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Riverdale family laid to rest today JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Four members of a wellknown and well-loved family from Riverdale will be laid to rest today.

The funeral service for Geoffrey Taber, Jacqueline Gardner and their sons Andrew, 13, and Scott, 15, will take place at 2 p.m. at St. Paul’s Bloor Street Church, 227 Bloor St. E. The visitation for the Taber family, who along with their dogs Haley and Shelby died in a Christmas Eve fire at their cottage in the Peterborough area, was held last night at the Estates of Sunnybrook Vaughan Estate, 2075 Bayview Ave. On New Year’s Eve, dozens of friends, neighbours, colleagues and family members gathered for a vigil in the family’s honour at the north end of Withrow Park.

During the memorial, many expressed deep sadness about the untimely loss. Others offered words of hope and resolve.

Many in attendance carried candles in small lanterns. A number of young people, many of whom who had played hockey with the boys, left hockey pucks with messages for the family in a plastic bin.

David Thompson, the head of Riverdale’s Montcrest School, urged everyone present to understand the preciousness of time, to appreciate every moment with their loved ones, and to always be kind and gracious, like the Taber family was.

Thomson spoke about Gardner’s volunteerism, Taber’s thoughtfulness, and the boys’ leadership and athleticism. Andrew was in Grade 8 at Montcrest, while Scott had graduated from there two years

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Mourners light a candle during a vigil held Saturday at Withrow Park for the Taber family, who all perished in a Christmas Eve fire at their cottage. earlier and was attending Greenwood College School.

"This family is a family that was incredibly generous," Thompson said, who

said everyone in attendance has their own special story to share about the Tabers.

"They were incredibly

kind and they were incredibly gracious. They always reached out to others."

Heather Miller and Vincent Lam were members of the Riverdale Riders cycling group, which Taber lead.

Lam said he’ll always remember Taber as a fun-loving guy who liked to poke fun at others cyclists in the early-morning cycling group.

"It was always, always with a sense of kindness and camaraderie," Lam said.

"We’re going to miss Geoff a great deal. We’re going to miss the whole family a great deal."

On Dec. 23, Taber sent an email to his cycling group offering holiday greetings and making reference to what would come next. No one expected to they’d be mourning the young family, Lam said.

"We send you upon that

journey with our love and best wishes. Your presence in our life has given us a great gift and we’re forever thankful for that."

Close friend Lynn said her friend Jackie exuded warmth and love.

"Jackie just shone. She leaves a gigantic hole that will probably never be filled and should never be filled," she shared.

A memorial for the family is also in the works for late January or early February at Montcrest School.

Geoff Taber and Jacquie Gardener supported many charities. Anyone wishing to make a donation in memory of the Taber family is asked to contribute to the United Way Toronto and York Region or to their favourite animal shelter or pet rescue centre.

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Putting the spotlight on stories that matter to our readers

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In addition to covering local news and events across our communities in the city, reporters at Metroland Media Toronto now also carry beats on specific topics that we’re hoping will be of interest to readers. Some have been ongoing, but many are new.

Keep an eye to your local newspaper and www.insidetoronto.com for coverage of these beats and get in touch if you’ve got story ideas.

Reporter Fannie Sunshine is interested in all the ways we’re different from one another and how that defines our city. She’s covering race relations, women’s issues, the city’s indigenous and minority populations, and the LGBTQ community. Reach her on 416-774-2368 or at fsunshine@insidetoronto.com.

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David Nickle is a veteran of Toronto municipal politics, covering Toronto City Hall since amalgamation in 1998. That covers a lot of territory: everything from how garbage gets collected and where it goes, to how much property tax gets collected from you and what it pays for. Toronto has a close and sometimes fraught relationship with Queen’s Park, so he watches and writes about that too. He can be reached at dnickle@insidetoronto.com and followed on Twitter @davidnickle.

Breaking news, viral trends and all things ofthe-moment - that’s reporter Tara Hatherly’s area of expertise online at insidetoronto.com. She welcomes tips or leads on great viral media or anything you think Torontonians would find cool. Reach her at thatherly@insidetoronto.com or 416-774-2355, or on Twitter @Tara_Hatherly.

