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Michael Garron Hospital earns Patient Safety award TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com Michael Garron Hospital has received the 2016 Patient Safety Organization Champion Award.

Michael Garron Hospital (MGH), formerly Toronto East General Hospital, is the sole recipient of this year’s national award. The award was presented

by HealthCareCAN and Canadian Patient Safety Institute, with support from Patients for Patient Safety Canada. It honours MGH’s outstanding work in engaging patients and families as partners in continuous improvement.

“We were thrilled,” Mari Iromoto, MGH director of quality, improvement and innovation, said of the honour. “This is the first time our hospital has received the Canadian Patient Safety Institute Award, and I think it’s because we just do the work, we do what’s right, and that’s been our guiding principle. It’s never been about trying to get our work showcased.”

Francisco Grajales nominated ● See PATIENT, page 5

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A Special Report on Child Poverty Hundreds of thousands of Canadian children are growing up in poverty.

In Ontario, more than 370,000 children (or 13.8 per cent) lived in a low-income household in 2013, only slightly better than the national average of 14.3 per cent.

Poverty often means food insecurity, an inability to fully participate at school and difficulty accessing services. See our story on page 3 to find out how Toronto’s young citizens are faring.

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Child poverty rates in Toronto differ by race and ethnicity JONATHAN ZETTEL newsroom@insidetoronto.com

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Sarah Shaikh, 13, (right) and Helen Liu, 12, make their meal selections during the July summerlunch+ program in East York.

With school lunch initiatives closed for the summer break, summerlunch+ aimed to fill the nutrition gap for local area children. cities, indicated a 2014 report, Colour of Poverty, by Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Social Planning Toronto and Family Service Toronto.

There is “stark inequality” in children’s lives across Toronto neighbourhoods, stated a 2014 Social Planning Toronto report, The Hidden Epidemic: A Report on Child and Family Poverty in Toronto.

Low-income rates among children ranged from five per cent in Lawrence Park North and South, Leaside-Bennington and Kingsway South, to 10 times higher - more than 50 per cent in Regent Park, Moss Park, Thorncliffe Park and Oakridge.

The report findings echoed others that found poverty varies greatly in Toronto by race and ethnicity, with people of African and Middle Eastern backgrounds three times more

likely to live on low incomes than those of European backgrounds.

In April 2014, Toronto City Council voted unanimously to develop a poverty reduction strategy. Its target: to end child poverty within a generation by 2035.

Toronto’s strategy contains 17 recommendations and 71 actions to respond to the immediate needs of low-income Torontonians, to create pathways out of poverty, and to address the systemic causes of equality, the city stated.

The Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy focuses on housing stability; service equity; transit equity; food access; quality jobs and livable wages, and systemic change.

This month, a new children’s charity launched with a mandate to be a strong, independent

voice for Canada’s children.

Children First Canada stated while Canada is the fifth mostprosperous nation in the world, the country is falling behind in its protection and care of its children.

“There is a big disconnect between what we perceive to be the case when it comes to the wellbeing of kids in Canada and what’s actually going on,” the charity’s founder Sara Austin, an international children’s rights advocate and former leader with World Vision Canada, said in a statement.

“While we assume Canadian children are well cared and provided for, child poverty and suffering has reached epidemic levels in cities and towns across the country.”

The charity is calling on Ottawa to appoint an independent children’s commissioner

to advocate for children, and to publish an annual children’s budget to track federal funding.

The Liberals promised a children’s commissioner during the 2015 election campaign, Austin noted in a speech Nov. 16 to a Toronto meeting of the Empire Club of Canada.

The government is “still studying the idea,” said a spokesperson for Jean-Yves, Duclos, minister of families, children and social development, last week when asked about the pledge.

The charity also wants Canadians to volunteer with children’s organizations, talk about the issue of child poverty with friends, neighbours and family, and donate to children’s charities.

With files from Tamara Shephard and Torstar News Service.

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Angela grew up poor and was determined to make a better life for herself. She owned a construction business with her husband, but in 2009, after he beat her during a night of drinking, she left with her three children.

Angela, who agreed to speak to us anonymously, said she never expected to wind up with “three kids on the street, basically looking for the kindness of strangers to help me out.”

