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Ontario Historical Society communications and outreach coordinator Daniel Dishaw takes a moment on the back deck at John Mackenzie House. The society is participating in the National Trust’s ’This Place Matters’ crowd-funding competition, in an effort to raise money for accessibility updates to its headquarters building.

John Mackenzie House vies for National Trust prize CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com John Mackenzie House has been shortlisted as one of 25 historic places across Canada vying for National Trust funding.

The circa 1913 North York landmark, which acts as the headquarters for the Ontario

Historical Society (OHS), is the lone Toronto project among the finalists for the 2017 This Place Matters competition.

OHS spokesperson Daniel Dishaw said that if John Mackenzie House wins the $15,000 prize, the OHS will use those funds to increase the three-storey Edwardian home’s accessibility.

"Our goal now is to make the house a more accessible and versatile space for community use and programming," Dishaw said, noting the OHS has already spent more than $1 million to restore the building since saving it from the wrecking ball in 1992 - including two recent projects to build a new slate roof and to repair the

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Ontario funds one cycle of IVF per patient which clinics disperse through lottery, wait-lists DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com Toronto actor Daren Herbert recently had his youngest audience member watch him perform on stage - his daughter.

But his newest fan (who slept through the performance) arrived after a long and tiring journey for Daren and his wife Joanne. Ori, born on May 4, came into this world thanks to modern medicine, following in vitro fertilization (IVF).

The Regent Park couple has been married for 10 years, the first few of which they hadn’t worried about having children, thinking it would happen when it happened. But as the years went by, they became concerned.

By 2013, they became serious about wanting children and found out there was an infertility factor for both of them.

In 2015, they did their first round of IVF, which, at the time with medications and testing, cost approximately $20,000. The procedure did not result in a pregnancy.

Less than a year later, they tried again. By the time of their second attempt, Ontario started funding IVF. With a cap on spending, not all couples get the funded procedure clinics are given an allotment which they disburse through such means as a lottery system or wait-list.

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Joanne and Daren Herbert hold their baby Ori inside their Toronto condo. Joanne went through in vitro fertilization (IVF) a modern medicine which is helping people become parents who otherwise would not be able to. ahead with the procedure whether they had to pay for it or not, and about a week before they were due to pay, they found out their IVF cycle would be covered.

"We honestly didn’t know where the money was going to come from," Joanne said.

"But, our bigger challenge was to get pregnant, not to worry about the money. We said to ourselves that when we’re 80, we’re not going to look back and say, ’thank goodness we saved that $20,000’."

The second time around was successful and Joanne gave birth at age 40.

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"She’s pretty chill. She just communicates when she needs something, like when she wants a diaper change. When you don’t change it, she’ll lose her mind a little bit. But, if you pay attention to her, she’s pretty clear."

The province pays for one cycle of IVF per patient, which normally costs around $10,000. Medications cost between $3,000 and $5,000 and optional genetic testing costs about $5,000. These latter costs are not funded by the province.

"The government should be complemented on funding this and recog-

nizing the importance of funding fertility treatments," Ottawa-based fertility specialist Dr. Art Leader said. Leader is a board member of Conceivable Dreams, a group advocating for IVF funding.

"It’s the right thing to do because it’s helping people build families. Families are the core of our society. And if you want to be selfish about it, somebody’s got to be earning money and paying taxes so that you and I can retire."

Infertility affects about one in six reproductive-age couples in Ontario.

It’s also on the rise, said Leader.

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There are also real reasons for an increase in infertility. The biggest is that people are waiting longer in life to have children.

"People are going to school longer, not everybody can get a full-time job, so they’re waiting until there’s financial stability, so people are waiting longer. Unfortunately, fertility declines after 32," he said.

Another, but lesser, reason for increasing infertility rates is the environment. This includes everything from pollution in the air, toxins in our produce,

metabolic steroids used in the animals we eat and more.

But science is improving too, Leader said.

The first person born following IVF was in the U.K. in 1978. In the ’80s, IVF success rates were about 5 per cent. Today, it’s 45 per cent. Success rates for women under age 35 are actually greater than 50 per cent, he said.

