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A colourful call for volunteers FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com

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ural Routes is looking for volunteers to help paint the CN Rail “rainbow” tunnel in Milne Hollow Park.

Step x Step: Introduction to Mural Arts, a program run by Mural Routes, offered nine free workshops at Flemingdon Park Library Saturdays, wrapping up April 27, in an effort to bring people together to help create street and mural art, said program co-ordinator Tara Dorey.

“We’ve gone over art basics, like figure drawing and stencil making,” she said.

“Now we’re focusing on different painting techniques. >>>TUNNEL, page 5

Newtonbrook, Lansing communities get plaqued Historical areas of North York recognized by Heritage Toronto FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com When Doug Wardle was born, farms were a common sight, everyone owned some sort of wild animal and people knew everyone in their neighbour-

hood.

Wardle, who emerged into the world in a house built by his father on Connaught Avenue in 1923, has never lived outside North York save for the three years he was in the service.

“It’s my home; I love it,” he

said. “I know nothing else. There have been a lot of changes, but also a lot of improvements. You can’t have one without the other.”

Wardle was on hand at R.J. Lang Elementary and Middle School Tuesday, March 26 to help unveil a plaque dedicated to the historic neighbourhood of Newtonbrook.

“This was farm fields,” he said of the Yonge Street and

Drewry Avenue area. “There were houses here and there.

Everyone had three things: you built your own house, you had an outhouse and you had a chicken house.”

The biggest change Wardle has seen in his almost 90 years was the start of the Second World War, he said.

“We would see the big boys going into the army,” he said. “A lot never came home. I joined

when I was 18 because there was nothing to do, there were no jobs.”

Wardle, who said R.J. Lang was his teacher and principal, said he and a friend took the bell from the former Newtonbrook School, the same bell that now resides inside R.J. Lang Elementary and Middle School.

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Celiac patient gives voice to gluten-free lifestyle Online resource launched by former North Yorker living with disease FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com

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banana saved Lisa Cantkier’s life.

It was 1977, and one-and-ahalf-year old Cantkier was admitted to The Hospital for Sick Children severely malnourished. Everything she ate was expelled in diarrhea and her stomach was protruding from a lack of being able to keep anything down. Her hair was falling out, she had stopped growing and smiling was rare.

Essentially, she was dying without a cause, withering away before doctors and her anxious parents.

With no tests coming back positive, doctors eventually diagnosed Cantkier with terminal cancer.

“It was an emotional roller coaster for my parents,” she said.

But after spending two months at the downtown hospital, a chance encounter with a banana turned everything – including the misdiagnosis – around.

“One day my meal came with a banana,” she said. “For some reason I ate the banana and nothing else. And for the first time I ate something and didn’t have diarrhea. The doctors then reviewed their notes and thought maybe my problem was something food related.”

After testing Cantkier for “everything under the sun,” a bowel biopsy concluded the little girl – her parents’ only child – had celiac disease.

According to the Canadian Celiac Association, celiac disease is a medical condition in which the absorptive surface of the small intestine is damaged by a substance called gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, triticale and barley. This results in an inability of the body to absorb nutrients: protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, which are necessary for good health.

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Common symptoms are anemia, chronic diarrhea, weight loss, fatigue, cramps and bloating and irritability.

Symptoms may appear together or individually in children or adults.

At present there is no cure, but celiac disease is treated by following a gluten-free diet.

Although statistics are not readily available, it is estimated as many as one in 133 people in Canada are affected by celiac disease.

“No one in my family had this,” Cantkier said of the autoimmune disease. “It was only discovered in the ’50s, so maybe my grandparents had it and didn’t know what it was.”

After starting a gluten-free diet, her symptoms slowly disappeared and the former North York resident was essentially brought back to life, she said.

“My mom was my biggest advocate growing up,” Cantkier said of her mother, Glenna, who was unavailable for comment for this story. “She took my gluten-free diet so seriously.”

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I said I wish I knew what other restaurants had gluten-free options. My friend asked, ‘Do you think there is a directory? If not you need to make one.’

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So seriously, in fact, Glenna was the one responsible for bringing the first gluten-free breads into Toronto grocery stores, with the former Food City near Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue the first location, Cantkier said.

Glenna was also instrumental in helping establish a Toronto support group for the Canadian Celiac Association in the early 1980s, which up to that point only had chapters in Hamilton and Kitchener, she said.

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Lisa Cantkier is founder and owner of glutenfreefind.com

Rosie Wartecker is well aware of how common celiac misdiagnosis was decades ago.

“We call it the big C-little c battle,” she said. “Because nobody knew back then.”

Her husband, Sigi, lived with a terminal cancer diagnosis for five years until a hospital internist, whose mother had celiac disease, thought perhaps this was cause of Sigi’s discomfort.

“He was saved by an internist,” Wartecker said, adding her husband was misdiagnosed in 1977. “We were told he had cancer, they just couldn’t find it.”

Dubbed ‘Nosey Rosie’ by friends, Wartecker began searching for information on celiac disease and ways to revamp her cooking, which took her to a small space at The Hospital for Sick Children, where wheat starch and other gluten-free items were available.

She had also heard of a group out of Kitchener – which would became a Canadian Celiac Association chapter – that met regularly and was trying to become a national organization.

After attending a few meetings, it was suggested there must be people in Toronto needing a support group like this. So in May 1981, with 12

people in the front room of her house, Wartecker became president of the Toronto chapter.

“Glenna was part of the second swoop that came in,” she said, adding the chapter eventually rented meeting space at The Hospital for Sick Children, where the group continues to meet.