Andrew Palamarchuk covers murder and other serious crime in the city along with major vehicular crashes and fires.

He interviews people affected by tragedy and looks at societal issues that could have contributed to them and searches for solutions that could solve them. He can be reached at apala-

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Health Tamara Shephard reports on the health and well-being of people, from children to adults and seniors. With a special focus on mental health issues, as well as people’s access to health care, she’s interested in the stories that impact people’s lives. Reach her at tshephard@insidetoronto.com.

History Cynthia Reason is interested in writing the stories of the people and places of

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the past that helped define the city we live in today, as well as heritage conservation issues and the tireless efforts of those working to preserve it. Reach her on 416-495-6640, creason@insidetoronto.com or on Twitter @icreason.

Money Matters Reporter Joanna Lavoie wants to help everyday Torontonians navigate their finances and learn how to keep their money safe.

She’s also going to dive into issues surrounding the cost of living and investigate what it takes to be able to afford calling Toronto home. Feel free to contact Joanna at jlavoie@insidetoronto.com, on Twitter @JoannaLavoie or 416-7742269.

The Other Toronto Away from the brighter lights and most of the city’s wealth, there’s another Toronto that needs our attention. Isolated, at times ignored, The Other Toronto’s neighbourhoods struggle but are home to new Canadians and working folk; they have successes too. Mike Adler seeks their stories and writes a column, Edges of Toronto.

Reach him at madler@insidetoronto.com or 416-7742264.

in Toronto. What issues do you face as a modern parent raising a child in the 21st Century? Reach him at dkurek@insidetoronto.com or follow him on Twitter @DominikKurek.

Schools From budgets and bullying to special needs and specialized programs, there’s plenty going on in Toronto’s school system.

Reporter Justin Skinner is on the school beat, keeping readers posted on key issues in education. Reach him on 416-774-2309 or at jskinner@insidetoronto.com.

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Technology Reporter Hilary Caton is fascinated by the different ways we use technology for education, entertainment and advancing society.

Smartphones, drones, virtual reality, gaming - where’s it all going and what effect does it have on us? Tech story ideas welcome. Send them to hcaton@insidetoronto.com or tweet to @HilaryCaton.

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Shining the spotlight on the stories that matter In a city as large, diverse and ever-moving as Toronto, covering the news can often feel like a drop in a bucket. There’s so much happening here, and it’s a city full of strong communities that often carry their own unique identity. In the Metroland Media Toronto newsroom, we do our best to represent the communities we serve online and in print. Admittedly, we can’t do it all or be everywhere we’d like to be.

That said, we’re still going to do our best to make an impact.

So beginning this year we’re renewing our focus continuing to report on local news and events, city hall, crime and transit issues but we’re also introducing several new beats.

We’re looking to find stories on topics that matter or are of interest to our audience. Topics that, in many cases, we really haven’t focused on before. Parenting, history, technology, health and schools were key selections we felt deserving of more attention.

Considering how many struggle with the cost of living in the city, we’ve also dedicated a reporter to a ’Money Matters’ beat to help break down financial issues. Debt loads can be crippling and it’s shocking how many people lack the financial literacy to be able to manage it. How secure is our money in this digital age? These are areas we hope to explore. ’The Diverse City’ will aim to give voice to minority groups, indigenous people and the LGBTQ community, and investigate issues relating to how we’re all different - our successes in embracing that and the challenges that exist where it fails. All timely subjects for discussion considering the malcontent kicked up south of the border after president-elect Donald Trump’s win. How this affects us as Canadians remains to be seen, but we’ll be watching.

Another area of the city we want to spotlight is what we’re calling ’The Other Toronto’. These are the pockets of population, much of it concentrated in the city’s suburbs, that are home to immigrant communities and working-class families. Often isolated and struggling with challenges like neighbourhood crime and poor education rates, these Torontonians deserve our attention. What stories of success, resilience and identity are happening in our backyards? What needs to happen to improve the lives of our neighbours?

Mike Adler’s column today explains more. We want to be there for these people and tell their stories on a regular basis in the hopes it may make a difference down the line.

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Going in search of The Other Toronto in 2017 There is more than one Toronto.

