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Community discusses transportation along West Queen West HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Whether you walk, bike, drive or take the TTC to get around the city, Monday night’s community consultation meeting about the ongoing West Queen West Planning Study was all about different forms of movement between Bathurst Street and Roncesvalles Avenue. About 50 people gathered in the gymnasium at Senhor Santo Cristo Catholic School for the open discussion about the challenges and potential improve-

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In conjunction with the Fort York Pedestrian Bridge, projected to begin construction this fall, BUILD Toronto, the City of Toronto and Habitat for Humanity have closed a deal that allows 25 new affordable housing units into a condominium development planned for Ordnance Triangle. The motion was made by Ward 19 ( Trinity-Spadina) Councillor Mike Layton to the affordable housing committee in March.

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ments for movement along Queen Street West, through the transportation portion of the planning study, which includes built form, which focuses on building heights, setbacks and stepbacks; the streetscape; heritage attributes of the street; the character of the area; and public spaces. Community members in attendance had a chance to visit four different stations positioned around the gym and chat with representatives from the City of Toronto about cycling >>>NEW, page 6

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“We’re struggling with an enormous backlog of affordable housing and affordable housing waitlists,” said Layton. “We need to make sure that we start to build housing that’s not only in great neighbourhoods but affordable to people.” The multi-building condominium project at 10, 11 and 25 Ordnance Street and 45 Strachan Ave., will be mixed use and provide new affordable ownership homes for lowerincome families in the city at below market value. >>>COUNCILLOR, page 2

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Councillor Mike Layton puts BUILD Toronto on notice >>>from page 1 Up to $1.25-million in the form of grants will be given to Habitat for Humanity for down payment assistance loans to lower-income buyers from the federal/ provincial Investment in Affordable Housing Program Extension. The push for the 25 units came after Layton discovered, at the latter half of the application process, that Build Toronto hadn’t been delivering on its memorandum of understanding, which planned to build 1,000 units of affordable housing and 250 units of affordable ownership housing. This agreement was made in partnership with the city five years ago. “I was reading over the conditions of transfer and it jumped out of me that the first condition of transfer is that they fulfill the obligation of the memorandum of understanding,” Layton told

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Queen West bike parking study will serve as blueprint HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com This past summer cyclists travelling along Queen Street West between Markham Street and Gladstone Avenue may have noticed it was easier to find a spot to park their bike and it’s not because people were cycling less. The Cycling Infrastructure and Programs Unit with the City of Toronto conducted a bike parking study in the Queen West area over the last two years as part of its development of a new bike parking strategy. According to Jacquelyn Hayward Gulati, the manager of cycling infrastructure and programs with the city, Queen Street West was the ideal spot for the study. “Queen West was chosen because it has a lot of potential for space on the bou-

levard for additional bike parking,” Gulati explained. “It also includes some of the highest cycling mode share in Toronto. So Ward 19 has over 10 per cent of trips under five kilometres done by bike. So it’s quite a high percentage.” The aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of the increased bike parking options in two areas: availability and security through periodical online surveys “pre and post wave” of the installation of bike parking. The city plans to use the data and apply to other parts of the city in need of the same treatment. To address the availability issue, the study increased bike parking by 30 per cent in the area and included a wide range of different types of bike parking options, as well, from on-street corrals

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An example of the bike corrals installed by the City of Toronto at Queen St. W. and Northcote Ave. during its 2013-2014 bike parking study.

that took up boulevard parking space to an increase of the traditional post and ring parking. Prior to the study the catchment area had 631 city spots and during the project an additional 128 parking spots were installed. Despite the increase the study found cyclists were still

using informal locations to park their bikes – 69 per cent still chose to use fences, trees and gas pipes. Convenience and proximity proved to be a key factor for cyclists deciding where to park – the study found 20 per cent of those who parked informally did so because of location.

