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A GoFundMe page has been set up for a cancer-stricken Jane Street and Finch Avenue area woman to help cover medical expenses while she awaits permanent Canadian residency approval. Maureen Johnson came to Canada from Jamaica on a visitor’s visa in 2011. The following year she was approved for a work permit, which was good for four years. In 2013 the 55-year-old was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer, which metastasized to her lungs.

But because her work permit expired in February, Johnson’s medical treatments are no longer covered under OHIP, which means she pays out of pocket for doctor’s visits, medication, and cancer treatment, which involves travelling to North York General Hospital by bus once a week to have fluid drained from her lungs. She originally applied for permanent status as a refugee in February 2015, but was denied by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). She then applied for permanent status on humanitarian and compassionate grounds in >>>APPLICATION, page 18

Enjoy fireworks, go to a circus fest this Victoria Day weekend It’s Victoria Day weekend, the first long weekend and the unofficial kickoff to summer. If you are planning to stay in the city, there are plenty of things to do like the annual Victoria Day fireworks

hosted by the city on Monday at Ashbridges Bay Park. For the full eight great things to do this long weekend, visit www.insidetoronto.com/ toronto-events/

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NYGH fundraiser: A model walks the runway during the North York General Hospital Heart of Fashion gala fashion show on Saturday in the Bridle Path ravine. For more photos and to read what the $1.2 million raised will be used for, turn to page 3.

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Heart of Fashion gala raises $1.2 million for NYGH More than $1 million was raised from a fashion gala to support a second Interventional Radiology (IR) suite at North York General Hospital (NYGH). The Heart of Fashion gala held Saturday on private property in the Bridle Path brought in $1.2 million for the Leslie Street and Hwy. 401 hospital. “The Heart of Fashion event was a huge success and we are thrilled to have exceeded our goal of raising $1 million,” Terry Pursell, president and CEO of North York General Foundation, said in a release. “We couldn’t have done it without the generous support of our sponsors, donors and guests.” According to NYGH, IR is a subspecialty of medical imaging and surgery that uses high-resolution imaging to perform minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in nearly all organ systems. Compared to conventional surgeries, IR procedures minimize incisions, reduce risk of infections, shorten hospital stays, speed recovery times and reduce long-term cost and health outcomes.

Fashionistas keep an eye on the runway during the North York General Hospital Heart of Fashion gala fashion show Saturday. Left, former Glass Tiger frontman Alan Frew performs at the event. For more information about North York General Hospital and its programs and services, visit www.nygh.on. ca/

Canadian fashion icon Jeanne Beker makes an appearance during the North York General Hospital Heart of Fashion gala on Saturday in the Bridle Path ravine. The event raised $1.2 million in support of a new interventional radiology suite at the hospital.

NYGH currently provides oncology, vascular and non-vascular intervention for some 4,000 patients annually. “Our dedicated multidisciplinary IR team is so thankful for the generous support of everyone involved in Heart of Fashion,” Dr. Ryan Margau,

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Parents oppose sale of McNicoll Public School site Child-care centres using the North York site propose turning school into children’s hub FANNIE sunshine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Hundreds of parents, some with their children in tow, came out to a public meeting to unanimously oppose the possible sale of a school building that houses two child-care programs, including one for children with developmental needs. Some 250 people packed inside the cafeteria of A.Y. Jackson Secondary School last Thursday to voice their opposition to the potential sale of 155 McNicoll Ave., the former site of McNicoll Public School, which currently houses Adventure Place Child and Family Centre and city-funded McNicoll Avenue Child Care Program.

McNicoll Public School closed in 2000 and was transferred to Toronto Lands Corporation, the real estate arm of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), for management and leasing after the 3.33-acre site was deemed surplus. Cheryl Webb, executive director of Adventure Place, said the site should be recognized as a hub – something Premier Kathleen Wynne called for more of in 2015 – for children and families. “The solution is not as easy as selling off the property,” she said, adding 150 children and parents are on the premises daily. Adventure Place offers programs for children up to age 12 who are experiencing difficulties with devel-

opment, learning, communication, behaviour, social/emotional functioning, attention/regulatory functioning and pervasive development disorders. Lynn Lewis, executive director of McNicoll Avenue Child Care Program, said the program will likely close if the building is sold. “We have 49 families at all times and we are still full with a waiting list,” she said. “It’s so scary that this can be taken out, and then what? Where would families go?” Willowdale Trustee Alexander Brown said his hope is the property stays open as a community hub. “I don’t believe any of the trustees will vote to sell it,” he said. Attendees supported the idea

of turning the site into a hub, with some suggesting the building could be rented out evenings and weekends to help with funding. Don Valley East Councillor Shelley Carroll, whose daughter attended Adventure Place years ago, said the site was originally designated for educational purposes and should remain as such. “It’s not a site that’s going to get anything but a small amount of one-time money and embarrassment from the province,” she said. The public can make deputations at the Wednesday, June 15 TDSB planning and priorities committee meeting before trustees make a final decision at their Wednesday, June 22 meeting. If the sale is approved, the property will be offered to other public

agencies, including school boards, colleges, universities, Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs), and the three levels of government, starting in September for roughly six months. If an interested buyer comes forward, negotiations will begin in September 2017. If no buyers express interest, the property will be taken to the open market. Any sale of the property would be at fair market value, with an acre of land in the Don Mills Road and McNicoll Avenue area, the site of the property, valued between $2 million and $4 million, according to the TDSB. So far, informal interest has not been expressed in the property.

