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Featuring elaborate costume, steel pan players, mas bands, masqueraders and dancing, the parade attracts more than a million visitors and is billed as North America’s largest Caribbean parade.

Starting on the Exhibition Place grounds, the parade travels along a 3.5-kilometre stretch on Lake Shore Boulevard. It loops in front of the Direct Energy Centre, goes south on Newfoundland Drive and heads west along Lake Shore.

The parade takes place Saturday at 10 a.m. and ends at 6 p.m., but the Lake Shore from Strachan Avenue to Colborne Lodge Drive will be closed as of midnight on Aug. 3 until 6 a.m.

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The diversion will run parallel to the existing trail between Net Drive, near the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 344 and Oarsman Drive, east of the Lakeshore Public Tennis Courts and will be marked.

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Christine Gordon shares story of turning life around

PARC employee has taken obstacles and turned them into opportunities ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com

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hristine Gordon walks into the Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre (PARC), a drop-in centre on Queen Street West, where she works in the kitchen.

The members there greet her with smiles, hugs and hellos. Gordon has only been working there for a few months, but said it’s the people and the work she does to help them that has filled a once-dark part of her.

Gordon, 26, has been living in Toronto for about a year. Originally from Barrie, Gordon is in recovery from a life-crippling addiction to drugs and alcohol.

“I was raised in a great family and didn’t have any problems with my family whatsoever,” Gordon said.

“But I always felt incomplete, like I was missing something.”

She describes the feeling as a hole in her heart, and to this day she can’t explain why or where that void came from.

“When I did drugs or drink that hole would be filled temporarily,” Gordon said.

It was at the age of 14 she started using drugs and alcohol as a reprieve from her feelings, and that behaviour lasted for more than a dozen years.

Now sober for 16 months, Gordon has her life on track. She recently got her high school diploma, is working at PARC and has plans to pursue post-secondary education with the goal of helping others with addic-

tion issues.

“To this day I fill that feeling with doing good, positive things, but I had to learn from mistakes to get there,” Gordon said.

Gordon made it to Grade 11 before her addiction lead her to drop out of high school in order to work full time to make more money to spend on her partying.

The issues progressed and she started using more serious drugs until, by age of 19, she tried Oxycodone for the first time.

“Over the six years I used that drug – it nearly killed me,” she said. “The things I did, the things I went through to get it and the environment I was around, it is a miracle I am alive.”

Her parents tried desperately to help her, but Gordon said she was lying so much they didn’t really know how bad it was.

“You become a master manipulator. All your morals go out the window,” Gordon said.

She started stealing from her family and friends in order to feed her habits and Gordon said the police were looking for her. She said at one point she was nearly arrested for fraud, but the officer told her if she went to treatment he would help her not get charged. She came to Toronto to detoxify and everything went well, but Gordon said when she moved back to Barrie she moved back in with an old boyfriend, which didn’t change the environment she had been in.

“I didn’t have any options at the time,” Gordon said. “I relapsed and it got worse quicker.”

She detoxed a second

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Christine Gordon, a recent award winning Independent Learning Centre graduate, works in the kitchen of the Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre, a drop-in centre on Queen Street West.

time in Barrie and decided to seek treatment in Toronto again.

“When I was in that treatment centre I realized if I went back to Barrie I would relapse,” she said. “I wouldn’t have a chance.”

She said there are many more resources in Toronto including meetings, programs and housing support for someone in recovery.

She moved into Nazareth House, a support house for women at risk, at Bathurst and Bloor streets, a move, which Gordon said, saved her life.

“The staff are amazing and encourage you to do positive things,” Gordon said. “You have a lot of responsibilities there and

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I was raised in a great family and didn’t have any problems ... whatsoever. But I always felt incomplete, I was missing something.

– Christine Gordon

there are a lot of rules, but if you are ready to change your life, you are grateful for it.”

She started attending a treatment program, through Woman’s Own Withdrawal Management Centre, which taught her self-esteem and how to get back on her feet postaddiction.

She started attending

Alcoholics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings every day where she said she found support in coming together with people from different walks of life who were struggling with the same problems she was.

Once she started to straighten her life out, Gordon said she decided she wanted the single math credit she needed to obtain her high school diploma. She enrolled with the Independent Learning Centre, a distance education school run through Ontario Ministry of Education.

