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orth York filmmaker Simeon Taole is adding some visual flair to staged theatre in a modern retelling of a classic tale that still rings true.

Twisted, a re-imagined telling of Charles Dickens’ beloved 1837 novel Oliver Twist set in today’s Toronto, opens at Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst St., on Jan. 31.

“It’s set in Toronto and you very much feel the vibrancy of this city. It’s also a very dark story and very relevant to the world that we live in today. The elements that it touches upon are definitely relevant to life in Toronto today. It’s the darker side of things, of course. Oliver Twist is a dark tale,” Taole said.

“It’s very much relevant when it takes a look at the aspects of society that maybe don’t quite get enough exposure. It’s some-

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Simeon Taole is enhancing ‘Twisted’ using video imagery. The local filmmaker also has a background in acting, writing and producing.

thing that people really need to see.”

The show was written

by Joseph Jomo Pierre and Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman and is directed by Nigel Shawn Williams. Ngabo Nabea plays lead character Ollie.

Ollie is an orphaned black boy, who, along with a girl named Nancy (Susanna

Fournier), is trying to survive gritty Toronto streets.

Ollie has been in and out of foster homes and Nancy has lived through a loveless childhood.

They, however, find love in each other and forge a real-time connection through text messaging.

Twisted is meant to give voice to the unheard and

represents the fringes of society.

Taole is tasked with enhancing the play with video imagery, including displaying text messages, which play a major role in the narrative of the show.

Taole praised the playwrights for they way they incorporated text messaging elements.

An actor, writer and producer himself, Taole took part in the early stages of producing Twisted, including workshopping the script.

“Being part of that process has really enhanced what I’m able to bring to it visually,” the 37-year-old said.

The show features elements of spoken word, prose and hip hop, including music composed by Hagler, producer of Drake.

The show runs from Jan. 31 to Feb. 22. Opening night is Thursday, Feb. 5.

The curtain opens at 8 p.m.

Tuesdays to Saturdays.

Sunday shows are at 2 p.m.

Tickets cost $23 to $45.

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Brain research gets $56-million provincial boost DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com The province is providing Ontario’s brain researchers with $56 million, the minister of research and innovation Reza Moridi announced Monday at the Ontario Science Centre.

The funding is to help support research to improve the diagnosis and treatment of conditions such as autism, depression, cerebral palsy, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, among others.

The funding will support researchers across the province, distributed through the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI), the knowledge partner on the Ontario Science Centre’s ongoing BRAIN: The Inside Story exhibit.

The government’s investment is leveraging another

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Provincial minister responsible for seniors’ affairs Mario Sergio, left, and minister of research and devlopment Reza Moridi listen to the Ontario Science Centre’s Bhavleen Kaur as she describes the effect of Alzheimer’s disease on the brain, during an event held at the centre on Monday announcing the grant of $56 million to the Ontario Brain Institute.

$28 million from the OBI’s partner institutions.

“Why is OBI’s work so important? Because mil-

lions of Ontar ians are touched deeply by brain diseases,” Moridi said at a press event, in front of the

BRAIN exhibit.

Approximately one million Ontario residents suffer from depression, cerebral palsy is the most common physical disability in children, and more than 300,000 children have neurodevelopmental diseases such as autism and ADHD, Moridi said.

The economic impact of brain and mental health disorders in Ontario is estimated to cost $39 billion annually.

The funding announcement includes $25 million to continue research programs into speeding up diagnoses and improving treatments of cerebral palsy, epilepsy and neurodevelopmental diseases.

Funding will also support research programs into diseases that affect the older generations of our society such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS.

Also, $12 million in new funding will support faster diagnosis and more personalized treatments for people with depression, working on methods to help doctors move away from a trial and error approach of treating depression to a more accurate method.

OBI president and scientific director Don Stuss said all forms of depression are often treated as if they’re one, but they’re not. The same can be said about other brain diseases, he added.

Stuss said new methods will focus on treatments based on all the factors of a patient to determine the best solution for his or her depression.

Stuss said OBI’s research aims to create better care for people living with brain disorders and hope for future generations.