The local women’s shelter would not admit boys older than 12 and Angela’s oldest was 15. That night in the emergency room, a nurse offered her a basement apartment.

Since then, Angela and her three children, who live in Owen Sound, have come face-toface with poverty and learned first-hand how it undermines opportunities to rebuild.

In addition to lacking money for a car, telephone or food, Angela worries about her children’s mental and physical health. Stress, anger, anxiety and a sense of isolation, coupled with the poor-quality, processed, high-carbohydrate diet provided by food banks have led to asthma, stomach problems and poor immunity.

“I couldn’t figure out why they were sick all the time,” she said, adding she would be called away from work frequently to tend to ill children, which made it hard to hold down a job.

Angela’s three children struggled with school and missed out on school trips and extracurricular activities because even $5 for pizza day was out of reach.

Housing was also a problem and the family has moved frequently.

In one instance, Angela asked her landlord if he could supply her with a letter of residence so that she could apply for social assistance - instead he gave her an eviction notice because he didn’t want “that type of people living there.”

While 13.9 per cent of children across Ontario live in poverty, a staggering 25 per cent of those living in Toronto are below Statistics Canada’s Low Income Measure, as are 19 per cent of adults, the City of Toronto reported.

Toronto also has the highest rates of poverty and child poverty among Canada’s 20 largest

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Time to break the cycle of child poverty

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his is where it starts: sometime this month – or maybe next – a mid-size company in the Greater Toronto Area is pushed to outsource a department to stay viable. A person loses a job.

At first, he finds freelance work, then temporary manual labour gigs. Then, nothing.

A single parent, he looks at starting his own business, but that would require an infusion of cash. Or retraining, but that, too, would cost money, and leave the household without an income for an extended period of time.

The first things to go are the luxuries – TV packages, smartphones, music lessons. The SUV is traded in for a used compact car. Next come some harder choices – running the washing machine less often to save on hydro and water, fewer trips to the grocery store supplemented with items from the local food bank.

One day – and then the next– both kids go to school without breakfast. These are the faces of child poverty in our communities.

In a Metroland special investigative series, reporters from community papers across southern Ontario examine the issue of child poverty, which may at first blush not be visible some areas of Toronto. One of the stories is online and in print today, the rest can be found at insidetoronto.com They present research that says more than 370,000 Ontario children (or 13.8 per cent) lived in a lowincome household in 2013, only slightly better than the national average of 14.3 per cent. They also found that more than 800,000 students take part in more than 4,000 school meal programs across the province.

Certainly, initiatives such as the recent changes to the Child Tax Benefit program will help address the problem. As well, accurate, detailed information garnered through the recently restored long-form Census will aid in creating a focused poverty plan. But it could be years before such strategies bear fruit.

Other avenues that need to be explored include economic development initiatives that focus on maintaining – and creating – local jobs, investments in training and seeking out ways to help Ontario Works clients secure meaningful employment without worrying about clawbacks to benefits. Most of all, students need to learn life skills and strategies that will help put them on a path to a successful future.

Make no mistake: child poverty is family poverty, and it is a cycle we need to break.

We all have a part to play. Let’s get to it.

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Dreaming the impossible dream of breaking up Toronto I have met the Don Quixote of Toronto’s suburbs.

He’s out there, mostly on weekends, trying to free Scarborough from the clutches of Toronto by gathering signatures door to door.

About 400,000 should do it. Then Kathleen Wynne must listen. Ontario’s premier will hold a vote, and return Scarborough, after two decades of abuse, back to its fiscally-responsible people.

“It’s been an abysmal failure, amalgamation,” says Robert McDermott, leader of the Free Scarborough Campaign.

“It was undemocratic, forcefully and arrogantly put through.”

McDermott is a realtor who tried running for council in Scarborough, and led a Toronto-wide slate of candidates against

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto our municipal land transfer tax.

That didn’t work, and neither will this. Mike Harris didn’t listen in 1997, when people in each of Toronto’s former cities voted not to merge.

A generation has passed since Scarborough’s city hall became the half-empty, mostly irrelevant relic of 1970s architecture it is today.

