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Area that includes WestminsterBranson has many challenges MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com The north end of Bathurst Street in Toronto is a canyon of highrises and quiet spaces where seniors try to stay ahead of the speeding traffic.

The area’s heart is Westminster-Branson, covering the west side of Bathurst from Steeles Avenue to the Don River Valley south of Finch Avenue.

Toronto Life somehow ranks it last among the city’s 140 neighbourhoods.

The city called Westminster-Branson a "priority neighbourhood" because it lacked social services, but dropped that label years ago.

These days, some residents are reimagining the area, calling it BathurstFinch, but agree a big problem is that its residents, divided by ethnic background and length of stay in the neighbourhood, don’t talk to each other.

Knitting, it seems, is a small part of the solution.

Each week at the Artsy Craftsy Club, older adults make connections they otherwise wouldn’t.

"I find knitting and crocheting is a universal art form," says Retchel Morales, a resident who started the drop-in group at the Bathurst-Finch Unison Hub, a new community centre, and saw it draw people together.

"I got to know people in the neighbourhood only

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Antibes Drive is home to some of the larger highrises in the Bathurst-Finch area, also called the Westminster-Branson neighbourhood. It’s served by a few public meeting spaces, such as the Antibes Community Centre in this image, but people say more are needed.

through this program."

Differences between Bathurst in North York and the fast-developing Yonge Street corridor are jarring. Mojgan Rasouli, an urban planner, and Amitis Nouroozi, an architect, both moved to the area some years ago and saw "something is not working" along Bathurst.

"It’s not walkable. The vitality (seen around Yonge and Finch) is missing," Rasouli said.

Both are from Iran and find the mixed-use buildings around Yonge and Lawrence Avenue feel more like cities of their homeland, but they embraced their adopted neighbourhood, leading walks and workshops at

the Hub for residents, a project of the BathurstFinch Action for Neighbourhood Change group, continuing this year, called "You Are Where You Live."

Revitalization is happening along Bathurst but at a slower pace than in neighbourhoods downtown, where more people participate in the planning process, they say.

"We don’t have enough voice in this neighbourhood, partly because of language barriers," Nouroozi said last week, as the pair looked at the BathurstFinch intersection.

Around them were two plazas, a gas station and, behind Northview Heights Secondary School on the fourth corner, Esther Shin-

er Stadium, which, like many public spaces along this part of Bathurst, does not get used nearly enough.

The stadium, typically, sees little use, Nouroozi said. "If there’s a programmed plan, people are there."

Both women said residents want small changes to give Bathurst-Finch more of a neighbourhood feel, "a sense of belonging."

Nouroozi and Rasouli want to keep bringing longtime residents and newcomers with fresh eyes together this year, to establish an advisory group which shares their passion for the area and to have those people meet with planners, politicians and

investors.

The area has many seniors, and some struggle to reach supermarkets far apart at Sheppard Avenue or Steeles. Many struggle with isolation.

"A lot of them, basically, are not the rich type," said Arnold Spevack, a retired man who’s lived in the neighbourhood for 20 years. "If they get socially isolated, they get depressed."

Spevack, a member of the Bathurst-Finch Social Action Group, said local seniors need more places to go, and protection from impatient drivers who seem to see red lights as signals to pick up their speed "and go for it," he said.

At some traffic lights,

seniors crossing "can’t even make it halfway," Spevack added.

Morales, also a member of the group, which meets at the hub, said the area has few child care centres, and renovated apartments require more rent from newer residents.

Many apartment tenants in a two-bedroom will rent out the other room to make ends meet, she said.

Newcomers can be very educated but, without work, "after a while, they fall into poverty," said Mandana Attarzadeh of the Hub’s ANC office.

Her group noticed the area’s people stay mostly with their own kind, but it tries to break down the segregation, she said. "We say, ’We have just one community, the Bathurst-Finch community.’"

The Hub opened in 2013, and on the night a reporter visited the social group, Poolad Abdurlrahami, a painter who has won national awards in Iran, exhibited some of his work downstairs.

Cultural activities are not frequent at the hub fitness classes for seniors or job-finding seminars for newcomers are more common - but a survey found people want more.

Manager Simon Cheng said roughly 350 people come to the building each day for scheduled events as well as services such as dental care and legal aid.

"We want to see more artistic activities in the hub," he said.

The building has an open house during Family Day week, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23, and University of Toronto students will be volunteering, distributing material about the hub door to door.

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Black History Month offers window into Canada’s past Toronto was the first municipality in Canada to proclaim February as Black History Month; a month dedicated to commemorating the contributions of AfricanCanadians to our culture and community. That was 38 years ago.

It was because of the diligent pressure and persistence of the Ontario Black History Society which succeeded in having the city formally recognize the month - and now it’s proclaimed right across the country.

