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Residents and neighbouring businesses who attended a public meeting about the proposal to build a new practice facility for the Toronto Raptors made two things very clear to Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE): They’re not OK with the loss of green space or the loss of parking.

“Parking is a huge, huge issue,” said Lorna Tomassoni, a south Parkdale resident during the question period at Monday night’s meeting at FountainBlu. “Parking is just abysmal as is.”

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would cause the loss of about 200 parking spaces in the area and from the point of view of Liberty Grand, Muzik Nightclub and The Toronto International Boat Show that’s 200 spaces they can’t afford to lose.

Other sites for the facility considered by MLSE include the food building and the Queen Elizabeth building, but neither would be big enough.

The reason for the proposed move to the Exhibition Grounds is because its current practice facility, located in the Air Canada Centre, is too small.

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BADMINTON MATCH: Candy Liu, 14, right, and Terry Zhang, 12, play badminton at McCormick Park on Saturday.

Locally grown onions, garlic and lettuce are all great vegetables found at the farmers’ market.

Cut a cross-section, they also make great art.

T h a t’s t h e i d e a L i n d a Naccarato had as she showed nearly 30 kids how to create eco-art recently at Parkdale’s Good Food Market. The children created natural prints by stamping the vegetables in paint and decorating flags.

“I love getting kids’ hands dirty and teaching them to explore nature and being out-

side,” Naccarato said, who was working with the West End Food Co-op.

“I try to get kids engaged in activities that speak to the food and eco issues that’s pressing for the day.”

Three years ago, the Parkdale resident decided to bridge her two backgrounds – art and education – with her love for the environment.

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Greenest City helps Parkdale Community Food Bank keep its shelves stocked with garden-fresh veggies

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HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com The Parkdale Community Food Bank (PCFB) and Greenest City have been providing Parkdale residents with fresh veggies for at least two years and shows no signs of stopping any time soon.

“The (Parkdale Community) food bank is where it’s at this year,” said Monique Kelemen, the program coordinator and outreach manager for Greenest City.

Located on King Street West, the food bank serves more than 3,000 people a month according to its website and relies solely on financial donations. It also gets food donations from Greenest City, as well as the occasional donation from Second Harvest and the Daily Bread Food Bank to keep its shelves stocked.

Hazel Perkins, the operations manager at the PCFB, says the donation of cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes and other veggies are a hit among those who come to the food bank.

“They just love it. (The donations) help us tremendously,” said Perkins.

“Sometimes we run out of fresh veggies pretty fast...it’s usually the first to go.”

The PCFB was established in 2007 by volunteers after Saint Phillips Pantry, a staple in the community for 25 years, was close to closing

We recognize that the food banks don’t always get fresh food, so it’s nice to give them a little bit of that.

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The food bank has a shopping style setup, where all the foods are on a shelf for them to see as opposed to a hamper style food bank where baskets are prepared ahead of time with a variety of items inside. According to its website, the shopping style is done to respect each individual’s dietary needs and helps maximize selection.

Greenest City, a community-based charity located in the MasarykCowan Community Centre in

Parkdale, has three urban gardens in the area, H.O.P.E Community Garden on Cowan Avenue, Milky Way Organic Produce and the Dunn Parkette Learning Garden on Close Avenue.

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ence lessons, art classes and horticultural experiments.

According to Kelemen, last year Greenest City donated close to 300lbs of food to the PCFB from just the Dunn Parkette.

“We recognize that the food banks don’t always get fresh food, so it’s nice to give them a little bit of that,” said Kelemen.

She said even though the donations go to the food bank every Thursday, she wishes Greenest City could give more.

“People really appreciate it, the few that get it during the week. I wish we could grow 10 times the amount we do,” Kelemen told The Villager. She added the participants who maintain and harvest the garden get a “huge confidence boost,” when they take part in something that shows their progress and helps the community at the same time.

For Perkins the addition of fresh veggies to the PCFB is helpful, especially for the older members of the community.

“A lot of the seniors that come in are diabetic and some of the canned

foods have too much processed sugar,” explained Perkins.

“So when we get the veggies on Thursday, which is Seniors Day, they are so grateful that they can get a source of healthy foods without tons of sugar.”

Perkins said the food bank is grateful for all the food donations it gets as well as the monetary donations because it has seen some hard times in the past.

