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DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com Toronto City Council will be voting whether or not to allow a heritage CocaCola property to be turned into a Costco warehouse retail store in Thorncliffe Park.

The proposal will be up for decision at the council session on Nov. 3 without North York Community Council recommendation. Community council voted to a 3-3 tie whether or not to allow this proposal at its Tuesday meeting.

The store, located at 42 to 46 Overlea Blvd., would include 625 parking spaces and an 18-pump gas bar, as proposed.

Coca-Cola Refreshments Canada closed its operations in the early 2000s at the site. The bottling plant had been demolished. The three-storey office building was retained on the southwest portion of the property.

Eleven community members spoke at community council, a majority of whom stood against it, while others opposed only the gas station and a few speakers supported the development.

While it’s located in the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood, the property falls within the Leaside Business Park.

Ward 26 (Don Valley West) Councillor Jon Burnside acknowledged the proposal is a divisive one, saying the majority of Thorncliffe Park residents >>>STORE, page 3

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Crosstown rivals East York, Leaside play pair of games An always anticipated highlight of the local fall high school sports calendar is set for this Friday with the East York Collegiate Goliaths hosting their crosstown rivals, the Leaside High School Lancers, in an afternoon of football.

The junior game is set to start at 3 p.m. followed by the senior game at 5 p.m.

In some past years, this has been a Friday Night Lights contest but that’s not the case this season.

Fall high school sports are now well under way including football, girls field hockey, boys soccer, girls basketball and boys volleyball.

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School sex-ed protest continues in Thorncliffe TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com Hundreds of Thorncliffe Park parents are continuing their fight against Ontario’s new health and physical education curriculum, which they say is too explicit and against their personal values.

Approximately 730 children, more than half the students, at Thorncliffe Park Public School were absent Oct. 1, kept from school by their parents in protest of the changes. Parents and children gathered outside the school, forming a human chain before lining the street carrying signs reading, “Say no to irresponsible sex-ed; parents are first educators, not politicians; rights to choose gender, but no rights to choose education,” and more.

The protest, dubbed Empty Schools, was organized by Canadian Families Alliance, who asked parents provincewide to join them in pulling their children from school. At a press conference held the same day in a nearby community centre, representatives of various parents’ groups from the alliance said protests will continue until the curriculum is repealed.

“If the parents were given the choice, most parents would reject this new curriculum,” said Khalid Mahmood, from Thorncliffe Parents Association.

“We are not going to sit back, we are spreading the word to more schools, to more parents.”

Hundreds of students absent Approximately 300 of the 640 students at the all-Kindergarten Fraser Mustard Early Learning Academy, adjacent to Thorncliffe Park Public School, were absent in protest as well.

No other Toronto public schools saw increased absences that day.

In fact, it was the highest-attended day throughout the Toronto District School Board in at least a week. More than 98 per cent of students attended school board-wide that day, according to TDSB spokesperson Ryan Bird.

Within the Toronto Catholic District School Board, 40 children were absent as a result of the protest, of the board’s approximately 91,000 students. No significant number of students were

People at the protest said not enough parents were consulted during the curriculum’s development.

Sandals noted more than 70 healthrelated organizations provided input, and consultations were held with parents, students, teachers, education faculties, universities, colleges, police and several stakeholders, including the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the Ontario Public Health Association, Ontario Healthy Schools Coalition and more.

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Parents and students protest provincial sex-ed policies during a rally in Thorncliffe Park which saw numerous students in the community not attend school last Thursday.

absent from any one TCDSB school, according to board spokesperson John Yan. During the Empty Schools press conference, Mahmood outlined plans for continued protests. He announced Thorncliffe Parents Association is considering filing a lawsuit against the province, and will continue another protest that has kept some kids from attending school since it started in September. The children are said to be receiving group home-schooling at a Thorncliffe community centre and park.

He also announced the parents association will call for another province-wide protest Friday, Oct. 30. They are dubbing that protest Black Days, and plan to repeat it monthly.

Representatives who spoke at the press conference said they believe the curriculum puts children’s mental and sexual health at risk. They said the material is age-inappropriate, too explicit, doesn’t do enough to protect kids against sexually transmitted diseases, and promotes homosexuality and transgenderism.

“Children will be taught the disputed theory of gender identity and gender fluidity, which is the notion that a little boy can become a little girl in his mind, or vice versa, they can switch back and forth, that being

a boy or girl is unconnected to your physical anatomy,” said Jack Fonseca, from Campaign Life Coalition.

“The homosexual lifestyle will be normalized, without regard for the religious or moral beliefs of traditionally principled families.”

Parents upset The protesting parents are upset they can’t opt out of the portion of the curriculum that deals with those topics, called human development and sexual health. Schools plan to start that portion of the program in the spring.

Following the recent protest, Donna Quan, director of education for TDSB, and Liz Sandals, Ontario’s education minister, released statements addressing the parents’ concerns.

