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The holidays might be over, but it’s still the season for giving - particularly in the form of fighting hunger.

With just more than a week to go, North York Harvest Food Bank (NYHFB) is hoping to raise $250,000 and collect 250,000 pounds of food for its Winter Food Drive, which launched Thursday, Dec. 1 and wraps up Friday, Jan. 13.

The drive is aiming to collect nutritious non-perishables such as fish, dried beans, cooking oils, and whole grains. Monetary donations will be used toward purchasing and distributing the food to 47 member agencies which serve more than 15,000 people monthly.

NYHFB’s Fall Food Drive, which ran Saturday, Oct. 1 to Friday, Nov. 4, raised $110,000 and 125,000 pounds of food, surpassing its goal of collecting $100,000 and 100,000 nonperishable items.

NYHFB is the primary food bank for northern Toronto, distributing more than 2.3 million pounds of food in 2015 through 77 neighbourhood programs.

For donation suggestions visit https://northyorkharvest.com/get-involved/ campaigns/winter-fooddrive/ And for two days next month, bright green masked and caped crusaders will collect monetary donations for North Yorkbased food rescue organization Second Harvest for its Hero Day fundraiser.

Hero Day will target rush hour TTC and downtown commuters Thursday, Feb. 9 and 23.

Funds raised will help Second Harvest rescue healthy, fresh surplus food which would otherwise go to waste.

Second Harvest ’heroes’ will be stationed at the following TTC stations and PATH locations each day from 6:45 to 9:15 a.m.,

and 4 to 6:30 p.m.: . subway stations: Bathurst; Bay; Bloor-Yonge; College; Davisville; Dufferin; Dundas; Dundas West; Eglinton; Finch; Islington; King; Kipling; North York Centre; Osgoode; Pape; Queen; Queen’s Park; Royal York; Scarborough RT - McCowan; Sheppard-Yonge; Spadina; St. Andrew; St. Clair; St. George; and St. Patrick.

PATH locations: BayAdelaide Centre; Brookfield Place; CBC building; Commerce Court; Exchange Tower; First Canadian Place; and Metro Hall.

Second Harvest delivers fresh food to more than 200 social service agencies across the Greater Toronto Area seven days a week.

For every $5 raised, 10 healthy meals are provided to those in need.

To sign up a team, for information, or to donate online visit www.secondharvesthero.ca

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North York organizations fighting hunger in Toronto

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Volunteers Zoe Cinco, 10, and Linda Barker sort through donations on Sunday, Dec. 18, at the North York Harvest Food Bank.

Victoria Village Hockey hosts second annual select tournament The week between Christmas and New Year’s is always one of the busiest tournament weeks in youth hockey, and the Greater Toronto Hockey League (GTHL) was no exception.

Four tournaments were underway across the city, including the 2nd Annual Victoria Village Select

Tournament which wrapped up on Saturday, Dec. 31.

For more information on the Victoria Village Hockey tournament, visit victoriavillage.org/selects For more information on other GTHL tournaments, and the regular season, visit www.gthlcanada.com/tournaments.

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The action was hot during the Victoria Village Select Invitational hockey tournament on Friday at Don Montgomery Community Recreation Centre.

Left, Don Mills Mustangs’ Nicholas Sue (left) tracks down a rebound in front of the Victoria Village goalie; Centre, Sue (centre left) and teammate Demetre Pinellis celebrate a goal against Victoria Village; Above, Mustangs’ Spiro Dalakas (front) pulls away from two Victoria Village players.

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Shining the spotlight on the stories that matter In a city as large, diverse and ever-moving as Toronto, covering the news can often feel like a drop in a bucket. There’s so much happening here, and it’s a city full of strong communities that often carry their own unique identity. In the Metroland Media Toronto newsroom, we do our best to represent the communities we serve online and in print. Admittedly, we can’t do it all or be everywhere we’d like to be.

That said, we’re still going to do our best to make an impact.

So beginning this year we’re renewing our focus continuing to report on local news and events, city hall, crime and transit issues but we’re also introducing several new beats.