Just three years ago the PCFB came dangerously close to shutting down because it didn’t have enough money to purchase food and donations were dwindling. At the time, according to media reports, it only had $308 in the bank before it received a donation of $30,000.

This past February, Muzik Nightclub helped gather community leaders to donate eight-tonnes of food to the PCFB, which would last into the summer.

So far the food bank has remained open with stocked shelves and the community couldn’t be happier about it.

“The community is always telling us about their appreciation for the food bank,” said Perkins. “They’re always stopping me on the street saying, ‘thank you for helping us out.’”

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Kicking it! The World Cup may long be over, but there’s still plenty of soccer being played locally – at all levels. At left, a local High Park rec team in action against the York Jets at an under-eight soccer festival hosted by the North Toronto Soccer Club at Eglinton Park on Saturday. High Park netminder Owen Phillips, right, faces the shot from York Jets’ Jose Palacio (9). Middle, Team Canada (in red) attempts to clear the ball from in front of its net during FIFA women’s U-20 World Cup action against Finland Friday night at the National Soccer Stadium. Canada came back from a 2-0 deficit to win the game 3-2. Right, Jack McGrath, right, kicks around the soccer ball with Adrian Charles at McCormick Park on Saturday.

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he fabulous attendance at this summer’s festivals in Toronto is a great indication of our willingness to participate in community activities.

Now the challenge is how to turn those once-a-year adventures into community enrichment throughout the year.

The city is rich with artistic, cultural and culinary festivals – a great opportunity for community-building.

This past weekend’s Taste of the Danforth, which organizers say attracted a staggering 1.6 million people over three days, is festival participation at its best. Looking ahead to this weekend, there’s the York-Eglinton International Street Festival taking place locally. And, of course, the Canadian National Exhibition kicks off its two-and-a-half-week run tomorrow.

Good turnouts mean people are engaged.

We see it here at our website, insidetoronto.com, where our our view community calendar of events seen a significant increase in Make the most has events posted by the community in the increased number who of our cultural and have searched the site for events diversity this summer. To see our events listings, to submit an event or find out more, visit bit.ly/torontocalendar for everything you want to know.

How do we take that obvious citizen engagement we see and get it applied on a more year-round basis?

Imagine the possibilities. Cultural events happen throughout the year. These are opportunities to learn more about the city and the people who live here. It’s more than just festival life – it’s the lifeblood of the city.

Now couple that with cooking courses offered in a myriad of locations.

So challenge yourself. Pick one culture unfamiliar to yourself and learn to make a meal from that culture.

Seek out one artist or musician and become familiar with their style of music. Learn the origin of the peoples and come to appreciate why people of other ethnicities chose to call Toronto home.

The exposure that’s taking place right now of different cultures in Canada’s most diverse city is a critical piece of Toronto’s continuing evolution.

We are rich in culture. Make the most of the opportunity. Find out more about the communities that make up the city – and find avenues for personal growth in the experiences we share, in the teaching of our children and a growing appreciation of Toronto as the city it is today.

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Election still very much Rob Ford’s to lose

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oes anyone in Toronto love Olivia Chow or John Tory as much as Irene Borecky and thousands like her love Rob Ford?

That could be the key question in this fall’s election, which is still Ford’s to lose.

Standing in line at Ford Fest recently, hearing people seriously compare the man to Jesus Christ, Pierre Trudeau and, strangest of all, David Crombie, I was struck by how unconditional is the love Ford’s fans give him.

Some of us want to think politics isn’t a personality contest, and that the person with the best ideas, the best political record, should be elected Toronto’s mayor.

That’s not how it works with most people, who vote politicians in because they like them.

And Ford’s core supporters love him, many thinking, as Borecky does, that other politicians “are

mike adler the city fakes,” and Ford’s different.

“He’s one of us. He’s like us. He’s fallible like the rest of us,” said Borecky’s friend Maria F., who didn’t give her full name.

“We’re not judgemental people.”

Actually, many Ford fans are judgemental people.

They judge him innocent, and others guilty. And many point to transgressions or admissions of drug use by other politicians, seeing a double standard applied to Ford.

Standing with Ford Nation flags in her hair at the somehow-nota-campaign-event in Scarborough’s Thomson Park, Borecky called Tory, a man she said she voted for in the past, a “spendand-tax Liberal.”

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Ford reminds Ford fans of themselves: they feel they’ve been cheated by the city somehow; they’ve made mistakes, battled addictions, or felt pressured to quit something, but kept going.

