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’The more contacts you make, the better it gets,’ one says MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Start small, and you can get people out of their apartments and into the parks between them, even in Toronto’s underserved neighbourhoods, volunteers say.

The city’s green spaces are key to building "social connection" and a sense of neighbourhood, Park People, a network for Toronto’s local park groups, says in a report, Sparking Change.

Amenities, events and activities in parks, Park People says, "help create the conditions that draw people out to meet each other."

In poorer or overlooked districts of Toronto, these are even more important.

Flemingdon Park, an area of apartment towers near Don Mills Road, is surrounded by underused green spaces, says Nawaal Ateeq, who has lived and worked in Flemingdon since 2003.

The neighbourhood’s people, including many newcomers to Canada, are closeted in small apartments, and not getting enough exercise or social interaction. They need reasons "to come down as often as they can to use" local parks, she said.

"They are leading isolated lives," added Ateeq, whose volunteer group is called Flemingdon Community Support Services.

"They probably don’t feel safe or don’t feel ownership."

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Park People’s Brianna Aspinall (right) gets some help from Angelita Buado and a group of fellow volunteer Friends of Earl Bales members at the North York park’s community centre.

Since 2013, FCSS has staged festivals and events in a space outside a community resource centre on Grenoble Drive.

The building contains an indoor playground which charges visiting children a fee, restricting its use by Flemingdon residents. Outside, though, FCSS organizes cleanups, Bollywood dancing and tai chi, and has fought to install benches, shade, and lighting.

Last summer, the city brought pergolas for residents to sit under, but the structures were temporary, Ateeq said. "Because it’s Hydro land, we’re not supposed to have anything permanent."

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Her church wanted to clean up the park, which is popular with summer picnickers. Friends of Earl Bales started with community groups aiding the cleanup in 2013.

Earl Bales is more alive, and more people "are getting out" to enjoy its spaces.

Once newcomers attend an event, they feel more welcome, Buado said.

Park People noticed Toronto’s park groups "were mostly clustered in downtown Toronto," and in neighbourhoods "generally more affluent and well-connected than other areas in the city."

Through a program called Parks 44 and smallscale project grants, it successfully encouraged such groups to spread to all 44 Toronto wards, including areas the city formerly identified as "priority neighbourhoods" because they’re home to more lowincome families and newcomers.

Many "have historically seen less investment than other areas of a city," including in park programming. Sparking Change says many park groups start because members "wanted simple items, like benches or flowers, and used this as a rallying point."

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In Downsview, Angelita Buado and volunteers in Friends of Earl Bales Park dream of doing more than getting people in nearby Bathurst Street or Sheppard Avenue apartments Russians, Filipinos, Persians, and others - out of "their own little spaces."

They see interactions in Earl Bales - which has more amenities than many North York parks - as promoting understanding and tolerance between different cultures, getting them working together.

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forts going. People move away, or change their shifts at work.

And in Rexdale’s Panorama Park, hungry deer from the Humber River Valley wiped out the community garden’s crops and closed the project in 2014, until the city agreed to build a higher fence.

Before its first plantings in 2011, nothing much was happening in Panorama, close to the Rexdale Community Hub and Kipling Avenue, said Jim Graham, a master gardener who lives in a nearby part of North York.

Some of the families who grow vegetables in the raised beds, and come from area condominiums and highrises, were farmers back home, Graham said.

Like other fledgling groups, Park People helped get the gardeners in touch with more potential funders. They started organizing movie and cooking nights. "The more contacts you make, the better it gets," said Graham.

Lack of outdoor education may have kept some people from enjoying Maidavale Park in Scarborough’s Ionview area.

Laura Hammond, cochairperson of a community action council for Toronto Community Housing buildings near the Birchmount Road green space led youth on a tour of a ravine containing Taylor Massey Creek, exploring which plants there were edible.

Many were brave enough to try sumac and garlic mustard leaves. A few youth, she said, told her they had only been in the ravine "running from the police."

The Maidavale volunteers hope to add beehives to the park soon.

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EDITORIAL | OPINION

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Let’s not shoot the messengers There’s a troubling trend taking place in the political discourse of late.

