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ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com From young children to teens, dog owners and even the area’s underhoused residents, some neighbours to Masaryk Park say the space should have something for everyone. But, Masaryk Park doesn’t currently suit everyone, said neighbours Susan Armstrong and Natasha Cassinath, especially now that a new play structure has been installed with no advance notice. “We would really like the park to be a model for inclusion – just a different type of park,” Cassinath said. “We are not just trying to get new park infrastructure... it is about redesigning what a park can be in an area like this.” The women, who live near the park and who both have toddlers, are the driving force behind a small group of residents organizing to plan for the future of the Masaryk Park, located just behind the Masaryk Cowan Recreation Centre at 220 Cowan Avenue. “We are very aware of the perception that we are two moms and we are just in it for a new playground, but it is clear when you spend a lot of time there that there is actually not that many kids in the park,” said Cassinath. For more than a year, Armstrong was trying to get the play structure at Masaryk Park assessed for safety. She was in the process of compiling signatures of about 200 users who were behind the idea of looking into a redesign. “We just thought we would start this petition to raise awareness >>>Forming, page 6

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A MODEL DAY: Felix Laister, 2, watches some trains during the Model Railroad Club of Toronto’s recent open house at its 171 East Liberty St. location. The club has resided on East Liberty St. since 1946, but must move out at the end of April. Its final open houses will be held the first three weekends of February with the final show on Family Day, Monday, Feb. 18.

Notorious bank robbers hid out in Roncesvalles ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com A notorious gang of bank robbers with a Roncesvalles connection will be the subject of an upcoming screening and discussion at the Revue Cinema. The Roncesvalles Village Historical Society and the Revue Cinema will present The Real Story Behind the 1950s Boyd Gang. The evening will

include a taped interview with writer/director Nathan Morlando who made the movie Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster as well as a screening of the film and a discussion. “I think the reason we are doing this is that we want to show there is a different side to our neighbourhood,” said Paul Weinberg, chair of the Roncesvalles Village Historical Society. “The real estate agents came in and created this thing called

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Roncesvalles Village, which is a nice neighbourhood, but we are saying there is a history here, not all of it is nice and give a fuller picture of the neighbourhood.” Between 1949 and 1951 Edwin Alonzo Boyd and his accomplices staged a number of bank robberies and two break outs from the Don Jail. For a time the gang had a hideout on Wright Avenue in Roncesvalles Village.

“The Roncesvalles connection is still not fully explored,” he said. “We need more information, but we know they hid out on Roncesvalles.” The gang also robbed a bank on Roncesvalles and two of the members shot and killed a police officer at College and Lansdowne, just at the edge of the neighbourhood. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in >>>SCREENING, page 7

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Queen West filmmaker premiers unique subway series ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com In the late 1970s, Queen Street West was alive with energy and activism, said filmmaker John Greyson. The gay rights liberation movement was strong and the arts community was open and inclusive. At that time a young Greyson moved to Queen West from London, Ontario, because he wanted to make art and come out as queer and this was the place to do it. “I always talk about Queen West as being my university for better or for worse,” Greyson said. “Making work and being part of the gay activist community right from the start shaped me and the work I was doing.” Greyson didn’t study film, in fact he didn’t even graduate from high school. But upon arriving in Toronto he joined west-end film cooperatives Trinity Square Video and Charles Street Video and later the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), which Greyson said, to him, stands out as a model of what a cooperative should be, not just cheap equipment, but also community. “There was so much permission and generosity back in the 1970s and the stuff I wanted to learn wasn’t being taught at universities,” Greyson said. “I was really excited by queer art and the new generation of gay artists making work about sexuality and that just wasn’t in the curriculum at OCAD or UofT or York, it was on

the magazine was often under attack on freedom of speech issues, but at the same time was the centre of a dynamic activist community. “The arts community really rallied around it, so you had this coming together of a very marginal, progressive, experimental arts scene and a radical gay liberation movement,” Greyson said. “And it all took place in a one-block radius.” It was energizing and had a tremendous influence on his entire career and award-winning films/ videos like Fig Trees, Lilies, and Zero Patience. Strong imprint