Wartecker, who had to learn how to cook in a whole new way, learned to incorporate corn starch and toyed with the idea of making her entire household gluten free, to save time on making multiple meals, but cost quickly changed her mind.

“My husband was not a happy camper,” she said of his diet change.

“He’s from Europe and has a sweet tooth. He liked black forest cake. It took me five years to perfect a gluten-free black forest cake. We didn’t have the Internet back then and we exchanged recipes at our meetings.

My husband came to a meeting and he chowed down on the baked goods because they were gluten-free.”

Eating gluten-free inside Cantkier’s home wasn’t a big deal, but social situations proved to be a different story, she said.

“I grasped the concept,” said Cantkier, who now resides in Thornhill. “I understood the food I ate was different. It was mostly hard in social situations, like parties. I didn’t go to camp because camps at that time didn’t cater to dietary needs.

Kids would say my food didn’t look good. It made me feel different and I wanted to fit in.”

Cantkier did break her gluten-free diet while pregnant, as she was told autoimmune diseases go into remission during this time.

“I cheated with cookies and bread and felt fine,” said the mom of Elan, 6, and Jacob, 4, adding she accidentally ate a gluten product when not pregnant and felt sick.

Nowadays, life for people with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity is vastly different from when Cantkier, 37, was younger. So rare was the diagnosis The Mirror did a story on her life with celiac disease in 1981 when she was five years old.

Food allergies and dietary modifications are common. Gluten-free baking has improved with the introduction of new ingredients, including chickpea flower. Many restaurants offer gluten-free menu options.

In fact, it was while at a restaurant with a friend where the idea of starting a website dedicated to gluten-free information was formed, Cantkier said.

“A gluten-free menu came to the table,” she recalled. “I said I wish I knew what other restaurants had gluten-free options. My friend asked, ‘Do you think there is a directory? If not, you need to make one.’”

From there, glutenfreefind.com was born.

The site, which has been running for one year, is an online resource directory focusing on gluten-free living, including facts and information, associations, caterers and chefs, blogs, nut free, kosher, vegan and vegetarian options in parts of Canada and the United States.

Along with running the site, Cantkier is writing a guide for adults diagnosed with celiac disease titled Gluten-Free Beginnings: Easy Starter Guide, which she hopes will help guide people to making the transition to gluten-free life a little easier.

“It will teach people about cross contamination, why they need their own toaster,” she said. “Even a crumb with gluten can cause symptoms.”

She’s also planning to launch an online store selling gluten-free products through her website within the month, she said.

And following that, Cantkier said she plans to take her advocacy work to places like the airline industry, with hopes of introducing gluten-free products for flights.

And in a nod to the fruit that gave Cantkier her life back, a bunch can always be found in her house.

“If we run out we always immediately get more,” she said. “I have an emotional attachment to bananas.”

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Meeting with Canada Lands ‘good first step,’ DLCVA says LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com

An introductory meeting between Canada Lands Company executives and members of a ratepayers’ group over the future of Downsview Park was a good first step, the association’s vice-president says.

Albert Krivickas, vice-president of the Downsview Lands Community Voice Association (DLCVA), said he is

“cautiously optimistic” after meeting with Canada Lands acting-president and CEO Robert Howald, acting general manager responsible for Downsview Park, Rodger Martin, and David Anselmi, senior-vice president of development and sustainability, on Monday.

“There’s some dialogue, that’s the main thing,” Krivickas said. “We’re just trying to establish a relationship. We’re working towards a good

first step.”

He described the meeting as a chance for members of the two organizations to meet each other, four months after the federal government put Canada Lands in charge of Downsview Park.

Krivickas and others have expressed concerns about what that means for the future of Downsview Park.

Canada Lands’ mandate is to

manage, redevelop and/or sell government properties no longer needed.

As it stands now, 50 per cent of Downsview Park is to be preserved as public space. The other half is being developed.

Canada Lands says it continues to conduct a review of the park’s operations.

At Monday’s meeting, Canada Lands said it has hired a planning

consultant to work with the DLCVA and other groups and committed itself to consulting with all stakeholders, Krivickas said.

Canada Lands spokesperson Manon Lapensee agreed with Krivickas’s take on the meeting, adding it set the stage for positive consultation with the community.

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Clarity needed on rooming houses

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enants in many Toronto rooming houses are living in unsafe conditions due to crowding, poorly built rooms made with materials that don’t meet fire codes, lack of security and lack of smoke alarms.

In some cases, tenants are at the mercy of unlicensed operators, and nearby residents also face risks associated with illegal rooming houses in their neighbourhoods.

Toronto is in a limbo of pre-amalgamation rules in which rooming houses are legal in some parts of the city and banned in others. It’s been 15 years since the megacity was formed.

Presently, there are 351 rooming houses that are legal or with a licence application. Estimates suggest hundreds of illegal rooming houses are operating in the city.

Not all are a bad idea. For instance, students depend on these houses – legal or not – around post-secondary our view campuses in Toronto. Many have good experience. But there are Fair, consistent athose who offer substandard rooms with substandard safety. approach This needs to be addressed. required Council has had more than enough time to come up with rules that can be applied fairly and consistently.

As of now, rooming houses are illegal in all of Scarborough, East York and North York. They are legal in the old City of Toronto and are allowed in limited parts of Etobicoke and York. To learn about rooming house issues in your community, see our special report on page 6. Stories from the situation across the city appear at www.insidetoronto.com With such inconsistent rules, it’s no surprise illegal rooming houses are sprouting up, especially in areas surrounding universities and colleges.

