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Four themes from 2014: leadership, transportation, diversity and intergovernmental relations DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com In December of 2014, John Tory sat down with Metroland Media Toronto at the end of a long and hard-fought campaign to become amalgamated Toronto’s fourth mayor, to talk about four themes that emerged from the race between himself, former Councillor Doug Ford and former MP Olivia Chow.

Those themes emerged from a compilation of promises, debates and issues that emerged: broadly speaking, they were leadership (on repairing Toronto Council and the divided city); diversity (building a city where no one’s left behind); intergovernmental relations (on becoming Toronto’s chief salesperson and head shamer); and transportation (on becoming unstuck).

Just over two years later, we sat down again in a year-end interview with Mayor Tory - coincidentally half-way through his term - to check in and see how he’s done.

Leadership: Since the election, Tory claims a measure of success in both dealing with rifts on Toronto Council and the city in which a sizeable portion of the electorate rejected him in favour of a more divisive campaign from first Rob and then Doug Ford.

On a divided Council, Tory said: "I would say (I did) as well as one could.

We’re not dealing with a

high school debating society, we’re dealing with people with different ideologies, different views, often depending on where’ they’re from. It’s a challenge to bring consensus but if you look at the votes where I’ve obtained well over 30, I think that’s indication of a certain degree of consensus building."

And on the stickier matter of a divided city: in 2014, Tory said that the best way to deal with the alienation of the so-called Ford Nation group of voters was to "get results on things bothering people." In 2016, Tory maintained that he and his council "are making progress at satisfying everybody’s concerns. If you look at those concerns, they’re the same things I ran for office on: traffic; housing; taxes. Those things were all irritants."

Diversity: The first half of Tory’s term has been a rough ride on diversity matters - from run-ins with Black Lives Matter, to the confusion of the issues surrounding police spot-checks and carding of black youth to a disproportionate degree.

"I think (we’ve taken) steps to put regulations in place to address how street checks are done (are encouraging)," Tory said. "As usual, the proof of the pudding is going to be in the eating. And when we implement those regulations in the New Year, that will determine how well we’ve done."

Tory called his rocky relationship with the activist

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Mayor John Tory speaks with reporter David Nickle at the half-way mark of his leadership. group Black Lives Matter "a learning experience to me. Because I’m a consensus builder I react with hesitation who are confrontational. But I understand better now that there are people who to get themselves on the radar screen will put their ideas together more aggressively. It’s my job to listen and distill that message."

Tory said that dealing with Toronto’s inherent diversity - in 2016, BBC Radio released a study showing Toronto was the most diverse city in the world - will be a continuing challenge.

Transportation (Getting Unstuck): Two years into his mandate, Tory is navigating a rhetorical crisis. Dec. 20,

he told reporters that "the war on the car" is over as he introduced his new transportation director, Seattle transportation planner Barbara Gray.

It’s been a bit of a problem, however - as Tory has also been heard supporting controversial bike lanes on Bloor Street and road safety measures that seem to give primacy to road users other than automobile drivers.

Tory maintained that he is offering a balanced approach to transportation he noted with some relish that he’s been sharply criticized by the left for supporting the elevated Gardiner.

"What I’ve done is established a system that’s a bal-

anced plan," he said. "People will need to drive cars and trucks and transit on the road but there are other people who want to make use of those transportation corridors."

Intergovernmental relations: At the risk of appearing "immodest," Tory said he believes he has done well persuading the provincial and federal government to invest in public transit in Toronto.

"If we look at where we were and where we are, we’re way further ahead because we’ve adopted a businesslike approach," says Tory. "But I will say to you I’m not as encouraged yet about housing. I’m actually disappointed on how

far we haven’t come on housing."

Tory said he was pleased that Kathleen Wynne has shown support for his and council’s plan to toll the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway - and offered a warning for Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown, who’s vowed to scrap them.

"He’s going to have a lot to answer for," Tory said.

"He may have those answers but the point it to just say you’re doing away with tolls. that’s the easy part. The easy part for me was that I was going to build the transit...the hard part was how was I going to break it to the public that it wasn’t free."

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Getting at gridlock could be Tory’s big achievement There are few issues that have seized Mayor John Tory’s attention as consistently and intensely as this one: the trouble of heavy traffic moving toward gridlock that defines life of motorists in and around downtown Toronto.

It wasn’t long after Tory was elected in 2014 that he set to work dealing with that irritation. Right out the gate, he established a regular staff working group, led by him, to manage traffic; happily paid a premium on major road construction projects to have them finished ahead of schedule; and reported, in sometimes numbing detail, the ways in which the city managed and sometimes failed to manage its complicated and overtaxed transportation network.

