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Number of Halloween events planned locally Friday, Oct. 30 Halloween Party for Kids Drop by the Gerrard/Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard St. E., west of Coxwell Avenue, from 4 to 5 p.m. and listen to stories and make a monster mask. Call 416-393-7717 or

Halloween is this Saturday and there are lots of local fun events planned to help celebrate. Here’s a rundown of some the Halloween celebrations planned for this week in the east Toronto area:

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Construction will soon get underway along the Lower Don Trail. After some minor delays, contractor Soncin Construction is expected to be on site by the end of this month. The work, which will involve trail improvements from Pottery Road to Riverdale Park, is expected to run until the summer of 2016. At this point,eight new construction signs have been posted at highly visible locations along the multi-use trail. They will be updated with bright, large notices when closures are planned. The 4.7 km-long Lower Don Trail is expected to remain open throughout the fall as the contractor should be able to do the initial site preparation and other tasks related to replacing the Belleville Rail Underpass, which is just north of Gerrard Street East, without any closures. Trail users should, however, expect some minor disruptions as well as narrowing of the trail, less stable trail surface, and delays from trucks entering and exiting work areas. Some extended trail closures should be expected into 2016. Closure dates and locations will be posted on the Lower Don Trail blog at https://lowerdontrail.wordpress.org once confirmed. Visit http://goo.gl/FHArwo for more information about the project.

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REMEMBERING: Members of the Greek community march along Danforth Avenue on Sunday afternoon during the annual OXI parade. The parade honours the veterans of 1940 who said OXI (NO) to the Italian occupation and entered the Second World War.

Councillors call for new hearing on Danforth cafe’s business licence JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com East-end councillors Paula Fletcher and Mary Fragedakis are calling on the Toronto Licensing Tribunal to hold a new hearing on the business license for Danforth Avenue’s Cloud Nine Café. The operation of the hookah lounge is contentious as back on May 19, 21-yearold Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf was fatally shot outside its former incarnation, Rotana Café. The bar, at 1530 Danforth Ave., just west of Coxwell Avenue, is also where off-duty firefighter Dominic Parker was stabbed to death in September of 2013. Fletcher, who represents Ward 30 (Toronto-Danforth) and Fragedakis, who is the councillor for Ward 29 (TorontoDanforth), expressed their views in an Oct. 21 letter to Tracey Cook, the execu-

tive director of Municipal Licensing and Standards at the City of Toronto. Both councillors said the new hearing “would allow long-standing and welldocumented community concerns to be heard and taken into consideration.” In the letter, Fragedakis said an initial hearing in early September did not achieve that end. transparent process “We had asked for an open and transparent process that allowed the neighbourhood concerns to be taken into account. We believe the hearing held on Sept. 3 did not meet this test,” she wrote. Fletcher also expressed her frustration about what she feels is lack of consideration taken for the community involvement in the Sept. 3 hearing.

“We do not understand how numerous statements and emails provided by community members to Municipal Licensing and Standards and the local police divisions did not form part of the information shared at the pre-hearing tribunal meeting or at the tribunal itself,” she said. Over the summer months, there have been a number of community safety walks and meetings, which were attended by representatives from the Toronto Police Service, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO), the Toronto Parking Authority, the City of Toronto’s department of Municipal Licensing and Standards (MLS), as well as local politicians, community groups and organizations.

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ith fall’s darker days now taking hold, and the turning back of the clocks early this Sunday morning as we go back to standard time, pedestrians are at an increased risk of being struck by a vehicle on our city’s streets. Toronto police will be warning drivers, pedestrians and cyclists to be extra cautious once Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday. Caution should be the operative word at all times, but it’s especially important in these dark days of November as the number of incidents in which pedestrians are struck by vehicles rises significantly in Toronto. The first week of November last year saw five incidents in the city involving pedestrians being struck in one day (Tuesday, Nov. 4, two days after Daylight Savings Time ended). What we – drivers, pedestrians, cyclists and everyone else who uses our roads – need to do is be that much more aware of the dangers, focus on the safety of all, and take some basic precautions to increase the odds of everyone our view going about their day safely, but especially in the morning and evening rush hours. That’s when We can all the advancing darkness, along take basic with confusion due to the time in the morning hours, precautions change has its greatest impact on the roads. The most dangerous time of day is between 5 and 7 p.m., police say. Pedestrians being struck by drivers making left turns are the most common incident, as it takes a moment for driver’s eyes to adjust from the brightness of the headlights coming toward them to the darker intersection. This problem is made worse if the pedestrian crossing is wearing dark clothing. Obviously, pedestrians need to think about wearing brighter clothing and not to be distracted by cellphones while crossing the street. Along with the increased need for caution Sunday due to the time change, we also remind our readers to be extra careful on the roads Halloween night this Saturday as excited trick-or-treaters hit the streets. By taking a few moments to think, and being aware of the increased dangers, we can make this Halloween and November safer for all.