We’re looking to find stories on topics that matter or are of interest to our audience. Topics that, in many cases, we really haven’t focused on before. Parenting, history, technology, health and schools were key selections we felt deserving of more attention.

Considering how many struggle with the cost of living in the city, we’ve also dedicated a reporter to a ’Money Matters’ beat to help break down financial issues. Debt loads can be crippling and it’s shocking how many people lack the financial literacy to be able to manage it. How secure is our money in this digital age? These are areas we hope to explore. ’The Diverse City’ will aim to give voice to minority groups, indigenous people and the LGBTQ community, and investigate issues relating to how we’re all different - our successes in embracing that and the challenges that exist where it fails. All timely subjects for discussion considering the malcontent kicked up south of the border after president-elect Donald Trump’s win. How this affects us as Canadians remains to be seen, but we’ll be watching.

Another area of the city we want to spotlight is what we’re calling ’The Other Toronto’. These are the pockets of population, much of it concentrated in the city’s suburbs, that are home to immigrant communities and working-class families. Often isolated and struggling with challenges like neighbourhood crime and poor education rates, these Torontonians deserve our attention. What stories of success, resilience and identity are happening in our backyards? What needs to happen to improve the lives of our neighbours?

Mike Adler’s column today explains more. We want to be there for these people and tell their stories on a regular basis in the hopes it may make a difference down the line.

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Going in search of The Other Toronto in 2017 There is more than one Toronto.

More than a decade ago, the city, United Way, and the province saw poverty deepening around the edges of our freshly-amalgamated home.

University of Toronto Professor David Hulchanski, in his The Three Cities Within Toronto, makes plain how fast the city has divided since the 1970s into an ever-wealthier centre and waterfront, and other places where incomes consistently dropped.

The city chose nine "’hot spots’ of high need and low infrastructure" in 2005, then bumped that up to 13 "priority neighbourhoods".

It pledged people in these neighbourhoods would get money, community hubs and help organizing themselves.

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto A few years ago, the city changed the "priority" label.

Recalculating, it started calling its highest-needs districts Neighbourhood Improvement Areas because that sounded better, and today 31, out of 140 census neighbourhoods, are NIAs. Nearly all are in Toronto’s old suburban belt, and attached to other NIAs: northwest North York meets North Etobicoke’s Rexdale

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and Jamestown, and to the south a string of other NIAs through what was once the City of York.

Go east, and Thorncliffe Park meets Flemingdon Park and Victoria Village in another corner of North York; below that, the former East York’s Crescent Town touches Oakridge across Victoria Park Avenue in Scarborough, where seven other NIAs clump together south of Highway 401.

This happened to those neighbourhoods because industries left and a new wave of development never came.

The apartments got older, the traffic crawled, people in the houses aged, subways weren’t built and MoneyMarts thrived.

They became part of The Other Toronto.

Most often, most of us see

that second Toronto through a car window or on the news, in buildings glimpsed after a shooting, or roads after a pedestrian dies running for a bus.

But what happens in The Other Toronto should interest us as much as what happens on Queen Street or in Rosedale. It’s in this Toronto’s neighbourhoods where people on modest incomes can still afford to live.

We need to hear from people in these neighbourhoods, and in 2017, I’m going to do my best to talk to them about the city they live in.

Edges of Toronto is a column about how people see live in Toronto differently, depending on where they live. Reach Mike Adler at madler@insidetoronto.com

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At first, the community had to act without much information MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Canada promised to settle 25,000 Syrian refugees.

Toronto’s Armenian Community did not know a tenth of that number would be coming to them.

Days before the first planeload landed on Dec. 10, 2015, a committee of volunteers at the Armenian Community Centre straddling North York and Scarborough were told they would be meet the first group of Armenians from Syria.

The centre’s church at Hallcrown Place holds 500 people at most, but in a year more than 1,000 of its members privately co-sponsored and settled more than 400 Syrian Armenian families.

Most arrived within a few months, and caring for them pushed the centre’s resources to the limit, people involved in the effort there said.

"We used to bring, maximum, 40 to 60 people in a

month. All of a sudden, we are going to have over 100 in one day - not in a month, in one day," said Marianne Davitjan, master of ceremonies at a celebration last month marking the centre’s year of success.