More than a decade ago, the city, United Way, and the province saw poverty deepening around the edges of our freshly-amalgamated home.

University of Toronto Professor David Hulchanski, in his The Three Cities Within Toronto, makes plain how fast the city has divided since the 1970s into an ever-wealthier centre and waterfront, and other places where incomes consistently dropped.

The city chose nine "’hot spots’ of high need and low infrastructure" in 2005, then bumped that up to 13 "priority neighbourhoods".

It pledged people in these neighbourhoods would get money, community hubs and help organizing themselves.

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto A few years ago, the city changed the "priority" label.

Recalculating, it started calling its highest-needs districts Neighbourhood Improvement Areas because that sounded better, and today 31, out of 140 census neighbourhoods, are NIAs. Nearly all are in Toronto’s old suburban belt, and attached to other NIAs: northwest North York meets North Etobicoke’s Rexdale

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and Jamestown, and to the south a string of other NIAs through what was once the City of York.

Go east, and Thorncliffe Park meets Flemingdon Park and Victoria Village in another corner of North York; below that, the former East York’s Crescent Town touches Oakridge across Victoria Park Avenue in Scarborough, where seven other NIAs clump together south of Highway 401.

This happened to those neighbourhoods because industries left and a new wave of development never came.

The apartments got older, the traffic crawled, people in the houses aged, subways weren’t built and MoneyMarts thrived.

They became part of The Other Toronto.

Most often, most of us see

that second Toronto through a car window or on the news, in buildings glimpsed after a shooting, or roads after a pedestrian dies running for a bus.

But what happens in The Other Toronto should interest us as much as what happens on Queen Street or in Rosedale. It’s in this Toronto’s neighbourhoods where people on modest incomes can still afford to live.

We need to hear from people in these neighbourhoods, and in 2017, I’m going to do my best to talk to them about the city they live in.

Edges of Toronto is a column about how people see live in Toronto differently, depending on where they live. Reach Mike Adler at madler@insidetoronto.com

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It’s early January, and here we are: just days into the year that our country, the former Dominion of Canada, turns 150 years old.

In Toronto and across the land, we’re going to be partying like we’re 200.

We’ve already had a grand TO Canada With Love New Year’s Eve celebration at Nathan Phillips Square.

Winterlicious will be celebrating its 15th year and our 150th, serving up birthday-themed culinary experiences. There’ll be photo contests and dance contests and a Toronto Newcomer Day. And Canada Day will morph into a fourday party the likes of which we’ve never seen.

We’re not the first to reach this venerable age. In 1926, America’s 30th President Calvin Coolidge spoke at great length on the manifold virtues of that great, 150-year-old republic.

America at 150 was in the middle of its own version of

DAVID NICKLE The City the "sunny ways" times that our charismatic young prime minister seems still to be basking in. It didn’t last, of course - a decade of consistent economic growth ground to a halt in the crash of ’29, and the poverty that had been limited to rural areas spread to the urban middle class.

How are we, at 150?

Well, we’re in a better state than our 241-year-old neighbour is right now. We continue to welcome newcomers to our country and have maintained at least a public equanimity that seems to have eluded

America as it prepares to swear in its 45th President Donald Trump.

We do have a greater challenge before us than Coolidge apprehended when he confidently pointed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States as guarantees of both virtue and safety.

At 150, it’s fair to say that Canada alone cannot guarantee both those things.

We’re coming of age in a world where both national virtue, and safety and security are open questions. It’s not just the changes in the United States that affect us, but all over the world.

So as we prepare to celebrate this significant birthday, we should not only count our gifts. We should prepare to preserve them and perhaps, defend them.

David Nickle covers city hall for Metroland Media Toronto. Contact him at dnickle@insidetoronto.com

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Celebrate the start of 2017 at a New Year’s Levee at the East York Civic Centre.

Celebrate start of new year in east Toronto East Toronto residents are invited to ring in 2017 with their local representatives at two events.

The first, a Beaches-East York New Year’s levee, will be held on Saturday, Jan. 7.

Co-hosted by MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, MPP Arthur Potts, and Ward 32 Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon, the gathering will run from 2 to 4 p.m. at

The Grover Pub, 676 Kingston Rd., just east of Main Street.