UNIQLO coming to North York UNIQLO is set to open its first Canadian stores in the fall of 2016, with Yorkdale Shopping Centre acting as one of the flagship locations.

The 24,000-square-foot store at Dufferin Street and Hwy. 401 will offer the brand’s full range of men’s, women’s and children’s items. The other flagship store will open at the Eaton Centre with a 28,000-square-foot site.

Since opening its first store in Japan in 1984, UNIQLO has grown to 1,500 stores worldwide, including in Australia, China, France, Germany and the United States.

Police name man fatally shot in Lawrence Heights Police have identified the man found shot to death in Lawrence Heights Tuesday.

Police were called to the Flemington and Stockton roads area and found a man suffering from gunshot wounds.

Danovan Anthony Lodge, 30, of Toronto, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Lodge is the third homicide victim of 2015.

Anyone with information should call police at 416-8087400. man shot near hyw. 401 and bathurst wyoung

Police are looking for a man after a 19-year-old man was shot inside a North York apartment building Sunday night.

Emergency crews were called to 145 Neptune Dr. near Bathurst Street and Hwy. 401 at 10:07 p.m.

The victim was taken to Sunnybrook hospital where he was listed in serious condition.

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In today’s edition (see story on page 8), we look at the Black Experience Project that will be seeking input on what it means to be a member of the Greater Toronto Area’s 400,000-strong black community.

Some 1,800 residents will be interviewed as part of the project, and organizers expect the answers to be as diverse as the community itself. A project of such scope has never been undertaken in the local black community before, despite a history that goes back to the 1700s in the Toronto area.

Karen Carter of Heritage Toronto, one of the more than two dozen partners in the project, said the GTA’s black community has layers of identity – some tracing their ancestors to the Underground our view Railroad, others arriving from the Caribbean in the 1970s or more recently from Africa. How those difOur black ferent ancestries view themselves community as a community, many of differing faiths spread out in neighbourhas layers hoods across the GTA, will be one of the key findings the project is of identity aiming to discover.

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Trying to come to grips with our winter I’m still rooting for fullfledged snow. But from the sounds of things it looks like I may have to settle for just flurries for the next little while.

I can’t believe it. It’s the end of January for heaven’s sake and flurries are all we’re going to get?

Not necessarily. The operative word is “may”.

When it comes to forecasts of flurries, meteorologists don’t nail it down. All we’re told is that there’s merely a “chance” we’ll get them. It’s not a guarantee.

Heavy sigh.

How much of a chance?

Big? Slim? Somewhere in between? All of the above?

None of the above? They don’t say. Just a chance of flurries, is all. That’s it, just a chance.

Heavy double sigh.

On second thought, given the circumstances and being Canada and all, better make that a heavy double double sigh. For here and to go.

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY It’s cruel and unusual punishment, I tell you.

With snow and rain, meteorologists always give you a range of what they expect, but with flurries they can’t seem to do that. Flurries are one tough cookie, apparently.

Or is that cookies?

Whatever. The point is flurry sightings are not unlike UFO sightings. They typically don’t leave a trace that they’ve been here.

They just blow around and around for awhile until they disappear into thin air.

So how could a meteorologist measure them?

Try and round them up in a gigantic net and count them quickly one by one before they disintegrate?

Lots of luck with that.

But if it’s frustrating for the experts to try deal with flurries, how about us aver-

age citizens? Forecasts are supposed to help us make plans. How can you make plans when all you have to go on is a chance that something might happen?

Say you have a two-andhalf year old son or daughter who wants to go outside and play, for example. It takes an average of three hours to outfit them in their flurrysuits only to have him or her tell you after it’s finally on that they have to go to the bathroom.

So you have to do it all over. That means a whopping six hours to get them dressed on just the chance that they’ll even need one on. Another heavy double double sigh.

And what about you?

You have to take even longer to dig your flurrymobile out of the back of the garage, pack it in on the trailer at the back of your truck, haul it up to Barrie or Orangeville for its winter tune-up on the chance that you’ll need it, too.

And another heavy double double sigh.

It makes you just want to fly south for the season until this all blows over, right?

Guess again.