But during the first weeks and months, the volunteers apparently could get little information from offices of Immigration and Citizenship Canada.

"They didn’t even answer the phone. I mean, we were left alone. We had to decide what to do," recalled Apkar Mirakian, the man in charge of the resettlement program.

Armenian real estate agents scoured the area for housing, and volunteers scrambled to make other arrangements when families arrived and co-sponsors were away.

So many private sponsorships saved the government millions, he said, while the centre spent itself into "a dire situation," enrolling students in its

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Syrian Armenian newcomers Ohannes Tchamichian (left) and Vanig Garabedian (right) talk about successes and challenges of the last year with Apkar Mirakian, who is in charge of the Armenian Community Centre’s Syrian refugee resettlement program in the Armenian Church. school for free and extending hours as it overtaxed the donor base it depends on.

But the settlement was a great success, both mobilizing and revitalizing an Armenian community, con-

centrated in ScarboroughAgincourt, MarkhamUnionville and Don Valley East, built on waves of immigration.

"They didn’t become a so-called burden on the system here," Mirakian said of

the new arrivals.

Over 90 per cent of job seekers among them are now working, "paying their rents," said Ohannes Tchamichian, an Armenian Syrian who arrived last Dec. 15, on the second

plane.

Tchmichian, his parents and sister were sponsored by a grandfather’s cousin, a man they hadn’t met, who "didn’t hesitate to do it for us" and is now a neighbour in Agincourt.

Born and raised in Aleppo, Syria’s largest and most devastated city, Tchmichian said the country needs 30 years to rebuild, and the war has spread beyond its borders.

"The infrastructure is destroyed, the history is destroyed," he said. "They are not calling it World War Three, but it is."

Vanig Garabedian was on the first plane last Dec. 10, with his wife and three daughters. He was met by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Pearson Internation Airport.

"All the way here we felt the utmost dignity and humanity," said Garabedian, who said newcomer’s role is to integrate, like someone "once again reborn," learning the language, the streets, the culture.

He’s sure this wave of newcomers will make Canada a better place.

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New life for Eglinton Grand Theatre as event venue Historic venue retains art deco character while serving a modern role JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com For the first 66 years of its existence, the Eglinton Grand brought guests to faraway worlds via the big screen. Over the past 14 years, it has helped to create more lasting memories by hosting weddings and highprofile events.

Throughout it all, the theatre has retained its old school art deco charm - it was recently named a site of historic significance by Parks Canada - while transitioning from Famous Players’ prime Toronto venue to an events venue run by Dynamic Hospitality and Entertainment Group.

Designed by famed firm Kaplan and Sprachman Architects and opened in 1936, the Eglinton Grand was once the gleaming jewel among Toronto movie theatres.

"Because they had the fi-

nancial wherewithal and because it was going to be the flagship location for Famous Players, there wasn’t much spared in terms of budget," said Dynamic comanaging director Sam D’Uva. "It was hailed as one of the best theatres not just in Canada, but across North America."

The theatre cost $200,000 to build - roughly $3.4 million in 2016 dollars - and it became the go-to place for moviegoers looking to catch the latest big screen gem.

Unfortunately, as the multiplex craze took hold, the Eglinton Grand started to lose some of its lustre, with film fans heading to newer theatres with greater selection.

"The theatre started to wane in terms of financial viability and they finally packed it in in 2002," D’Uva said.

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"One of the biggest things was that the marquee had to be retained," D’Uva said. "It’s got more than 1,000 bulbs in it and it was a costly venture to restore, but to a lot of people that marquee is the Eglinton Grand."

The company spent $3 million restoring many elements of the venerable theatre, upgrading electrical, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, and converting the screening room into an event space.

Dynamic also added a chandelier with audiovisual equipment, a bar and other touches that would help the facility meet the needs of its new clientele. Those elements were designed to complement instead of con-

cealing the Grand’s art deco style which remains evident in historic statues, light sconces and other features throughout the venue.

The venue has also been made 100 per cent wheelchair accessible through the addition of a full-service elevator, helping to modernize the venue and bring it up to Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act standards without compromising on its vintage feel.