The news media is in the crosshairs and coming under increasing fire by those who would prefer to be the subject of propaganda instead of public scrutiny.

The latest salvo came Friday when U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a double whammy, with White House press secretary Sean Spicer barring a number of news agencies, including the New York Times and CNN, from the daily briefing and the commander-inchief himself again referring to the media as "the enemy of the American people" in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

It’s an escalation of a campaign intended to sow distrust in the media that’s been ongoing since Trump’s election campaign, with Orwellian terms such as "alternative facts" and "fake news" now entering the lexicon.

A free press is an institution so integral to a functioning democracy that Thomas Jefferson is famously quoted as having said: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." That’s among the reasons why many academics and experts have expressed concern with the Trump administration’s repeatedly adversarial stance toward the media with retired Navy Admiral William McRaven, leader of the 2011 operation that killed Osama bin Laden, calling it "the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime" and Republican Senator John McCain cautioning that suppressing the press is "how dictators get started."

While the hostility toward the media is not as prevalent here in Canada, it’s becoming more common to see eerily similar rhetoric dotting the comments sections of news websites and social media feeds.

A big part of the news media’s role is holding elected officials, at all levels of government, to account for their actions and the decisions they make and to protect your right to know.

At the same time, we’re accountable for our coverage to you, the public.

It’s OK for politicians and the public to disagree with the manner in which a story is covered or offer additional information that can make the narrative more clear but there’s a massive difference between that and allegations of fabrication and deliberate falsehood.

By all means, don’t hesitate to critique and question news stories, we welcome it but let’s also be careful not to shoot the messenger.

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Serving universities, living in poverty They serve meals on Toronto campuses, but can they afford meat for their families?

They deal with hundreds of customers a day, and are expected to smile.

Until now. Food servers at York University and University of Toronto Scarborough are on strike.

Keisha Latty, on the job at York for 11 years, says the pay is insulting.

She needs $1,200 for rent, plus babysitting money and food for her three kids. Last week, she hadn’t paid her February rent, and March was just days away.

"You can’t afford to buy food in the city anymore.

There’s no affordable rent in the city anymore," Latty says. And TTC fares go

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto up, "so when you go home, you go home with nothing."

Latty actually has one of the highest salaries in her unit, $15.41 an hour.

Most of the 220 people represented by UNITE Here, Local 75 on York’s Downsview campus, and 60 at UTSC, get $11.50 to $12.21.

After 10 years, Maddelena Funarolo’s pay is

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$12.21, not up even by $2.

"How do you feed a family?" she asks. "How?" Their contracts are not with the universities but Aramark, a U.S. company.

Meanwhile, servers at U of T’s St. George campus, working for U of T directly, get $18 or $20 an hour.

Servers at the suburban campuses deserve those same wages, wages they can live on.

Darrell and Maureen Jansen have served UTSC students and staff for 10 years.

Maureen gets $11.50, Darrell $12.66; he was promoted recently but Aramark didn’t increase his pay.

Their two children are in college. The Jansens rent a north Scarborough house for $1,000 a month, have no savings, and while

on strike, no income.

Like other servers, they say their fight isn’t just for money but the next generation. They also want more respect from an employer constantly pushing more work on them.

"We are strong. We will fight to our last," Maureen says.

Growing fast and planning big things, York and UTSC say they’re "anchor institutions" committed to raising up the communities around them. That’s a lie if full-time employees on those campuses don’t make a living wage.

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Canned food, juice needed for drive March 19 to 29 More than 2,000 food boxes will be assembled and delivered as part of this year’s Passover Food Drive to help Jewish families in need celebrate the holiday.

Each of the 2,500 boxes will contain most of the essentials needed for two meals for up to three Greater Toronto Area (GTA) residents who may be living in poverty, are recent immigrants, have disabilities or are in financial dire straits.

The Passover Food Drive, organized by the National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, Toronto Section (NCJWC-TS), will run Sunday, March 19 to Wednesday, March 29, with delivery day set for Sunday, April 2.

