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He shoots... he scores: Parkdale Hawks’ Nigel Muggeridge, centre, celebrates a goal against the Oakville Ice Dogs in an atom division game Saturday at McCormick Arena.

Parkdale went on to win 6-4. The game was part of the Parkdale Flames’ William Reynolds tournament for atom and novice house league teams.

Giving CAMH’s Gift of Light Dec. 12 meeting will look at turning awkward intersection into Peace Garden ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com

ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com The junction of Dundas Street West and Roncesvalles Avenue is a barren, odd and awkward intersection, but a planned garden aims to shift the view into a celebration of its history.

“The way you celebrate it is you make it green and you have a plaque and a place to sit and get out of the shade,” said Abby Bushby, the project coordinator of the Dundas Roncesvalles Peace

Garden project.

The proposed garden would occupy the sizable triangle of concrete immediately south of where Roncesvalles Avenue and Dundas Street West connect and would be part of the 1812 Binational Peace Garden Trail network, a cross-border tourism initiative connected with the international peace garden foundation, which marks the sites – and tells the stories – of the War of 1812.

Bushby said the garden can

be a starting point of a conversation about the war that shaped Canada.

Citing the words of her neighbour, Bushby said when people stop to rest at the new garden, you can say, “This is where the First Nation fighters left the battle of York, that they helped us win and that is why we are Canadian.”

This portion of Dundas Street was constructed as a military road for the defense of York, the capital of >>>roncesvalles, page 5

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Because of the stigma surrounding mental illness and addiction, many patients at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) receive few, if any, visits, cards or gifts during Christmas.

But because of the Gift of Light campaign and the people who support it, more than $100,000 in gifts are distributed to CAMH clients.

“A lot of patients would not get anything if we didn’t provide these gifts to them and if our supporters didn’t provide these gifts for them,”

said Amy Wilkinson, manager of annual giving at CAMH. The Gifts of Light campaign encourages people to purchase set gifts that will help bring hope and comfort to CAMH patients during Christmas.

This is the fifth year for the gift campaign. In its first year, the campaign distributed about 600 gifts to inpatients at CAMH. It was started as a way to bring comfort to people in hospital over the holidays by giving them gifts such as slippers and robes, she said.

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Feed it Forward Dec. 12 at The Drake Underground, 1150 Queen St. W. Staff photo/ERIN HATFIELD

ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com During her years at university in Victoria, B.C., west-end musician Jessica Stuart said she was no stranger to food banks.

“I had a part-time job on the side and I was doing a full course load,” she said. “All of my time was consumed, I couldn’t do more, but the kinds of jobs you get in university don’t pay that well.”

She had support from family in terms of tuition, but the rest she was dealing with on her own, so the food bank helped her stay fed while she studied.

Having moved to Dundas and Ossington five years ago and with her music career taken off, she is pulling together a concert fundraiser for the Daily Bread Food Bank featuring her own folk jazz trio called the Jessica Stuart Few, along with two other bands – Radiohead tribute band Idioteque and electro pop singer Adaline.

As a singer, songwriter and guitarist, who also plays the Koto, a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument, Stuart said she is involved in half a dozen music projects around Toronto – mainly with the Jessica Stuart Few, but also Idioteque, The Histrionics and The Mutiny against Luke Roberts. She also sings in a couple of choirs and with another jazz trio called The Off Beat.

A couple of years ago, the Jessica Stuart Few were asked to join a food bank fundraising concert and Stuart said she has had it in her mind to organize a food bank fundraiser ever since.

“In my mind I always wanted to do a bigger, better, more successful ‘for the cause’ event,” Stuart said.

The timing worked out to do the fundraiser this year because Stuart isn’t currently on tour and has had the time to plan the event.

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Realtor Kevin Yu kicks off a condo foodbank challenge in Liberty Village.

Condos clash - for a good cause ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com There is a battle brewing between residents of Liberty Village condominium buildings to see who can collect the most food for the Daily Bread Food Bank.

