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ARCH RIVALS: Kristian Sqapl from the East York Goliaths tackles a Leaside Lancers player during high school football action Friday at East York Collegiate. East York prevailed in this year’s annual battle of the arch rivals, winning 22-14. Leaside won the junior game 40-26. Both senior teams are back in action today at 2 p.m., Leaside hosting Sir Wilfrid Laurier; while East York takes on Birchmount Park Collegiate at Birchmount Stadium.

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The loss of a young life is being mourned at Leaside High School and beyond.

Andrea Maria Christidis graduated with honours from the East York school earlier this year, full of promise for the future.

The 18 year old died Friday, Oct. 9, two days after being hit by an alleged drunk driver while returning to her dorm from a study lab at Western University in London, ON. The Scarborough teen was walking on a campus sidewalk shortly after 10 p.m., when a car jumped a curb and hit her.

A 24-year-old London man faces several charges, including impaired driving.

“Andrea was a well-liked student who excelled academically and participated on a number of school teams,” said Leaside High School Principal Jeanette Plonka, in a letter sent home with students on Tuesday.

“She was enthusiastic, focused, positive and will be sorely missed by our students and staff.”

Social workers and grief counsellors were on hand at the school when it reopened following the Thanksgiving long weekend.

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Working for real, lasting change.

An open letter from Matthew Kellway As your Member of Parliament, as the NDP’s Military Procurement Critic and as the NDP’s Urban Affairs, Infrastructure and Deputy Transport Critic, I have worked hard to clear the way, to pave the way and, always, to point the way to a fairer, sustainable Canada with a prosperity more equally shared.

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We are no longer recognizable to the world. More importantly, most of us don’t see ourselves reflected in our government. We have a government unmoved by the plight of millions abroad and indifferent to the struggles of so many here at home.

We have a government that claims to be strengthening Canadian citizenship by creating a second class of citizen. We have a government that claims to be preserving our rights and freedoms by taking them away. A government that talks about Canadian values but refuses an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women.

A decade of damage has been done and must be undone. It is time for change.

Not to a Liberal Party that shrank from the Conservatives and voted in support of Bill C-51.

Not to a Liberal Party that promises more deficits then more cuts to bring their budget back into balance.

We’ve seen this game before – over and over again. It brings us back to where we started – but deeper in debt.

We need a sustainable, progressive future – for lasting change. That means the NDP.

We’ll ensure access to affordable daycare for up to $15 a day.

We’ll provide stable predictable funding for our cities — including $3.8B annually for municipal infrastructure and transit and an additional $1.3B annually dedicated solely to public transit.

We’ll address global warming in a meaningful way – as we must do.

We’ll put in place universal drug coverage.

We’ll lift seniors out of poverty with improved pensions and health care.

We can’t build this kind of future lurching from deficits to cuts, election to election.

Real change – lasting change – has to be built on a fiscally sustainable plan.

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Blake Street school seeks support to win new playground

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JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Blake Street Junior Public School needs your help to win $100,000 for a new natural playground.

Helping out is as easy as clicking on the east-end school’s AVIVA Community Fund page at www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/ acf32500 from now until Oct. 23 and voting daily. $100,000 sought “It would take us easily 10 years to raise $100,000,” said Carla Peacock, whose children Xavier and MariaLaura both attend Blake JPS, located just west of Jones Avenue and north of Gerrard Street East.

A member of the parent council, Peacock said the diverse school relies heavily on grants and donations for

improvements as more than half of its pupils come from families with annual incomes below $30,000.

Winning the $100,000 would mean Blake JPS’ 300plus students – 150 of whom are in kindergarten – would have a great new space to play and learn, she said.

“The kids really need it,” said Peacock, adding the new playground would also be well used by children at the school’s daycare, as well as kids in the community after school, on weekends and holidays.

In late August, she learned about the AVIVA grant and with the help and support of parents, students and educators submitted an application.

As of Oct. 13, nearly 3,000 people had voted for the new playground, which would be located on the west side of the school property.