The airlines monitor weather just like travellers do and hearing flurries forecasts is music to their ears. It’s a veritable symphony, in fact. They know about your frustration and have got you right where they want you.

So there are no deals to be found. Their so-called flurrybird specials are jacked up as high as they can be. Add on the extra money it’ll cost for the difference between our dollars and you know that means? What else? One last heavy double double sigh for the road.

Jamie Wayne is a lifelong columnist, who takes writing very seriously. The topics?

Not so much. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at jamie.wayne@sympatico.ca

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Shakespeare for Kids Library Club WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Victoria Village Library, 184 Sloane Ave. CONTACT: 416-3955950, dkyraleos@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Explore the world of magic, witches, ghosts, silly mix-ups and swordplay. Play drama games, read aloud and act out scenes. Instruction by professional actors and educators from the Shakespeare in Action theatre company. For ages seven to 12.

Saturdays starting today until March 7. Registration required.

An Introduction to Meditation WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: North York Central Library Auditorium, 5120 Yonge St. CONTACT: Margaret Wigglesworth, mwigglesworth@ torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Call to register

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Finger Knitting for Teens WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence Ave. E. CONTACT: Debby, 416-395-5710, debbyng@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free For ages 12 to 19. Call to register.

One Shabbos One World WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: JewishRussian Community Centre, 5987 Bathurst St., Unit 3 CONTACT: 416222-7105, www.jrcc.org/shabbaton, COST: $25/person, $75/family Community dinner held as part of the worldwide initiative to celebrate one Shabbat to unite the world.

Oneg Shabbat- Marking Tu B’Shvat WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Borochov Cultural Centre, 272 Codsell Ave. CONTACT: Roby Sadler, 416-3853910, info@oraynu.org COST: Nonmembers $15

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A Tuneful Shabbat Shirah at Chevrat Torah WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto, 210 Wilson Ave. CONTACT: 416-487-4161, www.templesinai.net, programs@templesinai.net COST: Free

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Toronto Police 31 Division CPLC Meeting WHEN: 7 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: 31 Division - Toronto Police Service, 40 Norfinch Dr. CONTACT: Larry Perlman, 416-808-3133, www.torontopolice.on.ca/d31, 31.division.cplc@ gmail.com COST: Free

Workshop facilitated by the Alzheimer Society of Toronto is for caregivers of people who have dementia.

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COSTI Co-Sponsored Employment Series WHEN: 1 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Downsview Library, 2793 Keele St. CONTACT: 416-395-5720 COST: Free The three sessions include a resume workshop, an interview workshop and job searching tips and tools.

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Book Club WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. or 7 to 8 p.m.

WHERE: Victoria Village Library, 184 Sloane Ave. CONTACT: 416-3955950, dkyraleos@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Discuss ‘Emancipation Day’ by Wayne Grady.

Feminist Book Discussion Group WHEN: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: North York Central Library, Room 2, 5120 Yonge St. CONTACT: Diane Meaghan, 416-509-5508, diane. meaghan@utoronto.ca COST: Free Group meets on the first Wednesday of each month. Today we will discuss ‘28 Seconds: A True Story of Addiction, Tragedy and Hope’.

To inform and take questions from residents and businesses within the division’s boundaries on community safety and other police issues.

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Free ESL Classes WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Willowdale United Church, 349 Kenneth Ave. CONTACT: Lina Posa, 416225-2309, www.willowdaleunited. com, office@willowdaleunited.com COST: Free Classes are Tuesdays 10 a.m. to noon and Wednesdays 7 to 9 p.m.

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Shoeless Joe’s grill on a winning streak Dufferin-Lawrence sports restaurant using prize money to help refresh park CLARK KIM ckim@insidetoronto.com The Shoeless Joe’s franchise near Dufferin Street and Lawrence Avenue is now two for two as the restaurant ended up with a top three finish again in a competition that rewarded thousands of dollars for a community refresh project.

The Shoeless Joe’s Sports Grill sports-based program called “If Your Team Wins, Your Community Wins” was held for a second year, which rewarded local sports teams with points every time they ate at the restaurant.

“We’ve had great success with this program,” said Donald Wong, who owns the North York franchise along with Stephen Chan and Charles Yung.

