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In committing to support refugee families from Syria in Canada, residents of Toronto - and North York’s Armenian community in particular - currently lead the country. The new federal government is still a long way from meeting its goal to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February, but its Citizenship and Immigration depar tment on Tuesday, announced where the first 4,584 are going. More than half of them, 2,602, will land in Toronto, the government’s numbers say. A remarkable portion of that total is listed as being in process for “Willowdale” - 1,079. Hratch Aynedjian, who lives in Scarborough and is sponsoring two families at his home, says that’s because the Armenian Community Centre in North York is arranging for 1,000 to come here. Aynedjian said these refugees are Armenian Christians and most are from Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities. The community centre west >>>SPONSORS, page 8

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For sickkids: Pat DeSario worked to set up lights in the front yard of her home near Keele Street and Sheppard Avenue this week, which displays a multitude of Christmas lights and decorations to raise funds for the SickKids Hospital.

Kosher cookbook stirs up memories Seniors at North York housing community share their recipes and their stories FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Growing up in rural Quebec, a busy household kitchen

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Shortly after it was finished, Essencia Arts Collective received word from the city that Councillor Frank Di Giorgio’s office had gotten several complaints about the work, said Fiya Bruxa, co-director of the art group. “There was no clarity on that,” she said. “We were told (Di Giorgio) wanted changes made because some people said it was scary.” The piece is made up of imagery of glaciers, deserts, forests, water, animals, and birds, along with magical scenes of human characters, tar sands, water and air pollution – all an ode to Mother Earth, the common theme in Essencia Arts Collective’s works, Bruxa said. The project was originally proposed two years ago for the Hwy. 400 and Jane Street area with a focus on the element of water, Bruxa said, adding the Lawrence Avenue site is an extension of the same theme, but instead of focusing on water, the

A community meeting will be held Tuesday, Dec. 8 at Amesbury Community Centre to discuss public art as well as to respond to concerns raised that some of the images on the mural on Lawrence Avenue, west of Caledonia Avenue, are “scary.”

focal point is on the other elements and how they relate to water. In response to the concerns raised, and to generate discussion around public art, a meeting will be held Tuesday, Dec. 8 at Amesbury Community Centre, 1507 Lawrence Ave., at 6:30 p.m. “Muralism is new to

Canada,” Bruxa said. “The discussion will contribute to the building blocks of how we understand public art.” Though Di Giorgio did not respond to repeated requests for comment by The Mirror’s deadline, he did address the issue in a meeting notice dated Nov. 27.

“Most residents may have noticed a change in the facade of the Lawrence Avenue West underpass near Caledonia Road,” the notice reads. “I would appreciate the assistance of residents in the neighbourhood to address concerns that have been raised with respect to the

art mural. The city made a decision to relocate an art mural that was designed for Jane Street and relocated to Lawrence Avenue West without adequate consultation. This decision resulted in a larger and more elongated mural that introduced more images than were originally submitted. Two of these images have not been well received by some members of our community. Therefore, I have arranged a community meeting to allow residents the opportunity to provide their input into whether or not the mural should be modified or permitted to remain in its current state. Please attend the scheduled meeting so that we may address the concerns of the area residents as well as maintain the artistic integrity of the painting.”

A petition in support of the mural can be found at www. change.org/p/city-of-torontoprotect-the-essencia-mural-fromcensorship

North York school hosts opera company kids show - and they loved it fannie sunshine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com For 45 minutes, the gymnasium at St. Augustine Catholic School was transformed into a musical set, with the powerful delivery of opera filling the air. The grades 2 to 6 students at the Jane Street and Steeles Avenue area school were treated to a production of The Bremen Town Musicians by the Canadian Opera Company’s (COC) Glencore Ensemble Studio school tour Monday. The tour, which has traveled to elementary schools across Ontario for the past 30 years, brings engaging, child-