She said the teachers were extremely helpful and supportive and in May she

obtained the credit she needed to officially graduate high school.

In June she attended the graduation ceremony with about 180 other students and their families. During graduation, Gordon was given the Robert Hogan Award. It’s awarded to a diploma student to recognize an adult learner who has overcome challenges to earn a high school diploma. She was able to share her story with everyone at the graduation.

Gordon also went on to complete the Youth Succeeding in Employment Program (YSEP), which helped her figure out what direction she wanted to take.

Gordon, with the help of this program, decided she wanted to work with people who struggle with addiction, as she had.

“I always knew I wanted to take my negative past and do something good with it,” Gordon said.

Through the program she was able to do a fivemonth placement working in the kitchen at PARC, beginning last November and has since secured a job there.

She already has her eyes set on post-secondary education. She said she hopes to take the addictions counselling program at George Brown College in the fall.

Gordon said it’s hard to get to a point where she feels proud of herself.

“I am still working on giving myself credit, but the changes I feel... it is amazing,” she said.

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Public health monitors 43 mosquito traps across the city, and would not say the exact location where the infected insects were found.

Instead, Elaine Pacheco, Healthy Environments manager with public health, said all Torontonians need to take precautions.

While West Nile is not usually fatal in humans, it can be. There have been hundreds of cases reported over the years, and some people have died in our city from the virus. It could happen our view again.

For most people exposed to the virus, though, the symptoms don’t Basic even show. For about one in five symptoms can include precautions people, fever, body aches, nausea, vomitadvised ing and headaches. Less than one per cent of people infected require hospitalization, Pacheco said.

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Protecting our indoor living space by making sure screens on windows and doors do not have holes is also important.

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Former budget chief ponders running for mayor The electoral battleground that was formerly known as Scarborough could become very interesting in 2014.

Scratch that.

It’s already interesting, now that Mayor Rob Ford has managed to gather enough votes to support building subway tunnels east and north from Kennedy station, a move that at once degrades the reach of rapid transit in Scarborough and feeds the local appetite for heavy-duty infrastructure improvements.

Scarborough voters’ good will on this matter could well send Ford’s damaged mayoralty into a second term, scandals be damned.

What it’s on the verge of becoming is titanically interesting.

David Soknacki, a former budget chief under mayor David Miller and a former councillor from Scarborough’s east end, is considering adding his name to the growing list of high-profile candidates for

david nickle the city the next mayor of Toronto.

Of all of them – Karen Stintz, John Tory, Olivia Chow – he’s got the lowest profile.

Smaller ideas Since stepping away from council in 2006, Soknacki’s been spending his time heading up Parc Downsview Park, writing a column for this newspaper and tending his spice manufacturing and exporting business, Ecom Food Industries.

But should Soknacki choose to run, Ford will be in for a fight – at least in Scarborough.

Soknacki and Ford have certain similarities.

Both are business owners – although unlike Ford, who inherited his share of Deco Labels from his late father, Soknacki started his

own business.

Both are Progressive Conservatives, and both came to council with ideas to reform the place – although in this case, Soknacki’s ideas were smaller than Ford’s notion of stopping a gravy train.

It was enough for Soknacki to push a motion to end nepotistic hiring in councillors’ offices.

Both have ideas about transit in Scarborough.

But while both agree it needs to be improved, beyond that their divergence could not be more pronounced.

Ford, in case anyone missed it, is a subway man.

Soknacki has been a consistent supporter of light rail. Ford is working on ways to pay for the subway.

Soknacki is supporting a plan that is already financed by the provincial government.

So if it goes ahead, there will be a spectacle of two candidates: both wealthy and Conservative; one from

Etobicoke who shows his love for Scarborough with the promise of a subway; another who shows his love for Scarborough by living there, and promising the old light rail plan.

Toronto is of course larger than Scarborough.

But if Ford wants to win a second term, he can’t afford to lose what amounts to nearly a third of the entire city.

Facing Chow or Stintz or even Tory, Ford’s support in Scarborough is strong.

Facing an opponent with hometown bona fides and a strong argument against the chimeric promise of an unfunded subway line, the mayor could be in real trouble.

