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DRESS REHEARSAL: Members of Just Dance perform at the Junior Carnival media launch Tuesday at Downsview Park. See page 3 for the full story plus more photos.

Historic Willowdale churches merge FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com

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Tears were shed and tissue passed around as two historic

Willowdale churches, which officially merged Monday, held their last separate services the previous day.

Newtonbrook United

Church and Northminster United Church have combined to form Cummer Avenue United Church.

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gation will worship at 53 Cummer Ave., the former site of Newtonbrook United.

The first service will be held >>>FIRST, page 6

It was during Stefano Plati’s time at York University when he came up with an idea that could possibly put Canada on the international automotive map.

The York University alumnus received a contribution of up to $750,000 from the federal government for his company, Vida Holdings Corp., to develop and commercialize its MultiChamber Catalytic Converter (MCCC).

Vaughan MP Julian Fantino was on hand to make the announcement Tuesday at York University where Plati initially began his research into catalytic converters in vehicles.

“It was six years ago that people said, ‘You’re crazy,’” said Plati, as he recalled seeing black smoke coming from trucks while working part-time at UPS. “I thought I was going to get sick.” >>>‘SUCCESS’, page 6

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Cultura Festival WHEN: 6 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge St. CONTACT: Brian Liberty, http:// culturafestival.ca, blibert@toronto.ca COST: Free A free, weekly Friday night festival in July that celebrates music, art, food and film.

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Music in the Square WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Shops at Don Mills, 1090 Don Mills Rd. CONTACT: Shops at Don Mills, 416447-6087, www.shopsatdonmills.ca, COST: Free Pop, R and B and cover music by Aion Clarke every Friday night until Sept 6.

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North York Astros host Serbian White Eagles WHEN: 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Esther Shiner Stadium, 5720 Bathurst St. CONTACT: www.northyorkastros.ca, tickets@northyorkastros.ca COST: Adult (14 and over) $15; youth (3-13) $5

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Back on Track: Healthy Living Workshops

About Community Resources WHEN: 1 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Bathurst-Finch Hub, 540 Finch Ave. W. CONTACT: Marisa DiNardo, 416635-2900 COST: Free Get information about resources, including community services and supports, home and community safety, financial planning, legal matters, mental and physical well-being.

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Movie: Identity thief (2013) WHEN: 2 p.m. WHERE: Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington Rd. CONTACT: 416-395-5440 COST: Free Synopsis: mild-mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Miami to confront the deceptively harmless-looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy’s identity. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis, every other Thursday.

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.

WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Unison Lawrence Heights site, 12 Flemington Rd. CONTACT: Hamda Mohamed, 416-787-1676, ext. 234, hamda.mohamed@unisonhcs.org COST: Free Four free sessions led by a registered dietitian. Target populations are Caribbean and East-African, however this is open to everyone.

Ward 34: Making Space for Culture Public Meeting WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Broadlands Community Centre, 19 Castlegrove Blvd CONTACT: makingspace@toronto.ca COST: Free The City of Toronto is holding wardbased meetings to assess community needs for affordable and sustainable cultural spaces. Residents are invited

to offer their input about their neighbourhood’s cultural infrastructure to help guide potential future investment. Examples of culture spaces and infrastructure include performance venues for music, theatre or dance, art galleries and studios, and rehearsal spaces.

Dancing in the Town Square WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Shops at Don Mills, 1090 Don Mills Rd. CONTACT: 416-447-6087, www. shopsatdonmills.ca COST: Free Learn new steps and moves in Latin dance at Dancing in the Square every Monday and Wednesday.

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Educational and Support Group

E-Reader Workshop WHEN: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Hillcrest Library, 5801 Leslie St. CONTACT: Isaac Han, 416-395-5830, ihan@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Learn how to download and enjoy e-books from Toronto Public Library onto your e-readers and tablets.

ongoing Oh Dear Art Exhibition WHEN: July 2 to Aug. 26 WHERE: Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge St. CONTACT: www.ohdearnorthyork. blogspot.ca/, info@northyorkarts.org COST: Free North York Arts presents an exhibit curated by Paola Poletto, a North York resident and installation artist. Oh Dear will critically explore

the past, present, and proposed future of North York through the work of artists of several disciplines.

