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Police release FUTURE FIREFIGHTER photos of five males sought in double shooting TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com Toronto police are asking for the public’s help identifying five “persons of interest” in their homicide investigation of a double shooting in north Etobicoke Monday that left two male students – one from a North York school – dead. Police released photos of the five males yesterday afternoon. Zaid Youssef, 17, a Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School student, and Michael Menjivar, 15, a James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic High School student, were killed midday Monday in a shooting in front of the School of Experiential Education, police said yesterday. Police responded at 1:35 p.m. >>>NORTH, page 20

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Emmett Li, 4, checks out the pumper hoses at Toronto Fire Station 121 on William Carson Crescent during a Fire Prevention Week Open House held Monday evening. Turn to page 22 for more photos from the open house, as well as the Pucks for Peace event held at Temple Sinai. And for more community photos, check out our website at www.northyorkmirror.com

Debate in ‘condo capital’ focuses on development impacts LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com In the heart of Canada’s condo capital along Yonge Street north of Hwy. 401, an all-candidates’ debate in Ward 23 Willowdale Tuesday night focused on

what many see as unbridled development and its impact on transportation and quality of life issues. The debate Oct. 7 in the North York Civic Centre council chambers featured incumbent Councillor John Filion, his

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which says it represents thousands of residents living in “the condo capital of Canada.” Before opening the meeting up to the audience of about 100 to pose questions, the association asked the candidates about, for example, their

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ow do you treat an illness when you don’t even know exactly what it is? That question has been Fran Davide’s reality for more than seven years. Speaking in the living room of her North York home where she and her family have lived since 2000, Fran admits to being tired. “You don’t know what sleeping is anymore,” she says, referring to a period that has now reached “seven years of pure pressure and stress.” Fran’s oldest daughter, Chiara, is 22. Today, Chiara cannot walk, stand, feed or dress herself. She lives at home and requires roundthe-clock care. Seizures in the middle of the night are commonplace. Fran proudly shows a picture taken at Chiara’s Grade 8 graduation – about 15 months before things changed. “She was the most loving, sensitive person,” Fran says, describing a young girl who was a gentle soul, one to whom all the animals would gravitate toward on nature walks. w OCTOBER 2007 Since the fall of 2007, it’s been a turbulent journey for the family, one that has seen its members – Fran, her husband Romano Cassuoli and Chiara’s younger sister Sara – plunged into a world of doctors’ appointments, tests, CT scans, referrals, spinal taps, MRIs and alternative therapies. There have been visits to Italy, Germany and several

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American states. But a definitive diagnosis remains elusive. It’s been nearly seven years since Fran got a call from a teacher at Chiara’s high school telling her that her daughter, then 15 and in Grade 10, wasn’t doing her homework. The news was strange to Fran, especially since Chiara had voluntarily taken a math course that July to better prepare for the school year. But sitting down with her daughter that weekend, Fran knew something was wrong with her bright, athletic girl: there was a noticeable change in her writing style. Chiara’s cognitive decline would be rapid and steep. By the end of October of that year, Fran had pulled

w RESOURCES STRAPPED With no definitive diagnosis, the resources of organizations equipped to help people deal with effects of certain conditions just aren’t available. “She’s in a nowhere territory, nowhere land, no diagnosis and no support – outside the regular support that is out there (for palliative care),” Fran says. Today, the family copes with Chiara’s day-to-day care as best they can. They do have a support worker who visits for 20 hours a week spread out over weekdays. But funds are an ongoing challenge, especially for equipment. A stander, a device that provides different positioning than what’s offered by a standard wheelchair, would

Chiara out of school (she’s never been back). A physical decline would follow. Chiara has now been immobile and non-verbal for five years. The intervening years have been a challenge to get a diagnosis and treatment. Lyme disease was suspected (a blood test from a lab in the U.S. in June 2008 did result in a ‘strong positive’ for Lyme) but Chiara has never been diagnosed with it in Canada. The roller-coaster of emotions on the family has been wearing. It’s all hard for Fran to re-visit. “Now I question everything,” Fran simply says today. “I’m not sure about what this whole Lyme thing is. We’re all so different.” “It’s just one big grey area.”

enable Chiara’s body to function better by providing the necessary gravity. The family had been able to borrow one for a time but had to return it once attempts to get a permanent one funded were unsuccessful, Fran says. A more supportive wheelchair would also help. To add to it all, Fran knows she has a job search looming in order to help with her income. She was forced to sell her business earlier this year in order to concentrate more on Chiara’s care and be closer to her daughter. “I try to focus on my day and moving forward,” she says. “When something tragic happens to you, you become a spectator in life.”

to help? Here’s how: wLooking Fran Davide has launched an online appeal for help using the crowdfunding platform, FuelLocal.com Funds raised from the campaign would go toward the purchase of a stander and a wheelchair to help with her daughter’s care. FuelLocal.com is being provided to local communities by Metroland Media, the publisher of The North York Mirror. Visit http://fnd. us/c/5sCLb to donate. There, you can also read Fran’s appeal, see pictures as well as a video made by Chiara’s sister Sara, who has had work recently featured in the Toronto Urban Film Festival.