Sandals said the curriculum, last updated in 1998, was dangerously out of date. It’s unfortunate children are missing out on their schooling, she added. “This updated curriculum will ensure that students stay safe, healthy and well-informed,” she said.

“It is disappointing some parents have chosen to keep their children home from school. We are always concerned when students are missing important subjects like math, science and English.”

Quan said the curriculum will be taught in a respectful manner that is developmentally and age appropriate. She urged protesting parents to return their kids to class. “Every day a student is not in the classroom is a precious day of their education lost,” she said. “For many years, TDSB schools have made accommodations for students based on their religious beliefs and practices, and we will continue to do so. However, we will not allow students to opt out of lessons or classroom discussions about gender identity or sexual orientation.

As a public school board, we believe that it is important to foster greater understanding by students about the topics, and to promote a learning environment that is consistent with the protections against discrimination found in the Ontario Human Rights Code.”

The protests will continue until their demand to keep their children from those lessons, and others, is met, vowed parents at the press conference, who said they will continue exploring private and home-school options.

“The Liberal regime of Kathleen Wynne is actually pushing kids out of the public education system,” said Fonseca.

“What we want is a total repeal of this curriculum, and to start over with a genuine and meaningful parental consultation process,” he added. “I really commend the parents, and the families and the children of Thorncliffe Park here, because they are helping to lead the charge to protect all the children in Ontario.”

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Store planned for former Coca-Cola offices

>>>from page 1 approve of the Costco store, while most of Leaside residents oppose it.

Speakers who opposed the store were concerned about the negative impacts on traffic, pedestrian safety, walkability of the neighbourhood, the effects on local businesses, changing neighbourhood character, loss of vacant space that could be used to improve the neighbourhood, loss of green space and more.

Those who were for the new store said it provides needed employment opportunities in a high-immigrant neighbourhood.

The Costco development would preserve portions of the existing Coca-Cola office building into the design of the new store. The developer would also pay $650,000 towards capital improvements in Thorncliffe Park (Section 37) for such things as parks, community centre, or recreational facility. The developer said the restaurant at this Costco would be open to all, not just members. There would also be a tire centre, a garden centre, and a propane filling centre.

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If you don’t complete a major school assignment, you could get a failing grade. If you don’t go to work one day, you may not get paid.

If you don’t vote on election day, you won’t exercise your democratic right to choose your elected official. That consequence is a fact. It’s non-negotiable and it should concern you.

On Monday, Oct. 19, Canadians head to the polls to cast a ballot in the longest election campaign this country has seen in 143 years.

Some will tell you the economy is the biggest issue, others will say it’s national security or health care.

What you need to know is what the most important issue is for you and your family. Investigate it, so on election day, you can make an informed decision.

The York Guardian wants to help you make that informed decision. We have posed four questions to Conservative, Liberal, NDP our view the and Green party candidates running in this election, in every Learn about riding, across the city.

Some have responded. Some candidates; haven’t.

They will all experience a consequence of their choice to cast your vote participate – good or bad – in letting the electorate know their stance on the issues.

You can learn more about them in today’s paper, and we hope it gives you a better understanding of the issues and inspires you to get out and vote.

You have many opportunities to become engaged prior to election day. Attend an all-candidates’ meeting, go online to find out more about candidates and don’t be afraid to ask them questions.

Don’t wait until you’ve lost your job to understand the state of our economy. Don’t wait until a loved one has been diagnosed with dementia before you realize the importance of having a national strategy.

Visit us at www.insidetoronto.com/toronto-news/ federal-election for a plethora of stories from the start of this campaign right up until election day.

There’s even information on advance polls in case you are not able to vote on Oct. 19.

Whether on election day or at an advance poll, make sure you get out and vote. Exercise your democratic right.

If you don’t, that’s a consequence you’ll have to live with for the next term.

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Expand museum plan for Old City Hall Toronto’s story is big enough to take up plenty of space

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ven in grumpy, contrary, old Toronto, occasionally an obviously good idea emerges that pretty much everyone agrees on. So it is this week, with a multilateral desire to install a City of Toronto Museum in Old City Hall.

No one – not even our grumpiest, most contrary representative, Ward 2’s Rob Ford – spoke any way other than glowingly about the idea of putting a museum inside the grand old building at Bay and Queen streets.

It will have to wait until the provincial government moves its court operation out of there once and for all.

But then, the city will be

david nickle the city free to do with the 160,000 square feet of usable space inside as it sees fit.

The only catch?

Proponents of the museum have done a tally of the material available in the city’s archives and estimate the museum doesn’t really need much more than 30,000 square feet.

Which gives the city the option of looking for other uses for the remaining 130,000 square feet… which of course is exactly what’s happening.

City staff has obtained a report indicating that the remaining space would do well as a sort of shopping mall, leased to a property manager who would fill the place up with rent-paying shops.

Councillor Ford, an enthusiastic supporter of the museum, suggested

the city might want to lease the remaining space to an hotelier, who might also set up a fancy restaurant at the site.