Independent Scarborough is gone. Its residents have as much chance of

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escaping Toronto as people in Leaside, Forest Hill or Long Branch.

But an ache remains, not just in Scarborough but everywhere away from the Megacity’s core. At its heart is one conviction: our money flows downtown, and doesn’t return.

“We can only remember how happy we were,” says Giorgio Mammoliti, a North York councillor.

“All we get are scraps to appease us in the suburbs.”

Downtown’s Rail Deck Park, perhaps to cost billions, is far away. In neighbourhoods called Rustic and Oakridge, the city asks residents to show up, vote and then, just maybe, it will put lights in the park or replace cracked sidewalk planters.

Suburban councillors fought to save traditions of their former cities, but

these were mostly about leaf collection and parking.

Those former cities are older now, and poorer.

An independent Scarborough in 2018 would have responsibilities its leaders couldn’t fathom as its subdivisions were built.

I don’t know what you call your neighbourhood, or why. Does North York still exist for you? Does East York?

That’s part of this column, finding out.

McDermott still dreams the impossible dream.

We’re stuck with each other.

Mike Adler is a reporter for Metroland Media Toronto. Edges of Toronto is a column about how people see life in Toronto differently, depending on where they live. Reach Mike Adler at madler@insidetoronto.com

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● From page 1 the hospital for the award.

“MGH’s commitment to excellence in partnering with patients, families and the community has created a solid foundation for a culture of improvement and innovation across every ward,” Grajales said. “Being grounded in the patient voice with patients as stakeholders is a mantra that all hospitals should learn from.”

Grajales is part of MGH’s innovation task force, where he learned about the hospital’s many patient-centred initiatives.

There are Patient Experience Partners at MGH to ensure patients’ voices are included in everything from hiring and planning to development and improvement. Another initiative that impressed the award judges is a patient video program MGH started in 2011.

“We kickoff most of our corporate meetings with a patient video, a patient that shares his or her experience at the hospital,” Iromoto explained. “They’re not necessarily pleasant stories.

They’re very constructive and they’re raw. They’re real expe-

riences, and the intent is that we share them with our leadership as well as with the rest of the organization, and we have lots of really good conversations around what we could have done better ... and it kind of grounds us to the work that we do.”

The Patient Video Program, which has earned its own awards, has helped further boost patient satisfaction scores at MGH, which now sit at more than 95 per cent.

Several other initiatives were noted by Canadian Patient Safety Institute in its decision to honour MGH. It also noted the exemplary status MGH recently earned from Accreditation Canada when it scored 99.64 per cent on a survey of 3,000 quality standards. Accreditation Canada has also awarded MGH 15 leading practices nods for initiatives.

A patient-centred approach ensures MGH never loses sight of what matters most, said Iromoto.

“We’ve got a lot of competing priorities for us, we want to make sure that what changes we make are the ones that make sense,” she said. “We want to

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Leaside Sports Hall of Fame welcomes new inductees Help Renew Our City’s City’ Long-Term Long-T Financial Plan The City of Toronto is renewing its Long-Term Financial Plan – a roadmap for how the City will make investments in the future. We want the public’s input on this important issue so we can build the city we all want.

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A Grade 10 student from Leaside High School is Leaside’s 2016 Athlete of the Year.

Remy Cattell, an active, involved athlete with a passion for running cross country and track, was inducted into the Leaside Sports Hall of Fame on Friday, Nov. 18.

The accomplished runner and life-long Leaside resident also played competitive hockey for the Leaside Wildcats and continues to play competitive soccer for the Leaside Tigers.

Sponsored by Metroland Media, the induction ceremony and community reception was held in the William Lea Room at Leaside Memorial Community Gardens on Millwood Road.

Leaside’s Athlete of the Year is presented by the East York Mirror.

Terry Fallis, an author and two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, served as the evening’s guest speaker.

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They include Mike Bradwell (athlete, football), Terry Caffery (athlete, hockey), Tom Kalweit (builder, figure skating), and Ian Shaw (builder,

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Nominations now open for 2017 Agnes Macphail Award

TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com Nominations are now being accepted for the 2017 Agnes Macphail Award.