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amous arena architect: “Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the future. Underneath this velvet sheet is a model of our long-awaited, stateof-the-art hockey arena. So without further ado, I’ve asked my son Kyle to do the honours.” Not so famous son: “But Dad ...” Architect: “Not now, Junior. Just lift the cover, please. Folks, may I direct your gaze to our 750 splitlevel corporate luxury boxes, each complete with spiral staircase and elevator.” Social media: “Oooooh.” Architect: “And that’s only the beginning. You see, every suite is designed by a different worldrenowned interior decorator, and comes with room service, maid service, secret service and private helicopter landing pad.” Social media: “Ahhhhh.” Architect: “Not only that, but each corporate

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‘Unbridled’ development in Willowdale discussed at forum >>>from page 1 North York’s downtown core with condo towers. One woman appeared to get to the root of residents’ concerns about years of condo development along Yonge. “Mr. Filion, are we done now, with the building and construction, are we finished?” she asked the veteran councillor. Filion, who pointed out he has consistently opposed condo development, said he can’t make false promises. “I wish I could say yes. If I could wave this pen and make it so, it would be so. Unfortunately, we have some really bad developments that are in the queue,” he said, pointing to a 39-storey condo development proposed at the Sheppard Centre that will likely end up at the Ontario Municipal Board. Filion said he is talking to city planning staff about the legality of freezing more condos while encouraging commercial development at key intersections. Not surprisingly, relieving traffic congestion was a key issue at the debate. Filion said the most obvious thing needed to solve gridlock in the area is to fix the Yonge and Hwy. 401 interchange, something he convinced council to secure funding for in the city budget and which will happen when an environmental assessment is completed and the province provides its share of the funding. Saying society has to

become less reliant on motor vehicles, Filion said he is supporting mayoral candidate John Tory and his SmartTrack surface rail plan. Kedzior said she supports the construction of more subways and wants express b u s e s, w h i c h often run almost empty, converted to regular buses that can pick up more passengers. While Mousavi said addressing the Yonge/401 interchange needs to be done, he said extending the subway along Sheppard Avenue west to Downsview station would do much more to relieve traffic congestion. Park called his plan the “BMW” method. Unlike the luxury car brand, his plan would focus on “bikes,” “metro” or transit improvements including the introduction of double-decker and mini buses, and “walking.” Finding ways to make downtown North York attractive to businesses was also a hot topic. Filion has been working to establish a Business Improvement Area (BIA) for downtown North York, something he hopes will be up and running by next year. The downtown can also be made more attractive through initiatives such as redoing the sidewalks and focusing on the arts, as he has done, as a way of drawing people to the area. Mousavi proposes to create

an “incubator,” an organization geared to speeding up the growth of start-up companies. The initiative would capitalize on the community’s prime transportation links such as Hwy. 401 and educational institutions such as York University and Seneca College, he said. Park argued that if areas such as Yonge and Dundas, Yonge and Bloor and Yonge and Eglinton can attract business, there’s no reason why the same can’t be done at Yonge and Sheppard. Meanwhile, Kedzior repeatedly accused Filion of failing to deliver on community concerns, such as stopping over-development and solving traffic congestion, during his years in office. Ward 23 needs to attract more small businesses, address a lack of parking downtown, build more recreational facilities, maintain its “cottage look” and attract a large shopping mall to the area, she added. Mousavi and Filion competed for the best line of the night. “I’m a lawyer, so I apologize for that,” Mousavi said when a member of the audience asked candidates to list their qualifications. Filion said he has been a homeowner in Willowdale since 1978, not since 1878 as his campaign literature says.

