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Police focus on school safety

BACK TO SCHOOL

ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com Police in East York’s 54 Division are paying special attention to motorists in school zones as part of a two-week traffic blitz.

The Back to School safety campaign was launched Tuesday morning outside Presteign Heights Elementary School at 2570 St. Clair Ave. E. “We found that quite often parents will be stopped in a no-stopping area, and they seem to be very disturbed that the police are talking to them about that,” Sgt. Jack West said.

BUSY DROP OFFS “One driver let his child off on the opposite side of the road, expecting that child to walk across this busy street on their own.”

West said parents should familiarize themselves with where the no-stopping signs are and respect >>>SCHOOL, page 3

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FIRST DAY BACK IN CLASS: Avik Sengar, left, heads back to class for the start of the new school year Tuesday at Bowmore Road Junior and Senior Public School with his father Ameet in support.

Fresh, new look for your paper You may have noticed a fresh look on top of your East York Mirror today.

It’s part of our affirmation that community comes first.

In the past, you may have noticed the key word in our flag – or masthead as we call it – was The Mirror. Now,

the key word is East York.

As well, you’ll note the colourful nature of the flag – done in colours where we believe there is a community affinity. “But the newspaper’s flag – or masthead – is only that, a graphic presentation. What really

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Harmony Hall helps keep seniors active, engaged

CELEBRATING 70 YEARS

DANIELLE MILLEY dmilley@insidetoronto.com For more than 30 years, East York seniors have been making new friends and learning new things at the Harmony Hall Centre for Seniors.

The centre has four groups of seniors - Chinese, Tamil, Bangladesh, and English - but while the first three groups are growing, the English seniors group has seen a decline in its membership from a high of more than 300 to just 170 currently.

Maurice Smith, the chairperson of the group, would like to see the membership grow; he knows the group has something for everyone from activities to lunches to bus trips.

Social contact “People join because of the social aspect a lot of our seniors are isolated so it gives them social contact,” he said.

He joined four years ago and almost immediately became a member of the committee. He enjoys the weekly poker games, as well as teaching chess to fellow seniors.

There are activities for any and all interests including yoga, euchre, dominoes, cribbage, poker, nature

Staff photo/DAN PEARCE

Dorothy Helm, left, Charlotte Booth, Elsie Richards and Marg Hanneson play euchre with the English seniors group at Harmony Hall.

walks, snooker and line dancing.

There are also bus trips such as to Casino Rama and St. Jacob’s.

Membership is $15 a year with an extra fee for the trips. There is also a weekly lunch, which also is an additional small charge.

There are movie afternoons, seminars and information sessions on such topics as kidney health.

Smith said the group is a great opportunity to meet new people

and make new friends.

There are even a couple times throughout the year where all the groups get together for special events such as international food day and the welcome back party in January where each group comes together for lunch and is also responsible for providing some entertainment.

Smith said the age range of members is 55 to 100 and all are welcome to join.

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: East Yorkers Fred and Edna Arnold celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. The couple were married in August of 1942 and have lived in the same East York home since the late 1940s.

Flooding forces Brick Works evacuation School zone safety blitz MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Evergreen Brick Works was closed and evacuated Tuesday afternoon as the risk of flooding rose in the Don Valley, a situation that can be repeated “whenever it rains hard,” Evergreen CEO Geoff Cape said.

The conservation park and marketplace has its own flood monitoring system to deal with a pattern of flooding, Cape said, that has been understood since Hurricane Hazel swept through Toronto’s river valleys in 1954. That has meant the Brick Works has had to close occasionally, and could close more often if weather patterns continue to bring

heavy rainfall like that which was seen in the Don Valley Tuesday.

Cape said the monitoring system at the Brick Works is working, and though small parts of the property’s southern edge did flood the site “was clear of risk” by 6 p.m. “We understood the risk in advance. We designed the site accordingly,” he added yesterday.

Anthony Westenberg, a spokesperson for Evergreen, said the non-profit group has a flood watch manager and committee which went through a step by step protocol Tuesday to ensure the safety of people at the Brick Works. “We monitor the water levels real time, and as the flooding of Bayview (Avenue Extension) was

imminent we evacuated the site,” he said in a message Tuesday.