Conservative leader’s decision to put his campaign headquarters at Bay and Wellesley streets, “where the Bay Street money is,” was stupid. Based on how it looks, she may be right.

Other people in the park gave only vague reasons why Ford should be reelected; such as he tries to keep taxes low, or “hasn’t stolen a cent from us.”

Mostly, though, you sense Ford reminds Ford fans of themselves: they feel they’ve been cheated by the city somehow; they’ve made mistakes,

battled addictions, or felt pressured to quit something, but kept going.

The mayor’s scandals have blurred into a vague smudge that can be dismissed by the faithful as no big deal.

Love for Ford will survive an October defeat, since, as Ford Fest-goer Pat Mason explained, none of the man’s opponents, should they beat him, can manage the city without his help.

“If he doesn’t win, he’s not going to lose,” Mason predicted.

“We will still look at him as the mayor.”

Thelma Casimir, holding a hamburger, said she’s praying for him, and pronounced him perfect.

“He went through hell. My man is back in shape.”

Tory, or Chow, need some of that same adoration if they’re going to win.

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Clay & Paper presents Animal Nature at Dufferin Grove Park WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Dufferin Grove Park, 875 Dufferin St. CONTACT: 416-708-3332, www. clayandpapertheatre.org COST: Pay what you can; $10 suggested Clay & Paper Theatre’s 2014 summer show is an epic papier-mâché tale of the search for the way home. Filled with a decidedly Canadian mélange of creature characters and giant puppets on a fateful journey to the very edges of the earth itself. Owl, Caribou, Possum, Grizzly, Orca and Humanimal have been displaced from their homes and must address the deceptively simple question, ‘How did we get pushed here?’

Shakespeare in High Park - As You Like It & Titus Andronicus WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Margaret O’Donoghue, 416-656-0707, margaret.intern@rockitpromo.com COST: Pay what you can; $20 donation recommended Shakespeare in High Park, a Toronto outdoor theatre tradition, is back this summer with two shows. The first, ‘Titus Andronicus’, is a tragedy about the fictional Roman general Titus and his cycle of revenge with the Queen of the Goths. ‘As You Like It’, a pastoral comedy, follows a

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Vegan picnic in the park WHEN: noon to 2 p.m. WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: highpark@veg.ca COST: $5 Meet at picnic area No. 3, a covered picnic area on West Road a bit south of the main entrance to the park. Please bring a vegan dish to share (no meat, dairy, eggs or honey) and bring your own plate and cutlery, along with a serving spoon for your dish if necessary. RSVP by Aug. 20 to highpark@veg.ca and visit highparkveg.wordpress.com for more information about the Vegetarians of High Park group.

Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.parkdalevillager.com. Read weeks of listings from your neighbourhood as well as events from across Toronto. young girl named Rosalind who flees from her royal uncle’s persecution into the Forest of Arden. The outdoor performances are weatherpermitting; any cancellations will be done by 8 p.m. As You Like It will play on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays while Titus Andronicus is on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

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Secret Lives of Wildflowers WHEN: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: 416-3921748, naturecentre@highpark.org COST: $55 Hike with seasoned naturalist and

educator Richard Aaron to learn the many species of High Park, their intriguing lifestyles and ecological relationships, and even see some plants that Charles Darwin studied.

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Summer in the Savannah – Family Nature Walk WHEN: 1:30 to 3 p.m. WHERE: High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: 416-392-1748, naturecentre@highpark.org COST: $2 to $5/person or donate-what-you-can Celebrate High Park’s most rare ecosystem, the Black Oak Savannah in all its end of summer glory! No registration necessary.

Toronto Indie Arts Market – August Sunset Market WHEN: 7 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W. CONTACT: Sheryl Kirby, www.torontoindieartsmarket.com COST: Free Beat the summer heat at Toronto Indie Art Market’s August Sunset Market! Meet creators of art, crafts, food, fashion, small press and more as they take over the Gladstone Hotel ballroom for an evening of local shopping.

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Roncey Flea WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Emmanuel-Howard Park United Church, 214 Wright Ave. CONTACT: Lisa Forestell, 416-536-1755, emmanuelhowardparkuc@gmail.com COST: Free Join us for our popular Roncey Flea, featuring more than 40 vendors selling antiques, collectibles, kitsch an other unique items.

