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JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com At 88 years young, Michael Garron Hospital (formerly Toronto East General) is unveiling a sleek new look to go along with a renewed commitment to community.

The hospital celebrated its 88th on Thursday, Jan. 12, taking that opportunity to unveil a brand new logo and new scrubs, volunteer outfits and other clothing items.

The logo consists of a two-tone green hospital with white houses in the foreground, and its unveiling coincides with a time of change for Michael Garron Hospital.

The rebranding comes just over a year after the hospital changed its name to Michael Garl See NEW, page 7

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Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon (left), MPP Arthur Potts (Beaches-East York), Councillor Mary Fragedakis, Michael Garron Hospital CEO Sarah Downey, and Michael Garron Foundation president Mitze Mourinho prepare to cut the cake, during a rebranding celebration at the hospital.

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Mayor John Tory took a stroll along Queen Street East in the Beach Jan. 16, noting the gaps in the storefronts, to underline the need to repeal an age-old property tax rebate that he believes encourages property owners to keep commercial and industrial land empty.

"On the walk we saw six properties that were vacant from one year, to 25 years," said Tory as he joined local councillor Mary Margaret McMahon and budget chief Gary Crawford in front of reporters. "This is an energetic neighbourhood - one of our most energetic neighbourhoods - and yet these properties are vacant."

Tory said he hopes that when Toronto’s 2017 budget

is passed, there will be one less incentive to landlords for keeping their properties empty.

The budget includes the repeal of a property tax rebate that sends tax money back to the owners of land and structures lying commercially fallow. With a provincial regulation expected later this year, the city would save some portion of about $20 million handed out in rebates each year, with annual savings of that amount.

Tory said the cancellation makes financial sense for a city that is still struggling to balance its 2017 budget - but also for the healthy development of the city and its neighbourhoods.

"Unoccupied retail is not something that is good for the overall health of this neighbourhood," said Tory.

"The boarded up stores are an eyesore - they impact on the liveliness of Toronto’s main streets."

Tory said the relief that the rebate offers is likely unnecessary to most landowners. Over the years the city has subsidized property owners to the tune of $366 million, and nearly 60 per cent of that has gone to owners in the downtown core "where property values are skyrocketing.

"In one downtown ward, $82 million has gone to 400 property owners," he said.

"What we’re really trying to do is make sure that owners are not indifferent to renting out these properties," said Tory. "If we do send out a cheque, they can say well, the city doesn’t care whether they rent the property or not. Well, we do care."

Winterfolk hosting preview show A preview concert and benefit for the 15th annual Winterfolk Blues and Roots Festival is coming to Toronto’s east end on Saturday, Jan. 21.

Featuring Blair Peckham, Tony Quarrington, Lynn Harrison, Brian Gladstone, HOTCHA!, Kim Doo-

little, Glen Hornblast, and Tragedy Ann, and hosted by Winterfolk’s artistic director Lillian Wauthier, the event will be held at Robinson Hall, St. Nicholas Anglican Church, 1512 Kingston Rd, just east of Warden Avenue.

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to 11 p.m.

Tickets cost $22 in advance or $25 at the door.

Winterfolk, an all-ages, mid-winter, urban blues and roots festival, will run from Feb. 17 to 19 on the west Danforth.

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School teaches culture and traditions in addition to provincial curriculum

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First Nations School of Toronto settling into new home

JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com After moving from its old home on Dundas Street East to its new digs in the former Eastern Commerce Collegiate, the First Nations School of Toronto is set to expand and reach new heights.

The First Nations School of Toronto started out as the Wandering Spirit Survival School when it was founded in the 1970s with a mission of bringing the Ontario curriculum to aboriginal students.

Students from across the city began attending classes at its new location after the winter break.

While it has always catered to elementary school students. With a new, much larger home, the school is set to offer high school classes starting next school year.

"At the old site, we wouldn’t have been able to add high school to our existing school," said principal Jonathan Kakegamic.

