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The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care announced its directive to force hospitals to set more affordable parking rates Monday. However the announcement will have little to no effect on the parking prices at St. Joseph’s Health Centre, said its CEO, Elizabeth Buller. “We don’t have significant concerns here at St. Joe’s. We’re actually supportive of the announcement,” Buller said. “We’re very patient centred and we know that parking can be a challenge for many patients and families, in particular when you have multiple visits. We already have among the lowest rates in the GTA for hospitals.” Starting in October, hospitals that charge more than $10 a day for parking will be required to provide five-day, 10-day and 30-day passes that are discounted by 50 per cent off their daily rate; that are transferable between patients and caregivers; that are equipped with in and out privileges throughout a 24-hour period; and that are good for one year from the date of purchase. >>>HOSPITAL, page 6

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Refugee fundraiser: Dancers take to the floor during the Square Dance for Hope fundraising event in support of Syrian refugees held Thursday night at St. Casimir's Hall.

Local residents raise funds to sponsor a Syrian family LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com A group of Roncesvalles Village residents which has swiftly

grown to as many as 40, is in the midst of fundraising to sponsor a Syrian refugee family and is gearing up to host a gala event next month.

The ‘Roncesvalles Refugee Gala FUNdraiser’ takes place Thursday, Feb. 4, at St. Casimir’s Church Hall on Roncesvalles Avenue, just north of Garden

Avenue. Community members can help support the refugee family by purchasing a ticket to the evening that boasts “lovely” >>>FUNDRAISER, page 10

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How well do you know Parkdale as it turns 137? HiLARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Ha p py 1 3 7 t h b i r t h d a y

Parkdale. Today marks the big day the community is celebrating everything Parkdale—from its

unique shops to its equally unique clientele. Its diversity and creativity found in the community helps

Did you know? • The very first house of worship to be built in Parkdale is the Anglican Church of Epiphany of St. Mark (formerly the Anglican Church of St. Mark) at Cowan Avenue, south of Queen Street. It was completed in 1881. • Pope John Paul II came to visit Toronto in 1984 and hosted an open-air mass at Exhibition Place. • There used to be a train station at the intersection of Springhurst and Jameson avenues. It was built for the rail line along the lake in the 1850s. • The Toronto Design Market, 1605 Queen St. W., used to be the home of the Parkdale movie theatre. Some of the original ceiling design is still visible.

push Parkdale to be one of the coolest places to live in Toronto. The ’hood has gone through

numerous changes over the years and continues down that path as old familiar sites are transformed, but the rich

history of the area remains. Here are some fun facts about the Parkdale you know and love.

• Palais Royale, 1601 Lake Shore Blvd. W., was not only a dance hall where Parkdale party-goers went to shimmy and shake back in the day. It also doubled as a canoe factory, which was located in the basement. • The Sunnyside streetcar loop used to be a bus terminal, aptly named the Sunnyside Bus Terminal. • The hotel that originally stood at the corner of Dufferin and Queen Streets was called the Union Hotel. It’s now a Days Inn. • In 1954, Marilyn Bell, now a retired long distance swimmer, was the first person to swim Lake Ontario. Her finish line was in Parkdale. To commemorate the occasion, the City of Toronto named a park after her where she came ashore.

• In order to build the Gardiner Expressway (which is currently getting a facelift) between 1955 and 1964, 170 houses were demolished in Parkdale to make way for the now major downtown artery. The Sunnyside Amusement Park also had to be demolished to make way for the expressway.

• Muriel Kauffman, the wife of Kansas City Royals owner Ewing Kauffman (who beat the Jays during their amazing playoff run last year), was actually born in Toronto and attended Parkdale Collegiate Institution.

City completes study to determine route for extending West Toronto Railpath

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Big cheque: Members of the Lake Shore Boulevard Club present the Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre (PARC) Meal Program with a $50,000 cheque last week. The money was raised at the Boulevard Club's annual charity gala in December.