Even if Soknacki can’t persuade the rest of the city to put him over the top on election day, the damage his candidacy can do to the mayor’s base could be enough to topple him.

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Puppet show inspired by First Nations movement Clay and Paper Theatre’s Our Last Best Hope on until Aug. 18 LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com

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avid Anderson, Clay and Paper Theatre founderartistic director and playwright, describes his latest offering Our Last Best Hope as a “lightly produced dark comedy.”

As part of the theatre group’s 17th summer season, Anderson presents “a bold new play” inspired by the Idle No More movement, one of the largest Indigenous mass movements in Canadian history, which according to its website, “calls on all people to join in a peaceful revolution, to honour Indigenous sovereignty and to protect the land and water.”

Anderson said he was inspired particularly by the Idle No More movement spokesperson Pam Palmater, Mi’kmaq lawyer and professor and academic director of the Centre for Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University, who said: “First Nations represent Canadians’ last best hope of stopping Canada from mass destruc-

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There’s a simple story line.

Basically, the world is in trouble and we need help.

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tion of our shared lands, waters, plants and animals in the name of resource development for export to foreign countries...”

Co-written by Angela Loft, who is First Nations and a Clay and Paper alumnus, Our Last Best Hope opened July 25 and continues to Aug. 18 with shows in Dufferin Grove Park Wednesdays through Sundays at 7 p.m. The show, said Anderson, opened to “enthusiastic audiences” despite being rained out last Saturday.

Even though the production tackles some heavy topics, such as the oil industry, Anderson calls it “a very dance-y piece filled with movement and fun.”

“There’s a simple story line.

Basically, the world is in trouble and we need help,” he said.

“Everyone must be included

in the changes we contemplate about how to make the world better.”

In typical Clay and Paper fashion, the story is told using its trademark satire, wit, song and dance – and large puppets, which were created in just four weeks, Anderson said.

Our Last Best Hope is a wake-up call of sorts for action, for joining forces, for changing direction, for securing the world’s future for generations to come.

Anderson cites several sources of influence for text, lyrics and imagery, including Andrew Nikiforuk’s book The Energy of Slaves; The Inconvenient Indian and The Truth About Stories by Thomas King as well as his trips volunteering with ArtsCanCircle in remote First Nations communities.

Admission is pay-whatyou-can, with a $10 suggested donation. No reservations are necessary.

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The Momo: Team of cooks to demonstrate

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Many cultures have their own version of the dumpling, but in Parkdale the most prevalent is the Tibetan momo.

A simple dough wrapped around a delectable filling, the momo, served steamed or fried, has a special place in Tibetan cuisine.

“It is an ancient food and also it has been made for many years in the whole Himalayan region, not only Tibet,” explained Kalsang Wangchuk.

Pa rk d a l e re s i d e n t s Wangchuk and his wife Tsamla and their classmate Sonam Yangzom will share the art of momo making with the masses at Fortune Cooking – a weekend celebration of Pan Asian food and culture at the Harbour Front Centre, Aug. 9 to 11.

The festival explores the progression of trends and flavours originating in Asia and will feature cooking demonstrations from the

Tibetan, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Korean, and Filipino cultures.

The team of Tibetan cooks aren’t chefs, just homemakers showing the traditional Tibetan art of making the momo.

The tr io are English Language students in a Toronto District School Board program run out of the Parkdale Branch of the Toronto Library. They have partnered with the West End Food Co-op and Greenest City to offer a “Taste of Parkdale” at the Harbourfront festival.

When they were asked to participate, Sonam said momo were the given choice.

“Momo are a special food in Tibet,” Sonam said.

The team will prepare 100 pieces in advance of the event and then will give a live momo making demonstration on the day of the event. They will prepare traditional steamed momo of the beef and vegetable variety.

They are excited to show how they are made so people

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It’s an ancient food and also it has been made for many years in the whole of Himalayan Region, not only Tibet.

– Kalsang Wangchuk

can see how it is done and perhaps try it for themselves.

Kalsang said momo are not made daily, but for special occasions like the Tibetan New Year, marriage ceremonies and parties. Although Sonam said she regularly makes them at home because her family is so fond of them.

