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Marc Yamaguchi (left) and Karen Buck are working together to educate people about the benefits of residential rain gardens. Two years ago Yamaguchi installed a rain garden on the front lawn of his east Toronto home.

Celebrating the value of rain gardens in east Toronto JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com East Toronto residents are coming together to extol the many benefits of residential rain gardens.

Recently, East York’s Marc Yamaguchi and Karen Buck, a longtime Beach resident who has advocated for several important environmental causes over the years, have combined their forces to establish a new group called

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JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Toronto residents Kate Salter and Shannon Candido are working to ensure no one has to forgo eating fresh, healthy food because they can’t afford to do so. Last spring, Sadler, who is from the city’s west end, and Candido, who calls Leslieville home, founded GoodFood Help, a peer-topeer food relief initiative that provides healthy, nutritious food to those experiencing temporary, unexpected food insecurity. Together with a team of volunteers, they’ve served upwards of 700 people in the past year. Food drop offs usually take place discreetly at public places like subway stations. GoodFood Help started with a request for a banana on a Bunz online trading zone. Salter replied to the Facebook post and offered to give that person fresh fruit and veggies and some healthy meals. She never did hear back from the original poster but dozens of others from all ages and walks of life facing a range of challenges accessing fresh, healthy food chimed in. "The next morning, there were 3,000 likes and 12 personal requests (for fresh food) by the end of the weekend," said Salter, who also received several offers from people wanting to help. "The need was there." To date, GoodFood Help has provided food to those hit by an expected bill,

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CANADA TO DEVELOP A NATIONAL FOOD POLICY The Government of Canada is seeking Canadians’ input on the development of its first national food policy. Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Lawrence MacAulay made the announcement Monday at Ryerson University during the Canadian Association of Food Studies’ 12th annual assembly. To help in developing A Food Policy for Canada, the federal government is asking people to fill out an online survey at www.canada.ca/food-policy. This is the first of a number of ways Canadians are being invited to help develop a national food policy. The government also plans on holding broad consultations through events in the coming months. On June 22 and 23, stakeholders will have the opportunity to share their views on the policy’s development and learn more from experts and key policy makers at the A Food Policy for Canada Summit in Ottawa. The overall aim is to shape a food policy across Canada from farm to fork that increases access to affordable food, improves health and food safety, conserves our soil, water, and air, and grows more high-quality food.

institute a national food security strategy. Bronson said pilot studies in Ontario for a $17,000 basic income is a good start. Canada-wide, she’d like to see a national food strategy move forward as soon as possible. "None of that is happening now," she said. "Food is a basic human right and all Canadian should have access to it. We need to fix a goal on this country to eliminate hunger. This is not beyond the realm of the possible."

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gram going and funds are always needed. "We are completely donation driven," said Salter, who said they’d like to see a long-term plan put in place so that people aren’t stuck seeking out healthy, fresh food options. A fundraiser for GoodFood Help, which is currently in the process of being registered as a nonprofit organization, is in the works for July. Visit https://www.facebook.com/goodfoodhelp/ or http://goodfoodhelp.com/ for more information. Diana Bronson, executive director of Food Security Canada, said

there is absolutely no excuse for people to be going hungry in such a prosperous country like Canada. Her organization is a pan-Canadian alliance of organizations and individuals that work together to advance food security and food sovereignty through the inter-locking goals of the zero hunger, healthy and safe food, and sustainable food systems. According to Statistics Canada, four million Canadians or 12 per cent of the population is living with some form of food insecurity. What is even more shocking is that 60 per cent of those dealing with food security issues are employed. "A lot of these people are working. They’re just not making a decent wage," said Bronson during an interview with Metroland Media. "I think it’s really important to acknowledge that the primary driver of food insecurity is poverty." She said the government needs to come up with more "income-based solutions" to permanently stop people from experiencing food insecurity. "We’ve been in stop-gap mode for almost 40 years now," Bronson said, pointing to Canada’s first food bank that opened in Edmonton, Alberta back in 1981. "I think everybody knows food banks are not a solution." For more than a decade, Food Security Canada has lobbied various levels of government to set a basic income and

