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ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com An Etobicoke church will take over the day-to-day operations at the Sorauren Food Bank. Housed in the basement of the Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (PARC) on Queen Street West, the Sorauren Food Bank, opened in 2009, serves the area

bounded by Bloor Street West to the north, Queen Street West to the south, Humber River to the west and Brock Avenue to the east. It also serves a section south of Queen Street West between the Humber River and Dowling Avenue. PARC, Daily Bread and Canadian Red Cross run the Sorauren Food Bank jointly.

PARC provides the space, Daily Bread provides the food and Red Cross deals with the dayto-day operations. But the Red Cross had given Daily Bread notice it would stop running the Sorauren Food Bank. Gail Nyberg, executive director, Daily Bread Food Bank, said St. Timothy’s Presbyterian Church will take over the role

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�� In a fire, seconds count. Just a few can mean the difference between life and death for you and your loved ones.Toronto City Council’s reckless plan to cut millions from fire services will mean fewer firefighters, station closures, longer response times, and will put people at risk. More buildings, residents, and traffic mean that firefighters are already stretched too thin. There are fewer firefighters today than there were 15 years ago when Toronto amalgamated.Toronto’s firefighters are working harder than ever, but that won’t make up for cuts and underfunding. Toronto citizens and taxpayers expect and deserve adequate fire protection, not decreased public safety. Take action. Visit secondscounttoronto.ca Contact your Councillor: 1.866.381.3398

Students, First Nation youth collaborate on Peace Garden LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com

ocal sculptor, educator and cultural animator Kristen Fahrig is collaborating with Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School students and youth from the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation on an art project that will be a feature of the Dundas Roncesvalles Peace Garden. Currently a concrete jungle, the 72-square metres immediately south of where Roncesvalles Avenue and Dundas Street West connect will likely soon be transformed into a lush green pocket of peace and tranquility. The proposed garden would be part of the 1812 Binational Peace Garden Trail network, a crossborder tourism initiative connected with the international peace garden foundation, which mark the sites – and tell the stories – of the War of 1812. Exploring the history

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of the 32-month military conflict between the United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies and its native allies, the teens are in the midst of creating designs that will be carved into stones that will be set into a pathway as part of the peace garden. In their research, the students learned that Dundas Street West was a native trail that led to the Humber River at the time of the war, Fahrig said. “You can see Dundas meanders parallel to the lake. It was turned into a military road where the native and British soldiers retreated,” she said. “The native warriors were a huge reason why the British were successful.”

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Artist Kristen Fahrig, right, is collaborating with Mississaugas of the New Credit first nations artist Cathie Jamieson, native youth and students from Bishop Marrocco-Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School on a project that will be part of the proposed Dundas Roncesvalles Peace Project.

Over holidays, the students visited Fahrig at her studio on Richmond Street where they began creating their designs for the stones. Each have worked on

one design that incorporates history of the War of 1812 and the important role native people played in the results of the war, native history and thoughts

of peace. For example, one student created a design of a dream catcher, Fahrig said. The designs will be submitted to an architect

at the end of the month – final renderings will be completed by a professional, Fahrig said. Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation artist Cathie Jamieson is helping to oversee the project. This past weekend, she and Fahrig got together at Fahrig’s studio to plan how the designs will go into the peace path. While some of her students said they didn’t feel they had artistic talent, Jamieson encouraged them. “I told them, ‘any opportunity that presents itself, go after it because it’ll open up many more opportunities,’” she said. Fahrig said she hopes that in the spring students from Bishop Marrocco can travel to the native reserve to meet the elders there and continue “this exchange process.” For further details, visit www.kristenfahrig.com ~ files from Erin Hatfield

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Doctors make house calls in downtown Toronto with new program ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com The concept isn’t new – a doctor making house calls is as old as the profession itself, but it isn’t a prevalent practice in Toronto. Now a group of GTA residents have launched a service which will once again give people living in downtown Toronto the option of seeing a doctor in their own home. Reuven Dichter from Thornhill, Oren Lapsker from Richmond Hill and Dr. Roman Elinson from the Annex area are the men behind the new organization called Toronto House Calls. “The point is to give people who want to see a doctor the option to see them in their house rather than going to the ER (emergency room) or their local walk-in clinic or to their family doctor,” Lapsker said. Their vision is to connect Toronto residents to doctors. “Our aim is to connect the