Man sought after attempted child abduction Toronto police are searching for a man after a nine-yearold boy was nearly abducted Tuesday in Thorncliffe Park.

Police said the boy was walking to school in the Thorncliffe Park Drive and Overlea Boulevard area between 8:35 and 8:55 a.m. when an unknown man approached him. The boy was alone.

The man allegedly grabbed the boy by his shoulder. The boy broke the grasp and ran to school. The boy saw the same man during lunch break. Police allege the man approached the boy, who ran back to school and told a teacher.

The man is described as brown, 40 to early 50 years old, 6’0”, with short light brown hair, short facial hair near the chin that is lightgrey and a moustache. He was wearing a white shirt, dark zip-up jacket, black pants with word ‘ADIDAS’ written near the pocket, Nike shoes with orange on them and a black hat with an orange circular symbol.

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LEASIDE HELPS: Sarah Jordan, 13, left, her sister Claire, 9, and their friend Adelaide Fisher, 13, help collect food and funds during the annual Sarah’s Food Drive event held Saturday at McDowell’s Valu Mart on Bayview Avenue in Leaside.

Planners in Public Spaces (PiPS), a public engagement initiative by the City of Toronto’s Planning Division, is holding an informal pop-up event called Office Hours on Thursday, Oct. 22 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Gerrard/ Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard St. E., just west of Coxwell Avenue.

During the Office Hours

program, members of the public will have an opportunity to engage with city planners one-on-one about city building issues and specific concerns they may have about development and policy in the city.

All are welcome to drop in and have their say.

Call 416-393-7717 for more details.

Waterfront marathon torch lighting tonight on Danforth Avenue The Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon officially kicks off with a flamelighting ceremony and torch relay in East York tonight.

Hosted by the GreekTown on The Danforth BIA, the event begins at 6:30 p.m. with live Greek music and entertainment at Alexander

the Great Parkette, at Logan and Danforth avenues.

The flame ceremony starts with opening remarks at 7 p.m., with the torch light-

ing at 7:15 p.m. At 7:30 p.m., the torch relay begins along Danforth Avenue by members of local Toronto running clubs.

On Sunday, more than 26,000 runners will participate in the marathon. Visit www. torontowaterfrontmarathon. com for more information.

A man is wanted for questioning in the sexual assault of an eight-year-old girl in Thorncliffe Park Oct. 5.

The girl was sexually assaulted while shopping with her parents.

Police said a man came up to the girl from behind, sexually assaulted her and fled around 11:15 a.m.

The suspect is 50 to 60 years old with a moustache and a dark complexion.

He wore a black hat, a black buttoned jacket and blue jeans.

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Anyone with information on either incident should call 53 Division police at 416-8085300 or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-8477.

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It’s time for voters to make up their minds C

an there be too much of a good thing? This summer and fall’s 11-week federal election campaign makes a persuasive argument when it comes to democracy.

The campaign that began in the dog days of August is now nearly finished. Some readers will have already cast their ballots in advance polls over the Thanksgiving weekend. The rest of us will put this campaign to rest Oct. 19. And then it will be done: Canada will have a new government, or at least a new set of party caucuses that will be empowered to sort out who that new government will be. And what for the rest of us? Well, we are probably in for a long period of recovery from this our view campaign that has been notable for its vitriol and divisiveness.

Get out and For two-and-a-half months, well-funded political parties have vote for your been flooding our attention with assertions, often about one values Oct. 19 awful another, and all too often about ourselves. This may or may not win an election, but it certainly corrodes a country. Canadians have held a view of this country as inclusive and welcoming. While none of us are naïve enough to assume bigotry is absent, we have managed through, if nothing else, our legendary good manners, to hold that bigotry at least somewhat in check. We’ve done so also with the help of our leadership, who have through our history celebrated the country’s diversity, and gently chided outlying purveyors of hate, fear and division. Through this long election, we have been without that sort of leadership, or indeed any leadership. The Conservative government has rested in caretaker mode, busily defending itself against two strong contenders in the Liberals and the New Democrats. We are rudderless in this storm of ugliness. It’s something we can all consider as we cast our ballots. Are we choosing based on our own values, our own hopes for our federation, our communities and our families? Or are we slipping into fear and disdain and basing our choices on that? What motivates us may not make a difference to the outcome of this election. But it behooves us to remember: in making up our minds about our government, we are also making up our minds about ourselves. Remember to vote Oct. 19.