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JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Having made a splash on the swimming scene for the past several years, East York Olympian Martha McCabe is launching a new venture to link kids to their athletic heroes. McCabe is starting up Head to Head, an initiative that links Olympians with kids’ sports clubs as a means of boosting self-esteem and self-image. The idea came after McCabe retired from a competitive swimming career that saw her earn a fifth-place finish in the 200-metre breaststroke at the London 2012 games and a silver medal in the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games. "When I finished up my career as a swimmer, I planned a drive across Canada from Victoria to St. John’s and I met with a lot of kids along the way," she said. She did 45 speaking engagements for kids over 59 days with a goal of showing that Olympians were the same as anyone else and encouraging youngsters to pursue their dreams. While the tour was successful, McCabe said she felt there was more that could be done. "With so many speaking sessions, I didn’t feel like I didn’t really get to know the kids and they didn’t really get to know me as much as I would have liked," she said. Head to Head will give McCabe and some of her fellow Olympians a chance to meet more regularly with kids through organized sports clubs. She said the feedback from Team Canada members has been overwhelmingly positive thus far. "So many Olympians are happy to do this," she said. "So many want to be

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East Yorker and Olympian Martha McCabe is starting up Head to Head, a new organization that partners Olympic athletes with children and youth to provide mentorship and self-esteem building opportunities. able to give back, but there’s no system to allow us to give back in a formalized way." McCabe herself gained her first experience interacting with high-performance athletes as a young Leasider when one of her sister’s friends became an Olympic swimmer. "I saw that Olympians were just like we were and that helped give me confidence," she said. "I want to pass that along." While Head to Head works with sports clubs, it isn’t designed to cater only to aspiring athletes. McCabe said the program doesn’t aim to track down the next high-performance sports star, looking instead to giving kids a chance to meet people who many look up to. "Olympians are natural

role models to a lot of kids, and by showing that a lot of the problems they’re facing are things that Olympians go through can help them feel more self-confident," she noted. Thus far, McCabe has had about 20 Olympians who have shown an interest in participating and a number of clubs and schools that have also expressed that they would be keen on having an Olympian visit. Her end goal is to turn Head to Head into a national program. "At this point, I’m trying to get out there and talk to as many parents, (sports club) boards and coaches as I can," she said. "It’s still a work in progress, but I’m making contacts." For more information about Head to Head, visit www.marthamccabe.ca/ headtohead

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The ’Fair Hydro Plan’ is anything but that Welcome one and all to the Ontario government’s incredible, stupendous hydro-cuts emporium where you can buy cheaper electricity today - then pay big-time for it later. If this makes the Liberals’ misnamed Fair Hydro Plan sound like a slick scheme concocted to get them re-elected, that’s because to a large degree it is. Yes, we know Ontarians were begging for relief from constantly soaring hydro bills. We also know many consumers are cheering Premier Kathleen Wynne’s plan to slash hydro rates by 25 per cent this year and then limit increases to the inflation rate for the next four years. But as the province’s financial watchdog reported last week, the cost of insulating Ontarians from soaring energy bills will eventually shock them to the tips of their toes. To be sure, the Liberal plan will save consumers $24 billion over the next four years. That’s a tidy sum and it’s no coincidence the savings are perfectly timed to inspire warm and fuzzy feelings for the Liberals before the June 2018 election. But as the Financial Accountability Office just reported, it will cost the province a jaw-dropping $45 billion over the next 29 years to make those savings possible. In addition, if interest rates rise or the province starts running deficits again, the eventual cost of the plan could balloon to $93 billion. The inescapable reason for this daunting bill is that the province must borrow heavily to pay for the discounted hydro rates. That money must be repaid. And in order to lower hydro bills in the short term, the government will need to increase them in subsequent years to cover the debt that finances the plan. It’s all a bit like using a carving knife to extract a splinter. The operation may succeed, but the bleeding will be considerable. So, while you can, enjoy seeing average monthly hydro bills drop from $163 to $123 starting this summer. But brace yourself for hydro rates to increase by 6.8 per cent a year from 2021 to 2027. Be ready for the average monthly bill to rise to $213 by 2028. It is a reminder, too, of how badly this government has mismanaged the electricity file - think of their subsidies for wind and solar energy we don’t need. Other governments of different political stripes have made a mess of it before. But the Wynne government has nothing to be proud of in how they’ve handled Ontario’s electricity system.