While IVF success rates are rising, Conceivable Dreams board member and Toronto lawyer Sandra Alsaffawi is encouraging women to talk about their fertility. In school, girls are taught how not to get pregnant; they don’t get taught they’re only fertile three to five days a month or that there is an expiration on their fertility.

She wants women to avoid having to go through the IVF process like she did unsuccessfully.

"Nobody chooses IVF," she said. "It’s not fun, it’s invasive, it’s painful."

Women are required to visit their clinic daily for testing, take daily medications and give themselves a shot in the stomach that hops up their hormone. It’s a long process, and it’s expensive, even if the government pays for the procedure.

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Modern medicine, IVF funding brings babies into the world

What is in vitro fertilization?

• Manually fertilizing eggs with sperm in a lab, then transferring the embryo into the uterus.

Who is eligible for governmentfunded fertility treatments?

• You must live in Ontario and have a valid Ontario health card.

Sex, gender, sexual orientation or family status are not considerations in fertility treatment eligibility.

• For IVF eligibility, the patient must be under 43. Only one IVF cycle per patient is funded.

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The Ontario Historical Society’s John Mackenzie House is participating in the National Trust’s ’This Place Matters’ crowd-funding competition, in an effort to raise money for accessibility updates to the building.

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flooring in the kitchen, redoing the wheelchair ramp and a number of projects like that."

As a finalist in the competition, John Mackenzie House is now vying against 24 other historic sites from coast to coast for the chance to win and raise much-needed funding, courtesy of the National Trust for Canada - a national charity whose aim is to save historic places and promote the wise use of this country’s historic environment.

Natalie Bull, executive director of the National Trust, called the timing of this year’s competition on the 150th anniversary of Canada’s Confederation "a great milestone to recognize the role historic places play in telling our national

story and creating meaningful spaces to live, work and play."

"We are thrilled to see so many communities supporting projects in This Place Matters, because we know that saving and renewing historic places improves quality of life, and will help build sustainable and resilient communities for the next 150 years," Bull said in a statement, noting that, in total, the social media-driven competition will distribute $220,000 to worthy projects nationwide.

For its part, John Mackenzie House stands as a rare example of heritage preservation in Willowdale - an area that has undergone a 40-year period of near-constant redevelopment.

"Especially over the last 15 years, the area has changed dramatically;

buildings have been demolished, and condos and shopping malls have been put up in place of a lot of the more storied or historic buildings that once defined this neighbourhood," Dishaw said, noting that John Mackenzie House is protected from that wave of redevelopment by a 2013 provincial heritage easement.

"So, while much of the rest of the character of North York is under constant threat of redevelopment and demolition, John Mackenzie House is a building that’s going to stand here for a long time, as a connection to the roots and the history of this area."

Residents can vote for and/or donate to the John Mackenzie House accessibility project until July 17 at www.thisplacematters.ca.

had been attempting to purchase.

In fact, Sutherland was working for neither of those bodies, but was consulting on behalf of the Emery Village Business Improvement Area.

As well, wording in the article implied that Sutherland had done work for a sign consultant on the ap-

proval of a sign that was on the Arrow Road property and was the subject of real estate negotiations between the TPA and the vendor.

In fact, Sutherland had worked for the sign consultant, but on separate projects from that specific sign.

The Mirror regrets the errors.

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Downtown baby boom calls for civic attention Ah, to be young, living in a vibrant and accessible city - and, of course, in love.

It is a dream that is coming true for a growing number of young people who’ve chosen to start their lives in the condominium canyons of downtown Toronto. After sequestering themselves in a smallish apartment, small enough to encourage them to step out and enjoy the bars and restaurants and activities of downtown Toronto, it is inevitable that some of them will meet and fall for each other.

It is only a step or two from there to where we are now: a downtown crowded with a new cohort that is even younger.

Babies.

Social Planning Toronto, an advocacy group looking at urban form and social justice issues, has released a report looking at the age and sex data from the latest census across all of Toronto’s neighbourhoods.

And while the numbers of youngsters are constant across the city compared to previous censuses, there is a noticeable baby bump in the downtown. Over the past decade, the number of children younger than five has increased dramatically: some parts of the downtown by threefold, others by 70 to 90 per cent. If nature continues to take its course, there will be more now and even more in the future.