Black History Month is, frankly, Canadian History Month and it’s important we know the compelling facts of our heritage. African-Canadians have struggled for equal opportunity and freedom from discrimination for far too many years. It began with the anti-slavery movement and evolved into the fight for basic civil and human rights. African-Canadian leaders of that time led with courage and determination. They include people like Viola Davis Desmond, a Halifax-born business woman. It was 1946 when she went to the movies in New Glasgow, N.S. while her vehicle was being repaired. She bought a ticket and sat on the main floor - not realizing this theatre had segregated seating. She refused to leave when staff demanded she go to the balcony. She was dragged out by police and spent the night in jail. She was fined $20 and charged and eventually convicted with defrauding the government of one cent - the tax difference between the balcony and main floor seat. Her challenge of the tax evasion charge brought national and international attention and raised awareness of racial segregation in Canada. Desmond was posthumously pardoned in 2010 and next year, she will be the first African-Canadian and first woman, aside from the Queen, to appear on a Canadian bank note.

Others led with their entrepreneurial spirit. Carrie Best was the first African-Canadian to own and publish a newspaper.

Elijah McCoy invented and patented a type of lubricating cup that dripped oil onto moving parts of a train while in motion. He also invented and patented the first portable ironing board at his wife’s request.

African-Canadians have roots which date back to the 1600s. They were soldiers, farmers, writers, newspaper publishers, activists, engineers, athletes, politicians and performers. It’s our wish that future generations will know the history of African-Canadians just as well as any other group or historical event in our country’s timeline.

Let’s educate ourselves about the contributions African-Canadians have made to our society - for the better.

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Bylaw makes faith groups feel unwelcome When Toronto City Hall’s rotunda filled up last week with the supporters of a Scarborough mosque, people who were watching shrugged.

The protest was meant to disrupt a city council meeting, but didn’t. Mayor John Tory was away. The leader of Sakinah Community Centre spoke to some reporters, saying the mayor and city were trying to drive Muslims out of Toronto.

Soon enough, everyone went home. But that won’t be the end of it.

Just as homes in the city are becoming more unaffordable for families, faith groups, especially those supported by newcomers, are feeling squeezed out too.

What brought Sakinah supporters downtown was desperation. The city shut

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto their mosque and school down a year ago, officially for safety reasons, but also because Sakinah occupies an industrial building.

Drive around industrial areas in Toronto’s inner suburbs, and you see places of worship and private schools. Industrial buildings remain relatively cheap, but in 2013, the city closed that door with a new bylaw.

The discrimination Saki-

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nah’s imam, Said Rageah, was talking about is economic. He’s arguing the city knows faith groups like his can’t triple their budget to get buildings with commercial zoning.

"By banning our places of worship and schools you are telling us to live elsewhere.

We will not," he says in a letter to Tory.

"This will not end. This is a human rights issue."

Sakinah established itself around the time the bylaw took effect, and disagrees with city officials about what happened. Its leadership may have made a big mistake, but after renovating the building, it must fight for it.

In the inner suburbs, Sakinah’s choices aren’t unique, and this problem will worsen as more faith

groups come into conflict with the city.

Tory says the city will work with the Toronto Real Estate Board "to ensure that other religious groups are informed of where they can legally operate."

But reminding real estate agents of their professional standards is not the same as solving the problem.

A city which welcomes diversity and protects religious groups must do more for them besides explaining they now need to find much more expensive properties to call home.

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Spotlight has been good for young tax whiz FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Lorne Weinreb takes the deck of cards in his hands as his daughter, Carlie, readies herself for what she knows is coming.

Each card has the name of a U.S. state written on the front, and what each state charges in sales tax on the back. With lightning speed, Carlie zips through several cards with barely a pause, and never once stumbles.

Her record for getting through the entire deck correctly is one minute and 40 seconds.

At the age of nine, Carlie is known as the math queen in her Grade 4 class at Summit Heights Public School, and as a tax whiz who has given lectures on Canada’s income tax system in front of hundreds of university students and those in the financial sector for the past three years.

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Carlie’s tax knowledge was made public three years ago when she spoke in front of a group of university students when her father was scheduled to do some tax training.

Even at age six, Carlie was calm and composed in a situation which could have been intimidating even for adults, characteristics which have stayed with her as media attention grows.

"It’s fun," she said of the spotlight from the dining room of her Avenue Road and Hwy. 401 area home, while playing with blue Play-Doh. "I like teaching math. I want to do something with math and teaching, or something with math."

Carlie isn’t the only youngster in her home with a talent for math. Her seven-year-old sister, Saige, is learning quadratic equations under the tutelage of

year, Carlie has been featured in numerous media publications, ranging from newspaper stories to radio and television interviews, including a spot on Bloomberg North.

But in order to break into the U.S., Carlie must become familiar with its sales tax system - hence the deck of cards.

Lorne, a chartered accountant, began teaching his daughter math at age 18 months, when they would count as she climbed the stairs. Not only did Lorne view math as a way for him to bond with his baby girl, but believed a strong foundation early on would pay off in the long run.