Making money off the soon-to-be-untenanted site seems to be a common theme for now, and that may change: the government management committee voted to ask staff to spend the next two years refining plans and consulting with the public.

Here’s hoping that as the city refines the plans, it thinks more expansively about, well, expanding that museum plan.

There is no need to limit a museum that delves into Toronto’s history and its current state to simply a 30,000-square-foot singular display. Toronto’s story is bigger than that.

This summer, I found myself in Stockholm, Sweden, and while there found time to visit the Nordiska Museum – a museum of cultural his-

tory dedicated to telling the story of life in Sweden, from the 16th century to the present.

It fills a building not so different in size and architectural presence from Old City Hall, and it uses that space to talk about everything from textiles, children’s toys and Christmas traditions to the Swedish love affair with sugar.

It’s not difficult to imagine a large, expansive museum that talks about Toronto, the many peoples who have made this place their home and helped build it into what it is.

As Canada’s largest municipality, Toronto’s story is more and more Canada’s story, too.

Limiting such a museum to a 30,000-square-foot wing of such a striking building would be a shame, a squandering of a rare opportunity.

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Federal election day is October 19.

Did your voter information card arrive in the mail?

It tells you that you’re registered to vote, and explains when and where you can vote.

If you didn’t receive one, or if it has the wrong name or address, check, update or complete your registration at elections.ca. Or call 1-800-463-6868 ( TTY 1-800-361-8935).

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joe cooper watchdog positions were held by women.

That is 107 out of 473 directorships and 165 out of 522 senior managers.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) determined that women spend more than 35 per cent of their income on child care. The Conservative’s answer to this was not to help establish a national daycare program, but instead offer parents a cash payment of $160 a month for children under six and $60 for children six to 17.

Parents are then taxed on this subsidy, which does not come near the real-world needs for covering child-care costs. As we’ve seen in the news, women are facing systemic violence at the hands of men, which cuts across all groups of income, heritage and social status. Women with disabilities risk sexual assault at a rate 150 per cent higher than women without and indigenous women face a rate that is 35 times greater than non-indigenous women. Despite this, the Conservatives slashed the funding for the Ministry of the Status of Women, which resulted in massive cuts to gender equality groups across Canada; groups whose purpose is to address the root causes of such assaults and support women who have been assaulted.

I hope that articulates the Conservative’s policy’s toward women in Canada today and explains my statement.

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Toronto-Danforth, represented in Ottawa by NDP MP Craig Scott since March 2012, is bounded by Lake Ontario to the south, Taylor Creek and the Don River East Branch to the north, Coxwell Avenue/Coxwell Boulevard to the east, and the Don River to the west. Running to represent the riding is Liberal candidate Julie Dabrusin, Benjamin Dichter (Conservatives) and Chris Tolley (Green Party). The riding’s incumbent, Craig Scott, is running for re-election. Dichter did not send in responses to our questions. Elizabeth Abbott is also running for the Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada, while John Richardson is the candidate for the Progressive Canadian Party.

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Julie Dabrusin | 647-285-2248

■ I have a track record of taking action on the issues facing our community in TorontoDanforth for nearly 20 years – however, there is a limit to how much we can do without a federal partner for cities. Locally, we need a strong advocate with integrity who is responsive to people. We need immediate investments to address packed subway cars, create new child care spaces and re-invest in affordable housing now. Our Liberal Plan will deliver.

With humanitarian crises continuing across the globe, what role should Canada play in assisting those people find their better future?

■ Leading this country means bringing people together with hope for the future. We have a responsibility to significantly expand our refugee targets and give more victims of war a safe haven in Canada. It is time for action at the federal level. The government can, and must, do more to offer refuge to the Syrian men, women and children who so desperately need it. Canadians know that this is a time to work together.

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■ Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia put enormous emotional stress on millions of families and cost our health-care system billions of dollars every year. A Liberal government will provide leadership and deliver a pan-Canadian dementia strategy. We must repair the federal government’s relationships with provincial and territorial partners to tackle these and other critical health needs while investing in research and prevention.

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■ I took a break from my career as a bilingual litigation lawyer to raise my family here in the Toronto-Danforth. I take action when I see things that need doing – like starting the Danforth Hunger Squad for Second Harvest, The Friends of Withrow Park and spearheading community action to save our local swimming pools – I am always guided by my commitment to social justice and a desire to inspire and contribute to concrete change.

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Craig Scott | 416-900-3725 craigscott.ndp.ca | @craigscottNDP

Chris Tolley | 647-800-5020 www.greenparty.ca/en/riding/ 2013-35109

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■ My priority is to close the income inequality gap in Toronto. The NDP has made ground-breaking commitments toward this goal: $15-per-day child care; funding for affordable housing; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement to lift seniors out of poverty; and a better transit plan to get Torontonians moving.

Protecting the environment is also a key priority. The NDP will enact our Climate Change Accountability Act to cut carbon pollution and build a cleaner, more sustainable Canada.