While the spaces were being used, the city still had to address the issue of security, especially overnight. Only 22 per cent reported feeling comfortable locking up their bikes for an extended period of time overnight post-wave, which stayed relatively the same pre-wave. However, during the day 86 per cent said they felt comfortable locking up their bikes and only 17 per cent rated their experience as poor when it came to bike security. Even half of the noncyclists who were open to taking the survey know someone who has had their bike stolen and 55 per cent say it’s an important reason as to why they chose not to ride a bike in the city. It’s a hurdle the city still has to work on, but is

addressing as best they can to some extent, but the problem remains with older residential areas, said Gulati. “The challenge is that if people are leaving their bike overnight it’s likely because they live in the area and it’s the only bike parking they have,” she said. “So one thing the city has in place, and this can only change over time, is that the city has in place zoning bylaws to require that multiresidential buildings and offices provide indoor bike parking within their development.” The study will help the city develop bike parking targets for similar retail and commercial areas in the future. For more information on the City of Toronto’s cycling plans, visit www.toronto.ca/cycling

Real Food for Real Kids serves up made-from-scratch lunches HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com At the corner of Dovercourt Road and Sudbury Street the smell of food wafts through the air, and it’s not coming from a nearby restaurant or condo window left open. The smell is coming from the white and blue industrial building that houses the kitchen of Real Food for Real Kids, a catering program started by David Farnell and his wife Lulu Cohen-Farnell that feeds more than 15,000 kids daily in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). “It’s been amazing; part of the growth and the awareness of Real Food for Real Kids, came from this location,” said David, who added they’ve been in the Parkdale location since 2009. “There’s an interesting group of eclectic wellinformed, well-educated parents (in the area). We also have new immigrant populations from countries that value real food. They don’t want processed food.” The business was created in 2004, when David and Lulu’s son Max began daycare at a nearby YMCA Family Development Centre in Toronto, and they realized the food the ‘Y’ was serving

wasn’t up to par. It was frozen processed food, not fresh. “Our son was our inspiration. The daycare was good, but the food was crap. This whole thing was bred out of frustration,” Lulu said. So, she began packing him her own homemade foods and snacks and staff were consistently impressed, so much that Lulu began volunteering to make snacks at the Y herself. “It was my little project of me helping them and volunteering for the daycare,” said Lulu. Not long after, David and Lulu began having conversations with the director of the child-care centre and staff at the time, whom he said made a world of a difference to get the ball rolling. “She was very smart and no one there was comfortable with the status quo and instead of being defensive, she said I agree with you, how can we make it better?” David said. From there their catering business was born. Over time, it grew to its current size with more than 100 employees and 20 vans dispatched from their Dovercourt location transporting healthy meals to hungry children, about an hour and half away from

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the city in all directions to schools and child-care centres. The husband and wife duo take food seriously. Everything they ship to elementary schools and child-care centres is either made fresh from scratch in the building, or is made by outside manufacturers that use organic ingredients that are sustainably grown. All the food made in their building is healthy, including lemon chicken, pumpkin roti, granola pucks and organic banana chips. The food is served to even the pickiest eaters. “We’re training kids palates and broadening the horizon of their food knowledge in terms of tastes and culture of food,” Lulu said. “A lot of people think healthy food is boring. It doesn’t have to be and it shouldn’t be. Healthy has nothing to do with boring.

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David Farnell and Lulu Cohen-Farnell, founders of Real Food For Real Kids, a catering service that focuses on healthy meals and snacks for children in childcare centres and elementary schools.

Healthy, to me, means fresh and energy giving.” When most people think of healthy, organic food they associate it with having a high cost, but not with Real Food for Real Kids. The cost keeping the lunches healthy and organic is relatively low according to David. The price per child, with a 35 child minimum, at daycare centres is about $4.89, which includes a morning snack, a lunch and an afternoon snack, all with gluten free and vegetarian options. In elementary schools, with a 50 child minimum, the cost is $5 for a vegetarian lunch and $5.25 for a non-vege-

tarian lunch. It also comes with a Real Food Lunch Club Coach, who serves and educates the children about the food they’re eating, which, according to David, helps shift their perception of food and that begins with education and not just with the kids. “It starts young. I know people who still eat cornflakes every morning. Why? Because that’s what they had as children,” Lulu said. “We try to educate kids and empower parents without making them feel bad. You have to teach them without making them feel like they’re not doing the right thing. It’s

about creating new habits.” Lulu and David see the opportunity for growth as their business expands. They’re already planning to lease a new building in the Beach with the hope to move in July – a venture both are “very excited” about. They also plan on expanding their services to a wider audience. “We’re planning ahead to be integrated into hospitals and nursing homes, even prisons,” Lulu said. “Why not? Everyone needs good food.” It’s that mentality that fuels their passion for healthy food for everyone and pushes them to not only look ahead, but also created the Real Food for Real Kids Family Dinner catering service, and its Real Food Forward program, which accepts donations from parents and community members to help subsidize the cost of school lunches for students who need financial help. “I like to call us agents of change,” Lulu said. “We’re trying to influence every way we can so that there’s good food accessible to kids wherever they go.”