Making rooming houses legal across the city does not mean they will be allowed in every neighbourhood. Designating where they can and cannot be located will be a key part of the law. They should be allowed on main roads, and areas that are already made up of multiple-unit buildings. They should not be allowed in single-family neighbourhoods.

Legal and licensed would also mandate safe living conditions for tenants.

Clear rules would also make it easier for the city to pursue illegal operators successfully in court. As it stands, it’s far too easy for someone who operates an illegal rooming house to plead ignorance of the laws, or even run a defence saying that if it’s legal in one part of Toronto they assumed it was legal everywhere.

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City Hall vacuum brings in more lobbyists

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ven before the latest swarm of casino lobbyists came to town, it was hard to miss them as they plied their trade in record numbers around Toronto City Hall.

Every issue, large and small, brings them out, as individuals or in teams. They can be found in any political persuasion, and represent interests from as small as a property owner needing a fence to the moguls with billions at risk for the proposed casino.

There has been much discussion on how to regulate and document lobbyists’ influence. But little has been said on why their numbers have tripled since 2010.

A hint comes from one of the most influential advocates at City Hall, Jamie Besner, who said, “There’s far more fluidity in voting patterns ... This council is far more unpredictable.”

Under the influence of Justice Denise Bellamy’s recommendations after the

david soknacki beyond the headlines MFP scandal last decade, and the firm control that former mayor David Miller exercised over council, there were fewer lobbyists. Those who came around were mostly hired by property owners who believed their projects required attention from the ward councillor.

Far fewer went door-to-door among the councillors on citywide issues.

In theory, the job of setting an agenda and achieving council approval is the responsibility of the mayor.

Voters give our chief magistrate a mandate, while council provides the resources with which to do the job.

In Miller’s time, he set his agenda, gave each of his senior staff a portfolio, and expected them to deliver the votes to attain his goals.

Under this system, interest groups quickly found

the most effective use of their time was to speak with the mayor’s office. Perhaps providing contrary views to opponents might generate embarrassment, but the chances of winning on an issue were slim. As long as the mayor had a consistent vision and control of council, interest groups knew council’s direction and the mayor’s position would likely be approved. As a result, most lobbyists were unnecessary.

The Mayor Rob Ford administration, particularly in the last year, operates in a very different environment. Although Ford started with council’s support, he soon lost control. There are many examples of his embarrassment at the hands of council: on transit, with appointments, on the port lands, and probably on the proposed casino.

Due to so much uncertainty, every individual and group with resources has hired an advocate, in some

cases a team. In the political free-for-all that passes for policy, advocates on citywide matters must determine the support among councillors and city staff, convince the doubtful, and see whether they can deliver the votes.

Think of it as the mayor’s office, outsourced, without the mayor.

In other words, due to the vacuum at City Hall, a swarm of lobbyists has taken over one of the key functions of the mayor’s office. It is not a good situation for our public institutions, nor is it particularly viable for the interests themselves.

Perhaps a few symptoms of this plague might be treated with additional regulation and litigation. But the real solution will only come when the mayor asserts control of his agenda and council.

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North York girl, 13, serving as Tunnel painting to begin in May legislative page captain FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Remembering a teacher’s suggestion a few years ago, Brittany Ally decided to apply for the legislative page program. “I thought it would be interesting,� the Grade 8 St. Jerome Catholic School student said.

To earn a spot in the competitive program, the 13-year-old Keele Street and Sheppard Avenue resident had to submit an essay outlining her achievements, extracurricular activities and suitability for the program.

The legislative page program is open to students in grades 7 and 8 who have an interest in current affairs, earn an academic average of 80 per cent or higher and get along well with their peers and adults.

Brittany, who started her two-week stay at the Legislative

Assembly of Ontario March 18, was chosen as page captain on her first day, meaning she was part of the procession walking into the chamber. “I have an interest in politics and current affairs,� she said. “It’s good to meet people who have the same interests as me.

I was a little nervous the first day. I was afraid I Brittany Ally would do the job wrong or be confused on the floor.�

During her term of duty, Brittany will serve as a messenger on the floor of the legislative chamber, meet key parliamentary figures and learn about Ontario’s parliamentary system of government.

A typical day begins at 8 a.m. and after dressing in their uniform, pages spend their time delivering water

and messages to the 107 MPPs in the chamber and taking classes in legislative process and math.

When the legislature doesn’t sit Fridays, the pages will be taken on field trips to cultural spots such as the Royal Ontario Museum and the Canadian Opera Company.

Brittany, who takes guitar, voice, piano and taekwondo lessons, somehow manages to cram all that, including her regular school work, into her packed schedule.

As for a future in politics, the young teen is still contemplating. “Maybe,� she said. “I’ll have to think about it. I really like math and science so maybe I’ll be an engineer. My MPP Monte Kwinter said a lot of politicians are engineers so maybe I’ll do both. It’s been a really great experience.�

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>>>from page 1 We have a theme (for the tunnel) that will definitely connect with the local flora and fauna that will include the rainbow somehow. We don’t want to just forget about it.�

The not-for-profit arts service organization, which focuses on the creation, development and promotion of public wall art, refurbished the tunnel’s rainbow mural last fall.

Painting at the DVP and Lawrence Avenue area tunnel will begin in May and wrap up in July, Dorey said, adding people not involved in the workshops can volunteer for the paint job.

Participants in the mural program range from teenagers to older adults, and it’s been interesting watching the different generations work together, she said. “It’s been a positive atmosphere,� Dorey said.