Last year, they finished in second place, earning $10,000 that was spent on a basketball court renovation project within the EglintonLawrence community represented by Ward 15 Councillor Josh Colle.

This year, their location came in third and won $5,000.

“We were pretty confident,” said Wong, also giving credit to the various teams who came in again to eat while supporting the program. “It’s good competition against the different franchises.”

After being awarded the $5,000, they reached out again to the local council-

lor to see where the funds could best be spent.

Colle suggested the funds go toward improving the recreation facility at Caledonia Park located near Caledonia Road and Lawrence Avenue West.

“There’s money in the budget to redo Caledonia Park, but this will add to that,” said Colle, noting the sports field can be revitalized. “It’s a really huge space with a lot going on, but it’s not used as well as it could be.”

Colle added he was thrilled with the local Shoeless Joe’s winning two years in a row and being able to contribute to improving the neighbourhood.

“We spent a lot of the last term renewing green spaces,” he said. “There’s always a need there so it’s pretty easy to identify needs.”

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Network at the science centre Interested in networking? A day-long conference at the Ontario Science Centre may be of interest.

The Networking Effect: Business Connects Networking Conference is billed as one of the city’s largest networking events with more than 1,000 potential clients, partners and collaborators.

The event takes place 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3. Registration is required and costs between $40 and $60 depending on whether you’re a biznetworknews.com event ticket subscriber, and whether you’ll take part in an international working breakfast.

The Ontario Science Centre is at 770 Don Mills Road, south of Eglinton Avenue. Visit www.businessconnectsnetwork.com station at Finch-Weston wUltramar

There’s a new corner store with an Ultramar service station in the Finch AvenueWeston Road area.

paul futhey business in brief American-based CST Brands Inc. recently opened the nearly 3,000-squarefoot establishment, which includes a Country Style outlet, a car wash and a banking machine in addition to the fuel services.

According to an announcement from the company, it’s expected 10 full- and part-time jobs would be created. marketing knowledge wDigital

It’s understandable that digital marketing can be intimidating for the small business owner.

But without this component in your business strategy, what are you missing out on as a small business owner?

From 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12, Enterprise Toronto (along with Yellow Pages) is host-

ing Digital Marketing for Small Business at the North York Civic Centre. This event can help arm you with the knowledge to get some marketing efforts online.

The event is free but registration is required. Visit enterprisetoronto.com education for teenagers wMoney

The Toronto Public Library’s Barbara Frum and Fairview branches are hosting sessions on financial literacy for teenagers 13 and up led by expert Michael Goldberg.

Goldberg will be at Barbara Frum, 20 Covington Rd., from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Feb. 5 and from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Feb. 11 at Fairview, 35 Fairview Mall Dr. Topics to be covered include budgeting, saving and investing.

Reach the Barbara Frum branch at 416-395-5440 and Fairview at 416-395-5750.

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Paul Futhey is managing editor of The North York Mirror. Business in Brief appears every second Thursday.

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TTC links to fake CRA page by mistake wweb The TTC is unknowingly linking to a web page appearing to originate from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), but in fact belonging to private company.

At first glance the site www.transitpass.ca appears to be a federal government page, albeit with an older design template, providing helpful information on claiming a tax credit for regular use of a transit pass – and even displaying the official logo of the Canadian Urban Transit Association, which supposedly helped co-develop the “promotional” site.

Also included within the page are text and links referring to a company with no apparent government association and promoting a “payday loan” service. The links direct to what appears to be a commercial site.

A quick search via www. whois.net shows a private company holds ownership of the transitpass.ca domain until 2019.

TTC spokesperson Brad Ross said last week CRA will

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT be contacted about the link.

The official web page with information on claiming a federal tax credit is www.cra-arc.gc.ca/transitpass CYCLING MANAGER STARTS AT CITY HALL wNEW

The city’s newest cycling infrastructure manager took her post this week.

Jacquelyn Gulati officially replaced Daniel Egan on Monday.

She comes from a similar post at the City of Mississauga, where she worked on improving active transportation planning to improve cycling and walking.

