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fannie sunshine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Youth who attend ProAction Cops and Kids’ soccer program at Zion Heights Junior High School will now benefit from new clothes, cleats and soccer balls. Coca-Cola Canada donated a surplus of soccer gear valued at $10,000 to the Leslie Street and Cummer Avenue school Monday to enhance the program that has been running

North York Community Council approved construction of a 29-storey mixed-use building at Yonge Street and Helendale Avenue at its Tuesday meeting. Three existing three-storey rental apartment buildings totaling 20 affordable and mid-range rental units will be demolished to make way for the 29-storey building containing 378 units, including full replacement of the 20 rental units.

four years for nearby youth at the Sparroway Toronto Community Housing complex. The gear is from last year’s Coca Cola’s FIFA Women’s World Cup campaign. When 33 Division started up the drop-in soccer program, there was only one soccer ball in the neighbourhood and proper clothing and shoes were lacking. “They were playing in the same T-shirts and running >>>POLICE, page 8

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Art Starts fundraiser at Petroff Gallery this weekend An exhibit and fundraiser will be held Saturday, Feb. 27 in support of North York based Art Starts. Proceeds from the Pamela Ozery Retrospective Exhibit and Silent Auction will benefit the charity, which is based out of Yorkdale Community Arts Centre. The reception and silent auction will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Petroff Gallery, 1016 Eglinton Ave., west of

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provincial title: Seneca College Wenchao Shi leaps for a smash on the way to defeating two-time OCAA men’s singles and reigning national singles champion Owen Kurvits, of Redeemer University College, in straight sets 21-15, 21-18 at Seneca on Friday to take the 2016 provincial title. See our story online at bit.ly/24p6TMw

York University will soon have two student centres after North York Community Council approved Official Plan and zoning amendments to permit the additional building on land owned by the Keele Street and Steeles Avenue university at its Tuesday meeting. The four-storey building will not replace the existing student centre on York Boulevard, but will act as a supplement site for students. The new centre will house a student lounge, change rooms, building services, study and meeting rooms, a restaurant, multi-purpose spaces, multifaith spaces, and a small prayer room.

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North York synagogue’s proposal to add second storey draws complaints FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Despite concerns from nearby residents regarding size, traffic, and parking concerns, North York Community Council approved development of a synagogue and day nursery on Bayview Avenue near The Bridle Path at its meeting Tuesday, Feb. 23. A detached dwelling on the property at 2437 Bayview Ave. currently exists on the site, part of which operates as a place of worship under Chabad of York Mills, but the group was looking to expand its structure to two-storeys, which would house the Bayview Centre for Jewish Life and a day nursery in a gross floor space of 1,787 square metres. The site would also include

a circular driveway and 16 underground parking spots, and 49 additional spots would be used for holiday services and occasional weekday evening events at nearby Canadian Film Institute. Land use planning and development lawyer Amber Stewart, who was speaking on behalf of concerns raised by the site’s neighbours, said her clients believe the proposal is too large and parking inadequate and wanted the item referred back to staff. Councillor Jaye Robinson, who represents the area, said meetings were held regarding the proposal and this was the first time she heard concerns from Stewart or residents. “Don’t you think it’s good practice to contact the local councillor?” a visibly frustrated Robinson asked

Stewart, to which the lawyer said she’s been dealing with city staff on the matter. Br i d l e Pa t h re s i d e n t Zohrab Kilislian said he takes issue with the parking and size of the building, noting cars have been known to park in front of his home. But Robinson moved to approve the proposal, noting the site has been a big part of the ward for eight years and was surprised to hear of any opposition. “I am unaware of anyone being opposed to it,” she said. “I think it’s going to be a wonderful place in our community.” As for traffic and parking concerns, the councillor said she’s with residents “in spirit” and will hold a parking meeting if issues arise.