Tom Linardos, who

Organizers are seeking volunteers to help paint the Rainbow Tunnel.

became involved with the Step X Step program after reading about it in The North York Mirror in January, said he was familiar with the tunnel as he and his family bike through the area in summertime. “I was very excited to be accepted in the program so that I can help beautify the interior walls of the tunnel in a collaborative group effort with other like-minded artists,� he said. “Teachers Tara and

Robert have introduced me to painting, contour drawing and stencil making techniques. Their in-class methods have inspired me to create what I imagine in my head into a tangible reality on a canvas for everyone to see. I can’t thank them enough for awakening the artist in me.�

To volunteer or for more information, email tara@ muralroutes.com or call 416698-7995

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Rooming houses: striking a balance for all LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com

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or Don Valley East Councillor Shelley Carroll, legalizing banned rooming houses boils down to protecting post-secondary students, the population most likely seeking out cheap housing in the neighbourhoods around schools such as Seneca College and York University.

She is particularly concerned about vulnerable international students, thousands of kilometres from home with few, if any, supports on which to rely.

Canadian students are more likely to have friends to share off-campus housing with and to be aware of their rights, although they can also certainly be taken advantage of, Carroll said.

The issue of rooming houses has come up at several of her town hall meetings over the years and Carroll said she stresses the need to protect students.

“When I have meetings on this, I say, it better not come from the perspective of ‘I hate these kids’. We have to be concerned about these kids,” she said.

From murder to theft to sexual assault, students living crammed into rooming houses face real risks, Carroll said.

Qian Liu and Nyumwai Caroline Mkurazhizha were A CLOSER international students LOOK living in suspected Inside North York rooming Toronto houses who were murdered.

Liu, a 23-year-old York University student from China was killed in April 2011 in her room at the Village at York, an off-campus subdivision originally planned as a single-family neighbourhood of 800 homes now made up of predominately student housing.

Liu had been chatting by webcam with her boyfriend in China, who witnessed part of the attack when an

Absence of legal rooming houses in North York a disservice to students, says local councillor Shelley Carroll intruder came to Liu’s room.

A trial for Brian Dickson, charged with first-degree murder in Liu’s death, is scheduled to begin April 2.

planner and executive director of city planning and the executive director of municipal licensing and standards to report back to the October planning and growth committee on the idea of introducing city-wide rooming house regulations.

Banning rooming houses outright in North York, Scarborough and East York leaves tenants vulnerable to safety risks and the city unable to defend a non-existent bylaw in court, Carroll said.

“It’s very hard to throw a book at them when you haven’t provided the book,” she said.

“We don’t provide the legal option so the illegal option is not only hard to enforce, it’s hard to get a conviction.”

When the suburbs first decided to ban rooming houses, community colleges were not the institutions vying for international students they are today, said Carroll, adding students from overseas often live isolated from the community in which they live.

York West Councillor Anthony Perruzza isn’t sure the term “rooming house” is correct for off-campus student housing, arguing rooming houses are usually rented by the hour, day or week, not by the school term.

But he agrees students can be at risk, pointing out, in some cases, rooms in these houses are divided only by curtains rather than locked doors.

While he sympathizes with students searching for cheaper housing than they can get in university and college dorms, Perruzza said offcampus student housing can pose problems such as noise, excessive

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Less than two months ago, on Feb. 2, Mkurazhizha, who lived in a basement apartment on Clancy Drive, southwest of Finch Avenue and Don Mills Road, was fatally strangled.

The 23-year-old student from Zimbabwe was a student at the London School of Business and Finance, near Eglinton Avenue and Yonge Street.

Adam Bharwani, 18, has been charged with first-degree murder.

Mkurazhizha’s murder helped prompt Carroll to ask city council to review its policy on rooming houses, now only legally allowed in downtown Toronto and small areas of Etobicoke and York.

“Recent news stories regarding a rooming house owner arrest, the investigation into the death of Zimbabwean student, Nyumwai Caroline Mkurazhizha, have reignited the community conversation regarding safe and legal housing for students on suburban campuses,” Carroll said in her motion last month to city council.

“City staff will soon begin the proper policy debate and should be able to initiate such a controversial policy debate in a well-informed atmosphere.”

Carroll has also asked the chief

partying, garbage, lack of parking and absentee landlords in neighbourhoods planned as single-family communities.

“It’s student housing without (the benefit) of student housing management you would get on-campus,” he said.

“There is no question some (offcampus residences) have been converted in such a way that is not conducive to a healthy environment.

That results in neighbourhoods that are overcrowded and generate a great level of difficulty.”

However, to blame a murder like Liu’s on off-campus student housing is unfair, said Perruzza, who believes a tragedy like that could have happened anywhere.

Perruzza is opposed to rooming houses in North York, but wants the province to establish a regulatory framework for student housing for municipalities to adopt.

Representatives from the York University International Students’ Association and the Seneca Student Federation Inc. could not be reached for comment.

There are no active ratepayers groups immediately around York University and a spokesperson for the Skymark Vicinity Neighbourhood Association near Seneca College could not be reached for comment.

But York U. addresses the issue of the adjacent off-campus Village at York through a warning on its website: “Residential dwellings in the Village are privately owned and York has no ownership or legal jurisdiction within this community,” the notice said.

“Many homes in the Village have been converted to ‘rooming houses’ that do not comply with provincial building and fire regulations and rooms are rented to anyone, not just students. Many owners do not live within the rooming houses that they own and may not be immediately available to tenants when issues arise.”

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Residence and meal fees York West Councillor Anthony Perruzza understands why some students seek off-campus housing in an effort to pay less than they would pay in university and college dorms.

