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Above, volunteer Natasha and grill-master Naz accept donations of money and food on Saturday during the launch of the ninth annual Sarah and Claire’s Food Drive, held at Grill Time in Leaside. Right, Sarah (left) and Claire Jordan accept donations at Saturday’s event.

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Sarah and Claire’s Food Drive launches in Leaside Sarah and Claire’s Food Drive in the Leaside area has opened for its ninth year.

The drive collects food in the area for distribution to the Daily Bread Food Bank.

This year’s campaign is aiming to collect 50,000

pounds in food donations.

Since it’s inception, the drive has collected more 215,000 pounds of food.

People wishng to get more information or to make a donation to the drive, can visit www.sarahandclairesfooddrive.com.

Woodbine Avenue could be the site of the first separated cycle track east of the Don Valley Parkway if Toronto Council goes along with recommendations from the city’s public works and infrastructure committee.

The committee voted Tuesday to approve the northbound and southbound cycle tracks that would run between O’Connor Drive in East York to Woodbine and Queen Street in the Beach.

The track would join a handful of other bike routes that are

not only separated by painted lines, but also by physical bollards, to keep cars and bikes fully separated.

The plan came to committee with the support of the Woodbine Heights Assocation, a residents’ group looking to revitalize the commercial strip of Woodbine north of the Danforth.

“Our membership voted unanimously in favour of this,” said Phil Pothen, of the Woodbine Heights Assocation.

“We support this not just because it will promote cycling safety, but it will go a long way to emeliorating the injuries on our once healthy commercial strip by bad traffic and land use decisions.”

Pothen said the fast-moving >>>woodbine, page 12

Worker covered in hot tar suffers serious burns ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com A 37-year-old man who got covered in hot tar in an industrial accident Monday morning is in serious condition.

Emergency crews were called to Logan and Danforth avenues at 7:38 a.m.

Toronto Fire Services Capt.

David Eckerman said the victim

was in the back of a tar truck that was forced to make a hard stop, causing the tar in the back to splash on the worker, “covering a large portion” of his body.

“We estimate that the temperature of the tar could be as high as 400 degrees,” he said.

The worker suffered severe burns but was conscious while >>>worker, page 12

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t’s the small things – buying underwear, for instance.

There’s the boys department, and the girls. Which one do you pick when your child isn’t sure which gender fits?

Mandy Klein made a big mistake when she picked a pack of undies for her teenager Micah from the girls’ section. Turns out, one pair was pink.

Micah was so upset thinking about the girly pink pair donned that morning, her parents say, that by the end of day she’d cut the underwear into tiny pieces and tossed them in the trash.

Randy and Mandy Klein are doing their best to treat their child’s gender identity with respect, but sometimes, the Newmarket family struggles with the day-to-day details.

Micah, 16, came out as gay last year and several months ago, said they are gender fluid. Micah prefers “they and them,” dresses generically and considers themself male or female depending on the day, and sometimes the time of day.

It’s all new territory for the Kleins as they navigate a minefield of language and lifestyle for their only child, who is also autistic.

“I avoid using pronouns when I can,” Randy says. He uses Micah’s first name when he thinks of it, but it can get confusing and sometimes, emotional.

“I tell her – them – ‘when you correct me…don’t yell. I understand you’re passionate about it, but I forget. It doesn’t mean I’m being disrespectful.’”

The Kleins say they will stand by their child, wherever this journey takes them.

“If it’s important to Micah, it’s important we fight for them,” Randy says. Micah is a smart kid, he adds, a member of the school’s LGBTQ club, not troubled with bullying. “They’re doing well. They’ll figure it out.”

In the meantime, Mandy says gender-neutral departments in stores would make life easier.

It could happen. Our changing approach to gender impacts more than just the English language.

Other parts of society that have

something that fits.

“Maybe it’s time for fashion to play a role in stripping away the divisions and offer us different ways to express gender.”

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been traditionally segregated are undergoing a rapid re-think.

Anthems are being rewritten (goodbye to “all our sons command”), Facebook invites you to customize your gender profile, the Oxford Dictionaries website added Mx as an alternative to Mr. or Mrs., and everywhere, lines are blurring between male and female.