It might have seemed a bit much at first. But, two years in, it’s clear that Tory and the city weren’t fooling around. Turning the key on gridlock might just be a defining achievement of the John Tory administration.

Last week, that administration offered up a hint of how that achievement might finish up, with the hiring of a new Director of Transportation: Barbara Gray, late of Seattle, Wash.

Gray arrives with the right predisposition. Standing alongside the mayor and Jaye Robinson, chair of the city’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, she made it clear that she is agnostic when it comes to transportation - which is to say that she does not particularly favour one mode over another.

Single-occupant automobiles are well and good, and many of us want and need them - but, on Toronto roads, they’re no longer king. Pedestrians, cyclists and transit riders are just as much users of the road network as drivers, and as our infrastructure develops, they’ll all be accommodated according to their need.

And because this is John Tory’s Toronto, Gray will be working hard to find ways to co-ordinate the other cause of congestion - construction - in such a way that roads across the city are as open and safe as possible.

Safety, of course, must be the first goal - particularly in 2017, after the deadly shame of 2016, which saw the highest rate of pedestrian fatalities in Toronto in nearly a decade.

There are ways one might attempt to turn that back, including lowering the speed limit on arterial roads across the city - or simply, as Gray suggested, working harder to ensure that existing speed limits are observed.

The form of streets and crossings and intersections might also be an approach.

Whatever the solution; moving ahead, quickly, is the heart of the job before us.

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Reasons for hope in a hub without a name In a community hub without a name, in a part of Toronto most of us ignore, there are reasons for hope.

And that hope, so far, is coming from young women and girls.

Each started work on an idea to help York SouthWeston, their neighbourhood, and one of the city’s most passed-over places.

Ubah Idle started #SaveOurSomaliYouth in February, after the city’s Somali community received a double blow: two 17-year-old boys - Saed Kaylie and Sharmarke Farah - killed in incidents days apart.

Idle then realized "there was little to no conversation about issues within our community," because, she said, the older generation believes Somalis should hide their faults rather

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto than talk about them.

"We sweep it under the rug, and eventually that rug is going to start to be lumpy," Idle told other young project leaders at a launch of what will be a youth-led network backed by the For Youth Initiative on Keele Street.

Idle and friends started a social media platform where they could reach other Somali youth. In her

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Riley Peterson, a student at Vaughan Road Academy, formed a group to get girls at Charles Webster Junior Public School ready for high school. She went to Webster herself, and saw it did not have an after-school program for girls.

Peterson created a place where they could "get to know each other and trust each other."

She brings them guest speakers. York South-Weston is isolated; the rest of the city "doesn’t really know us," she said, and girls who do well in the community tend to leave. Peterson believes more need to come back to York South-Weston.

Other inspiring ideas for the neighbourhood are off the ground too. No doubt

there will be more after January, when what FYI calls the Youth-led Initiative Network (also open to boys and young men) starts meeting monthly in the building, and comparing notes.

It could add up to something big for York SouthWeston.

The recently-created hub, which houses FYI and other nonprofit agencies beside George Harvey Collegiate on Keele, doesn’t have a single sign yet announcing what it is. It should.

Edges of Toronto is a column about how people see life in Toronto differently, depending on where they live. Reach Mike Adler at madler@insidetoronto.com

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’Winter swimming totally changed my perspective. I love it’ U of T professor warns ’with the potential benefits come extreme risks’ TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com A polar bear and spirituality club is how they describe themselves.

Every Sunday throughout the winter, the Toronto Winter Swimming Club dips into Lake Ontario’s icy depths at Humber Bay Park West in Etobicoke.

Yaro Polowianiuk, 53, is a decade-long club member after taking part in an annual charitable New Year’s Day polar bear dip at Oakville’s Coronation Park.

"I like the way I feel after swimming. I feel energetic," Polowianiuk said, clearly passionate about cold water. "I’m much healthier than I used to be."

The club is world-renowned.

Club member Alla Kibzoun brought home a bronze medal from the 2012 Winter Swimming World Championships held that January in Jurmala, Latvia.

Watching a video of a 2015 club swim on its website, www.winterswim.ca, brings chills. The sky and the lake are a cold bluegrey. Canadian geese, white swans and ducks swim in the frigid waters, unaffected by the swimmers standing a few feet away at the water’s edge.

"There’s a very steady, nasty wind from the lake.

It’s a very cold feeling," Polowianiuk said. "You go completely red, almost like a lobster. The first time I jump in, it’s very short; in and out. I go back to the shore and do 20 to 25 pushups. Then I’m ready for another shot when I stay in longer."

People’s tolerance of cold-water swimming varies widely. Still, none of them wear wetsuits.