Below is a sampling of residence and meal program fees charged

by York University and Seneca College.

YORK UNIVERSITY ◗ $5,477 for an undergraduate single room, a meal plan is required ◗ $4,782 for an undergraduate double room, a meal plan is required ◗ Students living in a traditional undergraduate residence room must purchase meal plans, which are available in amounts of $2,500, $3,000, $3,500 and $4,000 and are exempt from Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) ◗ $6,633 for a single room in a six-person suite, a meal plan is optional ◗ $6,175 for a double room in a six-person suite, a meal plan is optional ◗ $7,049 for a two-person suite, a meal plan is optional ◗ $6,027 for a 12-person suite, a meal plan is optional ◗ There are also meal plans available to all York University students.

A convenience plan costs $1,600. A platinum plan costs $4,000.

SENECA COLLEGE ◗ $6,610 for residence, which includes utilities, local telephone access, cable television, access to the Internet and a furnished suite. ◗ Meal plans available to all Seneca students include $1,475 for 10 meals a week in one semester, $1,590 for 12 meals a week in one semester, $1,860 for unlimited meals in one semester and $2,900 for unlimited meals over an academic year.

Source: York University and Seneca College websites

Differing rules across the city mean rooming houses banned in North York In small parts of Etobicoke and York they are allowed. In Scarborough, North York and East York they are banned.

Rooming houses are often not welcome due to concerns about property values, noise, garbage and the character of residential streets.

When the city’s planning and growth committee passed a bylaw harmonizing zoning rules across Toronto this month, it deliberately

avoided setting city-wide rules for rooming houses.

“There is a feeling that they don’t fit the suburban community, physically,” said Councillor Norm Kelly.

The chance to license and legalize rooming houses “would be ignored by the guys looking for big illegal dollars, which you don’t have to report,” said Kelly.

Councillor Shelley Caroll called that view shortsighted.

“People always attempt to break laws. Does that mean you don’t create them?” she said. “Because we have no legal rooming houses in the suburbs, which would be licensed and inspected we have a whole lot of people living unsafely.”

Numbers of legal rooming houses in old Toronto have fallen, but as new Canadians and poverty migrate to Toronto’s suburbs, and as university and college campuses grow there,

so does demand for illegal rooming houses.

A staff report this fall is expected to launch a community consultation on the issue, Carroll said.

Rooming house advocates argue that suburban rooming houses are necessary for low-income tenants, but those tenants face abuse and poor or dangerous conditions as long as the houses remain unlicensed.

Suburban councillors respond to

complaints about rooming houses by asking city inspectors to shut them down.

Ken Hale of Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario said for councillors to pretend they don’t have rooming houses in their ward or that they can get rid of them through enforcement, “is not being honest with their constituents.”

– Mike Adler

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Young pianist wins soloist spot with Orchestra Toronto Pianist Sijing Ye is this year’s winner of Orchestra Toronto’s Marta Hidy Prize.

Ye has won a $1,000 scholarship and an opportunity to perform as a soloist with Orchestra Toronto at its December youth-oriented concert at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. The Marta Hidy Prize is open to Canadian virtuosos aged 13 to 23, and focuses on a different instrument every year. It aims to showcase young Canadian musicians and help them make the transition to professional life.

The prize is named after violinist Hidy, who worked as a solo artist, orchestral and chamber musician, conductor, teacher and music professor.

Born in southern China, Ye, 21, began studying piano at age six and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. When she was 12, she won second

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Ye Sijing is winner of the Orchestra Toronto Marta Hidy Prize.

prize at the Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah. Ye moved to New York two years later to study at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division, which she graduated from in 2010.

Ye has given recitals in numerous music halls in

the United States, China and Europe, including the Atheneum Roman Music Hall in Bucharest, the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Beijing Music Hall and the Hong Kong City Concert Hall.

Her awards include first place at the 69th Steinway and Sons International Children and Youth Piano Competition, first prize in the Competition Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest and second prize at the Canadian Chopin Competition in Mississauga.

Ye is the youngest winner in history at the Academic Piano Concerto Competition at the Aspen International Music Festival.

Ye is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in piano performance at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music.

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Pre-budget consultation breakfast at Learning Enrichment Foundation April 3 NOTIFICATION OF PROJECT BARRIE RAILWAY CORRIDOR – ADDITION OF PASSING TRACK FROM STEELES AVENUE TO JUST SOUTH OF RUTHERFORD GO STATION CITY OF TORONTO AND CITY OF VAUGHAN Metrolinx, an agency of the Province of Ontario, is helping transform the way the region moves by championing and delivering mobility solutions for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) through its regional transportation plan, The Big Move. Our GO Transit division continues to expand and improve its services to provide more choices for travel across the GTHA, meet increasing customer demand and attract more transit users in the future.

In November 2012, Metrolinx announced two-way, all-day service as part of the next wave of Big Move projects to be funded by the upcoming Investment Strategy. As we work to identify the significant funding required to implement this, GO Transit is making a variety of precursor investments on the Barrie line to enable future service improvements.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION GO Transit is undertaking a Class Environmental Assessment (EA) of the Barrie railway corridor to build a passing track from Steeles Avenue, in the City of Toronto, to slightly south of Rutherford GO Station in the City of Vaughan. The passing track will provide increased flexibility and reliability in scheduling along the Barrie railway corridor and improve service for GO Transit.

THE PROCESS This project will be carried out as a Group ‘A’ undertaking as outlined in the GO Transit – Class EA (as amended August 2005). This categorization includes projects that are deemed approved and are not subject to the full requirements of the Class EA process.