Senator O’Connor Estate a finalist for Toronto Heritage Award North York’s O’Connor Estate buildings are in the running for a Heritage Toronto Award. They are finalists in the William Greer Architectural Conservation and Craftsmanship category. The estate is made up of the O’Connor House, the coach house and a maintenance building, which are arranged around a landscaped courtyard at the main entrance to the new Senator O’Connor College School at 60 Rowena Dr., southwest of Parkwoods

Village Drive and Victoria Park Avenue. The estate, known as Maryvale Farm, was constructed in 1933. O’Connor House, which suffered damage in a devastating fire on May 9, 2012, was built as the home of philanthropist Senator Frank O’Connor, a politician and founder of the Laura Secord candy stores. He died in 1939, leaving his 900-acre farm to the Christian Brothers. In 1963, J.J. Lynch High

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Experience Wilket Creek WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence Ave. E. CONTACT: Jenny Rhodenizer, 416-397-1341, communication@torontobotanicalgarden.ca COST: Public $20; TBG and TFN members $15 A 6.5-km interpretive walk, led by Don Watershed Regeneration Council chair and Toronto Field Naturalists volunteer Peter Heinz, starts in the manicured gardens of TBG, meanders through a narrow ever-changing ravine, climbs the steep shore of an ancient lake and descends into the wide valley of the West Don River. Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www. northyorkmirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your North York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto. CONTACT: Roby Sadler, 416-3853910, info@oraynu.org COST: Nonmembers welcome for $20 Kabbalalalat Shabbat WHEN: 7:30 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto, 210 Wilson Ave. CONTACT: 416-487-3281, www.templesinai. net, programs@templesinai.net COST: Free

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Miniature Enthusiasts of Toronto Show and Sale WHEN: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19 WHERE: Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond Ct. CONTACT: Judy, 416-225-4880, www.metminis. ca, judith.anne.carlson@gmail.com COST: $8 (free for children under 12)

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f Sadie Arbuckle were alive, she would relish the attention her letters to a young soldier a century ago have garnered. The letters were stored inside a box in the attic of Arbuckle’s former Southwood Drive home in the Beach. When she died in 1978 at age 85, her daughter-in-law, Mary Loucks, came across the box – the “Harry Box” – which was full of letters the two wrote to each other while Arbuckle lived in Toronto and Lt. Harry Mason was stationed on the front lines during the First World War. Loucks gave the letters to her brother, who worked for Toronto Archives, and didn’t think much of them until she read a newspaper story in February about the letters after the Archives of Ontario published them. “I just about fainted,” Loucks said Friday at the opening of the Dear Sadie - Love, Lives and Remembrance from Ontario’s First World War exhibit at the Archives of Ontario at York University, held in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the First World War. “After the story was published, this really took off. Sadie would have loved it.” The letters shine light on the side of war not often talked about: the toll it can take not only on loved ones left at home, but on the soldiers serving their country. “Sadie’s story is not unique, unfortunately,” Loucks said. “I found the letters very sad because I knew the ending. We were told of Harry by Sadie and how he had been killed. She didn’t go into a lot of detail (about their relationship). We never met Harry’s side, that’s the one disappoint-

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Lt. Gov. of Ontario Elizabeth Dowdeswell gets a tour of the Archives of Ontario exhibit, Dear Sadie, at York University Friday.

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It’s hard to imagine what went through the mind back then, and this gives some insight. The exhibit reminds people of the sacrifice young people made.

ment of the whole thing.” Arbuckle and Mason knew of each other through a mutual friend and began a courtship via letter writing in 1913 before having met. Mason was killed in action in 1917. The letters begin just before Mason joined the war effort when he was living in Alberta. He was sent to Ontario for training, where he finally met Arbuckle face to face. Upon returning to training camp, Mason sent Arbuckle a dog named Lord Roberts II, or Bobs. His letters detailed his life as a soldier in training before the 80th Battalion received word of their deployment to England in February 1916. Though Mason tried to

I should never write to you of war I know, you already hear too much about it and am afraid you will worry dear – please do not...”

– Dave Loucks

shield Arbuckle from the harsher side of war and the toll it was taking on him, he could only do so much to conceal. In his final letter to his sweetheart, dated April 22, 1917, it was clear Mason was not the enthusiastic fresh soldier he once was: “[I]ts very strenuous Sweetheart and I’m tired... what’s the use Sadie of all this horrible slaughter, surely it has gone far enough now for the world to learn its futility... there are shell holes and craters (mine craters) filled with blood – it turns me sick – am afraid Sweetheart that this is getting on my nerves, the horror of it all is too continuous... This is a horrid letter Sweetheart

Mason was killed in action April 28, 1917, when his plane was shot down over Arras, France. After his death, Arbuckle corresponded with Mason’s family, but only the letters from the Mason family survived. And unfortunately, records do not show Arbuckle’s response to Mason’s death. She went on to marry dental surgeon Frederick “Doc” Loucks in 1925 and had a son, Donald, who later married Mary Loucks. “I didn’t know Harry, but I always heard of him,” said Arbuckle’s grandson, Dave Loucks, who was on hand for the exhibit’s official opening. “It’s hard to imagine what went through the mind back then, and this gives some insight. The