community with local doctors who will see them in their home on the same day,” Lapsker said. Dichter and Lapsker are both from Israel and worked with each other there with emergency medical services (EMS). Elinson, originally from Kiev in Ukraine, and Lapsker are second cousins. All three men work in the health care industry; Elinson is a family doctor in the Yonge and Davisville area, Lapsker works for a company that produces prescription pads and markets prescriptions, and Dichter works at Sunnybrook Hospital for the division that oversees the medical performance of the emergency medical services. The men started discussing Toronto House Calls when Dichter brought up the idea about a year ago. “In my last position in Israel I worked for a private company, which one of their activities was providing this kind of service,” Dichter said.

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Oren Lapsker, left, Roman Elinson and Reuven Dichter are the principals behind Toronto House Calls, which connects Toronto residents with doctors who will see patients in their homes.

“When I came here and read about the Ontario Health Care system, I thought, why not try it here.” The men launched Toronto House Calls about seven weeks ago. Covered by OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Plan), the visit is free to the patient. The service is currently focused on downtown Toronto between Dufferin Street and Bayview Avenue, to just north

of Eglinton Avenue, but that is a soft boundary, the men said. When they can accommodate calls from just outside those boundaries they can, particularly if there is a cluster of calls coming from a particular area. The call centre to request a visit is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and physician home visits take place between 6 and 10 p.m. on weekdays and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

on weekends and holidays. You can also request a visit online. The earlier you request the visit in the day, the better the chance that you would be seen that evening, the men said. “For a lot of people access is a challenge,” Elinson said. “Specifically we are finding the elderly who have mobility issues, parents with young children or people who don’t have a family doctor.” Elinson said they are seeing calls from people with respiratory illnesses, gastrointestinal illnesses and minor injuries. They get a significant number of calls from elderly and for pediatrics. “There are certain limitations as to what one can do during a house call,” Elinson said. “You can’t draw blood, you can’t do imaging. We don’t want to be perceived as a substitute to a clinic or family doctor or the emergency room. We are a complement to those.” One of the services they

provide is a triage of sorts, where doctors assess the case and determine if the patient should be going to the emergency room for treatment. A significant number of emergency room visits have a low enough acuity that they could, and arguably should, be handled by a family doctor, Elinson said. “It is a misallocation of resources and can be a waste of people’s time, that is well known,” Elinson said. The routes are planned for the doctors in advance and distributed to the doctors through a secure application on their smart phones. The number of doctors making house calls on any given day fluctuates, but they currently have a roster of about seven doctors who work with Toronto House Calls. They will expand the number of doctors as the number of calls coming in increases.

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e know that the privilege of hosting large international events – such as the Olympics, a World Expo or the Pan-American Games – comes with incredible opportunities for the host city. But the lure of those opportunities must be carefully measured. In Toronto, the 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games are a little more than a year away. More than 10,000 athletes and officials – and more than 250,000 tourists – are expected to visit the city. As an accompaniment, these Games bring significant worldwide exposure as well as infrastructure improvements throughout Toronto. The potential for a significant, lasting positive impact on the city is enormous. But in that vein, this week’s decision by Toronto’s Economic Development Committee to defer pursuing a bid for the 2024 Olympic our view Games is hardly surprising. There appeared to be little enthusiasm to pursue an opportunity that Volunteers was costly (estimates suggest a help build our bid alone would cost between $50 million and $60 million), and city unlikely to be successful, given the likelihood of the United States gearing up a bid for those same games. And with the impending Pan Ams, as Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly pointed out, it is unwise to pursue anything that would “take our eye off the ball.” The decision is prudent, but we believe the experience of hosting the Pan Ams will be helpful to the city for future bids for international events. While an Olympic bid has been deferred, the committee did leave debate about a potential bid for the 2025 World Expo up to Toronto City Council. While we must, when prudent, seize the opportunities provided by these once-in-a-lifetime events, these aren’t the only opportunities out there to improve our neighbourhoods. City-building has never been restricted to bricks and mortar projects. The actions of our volunteers matter. For example, last weekend, some 200 volunteers showed up at The Bargains Group on Caledonia Road to help pack 3,000 survival kits for the homeless. These kinds of local community projects may not be as glamorous. They may cost less. But it’s hard to argue with the ongoing value they provide in enriching the community.