A previous EA has already approved selected work between Steeles Avenue and Highway 407, as defined in the Snider Grade Separation Environmental Study Report, 2004.

To obtain further information or to register your feedback, please contact: Georgina Collymore Communications Specialist GO Transit – A Division of Metrolinx 20 Bay Street, Suite 600 Toronto, ON M5J 2W3 tel: 416-869-3600 ext. 5719 fax: 416-869-9342 e-mail: Georgina.Collymore@metrolinx.com Pursuant to Section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, you are hereby notified that any personal information collected is for the sole purpose of meeting the requirements of the Environmental Assessment Act. The legal authority for this collection is the Metrolinx Act, 2006.

Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez composer le (416) 869-3200 or le 1 888 GET ON GO (438-6646).

Metrolinx is working to provide residents and businesses in the GTHA with a transportation system that is modern, efficient and integrated. Find out more about The Big Move, Metrolinx’s Regional Transportation Plan for the GTHA at www.bigmove.ca. Find out more about GO Transit, PRESTO and Union Pearson Express, divisions of Metrolinx, at www.metrolinx.com.

The Learning Enrichment Foundation is hosting a prebudget consultation breakfast Wednesday, April 3 with the York South-Weston community, part of which is in North York, and MPP Laura Albanese.

With the premier’s office prepping for the next provincial budget, now’s the time to come out and share your views on what the government can do to create

jobs, improve health care, training and education, while trying to eliminate the deficit.

The breakfast will take place at 116 Industry St. Registration and breakfast is at 7 a.m. and the consultation discussion takes place from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.

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Plaque a reminder how neighbourhoods evolve: Willowdale councillor >>>from page 1 Toronto, the rural community known as Newtonbrook was centred at the intersection of Yonge Street and Drewry Avenue. By the 1860s, it was an important nucleus for local residents and families farming nearby.

Over the course of the 20th century, Newtonbrook was absorbed into the urban expansion of North York and the city of Toronto. Today, the former general store on the northwest corner of Drewry Avenue and Yonge Street, rebuilt after a 1907 fire, is the most prominent survivor of the earlier community – and currently a Coffee Time.

The plaque will likely be placed on the west side of Yonge Street, south of Drewry Avenue, but an exact spot hasn’t been decided on, said North York Historical Society member Edith Geduld.

“This will be placed on the street for 50 years, 100 years, to help remember history,” Dr. Gary Miedema, chief historian for Heritage Toronto, told students assembled inside the auditorium.

“When we talk about stories from the past, we can look at photos and diaries, or we can talk to parents and grandparents.”

Willowdale Councillor John Filion, who represents the area, said the community you lived in back then was essentially your world.

“Now you can talk to somebody around the world through the Internet or Skype,” he said. “The plaque reminds us how the neighbourhood has evolved and hopefully you will all be part of continuing that heritage.”

Students delighted in a slide

show showing what Yonge Street between Drewry and Park Home avenues looks like now compared to decades ago.

A similar plaque was also unveiled earlier in the day at Churchill Public School in honour of the neighbourhood of Lansing. The plaque will be placed at the northwest corner of Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue, where the old post office used to be.

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The plaque reminds us how the neighbourhood has evolved and hopefully you will all be part of continuing that heritage.

– Coun. John Filion

Aboriginal peoples hunted, fished and camped in this region for thousands of years before Europeans settled Lansing in the 1790s, according to Heritage Toronto. By the 1820s, residents had centred their small community at the intersection of Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue, where the Golden Lion Inn stood.

The community grew in the late 19th century as the electric street railway line was extended north.

Farm land gave way to residential streets and with the widening of Yonge Street in the 1950s Lansing experienced rapid expansion.

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Board of health calls for reduced TTC fares for low-income earners RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com If not for having access to transportation, James Kilmartin believes he would never have gotten off the street.

Sp e a k i n g b e f o re t h e Toronto Board of Health Kilmartin, who says he was homeless until last year, called for TTC fares to be offered at a discounted rate to charitable

groups and organizations to help more low-income people like him.

“These shelters are very important and when they have to turn someone down because they can’t give a token to someone who needs to get to an appointment it’s more stressful to the person on the street,” said Kilmartin who was speaking on behalf of the Fair Fare Coalition.

Kilmartin was at City Hall

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Monday afternoon to speak in favour of recommendations by the city’s chief medical officer on incorporating fare affordability into transportation planning.

He said as a homeless person he was denied entry to the TTC for not having a token despite a badly infected foot.

He ended up having to call an ambulance to St. Michael’s Hospital where he stayed for two weeks.

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“The conductor saw how bad shape I was in, but he wouldn’t let me on,” recounted Kilmartin during his five-minute deputation to the board. “I survived, but what if it was a low-income person with a heart condition?”

Sheryl Lindsay of the coalition, which was launched by Sistering women’s shelter in response to the 2010 TTC fare hikes, said the high cost of transit plays a negative impact for people with no other means of transportation.

She said the group collected feedback from more than 200 low-income individuals who receive social assistance, who highlighted the importance of transit in getting them to doctors’ appointments and securing housing.

Despite paying $25,000 per year on TTC tokens to distribute to its clients, Lindsay said rising fares was limiting how much help Sistering could offer.

“We’re one of many organizations across the GTA trying

to offset this high price of transit for individuals,” said Lindsay, Sistering’s executive director.

“As our budgets get flatlined and demand for transit from the marginalized increases it really is getting more unsustainable for us.”