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Propeller Coffee’s model, ‘coffee for the social good,’ jived with Cycle Toronto’s values, said its executive director Jared Kolb, such as the power of grassroots community organizing to effect change; Propeller’s roaster uses as much as 85 per cent less gas than a traditional roaster while relying on Bullfrog Power for all its electricity and natural gas needs. It also uses Autoshare instead of delivery vans.

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who first joined Cycle Toronto in 2010 as a volunteer, followed by director of membership and outreach and then director of campaigns and membership, before taking the helm.

Purchasing Contraflow will enable Cycle Toronto members and cyclists across Toronto to help fund cycling advocacy, Kolb said. Cycle Toronto relies on four staff members and 10 part-time staff as well as 200 active volunteers.

“The work we do falls under three branches: direct advocacy at city hall.

I’m down at city hall almost every day talking with city staff and councillors; we’re campaign-based,” said Kolb, citing protected bike lanes on Eglinton Avenue, Richmond and Adelaide

streets. “We’ve got our ward advocacy programs; we grow local groups.”

For example, in Ward 13, the group is working on improving cycling access across Lake Shore Boulevard, Kolb said. “( The ward advocacy groups) develop their own relationship with local officials and we work together as a broader team. We’ve got 19 groups across the city,” he said.

Cycle Toronto first began meeting with representatives of Propeller Coffee in January when they tried out different blends.

Sales of Contraflow coincided with the recent opening of Propeller Coffee, its cafe at 50 Wade Ave., in the Bloor Street West and Lansdowne Avenue area.

“We’ve had a bunch of orders so far. We’ve never done something like this before,” Kolb said. “But we’re really excited.”

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Transportation Director Stephen Buckley has come under fire from cycling advocates over the new bike lanes, which are separated by painted lines only, rather than physical objects such as bollards or planters to keep traffic apart.

Cycle Toronto, a city-wide cycling advocacy group, issued a statement Wednesday decrying the department’s “apparent lack of commitment to physical separation.”

The news release noted that Richmond and Adelaide streets are sufficiently high

volume to warrant separation.

“Without physical separation, the City is welcoming cyclists into dangerous conditions,” the statement reads.

“Cabs, cars and delivery trucks are routinely using the cycle tracks on Adelaide, which forces cyclists to swerve out into the roadway. There are also early anecdotal reports of fast cars using the cycle tracks as a passing lane.”

Buckley however maintained the pilot project starting this summer is an information gathering exercise and staff are monitoring conditions there.

“As a part of a pilot we want to try new things,” he said. “I’ve been in consultation with councillors who are interested in this project, and council did give direction to do a pilot to look at different

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Buckley maintained there are issues with placing planters and bollards for snow clearing in the winter, and that bollards can create a pedestrian tripping hazard when they break off.

Buckley said at some point during the pilot it is possible that bollards will be installed along the route.

“But let’s be clear, there are driveways all along this corridor so it won’t be bollards end to end,” he said.

Buckley added his experience laying in cycling infrastructure is that the first week is often the worst.

“The first week is always a mess. We always see drivers not recognizing the change.

This went in last week – folks are coming back from their summer vacations and adjusting to the new road conditions,” he said.

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The cost to build the facility is estimated to be more than $30 million and would have to be built in time for the 2016 NBA All-Star Games.

Therefore forcing construction to begin, at the latest, by mid-to-late November, according to Chief Project Development Officer for MLSE Robert Hunter.

The bill would be footed entirely by MLSE, without a cost to the city.

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Originally, the facility was supposed to be located on the northwest side of Medieval Times, but at the meeting on Monday night new renderings showed the building at the southeast corner of the lot to avoid a large underground hydro duct that runs through the centre of the lot.

Ward 14 Parkdale-High Park city councillor Gord Perks had suggested to MLSE to build a parking lot under the facility, thus making it three-storeys instead of two. But according to Hunter, that’s a tall order.

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$10-million if you wanted to replace the number of parking spaces we had,” said Hunter.

“Anytime you go below ground it gets very complicated.

To off-set the loss of parking, the baseball diamond on the northeast side of the lot would be a new area.

But it’s an idea that Ward 19 Trinity-Spadina city councillor

Mike Layton is uncomfortable with.

“I know the parking demands would be high and where the parking would be diverted to would be the green space and that didn’t sit well with me,” said Layton.

“So that’s what we’re trying to work through. Can we enhance other spaces?

