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HIGH PARK CHERRY BLOSSOMS ABOUT TO HIT FULL BLOOM IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS Once most of the buds are bursting with green, it will take about two weeks before the blossoming begins. Peak bloom lasts only for about a week.

File photo/IAN KELSO FULL STORY: bit.ly/parkblossom WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Find out on when to visit High Park to catch the cherry blossoms in full bloom.

CHANGES COMING TO MCDONALD’S The 100 remade restaurants in the GTA will have customizable burgers, self-serve kiosks, and more. Staff photo/JUSTIN SKINNER FULL STORY: bit.ly/newmcds WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Get a preview of what’s coming.

RUNNING 10 HALF MARATHONS IN ONE MONTH TO RAISE FUNDS FOR CAMH Imagine travelling to 10 cities and running in 10 half marathons all in one month. It’s a feat Liberty Village resident Jacob Morris is ready to take on. The first one begins in Toronto in mid-June then he heads to Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Halifax, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, and Waterloo. Courtesy photo FULL STORY: bit.ly/10halfmarathons WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: He’s also making an inspirational documentary while talking about mental health issues.

THE NEXT BIG ARTS DESTINATION Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) finds a permanent home within a former auto building.

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The neighbourhood has a chance to vote for the three fruit trees they’d like to see planted in Masaryk Park. The options are: a pear, apple, cherry, service berry, paw paw (papaya), plum or nectarine.

Courtesy photo/MONIQUE KELEMEN FULL STORY: bit.ly/votetrees WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Cast your vote on which fruit trees you want to see planted in the community.

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TRANSIT USERS IN FORT YORK AND LIBERTY VILLAGE WILL BE GETTING SOME RELIEF The Toronto Transit Commission recently voted in favour of implementing the new streetcars on King Street, as well as creating the 514 Cherry streetcar and a 121 Fort-York Esplanade bus routes.

File photo/ERIN HATFIELD FULL STORY: bit.ly/transitrelief WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: See what other transit solutions the Fort York Neighbourhood Association president says is needed.

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MASSIVE PROJECT AIMS TO TRANSFORM SPACE UNDER GARDINER EXPRESSWAY

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Architect and urban planner Ken Greenberg (pictured above) said the unused space below the Gardiner is a jewel “that has been hiding in plain sight.”

Staff photo/JUSTIN SKINNER FULL STORY: bit.ly/gardinerproject WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Get info on Project: Under Gardiner, which will revitalize the open space beneath the Gardiner deck.

Nat Dawn (pictured here) came to a community consultation meeting at Scadding Court Community Centre Thursday night to hear about the proposed Supervised Injection Site (SIS) for Queen West-Central Toronto Community Health Centre on Bathurst Street.

Staff photo/HILARY CATON FULL STORY: bit.ly/injectionsite WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Those in favour say why having such a site is safer for the community.

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COLLAPSED BUILDING IS FUTURE FOREST HILL ENTRANCE TO EGLINTON CROSSTOWN The Ministry of Labour is investigating two companies following the partial collapse of a Bathurst Street and Eglinton Avenue building and scaffolding Monday that injured seven people - luckily none seriously.

Staff photo/DAN PEARCE FULL STORY: bit.ly/molcollapse WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Find out more details of the collapse and the subsequent Ministry of Labour investigaton.

WANTED: MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto, Dr. David McKeown, is retiring in July.

Photo/COURTESY FULL STORY: bit.ly/mckeownretire WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: He went to bat for supervised injection sites in Toronto.

TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY COULD BE IN A STRIKE/LOCKOUT POSITION MAY 2

Mayor John Tory said he will join police chief Mark Saunders to meet in private with black community leaders to “see how we can constructively and meaningfully address the issues that are in our community.”

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Maureen O’Reilly, president of CUPE Local 4948, said Toronto Public Library workers face “precarious part-time unstable working conditions.” They’re in a legal strike/lockout position on May 2.