Steamed momo are perhaps the most sought after, Kalsang said, although they can be served in soup and also pan fried or deep fried. The trio explained that pan fried momo would usually be left over steamed momo.

They said momo are not difficult to make, particularly here in Toronto where they have ready access to ground meat. While in Tibet and India

they would have minced the meat by hand.

“Chopped has a good taste,” Kalsang said. “With the machine all the (juice) in the meat is gone.”

Tish Carnat, the cook’s ESL instructor said her students bring momo to every pot luck and special event the class has. But their creation is so ingrained in Tibet culture it can be difficult to explain.

“They needed to give me a recipe because Harbourfront wanted to have one,” Carnat said. “But trying to get the quantity was really hard because they don’t do anything from recipe.”

Adriana Sabogal, an Artistic Associate for the Community and Educational Programmes at Harbourfront Centre, is the lead organizer for Fortune Cooking. She explained the event explores the diversity of Pan Asian cuisine, culture and artistic expressions.

For $2 participants can get a recipe, see a demonstration and sample food.

In addition to cooking

Staff photo/ERIN HATFIELD

Parkdale residents Kalsang Wangchuk, left, his wife Tsamla and their classmate Sonam Yangzom, under the guidance of their ESL teacher Tish Carnat, will participate in the Fortune Cooking event at Harbourfront Centre, Aug. 9 to 11.

demonstrations there will be music performances and a whole celebration around tea, talks and even a Ramen Noodle cooking contest.

“There will be six chefs cooking raw-man Ramen

Noodle variations from scratch and the best will be chosen,” Sabogal said.

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The making of a momo Momo are Tibetan dumplings. The ancient Tibetan treats are made with a simple flour and water dough. They are filled with one of a number of fillings: minced meat, vegetable, cheese like Paneer and even sweet momo with red beans and brown sugar.

The dough is flattened into small round pieces and then the filling is enclosed either in a round pocket, in a half moon shape or crescent shaped momo.

The dumpling is then steamed over broth. It can then be pan fried if desired. Momo can be served submerged in soup or dry with a sauce like hot chili sauce.

The owner of Shangrila Tibetan & Asian Cuisine in Parkdale demonstrates how a Tibetan momo is made.

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Strategic plan would set broad plans for 2014 to 2016 >>>from page 1 currently the chair of the board at Exhibition Place.

Layton said this planning process is an opportunity to evaluate assets and explore how Exhibition Place can build on what it already has to offer.

“How can we create synergies with Ontario Place and what is going on there and how can we make them

better integrated into the existing neighbourhoods so not only will they be used by people visiting the province and the city, but also by people living here,” Layton said.

Layton said there is also an opportunity to look at how to get year-round use and economic activity that will really start to sustain Exhibition Place.

“I am curious to find out what some of the folks who use Exhibition Place think about it, but also what some of the innovators in our city think the potential is and where to take it,” Layton said.

“I certainly hope people start to think about some creative and positive ideas.”

D i a n n e Yo u n g , t h e chief executive officer of Exhibition Place, explained

the first stage of the strategic planning is to get the board together for a workshop in September or October.

They will develop a draft plan that will then be taken to the community.

Young said, hopefully, the community meeting would be called for late this year or early next year.

The last strategic plan reached its terminus point

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would set broad plans as well as specific initiatives.

“It may have some broad strokes like a hotel or renting buildings that are underutilized,” Young said.

“But it also has more minute things in the sense of safety and goals and objectives.”

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at the end of 2012, but a subsequent plan was placed on hold pending the outcome of the casino debate.

“It was hard to move forward because if you had a casino it would be something and if you didn’t it would be something else,” Young said.

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UPCOMING: THE CANACCORD GENUITY GREAT CAMP ADVENTURE

The Great Camp Adventure is an up to 20 kilometre challenge-by-choice adventure walk that will take place on September 28 through the streets of downtown Toronto (starting and ending at Fort York) to benefit SickKids. Designed with the whole family in mind, babies in strollers, toddlers and tots, teenagers, moms, dad, grandparents and other family members will participate in ultimate camp adventures along the way making lasting memories of shared family fun. Register today at www.campforkeeps.com or call 416-4-4KEEPS.