Maybe add other green spaces to offset it? Who knows, maybe that’s a direction we can go.”

For local resident Tomassoni she was hoping the baseball diamond, which is used about three weeks out of the year, could be converted into an off leash dog park.

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Parkdale was looking forward to that possibility.

“I think everybody is really upset because nothing is happening for south Parkdale,” said Tomassoni.

“Everything is happening for the city, for the needs of business, nobody thinks about who lives here.”

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The proposal will go to the Board of Governors of Exhibition Place meeting today, then to the City of Toronto executive committee Aug. 20 and finally it will be brought to the last council meeting before the October elections Aug. 25 and 26.

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Balancing a new contact juggling career JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com For Little Italy resident Lacey Lucidity, juggling has gone from a therapeutic pastime to a full-time career.

Lucidity took up juggling in 2007 as a way to both pass the time and calm her mind. The business graduate worked seasonally for the Canada Revenue Agency and spent her off-time abroad, where she found she needed something to keep her occupied.

“I was living in London, England and I didn’t have a lot to do – just work and come home – so I started out just trying to learn to juggle three balls,” she said.

From there, she began to hone her skills, and a year later took up contact juggling after seeing it live in a club.

Unlike typical juggling, contact juggling sees the juggler keep in contact with the ball, or balls, being juggled, using sleight of hand and an impeccable sense of balance to create illusory effects.

“From the first time I saw it, I just thought it was a beautiful visual effect,” Lucidity said. “You have to have as little contact as possible, sometimes as little as a centimetre of contact with the ball.”

The effect can make it appear as though the heavy ball is levitating or moving about of its own free will.

Lucidity loves not only the look of contact juggling but also the fact there are no tricks involved – just skill.

“Even though it seems like magic, it’s all very honest and open,” she said. “If someone can balance a ball on their head, you can see that – they either can or they can’t.”

Referring to contact juggling as “a series of balance tricks,” Lucidity noted there’s more to creating an act than simply balancing a ball.

Whether using rubber practice balls or heavy three-pound acrylic balls, she has spent countless hours learning both conventional juggling and contact juggling.

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learning it and thinking ‘oh man, this is going to take a long time,’ but you get more precision as you

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Her training did not come without its share of mistakes, either.

Dropping things is a fact of life when learning.

“I’m sure everyone who contact juggles has lost at least one laptop in their life by having a ball fall on it,” she said.

While Lucidity saw juggling as a way to pass the time while living abroad, she noted there were other, more tangible benefits. She had suffered from anxiety and panic attacks and found juggling helped to calm her.

“The essential benefit juggling has in my life is its ability to put me in a mindful state,” she said.

“I wasn’t spending a lot of time moving my body and not thinking – or overthinking. (Juggling) helps me get to that place where I’m not overthinking, where there aren’t alarm bells going off and I’m not going to a bad place in my life.”

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“It’s incredibly cheap and incredibly transportable – you don’t need a full team or a field, you just need yourself and whatever you’re going to juggle,” she said. “And it’s like riding a bike – once you’ve learned to juggle three balls, that’s yours for life.”

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plans to add more bus services wGO With September fast approaching, GO Transit has announced it will add more service by the end of the month.

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High school and middle school students will no longer need photo IDs to receive discounted fares, the transit commission announced this week.

The policy applies to students between the ages of 13 and 19, although TTC staff will still have the option to ask for some form of photo ID, either TTC or government issued, for proof of age.

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT Post-secondary school students will continue to require photo ID to purchase and use special Metropasses available at a discounted rate from colleges and universities.

The new rule goes into effect Sept. 1. corridor art exhibit wRail

A new art exhibit by University of Toronto urban design students highlights the development potential of the West Toronto Rail Corridor.

Tapping the Potential of the West Toronto Rail Corridor features planning designs and proposals created by the students intended to better connect the corridor with surrounding neighbourhoods.

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As well, military veterans attending the annual Warriors’ Day Parade Saturday will be able to ride for free, along with one guest. The TTC is also expected to offer a similar service.

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Music Therapy Centre looking for funding LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Chrissy Pearson, clinical manager at the Music Therapy Centre, says she lives in fear of the day she has to tell her clients the facility must close its doors.

Since 2002, the Music Therapy Centre situated in Bloordale Village, has been serving people such as members of the

self-titled group ‘Friends of Music,’ most of whom live with Cerebral Palsy and similar physical disabilities.