The annual award honours community leaders making significant volunteer contributions to support issues that were important to Macphail, including women’s and seniors’ rights, criminal justice and penal reform, international peace and disarmament, and access to education, housing and health care.

The ideal candidate will embody Macphail’s motto, “Think globally, act locally.”

To be eligible for the award, nominees must live within the former Borough of East York and not be an elected official or currently serving as a judge.

The Agnes Macphail Award comes with a medal, framed certificate and monetary prize for the winner to donate to his or her cho-

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The 2016 Agnes Macphail Award recipient Patrick Rocca (left) and 2015 winner Muhammad Masood Alam take part in this year’s awards ceremony in March at the East York Civic Centre. Macphail was Ontario’s first female MPP and the award is given annually to an East York resident who exemplifies her ideals. Nominations are now open for the 2017 award. sen charity. The award ceremony is held every year on March 24, Macphail’s birthday.

As well as an East York leader, Macphail was a political pioneer. She was the first woman elected to the House of Commons and one of the first two women elected to the Ontario Legislature.

Prize money for the Agnes Macphail Award

comes from community contributions. Tax receipts are issued for donations, which are collected by The East York Foundation. Visit www.bit.ly/1SQL443 for donation details and more information about the Agnes Macphail Award, including nomination forms. The deadline for nominations is midnight Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017.

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Annaleise Carr, 2012 and 2014 Ontario Junior Citizen, Simcoe, ON At 14, Annaleise Carr was the youngest person ever to swim across Lake Ontario. Two years later, Annaleise swam across Lake Erie. Combined these efforts raised awareness and hundreds of thousands of dollars for Camp Trillium, a family camp for children with cancer.

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EVENTS ● Thursday, Nov. 24

Don Valley Art Club Fall Show WHEN: 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Papermill Gallery, Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery Rd. CONTACT: hangreet8@gmail.com COST: Free More than 200 affordable paintings of all sizes and types including wall of square foot paintings.

Senior Scams Info Session WHEN: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale Branch, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720, COST: Free Det. Const. Kristin Thomas from 55 Division will discuss frauds and scams that target seniors. Learn about the most common scams and how to recognize them, tips on how to avoid fraud and the steps you should take if you have been scammed.

● Friday, Nov. 25

Finger Knitting WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Ave. CONTACT: 416-396-3975 COST: Free Learn how to knit using only your fingers. Supplies provided. For people 11 to 18. Call to register.

Holiday in the Hood WHEN: 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: Earl Beatty Public School, 55

● GET CONNECTED Visit insidetoronto.com/events to submit your own community events for online publishing.

Woodington Ave. CONTACT: holi dayinthehood@gmail.com COST: Free A holiday craft sale with Santa photos, bake sale and a kids sale with items under $5 just for kids.

Vendors will be selling art, jewelry, soaps, crafts and much more.

Proceeds go to the Play Hard for our Yard campaign.

Silent Auction WHEN: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. WHERE: Pape Avenue Junior Public School, 220 Langley Avenue CONTACT: facebook.com/PapeHootAuction2014 COST: Free Kick off your holiday shopping at Pape Ave. PS’s @PapeHootAuction. Auction items and live entertainment. The event is 19+ and open to the public. The auction raises funds for the school.

Games in Sound, a performance WHEN: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. WHERE: Electric Perfume, 805 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: naisa@naisa.ca COST: $30 (includes registration for entire weekend) Game creation like most media arts is a trans-disciplinary practice. This performance will cross

many artistic and stylistic boundaries to reveal the many overlaps with other art forms and genres.

● Saturday, Nov. 26

Holy Eucharist Annual Bazaar WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Church, 515 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-465-5836 COST: Free Enjoy perogies, meats, apple pies, baked goods, jams, farm fresh veggies. Join for lunch featuring home cooked foods from the church kitchen. Christmas gifts: beaded and silver jewelry, ornaments, knitting, books and icons, pottery, pickles and many hand crafted items.