All are welcome.

Visit www.facebook.com/ events/ 1306809542717334 for more information.

On Sunday, Jan. 8, area residents are invited to an East York Open House at True Davidson Council Chamber at the East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell

Ave. at Mortimer Avenue.

Hosted by Ward 26 Councillor Jon Burnside, Ward 31 Councillor Janet Davis and Ward 29 Councillor Mary Fragedakis, this event will run from 1 to 3 p.m. and feature special guests TTC CEO Andy Byford, City Librarian Vickery Bowles and City Manager Peter Wallace.

Light refreshments will be served.

The East Enders Against Racism collective, which was formed after white supremacist posters were plastered in and around East York’s Stan Wadlow Park just over a month ago, is inviting the public to donate children’s books featuring multiracial families and children as well as social justice issues.

The group launched the book drive on Dec. 10.

Anyone interested in

taking part is invited to drop off books at Old’s Cool General Store, 250 Westlake Ave., by Jan. 9.

Community members are encouraged to support local book stores and purchase items from Another Story Bookshop at 315 Roncesvalles Ave. (they’re offering 20 per cent books from our list), Silly Goose Kids at 2054 Danforth Ave., Ella Minnow Children’s Bookstore at 991 Kingston Rd., and the Children’s

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Gently used books will also be accepted.

All books donated will be distributed to east Toronto schools.

Visit the East Enders Against Racism book drive event page on Facebook for more information.

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Leaside rink to get $500,000 donation for safety upgrades Money will come from Dr. Tom Pashby Sports Safety Fund JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Tom Pashby saw plenty of young patients who suffered eye injuries due to hockey-related incidents.

Instead of simply doing what he could as a doctor and then sending them on their way, Dr. Pashby took it upon himself to change the sporting landscape - improving on-ice safety by advocating the use of visors, and stumping to ban cross-checking and other potentially hazardous acts.

Even now, more than a

decade after his death, the longtime Leaside resident is making a difference in boosting safety through the Dr. Tom Pashby Sports Safety Fund. In January, the fund will donate a lump sum of $500,000 to Leaside Memorial Gardens to increase on-ice and off-ice safety measures at the arena.

"The Tom Pashby Sports Safety Fund centres around safety, and the donation will be used by the arena board to run safety programs and make the arena safer," said his son, Bill Pashby.

The doctor’s push for preventive safety measures in hockey spread well beyond his home community. Due in part to his advocacy, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) - now known as Hockey Canada - made helmets mandatory in 1965 and face protec-

tors mandatory in 1980.

His crusade started in the 1950s when Bill suffered a concussion while playing hockey as a boy.

While there were few helmets on the market in Canada, Dr. Pashby was undeterred. He sent for a helmet in Sweden and ensured his son’s head was always protected.

The CAHA leaned on Dr. Pashby for guidance in setting standards for helmets and worked with the Canadian Standards Agency to set standards for both helmets and face protectors.

He was also instrumental in pushing the CAHA to ban hits from behind, and his work led to neck guards becoming mandatory in amateur hockey.

"It was really his life’s work," said Bill. "As an ophthalmologist, he used to see a lot of kids with serious injuries, and

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some got blinded or even lost their eyes.

"You can’t stop all injuries in hockey, but nobody loses an eye anymore."

His dedication to sports safety earned him plenty of plaudits and honours over the years, including induction into the Order of Canada in 1981, the Canada Sports Safety Award in 1989 and recognition as the Hockey News Man of the Year in 1990.

The Dr. Tom Pashby Sports Safety Fund was started up in his name in 1990, while the doctor was still working tirelessly to improve safety in the game.

"He was doing all this work himself and three ladies said, ’Doc’s not going to be around forever, so why don’t we create a fund to keep his work alive?’" said Bill. "(The fund) is a legacy project in his honour."

Dr. Pashby died in 2005 at the age of 90. The Dr. Tom Pashby Sports Safety Fund’s donation to Leaside Memorial Gardens will be made at a special ceremony at the arena on Thursday, Jan. 19.