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FULL STORY: bit.ly/torymeeting WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: John Tory elaborates further on his plans to meet with Toronto’s black community.

FULL STORY: bit.ly/tolibrarycontract WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Find out more on this looming deadline and whether it will affect you over the next two weeks.

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Rising homicide rate a cause for concern, but not fear e are 112 days into 2016.

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In those 112 days, the homicide rate in Toronto has doubled from the same time last year according to the Toronto Police Service. That’s alarming any way you look at it.

As of Monday, 26 people have been murdered in the city.

Some in broad daylight, others in the middle of the night. Residents a w o ke n b y g u n shots, alerting them to another funeral, another cordoned off community, another family grieving.

But these crimes in the early part of the year, are not an indicator Toronto is embarking on a murderous rampage of vendettas.

An Toronto police investigator (who spoke on condition of anonymity) interviewed by The Villager address-

ing this spate of violence in the city, directly connects the increase in murders to the abandonment of the controversial carding practice by officers.

Police advocates say that carding is the thin line between those who obey the law and those who do not. But the fact is, carding is a relatively recent innovation and Toronto police have been solving and preventing crimes for decades before such a program existed.

One thing that hasn’t changed in that time is us: people who are willing to keep an eye on the streets, and who help police investigate when a crime occurs.

Crime Stoppers has been an effective way for the public to help keep Toronto safe for a long time. The tip line is anonymous. Use it.

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Public Works and Infrastructure Committee is taking another step towards what might be a permanent armistice. The committee will be looking at a halfmillion dollar pilot project, to put cycle paths on Bloor Street West.

It’s a short stretch, two and a half kilometres long, between Shaw Street and Avenue Road.

If council goes along with the plan, it will go in in September. Oh, what a difference six years and a few cycle tracks make! In 2010, the city’s cycling office might have been proposing a pilot to cross the Rubicon. Bloor Street has long been the prize in the eye of cycling advocates, because of its city-spanning scope. One could take Bloor Street and the Danforth all the way from Scarborough to Etobicoke, in a single not-very-sweaty ride (Bloor and Danforth don’t have any challenging hills to speak of).

The late former mayor Rob Ford would have printed up a whole new batch of fridge magnets to rally the troops. These days?

John Tory took care when asked about it this week to explain this was only a pilot project and would be assessed without bias when it was finished. But the drums of war seem largely silent.

At the same committee meeting, councillors will be considering a few other bike lane projects – these ones, the old-fashioned paint-on-pavement kind. There are 11 of these, and they’re all over the place: most, it’s true, a quick pedal from the downtown, but one up on Sheppard West crossing the Addington Greenbelt. These kinds of lanes used to be big fights too, and maybe they still will be. But in these early days of the season...

Hope springs eternal.

David Nickle is Metroland Media Toronto’s city hall reporter.

His column runs every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @DavidNickle

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The carding debate is actually a distraction from the real matter at hand. What we should be talking about is the state of our city and how we can ensure it remains safe for everyone no matter your race, age or gender.

Toronto has a population of 2.6 million people numbers from 2011 show. Twenty-six murders among 2.6 million people is not a very high ratio, but each one has a devasting impact on those who knew and loved the victim.

These numbers, though, are not indicative of a city where people are shuttering themselves away, afraid to leave their homes.

What is needed is more active participation from the public to help prevent crime and bring criminals to justice.

The more active we are in reporting crimes and suspicioius behaviour, the safer we will be.

And hopefully by next year this time, 26 lives will be saved.

It is springtime and even in this slow, hesitant, let’s-be-honest-way-toochilly springtime, it’s hard not to think about bicycles.