■ The Syrian refugee disaster is the largest humanitarian crisis on the globe right now and Canada has a moral obligation to meet the challenge. I have been personally involved going back over a year with Syrian refugee support activists and organizationsm to demand a more robust response to the crisis from the Harper government. The NDP’s five-part plan includes meeting the UN’s request that we take in 10,000 refugees before year’s end, and at least 35,000 more over the next four years.

■ Yes. New Democrats have committed to investing $40 million to create a National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Strategy. This announcement was built on the hard work of my NDP colleague Claude Gravelle, who led the way in pushing this issue in Parliament.

Our plan will support screening, early diagnosis and treatment to help slow progression of the conditions; improve resources for newly diagnosed patients and their families; and fund additional research.

■ As Official Opposition Critic for Democratic Reform, I championed proportional representation and led the fight against Harper’s Unfair Elections Act. I brought my background in international law to the NDP’s opposition to Bill C-51 – Harper’s spy-state-expansion bill.

Prior to politics, I taught human rights law (among other areas) at Osgoode Hall and the University of Toronto. I currently live in East York with my partner Aeh.

■ As a longtime resident of Toronto-Danforth, my priorities include a modern economy that promotes growth through fair international trade agreements and investment in green industries and innovation that will create thousands of jobs. Second, we must move to a proportional representation voting system, while in the meantime, the Green Party will never whip votes, leaving me free to represent my constituents.

Third, promote arts and culture as an essential element to our Canadian identity.

■ Canada must commit to climate action, as global warming and food insecurity hit the world’s vulnerable populations the hardest.

We must also build strong First Nations and indigenous communities here in Canada. Third, we must also realign our spending priorities to enhance our disaster relief capacity and reduce our commitment to ineffective military actions.

Lastly, we must do more to actively welcome refugees from humanitarian crises to Canada.

■ Canada must protect our public health-care system and implement a complementary national senior’s strategy. First, we must encourage spending on preventative medicine. Secondly, a key plank in the Green Party platform is a National Dementia Strategy, including more long-term care beds in neighbourhood facilities, improved pharmacare, creation and promotion of intergenerational programs, expansion of CPP and an overall priority for “aging in place.”

■ I have been a resident of Toronto-Danforth since 1999. I have always been very active in supporting my east-end community, from sponsoring local youth soccer teams to supporting the fight against the Toronto Island airport expansion. I am also an award-winning playwright and theatre director and am co-director and founder of EXPECT Theatre, which runs several community and educational programs for underprivileged Toronto youth. I live in Leslieville with my wife, Dharini, and our daughter, Olive.

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■ As Prime Minister Harper has stated, the crisis must be addressed at three levels: confronting ISIS militarily, providing humanitarian aid, and through refugee resettlement. Only Stephen Harper is willing to confront ISIS. We have also contributed more than three quarters of a billion dollars to humanitarian relief in the region. And Minister Alexander has announced balanced measures to speed up the processing of refugees.

■ In Budget 2015, our Conservative Government committed to contribute $42 million to the new Canadian Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation at Baycrest Health Science Centre. Moreover, we announced important initiatives such as renewing the mandate of the Mental Health Commission, and launching the National Dementia Research and Prevention Plan. The NDP make lavish spending promises they can’t afford to keep. Only our Conservative Government has a proven record of delivering for Canadians.

■ I’ve lived in the riding for 18 years. I have a young family and have been involved in my community. As a former President of the Kew Beach DayCare, Kew Beach Neighbourhood Association, and on the Board of the Flemingdon Health Centre, I’ve fought for infrastructure renewal, responsible development, childcare and healthcare issues. I believe that if you hold public office, you need to be open and accessible to ALL your constituents. Help me turn Beaches-East York blue, and I will be there for you!

■ My first priority for Toronto is long-term predictable funding from the federal government.

A Liberal government will invest in infrastructure, by quadrupling public transit investment and building more affordable housing, seniors’ facilities, and childcare spaces. We will also invest in people, by strengthening benefits for seniors, creating 120,000 youth jobs, and bringing 315,000 children out of poverty. Finally, we will invest in knowledge, by restoring the long-form census so that cities can make smart decisions.

■ A Liberal government will immediately resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees. We will then reassess how we can help further. Doing it quickly doesn’t mean we have to take shortcuts, and according to Rick Hillier (former chief of the defence staff), we have the resources to screen applicants for security. We will also recommit our country to its peacekeeping tradition, by making our troops and capabilities available to the UN in peace operations around the world.

■ I support the Canadian Medical Association’s call for a national seniors’ strategy. That includes a specific dementia care strategy of increased funding for research and caregiver support. It also means an emphasis on proper nutrition and physical activity, a national pharmacare program, and increased funding for long-term care facilities and home care. Implementing this national strategy will both improve seniors’ quality of care and save our healthcare system billions of dollars.

