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focus on is how we can beautify them to make them a more inviting place for people to spend time, make them a little more than just the concrete lane at the back of a house,” Layton said. There are more than 2,400 laneways across the city currently used by businesses and residents alike as thoroughfares, garbage pickup locations and community parties. Children also use residential laneways as playspaces. According to Taylor, the strategic incision into the concrete would be made at the central drainage channel in the laneway that would be either three or four-inches wide to create a linear puncture garden. >>>pilot, page 6

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StreetARToronto (StART) has big plans for its summer 2015 programming, and it includes a mural festival, a promotional partnership with Google and increasing public art in 18 of its priority wards. The announcement took place at the Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen St. W., Monday, at an information and networking event, with about 50 Torontobased artists and property

owners in attendance. Kristina Hausmanis, project manager for StART, a program born out of the City of Toronto’s Transportation Services Division and an integral part of the city’s graffiti management program, broke the news to the crowd. The identified 18 priority neighbourhoods are areas where StART is trying to increase the number of public art projects. The areas range from Etobicoke North, to Don Valley East to Scarborough East. >>>organization, page 12

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Police superintendent will travel by dog sled to James Bay for charity LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Eleven Division Supt. Heinz Kuck has upped the ante for his second fundraising dog sled expedition in the name of Victim Services Toronto. This year’s excursion, Wednesday, Feb. 25 to Friday, March 6, is taking Kuck on a 300-kilometre, 10-day, nine night trek from Fraserdale, north of Cochrane, to James Bay – a significant increase from last year’s 120 kilometre, three-nights and four days in Algonquin Park. “Part of my being able to capture the hearts and minds of Torontonians, to open their eyes to the plight of victims, is to up the ante,” Kuck told The Villager, adding this journey will be more difficult and aggressive in especially frigid temperatures. “Upping the ante makes it more interesting.” Kuck surpassed his $5,000 fundraising goal last year hitting $8,800. This year, he’s aiming for $7,500, but is optimistic he’ll raise as much as $10,000. When choosing his charitable adventures, Kuck looks to the country’s heritage. Last summer, he completed a half-

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marathon paddle on Lake Ontario. Kuck was inspired to delve into Canada’s heritage for his next charitable adventure. “I looked at snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and hockey,” said Kuck before arriving at dog sledding. An avid outdoorsman and life-long dog owner, it is the ideal sport for Kuck. ‘Life changing’ “It was life-changing,” recalled the top cop of last year’s expedition. Through Chocpaw Expeditions, Kuck learned how to harness the dogs, how to steer the sled and how to brake. Steering a sled with six dogs is not the most straightforward of tasks. When going uphill or through deep snow, the driver must get off the sleigh to assist the dogs. Same goes for going down a steep embankment – “so the sled doesn’t over-run the dogs,” Kuck said.

A sled weighs 50 pounds, he said, so the dogs need support. As part of his training, Kuck is hiking two to three hours a day. He said he’ll rely on his vast hiking, camping and canoeing experience. Kuck will be part of a threemember team driving Alaskan Sled Dogs, including guide Jamie Sands of Chocpaw Expeditions, and Phil Jones, a native of North Wales, UK. He will be flying in from Wales to join the expedition, Kuck said. Jones, an ice rescue expert, was part of a three-person team that climbed Denali in Alaska and climbed in the European Alps and Ouray Colarado. “He has completed a route with dog teams through the mountains of northern Sweden,” Kuck said. Victim Services Toronto is an organization close to Kuck’s heart. A non-profit agency, Victim Services helps those in crisis 24 hours, seven days a week. The only one of its kind in the city, Victim Services supports people in the immediate aftermath of crime or tragedy.

