.

Today, he is a personal testimony to the fact that one can pull one’s self out the most dire of circumstances and become an important contributor to one’s community.

Now, every Thursday at 10 Gower St. you will find Eugenio and other volunteers working from one in the afternoon to 6:30 p.m. preparing, serving, and cleaning up.

All of the full-course meals are prepared from scratch, including soup, vegetables and fruit. This is an open meal that is available to anyone in the community who wishes to attend.

As a result one finds a wide array of people from

various walks of life and life circumstances attending.

Despite the hard work involved, Eugenio said, “It’s my favourite day of the week.”

The fact that he has been part if this for 15 years shows his commitment and how fulfilling the work is for him.

Neighbourhood Link does not take their valued volunteers for granted, and each year provides recognition for their contributions.

This includes nominations for Ontario Volunteer Service Award as well as a yearly appreciation party If you would like to get involved in volunteer work please contact Lorie Fairburn at 416-691-8466 or email at lfairburn@neighbourhoodlink.org Any amount of time, no matter how short or long, is appreciated.

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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Is mayor doing his job properly?

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oes Mayor Rob Ford have an alcohol addiction? It’s impossible to say. The only addiction that Mayor Ford has admitted to in his time as mayor is one of stress – eating ice cream late at night.

But whether he does or not, and whether he likes it or not, the mayor needs to face that other question.

The Toronto Star this week published a long article laying out the case that he just might have a drinking problem — and that it, or some other affliction, is affecting the performance of his job.

Garrison Ball The article quoted sources as saying he’d been asked to leave the Garrison Ball last month while there in his official capacity. It alleges that he got into trouble earlier at a Toronto nightclub. The story also said members of the mayor’s staff past and

david nickle the city present have been attempting over the past two years to get the mayor to seek help with his drinking. Six Garrison Ball committee members released a letter Tuesday saying they did not ask Ford to leave the ball.

‘Outright lie’ The mayor denied the story in its entirety, calling it “an outright lie.”

That’s his prerogative.

But Ford is on shaky ground when it comes to the question of alcohol.

In 2006, he was caught lying about having engaged in a drunken harangue with two out-of-town visitors at the Air Canada Centre.

During the 2010 election, he had to field questions about a driving-under-theinfluence charge in Florida, back in 1999.

And earlier in March, failed mayoralty candidate Sarah Thomson called out Ford for allegedly boorish behaviour at a party for the Canadian Jewish Public Affairs Committee.

Accompanying the accusations was a photograph of the mayor next to Thomson, looking disheveled and unwell. In that incident as well, it should be noted, the mayor denied everything.

Ultimately, though, the question is not for us: it’s a question for him and his family.

The question we’ve got is the same one that’s dogged us for the past few years: is Rob Ford fulfilling his role as mayor in a manner that Toronto needs and deserves?

And if he is not, can he make whatever changes are needed in his life so that he can fulfill that role?

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Subways are sensible solution to gridlock To the editor: The gridlock in Toronto is getting worse every year.

Our streets are plugged, which, by some estimates, is costing the local economy $6 billion a year. To add LRTs would be insane and only make things worse. The obvious answer is to build subways to take the load of above-ground roads. The subways that were built in the ’50s and ’60s have served us well and are still doing it now

and will do so it in future.

Subways will be paid by taxpayers – either federal, provincial or municipal - or a combination of these and the savings that removing gridlock will save. I don’t remember who paid the bills in the ’50s and ’60s, but maybe we should find out.

If LRTs are imposed they will increase the problem.

Decision-makers should come to their senses and look for long-term solutions.

I would prefer a regional plan that combines subways and GO trains that would serve Toronto and Hamilton region under one authority. So let’s get busy and produce a proposal that solves our public transport problem for once and all.

All large cities have regional public transport systems and all of them have subways, which have served them well.

S. Suurmann

Sidewalk snowplowing a waste of money To the editor: Like so many others, a piece of our sidewalk is uneven and requires fixing with tar occasionally.

This year it was badly in need of repair and the city waited until November to fix

it. Guess what happened two months later? You guessed it - the sidewalk plow came along and destroyed it, leaving clumps of tar all over the lawn, sidewalk and driveway.

What a waste of taxpayers’ money.

There are two simple solutions to this: 1.) Narrow the width of the blade on these machines; 2.) Lift the blade when passing over sidewalks that have been cleared already.

