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Chef Jamie Oliver joined members of the Stop Marketing to Kids Coalition at Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto last Thursday to talk about childhood obesity.

The panel discussion also featured Nick Saul, p re s i d e n t a n d C E O o f Community Food Centres of Canada; Dr. Jan Hux, chief science officer for Canadian Diabetes Association; Dr. Tom Warshawski, pediatrician and CEO of Community Food Centres of Canada; Geoff Craig, chief marketing officer for Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada; youth advocate Nathan Sing; and Canadian Senator Nancy Greene Raine.

“This conversation is important,” said Oliver. “The biggest business on this planet is the food business ... and we have a broken system.”

He urged Canada to be a world leader in creating policies that help people make healthy choices - banning the

marketing of unhealthy food and drinks to kids, adding kid-sized portion information to food labels and taxing sugary drinks to fund health initiatives like expanded food education in schools.

He also urged the Canadian government to ensure all kids, including those in Indigenous communities, have access to affordable healthy food choices.

“I think it’s important that we remember that kids are not born on Earth to just eat nuggets,” he said. “This is not genetic. We created this. It’s called marketing, it’s called comfort, it’s called familiarity.”

Unhealthy diets are taking years off Canadians’ lives at the same rate as cigarettes, the panel noted, and creating an unsustainable burden on our health care system.

“We cannot afford to do nothing,” said Hux. The panel members stressed the need for independent regulation of food marketing in Canada.

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is a failure,” said Craig. “The standards are lax, participation is voluntary and there is more advertising and marketing to children than ever before.

“We know that over 90 per cent of food decisions in the household are driven by children,” he added. “The ‘nag factor’ does not come out of nowhere - it is driven by marketing messages. It is not a fair fight for parents. Winning the battle for harmony often means losing the battle for health.”

More than 30 per cent of Canadian kids ages 5 to 17 are overweight or obese, a number that continues to climb.

“The doubling and tripling of obesity and diet-related disease in the last 30 years in most of our developing countries is phenomenal,” Oliver said. “There’s 43 million children under five that are overweight or obese ... and now we have a double burden in many countries where we have obesity and hunger, and this is a challenge for many, many countries.”

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A look at how student streaming and credit caps are affecting how young people plan for their future TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com

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t has been 13 years since Ontario eliminated its official 13th year of school – then known as OAC – amid a controversial curriculum change that was supposed to end student streaming.

The official 13th year, called Grade 13 until the 1980s when it was replaced by OAC (Ontario Academic Credit), was phased out in 2003 by the Progressive Conservative government.

But could another change made when OAC was eliminated – introducing applied and academic course options – be making it hard for students to finish in four years with the credits they need to succeed and decreasing the likelihood some students will excel, while effectively continuing to stream students?

Applied and academic credits are meant to be “mix and match,” but most students take courses in one or the other.

Academic credits are typically required for university.

“In a lot of cases, students pick applied because they think it will be easier, and then ironically they are much less likely to be successful in the applied stream. There’s so much evidence that says it’s a bad idea to divide kids, particularly in that first grade of high school.

It limits choices, it closes doors, it sometimes sets kids up for failure,” said Annie Kidder, founder and executive director of advocacy group People for Education. “There are kids who either aren’t graduating, or who are getting to Grade 12 and realizing that there are doors that are already closed to them that got closed when they made

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Grade 12 students work independently during teacher Hugh Tran's math class at Father John Redmond Catholic Secondary School. These students, if they wish, can return for a fifth year of high school, but the province will only fund up to 34 credits.

that choice in Grade 8.”

The courses replaced vocational, college and university streams, and are meant to teach the same curriculum in different ways. Academic courses study essential and related concepts with a theoretical approach, while applied teach essential concepts in a more practical, hands-on way.

According to Ontar io’s Education Quality and Accountability Office, of students who demonstrate strong math skills in grades 3 and 6, those who take applied math courses in high school are less likely to continue earning high marks. Lowered expectations, and in turn, lowered effort, for kids in applied courses has been floated by education experts as one potential cause for the disparities.