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Freezing temperatures bring icy times to Sorauren Park rink Lace up your skates because the rink is being prepped at Sorauren Park Ice is nice: Left, prospective skaters visit the Sorauren Park rink on Sunday as continuing cold temperatures allow for more floods and freezing for the natural ice surface. Below, Doug Bennet levels the ground. Right, Joel Campbell, left, and Doug Shepherd build the frame. Photos/PETER C. MCCUSKER

Fall construction set for Fort York pedestrian, cycle bridge HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com The long awaited Fort York pedestrian and cycle bridge has been given new life and is slated to start construction this fall. Build Toronto staff, along with City of Toronto staff and representatives from the MMM Group Limited, were on hand last Thursday night during a community information session held at the Fort York Visitor Centre, 250 Fort York Blvd., to discuss preliminary details of the bridge. The pedestrian and cycle bridge itself will be in two parts. The first spanning from the southeast corner of the South Stanley Park Extension, which is a new creation stemming from this project, then over the north rail corridor onto the northern portion of the Ordnance Triangle Lands, within the new Ordnance Park. A second bridge will span from the south side of the Ordnance Triangle Lands over the southern rail corridor onto Fort York Garrison Common. The two bridges will then be connected by a trail within the new park in the Ordnance Triangle. “It’s going to create a link for bike paths from Trinity-Bellwoods Park through Fort York right down to the

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waterfront,” said Don Logie, the vice-president of development and investment for Build Toronto. “It’s a pretty ambitious link, but it’s the last link that’s not on a busy street that provides good access for pedestrians and cyclists.” Led by the MMM Group, the information session allowed interested community members to look at boards with information on the new pedestrian cycling bridge and ask questions to staff from all three organizations in an informal setting. The City of Toronto, directed by Build Toronto, is also working with the city’s Waterfront Secretariat on this project.

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2017 completion The bridge is projected to be completed by spring 2017, two years after initial construction begins this fall. The Fort York Bridge has had a long history of rising from the dead after it was scrapped by council during former mayor Rob Ford’s rule in May 2011. The project was initially identified in the 2004 Fort York Public Realm Master Plan and should have been completed in July 2012 for the bicentennial of the War of 1812.

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The original design was an S-shaped bridge that extended straight across between Fort York and Wellington Street without a single break. According to Edward Presta, project manager of infrastructure planning with the City of Toronto, that’s one of the reasons why its cost went over budget – an estimated

$6.6 million to $8.3 million over its $19.7-million budget – and was subsequently scrapped. “It was a marquee landmark piece that was one whole structure that never broke, so it went from one park over both rails,” Presta said. “So because of the complexity it cost so much.” However, Presta explained breaking up the bridge into two short pieces is much more costeffective. “There are new alignments with this bridge, they’re shorter, more direct, so that will save us some money,” he said Aside from a fixed budget, another challenge faced by Build Toronto and the city will be the actual construction process as it involves building a

bridge over an active rail corridor. However, Logie isn’t worried. He said the company has already been in talks with Metrolinx, Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific about constructing foundations on either side of the sites. As well, the bridges will be constructed off site and then set in place over a couple of weekends to ensure minimal disruption. In the coming months a designbuild model will be implemented, which will have three proposals from designers submit concepts for the bridge that will be judged by a committee consisting of city staff and members of the private sector. Each design will be judged in four different categories: design, construction, price and project management. “We’ve said (to the designers,) give us the best looking bridge we can get for this budget,” Logie said. “We’re confident it will get done, that it’s appealing and will complement the neighbourhood.” All three designs will be shown to the community in June.

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When handed lemons, opposition makes lemonade Playing opposition at city council is delicate work. With no official party system and in its place a coalition of disparate interests in orbit of a – usually – popular mayor, it’s tough to get traction. Contrarian councillors outside that orbit are left to spend their days scouring agendas, waiting for disincentived senior staff to return calls and emails, and working the press gallery to try and get their ideas in front of the public. The pitfalls are many. During the David Miller era, right-of-centre councillors stumbled around for years before forming a coalition called The Responsible Government Group that tried with scant success to critique the mayor’s agenda. Councillors on the left took a different approach with mayor Rob Ford in 2010, taking the give-himrope-to-hang-himself tack until finally, he did so. It’s clear neither

david nickle the city approach is going to work with sober, steady old John Tory, who has an ambitious agenda and the resolve to keep potential opposition away from committees that might affect that agenda. And so it is that on Monday, progressive councillors adopted another strategy: if the mayor gives you lemons, make lemonade. The lemons Tory gave Gord Perks, Mike Layton, Sarah Doucette, Joe Cressy and Maria Augimeri were seats on the Parks and Environment Committee: a committee historically known for light agendas and little influence. That will likely not be the case this term. As of Jan. 12, the committee has a subcommittee: the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