A majority of the board approved a motion from chair Joe Mihevc to have the city’s community development committee work with the TTC on potentially reducing fares for low-income people, which was approved by a majority, but not all, of the board.

One of the dissenting votes was cast by Gord Perks. The Parkdale city councillor said making the TTC provide discounted fares would mean potential cuts in service.

“If the TTC takes money out of service to provide a free fare to someone else, the only way they can do that is to not run a bus somewhere else,” he said.

Perks was also able to get the board to approve his motion acknowledging that income tax revenue least

penalizes low-income residents when it comes to transit funding.

Speaking in favour of his motion, Perks accused the Ontario government of ducking paying the bill for transit by getting taxpayers to pay for it in the form of new revenue tools such as a regional sales tax and road tolls.

“All of this fuss and bother about new income tools is simply a marvellously executed public relations exercise by the province to make us forget they stopped paying their share,” he said.

Earlier in the meeting, the city’s medical officer David McKeown made a presentation to the board about the health benefits of an affordable transit system.

“If we’re going to have, at long last, a better transit system then we should at least make sure that those who are most dependent on it can actually use it,” said McKeown.

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Cleo, above, is in the care Urban Cat Relief and is available for adoption. Autumn, right, was from a puppy mill farm and ready to be adopted from Speaking of Dogs Rescue.

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Abandoned ‘angel’ and puppy mill pug mix seek new homes

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his month’s pets come from two independent rescue organizations based in the North York area.

You’ll meet Cleo, who was found on the streets just days before a snowstorm, and you’ll also be introduced to Autumn, a sweet girl who has been waiting months for her special someone.

A happy Easter to readers with a reminder to keep chocolate eggs, bunnies and other chocolate goodies away from pets as well as Easter lilies which are toxic to cats.

Cleo Cleo was found abandoned just days before big snow storm near an apartment complex.

Thanks to a Good Samaritan, Cleo was taken to Urban Cat Relief where she was placed in their foster care program.

“How could anyone do that to such a sweet little angel?” asks Roz Gelade, president and founder of the organization.

Cleo is a petite and sweet colourful calico who is not even a year old. Playful, loving, curious and chatty she’s ready to be your FFF – Forever Feline Friend!

Cleo is best suited to a home with no other cats.

She adores people but it not happy around other cats.

If you are committed to having just one pretty

lorraine houston critter chatter kitty, please consider Cleo.

She is spayed and fully vetted and has her bags packed in anticipation.

For more information on Cleo or to inquire about adopting her, contact Heather at 905-9242312 or heather.ucrcats@ live.ca See Cleo online at www.ucrcats.com Autumn Autumn is a sweet, quiet pug/miniature pinscher mix who was originally from a puppy mill farm near Stratford. She is about five years old and approximately 20 pounds.

When she first arrived in the rescue she was skittish and frightened, but she has made incredible strides in her foster home and is now trusting, housetrained and loves to play with toys.

Affectionate Autumn is good with other dogs and loves to cuddle and snuggle. She is not destructive or vocal when left in the home and when you return you will receive a hero’s welcome as she does a dance of delight to see her family again.

She still gets spooked sometimes when outside in the yard when she hears a strange sound, and will stop what she is doing and listen very intently.

Autumn must be

adopted to a family or individual who has a house with a fenced backyard. Because she lived in a barn in her past life she was never taken for a walk or introduced to a leash.

Although her foster parents are working on leash walking, Autumn gets very nervous when there is any pressure on her collar so until she masters going for walks on leash, she needs a fenced-in backyard.

She would make a wonderful companion for anyone who wants a loving, playful, faithful pet; ideally another dog in the home would help her adjust.

Autumn is spayed, fully vetted and microchipped.

For more information on Autumn or to inquire about adopting her, contact Speaking of Dogs Rescue at 416-444-4190 or email info@speakingofdogs.com See Autumn online at www.speakingofdogs.com pet show As an FYI, the All About Pets Show is this weekend. It runs from Friday to Sunday at the International Centre in Mississauga. For more information, visit www. allaboutpetsshow.com Lorraine Houston is director of Speaking of Dogs, an organization devoted to education, outreach and rescue. Her column appears the last Thursday of every month. Contact her at lhh4dogs@rogers.com

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Good Friday Worship Service WHEN: 10 a.m. WHERE: Parkwoods United Church, 85 Parkwoods Village Dr. CONTACT: 416-447-5519, www.parkwoodsunitedchurch.ca, office@ parkwoodsunitedchurch.ca COST: Free-will offering.

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6th & 14th Willowdale Scouts E-Waste Drive WHEN: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

WHERE: Downsview Park, 1-35 Carl Hall Rd. CONTACT: Susana Chiu, 416277-3599, scoutsrecycle@ yahoo.ca COST: Free The Scout Groups have partnered with Target Recycling and the Ontario Electronic Stewardship to keep electronics out of landfills and have them properly recycled. This is a

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MPP Michael Coteau’s Tax Clinic WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Spring Awakening!

WHEN: 1 to 2 p.m. WHERE: Downsview Library, 2793 Keele St. CONTACT: Diana, 416-395-5720, doprograms@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Jane Beck, a Toronto Master Gardener, answers your gardening questions.

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.

4161, www.templesinai. net, office@templesinai.net COST: Free Easter Egg Hunt WHEN: 4 p.m. WHERE: Advent Lutheran Church, 2800 Don Mills Rd. CONTACT: Fairview Church of God, 416-335-5200 COST: Free Children’s Easter egg hunt.

