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A shipping container market offering fresh fruits and vegetables recently opened in Moss Park, giving food-insecure residents in the area an option for healthy food.

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hile solving the problem of food insecurity will require a concerted effort from all levels of government, there is a great deal being done at a more grassroots level to help make sure Torontonians can put food on their plates. Organizations such as

Community Food Centres Canada (CFC), FoodShare, Building Roots and the Toronto Youth Food Policy Council (TYFPC) are engaging vulnerable Torontonians through a variety of programs and initiatives, providing not only food but opportunity. CFC Chief Operating Officer Kathryn Scharf (www. cfccanada.ca) said awareness of food security issues is growing, as is action to

combat them. Her organization originated out of The Stop Community Food Centre on Davenport Road, and now there are three such organizations in Toronto and eight across Canada. “With almost one in 10 households experiencing food insecurity, we don’t have a hard time finding communities that could use a Community Food Centre,” >>>BETTER, page 3

What started out with a crowd of 250 and a modest number of performers has grown to thousands of spectators and high-quality entertainment in the heart of North York. Now in its seventh year, Cultura Festival will take over Mel Lastman Square every Friday night from July 8 to 29. The free outdoor festival on

Yonge Street, north of Sheppard Avenue, is made up of dance, music, film, buskers and international cuisine. “The first year we hardly had any money to pay for musical acts,” said John Filion, Willowdale councillor and founder of Cultura. “It started out as a street food festival. I thought, the crowd is here, street food is here, we should entertain them. It grew from >>>WILLOWDALE’S, page 19

Commercial area between Dufferin-Keele streets has new name, BIA, security force MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Sprawling, gray and overlooked for decades, North York’s Duke Heights is suddenly a place of possibilities. The whole district between Dufferin and Keele streets, north of Sheppard Avenue, now has a name, a brand, a businesses improvement area (BIA) and its own security force on overnight patrols.

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Better wages, improved access are the keys to fighting food insecurity >>>from page 1 she said, adding that finding local partners willing to help deliver services is a key part of what her organization does. Scharf noted that while teaching healthy food skills, offering cooking groups and classes, providing afterschool programs where kids can have healthy snacks and creating community gardens are all great ways to combat food insecurity, the key is in making sure more Canadians can earn a living wage. However, that’s something that will only come about when governments mandate it, said Scharf. “The key is to fight poverty, fight for housing, increase wages and social assistance rates. We can push for those things at a grassroots level, but we can’t make them happen.” Darcy Higgins of Building Roots (www.pushfoodforward.com/buildingroots) agreed that a wage policy, along with better social support, is the best permanent solution, adding his organization is doing its best in the meantime to bring food access to where people need it most. “We’re trying to bring fresh food at affordable prices to where people need it most,” he said. “We have a Moss Park Market that just opened in a shipping container on Toronto Community Housing property, and that’s a model we’re hoping to replicate in other communities. We’re exploring and looking for partners across the city, especially in the suburbs.” He said those battling food insecurity can also benefit from connecting with community agencies that can help teach them to cut costs and stretch their food

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budgets further, by joining cooking programs run by not-for-profits, or by growing their own food, perhaps in community gardens near where they live. The Ashbridge Estate near Queen and Greenwood is a prime example of using available space to bolster food security. A new community garden has been planted there by Syrian refugees to complement an existing community garden at the site. “There are so many communities – especially lower-income communities – where there aren’t stores for people to buy fresh food,” Higgins said. “It tends to be more convenience stores (instead of affordable grocery stores with more healthy

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she said, noting those sites include Rexdale, northeast Scarborough, Flemingdon Park and the Danforth and Victoria Park area. FoodShare (www.foodshare.net), meanwhile, helps organizations bring food to communities by combining their buying power. Rather than having each organization make connections and buy goods, they can pool their resources and make bulk purchases from the Ontario Food Terminal, stretching those dollars further. Many other organizations are helping to keep vulnerable Torontonians fed, but they recognize their work is simply addressing the symptoms of poverty that leads to food insecurity.