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The subcommittee will begin holding public meetings promptly, to talk about ways in which the city can move into a leadership role in battling climate change, worldwide.

Subcommittee. Chairing it will be Perks, who in addition to representing Parkdale-High Park, has had a long career as an environmental advocate. Also on the committee are Doucette, Layton and Cressy. The subcommittee will begin holding public meetings promptly, to talk about ways in which the city can move into a leadership role in battling climate change, worldwide. Following from that, the subcommittee will likely bring recommendations to the Parks and Environment Committee, which, owing

to its membership, will send those recommendations to council. And from there, into the new mayor’s lap. It will be awkward: climate change mitigation can be expensive, and politically challenging, as it enters into areas where Torontonians are divided: everything from green energy programs to anti-car initiatives and the dreaded “bag tax” from the Miller era. One courting the redmeat conservative support from Ford Nation will have a hard time backing much of that agenda. But failing to back some of that agenda will play just as badly with the centreleft and pure centre voters, for a mayor hoping to maintain a broad base of support. It will be interesting to see how this uniquely passive act of aggression plays out.

David Nickle is The Villager’s city hall reporter. His column appears Thursday.

Meeting discusses possible municipal boundary changes NATALIE CHU plv@insidetoronto.com When it comes to ward boundary changes, less is more. Fewer councillors and more constituents to oversee, that is. Whether or not Toronto’s 44 councillors could accommodate population growth over the next two decades was at the heart of the discussion Jan. 8 over Toronto’s current ward boundaries. A small group gathered in Parkdale’s Toronto Public Library Branch to decide whether voter parity, or the value of each vote, was at risk in some wards due to residential growth. “Cities grow and cities change,” said Gary Davidson, an independent consultant for the project. “We need to look ahead to the next four elections and see how the fairly balanced distribution becomes less balanced.” Davidson, along with consultant Beate Bowron of the Toronto Ward Boundary Review’s team, led the presentation that included projections of population growth. According to the data, the average number of voters in each ward would increase to 74,000 in 2031 from 61,000 in

2014. With residential development plans clustering around the downtown core, 12 wards including Ward 20 Trinity-Spadina and Ward 28 Toronto Centre-Rosedale would reach more than 25 per cent above average in population. That could mean one councillor for more than 100,000 people. “Each vote should have equal weight as others,” said Davidson. He reminded attendees the ward boundaries had not changed since the early 2000s. Any changes would come into effect by the next election in 2018. Along with representation by population, the criteria for evaluating current boundaries includes natural and physical boundaries (such as parks and railways) and communities of interest. For example, Ward 14 Parkdale High-Park has the Dufferin Street railway bridge along Queen Street as an indicator. When the feedback portion of the night began, one resident from Ward 20 said there were “two different worlds” living in his particular ward. The needs of the waterfront community and Annex residents were vastly different in terms of transit, for one. Any changes, he

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said, should address the different lifestyles in certain areas. In the end, the major question debated was: how big can city council get? One question raised was whether the current review gave Toronto the ideal opportunity to align with the provincial riding boundaries. That would reduce the number of city councillors to 23 and effectively give weight to community boards. Others were concerned that current councillors were already swamped with the 65,000 people in their ward and more attention was needed. Both Councillors Ana Bailão (Ward 18 Davenport) and Gord Perks (Ward 14) attended the meeting. City council already had the chance to discuss possible changes as part of the initial stage of the review process.