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Council needs to step up to make Toronto sustainable If recent history has taught us nothing else, let us remember this: that left to their own devices, Toronto’s political leadership is about as good with a budget as a pack of 12 year olds with their parents’ credit cards. It had always been so, at least within the lifespan of amalgamated Toronto. In 1997, Mel Lastman was elected the city’s first mayor on a promise of a three-year property tax freeze – delivered at the same time as the city was reconstituting itself into the largest municipality in the country at the behest, but without the support of the provincial government. Lastman’s first term set a tone that subsequent councils have maintained: namely, that marginal property tax increases are the most injurious thing a government might inflict upon homeowners – about an equivalent evil to reducing services upon which those homeowners had come to rely and limiting promises of improved ser-

david nickle the city vice to come. And so over the years, council has approved projects, maintained services and kept property tax increases slim to none. This week, Toronto’s city manager Peter Wallace brought out another in what is developing into a series of despatches, delineating what to many has been obvious for years. Toronto has been able to maintain the fiction of a growing city and a low property tax environment thanks to factors that are either entirely beyond its control (a booming real estate market that pours in revenue through the municipal land transfer tax) or measures of which council should frankly be ashamed (approving capital projects for future years with no means of financing). At some point, very soon, the boom’s going

to end and the projects will have to be built. Wallace first pointed this out to councillors in the fall shortly after he took the job. That early report gave Mayor John Tory a small amount of political cover, to propose that the city maintain a 0.5 per cent levy on the property tax bill currently in place to help finance the Scarborough subway, to finance more transit infrastructure. This report, coming to next week’s Executive Committee, provides an imperative for more of the same: a debate on what other ways we might find, to support ourselves in the style to which we’ve become accustomed. To whit: revenue tools. These conversations haven’t gone well in the past. In the last term of Council, politicians balked at supporting any revenue tools, even as they voted to go forward on subway expansion in Scarborough. Former mayor David Miller was able to get a couple

of major revenue tools through council, but the battle over the land transfer tax and vehicle registration tax nearly broke council. Will it be any different now? It’s not encouraging. Toronto council this term has shown just as little appetite for long-term financial planning as ever. Under the leadership of Tory, council approved a billion-dollar rebuild of the Gardiner Expressway’s elevated lanes, against expert advice. The Scarborough subway, absent all but one stop, remains on the books. And this week, Tory made it clear himself that one thing he won’t support is any significant increase to Toronto’s bargain-basement property tax rates. There’s no doubt about it: the arrested 12 year olds on Toronto council have a lot of growing up to do.

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Firefighter Sara Rosen remembered at funeral as ‘genuine, selfless, smiling’ TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com A sea of hundreds of Toronto firefighters wearing their dress black and white gloves stood solemnly with family and friends Monday, May 16 morning to pay final respects to their fallen colleague Sara Rosen, whom one remembered as “genuine, selfless, smiling and full of life.” Mourners packed Benjamin Park Memorial Chapel on Steeles Avenue West near Keele Street in North York for Rosen’s 90-minute funeral. Jackie Gaistman, Rosen’s partner, called her “my compass.” “Sara is the fiercest, most genuine, brutally honest, inspirational, joyful, free-spirited, soulful, generous, strong, determined, feisty, loyal, courageous person I’ve ever met,” Gaistman said, calling her his wife. “Sara loved her parents and her brother Mark with every ounce of her heart. Mark is living testament to Sara’s love, generosity, caring and courage. She was, and still is, such a hero.” Twelve years ago, Rosen donated her kidney to her brother, Mark. Since then, the siblings would celebrate an additional “birthday” every year marking the date of the transplant, said Rosen’s father, Allan. Rosen, 38, was a 15-year Toronto firefighter, who worked out of Station 443 on Islington Avenue in central Etobicoke. She had planned to take a year’s sabbatical from her job this September to attend law school on a full scholarship. Rosen died last Thursday in a mountain biking accident while out riding with a colleague at Kelso Conservation Area in Milton, Ont.