"We realized that a lot of our students would get into high school and they weren’t as successful as we want them to be."

The sheer size difference between the First Nations School and the typical high school has been a huge factor in that regard.

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Jonathan Kakegamic, principal of the First Nations School of Toronto, stands by a display in the school’s front foyer. The school is located in the former Eastern Commerce Collegiate. ronment - the First Nations School houses a little over 130 students - to a huge school where students could more easily get lost in the crowd.

"The Grade Eights we currently have are really excited that they’ll be able to stay here," Kakegamic said.

The school sticks to the Ontario curriculum, but places a heightened emphasis on First Nations traditions, culture and language. Students are

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taught First Nations languages to go along with English, and Fridays include traditional drumming, singing and the sharing of cultural traditions.

"We teach the curriculum, but with an Anish (Anishnawbe, or First Nations) flavour," Kakegamic said.

As an example, he noted that "if you go to most schools, there’s one paragraph in the textbooks about residential schools,

but we look more at that because that’s an important part of our history we don’t want to forget. We also teach our students about taking care of the land and other traditions."

In addition to classes, the school offers a hockey academy with equipment provided, mentorship programs, direct connections to First Nations communities and other specialized programs.

Teacher Sam Jardine noted the students take to

the programs at the First Nations School well - a far cry from the stories she has heard from graduates who have struggled to integrate into "mainstream" high schools.

"It’s a tough transition for a lot of them, going from a small environment to a school where there are 2,000 students," she said. "This school differs mostly in that it gives students an opportunity to learn their heritage, which is being lost today."

Grade 6 student Scarlett Rose relishes the chance to learn more about her culture, and loves the new facility.

"It’s huge and the field’s gigantic," she said.

"The old school was pretty rundown, so this is amazing here."

For more information on the First Nations School of Toronto, visit www.tdsb.on.ca/Community/AboriginalEducation/Schools.aspx or phone 416-393-0555.

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EDITORIAL | OPINION

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Time to fix Toronto’s too-low property tax problem Toronto’s budget committee has heard from 230 members of the public concerned about the city’s operating and capital budget for 2017.

And if the committee were seriously listening to those deputations, the course forward on the year’s budget would be obvious.

First, preserve services that impact Torontonians: services that include but are not limited to subsidized daycare, shelter services, library hours, public housing, transit, and to at least one Toronto Olympian, swimming pools.

And following from that, finance it all adequately; which is to say, Toronto Council should raise property taxes appropriately for the many tasks at hand.

There were some, such as representatives of the real estate sector, who worried about changes to collect more revenue from the municipal land transfer tax and urged status quo. But there were only a handful if that, who suggested that Toronto’s property tax rates were too high and needed to be reigned in.

That, of course, is because property taxes in Toronto aren’t too high. Indeed, single family homeowners pay lower property rates than anywhere in the Greater Toronto Area, and have since Toronto was amalgamated nearly 20 years ago.

Those single family homeowners are also bearing the burden of infrastructure and service demands that other, smaller municipalities don’t have to contemplate: an aging public transit system and a vast inventory of public housing. It confounds reason to think that the city has managed to give its residents such a deal on their taxes for so long.

And yet this year, Mayor John Tory and budget chief Gary Crawford are sticking to a pledge to raise property taxes only by two per cent. This won’t close a budget gap of $91 million in total, so it is likely in the coming month that Toronto’s budget committee and City Council will have to disappoint some or maybe all of the people who came forward asking that services and subsidies be maintained - and cut. As well, council will have to dig into reserves and defer important investments, to the tune of $100 million.

Politically, it is easy to understand why Mayor Tory doesn’t want to waver on property tax rates. He did promise inflationary tax increases, and might lose support in some quarters if he goes back on that promise.

But what is politically expedient is not financially, or societally sustainable. Council needs to move beyond expedience, and raise taxes to an appropriate level.