friendly opera performed by professional opera singers to young students who might not have other means of watching such performances. Based on a Brothers Grimm tale, The Bremen Town Musicians tells the story of a donkey, dog, cat and rooster who embark on a journey to find freedom and start a new life after being mistreated by their owners. It also touches on the importance of taking care of one another and treating others with respect. Cheers and squeals erupted from the audience throughout the production, the loudest of which were saved for some scene stealing mice. “I thought it was really

good,” Taya Yong said postproduction. “I thought it was going to be boring. The singing was so good.” The grade 5 student said she found past musical performances to be on the drab side, but was pleasantly surprised by The Bremen Town Musicians. “I don’t know how they do that with their voice,” she said. Rob De Lorenzo, principal of St. Augustine, said many of the students wouldn’t have the chance to watch musical theatre otherwise. “Often school is focused on math and language, and this brings in a whole other element,” he said, adding the

school has been the recipient of past COC tour performances. Katherine Semcesen, associate director of education and outreach for the COC, said the company is well aware of the importance of tapping into a young audience, as what they are exposed to now might shape further interest. “It’s our responsibility to provide students with opportunity tailored to their needs and interests,” she said. “In the last decade, we’re trying to promote Canadian artists and we’re choosing works that have been written specifically for kids, rather than adapt the work (for a young audience).”

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he Syrian humanitarian crisis has gripped the world, and the world is finally responding. Traumatized by the horrors of war, a life away from unimaginable violence is what these refugees seek. They are looking for a life of peace, a life of hope, and a future for their children in a land free from bombings, unwarranted arrests and detentions, rape, torture, intimidation and, of course, death. This is what Syrian refugees are fleeing from. Lifeline Syria, a Toronto-based organization, will recruit, train, and assist sponsor groups to welcome and support 1,000 Syrian refugees coming to Canada as permanent immigrants to our view resettle in the Greater Toronto Area over the next two years. It’s time to Its website states some startling facts: more than 75 per cent of put people Syrian refugees are women and before politics children; fewer than one per cent of Syria’s refugees will get a chance to be resettled overseas. And after nearly four years of civil war, more than a quarter of a million people have died, more than half of whom are believed to be civilians. It’s our national obligation to help the needy, the afflicted, the poor and the tortured. It’s our national obligation to welcome the Syrian refugees with open arms; not only is it the humane and decent thing to do, but our welcoming nature will help facilitate the settlement process so refugees can move from being victims of war to contributing members of Canadian society. It’s time to put people before politics. The Government of Canada will work with Canadians, including private sponsors, non-governmental organizations, provincial, territorial and local governments to welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees to our country. Welcoming the refugees is not only to benefit their physical health, but their mental and emotional well being. How can we not benefit as a collective people when we are doing good toward our fellow man? For more information on how you can help the Toronto resettlement process, visit www.lifelinesyria. ca or read our story on The Clothing Drive – tinyurl. com/zrtrd2h – a Toronto-wide initiative that has collected thousands of pieces of warm clothing for Syrian refugees and is now in desperate need for a larger facility to store the donations, as daily drop offs continue.

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Councillors face a very real budget process It’s about to get real. That was the message from Toronto’s new top bureaucrat to Mayor John Tory and the members of his Executive Committee. For the first time in years, city staff will be crafting a preliminary operating and capital budget that will need serious political attention. City manager Peter Wallace told the Tuesday meeting of the powerful committee in no uncertain terms that if council wants to balance the budget and provide a property tax increase at around the rate of inflation, council’s going to have to figure it out. “We have a very challenging decision environment,” said Wallace, who came to the city earlier this year from his job as head of the civil service at Queen’s Park. “Pressure is around five per cent before any political decisions are made by council. That is typically the type of pressure that we see, but that is not yet consistent with a residential tax rate at

david nickle the city the rate of inflation and it’s not consistent with known capital pressures. With staff recommendations we can partially, but not fully resolve that gap.” This is a big change from the way council has become used to receiving its budget recommendations. Since the middle days of David Miller’s administration, city staff have presented a budget that more or less balances out, which is to say, the city’s programs are more or less funded by a property tax increase that more or less hits the rate of inflation. Sometimes, surprises happen as earlier this year, when money the city had been expecting from the province didn’t materialize. Council figured out a complicated self-borrowing scheme to maintain the property tax increase then,