Fairview Mall Farmers’ Market WHEN: Fridays, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

WHERE: South Parking Lot, 1800 Sheppard Ave. E. CONTACT: William Blyleven, 905-317-3010, www.

Facebook.com/FairviewMallFarmersMarket, maplegreenhouses@bellnet. ca COST: Free Fairview Mall Farmers’ Market is open every Friday until Oct. 11.

Chair Exercise Class WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. Thursdays WHERE: St. Bonaventure Church, 1300 Leslie St. CONTACT: Eric, 416-450-0892, daweric@gmail.com COST: Free Class focuses on balance, co-ordination, strength, flexibility and posture.

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Caribbean sights and sounds abound in Junior Carnival Parade July 20 at Downsview Park FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Downsview Park was a sea of bright colours and headdresses as dozens of youngsters showed off their dance skills during the media launch of Scotiabank Junior Carnival Parade Tuesday.

With steel pan and Caribbean music playing in the background, children representing different mas camps entertained the crowd and gave a glimpse of what’s to come at this year’s parade, set for Saturday, July 20 at the Keele Street and Sheppard Avenue park.

The parade is part of the 46th annual Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival, which will run July 9 to Aug. 4.

The Junior Carnival Parade was moved to Downsview Park last year from Jane Street and Finch Avenue because of traffic concerns and space limitations. It’s expected 2,500 children will take part this year.

“This is exciting,” said Christine Williams, Scotiabank vice-president of Toronto East Region. “Not only does it give children a chance to participate, but it showcases their many talents. Every year the festival continues to grow as people embrace the sights and sounds of Caribbean music.”

Though the Junior Carnival Parade will once again be held at Downsview Park, the route will be different this year.

Starting at 11 a.m., the parade will move west through William Baker Park and over the bridge before

Above, Princeton Campbell-Richards blows bubbles at the end of the Junior Carnival media launch Tuesday at Downsview Park. At right, young dancers dressed up for the carnival.

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The public launch of S co tia ba nk Toro nto Caribbean Carnival will take place Tuesday, July 9 at noon at Nathan Phillips Square, near Queen and Bay streets, with dancers, musicians and calypso singers.

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yelections are a chance for people to become engaged in community building – and hold vote-seeking candidates to account on issues of importance.

And with five provincial byelections upcoming, it’s a chance for the voter to show their support (or not) for the government of the provincial Liberals.

In Toronto, where two of the votes are being held, all but five of Toronto’s 23 seats (counting PickeringScarborough East) are in the hands of the governing Liberals. The others are NDP. None are held by the Progressive Conservatives.

The results could be interpreted as more than a mere microcosm of how voters feel the minority Liberal government is performing.

That’s because the relationship between our city and the province is rocky these days.

Toronto has a right-leaning mayor in Rob Ford who is clearly not seeing eye to eye with the governing After a meeting last week our view Liberals. with provincial finance minister Charles Sousa, he and Sousa put Provincial forward diametrically different over a controversial byelections viewpoints $150 million cut in provincial grant money to the city. Ford has upcoming responded by asking the city manager to report to council on the implications of this funding shortfall.

Then there’s the matter of competing visions over what to do with the Scarborough RT line – and transit funding in general. The CEO of provincial transit agency Metrolinx has raised the possibility of stopping work on the new light rail replacement of the RT – in light of a recent Toronto council resolution asking for a subway instead. The light rail line, per an agreement between the city and the province, is being funded by the province. A subway line is not.

In Scarborough-Guildwood and EtobicokeLakeshore, byelections are being scheduled to replace departing Liberals Margarett Best and Laurel Broten, respectively.

Voters must look beyond traditional voting support and ask for policy positions on the real issues that affect the people of Toronto.

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With binding arbitration, costs go in one direction

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o you ever wonder why the public usually pays above market rates for almost every decision that goes to arbitration?

Just recently, an arbitrator awarded firefighters a 14.26 per cent raise over five years, far in excess of the 6.5 per cent given to Toronto’s inside and outside workers, well above the rate of inflation, and higher than settlements in the private sector.

Our firefighters are not alone in achieving lucrative awards. Joining the ranks of very well paid municipal workers are our police and paramedics, whose remuneration increased by almost six per cent annually despite a flat economy, according to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario.

How do they do it? It begins by having their service declared essential.