Of the estimated 200,000 Jewish people living in Toronto, some 26,000 live below the poverty line, according to NCJWC-TS. The boxes, filled with

traditional Passover food, will be packed and delivered to those in need in Toronto and the GTA. Volunteer drivers are needed April 2 to deliver boxes between 8:30 and 11:30 a.m. starting from 4700 Bathurst St. Along with volunteers, the food drive is also looking for monetary donations, with cash going toward purchasing perishable items, such as chicken.

Passover, which celebrates the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt, begins the evening of Monday, April 10 and ends the evening of Tuesday, April 18.

Food items, including apple juice, apple sauce, cake mix, canned fruit, canned tuna, cereal, sweets, farfel, grape juice, jam, and vegetable soup mix can be dropped off in

Toronto and York Region at Sobeys, 9200 Bathurst St. at Rutherford Road; Longo’s, 9306 Bathurst St. at Rutherford Road; Loblaws, 396 St. Clair Avenue, east of Bathurst Street; Longo’s, 808 York Mills Rd., east of Leslie Street; Pat’s No Frills, 270 Wilson Ave. at Bathurst Street; Metro in Lawrence Plaza, 3090 Bathurst St. at Lawrence Avenue; and Metro, 600 Sheppard Ave. at Bathurst Street.

The Passover Food Drive began in 1983 when members of the NCJWCTS noted there were some members of their community in need of food during Passover. That year, 25 kosher for Passover food boxes were packed and delivered.

For information, to donate, or for driver volunteer information email pfd@ncjwctoronto.org or call 416-633-5100.

North York educators named outstanding principals Canada-wide program recognizes 40 principals

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FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com A pair of North York educators have been named two of Canada’s outstanding principals.

Flora Cifelli of Dante Alighieri Academy and Monday Gala of C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute were two of 40 recipients of this year’s Canada’s Outstanding Principals program, presented by The Learning Partnership.

The winners, who represent every province and territory, were chosen by a national selection committee based on their exceptional contributions that positively impact student achievement and success.

Cifelli said she’s "ho-

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noured to be recognized for work I love to do."

The principal at the Dufferin Street and Lawrence Avenue area school, which is made up of two campuses, spearheaded a building project for a new school, which is still in the planning phase, and created an interfaith garden and dedicated faith spaces.

Gala, who has held the top job at the Keele Street and Finch Avenue area

school since 2000, is credited with raising graduation rates after destreaming grades 9 and 10 classes offered at the academic level.

"The achievement has been better for all students," he said.

He called the award a group effort, joking "a lot of the time I’m just the pretty face on top. The reality is the award truly belongs to our staff, our students, and our community."

Major University hearing study seeks participants.

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often find they can “get by” without help, however as the problem worsens this becomes increasingly harder to do. By studying those people having difficulty in noise or with television, we hope to identify key factors impacting these difficulties and further understand their influence on the treatment process.

Why Research Hearing Loss?

1. Cruickshanks, K. L., Wiley, T. L., Tweed, T. S., Klein, B. E. K., Klein, R, Mares-Perlman, J. A., & Nondahl, D. M. (1998). Prevalence of Hearing Loss in Older Adults in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin: The Epidemiology of Hearing Loss Study. Am. J. Epidemiol. 148 (9), 879-886.

For some people this loss of clarity is only a problem at noisy restaurants or in the car, but for others it makes listening a struggle throughout the entire day.

It is estimated that 46% of people aged 45 to 87 have some degree of hearing loss,1 but most do not seek treatment right away. In fact, the average person with hearing loss will wait ten years before seeking help.2 This is because at the beginning stages of hearing loss people

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These are the three pillars upon which the Millennial Mission is built.

Metroland Media has embarked on a conversation with a generation of people who are currently finding their niche in a competitive world.

Through this conversation our journalists will investigate if students currently enrolled in post-secondary education in Ontario are being adequately prepared for the constantly changing workforce.

We ask students in colleges and universities to answer the question:, "Why are I here?" And their answers, on video, are as unique as should be expected from a demographic that won’t be pigeonholed.

We look at the job market from all sides and ask

those in the know to predict where savvy wage earners should place their hopes, dreams and aspirations for a rewarding career.

