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Art show builds case for affordable housing

DRIFTWOOD DIGS IN

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BLACK CREEK BEAUTIFICATION: Steve Smyth helps students Minh Le and Masood Ashrafi from Driftwood Public School plant a tree in a ravine off Niska Road Wednesday. A total of 500 students from six local schools will plant 1,500 trees in the Black Creek area.

“This is not your Zeida’s sukkah!” That is how the organizers of the Sukkahville Art Show, being held at North York’s Mel Lastman Square on Sunday are promoting the event aimed at bringing attention to affordable housing issues. A sukkah is a temporary shelter that Jews build during the week-long harvest festival of Sukkot, which follows Yom Kippur. At Sukkahville, five design teams will construct sukkahs as a way of calling attention to the need for more affordable housing in the community, said Nancy Singer, executive director of event organizer Kehilla Residential Programme. The agency advocates for more affordable housing in the Greater Toronto Area and implements housing initiatives for the Jewish community, its website said. The five design teams were selected following an international competition that drew 43 submissions, Singer said. Toronto’s Craig Deebank and Gina Gallaugher will be building their design, Embryonic Canopy, at the show. Sukkahville runs 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge St., north of Sheppard Avenue.

$10M gift paves way for breast cancer centre

Jim and Louise Temerty donate to Sunnybrook LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com Canada’s largest breast cancer centre

will open at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre next spring, thanks to a $10-million donation, the hospital announced yesterday.

Hospital officials are calling the gift from entrepreneurs and philanthropists Jim and Louise Temerty “transformational.”

The Louise Temerty Breast Cancer Centre is scheduled to open in April and will house Sunnybrook’s cuttingedge breast program, Sunnybrook said in a release. The rapid diagnosis unit will mean patients will be diagnosed

and given a treatment plan within 24 hours of assessment. Patients now wait up to six weeks. “Breast cancer patients have traditionally been put through a terrible waiting period for results,” >>>CENTRE, page 5

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