Kevin Yu and his business partner April Williams of W&Y Homes Co. (Coldwell Banker Terriquity Realty)

in Liberty Village issued a challenge to the residents of five condo buildings in the area to see who can raise the most food donations.

The Liberty Village Residents Association, which Yu and his partner are members of, is always looking for ways to close the disconnect between the residents in the buildings. >>>condo, page 10

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Musicians (from left) Adaline, Don Scott and Jessica Stuart will all perform as part of the Feed it Forward fundraiser for the Daily Bread Food Bank at the Drake Underground on Dec. 12.

‘I am just really hoping we can get a great haul out of this ... It would be nice to present (Daily Bread) with some full food boxes and a big wad of cash.’ ~ musician Jessica Stuart The Feed it Forward event will also feature live painting by Marc O’Brien. The paintings that arise from the event will be sold after the event and the proceeds will also go to the food bank.

“A lot of people have the idea that they want to help out for the holidays, but they don’t exactly know how, but plenty of people go

to concerts and love music and art, so this is a really easy way to do something great for the community,” she said.

All of the funds raised, with the exception of the cost of poster printing, will go to the Daily Bread Food Bank, which supports about 170 member agencies.

“I am just really hoping we can get a great haul out of this,” Stuart said. “I am pretty confident it will be fairly successful, but it would be nice to present (Daily Bread) with some full food boxes and a big wad of cash.”

Feed it Forward takes place Wednesday, Dec. 12 at The Drake Underground, 1150 Queen St. W. Admission is $10 or $5 with two or more non-perishable food items.

Doors open at 8:30 p.m. and the first 50 guests to arrive will receive gift bags with music, and gifts from an artisan bakery and from the music store Long and McQuade.

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Jerome Haba, national account manager with McGregor Socks, left, presents a donation of socks to St. Sgt. Philip Van Andel, of the Toronto Police Service’s 11 Division, for the division’s fourth annual clothing drive.

Clothing drive wraps up Saturday The fourth annual holiday clothing drive by Toronto Police Service’s 11 Division Community Police Liaison Committee wraps up with a special event this Saturday, from noon to 2 p.m.

For those who bring their donations to the station at 2054 Davenport Rd. on Saturday, there

will be hot dogs, hot chocolate and kids safety tips. In the meantime, items such as hats, mitts, gloves, scarves, socks and hoodies can be dropped off at a number of west-end locations, including the station.

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hat must Toronto’s civic leaders accomplish as they shape the 2013 capital and operating budgets for the city?

A number of things – and they form a balancing act between delivery of services and exhibiting fiscal responsibility. Budgets are complex documents and when discussions opened last week, some heated disagreements took place on the floor of an alreadypolarized city council.

But balance is in order and we offer the following suggestions to help guide the process: • Councillors must continue to engage with their constituents on what are priorities in their respective communities. This is true whether the issue is sports arena fees, community policing or support for a festival. Local representation is the essence of the system that’s our view in place. Our communities and Have your neighbourhoods are the city’s building blocks. But they are say about the unique and those ward-level exchanges need to be taking budget place.

• On the council floor there must be acknowledgement and careful consideration of all revenue tools, including property tax. While a sharp eye on expenditures is expected, it’s not realistic to dedicate oneself to one side of the ledger when trying to balance a budget. As impressive a feat as reducing expenditures in last year’s budget was, it’s not a sustainable practice for Toronto council. Tax increases are never popular (the budget currently proposes a modest 1.95 per cent jump) but they are among a limited set of tools available when one searches for solutions for revenue.

• Finally, there must be a sense of direction for Toronto from the budget. Once approved, the budget must demonstrate progress toward getting the city back on sustainable footing financially. The days of relying on provincial bailouts are gone. The previous year’s budget was a positive step forward.

This upcoming budget must continue on that path.

Budgets are a balancing act. It’s about identifying priorities and delivering cost-effective services.

Unfortunately, it’s also about understanding that we can’t afford everything we may want in this city – especially if we are unwilling to pay for it.

Next week, public hearings are scheduled on the budget. We encourage you to make it out to Toronto City Hall to offer your input or to contact your local councillor. The executive committee and council will approve the final budget in January. newsroom

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Re: ‘Council needs to re-set priorities at halfway point,’ Editorial, Nov. 29.