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Toronto heeds call for Olympic caution It used to be that all it took was a whiff of Olympic gold in the air for a certain segment of the Toronto political and business class to slick down their hair, don their Sunday best, grab a bunch of flowers (and a stack of plane tickets) and go a-courting. That crazy, hungry optimism is in short supply in 2014. Now our political leadership responds to the possibility of launching an Olympic bid with a big tub of ice cream, a comfortable set of pajamas and a binge on ’50s weepies on Netflix. On Monday, Toronto was so medal-shy that not a single proponent of a 2024 Olympic bid showed up to pitch it to Toronto’s Economic Development Committee. It didn’t help that a report from Ernst and Young indicating Toronto’s prospects of successfully bidding for and then running the games on budget

david nickle the city were slim. The committee agreed, and shelved the proposal indefinitely. But heeding calls for caution is a new thing for Toronto’s would-be Olympians. It doesn’t look bad on them. Toronto squandered a lot of resources and goodwill when it lost the 2008 Olympics to Bejing. Then-mayor Mel Lastman embarrassed himself and the city, making a joke about being boiled by cannibals on the eve of a goodwill visit to Africa. And because the city’s waterfront development was so closely tied to successfully hosting the Olympics, one might argue that Toronto’s failure set the crucial city-building initiative back rather than forward. Deputy Mayor Norm

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We, as a city, need to look at our own fundamentals – and recognize the things that make life richer and healthier for Torontonians are also the things that will attract visitors and investment.

Kelly rose this time to make the point that Toronto has other crucial city-building priorities than prettying up for the Olympics. Toronto needs to bring the federal and provincial governments on board to deal with our transportation issues, our housing difficulties and the basics of our city’s finances. And to take his point a step further, we as a city need to look at our own fundamentals – and

recognize that the things that make life richer and healthier for Torontonians are also the things that will attract visitors and investment. Toronto has a fading reputation as a cultural hub for both Ontario and the American states along the border. It wasn’t so long ago that we were a hub for Broadway-style live theatre in Canada and the northeastern U.S., and we could call ourselves both Hollywood North and Broadway North. Now, we’re best known as the butt of late-night jokes about crack smoking and drunken stupors. But we need to get past both dwelling on our glory days in the limelight and our more recent hours in the gutter – and when we finally do step out, learn to keep that hungry look out of our eyes.

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

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To mark the 135th anniversary of Parkdale becoming a village, the Business Improvement Area is inviting people to stroll down memory lane, admire the Victorian architecture and explore the area businesses Saturday, Jan. 25 and Sunday, Jan. 26. The Parkdale Village BIA will be sharing histor ical photos and stories on its website at http:// parkdalevillagebia.com and its facebook page. Businesses along Queen Street West, between Dufferin Street and Roncesvalles Avenue, will host special activities such as free massages, theatrical performances and special offers. The weekend will kick off at a celebration Thursday 8 p.m. at Parkdale Porzia, 1314 Queen St. W. Jan. 1 marked the 135th anniversary of the Parkdale settlement area being proclaimed a municipality and becoming Parkdale Village.

Explore the work of 47 contemporary designers showcased in storefronts along Dundas Street West between Bathurst and Grace streets at the 2014 installment of Do Design. Presented by the Trinity Bellwoods Business Improvement Area, Do Design takes place Thursday to Sunday with the public opening reception Saturday from 3 to 9 p.m. at various venues. Visit http:// dowest.ca

will host a public meeting on the request to permit jet airplanes at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport. The focus of the meeting will be to provide an update on the status of the review of this request, and to hear from members of the public. Beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers, 100 Queen St. W, city staff from the community planning, transportation planning, economic development and public health divisions will be available to answer questions.

Li’ly Lounge hosts SickKids fundraiser Our Children, Their Future, a fundraiser for Sick Kids Foundation Charity, takes place Friday at Li’ly Lounge, 656 College St. Presented by House Junky and Promo Records, the evening will feature musical performances by Jason Hodges, Robb G and others. Doors open at 9 p.m. and advanced tickets, available at wanttickets.com/houseforacause, are $15.