In math, 83 per cent of Ontario Grade 9 students in aca-

demic courses met or exceeded the provincial standard this year, while only 45 per cent of applied students hit the mark. In English, 92 per cent of Grade 10 students successfully completed this year’s Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test, while only 47 per cent of applied students were successful.

A study by the Toronto District School Board, Ontario’s largest school board, suggests 60 per cent of students who take applied courses in Grade 9 don’t graduate within five years, compared to 14 per cent of those who choose academic.

It takes 30 credits to graduate high school. A 34-credit threshold was introduced by the provincial Liberals in 2013.

After 34 credits, the government decreases funding to school boards for most students.

Students wanting to earn more than 34 credits must get approval

from their board, and may have to take courses through continuing education.

“Over a decade ago, Ontarians moved to four years of high school, but many students are still taking that additional fifth year, even after graduating,” said a government statement at the time. “We need to shift the culture in our schools and encourage students to graduate and move on to the next stage in their lives after four years.”

Needing to replace applied credits with academic or raise marks in a completed course, or switching career paths and needing different courses, to get to post-secondary programs, can leave students wanting more than 34 credits.

“I think we need to allow for the vast amount of change that happens to young people,” Kidder said. “Obviously it can’t be unlimited and there have to

be boundaries in this, but the problem always with capping anything is are there people who lose from that, and I think in this case 34 may be too low.”

Education Minister Mitzie Hunter and Education Critic Patrick Brown declined to be interviewed for this article, after weeks of correspondence with their representatives, with Hunter citing a lack of availability.

“When selecting their courses in Grades 9 and 10, students are not expected to make binding decisions about a particular educational or career pathway,” said Ministry of Education spokesperson Heather Irwin. “However, they should try to ensure that they have the prerequisites required for future courses they plan to take. Schools must make provisions to allow students to make changes in direction and must clearly describe these provisions in their school program/ course calendar.”

But the provisions, which can include a half-credit summer course, seem to present a barrier. During the 2014-2015 school year, only three per cent of schools reported students often transfer from applied to academic courses, while 43 per cent reported transfers happen never or not very often, according to a People for Education study.

D u r i n g a g ov e r n m e n t announcement about child care Friday, Sept. 23, Metroland Media Central reporter Cynthia Reason asked Hunter if Ontario would consider reviewing the academic and applied separations in Grade 9. Hunter said the ministry is consulting with school boards, some of which, she noted, have requested the separations be eliminated.

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Unprotected sex can lead to unwanted pregnancy or disease. Drug and alcohol abuse can do permanent harm to a growing body and lead to life-long addiction.

These are human mistakes, and as much as we might wish, they are impossible to guard against, particularly for young people whose judgement may not yet be refined. Surely, we should not design a school system that also provides risks of permanent harm to still-unwise young people who make a bad choice in setting their academic course.

The curriculum change in 2003 - which followed the end of the Ontario Academic OuR ViEW Credit - was intended to end student streaming with the addition of applied and academic learning, Opportunities but as one education advocate this change has effectively hindered with says, laid a trap for students.

The elimination of a fifth year curriculum of high school, along with a cap change on credits the province will fund (34 is the maximum unless the board approves it), essentially ties the hands of a student trying to get ahead. If a student decides early on to eschew academic courses for the apparently easier applied courses, upgrading later on may be hindered by bureaucracy.

As Annie Kidder, founder and executive director of advocacy group People for Education, said in Metroland Media’s feature article on this issue “we need to allow for the vast amount of change that happens to young people”.

The group’s report ‘Applied or Academic: High Impact Decisions for Ontario Students’ surveyed Ontario schools and found only 20 per cent of schools with grades 7 and 8 reported having a guidance counsellor on staff, and most of those positions were part-time.

If a student in Grade 8 doesn’t have the maturity to envision their life after four years, then provisions need to be put in place to give these young minds the right support, at the right time.

The Ministry of Education has heard from several boards wanting the applied and academic streams to be scrapped in Grade 9, to give kids a level playing field in their first year, then they can decide how to move forward. It would be a mistake to take options and opportunity away from students just as they’re getting started.