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Sam Mellace is the CEO of the Newage Medical Clinic, which is located on Danforth Avenue.

New clinic to offer variety of services >>>from page 1 expects it will serve between 50 and 100 patients a day, noting it already has a wait list of about 500 people.

“It’s a family practice, and we just happen to have to have extra services that other clinics don’t offer, like drug intervention and counselling, education to educate people on the pharmaceutical drugs and what they can do to you compared to alternatives to medicine, naturopath for example. We have a psychologist, psychiatrist and we also do home visits,” said Mellace, noting home visits for patients who are bed-ridden and have restricted mobility are covered by OHIP.

Family doctor By staying open late, the clinic helps people who work during the day refrain from using walk-in clinics or hospitals for evening care.

“You see another doctor, and another doctor, and another doctor, and they’re all different, and they all have different ways of treating symptoms,” Mellace said.

“I’m trying to get back to the old-fashion family doctor style, where people have the family doctor to go to

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Mellace dedicated the clinic to the late federal NDP leader Jack Layton, who he spoke with about it before Layton’s death.

“The concern was our society is becoming so dependent on pharmaceutical care,” he said of his conversations with the late Layton.

Off addictions “We (New Age Medical Clinic) want to be able to turn around and help people get off their addictions, whether it’s pharmaceutical, and/or street drugs, pertaining to heroin, cocaine, what the case might be.”

While doctors at the clinic are open to prescribing medical marijuana, Mellace said patients have to demonstrate

a need through medical testing.

“There’s no way anything’s going to get through this clinic without scrutiny,” he said, adding, “If anybody thinks they’re going to get big, humongous licenses, not here. You will not get more than 10 grams a day, maximum ... Three, five grams a day is more than reasonable.”

He plans to open about 10 more clinics in the Toronto area in the next year, before looking to expand across Canada. He’s also considering opening detox centres.

Mellace said he’s only received positive feedback about the clinic, while Toronto-Danforth Councillor Mary Fragedakis said she hasn’t heard any feedback at all.

“At the moment he’s not licensed to (dispense marijuana),” Fragedakis said.

“I expect though that should that change come, people will comment either for it or against it or both, and I guess those changes will determine the community’s reaction.”

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Councillors eye rooming house law City’s Opinions vary on whether changes needed in East Toronto communities Tara Hatherly thatherly@insidetoronto.com

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o be or not to be, that is the question facing Toronto staff and council when it comes to rooming houses and whether they should be allowed throughout the city.

Toronto does not have a city-wide zoning bylaw. Zoning regulations differ in each of the megacity’s former municipalities, with some allowing and regulating rooming houses, and others banning them outright.

On April 3 and 4, council will look at harmonizing Toronto’s zoning bylaws. The new zoning bylaw will not change rooming house regulations, instead carrying over the status quo.

On Oct. 22 the issue will be revisited when the city’s planning and growth management committee a closer receives a staff look report exploring the Inside possibility of allowToronto ing rooming houses city-wide.

In East York, rooming houses are not legally permitted.

Don Valley West Councillor John Parker said he’d like it to stay that way.

“We don’t want rooming houses in Ward 26,” he said.

“I wouldn’t think that Ward 26 would be a suitable place for that sort of thing, and I wouldn’t favour encouraging it.”

No one has asked him that rooming houses be allowed there, he said, noting there is currently an issue at some condominium buildings in the east end of his ward.

“They partition the condominium space into several different living units and rent them out to different occupants,” he explained. “They’re dealing with that as an internal matter within their particular organizations, it’s not something that has involved the city or any of the city’s bylaws so far.”

The illegal housing’s presence does not demonstrate a need for rooming houses in his ward, Parker said. “Where it exists, it’s a problem, and I wouldn’t see it as a reason it should be allowed,” he said. “It’s more a reason why it should be, if it is to be accommodated, on its own terms on the up-and-up somewhere else.”

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Local councillors say they have not been receiving specific complaints about rooming houses locally, but arterial roads such as Greenwood Avenue, shown here, are areas where they might be made legal.

allowed and banned in TorontoDanforth Councillor Mary Fragedackis’ ward, which contains portions of East York and the former city of Toronto, the latter permitting the accommodations.