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Residents of a Leslie Street and Sheppard Avenue area Toronto Community Housing complex came out in droves to the North York Community Council meeting Tuesday, Feb. 23 to both oppose – and support – demolition and rebuilding of their townhouse complex to make way for replacement units and residential condo units, which councillors approved. TCHC and Tridel plan to replace all 121 social housing units on Adra Villaway, Grado Villaway, and Tomar Villaway, with 48 units to be replaced onsite as townhouse units and 73 units to be replaced in apartment buildings, six of which will be provided offsite at TCHC’s 3, 5, 11, 17, 21 Allenbury Gardens and 3, 5 Kingslake Rd. location currently undergoing revitalization. The social housing component will be located on the northern portion of the site and will comprise of 48 dwelling units in three-storey back to back townhouses and 67 units in a four-storey apartment building along Leslie Street. Condos will be located on the southern portion of the site, which will be made up of 529 dwelling units spread out over four buildings ranging

from three to 17-storeys. Known as Leslie Nymark, the site was developed in the 1960’s as a private residential development and was sold to the Ontario Housing Corporation in the 1970’s, which later transferred the site to TCHC.

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TCHC has said redevelopment is necessary to tackle the townhouses poor condition, which are prone to flooding, mold, and insulation issues. Current TCHC tenants, who will be temporarily relocated for three years, will be able to choose a vacant unit in any TCHC community, based on household qualifications. Once construction is complete, residents will be able to move back into the Leslie Street location. Hilda Badu, who has lived in the complex for two years, said many residents are opposed to moving, citing school upheaval for their children. “Where we live is very nice, not too much crime,” she told

councillors. “They’re going to ship us wherever they want and our kids might end up on the wrong path. I’m very stressed. I have sleepless nights, I don’t know what will happen, where I’m going to go.” Councillor Shelley Carroll, who represents the area and is in favour of the proposal, said TCHC staff will work with each resident to decide on the best place for residential relocation. Others took issue with the size of the rebuilt units, noting they will be smaller than what is currently there and those who currently live in townhouses might end up with an apartment instead. Still, some spoke in favour of the redevelopment, noting a three-year relocation is a small price to pay for better living conditions. “Change can be really good,” said Nicole Marcano, who has lived at the site for six years. “Revitalizing is a way for us to get good living standards. I look at it as a positive process. We want to have proper living standards just like any other human being. We want to be recognized as people too.” Carroll said she hopes the revitalization will change the integration of Leslie Nymark with the rest of the neighbourhood. “We want people to walk right through it,” she said.

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onsidering that film and television production work is worth $1-billion a year to Toronto, we think it’s a good idea Mayor John Tory is heading out to Los Angeles for a business mission in support of the industry. The mayor of one of the world’s largest centres for film, television and digital media production should be making annual visits to help promote and protect what is an important business to our city. And he goes at an especially good time as the value of the Canadian dollar relative to the U.S. dollar makes shooting movies and television shows in Toronto even more attractive for American production companies. “Toronto’s film and television sector is a growing source of jobs and economic growth,” said Tory in a city press release. Along with the dollars the industry pumps into Toronto’s economy, it’s also helping grow an valuable source of local our view extremely talent, which benefits our city on so many levels. Being a centre of Trip helps film and television production makes Toronto a cultural hub promote T.O.’s also in Canada for those industries. It builds a strong community of not economy only people in the creative arts, but also in the many technical sides of the industry from high-tech digital imaging, to sound systems, to set building, special effects, catering, transportation, hotels and more. It’s an industry that also builds Toronto a profile beyond the film industry as it also helps increase tourism. While in Los Angeles, Tory has meetings planned with 11 major studios including CBS, Paramount, Warner and Sony. According to the city, those studios alone have more than $800-million worth of projects planned for Toronto in 2016 alone. Tory is not going by himself on this trip either, as he is bringing a delegation of both film and tourism professionals from the city with him. They represent Canadian companies and the local hospitality industry, and are making the trip with the mayor on their own dime. There are nine partners as part of the mayor’s delegation and they are paying $5,000 each to sponsor An Evening With Canada’s Stars that will showcase Canadian excellence in the industry as part of the visit. Tory will also meet with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. While some may see this as a nice excuse for the mayor to get out to California at the end of February, we view it as an important part of the job, promoting local industry and looking after the economic health of Toronto.