In Toronto she’ll be tasked with continuing the slow-moving expansion of the city’s network of bike lanes.

CFO DEFENDS TTC’S FARE HIKE wMETROPASS

The TTC’s chief financial officer is defending a pro-

posal to raise Metropass fares, which if approved will see the monthly cost for the unlimited travel pass rise by nearly six per cent this year.

Vince Rodo said increasing the Metropass cost, which will likely become $141.50 beginning in March, is part of a “proportionate” fare hike recently announced, and says TTC trip data shows card users are taking more transit trips.

The TTC has promised to reveal further details about the fare hike and other budget items as part of a special public meeting Monday, Feb. 2.

GO USER SET TO PAY TO TRAVEL wMORE

GO Transit users can also expect a fare increase that was pproved by Metrolinx’s board of directors late last year The move means an average price hike of five per cent for the estimated 80 per cent of GO users who own a Presto fare card.

Rahul Gupta is The Mirror’s transit reporter. His column runs every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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In 2011, former mayor Rob Ford and Toronto City Council made a very short-sighted move. Faced with a budget surplus from the previous administration, the council and mayor decided to use it all, offer a property tax freeze that no one asked for and wasn’t sustainable.

In subsequent years, it made Toronto’s financial system more precarious, because by using one-time funding (in that case a surplus), city services were instantly outsized as compared to reliable revenue.

It develops that in 2015, John Tory and the new council are doing something similar.

In order to provide a budget that improves city services on a number of fronts, Toronto will be borrowing $86 million from the provincial government, to be repaid with interest.

That loan will pay for services the city has now as well as for improvements, reversing many cuts made during the Ford years and adding more.

david nickle the city Life will be easier in Toronto in 2015 on a number of fronts.

But because the marginal service improvements rest on a marginal revenue source, 2016 will be another matter.

Whether children can continue to ride free on the Toronto Transit Commission and catch their buses more quickly will depend on whether council can bear to cut services somewhere else.

The Ford administration brain trust was well aware that the 2011 tax freeze meant city council would have no choice but to impose austerity measures in 2012. One might expect the Tory administration’s brain trust is similarly far-sighted.

Tory has made promises to that effect: that he would find efficiencies in subsequent years, once he’d had a chance to settle into the job. It’s a nice promise to make, but more

difficult to achieve.

Last year, city manager Joe Pennachetti, thinking to retire, told council very seriously that Toronto’s public service is running lean now, and that the city’s service levels cannot sustain more trimming. Taxes would have to rise if council is to afford the services that it had in 2014.

Putting children on the subway for free, adding subway cars and buses to make rush-hour more bearable, sheltering the homeless adequately… Pennachetti had not even contemplated such wonders last fall.

So what is to become of us next year? It is difficult to say. Over the course of the campaign, Tory displayed his conservative bona fides; in the months following, he reached out to a more broadly based constituency.

And with this budget, he will have settled us into a corner. How we get out of it is anybody’s guess.

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Organizers of the Black Experience Project know this: 400,000 people in Greater Toronto say they’re black, but each of their lives is different.

Finding out how different is a monumental job, but next month – Black History Month – the project’s interviewers will start asking around 1,800 residents what it’s like to be black in the GTA. They’ll be asked about the strength of their identities – black, ethnic, and otherwise – their goals, religious beliefs, and where they feel they belong.

Nothing like it has been done with Toronto’s black community, or communities, before.

“It’s going to answer some questions we’ve all asked,” as well as shed some light on misconceptions, North York filmmaker Ryan Singh said last week.

“More people will say, ‘The black community is a viable community, and we want to know more about it.’”

Its supporters, including members of more than two dozen non-profit groups, say the project, when completed and released later this year, won’t simply sit on a shelf.

“We’re going to get a really complete picture of people’s lives,” added Keith Neuman, executive director of the nonprofit Environics Institute, one of the project’s partners.

The study is an important exercise, said Karen Carter,

executive director of Heritage Toronto and one of hundreds of “trailblazers” who volunteered time to shape it during 2012 and 2013.