Mary Loucks, who was married to Sadie’s son Don, looks over an exhibit of the Ontario government marking 100th anniversary of the the First World War with a new Archives of Ontario exhibit, Dear Sadie, Friday at the Archives of Ontario George Spragge classroom at York University.

exhibit reminds people of the sacrifice young people made. Harry’s death hit (Arbuckle) very hard. She had never forgotten the true love she never had.” The exhibit’s opening was attended by Lt.-Gov. of Ontario Elizabeth Dowdeswell, who noted it doesn’t focus so much on military exploits as it does of personal relationships and views of the war. More than 650,000 Canadians served during the First World War, including nearly 243,000 Ontarians. Stewart Boden, exhibit curator, said when he read

the letters he knew they would be the heart of the exhibit. “It’s important to remember the war was being fought by people and each person had their own unique story,” he said. The exhibit is also made up of patient letters from Toronto surgeon Lawrence “Bruce” Robertson, a doctor at The Hospital for Sick Children who brought the new technique of blood transfusion to the war’s front lines, and diaries from Private John Mould from St. Catharines, as he struggled to make sense of the tragedy of war.

Archives of Ontario exhibits accounts of First World War at York University Dear Sadie - Love, Lives and Remembrance from Ontario’s First World War will run until January 2016 at 134 Ian MacDonald Blvd. Admission is free. For information, visit www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/ online/ww1/index.aspx

Lots to learn at North York libraries Looking for resources to help you build your small business? There are a number of events as part of Small Business Week (Oct. 19 to 25) at local libraries this month that may prove useful. w Commercial Leases At 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, there will be a workshop at North York Central by Connect Legal on commercial leases. Among the topics are: what to consider before signing, how to negotiate and sign the lease, subletting, terminating, tenant and landlord responsibilities as well as what to do when you have a dispute with the landlord. The workshop is free but registration is required. Visit connectlegal.eventbrite.ca w Era of Entrepreneurship On Oct. 21 at 6:30 p.m., entrepreneur Fred Dawkins hosts a session looking at “the rush towards entrepre-

paul futhey business in brief neurship.” He’ll also talk about what the underlying causes are that have put a “premium” on entrepreneurial thinking. The free workshop is at North York Central. Register at connectlegal.eventbrite. ca w Small Business Network On Oct. 22 at 6:30 p.m., learn about starting up and running a small business in Toronto at a Small Business Network event at North York Central Library. Listen to stories from entrepreneurs and share your own experiences. The event is free. Register by calling 416-395-5613. w Back to Business Basics Those just getting started in the entrepreneurial world may find an Oct. 22 session at Don Mills Library handy. Titled Back to Basics:

Starting a Small Business, the event, which begins at 6:30 p.m., will cover items such as legal structure, record keeping, business planning, research, financing and how to measure success. The event is presented by Sakanashi and Associates Inc. w Don’t forget... The annual Enterprise Toronto Small Business Forum at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre is on Thursday, Oct. 23. Whether you’re running a start-up or an established business, the forum provides an opportunity to gain insights on the latest market trends while connecting to resources that can help you start or grow your small business. Registration is free. Visit enterprisetoronto.com for more information.

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Top architecture firms compete in Sukkahville challenge JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com There is no question Toronto suffers from a serious lack of affordable housing. An international design competition is looking to draw light to the situation while also raising funds to help those in need. The Kehilla Residential P r o g r a m m e ’s a n n u a l Sukkahville competition will see top architecture firms from around the world showcase their own take on the Sukkah, a temporary dwell-

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the case,” Singer said. “There’s a premium cost to living Jewishly. Living in the Bathurst corridor is expensive, then there’s the cost of kosher food and there are other costs by being an active member of the community.” Sukkahville has traditionally taken place in North York, and the decision to bring the event down to Nathan Phillips Square is designed to raise awareness of Kehilla’s cause. The installation of 10 Sukkahs – eight of which

are finalists in the design competition – will certainly turn some heads in the busy downtown space. “People will see some really unique, amazing designs, and they’ve been designed by non-Jews,” Singer said. “As part of the competition, Habitat for Humanity will also be helping us out by raising a Sukkah, and we’ll have a People’s Choice Award that the public can vote on.” Members of the public will be able to enjoy a meal in the Sukkahs, with local food