Now that is not to say we all think the same thing about bicycles. Alongside light rail, UberX, the Gardiner Expressway and subways, subways, subways, the place of two-wheeled locomotion divides opinion in this town better than a curbseparated bikeway. It was only six years ago that an entire election was fought over bicycles, after over-reaching cycling advocates managed to convince council to paint bike lanes on Jarvis. That was it: the ‘war on the car,’ and everybody was in: the motorists from Don Mills and Leaside and Rosedale, who favoured Jarvis as a fast route downtown; the bicyclists who favoured Jarvis as a less bumpy alternative to the cracked and heaving lanes on Sherbourne a few streets over. And of course politicians and newspaper editorialists, who found the controversy to be an effective delineation of the left and the right in matters of urban planning. The lanes didn’t last long after the 2010 election.

That removal led to a kind of truce. Denzil Minnan-Wong, who chaired the Public Works and Environment Committee, created a Berlin Wall of sorts on Toronto’s roads, pushing the creation of fully separated cycle tracks: first on a no-longer-bumpy Sherbourne, and then through the downtown on Wellesley, Richmond and Adelaide Streets.

Bicycles and cars on these streets have their own separate but parallel routes. It seems to be working out well. Now here we are, in the spring of 2016, and on Monday, April 25, the

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PLAY, READ, BROWSE LEGOS AND LAGERS, WORD ON THE STREET BOOK SALE, AND APRIL SHOWERS SHOW AT THE STUDIO BAR In and around Parkdale: (Counter clockwise from top right) Brennon, left, and Zaid take a trip to the past while playing with blocks during the Gladstone Hotel’s weekly Legos and Lagers event inside the Melody Bar Tuesday evening (Staff photo/BENJAMIN PRIEBE). Debbie Degelman, left, and Gail Brown shop for postcards during the April Showers Show hosted Saturday at the Studio Bar by the Trinity Bellwoods Flea, while Lousongmade’s Ana Eidt displays her upcycled vintage plates during the show and Island Oysters’ Jason Kun shucks some oysters (Staff photos/METROLAND MEDIA TORONTO). Justin Lauzon looks through a table of books during the Word on The Street spring book sale earlier this month at the Toronto Carpet Factory (Staff photo/DAN PEARCE).

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The North York Community House’s Lotherton Pathway has planted apple, cherry and pear trees, which, in a few years, will see residents who have adopted and care for the trees on the property, reap its harvest. There is more green space, which could be used for more trees in the future.

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SURVEY SHEDS LIGHT ON COMMUTE TIMES FOR POST-SECONDARY STUDENTS StudentMoveTO, developed by a team of researchers at Ryerson University, the University of Toronto, York University and OCAD, collected data from 15,266 participants from Sept. 28 to Dec. 8.

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COSTCO IS OFFERING FREE HEPATITIS A VACCINATIONS TO THOSE AFFECTED The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has recalled Costco’s Nature’s Touch Organic Berry Cherry Blend, and the warehouse store is now offering free Hep A vaccinations to those who may be affected.

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PRIEST SHARES HIS EXPERIENCE SURVIVING ECUADOR EARTHQUAKE Toronto priest Father Hernan Astudillo was in Ecuador when the 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit. At the time, he helped people get out of the hotel they were staying in, and is continuing to offer emotional support.

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Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art to move into a former auto building occupying five floors with art of the 21st century

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In anticipation of the end of the lease, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art Curator Advisor (MOCCA) David Liss set out on an arduous mission four years ago to find a new home for the charitable organization.

MOCCA has become a staple in the West Queen West Art and Design District having opened there a decade ago when the area was a little rough around the edges. The location was within the downtown core, in the centre of the action, however, Liss wanted to find a permanent home for the museum.

“The Toronto property market is pretty challenging,” Liss told The Villager during a mid-April afternoon conversation. “I’d outlined a vision of what we wanted. It’s a fairly specific type of building we need.”

So, Liss set about working with real estate experts over the course of the past four years. He met with more than 40 property developers and owners in Toronto, including private owners large and small. Through this process, Liss connected with Castlepoint Numa. Not only is its president Alfredo Romano a successful and profitable builder, but also one who thinks about making a contribution to the city.