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‘Crazy’ gondola scheme might be stretching it If you’re going to pitch a crazy transit scheme like gondolas across the Don Valley to service a fancy artisanal market, probably it’s best to make sure that nobody’s planning an extravagant mea-culpa about their crazy transit scheme within the same week. Such is the unhappy circumstance that the entrepreneurial gondola-iers at Bullwheel International Cable Car Corp., who pitched their plan to stretch cable across the Don Valley just days before Metrolinx moved to slash prices on the Union-Pearson Express train to boost its gossamerthin ridership. The train was at one time touted as a major economic development boost, providing a quick link between Union Station and Pearson airport. The investment – $465 million – was deemed worthwhile, even as the private sector consortium initially interested in the project lost interest, and

david nickle the city in 2010 Metrolinx took the whole thing over. The private sector clearly knew something that the public sector leadership didn’t, because the rail line opened up with tepid ridership. It wasn’t hard to see why. With few stations, and those that existed difficult to access, the only way that the 25-minute airport ride could be a convenience would be for those travellers who were staying or holding meetings within a short walk of Union Station. And with the price point of $27 one way, really only executives with an expense account would have any reason to ride it. But for that class of traveller, an airport limo ride with door-to-terminal service would only cost a few dollars more.

What a terrible idea that airport express train was. What a terrible, seductive idea. It was so seductive, of course, because it played to that aspirational myth that is so damaging to Toronto’s more necessary priorities: namely, that we need to dress ourselves up in the manner of much larger cities in Europe and America in order to remain competitive. So if there are trains from Stockholm’s downtown to its airport, and an express train between Victoria Station and Gatwick Airport in London, what fun it would be for us to be like that too. So many of our major transit initiatives have sprung from that ethos. In the 1990s, then North York mayor Mel Lastman fought tooth and nail to make sure there was money for the Sheppard subway, because he knew that building it would validate the Yonge-Sheppard hub

that was to be his old city’s downtown. Scarborough is getting an absurd, one-stop subway extension to the Scarborough Town Centre, because residents there have been convinced that a subway is the path to civic legitimacy. The gondolas as described sound like a lot of fun – soaring over the leafy glories of the Don Valley, carrying passengers from the million-dollarhomes of prime Riverdale to the boutiques and paths of the Evergreen Brick Works in the Don Valley and back. It sounds almost enough fun to subsidize with tax dollars when the logistics prove too costly and the revenues too slim for the private sector. The worst that can happen is you might have to cut your fares.

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University Women’s Club North York WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: St Bonaventure Parish Centre, 1340 Leslie St. CONTACT: Susanne Clarke, 416-488-9202, www.uwcnorthyork COST: Free Welcome to the monthly general meeting featuring guest speaker

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Chances are you have heard the saying “Like father, like son”. It’s a trait many boys have upon reaching adulthood but, in many cases, doesn’t materialize – and a 36-yearold North York resident is a prime example. For Joseph Fackenheim, his father being the late Emil Fackenheim, was an eminent Canadian theologian, philosopher and Reform Rabbi who also escaped while imprisoned by the Nazis during the Second World War. While the respect, admiration and high esteem for his dad is quite evident, his career focused on a different kind of pulpit – the theatre stage. “As a teenager, I wanted to be a film director, but while trying to help a classmate audition for a youth theatre, I, too, went for the audition and got it,” said Fackenheim, who, along with his wife and twin children, now live in the Bathurst and Wilson area. “I got the acting bug, worked hard at it, and benefitted from many auditions, studies and just the opportunity to perform. For me, acting was a great discovery and I always felt proficient, creative and wanting to take this as far as I could.”

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Joseph Fackenheim is the artistic director of the North American branch of Aspaklaria.