"Some people go in only once, in and out. Other people go in and stay. One guy, a former firefighter, he can stay there for a long time.

It’s very individual," Polowianiuk said.

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Yaro Polowianiuk does push-ups (top left) to warm up after taking a dip off the shore of Humber Bay Park west.

Polowianiuk (above) and members of the Toronto Winter Swim Club (left) brave the freezing temperatures of Lake Ontario this December. Polowianiuk has been swimming with the group for ten years. The group meets every Sunday throughout the year.

Dec. 18, warning of -20 C with the wind chill, deterred the avid swimmers.

Getting undressed down to swimsuits is the greatest challenge, Polowianiuk said.

"Your mind is screaming, ’It’s so cold. Don’t do it,’" he said. "But when you rush into the water, it comes with deep rewards.

You don’t feel the cold. You feel adrenaline. You feel good."

Polowianiuk said the frigid dips aid his work as a massage therapist.

"I noticed those aches and pains I had in my wrists, joints and back from my job all disappeared when I started swimming," he said.

When massage clients come in with a cold or flu, he doesn’t get it, he added.

"There is no chance I will get it. It’s like water off a duck’s back," he said. "I haven’t had a cold since I started swimming. I don’t take any flu shots. There’s no reason to get it."

Dr. Greg Wells is a University of Toronto assistant professor of kinesiology and physical fitness who works as a faculty member at the university’s human physiology lab.

The scientific jury is out, Wells said, on whether cold-water exposure correlates to disease resistance.

In fact, there is little scientific research generally on the health risks and benefits of cold-water swimming, Wells said.

One of Wells’ grad students specifically studied the effect of cold-water immersion on inflammation.

"We found at the right temperature, for the right duration, cold water reduces inflammation," Wells said. "In an acute case, like a sprained ankle, you put ice on it and it can relieve pain. But inflammation is necessary for healing. It’s a fine balance."

Winter swimming isn’t for everyone.

Wells said he asks anyone eager to try it if they have any serious health issues.

"Whether we know it’s beneficial or not, it’s dangerous," Wells said. "With the potential benefits come extreme risks. You need to take that into account when deciding whether or not to try it.

"If you’re sick or have chronic disease, jumping into very, very cold water is

a very, very bad idea."

A 2004 Finnish study published in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health concluded winter swimming improves general well-being.

Tension, fatigue, memory and negative mood states in cold-water swimmers "significantly decreased" with the duration of the swimming period, the study reported.

"After four months, the swimmers felt themselves to be more energetic, active and brisk than the controls (people not in the study)," the study indicated, mirroring Polowianiuk’s experience.

Further, the study stated all swimmers who suffered from rheumatism, fibromyalgia or asthma reported that winter swim-

ming had relieved their pain.

Those findings would not be news to the Toronto club. Most of its members hail from Russia, where cold-water swimming is a "very common way of life," said Polowianiuk, a Belarusian from Poland.

Polowianiuk loathed the winter, but now he revels in its plummeting temperatures.

"I used to think ’winter time is a drag. It’s too cold. I can’t take it,’" he recalled.

"Now, I like it. I think, ’Oh, this coming Sunday it’s going to be minus-whatever temperature. Perfect. Perfect.’

"Winter swimming totally changed my perspective. I love it. I think, ’Why did I miss having this in my life for so long?’"

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More than 30 workshops focusing on conflict resolution, yoga, and meditation were held in the morning at the Jane Street and Finch Avenue area school with students from Westview, C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute, Emery Collegiate Institute, and Oakdale Park Middle School.

Following a community turkey lunch, students settled in for an afternoon of performances, including a dance routine from Caheem’s mother, Carlotta Monteith, which received a standing ovation.

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"He was a compassionate child who loved sports," Beckford, 36, said of his nephew, adding Caheem began living with him about seven months ago to attend William Lyon Mackenzie near Wilson Heights Boulevard and Sheppard Avenue. "He loved his siblings, family was important to him."

An aspiring basketball player with dreams of becoming a chef, Caheem would cook for Beckford or at least try to - often making chicken, the teen’s favourite food.

Beckford, who considered Caheem like a son and said the two were close, said the family is taking things day by day, but admits he finds himself struggling.

"The basketball is still in my driveway," he said, his face pained. "I feel like I want to move from my house. It still feels unreal.

But God heals over time."

Westview principal Cherilyn Scobie delivered a powerful talk to students, noting she’s attended 20 funerals for students killed in her 16 years working as an educator.

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Carlotta Monteith, mother of 17-year-old Caheem Ramsuchit, who was killed in a November shooting, performs a dance, during Westview Centennial Secondary School’s Day of Peace event honouring the slain teen. death in June 2001 at age 19 near Sherbourne subway station.

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