AUGUST 3: INSERT ADVENTURE HERE

A night where local Toronto artists unite as one and show the city their talents. The event takes place at the Arta Gallery in the Distillery District and features food, drinks and live music. Tickets are $25 online and $30 at the door, and all funds support SickKids. For more information and tickets please visit www.insertadventurehere.ca

AUGUST 11: WALK FOR THE CHILDREN

Check out some of the fun, free TD Summer Reading Club programs going on at your local branch.

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Jungle Trek Puppet Show August 8, 2 pm Travel into the mighty jungle with a fantastic puppet show by Applefun Puppetry.

Parkdale (1303 Queen St. W.) Break Dance Workshop August 15, 2 pm Step in from the heat for a basic break dance workshop with P.O.S.E. Dance Company.

Parkdale (1303 Queen St. W.) Movie Madness: Escape from Planet Earth August 22, 2 pm Enjoy the out-of-this-world film Escape from Planet Earth (PG).

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Visit torontopubliclibrary.ca/adventure for a full listing.

A day of fun at the zoo for the entire family in support of the Herbie Fund at SickKids. From 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., families can enjoy the Toronto Zoo and help raise funds to help children across the world receive life-saving medical care at SickKids that would otherwise be unavailable in their home countries. For more information please visit: www.herbiefund.com

AUGUST 17: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S RUN 2013

A Midsummer Night’s Run is Toronto’s Premiere 30K/15K/5K Road Race and Family Fun Run. The evening run on Toronto Island will support children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis at SickKids. To register and for more information, please visit www.amidsummernightsrun.ca

AUGUST 25: TEAM UP 4 SICKKIDS

Team Up for SickKids will unite the South Asian community for a day of sports to raise funds for SickKids at the Ultra Sports Center in Scarborough. The event takes place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and costs $15 for participants and $5 for spectators. Teams will compete in soccer, basketball or volleyball throughout the day and prizes will be awarded. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/TeamUpForSickKidsSportsEvent

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Nearly 1,000 people take part in Police chief Bill Blair also wants answers on streetcar shooting march, vigil for Sammy Yatim About 1,000 people came together to march in support of the family of Sammy Yatim and for some, to protest the Toronto police.

Yatim, 18, was shot and killed by police early Saturday after an interaction with officers from 14 Division.

A highly viewed citizen video of the shooting posted on YouTube has sparked outrage by some who say police used excessive force.

The video shows nine shots being fired at Yatim, who apparently was alone on the 505 Dundas streetcar near Trinity Bellwoods Park, and then the sound of what is speculated to be a taser gun being used.

The march and vigil held in the evening of Monday, July 29 began at YongeDundas Square and made its way along Dundas Street West to Bellwoods Avenue where Yatim was killed.

At that point, some of the crowd broke away from the

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A large crowd participates Monday evening in a march and vigil to protest the death of Sammy Yatim. Yatmin was shot

by Toronto police Saturday, July 27. The event passed Dundas Street and Bellwoods Avenue where the incident took place.

group and marched to the Toronto police 14 Division headquarters on Dovercourt Road.

The officer who shot Yatim has been suspended with pay and the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is investigating.

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Police Chief Bill Blair said he wants answers to why an officer shot and killed a North York teen in downtown Toronto on the weekend.

“Like many members of the public, I have viewed the video of this incident. I am aware of the very serious concerns that the public has,” Blair told reporters during a packed news conference at police headquarters Monday.

“I know that people are seeking answers to what occurred, why it happened and if anything could have been done to prevent the tragic death of this young man. I am also seeking the answers to those important questions. I want to assure all of the citizens of Toronto of our unwavering commitment to get the answers that they seek.”

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w a t c h d o g , t h e Sp e c i a l Investigations Unit (SIU), is probing the shooting.

The SIU said officers were investigating Yatim, who was on the streetcar.

Blair said the public has “every right to be concerned” about the shooting. “I recognize that there is a need for

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Goods and Services: Bartender and mixologist James Taylor, top, and vendor Amanda B., right, take part in the Night Market launch and Party Day last Wednesday at 99 Sudbury St. The Night Market runs until Oct. 23.