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Trump tape recalls Rob Ford’s video woes The U.S. presidential election – particularly, the rise of its Republican standardbearer – has felt a bit like a funhouse mirror for many of us watching in Toronto.

Donald Trump, with his nativist populism, his “plainspokenness,” which frankly came across more as ugliness and bigotry but worked more like Teflon... well, it was something that we’d seen before here, first in 2010 when the late Rob Ford won the mayoralty against more qualified candidates and again in 2014 when his brother Doug Ford came close to doing the same thing.

Of course it’s not the same thing. Neither of the Ford brothers were even half as incoherent as Trump has been, and neither made such a direct pitch to the so-called Alt-Right white supremacist crowd. But the trajectory, the ability to gather support to unlikely levels, had some similarities.

And last week, another similarity emerged: the calamitous revelation, on

david nickle the city tape, of behaviour that to most people is beyond the pale.

For Trump, that came in the leaked Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump boasts to then-host Billy Bush of his ability to use fame to get away with what amounts to sexual assault on women he finds attractive. For Rob Ford, it came in the form of a series of recordings: the long-denied video in which he smoked crack; a drunken video of a walk on the Danforth; a drunken rant at an Etobicoke restaurant disparaging then Toronto police chief Bill Blair; and, maybe most damningly, a lewd and drunken rant about Karen Stintz, the Toronto Councillor and former TTC Chair who was running against him for the mayoralty.

It looks at this point as though the 11-year-old tape of Trump bragging about

being able to grab women by the genitals has become a deal-breaker, at least with his nominal Republican allies and most likely with the electorate. It is worth remembering, however, that while Ford’s many drug-andalcohol-fuelled videos did isolate him from his allies on council, it did no such thing with the electorate.

Ford didn’t even have to appear especially contrite in order to reclaim the love of the so-called Ford Nation portion of the electorate.

When he returned from rehab, his apology for his behaviour morphed halfway through into a stump speech – something that Trump mirrored in his own apology the Saturday morning after the tape appeared, when he characterized the tape as locker-room talk and then dismissed it as a distraction from his message.

We’ll never know whether Rob Ford could have won a second term as mayor after the self-inflicted damage of his first term – his cancer

diagnosis saw to that. But his brother Doug’s campaign made John Tory’s election to the mayoralty in 2014 a near thing, despite Doug’s own very Trump-like campaign gaffes.

The election of Rob Ford’s nephew Michael, in the summer byelection for his old Ward 2 seat, was never really a question.

It’s hard to say whether Donald Trump will, with weeks still to go in the campaign, be able to rally in the United States in the same way that the Fords had been able to in Toronto. Probably he won’t.

But whether he does or not, it’s a sure bet that the sizeable minority of voters who’ve held tight with Donald won’t let a little tape, no matter how vile its contents, sway their loyalty to the Trumps. Like Ford Nation here in Toronto, they’re not going anywhere.

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Riverdale Art Show and Sale WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: St. Barnabas Anglican Church, 361 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Jane Smith, 416-820-3835 COST: Free Featuring 22 local artists from the GTA who are putting their ‘Square Foot’ forward in 12x12 painting for $130.

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SEEDS Harvest Festival WHEN: 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: estonian house / eesti Maja, 958 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: Joanne, 647-444-5534, www. sendseedstoafrica.org COST: $20 Music by The Neil Youngun’s and Suzie’s Alibi. Vegan and gluten-free food, dancing, prizes and more. Proceeds to Charity SeeDS. MAP Family Saturdays – Todmorden Mills Visit Riverdale Branch WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale Branch, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: Riverdale Branch, 416-393-7720 COST: Free Todmorden Mills visits the Riverdale branch.

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Toronto Watercolour Society WHEN: Noon WHERE: Todmorden Mills Papermill Gallery, 67 Pottery Rd. CONTACT: 416-278-3499, www.torontowatercoloursociety.com, eleanor@eleanorlowden.com COST: Free Annual fall Aquavision show.

