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People who use food banks are the same as you and me.”

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the food bank myth LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com There exists a myth that those who rely on food banks are lazy or have made bad choices.

This is absolutely not the case, stress leaders in the fight against hunger, not only in Toronto, but across the country.

“People who use food banks are the same as you and me.

They’re people who have experienced job loss, sickness, or mental breakdown. It can happen to any of us,” said Gail Nyberg, executive director of the Daily Bread Food Bank, the largest provider of food relief in the Greater Toronto Area. “We’re here to give them a hand while they’re down and get them back on their feet.”

The Etobicoke-based distribution centre that provides food and resources to as many as 200 food programs across Toronto distributes 600,000

hampers a month to its member agencies – one third of those in need are children, Nyberg said. The registered charity’s latest ‘Who’s Hungry’ report that looks at the past year will be released in September.

“We know we’re starting to see a dramatic increase (in food bank use). This replicates what we’re seeing in the economy: precarious jobs, part-time and contract; retail outlets closing and plants shutting down,” Nyberg said.

People who have lost their jobs typically don’t fall into dire straights immediately, particularly if they qualify for Employment Insurance. Food banks are accessible once a week to receive two to three days’ worth of food for each member of the family.

“We’re in our lean time now, too. We don’t get a lot of donations,” Nyberg said. >>>straining, page 3

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Ryan Noble is the executive director of the North York Harvest Food Bank.

Right now, there is an increasing demand for food bank services in the city.

Info session on East York Cultural Hotspot slated TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com Share what you love about arts, culture and community in East York at the Cultural Hotspot Community Connect info session Wednesday, Sept. 14.

The session takes place from

6 to 8 p.m. at the East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Ave. Coffee and treats will be provided at the session.

ToronTo ArTs And CulTure Presented by Toronto Arts and Culture, the meeting is co-

hosted with Children’s Peace Theatre and East End Arts.

Starting in May 2017, and running through October, the Cultural Hotspot program will shine a spotlight on arts, culture and community in East York.

Residents are invited to attend the information session

at the civic centre to find out how to get involved and help shape the direction and focus of the initiative.

The Cultural Hotspot program will feature a series of signature projects including visual arts, performance, youth mentorship and employment,

and more.

To RSVP for the meeting, please contact Hyesoo at culturalhotspot@toronto.ca or 416-392-1210.

Visit www.toronto.ca/culturalhotspot for more information about the Cultural Hotspot initiative.

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Swim star Oleksiak back to class at Monarch Park JOANNE LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Like any other Grade 11 student, local resident Penny Oleksiak reported to school for her first day of classes Tuesday at Monarch Park Collegiate, near Danforth and Coxwell avenues.

The 16-year-old swimmer, who earned a Canadian record four Olympic medals in Rio, said she’s happy to get back to her regular routine.

This term, she’ll be taking one online course and three regular classes at the semestered, east-end secondary school.

“I’m pretty excited to be back. I’m just excited to hang out with my friends and get back to class,” Oleksiak said outside the school on the first day back from the summer break.

“It’ll be a fun year, I hope.”

Oleksiak, who is set to resume her rigorous swim training schedule in a couple weeks’ time, said she also

Collegiate is a place where Oleksiak can feel at home and at ease like any normal kid.

“To me, she’s Penny the student, who also happens to be a really good swimmer,” she smiled, noting there has been some talk of recognizing Oleksiak during the school’s welcome-back assembly but first she said she needs to check with Oleksiak if she’s up for that.

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Penny Oleksiak, right, winner of four medals in swimming at the Rio Olympics, speaks with the media on Tuesday during her first day back at class as Monarch Park Collegiate principal Cynthia Abernethy looks on.

hopes to have the time to help out once again with

the boys’ volleyball team as a scorekeeper.

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School principal Cynthia Abernethy said Monarch Park

“We’re just really proud of her accomplishments,” Abernethy said, pointing to a bulletin board in the school’s front lobby celebrating Oleksiak’s incredible summer.

Bryan McAlpine, who teaches physical education at Monarch Park Collegiate and also coaches the boys’ volleyball team, said despite Oleksiak’s unforgettable summer, she is still the same humble, smart, and amazing student he knows.

McAlpine also said every-

one at the east-end high school is immensely proud of her.