Register for flu talk and free immunization There will be a free Immunization and Flu Shot talk presented by Toronto Western Hospital Patient and Family Education Jan. 31. Delivered by clinicians from the University Health Network, the talk takes place from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at Toronto Western Hospital, second floor, West Wing, Auditorium, Room 401, 399 Bathurst St. Registration is required by calling 416-603-5800, ext. 6475 or email sarah.cunningham@uhn.ca

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MP Nash to host forum to discuss retirement security, Canada Pension Plan LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Retirement security is becoming a greater concern for Canadians. “We know that Canadians are facing a retirement security crisis,”

Parkdale-High Park MP Peggy Nash told The Villager. “One third of the workforce will be facing a drop in their living standards. Sixty per cent of young Canadians – just over one third have access to a private pension

plan. Most Canadians are not able to put money aside for retirement age.” It is for these reasons the local federal politician will host a retirement security forum on Saturday, Jan. 25 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at

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Swansea Town Hall. The forum will provide the opportunity for community members to share their suggestions on the federal role for retirement security. Nash says she is hoping for a large turnout of people, both those nearing or on the verge of retirement, but also younger constituents for whom retirement is not yet on their radar. Nash will be joined by MP for Victoria Murray Rankin, the Official Opposition Pensions Critic. “We get calls from people who suddenly don’t have enough money for retirement,” Nash said. “We still have a significant number of people in retirement years living in poverty.” Increasingly, people are self-employed or “precariously” employed, said the MP. “When I speak to young people, they think they’ll have to work until

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they die,” she said. “A lot of young people don’t think the Canada Pension Plan will be there for them, but it will be. It’s the soundest plan.” In fact, there is a movement – that several provinces are supporting – to improve the Canada Pension Plan because when it was set up, it was thought to supplement a workplace pension plan. “We want to improve it, to increase the benefits it would pay,” Nash said. Take part in the forum to find out about the political context of retirement security, possibilities for change and to share your views. The forum takes place Saturday, Jan. 25 at the town hall, in the Rousseau Room, 95 Lavinia Ave. For more information and to RSVP, visit bit.ly/1cUWbPj or call / email Nash’s office at 416-769-5072, peggynash@parl.gc.ca

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Come Up to My Room WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W. CONTACT: 416-531-4635, comeuptomyroom.com COST: Free An exhibition about trust, risk and collaboration, Come Up To My Room (CUTMR) enters its second decade as Toronto’s biggest alternative design event. A surprise until the day before it opens, the show never fails to delight and inspire with 25 installations that transform the Gladstone Hotel both inside and out. This show bends disciplinary boundaries and explores new ground each year. The Art of the Piano: Rustem Hayroudinoff WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Gallery 345, 345 Sorauren Ave. CONTACT: Edward Epstein, 416822-9781, gallery345@gmail. com COST: $20 cash at the Door Described by Lazar Berman as “a serious artist and master, whose emergence in today’s atmosphere of pseudo-artistic and shallow music-making is especially valuable and welcome”, Rustem Hayroudinoff has performed to great critical acclaim.

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Movie Nights WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen St. W. COST: Free Call 416-393-7686.

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Forty-five minutes of FUN with the Funky Mamas WHEN: 11 to 11:45 a.m. WHERE: Parkdale library, 1303 Queen St. W. The Funky Mamas, one of Canada’s best loved children’s bands, is four moms, one banjo, one fiddle, one guitar, a mandolin, a penny whistle, and heaps and heaps of fun. All ages.

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Trinity Bellwoods Community Association WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Trinity Community Centre 155 Crawford St. Meets every two months on the fourth Monday.

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Beer and Butter Tarts WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: The Rhino, 1249 Queen St. W. CONTACT: www.beerandbuttertarts. ca COST: Free Tasty nibbles, fab beer, plus selected readings from the first issue. Featuring essays, short fiction, poetry, photography and art, Beer and Butter Tarts tells the stories of food in Canada. After School Activities Marketplace WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Fern Avenue Public School, 128 Fern Ave. CONTACT: rmramembership@rmra-to.org COST: Free Roncesvalles-Macdonell Residents’ Association Public meeting After-School Activities Marketplace.

St. Timothy’s were actively looking to serve the Parkdale community >>>from page 1 Timothy’s, also sits on the inner city mission committee there. That committee, she said, aims to do outreach in the community. “Most congregates are first or second generation Korean, and our pastor encourages us as immigrants to give back to the broader community,” Lee O’Rielly said. The St. Timothy’s group has hosted a monthly dinner at Evangel Hall Mission at Adelaide Street West and

Bathurst Street for the past 10 years. For the past seven years they have also run the Teesdale Place Food Bank in Scarborough. However, even before St. Timothy’s started to run the Teesdale Food Bank, they had their sights set on Parkdale. “We always knew Parkdale was a place of need,” Lee O’Rielly said. “Also, so many people (in St. Timothy’s congregation) have the heart to volunteer, but can’t travel far, so location-wise it is ideal.”