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Lawyer’s lonely mission takes him to the streets Mukhtiar (Mark) Dahiya brings free legal help to homeless people in Toronto.

Tall and fierce, Dahiya, a lawyer from Northern India, has made pro bono street law in his adopted city his mission, and works at it despite being unable to do so officially, as a lawyer of record.

It has cost him.

The Beach resident has seen people decline into drugs and mental illness, and knows many who died. He’s attracted unwanted attention from police. He contracted tuberculosis.

Dahiya’s now 65, but won’t give up his dream: to open the City Law Centre, an office where people without homes or money can get a will, or deal with

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto tickets police hand them for throwing cigarettes in the street.

It’s unacceptable, "unCanadian," for the homeless to lack legal representation, says Dahiya, who believes just talking to a lawyer lessons their isolation, improves chances for survival.

"They don’t need a Bay Street lawyer. They need a guy like me," he says.

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"I kept many people from suicide."

But since he became a lawyer here in 2006, Dahiya says the Law Society of Upper Canada has held him back from doing what other lawyers won’t.

As a street lawyer, he couldn’t afford licence and insurance fees for a practice, so he’s appeared in summary trials for the homeless as an agent, rather than lawyer.

Short of funds, he was told last October he’s now exempt from the lawyer’s annual fee but, as he’s considered retired, he can’t provide legal services. If he returns to practice law, he’d have to pay insurance.

Last week, the city announced it will finally begin recording and assess-

ing all the deaths of its homeless, hoping this can lead to their better health.

But who will see to their legal rights?

Dahiya argues the homeless don’t stand in lines for legal aid.

He refuses, after all he’s tried, to join any charity or church who can fund his dream. "That is beneath my dignity," he says, waving his hand.

A storefront clinic may not be something Dahiya, for all his passion, can achieve. But that doesn’t mean he’s wrong. The City Law Centre must exist.

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Centenarian comfortable with computer HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com At 101 years old, Bessie Stallworthy has a cellphone, can send emails, use Facebook, blog and search the web from her laptop or iPad. "I have to admit, it’s pretty awesome and I started tinkering with the computer with no purpose at all. I just wanted to learn something different," said the centenarian who has lived in the Upper Beach neighbourhood for 65 years.

She first dabbled in technology at the age of 79 as a New Year’s resolution.

One of her friends gave her an old laptop and printer and she began her foray into technology. She’s never taken a computer course, but instead has either

learned on her own or had a little help from her friends.

She uses her computer to send emails and her iPad to go on Facebook and look at pictures from her recliner. She still continues to explore the world through the Internet, when many seniors, 20 years her junior, feel overwhelmed by the concept of technology.

"I have an interesting life thanks to computers and technology because I have so much at my fingertips now," she said.

Stallworthy is one of the many seniors across Canada who are choosing to not be left behind on the "shoulder" of the information highway. According to Statistics Canada, seniors have the fastest growing rate of Internet usage in the country. The number of Canadians 75 and older who choose to go online spiked from five per cent to 27 per cent from 2000 to 2012.

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Bessie Stallworthy, a 101-year-old Toronto woman who isn’t afraid to embrace technology, checks her blogs inside her home in the Upper Beach. Stallworthy got her first computer at 79 and hasn’t stopped surfing the web since. an Association of Retired Persons (CARP), a nonprofit organization that advocates for financial security and improved health care for Canadians over 50, is noticing more and more, said chair of the Toronto

chapter Adina Lebo.

"Seniors are using technology rather socially for Skyping with grandchildren and keeping in touch with family. It keeps them connected, it keeps them actively engaged rather

than looking at four walls," said Lebo.

CARP encourages their membership to keep up with technology as a part of active living after retirement, which is where seniors begin their decline

and disinterest in technology; when they leave the workforce.

"We are in an increasingly digital world and if you’re not digitally connected you’re not part of the world. You’re left behind," Lebo added.