"I wanted her to have an edge," he said. "If you’re prepped from the beginning it’s so much easier. I would make (lessons) relevant. We go to the dollar store a lot and she learns about budgeting. It’s amazing what happens when you give someone $3 in-

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"All I took away from those lessons involved Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad (which are undoubtedly important), but little did I know there was so much more that wasn’t being told," the Toronto resident, who is of Trinidadian and Jamaican descent, said in an email. "I enjoyed learning about all kinds of history as a kid. But it would have been much more inspiring to learn about black cultural heritage as well."

This year marks 21 years Black History Month has officially been recognized in Canada, though it has been unofficially recognized for many more.

Throughout the month of February, Black History Month will be celebrated through discussions and presentations highlighting significant contributions made by black people.

And though it’s been more than two decades since their stories have been officially told, Pryce feels a lot has yet to be revealed, making Black History Month all the more important.

"I think we still have a long way to go," she said.

"In many ways we still live in a society that idealizes nonethnic peoples and perceives or views things through a Eurocentric lens."

Not only is learning about black history impor-

tant from an educational standpoint, but also for youth beyond the classroom, Pryce said.

"This is crucial for positive role-modelling and developing strong self-identities and hopefully more well-rounded, educated, and confident black youth who feel they, too, have something of value to contribute to society," she said. "All people need to learn to associate positivity and optimism with black culture that involves the contributions of black people to the arts, science, technology, religion and philosophy. This, I think, will help to foster an atmosphere of mutual tolerance and respect of people from all backgrounds that can extend beyond the classroom."

Nikki Clarke, president of the Ontario Black History Society, said even though a major victory was recently scored when the federal government

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TOP: Bonesu (left) performs a traditional African dance for those in attendance during a Black History Month presentation last year inside the Rexdale Community Hub. ABOVE: Local author Jessica Alex reads to Grade 5 students from St. John the Evangelist Catholic School as part of a previous year’s Black History Month event at Perth/Dupont Library. announced Viola Desmond will be featured on a new $10 bank note expected next year, marking the first time a woman, besides Queen Elizabeth II, will be featured on Canadi-

an currency, there is still "a lot of catching up to do."

A Nova Scotia businesswoman, the late Desmond defiantly refused to a leave a whites-only area of a movie theatre in 1946, and

was jailed, convicted, and fined. It’s believed her case was the first known legal challenge against racial segregation brought forward by a black woman in Canada.

"Many people had no idea who she was," Clarke said of Desmond when the announcement was made late last year. "And this was recent history."

For Clark, getting the message out about black history isn’t saved for one month of the year; it’s a 365-day effort, she said.

"We could not go about our day without the contributions of a black person," she said, noting the electric traffic signal was invented by African-American Garrett Morgan.

Carl James, professor of the faculty of education and Jean Augustine chair in education, community and diaspora at York University, said supplementary programs such as Black History Month, Asian Her-

itage Month, and Aboriginal History Month "tells us something is wrong with the way Canadian history is taught.

"What’s missing is the telling of Canadian history where all people are a part of it," he said.

Righting the wrong could start with revising the way Canadian history is taught in the classroom, James said.

"We could look at school programs, we could look at cultural celebrations," he said. "When all these people are included in the main Canadian narrative, to me that’s the first step.

Until that happens, programs like Black History Month are needed as supplementary programs to address what’s missing.

Look at Viola Desmond. A number of Canadians didn’t know about her existence. They had never heard of her. It’s an indication of the value of Black History Month."

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Just last week Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) ejected much of the senior leadership of local shop 113, which represents the vast majority of TTC workers.

The list of the ousted includes longtime 113 president Bob Kinnear, who the ATU accuses as the main orchestrator of an effort to split the local from its parent. Kinnear counters the Washington D.C.-based ATU is coercing its Canadian membership for support. He has publicly joined forces with Unifor in an effort to convince his many remaining supporters at 113 to break ranks with their American masters and join the Canadian labour giant instead (full disclosure: the Metroland Media Toronto newsroom is affiliated with Unifor).

Of course, little of this inter-labour strife will register with the transit-taking public, if at all, so long as the

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Neither will it matter all too much, at least publicly, to TTC management, which has largely refrained from commenting on the situation. And to their credit, both ATU and Unifor have pledged not to disrupt service while the dispute plays out.

This is a pivotal year for both 113 and the TTC. Spot drug testing of TTC employees is likely to commence in a matter of months. At the end of the year, the TTC will launch a new customer service process once the Spadina extension opens, which

will see station collectors removed from their booths and dispatched throughout the station. In between, the TTC will launch the first phase of Automatic Train Control (ATC) - the main reason for all those weekend-long subway closures - which will see trains piloted via computer, albeit overseen by a single, human operator.

Taken together with the overall trend of declining influence of the labour movement, it’s not hard to see a steady unravelling of the union’s strength. For transit riders facing annual fare increases in part to cover the costs of generous employee wages, this might not be such a bad thing. Regardless of which faction wins out, they’ll have to deal with a much-changed landscape for labour rights.

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