The City of Toronto has announced it’s completed a study to determine a route for extending the West Toronto Railpath. After a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment, the city determined that the West Toronto Railpath will consist of five new multiuse trail bridges as part of the recommended route, including bridges over the Barrie GO rail corridor, Lansdowne Avenue, Brock Street, Dufferin Street and Queen Street West. The trail will be aligned in the rail corridor under the Dundas Street bridge to Dufferin Street and from Dufferin Street to Abell Street. However, there is no recommendation for a route

between Abell Street to the planned Fort York Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge. The reasons for this include the lack of space within the rail corridor, technical issues and property impacts. More study and public consultation are needed to fully understand the impacts and opportunities for this section. An Environmental Study Report (ESR) was prepared and is available for a 30-day period ending Feb. 15 for review at the following libraries: n Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen St. W. For details, call 416-393-7686. n College Shaw Library, 766 College St. For details, call 416-393-7668. n Fort York Library, 190

Fort York Blvd. For details, call 416-393-6240. The ESR is also available on the project’s webpage at: toronto.ca/westrailpath hold budget meeting wCouncillors

Parkdale-High Park councillors Sarah Doucette and Gord Perks host a joint 2016 budget town hall Wednesday, Feb. 10 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School, 1515 Bloor St W. Learn what is in the proposed budget and share your views with the councillors and your neighbours. For more information on the budget, visit: www. toronto.ca/budget2016 RSVP to http://goo.gl/ forms/aalH4QhoZO

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Budget balancing continues along in haphazard way If all goes through as planned, it looks as though Mayor John Tory will have passed two out of two unsustainable annual city budgets by February. In 2015, you may recall, Toronto’s budget committee found itself in a panic over the end to pooling grants from the province, that had helped Toronto deal with the cost of social housing that is much higher here than in other GTA municipalities. City officials thrashed about trying to find a way to fill the $86-million hole and eventually approved a complex plan to loan itself money from its capital reserves — a move that might, absent another robust year of land transfer tax-collection, have squeezed the city for years to come. As it was, surpluses and reserves helped minimize the debt that Toronto will eventually have to repay to itself. That was a lucky break. And maybe there will be another lucky break, after Toronto Council gets through

david nickle the city with this year’s budget. This time, there’s no unexpected trouble that’s shown up to mess up a perfectly balanced budget. Rather, the city administration has made it clear that Mayor Tory and Toronto Council have created pressures that a simple balance-sheet budgeting exercise can’t resolve. To whit: an inflationary property tax increase as Mayor Tory has insisted on can’t deal with either the growing cost of simply standing still, or the many enhancements and improvements that council and the mayor approved and announced this year. Politicians, the city manager said, would have to come up with solutions. So this past Monday (Jan. 18), budget chief Gary Crawford brought forward a solution. It involves an oldfashioned raid on reserves,

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Hospital already offers discounted rates for patients with exceptional needs, says CEO >>>from page 1 St. Joe’s has a daily maximum rate of $15, an $18 day pass; a $40 seven-day pass; an $80 two-week pass, and a $160 monthly pass. Buller added the hospital on The Queensway also offers discounted rates for patients with exceptional needs who frequent St. Joe’s multiple days in the week. “It’s already more than a 50 per cent discount,” Buller said. “So most likely we’d be looking at a price freeze.” All hospitals in the province are being told to freeze rates starting this month. Buller said St. Joe’s would be changing its weekly pass from seven days to five days. A more detailed analysis is expected to be done at St. Joe’s with staff, advisory councils and the ministry in the coming months about parking changes. According to the local hospital’s website, parking revenue helps fund the patient