Men’s Bridge WHEN: 1 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Leaside United Church, 822 Millwood Rd. CONTACT: Jim krafchik, 416-488-7720 COST: $3 Casual bridge in the Leaside area. Coffee, tea, cookies and conversation.

Mixed Snooker League WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-425-3070 COST: Free Spares welcome.

Crew Information Session WHEN: 6 to 7 p.m. WHERE: habitat for humanity GTA, 155 Bermondsey Rd. CONTACT: Jeff, 416-407-6967 COST: Free habitat for humanity GTA is recruiting crew volunteers to assist in the building of homes.

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Mosaic Fall Pole Walking Club WHEN: 9:30 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Mosaic home Care Services and Community Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave. CONTACT: kevin@mosaichomecare.com COST: Free Walk in areas of Bayview and eglington avenues and Sunnybrook Park.

East York Garden Club WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Stan Wadlow Clubhouse, 373 Cedarvale Ave. CONTACT: 416-668-7872 COST: Free Sonia Day will be speaking about “Incredible edibles”. Seed exchange and a carved pumpkin contest.

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California Suite WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Cosburn Arts Centre, Cosburn United Church, 1108 Greenwood Ave. CONTACT: 416-421-5711 COST: $20, $15 seniors/students; www.eventbrite.ca Set in The Beverly hills hotel and consists of four scenes, each a vignette of marital tribulation.

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>>>from page 1 house the shelter for homeless families until a new 20,000-square-foot, 96-bed permanent shelter at 875 Queen St. E. is built.

The plan is for 90 Red Door clients to occupy 22 residential units at 1430 Gerrard St. E., which in an earlier incarnation was home to the 750-seat Naaz Theatre. The lease also includes the use of a main floor commercial space for administration and programming.

Toronto City Council must still approve Red Door’s move to this temporary location.

The shelter expects to call Gerrard Street East home for two to three years starting in early December.

Gurnam Multani, the owner of 1430 Gerrard St. E., said he’s been in discussions with the city for just over a year to lease his building to the Red Door. A final agreement was reached just a few weeks ago.

“I’m happy to help the Red Door. I’m very happy to give this place to the Red Door,” he told The Mirror at the open house.

During an interview, Red Door’s Executive Director Bernnitta Hawkins said they’re looking “quite looking forward” to moving to their interim home on Gerrard Street East.

“We’ve had a warm outpouring of support from the community. It’s been very wonderful,” she said, adding so far the response to the news of the shelter’s short-term move eastward has been positive.

Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher expressed her appre-

ciation to those living in the Gerrard-Coxwell area for making their new neighbours feel at home.

“I want to thank everyone in this community for the warm welcome here,” she said, urging everyone to offer a “big smile of welcome” to Red Door residents.

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This was a community fight. We can’t let a condo take on a shelter, that’s what we decided, and now we have them both.

– Paula Fletcher, Ward 30 Councillor

Fletcher, who said it’s her dream to see the city enter into an agreement to provide subsidized housing for the shelter’s former residents at 1430 Gerrard St. E., said it has been a “really incredible to watch the Red Door working with the city and the community” to remain in the city’s east end.

“This was a community fight. We can’t let a condo take on a shelter, that’s what we decided, and now we have them both,” she said, crediting Ward 32 Councillor MaryMargaret McMahon for her hard work Up until two years ago, The Red Door family Shelter faced an uncertain future as the property that houses its long-time home at 875 Queen St. E. fell into receivership after a complex real estate deal involving a private company.

An agreement was reached in June 2011 to purchase the site at a “preferred” rate of $4.25 million with the promise of a $6-million family shelter in its redevelopment.

Those plans changed in early 2013 when The Red Door and the company agreed to relocate the family shelter to a former Salvation Army residence for teen moms at 450 Pape Ave. Financing for that deal fell through some months later and The Red Door, which contributed $50,000 to that endeavour, learned that property had also gone into receivership.

