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Dusk Dances, poet Clarke honoured Local resident George Elliott Clarke and the Dusk Dances event have been named finalists in the Premier’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. The two-east end nominees are among 12 finalists up for the prestigious awards, which aim to celebrate the outstanding achievements of the province’s arts community and its contributions to a strong, vibrant culture sector.
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SHUT-EYE? Do you snore loudly? Do you feel tired even after a full night’s sleep? You may have sleep apnea. Read our special report on Page 3 for more about this potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts.
‘Ask Me Anything’ school meeting set Parents of children who attend schools in Ward 15, TorontoDanforth, are invited to attend an ‘Ask Me Anything’ event on Monday, Sept. 19. The forum will be held at Wilkinson Public School, 53 Donlands Ave., just north of Danforth Avenue, starting at 7 p.m. The three new superintendents for Ward 15, John Chasty,
Lucy Gianotta and Mary Jane McNamara, along with the Toronto District School Board’s new Director of Education, John Malloy, will be in attendance. All are welcome to ask questions, share opinions and concerns and give suggestions at the meeting. The board’s new Learning Centre model will also be discussed.
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Pedal Power at the Brick works Above, YUKA performs alongside The Heavyweights Brass Band in a people-powered show during the Toronto Bicycle Music Festival at Evergeen Brick Works. The concert and equipment were kept powered by volunteers riding stationary bicycles connected to a generator. Below, Katie Whitman and Mark Francis pedal to keep the show alive during the Toronto Bicycle Music Festival.
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hat do you do when a solid eight hours of sleep still leaves you feeling exhausted and listless in the morning? For millions of Canadians suffering from sleep apnea, that’s a daily occurrence, and while sleep apnea itself may not be deadly, its side effects can be severe, particularly when they add up over weeks, months or years. Sleep apnea is an obstruction of the trachea during sleep, which stops breathing and causes fits of wakefulness. In serious cases, people can be jolted awake more than 60 times an hour, and while the body returns to sleep quickly, the condition prevents deep sleep. “Your sleep becomes mincemeat,” said Dr. T. Douglas Bradley, director of the University Health Network Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Toronto General Hospital Sleep Research Labs. “It’s like sticking a cork down your throat, so you struggle to breathe because your airway’s obstructed and you can’t get any air in your lungs. That goes on for a minimum of 10 seconds and can last up to a minute and a half. Eventually the asphyxia wakes you up and when that happens, there’s a sudden increase in the tone of the muscles in the throat, so the throat opens, usually with a loud snore.” Sleep apnea affects some 10 per cent of the population in North America, with men three times more likely to suffer from the condition. Age is a factor – the average sleep apnea patient is 45 years old – and obesity and inactivity are strong contributing factors. Bradley noted that sleep apnea is disruptive not only to the sufferer, but to their partners as well, as those suffering from the condition snore loudly through-
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Above left, Dr. Doug Bradley of Toronto Rehab shows off a new Bresotec device that will allow people to test themselves for sleep apnea at home. Above right, a readout of sleep patterns for a patient suffering from obstructive sleep apnea. The program reads breathing, airflow, chest and abdominal movement, body movement and more.
out the night. The effects on the sufferer, however, can be debilitating. “You feel like you’ve been hit by a 10-ton truck when you get up in the morning, often with headaches, feeling like you’d like to go back
to bed again,” he said. The ensuing sleepiness throughout the day can lead to a three to fourfold increase in the incidence of getting involved in motor vehicle accidents and industrial accidents.
