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EATON CENTRE OPENS ‘WE STORE’ To mark its opening, singer/ actress Bridgit Mendler dropped by the shopping centre. Justin Skinner/Metroland FULL STORY: bit.ly/westoreto WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Store offers sustainable goods.

PAINTINGS OF TORONTO BLUE JAYS PLAYERS ON DISPLAY THIS WEEKEND

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FULL STORY: bit.ly/bluejaysart WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: See some of the works to be displayed at Shuter’s studio on Spadina Avenue.

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Parkdale-High Park MPP Cheri DiNovo will no longer run for the federal leadership of the NDP after suffering two strokes. DiNovo made the announcement Tuesday, stating she will be focusing on her health for the next month. Metroland file photo

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Fans of the Toronto Blue Jays are invited to come check out an exhibit featuring paintings of some of their baseball heroes in support of the Jays Care Foundation. Artist Samara Shuter’s paintings, depicting several of the team’s stars, will be on display at the exhibit, which launches today. Submitted photo

FULL STORY: bit.ly/dinovohealth WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: DiNovo thanked a lot of people for their support while going through her difficult experience.

About 16 years ago, Kevin Brooks attended a house party where he thought he’d have a few beers and then call it a night. But that never happened. “From what I’ve heard, people were trying to get my keys away from me, but I had an extra pair in the glove box.” Now every morning Brooks wakes up, there’s a wheelchair beside him that reminds him of his “nightmare”: killing his friend in a drunk driving crash. Submitted photo FEATURE: Pages 12 and 13

At 22 years old, Ward 2 (Etobicoke North) Councillor Michael Ford is the youngest city councillor to be elected in the history of amalgamated Toronto. But thanks to his uncles, Michael Ford’s name is well-known. David Nickle/Metroland FULL STORY: bit.ly/fordelect WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Find out what newly elected Michael Ford’s approach is to politics and his new job.

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Mayor John Tory recently announced a partnership with the Toronto-based mobile app Ritual – which is currently used for ordering food – to offer ticket sales to ride the ferry from the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal to the Toronto Islands and promote them to mobile users. David Nickle/Metroland FULL STORY: bit.ly/toferry WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Tory noted more will be done to let people know they don’t have to wait so long to ride the ferry.

TTC UNION SAYS TRANSIT WORKERS ARE VICTIMS OF DAILY ASSAULTS Assaults against transit workers happen every day, union president Bob Kinnear said last Thursday, the day after police released video of a man throwing coffee on a TTC bus driver. It happened on the the Route 105 bus at Dufferin Street and Dufferin Hill Drive in the City of Vaughan. Metroland file photo FULL STORY: bit.ly/ttcassaults WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: An average of two assaults are reported per day. Help police identify the suspect in this case.

PAN AM GAMES TO BLAME FOR THIS SUMMER’S BAD TRAFFIC CONGESTIONS Motorists spending hot summer hours stuck in traffic at construction bottlenecks this year can put at least part of the blame on Toronto’s Pan Am Games last year according to Mayor John Tory, as constructions were delayed due to the games. Metroland file photo FULL STORY: bit.ly/trafficissues WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Eighty-five projects are underway in the city with weekend road closures.

Tens of thousands returned to Exhibition Place, or lined Lake Shore Boulevard as thousands of dancers capped a month of cultural celebrations Saturday, July 30 with the 49th annual Toronto Caribbean Carnival Grande Parade. Many of the tall fences at the event were lowered this time to four feet. Dan Pearce/Metroland FULL STORY: bit.ly/grandparade2016 WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Check out the rest of the photos and read what participants think about the lowered fences.

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Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust, dedicated to acquiring land in Parkdale for community purposes, has topped its $25,000 goal. It will now purchase the property at 87 Milky Way, on Queen Street West from current owners, John Greyson and Stephen Andrews for urban agriculture. Hilary Caton/Metroland

CAMH PROGRAM FOR YOUTH NOT CLOSING The support and counselling program for black youth at CAMH is in a “period of transition” and will not close. Submitted photo FULL STORY:bit.ly/camhprogram WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: See what the program is about.

FULL STORY: bit.ly/milkywayland WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: The organization is still working towards acquiring land for affordable housing in the area.