Some are calling it the new postgender era. Here are some of the shifts we’ve noticed:

PUBLIC WASHROOMS All-access washrooms are popping up everywhere and this summer, Toronto’s CNE garnered accolades for its cheeky take on the topic.

Instead of the traditional portaprivy signs showing a man in pants or woman in skirt, the Ex cubicles displayed icons of someone wearing half dress/half pants, along with the words “We Don’t Care.”

General manager Virginia Ludy told the Toronto Star the CNE approach diverts the debate to focus on what matters.

“Who cares who uses them, right? Men, women, doesn’t matter. You go in, you use it, you do your business, you leave.”

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Gender neutral bathrooms at this summer’s CNE in Toronto showed our changing attitudes towards gender. They displayed a half woman-half man graphic with the wording ‘we don’t care’.

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Hockey in Ontario now has new trans-inclusive rules, unveiled earlier this month thanks to Oshawa teenager Jesse Thompson.

Thompson, born a girl, challenged the Ontario minor hockey league’s dressing room policies that prevented him from using the boys change room.

His complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal led Ontario branches of Hockey Canada to post new policies allowing players to choose their dressing room based on whether they see themselves as male or female.

Thompson and Ontario Human Rights chief commissioner Renu Mandhane hope it paves the way for other sports to follow suit.

COnSUMeR PROdUCtS From Entrepreneur Barbie to gender-free nursery decor, marketers are responding to the genderbending trend.

International Spa Association Foundation has recognized men are visiting spas more than ever and shopping for cosmetics (although skin care for men still comes in mostly “manly” packaging).

Target is phasing out genderbased signage and colours – the company’s website still directs buyers to gendered clothing sections, however – and Amazon.com removed its boy and girl options from their toy department search page. (On the Canadian site, the gender division remains.)

This summer, following a petition by DadDoes.com, the Toy Industry Association announced it would drop its gender-based Toy of the Year awards.

Gender is one of the Top 4 trends to impact the marketplace, research group Mintel says.

“People are questioning traditional notions of gender, rejecting the restraints of stereotypes and embracing the freedom to be themselves.”

A Massachusetts mom was accosted by a stranger last month who said allowing her three-yearold son nicknamed “Roo” to wear a tutu was child abuse. Her impassioned Facebook response went viral: “Roo may not always want to dress this way, but we hope that he’ll remember that, when he did, he was loved,” she wrote.

Despite controversy over Ontario’s new sex-ed guidelines, school boards across the GTA, Simcoe County and Muskoka are addressing gender in a variety of ways such as teacher liaisons, professional development, symposiums or gender-neutral washrooms.

“Labels and identities should only be self-selected by individuals, not assumed by others,” Toronto public school board’s 29-page guideline advises. “Biology does not imply identity. Nor do behaviour and expression alone.”

Greater changes are seen in places like Sweden, where preschools specialize in gender-equal teaching, avoiding pronouns him and her altogether.

Paul Woods, principal of inclusive school and community services with the York Region District School Board, believes the mental health strategy is clear.

“We need to reduce the stigma and emphasize safety and accessibility for all.”

fASHIOn Welcome to the age of “nonbinary refinery.”

Fashion runways have become gender-fluid with androgynouslooking models in heels and skirts, trousers and tweed.

Fashion designers are promoting gender-free clothing, U.K. department store Selfridges has introduced a pop-up store, Agender, and Women’s Wear Daily calls “Going Gender-Neutral” one its top stories of the year.

Ben Barry, professor at Ryerson’s school of fashion, applauds the trend.

“Everyone has a masculine and feminine side ... Why should clothing fail to reflect that part of who we are?”

In researching his book, Refashioning Masculinity, he discovered many men shop in the women’s section because they’re looking for a more playful esthetic or because they’re looking for

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Traditional gender rules are waning, bringing about the use of different pronouns.

you can find part 3 of our series online next week: hearing from experts and those on the front lines of these changes. also, check out part 1 from last week: how language changes are impacting culture.

Read the entire series online at www.insidetoronto.com

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he message delivered at an anti-violence seminar for youth held in Toronto last week was “just think first”. Unfortunately, based on the past weekend, the message didn’t get through.