Your editorial is insightful. Council should make an appointment and it should be an experienced councillor who will follow the agenda of Mayor Rob Ford.

He was elected by a good majority of the voters and they deserve to have their wishes honoured.

If the left votes for this course, it will be further proof they only care about trying to get back into power and continue with their lack of respect for the city taxpayers.

Anne Robinson

Consultation with voters is preferred option Odds are that should the time come that council has a choice on what to do about a vacant mayor’s office, they’ll choose to hold a byelection. Certainly, that’s what councillors who have been asked about it have said. And certainly Mayor Rob Ford, facing eviction from office, has said he’d be happy to put his name forward in one.

But as the past two years have shown us, anything can happen with this council.

And with a price tag of $7 million, it’s by no means a certainty that a majority of councillors will vote to spend that money on a byelection and not to bolster some programs in the 2013 operating budget.

As tempting as saving cash might be, councillors should resist.

Even if Ford’s behaviour wasn’t precipitating the

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event, at this point the city can only benefit from an official consultation with the voters.

In 2010, Ford was elected with a powerful mandate, from an electorate who were interested in a more conservative approach to municipal government.

They believed Ford when he said the government was bloated with what he called gravy, and they voted for him on the assumption he would be able to extract that gravy without meaningfully affecting services.

In Scarborough, they accepted Ford’s assurance he would be able to build a

subway using private sector money. They understood that his slogan Respect for Taxpayers meant that when elected mayor, he would show respect for all taxpayers.

What Toronto got was something different. Ford appears to have been wrong about the gravy; there’s not very much. He couldn’t deliver a subway without significant public investment and the support of council, and both of those were absent.

As for respecting taxpayers, even disregarding the mayor’s behaviour surrounding football, it’s hard to forget the 24-hour standoff between the executive committee and the public when the administration brought forward its core services review or the ugly red-baiting the administration tolerated in its supporters.

Torontonians voted, then, for an agenda that turned out to be chimeric.

And an appointment of an interim mayor that either attempts to continue that imaginary agenda or one from the left that repudiates it, would amount to a rejection of the popular will of Toronto voters.

A byelection, as costly as it is, is essential for the short and long-term health of this city.

If Torontonians want to continue with some measure of the Fords’ agenda at city hall, they ought to have the opportunity to say so. If they want to change direction mid-term, having lost their taste for it in the past two years, they ought to be able to say that too.

Two years into the term, it may or may not be time for a new mayor. But it’s past time for a new mandate.

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Roncesvalles landscaping firm working on the design >>>from page 1 Upper Canada, in 1812.

Aboriginal warriors attempted to ward off the landing of the American fleet in April 1813.

The garden would honour the men who built the road as well as those warriors.

Bushby, a resident of Roncesvalles Village, became interested in the intersection more than 15 years ago, while walking her daughter to Howard Public School and trying to negotiate it.

“My first interest was to have the traffic and pedestrian problems fixed,” she said.

The sidewalks have been widened since then, making it safer, and Bushby said she expects to see more improvements come as pedestrian traffic increases in the area.

For now, the Dundas Roncesvalles Peace Garden group is working to develop and implement a plan to redevelop the concrete triangle into a garden.

NAK Design Strategies, a landscape firm on Roncesvalles, is developing the design. “ There is an intense

was the exercise of putting together that grant application that helped the group to pull together community partners.

Those partners include the Roncesvalles Village Histor ical Society, the Hor ticultural Societies of Parkdale and Toronto, the Roncesvalles Business Improvement Area, Roncy Works (formerly Roncesvalles Renewed), Roncesvalles Mcdonnell Residents Association (RMRA), the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation, Toronto Public Space Initiative, NAK Design Strategies, the 1812 Binational Peace Garden Trail Network as well as the City of Toronto’s Museum Services, Public Realm Services in the city’s transportation department and Councillor Gord Perks.

Each partner brings something significant to the project, Bushby said.