It has been quite a journey for the younger Fackenheim, whose family had moved to Israel when he was a toddler. Three decades later, Fackenheim brought his immediate family of four back to Toronto. In Jerusalem, he studied at the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio and, while in England for studies, earned his master’s degree in classical acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. His acting performances attracted impressive crowds in Israel, but his desire was to eventually return to his place of birth. Now he’s the artistic director and behind the launching

of the North American branch of Aspaklaria, making it Canada’s only touring Jewish theatre. He’s hoping to also enhance a vibrant Jewish theatre scene in Toronto. Fackenheim will be in the 70-minute performance of ‘The Odds’, a dramatic comedy involving therapists opening a “men-only workshop” for those experiencing marital difficulties. The performance will be at the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts April 3. “As a kid, I remember being rebellious and the cause of much worry to my parents who wondered what I would eventually excel in and focus on as a career,” he said. “While I wasn’t interested in becoming a Rabbi, when you look at it, the connection between philosophy of my father, and my drama, is quite close.” His biggest gig was at the age of 24, fresh out of drama school, when asked to play Macbeth in the Shakespearean performance in Jerusalem. “That was something special,” Fackenheim said. “Since then, I give my best in every performance and I know my father would be pleased that I found my calling and that I am doing what I can to proliferate Jewish and Israel culture on the North American main stage.”

Police officers identifying the needs of the community >>>from page 1 shoes,” said 33 Division St. Sgt. Tony Charles. Soccer has helped bridge a previous “acrimonious” relationship between officers and young people in the Sparroway neighbourhood, Charles said, adding games are played Mondays from 6 to 8 p.m. at Zion Heights Junior High School. “If we build a great relationship at this stage with youth, it will only get better,” he said. “They talk to us, they are comfortable. They don’t see the (police) uniform, they see a human being in a soccer uniform. I’d rather be proac-

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“The officers are not on-duty and donate their time.” Though roughly 70 per cent of ProAction Cops and Kids programming centres on sports, others involve cooking, arts, guitar and camping, Milligan said. “The officers identify the needs of the community,” she said. In existence since 1991, ProAction Cops and Kids partners with police services in Toronto, Hamilton, Durham and Niagara regions to offer a range of programs geared at bettering relationships between officers and at-risk youth.

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generations.” It seemed as though the entire future generation was crammed into the Toronto Council Chamber for the Tuesday ceremony with Tory when he handed out awards for writing about Black History Month. Praneetha was among

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OUR CUSTOMERS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT VISITORS TO OUR PREMISES. WE RESPECT YOU AND ARE COMMITTED TO PROVIDING YOU WITH THE BEST SERVICE.

There’s more to it than oil and a ﬁlter.

• Comprehensive Vehiicle Report Card

PREMIUM TIRES WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD.

+TAX INCLUDES INSTALLATION

EXPIRES FEBRUARY 29TH, 2016

THE WORKS • Ford-Trained Technicians use only Motorcraft® oil ﬁlters • Rotate and inspect four tires

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YONGE-STEELES... CANADA’S #1 FORD LINCOLN DEALER †

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# Eli Bakhtiari

Group at Remax Hallmark Bayview Village Bella Lee

Sales Representative Interior Designer

Broker Developer/Builder

Direct: 416.939.3003

Direct: 647.296.6945 we speak:

English

French

Farsi

Cantonese

Mandarin

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80 Banbury Rd

SOLD!

18 Granlea Rd

NEW LISTING

42 Brucedale Cres

SOLD 131% OF ASKING!

18 Aneta Circ

SOLD 100% OF ASKING!

12 Blaine Drive

NEW LISTING

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SOLD 96% OF ASKING!

164 Munro Blvd

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70 Highland Cres

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6 Bannatyne Dr

WE PROUDLY ADVERTISE AND SELL YOUR PROPERTY TO LOCAL AND FOREIGN CASH BUYERS T. 416.494.7653 F. 416.494.0016 685 Sheppard Avenue East, Suite 401, Toronto, ON M2K 1B6

Not Intended to solicit properties currently under contract