Beyond that, sufferers tend to toss and turn throughout the night and can suffer a loss of shortterm memory and libido. There are also potential long-term cardiovascular health effects, with sleep
apnea sufferers seeing a two to fourfold increase in the incidence of high blood pressure, stroke and heart failure. “When you fall asleep, your cardiovascular system relaxes just like the muscles
in the rest of the body, so your blood pressure goes down, your heart rate goes down, oxygen consumption by the heart goes down because the heart’s resting,” Bradley said. “If you keep waking somebody up, you get surges of sympathetic (nervous system) activity that raise the heart rate, raise the blood pressure and increase the pumping activity of the heart at a time when it should be resting.” Potential cures for sleep apnea are varied, depending on the severity of the case. Bradley noted that prevention is the greatest cure – by maintaining a healthy body weight and keeping active, the risk of developing the condition is greatly reduced. Other simple solutions include sleeping on your side or having your tonsils removed if they are particularly large, though these only serve to help some patients. For many, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) masks are the best treatment. Worn overnight, the face masks blow air through the nose and into the back of the throat to keep the airway open. “This controls sleep apnea, but it doesn’t cure it,” Bradley said. Securing an appointment in a sleep clinic to get diagnosed can be difficult. To help with the backlog, Bradley worked with a group of partners to form BresoTec, a company that has developed a home testing kit. A face mask – the BresoDX – captures sleep sounds in the patient’s home through a microphone and patients can simply mail in a chip containing the recording for analysis. “It makes diagnosis easier and we can look at a patient’s full night’s sleep in less than five minutes,” Bradley said. For more information on the BresoDX, visit https:// bresotec.com/
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good night’s sleep – it’s something many of us take for granted. But for millions of Canadians who suffer from sleep apnea, a restful sleep is hard to come by. With 10 per cent of the North American population impacted by this sleep disorder, someone you know may be experiencing the side effects of sleep apnea, which can be severe and debilitating. As Dr. T. Douglas Bradley, director of the University Health Network Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Toronto General Hospital Sleep Research Labs, noted in this week’s Metroland Media Toronto special report, “You feel like you’ve been hit by a 10-ton truck when you get up in the morning.”
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Bradley gives a clearer picture of what sleep apnea is by explaining that “it’s like sticking a cork down your throat, so you struggle to breathe because your airway’s obstructed.” That can go on for a minimum of 10 seconds and can OuR ViEW astoundingly last up to a minute and a half. As a result, Prevention in serious cases, people can be jolted awake more than 60 among the times an hour, preventing deep best cures sleep. Sufferers can also experience potential long-term cardiovascular health effects such as high blood pressure, stroke and heart failure. The effects can go beyond the bedroom as the ensuing sleepiness throughout the day can lead to a fourfold increase in the incidence of getting involved in motor vehicle and industrial accidents. NOT ALL DOOM AND GLOOM
Studies show men are three times more likely to suffer from the condition with age playing a factor as well as obesity and inactivity. But all is not doom and gloom with the report highlighting potential cures for sleep apnea depending on the severity of the case. Simple solutions include sleeping on your side or wearing a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) mask, which blows air through the nose and into the back of the throat to keep the airway open. But as it is with most health-related issues, Bradley iterated that prevention is the greatest cure. If you’re looking for another reason to exercise, maintain a healthy body weight and keep active, you can add greatly reducing the risk of developing sleep apnea to the list.
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Ford book may lead to unintended consequences Wa t c h i n g D o u g F o r d announce that Harper Collins will soon be releasing another Ford book – Ford Nation: “the most exciting book that this country’s ever seen when it comes to politics”– I was struck with a pang of sympathy. The sympathy is not for my colleagues in the press or the politicians at city hall, who Doug Ford promised would be spared no indignity in Ford Nation’s pages. My heart really goes out to the writer – or possibly team of writers and editors, as Ford was vague about the specifics – who were contracted by Harper Collins to pen this tell-all authorized sort-of biographical memoir of Rob and Doug Ford’s adventures at the helm of Toronto. It made me think of Tony Schwartz. He did a similar job three decades ago, for New York real estate mogul Donald Trump, when he wrote “The Art of the Deal” on Trump’s behalf. He wasn’t precisely
david nickle the city a ghost writer – he shared the byline with Trump, right there on the cover, and also split the royalties and the advance. By all accounts, he did good work for good pay. Maybe too good. Earlier this year, Schwartz, through an interview in The New Yorker magazine, expressed “deep remorse” for helping Trump build his reputation as a touch-ofgold entrepreneur, which in turn helped him rise through and above the others for the Republican nomination in 2016 and win the thing. Maybe he’ll win the presidency, and if he does…“I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization,” Schwartz was quoted saying. Thank heaven there are no nuclear codes associ-
ated with the jobs that Doug Ford made clear he might just be seeking – the mayoralty of Toronto, the premiership of Ontario, or the office of Prime Minister of Canada. But Doug Ford left no doubt that the book, subtitled “Two Brothers, One Vision,” is at the very least coincidental with his re-entry into Canadian electoral politics. When it’s released Nov. 22, he promised to criss-cross the country ostensibly to drum up sales but also to meet people. As to when he will reveal his political plans? Sometime within the next year, Ford promised. It’s hard to say how this strategy will play out for Ford. He does have a base and a profile – the fact that he was able to summon half of Toronto’s news media to his house in Etobicoke for nothing more specific than a “special” announcement Tuesday morning is testament to that. And he does have an image
to rehabilitate: as much as the Ford Nation base of support continues to percolate, a winning majority of Torontonians rejected him for mayor in part because of the way he and his brother comported themselves while in office as councillor and mayor respectively. Will a book tour do the job? Promoting her autobiography My Journey certainly didn’t help Olivia Chow hold onto her early lead in polls in the 2014 mayoral race. On the other hand, a well-penned, well-timed book can do a lot to turn a troubling narrative into a triumphant one – particularly as the most troubling elements recede further into history. And that can open the door… Well, it can open the door to all sorts of things. Just ask Tony Schwartz.