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Government ads must deliver substance To the editor: Each week more than 1,000 English and French community newspapers – including the nine published by Metroland Media Toronto, which is a member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association – go about the business of telling stories that matter to the communities they serve.

We are at your rinks and schools. We are at your school board and council meeting.

We are at the scene when tragedy strikes. We celebrate your milestones. Our job is to cover your community. And we are good at it.

We are in towns big and small. Some community newspapers circulate well in excess of 100,000 copies. Some are in the hundreds. It may surprise you that each week, more than 20 million copies of community newspapers are distributed across the country.

Independent research shows that more than 70 per cent of Canadians read their community paper.

Despite our collective

strength, ours is a medium easy to ignore. Because we focus on Canada one community at a time, we lack the sex appeal of other media. We’ve seen our share of federal government advertising gradually erode over the years. Our regional and national associations have met with government MPs, opposition MPs, cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats to promote our case. We are always met with courtesy and a promise that things will get better.

Well things are not getting better.

So despite it being contradictory to everything we believe in journalistically, the time has come to tell you. In short, the federal government is all but ignoring your community newspapers. We believe this means the federal government is ignoring you and your community’s right to be informed about programs and services offered by the Government of Canada. In the last fiscal year, the federal government spent $75 million on advertising.

More than $26 million of that went to TV ads, while another

$15.5 million went to Internet advertising – an industry dominated by American-based companies like Google and Facebook. Creating ads and paying ad agencies ate away another $10 million. Radio advertising cost just under $7 million.

By comparison, community newspapers saw a paltry $867,000 in total advertising from Ottawa – or an average of about $25 per week per newspaper. The way in which your government uses your money to communicate with you is very telling. TV and Internet ads work to build brand, not to inform. Your community newspaper generates debate and serves as a forum for discussion – and is also one of the few places where local MPs actually receive editorial coverage outside election season.

The federal government knows it, too. The Prime Minister Stephen Harper government spent $1.25 million with a company called NewsCanada to create its own stories, stories it offers for free to print and broadcast outlets. The majority

of these government-approved stories are never published.

But you and I paid for them.

It is disconcerting the federal government spent 50 per cent more creating its own news than the total advertising buy in Canadian newspapers.

The federal government strategy appears to be that it’s more important to make pretty ads than to put relevant information about programs in front of readers of community newspapers. They’re telling you they’d rather give your tax dollars to Facebook and Google than Canadian-based companies that invest in local journalism. If the federal government continues to ignore our community newspapers, some communities may lose them. When that happens a vital voice is silenced.

If you believe, as we do, that government should invest in meaningful communication with citizens through community newspapers, we ask you to help us by contacting your local candidates.

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it’s happening w Saturday, Oct. 17

Withrow Park Farmers’ Market WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekly WHERE: 725 Logan Ave. CONTACT: Withrowmarket.com COST: Free Enjoy farm-fresh items.

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Euchre WHEN: 12:30 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425 1714, jimb.farrell@yahoo.ca COST: $6 All welcome.

Karaoke WHEN: 5 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, jimb.farrell@yahoo.ca COST: Free Come out every Sunday evening for an entertaining night of karaoke.

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Cribbage WHEN: 7:15 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, jimb. farrell@yahoo.ca COST: $6 Come out and play cribbage.

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Foot Care at CNIB WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

WHERE: Mosaic Home Care Services & Community Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave., Suite 215H CONTACT: 905-597-7000, info@ mosaichomecare.com COST: Community Clinic $40; in-home treatment $55 Clinics run every third Tuesday.