A 15-year-old boy was killed after a stabbing on the bus platform of the Scarborough Centre SRT station Friday, Sept. 23. The stabbing was part of a fight between two groups of about 25 young people on the platform. The night after, a 17-year-old boy was injured in a stabbing at the YMCA located close to the station. Police aren’t saying if the incidents are connected. Either way, the toll this OuR ViEW violence takes on the families and friends of the victims, and our city as a whole, lasts forever.

Let’s build And it’s all so unnecessary. hope for There is nothing 15-year-old Kareem Derr could have done young people Friday night that should have ended in his murder.

But that’s what happened, and now his family must deal with the loss of a son and brother. Somebody made a decision to stab him, and when that person is caught their life will also be ruined.

What the Just Think 1st TO summit was trying to achieve last week was making young people understand the consequences of violence.

Specifically, it was aimed at residents who “by virtue of lifestyle and or lack of conflict resolution skills have a heightened propensity to resort to gun violence as a solution to a problem or challenge.”

They could have inserted knife for gun in that statement as the end result is the same. One life lost and another ruined. The event was hosted by RISE Edutainment at a Scarborough community centre where young people gather. Randall Adjei, of RISE, said young people need to think more critically about the effects of violence. “It’s a deeply-rooted systemic issue,” he said.

So how do we deal with that? Building hope for young people at risk of turning to violence by providing them with educational and employment opportunities is a start. That will make them more able and willing to stand up to violence, and not use it as a way to solve petty issues. As Adjei said, much of how we deal with violence is our reaction to it after the fact. Ways of preventing violence in the first place are far more valuable solutions.

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Scuttled licensing plan is a gift for Toronto cyclists People who use their bicycles to commute may not all see it this way, but for many, the end of September means the end of prime bike commuting weather in Toronto. It’s going to get darker and colder and slipperier from here on out.

At City Hall, councillors on the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee celebrated that end this week with two gifts to those cyclists: one, approving a plan to go ahead with separated bike lanes on Woodbine Avenue in the Beach community and, another, to kill a motion by Etobicoke Centre Councillor Stephen Holyday to look at a system for licensing cyclists.

It was a good morning’s work. The separated lanes on Woodbine will be a boon to bike riders in the east end, making, as Jared Kolb of CycleToronto noted, a safe and separated route from near the edge of Scarborough to downtown Toronto.

And that bicycle licens-

david nickle the city ing plan? Holyday’s brainchild was probably never going to go anywhere even if it had made it through the committee.

In 1995, the former city of Toronto studied the idea and rejected it as costly and ineffective, and that rejection has been good enough for subsequent councils, who occasionally see attempts to get a report that says something different. The impetus for bike licensing – an idea that has caught on exactly nowhere – is usually presented as a measure to control joyriding cyclists: if you don’t get off that sidewalk, son, we’re going to take away your license. Blow through that stop sign will you?

Better get a Presto card because that bike’s going nowhere. As Holyday notes, a Forum Research poll found that more than half

of its respondents wanted to see a bicycle licensing fee applied in Toronto.

One would have to speculate as to why all those people wanted the fee in place, but it’s unlikely to be the same reasons that Holyday articulated in his motion and at committee: namely, to be able to gather data for future infrastructure planning, and to encourage more people to make use of a city datamining cycling phone app.

It’s not entirely clear that these form the core of Holyday’s motivations, either. Earlier this year, the scion of former councillor Doug Holyday’s political dynasty named himself as the defender of the rights of the driver, and made certain to insist on a very fine-grained study of the separated bike lane pilot project on Bloor Street.

Young Stephen doesn’t like to bring his father’s fire to the floor of council, but he does bring the old man’s automobile-centric

skepticism of two-wheeled transportation. This time, the committee was having none of it, and Holyday’s motion was deferred indefinitely. The fact is that council has already put its will behind bicycle transportation. It’s approved a 10-year cycling plan that is based on a great deal of study, consultation and data-gathering already conducted. There’s no need for a licensing system to gather more data, it’s unlikely that the licenses would generate enough revenue to pay for even a miniscule portion of the cost of providing bicycle infrastructure on roads, and police can enforce the Highway Traffic Act any time they see fit. Really, it’s just time to get on with planning and building the infrastructure – and accepting that bike riders are a part of the city’s fabric.