T h e To r o n t o a n d Re g i o n Conservation Authority issued a flood outlook statement around 12:30 p.m. saying the area had received up to 40 millimetres of rain from thunderstorms that morning and drivers “should exercise extreme caution and avoid driving through low lying areas and roadways, particularly at underpasses,” which can fill up quickly during a storm. The authority, which warns people not to try driving through deep water, says flooding “is a natural and inevitable part of life, especially within areas that contain rivers and that are continually being urbanized.

>>>from page 1 the drop off locations.

“Have a good understanding of where you should be letting your children off. Leave early, don’t speed, and people will live longer.”

West said police stopped numerous speeders and spotted motorists on cellphones while driving in the school zone.

“A reminder to all drivers that when you get a ticket within a school zone, your insurance will rise substantially,” he said.

“You have to remember too the volume of traffic is picking up.

Parents are converging on schools all at the same time. It gets congested.”

‘Parents are converging on schools all at the same time. It gets congested.’

Sgt. Jack West, Toronto police West noted that children have a limited sense of danger “so we adults have to do some thinking for them.”

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Opinion Ian Proudfoot Marg Middleton Peter Haggert Alan Shackleton Warren Elder Jamie Munoz

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oronto residents will be impacted in a number of ways if proposed changes are made to federal riding boundaries within the city.

The changes usually come about every 10 years to reflect shifts in population and ensure each riding serves an approximately equal number of voters across a particular province.

What that means for Toronto is an increase from the current 23 ridings (one of which crossed the municipal border of Toronto our view and Durham Region) to 25 ridings, all of which would be New boundaries contained within Toronto.

The boundary changes mean more will see Canada’s Parliament increase in size by 30 seats to power in Toronto 338. Fifteen of those proposed seats are in Ontario, which means the provincial Legislature will increase by that number as well.

Torontonians need to be aware, though, that these changes reflect the continuing growth taking place in the 905 regions surrounding our city. While Toronto essentially gains two seats, the 905 will see an increase of nine. The Hamilton and Barrie areas also each gain a new seat.

Federally and provincially, the gain to Toronto’s influence is tiny – but combined with our neighbours in the 905, the Greater Toronto Area’s power has grown substantially.

This is hugely important for our city in areas such as transit and economic development. What is needed is a willingness for federal and provincial representatives to work together for the good of the entire GTA, not just the communities that elected them.

Also of interest for Toronto residents is the impact the changes could have on Toronto Council.

Redistribution would create a scenario in which Toronto Council could increase from 44 members to 50. Whether that will happen ultimately lies with the province, but the justification is there based on the number of proposed ridings.

What is most needed now is feedback from Torontonians.

Residents in southeast Scarborough must surely be pleased that they will not have to share their MP and MPP with Pickering; and North York residents should feel they will have a stronger voice with the addition of another riding – Don Valley North. North Toronto residents should also feel an increase in their voting power with redistribution creating a Mount Pleasant riding.

Public hearings on the plans are set for Nov. 14 at the North York Civic Centre and Nov. 15 at Metro Hall.

Also, contact your MP and share your views.

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Events of 9/11 reverberate years later I t has been just over 10 years since I watched as the second airplane crashed into the World Trade Center on television.

It has become one of those moments of history that has become a permanent memory of my life.

At this point, due to my age, I can look back to such moments as the Berlin Crisis, the launch of Sputnik, the Kennedy assassinations, many moments throughout the Vietnam period and the October/FLQ crisis.

From my experience of the last 50-odd years, humanity seems to have been trying very hard to keep the world in a state of perpetual war and conflict.

On the other hand, those same 50 years have seen some important changes.

I can remember when the vaccine for polio was developed, ending terrible fear and suffering for both

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children and parents.

I can also remember the wonderful year this country had in 1967 when everyone from coast to coast felt unified and optimistic about the future of Canada.

I have seen amazing achievements in technology, making our ability to communicate with each other and find information simpler and easier Most important of all, I have watched men and women move out of stifling and limiting socially defined roles and experience achievements far beyond what previous generations had ever imagined.

What would have once shocked and scandalized is now commonplace because it’s simply that.

Yet with the events of Sept. 11, 2001 many people were poised to push us back into a less progressive time.

Worse than the terrible images of death and destruction were the voices of many people who wished to place blame for what was happening that day on those people who were too progressive, too free thinking and simply too different for some people’s tastes.