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The need in Parkdale is pretty high. – Gail Nyberg

It was by chance that St. Timothy’s recently reached out to see about working in the Parkdale community at the same time the Daily Bread was seeking to find a group to run the food bank. “We had no idea they were searching,” Lee O’Rielly said. “But that is the way God

works. It gives me goosebumps.” St. Timothy’s will work with Daily Bread and the Red Cross to ensure there is a seamless transition, Nyberg said. “Other than the faces changing, I don’t think people will see a difference,” Nyberg said. Daily Bread currently supplies two food banks in the Parkdale area, the other being the Parkdale Community Food Bank. People may not be aware

of how much need there still is in Parkdale, with many residents who are struggling dayto-day, Nyberg said. “Parkdale is an underserviced area and if we could find an additional space we would be really happy,” Nyberg said. “The need in Parkdale is pretty high.” Options to meet that need would be a third location or expanded service at Sorauren Food Bank, which currently operates one day a week and serves about 680 people a

month. Lee O’Rielly said opening the food bank an additional Saturday might work because St. Timothy’s has college students as members who would like to volunteer and weekends work well for them, but there would be a lot to figure out in terms of food delivery before that could happen. “At this point we are just looking at the Tuesday and see how it goes,” Lee O’Rielly said.

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Annual brunch launches Black History Month ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com It has been 35 years since the first formal celebration of Black History Month in Toronto, and according to Rosemary Sadlier, the president of the Ontario Black History Society (OBHS), it is just as important to dedicate a time to focus on Black history in 2014, as it was those many years ago. “Ideally Black History Month is a time to celebrate all those things we learn about all year round,” Sadlier said. “Having a time specifically dedicated as a time to remember, I think, is very critical. “There are people who like to think that we have learned and everything is equitable and fine, but I truly believe that without having a vehicle, without having a time to focus and without being reminded it would be very easy for some of those gains in understanding to be lost.” Despite having had Black History Month celebrated for 35 years, Sadlier said there is still no required Black history curriculum for students, nor is there broad support

to create a museum highlighting African Diaspora contributions, Sadlier said. “Unfortunately we still find that there are issues related to race that some people think no one notices,” said Sadlier, who has been the president of the OBHS for more than 20 years. Black History Month isn’t something that just happened, Sadlier explained of the creation of the month dedicated to highlighting and celebrating the important people and events in the history of the African Diaspora. ‘Never any mention’ “It is maybe hard for people to realize the way things were 35 years ago,” Sadlier said. “There was never any mention or inclusion of the efforts, the contributions, the involvement of people of African origin in this country.” In 1926, a man named Carter G. Woodson felt there needed to be a time to focus on what the AfricanAmerican contribution had been to United States, in particular, as well as globally. He started the Negro History

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Ontario Black History Society president Rosemary Sadlier said it is important to dedicate a time to focus on Black history.

Week, which much later became Black History Month. Meanwhile, here in Canada, Stanley G. Grizzle had become familiar with the celebrations of Black History in the United States. Grizzle organized the first celebration in February as Black History Month at Toronto’s African Canadian Shaw Street British Methodist Episcopal Church in 1950. “He brought the idea and hosted

– Rosemary Sadlier

the first celebration of Black History Month, informally in the Black community in Toronto,” Sadlier said. Founded in 1978, the OBHS is the organization in Canada that is at the forefront in the celebration of Black history and heritage with a demonstrated record in the study, preservation and promotion of Black history in Ontario. “Among the very first things that (OBHS) did was to petition the City of Toronto to formally recognize February as Black History Month, and they were successful,” Sadlier said. “It was the first municipality in Canada to do so.” In 1979 the first formal celebration of Black History Month took place in Toronto. Sadlier, together with former MP Jean Augustine, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, were able to instigate Black History

Month declared across Canada during February. The motion was unanimously passed in the House of Commons on Dec. 5, 1995, and the first national declaration of Black History Month in Canada went into effect in February 1996. Now, each year, the OBHS hosts a brunch and marketplace to officially launch February as Black History Month in Ontario. This year’s brunch will be held Sunday, Jan. 26 at the Liberty Grand on the Exhibition Grounds. The program includes entertainment, speakers and prestigious awards to community members as well as a marketplace with unique items from local community artists, authors, jewellers and designers. The marketplace begins at noon with ceremonies beginning at 1 p.m. For more information about the OBHS or to purchase tickets, call 416-867-9420 or emailevents@blackhistorysociety.ca Tickets to the brunch are $85 ($75 in advance).