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The West Side Community Council (WSCC), an organization consisting of eight local residents groups, will have the chance to have their voices heard about the future of Exhibition Place. The board granted the request at a meeting on Thursday, July 28. Metroland file photo

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Toronto needs to look after its trees The city is eager to tend to the new trees they seem to be planting, but the existing trees that need trimming seem to be forgotten. Homeowners are expected by the city to tend to the boulevards – cutting the grass, weeding, raking up the leaves – even though this space is technically city property, but when the trees on these same boulevards are in need of trimming, homeowners can wait upwards of two years before the work gets done. I put in a work order to have the tree on the city’s boulevard pruned in August 2015, and a city worker came around and inspected the tree that October. At that time he agreed that, yes, the tree would definitely need a good pruning, but that wouldn’t happen for at least six to eight weeks. It’s now been a year since my initial call to the city and nothing has happened. I have called the city several times to ask when they would be coming to do the work, only to be given a reference number for my call, and be told that “we will look into it.” The branches have now drooped so low over my driveway I suggest my visitors park on the road so the branches don’t hit their cars’ roof. I have been tending to the city’s boulevard for almost 40 years now, and I think it is time that the city steps up and looks after, what are in the end, their trees. S. Hansen

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of the four lanes of traffic there shut down, and there will probably be some more pain – or at least mild discomfort – as the pilot runs its course. Drivers are going to have to get used to it, because the status quo is a precarious place right now. More people are choosing to bike to and from work than ever. And while the city has provided some good cycling infrastructure – a total of 558.4 kilometres of on-street bike lanes, before the Bloor project is counted – Toronto also has 82 kilometres of those tire-catching streetcar tracks to contend with. Cycling is safer in Toronto, but it’s hardly as safe as it might be. The authors of the study had a couple of recommendations short of getting rid of all those streetcar tracks. Bike lanes, obviously, are crucial – but they also recommend fully-separated streetcar tracks, like those on Spadina or St. Clair. The city can do other things, too. Simply patching potholes on well-cycled routes – or all routes, for that matter – would go a long way to making a safer, smoother commute for cyclists. Providing more places to safely lock bikes might not make things safer, but might be more effective. But in the short term, running a successful pilot project and working diligently to build out the bike plan that Toronto Council approved earlier in the summer, is an excellent step toward syncing the city’s form with the needs of a growing number of its residents.

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I’m usually pretty careful riding a bike on Toronto streets, but last week I had a near thing. Riding down Coxwell Avenue on my way to a Mayor John Tory press event, I thought I could make it past some road work that pushed very close to streetcar tracks, and as it turned out, I couldn’t, not quite. So when the front tire slipped into the streetcar track, it went over and I nearly did too; somehow managing to get off the bike without really falling myself. Lucky me. Seriously. Lucky me. In July, a study by Ryerson University and the University of British Columbia on bike accidents in Toronto found that fully a third of the serious ones were caused by cyclist’s tires either getting caught in the tracks or slipping across them. Usually, there were no bike lanes and the cyclists reported trying to maneuver around parked cars or other obstacles. And it happens a lot. Between 2005 and 2014, the city has charted 1,232 cyclist collisions – a number that doesn’t include simple mishaps. The whole thing adds a bit of perspective to the new pilot project that got underway this week to try out separated bike lanes on Bloor Street. There are no streetcar tracks on Bloor Street, but there are an awful lot of cars, and the stretch through the Annex is a welldocumented hazard for cyclists trying to get across town. It’s been a pain for auto drivers, during this relatively short construction period, with two

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Q&A with Grapes of Wrath’s

Kevin Kane For more than 17 years, the Regent Park School of Music has been helping kids in underserved communities enjoy top-notch music lessons with professional instructors. With heavily subsidized lessons for students in Regent Park, Parkdale and Jane/Finch, the school relies heavily on fundraising. The upcoming Closer to the Heart VIII show, taking place at the Hard Rock Cafe, 279 Yonge St., at 8 p.m. Aug. 13, features performances by noted Canadian artists such as singer/ actor Sean Cullen (The Producers) and musicians Tara Slone (Joydrop), David Diamond (The Kings) and Kevin Kane (Grapes of Wrath). We asked Parkdale resident Kevin Kane a bit about his involvement with the show. Submitted photo JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com

1. How did you get involved with the Regent Park School of Music/Closer to the Heart fundraiser?

enrich and improve lives in so many ways. It’s an honour to be involved in a cause we believe so strongly in.

be performing old favourites from your Grapes of Wrath days, new material, a mix of the two?

A few years ago I was part of a tour called The Songs Of Nick Drake and Karen Pace was the tour’s road manager. Karen has been involved with Closer To The Heart from the beginning and asked me to take part in one a few years ago, and it’s great to be asked back.

3. What projects are you working on currently?

Nadia and I started learning Canadian cover tunes as a project for ourselves, so when Karen’s request came we already had a couple of songs in mind: one by The Weakerthans and the other by Treble Charger.

2. What about the organization and the fundraiser appeals to you, either as a musician or on a personal level?

Several! There’s Grapes Of Wrath (on tour in Manitoba as I type), Kane & Potvin with Northern Pike Bryan Potvin (new album drops end of September), FAUXKNOW (a shoegaze/ dream pop project with my wife Nadia – we just released our debut album, “tactics”), and I play guitar on the new Brendan Canning album, out Aug. 12.

