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face to canvas: Artist Meaghan Kehoe, gets help with a facial paint application from Steven Bernstein during the Artist Project's Art Battle event held Friday at the Better Living Centre. Participants faced off against each other in a competition to create a work of art in 20 minutes. See more photos from this event at www.facebook.com/ParkdaleVillager

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For the past 20 years, Gallery 1313 owner Phil Anderson has been taking photos of the quirky personality of Parkdale and he’s ready to share them with the community. In the Parkdale Pictures exhibit, Anderson provides a visual exploration of unique historical qualities of the neighbourhood, from architecture to landscapes. “For someone who liked to take photographs, it (Parkdale) was full of subject matter waiting to be photographed,” Anderson said. Anderson lived for 20 years at Queen Street West and Roncesvalles Avenue until he moved. Back then rent was $190 a month and his place came with a fireplace and a back deck. He said the neighbourhood’s poor reputation at the time didn’t dissuade him from moving in. “I realized that it was a neighbourhood with a sense of community and I was attracted to its history and the many examples of architecture in its buildings,” Anderson said. With Parkdale Pictures, which runs until Feb. 28 at 1313 Queen St W., Anderson hopes >>>PARKDALE, page 5

27 to discuss the neighbourhood’s vision. The forum will focus on a one-year community visioning and participatory planning,

and will launch a planning study report that will be the basis of a Parkdale community plan. The forum runs from 1:30 to

4 p.m. at the Parkdale Public Library located at 1303 Queen St. W. To RSVP, visit https://goo. gl/u0nw23

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Parkdale Community Legal Services summer caseworkers ratify first collective agreement HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com After 45 years, a group of summer caseworkers at Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS) have made history last week after ratifying their first collective agreement. “It’s rare (this collective agreement),” said Sue Dafoe, the lead negotiator on the agreement from the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). “It’s the first agreement of its kind where summer student employees have a representation rights. It’s good timing and it was part of our goal, on the union’s side, to ensure that it was in place for when the new students start (this May).” PCLS, which functions as a teaching clinic for Osgoode Hall Law School with York University, primarily serves low-income clients in the downtown core as well as Parkdale. It specializes in the areas of landlord and tenant law, immigration law, workers’ rights

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Summer caseworkers at Parkdale Community Legal Services have unanimously ratified their first contract.

issues and social assistance issues. The collective agreement represents the roughly 20 summer caseworkers who are employed by PCLS through Osgoode Hall.

Last summer, the summer caseworkers sought the help of various members of PCLS, alum and the community to sign a letter that shows support for the formation of a

union. They received 237 signatures. The catalyst for the push for a union was over concerns over heavy case workloads. “They (students) had no defined hours,” Dafoe told The Villager. At PCLS, full-time staff members are already part of a union that did not include the summer caseworkers. Dafoe said the fact the full-time staff is already a part of OPSEU did make creating the students’ agreement a bit easier. “We basically took from the staff agreement the provisions that were relevant and applicable (and applied to this agreement),” she said. The summer caseworkers union was formed in August. Since then, three summer caseworkers, who volunteered to be a part of the process, along with OPSEU and members of the PCLS board, met to hammer out the agreement in November. Their collective agreement, which was voted unanimously in favour Feb.

10, now addresses the pressing issues of clearly defined work hours; the ability to earn and take compensating time; grievance and arbitration rights; paid vacation time; bereavement leave; employee-employer committee representation; and recognition for time to be allotted for deferred exams. “These guys now have defined hours of work and have access to compensating time if they have to go over work hours depending on work demand,” Dafoe added. “This is a huge success.” The agreement was completed in four “very long days,” Dafoe said. The process of working out the agreement was well-balanced in her eyes. “Some of it was met with good reception, the basic things like bereavement leave, and some we had to bargain a little harder on,” she said. Dafoe said she believes this agreement may help others gain a voice.