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Murder in Passing, written and directed by Queen West resident John Greyson, is the first-ever transmedia ‘who-dun-it’ series for commuters. The series, seen on TTC across the city, runs until March 1.

the street.” It was through these co-ops, being on set, helping other people create their films and through his own mistakes that Greyson said he received his education in filmmaking. In 1991 he went to the Canadian Film Centre, which he said was important for him to make the jump into features and into a higher level of funding. He is now a professor at York

University and has obtained a master’s degree and is working on his Ph.D. in the Drama Centre at the University of Toronto. “Once I finish the Ph.D. I’m thinking of going back and getting my Grade 12,” he said with a chuckle. Greyson recalls working at Fuse Magazine in the 1980s, pre computers, and taking the typesetting to The Body Politic, a gay liberation magazine run by a collective. Greyson said

“Who knew it was going to imprint so strongly,” Greyson said. His latest project, Murder in Passing, which he wrote and directed, is the first-ever transmedia ‘whodun-it’ series for commuters with silent 30-second episodes appearing daily on Toronto’s subway platform screens and online. Murder in Passing launched Jan. 7 and airs daily until March 1. The film-noir murder mystery continues his exploration of larger social issues and social critique. “That combination has stayed true, right up to this project where you have this collision of video art on the subway and issues around transit, bikes and SUVs, but equally important, debates around gender,” Greyson said. “The point of this project isn’t to provoke, it is to engage, so we

are trying to reach viewers, not by shocking or alienating them, but engaging them and bring them into this conversation around these issues of transit and gender.” Murder in Passing explores the murder of bike courier Mars Brito in Passing, B.C. and everyone in the town is a suspect. There are visual clues embedded within every episode as well as American Sign Language signs across the 40 episodes that together spell out another clue. There are opera fugues, with clues embedded, paired with each episode, which Greyson said are hugely important for citizen sleuths to pay mind to. Solve the murder before Detective Epicene does and win prizes. “The goal is that people will see it on the platform and be intrigued and go to the website,” he said. “There is a twitter feed and facebook updates.” Murder in Passing commissioned by Art for Commuters and Pattison Onestop, is a Future Cinema Lab/ Greyzone Production supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Canada Council for the Arts. The project will potentially reach one million people a day for 40 days. “As far as we know, it is the biggest the world has seen,” Greyson said, “No one has done a public serial narrative of this scale before.” Visit www.murderinpassing. com to watch episodes and explore clues.

Parkdale study hopes to improve access to healthy food ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com By working to understand how food gets to people’s plates, particularly those who need it most, a Parkdale study hopes to develop a pilot project to create more effective and sustainable flows of healthy food to all communities. The two-year community food assessment study, called Community Food Flow Project, will explore all sources of food for food-insecure groups, and aims to identify the bottlenecks in the community food system, explained Kuni Kamizaki, the project lead.

Kamizaki said they want to develop detailed maps, which will give them a clear picture of how food flows from agencies like Daily Bread, farmers markets and co-ops like the West End Food Co-op and urban gardens like Greenest City. “We hope to incubate a pilot project to do something different from what we have right now,” Kamizaki said. “We hope to see how the different layers come together or how we can reorganize the different networks of food distribution.” Kamizaki explained the Parkdale project will build on the existing Parkdale Food Network and other collaborations to depict a detailed

map and assess food flows in the Parkdale area. The project will look at the challenges that can limit people’s access to food, such as poverty and mental health issues, high rents or lack of convenient food outlets, and pilot initiatives to increase access to affordable, healthy and culturallyappropriate food. Kamizaki specializes in social planning and community development and is the Community Economic Development Coordinator at the Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (PARC). He has been working with the West End drop-in centre since he was a student and worked on a report

called Beyond Bread and Butter, which examined the opportunities for developing a community food strategy for the downtown Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale. As the lead organization, PARC was recently awarded $148,800 over two years from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to support the Community Food Flow Project. PARC is working in collaboration with area agencies like Greenest City and Daily Bread Food Bank, with additional project collaborators including Toronto Public Health’s Toronto Food Strategy; Shelter, Support & Housing Administration at City of Toronto; the West End Food

Co-op; Parkdale Community Health Centre; and Working For Change. Kamizaki said they hope to have a pilot project in Parkdale complete by the end of the summer and then possibly look at rolling out different studies in other Toronto neighbourhoods. By developing a better understand of existing distribution networks, the Community Food Flow Project aims to create a strong network of distributors and community members with experience in developing innovations around food distribution and addressing together problems of gaps and inefficiencies in community food flows.