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Family and Friends MS SelfHelp Group WHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

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in pictures

Top, Toronto’s CN Power’s Panty Hoser, Betty Bomber, Candy Crossbones and Renny Rumble block Rideau Valley Roller Girls Vixens in Quad City Chaos over the weekend at The Bunker at Downsview Park. Above, Soul Rekker of the Vixens makes a pass while being pursued by CN Power girls. At right, CN Power’s Santa Muerte tries to advance past a couple of Vixens.

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Top, CN Power’s Candy Crossbones, Renny Rumble and Dyna Hurcha make a sandwich out of some Vixen members. Above, CN Power girls form a wall in front of the Vixens.

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Key question: Is Ford properly fulfilling his job as mayor?

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oes Mayor Rob Ford have an alcohol addiction? It’s impossible to say. The only addiction Ford has admitted to in his time as mayor is one of stress – eating ice cream late at night.

But whether he does or not, and whether he likes it or not, the mayor needs to face that other question.

The Toronto Star this week published a long article laying out the case that he just might have a drinking problem – and that it, or some other affliction, is affecting the performance of his job.

The article quoted sources as saying he’d been asked to leave the Garrison Ball last month while there in his official capacity. It alleges he got into trouble earlier at a Toronto nightclub.

The story also said members of the mayor’s staff

����� ������ ��� ���� past and present have been attempting over the past two years to get the mayor to seek help with his drinking.

Six Garrison Ball committee members released a letter Tuesday saying they did not ask Ford to leave the ball.

The mayor denied the story in its entirety, calling it “an outright lie.” That’s his prerogative.

But Ford is on shaky ground when it comes to the question of alcohol.

In 2006, he was caught lying about having engaged in a drunken harangue with two out-of-town visitors at the Air Canada Centre.

During the 2010 election, he had to field questions about a driving-under-theinfluence charge in Florida, back in 1999.

And earlier in March, failed mayoralty candidate Sarah Thomson called out Ford for allegedly boorish behaviour at a party for the Canadian Jewish Public Affairs Committee.

Accompanying the accusations was a photograph of the mayor next to Thomson, looking disheveled and unwell. In that incident as well, it should be noted, the mayor denied everything.

Ultimately, though, the question is not for us: it’s a question for him and his family.

The question we’ve got is this: Is Rob Ford fulfilling his role as mayor in a manner that Toronto needs and deserves?

And if he is not, can he make whatever changes are needed in his life so that he can fulfill that role?

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PASSENGER SEATS

SPECIAL SALE PRICE

✓ PANORAMIC ROOF ✓ PWR WINDOWS & LOCKS

OR OWN IT FOR

82

72 MNTHS @ +HST % 1.49 APR PRICE /WEEK YONGE-STEELES NO CHARGE MAINTENANCE PACKAGE

$ +HST

✓ RUBBER FLOOR MATS

✓ SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO

✓ 17” ALLOY WHEELS

(IF YOU QUALIFY)

✓ AIR CONDITIONING

✓ MY KEY SYSTEM

✓ ONE TOUCH UP / DOWN

SALE $ PRICE

✓ 3.5L V6 ENGINE AUTOMATIC

FOR AS LONG AS YOU OWN THE VEHICLE!

✓ REVERSE SENSORS

$

32,888

31,988

$

-$1,000 RECYCLE YOUR RIDE

+HST

(IF YOU QUALIFY)

+HST

1.99% 109 /WEEK 72 GIFT WITH EVERY PURCHASE! $

OR OWN IT FOR ONLY

+HST

MTHS @

APR

ALL PRICES ARE PLUS TAXES AND LICENSING ONLY. NO CHARGE LIFETIME MAINTENANCE PACKAGE APPLIES ONLY TO THE ORIGINAL OWNER. F.O.C. AXZ PLAN RULES APPLY. VEHICLES MAY NOT BE EXACTLY AS ILLUSTRATED. SEE DEALER FOR DETAILS. **ANY OFFER CANNOT BE COMBINED WITH ANY PREVIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS. PRICES REFLECT ALL REBATES TAKEN. ALL REBATES ASSIGNED TO DEALER. RECYCLE YOUR RIDE (IF YOU QUALIFY) $1000 RECYCLE YOUR RIDE. FOR RECYCLE YOUR RIDE YOU NEED TO OWN A 2006 OR OLDER MODEL FOR A MINIMUM OF THREE MONTHS OR LONGER, SEE DEALER FOR DETAILS.

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A HEARING AID THAT CAN DO

ALL THIS?

Lyric, the world’s first and only 100% invisible, 24/7 wearable, sweat-proof, shower-proof, for months-at-a-time* hearing device can.

FINALLY, EFFORTLESS HEARING

Lyric is the world’s first invisible extendedwear hearing device. There are no batteries to change, no daily maintenance is needed and no daily insertion and removal is required.

CLEAR, NATURAL SOUND QUALITY

Lyric’s unique design and placement works with your ear’s anatomy to deliver exceptional sound quality in quiet and noisy environments.

EVEN SHOWERPROOF**

Unlike many hearing aids, Lyric can be used during almost all your daily activities, such as exercising, showering, talking on the phone and sleeping

CALL TRILLIUM HEARING CENTRE TO BOOK YOUR LYRIC APPOINTMENT TODAY!

416-384-1500

895 Lawrence Ave. E., Don Mills (corner of Lawrence and The Donway)

www.trilliumhearing.ca As featured on: *Individual patient needs may vary. **Lyric is water resistant, not waterproof, and should not be completely submerged underwater. Lyric is not appropriate for all patients.

See a Lyric Provider to determine if Lyric is right for you.