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(Top to bottom) Leaside Memorial Community Gardens; Dr. Tom Pashby (right) joins his grandson Brad at the arena. The Dr. Tom Pashby Sports Safety Fund is donating $500,000 to Leaside Memorial Community Gardens to help improve safety measures at the rink.

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Yaro Polowianiuk does push-ups to warm up after taking a dip off the shore of Humber Bay Park west. extreme risks. You need to take that into account when deciding whether or not to try it.

"If you’re sick or have chronic disease, jumping into very, very cold water is a very, very bad idea."

A 2004 Finnish study published in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health concluded winter swimming improves general well-being.

Tension, fatigue, memory and negative mood states in cold-water swimmers "significantly decreased" with the duration of the swimming period, the study reported.

"After four months, the swimmers felt themselves to be more energetic, active and brisk than the controls (people not in the study)," the study indicated, mirroring Polowianiuk’s experience.

Further, the study stated all swimmers who suffered from rheumatism, fibromyalgia or asthma reported that winter swimming had relieved their pain.

Those findings would not be news to the Toronto club. Most of its members hail from Russia, where cold-water swimming is a "very common way of life," said Polowianiuk, a Belarusian from Poland.

Polowianiuk loathed the winter, but now he rev-

els in its plummeting temperatures.

"I used to think ’winter time is a drag. It’s too cold. I can’t take it,’" he recalled.

"Now, I like it. I think, ’Oh, this coming Sunday it’s going to be minus-whatever temperature. Perfect. Perfect.’

"Winter swimming totally changed my perspective. I love it. I think, ’Why did I miss having this in my life for so long?’"

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A polar bear and spirituality club is how they describe themselves.

Every Sunday throughout the winter, the Toronto Winter Swimming Club dips into Lake Ontario’s icy depths at Humber Bay Park West in Etobicoke.

Yaro Polowianiuk, 53, is a decade-long club member after taking part in an annual charitable New Year’s Day polar bear dip at Oakville’s Coronation Park.

"I like the way I feel after swimming. I feel energetic," Polowianiuk said, clearly passionate about cold water. "I’m much healthier than I used to be."

The club is world-renowned.

Club member Alla Kibzoun brought home a bronze medal from the 2012 Winter Swimming World Championships held that January in Jurmala, Latvia.

Watching a video of a 2015 club swim on its website, www.winterswim.ca, brings chills. The sky and the lake are a cold bluegrey. Canadian geese, white swans and ducks swim in the frigid waters, unaffected by the swimmers standing a few feet away at the water’s edge.

"There’s a very steady, nasty wind from the lake.

It’s a very cold feeling," Polowianiuk said. "You go completely red, almost like a lobster. The first time I jump in, it’s very short; in and out. I go back to the shore and do 20 to 25 pushups. Then I’m ready for another shot when I stay in longer."

People’s tolerance of cold-water swimming varies widely. Still, none of them wear wetsuits.

"Some people go in only once, in and out. Other people go in and stay. One guy, a former firefighter, he can stay there for a long time.

It’s very individual," Polowianiuk said.

Not even Toronto’s cold weather alert on Sunday, warning of -20 C with the wind chill, deterred the av-

id swimmers.

Getting undressed down to swimsuits is the greatest challenge, Polowianiuk said.

"Your mind is screaming, ’It’s so cold. Don’t do it,’" he said. "But when you rush into the water, it comes with deep rewards.

You don’t feel the cold. You feel adrenaline. You feel good."

Polowianiuk said the frigid dips aid his work as a massage therapist.

"I noticed those aches and pains I had in my wrists, joints and back from my job all disappeared when I started swimming," he said.

When massage clients come in with a cold or flu, he doesn’t get it, he added.

"There is no chance I will get it. It’s like water off a duck’s back," he said. "I haven’t had a cold since I started swimming. I don’t take any flu shots. There’s no reason to get it."

Dr. Greg Wells is a University of Toronto assistant professor of kinesiology and physical fitness who works as a faculty member at the university’s human physiology lab.

The scientific jury is out, Wells said, on whether cold-water exposure correlates to disease resistance.

In fact, there is little scientific research generally on the health risks and benefits of cold-water swimming, Wells said.

One of Wells’ grad students specifically studied the effect of cold-water immersion on inflammation.

