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School program could launch future author JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com A new extracurricular club at an east Toronto school may very well be the starting point for Canada’s next renowned author.

On Wednesday, April 19, Equinox/Roden Public School, 151 Hiawatha Rd. in the Little India neighbourhood, launched its new book publishing club.

To mark this special occasion, the Gerrard-Coxwell area school hosted an event featuring stories written and illustrated by pupils as young as six.

The popular new group was created to promote and develop reading and writing skills for students in grades 1 to 4. More than 100 children have joined the club.

Students, parents, teachers and volunteers worked for several months to draft, revise, edit, ill See HARDCOVER, page 14

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Henry Harris (right) and Morgan Castle show off their new work during the book launch event held Wednesday, April 19 at Equinox Holistic Alternative School/Roden Public School. The schools’ Book Publishing Club saw 100 students’ original stories published in hard cover form.

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JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Thousands of Torontonians from all walks of life took to the streets to speak out for science and evidence-based research.

The March for Science Toronto - one of 600 such events around the world decrying a move away from facts and scientific knowledge - saw participants gather at Nathan Phillips Square before heading up to Queen’s Park for a large rally on Saturday.

At one point in the march, the line of scientists and their allies stretched nearly all the way from the starting point to the end point, an impressive showing, but one participants said was necessary given the political climate in the U.S., where President Donald Trump and many others have been critical of climate change and other key issues.

"Politics should not be shaping science; science

should be informing politics," said rally MC Dr. Rupinder Brar. "(Science is) not an ideology - it’s a process. It’s a method that we employ for learning the truth and it’s under threat in many ways."

The march came in solidarity with a similar march organized in Washington D.C., which came in response to the Trump administration.

Speaker Dr. Chelsea Rochman, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, got involved in science to make a difference in understanding and protecting the environment. She noted that the rejection of evidence-based research and facts makes little sense given its contributions to modern society.

"Science is the reason we can fight cancer and win," she said. "Science is the reason we can share pictures of our children with our family from anywhere at any time.

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Grant MacPherson and his son Xavi MacPherson, 4, participate in the March for Science Toronto at Queen’s Park. us to Mars. And science is the reason we can have clean air and clean water."

Councillor Josh Matlow, who formerly served as codirector of environmental organization Earthroots,

noted that the assault on science and facts is a real and serious threat. He noted that while the current political climate south of the border has sparked action, Canada is hardly innocent of science

denial.

"Only a few years ago here in Canada, we had a government that muzzled scientists, that muzzled facts which didn’t fit into the political narrative of the day

or which fed into the interests that funded them themselves," he said. "We saw scientist after scientist complain that they weren’t allowed to share the truth that they found."

He added that the White House website has removed all mention of climate change and emissions, thereby pushing issues that the scientific community considers urgent to the background.

While Canada has improved in terms of basing policy on science, speaker Eden Hennessey noted there is still work to be done, particularly when it comes to women and minorities in science.

"Science can no longer afford to tolerate the systemic underrepresentation of women and marginalized groups," she said.

"We’re leading the crusade for reason over opinion, for evidence over anecdotes. Let’s make sure we don’t leave half the cavalry at home."

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Waterfront development will benefit city artists JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com

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Artscape CEO Tim Jones makes his address during the announcement of the new Artscape Daniels Launchpad to be housed in the Daniels Waterfront-City of the Arts development on Queens Quay East. wasn’t one solution, but we found a lot of different ideas to bring together."

Jones noted the new facility will function much like a health club, with members paying dues and

having access to cutting edge technology, costly equipment, training, networking and other benefits. That membership model is currently being developed.

"I truly believe this thing we’re doing here has the potential to be a gamechanger for creative people in the city," he said.

On Friday, April 21, the facility was officially

named in honour of a $5.75million funding gift from the John and Myrna Daniels Foundation. Additional funding has come from all three levels of government and other private do-

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An ambitious plan in Toronto’s waterfront will bring about new opportunities for artists, thanks to the creation of a new Artscape facility that will offer equipment, technology, networking, mentoring and more.

The Artscape Daniels Launchpad, a $27.3 million project, will help artists and designers develop entrepreneurial skills in the heart of the Daniels Corporation’s City of the Arts.

The 30,000-square-foot facility, located at the foot of Lower Jarvis Street, will provide a much-needed boost to the careers of artists and designers.

"One thing we wanted to address through our research is ’who’s teaching (artists) to make a living?" said Artscape CEO Tim Jones. "We looked to a number of models from all over and found there

nors.

Don Pugh, vice president of the Daniels Corporation, noted that the Launchpad would be a vital part of the company’s Daniels Waterfront - City of the Arts vision for the East Bayfront.

"City of the Arts is an opportunity to reinforce our commitment to the arts and ensure artists themselves have a hand in citybuilding," he said.