But it’s all about the right motivation for the majority of seniors to adopt the technology in the first place, according to University of Toronto professor and co-director of the Aging Gracefully Lab Dr. Cosmin Munteanu. Society is pushing more toward intergenerational technology use with generations coming together in digital spaces like Facebook and Skype.

"It gives them the option to be more a part of the family life as family life becomes more digital, it forces them to adopt technology," said Munteanu, who also works on creating apps to bridge the digital divide between seniors and youth.

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Lobbying for a French-language high school A group of parents lobbying for a French-language high school in Toronto’s east end is now looking to take legal steps to ensure their children exercise their right to quality French-language secondary school in their community.

The Coalition de parents pour une école secondaire de quartier, PESQ for short, is prepared to take its fight to establish an equivalent French-language secondary school in Toronto’s east end all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

In September 2015, the coalition retained the services of lawyer Nicolas Rouleau, who earlier that year successfully argued

for minority rights at the Supreme Court of Canada.

The ruling determined British Columbia’s government violated student constitutional rights to an equitable education as their school, Rose-des-Vents in West Vancouver, was not equal to English-language schools in that area.

French-speaking parents from east Toronto remain hopeful Rouleau and his team can make the same case once again for them.

On Wednesday, Jan. 25, the Coalition PESQ is inviting francophone parents from east Toronto who are affected by the absence of a local French-language high school in the neighbourhood to join them for

an information session.

The gathering will take be held at the Kaza Family Centre, 1386 Danforth Ave., west of Coxwell Avenue, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Constitutional lawyers Nicolas and Sylvain Rouleau will be on hand to inform those in attendance about their language rights in a minority environment and on the legal process to ensure they’re upheld.

The meeting will also include an update on developments that have taken place since the last meeting in the spring of 2016 as well as a question-and-answer session.

Visit www.coalitionPESQ.com or email info@coalitionPESQ.com for more information.

Meeting rescheduled at accessible location A rescheduled meeting on a co-operative housing development proposed for the northeast corner of Upper Gerrard Street East and Coxwell Avenue is now set to take place Tuesday, Jan. 24.

Hosted by the city’s planning department, the community consultation will be held at Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 79 Hiawatha Rd., which is south of Gerrard Street East and west of Coxwell Avenue, starting at 7 p.m.

All are welcome.

The choice of where to hold the meeting caused a firestorm of controversy

late last year when City Planning booked two inaccessible locations for its public consultation on the accessible mixed-use development.

Initially, a meeting was scheduled for Dec. 7 at the Royal Canadian Legion Baron Byng Beaches Branch 1/42 but that facility was not wheelchair accessible.

The city then announced it was moving the consultation to Lazy Daisy’s Café over at 1515 Gerrard St. E. at Coxwell Avenue but that location has washroom facilities downstairs and those with mobility limitations were advised to prepare

themselves accordingly.

That meeting was then called off.

The new location for the consultation is fully accessible.

Innstead Co-operative Housing Inc. has submitted a planning application to build a six-storey mixeduse building with 33 affordable housing units, one retail unit at ground level, office space on the sixth floor and nine surface parking spots at 355-363 Coxwell Ave. .Call Planner Derrick Wong directly on 416-3920776 or email dwong3@toronto.ca to speak with him directly about this project.

Worker killed in industrial accident A man is dead following a serious industrial accident in the Beach.

Toronto police Const.

David Hopkinson said they received a call at 4:02 p.m. on Monday, Jan 16 after a worker found a crew mem-

ber in a machine at a construction site near the intersection of Queen Street East and Woodbine Avenue.

"It looks very, very bad.

He’s vital signs absent," he said.

A short time later, Kim McKinnon of Toronto Paramedic Services confirmed paramedics pronounced a man dead at the scene from "injuries sustained in an accident at that location."