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esterday marked the start of the 100-day countdown to this summer’s Toronto 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games. Part of the celebrations held to mark the occasion at the Athletes’ Village in the West Don Lands included a citizenship court for 100 new Canadians, including North York boxer Arthur Biyarslanov who will be taking part in the Games. The past month has seen enthusiasm for the Games begin to build across not only the Greater Toronto Area, but the province and country as well. The March announcement of the Pan Am Games Torch Relay, which starts May 30, will see the Games’ torch visit communities across Canada before settling in to tour Toronto’s neighbourhoods just prior to the opening of the Games on July 10. A number of high-profile athletic events in the city are also helping raise excitement. The Swim Canada trials to select the members of the Canadian our view team that will take part in the Pan Am Games are taking place Approach at Scarborough’s CIBC Pan Am/ Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and generates Field House through Saturday. excitement This meet will feature Canada’s top swimmers. Last week, the Scarborough pool hosted the Can-Am ParaSwimming Championships, which helped select the members of the Canadian team to take part in August’s Parapan Am Games. Both these events are examples of the many legacies the Games will leave Toronto. As well last week, residents could take in some of the world’s top wheelchair basketball teams at the Americas Challenge at the Mattamy Centre. That tourney saw the Canadian men’s team, the defending Olympic gold medal champs, in action at the court they will compete on in the Parapan Am Games. The Mattamy Centre will also host the Pan Am Games basketball, which should see a very strong Canadian men’s team including some top young NBA players from our country. There’s lots to get excited about as the Games approach. We at Metroland Media Toronto are looking forward to all of the events planned and will have extensive coverage of the Torch Relay, the Pan Am and Parapan Am Games, and everything leading up to them. For more information on the Games and to view our coverage, visit our website at bit.ly/1szGJmU

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Mayor John Tory’s fortunes lie in hands of city’s provincial and federal cousins It may well be that when all the accounts are in, the success or failure of Mayor John Tory’s debut term as mayor will be decided by factors entirely beyond his control. To a degree this is so with most political leaders. A moribund federal government can be buoyed by a robust economy; a competent provincial government, sunk by a collapse in the markets. And a mayor, particularly in a city like Toronto, really succeeds or fails based on the actions of both of those levels of government. If goodwill flows from above, it will also rise from the electorate. Of course, a smart mayor can make lemonade with a stack of lemons from unfriendly governments. But Mayor Tory has through both the city’s circumstance and his own

david nickle the city declarations tied his own hands. Firstly, Toronto has great and immediate needs for moneys beyond its means. The Spadina subway extension is need of $150 million more in order to be finished, and neither the province nor the federal government has shown any indication of willingness to assist with the overrun. On Monday, Tory affirmed his election promise to deal with the repair backlog at Toronto Community Housing, spending $864 million over the next decade to fix the housing stock and calling on other levels of government to join in. And that’s just this week. Toronto will need

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billions of dollars from the provincial and federal governments if it is to move ahead with Tory’s SmartTrack plan. Toronto really did need some $86 million this year, to balance its budget, and didn’t get it. Tory is putting everything – literally everything – on his ability to work with Liberals provincially, and nominally Conservatives federally, and do so well enough to cause them to let these billions of dollars flow. Tory believes it’s a good bet. Since before he even joined the race for mayor, Tory’s biggest selling point has been his ability to sell

the city to a blue-chip Rolodex of government and business contacts. But if in a year or so nobody’s buying, Tory may have to do things that violate his other election-year brand: that of a fiscally conservative business leader who is unwilling to burden taxpayers with more taxes and fees. If he does those things – which is to say, looks at additional revenue sources like tolls or a sales tax – then he might be able to fulfill at least a portion of his agenda. But for people who voted for Tory in 2014, will the shift be acceptable enough to come back and support him for a second term? Tory really does need the federal and provincial governments to listen. His fate is in their hands.

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Open Mic Night WHEN: 8 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Toronto Institute for the Enjoyment of Music, 821 Queen St. W. CONTACT: Howard Goldbach, 416-504-5444 COST: Free TIFEM’s Open Mic series provides an ideal setting for both contributors and audience members alike.