“We all feel like we’re walking taller because of (Penny).

It’s a real point of pride at Monarch Park Collegiate,” he said.

Last school year, Oleksiak took McAlpine’s Grade 12 personal fitness course while she was heavily training for this summer’s Olympics.

“She would train all morning then she’d come as a Grade 10 student and train with my Grade 12 students,” said McAlpine, who is also the school’s assistant curriculum leader for athletics.

“Her capacity to take on a workload is like no other I’ve ever seen.”

Classmate and friend Jackson West said he’s proud of Oleksiak for her many achievements.

“I’m pretty impressed,” shared the Grade 12 student.

“Penny is definitely going places. She definitely has a long career ahead of her.”

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Kew Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave. Wednesday, September 14 at 7 pm Nate will be joined by Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon, MPP Arthur Potts, and a panel of experts focused on how government, business, and individuals can all work to tackle climate change.

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Straining the food bank system >>>from page 1 Campaigns, such as Hunger Awareness Week, which takes place Sept. 19 to 23, help bring attention to the issue of hunger in Canada, and sees food banks across the country hosting events to highlight the work they do and the experiences of Canadians who are assisted by them.

Yet, hunger, pointed out Nyberg, is not just a week in September, it’s here all year.

She encourages everyone to make a food donation by dropping off items at the nearest fire hall or grocery store.

Daily Bread also benefits from companies like Loblaws that have strict rules regarding expiry dates. Food that gets turned away from chain stores can go to food banks, Nyberg said.

The North York Harvest Food Bank is the primary food bank for northern Toronto.

Last year, it distributed more than 2.3 million pounds of through 77 community programs.

Since the recession in 2008, food bank use in the inner suburbs has increased by 45 per cent, according to executive director Ryan Noble. He points to the high cost of real estate coupled with stagnant wages and fewer employment opportunities as some of the reasons for the increase.

“People find themselves in food insecurity because of job insecurity. We live in a very rich city in terms of financial and food,” he said. “It’s when housing systems and job systems break down that there’s a problem.”

Food bank users are getting a small supply of food so that their money can stretch further, Noble said. For the average user, once rent and utilities are paid for, all that’s left is $4.51 a day, he said.

Through its partner agencies, North York Harvest Food Bank also provides clients with further support, such as job skills, settlement services, and housing.

The food bank, Noble said, “gives us a captive audience to understand what the root causes (of poverty) are.”

The food that is needed at food banks is the same that families want to serve at their dinner table. It’s healthy, low sodium, low sugar, and protein-packed.

“There’s a lot of food insecurity awareness around fall and Christmas,” Noble said.

T h a t’s w h y Se p t e m b e r’s Hu n g e r Awareness Week is timely and important.

“It helps raise awareness before we enter our busy season,” Noble said.

Pam Jolliffe, interim executive director of Food Banks Canada, a national charitable organization that supports a network of provincial associations, affiliate food banks, and food agencies working at the community level to relieve hunger, said hunger is a symptom of people living in poverty.

“It’s a persistent problem – unacceptable in a country like Canada,” Jolliffe said.

“Most food banks started 30 years ago as a short-term solution. Unfortunately, they’re still here many years later.”

Overall, food bank use has increased by 26 per cent since 2008.

Alberta is suffering economic difficulty because of the sputtering oil and gas industry.

So many Albertans are out of work, Jolliffe said.

The government has been taking steps to help families out of poverty, she said, citing the new child tax credit, and changes in support to seniors, as well as the ‘Canadian Poverty Reduction’ strategy; however, more steps can be made.

“We need Canadians to speak up, to press the government for better policies,” Jolliffe said.

For further information or to make a food or financial donation, visit www.dailybread.ca, www.foodbankscanada.ca, or www.northyorkharvest.com

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Food donations are sorted in the warehouse at the North York Harvest Food Bank on Industry Street.

High demand items at food banks: Canned vegetables; canned fruit Pasta and pasta sauce Canned meat in water; canned fish Rice; flour Peanut butter Dried and canned beans High fibre/low sugar cereal; oatmeal Baby food, baby cereal, baby formula Source: Daily Bread Food Bank

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he week of Sept. 19 to 23 has been designated as Hunger Awareness Week in Canada, and it’s a time for all residents to think about and take steps to help deal with what is a growing need across our country, and especially in Toronto.