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oronto council must understand the future of the Gardiner Expressway is a significant consideration. The Gardiner’s place in Toronto’s transportation infrastructure is an issue that needs to go beyond next week’s budget deliberations. It can’t just habitually resurface when a piece of concrete falls from it. Council needs to identify a comprehensive plan. Council must move forward with the Environmental Assessment (EA) process that began under the previous administration exploring tearing down the Gardiner east of Jarvis Street. That EA was shelved, however, after the 2010 municipal election – despite no council order to do so. That the budget committee voted Tuesday to resume the EA, originally authorized in July 2008 at a cost our view of $7.69 million, is reason for optimism. Gather info Council must have the best information available. The EA to make best will present those options. decision The Gardiner is well-used. It is busy. But it is aging. Currently about $500 million is proposed for the roadway over the next 10 years. Engineers have raised significant concerns that the eastern portion’s safety will be compromised by the end of the decade should those repairs not be made. Those dollars are significant. Most recently, Toronto’s budget committee asked for a report on the pros and cons of selling or leasing the Gardiner. That, too, is an impactful proposal. There are important questions for council to consider. How should we expect our major roadways to operate? How do any of the proposals for the Gardiner fit in with other planned transportation improvements, such as light rail? What kinds of impacts can our communities expect? The Gardiner is a large piece of Toronto’s existing transportation infrastructure. According to Waterfront Toronto figures from 2008, some 200,000 drivers use it daily west of the core. That number is 120,000 east of Jarvis. It’s a significant east-west corridor, serving not only residents of the city, but the Greater Toronto Area. But in many respects this is the ultimate neighbourhood issue – one that has an impact beyond even the 14 Toronto neighbourhoods the roadway actually touches. The pressures of gridlock, only expected to intensify, have far-reaching impacts – into all of our neighbourhoods. Council must gather the best information to confront that reality. newsroom

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I would deduce that Clayton Ruby’s victory in dislocating our great Mayor Rob Ford from city hall has outraged hard-working Torontonians like myself who welcomed Ford’s prudence after the excesses of the David Miller years. Maybe Ford will delight Ontarians if he announces that he is going to run provincially in the election next spring for the Conservative Party paving the way for PC inroads into the heartland of Toronto. Should Ford lose his appeal, I only hope that Doug Holyday or Doug Ford will fill the void, shielding Toronto from regressing back to the Miller-era days, which elected to support union jobs rather than go with the most costefficient TTC streetcars and subway train replacements at the expense of the taxpayers and who gave us the abhorred land-transfer tax that has hindered real estate transactions. David C. Searle

Ford’s image as ‘stolid everyman’ survives Mayor Rob Ford was back in court Monday, this time sitting quietly in an Osgoode Hall courtroom as his lawyer Alan Lenczner made a final pitch for his job. Newspaper deadlines being what they are, by the time you read this it is entirely possible that the three judge Divisional Court panel will have decided on Ford’s appeal of the conviction by Justice Charles Hackland. Monday was not so much about the future, but what has gone before. Being an appeal, there was no new evidence, no testimony and a surfeit of arcane legal arguments, which was as it should be: Ford’s lawyer’s job was to dig into Hackland’s decision to convict Ford under the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act, and demonstrate whatever errors he