If anything, what came out of Sept. 11 has been that many political, religious, race and gender issues that had been simmering under the surface reached a boiling point.

What we learned is that while core of our humanity is an unquestioning need to help and comfort our fellow human beings in immediate

need, we can still quickly turn to reaction rather than reason.

So as a result, nearly a decade later, we’re still involved in a long drawnout “war” that appears to have no boundaries or even a well-defined advisory.

If there is anything of enduring value to be taken from our experience with Sept. 11, it is the understanding that there is no isolation anymore.

We need to understand that each day – somewhere in the world – it is a Sept. 11 for some group of people and they need just as much compassion as those in the World Trade Center’s twin towers. n Joe Cooper is a longtime East York resident and community activist.

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MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Ontario is so different.

It is cold and has no mountains, but its cities hold a surprising number of green spaces and geese.

Those are observations new students at Greenwood Secondary School made about the province we live in.

Understanding how Ontario’s schools work is something else.

The 40 students in Greenwood’s Newcomer Orientation Week come from 27 countries where education is done differently.

Most came to Canada recently knowing little or no English, and adjusting, for many, has been hard.

“Ever ything is different than from back home,” Noor Qasem, 19, who is from Yemen but grew up in Dubai and spent a year in Syria before emigrating last June to Toronto, a city with greenery, subways and other things she had not seen before.

At first, Qasem’s lack of English held her back, she said on Friday.

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Richardson Funea, 17, responds during presentations during the graduation ceremony for Greenwood Secondary School’s Newcomer Orientation Week on Friday.

“I didn’t do anything, no friends, nothing.”

But the NOW program at Greenwood, which staged a graduation party last Friday, taught her a lot, Qasem said, and she learned the new rules of an unfamiliar school system and made friends.

This time, she joined the program as a peer leader and recognized questions the students asked at Greenwood

were identical to her own last summer.

“I have a big successful jump this year. I want to give my experience for the other newcomers.”

Sampad Dey, 20, arrived last July but wasn’t part of last year’s program.

As a result, he said, he spent the first two months of the school year not knowing useful information - that there was a washroom on the second floor, for instance - or understanding how school here differs from his native Bangladesh.

“Back home, we used to always stay in the class,” instead of moving to other classrooms, he said. “We have to write exactly what the teacher gives us.”

There were no lockers back home, and even the way students reacted to bullies was different.

“In Canada, you never fight back,” added Dey, who said he served as a peer leader so the newest cohort at Greenwood, a school south of Danforth Avenue built for an Englishas-a-Second Language focus, would not face the same dif-

ficulties he did.

Dey also credited Greenwood’s teachers and settlement workers in the school from the Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office with making the transition to student life in Canada easier.

“They really work too hard, too hard. They’re really helping us a lot.”

Melissa Hurst, the school’s g u i d a n c e c o u n s e l l o r,

explained to the newcomer students they can come to her with problems at home or in class. encouraging “What you say to me I don’t have to tell to your teacher, your principal or your parents,” she said, encouraging the group to get involved in school clubs, sports and other

fun activities.

Funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the orientation week program is 20 of the Toronto public board’s high schools. Greenwood’s, however, concluded with a talent show that included performances of a Filipino pop songand a Bollywood-style dance number which lasted minutes and finished as The Macarena.

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t was about a year ago this week that Doug Ford started talking about Ferris wheels and monorails and gigantic shopping malls for Toronto’s port lands. It didn’t go well for him or that plan — but a year later, after having spent a few days in the Etobicoke North councillor’s favourite town, Chicago, I can see how he got worked up about it.

Chicago is world-famous for many things — the deepness of its pizza, its intricate history of crime and corruption, its fantastic architecture — but for a visitor staying in a downtown hotel, I have to say: nothing beats its waterfront.

Jogging and biking trails wend up the river and along the waterfront for miles.

There are marinas and parks and an aquarium.

There is even a giant Ferris wheel, and yes, the view from the top of it is spectacular.

Councillor Ford’s family business takes him to

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Chicago frequently; and it’s not hard to see how flitting between that place and the rust-belt splendour of much of Toronto’s waterfront could make a fellow impatient.

Next week, Doug’s brother Mayor Rob Ford will be looking at the plan that emerged from the wreckage of the dream of quick commercialization of the port lands. Council asked for it last year — a revised plan to see exactly what the city and the development industry could do to actually make something of its waterfront.