On paper it looks like a fair deal. The two sides agree not to have a strike or lockout, but instead take their differences to binding

david soknacki beyond the headlines arbitration.

Practically, competition among municipalities, the rigid nature of arbitration, and provincial governments unwilling to take on powerful unions all conspire to preserve a system that pushes up costs.

Part of the problem is because municipalities compete for experienced workers, trained at other jurisdictions’ expense.

Add to the mix the number of firefighters who live well outside of the city, thanks in part to Toronto’s adoption of the 24-hour shift, and it is easy to see why surrounding municipalities find it tempting to poach Toronto’s firefighters.

Part of the problem is an inability to limit arbitration.

Despite the province’s best intentions, arbitrators are not known to lower awards based on financial distress.

Toronto’s woes were rejected by the arbitrator when he pointed to our surpluses. In jurisdictions as challenged as Windsor and Scugog, large awards were given with little consideration to difficulties in those local economies.

And part of the problem is that arbitrators will not open up contracts to find savings, such as changing work practices. Usually arbitrators deal solely with outstanding issues, meaning remuneration and other benefits.

That means the only major question open for arbitration is how high to raise pay.

Since firefighting standards are the same throughout the province, municipalities compete for trained workers, and the current arbitration system is so skewed in favour of one of the parties, using provincial powers makes sense.

Perhaps the simplest way is to limit the rate of

increase province-wide.

This is the approach recently attempted in New York state.

Even though the costs of arbitrated contracts would continue to be paid by the municipalities, the provincial government will avoid involvement probably because it wants no part of confronting some of the strongest and savviest unions around.

As well, the current provincial Liberal government requires the support of the NDP. As a result, the public’s problem of paying more than necessary for arbitrated services will remain.

The too-expensive costs of these settlements remain part of the tangled mess of our intergovernmental relations, a downloaded problem, every bit as significant as public housing, transit and social services.

David Soknacki is a former City of Toronto councillor and budget chief. Contact him at www.soknacki.com

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Project First service Sunday at Cummer Avenue United Water helps the homeless 14th annual event next Tuesday The 14th annual Project Water takes place Tuesday, July 9 with hundreds of volunteers again helping distribute bottles of water to the homeless in Toronto through more than 170 frontline relief organizations.

Founded by Jody Steinhauer, president of The Bargains Group, at 890 Caledonia Rd., Project Tuesday Water began 14 years ago to address the issue of the homeless dying from dehydration during the summer months.

Volunteers have committed hundreds of hours since the project’s inception to secure more than 1.5 million water bottles, warehouse the product, help load the water bottles and distribute them to relief organizations and homeless shelters in the city.

This year, volunteer opportunities are now limited to sponsors of the project. If your group is interested in sponsoring the project and bringing a team out, contact Steinhauer at 416-785-5865.

>>>from page 1 Sunday at 10:30 a.m., complete with a trumpeter and town crier, followed by a picnic.

“There were tears, but for the most part people were accepting,” said Rev. Vivian Yarwood, who preached at Newtonbrook United Church and will be conducting services at Cummer Avenue United Church.

“It’s just a reality.

Sometimes the head and

heart are different. The head knows what has to be done.”

Newtonbrook United Church was approached

by Northminster United Church about a year and a half ago to see if there was interest in merging, Yarwood said.

“They offered to come to us,” she said.

Once boasting a Sunday school enrollment of 600 children and 450 worshippers in weekly attendance

in the 1960s, Northminster United Church has struggled in recent years with declining numbers, said Rev. Irene Ty, who had run services at Northminster for six years and will be joining Yarwood at the newly formed Cummer Avenue United Church.

“We had worked with Newtonbrook on joint outreach services and with refugee resettlement,” she said of why the church approached Newtonbrook

with the merge idea.

“We had certain things in common. It felt like a natural fit. And it’s only three kilometres away.”

Northminster took a look at their declining membership about seven years ago, with the majority of members voting for the church to remain as it was, Ty said.

But two to three years ago, a small group formed and met for about a year to figure out future plans.

They proposed amalgama-

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There is a new energy for the new church.

Sadness, excitement and anticipation.

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tion to the congregation.

“Some were not happy, but they felt a lot of thought and prayer went into the decision,” Ty said.