That feel, D’Uva said, is what brings people back.

From its landmark status as a distinctive part of the streetscape near Eglinton Ave. W. and Avenue Rd. to its refurbished interior, it remains a throwback to the storied past not just of Toronto but also to the days when Tinsel Town was king.

"People love how it still feels like the good old days," D’Uva noted. "It’s got that Hollywood feeling."

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Lots to celebrate in 150 years It’s early January, and here we are: just days into the year that our country, the former Dominion of Canada, turns 150 years old.

In Toronto and across the land, we’re going to be partying like we’re 200.

We’ve already had a grand TO Canada With Love New Year’s Eve celebration at Nathan Phillips Square.

Winterlicious will be celebrating its 15th year and our 150th, serving up birthday-themed culinary experiences. There’ll be photo contests and dance contests and a Toronto Newcomer Day. And Canada Day will morph into a fourday party the likes of which we’ve never seen.

We’re not the first to reach this venerable age. In 1926, America’s 30th President Calvin Coolidge spoke at great length on the manifold virtues of that great, 150-year-old republic.

America at 150 was in the middle of its own version of the "sunny ways" times that

DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com our charismatic young prime minister seems still to be basking in. It didn’t last, of course - a decade of consistent economic growth ground to a halt in the crash of ’29, and the poverty that had been limited to rural areas spread to the urban middle class.

How are we, at 150?

Well, we’re in a better state than our 241-year-old neighbour is right now. We continue to welcome newcomers to our country and have maintained at least a public equanimity that seems to have eluded

America as it prepares to swear in its 45th President Donald Trump.

We do have a greater challenge before us than Coolidge apprehended when he confidently pointed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States as guarantees of both virtue and safety.

At 150, it’s fair to say that Canada alone cannot guarantee both those things.

We’re coming of age in a world where both national virtue, and safety and security are open questions. It’s not just the changes in the United States that affect us, but all over the world.

So as we prepare to celebrate this significant birthday, we should not only count our gifts. We should prepare to preserve them and perhaps, defend them.

David Nickle covers city hall for Metroland Media Toronto. Contact him at dnickle@insidetoronto.com

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IN THE NEWSROOM

Announcing new reporter beat assignments Putting the spotlight on stories that matter to our readers

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Andrew Palamarchuk

In addition to covering local news and events across our communities in the city, reporters at Metroland Media Toronto now also carry beats on specific topics that we’re hoping will be of interest to readers. Some have been ongoing, but many are new.

Keep an eye to your local newspaper and www.insidetoronto.com for coverage of these beats and get in touch if you’ve got story ideas.

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Tara Hatherly

The Diverse City Reporter Fannie Sunshine is interested in all the ways we’re different from one another and how that defines our city. She’s covering race relations, women’s issues, the city’s indigenous and minority populations, and the LGBTQ community. Reach her on 416-774-2368 or at fsunshine@insidetoronto.com.

City Hall

First Responder

David Nickle is a veteran of Toronto municipal politics, covering Toronto City Hall since amalgamation in 1998. That covers a lot of territory: everything from how garbage gets collected and where it goes, to how much property tax gets collected from you and what it pays for. Toronto has a close and sometimes fraught relationship with Queen’s Park, so he watches and writes about that too. He can be reached at dnickle@insidetoronto.com and followed on Twitter @davidnickle.

Breaking news, viral trends and all things ofthe-moment - that’s reporter Tara Hatherly’s area of expertise online at insidetoronto.com. She welcomes tips or leads on great viral media or anything you think Torontonians would find cool. Reach her at thatherly@insidetoronto.com or 416-774-2355, or on Twitter @Tara_Hatherly.

Crime

Fannie Sunshine

marchuk@insidetoronto.com or 416-774-2279.

Andrew Palamarchuk covers murder and other serious crime in the city along with major vehicular crashes and fires.

He interviews people affected by tragedy and looks at societal issues that could have contributed to them and searches for solutions that could solve them. He can be reached at apala-

Tamara Shephard

Health Tamara Shephard reports on the health and well-being of people, from children to adults and seniors. With a special focus on mental health issues, as well as people’s access to health care, she’s interested in the stories that impact people’s lives. Reach her at tshephard@insidetoronto.com.