It’s not a job for the impatient. While there’s great potential for development in the port lands; very little

can be developed without some very major infrastructure. In total, the consultants hired on to look at the area estimated it will take $1.9 billion in infrastructure improvement to make the lands worth anything in terms of development.

Building anywhere in the port lands is going to take a long view. The $1.9 billion is only addressing development north of the shipping channel; It could literally take generations to see the whole thing built out.

Chicago’s waterfront today is after all the culmination of a plan more than a century old, using land given for public use along the lake. The battles for a public waterfront were mostly fought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Which is to say, we’ll get there eventually. There is precedent. n David Nickle is The Mirror’s city hall reporter. His column appears Thursdays. Contact him at dnickle@insidetoronto. com

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ONTARIO SUMMER GAMES CHAMPS: The gold medal winner at the Ontario Summer Games ball hockey competition is the U14 South Team made up of a number of players from the Withrow Park Ball Hockey League. South Team members include head coach Chris Carr, Kareem Brugmann, Mitchell Byrne, William Calverley, Zachary Carr, Teddy Christou, Robert Cristofaro, Jackson Cusack, Daniel Lowe, Patrick McSweeney, Tyler Nother, Kosta Rodopoulos, Giovanni Smith, Jake Sterritt and Daniel Tsiampas. Withrow Park players on the team are Christou, Rodopoulos, Cusack, McSweeney, Brugmann, Carr, Tsiampas and Lowe. The South Team took on other squads from across the province in the ball hockey championships which were held at the Herb Carnegie Arena in North York.

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It’s Happening n Friday, Sept. 7

Open Mike Jam Session WHEN: 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

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n Saturday, Sept. 8

Corn Roast WHEN: 10:30 a.m. WHERE: Don Mills United Church, 126 O’Connor Dr. CONTACT: 416425-4950 COST: Free Everyone welcome.

Live Music WHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416425-1714, jimb.farrell@yahoo.ca COST: Free An evening of easy listening/ dancing to the sounds of Jeff Kahl. Everyone is welcome.

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n Sunday, Sept. 9

Sunday Afternoon Euchre WHEN: 12:30 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-4251714 COST: $5.00 Euchre. All welcome to play.

Ribfest WHEN: 2 to 6 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 11, 9 Dawes Rd. CONTACT: J. Haden 416-264-6466, COST: $12 to $15 Only 100 tickets will be sold.

Dinner at 4 p.m. Entertainment provided.

Karaoke Night @ 22 WHEN: 5 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416425-1714, www.facebook.com/ groups/4651583595, jimb.farrell@yahoo.ca COST: Free Come out early Sunday evening for some Karaoke. Sing,dance or just listen. Everyone’s always welcome.

n Monday, Sept. 10

Mens Dart Meeting WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch

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Drop in Darts WHEN: 7:30 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. COST: $5 Come out Monday evenings for a blind draw doubles dart shoot.

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n Saturday, Sept. 15

Walkathon WHEN: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 11, 9 Dawes Rd. CONTACT: J. Haden 416-264-6466 COST: Free Tony Stacey Walkathon.

n Tuesday, Sept. 11

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WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Ralph Thorton Centre, 765 Queen St. E., second floor auditorium CONTACT: 416-778-0796, info@ canadasings.ca COST: Free Second Tuesday of each month.

Market Day WHEN: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

WHERE: True Davidson Acres Long-Term Care Homes & Services, 200 Dawes Rd. CONTACT: Carly Wolf, 416-397-0400, cwolf@toronto.ca COST: Free Community vendors sell their products. Speciality giftware, crafts, food, plants and jewelry.

n Thursday, Sept. 13

Leaside Garden Society WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Library, 165 McRae Dr. CONTACT: Leaside Garden Society, Lgardens1@hotmail.com COST: Free Cathy Bartolic will talk about garlic. She is the executive director of the Ontario Farm Fresh Marketing Association and a garlic and fresh-cut flower producer.

Also, a dedication ceremony for the bench placed at the entrance to the library. Also, 25-year pins will be presented.

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Subways still in the dark for online users RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Hong Kong’s had it since 2007. New York City, London and Paris have all recently introduced it.

But when it comes to wireless Internet, it’s unclear when Torontonians will join their international counterparts surfing the ‘net, updating social media statuses or engaging in other online activities while on public transit.