The final service last Sunday was bitter-sweet, she said, adding she shed her tears at the church’s last youth service on Mother’s Day. As for the future of Northminster’s building, Ty said the decision rests in the hands of the Toronto South West Presbytery, adding several churches and a daycare currently rent space at the site.

“There is new energy for the new church,” she said.

“Sadness, excitement and anticipation.”

Cummer Avenue United Church will continue to offer the programs that were available at the former churches, including a food program every Wednesday, adult and children choirs and assisting with refugee resettlement.

Newtonbrook United Church, which averaged 75 to 90 Sunday worshippers, traced its foundation back to 1840, and Northminster United, which saw about 60 weekly churchgoers, was founded in 1957.

Newtonbrook United had ties to former prime minister Lester B. Pearson, as his father, Edwin, was the church’s minister in the late 1800s.

‘Success story’ will help with job creation >>>from page 1 He then went into the library to read up on catalytic converters that work by changing pollutant gases from motor vehicle exhaust into less harmful ones, using precious metals as catalysts to create chemical reactions.

The difference with the MCCC, Plati explained, is its design allows it to use less of the expensive metals, operate efficiently at a wide range of

temperatures, and improve fuel economy while meeting global vehicle emission standards.

“This is a cost-savings invention,” he said.

Fantino, who came on behalf of Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for t h e Fe d e ra l E c o n o m i c Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), commended Vida Holdings for the innovative

work it’s doing.

“What a great success story it is,” said Fantino, noting the FedDev Ontario investment should help create 15 highvalue jobs in the GTA. The funding will support the total project cost of $2.25 million for the development, testing and commercialization of the MCCC. As president of Vida Holdings, Plati said the company is currently testing on

eight different platforms ranging from small vehicles to 18-wheelers. He hoped to get the MCCC out on the mass market in two years.

“When I think about how it came together, it kind of freaks me out,” said Plati, who acknowledged newly retired chemistry professor Diethard Bohme for his assistance in getting the idea off the ground.

Plati, who was an eco-

nomics and political science student, looked for scientific feedback after researching catalytic converters at the university’s library. Bohme just happened to have his office door open that day.

“I’m a scientist so my first reaction is always skepticism,” said Bohme.

“But he was enthusiastic, energetic. He was keen. When you see that in a young person, you become interested.”

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Vida Holdings Corp. president Stefano Plati explains his new catalytic converter system Tuesday at York University.

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Next year’s municipal election opens up interesting possibilities

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ob Ford isn’t the only one thinking about the next municipal election in 2014.

Radio host John Tory’s thinking about it, word is that TTC chair Karen Stintz is building a team and New Democrat MPP and former councillor Olivia Chow is aimed that way, too.

It’s all an invitation to start up a game of fantasy politics post-haste, scour the polls and start picking winners and losers.

That’s all good fun. But it puts aside a more vital question: just exactly what will the next mayor of Toronto be left to work with, once the ballots are cast and the winners chosen, and what will that individual be able to do with it?

Mayor Rob Ford has repeatedly maintained it’s been his job to reduce the size and cost of government. He claims he has so far saved taxpayers a billion dollars.

The claim is not entirely accurate – he’s included both the removal of the vehicle registration tax and the increase of user fees – but it is wrong to say the

david nickle the city mayor hasn’t done taxpayers a good turn, contracting out garbage collection and taming unions and cutting councillors’ budgets.

If he’s not re-elected for all that, however, he will also have done his successor a good turn.

For two years running now, the Ford administration has operated under a strict policy of sliding three-quarters of prior year surpluses into the city’s capital budget and holding back the rest for unanticipated liabilities.

This year, that surplus amounts in total to $248 million. So $186 million will be going to pay cash for the sorts of projects that in the past the city has funded through debt.

Last year, the surplus was higher: $292.7 million.

This 75-25 policy is a child of the Ford administration but happily midwived by the city’s finance staff. Keeping debt levels low makes for far more

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It also limits city council’s ability to make in-year operating changes, and allows Ford to continue the business of shrinking government in terms of the services it provides.

What it does for a future mayor – one with more governmental ambition – is another thing entirely.

By sending surpluses to reduce debt, what the Ford administration has done is create borrowing room for an ambitious mayor to embark on a much more ambitious capital program going forward.