Fragedackis said she has not heard any significant complaints about rooming houses in her ward, nor has she heard from any residents asking the rule be changed to allow rooming houses there.

“I agree that we need to carry forward what exists. I see no overwhelming reason to change what we have,” she said. “I’m happy to carry forward what exists, unless I hear differently from the residents of Ward 29.”

She added she doesn’t know of any illegal rooming houses operating in her ward, but looks forward to the issue being reviewed in October. “I’m sure there are, across the city, illegal rooming houses,” Fragedackis said.

“If people have properties that they’re running as illegal rooming houses, there would be lots of fire code issues, and so it will be interesting to see what that report has to say.”

Rooming houses are both allowed and banned in BeachesEast York Councillor Janet Davis’ ward as well. Davis said rooming house bans in Toronto warrant a closer look.

“There are many areas across

the city where illegal rooming houses are springing up...I think rather than trying to ignore it, we might be better to look at how we regulate them and legalize them,” she said. “That way we can ensure that certain standards are met, and they can be controlled.”

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I believe we should be looking at how to deal with this problem in a systemic way.

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She noted there have been illegal rooming houses in the East York part of her ward before, but none she is aware of now. She added she has never received a complaint about the single rooming house that is registered in the former City of Toronto portion of her ward.

There has not been a big call from residents requesting rooming houses be permitted in East York, Davis said, but she wants to see the issue addressed by council. “Rooming houses are springing up in various places across the city and it’s problematic. I believe we should be looking at how to deal with this problem in a systematic way,” she said.

“I know it is a contentious issue, but we shouldn’t avoid contentious issues, what we ought to be doing is exploring the concerns, looking at solutions, talking to the public and deciding what direction to take. ... In a city where affordable housing is in such short supply, multiple-unit dwellings may be one solution, but not without regulation.”

Parker, a former Toronto Community Housing Corporation director, said he doesn’t think rooming houses are the answer when it comes to increasing affordable housing in Toronto.

“I would rather see efforts put towards finding more suitable housing for those who need assistance in financing a proper residence,” he said. “Rooming houses are not a way that I would want to see the needs of the less fortunate addressed on a permanent basis.

They serve a specialized purpose in certain circumstances, and they serve a temporary need in some cases, but for long-term living conditions, rooming houses are no way to go.”

Residents will likely get a chance to weigh in on the topic.

The city staff report will also recommend a process for public consultation.

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In small parts of Etobicoke and York they are allowed. In Scarborough, North York and East York they are banned.

Rooming houses are often not welcome due to concerns about property values, noise, garbage and the character of residential streets.

When the city’s planning and growth committee passed a bylaw harmonizing zoning rules across Toronto this month, it deliberately avoided setting city-wide rules for rooming houses.

“There is a feeling that they don’t fit the suburban community, physically,” said Councillor Norm Kelly. The chance to license and legalize rooming houses “would be ignored by the guys looking for big illegal dollars, which you don’t have to report,” said Kelly.

Councillor Shelley Caroll called that view shortsighted.

“People always attempt to break laws. Does that mean you don’t create them?” she said.

“Because we have no legal rooming houses in the suburbs, which would be licensed and inspected we have a whole lot of people living unsafely.”

The number of legal rooming houses in old Toronto have fallen, but as new Canadians and poverty migrate to Toronto’s suburbs, and as university and college campuses grow there, so does demand for illegal rooming houses.

It’s been hard to have a conversation about them, but a staff report this fall is expected to launch a community consultation on the issue, Carroll said.

Rooming house advocates argue that suburban rooming houses are necessary for lowincome tenants, but those tenants face abuse and poor or dangerous conditions as long as the houses remain unlicensed.

Suburban councillors respond to complaints about rooming houses by asking city inspectors to shut them down.

Ken Hale of Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario said for councillors to pretend they don’t have rooming houses in their ward or that they can get rid of them through enforcement, “is not being honest with their constituents.”

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Little Stanley Cup hoisted in East York

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CELEBRATION: Members of the Detroit team take a skate around the rink with the trophy after defeating Philadelphia 3-0 to win the Little Stanley Cup Saturday at East York Memorial Arena. The trophy, which is the only Stanley Cup replica allowed for competition by the National Hockey League, is awarded to recognize East York minor hockey’s house league champs. Below, Detroit players begin the celebration at the conclusion of the championship game.