In our feature story in today’s editions, we look at the challenges facing food banks in our city as they deal with an increasing number of clients.

Gail Nyberg, executive director of the Daily Bread Food Bank, rightly points out, though, that hunger is not just a week in September. It’s a reality for a lot of families in our city, and the users of food banks come from a wide range of our population.

“We know we’re starting to see a dramatic increase (in food bank use),” Nyberg told Metroland Media Toronto. “This replicates what we’re seeing in the economy; precarious jobs, part-time and contract, retail outlets closing and plants OuR ViEW shutting down.”

Ryan Noble, executive director Food security of the North York Harvest Food Bank, said his organization disan issue across tributed more than 2.3 million pounds of food last year through our country 77 community organizations it partners with. He pointed out that Toronto’s booming real estate market coupled with stagnant wages is one of the reasons for such need.

Basically, the cost of keeping a home in this city is becoming so high for some people that they are forced to turn to food banks when the money has run out for the month. That’s a scary scenario that should be a warning for all Torontonians as it highlights a growing gap between those who can and cannot afford to live in this city.

That being said, it’s clearly more than just a “Toronto problem” as food bank use across Canada has grown by 26 per cent since 2008, according to Pam Jolliffe, interim executive director of Food Banks Canada. What’s sad about this is that when food banks first began to pop up in Canada 30 or so years ago to help deal with the recession of the early 1980s, they were seen as temporary and would not be needed once the economy rebounded.

Sadly, that’s not the case and we need a hard national look at what poverty and food insecurity means in Canada and how we are going to address it.

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Amalgamated Toronto was born in austerity Every so often it sneaks up on you and smacks you in the ear: Toronto, at least the amalgamated one we live in now, was founded on a myth of nothing grander than austerity.

The provincial government forced the amalgamation of the five cities and a borough with old Metro Council with the promise to save tax dollars.

Mel Lastman, the first mayor, got elected with the promise to freeze property taxes. Toronto’s newly elected council argued for a while whether it made sense to move from Metro Hall into Toronto City Hall, then once they moved spent considerable time arguing about selling Metro Hall.

Twice-weekly garbage collection in North York became a distant memory.

Free recreation programs in the old City of Toronto became unaffordable and the city started charging for them.

And, as we were

david nickle the city reminded Tuesday morning at the September Government Management Committee, the old City of Toronto’s gift shop closed its tiny doors.

I was there at the time and barely recall the decision. Pam McConnell, who was among the 56 councillors who made up the first amalgamated Toronto Council and prior to that had sat on the old Toronto Council, said that it was cut by then-budget chief Tom Jakobek, as an unaffordable frivolity. The gift shop was another casualty of the dour mindset into which young Toronto was born.

Well, frivolity has come back into vogue under Toronto’s fourth mayor, John Tory – and on Tuesday, the committee voted to see what it would take to open another shop for tourists at City Hall.

It’s fair to say they supported Councillor Mary Margaret McMahon’s idea with a fair bit of enthusiasm.

Why shouldn’t they?

Toronto’s wildly overbudget renovation of Nathan Phillips Square has proven to be a hit with the tourists – aided by the considerably less-costly giant glowing TORONTO sign that landed on the north side of the skating rink / reflecting pond thanks to the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games. And our weird old City Hall itself is both a civic and a science fiction icon; the now 50-year-old Star Trek television series used postcard images of the two curving towers and saucer-shaped council chamber as backdrops in more than one episode.

A gift shop is the least that City Hall should have, and maybe it will have a bit more. Just under a year ago, Toronto councillors approved a plan to look into building a modestly

scaled municipal museum at the eventually liberated Old City Hall just across the road. A bit further afield, councillors will soon be setting the wheels in motion to build a fantastically expensive park near King and Spadina, and another one on Richmond Street.

Austerity, at least for the moment, seems a thing of the distant past.

It won’t, of course, stay that way for long, as the city gets back to the quotidian business of budget-setting.

Mayor Tory is asking for big cuts to spending across the board – 2.6 per cent – in service of an old-fashioned inflationary property tax increase.

And that means that however weary we might be, of a city limited by austerity – that is the place we will be heading again, before we know it.