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staged sit-in protest by the Toronto chapter of Black Lives Matter last Sunday at the Pride Parade certainly has people talking. But are they talking for the right reasons? Given the status as an Honoured Group for the parade, Black Lives Matter effectively halted the parade for half an hour as they issued a list of nine demands. The annual parade that capped off Pride Month only began to move again once Pride Toronto executive director Mathieu Chantelois signed the document, seemingly agreeing to those demands, which included reinstating and committing to increase community stages as well as the removal of police floats in Pride marches and Our VieW parades. The latter, not surprisingly, has been getting a lot of attention Continue with Toronto Police Association dialogue of president Mike McCormack conPride Toronto for signinclusiveness demning ing the paper and accusing Black Lives Matter of “hijacking” the grand event Sunday. People on Twitter had plenty to say about it too, many siding with police and recognizing their contributions over the years to support the growing Pride movement. It seems counterproductive and counterintuitive to exclude police from a parade celebrating inclusivity, especially as some in the LGBT community also work in the police force. While the protest brought both public and media attention to Black Lives Matter, the reasons for the protest were overshadowed by the tactics. People are talking about whether it was appropriate or justified to do what they did during the parade, rather than how events like Pride can be even more inclusive and welcoming to other marginalized communities. Perhaps continuing the dialogue at the upcoming community meetings on anti-racism that the provincial government is hosting this summer is a good place to start. The first meeting is scheduled to take place in Toronto on July 14 with another in Scarborough on Sept. 13. For effective change to occur, Black Lives Matter must first gain the public’s empathy and support for their cause.

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Black Lives Matter disruption of Pride Parade what you’d expect It’s hard to know what to make of the Black Lives Matter – Toronto (BLMTO)/ Pride Toronto dust-up. That, of course, won’t stop me from weighing in on the spectacle – even if it wasn’t really much of one. To recap: Black Lives Matter – Toronto, a group that has seen great success staging discomfiting public protests, accepted an invitation from Pride Toronto (another group that has in the past seen great success staging discomfiting public protests) to be an “honoured guest” at this year’s Pride Parade. And things went exactly as you’d expect: a discomfiting public protest, in the form of a disruption to the Pride Parade that was only able to resume once Pride Toronto had “agreed” to a list of demands from BLMTO. Among those demands? No coppers please, at future Pride parades. The pearl-clutching began. The Toronto Police Association demanded

david nickle the city Pride Toronto apologize for signing off on the deal. Mayor John Tory, through his office, joined voices on Toronto council including local councillor and longtime Pride supporter Kristyn Wong-Tam to make it clear that police should be welcomed at the parade for if nothing else than the purpose of keeping open lines of communication between the LGBTQ2S community and the police. And finally Pride Toronto’s executive director Mathieu Chantelois made it clear himself that signing a deal with BLMTO, while he was trying to simply get the parade moving, wasn’t going to be binding, and ultimately, Pride and the community would make the final decision. It would be an excellent bet that police will be back in the parade next year. It’s tempting to look at all

this from the outside and dismiss it as silliness, or an “inside-baseball” dispute… tempting to see this as a bit of a nadir for Black Lives Matter, pulling a disruptive stunt at what was otherwise a healing event for a community still processing the massacre in Orlando – all to extract promises that won’t be kept, and for the most part are over internal Pride matters that might have been dealt with as well using nothing more than a few stern emails. That is, however, missing the point of successful protest movements like Black Lives Matter, which are combatting not only very small issues, but very, very large ones. A few days earlier, Metropolitan Community Church pastor and gay rights activist Brent Hawkes stood with Police Chief Mark Saunders for what had been billed an historic apology by police for the bath house raids in the early 1980s that destroyed the lives of closeted gay

men, and ruined businesses. An apology was a big thing, but also a small thing – and Hawkes spoke that day of how he had contacted the chief, and negotiated an apology, and that sometimes, negotiation was necessary. The only trouble? At the end of all that negotiation, Saunders did not in fact apologize; he very deliberately expressed “regrets” for police actions, and promised to do better — and really, with that, closed the matter as far as police were concerned. It’s comforting to think that change can happen with comfortable negotiation. But the reality is that genuine change requires an irritant to motivate it. Black Lives Matters understands that, and so of course they showed up in full, irritating glory on Sunday.

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Ontario Latin Arts Festival WHEN: today to Sunday from 1 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge St. CONTACT: www. ontariolatinartsfestival.com/ COST: Free A unique three-day event that celebrating the culture of Latin America. The festival will showcase the finest Latin music and dance found in Canada, along with featured films, art show and dance workshops. Cultura Festival WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge Street CONTACT: info@culturafestival.ca COST: Free Each week features different music, buskers, international street food, dance, and films.

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Earl Bales Family Fun WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre in Earl Bales Park, 4169 Bathurst St. CONTACT: Melissa Clare, 416-395-7873, msclare@toronto.ca COST: Free Experience music and theatre outdoors in the park. Games and fun one hour before the show. Perfoming tonight: The Ben Show. Music Under The Stars WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge St. CONTACT: 416802-6819, klanctot@ northyorkconcertband. ca COST: Free North York Concert Band plays selections ranging from swing to Latin to traditional band pieces. Also featuring soloists from the band.