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Caterpillars, Moths and Butterflies WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: ajalberti@gmail.com Nature writer and science teacher Don Scallen displays the beauty of these fascinating creatures using specimens from his collection and examples found in High Park. Meet at the benches across from the Grenadier Restaurant.

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Make Some Noise WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor St. W. Top indie improvisers will perform in different parts of the library, broadcasting wirelessly to the main lobby where audience members can create their own sound mix. The collected sound bites from these performances will then be reconstructed into a new composition.

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Meet at High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside Dr.

Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.parkdalevillager.com.

416-392-1748, www. highparknaturecentre.com COST: $2 to $5/person or donate-what-you-can Follow fairies and gnomes trails and offer them help.

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Descant Garage Sale WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

WHERE: 245 Markham St., 245 Markham St. CONTACT: 416-593-2557, info@ descant.ca COST: Free Items include theatre memorabilia, clothes, pottery,

appliances, books, chairs, glassware, antiques and collectibles. Proceeds support Canadian writers and literacy through the Descant Arts & Letters Foundation.

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Colle pushes for food trucks in parks DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Hungry visitors will be able to grab a quick meal at five city parks this summer, as Toronto embarks on a pilot project to measure the effect of allowing food trucks to do business on city property.

Currently, food trucks aren’t allowed on city property. They can set up in private parking lots, or pay fees to do business at designated public events.

But parks, rights-of-way and boulevards are off-limits.

Eglinton-Lawrence Councillor Josh Colle has been pushing for a relaxation of the bylaw throughout the year as a member of the city’s Food Policy Council.

Initially, Colle said he just wanted to see the bylaws relaxed. But he said city bureaucrats were unable to make the change wholesale, so the pilot project is a first step.

The project will see five parks open to licensed food trucks: Woodbine Park,

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Owners of Gourmet Stuft, Lance Freelan, with David Orzakovski in the truck window sold sauages during the Food Truck Frenzy at the CNE last year. A new pilot project will see food trucks in several city parks.

Roundhouse Park, Canoe Landing, Sherbourne Commons and Allan Gardens.

“The parks we’ve chosen... we’ve tried to pick ones with high foot traffic,” said Colle.

“One is the Roundhouse Park outside the (Rogers Centre).

That should give you a feel of what it should be like. Part of it is to help out these entrepre-

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In the past, concerns have been raised that food trucks

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The station was scheduled to shut down for 12 straight days in June to speed up ongoing renovations, but the plan was shelved when contracted ceramic tile workers walked off the job as part of a province-wide labour action by the Brick and Allied Craft Union.

Now that the strike is settled, the TTC says it will instead shutter the station from Aug. 19 to 30 during which time both bus and subway service will bypass Pape.

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A Belgian studio has won a public art competition to develop a commemorative art installation for Union Station.

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with bike sharing program BIXI still owes city $3.9 million RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com For now at least, the TTC will not rescue the BIXI Toronto bike share service from a crippling debt load.

A vote taken during the transit commission’s monthly board meeting recently does open the door slightly for the TTC to reconsider its involvement with BIXI, but only if a restructuring plan to be presented to the city’s executive committee in October falls through.

By a majority vote, the TTC board opted to support staff recommendations strongly cautioning against integrating BIXI’s operations with the TTC mainly due to financial concerns that include the bike share’s $4.8-million city-issued loan, of which it still owes $3.9

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But by agreeing to support civilian board member Alan Heisey’s motion to reconsider helping BIXI in the future, the TTC is signaling it wants to see the bike share program prosper, said chair Karen Stintz.

“We’re not the most strategic partner for BIXI and we wanted to say to the executive we support finding a resolution that works, but we also don’t want to see the program die,” said Stintz.

“We will find a way to make BIXI work because it’s the view of the commission the program is important, but we understand we’re not in the best position to manage it.”

A staff report prepared for the meeting notes Montreal, Chicago and London, U.K., have devoted money to their own bike share programs and recommends Toronto council do the same for BIXI. “There is no business case to support the TTC taking on

additional expenses to support a non-transit initiative,” said the report.

Despite enjoying initial success when it launched in 2011, BIXI, which is operated

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Cycling Toronto president Jared Kolb, who would like BIXI to expand to at least 3,000 bike stations, said he was disappointed with the board’s decision, but confident a long-term solution will be found.

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