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Movies on a Thursday Afternoon WHEN: 1 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Danforth/Coxwell Branch Toronto Public Library, 1675 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7783 COST: Free Moonrise Kingdom (2012). A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out and find them. PG13, 94 min.

Where Do Crime and Mystery Stories Come From?

WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Library, 165 McRae Dr. CONTACT: Sharon A. Crawford, www.samcraw. com, words@samcraw.com COST: Free Sharon A. Crawford will discuss origins of her plots and characters as she reads from her first collection of mystery short stories, Beyond the Tripping Point. Character and plot origins will be discussed on a per story basis with questions welcome from the audience.

Evening Out WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Legion Branch No. 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-425-3070 COST: Free The musical entertainment is Cover to Cover.

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East York Garden Club Monthly Meeting WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Stan Wadlow Clubhouse, 373 Cedarvale Ave. CONTACT: East York Garden Club, www.eygc.ca COST: Free Crops that Wow! with guest speaker Steven Biggs. If your veggie gardening space is limited, why not grow the green beans you can easily buy. Steven Biggs is an award-winning journalist and author specializing in gardening, farming, and food production.

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WHEN: 9 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine, 2050 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Kevin MacDonald, hiruthoot@gmail.com COST: $5 Monthly stand up show features multicultural performers, headliners and rising stars.

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Regency Fashion 101, or, how to dress like Lizzy and Darcy WHEN: 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Barnabas Anglican Church, 361 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Karen Millyard, 416-578-1031, www.JaneAustenDancing.ca COST: $15/$10 students and seniors A lively illustrated lecture on the clothing of the Regency era (Jane

Austen’s time, and also the 1812 period). Includes display items.

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Sunday Afternoon Euchre WHEN: 12:30 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714 COST: $5 Come out Sunday afternoons for some euchre. All welcome to play.

Karaoke Night @ 22 WHEN: 5 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, jimb.farrell@yahoo.ca COST: Free Sing,dance or listen.

Missa Gaia WHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

WHERE: Holy Name Parish, 71 Gough Ave. CONTACT: Mary Walker, 416-222-8282, mary.walker@tcsb.org COST: $15 The award-winning choirs of Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts present the 140-voice choir, musicians and dancers will perform this joyous rhythmic, contemporary work inspired by St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and ecology.

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Teen Movie: The Dark Knight Rises WHEN: 5 to 8 p.m. WHERE: S Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Dr. CONTACT: 416-396-3975 COST: Free The Dark Knight Rises. Teens aged 13 years and older.

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Leaside Garden Society WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Library, 165 McRae Dr. CONTACT: Leaside Garden Society COST: Memberships $24; Family $30.

Peter Gill will do a presentation on Water Features. Visitors and new members are welcome. Refreshments.

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East York Garden Club Monthly

Meeting WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Stan Wadlow Clubhouse, 373 Cedarvale Ave. CONTACT: East York Garden Club, www.eygc.ca, info@ eygc.ca COST: Free Crops that Wow! with guest speaker Steven Biggs. If your veggie gardening space is limited, why not grow the green beans you can easily buy?

Biggs is an award-winning journalist and author specializing in gardening, farming, and food production.

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Open Mic 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 Play an instrument or just sing along.

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MGM prepared to go elsewhere, board of trade meeting hears DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Toronto Council needs to make a decision on whether to host a casino sooner rather than later, according to MGM Resorts International president Bill Hornbuckle.

“We would like to see city council become engaged sooner rather than later,” said Hornbuckle, following a talk at the Toronto and Region Board of Trade this week.

‘Sooner the better” “The sooner the better.

We collectively represent a huge economic engine — jobs training, and long-term advocacy for economic development. If Toronto comes to the conclusion it doesn’t want it, we’re prepared to go other places but want to be here.”

Hornbuckle was at the board of trade presenting the $3.5-billion proposal from Cadillac Fairview and MGM to build a casino on the Canadian National Exhibition grounds.

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...We’re highly focused on the CNE because we think it works for the city, the community, MGM and Cadillac Fairview, but we’re not beyond looking at other locations.

– Bill Hornbuckle, MGM Resorts International president

The pitch Monday was the same as that made several weeks ago to journalists.

The partnership would lease a portion of the Canadian National Exhibition lands, make infrastructure to improve traffic issues, and construct a massive entertainment/retail/hospitality complex, eight per cent of which would contain a casino.