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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 A night of strictly fun darts. Blind draw doubles and a $2 entry fee will get you a night of truly fun and non competitive darts.

Entertainment at the Legion WHEN: Fridays from 8 p.m. to midnight WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch No. 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-425-3070 COST: Free DJ: Derek.

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Scottish Country Dancing WHEN: 1:30 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Paul, www. dancescottish.ca COST: Free Try Scottish country dancing at this special Culture Days event. No partner or experience needed.

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Karaoke @ The Branch WHEN: 5 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: 416 425 1714 COST: Free

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SEEDS Harvest Festival WHEN: 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: Estonian House / Eesti Maja, 958 Broadview Avenue CONTACT: Joanne Hutchinson, 647 444-5534, www.sendseedstoafrica.org, joanne@sendseedstoafrica.org COST: $20.00 Music by The Neil Youngun’s and Suzie’s Alibi.Door prize is a MUVI waterproof mini camcorder. Great vegan-gluten free food, dancing, games, prizes and a whole lot of fun. Proceeds to our Charity SEEDS.

◗ Tuesday, Oct. 4

East York Farmers’ Market WHEN: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Ave. CONTACT: 416-429-9684 COST: Free Fresh Ontario products from seasonal produce to honey and preserves, smoked meats and cheeses and more.

Art Bar Poetry Series WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Black Swan Tavern, 154 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: artbarpoerty@gmail.com, www. artbar.org COST: Pass The Hat

◗ Thursday, Oct. 6

Featured readers plus an open mic. Check web site for details and schedule.

Mosaic Fall Pole Walking Club WHEN: 9:30 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Mosaic Home Care Services andCommunity Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave., Suite 215H CONTACT: kevin@mosaichomecare. com COST: Free; Parking fee Walk in areas of Bayview and Eglington avenues and Sunnybrook Park. Meeting place: Mosaic Home Care Services & Community Resource Centre.

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◗ Friday, Oct. 7

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.

Sing or simply listen. Everyone welcome.

CONTACT: Riverdale Branch, 416393-7720 COST: Free A fun family workshop to help families prepare their 10 to 14 year old to be home alone safely. Adults and children must attend together.

Registration required. Presented by Toronto Public Health.

Mens Bridge WHEN: Wednesdays from 1 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Leaside United Church, 822 Millwood Rd. CONTACT: Jim, 416-488-7720, daddyk@rogers.com COST: $3 Coffee, tea, cookies and conversation follow more than two hours of bridge.

At Home Alone WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale Branch, 370 Broadview Ave.

PA Day Movie WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale Branch, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: Free Feature: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014) rated PG.

◗ Tuesday, Oct. 11

Think Well, Eat Well, Move Well WHEN: 1:30 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Mosaic Home Care Services and

Community Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave. CONTACT: Kevin, 416-322-7002 COST: Free Vita Health Clinic returns for an interactive presentation teaching the three most important ways to improve your health.

Developing Characters and Dialogue in Fiction WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Ave. CONTACT: 416-396-3975 COST: Free Learn how to develop credible characters and make their dialogue sing. Author and editor Sharon A. Crawford uses excerpts from her short story collection to illustrate.

◗ Wednesday, Oct. 12

Leaside Blood Donor Clinic WHEN: 2 to 7 p.m. WHERE: NorthLea Middle School, 305 Rumsey Rd. CONTACT: 1-888-236-6283 COST: Free Northlea Public school. Book an appointment or visit www.blood.ca

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Backroom decisions hurting East York Let us remember that back when amalgamation was announced, there was a meeting between the mayors and then Minister of Municipal affairs Al Leach Each of the mayors had been ordered to meet with the minister, who informed them that amalgamation was a done deal, and they had better get used to it.

Not to be outdone by this arrogant stance, Leach then turned to the then mayor of East York - Michael Prue - and said that no matter what happened, under amalgamation the political identity of East York would be eliminated.