For Perks, increasing the number of elected representatives was the right way to go. “Historically there were 130 representatives and we should increase the number of people in council. If we went to pre-amalgamation, we’d end up with a council of 89 people,” said Perks. Whether a consensus among council could be reached at that point, Perks responded with a chuckle: “Consensus doesn’t happen anywhere that I’ve ever seen or been.” Perks later told The Villager, “I said that number jokingly, but the point is that municipal politicians have a much more hands-on relationship with community than our federal and provincial governments. If we’re changing the number of councillors we should be expanding it not shrinking it.” The final public meeting for the Toronto and East York areas was held Saturday at Trinity St. Paul’s Church, and now switches over to the North York Community Council Area with three public meetings on Jan. 14, 15 and 17.

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Pilot Laneway Puncture projects proposed for spring of 2015 >>>from page 1 A variety of plants that need minimal tending and benefit from extreme exposure to low nutrient, dry soil conditions with fluctuations of moisture would be planted; such as orange and yellow hackweed, butterfly weed, or prairie smoke, for example. “The plants that grow there don’t need much of anything to survive,” Taylor explained. “They just grow.” Plants growing in laneways already occur without human interference, said Taylor who added all plants need is that tiny crack, sunlight and some moisture. Layton agrees: “You see it everywhere; nature reclaiming spaces in laneways.” The project still needs approval from the city’s transportation department, which will be in charge of making the cuts in the concrete. According

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next technical steps are still a bit unclear, however he will be working on encouraging community engagement about the project through community consultations and volunteers canvassing in different neighbourhoods and informing them of the project, in the coming months. “We want to get them involved, we want to have their agreement that they’d like to see this happen to their laneway before we go ahead,” Taylor told The Villager. “The community has to say, yes. We’re not going to force this on anybody.” Although choosing which

neighbourhood in Ward 19 will be the test sites for the puncture project is still to be determined, Layton remains optimistic the community is willing to shake up its laneways with some green alternatives. “The best projects in the public realm are owned by the community around them that will put the TLC in them that they need,” Layton said. “We’re looking for that type of neighbourhood and I know we have that type of neighbourhood in Ward 19.”

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Little Italy resident reprises role in play JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Having a two-year-old child of her own, actor and Little Italy resident Lesley Faulkner knows some of the questions that go through a young couple’s mind when they discuss whether to have a baby. Those questions are front and centre in Faulkner’s upcoming play, Lungs. The stark two-person work sees her and co-star Brendan Gall debate bringing a child into a world amid fears of climate change and social and political uncertainty. “Brendan plays my boyfriend and he proposes the idea of having a baby,” Faulkner said. “It’s something (the characters) haven’t discussed, but we each have our own feelings about it, what it would mean for ourselves and what it would mean for the world.” She first auditioned for the play after she and her husband welcomed their own daughter into the world, so she instantly

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Brendan Gall, left, and Lesley Faulkner appear in the Tarragon Theatre’s production of, ‘Lungs’.

related to her character. “I had just gone through all of this, and nothing makes life real like having a kid,” she said. Written by British playwright Duncan Macmillan, Lungs gives both performers a chance to shine. With a bare stage and no props, it’s up to Faulkner and Gall to keep the audience riveted. “The script is written as one conversation with no stage directions and no stops,” Faulkner said. “For some of

the lines, my character says the same thing five or six times in slightly different ways, so it was kind of a nightmare to memorize.” The play was roundly acclaimed when it was first staged early in 2014, earning the Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award for Best Production of a Play in the 2013 to 2014 season as well as Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for both the piece itself and both actors.

Lungs is the latest in a long line of successes for Faulkner. The Little Italy resident has appeared in such TV series as Suits, Flashpoint and Republic of Doyle, though she still calls the stage her first love. Faulkner first fell in love with performing as a youngster. She grew up in Manotick, near Ottawa, where the theatre scene was virtually non-existent, but she always relished trips to Ottawa with her mother to watch ballet. She attended the Ottawa School of Speech and Drama and demonstrated a flair for the stage. She then attended theatre school at Concordia University on a scholarship. She is looking forward to reprising the intricate interplay she exhibited with Gall during Lungs’ first run when the play is reprised on the Tarragon stage. Lungs runs until Jan. 25 at the Tarragon Theatre’s Extraspace, 30 Bridgman Ave.