Slated to open in 2018, the new facility will serve as a vital boon to artists, many of whom struggle to eke out a career, but whose work adds vibrancy and opportunity for others within the city.

"It’s going to bring together those two things that artists do so fabulously well - create, and create business opportunities," said Spadina-Fort York MP Adam Vaughan.

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Bad behaviour delays As far as TTC board meetings, last week’s convening of commissioners was a tame affair. There were the usual concerns registered about flatlined ridership, a typical number of procurement authorizations rubber stamped by the board, and the whole process was over in a couple of hours. Nothing out of the ordinary.

But there was one announcement which caught this friendly neighbourhood transit watcher’s eye, if only because it’s a rare occurrence, like Haley’s Comet rare. Starting in May, the TTC will unveil a customer awareness campaign designed to address transit delays. Not delays created through service unreliability or operator error - which the TTC says are way down by the way but those caused by customers.

What’s the big deal you say? Doesn’t the TTC already address bad rider behaviour? Aren’t there fre-

RAHUL GUPTA TO in Transit quent advisories on topics such as littering on the tracks and improperly using the emergency alarm?

Doesn’t TTC senior management regularly appear now and then in lighthearted yet informational web videos? How will another awareness campaign, even one according to TTC chief of customer care Cheryl Thoun crafted directly from rider feedback, change anything?

Well, chances are it won’t. But this is the first time I can recall the TTC publicly acknowledging there’s an issue with rider behaviour, one that’s wors-

ening.

In the past, the TTC has refrained from fingering customers as culprits in downgrading the transit experience on the grounds it has no moral authority to police behaviour. This is in contrast to other transit agencies equivalent in scale making a point of educating riders on etiquette.

Seattle for example used animal cartoons to illustrate bad behaviour for a recent campaign. But this might be the first time the TTC has identified a direct link between customer behaviour and service delays.

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Youth shelter gets grant for LIFE East York’s Kennedy House youth shelter has received a $20,000 grant from the RBC Foundation to fund its LIFE (Lessons In Future Employment) program.

Located on Pape Avenue in East York, Kennedy House is the most eastern youth shelter in Toronto and serves Scarborough and parts of Durham Region. Every year, the shelter, with 33 emergency beds, helps about 350 homeless youth and provides more than 12,000 sleeps in warm beds, and 36,000 healthy meals.

The LIFE program, created two years ago, gives shelter residents hands-on paid experience and education in culinary arts and/

or maintenance and repair management.

Five positions are filled every 12 weeks following an interview process. Youth work with qualified employees for 25 hours a week at $12 per hour.

"This program gives youth the experience of building their resume, having an interview as well as the day to day structure of a job," the shelter said in a news release. "Through this program, we mentor these youth and teach responsibility, budgeting, problem solving skills, social skills and so much more."

The shelter said 72 per cent of youth who go through the program go on to permanent employment

and independent housing.

"I’ve learned so much beyond cooking skills in this program. My mentors are truly preparing me for the real workforce," said a LIFE program participant who was identified only as a Natalee in the news release. "After I get more settled and back on my feet with proper photo ID and documents, I hope to attend George Brown (college) for culinary arts. This program will help make that goal possible."

There are about 2,000 youth who are homeless in the Greater Toronto Area every night, the shelter said.

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Amalgamated Toronto remains a work in progress Twenty years ago this month, then-Ontario premier Mike Harris officially introduced the law that would erase the historic municipal borders in Metropolitan Toronto, and create the new city in which we live.

To say that Bill 103 was unpopular in the six former municipalities in the 416 area code would be an understatement. When it was all settled, the Progressive Conservative government found itself persona non grata in the new Megacity that they’d built. And for decades afterwards, the residents of North York, Scarborough, Etobicoke, East York, York and the old City of Toronto glared suspiciously at one another across the old borders, dreaming of better days long past.

It’s not to say that the old, preamalgamation days in Toronto were entirely perfect. There were a lot of nooks and crannies for corruption to hide and flourish in all those little councils. And the relationships between some of those little councils and the larger regional Metropolitan Toronto council led to some absurd bylaws.

But if corrupt dysfunction sometimes ruled the day well at least it was our corrupt dysfunction. Communities gathered around common values and a shared urban esthetic had their own accountable municipal governments. If they failed to hold them to account, well, it was on them. When amalgamation descended, that was lost in the Megacity of Toronto.

It’s hard to say what’s improved for Torontonians.

Amalgamation was sold as a money-saver and a way to cut the size of government. And while there were some savings identified at amalgamation, they were swallowed in the immense cost of amalgamating seven governments, and in the new cost of downloaded services like housing and transit.

Amalgamation may well have aided in cleaning up local government, but it took its time. A hotbed of corruption surrounding bad computer leasing deal was uncovered in the early years of the new city, and a public inquiry led to a suite of accountability offices in place to look over councillors’ shoulders - to often good effect.