Holy Name Christmas Bazaar WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Holy Name Church, 606 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: 6472981893 COST: Free Holy Name Church Christmas Bazaar. Peruse 30+ amazing local vendors selling their handmade wares - ranging from jewelry and knits to greeting cards and soaps to dog sweaters and baby gear and more. A bake sale raises funds for the church’s refugee family.

5 things to do this weekend ● Friday through Sunday

104th Grey Cup festivities WHEN: 11:30 a.m.

WHERE: BMO Field, 170 Princes Blvd. CONTACT: greycupfestival.ca COST: Various The Grey Cup is coming to Toronto.

The big game is Sunday, at newly renovated BMO Field but before then there’s plenty going on including the Grey Cup Festival. See website.

The Toronto Christmas Market WHEN: 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Distillery District, 55 Mill St. CONTACT: torontochristmasmarket. com COST: Free Admission is free Tuesday to Friday.

Closed Mondays. Runs until Dec. 22.

● Saturday, Nov. 26

Kidzfest WHEN: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Yonge-Dundas Square, 1 Dundas St. E. CONTACT: www.downtownyonge.com/kidzfest/ COST: Free Join Downtown Yonge BIA at YongeDundas Square for a day of fun for kids of all ages, meet Paw Patrol’s Chase & Little Charmer’s Hazel, ride the Ferris wheel and more!

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Amal Aden, 8, waves to her mom as she whirls around in the swing carousel, complete with painted face at a previous year’s KidzFest. This year’s Kidzfest at Yonge-Dundas Square runs Nov. 26.

Cavalcade of Lights WHEN: 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. WHERE: Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. CONTACT: toronto.ca/cavalcade COST: Free Will mark the official start of the holiday season in Toronto. It features the first lighting of Toronto’s official Christmas tree and an evening of live performances, a skating party and fireworks display.

● Sunday, Nov. 27

Scarborough Model Railroaders Train Show WHEN: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: 17 Jeavons Ave. CONTACT: 416-262-9971 COST: Adults $5, children $2, seniors $3, family $12 Show features two floors of model railroads. Watch 60 to 80 car freight trains and full length passenger trains operate through the old and new sections of the layout.

Community Meeting Donlands Station – second exit/automatic entrance Tuesday, November 29, 2016

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The Local Working Group (LWG) for Donlands Station, composed of local residents and representatives of area businesses and organizations, recommended that the second exit be located at 17/19 Dewhurst Blvd., (a semi-detached lot) just south of Strathmore Blvd.

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As part of the TTC’s commitment to safety and modernization, Donlands Station (on Line 2 Bloor-Danforth) will be getting a second exit to improve customer safety and convenience. It will also function as an automatic entrance.

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On Monday, Mayor John Tory made that very clear. Without even a staff report recommending the move - indeed, with a notvery-old report from former city staff, arguing that private garbage collection city-wide is a bad idea Tory rose with the sun for a dawn news conference saying he intends to put out calls to private-sector haulers early in the new year, to see what kind of garbage collection the city can get for its buck.

“I think there will be savings. It’s difficult for me to quantify them,” said Tory.

Those savings may well be quantified in a new staff report by the new staff - mixing in some new factors, such as a recent

DAVID NICKLE The City review of the state of the city’s fleet of garbage trucks and the reality of a new collective agreement with CUPE Local 416 that makes it easier to get out of the business.

That is, of course, uncertain. But what’s certain is Tory’s - and therefore a likely voting majority of Toronto Council’s resolve. Many councillors have wanted to pull the plug on city-run garbage collection for decades. Tory noted that he promised to contract out garbage during the election.

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ilar argument to the one that Tory made about his continued support of the Scarborough subway in the face of growing evidence that building it was a bad use of scarce funds. Promises made, promises kept.

City planning staff had to do some backflips to come up with a working plan for the subway, and so they will to come up with a safe way to contract out. A good start would be to make sure that the contractor taking care of the city’s west end and the one looking after the east aren’t the same outfit - and making sure that it stays that way.

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Georgia Balogiannis has been named Managing Editor, Metroland Media Toronto has announced.