On a weekly basis, these adults visit the centre in the Bloor Street West and Brock Avenue area where they share what it’s like to make their way through life with such physical disabilities.

“They express themselves through music using adapted instruments,” Pearson told The Villager. “For example, we’ll rig a guitar to a

wheelchair tray or use equipment to raise a drum up.

“Their voices don’t sound like we sound, but it’s how their voices engage in the music. Some use computers; some use a picture of the alphabet to communicate; some are verbal, but you just have to really listen to hear what they’re saying.”

Safe space The goal, Pearson said, is to provide them with a safe space to express themselves where they can interact with their peers.

“How will I tell them that this is all over? They’d be devastated,” Pearson said.

The Music Therapy Centre is in desperate need of funding. The centre was initially made possible more than a decade ago through a large donation from the Canadian music industry to the Canadian Music Therapy

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An internationally established therapy, music therapy is not government funded.

“People who most benefit from our services can’t afford them,” she said.

The centre is now at a crossroads.

The music industry is not what it used to be, she said. Major labels that used to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Canadian Music Therapy Trust have had to amalgamate; there is more competition for donor dollars.

“Back in the day, we could fund seven, eight, nine projects a year upwards of $25,000 to $50,000. We now only fund two to three projects a year,” Pearson said.

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much from the charity that’s already struggling.”

The Music Therapy Centre has had a significant impact on the lives of its clients.

Clients like Alan, a six-time Ironman triathlete, who in his 50s suffered a stroke rendering him unable to walk and talk. Seven years later, he is still in recovery unable to walk without assistance.

However, “music therapy helped me find myself when so much of me was taken away – the music therapy helped heal my voice, my hands and my heart,” he said in a statement.

Variety of clients Music therapists at the centre work with a variety of clients from mothers with toddlers born with physical disabilities to youth with autism.

Junior (whose name has been changed to protect privacy) was referred to the centre in the hope music

therapy would help with his communication skills and social goals, according to his music therapist Justine Stehouwer.

After speaking with his school teacher and his mother, Stehouwer said she established several goals for Junior. These included increasing his vocabulary by identifying instruments and activities from picture cards as well as learning the words to new songs.

“Junior demonstrated a strong response to the music,” said Stehouwer in a statement to The Villager.

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Committee rejects ranked balloting, and new voting machines MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com A City of Toronto committee has sidetracked the next step in starting a new municipal voting system most city councillors had supported last year.

Council voted in favour of ranked balloting, a system in which voters can record their top three choices for a political post.

If a candidate doesn’t have a majority of first-choice votes, there are “instant run-offs” in which the second-rank, and if necessary, third-rank choices are added, until one candidate shows at least 50 per cent support.

Last year’s motion asked the provincial government to let the city try the new system to elect its mayor in 2018, and all council members, including the mayor, in 2022.

Mitzie Hunter, a Liberal MPP from Scarborough, then introduced a Private Member’s Bill to allow the change. Though details

weren’t available on Monday, the new Liberal majority government is expected to re-introduce the bill, broadened to include all Ontario municipalities, through the office of Municipal Affairs Minister Ted McMeekin.

Council also decided Toronto needs new voting machines – the equipment it bought in 1999 was said to have a 15-year lifespan – and asked the committee to ensure those machines can handle ranked balloting.

On Monday, however, the Government Management Committee decided any moves to purchase new equipment should wait until staff investigate the costs of extending the current equipment’s use for one, two or three council terms – the next 12 years – and to report on this in 2015.

Despite last year’s 25-to-16 vote by council – which could overturn the committee’s decision during its final meeting later this month – the committee was not convinced.

Etobicoke Councillor Doug

Ford, brother of Mayor Rob Ford, said it was “hypocritical” for councillors “to target one office” – the mayor’s – for ranked ballots, while not changing the voting system for their own.

Two other Etobicoke councillors on the committee, Vince Crisanti and Peter Leon, agreed with Ford.

Most other city councillors had supported ranked ballots for Toronto, an initiative known as RaBIT, because they thought the new system, among other things, “would promote positive campaigns,” and encourage a wider discussion of municipal issues during campaigns.

Scarborough Councillor Paul Ainslie, a supporter of RaBIT, said council made its decision after hearing from the public and debating the issue at city hall.

Why try to extend the life of 15-year-old voting machines, Ainslie asked, when the life of a tablet computer, “is eight or nine years, tops.”

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