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Canadian Federation of University Women Leaside-East York WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Northlea United Church, 125 Brentcliffe Rd. CONTACT: www. cfuwleasideeastyork.ca, joincfuw@gmail.com COST: Free Speaker: Mandy Deeves RN, MPH, CIC. Topic:“Ebola Virus Disease: A Tale of Two Worlds”. Visitors and new members welcome.

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CHECk oUT oUR complete online community calendar by visiting www. insidetoronto.com where you can read listings from your East York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto.

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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., Suite 215H CONTACT: kevin@mosaichomecare.com COST: Free; Fee for parking Walk in areas of Bayview and Eglington avenues and Sunnybrook Park.

Book Club WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale Branch, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416393-7720 COST: Free The book being discussed for Sept. 8 is “The orenda” written by Joseph Boyden.

Leaside Garden Society WHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Public Library, 165 McRae Dr. CONTACT: Donald Beard, 416-488-6194 COST: Free September meeting. Speaker: Elizabeth Stewart. Topic: Urban Potager. competitive darts.

Tim Bovaconti and Patrick Allcock.

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Drop In Darts WHEN: Mondays from 7:30 to 10 p.m.

WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: 416-4251714 COST: $5; Drop in Blind draw format. Money returned in prizes.

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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 COST: Free Fresh ontario products from fruits and vegetabels to honey and preserves and more.

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Mens Bridge WHEN: Wednesdays from 1 to 4 p.m.

WHERE: Leaside United Church, 822 Millwood Rd. CONTACT: Jim krafchik, 416-4887720, daddyk@rogers.com COST: $3 Bridge every Wednesday afternoon in the Leaside area. Coffee, tea, cookies and conversation follow.

RCL Branch #10 September, 2016 Entertainment WHEN: 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: RCl Todmorden Branch # 10, 1083 Pape Ave CONTACT: M P Harvey, 416-425-3070, , rclbr10@zoho.com COST: Free Sept. 2: DJ Jose; Sept. 9: DJ: AJ the DJ; Sept.

16: Pepper Shakers; Sept. 23 DJ: Rob Best Sept. 30: DJ Derek.

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Jeremy Tankard WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart, 170 Memorial Park Ave. CONTACT: 416-396-3975 COST: Free Program with celebrated children’s author/ illustrator debuting his latest book in the popular Grumpy Bird series, Hungry Bird. A book sale and signing will follow the presentation. Registration is required.

Withrow Park Farmer’s Market WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Withrow Park, 725 Logan Ave. CONTACT: www. withrowpark.ca COST: Free All produce, food items and other goods sold at the market have to be certified organic or ecologically and sustainably produced.

The market is one block south of Danforth Avenue between Carlaw and Logan avenues in the northeast corner of the park along McConnell Ave. Live Music WHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave CONTACT: Jim, 416-4251714 COST: Free

East York Garden Club Monthly Meeting WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Stan Wadlow Clubhouse, 373 Cedarvale Ave. CONTACT: Susan Bartlett, 416-668-7872, susanhirst@ gmail.com COST: Free Brendan Behrmann will be speaking about the Toronto Seed Library. Last flower show of the year.

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What’s in store for East York?

So now that we are firmly in the 21st Century, what impact is that fact having on East York and its future?

On the simplest level, the good news is that “we are still here” as an East York identity continues to endure.

This is the reality to be found in all of the former municipalities that once made up Metro Toronto.

Community interests are still the foundation for most people’s feelings about living in Toronto and this has resulted in the existence of vibrant neighbourhoods.

The bad news is that while East York neighbourhoods are still strong and vital, our direct control of them has been greatly diminished.

As a result, the bricks and mortar face of East York is changing in a variety of ways that are not always good.

On a neighbourhood level we’re seeing houses being transformed from bungalows into monster homes.

The problem with these new larger homes is beyond an issue of how they look out

joe cooper watchdog of place amongst the smaller homes that surround them.

They affect the property taxes of the homes around them by skewing the average property values when they are sold on the market. Your taxes are not simply based upon your assessed house value, but on the value of the houses that surround you.

So this type of development can have a cascading effect upon a community over time as more and more houses are converted.

This is where the real impact of the 21st Century is being felt upon East York.

The community has gone from being a somewhat marginal area containing older buildings and an aging population to a highly desirable area with a younger population with children.