Gaistman called his life with Rosen a “magical journey” because of Rosen’s “joy of life, excitement and passion. You made everyone around you laugh, feel happy, feel worthy, feel respected. You made everyone want to enjoy life. You always fought for what was right. “It is your strength that is helping me get through this terrible tragedy.” A strong sense of self, determination, and a spirit to fight for what was right were themes woven throughout the stories Rosen’s father told from his daughter’s life. “Nothing would stop Sara,” Allan Rosen said. He recalled how she stood playing with water in a sink while other children in her class gathered as per a teacher’s instruction. How she pulled an astounded 240pound male firefighter, wearing 75 pounds of weights, from a smoke-filled room during a training exercise. How she persevered to another fire hall and was hired when the platoon chief of the first hall she approached said they weren’t set up to accept women firefighters. “Do you have a lock on the door? Do you have a bunk?” Rosen had asked. How unreservedly she had offered a kidney to her brother when his health began to fail. And how she then became a vocal advocate for organ donation. Many mourners wept when Allan Rosen closed

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his eulogy by saying, “I won’t hear my daughter say ‘I love you’ anymore. Goodbye, Sara. I love you.’” Mike McCoy, Toronto fire deputy chief of operations, said her colleagues will remember Rosen “as a truly compassionate person, a humanitarian with a zest for life and a person with a strong, determined personality.... She was generous and caring, and always eager to lend a hand.” McCoy encouraged mourners to take some comfort in the knowledge Rosen was doing what she loved when her life ended. “On a beautiful spring day,

she was living life to the fullest and enjoying every minute of it,” he said. Rosen “made us all better people,” John Getty, acting captain of Rosen’s firehall, said of the colleague he had known for a decade. Getty shared how Rosen had often tried to co-opt him into endurance races like Tough Mudder, miles of mud and obstacles designed to test mental grit, strength, and physical fitness. “When Sara mentioned a race, I learned to Google it first,” Getty said to the laughter of mourners. Getty said Rosen will be remembered for living true to her values. “These are some of the

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cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to the Sara Rosen Memorial Fund, which benefits organ transplants at Toronto General Hospital, mental health causes, and The Positive Space Anti-Bullying Campaign. Donations may be made c/o The Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst St. Toronto, M6A 2C3. Visit www.benjamins.ca or call 416-780-0324. Rosen leaves her partner, Jackie Gaistman, children Frelan and Alex and her beloved dog, Brownie, her parents, Allan and Ann, and her brother, Mark.

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Former high-level cyclist Claudine Labelle founded teen-focused program fannie sunshine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Claudine Labelle knows a thing or two about the importance of physical activity. A former high-level cyclist, Labelle suffered a major brain injury in 2004 after she was hit by a car while training. She was able to regain function, but had to give up racing. It was during her recovery she decided to focus attention on getting young people moving. Labelle launched running program FitSpirit in 2007, with the goal of helping girls aged 12 to 17 complete a five- or 10-kilometre run – without the competition factor. Over the past nine years, more than 110,000 girls in Ontario and Quebec have taken part in the program, which is run out of participat-

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Brainwash, and artists Gary Taxali and Karim Rashid – along with some added star power. Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy will have his brain sculpture design on display, along with a sculpture created by North West – who had a little help from her mom, reality TV star Kim Kardashian West. Artist Dani Cooperman knew she had to be involved with The Brain Project the second she heard about it. “Two of my grandparents battled Alzheimer’s disease so this cause is very close to my heart,” she said. “My grandmother was also an artist, so to open the conversation of brain health through the arts is quite fitting. Based on my personal history, I have a strong connection to Baycrest and to their groundbreaking work and research. After witnessing it firsthand, I truly believe that no brain deserves to go blank.” Her sculpture, titled The [Em] powered Brain, showcases how gray matter can be improved and strengthened. “Graffiti-styled descriptors like ‘pow’, ‘flash’ and ‘zing’ illustrate the conceptual sound of neurons firing, while arrows show the expanding hippocampus,” she said. “Prisms demonstrate the creation of new neural connections, and colourful neural pathways change direction and travel throughout the brain. LED lights within the sculpture are

constantly changing colour and intensity furthering this point. Recent advances in brain research demonstrate that we have the ability to reshape and strengthen our neural connections – a huge paradigm shift that empowers us to be active participants in our brain health. I hope to be a part of this conversation and to inspire people young and old to take active steps to benefit their brains.” Garry Foster, president and CEO of Baycrest Foundation, noted the number of people with Alzheimer’s disease is set to rise dramatically as the baby boomer population ages in the coming decades. “The impact will be huge – on families, the healthcare system and the economy,” he said. “This is our area of expertise, a place where we’re already making a difference. Baycrest is a leader in finding ways to keep brains healthy. Our researchers continue to discover more about what we can all do

throughout our lives to potentially reduce our risk for Alzheimer’s and related dementias. We’re excited that The Brain Project is helping to spread the word, and make people more aware of the importance of their brain health – whatever their age.” Inspired by New York’s Fabergé Big Egg Hunt, Erica Godfrey, cochair of The Brain Project, said the fundraiser expands the role of art programing at Baycrest, while highlighting brain health. “Three of my husband’s grandparents lived at Baycrest and we are firm believers in what they do,” she said. “Art plays a fundamental role in Baycrest’s continued care and rehabilitation of its residents so we knew this would be an amazing project for them to lead. The Brain Project expands the role of art at Baycrest in a very organic and meaningful way.” To find a brain sculpture location, visit www.brainproject.ca

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Kim Kardashian West and her daughter North contributed to The Brain Project, a public art installation benefitting Baycrest Health Sciences.

Artist Joseph Drapell also contributed to The Brain Project. Drapell is a Czech-Canadian abstract painter.

Gina Godfrey, a contemporary pop artist, designed the brain above as part of The Brain Project.

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