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Moonlight Movies In The Park WHEN: 7 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Derrydowns Park, 222 Grandravine Dr. CONTACT: rjohnson@parkpeople.ca COST: Free Feature: The Peanuts Movie. Copresented by the Firgrove Learning Center and Park People.

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Aga Khan Museum, 77 Wynford Dr. CONTACT: www.toronto.ca/culturalhotspot COST: Free A weekend inspired by flight, flying, the skies and the heavens. Includes musical performances; art workshops (including drawing, origami and birdhouse-making) and more. Korean Canadian Chamber Concerts WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: St. George on Yonge Anglican, 5350 Yonge St. CONTACT: Sylvia, 416-737-0521 COST: $20 Inaugural Concert of Korean Canadian Chamber Concerts, performing Claude Bolling’s Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, and works for String Quartet and Piano by Beethoven, Shumann and Piazzolla.

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Drumming and Dance Show WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Yorkwoods Theatre, 1785 Finch Ave. W. CONTACT: Amma Ofori, 416-6557921, ubuntudrumgroup@gmail.com COST: $15; children $10 Ubuntu Drum and Dance showcase fundraising event for Jamaica.

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Chantelois told a media outlet on Monday what he signed off on was simply a discussion, not cutting police presence. Toronto Police Association president Mike McCormack said the Pride Parade was overshadowed by Black Lives Matter “hijacking” the event. “If (Chantelois) didn’t know what he was signing that’s a problem as well,” he told a

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A Toronto police officer works the Pride parade on Sunday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes his way through the crowd. If Black Lives Matter – Toronto gets its way, it will be the last time Toronto police attend or participate in the parade.

“What’s important for people to know is that I’m not deciding what’s in the parade, Alica (Hall, co-chair of Pride’s board of directors) doesn’t decide what’s in the parade, Black Lives Matter doesn’t… decide what’s in the parade,” he said. “Who’s deciding what’s in the parade is the membership, and my community… We will let them have the final word. What I did (Sunday) was made the parade move.”

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The Pride Parade was brought to a standstill when members of Black Lives Matter – Toronto (which had been invited as an honoured guest) stopped in their tracks at Yonge and College streets, backing up other parade floats behind it, and demanded immediate action on a set of nine demands. Chantelois met with them at the parade and signed the nine demands. Newbold said the group is taking the commitment seriously, but noted that the issues that the black queer community has had

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Left, Laura Gonzalez, Karen Pereira and Diana Dumiprascu are surveyors for the new Duke Heights BIA (Dan Pearce/ Metroland); above, the BIA is bounded by Dufferin and Keele to the west and east, respectively, and Steeles and Sheppard to the north and south.

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early morning hours which “become the next day’s news headlines,” he said. Intelligarde agents, “very cognizant of the re-branding efforts”, also tear down illegal signs, and send reports to police and city bylaw enforcers. Five years ago on Bakersfield Street, someone abandoned a tractor trailer. It took a month to get rid of it, sparking conversations about a BIA, said de Dovitiis, who worked at the time for a local councillor. Now Duke Heights BIA – headquartered in an office building at 1120 Finch Ave.

near a fuel tank farm which fills 700 tanker trucks a day – is the second-largest BIA in North America, he said, with well more than a quarter of the businesses signed up for security services, which can ticket cars on private land or walk employees to a bus stop at night. When an alarm goes off, police can take two hours to respond, but “these guys can be there in five minutes,” de Dovitiis said. Duke Heights is not the typical retail-based BIA you can see on College Street or St. Clair Avenue. Board members had strug-

gled for months over how big it should be. Thirty thousand people work in it, but apart from four condominium buildings by Dufferin and Sheppard, it’s all employment land. The area is enormous, its industrial character both a challenge and a blessing, said Pliamm, but there’s a growing feeling local businesses are “in the same boat.” From a handful, more than 600 businesses are now registered, and the number continues to grow. The Champagne Centre on Finch, an indoor medical mall where Pliamm, a physician, has a clinic, was once a bottling factory. Other underused buildings can also be remade, he said, and Duke Heights still has big spaces where new businesses can go, within the city and close to transit. That transit is also spreading excitement. The Keele-Finch intersection, once its subway stop opens and the LRT is built to the west, will have more pedestrian traffic than downtown’s Spadina Station, de Dovitiis said. And that should mean not just general prosperity for the area, but a makeover for Finch, which he said is currently an “ugly”, oftencongested street not friendly to cyclists or pedestrians. “Now, you can do the city building that should have been done decades ago.”

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