People are coming to realize East York is a stable community with many good qualities,

such as schools, libraries, community centres and parks.

More importantly, East York is only 20 minutes from downtown Toronto and is equally accessible to other parts of the city.

There is no longer the allure of heading off to the suburbs as there once was and many people are migrating back into East York. This trend is not going change and, if anything, is going to accelerate.

Compounding this trend will be the fact that other communities outside of East York will also be experiencing accelerated growth.

The impact of this will be an increase of traffic passing through on both our roads and public transportation.

We’re already seeing this each morning and afternoon with the rush hour traffic backing up on our major streets, not to mention packed buses and subways.

Joe Cooper is a long-time East York resident and community activist. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at eym@insidetoronto.com

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Before school Tuesday, officers clocked one driver at 72 km/h in the 40 km/h school zone on Birmingham Street near Second Street Junior Middle School in

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The driver faces a $323 fine and four demerit points.

Speeding is the number one driving offence enforced year-round by Toronto police, reported Const. Clint Stibbe with traffic services.

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safety first “Are you FOCUSED on school” (Frequent Offences the Community and road Users See Every Day) is a Toronto police initiative lasting throughout this week.

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Along with a group called ACORN Canada, they were pushing the City of Toronto to license landlords the way it licensed restaurants. Ruled out in 2008, the idea is coming back to Toronto Council this fall.

“It took them long enough.

A part of me is upset (by that), a part of me is happy,” Marva Burnett, one of the tenant activists, said last week.

Burnett, who still lives in Scarborough, is now president of ACORN Canada, a group that pressures the city to fix problem buildings and has campaigned for licensing for more than a decade.

No one yet knows the details, but the city will consider a licensing system for rental buildings with 10 or

ACORN Canada President Marva Burnett.

more units and at least three storeys.

“I’m hopeful. City councillors keep saying tenants don’t vote, but they are also a huge chunk of their constituents they have to start representing,” Burnett said

Wednesday at Scarborough Village Recreation Centre, during the last in a series of public meetings on the idea.

“Too many tenants are suffering in Ontario, and we need something to stop the madness.”

Instead of licensing, the city in 2008 started the MultiResidential Audit Program (MRAB) to target common areas of “high-risk” buildings, and so far has audited 1,048 of Toronto’s 3,500 or so apartment towers.

City inspectors can also issue orders to comply with property standards. Many orders are appealed, but the city can finally move to “remedial action,” hiring a contractor to do the work and attaching the costs to a building’s property tax.

These programs work “relatively well” but licenses could address weaknesses in property standards enforcement, promote best practices and give tenants and the city more information about

buildings, Amy Buitenhuis, a senior policy officer for the Municipal Licensing and Services Division told people at the Scarborough Village meeting.

‘Bad Behaviour’ Fines levied by courts now don’t seem to be enough to stop “bad behaviour” by certain landlords, she said.

Buittenhuis said the city doesn’t want the licensing fee to be “burdensome” to tenants or landlords, and knows tenants don’t want to pay the costs, estimated at $12-$15 per apartment per year.

Whether it can be passed to tenants in a rent increase or not is up to the province’s Landlord and Tenant Board, she said.

The Federation of Rental Housing Providers of Ontario (FRPO), calls licensing “a new tax on tenants,” and argues on its website “these types of licensing schemes do not help to increase the quality of rental housing.”

Daryl Chong, president of Greater Toronto Apartment Association, the city should focus on the bad landlords, “a handful of addresses,” and use remedial action, “an effective tool.”

The 10-unit figure is arbitrary, and the city didn’t seem to look at alternatives to licensing, Chong added last week, arguing Toronto’s purpose-built rental building owners pay higher property taxes than other owners.

The stock of apartments is aging, and the city’s treatment of the industry doesn’t encourage building more, he said.

A landlord licensing proposal is expected to reach Toronto’s Licensing and Standards Committee in November, and then to Toronto Council by midDecember.

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The city is looking for a new general manager for its Transportation Services department following Stephen Buckley’s resignation earlier this year.

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On Saturday in collaboration with the Toronto Bicycle Music festival, the group is planning to hold several performances along the path.

The mobile festival starts at Evergreen Brick Works and ends at Prairie Drive Park.

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