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might find. Lenczner took on another task, though: to present and recast the narrative of the mayor’s career on council in the kindest light possible. Honest man So when Ford spoke and voted on his own behalf over a recommendation to compel him to repay $3,150 in charitable donations to lobbyists, he did so, according to Lenczner, as “an honest man.” There was no subterfuge, nothing hidden. He simply had a flawed

understanding of the way the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act applied to matters of personal accountability on council. It’s a narrative that seems to be an easy sell for a large number of Torontonians. Polling Ford continues to poll well in spite of a great deal of evidence that suggests he shouldn’t. Quite apart from the February vote that led to Ford’s conviction, over the past two years the mayor has been accused of diverting his office staff to support his football coaching hobby, which he has also missed city meetings to attend. None of this came up at the appeals court, of course, because none of this was before the court. So Lenczner could pres-

ent an image of a mayor dedicated to openness and honesty, whose simple desire to help young people only occasionally affected his judgment. There was some indication that the narrative found some currency with the judges. Senior Justice Edward Then wondered aloud whether Ford might not have simply made an honest mistake. Clayton Ruby, the lawyer effectively prosecuting Ford on behalf of Torontonian Paul Magder, spent a good amount of time attempting to disabuse him of the notion. So in that sense, whatever the future holds for him in reality, Ford can take some comfort in the fact that the narrative he and his supporters crafted – of the stolid everyman – has at least survived the ordeal of his mayoralty.

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CAFTCAD Presents “Milestones, An Evening with Costume Designer April Ferry” WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Camera, 1028 Queen St. W. CONTACT: Anna Dal Farra, 416 900-0955, anna@caftcad. com COST: $40 adults, $28 for CAFTCAD members and students Join CAFTCAD for an evening with costume designer April Ferry, whose career has spanned more than 30 years. During the event, guests will get a glimpse into Ferry’s personal approach to costume design as she shares stories about her life, career and creative process.

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Personal finances for older women WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: High Park library, 228 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7671 A Woman’s Guide to Money Matters with financial advisor Bernardine Perreira.

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Ontario Winter Wine Fair WHEN: 1 to 10 p.m. WHERE: The Mascot, 1267 Queen St. W. CONTACT: Jeremy Day, 416-536-7748, cafetasteevents.com COST: $50 in advance, $60 at door Wine geek Jeremy Day presents Toronto’s one-stop tasting tour of local wines and cheeses. Guests have the choice of attending between 1 to 5 p.m. or 6 to 10 p.m.

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Debate WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Gladstone, 1214 Queen St. W. Be It Resolved We Are No Longer Able To Conceive Of The City As A Whole Department of Unusual Certainties holds a debate. Free. Visit departmento-

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MINE: Paul Hamilton of The Flickstones, left, reaches for a high pass during a game against H. R. Huck’n’Stuff in the Toronto Ultimate co-ed master’s competitive-intermediate league at Lamport Stadium Sunday afternoon. Sarah MacQuarrie, top, makes a pass for H.R. Huck’n’Stuff during a game against The Flickstones. The Flickstones won the game 24-17.

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Parkdale Residents Association Annual General Meeting WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: May Robinson Auditorium, 20 West Lodge Ave. Business includes the election of new board members and will be followed by

a panel discussion on the process and community response to the Queen West Restaurant Study and Interim Control Bylaw.

■ Thursday, Jan. 24 to 27

Come Up To My Room Alternative Design event WHEN: various times WHERE: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W.

CONTACT: 416-531-4635; comeuptomyroom.com Come Up To My Room Alternative design event featuring artists’ room installations, public space projects and curator’s tours.

■ Friday, Jan. 25

Sleep Problem Health talk WHEN: 1 p.m. WHERE: Toronto West-

West Toronto Stamp Club The West Toronto Stamp Club meets Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. at Fairfield Seniors Centre, 80 Lothian Ave. Membership is $20. Call Don Hedger at 416-621-9982. Parkdale Residents Association Parkdale Residents Association meets the last Thursday of every second month at 20 West Lodge Ave. Call 416-533-0044, visit http://parkdale.to or e-mail info@parkdale.to for details about this organization whose goal is to make the neighbourhood better.

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Natasha Cassinath and Susan Armstrong, neighbours to Masaryk Cowan Park in South Parkdale, stand on the repurposed playground equipment installed in the park last fall.