but that was a one-time fix. This time, council is on notice that the situation hasn’t fixed itself, and city departments have generally not been able to meet the target of two per cent reductions that Tory promised would happen over the course of the year. So it’s going to be up to council, and Wallace is hopeful Toronto’s 45 elected leaders will be up to the challenge to find political solutions where mere administration is not enough. I would be more hopeful myself, had I not watched council try to do exactly that back in the early days of amalgamation, when the city was placed under extraordinary financial constraints by the downloading of hundreds of millions of dollars of new services. What resulted then was a combination of a war of words between the city and the province, and a desperate attempt to rearrange the city’s finances to enable a

property tax freeze that was finally unaffordable. Among other things, the city got deep into a computer leasing deal that cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars and required a $26-million public inquiry to sort out. When staff brought forward their unbalanced budgets then, councillors were faced with hair-whitening options for savings or revenue that went nowhere and paralyzed the process. The solution was, ultimately, to engage staff in providing a real budget with real solutions. It made it all a bit dull. Tory has made a mandate of being a bit dull, and it will truly be a test of that mandate, to see how he deals with what is going to be, once again, a very interesting and very, very real budget process.

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The Cutting Edge: How we discovered a hidden genetic code WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St. CONTACT: cpak@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Dr. Brendan Frey tells the story of how he and his Toronto research team, aided by a computer tool that uses machine learning, discovered a hidden genetic code that will revolutionize medicine.

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Video of police officer arresting man at mall goes viral A video of a Toronto police officer struggling to arrest a man outside a North York liquor store Friday, Nov. 27 has gone viral. According to reports, two men were at the LCBO at Sheridan Mall near Jane Street and Wilson Avenue when they saw a police officer tell a black man he wasn’t allowed to enter. One of the men filmed the encounter. The officer, who was on paid duty at the store, had the authority to determine who was and wasn’t allowed into the store, a police spokesperson said. Things escalated when the officer attempted to give the man a trespass notice and was struck in the chest area, the spokesperson said, adding the officer suffered a cut to his head. According to the man who shot the video, the officer then punched and pinned the man, while bystanders shouted obscenities at the officer. Backup officers arrived several minutes later, and the man was escorted to the back of a cruiser. The man who shot the video believes this is a case of racial discrimination, while police say the officer was justified in making the arrest. “At least one person in a crowd of people attempts to obstruct the arrest, which is a criminal offence,” the spokesperson said, according to reports. “What is especially concerning is that members of the public shout down an officer trying to make a lawful arrest and try to free the person he has in his custody...this is dangerous behaviour and troubling as the people in this crowd seem to want to take the law into their own hands.” A 25-year-old man of no fixed address has been charged with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer.

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Sponsors committed to supporting the refugees >>>from page 1 of Victoria Park Avenue, one of hundreds of sponsorship agreement holders across the country, “is going all out,” he added Wednesday. The CIC figures also say 1,326 Syrians will be arriving in mid-town or

downtown Toronto. There will also be 156 refugees coming to Scarborough, 18 to Etobicoke and 23 to elsewhere in North York. It’s not clear where the families - the Liberal government is not accepting single men for security reasons -

will actually be staying. The CIC said the listed communities, such as Willowdale, are where private sponsors have applied to be hosts. T h o s e s p o n s o r s “a re committed to supporting the refugees they sponsor

on the understanding that the refugee(s) will live in the sponsor’s community and work with them, so that the refugee(s) can become independent,” the department said in response to questions. “We anticipate more com-

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North York Harvest Food Bank kicks off Winter Food Drive North York Harvest Food Bank (NYHFB) is holding its Winter Food Drive Friday, Nov. 27 to Wednesday, Jan. 6. The goal is to collect 250,000 pounds of food and $250,000 to provide 750,000 meals to children and families in northern Toronto.

“This holiday season, extend your celebration to the struggling families around you and donate to North York Harvest,” Ryan Noble, executive director of NYHFB, said in a release. “Together we light up everyone’s holiday with the gift of food.”