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People will keep fighting for ’$15 and Fairness’ Today, June 1, Queen’s Park shuts for the summer. It’s the last day before fall for the Liberal government to say they’re reforming Ontario’s labour laws, and raising minimum wage to $15. As of this writing, I don’t know what the government announced or hasn’t. I know people in the $15 and Fairness campaign made every day count. They’ve already done more than politicians thought they could. So many of us are stuck in precarious and parttime jobs. For two years, campaigners seemed to be everywhere, on streetcars and street corners, reaching people who fit that description. They’ve demanded $15

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto an hour, paid sick days, and an end to exploitation by temp agencies. They practically remade Ontario’s labour movement. They were poised a week ago to get serious labour reform, not because government suddenly saw the light, as the Workers’ Action Centre’s Deena Ladd says, but because people fought for it. One was Mohammad

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Sarkar, a community action leader for Access Alliance - that’s one of his three part-time jobs - in Scarborough’s Oakridge and East York’s Crescent Town. He’s met fellow immigrants who wait in vain to get called to work, or are sent home after an hour or two, or get $6 or $7 an hour at a grocery or convenience store. They need rent money, but without paid sick days, Sarkar says, many go to work sick, or pay a further price in back pain, or repetitive strain injuries. Malka Paracha, a food service supervisor at York University, "was an anti-union person" a while ago. But then a union, along with students and faculty, helped York’s servers stand up

and win $15 an hour and full benefits. "It is 200 per cent possible. We did it," says Paracha. The Changing Workplaces Review recommendations are a mixed bag. Campaigners knew Ontario’s Chamber of Commerce would call their reforms a job killer, but they kept pushing the government for the full package. If it wasn’t introduced by June 1, perhaps it would come this fall. If MPPs expect this to stop, they’re wrong. "If they don’t listen," Ladd says, "they will hear it at the ballot box." Reach Edges columnist Mike Adler at madler@insidetoronto.com

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Conservation Authority, and the citizen-led Rain Gardens of Danforth East Village - East York, which in 2015 received funding through a Toronto Foundation Vital Innovation Award. This initiative, which was the winner of Evergreen City Works’ 100 in 1 Day, is part of the David Suzuki Foundation’s Homegrown National Park Project in Toronto. Rain Gardens United now represents 25 rain gardens in the city’s east end. Rain gardens are landscaped shallow depressions with loose, deep soil that naturally filter stormwater and prevent it from entering local waterways. Designed to be low-maintenance, gardens are planted with hardy native plants that attract pollinators. Yamaguchi, a father of two who has lived near Coxwell and Mortimer avenues since 2010, first

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learned about the benefits of rain gardens and other low-impact green solutions for diverting water from the sewer system when he attended a 2015 tour by Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. "It made sense to me," said Yamaguchi. "They green up the community, add value and extra curb appeal, and you feel like you’re giving back, contributing." He installed a rain garden that same year and started crowdfunding to install more rain gardens in his community. Yamaguchi then received $10,000 grant from the Toronto Foundation and was able to help establish 10 rain gardens in east Toronto. Buck, who had received a $25,000 grant in 2010 and helped build 13 rain gardens in the Riverdale area, heard about Yamaguchi’s efforts and was happy to lend her expertise and support.

"Karen visited my neighbourhood and saw many opportunities to install rain gardens," said Yamaguchi, who is also working to set up a green corridor in east Toronto to help enhance pollinator habitat. It would run from Tommy Thompson Park to Taylor Creek Park. A similar corridor already exists in the city’s west end.

Those interested in learning more about the benefits of rain gardens are invited to attend the East End Rain Garden Crawl in Danforth East Village on Saturday, June 3. The 10-garden tour, which will include three miniworkshops, will get underway at 9 a.m. outside Michael Garron Hospital, 825 Coxwell Ave. and conclude at 11 a.m. at Kimbourne Park United Church, 200 Wolverleigh Blvd., where the 100 in 1 Day Permaculture Community Garden event is happening. Crawl admission is pay-what-youcan (suggested donation of $5). Visit bit.ly/eastendraingarden

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JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com With a monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of performances and exhibits already in the books, the East York/east end Cultural Hotspot is set to kick things up a notch with an official launch ceremony in midJune. The hotspot shines a light on artistic talent outside Torontoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown core, which has long been seen as the centre of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arts world. With local acts and venues taking centre stage all summer long, all eyes will be on the East York Civic Centre for the launch event. "We had a soft launch and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had activities underway as of the start of May, but this is our big launch," said East York/east end Cultural Hotspot spokesperson

Nadira Pattison. This is the fourth Cultural Hotspot event hosted in Toronto, with south Scarborough serving as host in 2014, Etobicoke in 2015 and North York in 2016. Each year has served to boost the profile of arts and culture groups in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suburbs, and while the launches usually take place earlier in the year, Pattison noted that it was pushed back in 2017 to take advantage of scenic East York. "We usually have the launches earlier in May, but we really wanted to do it outside," she said. Acts on tap include Bollywood dance, Latin American music and an east-end barbershop quartet, but those in attendance will be able to enjoy much more than just live entertainment.

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