History Cynthia Reason is interested in writing the stories of the people and places of

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the past that helped define the city we live in today, as well as heritage conservation issues and the tireless efforts of those working to preserve it. Reach her on 416-495-6640, creason@insidetoronto.com or on Twitter @icreason.

Money Matters Reporter Joanna Lavoie wants to help everyday Torontonians navigate their finances and learn how to keep their money safe.

She’s also going to dive into issues surrounding the cost of living and investigate what it takes to be able to afford calling Toronto home. Feel free to contact Joanna at jlavoie@insidetoronto.com, on Twitter @JoannaLavoie or 416-7742269.

The Other Toronto Away from the brighter lights and most of the city’s wealth, there’s another Toronto that needs our attention. Isolated, at times ignored, The Other Toronto’s neighbourhoods struggle but are home to new Canadians and working folk; they have successes too. Mike Adler seeks their stories and writes a column, Edges of Toronto.

Reach him at madler@insidetoronto.com or 416-7742264.

in Toronto. What issues do you face as a modern parent raising a child in the 21st Century? Reach him at dkurek@insidetoronto.com or follow him on Twitter @DominikKurek.

Schools From budgets and bullying to special needs and specialized programs, there’s plenty going on in Toronto’s school system.

Reporter Justin Skinner is on the school beat, keeping readers posted on key issues in education. Reach him on 416-774-2309 or at jskinner@insidetoronto.com.

Dominik Kurek

Technology Reporter Hilary Caton is fascinated by the different ways we use technology for education, entertainment and advancing society.

Smartphones, drones, virtual reality, gaming - where’s it all going and what effect does it have on us? Tech story ideas welcome. Send them to hcaton@insidetoronto.com or tweet to @HilaryCaton.

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Transit and Infrastructure

Dominik Kurek is a married dad of two kids, a boy and a girl, who is interested in the struggles and successes of other parents

Rahul Gupta covers all manner of news relating to how we get around and the infrastructure upon which we do it. TTC, GO Transit, streets and highways, cycling, commuters, pedestrians and city planning are top priority in his beat.

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Newcomers from Syria, Heba Diab, 19, (left) and Hannan Nanaa, 19, sort and pack food for residents at a food bank in the Dorset Park Community Hub in Scarborough Wednesday, Dec. 28, as part of the YMCA’s Arabic Newcomer Youth Leadership Development program. Over the last year, 14,000 Syrian refugees arrived in Ontario and the YMCA of Greater Toronto says it provided settlement services to more than 2,100.

Young Syrian leaders happy to learn and volunteer Thorncliffe Park resident hoping to pursue career in science MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com

apart in Syria’s civil war.

She came to Canada 10 months ago, settled in Scarborough, and wants to study medicine or pharmaceutical science.

"I like to communicate with new people, Canadian people, to do something I didn’t do in Syria," said Diab, who is also 19 and comes from a city called Homs. She now lives in Thorncliffe Park and wants to pursue a career in science, possibly chemistry.

Both also want to share their own culture, including its foods, with Canadians.

"You know shawarma?

Everyone knows shawarma," Diab said, laughing.

Brahimi said the group, which is also open to young Syrians outside Scarborough, is planning a March break cultural event featuring crafts and traditional dances. "It’s a way of my youth saying ’thank you’ to the community," he said.

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On Dec. 28, Heba Diab and her friend Hanan Nanaa sorted and handed out food at Scarborough’s Dorset Park Community Hub. Not only did this teach them new things about Canada, but it was something Nanaa, 19, said she was glad to do to "show the Canadian people who the Syrians are."

In November, the YMCA of Greater Toronto started an Arabic Newcomer Youth Leadership Development program in Scarborough to connect Syrian newcomers ages 16 to 19 with things they need, and encourage their interac-

tion with Canadians.

It’s grown to include about 40 youth, who learn about different social norms in Canada and winter activities such as ice skating, while gaining "skills that will get them a job someday," said Karim Brahimi, the program’s newcomer youth adviser.