Both my wife and I are longtime music educators and we’ve seen how music lessons

4. What can guests at Closer to the Heart VIII expect from your set? Will you

5. What are you most looking forward to about the show? Performing, hearing other folks’ performances, and the fine array of backstage snacks (this is probably my current state of hunger talking though...)

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BLOOR DROPS DOWN TO ONE LANE IN EACH DIRECTION AS CITY INSTALLS BIKE LANES Cyclists rejoice at the news that bike lanes are finally getting installed on Bloor Street West, but they and motorists must be patient through construction to get them in place. Lisa Rainford/Metroland FULL STORY: bit.ly/bikelaneconstruction WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Cyclists are not the only ones who are happy. Read what local businesses are saying about the move.

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Plans to convert part of the Champions-Greenwood Off Track Betting teletheatre at Queen Street East and Kingston Road into a live music venue got approval Wednesday, July 27, from the Toronto and East York Committee of Adjustment. The venue has a 2,700 capacity. Joanna Lavoie/Metroland FULL STORY: bit.ly/venuevote WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Many neighbours’ concerns were raised during the vote, including noise and parking issues.

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Kevin Brooks made the wrong decision to drink and drive 16 years ago. Now he shares his story hoping that others will make a better choice.

Every morning Kevin Brooks wakes up, there’s a wheelchair beside him that reminds him of his “nightmare”: killing his friend in a drunk driving crash. It began as a typical warm Saturday in June 2000. Brooks, then 21, was hanging out with his high school sweetheart and watched her ride in a horse show. He then went to his youngest sister’s ballet recital. After the event, Brooks attended a house party where he thought he’d have a few beers and then call it a night. But that never happened. “I ran into some old school hockey friends I’d grown up with, and one thing led to another, and we were down to have a wild night,” Brooks said. And they hopped from one party to another. At one point during the night, Brooks returned home to get more beer. The British Columbia resident wasn’t yet “blackout drunk” and stopped in front of his car thinking something bad could happen. “We all have that voice inside that warns us at times,” Brooks said. “That was one moment where I was still consciously aware of what was going on and had that opportunity to make the better choice and chose not to.” Brushing off the warning, Brooks continued drinking and partying hard. “By the time we were leaving the last house party, we were all really drunk,” said Brooks. “We were double digit drinks for sure. I’d say well over 10, probably pushing 20.” Three of Brooks’ buddies got in a cab, but before it left, one

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Kevin Brooks’ crumpled car after the crash that killed his friend and left him paralyzed.

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no jail time,” Brooks said. “I still look at it as light.” Brooks said he felt something good had to come from the tragedy, and about two years after the collision, he began sharing his story at schools in the hopes of preventing drinking and driving. “I used to be a server and I’d be scared if I had 10 people at a table, so getting in front of an entire gymnasium of teenagers was terrifying, but once I started talking, I just sunk into a bit of a groove,” he said. “Then after, I was just mobbed by kids and they were crying, thanking me and shaking my hand. There was a connection made.” Brooks has now delivered more than 1,000 presentations across Canada and even the U.S. “It’s been a saving grace for me to have a positive outlet for what happened,” he said. “I can’t say I’m proud of the journey that led me on it, but I found it and I just keep looking forward.”

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friend, Brendon, got out and opted to travel with Brooks. “I was like the stubborn idiot who wanted to drive drunk,” Brooks said. “From what I’ve heard, people were trying to get my keys away from me, but I had an extra pair in the glove box. ... In hindsight, too bad somebody didn’t just punch me out.” Brooks and Brendon were speeding to another party. “Going 110 to 130 in a 70 zone, just stupid. Beers are open, tunes cranked, totally not paying attention,” Brooks said. “I don’t remember what happened. I missed a corner, and the car hit a road divider and went airborne, hit the ground and rolled multiple times.” Weeks later, Brooks woke up in an intensive care unit and learned that he had been in a crash and that he was paralyzed from the chest down. “A little bit later, I asked about who was with me and found out my buddy Brendon passed away. That was the worst thing I’d ever heard in my life,” Brooks said. “He’s gone and dealing with that was a nightmare.” Brooks contemplated suicide but was confined to a bed, too weak to even move. With the support of his family, best friend and Brendon’s family, Brooks’ outlook began to change. “It allowed me a chance not to totally give up,” he said of the support. After a two-month hospital stay, Brooks was transferred to a rehabilitation centre where he learned to dress himself, roll over in bed, sit up and get around in a wheelchair. It was a new life for Brooks, who had been an active man. “I could play every sport decently. I skateboarded, I snowboarded, I played hockey. I was just go, go, go, and then all of a sudden, boom, I’m in a chair.” His future career as an electrician was over, his girlfriend of two-and-a-half years left him and he faced criminal charges from the crash. “And dealing with the fact that I killed a buddy, there was so much to deal with,” he said. Brooks pled guilty to dangerous driving causing death; a charge of impaired driving causing death was dropped. “I lost my licence for three years. There were community hours and probation but

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