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Complicated Parkdale gentrification put on film HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Seven Ryerson University students are looking to shed some light on the dark side of gentrification in Parkdale with their documentary ‘This House is Not a Home’.

Scheduled to be released in March 2015, which includes interviews with tenants and local organizations, aims to

paint an intimate portrait of Parkdale’s current gentrification conflict through the eyes of select residents and how they’ve chosen to push back.

“It’s a compilation of stories.

It’s an intimate look at the residents and the repercussions of a neighbourhood undergoing gentrification,” said Jamie Hurcomb, the film’s writer and editor.

“We have a good mix of dif-

ferent people to speak on the issue and who don’t have this sense of security in their own home.”

Hurcomb, along with her production team who call themselves Bellboy Pictures, includes producers Adam Hopwood, a former Parkdale resident, and Yazdan Tabrizi, cinematographer Dylan Morgan, director Katrina Singleton, audio supervisor Eric Clark and art direc-

tor and lead animator Amika Cooper.

Filming began in September, as they captured footage of Parkdale residents during a rent control rally. The group was able to get in touch with different residents through Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS), who offered to connect them to a handful of people who were having issues >>>ONLINE, page 12

Toronto’s laneways will finally get some love in 2015 with the help of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

The Toronto laneway project is the recipient of a $26,700 grant that will allow The Laneway Project to undertake two pilot projects in the city.

“Our focus and our goal is to get two very different laneway projects that are representative of what can be done in laneway spaces,” said Mackenzie Keast, the co-founder of The Laneway Project.

“We want one that’s very commercial, so we’re talking to different BIAs to figure out what’s the best one that represents that and then we’re looking at one that’s more residential, a little bit quieter, a more passive laneway improvement.”

The Laneway Project is a Toronto-based non-profit organization which aims to help the city’s neighbourhoods transform laneways into more useable spaces for the community, whether it’s for commercial, residential or recreational purposes.

There is about 250 kilometeres of untapped public space in the city in the form of laneways, which range in size >>>NOVEMBER, page 5

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Different Days Trinity Bellwoods: Skaters, left, take to the ice at Trinity Bellwoods Park two weeks ago. A much different scene last weekend, with a cyclist taking a ride through the park Sunday morning.

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When it comes to the management of 14 Division, Superintendent Frank Bergen refuses to take all the credit.

“It’s a collaborative effort, it’s not just about what I do,” he said. “It’s about what we as a team accomplish.”

Bergen has been a superintendent with Toronto Police Services since 2011, but has been 14 Division’s superintendent since May 2014 and so far it’s been a good experience.

“What we’ve learned very quickly is that this is an amazing division,” he said. “It’s a division that clearly responds to the needs of its community.”

With 2015 right around the corner Bergen and his team are looking to continue to further connect with the community in various ways at different levels. 2015 will be all about building relationships and that starts with maintaining a good relationship between officers and its community members.

“What we’ve committed to going into 2015 is to ensure that everybody within 14 Division has a voice,” Bergen said. “One way to have that voice is to be an active participant in our Community Police Liaison Committee (CPLC).”

The CPLC meets every third Tuesday of the month and consists of members that range from residents to Business Improvement Area executives and business owners.

According to Bergen, by having these open lines of communication on a regular basis along with the CPLC meetings, they’re able to find out more about certain “pop-up problem” areas in the community and that comes with community engagement.

There are always a handful of officers attending the meeting and Bergen has already implemented a mandatory attendance at CPLC

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meetings in order to establish that connection between the community and its officers.

“We ensure our officers are properly engaged in the community, that they have that opportunity and that support in order to be more proactive than reactive,” he added.

Headquarters for 14 Division, 350 Dovercourt Rd., is also an open and transparent place and that’s not just because there’s plenty of floor-to-ceiling windows.

There’s a community room residents are more than welcome to use, often times there are families playing with their kids or walking their dog on the lawn. The welcoming environment is what Bergen and his team wish to continue to foster in the New Year.

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nally and externally,” he said.

Another relationship 14 Division plans on strengthening is with the area’s city councillors, through more open lines of communications, which Bergen believes will help alleviate some frustrations residents may have.

“We’ll have another set of eyes on a problem and we’re making people feel comfortable and, quite often, what we’ll hear is a level of frustration about not knowing who to connect with,” Bergen explained.

According to the superintendent he’s already working on scheduling a sit down in the New Year with councillors Gord Perks (Ward 14 – Parkdale-High Park), Ana Bailao (Ward 18 – Davenport), Mike Layton (Ward 19 – Trinity-Spadina), and Joe Cressy ( Ward 20 – TrinitySpadina).