West Lodge Tower tenants protest lack of repairs HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Since Cesar Diaz-Garcia moved into the West Lodge Tower in Parkdale four years ago he said the unit was not in an optimal condition and has gotten progressively worse as the years went on. “The walls are full of fungus and they won’t repaint them. It’s discoloured,” Diaz-Garcia said with the assistance of interpreter Julian Gomez-Biagi. “The toilet doesn’t flush properly. I have to add water to the tank and it’s been like that since I moved in.” Other issues Diaz-Garcia mentioned include malfunctioning heaters and lifting floor tiles. A portion of his ceiling is also caving in, the door to the balcony lets cold air in and he has issues of bedbugs and cockroaches, he said. The apartment towers at 103 and 105 West Lodge Ave. are owned by Wynn Group Residential. The Villager reached out to Wynn Group Residential, but it did not respond in time for our press deadline. To express his frustration DiazGarcia and roughly 60 other West Lodge Tower tenants rallied on Saturday, Feb. 20, outside of the apartment towers. The gathering of frustrated tenants aimed to bring attention to long-standing issues of disrepair in

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Resident Deborah Savage, right, speaks during a rally held Saturday against Wynn Group Residential, the owner of 103-105 West Lodge Ave.

the units from broken windows and doors to faulty appliances and bad plumbing. “Tenants have put in work orders to get these issues fixed, some have also complained to the city. So far the landlord has failed to address these issues,” said Cole Webber, a member of Parkdale Organize!, a community organization focused on helping tenants. Webber added tenants are also rallying against rent increases and experiencing heating issues in their individual units. “It’s winter. People are cold and something should be done sooner rather than later,” he said.

Speeches by various tenants were given that afternoon. Diaz-Garcia said many tenants came out on their balconies to listen and came down to sign their petition to get proper heating in the units. “The atmosphere was really strong and positive,” he said. Over the past few months tenants at both buildings have come together to create a committee to boost their pull for repairs, Webber said. Upwards of 60 tenants from both properties form the committee. This is also the first rally tenants have organized with the goal of getting the landlord to take notice of the pressing repair issues, Webber said.

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onsidering that film and television production work is worth $1-billion a year to Toronto, we think it’s a good idea Mayor John Tory is heading out to Los Angeles for a business mission in support of the industry. The mayor of one of the world’s largest centres for film, television and digital media production should be making annual visits to help promote and protect what is an important business to our city. And he goes at an especially good time as the value of the Canadian dollar relative to the U.S. dollar makes shooting movies and television shows in Toronto even more attractive for American production companies. “Toronto’s film and television sector is a growing source of jobs and economic growth,” said Tory in a city press release. Along with the dollars the industry pumps into Toronto’s economy, it’s also helping grow an valuable source of local our view extremely talent, which benefits our city on so many levels. Being a centre of Trip helps film and television production makes Toronto a cultural hub promote T.O.’s also in Canada for those industries. It builds a strong community of not economy only people in the creative arts, but also in the many technical sides of the industry from high-tech digital imaging, to sound systems, to set building, special effects, catering, transportation, hotels and more. It’s an industry that also builds Toronto a profile beyond the film industry as it also helps increase tourism. While in Los Angeles, Tory has meetings planned with 11 major studios including CBS, Paramount, Warner and Sony. According to the city, those studios alone have more than $800million worth of projects planned for Toronto in 2016 alone. Tory is not going by himself on this trip either, as he is bringing a delegation of both film and tourism professionals from the city with him. They represent Canadian companies and the local hospitality industry, and are making the trip with the mayor on their own dime. There are nine partners as part of the mayor’s delegation and they are paying $5,000 each to sponsor An Evening With Canada’s Stars that will showcase Canadian excellence in the industry as part of the visit. Tory will also meet with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. While some may see this as a nice excuse for the mayor to get out to California at the end of February, we view it as an important part of the job, promoting local industry and looking after the economic health of Toronto.