On May 22, 2014, Fletcher put forth a motion at the Community Development and Recreation Committee meeting calling on the City to commit to work towards a solution for Red Door. Less than a month later, Toronto city Council unanimously voted in favour of working to help secure the shelter’s longterm future.

In early 2015, Harhay Developments purchased 875 Queen St. E. and after much rallying from the community agreed to incorporate a shelter into its 118-unit condominium development. The plan is for the four-storey shelter, which will be built and owned by the City of Toronto, to be leased back to the Red Door for $1 a year.

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Kids must be accompanied by an adult paying regular admission. Each adult can bring up to two kids free of charge to the Boo at the Zoo event, running from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 22-23 and Oct. 29-30.

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Toronto Zoo suggests purchasing rainforest-friendly Halloween candy TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com The Toronto Zoo is asking people to purchase Halloween treats made from sustainable palm oil.

“This Halloween, choose treats that protect rainforests,” the Toronto Zoo encouraged in an email and social media messages.

Since 1992, orangutan populations are down 50 per cent as the animal’s rainforest homes shrink from deforestation for palm oil plantations, the zoo statement noted.

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Bradford is now one of a growing number of people across Canada who rely on medical cannabis to help relieve pain and deal with other medical conditions, and while she is still trying to find the perfect type and dosage, she said the difference between opiates and cannabis are night and day.

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She currently takes drops of cannabis oil, which has helped her to stop using four opioids. Such experiences are not uncommon, said Dr. Danial Schecter of the Cannabinoid Medical Clinic.

Medical cannabis - a term he prefers over the more common “medical marijuana” because of the stigma associated with the latter - has been legal in Canada since 2001, with physicians gaining the power to prescribe it in 2013.

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“THC is what causes psychoactivity, so there’s a lot of it in cannabis used for recreational purposes, but it also has medicinal properties,” Schecter said.

Schecter hopes to see the stigma surrounding medical cannabis wiped out as people learn more about it as a means of relieving pain and coping with other conditions.

Schecter and Bradford will join a panel of experts on the subject of medical cannabis at a Medical Marijuana Information Session hosted by Metroland Media Toronto and sponsored by CanniMed. The free event takes place on Oct. 19 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills Rd. For more info, visit www.insidetoronto. com/MedicalMarijuana.

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Many people now have hurricane shutters for their homes as well as emergency plans worked out ahead of time.

Likewise, their communities and state have evacuation plans and emergency shelters ready to go so that they are prepared for the worst. So as a result the state was able to move more than a million people to high ground and safe locations as the hurricane hit.

While we do not have to worry about hurricanes in the way that places like Florida do, we still have our own serious weather threats such as heavy snow and ice storms.

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Based on previous experience, one should be stocked up on three days worth of food and water and have spare batteries for radios and flashlights.

In addition, have a supply of cash, know where to find all of your identification papers and even have a set of inexpensive walkie-talkies to keep in touch if family members become separated.

If you have a car, purchase an inexpensive electrical adapter that will allow you to charge up cell phones or other devices from the car battery.

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Do you have a photo of a family member that you can show to emergency crews to help find them and do you have copies of important documents or policy numbers to help you rebuild your life?

Yes, the city of Toronto is compassionate and there is a social safety net available to help you and your neighbours in your time of need. However, as we have also seen in the past, the sheer numbers of those who are in need can quickly overwhelm caregivers and emergency personnel.

The city of Toronto has made available an excellent personal emergency preparedness checklist. Call the city’s information line at 311 and have them direct you to the information you need in order to be in personal control if disaster strikes.

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At its monthly meeting held last week, Toronto Council unanimously endorsed the TTC’s recommendation to appoint Joanne De Laurentiis to the TTC board. De Laurentiis was picked to fill a vacancy following vice chair Maureen Adamson’s resignation back in May. She will sit on the board for a fouryear term, which finishes at the end of 2020.

According to her LinkedIn profile, De Laurentiis is currently the vice chair of National NewsMedia Council. Prior to that, she was CEO of the Investment Funds Institute of Canada for 10 years before retiring earlier this year.

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