Black people in Toronto have layers of identity – whether they’re from families whose ancestors arrived on the Underground Railroad, or who came from the Caribbean in the Trudeau era, or from Africa more recently – complicated by the spaces in Greater Toronto they live in, Carter said.

After its findings are known, Carter hopes the community, or communities, can “look within ourselves at these complications, as we grapple with them.”

As chairperson of Black Artists’ Network in Dialogue, which uses culture “as a way to educate the average Canadian and average fellow citizen about who we are,” she said she avoids featuring just works from artists of Caribbean background, though artistic excellence must be shown by all.

Carter also hopes the project demonstrates the usuallyoverlooked economic power of Toronto’s black people, and that the results make their leaders more confident, able to go “walking in the door (of institutions) and saying, ‘Hey, I’m here,’ even if you weren’t invited.”

Michael Hall, a vice president of YMCA of Greater Toronto, said his organization, a project partner whose black staff examined the proposal and got involved in designing the research, is committed to use the project afterwards to serve the community better.

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w Feb. 1 to 28 Poster series on display Earl Bales Community Centre, 4169 Bathurst St. Toronto youth designed posters that represent what Black History Month means to them. Sales from posters go back to supporting recreation in Toronto. w Monday, Feb. 2 Oware Make and Take Workshop Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington Rd., 10 to 11 a.m.

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share your view What are your thoughts on the successes and challenges of the black community? Email us at nym@insidetoronto.com (the black) community is,” including its needs and aspirations, Hall said.

Though a report on the project’s “trailblazing” first phase concludes “there is no single ‘black experience,’ but rather ‘black experiences,’” and “the diversity with the community needs to be emphasized,” it also finds Toronto’s black people, as a whole, face challenges “not similarly experienced by most other immigrant or ethnic communities in the GTA.” Singh said he sees the project as a way to unite the black community’s factions and fragments.

“There’s power in unity,” said Singh, adding his work within the community has reflected a “love-hate relationship” for years.

“I love because I love my people, but I challenge because I find we’re so fragmented,” said Singh, who directed a call-to-action video (http:// youtu.be/JKezwsr7N10) for the project.

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every question, but it will start conversations to help heal the community, and will change the way advertisers and governments look at black people, he predicted.

“It’s the beginning of understanding a people.”

Singh joins a five-person panel discussing black experiences, moderated by author and broadcaster Dalton Higgins, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5 in the Maria A, Shchuka Toronto Public Library branch at 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. Each person speaking at the free event is a black storyteller or educator.

The city’s other scheduled Black History Month events are, unsurprisingly, quite diverse, presenting everything from personal histories and spoken word poetry to culinary delights.

For the Ontario Black History Society kick-off brunch this past Sunday, Mary Anne Chambers, a former Scarborough MPP, said she planned to speak about “selfempowerment,” her call to people in black communities “to see themselves as part of the solution.”

“We are capable of, and we have made, these huge contributions to the world, and we need to continue to take our responsibility to define who we are and write our own history,”

she declared last week.

Chambers said she’d reflect on achievements of black inventors, “people whose names we don’t hear as much as maybe we should,” but whose brilliance improved lives around the world.

“Notwithstanding challenges too many people still experience as a result of poverty or not-too-subtle racism, we’ve come a long way,” added Chambers.

Drop-out rates for black high school students are unacceptably high, relations with police are strained, and the community is over-represented in Ontario’s child welfare system, said Chambers, a former provincial minister for children and youth.

Expressing sympathy for young people in these situations – “They need the village to support them today” – she also said she’d encourage youth to seek careers in law enforcement or justice system, to make changes from inside.

When black youth and police meet under positive circumstances, stereotypes diminish and respect increases, said Chambers. “I hear this from the kids and I hear this from the police.”

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w Thursday, Feb. 5 RISE Poetry - Randell Adjei Flemingdon Park Library Auditorium, 29 St. Dennis Dr., 1 to 2 p.m.

An afternoon session on spoken word with Randell Adje. w Friday, Feb. 6 Welcome to the world of Dwayne Morgan Amesbury Park Library, 1565 Lawrence Ave. W. 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

Morgan works with young people advocating for gender equality. w Monday, Feb. 9 Hands-on Drumming Don Mills Library Auditorium, 888 Lawrence Ave. E., 7 to 8 p.m.