The pitch represents that the city would receive a total of $100 million in revenue.

But last week, that figure was

cast into doubt when Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said that Toronto would get no special deal on hosting fees.

Since that announcement, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation announced that it would expand the area in which it would consider placing a casino from downtown to the City of Vaughan.

Hornbuckle confirmed that MGM and Cadillac Fairview had had “limited” discussions with Vaughan about placing a casino there.

“Look — we’re highly focused on the CNE because we think it works for the city, the community, MGM and Cadillac Fairview, but we’re not beyond looking at other locations,” he said.

“Vaughan, because of the subway link, is critical.

Markham is another community we’d look at. We’d look outside of downtown Toronto but our priority is here.”

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living at AcessPoint wHealthy Local residents are invited to a healthy living event on Thursday at AccessPoint Community Hub on Danforth.

The event, Food, Fun & Family Healthy Is Ha p py, g o e s from 5 to 9 p.m.

It will feature fitness ideas, recipes for healthy and affordable meals, and tips on managing health.

The event is all ages.

AccessPoint is at 3079 Danforth Ave. For more info, visit www. accessalliance.ca or call 416-6997920, ext. 443.

Society garage sale wHumane

Get rid of your old treasures, find some new ones and help animals May 4 and 5.

The Toronto Humane Society’s annual Spring-for-a-Cause Garage Sale is looking for donations for its annual two-day sale, which takes place in the underground garage at the society at 11 River St. It also includes a coffee and

bake sale so volunteers are asking for donations of cakes, pies and cookies as well as cookies and treats for pets. Please list ingredients to assist people and pets with allergies.

Donations for the bake sale will be accepted Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4 from 8 to 10 a.m. only.

Items can be dropped off Tuesday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Donations will be accepted until April 26.

For details, contact Souha at maya.and.rama@gmail.com Local laneway repairs slated Construction on local laneway repairs is set for Ward 31 BeachesEast York.

As part of the city’s 2012 Capital Works Program, reconstruction of a number of laneways are planned.

Locally, work is set for the laneway north of Danforth Avenue west of Sibley Avenue, and then north to Coleman Avenue.

Also, work is set for the laneway running south from Lumsden Avenue between Chisholm Avenue

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For more, visit www.councillordavis.com ART Toronto seeks mural artists wStreet

StreetARToronto is looking for mural artists who want to make the city beautiful.

StreetARToronto aims to develop, support, promote and increase awareness of street art and its role in adding beauty and character to neighbourhoods across Toronto, while counteracting graffiti vandalism and its harmful effect on communities.

Murals can be located on public and private property (with approval by the site’s owner).

This year’s proposals are due April 15.

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No More Banner with people from the Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre (PARC) April 2 from 1 to 3 p.m.

A traditional Indigenous meal will be shared.

Call Rhiannon at 416-461-1925, ext. 388 for details.

Easter parade set for Sunday wAnnual

Local residents are invited to take in this Sunday’s Toronto Beaches Lions Easter Parade.

The parade begins at 2 p.m. at Queen Street and Munro Park and will head west along Queen to Woodbine Avenue.

The parade is in its 46th year and is an Easter tradition in east Toronto.

Sponsors for the parade include The Mirror.

For more on the parade, visit www.beacheslions.com York Collegiate parents host event wEast

Ronald Morrish, author of Secrets of Discipline, With All Due Respect, and Flip Tips is the guest speaker at an event hosted by the East York Collegiate Parent Council on Monday, April 8.

Morrish will speak on teaching adolescents to be responsible and co-operative.

The event goes from 6:45 to 9 p.m. in the school library East York Collegiate is located at 650 Cosburn Ave. egg hunt at Jimmie Simpson wEaster

East Toronto residents are invited to bring the kids and hunt for Easter eggs this Saturday.

The Jimmie Simpson Centre invites people to hunt for coloured eggs from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 McCleary Park p.m. at at the corner of Queen and McGee. There will be an appearance by t h e E a s t e r Bunny.

No More in Riverdale wIdle

Local residents are invited to learn more about the Idle No More movement next week.

Representatives from The South Riverdale Community Health Centre, 995 Queen St. E., and CounterFit will teach people about the cultural context of the movement and help make an Idle

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Board of Health hears call for reduced TTC fares RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com If not for having access to transportation, James Kilmartin believes he would never have gotten off the street.