We also talk to employers about their expectations from the education system, from workers and where they are placing their bets for a secure economic future.

This is a demographic that defies description and

for many individuals in their 20s and early 30s, a job just won’t cut it. Entrepreneurship is as likely a path to a successful future as a job or handful of degrees and Millennials are creating their own future through creativity, daring, hard work and sheer will.

Our conversation focuses on their journey as well.

The Millennial Mission is now live on our website at insidetoronto.com/millennialmission Visit us and see what young people are saying now about the future. And then visit us again because we’re not done yet. This conversation is lively, pointed, and informative and it will go on for as long as you have questions to be answered about possible future paths.

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Middle class Torontonians feeling the squeeze Residents struggle to stay afloat as income disparity in Toronto grows JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com

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North York resident Cathleen Trinh, mom to three-year-old Charlie, keeps a fairly tight rein on her finances.

Trinh, who works in Richmond Hill, directs a notable portion of her earnings to child care.

"It is manageable with my income. I’m pretty lucky, but it could be better," said Trinh, who is on a waiting list for a child care subsidy. "The Canada Child Tax Benefit helps me a lot."

Since becoming a single mom a year ago, Trinh said she’s learned a lot more about how to access government resources and tax breaks. She’s currently working to save up enough money to purchase a property in the city.

"One of the major financial challenges is trying to own something. It’s basically impossible," admitted Trinh, who came to Canada from Germany 14 years ago. "I have not given up hope on home ownership, but I’m not ready for it yet. Maybe in the next year if the prices aren’t crazy."

Trinh’s situation is a common one for people in Toronto who earn between $40,000 and $90,000 annually.

Danielle C., a mother of young two sons from East

MIDDLE CLASS CHALLENGES ANDREA GASCA A Beach resident for 16 years, Andreea Gasca is prepared to make sacrifices so that her 12-year-old daughter Nikita can reap the benefits of growing up in a diverse, multicultural city.

"I’m staying in Toronto because of what it can teach my child. I want my daughter to have an open mind. From an arts and culture standpoint, Toronto offers so much," shared Gasca, who works for the Attorney General’s office.

Originally from Montreal, Gasca said to stay afloat she’s had to find creative ways to stretch a dollar.

"We’ve developed an addiction to Value Village and the Facebook (buy and sell) groups. You have to find ways to make it work," said Gasca, who has only taken one vacation in 12 years. "It’s tough to get ahead, to make ends meet."

Gasca said inflation is a key reason why she struggles to get ahead even if her income has increased in recent years.

ALICIA PENNY Scarborough resident Alicia Penny, her partner, and their two-year-old son, Elijah, are also working hard to stay afloat.

Toronto is home and she feels her family has the right to live here.

"Our roots are here. It’s just too much to up and move somewhere else where you don’t know anybody," she told Metroland Media Toronto.

Penny, who has lived in the city for the majority of her life, said one of the challenges her young family faces is the cost of housing.

"It requires a lot of juggling," she admitted.

Both Penny, who works in landscaping, and her partner, a mechanic by trade, are both currently receiving disability benefits. She said the challenge is that any extra income earned or any savings or assets they had are counted against them.

"It’s tough to get ahead," she said.

which still ring true today, also show that the average income is rising significantly in downtown and the north end, essentially pushing out those who earn less.

Sean Meagher, executive director of Social Planning Toronto, spends his days advocating for affordability for Toronto’s roughly one million households.

Together with his team, he works to build a Toronto where everyone has the "means to participate" in society.

"We don’t want people pushed into pockets. We want people to be able to live everywhere in the city and afford to do so," he said. "I think it’s valuable (to the city) and an investment we have to make."

Recently, the council has been pushing Toronto to do better in a campaign of the same name. Part of "Toronto Can Do Better" includes lobbying the city to look at the bigger picture and invest in transit, good jobs, and affordable housing in its 2017 budget.

"Our view is, let’s budget smart. We want a plan that makes sense. It’s about making choices that meet our needs versus the numbers we like," he said, pointing to the importance of considering interconnections like the health benefits of providing people with affordable, quality housing when it comes to city budgeting.