But 20 years later, amalgamation remains a work in progress. We’re getting along better than we had in the beginning, but not all that well - witness the ongoing suburban/urban battles over subways in Scarborough and elevated highways downtown. We’re beginning to get a handle on municipal finance but we still can’t quite balance the cost of our needs with our capacity to raise revenue.

To put it another way: Toronto may be grown, but it’s not yet grown up.

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Downtown businesses offer the homeless respect In downtown Toronto, on the busiest part of Canada’s busiest street, handing out tickets to homeless people doesn’t work.

But respect works.

Knowing each street person’s name works.

Mark Garner learned that. He wants us, and particularly the city’s business communities, to learn it too.

The Downtown Yonge Business Improvement Area (BIA) that Garner leads is "the front line support team" for a top tourist destination, a growing neighbourhood getting a flood of people each night.

Some stay on the street.

New faces appear daily.

Garner and his Clean Streets Team - half its members once lived on the street - tell newcomers at

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto Yonge-Dundas Square where to go for clothing, shelter, a sandwich.

They recognize familiar people, "the same three guys sitting on buckets with a teddy bear and a cup." They see who’s having a bad week, who needs attention most.

It’s like hospital triage, says Garner.

Understand the uniqueness of each street person,

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approach them with compassion, Garner argues, and "you can then have a different conversation."

Garner, who grew up in Scarborough and walked this part of Yonge in the 1970s and 1980s, isn’t trying to gentrify it. He wants social housing, real affordable housing, to be part of every development the city okays, because homelessness isn’t just a downtown problem.

The BIA’s infographic, "One Night in Toronto," makes a point: if 5,253 people on a given night wind up in city shelters, jails, or hospitals, that costs us maybe $421,386,000 a night.

If they’re in social housing, it’s $34,512 a night.

Many street people don’t want housing. Mental illness is one reason.

One man we’ll call Howard was on the street more than 20 years, selling flags and key chains at Yonge and Dundas. Refusing housing, Garner says, was Howard’s right.

But after 18 months of work by the BIA and several agencies, plus lots of hand-holding, Howard got clean, and now makes guitars for a living.

"You can’t save everyone, but if you tackle them a case at a time, you have more of a chance," says Garner.

Imagine if Toronto’s other BIAs committed to pursuing the same plan.

Our city could change quickly.

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Spring is cleanup time in East York Spring is finally here and that means it’s time to clean up our homes and the community in preparation for the warmer days to come.

While winter can have its charms, the fact is that what it leaves behind is often a soggy mess.

Unraked leaves, garbage and other unpleasant surprises await us as we transition from one season to the other.

There are several ways to tackle this yearly chore and there are many events and services that can be of assistance.

The city of Toronto has seven drop-off depots where you can take a variety of wastes, such as electronics, renovation, yard, household and hazardous.

Many people find that winter brings a period of accumulation of clutter, and spring is a good time to get rid of it.

The closest drop-off depot for East York is located

JOE COOPER Watchdog at 188 Bermondsey Rd. off O’Conner, north of St. Clair Avenue.

There is a nominal fee for the service based on type and amount of waste, and the city asks that you visit the site on "off-hours" (early morning or late afternoon) as city trucks are given priority during peak hours.

Once you have finished cleaning up your own home or apartment, then you can consider helping to clean up the community.

There are several opportunities to do so, and let me provide you with some sug-

gestions.

We will be having two community environment days in East York, one for each of our councillors.

Janet Davis (Ward 31, Beaches-East York) will be holding her event on Tuesday, May 16 at the East York Memorial Arena parking lot, 888 Cosburn Ave. Mary Fragedakis (Ward 29, Toronto-Danforth) will be holding her event on Thursday, June 22 at Dieppe Park, 455 Cosburn Ave. These events provide a variety of services, such as recycling of large and toxic items, as well as information booths for a variety of community groups and municipal services.

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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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Having worked together to meet the health care needs of east Toronto residents for years, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Michael Garron Hospital (MGH) have signed an agreement that will expand that partnership.

The two hospitals have signed a formal agreement that will see staff collaborating on research and care procedures and patients provided with best-in-practice treatment based on which hospital can best meet their needs.

Sunnybrook and MGH have paired up for some time, and the recent signing of a strategic alliance agreement allows them to formally create a "corridor of care" where areas

of specialization at each hospital will be shared.

"Partnerships are possible when connections among people are strong," said MGH president and CEO Sarah Downey.

The agreement will focus on a variety of areas of specialization for each hospital, including cardiovascular services, prostate robotics services, respiratory services, pathology and thyroid and thoracic cancer.

Given the scarce resources available for health care, the enhanced partnership will allow both hospitals to provide better care for patients, said Sunnybrook president and CEO Dr. Barry McLellan.

"It’s a way of enhancing the system in the best interests of our patients and a great opportunity to build upon what we already have in place (in terms of collaboration)," he said.

McLellan added that hip fracture care was one

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