Shelley Carroll, the former budget chief under former mayor David Miller and a sometime-mayoralhopeful herself, wonders what might be done with the Gardiner Expressway.

Many things become possible for a city-building mayor riding in on the heels of a mayor whose major ambition was to put a hold on ambitious projects.

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City manager to report on impact of provincial cuts Ford maintains he will not raise taxes to cover loss of funding DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Toronto city manager Joe Pennachetti will be reporting directly to council on the implications of the loss of nearly $150 million in provincial housing grants.

“I’ve asked the city manager to prepare a special report on the impact the provincial funding cuts will have on this great city,” said Mayor Rob Ford in a twice-postponed news conference last Thursday.

The news conference was the first time Ford had addressed the provincial decision to phase out $150 million in grants to cover the cost of social housing since earlier that week (Monday), when he and city staff met with Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa at Queen’s Park.

Sousa maintained the city would actually come out financially ahead, because the province was cancelling a $230 million provincial loan to cover the costs of amalgamation.

Ford and city finance staff argued that the city had been told that loan would be cancelled in 2005, and since then had not been making payments on it, so the forgiveness of the loan will have

no financial impact on the city’s budget.

“We had an agreement with the province and based on that agreement we composed a plan to restore our fiscal house,” said Ford Thursday.

“They’re trying to force us to keep the land transfer tax. They’re trying to force us to increase taxes, they’re trying to force us to bring back the vehicle registration tax.”

Ford made it clear that he wouldn’t budge on his promise to cut 10 per cent from the land transfer tax and hold the property tax increase to 1.75 per cent, and dismissed Sousa’s assertion that the city had other choices.

“He told me the choice is to raise taxes,” said

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matter, urging caution and suggesting that the whole They’re trying to force matter go to the city’s budget process. us to keep the land Pennachetti said the transfer tax. They’re funding decision from Queen’s Park puts the city trying to force us to in a more precarious posiincrease taxes. They’re tion in 2014. trying to force us to Budget chief Frank Di Giorgio, meanwhile, bring back to vehicle wouldn’t commit as to registration tax. whether or not he would – Mayor Rob Ford support the mayor’s plan to cut the land transfer tax.

Ford. “He said, ‘I gave you “I would say that if the the tools under the City funds were available I of Toronto Act to raise would support it,” said Di taxes.’”

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Trinity-Spadina Councillor Adam Vaughan, a frequent critic of the mayor, said maintaining a promise to reduce the land transfer tax was foolish and destructive – even as he said the province should continue and even increase its funding to public housing.

“Moving money away from housing is unacceptable,” Vaughan said.

“Ottawa and Queen’s Park have got to step up to the plate. That being said, for the mayor to go around threatening to make matters worse...it’s like cutting everyone’s nose off to spite his face – not just his own.”

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Fengjin Wu came home Friday night and told her husband that she had been struck by a car. Then she died.

Where and when the accident happened is a mystery that police hope the public can help them unravel.

Police said Wu, 46, left her home near Finch Avenue and Leslie Street to go shopping at

about 2 p.m.

“We believe that she took public transit,” said Det. Sgt. Jim Gotell of 33 Division. “She liked to go to the Scarborough Town Centre and to the Pacific Mall so those are two of the places she could’ve gone, but she could’ve gone anywhere in the city.”

When Wu returned home at about 9 p.m., she told her husband that she had been hit by a car.

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“She has some injuries to her hands and elbows, and he asks her if she wants to go to the hospital and she says no,” Gotell said. “She’s just going to go upstairs and get cleaned up in the bathroom.”

Wu’s husband later found her without vital signs in the bathroom. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the home.

As part of the investigation, police are attempting to retrace

Wu’s final steps through cellphone, bank and credit card records. Police are also appealing for the public’s help.

“If anybody in the community saw her on Friday, please let us know,” Gotell said.

“Anybody who saw a woman being struck by a car, please let us know or if a driver is out there who was involved in an accident with a Chinese lady, please call us.”

Police don’t know if the acci-

dent was a hit and run.

“The driver might have even stopped and spoken to this lady,” Gotell said. “She did have relatively minor injuries, and they could’ve decided that everything is OK...We need to determine what happened to her on Friday, the total sequence of events, so we need to speak to the driver to find out what happened.”

Wu had collar-length straight dark brown hair and

brown eyes. She wore a long brown coat and blue jeans.