GO Transit and TTC say they’re prioritizing implementation of wi-fi.

But spokespersons for both transit agencies were unable to say when exactly that will be.

Malon Edwards of Metrolinx, the provincial Crown agency tasked with running GO, said wi-fi is a priority of the transit authority’s passenger charter, which promises riders a “comfortable travel experience.”

He said a rollout is tentatively scheduled for sometime in 2013, but wi-fi planning is still in the early stages.

“There is no firm date for implementation,” said Edwards.

Meanwhile the TTC, which has discussed since 2010 installing a wireless network to allow phone and

cost, in addition to an annual fee to cover operational costs.

To satisfy a requirement of the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunication Commission (CRTC) customers of all available cellular carriers would have equal access to the network, no matter which company is ultimately chosen as the wireless provider.

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Wifi on subway trains would allow riders with smart phones to access the Internet while on the go.

Internet use in the subway, plans to provide an update during a board meeting sometime in the fall, said Jessica Martin.

“There hasn’t been much movement,” said Martin, who works in corporate communications for TTC. “We have limited info at the moment.”

What is known, according to a May report presented to the TTC board, is a request for proposal (RFP)

was issued in May by the TTC for three pre-qualified telecommunications companies: Bell Mobility, Broadcast Australia and ExteNet Systems, based in Chicago.

The winning bidder will be responsible for designing and installing a wireless network to work in TTC subway stations and platforms, but not tunnels.

The provider would cover the estimated $50-million installation

Questions remain as to whether the wireless service will require users to pay for access or whether it will be offered at no extra cost beyond fare entry to the subway.

Offering a free wi-fi service that requires users to watch ads in exchange for access is growing increasingly popular, with global spending on Internet advertising rising more than 30 per cent in the last three years according to a recent report by forecaster ZenithOptimedia.

Over the summer, New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is offering free wi-fi until Sept. 7 at six subway stations located in the Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan, with plans to expand

the service to 30 more stations by the end of the year.

London’s Underground introduced wi-fi to 80 tube stations during the Summer Olympic Games at no cost to users.

The Paris Metro has also introduced a limited service.

Whether free or not, Mihnea Stoian believes in an age of smart phones and tablet computers that it is unacceptable Toronto transit vehicles are not providing wireless connections.

“I would say that not having wi-fi is out of step as to what we as a society expect,” said Stoian, co-founder of the transit advocacy group Commuters United, along with Nilaye Thakrar.

While Stoian praised both TTC and GO for improving how it updates commuters on service changes, he said it was frustrating not to be able to enjoy the same amenities transit riders in other parts of the world take for granted.

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The proposed $1.9 billion plan is a result of a year of study and re-examination of the plan to redevelop the eastern waterfront and port lands that came about after council rejected a scheme put forward by city councillor and brother to the mayor Doug Ford, that would have torn up much of the work that had been done to date.

Ford had promoted a plan that would have included a monorail through the 900acre site, a massive hotel, shopping mall and a giant Ferris wheel similar to the London Eye. The new plan focusses on building up the infrastructure in the poorly-serviced

port lands north of the shipping channel, and opening up some of those lands for redevelopment.

At the same time, it preserves existing uses on the lands — mostly in the southern areas — that are deemed to be both long-term and essential to the city’s redevelopment.

“We’ve identified certain port users that are going to have to stay there for a long time to support the city,” said John Campbell, President and CEO of Waterfront Toronto.

“Concrete, for example — you can’t bring in concrete from Oshawa. So we’ve identified many of the uses that have to stay.”

The plan likewise remains largely silent on the development of Lake Ontario Park in other parts of the port lands.

That, according to Campbell, will have to be done on a piecemeal basis.

“We have a master plan to look at how we can build that incrementally,” said Campbell. “Look at Tommy Thompson Park. That was

being built with one truck of fill at a time. I expect that Lake Ontario Park will be the same.”

The rest of the plan is a slow game as well. Immediately, the city and Waterfront Toronto will have to complete a revised environmental assessment to begin on a flood protection plan that will alter the mouth of the Don River.

Assuming that the city can fund and begin work on the $61 million Don River project, some development could begin very shortly, in the Cousins and Polsons Quay areas.

Local councillor Paula Fletcher was supportive of the plan, calling it “a big reality check.”

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