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Cathleen Trinh and her son Charlie, 3, are feeling the financial pressures of living in Toronto.

York, would love to own her own home in the city but realizes it’s just not possible with her family’s $80,000 annual income and their current monthly expenditures, which includes $2,000 for daycare.

"We could afford the mortgage payment but the challenge is to pay down our consumer debt and save for the down payment," said Danielle, who asked to not use her full name for privacy reasons.

"Five years would be the earliest my partner and I could consider a house, if all things fall into place."

Regardless, she said the benefits of city life, notably its diversity, walka-

bility, and access to public transit, outweigh the dream of home ownership.

A decade ago, University of Toronto professor David Hulchanski published a groundbreaking report, Three Cities Within Toronto, which looked at income polarization in Toronto by neighbourhood from 1970 to 2005.

In early 2015, Hulchanski and his team of researchers provided an update to that initial report.

They found that the city’s wealth is becoming even more concentrated in the central part of the city with less affluent areas growing in Toronto’s outer limits. The findings,

to help politicians better understand how budget cuts directly impact real people’s lives and how adding to the city’s coffers through a small property tax increase can be beneficial for all.

WoodGreen Community Services, a long-standing social service agency in east Toronto, is one of many organizations across the city helping Torontonians find ways to afford their lives and thrive.

"Income stress affects all income levels. You don’t have to be in the lowest income bracket to feel the stress of affordability," said Diane Dyson, director of research and public policy. "We help people who are trying to find resources."

Dyson and her colleagues work to better understand how decisions made by the government directly affect people’s lives, and identify and improve the "missing pieces" in the system. A major part of their work is addressing the lack of affordable housing in Toronto.

For Steven Vanderherberg, the agency’s director of strategic initiatives, it’s all about helping people living with less find the right balance of income and expenses, and to help them be autonomous and better "afford their lives."

WoodGreen runs yearlong income tax clinics as well as a host of Financial Empowerment Services to help people increase their financial literacy, manage their debt, create a budget, access government income sources.

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There’s a reductive element to the thinking behind Mayor John Tory’s continued support of the anything-but-reductive Scarborough subway.

It reduces to this: Council should stick with its decisions and not change its collective mind, especially if those decisions are big ones and even if they might have been bad ones. If it didn’t? Why, the public would be outraged.

The trouble is that genuinely big, bad decisions have a tendency to get bigger, and also worse. So it is with the Scarborough subway plan, which was a bad idea from the get-go: the moment in 2013 that Toronto council trashed a fullyfunded light rail plan to replace the Scarborough RT, with a three-stop subway that served fewer communities and cost more.

John Tory embraced that subway as a strategic position in the 2014 mayoral race; Rob Ford and then his brother Doug Ford

DAVID NICKLE The City were popular in Scarborough, and part of that popularity was a stoked sense of grievance among a significant number of Scarborough voters. Supporting it was a good strategy.

Good strategy, but bad policy. After the election, Tory dealt with ballooning costs by supporting a stripped-down version: just a single stop at the Scarborough Town Centre, with other light rail improvements along Eglinton East to be paid for from the savings of eliminating those other two stations.

And now? Well, nobody

should start planning their light rail commute to east Scarborough any time soon. The costs are up by another $197 million, to a total of $3.346 billion.

Tory’s executive committee will have an opportunity to take another look at the plan, as the new report comes before it on March 7. Don’t expect big changes, though. On Feb. 27, Tory told reporters he thought the city could find savings in construction costs, and suggested that other orders of government might pay for the Eglinton light rail.

As for the original plan?

It seems as though a plan is still a plan. Same as it ever was.

The City of Toronto is considering a stormwater charge

Tell us what you think Visit toronto.ca/stormwatercharge to: • Learn more about the proposed stormwater charge • Get a complete list of the public consultation dates and locations • Complete the survey What is stormwater?

Stormwater is rain and melted snow.

When not absorbed into the ground, it runs off properties onto streets, down storm drains and through a complex network of pipes that carry it into local waterways or, in some cases, wastewater treatment facilities. Generally, the more hard surfaces a property has the more stormwater it adds to the stormwater system.