“I realized that over a few meetings he seemed to me the right kind of personality. I felt early on that we’d identified a compatible individual,” Liss recalled.

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With this new home, there is room for expansion in the future, he added. There are plans for a phase two, scheduled to open in 2020, that will see a new, custom building approximately 75,000 square ft. on the same site. It will allow the museum to host a larger audience, increase its exhibition and display spaces while being able to store developing collections. There will be research, workshop and meeting rooms as well.

“It would be an understatement to say that it will be simply the most significant tenancy we’ll have,” Romano said. “It adds dimension that goes beyond what a normal commercial business would bring.”

MOCCA is moving into an already up-and-coming arts neighbourhood, Romano said.

“In less than a kilometre from the site, there are dozens of galleries, workshops and artists,” he said. “MOCCA is coming in on a trend that’s already started. They’re going to solidify the neighbourhood as an arts destination.”

The Sterling Road site is much larger than MOCCA’s existing Queen Street West location.

“Our former site was quite modest. We couldn’t develop educational opportunities. We’ll be able to have exciting and innovative educational programs,” Liss said. “We want to engage audiences throughout the city.

We’ll have the space and the staff.”

Predicting that it will be one of the most “exciting cultural destinations in Toronto,” Liss said the new museum is something that the city, the country and the art community deserves.

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MOCCA will be moving into its new home at 158 Sterling Rd. (left photo) and opening next May; Inside the building (above) will feature art of the 21st century; a historic photo of the former auto building (right).

Yet, it would be a few years before Liss exhausted his search and reconnected with Romano in 2014 to discuss details of Castlepoint Numa’s eight-acre ‘Lower Junction Triangle (Lower JCT)’ project at Perth Avenue and Sterling Road that the stars would align.

Once completed, the redevelopment, which will include, commercial, office, retail, cultural and residential space, will bring as many as 2,500 jobs to the neighbourhood, provide a home for 1,000 new residents while creating several community improvements, such as a new day care facility, a new park and green open spaces as well as affordable housing.

The site will boast 564,000 square feet of mixed-use space and 540,000 square feet of residential space. As part of the development, Castlepoint Numa will be creating a new entry point to the West Toronto Railpath as well.

MOCCA will take up residency in the auto building as the anchor tenant.

Christened the Museum of Contemporary Art_Toronto_Canada, it will be devoted to art of the 21st century and is scheduled to open on May 2 next year. The museum will occupy five floors – 55,000 square ft. – of the 10-storey restored building. Built in 1919, the auto building represents an early example of industrial high-rise construction in Toronto and will remain a highly visible neighbourhood landmark in the emerging area.

“We’re going to be a part of this neighbourhood,” Liss said. “We’re still close enough to downtown and accessible by public transit. The art community has been making a major shift westward since I moved to the Junction 15 years ago.”

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Eleven Division police Supt. Heinz Kuck, for his latest fundraiser, is pushing a weighted sled for three kilometres to help buy musical instruments and equipment for the Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club.

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PUSH FOR HOPE RAISES MONEY FOR MUSIC PROGRAM AT LOCAL BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB

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The Foundation Fighting Blindness brings standup comedy to the stage to raise money for eyesightsaving research. The shows are part of a tour that hopes to raise $1 million. The tour is one of a series of events taking place in the city including the Sight bike ride from Toronto to Collingwood.

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Canada’s only comedy festival for women was started three years ago by Toronto’s Martha O’Neill after a comic weekend at the cottage. She wanted to showcase the talent in the room, and since then women from across the country and the United States participate in the festival.

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Pavlo incorporates the world’s most exotic instruments into his classic Mediterranean sound at the Danforth Music Hall this weekend. Along with the Greek bouzouki you will hear the Chinese Ehru; the Portuguese guitarra; the Arabic flute and the Indian sitar.

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