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THE RETURN: Tashi Namgyal, of Parkdale Collegiate, faces Jisu Park, of Forest Hill Collegiate, in boys’ badminton recently to cap off the regular season. The south district finals were slated for yesterday and the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) finals are slated for Tuesday at the Markham Pan Am Centre.

City commits $34 million to community centre HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com By 2023, the residents of Roncesvalles Village could have a community centre to call their own.

“I am pretty chuffed that there’s that kind of money avail-

able,” said Brenda Shillington, one of the volunteer co-directors of the Wabash Building Society, which is leading the charge on the project, of $34-million budget.

“I’m encouraged by the fact that there’s actually a definite amount of money with a

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10-year (city capital) plan that the councillor’s office assures us is secure. It was great to hear that, but there’s still a lot of work that needs to be done.”

The design process will be “extensive as it is a major project,” said Clive Scott who was on hand to represent Ward 14

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Some High Park area residents said they are debating whether or not to stay in the city during the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games’ men’s and women’s road cycling races, which take place July 25 and Aug. 8.

These are free, unticketed events, which originate out of the games’ Ontario Place West Channel, near Exhibition Place.

The race route includes Lake Shore Boulevard, Parkside Drive, Ellis and Ellis Park avenues, among others.

Kathy Fedun, an Ellis Avenue resident, admitted at a community information meeting last Thursday that she’s not sure if she’ll stay in town that weekend.

Her street will be closed the day before the race.

Yet, the City of Toronto has never hosted such a sporting event like the Games before, especially one of this magnitude, “so, maybe I can manage,” Fedun told The Villager.

Samantha Rush, another Ellis Avenue resident, was weighing her options.

“I think this is good,” said Rush, applauding the city and its partners for hosting such a meeting. “I’m not a big car driver.” >>>WEST, page 12

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Hip hop exposes Toronto youth to literacy HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

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etting kids interested in literacy can be difficult.

But add the theme of hiphop into the mix and their ears perk up.

That’s what Nils Blondon and Danross Nolasco, directors of The Toronto-based Literacy Through Hip-Hop (LTHH) program, discovered.

“The whole point is about having fun, when I go in to teach these things I don’t take myself super seriously,” he said.

The program currently runs out of Parkdale Project Read, a community-based organization that provides literacy programs for adults and youth on King Street West every Tuesday and is funded by a TD Canada Trust grant.

LTHH teaches youth ages 12 to 25 about the evolution of hip-hop and its impact on cultures and communities through various forums and activities. According to Blondon the key word there is activities.

“The most important thing is giving them something to do to keep them engaged. It can’t be like a lecture, it has to be as hands on as possible,” Blondon said.

“They have to be writing lyrics, working on graffiti, or a dance routine, or making a video. That’s

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Graffiti artist ‘Flips’ helps teach students the art of graffiti as part of Parkdale Project Read’s Literacy Through Hip-Hop program that visits Toronto schools.

what keeps them roped in, otherwise it’s just more school.”

The program also runs in the after-school programs Beyond 3:30, and Success Beyond Limits; and can be found at Covenant House, the St. Albans Boys and Girls Club, and The Secord Community Centre.

The program began in 2007.

Three years later Blandon came on as a volunteer and quickly moved up to position of director.

To further engage students

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field trips with a hip-hop culture angle are also encouraged, such as heading to a recording studio at St. Albans Boys and Girls Club with local music producers in the Annex.

LTHH’s curriculum fluctuates between academic and practical with units like hip-hop globalization, history, rap and poetry, hiphop television and film, hip-hop elements, and hip-hop media and journalism.

But the units often change: as co-director he continues to update and modify the curriculum when necessary integrating what’s happening now in hip-hop culture and applying it to the lesson plan to stay current.

“For me it’s really exciting to create something that gets people excited about learning,” he said Three years ago, the program was adopted by the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and is now integrated into the board’s Media Literacy and some English classes. LTHH is the only program with this theme to align with Ontario Language Curriculum, a standard for the board.

“They were very open to it,” said Blondon, who had networked with some teachers at different community centres across the city and were amped about the unique lessons LTHH offers.

“The schools we work for, or the schools that would be open to this kind of thing are schools that

are model schools for inner cities.

“In other words, schools the TDSB identify as needing extra help, so they’re open to letting a program like mine come in.”

The program is currently in Carleton Village and Dr. Marion Hilliard elementary schools and Westview Centennial Secondary School.

The most satisfying aspect of helping run the program, said Blondon, is seeing kids open their mind to viewing art as a way to make a living.