The food bank is asking for donations of nutritious nonperishables such as canned fish, cooking oils, and whole grains. Monetary donations will go towards food distribution to 47 member agencies serving more than 13,000 individuals each month. NYHFB

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munities will get involved in supporting the settlement and integration of these refugees,” the CIC added in Tuesday’s release. Though the government records only eight refugee admissions into Toronto since Nov. 4 - all others are listed as still “in process” Aynedjian said members of his first sponsored family are already here. new faces So are perhaps 300 others, new faces people see at church and around the community. Besides resolving larger issues such as finding work, they need help with things such as getting health cards and learning how to ride a bus in Toronto, said Aynedjian, who is executive assistant to a Scarborough councillor. Though he will be responsible for both refugee families for one year after they land, his plan is to help the first adjust and move to another home before the second refugee family arrives, late this year or early in 2016. “In many ways I feel like I’m saving lives,” Aynedjian said. Across Toronto, there were other activities as people tried to prepare for the new arrivals, and the many more which will follow. community services Social agencies in the local immigration partnership for Scarborough, the Toronto East Quandrant, were doing a survey on which community services are available in Arabic. The Islamic Institute of Toronto on Neilson Road held an information session for volunteers from across Greater Toronto on Sunday, asking them which forms of help they are willing to provide refugee families. Those services include assistance in finding jobs for refugees, enrolling children in school or recreation programs, Arabic translation and English lessons, buying groceries, setting up apartments, driving refugees and showing them the city.

Terraces of Baycrest seniors contribute to A Ta’am To Remember >>>from page 1 four years later with a degree in commerce, or what would be business administration today. She married Gordon at the end of her third year at McGill, and had their first of five children in 1949. And although she was a university graduate, Segall never worked outside of the home, meaning the time she spent baking, mixing and basting would be put to good use. Segall, 88, is one of 73 Terraces of Baycrest female residents who contributed their favourite family recipes and anecdotes for kosher cookbook A Ta’am To Remember. Eight years in the making, the cookbook is made up of 192 contemporary and traditional recipes and serves as a fundraiser, with proceeds from its sale supporting programs and projects by the Terraces Residents’ Council. The book had its official launch Sunday at the Terraces of Baycrest, a supportive housing community for seniors near Bathurst Street and Hwy. 401, but sadly, without most of the book’s contributors. Only 11 of the 73 women who have their recipes featured are alive, as the rest have died, including Rachel Orlan, the resident who came up with the idea for the cookbook as a fundraiser years ago. She died in 2011 at age 91. Elaine Kaplan, the cookbook’s project director, said the recipes were initially presented handwritten on stationary, or typed, with key parts – notably ingredient quantities – missing. “They were intuitive cooks,” she said, adding 300 of 2,000 cookbook copies were sold at the launch. Kaplan, who became involved with the cookbook when her mother was a resident of Terraces of Baycrest, organized a committee of 63 testers who volunteered their time shopping, baking, and testing the recipes. Volunteers

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Holocaust,” she said, adding most of the recipes are accompanied by personal tales from the contributors about what life was like having to feed their families without modern kitchens. The recipes are a smorgasbord from bygone eras and modern times, from cheese blintzes and borscht, to sushi and beggars purses. Segall shared three recipes for the cookbook, including one for knaidlach (matzah balls), which reminded her of an aunt. A resident of Terraces of Baycrest since 2006, she said the personal stories attributed to the contributors were just as important as the recipes themselves. “It’s very exciting,” said the sprite Segall, who stays fit by taking aqua-fit classes, which she plans to continue doing until “at least” age 99. A Ta’am To Remember costs $25 and can be purchased at Terraces of Baycrest, 55 Ameer Ave., or by calling 416-7852500, ext. 2267.

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Professor and Rogue welcome you to December and hope you will read and share their stories so they can both find a loving and caring home for the holidays. You’ll read about Professor, a neglected street cat found in the ice storm, and how Rogue became to be a homeless dog. Let’s bring these two special pets home - not just for the holidays, but permanently. Photos/COURTESY

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