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Canada’s Melissa Humana-Paredes, a west-end resident who went to Humberside Collegiate, left, sets the ball for teammate Taylor Pischke from Manitoba during Pan Am Games preliminary round beach volleyball action against the Cayman Islands on Monday at the Chevrolet Beach Volleyball Centre. Canada went on to win the match 2-0.

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Team Canada handled their first match of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games like pros as the

women swept the Cayman Islands in both sets Monday night at the Chevrolet beach volleyball centre in front of hometown crowd. “We haven’t been home in

three months, but being back here is really nice for us; it’s really comforting. To play in front of all these people is once in a lifetime, (it) is very special,” said Melissa Humana-Paredes, a

Humberside Collegiate grad. “We’re really lucky to be able to do this.” From the first serve the women’s team overpowered >>>GOOD, page 10

St. Joseph’s Health Centre is looking to grow a community garden initiative this summer in front of the Our Lady of Mercy Wing on Sunnyside Avenue. To plant the seeds of community involvement in the project, a meeting was held Thursday evening at the hospital to discuss the vision for the garden. The plan is to have four raised cedar garden beds: three will be four feet by eight feet with one larger bed that will be 12 feet by eight feet. Each one will be wheelchair accessible, which is a main focus, said Ryan McGuire, the hospital’s collaborative practice leader. “The key things are leaving room underneath, so that people’s feet don’t bump into the beds and aren’t able to reach; or, having an angled edge (at the bottom) so that the feet of people in wheelchairs can go right underneath,” said McGuire. “We’d also like one of the beds to be over three feet tall because it’s easier for someone sitting in a wheelchair if something is a little higher they can reach in and do some gardening.” Despite the idea, accessibility >>>BABY, page 5

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Aboriginal art celebration for Pan Am Games AMANDA JEROME plv@insidetoronto.com As the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games play on around the city, a group of artists have gathered at the Fort York Visitors Centre to showcase art that celebrates and challenges Indigenous identity. “The three exhibitions you’re going to see are InterNations/InterSections, Gazing Back, Looking Forward, and Souvenir,” said Rhéanne Chartrand, Artistic Director for the Aboriginal Pavilion, a 19 day Indigenous culture festival running concurrent to the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games, and the curator of Gazing Back, Looking Forward. “What was interesting about all of these projects is that all of us came together very organically,” she said. “It came together out of relationships that we’ve all built over time, and it was just this beautiful moment when we could

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Gazing Back, Looking Forward is a photographic and mixed media exhibit representing questions of Indigenous identity. It will be on display at Fort York through Sept. 27.

come together and celebrate all these exhibitions in one single night.” The opening reception for the exhibits on July 13 brought out many of the exhibits’ artists who stepped forward to explain their work and the feelings they hope their pieces will inspire. Kevin Lamure, an artist

from St. Thomas, Ontario, has a piece in InterNations/ InterSections, an exhibit curated by Naomi Johnson that explores transportation from a First Nations perspective through large-scale art installations. “Way back there were no roads, it was all dense forest and brush, it was very hard to

navigate, so you could really only get around by water in a canoe,” he said about the inspiration behind his work. “That marvellous engineering feat was created by the ancestors of this land and they’re incredibly durable pieces of equipment.” Lamure’s piece, ‘Up the Creek’, is a large fiberglass canoe that balances atop an oil drum. The installation provokes viewers to think about their relation to oil, the future of the planet, and to inspire hope that people can return to more basic forms of technology that won’t harm the earth. “These days we all rely on these man-made materials that are all derivatives of oil and that’s really what the entire project is about,” he said.

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Double duty for Parkdale actor Allegra Fulton Two of Shakespeare’s ‘Roman’ plays featured in 33rd season HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

hen it comes to theatre, Parkdale resident Allegra Fulton’s passion lies with classical acting. “I always loved classic work, partly because it is the Olympics of acting. Film and TV has its own rigor and discipline for sure, but the theatre has a different kind of demand,” Fulton said. “Classical has a very high demand of your mind, body, spirit and your vocal and physical instrument. It’s like training for the Olympics and it’s having all of those things working at top speed, which I really enjoy.” The Queen and Dufferin streets area resident has been acting since she was three and half and got her introduction to television at the age of eight, when she was part of a CBC children’s series that aired in the 60s called Butternut Square, with Ernie “Mr. Dressup” Coombs. From there she was bitten by the showbiz bug and has

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Parkdale actress Allegra Fulton will be starring in The Comedy of Errors and Julius Caesar as a part of Shakespeare in High Park this summer until Sept. 6.

