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Move cement plant now, say residents Councillors continue to look for solution CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com Frustrations over the “revolting” conditions on Judson Street boiled over during a nearly three-hour marathon meeting of Etobicoke York Community Council (EYCC) Tuesday night, as residents renewed their calls to action against a local concrete batching plant wreaking havoc in their neighbourhood. “We are here tonight because

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of the will of local residents who cannot tolerate the sinful travesty on Judson Street any longer. We have had it,” said Sam Piscione, a 56-year resident of Judson Street. “We are begging you, city councillors and staff, to please act on our collective behalf to end this illegal, toxic activity that has taken over our community.” Piscione was just one of about 50 local residents who came out to >>>plant, page 14

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TAKE FLIGHT: Carlie Primomo, in Grade 5 at Father Serra Catholic School, flies through the air in the girls’ long jump competition, during the Toronto Catholic District School Board regional track and field finals at Centennial Park on Tuesday. Photos, page 44.

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Etobicoke Centre Liberal MPP Donna Cansfield is bidding adieu to Queen’s Park after three consecutive terms as both a backbencher and minister of energy, transportation and natural resources. But not before blowing the whistle on her own government on the staggeringly high rates of antipsychotic drug use among residents with Alzheimer’s and other dementias in Ontario’s long-term care homes and waiting more than

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a year for action on the issue. After quietly working back channels at Queen’s Park for months last year, Cansfield obtained Ministry of Health statistics that showed antipsychotic use rates at 631 Ontario nursing homes in the first half of 2013 averaged 33 per cent. Rates have since fallen at many homes. “The first set of figures blew my mind. If someone was over 85 and in long-term care, they were on antipsychotics. I asked myself, ‘why?’” >>>I couldn’t, page 12

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