That certainly was true during the two terms that Mel Lastman was mayor of Toronto, where East York under represented on city council, underfunded; and we nearly lost our Civic Centre.

That situation was reversed during the two terms of David Miller, who not only knew East York, but actually promoted us as a unique community by directing significant funds into our municipal buildings and infrastructure.

joe cooper watchdog However, there is literally a sign that the attitude expressed by Leach many years ago had returned.

If you go to the East York Civic Centre today, you will find that two of the three signs at boundaries of the land the centre is on no longer display the borough of East York logo.

In their place are entirely new signs that only show the City of Toronto Logo.

It also appears that the remaining sign is due to be replaced with a new sign as new electrical writing is in place in keeping with the design of the new signs.

The original signs were literally fought for by city Councillor Janet Davis (Ward 31 Beaches – East York) in order to keep East York’s identity secured. Those signs have been in place now for over a decade and were neither worn nor in need of repair or replacement.

Not only is the decision

to remove the signs entirely political (and certainly in keeping with Al Leach’s promise), they are also at odds with the city’s pro-green polities.

The original signs were not illuminated, while the new ones are, as well as having one that contains a power consuming pixel board.

This is not the only set of signs to be removed that bear the former borough’s logo.

The entrance way to what was once called the East York Towne Centre has been completely changed over to saying the Thorncliffe Community.

The East York Logo that once adorned the entrance gate is gone and frankly I’m still trying to find out its fate.

Someone is making decisions, and it is certainly not the community, but someone in a back room. That’s the sort of political maneuvering that put us into this situation in the first place.

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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NOTICE OF COMPLETION OF DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY REPORT Leaside to Main Infrastructure Refurbishment Project Earlier this year, Hydro One Networks Inc. (Hydro One) initiated a Class Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Leaside to Main Infrastructure Refurbishment Project, to replace aging underground transmission cables in eastern downtown Toronto. This work is required to maintain a safe and reliable supply of electricity to the area. Hydro One has now completed the draft Environmental Study Report (ESR), which will be available for a 47-day public review and comment period beginning on September 29, 2016.

The proposed undertaking consists of: • Replacing the underground cable between Leaside Transformer Station (TS) and Todmorden Junction (JCT). Hydro One has selected a preferred routing option as shown on the map and documented in the draft ESR; and • Replacing the underground cable between Main TS and Lumsden JCT along the existing route, as no feasible alternatives were identified.

The replacement of underground cable is subject to the Class EA for Minor Transmission Facilities (Ontario Hydro, 1992). Pending the necessary approvals, construction could begin in mid-2017.

Our consultations on this project have included the replacement of overhead shield wire between Todmorden JCT and Lumsden JCT, which Hydro One had originally planned to complete at the same time as the underground cable replacement. The work on the shield wire has now been postponed and will no longer be assessed in the draft ESR. Hydro One is currently re-evaluating this work to identify opportunities to combine the shield wire replacement with future refurbishment activities that may be required in the same area. The release of the draft ESR, originally scheduled for early September, was deferred to incorporate this change. Nearby residents and stakeholders will be notified when more information about the overhead line work is available.

HOW TO PROVIDE YOUR INPUT The draft ESR will be available for a 47-day public review and comment period from September 29, 2016 to November 14, 2016.

The draft ESR can be viewed at www.HydroOne.com/projects/LeasidetoMain/, and hard copies will be available for review at the following locations: Thorncliffe Toronto Public Library 48 Thorncliffe Park Drive Tel: 416-396-3865

Main Street Toronto Public Library 137 Main Street Tel: 416-393-7700

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Hydro One will respond to and make best efforts to resolve any issues raised by concerned parties during the public review period.

If no concerns are expressed, Hydro One will finalize the ESR and file it with the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change.

The project will then be considered acceptable and may proceed as outlined in the ESR. The Environmental Assessment Act has provisions that allow interested parties to ask for a higher level of assessment for a Class Environmental Assessment project if they feel that outstanding issues have not been adequately addressed by Hydro One. This is referred to as a Part II Order request. Such requests must be addressed in writing to the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, as well as the Director of the Environmental Approvals Branch and received no later than 4:30 p.m. on November 14, 2016, at the following addresses: Minister of the Environment and Climate Change 77 Wellesley Street West 11th Floor, Ferguson Block Toronto, ON M7A 2T5 Email: Minister.MOECC@ontario.ca Director, Environmental Approvals Branch Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change 135 St. Clair West, 1st Floor Toronto, ON M4V 1P5 Email: EAASIBgen@ontario.ca Please note that a duplicate copy of a Part II Order request must also be sent to Hydro One at the address noted.