Community forming a ‘Friends of Masaryk Park’ group >>>from page 1 about the park and start to mobilize,” Armstrong said. But before that could happen, the women said they noticed digging in the park last fall. Without notice, the play equipment was changed. “We were pretty upset that equipment was put in without any consultation,” Armstrong said. This equipment is only suited to younger children, possibly up to the age of five or six, so it doesn’t really meet the needs of the users of the park, the women said. The installation, however unwanted, has spurred the group on and they are now thinking about how they can affect an overall redesign of Masaryk Park to create a central gathering space for all community members. “Parkdale is one of those interesting communities where I think people are aware and open to the idea of living side by side with and where children and homeless people can use the park,” Armstrong said. “We want to create a situation where that is actually possible.” In a neighbourhood like Parkdale the park should have an area for children to play, but also benches and an open area where anyone could lay down in the shade and have a nap if they wish to. “We don’t want to have anything to do with that old thinking that park benches create a place where people

loiter,” Armstrong said. “Park benches are a place for people to hang out and meet each other.” The women said they are at the point where officially becoming a formal ‘Friends of Masaryk Park’ group seems like a natural next step, and then they will start putting together an overall vision for the park. “The big thing we are hoping to achieve is just something that is more creative, that is more useful for everyone,” Armstrong said. “As it stands right now it is a park that has a play structure for kids that are up to the age of five and a splash pad, but there are no benches for adults, nothing for teenagers. “It needs more than just a play structure being replaced, there are larger problems in the park.” There are safety issues, inadequate lighting. The park isn’t open to the street and instead there are three small entrance points, which the women said makes it uninviting. “There is just so much wasted space; if it was designed properly we could really have a space for everyone,” Armstrong said. Ray Stukas, Manager of Parks for the Toronto and East York District, explained play equipment is replaced through a capital works program and there are community meetings and planning for pathways, plantings and benches.

The replacement of the equipment in Masaryk Cowan wasn’t put through a community consultation process because it was installed outside of the capital works program. “The equipment there was old, but it was safe,” Stukas said. “We had some used equipment that fit the foot print and we were able to install it.” Had there been an existing ‘Friends of the Park’ group, Stukas said it would have aided the city when it came time to make the decision to replace the playground equipment. “There had been individual requests for an upgrade and we remembered that when this equipment became available,” Stukas said. “The equipment is definitely safe and it is in better shape and more modern than what was existing there before.” Organized groups are a tremendous help to the city when it comes to planning, organizing and understanding what the community wants in a new park design, Stukas said. “There are dozens of ‘friends of’ groups now and it has become a very popular method to communicate with government,” Stukas said. “It is great and it helps us... we need the input from the community because we don’t live in every single community and we don’t necessarily know what everyone wants.”

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>>>from page 1 September 2011. It stars Canadian actor Scott Speedman as the charismatic and handsome aspiring actor turned crook Edwin Boyd. “The director feels that what the bank robber and his gang were doing was bringing Hollywood crime movies to the streets of Toronto and people got excited about that,” Weinberg said. In the interview with the director, Weinberg said they discuss the historical discrepancies and his decision to not clearly identify where the movie is set. The film was shot in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, which Weinberg said looks similar to what Toronto looked like in the 1950s. “He talks about how his mother remembers the hanging of some of the members of the gang in the 1950s,” Weinberg said. “And capital punishment was very controversial and there were people in vigil protesting the hanging.”

That taped interview will be followed by a screening of Eddie Boyd: Citizen Gangster and a question and answer session about the Roncesvalles connection to the gang with author Nate Hendley, author of Edwin Alonzo Boyd: The Life and Crimes of Canada’s Master Bank Robber. “There are some questions of historical accuracy and that’s what the whole discussion will be about,” Weinberg said. The screening and talk take place at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 15 at the Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Ave. Tickets are $10 for members of the Revue and $13 for non-members. The Roncesvalles Village Historical Society, which aims to document, preserve, and promote the local history of the Roncesvalles area, meets monthly on different subjects. Visit the Roncesvalles Village Historical Society facebook page for more info.