Visit www.mosaichomecare.com for details.

East York Farmers Market WHEN: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

WHERE: East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Ave. CONTACT: Ruth Abbott, 416-429-9684, abbott@sympatico.ca COST: Free Enjoy farm-fresh items.

w Wednesday, Oct. 21

The Fleet Air Arm presented

by Aviation Historian Keith Hyde WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Danforth/Coxwell Library, 1675 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: 416393-7783, dastaff@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free The Fleet Air arm of the Royal Navy played a major role during Second World War launching many types of aircraft in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific campaigns. No registration

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27th Annual Riverdale Art Show and Sale WHEN: 6 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Barnabas Anglican Church, 361 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Jane Smith, jpef1956@gmail.com COST: Free The church is across from Chester Subway Station. Entrance is off Hampton. Free admission, wheelchair access. Featuring 21 local Toronto artists. needs, but space is limited.

w Saturday, Oct. 24

Halloween Mask Making Family Workshop WHEN: 9:30 a.m. WHERE: Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, 67 Pottery Rd. CONTACT: 416396-2819, todmorden@toronto. ca COST: Adult $10, child $5 Suitable for ages six and up; children must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is required.

The Business End of Art: Porfolio Development for Artists WHEN: 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

WHERE: Danforth/Coxwell Library, 1675 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7783, dastaff@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free No registration required.

Northern Lights Chorus WHEN: 5:45 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Calvary Church, 746 Pape Ave. CONTACT: Gwendolyn Ramsay, 416-469-1105, foundation@ nisbetlodge.com COST: Reception and concert $45; general admission $30 Nisbet Lodge Charitable Foundation resents Canada’s 2013 Barbershop Harmony Society International Champions at a benefit concert

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Halloween Lanterns Workshop WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, 67 Pottery Rd. CONTACT: 416-396-2819, todmorden@toronto.ca COST: Adult $10, child $5 Create a spooky tabletop lantern to light up Halloween in this family workshop. Treats provided. Adults $10 (plus taxes), children $5 (plus taxes). Suitable for ages six and up; children must be accompanied by an adult. Registration required.

w Monday, Oct. 26

MamaDances Mom & Baby Class

WHEN: 10 to 11:30 a.m.

WHERE: St. Barnabas Anglican Church, 361 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Robin McPhail-Dempsey, www.mamadances.com, robin@ mamadances.com COST: $144 for eight weeks MamaDances Mother and Baby Dance Class, for children from two months to walking, bring mothers (dads/parents/grandparents/guardians) together with their babies in a temporary community of music, playful physical exercise, creative dance expression, exploration and connection. Register at www. mamadances.com

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w Tuesday, Oct. 27

Basic Genealogy and Family History WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale Public Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: http://torontofamilyhistory.org/ event/basic-genealogy-andfamily-history-evening/ COST: $160 ($140 for members) The course will cover terminology, types of sources, the use of on-line resources, libraries and archives, including LDS Family History Centres, and recordkeeping – to help you “think like a genealogist”. Techniques discussed will apply to a variety of geographic areas, providing you with a good base for further courses.

w Wednesday, Oct. 28

When Proteins go Rogue: the Molecular Origins of Neurodegenerative Disease WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Danforth/Coxwell Branch Toronto Public Library, 1675 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7783 COST: Free Inside our neurons is a complex network of protein interactions.

Dr. Derek Wilson talks about what happens when a protein at the center of the network goes “rogue” and how made-inCanada tools are revealing the molecular origins of cognitive decay.

Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.eastyorkmirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your East York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto.

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Federal election day is Monday

Community herb garden planned for Phin Park JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com

Are you ready to vote?

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Your voter information card tells you when and where to vote.

If you didn’t receive your card, you can still register and vote at your polling place.

To find out where to vote, and what ID to bring, visit elections.ca or call 1-800-463-6868 ( TTY 1-800-361-8935).

Elections Canada has all the information you need to be ready to vote.

The generosity of an anonymous Pocket resident is helping improve the close-knit community.