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Lover Come Back at Review Cinema Before Mad Men’s Don Draper, there was Jerry Webster. And arch rival Carol Templeton. They’re two Madison Avenue account execs played by Rock Hudson and Doris Day in the 1961 film Lover Come Back. The Revue Cinema presents the film today, and welcomes guest expert Terry O’Reilly to discuss the ad business, the Doris Day period piece and AMC’s Mad Men. The event starts at 7 p.m. O’Reilly, a 30-year veteran of the industry, hosts the CBC radio program Under the Influence, which explores many subjects, including the history of advertising, present-day trends, branding, successful campaigns, marketing tactics, women in advertising and how the industry is portrayed in film and on TV. “A big part of that film for me is how it captures New York in a little bit of amber: the way Doris

Day dresses, the cars, the Technicolor of it. There’s a lot of it that I like,” O’Reilly said of the film in a statement. “It’s not as refined, not as art-directed as Mad Men, but it was made in that era, so it captured that era.” To get into a 1960s Madison Avenue mood, the Revue will be serving martinis and manhattans from the cash bar. Event sponsors, fashion retailers Fresh Collective (401 Roncesvalles Ave.) and Doll Factory by Damzels (394 Roncesvalles Ave.), will provide Doris Daystyle fashions to evoke the era as well as door prizes. The event starts at 7 p.m. Admission is $10 for members, seniors and Revue StarCard holders; $13 for general admission. Buy tickets through the Revue website, www. revuecinema.ca

Electrification of Union Pearson (UP) Express is part of The Big Move, Metrolinx’s regional transportation plan to dramatically improve how people move in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Metrolinx and Hydro One Networks Inc. invite you to their joint Public Open Houses to learn more about the plans to electrify UP Express. At the Open House, interested members of the community can receive a project update and provide feedback on the preliminary design components, environmental effects and mitigation and next steps/timelines. The UP Express route and proposed locations for electrification components are shown on the map below.

The not-for-profit Revue Cinema is at 400 Roncesvalles Ave.

New businesses face restrictions >>>from page 1 “What we have now is an area-specific tool that allows the planning depar tment to make these decisions backed by a policy,” he said. “Roncesvalles has a unique character – it’s a business strip, but we’re keeping the houses on the street.” The wheels of setting guidelines for businesses along Roncesvalles were set in motion last June, when council called for a land use study of the area in June, 2011. The community was consulted to help shape the proposal council approved on Wednesday, Jan. 15. The councillor added the community raised concerns over a few current businesses along the

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strip and pointed out the new guidelines will ensure residents’ concerns are heard and the small-scale neighbourhood feel along the street is preserved. New businesses opening up must also provide a service to the neighbourhood and rely primarily on local patrons. Businesses can only occupy the first floor of buildings along the Roncesvalles strip, must not extend their business beyond the building envelope and must only provide pedestrian access from Roncesvalles Avenue and no other points. “In effect, things along Roncesvalles will stay largely the same, but now there are precise guidelines in place,” Perks said.

The Open Houses will provide you with an opportunity to view displays and speak one-on-one with project staff. We look forward to seeing you there! Thursday, January 30, 2014 Islington Evangel Centre 49 Queens Plate Drive Etobicoke, ON M9W 6P1 Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Monday, February 3, 2014 Locus 144 Restaurant 171 East Liberty Street Unit 144 Toronto, ON M6K 3P6 Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014 York West Active Living Centre 1901 Weston Road Weston, ON M9N 3P5 Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Monday, February 10, 2014 Lithuanian House 1573 Bloor Street West Toronto, ON M6P 1A6 Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

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Patricia Staite Environmental Planner Hydro One Networks Inc. 483 Bay Street, South Tower, Floor 6 Toronto, ON M5G 2P5 tel: 416-345-6799 e-mail: Community.Relations@HydroOne.com www.HydroOne.com/Projects

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