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ron in recognition of a $50 million donation by Berna and Myron Garron in honour of their late son. The hospital has been reaching out to the community it calls home to find out exactly what the institution means to those who use it.

"With this gift and the completion of a strategic plan last year came the opportunity to update our logo, our colours and our brand," said Michael Garron Hospital president and CEO Sarah Downey.

"We took advantage of the same opportunity to reconnect with our varied stakeholders."

"By far, the number one word used to describe us was the word ’community.’"

The new logo, featuring distinctive East York homes, ties the hospital and the concept of com-

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Councillor MaryMargaret McMahon and a volunteer model the new outfit. munity together.

Downey noted the construction of a new eightstorey patient care facility over its Sammon Avenue parking lot and a new park on Coxwell Avenue affirm the hospital’s commitment to patients in the area.

"We have more than $400 million redevelopment project underway

and we’ll be issuing a request for proposals in February," she said.

At a celebration to mark the rebranding, Beaches East-York MPP Arthur Potts said the new health centre will be a state of the art facility that will reflect best practices.

"The end product will be a gorgeous facility that can really reflect the quality of care provided here at the hospital," he said.

Groundbreaking on the facility is expected to start by early 2018.

Ward 32 councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon (Beaches/East York) said Michael Garron has long been one of the city’s top hospitals, adding that she too is looking forward to the redevelopment.

"The (existing) building itself does not reflect the calibre of people working here, the talent or the compassion for the community," she said.

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1. Nature and animals. Parks, petting zoos, farms and nature discovery walks are all great activities this time of year.

Many zoo animals (like polar bears, Arctic wolves and snow owls) thrive in their natural winter habitats and are much more fun to observe now. Encourage kids to ask questions, and look up the answers you don’t know together when you get home.

2. The perfect indoor playdate. Schedule some fun with friends that supports learning through play, like by finding an easy DIY creative project for kids online. Registered early childhood educators, who are trained in child development and plan play-based early learning programs, recommend providing opportunities

for exploration and discovery using everyday objects. Let the kids be in charge.

Ask yourself: Is there a variety of materials for them to explore, like with different textures, sizes and shapes? Can they make choices about what the project will look like or what it can do? Is there an opportunity to ask questions and work together? Pick a fun project that requires creativity, not just following instructions.

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Trump’s battle with the press Ford-like Here on the eve of the inauguration of presidentelect Donald J. Trump in Washington D.C., it’s hard not to think about the inaugural meeting of Toronto Council in 2010, and the years that followed it.

There are all sorts of parallels between Rob Ford, amalgamated Toronto’s third mayor, and America’s soon-to-be 45th president.

But the one that strikes me most this week is the one that impacted me most in 2010: their declared war on portions of the news-media.

Both Trump and Ford took full advantage of an early advantage. In Trump’s case, it was the report of unverified intelligence information on the website Buzz Feed, and a more restrained report on same by CNN. In Ford’s case, it was a series of reports during the election by the Toronto Star, calling into question his methods coaching high school football.

DAVID NICKLE The City Trump, in high dudgeon, refused in his first, rare news conference to take questions from a reporter from CNN and flung invective at both organizations.

His Transition Team has mused about tossing the Washington press corps out of the West Wing of the White House.

Ford, you may recall, ordered the Toronto Star banished from the mayor’s office’s email notification list, falsely denigrated one of the Star’s reporters as a pedophile, and later in his administration, hid from growing scandal behind the doors of

the mayor’s office and the bluster of his brother Doug.

Through much of this time, the Toronto media was fighting a rearguard action in the war over public opinion with the Fords. I was President of the City Hall Press Gallery at the time, so was something of a public face for my colleagues.

It had amazed me at the time, how easy it was to denigrate journalists trying to bring light and accountability to a highly-questionable mayoralty.

What also has amazed me, though, was how possible it was for good journalists to turn that denigration around with tough, diligent reporting.

That’s something for American journalists to bear in mind, over their long game just beginning.