This presents a challenge that city planners have been expecting for years but have still been struggling to meet: the need to transform Toronto’s downtown from its old role as a commercial and cultural centre into a collection of intensified residential neighbourhoods where space is at a premium.

As it sits now, downtown Toronto is not especially family-friendly. Park and open space are very limited.

There will need to be more classroom space as those toddlers move through the preschool stage to school age.

The core will need more community centres, and a lot more licensed child care that’s affordable and close by.

And developers raising condominium towers and rental units will have to make larger units a more common feature in their projects. It’s tough enough to squeeze two people into 600 square feet, after all - never mind a growing family.

There are worse problems to have, of course. A whole clutch of growing families in a dense neighbourhood has been a dream of progressive urban planners for more than half a century, and that is exactly what we have downtown.

Now, all we’ve got to do is make it work.

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Byelections should always trump appointments Picking the councillor for Ward 44 in Scarborough was a long and occasionally entertaining process.

Council had decided to appoint a councillor to fill the east-end Scarborough seat following Coun. Ron Moeser’s death in April, and as always in these cases, aspiring city councillors came out of the woodwork. A total of 48 of them put in applications, and most of those also came to a special council meeting last week to make their case.

They needn’t have bothered. Councillors had already made up their minds on one of two obvious choices: a former city councillor with a reputation for fair-mindedness and a former city bureau-

DAVID NICKLE The City crat with a reputation for fair-mindedness, both of whom had a good handle on the issues in Scarborough Southwest.

All 46 others may as well have stayed home or simply withdrawn their applications, rather than give the stump-speech deputations that they did, in front of a city council listening as politely as it could.

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Of course, it wouldn’t have done to tell anyone that, because doing so would only highlight how undemocratic it is for a city council to pick its own membership.

This doesn’t happen at other levels of government. When a vacancy occurs federally or provincially, there’s a byelection - period.

Picking their representative is a part of a citizen’s democratic franchise.

As matters transpired in Ward 44, the electors there at least had their franchise respected. Jim Hart, the former bureaucrat, worked with the late Coun. Moeser for a year and will almost certainly fit well with the will of voters in 2014.

But, that is not neces-

sarily always going to be the case. When the late Jack Layton left his Ward 30 seat to lead the federal New Democratic Party, there was a move afoot by conservative-minded councillors to install a right-wing appointee as caretaker until the next election. They didn’t prevail, but the only thing that prevented them was a hard push from council’s left and centre.

The only thing that will prevent that in the future is byelections - all the time, no matter what.

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5 places to still celebrate Canada 150 Toronto residents have plenty of opportunities to still celebrate the nation’s sesquicentennial

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BIRTH OF HOCKEY NATION AT THE HALL Celebrate Canada’s 150th Anniversary and the birth of "Hockey Nation" at the Hockey Hall of Fame until Sept. 4. Enjoy access to the boards that were part of the iconic Kandahar Airfield ball hockey rink during Canadian engagement.

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BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR ON STAGE Soulpepper celebrates Canada 150 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts with the story of irreverent hero and Canadian First World War flying ace Billy Bishop, which remains one of the most critically-acclaimed Canadian plays of all time.

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CANADA 150 FESTIVAL AT BRIDLEWOOD MALL Celebrating 150 years of Canada, Bridlewood Mall provides entertainment, food trucks, arts and crafts, inflatables, activities and the MomenTO Canadian Artifact pop-up museum July 14, from 1 to 9 p.m. Best of all, it’s free.

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2167: INDIGENOUS LIFE IN 150 YEARS Indigenous filmmakers and artists imagine Indigenous life 150 years in the future in new VR projects. Five Indigenous filmmakers and artists were commissioned for the project. The free event happens every Saturday until Aug. 13.

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REBELLION AND CONFEDERATION AT GIBSON HOUSE Gibson House Museum hosts the Canadian Museum of History’s travelling exhibit: 1867 - Rebellion and Confederation. Explore the three decades leading up to Confederation and the struggles for responsible government.