■ I’m an advocate. I practise law at a commercial litigation firm downtown, and have won public interest cases at the Divisional Court and Human Rights Tribunal. I studied politics and constitutional law at Queen’s and Oxford, where I played varsity baseball. I will be a strong voice for our community in Ottawa.

I grew up in the riding, attended local schools, and played baseball on local fields. I now live here with my wife, Amy.

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Nathaniel Erskine-Smith

Canada is soon expected to see a dramatic increase in dementia cases among our senior population.

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■ My first priority for Toronto and for all of Canada is to protect our fragile economy.

With a $5 billion surplus so far this year we’re pursuing a low-tax, balanced budget plan to protect Canadian jobs and growth in the face of global uncertainty. Maintaining the economy will allow a Conservative Government to invest in other local priorities such as transit funding and infrastructure renewal.

Bill Burrows | 647-985-8431

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Randall Sach | 647-933-5593 www.randallsach.ca

With humanitarian crises continuing across the globe, what role should Canada play in assisting those people find their better future?

Canada is soon expected to see a dramatic increase in dementia cases among our senior population.

Would you support a national strategy on dementia? What needs to happen to address the issue?

■ As Urban Affairs, Infrastructure and Deputy Transport Critic for my Caucus, I wrote our urban agenda. It focuses on the need for investment in infrastructure to ensure sustainability and a prosperity more equally shared. That includes a dedicated public transit fund of $1.3B annually, an additional $1.5B annual transfer of the federal gas tax to cities for infrastructure priorities (including public transit), investment in housing including the extension of long-term agreements to co-ops and social housing, childcare and a new governance infrastructure.

■ Through policy and conduct as the Official Opposition, we have positioned an NDP government to be an active force for peaceful resolution of conflict around the world. My work on the garment industry and the work of colleagues on conflict minerals and mining seeks to end exploitation of workers around the world. We will ensure Canada participates in multilateral efforts and shoulders its responsibility for the resolution of international issues including climate change, peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance, beginning with the Syrian crisis.

■ We have pledged to put in place a National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Strategy. We will invest $40 million to support research, screening, early diagnosis and treatment of these diseases.

I know from personal experience that dementia in all of its forms requires intensive support from families and/or special residential requirements.

Respite services and home healthcare are crucial components of that support. An NDP government will provide funding to allow for home health care for 41,000 seniors and work with provinces to create 5,000 additional LTC beds.

■ I was born in Hull, Quebec. I was adopted at an early age and raised in Kingston, Ontario.

I met my wife Donna when we were both students at the University of Glasgow. We were engaged in three months and now married 25 years. I have lived in this riding for almost 20 years. Donna and I have raised our three kids here. That makes this place – the sidewalks, the parks, the arenas – home for me. It is my foothold. It is deep in the heart of me.

■ I would like to contribute to making Toronto a more liveable city. This involves improving and expanding public transit and building more affordable housing, among other things. We need to combat income inequality by providing a Guaranteed Livable Income so no one needs to live in poverty, and free tuition so people can more easily train and re-train for the jobs of the future in the knowledge economy.

We need a city that works for all of the people, not just the privileged few.

■ While there are many humanitarian crises in the world today I will focus on the situation in the Middle East. The first thing Canada can do to alleviate the refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe is to end our participation of the bombing of Iraq and Syria. It is one of the factors driving the mass migration out of Syria, has had a negligible impact on ISIS, and does nothing to stop Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from continuing his assault on his own people.

Canada should return to it’s traditional role as a peace-keeper.

■ My mother suffers from this debilitating condition, so I understand the impact first hand, and I would absolutely support a national strategy on dementia. With our aging population, government needs to plan for a large increase in dementia cases. This would involve increasing home care services and long-term care facility spaces. Beyond that, government should invest in more research about dementia, and the cause is not well understood and there is no cure (yet).

■ I have worked all my life to help to lift people out of poverty. The early part of my career was in social housing managing housing co-ops, and briefly two homeless shelters, in Toronto. For the last 25 years I worked in the field of international development for several non-governmental organizations, and later for the Government of Canada, in a variety of countries including Mexico, Mozambique, Philippines, Afghanistan and Vietnam. The projects I worked in were in sectors including housing, environment, education, and water and sanitation.

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Don Valley West is currently represented by Conservative John Carmichael, who has held the riding since the 2011 federal election when he beat Liberal incumbent Rob Oliphant. Carmichael is being challenged by Natalie Hunt of the Green Party, former Don Valley West MP Oliphant, and law student Syeda Riaz of the NDP, along with independent Sharon Cromwell, Elizabeth Hill of the Communist Party of Canada, and John Kittredge of the Libertarian Party. The Mirror asked the Liberal, Conservative, Green, and New Democrat candidates to respond to four question leading up to the Oct. 19 federal election. Hunt did not respond to questionnaire requests.

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John Carmichael | 416-465-4444

■ The economy and transit remain the top campaign issues in Don Valley West.