"We found at the right temperature, for the right duration, cold water reduces inflammation," Wells said. "In an acute case, like a sprained ankle, you put ice on it and it can relieve pain. But inflammation is necessary for healing. It’s a fine balance."

Winter swimming isn’t for everyone.

Wells said he asks anyone eager to try it if they have any serious health issues.

"Whether we know it’s beneficial or not, it’s dangerous," Wells said. "With the potential benefits come

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Beach resident sues councillors over comments Brian Graff mentioned ’Scarberia’ nickname for Scarborough MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Two Toronto councillors, Michael Thompson and MaryMargaret McMahon, are being sued by a man who says their comments at City Hall damaged his reputation.

"I felt I had no choice but to defend myself," Brian Graff, who filed small claims court suits against both councillors, said in a Dec. 20 interview.

A Beach resident who ran against McMahon for councillor in 2014, Graff started a petition in October against a wardboundary proposal which would split his neighbourhood and combine part of the Beach with a Scarborough ward.

He spoke to a meeting of Mayor John Tory’s Executive Committee on Oct. 26, arguing the Beach and Scarborough don’t belong together.

"Scarborough has the unfortunate reputation as ’Scarberia,’" because of its ’Big Box’ stores and strip malls, Graff said, while the Beach has more in common with "Roncesvalles and Ossington and places in the West End of Toronto than we do with ’out by the Zoo.’" In his statement of claim, Graff said he mentioned the nickname ’Scarberia’ because he was talking about Scarborough’s "suburban urban form, and The Plaintiff was clearly not using it in his own voice to directly denigrate Scarborough or the people of Scarborough."

Thompson, a Scarborough Centre councillor, later said during the meeting he had heard "someone come here this morning and talk about Scarborough in a very disparaging way, and I am offended by that."

Mahon, councillor for Ward 37 (Beaches-East York), apolo-

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gized during the meeting to "Scarborough Councillors and Scarborough residents for the negative comments that we have seen from some of my

Beachers in the media, but especially from the deputant Brian Graff."

McMahon, who said she won’t run for office again in 2018, reprised her apology during the Nov. 9 meeting of Toronto City Council, but didn’t name Graff.

Graff, in his claim, said was "shocked and horrified" by comments from both councillors.

He "suffered from emotional distress," he said, adding "news media and social media coverage have likely damaged his reputation" including his political reputation, "particularly should he run in the 2018 municipal election or stand for any other position as a candidate."

"I wasn’t calling Scarborough ’Scarberia’ but I was referring to the fact it has that reputation," Graff said on Dec. 20.

Thompson didn’t mention his name, Graff said, but "he made

some comments implying I had said disparaging things about Scarborough, and I didn’t."

Graff, who is suing for $6,000 from each councillor said he wants "the record set straight," starting with apologies to him from Thompson and McMahon.

Earlier this month, however, Thompson called Graff’s legal action against him "ridiculous."

"I’m being sued for defending Scarborough," Thompson said.

McMahon, reached on Dec. 23, said she doesn’t think she did anything wrong.

After Graff’s deputation, she wanted to comment, she said, because "I could see the faces and the body language of the Scarborough councillors, and they were upset."

Both the committee and council approved a 47-ward model for Toronto, one which would keep the boundaries of the Beach intact.

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Children from Parkside Elementary School participate in an Anti-Racism assembly.

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ceiving the ’Everyone Belongs’ button.

"This started because this school stood up and said no," she said.

"I think it’s something you can be incredibly proud of. You can say in East York everyone belongs no matter what."

In the days following the racist act, several community members came together to form a collective known as East Enders Against Racism.

During the assembly, group member Sheila Colla announced Parkside Elementary would be receiving a collection of diverse books through the collective’s book drive, which runs until January 9.

Zahra Dhanani of East Enders Against Racism led those in attendance in chanting "everyone belongs".

The East Enders Against Racism collective, which was formed after white supremacist posters were plastered in and around East York’s Stan Wadlow Park just over a month ago, is inviting the public to donate children’s books featuring multiracial families and children as well as social justice issues.

The group launched the book drive Dec. 10.

Anyone interested in taking part is invited to drop off books at Old’s Cool General Store, 250 Westlake Ave., by Jan. 9.