“A lot of these children don’t know this was possible. That’s something I’ve seen a lot in the last few years” Blondon explained.

“A lot of them come from homes where this isn’t even suggested and these talents are there and they’re obvious to me but they’re not so much nurtured at home. So this may be their only chance to cultivate and grow their talent.”

And it’s not just exclusive to rapping, Blondon continued.

There’s art and writing talent in each of the kids he gets the chance to work with.

“There are a lot of talented kids I’ve worked with,” he said.

“My mind has been blown by some the work these kids have done.”

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Launched this week, www. insidetoronto.com/EnjoyToronto is the place where you can find all our arts and entertainment (and entertaining) stories.

The thriving music scene, films shot around and about Toronto, the actors, musicians and authors responsible for telling stories. So many great stories can be found online.

“As a life-long Torontonian and someone who has immersed himself in the arts – whether playing in a band or catching great shows – there is no place like Toronto,” said Antoine Tedesco, project lead and editor with Metroland Media Toronto.

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As the site grows, we’re looking for more community involvement, whether it’s news tips, event submissions, indie artists or community organizations reaching out to us.

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Toronto is a fantastic city! You can do virtually anything your heart desires, and with today’s launch of Enjoy Toronto – Metroland Media Toronto’s newest online Arts & Entertainment portal – you can start enjoying so much of what this great city has to offer – all from a communityfocused perspective.

Toronto was recently ranked the best place to live according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, a unit of The Economist magazine. There were 50 global cities included. Granted, Toronto has ranked high in similar studies before, so it’s no surprise the city welcomes more than 25 million visitors annually, spending more than $5 billion and more than $1.5 billion on food and entertainment. our view However, what many tourists understand we Torontonians Lots to see, do, sometimes overlook, even take for granted. read, hear and Despite Toronto being considered one of the most livable taste in T.O. cities in the world, life for the millions of people who call this city home is ‘wake up, go to work, come home, repeat’. There is so much more to hear, see, read, taste, and do from Etobicoke to Scarborough, North York to Lake Ontario, Parkdale to the Beach.

With today’s launch of Enjoy Toronto (www. insidetoronto.com/EnjoyToronto), we’ve taken a look at what was missing from the pages of the local media, and online.

What we discovered is there are so many amazing stories about Torontonians starting a band that suddenly becomes huge (Broken Social Scene comes to mind), or a filmmaker who grew up in the city and is now world-renowned (David Cronenberg for one) or an award-winning author who started filling pages in Hogtown (Margaret Atwood for instance). We took all those great stories and put them under one roof – Enjoy Toronto.

When visiting the site, make sure to click around the various sections – Hear, See, Read, Taste, and Do – and get an idea of some of the events, movies, music, and stories told by Torontonians, both new and old.

We build the city we want to live in, and not just in a brick and mortar way.

The arts and culture scene across the city adds and builds on what a truly world-class city is all about. We owe it to ourselves to get to know Toronto through many different lenses, and taking in the arts, entertainment and culture of the city builds a better city.

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Big Data monitoring of Toronto traffic comes with a price One of the big problems Mayor John Tory came into office promising to solve was also one of the most ubiquitous: traffic.

He started out strong and without even a council vote behind him, rallying city staff and law enforcement into a blitz against illegal parking during rush hour, and very quickly claimed at least anecdotal success: people were telling him their commutes were getting easier. It was harder to quantify, though, because as it turns out the city doesn’t really do much to reliably monitor the intensity of rush hour traffic.

It looks as though that’s about to change.

On April 7, Tory announced the city would be looking at high-tech ways to monitor traffic density, pedestrian congestion, bicycle efficiency, all of that. How? Two words: Big Data.

This, of course, is a simple phrase for a com-

david nickle the city plexity of information about all of us provided by everything from bank transactions to web page visits, but principally, in this case, by our smartphones.

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The idea is to use the smartphone networks that help us use our navigation functions to tell city traffic planners where exactly we are, and what it’s likely we’re doing.

Where we are The idea is to use the smartphone networks that help us use our navigation functions to tell city traffic planners where exactly we are, and what it’s likely we’re doing.

So whether it’s a crowd of us trying to decipher the scramble intersection at Yonge and Dundas, or a line of us trying to manage a left turn at Yonge and Sheppard, city traffic planners will have a line on it.

For the purpose of traffic management, it’s a powerful tool. Unchecked, it is a privacy nightmare.