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Trudeau’s election comes with lack of mandate Politics often seems a kind of echo chamber. Themes and movements bounce back and forth, distorting as they go but recognizable for longer than might make sense. It’s tempting to trace the election of Justin Trudeau’s majority back through the election of Kathleen Wynne, the improbable spectacle of an NDP government in Alberta – even the ascent of gentleman John Tory in Toronto – as a particularly resonant echo. nod to the left wing All of these elections mark a repudiation of the hard right conservatism exemplified by the nowformer Harper government, the Progressive Conservatives in Ontario, the depraved populism of Etobicoke’s Ford family, and a nod, at least, to the left wing big-government ideas that the New Democratic Party used to

david nickle the city get behind. In none of these cases, of course, is it a sea-change toward precisely those ideas. When Tory won the 2014 Toronto mayoralty race on a platform of big transit infrastructure and progressive social policies, he was closely followed by Doug Ford in support, leaving New Democrat candidate Olivia Chow in the dust. Similarly, Wynne and Trudeau may have their majority governments, but they didn’t mop the floor with their right-leaning opponents. Trudeau did very well, but it was hardly a rout. If Harper had chosen to stay, he would have led a healthy official opposition – a far cry from the electoral massacre visited upon the federal Progressive Conservatives

in 1993, when the caucus was reduced to only two. Lots of people supported Harper, and the Fords, and former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak in his plan to gut the public service. The common thread? Lots more people decided that they definitively did not want any of those politicians anywhere near the levers of power, and collectively sent someone else along instead. voter trust It’s a funny sort of mandate – not really a mandate at all, when you think of it – that makes it more difficult than usual to chart success. Do a plurality of people in Toronto really think Tory’s central campaign promise of building SmartTrack is a good idea, or are they just relieved to know that the Fords won’t be in power? Voter trust in Ontario

Premier Wynne is a big question, as her Liberal government embarks on a very Conservativesounding sell-off of Hydro One. And as for Justin Trudeau and the new Liberal government in Ottawa: do his supporters also support his deficitrunning plan, his support of Bill C-51 in some form or another, or whatever else the Liberals choose to bring about? Perhaps, but it appears from polls and the numbers that what Trudeau’s supporters really want is that he replace Stephen Harper. This is the downside of strategic voting. It is both a way of saying what it is that you don’t want, and not particularly caring about what it is you do. The echo is, as echoes often are, discouragingly empty.

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Library offers variety of programs Fall is definitely here as the leaves have begun to change colour and will soon need to be raked up as they end up on our lawns. It is also that time of year where we prepare to hunker down until the warmer weather comes back. One of the best ways to do that is with a good book, which, thanks to Toronto’s excellent library system, we have lots to choose from. However, when you drop by your local branch, take a moment to look at the many interesting programs that are offered. Focusing on East York’s S. Walter Stewart branch, there is a wide variety of programs offered this fall that range from computer training to art displays and talks by authors. If you have ever wanted to set up a personal blog there is a course on how to do that on Nov. 26 between 2 and 3:30 p.m. If you entertain the desire to become a writer the East End Writers’ Group meets once a month. For the younger folk,

joe cooper watchdog there will be a Saturday Morning Story Time offered in January. If you are interested in history, there is the monthly meeting of the East York Historical Society. The next meeting is Tuesday, Nov. 24 from 7:30 and 9 p.m. If you get out this week you can catch an exhibit of photographs of the Toronto Islands by Johnathan Duder, Unfortunately, this exhibit is just ending, but there is a display of paintings by Rachel Colley under the theme “Remnants” that will be on display until the end of December. On Saturday, Nov. 21 from 2 to 3:45 p.m. there will be a screening of the family movie Inside Out about a young girl’s adjustment to living in the big city. Teens and tweens can challenge their friends to a friendly computer or board game Monday, Nov. 9 from 11:45 to 12:30 p.m.

In order to get the young folk in the Christmas spirit there will be a puppet play on that theme on Saturday, Dec. 12 between 10:30 and 11:30 am. On a more serious note, there will be a talk on understanding Type II diabetes and pre-diabetes presented by WoodGreen Health services on Tuesday, Nov. 24 between 2 and 3:30 p.m. Teens in high school can gain community service hours by volunteering at the Youth Advisory Group on Nov. 10 between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. If you simply want to know more about how to use the Internet for social networking, there is a training session on Thursday, Nov. 5 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Other branches of the public library system in East York, Thorncliffe and Leaside, have their own programs and events that can be discovered.