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Express bus routes to launch in March Fundraiser will include five-piece rahul gupta jazz ensemble, magician, food stations >>>from page 1 food donated by high end restaurants, according to Barb Willitts, co-chair of the Roncesvalles Refugee Relief. The evening will also include music by a five-piece jazz ensemble and DJ playing songs from the 1960s, 70s and 80s. There will be a variety of musicians and entertainers, including a magician performing hand magic, food stations brimming with creations by top restaurants and caterers, beer and wine as well as a signature drink from a donor. There will be a silent auction with food, drink, baskets, and other items up for grabs. Roncesvalles Refugee Relief was founded by longtime friends Willitts and Joanne Green during a conversation on the dock of Willitts’ cottage in Temagami last summer. They, like many Canadians, have been moved

with Bloor Street United Church and is seeking to raise $50,000 towards helping a family resettle in Toronto. A member’s garage is full of household items in preparation for the family’s arrival. The group has yet to be paired up with one. “We’ll be ready to take a family as early as February,” Willitts said. “The more money we raise, the bigger the family we can support.” The Gala FUNdraiser runs from 7 until 11:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. St. Casimir’s Church Hall is at 156 Roncesvalles Ave. Tickets are $100 each. Each ticket includes admission, a drink ticket, food and a bid on an allinclusive trip for two to the Caribbean.

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“We decided we can’t not do something,” Willitts said, adding she and Green have volunteered together in the past. Since September, the group quickly grew from 10 to 40 members. “You can be as involved or removed as you’d like to be,” she said. It is currently working on a sponsorship agreement

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The cost for visitor parking at hospitals during extended stays will decrease in 2016, the Ontario government pledged this week. The move, announced by Ontario Minister of Health Eric Hoskins, will require hospitals which charge more

than $10 a day for parking to offer passes 50 per cent less than the regular rate for stays of five, 10 and 30 days. The passes can be transferred between patients and caregivers, allow for unlimited in-and-out privileges and remain valid for one year. In addition, parking rates will freeze for three years, and after that can only increase at the rate of inflation. The changes are scheduled to go into effect in October. a trucking career at humber wconsider

Humber College is hosting its annual Trucking Career Day recruitment fair. The event, set for Saturday, Jan. 30 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Humber Centre for Trades and Technology, is geared to anyone mulling a career change or a new employer. For more information, visit www.humber.ca/trucking Rahul Gupta is Metroland Media Toronto’s transit reporter. His column appears every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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Illustrator gets writing in shape with latest kids book HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Dreaming up illustrations for children’s books comes naturally for Bloordale Village artist Tania Howells, but when it comes to writing them, it’s a completely different story. “It took ages (to get an idea). It just doesn’t come naturally to me,” Howells said with a laugh. But that didn’t stop her from constantly brainstorming. It was suggested she write a book about shapes or numbers and that’s when the light bulb in her head went off. “After that, then one day finally an idea came to me,” she said. Starring Shapes!, published by Kids Can Press, follows a group of shapes: Oval, Triangle, Circle, Square,

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Rectangle, Rhombus (a.k.a Diamond) who attend Shapeston Elementary. Each one is excited about auditioning for the school play, and as each one auditions, they’re introduced with descriptions of their unique personalities, interests, and their previous roles in the school play. Naturally, Triangle was a tortilla chip, Oval was a skating rink and Diamond had the role of a kite. “It’s a dream come true to illustrate children’s books and it’s a dream to write one too,” said the Lansdowne Avenue and Dundas Street West resident. Howells graduated from Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) in 1997 with a degree in interdisciplinary studies and has been illustrating since 2008. Her

work can be found in other children’s books such as Berkeley’s Barn Owl Dance, and Willow’s Whispers and in magazines such as Chatelaine and Chirp. She also has a young son whom she loves reading books to.