A newly elected Conservative government will continue to support policies that create jobs and grow our economy. We will also make good on our commitment to invest billions in transit projects that will reduce gridlock in the GTA and help Don Valley West residents get home to their families faster.

www.johncarmichael.ca

With humanitarian crises continuing across the globe, what role should Canada play in assisting those people find their better future?

■ Canada is one of the most generous countries in the world when it comes to humanitarian aid and a re-elected Conservative Government will continue to be a global leader in fighting the root cause of the Syrian refugee crisis, the socalled Islamic State. Unlike Justin Trudeau, a re-elected Conservative government will continue to support our NATO allies by participating in the military mission to destroy the death-cult ISIS.

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■ The Conservative Party understands the tremendous impacts dementia has on those diagnosed with it, their families and our communities. The Conservative Party is committed to working with our international counterparts to support additional research with a view to finding a cure for dementia by 2025. That is why the Conservative government invested more than $30 million in a national dementia research initiative just last year.

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■ My wife Kerry and I have lived in the community for the past 35 years. In that time we have raised three children and have been blessed with five grandchildren. We are truly committed to this great community and it has been an honour to represent the people of Don Valley West.

I look forward to being re-elected and serving as their representative and Member of Parliament.

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Rob Oliphant | 416-421-6515 www.RobOliphant.Liberal.ca

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■ As the MP for Don Valley West from 2008 to 2011, I fought for job creation, economic growth, and transit. Under Stephen Harper, Toronto hasn’t gotten its fair share.

Liberals will quadruple federal investment in public transit to reduce traffic, gridlock and pollution. We will also invest in jobs and growth by helping the middle class keep more of their pay cheque, making post-secondary education more affordable and supporting job creation for young people.

■ We must restore Canada’s reputation for peace and tolerance around the world – starting with doing more to help refugees who are seeking safety. A Liberal government will take immediate action to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada – something Justin Trudeau has been calling for since March. Additionally, the government needs to help Canadians who want to sponsor and support refugees. Lastly, we need to restore funding for settlement services and English language training.

■ Liberals want to address all aspects of seniors’ wellbeing, starting with retirement security and restoring eligibility for OAS and GIS to 65. As our population ages, more patients with dementia will need care – which is why we will provide more caregiver benefits and prioritize significant new investment in seniors’ residences and research. I have personally worked to establish two residential facilities for people with dementia, one in midtown and one in North York.

■ It was an honour to serve as the MP for Don Valley West from 2008-2011. I am running again because my work for this community is not done. Most recently, I served as president and CEO of a national health charity, and before that as a minister at Eglinton St. George’s United Church in north Toronto. I believe strongly in service to make people’s lives better – and hope to continue this work as your MP.

■ My priorities in Don Valley West are affordable childcare. NDP is going to provide families with $15 a day daycare. $15 an hour federal minimum wage, repealing bill C51, long-term care for our veterans and care for veterans with PTSD, family reunification program, and lowering small business taxes from 11 per cent to 9 per cent.

■ Canada has been home to many people who have found a better future when crisis has struck in their country.

An example I can give you is of the Syrian crisis and what the NDP has put forward.

Getting 10,000 government-sponsored refugees out of harm’s way and on the way to Canada by the end of this year.

■ NDP will work with provinces and territories, and invest $40 million to create a national Alzheimer’s and Dementia Strategy that will support screening, early diagnosis and treatment to help slow progression of the conditions; improve resources for newly diagnosed patients and their families to access needed care; fund additional Alzheimer’s and dementia research, ensuring that activities are being co-ordinated to maximize resources and results.

■ I am a law student and grassroots worker who started volunteering with the NDP at the age of 13. Jack Layton’s campaign was my first experience with the NDP and from then on I have been involved with the NDP. I have a small online clothing business that I started in high school. I am also a painter, and all the proceeds of my paintings go to fund education for girls in Pakistan.

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his was supposed to be their time.

With their son off to university and successful careers behind them, Bruce Rhodes and his wife, Liz, both 58, had expected these would be the years to reap the rewards of a full life together.

Instead, they are battling a disease together, one they both, at times, believe is worse than death.

“Ohhh, I am an idiot!” said Liz as she hops up and down in their sunny Richmond Hill kitchen.

“My brain is broken,” she smacks her hands against her head, letting out a long, keening wail.

Bruce pays no mind to her bizarre behaviour, grateful she is no longer talking about hating herself and wanting to die.

“We were so perfectly matched,” said Bruce, a retired software developer. “We were intellectually compatible and I trusted her completely.”

Now, due to dementia, their world has shrunk, travel and social gatherings long past.

Bruce spends his time trying to

keep Liz safe, fed, bathed and properly medicated, struggling not to turn to booze or bash a hole in the wall in frustration.

Liz, who was an author and university professor before frontotemporal dementia began destroying her brain, now lives in her own private world of confusion, battling his efforts to care for her, struggling to escape.