Community members are encouraged to support local book stores and purchase items from Another Story Bookshop at 315 Roncesvalles Ave. (20 per cent of the books on East Enders Against Racism’s wish list available), Silly Goose Kids at 2054 Danforth Ave., Ella Minnow Children’s Bookstore at 991 Kingston Rd. and Children’s French Book Corner at 152 Main St. To view the wish list, visit www.amazon.ca and search East Enders Against Racism under ’Find a Wish List’.

Gently used books will also be accepted.

All books donated will be distributed to east Toronto schools.

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Students and teachers from an east Toronto school along with members of the community are responding to a hateful act in their neighbourhood with kindness, caring and acceptance.

Recently, Parkside Elementary School hosted a special assembly in response to anti-multiculturalism posters in and around the neighbouring Stan Wadlow Park.

"Each person is like a snowflake and we are all individual and unique but together when the sun shines we can all be beautiful on the inside and outside," said Grade 2/3 teacher Nancy Wilbur during the Dec. 23 gathering.

Wilbur, a mother of three who also lives nearby, said the plastering of so-called alt-right posters in her neighbourhood affected her "to the core" and compelled her to attend a community rally in the days that followed.

At the Nov. 12 rally, Wilbur saw Ward 31 Coun.

Janet Davis handing out buttons with the East York logo and the words EY (East York) Everyone Belongs and thought it would be a great for students at the school to each have one. A collection was taken and with the support of the Danforth East Community Association, enough funds were raised to do just that. The school’s 160 pupils received their buttons on

Friday, Dec. 23.

"I think it’s important children know no matter what your background is or where you come from we all belong in this community," she said.

Ward 31 Coun. Janet Davis said she’s happy to support the anti-racism efforts because it is a demonstration of why East York is a great community and why Parkside Elementary is a wonderful school.

"We believe this is a welcoming community, a place where everybody belongs," she said during the assembly.

"You are welcome here because everyone together makes a stronger community.

Trustee Sheila CaryMeagher said Parkside Elementary is setting a precedent as every school in East York will now be re-

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Help shape Toronto’s next Cultural Hotspot Artists, arts organizations, community members, and groups based in East York and the Beach are invited to join in shaping the next Cultural Hotspot.On Thursday, Jan. 5, Toronto Arts and Culture, Ward 32 Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon, and East End Arts are hosting an info session on this innovative project, which aims to celebrate culture, creativity and community in Toronto’s east end.

Those in attendance will also learn more about funding opportunities for the Cultural Hotspot program, a new City of Toronto and partner-produced initiative

that will run from May to October 2017 and feature a series of signature visual arts, performance, youth mentorship, employment and more projects.

The gathering will be held at Community Centre 55, 97 Main St. at Swanwick Avenue from 6 to 8 p.m.

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Certainly, the political changes have clearly shown us the real purpose of amalgamation - which has proven to have very little to do with reducing the costs of operating the city in a significant way.

Rather, what has occurred is a large change in who holds the true political power in this new city.

From the beginning, we have seen a tug of war between the downtown core and the suburbs through the different mayors who have been elected.

Each election shifts that power back and forth, with one group feeling satisfied and the other feeling left out.

Things are better now when you call 311 for city services; but I can never forget the time I called to the

JOE COOPER Watchdog downtown city hall, said I was from East York, and the person on the other end said, "Where is that?"

Truly, I wish I was making that up. But, unfortunately, I had to explain to the person that there was a community called ’East York’ in the city of Toronto.

The big question for 2017 will be whether we lose more community identity through the proposed changes to the ward boundaries that are underway.

Yes, there have been community consultations, but frankly the numbers of people who have participat-

ed have been small, and for most the issue is completely off their personal radar.

Way back in the 1990s, Al Leach in his capacity as Minister of Municipal Affairs promised to eliminate East York from the political landscape, and unfortunately that has continued to come true.

Whatever the future will be for East York, Thorncliffe and Leaside, it is certain that the true holders of the community’s fate will be the people who live within its boundaries.

Fortunately, many people still truly care.

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Joe Cooper is a longtime East York resident and community activist. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at newsroom@insidetoronto.com

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