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Paul Weinberg, chair of the Roncesvalles Village Historical Society, stands just east of the Roncesvalles bank robbed by the Boyd Gang in the 1950s. The society will present a screening and discussion about the movie Citizen Gangster and the gang’s connection to the area.

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Cameron House Records kicks off music Gardiner Expressway series for Regent Park School of Music EA moves forward JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Having benefited from the generosity of the Regent Park School of Music (RPSM), Cameron House Records is looking to give back. The record label and school are teaming up to bring a four-part music series to the Cameron House, with donations accepted in support of the RPSM. Richard Marsella, RPSM director, said the series came about when one of the school’s supporters, David Gilbey, came into the school with a plan to hold a fundraising concert series. The series will continue the school’s ongoing goal of creating stronger ties with Toronto’s music community. “My dream for the Regent Park School of Music has always been to connect it in a meaningful way with artists in the community,” Marsella said.

“The guys at Cameron House are great guys, so this is a great fit.” Marsella himself has become a regular fixture on the Cameron House stage, playing there Tuesday nights. Mike McKeown of Cameron House Records said the series will also serve as a thank you to the school after a pair of pianos were donated to the Cameron House. “They were doing their big move (into the new Daniels Spectrum building) and they got new pianos, so they offered us two of their old ones,” McKeown said. “Since they did that, and because they’re a great organization, we decided to do a benefit series for them.” The funds will go toward ensuring children and youth in Regent Park have a chance at a music education. The RPSM has offered affordable lessons to youth in need in Regent Park since it began in 1999. With the school’s

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recent move, they have the capacity to bring in more students, with funding the sole obstacle. “After the move, we can reach so many more kids with our programs,” Marsella said. “We just have to have a sustainable model for doing that.” The Cameron House music series, dubbed Deeply Rooted, will feature a number of local roots-based artists, including

Big Tobacco and the Pickers, Whitney Rose, Devin Cuddy and more. Deeply Rooted will kick off with a show featuring Big Tobacco and the Pickers and David Baxter at the Cameron House, 408 Queen St. W. on Saturday. Doors open at 8 p.m. For more information on the artists, visit www.cameronhouserecords.com/deeplyrooted-in-music-education

Toronto’s budget chief Mike Del Grande moved a motion to resume the environmental assessment on the possible tear-down of the Gardiner Expressway. But that’s not to say Del Grande, a longtime opponent of plans to tear down the Gardiner, has changed his tune. Del Grande said the environmental assessment, which was halted early in Mayor Rob Ford’s term, should be completed as a way to take some of the partisan bite out of the debate on the future of the elevated highway. “I’m all for a fair and reasonable review and an environmental assessment – I am,” said Del Grande at Tuesday’s budget committee meeting to finish off the city’s 2013 budget before sending it to executive committee. “But it just seemed no matter who is in power, left and right, one side is suspicious of the

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Chow overcomes rare syndrome Trinity-Spadina MP confident she will regain her smile DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Olivia Chow has lost her smile. “A new year, a new look,” said Trinity-Spadina MP Chow at a news conference last Friday to speak about her diagnosis of Ramsay Hunt syndrome Type 2 – a viral infection that has caused her to lose control of the muscles in the left side of her face. Chow said she and her doctor caught the disease early over the holidays and thanks to an aggressive prescription of steroids and antiviral drugs, the virus is gone from her body. But it will be some time – weeks, months or longer – before the nerve damage is able to heal and she can regain control of her facial muscles. difficult for contacts Chow, wearing eyeglasses because the paralysis makes it difficult to put in contact lenses, was upbeat when she spoke with reporters. “Because I caught it early, I had a very effective and fast treatment,” she said. “As a result I have no pain right now and the only thing that is not working well is that I can’t smile in a balanced way. I can still smile, but not balanced. “But that doesn’t stop me from working hard, pushing (Prime Minister) Stephen Harper on transit and infra-

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Trinity-Spadina MP Olivia Chow, suffering from Ramsay Hunt syndrome Type 2, speaks during a media conference last Friday.

structure.” Chow said she is “extremely optimistic I will recover” and she minimized the impact it would have on her political career. In addition to her work in Ottawa, polls show Chow is the odds-on favourite to beat Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in a possible byelection this winter. “Mr. Ford’s situation is still in front of the courts so we shall see what happens after Jan. 7 and what council decides,” Chow said. “I am listening very seriously to what people are saying to me.” The judicial panel in the Ford case is expected to provide a ruling shortly. The illness is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox and shingles. Chow recommended older adults who had chicken pox be vaccinated against the virus.