For example, the Roncesvalles Village BIA will assume the responsibility of looking after the garden after it is complete.

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Abby Bushby, project coordinator for the Dundas Roncesvalles Peace Garden, stands at Dundas Street West and Roncesvalles Avenue, the site of the proposed garden.

amount of infrastructure and easements underneath that surface, there are sight visibility lines, two TTC streetcars that pass by it,” Bushby said. “And preserving the good accessibility for people walking and taking into consideration different points of view is considerable.”

Bushby said NAK has come up with a plan that considers public input while meeting the city’s technical requirements.

The recommended landscape design will be presented to the community Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. at Fern School, 128 Fern Ave. Dundas Roncesvalles Peace Garden group had applied and hoped to receive some War of 1812 project funding from the federal government, but didn’t.

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“They don’t normally give a grant in anticipation of a new garden being developed, but recognizing the importance of getting community seed money up front,” she said, “they made a grant. And, more than that, a member of their board comes to every meeting.”

The RMRA assist with public meetings.

“The beauty of this is that we couldn’t do this if it was any one organization working alone,” she said. “It is the true definition of a public interest, where you only get there when everyone contributes their piece.”

With the process in motion and the partnerships in place, Bushby said she is optimistic construction can begin by end of the summer.

“I am looking forward to digging, planting and weeding,” she said. “I am going to remember that hard concrete for a while, but not too long.”

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Cost is $8.99 adults; $4.31 seniors; $5.50 youth 13 to 18; $4.25 children six to 12; free for five and under.

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Junction graffiti artist turns to clothing LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com

religious imagery in his art.

The clothing line features original works of art, screen printed onto organic material, which Richardson has cut out.

The women who are part of Sistering’s sewing program are sewing the art onto articles of clothing, including hoodies and hooded dress shirts from Green Shag, where the exhibit is taking place through to Dec. 30.

Joel Richardson, a Junction-based artist, filmmaker and designer, is adding yet another medium to his ever growing list of creations: clothing.

Richardson, who grabbed headlines when his mural was erased from the Dupont Street underpass by the City of Toronto’s anti-graffiti task force last year, launched his latest project, a limited edition line of clothing, last Thursday.

He has teamed up with Queen Street West’s Green Shag Bespoke Clothier, which specializes in dressing “the urban man”, and Sistering, an Ossington Avenue and Bloor Street West-area women’s agency.

197.1-second photo In addition to clothing, Richardson is debuting at Green Shag paintings based on his recent performance art, The Secret Suitman Project/Projekt.

In August, Richardson, otherwise known as Suitman, staged a 197.1second photo at the corner of King and Bay streets of 20-plus people meditating, wearing trim-fitting black suits sitting cross-legged,

Sustainable economics

Courtesy photo/JOEL RICHARDSON

Junction artist Joel Richardson is debuting a clothing line based on his performance art, The Secret Suitman Project/Projekt, at Green Shag Clothier, 670 Queen St. W.

hands clasped in their laps.

The not-quite three-and-a-half minute time frame is based on the Black-Scholes formula, a mathematical model of a financial market containing certain derivative investment instruments. The year, 1971, is when the Black Scholes equation

was approximately born.

“The idea was to create these photos I could incorporate into some of my work,” said Richardson in an interview with The Villager. “I’m debuting some of those pieces.”

Richardson says he’s particularly drawn to combining finance and

“Green Shag has also produced enamel raised ‘Suitman’ cufflinks,” said Richardson, who lived in the Junction Triangle for five years and then moved to the Junction a year ago.

“Part of the idea (for the clothing line) is sustainable economics and economics that respect human rights.”

Richardson has been working on the line and accompanying art for the past three months. Like a print series of a painting, the clothing line is numbered and will have a very short run.

Green Shag is situated at 670 Queen St. W. Visit www.joelrichardson.com for further details.

Give the

Condo food drive >>>from page 3 “This is just another way to create some community in Liberty Village,” Yu said. “It is starting. You can see a lot more things are happening, people are friendly, but at the same time there should be more community-driven events.”