He can’t leave her alone and they rarely leave home. Outings are challenging and at times embarrassing, said Bruce, with his beloved wife now behaving like an unruly five year old.

“Dementia is vicious, just vicious,” he said.

It can be a lonely existence for the caregiver who must bear the burden of day-to-day life and for the person with dementia whose increasing confusion can leave them housebound and isolated.

Research has shown connected people are healthy people, and yet the Alzheimer’s Society 2014 survey reports 40 per cent of people with dementia felt lonely and 34 per

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Caregivers reported the same.

“It’s a family illness,” said occupational therapist Nira Rittenberg.

“It affects the person cognitively and emotionally. Caregiving time is intense.”

Rittenberg, co-author of the guidebook Dementia: A Caregiver’s Guide, oversees a psycho-educational support group. Families make the trek to Baycrest Health Sciences in Toronto seeking her help for a myriad of concerns – from what to do when

the patient doesn’t want to attend doctor appointments or asks the same question repeatedly, to issues stirred up between siblings caring for parents.

There is an emotional toll, “losing that personhood is hard for everyone to watch,” along with a physical and financial one, and it may be why 80 per cent of caregivers end up with their own disorders and issues, she said.

The person with dementia, meanwhile, finds himself increasingly isolated.

In a n A l z h e i m e r D i s e a s e International survey of more than 2,400 people from 54 countries, more than 75 per cent of respondents with dementia said they’ve noticed a negative stigma about the disease, most commonly being discounted or marginalized by others.

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Kuriakose is calling for urgent action and said the focus on late-stage dementia and a belief that nothing can be done to help leads to hopelessness and fear of negative reactions.

“People start fearing ‘viral dementia,’” Rittenberg said. “It’s not that they think they’ll ‘catch’ it, but they may hide from it because they can’t deal with it, especially if they’re of the same age cohort.”

Unlike those with physical challenges, there is no wheelchair or visible indication of a disability. As one patient puts it, “when something’s wrong with your mind, it feels like something is wrong with you.”

In the early stages, those with dementia may become withdrawn, aware they can’t keep up in social settings, but Maisie Jackson is determined not to let that happen.

The Niagara Falls resident said >>>BOBCAYGEON, page 15

GLOBAL VISION Across the globe, innovations and dementia-friendly management programs are helping to eradicate stigma and ensure people with dementia continue to enjoy a high quality of life after diagnosis: THE NETHERLANDS When visitors first tour Hogewey, in the Netherlands, they see what appears to be a typical village with residents roaming laneways and houses, parks, supermarket, theatre and restaurants.

In fact, this village is actually a cutting-edge facility for those with

advanced dementia. Cameras monitor residents, caregivers wear street clothes and operate “businesses” and the entire community – the size of 10 football fields – is securely enclosed.

The theory is that in most cases, as the disease progresses, those with dementia leave the “real” world; problems occur when we try to drag them back into reality.

SOUTH KOREA In South Korea, recognized as the fastest-aging country in the world, a dementia management law man-

dates that citizens older than 65 be checked for dementia symptoms and in each of the city’s 25 urban districts, a dementia centre offers activities and social connections.

LONDON, UK The Community Care Model for Dementia is an innovative practice in northeast London.

A rapid-response support team made up of nurses, support workers and psychiatrists acts as a safety net to help those with dementia stay out of hospital. The team provides crisis support in the patient’s home

and has been able to reduce the rate of hospital admissions and length of hospital stays.

GERMANY Germany’s Alzheimer Society hosts a website called ‘Alzheimer and You’ aimed at people aged 14 to 21. It’s part of a national program to help youth understand dementia and includes tips, memory tests, contests and project ideas for schools.

SCOTLAND The concept of dementia dogs is being explored in Scotland to help those with mild cognitive impairment maintain their waking, sleeping and eating routine, remind them to take medication and stay active in the community. The project was the brainchild of a student from the Glasgow School of Art. what’s happening closer to + Learn home; read our story online at www.insidetoronto.com/dementia

>>>from page 14 she was devastated to learn she had dementia two years ago.

“I thought the end had come, my life was over. I didn’t tell anyone.”

She worried she would waste away like her mother, aunt and older sister before her, alone in a rocking chair, clutching a baby doll.

Instead, she clutches a thick daybook jam-packed with appointments, conferences and meetings at the local Alzheimer’s society.

“The society gave me my life back,” said the former director of sales at Niagara’s Pillar and Post Inn. Her days are busy mentoring others, attending board meetings and giving presentations across the province. She no longer hides her diagnosis.

“If I’m having trouble, I just say ‘Give me a moment please, I have dementia.’”

Communicating with others about the disease has given her life new purpose, she said.

Jackson has learned life does not end when the diagnosis begins. A slew of promising new programs bolsters that view – from as far away as the Netherlands, where an entire enclosed village was created for dementia residents, to the Kawartha town of Bobcaygeon, where Blue Umbrella logos open doors, and minds, for those experiencing cognitive decline.