Mayor Rob Ford’s fate now in hands of appeal judges DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Lawyers for and against Mayor Rob Ford faced off Monday for the final appeal that will ultimately decide whether Ford will continue on as mayor of Toronto or be tossed out of office for violating Ontario’s Municipal Conflict of Interest Act. The hearing at Osgoode Hall lasted a day, with Ford’s lawyer Alan Lenczner laying out his four-pronged argument as to why Ontario Superior Court Justice Charles Hackland’s conviction of Ford ought to be struck down. This fall, Hackland found Ford guilty of violating the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act. In February 2012, Ford spoke and voted on recommendations from Janet Leiper, Toronto’s Integrity Commissioner, that Ford be made to repay $3,150 in donations by lobbyists to a football charity he operated. Ford maintained the lobbyists didn’t want their money back, and said he would have to pay the money himself. Under the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act, elected officials are prohibited from voting or speaking on matters in which they have a pecuniary interest. Lenczner presented four arguments in favour of his client. He maintained council had no power to extract the money from Ford because the City of Toronto Act didn’t list that among possible punishments. He also argued Ford had made an honest mistake; that

the amount of money in question was insignificant; and the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act did not govern councillors’ code of conduct. Clayton Ruby, representing Toronto resident Paul Magder in the complaint against Ford, spent the afternoon arguing none of those points held water. He maintained Ford was wilfully ignorant of the conflict of interest rules and Ford’s explanation that he relied on the city solicitor for advice on the act did nothing to mitigate that. “If I rely on advice from the city solicitor – No. 1, I know the city solicitor doesn’t work for me, she works for the city,” Ruby said. “If there’s a conflict, it’s between the city and me. How can I reasonably expect that I think I can get advice on conflicts of interest from the other side? And there’s no way on earth that the city solicitor can know the financial affairs of all 44 councillors.” Ruby was subject to thorough questioning from the chief Divisional Court Justice on the three-judge panel, Justice Edward Then, who wondered if Hackland’s judgement on Ford had been too narrow. “When you’re looking at good faith, isn’t it important to balance that outlook and balance the factors rather than looking at those things that weren’t done?” Then said. “Isn’t it important to look at the things that were done?” Then pointed out Ford had been generally cooperative with the city’s integrity commissioner – save and except

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Mayor Rob Ford, right, and his brother, Etobicoke North Councillor Doug Ford, leave Osgoode Hall after the appeal hearing into the mayor’s conflict of interest ruling.

his refusal to pay the money back. “I’m not sure Mr. Ford, short of insisting on the point that he not reimburse, didn’t cooperate quite fully with the integrity commissioner,” Then said. “He met with her several times, sent out letters asking whether he could return the money. The one thing he didn’t do was yield on the point of reimbursement.” And he said one of the times Ford was warned about his conflict might have been politically poisoned, because it came during the last term of council when former councillor Sandra Bussin was speaker. “He didn’t think she was being objectively helpful because they never agreed on very many issues,” he said. Ruby countered: “That may make sense by itself, but if the speaker of the city council draws this very issue to your

attention and you ignore it and vote on it because you don’t trust her, is it then reasonable to take no steps to seek legal advice from anyone. You can’t call that good faith. It’s not good faith.” And Ruby maintained there had been a pattern where Ford had repeatedly ignored the integrity commissioner. He also disputed the idea the amount of money was insignificant. “It certainly mattered to him,” said Ruby. “He never said it didn’t matter or that this was an insignificant sum. His lawyer says so.” The hearing wrapped up just before 5 p.m. Then said the panel would reserve judgement, but would decide as quickly as possible. If the court upholds Hackland’s decision, there is no further avenue for appeal, and Ford will be removed from office.

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