Now 25, he arrived from Algeria at 14, so Syrian youth know he’s been through everything they have as newcomers. "They see me as a brother, not as an adult or teacher."

The young Syrians regularly meet at the Toronto Milner Business Court in northeast Scarborough and visit the Scarborough YMCA, but the group also sends volunteers to places such as a Markham Road retirement home and the food bank at Dorset Park.

"Canadian people help us. We have to help them too," said Nanaa, who is from Aleppo - a city torn

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EVENTS O Thursday, January 5 Adult Book Clubs WHEN: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

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O Monday, January 9 CEO of Everything – Gail VazOxlade and Victoria Ryce WHEN: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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O Wednesday, January 11 Watercolour Art Classes WHEN: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

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5 things to do this weekend O Friday, January 6 Evergreen’s Winter Village at the Brick Works WHEN: 11 a.m.

WHERE: Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview Ave. CONTACT: 416596-1495, communications@ evergreen.ca COST: Free Enjoy the new Street Food Market, shop the Farmers Market and play outdoors. Eat, shop and play local.

O Saturday, January 7 Winter Waves WHEN: 1 p.m. WHERE: Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane CONTACT: info@soulpepper.ca COST: Free Family programming transforms the Young Centre through music, theatre and interactive experiences.

O Sunday, January 8 High Park Hiders, Hibernators and Hightailers WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

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A video showing a woman being arrested after stomping on two police cruisers in North York New Year’s Day highlights how officers put their deescalation training into use, police say.

Officers from 31 Division were called to Finch Avenue and Milady Road, west of Islington Avenue, for a woman acting erratically at 2:18 p.m.

Const. Christofer Lemieux arrived to find an irate woman in the middle of the street, screaming at motorists. As the Const. called for backup, the woman jumped onto the hood of his scout car and stomped on the windshield and roof. When a second cruiser arrived, she also jumped on that vehicle, smashing its rear and front windshields.

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In 2016, police responded to about 25,000 calls involving people in mental health crisis, an 11 per cent increase over the previous year.

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New Year’s baby Tiffany Zhao was born at 2:48 a.m. at North York General Hospital.

Tiffany Zhao first baby born at North York General Hospital in 2017 AARON D’ANDREA adandrea@metroland.com Tiffany Zhao is North York General Hospital’s first baby of the new year.

She was born at 2:48 a.m. and weighed in at seven pounds.

Tiffany’s father, Hanyu, of North York, told The North York Mirror his new daughter wasn’t due until Jan. 15.

"My wife (Yin Liang) had gestational diabetes, so it should’ve been earlier," he said. "We went to the hospital several

times and my wife could feel many times the baby could come, and it happened on the first day of the new year and it’s really exciting."

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Muslim group hosts holiday dinner for Jane and Finch community The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Canada organized and hosted a highly successful holiday dinner for those in need in Toronto on Dec. 22.

Hundreds of men, women and children from the Jane and Finch community, including leaders of various Christian groups, gathered at the Driftwood Community Recreation Centre to partake in this unique event.

"The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Canada is taking a leadership role in offering social services and giving back to those who need it the most; this is a fundamental teaching of Islam," said Muslim youth leader and event organizer, Abid Mirza.

This event marks the launch of a campaign by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Canada aimed to help alleviate some of the

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Close to 5,000 non-perishable food items collected by students from Grades K-8 at St. Jane Frances Catholic School, along with parents and staff.

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The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Canada organized and hosted a highly successful holiday dinner for those in need in Toronto on Thursday. prevalent issues faced by the Jane and Finch community. Several free workshops and seminars have been planned at the recreation centre for next several months to help achieve this objective.

"As Ahmadi Muslims, we endeavour to provide

ongoing support and permanent solutions to the challenges faced by those who are less fortunate.

This is the teaching of Islam and the practice of the founder of Islam, Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)," continued Mirza.

A Christmas food drive was launched at St. Jane Frances Catholic School, 2745 Jane St. in North York, on Monday, Dec. 12.

Grade 5 students from Judy Cammarota’s class organized and ran the twoweek food drive.

Through the collective effort of students from grades K-8, parents and staff, close to 5,000 non-perishable food items were collected!

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