An autopsy failed to determine the cause of death.

“We’re waiting for additional autopsy results like toxicology,” said Gotell. “It may very well be that the accident had nothing to do with the eventual cause of death.”

Anyone with information is asked to call 33 Division at 416-808-3300 or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-TIPS (8477).

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JULY 5-6: CANADIAN PINBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Pinball players will come together in Toronto for two full days of gaming fun. The annual event will feature a variety of pinball machines as well as classic pins from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Participants of all ages and skill levels are encouraged to play. To register, visit http://cpc2013.topl.org/

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The 19th annual Heatwave Toronto Volleyball and Tournament is serving up great times and competitive matches in support of cancer research at SickKids and the new Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning. The two-day tournament at Ashbridge’s Bay features co-ed beach volleyball (competitive and recreational) and great food, drinks, and prizes. For more information or to register, visit www.heatwaveevents.com

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June Rowlands Park in Toronto will be a hub of entertainment on Tuesday, July 16 as local musicians, including SickKids patient Carley Allison, take the stage at the Apple Tree Market at Mt. Pleasant and Davisville to support SickKids. The event will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. Admission is free.

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The team during ‘Challenge C, In Disguise’ includes Joylen Kingsley, left, Mariane Jeong, Natalie Czajka, Mikaela Cordero and Michael Maggiacomo.

North York students compete at Destination Imagination finals Competition in problem solving, creative thinking FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com

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he pressure of competing in Destination Imagination’s Global Finals was welcomed by North York competitor Kasia Wodz.

After winning first place in their category at the provincial competition at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus in April, the St. Bonaventure Catholic School student was part of one of three teams from the Leslie Street and Lawrence Avenue school to make it onto the Global Finals, which was held in May in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Destination Imagination is a competition in creative thinking, problem solving and team work.

Open to students in kindergarten through university level, the Destination Imagination program features challenges in seven categories, including STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), the arts, service learning and early

learning.

Four of Kasia’s seven teammates made the trip to Knoxville for the Global Finals, where they competed in the Middle level for grades 6 to 8. They placed 41st in their division for the Improvisational challenge out of more than 50 teams.

This was the 13-yearold’s third time competing at the provincial level, and the first time her team had placed first.

“It’s fun to think on the spot,” she said.

“Tennessee was a lot of fun and I met a lot of new people. I definitely want to compete throughout high school. It’s fun because it’s challenging and you also have to work hard. It’s kind of stressful, but a fun kind of stressful.”

Maria Meehan, acting principal of St. Bonaventure, said the 16 students who made it to the Global Finals are part of the congregated gifted program.

“The competition is all about the journey, which this year brought the students all the way to Knoxville,” she said.

“The focus on collaborative problem solving, creativity, communication and the exercising of their critical thinking skills is a

wonderful extension to the gifted program as well as consistent with our school’s focus on twenty-first century learning skills. The fact that the students made it to the Global Finals was thrilling for them and a source of pride for our community.”

Tina Shaffer, Destination Imagination communications co-ordinator, called the Global Finals an aweinspiring event that saw 7,067 competitors divided into 1,247 teams.

“For the students who get to attend Global Finals, the journey is one that involves an insurmountable amount of creativity, teamwork and perseverance,” she said.

“They work for months designing, developing and practicing their challenge solutions and if they’re fortunate enough to make it to Global Finals, they get to compete against top-scoring teams from all around the world.”

By focusing on certain skills, such as problem solving, critical thinking, teamwork, self-directed learning and courage, students are better prepared for postsecondary education and the work force, Shaffer said.

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McCuaig expresses concern over council’s position on light rail line David Nickle dnickle@insidetoronto.com If Toronto Council wants to stop the Metrolinx plan to build an LRT line along the soon-to-be-defunct Scarborough RT and replace it with a subway, the city and the TTC will be on their own when it comes to building and operating it.

That was the word from Me t r o l i n x C E O B r u c e

McCuaig, after meeting with officials from the City of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission Tuesday, July 2, over a troublesome council resolution from May asking for subway rather than LRT. McCuaig had written Friday to Toronto’s city manager Joe Pennachetti, asking for clarity on the city’s position and threatening to stop work on the new light rail replacement

Aug. 3 if none was forthcoming.