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them about the decrease traffic volumes at major intersections along Queen West, including Dovercourt Road, Sorauren Avenue and Jameson Avenue; streets which most residents are sure have increased its traffic volume, in recent years. Some of the data, provided by FLOW Traffic Management Systems, with the City of Toronto had information from as far back as 15 years ago to as recently as three years ago. However, transportation planner Astro Man told The Villager, the intention was not to mislead the public. “They don’t necessarily show you what’s happening today, it’s just to show you the trend. And the change of traffic volume over the years,” Man said. “Some are busier than others.” According to Man, all city departments involved in the study are grappling with the volume that travels along Queen street. “It’s a main artery, so we’re all trying to improve the situation by shifting modes of transportation to cycling or walking or transit,” Man said. “It’s not easy, but we’re trying to do that through new developments, for example, by encouraging them to put more bike parking along the corridor.” Overall, Nicholson deemed the meeting a success.

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ward with merging. “The whole staffing process is a moving target and it’s all based on enrollment,” he said. The target rate for school capacity in the board’s schools is 85 per cent, with St. Luke and SSC operating at about 40 and 20 per cent capacity, respectively. Currently St. Luke has nine regular classroom teachers – five are split grade classes while four are single grade classes. SSC has five regular classroom teachers – four combined grade classes and one single grade class. According to McGuckin, if the pair merged based

on no students leaving the school and none coming in, the new school would have 10 single grade classes and six split grade classes and the average class size would be 25 students. 300 students combined Combined, the school would house about 300 students. The school would also maintain both its principals from St. Luke and SSC, however it would result in the loss of two specialty teachers, one education assistant, one head caretaker and one custodial staff member. McGuckin said those job cuts would result in the board

saving the most money. Ward 9 Trustee Jo-Ann Davis said consolidating the schools may be the better option, as opposed to just maintaining the status quo because then the board will be able to access a portion of the Ministry of Education’s $750million School Consolidation Capital Program. “Basically they (the province) want to get rid of unused space, which I understand because frankly you want to spend the money on the kids not on the buildings,” Davis told The Villager. Accessing some of that money would allow the consolidated school to be retrofitted and upgraded, which

could also help boost enrolment because parents often prefer sending their children to an updated school facility. Whichever school is chosen to be the new home of the students, Davis said the board will try to keep the building in the public realm and use it as a community hub, with suggestions of a daycare thrown into the mix. Although the idea of amalgamation sounds like a feasible solution some parents still had some questions, particularly around busing. However, according to Kevin Hodgkinson, the TCDSB’s general manager for the Toronto Student

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Build Your Own Green Roof A presentation on the beneﬁts and types of green roofs, the bylaws and physical requirements to get started, and the best plants to use for each season. April 15, 7 pm Bloor/Gladstone Branch 1101 Bloor St. West

Unusual Nature Discoveries in High Park From uncommon plants, to seldom-seen animals and peculiar insects, naturalist Richard Aaron helps you discover Toronto’s natural wonders. April 29, 6:30 pm Runnymede Branch 2178 Bloor St. West

Pollinator Gardens Get the latest buzz on creating a haven for pollinators with recommendations for speciﬁc plants. April 22, 6:45 pm High Park Branch 228 Roncesvalles Ave.

100 in 1 Day Toronto Community Workshops Discuss your dreams and hopes for our city and devise a plan on how to execute an urban intervention in your neighbourhood on June 6. May 7, 6 pm Bloor/Gladstone Branch 1101 Bloor St. West

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the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration hosted a citizenship ceremony and reception at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Athletes’ Village. To celebrate 100 days until the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games approximately 100 people were sworn in as Canadian citizens, serving as a reminder that in 100 days, Toronto will play host to 41 countries. The event was hosted by Olympic gold-medallist Catriona Le May Doan. Pan Am boxer Arthur Biyarslanov, and his mother from the Chechen Republic, spoke about the importance sport played in their integration into Canadian society. Biyarslanov lives in Toronto and trains at a boxing facility in North York. AM PATH ◗PanPAN DISCUSSION Am Path board member Glenn Parkinson will discuss the creation of the Pan Am Path April 21 at 7 p.m. at North York Central Library.

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PARAPAN ATHLETES ◗Parapan RIDE THE TTC i Am athletes mingled with TTC riders last Saturday when they rode the accessible

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