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Waterfront marathon gets Gold Label status To r o n t o’s a n n u a l f a l l S c o t i a b a n k To r o n t o Waterfront Marathon has received a belated Christmas present – the coveted “Gold Label” status from the governing international body. The designation, announced Jan. 8 by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), puts it in heady territory, as one of only four marathons to receive that top honour in North America along with Boston, Chicago and New York. The route basically hugs the Toronto waterfront, from Beech Avenue in the east part of the Beach to west of Parkside Drive in the west but with a key downtown loop involving Bathurst, Bloor and Bay/University streets. Last year’s event, according to organizers, attracted more than 26,000 participants from 60 countries, raising $3.67 million for 173 charities through the Scotiabank

Charity Challenge, and contributing an estimated $35 million to the local economy. This year’s event, which also traditionally includes 5K and half-marathon races, is slated for Oct. 18 and had previously attained another honour – designation as Canada’s official national marathon championship. For race director Alan Brookes, the awarding of the top designation is the culmination of 30 years of hard work for which he was quick to share credit “with the amazing volunteers, Toronto area running clubs and community, Athletics Canada, the City of Toronto, our charities and sponsors. We have an amazing title sponsor.” More on the marathon at www.torontowaterfrontmarathon.com/en/index. htm

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Organization focuses on 18 neighbourhoods Crashing the net >>>from page 1 “We want to make sure our grants are distributed equally throughout the wards,” Hausmanis explained. “Recognizing that street art can be so much more than a response to vandalism, it’s a way to connect communities, a way for groups to take ownership of a space. We’re looking to push that positivity we’ve experienced in the downtown core across the whole city.” To date, StArt has about six different public art programs from Outside the Box, to mural programs, to the underpass program and to its recent collaborations with Metrolinx and Toronto Police Services, all to encourage the appreciation and development of public art. Also slated for 2015, is an inaugural annual three-day Underpass Mural Festival that would take place at Underpass Park, near Lower River Street sometime in late June. “It’s just something that’s been identified by the community,” Hausmanis told The Villager. “Like, why doesn’t Toronto have a street art festival?” According to Hausmanis, there are about 40 pillars in total in the park and StART will be undertaking 19 as part of the festival. The overall

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budget for the festival is roughly $100,000, which will cover the cost of legacy pillars on Lower River Street, a community art festival with family oriented arts programming as well as a musical element throughout the festival’s duration. Partnering with StArt for the festival is Mural Routes, a not-for-profit organization, based in Scarborough, committed to the creation, development and promotion of public wall art since 1994. “What we’ll be looking for is artists that will be competitive with each other in an entertaining way,” said Karin Eaton, the executive director of Mural Routes. “We’re looking for the top artists in the city, top graffiti artists who can complete something in three days.” Mural Routes has helped develop various wall art projects across the city, including the 2009 Jameson Avenue Impressions on tree planters

in Parkdale that consisted of more than 500 photographs of locals and archival images of the street. “We’ve been building this idea (of a mural festival) with graffiti artists and artists in Toronto for the past few months. We’ve talked to them about it and they’ve helped shape it a little,” Eaton said. “There are many great artists and the generosity of street artists in this city is just amazing in terms of input and support.” StART is also planning to work with Google to create a Google Street Art Project to raise awareness of artists on a local an international scale. Interested parties will be able to search street art in different cities that have signed up and participate in driving or walking tours curated by Google. The project still needs approval from the city. “The (StART) program is very much still growing and we’re open to suggestions and feedback because it’s the only way we’ve managed to do all this work,” Hausmanis said. “We are really flexible about fine tuning the programs, it’s very important for us to make all our programs work.”

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