Written questions or comments on the draft ESR must be received by Hydro One no later than 4:30 p.m. on November 14, 2016.

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Weekend full of literary events set for East York On Saturday, What’s Your Story? comes to East York from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Blvd.

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From 2:10 to 2:45 p.m., four local authors will read works inspired by East York.

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at Children’s Peace Theatre, 305 Dawes Rd. This year’s theme is a celebration of language. Toronto’s Poet Laureate, Anne Michaels, is this year’s host. Visit www. eastendarts.ca for more information about the events.

Anti-racism public meeting slated Ontario’s new Anti-Racism Directorate is hosting another Toronto meeting to hear the public’s ideas on what the province should do about “systemic racism” in institutions it governs or regulates.

When the directorate was created in February, the Liberal government said it would help “address and prevent” racism in policy, laws, programs and services.

Public meetings - including on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at

the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto - were presented as a chance to comment on the goals of the directorate and learn more about what it does.

The first of the meetings was in downtown Toronto in July.

The upcoming meeting, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Chines cultural centre on Progress Avenue east of Markham Road, is the last one scheduled within the city.

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racism “continues to create barriers” for residents of Ontario - including, for example, in the province’s justice and child welfare systems, where indigenous and black people are over-represented and says it wants to “promote fair practices and policies that lead to racial equity.”

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He forecasts the real number of collisions to stand at a staggering 3,500 by year’s end.

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The city finally appears to be getting serious on adding more charging stations for electric vehicles.

The Public Works and Infrastructure Committee at Tuesday’s meeting voted to refer a report to city staff to seek immediate solutions for expanding the limited amount of charging stations in the city. Toronto, as motion mover Mary-Margaret McMahon observed, has the

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Worker was wearing protective Woodbine bike track plan suit but still in serious condition approved by committee >>>from page 1 firefighters worked to extricate him from the vehicle for more than an hour.

“We bumped up our response from a single-vehicle response to more of a rescue response,” Eckerman said. “We have four trucks and two district chiefs on scene.”

The victim was taken to Sunnybrook hospital’s burn unit via an emergency run at about 9 a.m.

Police had said the worker’s protective suit saved him from serious injury but later confirmed the burns are indeed serious.

Const. Clint Stibbe said traffic services is investigating “to determine if there are any mechanical fitness issues or any safety issues” with the vehicle.

“We will do a collision report because it is a shift of load technically inside the back of the vehicle,” he said.

Police are also looking into whether a worker was even allowed to be in the “work area” of the truck

>>>from page 1 car traffic on Woodbine is a discouragement to locals who want to walk to stores, and doesn’t in itself contribute much to the customer base. He said cyclists would be more likely to stop at local stores, and also be less unnerved by long gaps between businesses on the partially residential street.

And he added the plan, which includes 24-hour permit parking, would mean cars could stop at any time as well.

Jared Kolb of CycleToronto told the committee the plan was an essential piece in building a grid of protected bike lanes beyond downtown Toronto.

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The Ministry of Labour is also investigating the incident.

Police closed westbound Danforth for the remainder of the morning for the investigation.

32) Councillor Mary MargaretMcMahon enlarged on that idea, noting the lanes would connect Bloor-Danforth eventually to the waterfront trails.

And Ward 31 Councillor Janet Davis, who represents the neighbourhoods north of Danforth, said the cycle track could also connect Scarborough riders.

“I believe there are other connecting lanes that will make it used even more,” she said.

“I look forward to seeing bike lanes installed soon on St. Clair because now that we have the edge lines across the bridge on O’Connor we will be able to open up the doors in Scarborough, to come down Woodbine.”

Bridgepoint Drive opens Friday Community members are invited to attend a celebration marking the official opening of Bridgepoint Drive in Riverdale.

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