“We’ll have a working relationship to show we’re willing to roll up our sleeves and work with the local councillors,” Bergen said.

“And find out what we need to know and what do we need to do better because quite often we have the same issues, we’re just dealing with it at different levels. It’s

either 311 or 911 with being able to manage people and we’re often in the middle.”

Aside from building relationships, 14 Division has a big initiative to deal with when it comes to the entertainment district of Parkdale.

Historically, the entertainment district has been confined to 52 Division (the boundaries basically being from Bloor Street in the north to the lake in the south; and from Yonge Street in the east to Spadina Avenue in the west).

However, with the gentrification of Parkdale and an influx of bars and restaurants, especially along Queen Street West, 14 Division is dealing with a new set of complaints relatively new to the division.

“We’re doing our best to manage the entertainment district and its growth into 14 Division which does extend to Parkdale. We’re defining what that boundary looks like, which will have to historically take it out of the footprint of 52 Division and moving west and being able to adapt to that,” said Bergen.

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or most people looking for work, going up against a four- or five-person hiring committee is nerve-wracking enough.

Candidates for the top policing job in the city will have it a little tougher.

“It’s a citywide interview process,” said Michael Thompson, former Toronto Police Services Board vice-chair.

Thompson and Chair Alok Mukherjee developed the system for hiring the replacement for Toronto police Chief William Blair.

“It’s an open, transparent, fully accessible process that everyone’s involved with,” Thompson said. “The system and process we put in place allowed for internal/ external discussion to come up with the criterion we want.”

The first part of that process, stakeholder consultations, have already taken place.

The consultations looked to find answers to four questions: what are the top challenges faced by the new chief; what competencies will the chief need; what would those competencies mean from different perspectives; and what would they look like on an everyday basis. common themes In a report to the police services board Dec. 5, the consultants noted some common themes.

The chief needs to be visible and build relationship among stakeholder populations. Communityoriented policing is essential. The chief must recognize diversity.

Stakeholders also wanted a chief to bring innovative ideas, at the same time as he or she listened to community needs.

The Police Services Board will then use that information to come up with a short list.

Thompson said final applicants will face not only the hiring committee, but the general public.

“It’s a full engagement process and the public will be able to hear from them,” Thompson said. “It’s never happened before in the city. We felt that we wanted to see something open and transparent. I think that’s interesting and cool.”

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ith a new mayor already in office and a new police chief to be named in the spring, 2015 is guaranteed to be a year of change for Toronto.

Among the challenges for Mayor John Tory, who officially took office at the beginning of December, the hiring of a new chief to replace Bill Blair will be among the most critical.

The relationship between the Toronto Police Services Board and police officers is not a good one at the moment, with the police union upset at board chair Alok Mukherjee for his recent Facebook post regarding the number of blacks shot by police in the United States. Also, Blair is unhappy with the board for its position regarding a report on “carding” of community members in North York’s 31 Division.

Tory has made a good move toward repairing these relationships by taking a seat on the police board himself, something former mayor our view Rob Ford did not do.

Hopefully, trust can be rebuilt between police officers, board 2015 to see a members and, most importantly, new chief at the residents they serve and protect. the helm Key to that will be the selection of a new chief.

In today’s edition, we look at the selection process that will be used to hire Toronto’s next police chief.

It’s a much more public process than ever before, and more information can be found in our feature on page 3.

Also in today’s edition we’ve spoken to 14 Division Supt. Frank Bergen to see what his priorities are for the division this coming year.

Reducing street crime and working with youth were among the main goals identified by many of the divisions. A visible police presence on the streets helps keep street crime at bay, and gets officers out in their community interacting with those who live and work there – especially youth.

It’s a good goal, but sometimes with community contact comes criticism.

The carding report in 31 Division raised concerns that young black members of the community were being unfairly singled out for negative attention by police.

There’s a fine line between having officers on the streets to deter crime and increase the sense of community safety while at the same time not appearing to target one group for undue attention. It will be an early and crucial test for Toronto’s new police chief to find that balance.

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De Baeremaeker’s Scarborough subway musings could re-open ongoing debate Glenn De Baeremaeker only had one thing to do.

When Mayor John Tory asked the Scarborough Centre councillor to be a deputy mayor, he spelled it out as clear as day: Keep the Scarborough subway plan on track. Make sure the thing gets built.