Of course, Big Data is unchecked. Edward Snowdon, currently hiding in Russia, provided evidence of just how unchecked it is. Huge amounts of information about our private lives are neatly filed in NSA (National Security Agency) computers in the United States.

Almost as much is in the hands of Google and Facebook and even of the developers of games about angry birds, and those little flashlight apps on our smartphones.

We signed the end user

agreement on that information a long time ago and barely realized it.

Given that, maybe it’s worth it to allow a little more information about our whereabouts to be collected and collated, so the city can manage its traffic light energy grid more efficiently and keep streetcars running more effectively.

It is naïve, however, to expect Toronto will be able to access that kind of service without giving up quite a lot of the presumed privacy of its citizens and particularly as the city engages private sector data mining firms to do the work.

It’s unreasonable to think that the best ones will limit their measurements to the amount of time it takes to drive the Don Valley Parkway from Queen Street to Eglinton Avenue at 4 p.m. on a Tuesday.

Everything has a price.

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Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre celebrates 35th year ERIN HATFIELD plv@insidetoronto.com Ruth Quick, Zephie James, Hume Cronyn, Bob Rose, Pat Capponi, Victor Willis, Heinz Klien, Debbie Chambers – the list of legends at the Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (PARC) goes on.

At PARC – a downtown west end community organization and drop-in centre that works with its members on issues of poverty, mental health, addictions, homelessness and food security – it is the members, staff, volunteers and supporters who have been the catalysts of change for countless lives in the organization’s 35-year history.

On March 31, PARC marked its 35-year anniversary with a celebration of these legends – past, present and future.

“The stories we tell and the stories we remember are really what make PARC a remarkable place,” said Willis, who started working at PARC as a relief worker in 1989 and became the executive director

in 1999. “It is the amazing staff, volunteers, members and board members that make this place what it is.”

PARC was started 35 years ago by a group of neighbours who were concerned about the closure of the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital, which officially closed in 1979. A lot of former patients settled in Parkdale.

PARC was born out of the spirit that people with mental health struggles can help each other; its mission to be, “A community where people rebuild their lives.”

Willis said they realized early on in PARC’s story they needed to create the capacity and opportunity for members to advocate for themselves.

“In the mental health community a lot of the members are encouraged not to be outspoken, but we have always understood that people need to be able to say what is on their mind,” Willis said.

Eugene Hennie, a member since 2011, said that is exactly what PARC has done for

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members, Willis said, even after 35 years, there is still work to be done.

“There is a larger group out there who don’t understand the pressures and the lives, experience and existence of the folks who come to PARC,” Willis said. “So the legends and the stories and the voices who say what needs to be said, we need more voices and we need to keep saying it because they haven’t heard us yet.”

To that end, PARC just received a $30,000 Vital Ideas Grant for its Peer Outreach Program. The grant will be used to create a professional video and promotional material to talk about why that program and PARC is important. Willis said the goal is to create more opportunities for members to work and advocate for themselves.

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PARC’s ambassador program, co-op credit program, peer support program, music, art, sports and its focus on employing people with lived experience, help members begin to believe in themselves again, Hennie said.

Ann Lapenna-Slade, a longtime member of PARC and a PARC ambassador, explained her job is to go out in the community and talk to people about mental health and encourage them to engage with PARC. “We want the whole of the Parkdale community in here and us to be out there mingling,” Lapenna-Slade said.

“If we can do that we will get more food, clothing and other things. If we can do that then we will be happy.”

An art installation by Making Room Community Arts displayed the names and stories of PARC members, staff and volunteers.

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“This seems to be the trend in the neighbourhood,” said RMRA cochair Brian Torry during the March 31 meeting. “Having developers come in and ask for 10-storey buildings in an area that calls for four or five.”

The proposed development will be at 422-230 Roncesvalles Ave. and 76 Howard Park Ave., where the Turner & Porter Funeral Home currently resides. The neighbouring Westminster Church will remain untouched.

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“I don’t think much can be done (within the short time frame), but I think if we let the developers know the concerns the community has they can at least hear us out.”

At the top of their list was affordability and with it came talks of suggesting to the developer to include some affordable housing units. One resident was concerned that if the area continues to be increasingly unaffordable the neighbourhood will become an exclusive area and thus lose its original appeal.

Although residents will have to wait until April 7 to see any images of the development, its potential design was an issue. The room of about 40 people unanimously agreed the new building should match the existing character of the neighbourhood and the commercial floor should be as inviting as surrounding shops. Residents also preferred small commercial spaces for the first floor, as it would encourage small businesses to set up shop and decrease the possibility of a big box store moving in.