There are three donation boxes set up in the lobbies at 59 East Liberty St., 55 East Liberty St. and 50 Lynn Williams St., which is the collection site for three buildings.

Yu said the beautifully wrapped donation boxes placed in the lobbies are a means to make it easy for people to give.

“A lot of the time people are too busy to make it down to a food bank so if you make it easy, hopefully people will do it,” Yu said. “And it seems to be working.”

For the winning building, W&Y Homes Co. will set up a table with treats and coffee in the lobby.

“We will leave it in the lobby, (residents) can help themselves and we will replenish it throughout the day,” Yu said.

The food drive runs until Dec. 21.

You can see updates on how each building is doing at www.wyhomesco.com/donations-so-far.

Once the drive is done, Yu said the food will be weighed, delivered to Daily Bread and the winner will be announced.

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Christmas with Toronto’s first architect Colborne Lodge in High Park celebrating 175th birthday John and Jemima Howard would have been extremely pleased by the steady stream of visitors to their Regencystyle picturesque villa in celebration of their home’s 175th anniversary, says the Colborne Lodge museum site coordinator.

Decorated for a 19th century Christmas, revelers were especially struck by how Colborne Lodge looked at night, Cheryl Hart said.

People were invited to wander through the house, lit up by oil lamps and candles, to learn how the Howards celebrated the holidays during special anniversary celebrations held late last month.

Designed by John Howard, one of Toronto’s first architects, Colborne Lodge was built in 1837 to complement its surrounding nature.

“John was specific that the park not be called Howard Park,” Hart said.

It was his wife’s idea to call it “High” Park for its location

atop the highest point of the Humber Bay shoreline. Their house was named for Upper Canada Lt. Gov. Sr. John Colborne, who appointed Howard to the position of geometrical drawing master at Upper Canada College.

In 1834, William Lyon Mackenzie appointed him as the first surveyor of a newly incorporated City of Toronto.

As surveyor and city engineer, Howard can take credit for planning Toronto’s first sidewalks, sewers and roads.

He also surveyed building lots, the Toronto Harbour and Ashbridges Bay. The couple would be “extremely pleased” by how Colborne Lodge and High Park have been received by the public since they were deeded to the city, Hart said. “ They wanted to set an example for others to encourage them to be philanthropic,” said Hart, sitting

at the lodge’s winter kitchen table.

The pair also believed people of lower class, in particular, would benefit by returning to nature, she said.

Colborne Lodge’s architecture serves to enhance its natural surroundings. The house boasts lots of windows and looks down onto the lake.

The original Colborne Lodge cottage was comprised of a drawing room, library and dining room along with the main entrance to the side. The three windows in the drawing room were French doors that opened to access the veranda and provided a sweeping view of Lake Ontario.

Many of the furnishings belonged to the Howards, including the wood stove in the summer kitchen.

“It doesn’t look like much from the outside. People who visit admit they had no idea it is so large,” Hart said.

After John Howard’s death in 1890 (his wife predeceased him in 1877), the house was occupied by his servants, a family he was quite fond of, Hart said.

Colborne Lodge sat empty until the 1920s when the Women’s Canadian Historical Society turned it into a museum. It was restored to the 1870s period “because we wanted to tell Jemima’s story,” Hart said.

■ The tours continue until Jan. 6, Tuesdays to Sundays, noon to 4 p.m. (The museum is closed Mondays and on Dec. 25, 26 and Jan. 1).

Holiday admission prices apply: adults $7.08, seniors $4.42, youths $3.81, children $4.42 (plus tax).

Numerous workshops are also being offered. For more information, visit www.toronto.ca/culture/ museums/featured-events. htm#colborne

Photo/COURTESY

James McRae, a historical interpreter, poses by the Christmas tree at Colborne Lodge, which is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year.

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Featuring daily house made pastas, homemade gelato, traditional Neapolitan thin crust pizza and comforting, traditional meals. Try one of our interesting Italian inspired cocktails created fresh for you by one of our mixologists. Relax and enjoy the vibrant, fun, and homey atmosphere of this unique Italian eatery in the heart of Liberty Village!

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