Don’t let it get mired down in bureaucratic malaise, or Metrolinx monkey business.

And if anyone on council gets any idea to bring the costly project back to council for another possible derailment...

Well, Glenn, you know what to do.

Those were De Baeremaeker’s marching orders. But as revealed in an interview with Metroland Media Toronto’s Mike Adler, De Baeremaeker has different ideas.

The three-stop subway extension, he said, needs a fourth stop. And he’s going

david nickle the city to make sure it gets one, right at Danforth Road and Eglinton Avenue.

De Baeremaeker says he’ll be circulating a letter to local politicians at all three levels of government requesting the additional stop, for their signature.

Then, it will be off to the TTC and Toronto Council, to get the approval to add at least $100-$150 million to the $3.56 billion project.

If the idea goes through and the engineering checks out, the additional station will certainly serve Scarborough commuters better.

But one can’t imagine Mayor Tory is pleased at the idea of opening a discussion now about how that line might serve Scarborough

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commuters better.

That might lead some councillors to hold up the $3.66 billion (minimum) four-stop Scarborough subway paid for in part by 30 years of property tax increases, against the $1.3 billion seven-stop light rail plan paid for entirely by the provincial government.

And that might lead to the one thing Tory asked De Baeremaeker to prevent: a re-opening of the Scarborough subway debate in the first year of his mandate.

For the sake of the city, that might be a healthy debate to have. When coun-

cil approved the subway extension in 2013, it was doing so amid unprecedented municipal turmoil thanks to the Ford drama, and when the matter came up in the mayor’s race, it was before an electorate seized of a need for stability above all else.

Now that the election is in the past and the city has emerged relatively stable, it might be prudent to reconsider the massive yet inadequate infrastructure project with its pocketbook-denting price tag.

But if you’re John Tory, it’s got to be embarrassing: to have that debate kicked off by the freelance tinkering of one’s trusted deputy mayor who’s trying to increase public spending on an already-too-rich deal that was supposed to be done.

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November summit sparked interest from neighbourhoods >>>from page 1 from three to six metres in width.

Toronto’s laneways currently serve multiple purposes for residents and businesses alike. It is used as midblock connections between streets for pedestrians and cyclists, or as garbage pick up locations, street art canvases, or as spillover from temporary workshops in garages.

The Laneway Project hopes to convert these laneways to reach their full potential.

“The idea is we’re identifying where there’s an active community who wants to see their laneway spaces transformed,” explained Keast.

“Our role will be to come in and help support the development of a plan for their laneways and roll out an implementation strategy, so in the future we can help execute that plan.”

The Laneway Project held a summit in November with various presentations surrounding what laneways could be used for from programmable spaces for festivals to housing to a mini green space. Since the summit, Keast said they’ve had a lot of interest from neighbourhoods looking to convert their laneways, but are unsure of how to go about

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A laneway in Glasgow, Scotland that’s used as a commerical space. Cresswell Lane is an example of the possibilities for Toronto laneways.

doing so. From those interested parties, The Laneway Project will be shortlisting the most intriguing laneway ideas and choosing the two for the pilot projects.

However, the projects that don’t get selected won’t be forgotten, said Keast.

“There’s so many other groups that have such a passion for their laneways and we do want to help them,” he said.

“But with the Trillium funding it’s

too specific of a type of project, so we’re trying to identify those ones (that fit with the funding) specifically. The other projects we’ll still be helping them do something independently from this grant.”

According to Keast, one portion of this grant will allow them to run co-design workshops with the two communities to develop a vision for the laneway that is fully supported by the entire community. He added the consultation process will involve

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Although the funding doesn’t seem like much, Keast said, the money will go a long way because of The Laneway Project’s diverse skill set of the co-founders: Keast is an urban designer, Ariana Cancelli is an urban planner and Michelle Senayah is a landscape architect.

The other portion of the funding will be dedicated to marketing and community outreach. Over the next year they plan to do an online series where they go out into different communities that are doing their own laneway projects and showcase their work. For The Laneway Project, receiving this funding is a great stepping stone toward getting more people on board with looking at laneways differently across the city.

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Home court advantage for Parkdale cyclist HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Paralympian and longtime Parkdale resident Shelley Gautier is enjoying winter in Florida – but it’s no vacation.

She’s currently training three times a week for about two hours in Pine Island, Florida as she gears up for the 2015 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Switzerland (July 28 to Aug. 2) where she returns as the only Canadian cyclist to be a four-time gold medal winner at any level.