The motion, put forw a r d by S c a r b o r o u g h Centre Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker at the May meeting of council, asks that Metrolinx scrap the light rail and look at building a subway extension of the Bloor Danforth line to Sheppard Avenue instead.

That contradicts an agreement signed in 2012 between

the province and the city, to go ahead with the $1.8 billion light rail plan.

McCuaig told reporters Tuesday afternoon that a subway simply isn’t in the cards – at least as far as Metrolinx is concerned.

“A subway extension, practically speaking, would not be a Metrolinx project,” said McCuaig. “It’s a piece of infrastructure owned by the city and the TTC. Remember that

we’ve got an existing BloorDanforth subway line and what the city’s proposal could be is to add a few stations to the existing system.”

McCuaig said that Metrolinx would, however, stop the approved $1.8 billion project in the agreement because of the city’s uncertainty on the matter.

De Baeremaeker welcomed McCuaig’s letter.

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Scarborough,” he said.

“If Metrolinx ignored the City of Toronto and built the LRT we would never get a subway in Scarborough. I’ve read this Metrolinx letter 10 times over and it’s a great letter – it says we’re stopping work. Fabulous. We don’t want you to build this LRT, we want you to build a subway.”

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Businesses’ help sought by Zero Gun Violence Movement MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Businesses – and everybody else in Toronto – must do more for youth at risk of criminal involvement if the city hopes to see a summer without shootings, says a new coalition called the Zero Gun Violence Movement.

Groups concerned with violence in Toronto, where 12 lives were cut short by guns already this year, announced a 90-day antigun violence campaign recently in Scarborough.

Unfortunately, word came to the organizers that a man in his 20s on Danforth Avenue was being rushed to a trauma centre after being shot multiple times.

“We didn’t even finish closing down the launch,” Louis March of the African Canadian Heritage Association recalled in an interview.

And the next day, a 19-year-old was shot at

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Louis March and community members launch the Zero Gun Violence Movement last month at Redemption and Reintegration Services.

Midland and Lawrence avenues about a block from where the Movement’s press conference was held at Redemption and

Reintegration Services, an agency providing training and support for people coming out of the justice system.

Both men were seriously wounded but expected to survive.

The two incidents just show “we have a lot more

work to do,” said March, who has been doing antiviolence work since the city’s infamous Summer of the Gun in 2005.

That string of shootings led to the creation of the province’s Youth Challenge Fund and to city and United Way investments in “priority neighbourhoods” recognized to lack resources in Toronto’s former suburbs.

Often, these investments were programs to support young people or give youth a safe place to be in such neighbourhoods, but March said he’s been talking to people across Toronto who say they need more help serving youth at risk.

“There’s a lot of incredible people doing a lot of incredible work out there. But is it enough?” he asked.

Members of the movement want to re-engage corporate Toronto to offer more job placements, scholarships, mentoring and other programs.

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go a little beyond what they already do, the results will be important for at-risk youth, said March. “It exposes them to a different world.”

March would also like to see more collaboration and sharing between community organizations working against violence, and a fresh look at the strategies being used.

The movement wants to recruit local celebrities and other high profile people – too many are on the sidelines – to join its visits to community events this summer, where members will try to generate “positive buzz” around the issue, March said.

Gun violence in Toronto is like a war with many battlefields, he added, and though it won’t disappear completely this summer, the movement hopes to chip away at it.

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The firefighter contract is retroactive to 2010 and will see wages rise by a total of 14.26 per cent over the five year term. City workers will see their

wages rise by 6.25 per cent over the same period.

The pay hike will cost a total of $45.7 million over the course of the contract, but the retroactive portion has been budgeted for said city manager Joe Pennachetti. And the city will be saving $11 million as a result of changes to the benefit packages.

One thing the provincial arbitrator didn’t do was accept the city’s argument that any settlement ought to be based on the municipality’s ability to pay.

“We believe strongly that

should be taken into consideration,” said Pennachetti. “They said that because we were running budget surpluses, they don’t believe we have a difficulty paying the increases.”

The Toronto Professional Firefighters Association pointed out in a news release that the wage settlement was not, in fact, the highest in the province.

“While we are, in fact, the largest fire department in Canada, this award does not place as the highest paid amongst Ontario fire departments,” the release said.

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