During the summer months, Bobcaygeon is bustling with tourists, cottagers and retirees.

It’s also speckled with little Blue Umbrella decals that let those with dementia know they

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The Blue Umbrella is a unique project garnering interest across Canada.

Designed to combat stigma and promote awareness, the program provides umbrella pins to those with dementia.

Window decals are given to businesses trained to help with challenges such as bank machines, crowded spaces and communicating with staff.

Nearly 50 of an estimated 200 Bobcaygeon residents with dementia have registered to wear the pins since it was launched last April, said Pat Finkle, the local Alzheimer Society’s former client support co-ordinator.

About 70 businesses have joined so far.

“We’ve done phenomenally well,” Finkle said.

“People are talking about it more and the person with dementia is being talked with more, too, and engaged in the community. The more people who are out wearing that blue umbrella, the more we are changing the perception of what dementia is.”

Buoyed by the Bobcaygeon success, the Alzheimer Society of Ontario has decided to expand the program to five more communities across the province and is seeking funding to help make it grow.

A similar program, Dementia Friends, was launched in June through the Alzheimer Society of Canada.

The society received $1.8 million in federal funding to launch the program and hopes to encourage a million Canadians to sign on at www.DementiaFriends.ca by 2017.

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Alzheimer’s Disease

Frontotemporal Dementia

Vascular Dementia

Dementia with Lewy Bodies

This is the most common cause of dementia. It accounts for 60 to 80 per cent of cases. During the course of the disease, the chemistry and structure of the brain changes, leading to the death of brain cells.

FTD is caused by progressive nerve cell loss in the brain’s frontal lobes. Personality and behaviour are initially more affected than memory. People with FTD generally develop symptoms at a younger age (about age 60).

If the oxygen supply to the brain fails, brain cells may die. The symptoms of vascular dementia can occur either suddenly, following a stroke, or over time, through a series of small strokes.

This form of dementia gets its name from tiny spherical structures that develop inside nerve cells. Their presence in the brain leads to the degeneration of brain tissue.

Alzheimers.net and + Sources: the Alzheimer’s Association

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s a young volunteer and recreation therapist working in long-term care homes, Ashley Kwong saw the worst of the worst.

“I saw it all, from cockroach-laden plates, food all pureed together, to residents who’d strip down because they had no AC and then get yelled at by staff,” she recalls. “I felt powerless; who could I call?”

She decided to tackle the problem herself, returning to university to study gerontology, then establishing her own service for those with dementia – one that is getting noticed worldwide.

Memory & Company doesn’t look like a daycare for people with dementia and it doesn’t bill itself as such, either.

Instead, it’s referred to as Canada’s first Alzheimer’s health club.

Tucked inside an industrial park in Markham, the 11,000-square-foot facility is custom-designed to meet the needs of those with dementia with a “club-like, non-institutional

Staff photo/NICK IWANYSHYN

Frank Flanagan of Thornhill participates in an exercise class at Memory & Company.

feel.”

Unlike most daycare programs, this centre features multiple, brightly lit activity rooms connected in a circular layout, allowing clients to wander securely (without agitating doors and dead-ends) and choose

activities that interest them.

One library-like room is filled with coffee table books, records and magazines, another music room has iPads downloaded with favourite songs, photos and videos, old-fashioned turntables, cassette decks and musical instruments. A dress-up room offers a vintage makeup table with jewelry, purses and a camera for fun photo shoots, another resembles an office with maps, puzzles and older office equipment clients might recognize from their working days.

“We have to get people to change their mindset for what day programs can be,” Kwong said.

Society is increasingly focused on aging in place, but few options for meaningful activity or relationships are available for those with dementia at home except occasional respite and the TV, she said.

“People want to enjoy their day no matter who they are,” Kwong said.

by KIM ZARZOUR

BREAKING BARRIERS

Staff photo/STEVE SOMERVILLE

ONLINE >> TACKLING STIGMA AMONG ETHNIC CULTURES: Maniben Patel, left, and Gursaran Kaur Singh lead participants in a dance, as part of the South Asian adult day program in Unionville. Dementia is a challenge for all family members, but among some ethnic communities, the shame associated with it can be devastating.

Reporter Kim Zarzour writes about a son who quit his job to move in with his South Asian parents when caring for his father became too much for his mother; the difficulty people have moving into long-term care because of the culture shock and guilt that goes along with it; and the trouble of communicating across language barriers. Read the full story online at www.insidetoronto.com/dementia

YOUR THOUGHTS Have you had personal experience with dementia or are you a caregiver for someone living with the disease? Do you have thoughts on our series and what needs to be done to get our population and

health care system ready for the future? Let us know your opinion in an email to press@insidetoronto. com, or mail to 175 Gordon Baker Rd., Toronto, ON, M2H 0A2.

SEE THE WHOLE SERIES online, including our features, resources and videos. Visit www.insidetoronto.com/dementia Series lead editor: GRACE PEACOCK Design: JULIE CASPERSEN

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