Earlier this year, a neighbour approached the Pocket Community Association (PCA) about giving back to the community through a one-time donation of up to $2,000 for a neighbourhood improvement project.

The only caveat was that the funds donated match those raised by the community, said Jeff Otto, the PCA’s vice-chair.

The board then sat down to discuss possibilities for Project X, as it’s called.

Over the late spring and summer months, members of a volunteer working group put up posters throughout the Danforth-Jones neighbourhood inviting neighbours to take part in a Pocket Dreams survey for the initiative.

“People were leaning towards a community garden but in the end we decided on an herb garden in Phin Park,” said Otto, who has called the neighbourhood home for 21 years.

“It would be open for all to harvest and care for. The idea is to create a new gathering space.”

Design-wise, Otto said there’s talk of a circular, raised box concept with a wide ledge around the edge for extra seating. For the centre of the garden, the PCA hopes to commission a sculpture. Otto also mentioned the possibility of a clay pot-style irrigation system to provide a sustainable water supply.

In terms of location, he said one option for an easy-to-maintain, seasonal herb garden is near the ice rink.

The goal is to open the herb garden in early 2016, Otto said, adding the PCA is considering a possible herb garden build day during the community’s annual park cleanup in the spring.

Before any of this can happen, the community group must collect up to $2,000 in donations.

Visit www.thepocket.ca/pocketprojects/project-x for more information, to get involved, or to make a donation. People can email Otto at jeffotto@sympatico.ca Any funds remaining after the garden is complete will be used for other projects, including a vegetable and medicinal herb garden, a pizza oven, a sundial, pollinator plantings, a bat box, a bee hotel, a water feature/ eco sculpture, and a nature/adventure playground for bigger kids, among other things. gardening talk slated wMarket

Local historian and author Joanne Doucette will be hosting a presentation titled Market Gardening Over the Don on Sunday, Oct. 18.

The event, which will include a light supper and a drink, will run from 7 to 8 p.m. at Victoria Whole Foods, 1450 Gerrard St. E., just west of Coxwell Avenue. Doors open at 6 p.m. Admission is free.

Registration is required as space is limited. Email Tatiana@victoriawholefood.ca or call 647-346-5566 to save your spot. info meeting at CC55 wFinancial

A free financial information evening will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at Community Centre 55, 97 Main St. at Swanwick Ave Hosted by Karen McCarrol of Freedom 55 Financial and Vanessa Funtera-Smith of London Life, the event will run from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m.

A light meal will be served.

RSVP is required as seating is limited.

Call 416-698-2243 or email karen. mccarrol@f55f.com for more details or to save your spot.

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There is a tendency to be a bit complacent about the right to vote by some, and it is a shame that is the case.

The right to vote in Canada has been a hard-won right for many people, more so than many realize.

Prior to 1867, and even for some time after that, not only was the right to vote reserved for men, it was Caucasian men of limited British and French backgrounds who owned property.

Women, minority ethnic groups (particularly indigenous people) and members of several religions were prohibited from voting.

Even the right to be a candidate was restricted only to those who had achieved a high level of wealth and social prestige.

The road to universal voting rights in Canada has been a long one with disqualification on religious and racial

joe cooper watchdog grounds not being eliminated until 1960.

From 1867 until 1885 there were no federal laws governing the general election, and voting was regulated by provincial legislation.

Unfortunately this resulted in a variation of voting privileges, with some provinces (particularly British Columbia) baring all groups except those of Anglo-Saxon origin from voting.

For example, in 1902, a court challenge was undertaken in British Columbia to provide suffrage to Chinese, Japanese and Indian people, but this failed.

However, the First World War played an important role in opening up the right to vote for many people.

It is interesting to note that women who had served in the military won the right to vote in 1915.

Likewise men who were

not landowners, but had sons or grandsons in the military could also vote for the first time.

However, at the same time, legislation was passed that denied the vote to conscientious objectors, Mennonites and Dukhobours and recent citizens from non-English speaking countries.