Requests for two- and three-bedroom units were also raised, to help attract young families to the neighbourhood.

According to Torry, a major concern for the neighbourhood is the precedent this building could set for Roncesvalles Avenue.

“It would allow all of Roncesvalles to have 10 storey buildings. It’s not something I want to see on Roncesvalles,” Torry told The Villager.

“Every time a building goes up in the community, the next developer

points to it as what kind of height they should be allowed to build. Every single time. I’ve never been to a meeting where that didn’t happen.”

And the developer has a handful of precedents to choose from including the Howard Park Lofts, which sits at eight storeys with a second development in the works for another eight storeys and the High Park Lofts across the street, which clocks in at seven-storeys. For Torry this is another reason why the community and the City of Toronto need to come together to create a Roncesvalles neighbourhood planning study.

“I t h i n k t h a t o u r neighbourhood could really benefit from some thought about what our neighbourhood could be,” he said. “Because otherwise our planning regiment is piece by piece; one building at a time.

There’s no thought to anything. A planning study would help us look at the community as a bigger picture instead of looking at one piece.”

If after the pre-application meeting none of the significant suggestions were taken into consideration, Torry said its last resort could be taking their concerns to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). It’s a costly endeavour various Toronto communities have undertaken and often come up short with the OMB in favour of the developer.

“We’re thinking as a community it might be time that the community go to the OMB. It’ll be expensive, but it might be necessary.”

The pre-application meeting for this development was scheduled for Tuesday night after our press deadline. Visit us online for a followup from the meeting.

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First ever Roma festival celebrates cultural heritage Toronto hosted several events in honour of International Roma Day, yesterday as part of Opre Roma/ Rise Up Roma, a festival celebrating the cultural heritage of the Roma people.

The festival runs until Sunday, with various musical, literary and artistic events taking place across the city. Organized by the Roma Community Centre, the festival is first of its kind in Toronto and aims to expand public understanding of

the Roma people and their history in Canada. Roma people have settled in Toronto as early as 100 years ago from Europe and the United Kingdom.

International Roma Day was first designated at the first World Romani Congress in Oprington, UK in 1971.

Since then, it’s been held as a day to reflect on Romani history and culture.

For the vast community of Roma people – spread across Europe,

Middle East, North Africa and the Americas – it is a day symbolizing strength, dignity and pride.

Toronto’s Roma people speak different languages, follow different religions, cook different foods and while some follow tradition, others do not.

“The Roma Community Centre is thrilled to host our first festival for International Roma Day,” said festival co-ordinator Nazik Deniz.

“The Roma have contributed a

great deal to the city’s celebrated multiculturalism, but many people aren’t aware of our wonderful culture. Opre Roma is a chance to share our music, our art, and our history with everyone.”

On the final day of the Opre Roma festival on Sunday, events will take place at the Lula Lounge, 1586 Dundas St. W.

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An artist’s concept of the future Wabash Community Centre, housed in the old linseed oil mill property, is one piece of the Sorauren Park vision.

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City owned and operated facility >>>from page 1 Society’s annual general meeting last Thursday at the Sorauren Park Fieldhouse, which had about 40 residents eager to hear a status update on the centre.

Once completed the centre will be a city-owned and operated community centre.

The centre currently sits seventh on a list of eight community centres, just ahead of the Wellesley Community Centre, on the City of Toronto’s priority list, which fits into the City of Toronto’s overall 10-year capital plan for 2015 to 2025.

But the way Shillington sees it, the plan presented to the community Thursday night, although it seems within reach, is still an extended waiting game.

“Before the city was amalgamated we were second or third on the list – that was 20 years ago,” said Shillington, who added Roncesvalles Village was lumped together with other neighbourhoods that “didn’t value community

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... in the last 15 years this neighbourhood has changed significantly.

There are different people, different needs, different age groups.

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centres.”

According to Kathy Allan, another volunteer co-director, the community will need to come together during the consultation process in 2017 to do another thorough and necessary needs assessment study. The first one was conducted 15 years ago.

“We have to do it all over again, as we should because in the last 15 years this neighbourhood has changed significantly. There are different people, different needs, different age groups,” Allan said.

The community has a list of ideas for the centre, which include a community kitchen, multipurpose rooms, a fit-

ness centre, a pool, gymnasium and talks of a daycare centre.

In 2009 the community group also conducted a Wabash Green Feasibility Study, with Oleson Worland_ Taylor Smyth Architects, which envisioned retro-fitting the existing building a major detail that remains top priority today.