RESIDENTIAL Assumes annual water use of 265 cubic metres and a lot size of 0.037 ha (approx. 4,000 sq ft)

An increase in extreme storms, combined with more hard surfaces in the city is resulting in more water making its way into the stormwater system. Too much water can overwhelm the system leading to flooded basements and poor water quality in local waterways, including Lake Ontario.

How is stormwater managed?

Making infrastructure improvements is necessary to manage the impacts of stormwater. To help manage stormwater, the City is creating new holding ponds, tanks and tunnels, and overhauling some sewer infrastructure that is more than 100 years old.

How will a stormwater charge affect water bills?

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The proposal is to remove the portion paid for stormwater – currently embedded in the water rate – and show it as a separate charge on the bill. The water rate will decrease and a stormwater charge will be added. The amount paid for stormwater will be based on property size and the average amount of hard surfaces on properties of a similar size. Some bills will go up and some will go down.

The examples on the right use proposed 2019 water rates. They are examples only, because water use and lot size differ for all properties.

Wednesday, April 19, 2017 Le Parc Banquet & Conference Centre 8432 Leslie Street, Thornhill, Ontario L3T 7M6 Registration begins at 6:30 PM Meeting begins at 7:00 PM

Why is a stormwater charge being considered?

There is a growing need for new and upgraded stormwater infrastructure.

Toronto City Council will be considering the stormwater charge in the spring of 2017.

PROPOSAL: LOWER WATER RATE + STORMWATER CHARGE Water rate charge: Water rate charge: $805 $1,038 Stormwater charge: $225 Total annual bill: $1,038 Total annual bill: $1,030 Per day: $2.84 Per day: $2.82 Annual difference: -$8 -0.8% CURRENT

What is the challenge?

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APARTMENT & CONDO BUILDINGS Assumes annual water use of 2,557 cubic metres and a lot size of 0.088 ha (approx. 9,500 sq ft) PROPOSAL: CURRENT LOWER WATER RATE + STORMWATER CHARGE Water rate charge: Water rate charge: $7,771 $10,018 Stormwater charge: $860 Total annual bill: Total annual bill: $8,631 $10,018 Per day: $27.45 Per day: $23.65 Annual difference: -$1,387 -13.8% INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL & INSTITUTIONAL Assumes annual water use of 532 cubic metres and a lot size of 0.052 ha (approx. 5,600 sq ft) PROPOSAL: CURRENT LOWER WATER RATE + STORMWATER CHARGE Water rate charge: Water rate charge: $1,617 $2,084 Stormwater charge: $530 Total annual bill: $2,084 Total annual bill: $2,147 Per day: $5.71 Per day: $5.88 Annual difference: $62 3.0%

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Bloorview launches Capes for Kids campaign

SCIENCE FICTION Wednesday, March 15

Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital’s new campaign might make you feel like a super hero.

The Capes for Kids campaign will run Monday, March 6 to Sunday, March 12 in support of children with disabilities.

The public is encouraged to wear a cape during that time to raise money for the Bayview and Eglinton avenues hospital.

Though there isn’t a specific fundraising goal, the first 400 people to raise $100 will get a branded Holland Bloorview cape.

Toronto Police Service has partnered with Holland Bloorview for the campaign.

To get involved, sign up at capesforkids.ca

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Toronto Police Association president Mike McCormack (left), Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation CEO Sandra Hawken, Holland Bloorview Ambassador Tai, Police Chief Mark Saunders, Const. Joe McDougall and his son Nicholas, and Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital CEO Julia Hanigsberg kick-off the Capes for Kids fundraiser.

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SHAWNGO Shawngo is an approximately five-year-old neutered male ginger boy who was brought to the shelter when his owner could no longer care for him. "This cutie is a little on the timid

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Due to some urinary tract issues, Shawngo’s new owner will need to feed him a special formulated diet and follow up with their private veterinarian.

Shawngo is litter-box trained, gets along with other felines and has had his veterinarian exam. His ID number is A765925 and is currently residing at Toronto Animal Services West shelter. Visit www.toronto.ca/animalservices to see Shawngo online or to get more information about adoption call 416-338-7387.

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