It was finally in 1918 that the right to vote in the federal elections was granted to women over 21.

It was not until 1948 that race was removed as a restriction to vote in the federal elections and it was not until 1970 the age for voting was lowered to 18.

Surprisingly, the right of those with disabilities to be accommodated in ways to allow them to vote did not become law until 1992.

Please take time to exercise this hard-earned right by voting by Oct. 19.

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have a project for you, good reader, as you head out to vote, and just as important, as you head back home to get on with the next few years of your life.

Be thoughtful.

This shouldn’t be a project, and for many readers it needn’t be. But after having spent a good chunk of both the summer and the fall in an election campaign that for a good many voters seems to have turned on women’s fashion at citizenship ceremonies, it is clearly necessary for a large portion of us. It’s not surprising that it should be so: across North America, the political discourse over the past few years has veered consistently away from thoughtfulness and toward the knuckle-headed.

Donald Trump is currently riding high on the greasy fingers of a mosh-pit of knuckle-heads in the Republican primaries.

He may well have gotten some ideas from former

david nickle the city mayor Rob Ford’s 2010 campaign that was propelled by knuckle-headed rhetoric. And no wonder that Stephen Harper and the Conservatives took the knuckle-headed lesson to heart in the latter half of their campaign, with the business of the niqab, the “barbaric practices” snitch line and so on. We’ll see just how well that decision works out for them on election day. It certainly seemed to have an impact in the polls, at least for a while, as a certain demographic of voter abandoned thoughtful consideration for fear and loathing.

The real question is what kind of message that strategy reinforces on both the electorate and the clever strategists looking to elect future governments.

If the Conservatives don’t prevail, then the impact will

be limited on strategists.

After all, when Doug Ford ran from a problematic place for mayor in 2014, he came closer than you’d think to beating John Tory, but couldn’t quite make it.

Rob Ford, had he been well enough to run, might have prevailed for a second term, and he might yet prevail should he choose to run in the 2018 campaign.

In the U.S. Republican primaries, Trump might prevail with his anti-immigrant rhetoric in winning the nomination, but he also might not, and as to his chances of actually winning the American presidency...

Ultimately, that’s not up to us.

What is up to us is make it a project to be thoughtful, when clever people are offering serious temptation to be the opposite. We can start right after the election or better, we can start right now.

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“She was deeply loved, as reflected by the outpouring of condolences, sympathies and prayers from all those that she touched,” the statement added. “Her beautiful smile, kind soul and infectious spirit will be missed. May her memory be eternal.”

The statement finished with a condemnation of impaired driving, and a request for privacy.

Christidis had just started studying health sciences at Western, hoping to work in the medical field.

“This is a terrible tragedy, and Andrea’s death saddens me deeply,” said university President Amit Chakma in a statement. “I know that I speak for the entire Western community when I say that my heart goes out to her family and friends at this most difficult time.”

The university lowered its flag in honour of Christidis Wednesday, Oct. 14, as her funeral was held in East York.

Counselling services were available at the university as well.

Western’s Hellenic Society also released a statement, encouraging people to keep Christidis’s memory alive, and not to drink and drive.

“It is with heavy hearts that the Hellenic Society announces that we have lost one of our members,” it said.

“We are forced to say goodbye too soon to a smart and beautiful young woman, for reasons that are inexcusable and could have been prevented.”

A book of condolences was set

up at Leaside High School, where Plonka said students are upset Christidis’s life has been cut short.

“It has been a sombre day for all of us at our school as we mourn this tragic loss of life,” she said.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with Andrea’s family.”

Support staff will remain at the school as long as necessary to help students grieve.

A Facebook page called RIP Andrea Christidis had more than 1,200 members Oct. 14.

Christidis was laid to rest in Scarborough. She is survived by

her parents, Georgia and Chris, and her sister Alexia.

Her obituary noted she was an active member of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, where her funeral was held.

It described her as having a passion for reading and travelling, and a love of soccer, skiing, swimming and the arts.

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