Speaking before the Toronto Board of Health, Kilmartin, who says he was homeless until last year, called for TTC fares to be offered at a discounted rate to charitable groups and organizations to help more low-income people like him.

“These shelters are very important and when they have to turn someone down because they can’t give a token to someone who needs to get to an appointment it’s more stressful to the person on the street,” said Kilmartin who was speaking on behalf of the Fair Fare Coalition.

Kilmartin was at city hall earlier this week to speak in favour of recommendations by the city’s chief medical officer on incorporating fare affordability into transportation planning.

Low-income challenges He said as a homeless person he was denied entry to the TTC for not having a token despite a badly infected foot. He ended up having to call an ambulance to St. Michael’s Hospital where he stayed for two weeks.

“The conductor saw how bad shape I was in, but he wouldn’t let me on,” recounted Kilmartin during his five minute deputation to the board.

“I survived, but what if it was a low income person with a heart condition?”

Sheryl Lindsay of the coalition, which was launched by Sistering women’s shelter in response to the 2010 TTC fare hikes, said the high cost of transit plays a negative impact for people with no other means of transportation.

She said the group collected feedback from more than 200 lowincome individuals who receive social assistance, who highlighted the importance of transit in getting them to doctors’ appointments and securing housing.

Despite paying $25,000 per year on TTC tokens to distribute to its clients, Lindsay said rising fares was limiting how much help Sistering could offer.

“We’re one of many organizations across the GTA trying to offset this high price of transit for individuals,” said Lindsay, Sistering’s executive director.

“As our budgets get flatlined and demand for transit from the mar-

ginalized increases it really is getting more unsustainable for us.”

A majority of the board approved a motion from chair Joe Mihevc to have the city’s community development committee work with the

TTC on potentially reducing fares for low-income people, which was approved by a majority, but not all, of the board.

One of the dissenting votes was cast by Gord Perks. The Parkdale

councillor said making the TTC provide discounted fares would mean potential cuts in service.

“If the TTC takes money out of service to provide a free fare to someone else, the only way they can do

that is to not run a bus somewhere else,” said Perks.

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police Wednesday suspect arrested wWanted A Wanted Wednesday news release issued by Toronto police’s 55 Division earlier this month has led to the arrest of a man being sought in a fraud investigation.

Police had asked for the public’s help in finding the wanted man.

Last Friday, thanks to informatio from the public, the man was found on Gerrard Street East and arrested after a brief foot pursuit by offi-

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Ryan Codrington, 23, has been charged with two counts of fraud under $5,000.

Of the 11 people profiled as 55 Division’s Wanted Wednesday in 2013, nine have been arrested. invasion under investigation wHome

Police are seeking two suspects in connection with a home invasion robbery in the Dawes Road and Goodwood Park area.

According to police, a 31-year-old man was in his apartment in the area at about 11 a.m. on Monday,

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The suspects then removed a box containing property and fled the scene.

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Rotary Lobsterfest to take place at Whistler’s Grille >>>from page 1 which is helping to eradicate the dreaded disease.”

Lobsterfest tickets are $65 per person, with tax receipts issued later this year for a portion of each ticket price.

A cash bar will be available at the event, which takes place in The McNeil Room at Whistler’s Grille, 995 Broadview Ave.

Ticket info The evening begins with cocktails at 6 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p.m.

Parking is available north of the restaurant, at the Massey Centre for Women, 1102 Broadview Ave. Fo r a d va n c e t i c k e t s, contact Al Schaafsma at alschaafsma@sympatico.ca or 416-751-2025, or any East

York Rotary member.

Tickets will also be available at the door the night of the event, subject to availability.

Meets weekly The Rotary Club of East York meets Thursdays at 7:30 a.m. at Watts Restaurant, in the Eglinton Square Shopping Centre, 30 Eglinton Sq. Since 1951, the group has worked to support local and international charities and community events.

For more information on the group, visit www.eastyorkrotary.org To learn how to become a member of the East York Rotary Club, send an email to membership@eastyorkrotary.org

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Rotary Club of East York’s President-elect Dave Pyette and Sergeant at Arms Monika Emo are ready for the seventh annual Rotary Club’s Lobsterfest event on Friday, April 5, at Whistler’s Grille on Broadview Avenue.

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