Balogiannis is responsible for managing the daily operations of the Toronto newsroom, as well as contributing to the editorial strategy of the nine community newspapers and its news website, insidetoronto.com “In the time Georgia and I have worked together she has demonstrated her passion and commitment to her team and community news,” Grace Peacock, Metroland Media Toronto Editor-in-Chief, said in a statement. “I have no doubt her enthusiasm for journalism and this city will serve our readers well.”

Balogiannis had been an acting managing editor with Metroland Media Toronto for the past year and prior to that served as news editor for seven years.

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ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com Police from East York’s 54 Division and a Scarborough Canadian Tire are teaming up to put smiles on hundreds of children’s faces this holiday season.

The annual Toys for Tots initiative kicked off Thursday, Nov. 17 at the Canadian Tire at 1901 Eglinton Ave. E. (near Warden Avenue).

Over the next five weeks, the store will be accepting new unwrapped toys as well as Canadian Tire money and cash donations.

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charities that will distribute them to families in need.

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The initiative is being organized by Const. Jennifer Dekezel from the 54 Division community response unit.

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While we have had a terrible disturbance in East York last week over some truly hateful posters, the true state of our community and society is one of peace.

Certainly, within our individual circumstances difficulties and hard times are never far away.

That’s simply a fact of life.

While we may think that we are deep in trouble when a disturbed individual or group intrudes upon our lives, the reality is that we are more at peace than in deep conflict.

Take a walk around the streets of East York at any time during the day and you will see that reality.

Frankly the worst experience most of us will have is a blaring car horn or a random act of stupidity.

I believe the discontent so many people are expressing today is not about a lack

JOE COOPER Watchdog of law and order in our society, but a weakened sense of unity within the community and country.

Rather than being a nation working cooperatively together towards a common goal, we’re spending more time arguing about petty differences.

Today, however, it seems that the aim is push us apart, rather than move us forward as a country.

Political polarization, rather than consensus building, seems to be part of far too many people’s agendas.

That seems to be the malaise that is making people feel that things are far worse than they are.

Whoever can heal that malaise will be a much welcome leader; no matter what political stripe they wear.

We do need to work harder to ensure no one ever feels less of a neighbour simply due to their ethnicity or race.

If there is one virtue that this country can teach the world, it is how most people in this country do live together in peace and neighbourlinesses as is practiced in East York.

Our community truly lives the city’s motto of “diversity is our strength” every day.

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Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5pm • Toll Free Phone 1-800-263-6480 • Toll Free Fax 1-866-299-1499 Email classifieds@metroland.com • For delivery questions, please contact 1-855-853-5613

Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5pm • Toll Free Phone 1-800-263-6480 • Toll Free Fax 1-866-299-1499 Email classifieds@metroland.com • For delivery questions, please contact 1-855-853-5613

Stellar Roadside currently seeking enthusiastic, highly motivated & goal orientated candidates. Partnered with CAA we provide drivers with a high volume of calls. Experience not required.

Paid training. Must be 25+ years old, hold G license. Email: Tafi.Ismailovski@stellarroadside.com

Do you LOVE to Sew? We are looking for Sewing Instructors to join our team.

JOB FAIR

Wed. Nov. 30th ~ 12pm - 4pm Outside Sales, Managers, Warehouse, Counter Sales, Drivers Hiring for our Downtown Toronto and GTA Branches Bring your resume, interviews ON SITE 100 Galcat Drive, Vaughan, ON www.hdsupply.ca or aaron.campau@hdsupply.com

Pharmacy Assist. / Clerk Call 416-745-3030 or Fax 416-745-1042

to plan your advertising campaign today!

Duties include: Pricing service orders, Dispatching calls, Quoting, Generating Sales. Candidates must be fluent in oral and written English, computer literate incl.

Outlook and Excel.

Mechanical knowledge an asset.

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Firewood

(Hardwood) Facecord $150.00 + HST Free Local delivery Volume Discount Available

AD COPY

Vehicles Wanted/Wrecking

Firewood

DRY SEASONED FIREWOOD

SUBMITTED TO APPEAR IN MY LOCAL NEWSPAPER: _______________________

PLEASE PRINT.

$49 + HST

Silver plate • sterling • coins • gold • jewellery • watches, etc.