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Concert under the stars WHEN: 7:00 p.m - 8:00 p.m WHERE: Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre in Earl Bales Park, 4169 Bathurst St, Toronto CONTACT: 416-802-6819 COST: The North York Concert Band presents a band concert featuring a variety of musical genres, familiar marches, show and movie tunes, and swing and popular tunes, including soloists l Thursday, July 13 True North Science with Mad Science!

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Concert under the stars WHEN: 7:30 p.m - 9:00 p.m WHERE: Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge Street, Toronto CONTACT: Bill, 416-802-6819 COST: The North York Concert Band presents a band concert featuring a variety of musical genres, including familiar marches, show and movie tunes, and swing and popular tunes, including soloists from within the band

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l Friday, July 14 Wildlife Rescue Exhibition WHEN: 10:00 a.m - 8:00 p.m WHERE: Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills Road , Toronto CONTACT: 416-696-1000 www.ontariosciencecentre.ca COST: $13 - $22 Discover compelling stories of animal rescue and restoration, and the science behind these efforts.

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Controversial Columbus Centre project heads to OMB FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com A controversial $70 million project to house the Columbus Centre and Dante Alighieri Academy under one roof has been appealed to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB).

The appeal by Villa Charities, operator of the Columbus Centre, was made after North York Community Council (NYCC) failed to make a decision on the application within the time frame specified in the Planning Act. City staff was directed at last month’s NYCC meeting to oppose the application when it goes before the OMB. A hearing date has not been set.

Eglinton-Lawrence Coun. Josh Colle, who represents the area, said a lack of community consultation regarding the joint project at Dufferin Street and Lawrence Avenue, along with disruption to Columbus Centre members during de-

molition, leaves him no choice but to oppose the application.

"It’s a complicated process," he said.

The Columbus Centre is also under review from the city for inclusion as a heritage site, adding to the complexity.

Plans for the 400,000 square foot building include a three-storey glass façade along Lawrence Avenue where the Columbus Centre is currently located.

The Columbus Centre and Dante Alighieri will each have their own entrances leading to both separate and shared spaces, and will operate independently of one another.

Columbus Centre members were initially disappointed a swimming pool and walking track were not included in plans, but both have since been added as shared facilities with the school.

Demolition of the Columbus Centre is expected to start in summer 2018 and

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A rendering shows the Lawrence Avenue perspective of the redevelopment of the Columbus Centre and Dante Alighieri Academy into a mixed-use centre. take two years, said Anthony DiCaita, president and CEO of Villa Charities, adding a search is underway to find interim facilities within a 10 minute drive of the current site.

Once the new building is built, the current nearby Dante Alighieri Academy, located at 60 Playfair Ave.,

will be refurbished by the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) for use as an elementary and middle school, plus daycare.

The new building is expected to be open for the start of the September 2020 school year.

The cost of the project

will be roughly evenly split between the TCDSB and Villa Charities, which owns the land, DiCaita said, adding the school board will purchase a piece of the property and lease it back to Villa Charities for 99 years.

DiCaita said a community consultation meeting was held in May to address

concerns, which drew several hundred people.

"Consultation is very important to us and we’re trying to do as much as we can," he said, adding an advisory panel made up of stakeholders, school board and Columbus Centre members is in the works.

And though plans have been submitted to the OMB, DiCaita said he prefers to continue discussions with the city. "(Appealing) wasn’t meant to circumvent anything," he said. "We are trying to be as transparent as we can."

DiCaita is taking a "wait and see" approach to a possible heritage designation, noting plans would be adjusted to meet Villa Charities’ objectives.

Area trustee Maria Rizzo was taken aback the project wasn’t well received by Columbus Centre members.

"We thought it was remarkable putting seniors and young people together."

Ontario Science Centre weaves Canada 150 coverlet

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Coverlet made on 19th-century Jacquard loom The Ontario Science Centre is creating a special coverlet on its 19thcentury Jacquard loom one that hasn’t been made in 150 years - in honour of Canada’s 150 anniversary.

Hans Baer, a volunteer weaver at the Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue science centre, decided to tackle the single rose pattern. A coverlet is a lightweight, non-reversible bedspread that is usually either quilted or woven.

"It makes me a bit proud," he said in a release. "This blanket was last woven in the 1800s and now in 2017 we weave it again because of all this work."