This is Howell’s first children’s book she’s written and admits the process was a lot harder than she thought. Now that she’s had the opportunity to be both the author and the illustrator, she’s experienced both sides of the coin. “When you illustrate and

Howells said she’d still like to make more in the future, adding that she realizes the trick is to keep it simple. Her son suggested making the next one about trains. “His ideas always seem to be train related,” she said laughing. “That’s his passion, so I say, we’ll see.” Book launch Saturday Tania Howells will be hosting a book launch at Another Story Bookshop, 135 Roncesvalles Ave. on Saturday at 4 p.m. The book is available on Amazon.com or at Another Story Bookshop.

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High Park Zoo hosts Master Plan meeting In order to plan improvements to the zoo, Friends of High Park Zoo, in collaboration with the City of Toronto and industry professionals, is developing a High Park Zoo Master Plan. This plan will guide projects and capital improvements for years to come. As part of the process, Friends of High Park Zoo would like local residents to share their ideas and visions

for High Park Zoo. A second meeting will be held Thursday, Jan. 28 at The Forest School, just inside the main entrance of High Park from Bloor Street West. Visit highparkzoo.ca for details. Toronto reduce gas emissions whelp

Parkdale-High Park councillors present a community meeting as part of Toronto’s Talk Transformation! speaker

series, Wednesday, Jan. 27. The meeting, Making Toronto a Climate Change Leader, takes place at Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School, 1515 Bloor St. W., from 7 to 9 p.m. Share your ideas to help Toronto reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. RSVP at http://goo.gl/ forms/pnkwruay6L

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Tafelmusik Presents Le Mozart Noir

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Music Director of Tafelmusik Jeanne Lamon introduces this film on Joseph Boulogne, a remarkable black musician in 18th century France. Monday, February 8, 6:30 pm Parkdale Branch, 1303 Queen St. West

The eh List: A Special Event with Lawrence Hill Award-winning author Lawrence Hill discusses Café Babanussa, a moving portrait of a young woman’s experience of life, love and the shifting tides of mental health, written by his sister, the late Karen Hill.

An interactive jam session of retro and contemporary calypso for all ages. Tuesday, February 23, 2 pm High Park Branch, 228 Roncesvalles Ave.

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Parkdale Village BIA anniversary WHERE: Parkdale Village BIA, 1313 Queen St. W. CONTACT: http://bit.ly/ ParkdaleVillage Parkdale Village BIA celebrates the rich history of Parkdale Village from Jan. 21 to 24. Visit website for details.

Book launch - Starring Shapes WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: Tania Howells, 416-5354293, taniahowells@yahoo.ca COST: Free Tania Howells will be reading from her new children’s book, “Starring Shapes”.

The Trinity Bellwoods Flea: Local Food Edition WHEN: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Studio Bar, 824 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: Felicia, 647-763-5343, www.trinitybellwoodsflea. com, COST: Free The Trinity Bellwoods Flea is throwing a twist on its regular shopping experience and focusing on good ol’ fashioned local food. There will still be fashion, vintage and handmade vendors and many food venders. Snaggle’s Pre-recording show live at May Cafe! WHEN: 9 to 11 p.m. WHERE: May Cafe, 876 Dundas St. W. CONTACT:

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Snaggle, www.snagglemusic.com, snaggle251@gmail. com COST: $10 At the end of January, Snaggle is heading into the studio to record their second album. This is your last chance to see the band before they record. Queen Charlotte’s Birthday Ball WHERE: Fort York, 250 Fort York Blvd. TIME: 2 to 10:30 p.m. CONTACT: 416-3927484 to register COST: $100 The event is a costumed ball recreating an early 19th century social gathering. It includes instruction in

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Parkdale Residents Association AGM WHERE: May Robinson Auditorium, 20 West Lodge Ave. CONTACT: http:// parkdale.to/contact/ Open to the public.

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Storytelling Performance Actor Andrea Scott performs an interactive story for children of all ages. Friday, February 26, 2 pm Spadina Road Branch, 10 Spadina Rd.

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A moving story of two boys from Regent Park and their struggles of crossing into adulthood. Thursday, February 25, 6 pm Palmerston Branch, 560 Palmerston Ave.