Teak • furniture • paintings • Doultons • fancy cups and saucers • medals • military • bronze • jade •Chinese • Japanese • fine art and quality smalls.

30 Years Experience

Professional and Courteous

David 416-231-9948

Home Renovations

Home Renovations

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• Private Party Only • Maximum 15 words per ad; one item per ad • Community newspapers run 1 week; Daily newspapers run 3 days • Plants, pets, tickets and firewood excluded from offer • Ads publish at first available opportunity; publication dates are not guaranteed • Must be 18+ to place an ad • Metroland Media reserves the right to edit or refuse any submission

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2" x 2"

Publishing every week in December Space Booking Deadline: 12 noon 3 days prior to publication For details, please call: Phone: 1-800-263-6480 | Email: classifieds@metroland.com

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Mail : Classifieds, 44 Frid St. Hamilton, ON L8N 3G3 Attn: Free Ads

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For household articles priced at $100 or less

Cash for Older:

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Place FREE ADS in your local newspaper

Vehicles Wanted/Wrecking

Remember the Reason for the Season...

Needed immediately classes are filling up!

Enjoy working with people, have strong English skills we have permanent P/T approx 15hrs/wk ~ flexible hours.

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Etobicoke Centre Pharmacy

Articles Wanted

Business

LocalWork.ca Tow-Truck/Flat-Bed, (FT, PT)

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HARDWOOD FLOOR SANDING. Specializing in stain/ refinishing.

Call for Free Estimate! Reasonable rates.

Paul 416-564-8410

NESO FLOORING Carpet installation starting from $1.19/ sq.ft. Hardwood, laminate at low prices. 27 yrs experience.

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647-400-8198 Appliance Repairs/ Installation

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OF ALL BRANDS OF: Refrigeration, Stoves, Dishwashers, Washer, Dryers, Air Conditioning & Heating.

Free Estimates. Warranty.

Credit cards accepted. Seniors discount.

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Waste Removal

Waste Removal

PETER’S DEPENDABLE JUNK REMOVAL

From home or business, including furniture/ appliances, construction waste. Quick & careful!

416-677-3818 Rock Bottom Rates!

PHIL MY TRUCK JUNK REMOVAL All kinds of garbage, construction, household, garage and property clean-ups.

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COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL CALL PHIL 416-451-1450

Shows & Bazaars

Shows & Bazaars

Amazing Candy Cane Tea & Bazaar Saturday, Nov. 26 11 am - 3 pm Holiday shopping, handmade crafts, baked goods & famous tea room.

Shop till you drop.

Lunch with family & friends.

Presteign-Woodbine United 416-755-8352 ~ 2538 St. Clair Ave. E 4 blocks west of O’Connor #91A bus from Woodbine Subway.

Spray textures, plaster designs, stucco, drywall, paint.

We fix them all! www.mrstucco.ca • 416-242-8863 BUILDER/ GENERAL

Contractors Framing Metro LIC# T85-4420956 Residential/ Commercial.

Complete Restoration. Finished Basements.

Painting. Bathrooms. Ceramic Tiles. Complete Framing. Leaking Basements. House Additions.

Office/ restaurant renovations.

905-764-6667 • 416-823-5120 Plumbing

Plumbing

Local Plumbing Service Faucets, Sinks, Toilets, Showers, Laundry, Main Valve, Leaky Pipes, Plugged Drains. Licensed & Insured.

24/7. Senior Discount!

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RAY PLUMBING SERVICE Repairs & Replacement, Faucets, Sinks, Toilets, Drains, Main Valve, Leaky Pipes, Drain Cleaning.

Licensed & Insured. 24/7.

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THE DANNY LOVES THE HOLIDAYS

LATE NIGHT SHOPPING EVENT DECEMBER 13 BUSINESS WINDOW DECORATING CONTEST DECEMBER 13 – 26

Vote for your favourite holiday window along The Danny this holiday season.

Join your friends and neighbours for some festivities and late night shopping along The Danny on Tuesday, Dec. 13, from 5 pm – 10 pm.

Voting begins Dec. 13 and the winner will be announced Dec. 26 and will receive a Metroland Media ad!

Vote online at www.thedanny.ca/TDLTH16

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