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‘Crazy’ gondola scheme might be stretching it If you’re going to pitch a crazy transit scheme like gondolas across the Don Valley to service a fancy artisanal market, probably it’s best to make sure that nobody’s planning an extravagant mea-culpa about their crazy transit scheme within the same week. Such is the unhappy circumstance that the entrepreneurial gondola-iers at Bullwheel International Cable Car Corp., who pitched their plan to stretch cable across the Don Valley just days before Metrolinx moved to slash prices on the Union-Pearson Express train to boost its gossamerthin ridership. The train was at one time touted as a major economic development boost, providing a quick link between Union Station and Pearson airport. The investment – $465 million – was deemed worthwhile, even as the private sector consortium initially interested in the project lost interest, and

david nickle the city in 2010 Metrolinx took the whole thing over. The private sector clearly knew something that the public sector leadership didn’t, because the rail line opened up with tepid ridership. It wasn’t hard to see why. With few stations, and those that existed difficult to access, the only way that the 25-minute airport ride could be a convenience would be for those travellers who were staying or holding meetings within a short walk of Union Station. And with the price point of $27 one way, really only executives with an expense account would have any reason to ride it. But for that class of traveller, an airport limo ride with door-to-terminal service would only cost a few dollars more.

What a terrible idea that airport express train was. What a terrible, seductive idea. It was so seductive, of course, because it played to that aspirational myth that is so damaging to Toronto’s more necessary priorities: namely, that we need to dress ourselves up in the manner of much larger cities in Europe and America in order to remain competitive. So if there are trains from Stockholm’s downtown to its airport, and an express train between Victoria Station and Gatwick Airport in London, what fun it would be for us to be like that too. So many of our major transit initiatives have sprung from that ethos. In the 1990s, then North York mayor Mel Lastman fought tooth and nail to make sure there was money for the Sheppard subway, because he knew that building it would validate the Yonge-Sheppard hub

that was to be his old city’s downtown. Scarborough is getting an absurd, one-stop subway extension to the Scarborough Town Centre, because residents there have been convinced that a subway is the path to civic legitimacy. The gondolas as described sound like a lot of fun – soaring over the leafy glories of the Don Valley, carrying passengers from the million-dollarhomes of prime Riverdale to the boutiques and paths of the Evergreen Brick Works in the Don Valley and back. It sounds almost enough fun to subsidize with tax dollars when the logistics prove too costly and the revenues too slim for the private sector. The worst that can happen is you might have to cut your fares.

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>>>from page 1 to remind people of the history of the buildings they so often visit and pass by. “I think people forget sometimes the buildings and places around them. Years ago I lived across from High Park and I would never go unless someone would come to visit and said, ‘Hey let’s go,’” he said. “It’s just like that sometimes. People in Parkdale – residents and visitors – sometimes need to be reminded of what attracted them to the area and sometimes a photograph can help do that.” To add to the historical ambiance of the exhibit, Anderson chose to include archival photos of Parkdale. The oldest picture in the exhibit is of Queen Street West in 1905, he said. The pictures aim to show the progression of the neighbourhood. But don’t worry, it won’t be all landscapes and historical photos.

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Phil Anderson will have his photos like the one above on display at his Parkdale Pictures exhibition until Feb. 28 at Gallery 1313.

“Some of the photos I’ve done I’ve used Parkdale as a back drop, while some photos just sort of happened with the thought, ‘Oh that would make a nice photo,’” Anderson said. “There is also a bit of wacky

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Simply Spectacular Renovated Home, Huge Family Room Addition, 3+1 Bdrm, Gourmet Kitchen, Skylights, Formal Dining Rm, Incredible Professionally Finished Basement Ideal for Entertaining, Theatre, Stage, Wet Bar or In-Law Suite, Detached 8 Car Garage, Ideal for Contractor, Warehouse For Home Based Business, Access to Walking Trails, Close to Hwy and Amenities! Must be seen! Only $899,900!

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Oscars Party WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: 416531-9950, info@revuecinema.ca COST: Free The Revue’s annual Oscar party is a live broadcast of the Academy Awards on our giant screen. There will be prizes, champagne and more.

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Piano Practice Rooms WHEN: noon to 8 p.m. WHERE: Parkdale Public Library, 1303 Queen St. W. Parkdale library has an upright piano that can be booked free of charge in a meeting room. When the room is not in use, patrons may book up to two hours per day to a maximum of two hours per week. Call 416-393-7686.

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