TTC to fix waiting areas at pearson Changes are coming to the TTC’s bus-waiting areas at Toronto Pearson Airport. The non-descript waiting areas at Terminals 1 and 3 will receive badly needed renovations, including more fare vending machines, better signage and heated bus shelters, tweeted the TTC’s Ian Dickson last week. In early 2015 the TTC began branding its 192 Airport Rocket

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TTCriders, which has made headlines in 2015 for several transit advocacy campaigns and scathing criticism of Metrolinx’s Union Pearson Express service, will hold its second annual fundraiser. The group is offering discounted tickets to the Nov. 25 event at the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre with the purchase of a group membership. Former Toronto mayor

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Report faulty street lights to city With the daylight hours waning, the city is asking residents to report streetlight outages to improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists. The city has some 160,000 streetlights in operation for which Toronto Hydro is responsible. The company has a service request form that can be filled out via www.torontohydro.com for malfunctioning lights. You can also call in your report to 416-542-8000. To report street light outages in a park, contact the city’s 311 helpline or call 416392-CITY (2489).

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Library, 1675 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: dastaff@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Puppet show.

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, jimb.farrell@yahoo.ca COST: $6

Halloween at Branch 22 WHEN: 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-4251714, rcl22.com, jimb.farrell@ yahoo.ca COST: Free Costumes encouraged.

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NOTICE OF INTENT EAST DON RIVER BEHIND 30 NORTHLINE ROAD EROSION CONTROL AND SLOPE STABILIZATION PROJECT CITY OF TORONTO Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) has commenced a study to address riverine and valley slope erosion behind a City of Toronto maintenance yard at 30 Northline Road following the July 8, 2013 severe weather event. The study area includes the slope on the northeast side of the East Don River where ongoing erosion and slope instability have created a risk to existing infrastructure, including three one-story brick buildings and a greenhouse at the top of the slope. This study will evaluate and identify the preferred solution to provide long-term protection for the maintenance yard and surrounding structures at 30 Northline Road. This project is being planned in accordance with Conservation Ontario’s ‘Class Environmental Assessment for Remedial Flood and Erosion Control Projects’ (amended 2013), the approved process for this type of undertaking. The process includes public and stakeholder consultation, evaluation of alternatives, and identification of measures to mitigate any adverse impacts. If you have any additional inquiries or are interested in receiving further information related to this project, please contact the Project Coordinator by one of the methods below: Courtney Rennie Project Coordinator, Engineering Projects Toronto and Region Conservation Authority 1 Eastville Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M1M 2N5 Phone: (416) 392-9690 Email: crennie@trca.on.ca TRCA intends to proceed with this project pending the receipt of all necessary funding and approvals. (Dated: October 29th, 2015)

Halloween Spooktacular in The Pocket >>>from page 1 Halloween stories and treats from 11 to 11:45 a.m. and 2 to 2:45 p.m. Call 416-393-7720.

Riverdale Halloween Show This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production is titled, Gentrified, and explores the golden age of Riverdale and its dark, haunted past. The show runs at 7:30, 8 and 8:30 p.m. at the corner of Langley Avenue and Howland Road. Admission is free. Visit www.facebook. com/RiverdaleHalloweenPlay?fref=ts Boo! A Halloween Spooktacular This Halloween costume and display contest on Ravina Crescent in The Pocket is hosted by relator Donna Lee, and it is from 6 to 9 p.m. For details or to enter your child and/or pet costume, call 416-566-3727 or email donnalee@royallepage.ca.

Sunday, Nov. 1 w Candlelit Pumpkin Walk in Kew Gardens, 2075 Queen St. E at 6:30 p.m. w Withrow Park Pumpkin Parade, 25 Logan Ave., at 6:30 p.m. w Pumpkin Parade in Leslie Grove Park, 1158 Queen St. E. from 6:30 to 8 p.m. w Friends of Felstead Park Pumpkin Parade from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at 60 Felstead Ave. w Pumpkin Parade in Phin Park starts at 7 p.m. at 115 Condor Ave. w Pumpkin Parade, Monstrous Moncur Park, 38 Robbins Ave., from 6:30 to 8 p.m. w Pumpkins of the Danforth Parade at 6:30 at East Lynn Park, 1949 Danforth Ave.

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