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rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT Toronto’s hundred million dollar Queen’s Quay revitalization, dragged on. The work was also delayed because of last year’s major winter storm as well as unanticipated replacement of aged watermain infrastructure below the street. Both the 509 and 510 streetcars resume regular waterfront service Sunday. ROADS ACCESSIBLE TO ALL wMAKING

City staff from various departments met this week to developing guidelines for future Complete Streets policies. About 450 people from various city departments, including Planning, Transportation Services and Toronto Public Health, were expected to take part in a workshop Tuesday at Daniels Spectrum in Regent Park to learn more about Complete Streets, the notion that roadways should be open to all forms of trans-

portation including walking and cycling, according to Nancy Smith Lea, director for the Toronto Centre for Active Transportation. CITY LAUNCHES CONTEST FOR BIKE APP Use a new smartphone app tracking bike journeys and you can win a swank set of wheels, says the city. Between now and Nov. 30, cyclists who log their trips on the Toronto Cycling app will be eligible to win a new Opus Adagio 1.0 bicycle as well as memberships for the city’s bike share program. More than 50,000 trips were logged via the app’s GPS trip recording function since its launch in May, according to the city. The data will be used to plan future cycling infrastructure. The free app can be downloaded for the iOs and Android mobile platforms. Visit the city’s cycling web portal at www.toronto/ cycling.

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How flexible is SmartTrack plan? John Tory’s plan for surface subway rail has been getting a lot of attention over the past months of the mayoral campaign – much of it skeptical. There is good reason. Tory is extolling the feasibility of his transit-for-nothing plan like a Revival-tent preacher. The financial plan for it is built primarily on his faith that Toronto development might continue to boom over the next decade or so. For the western portion through Etobicoke, Tory places his faith in engineers to lay new track around, under and (who knows?) over houses and community facilities and roadways to complete the whole grand vision. So assuming that the whole thing goes ahead, and Tory’s faith is not rewarded, Toronto could be paying back a shortfall in funding to a city-spanning ‘surface subway’ that will wreak havoc on communities in the west end. There is a more likely outcome: the realities of economics, politics and engineering will make the whole-cloth

david nickle the city plan Tory’s pitching now impossible. There is that tax increment financing plan (TIF). Even if the rules permit it and the development bears out Tory’s optimism, there will be significant political problems in collecting the cash. The TIF scheme will keep tax dollars away from municipal and educational services needed for the growth. And engineers are not magicians. Tunnelling through the loamy soil of Etobicoke will inflate financial costs; tearing through neighbourhoods and roadways will hike the political cost. Now, Tory will still want to do something to fulfill his mandate, and he will be bound to use political capital to see it through. He might be able to do so. One could imagine a compromise SmartTrack plan that avoids the west end entirely.

The new project would involve accelerating the electrification of the GO Stouffville line through Scarborough, extending it to the west to Liberty Village and up to the Bloor subway line. Doing so would provide rapid transit to Scarborough, and also deal with the transportation infrastructure deficit in the busting-at-the-seams new neighbourhood of Liberty Village, while avoiding many, though not all, of those costly engineering problems. Which means that the whole scheme need not rely so heavily on the worrying TIF plan. It would also, in the strictest sense of the word, represent a broken promise. But since Mayor Rob Ford claimed that the Scarborough subway compromise following from the failure of his Sheppard subway plan was a “promise made, promise kept,” the term ‘promise’ has taken a certain elasticity.

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Staff check the city’s 1,850 vote tabulators last week at the city’s Election Services headquarters in advance of the Oct. 27 municipal election.

I n F e b r u a r y, Toronto councillors asked staff to allow online voting. A vendor for the service was chosen, but Pietrangelo said her department then decided there wasn’t enough time to build a fully tested online voting system. Staff will keep investigating online voting, including through consultations with the public, and the next council can decide to hire another vendor, she said. Adam Roy Cohoon, an artist who advises the city through an accessibility outreach network on barriers some voters face, said the delay was unfortunate. Online voting will make thing a lot easier for people with disabilities, he said. But Cohoon also demonstrated a voter assist terminal, one of which will be at all advance polls and in each riding on election day. “I find it’s a great way to let me vote independently,” he said. Pietrangelo said all voting places – and that includes 532 apartment or condominium

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Though the play occasionally shows it age with curiously anachronistic references – a glossary explaining who some of these people were is helpfully included in the program – the efforts of Griffin, his assistant director Jim Gillies, the designers and the performers highlight the deft comedy that makes this play such a winner. Veteran theatre reviewer Mark Andrew Lawrence offers his insights on stage and musical productions for The North York Mirror. Contact him at nym@insidetoronto.com

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