“I work hard and that’s why I want to be a five-time champion and do what I have to do,” Gautier told The Villager from Florida.

She’s also training for the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games in Toronto where she will represent Team Canada.

She couldn’t be more excited to be cycling through parts of her neighbourhood and competing where friends and family can come out and support her during the race.

According to Gautier, this competition will be that much more meaningful for her.

“My family will be there, I live in Toronto and I went to school there,” she said. “I want to do my best and just hopefully I make them proud and get a medal.”

This year, 15 parasports including Gautier’s Cycling Road event will be a qualifier for the 2016 Paralympic Summer Games in Rio, Brazil.

In 2012, Gautier travelled to London, England to compete in the Paralympic Games and placed 14th in the road cycling open tricycle event and 11th in the tricycle time-

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Parkdale’s Shelley Gauthier competed at the 2012 London Paralympic Games.

trial event.

The cycling road event at the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games will have four different types of bicycles on the road: traditional, tandem, tricycles and hand ergometers. The route will start on the grounds at Exhibition Place, travel along Lake Shore Boulevard and manoeuvre through trails in High Park, an area Gautier has cycled frequently in her years in Parkdale. She hopes that knowing the trail will give her a home field advantage.

She competed in the 2011 Parapan Am Games in Guadalajara, Mexico and received a silver medal for the open tricycle time trial event; this year she’s going for gold and hopes her medal placement sends an inspirational

message to those watching the event.

“The fact that I’m a triker, I’m from Toronto...I want to show people that I’m disabled, but there’s stuff I can do,” she said. “Hopefully we can get other disabled people out there biking. I’d like to use the Parapan games to try and get more people involved in para-cycling. I think that’s really important not just for me, but for other people.”

Gautier was involved in a mountain biking accident in 2001 that put her in a coma for six weeks. When she came to she was diagnosed as a hemiplegic, which left her paralyzed on the right side of her body.

Before the accident she was right dominant and because

of her paralysis, she had to relearn everything with her left. All the controls on her bike, from brakes to gear shifting are all located on the left side of her custom trike.

But her disability hasn’t stopped her from cycling in any way: within a year she was back on her bike again and by 2007 she was out competing in 50-kilometre races.

She was also recently named 2014 Female Athlete of the Year by the Ontario Cycling Association and its Female Cyclist of the Year.

“It felt really good, to be Female Cyclist of the Year out of all the women cyclists in Ontario...It’s an honour,” Gautier said. “I’m a disabled person and yet I did it. It’s something to be very proud of.”

Before the accident Gautier was a practising physiotherapist, now she speaks at the University of Toronto to students studying physiotherapy and occupational therapy.

According to Gautier in her latest speeches she likes to encourage students to remember to ask patients about their goals in life in order to encourage them to look at life beyond their injury and disability.

“You don’t have to sit in your house, or your wheelchair and not do anything or sit in your house and cry,” she explained.

“There’s art and sports.

I think it’s really important that someone gets that idea into their head, so that when they’re in the hospital they can think about it. I’ve been in the hospital for quite a few months and it’s not a great experience. Setting goals are very important, you need to have a positive focus.”

Pan Am Games race routes take over Lake Shore Blvd.

Lake Shore Boulevard will provide the backdrop for planned road competitions during next summer’s Pan American and Parapan Am Games.

TO2015, The Toronto Pan Am organizing committee has posted course maps for the Games’ marathon, cycling, race walk, triathlon and Parapan Am cycling race, all of which begin and end on the Lake Shore Boulevard.

With an anticipated audience of 1.4 million expected to watch the Pan Ams in person, organizers say Lake Shore will have to close at times to all traffic during the Games, which take place July 10 to 26 followed by the Parapan Am Games Aug. 7 to 15, in order to allow for the safety of athletes and spectators.

“To ensure a world-class field of play, as well as the safety of athletes and spectators, the race routes will require road closures at certain times on Lake Shore Boulevard and nearby streets,” a statement posted on the Games’ official website www.toronto2015. org reads.

“The majority of these closures will take place in off-peak travel hours or on weekends to minimize disruptions to traffic, business and residents in the race area.”

The statement, released Monday, Dec. 15, also mentions meetings are currently taking place to inform businesses along the race routes about the future measures and traffic limitations.

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is also planning to hold a public meeting in the New Year to discuss the Pan Ams’ impact on local traffic.

The Lake Shore is a central artery in the province’s plan to manage traffic during the Toronto Games, part of a 1,500-kilometre network of high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes reserved exclusively for Games-goers and personnel.