This Mystic Drumz workshop will feature demonstrations on African instruments.

Open to everyone 8 and older. Register: 416-395-5710 w Friday, Feb. 13 Gumboots Dance North York Central Library Auditorium, 5120 Yonge St., 7 to 8 p.m.

Gumboots is a dynamic, rhythmic dance originating from South Africa. All ages welcome. Register: 416-395-5639. w Wednesday, Feb. 18 Season of Rage: Racial Conflict in a Small Town North York Central Library Room 1, 5120 Yonge St., 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

John Cooper, author of ‘Season of Rage: Hugh Burnett and the Struggle for Civil Rights’ discusses how African Canadian citizens in Dresden, Ontario challenged the racist attitudes of the 1950s. w Thursday, Feb. 19 Self-Reliance and Independence: The Message of Early Black Ontario Newspapers North York Central Library Auditorium, 5120 Yonge St., 7 to 8 p.m.

The Provincial Freeman, a black newspaper founded by Samuel R. Ward in the 1850s in Windsor, and its predecessor, Voice of the Fugitive, did more than provide resources for blacks, often fugitive slaves, new to Canada in the mid-1800s.

Register: 416-395-5660. w Thursday, Feb. 19 Pop Up Black History Children’s Museum Woodview Park Library, 16 Bradstock Rd., 4 to 8 p.m. w Saturday, Feb. 21 Beatboxing 101 with Eddy Fairview Library, Room 3, 35 Fairview Mall Dr., 2 to 3 p.m.

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A d d i t i o n a l l y, h e admired another fellow Canadian figure skater who also attended a North York high school.

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Photo courtesy Skate Canada/STEPHAN POTOPNYK

Nam Nguyen, a North York high school student, is the Canadian senior men’s figure skating champion.

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“My family is extremely proud of me,” he said.

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It’s now eight years running that the men’s Canadian figure skating champ has come from a North York high school.

Former champ Patrick Chan won the previous seven national championships

the ice yesterday,” said Nguyen Wednesday.

He trains six days a week and five hours each day at the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club near Wilson Avenue and Avenue Road.

He will be competing in Seoul, Korea for the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships taking place Feb. 9 to 15, and in Shanghai, China for the 2015 World Figure Skating Championships March 23 to 29.

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From factory floor to rehabbing Pan Am athletes, immigrant finds dream job DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com

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uban immigrant Osvaldo Bolanos Medina admits that returning to school after arriving in Canada was expensive, but definitely worth it as he’s now living his dream of working with athletes.

The 35-year-old North Yorker is a massage therapist who often works with athletes at Markham’s Honsberger Physiotherapy and Biomechanics Clinic and this summer he’ll be volunteering for the Pan Am Games providing treatments to athletes when they need it.

“It’s wonderful,” he said.

“It’s what I love to do.”

He said the Pan Am Games is the biggest sporting event Toronto will host for a while and he’s grateful to be a part of it, something he could not do had he not returned to school.

The Keele Street and Lawrence Avenue area resident was already an educated man back home in Cuba with a master’s degree, teaching health sciences and physical education at a high school and doing kinesiology.

Then he met a Canadian

woman in Cuba, fell in love, and got married.

His wife lived with him in Cuba for a while but then they decided to move to Canada.

At age 29, Bolanos Medina arrived in Canada in the middle of winter on Super Bowl Sunday. He doesn’t recall who won the game.

He ended up working at a cookie factory, but after three years decided he needed to do something else.

He said his job was decent, but it was frustrating wasting six years of schooling, not using his education here. ‘refuse to settle’ “I’m not the only one.

I met a lot of co-workers with tons of education working in factory jobs,” he said. “I was still young and I refused to settle for a factory job.”

He took his degree to the University of Toronto for evaluation and while some of his schooling counted here, he learned he would need to take more classes, which would take one to two years to get back to doing something similar to what he had done in Cuba. Not being

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Cuban native Osvaldo Bolanos Medina has a new career as a massage therapist.

a Canadian Citizen at the time, he would not receive a subsidized tuition and he did not qualify for Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP).