“For me we need to keep the chimney and the whole shape of the building. I would like to keep every outer brick of the building and gut the whole inside,” Allan said.

“I’m very wedded to it and I would fight for it to make sure it would happen.”

But even that may be a difficult request. The community has been waiting for so long that the building is deteriorating year by year and with this additional 10-year wait who knows what the state of the building will be when the time comes.

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Launch Party: The Made With Care Collection

Reznick Carpets cordially invites you to the unveiling of The Made With Care Collection during an evening of cocktails, cuisine, fine art and fine textiles.

Proceeds support Marnie’s Studio, an art therapy space at SickKids. Doors open at 6:00 PM. To RSVP, please visit reznickcarpets.com/madewithcare

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Tribute to the Grateful Dead 2015

Join us at The Phoenix for the 4th annual event featuring Mars Hotel, a live Grateful Dead Tribute Band, and The Gratefully Deadicated Sound System, a professional Grateful Dead DJ. Proceeds will benefit Jake's Collection Fund supporting cancer research at SickKids.

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West end hosting several events including road races and water sports >>>from page 1 If she and her family stay in Toronto during the Games, they’ll leave the car at home.

This summer, Toronto and the greater Golden Horseshoe region will host 2,000 athletes from 41 countries, competing in 51 sports at 30 venues in 16 municipalities.

“That’s a fantastic thing in terms of sharing the Canadian experience with people,” Doug Spooner, senior manager, Transportation Partner Integration and Planning, told the audience that had gathered at the Swansea Town Hall. “But it presents challenges in terms of transportation.”

The Games are expected to attract 250,000 visitors while there are 1.4 million tickets for sale.

“One of our strategies is that transit will be included with your ticket,” Spooner said. “We have unticketed events like the marathon and road races coming through High Park. They’re free. What you have to do is get there

and enjoy them.”

Several events will originate at Ontario Place West, including the road races, marathon race/walk, triathlon, open water swimming, waterski and wakeboard.

Pointing to a map, Spooner indicated there won’t be any parking (except for accessible parking) in the entire area.

Visitors must walk, wheel, cycle or take public transit.

“This really is a transit first or walk, wheel or cycle Games,” Spooner said.

Bloor Street West and The Queensway will remain open to vehicular traffic throughout the Games, however, the two north lanes of The Queensway will be used for the men’s and women’s cycling road races and the two south lanes for counter flow traffic. Meanwhile, the south lanes of Bloor Street West will be used for the race and the north lanes for traffic. There will be walking and cycling access only to High Park.

“Stay home, watch the races, invite your friends for

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Stay home, watch the races, invite your friends for a barbecue and you’ve got front row seats to one of the greatest cycling races we’ve ever seen in this city, maybe worldwide.

– Doug Spooner

Courtesy/TORONTO2015

The map indicates the route of the men’s and women’s cycling road races during the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games.

a barbecue and you’ve got front row seats to one of the greatest cycling races we’ve ever seen in this city, maybe worldwide,” Spooner said.

Those residents with onstreet parking on Ellis Avenue will be provided an alternative parking space nearby.

“If you wake up that morning (race day) and forgot to move your car, don’t worry

we’ll give you a friendly tow that’s free of charge,” Spooner said. “We’re trying to make it as easy as we can.”

For Parkside Drive residents with on-street parking permits, an alternative parking zone will be provided.

Vehicle permits for those affected by road closures do not provide games or venue access, Spooner clarified.

“We don’t need venue access around here, we live in one,” he said.

Permits will be issued in May/June along with maps of the area.

There will be two per household, however, if more are needed, contact information will be provided.

The Ministry of Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n’s G a r y Jamieson, team lead at the Policy and Planning Development Office for the Games, explained there will be a ‘Games route network,’ prescribed routes that ensure athletes and officials get to their venues safely and effi-

ciently.

“You wouldn’t know you were on (the route),” said Jamieson, adding it won’t be marked.

Sixty-per cent of the Games will take place in Toronto, said Const. Craig Brister, the Pan Am/Parapan Am Business and Community Liaison.

Security checks of the venues will begin June 26 starting with the athletes village, he said.

Things will be ‘businessas-usual,’ assured Brister.

“If you have an issue and you have to call police, it’s the same as if you phoned the police right now,” he said.

The Games are not G20, stressed Brister.

“G20 was a security event.

This is a sporting event. This is a family-oriented sporting event. So, you’re not going to see the same security measures used at G20,” he said.

For more information, visit www.toronto2015.org/ venue/ontario-place-westchannel or email residentinfo@ toronto2015.org

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