The Games Route Network will also include the 400-series highways, QEW, Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway.

The province is expected to provide an update on Games traffic planning in the spring. now for pan-am security whiring

Contemporary Security Canada (CSC), the organization in charge of providing that staff, said it’s well on its way to hiring the 5,000 screeners, security guards and security supervisors it needs to ensure people are safe.

Those staff members will work at 61 venues throughout the GTA during the Pan Am Games.

With some 2,000 people already hired, many of whom are going through complimentary training to obtain the necessary security guard certification, CSC is on track to meet the staffing demand.

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photo feature

Celebrating our community in photos from events throughout the year.

1. Participants face off in a game

of bubble soccer during the C3 Toronto Festival activities in September at St. Luke Catholic School.

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Photo/NANCY PAIVA

2. Sierra Kroetsch, right, along with her parents Crystal and Jeff take in the Critter Visits petting zoo during the Country Fair in Sorauren Park.

Photo/PETER C. MCCUSKER

3. Matthew Vidulich, left, was

invited from the audience to assist Fantasy Circus Family’s Leon Radyuk do some juggling during the Scotiabank CHIN International Picnic.

Photo/PETER C. MCCUSKER

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4. Cory Torgersom, 18 months,

enjoys the bouncy castle during the C3 Toronto Festival held at St. Luke Catholic School in September.

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Photo/NANCY PAIVA

2 5. A quartet of Second World War Harvard aircraft fly again during the CNE’s Toronto International Air Show in August.

Photo/PETER C. MCCUSKER

6. Toronto’s Sunnyside Bike Park

opened at the foot of Ellis Avenue and Lakeshore Boulevard West in July. Mark Norris tries out the new facility.

Staff photo/IAN KELSO

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1. Thea ‘Munster’ Faulds, centre,

gives a car the zombie car-wash treatment during the Bloods-N-Suds Zombie Car Wash held Aug. 17 at the Landsdowne Avenue and College Street Classic Coin Car-Wash location.

Staff photo/BRIAN B. BETTENCOURT

2. At the Mod Club, Caterina Cerqueira joins in the celebration of Brazil’s round-of-16 World Cup win over Chile June 28.

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Photo/GIORDANO CIAMPINI

3. Medieval Times’ Nick Melowsky and his Andulusian stallion Castrano demonstrate their battle skills during Toronto Horse Day June 7 at the Exhibition Place Horse Palace.

Photo/PETER C. MCCUSKER

4. The annual Roncesvalles Polish Festival was held over the Sept.

12-14 weekend with music, food and entertainers like Kate Mior who took her act to the streets.

Staff photo/IAN KELSO

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community

Online crowdfunding campaign looking to raise $2,500 to cover costs >>>from page 1 with landlords or real estate companies.

Various Parkdale landmarks make an appearance throughout the film including PCLS, The Parkdale Library

and apartments on Jameson Avenue.

Hurcomb said it wasn’t hard to get Parkdale residents to open up about their struggle with gentrification.

“I think they want people

in Toronto to know about what’s going on in this neighbourhood,” she said.

“We had to deal with really delicate and intimate and personal aspects of gentrification, like the sense of

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security and not feeling safe in your own place, the idea of not being able to establish any roots and being pushed out.”

The group of university students have also launched an Indiegogo campaign online that hopes to crowdfund $2,500 to help cover the cost of camera rentals outside of the university as well as entry fees to different film festivals. So far, Bellboy Pictures has raised more than $670.

According to Hurcomb, the film focuses on the idea of home and its subjective meaning. She would ask the residents in the film to describe what home means to them and they would often use words that don’t reflect their current living situations.

“They would use words like security, safety and comfort but because of what’s going on that’s in jeopardy right now,” Hurcomb said.

Singleton, the documentary’s director, explained too often the public simply sees

Photo/BELLBOY PICTURES

Bellboy Pictures team Eric Clark, left, Dylan Morgan, Katrina Singleton and Jamie Hurcomb.

the benefits of gentrification: new coffee shops, a more vibrant night life or modern condominiums and apartments, and not think twice about the negative effects.

The main message of the film is to get the public to open their eyes and pay attention to what’s happening, she said.

The film will be a short, running approximately 25 minutes and is currently in the post-production phase.

The team is hoping to enter

the film in a few festivals around the city including Hot Docs and another in Montreal in order to help stand up and take notice of the seedy underbelly of gentrification.

The cross-platform film will also include a website where interviews and scenes that did not make it can be seen.

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