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

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Dedicated to community service One thing that I have come to realize over the many years that I have written my column is that a community’s health and well-being most often comes from the efforts of people most people never get to meet in person.

These people put in a great deal of work and effort to ensure that many community services and events hold a community together, but do so in the background and without great fanfare.

One of these people whom I would like my readership come to know better is Justin van Dette, who has been serving the East York community since his teen years.

Van Dette began his community service in 1996 when at age 17 he was elected to the Parkview Hills Community Association.

It was also that year that he began yearly volunteer work assisting the East York Seniors Christmas Day Dinner, which he did

JOE COOPER Watchdog over 15 years.

Not only has he undertaken work with his own community association, he also has reached out to other areas of East York, Topham Park residents to establish their own association.

His work life also involves assisting the community through being a part-time employee of the Toronto East General Hospital foundation.

During that time, he has worked hard to help the hospital grow and keep a strong and active connection with the community it

serves.

Currently van Dette is involved in some important new initiatives that will have an important benefit in keeping East York’s sense of identity and history alive.

He recently founded the East York Hall of Fame committee, who are working on an initiative to see notable people, both historic and contemporary, recognized and commemorated.

Currently he is working hard to see that bus schedules are reinstated at TTC stops so that people who cannot afford smartphone applications are not hindered in their travels.

Justin van Dette certainly serves as a role model for dedicated community service and citizenship.

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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Toronto to more accurately track homeless deaths City will work with outreach organizations to get hard data JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com According to City of Toronto numbers, there were 30 homeless deaths in 2016, though the city itself acknowledges that figure vastly understates the prevalence of such fatalities.

To help get a more accurate count of deaths and collect data that can be used to create a more comprehensive plan for combatting homelessness, Toronto has announced a new plan to track homeless deaths in Toronto.

The city will work with roughly 200 shelters, community outreach programs, hospitals and other service agencies to collect data, including the names, ages, possible

cause of death and other key details about those who die on Toronto’s streets.

"When you can’t measure a problem, it makes it very difficult to address it," said Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Toronto’s acting Medical Officer of Health at the Church of the Holy Trinity, on Tuesday, Jan. 10.

Up until this year, Toronto has only collected data on homeless deaths of those living in city shelters. That leaves a large number of deaths unreported, with police and the coroner’s office not always conducting full investigations into other deaths or passing information on homeless deaths along to the city.

Calling homeless deaths a "very significant public health issue," Yaffe noted the initiative "aims to address the limited data that’s been collected on individuals who died while homeless and were not living in city shelters."

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Michael Mallard pays respects at a memorial ceremony for homeless people who have died in Toronto ataäHoly Trinity Church last Tuesday.

Street nurse Cathy Crowe, who has worked with Toronto’s homeless population for many years, said the new initiative is more than welcome, adding that the information will be eye-opening to many.

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natural," she said. "After all these years, we’re finally going to get hard data on these atrocities."

Crowe is hopeful the data collected through the new initiative will spark action in bringing about positive change in affordable housing policies in Toronto.

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homeless deaths did not happen so often, and when they did happen, we were outraged as a city and we would take action."

Ward 43 Councillor Paul Ainslie (Scarborough East) concurred, noting the city would take a hard look at the data. He noted the information collected would provide needed

guidance in building up the proper support system for the city’s homeless.

"It’s the tool we need to begin influencing decision-making at all levels of government to bring purposeful policies and legislation together to help the homeless and sick who live here on the streets of Toronto," he said.

Donna Oakes, who was homeless for more than a decade, saw many friends die as they struggled on Toronto’s streets. She said the new initiative was long overdue.

"It will help people realize just how much need there really is out there," she said. "Instead of just saying ’that’s so sad,’ people will actually step forward and put together a plan."

Michael Mallard, who lost a friend who was living on the streets recently, concurred.

"It’s about time people knew the names of the ones who we lose," he said.

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