Baer, along with fellow weaver Elizabeth Evans and Shauna Cook, the science centre’s volunteer

co-ordinator, got special access to see the Royal Ontario Museum’s John Campbell coverlet collection. Campbell used to own the Ontario Science Centre’s Jacquard loom back in the 1800s.

He left detailed accounts of what he made and sold.

From these books and the punch cards that came with the loom, four main patterns were woven.

The science centre has two of them: the stars and roses, and the garland.

However, the ROM has examples of the two other coverlet patterns: the tulip and the single rose.

"I thought how wonderful it would be if we could figure out how to make these patterns again," Baer said.

After studying hundreds of detailed photos of the ROM’s single rose pattern coverlet, Baer then determined where each point went.

"The amount of work

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Right, Hans Baer works on a Canada 150 coverlet with the jacquard loom at the Ontario Science Centre, while the text "Canada 150", left, was inserted into the special coverlet to honour Canada’s Sesquicentennial. that went into making this happen is remarkable," Evans said in a release. "(Baer) plotted by hand, dot by dot, each row on to a graph paper."

Then the hard work of punching nearly 150 holes

in 192 cards began.

Jacquard looms use perforated cards laced together to control the movements of the machine.

The presence or absence of the holes on those

punch cards essentially tells the loom to change its position.

That’s how binary coding works, arguably making the Jacquard loom the father of modern day computer programming.

"I love this stuff," Baer said. "It’s information technology at work."

Nearly 29,000 holes later, the first phase is complete. With the cards laced up and ready to go, the actual weaving has begun.

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Cultura returning to Mel Lastman Square Free arts-based programing includes movies, musicians, buskers Cultura, a weekly summer festival celebrating music, food, performance, art, and film, is returning Friday nights in July to Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge St. The evenings start at 6 p.m. with music, dance, buskers, and hands-on activities for all ages. Open from 6 to 10 p.m., the Cultura Food Village features vendors from all walks of life and diverse culinary backgrounds. The main stage entertainment features music at 8 p.m., a busker at 9 p.m., and a movie at 9:30 p.m. The main stage lineup (band/busker/movie) is as follows: . July 7: Coreyah; The Fire Guy; Hidden Figures; . July 14: New Canadian Global Music Orchestra; Duke Dreamer; Arrival;

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Montreal Folk band Canailles performs during Cultura Festival events Friday evening at Mel Lastman Square. The festival provides members of the community an opportunity to experience new cultures through food, music, the visual arts and activities. . July 21: Okavango African Orchestra; The Funny Waiter; La La Land; . July 28: Donnell Leahy; Aygul featuring Bex in Motion; and Moana.

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Summer Breeze concert St. George on Yonge Anglican Church will host performance Korean Canadian Chamber Concerts will open its second season with the concert Summer Breeze.

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Far left, Denboer Farms’ Rob Cote keeps a close watch on the farm’s stall at the Ontario Food Terminal farmers’ market. The Otterville, Ont.-based farm owned by the Den Boer family grows 13 different crops and multiple varieties of each including five types of radishes. It caters to higher-end supermarkets.

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AARON D’ANDREA adandrea@metroland.com Non-profits in Ontario that support newcomers and multicultural communities will have an opportunity to provide more support through a new grant program.

The provincial government announced Tuesday, June 27, that applications are open for its Multicultural Community Capacity Grant Program.

"This diversity makes us stronger and more successful as a province," said Laura Albanese, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and MPP for York South-Weston. "However,

we must also recognize that many of our diverse communities continue to face barriers to inclusion that must be overcome to ensure everyone has the opportunity to fully participate in all aspects of life in Ontario."

The program will support projects that address civic engagement, social connections, education and empowerment, women’s empowerment, and capacity building and partnerships.

Eligible non-profits could receive a grant between $1,000 and $8,000.

Stachen Frederick, executive director at Frontlines Toronto, said she wel-

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"This is about community projects, but it doesn’t talk to some of the pieces of some of the actual support that is needed for individuals," she said. "So lack of housing, food . employment . the government needs to help with some of the employment services in these communities to get families connected and really integrated."

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