He began looking at his options and decided to pursue an education to become a massage therapist, as it was similar to his kinesiology work. He looked around at various schools and decided on Bryan College in North York.

Eighteen months later and $20,000 poorer (about half of what it would have cost him to attend university), with a newborn at home, Bolanos Medina became a massage therapist and started doing what he enjoyed at a local spa.

He then took more courses to learn sport massage therapy and got hired at his current job.

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Despite now having two young children, he’s not finished learning, he said, and even does some parttime teaching as well.

“I love that I get to work in a field that I like,” he said. “I keep taking more courses to improve myself.

If I didn’t love what I’m doing, I wouldn’t keep improving myself.”

Bolanos Medina encourages all newcomers to pursue something better.

“Don’t be afraid to go for it. Canada offers a lot of options,” he said. career pathways Among them, he encourages people to contact the Alternative Career Pathways at the National Association of Canadian Colleges (NACC), of which Bryan College is a member.

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in the paint Senator O’Connor College School’s Noel Forrest, left, drives the baseline for a shot over St. John Paul II Catholic Secondary School’s Quasi Clarke during Catholic high school senior boys’ basketball action last Thursday at St. John Paul II. The home side Panthers went on to win the game 70-44.

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Tenders

Tenders

Cars for Sale

Cars for Sale

INVITATION TO TENDER Metroland Media Toronto is accepting tenders to deliver our weekly Apartment Saverbag to carrier and lobby drop locations within the Etobicoke and Scarborough area 1 to 2 times per week. This entails picking up the skids of Saverbags at our North York location on Wednesday’s and completing all carrier deliveries

by Thursday’s at 2 p.m and all lobby drop deliveries by Thursday’s at 7 p.m. All applicants must have a cargo van or cube truck.

Contracts commence Monday March 2nd 2015 Bid packages are available at the Reception Desk, of Metroland Media Toronto, 175 Gordon Baker Road, Toronto Ontario M2H 0A2.

Tender due date: Thursday February 19 2015 By 5 pm To the attention of: Anton McCormack, Mailroom / Trucking Supervisor Lowest or any bid not necessarily accepted.

INVITATION TO TENDER Metroland Media Toronto is accepting tenders to deliver our Advertiser store copies of flyers to pre-determined store locations within the Toronto area once per week. This entails picking up the flyers at our North York location on Wednesday’s and completing the store drops within one day. Delivery addresses will be supplied with Bid packages.

Contracts commence Monday March 2nd, 2015.

Bid packages are available at the Reception Desk, of Metroland Media Toronto, 175 Gordon Baker Road, Toronto Ontario M2H 0A2.

Tender due date: Thursday February 19th 2015 By 5 pm To the attention of: Anton McCormack Mailroom / Trucking Supervisor Lowest or any bid not necessarily accepted.

INVITATION TO TENDER Metroland Media Toronto is accepting tenders to deliver our weekly Newspaper and flyers to carrier drop locations within the Scarborough, Etobicoke, East York and North York areas 3 times per week. This entails picking up the newspapers and flyers at our North York location on Tuesday’s and completing all Flyer deliveries by Wednesday’s at 3 p.m and all newspaper deliveries by Thursday’s at 2 p.m to all carrier drops. All applicants must have a cargo van or cube truck.

Contracts commence Monday March 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd, 2015.

(Depending on area selected to bid for) Bid packages are available at the Reception Desk, of Metroland Media Toronto, 175 Gordon Baker Road, Toronto Ontario M2H 0A2.

Tender due date: Thursday February 19th 2015 By 5 pm To the attention of: Anton McCormack, Mailroom/ Trucking Supervisor Lowest or any bid not necessarily accepted.

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Houses for Rent

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2 parking, non-smoking/pets.

Available immediately.

Rent is negotiable.

416-751-6893.

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Articles Wanted for Rent/Wanted

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Building Equipment/ Materials

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Home Renovations

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647-400-8198

Appliance Repairs/ Installation

Appliance Repairs/ Installation

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35 years experience.

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Central Air Conditioning & Heating.

(416)281-3030

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