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Discovery Hike: Bruce Trail WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: Riverdale Library, 416-393-7720 COST: Free The Bruce Trail is the oldest and longest marked hiking trail in Canada, with 890 kilometres of trail between Niagara and Tobermory. Built and maintained by volunteers, it spans the Niagara Escarpment, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. 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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East York Garden Club Monthly Meeting WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Stan Wadlow Clubhouse, 373 Cedarvale Ave. CONTACT: Susan, 416-668-7872 COST: Free Brendan Behrmann will be speaking about the Toronto Seed Library. Last flower show of the year. Canadian Federation of University Women Leaside-East York WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Northlea United Church, 125 Brentcliffe Rd. CONTACT: , , www.cfuwleasideeastyork.ca COST: Free Speaker: Mandy Deeves RN, MPh, CIC speaking about, Ebola Virus Disease: A Tale of Two Worlds. Visitors welcome.
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Friday Night Dart Fun WHEN: 7 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: 416-425-1714 COST: $2 Blind draw doubles. Non competitive. Entertainment WHEN: 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: RCl Todmorden Branch No. 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: M P harvey, 416-425-3070, , rclbr10@zoho.com COST: Free This week: Pepper Shakers; Sept. 23 DJ: Rob Best Sept. 30: DJ Derek.
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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 must be certified organic or ecologically and sustainably produced. Family Storytime WHEN: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. WHERE: Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: Free Stories, songs and rhymes for newborns to children six years old and their caregivers. Jeremy Tankard WHEN: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart, 170 Memorial Park Ave. CONTACT: 416-396-3975 COST: Free
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There has been a lot of discussion lately about governance and leadership qualities when talk turns to municipal politics, particularly when certain personalities are involved. The people who are driving this discussion clearly have an underlying assumption in their arguments that government should run more like a successful business. It is an attractive argument, as business presents the appearances of being operated with more financial discipline and managerial accountability than our governments. Yet what does it mean when one says that one should run a city more like a business? There is not just one type of business, but, in fact, there is a wide range of management styles available, often with the most unorthodox or liberal ones being the most successful. When talking about a city as a business, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg said, “If New York City is a business, it isn’t WalMart – it isn’t trying to be the
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United Way sets fundraising target of $101.5 million Justin skinner jskinner@insidetoronto.com A year after the United Way merged its Toronto and York Region operations, the organization has launched an ambitious and record-setting yearly campaign for the area. The United Way Toronto & York Region managed to top $100 million in donations over the past year, and is looking to top that total this year, setting a goal of $101.5 million. At a campaign launch event at RBC WaterPark Place on Queens Quay West on Tuesday, United Way CEO Daniele Zanotti said the goal reflects the consolidated organization’s growth in fundraising power. Merged with York region “One year into our merged United Way Toronto & York Region, what an impact we have had together,” he said. “Last year, we raised a record $100,250,000 for these communities from Lake Simcoe to Lake Ontario.” Zanotti said the merger between the Toronto and York Region branches led to a three per cent increase in overall funding. “That’s something we hadn’t experienced in York Region in years and years,” he said.
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