been in plays, movies and television shows for the past four decades, including the play about the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo called Frida K that was written by her mother, Gloria Montero, that helped launch her career. With classical acting being her cup of tea, it’s no

surprise Fulton has returned to the stage this summer with Shakespeare in High Park which is put on by the not-for-profit theatre group Canadian Stage. This is the show’s 33rd season and this summer two of Shakespeare’s great ‘Roman’ plays will be performed on alternating nights

– Julius Caesar, directed by Estelle Shook, and The Comedy of Errors, directed by Matjash Mrozewski. The two plays couldn’t be more different; one a comedy and the other a grave and serious tragedy. Although the plays are different in genre, Fulton said when it comes to Shakespeare plays she finds a common personality trait in characters whom everyone can relate to or recognize in themselves or others. “You always find something inside that resonates. Shakespeare is a real humanist,” Fulton said. “In every play of his and in every character you can find so much of yourself, which is why he’s such a great writer and is so lasting because he’s chronicled the human condition in all his characters and in all his plays.”

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CAMH, Sketch help keep recently-housed youth permanently off streets HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com A research pilot project to help support youth exiting homelessness is in the works and local organizations Sketch, geared to providing creative training initiatives for atrisk youth, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) are among a handful of agencies already on board. The pilot project, which has $390,000 in funding from the Ontario government, is developed by the Toronto Homeless Youth Transition Collaborative. Besides Sketch and CAMH, the collaborative also includes The Centre for Mindfulness Studies, Covenant House, the Wellesley Institute and LOFT (which stands for Leap of Faith Together). For six months the 30 or so youth involved in the program will have access to social support, counselling for groups to address complex trauma and for families to help with reunification and resolve issues; and lastly there will be a psychotherapy component for those who need more than counselling. Through these support mechanisms, the project aims to address the problem of recently housed youth cycling back into homelessness and their poor health choices and their quality of life. “Ultimately the goal is to fill a gap in the system. There are services that are geared toward crisis and placement in housing, but there’s too many young people cycling back to homelessness and not flourishing,” said Sean Kidd, the CAMH clinical scientist that’s leading the pilot project. “Our goal is to develop an approach that is ultimately pragmatic and cost effective and build on existing resources to improve the chances of young people who have made that tremendous jump to housing to actually sustain it.” Kidd added this project will also help youth navigate past the basic survival mode once housing is found and move into a period of stability, which is one of the biggest challenges facing youth in their situation.

That can be in the form of seeking mental health help or finding job. With the help of a broad spectrum of local agencies, Kidd said the project will also provide critical support systems and interventions to help youth overcome societal barriers. “Many have come through a range of adversities, such as mental illness, family adversity, poverty or what have you that led to their homelessness,” Kidd told The Villager. “Most end up being victimized in a range of different ways and engage in a number of activities and experiences that lead to deteriorating mental and physical health. So when you finally get housing it’s not like all of those things are going to go away, support is needed.” That’s where agencies like Sketch come in to help provide programing for the youth to get involved with. Rose Gutierrez, Sketch program director, said although the project is still in its early stages they’re working on creating new programs that will validate the youths’ selfidentity, skills and connections with peers. “The young people in the study will be partnered with our community leaders that have already been through Sketch’s learning framework and will hopefully provide some personal mentorship,” Gutierrez said. “Intentional support will be built in and hopefully they’ll be engaged in other sketch programs.” Gutierrez added Sketch’s role is crucial in this project because it is often seen as an easy entry point to a path of empowerment that’s different from a case management or housing intervention approach. The trick, she said, will be getting the coordination to be seamless. “Mental health is a key piece, but it is one piece. Sketch provides another piece, as does LOFT and so on,” she said. “So you know when an individual comes into a program they’re not a single focused individual with one issue, there’s different pieces to the puzzle.”

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hen a gun falls into the hands of a child or a teen, the blame for it cannot be placed on one person. It’s a community’s collective failure to provide opportunities, outreach and ongoing dialogue for these youth that allows gun culture to take root around them. For there to be a meaningful change, it has to be more than just the police coming to the door and patrolling the streets. There needs to be change fostered from within these neighbourhoods, but it has to happen in tangent with support from those on the who may have the means our view outside to help keep up the momentum. The Jamestown community in Collectively north Etobicoke is mourning the loss of 14-year-old Lecent Ross, we can do who died from a gunshot wound in a friend’s home last week. Though something police continue to investigate and have not laid charges, nor said who fired the gun, they did say the weapon was an illegal, semi-automatic handgun – a .40-calibre Smith & Wesson. Lecent was the third resident on this particular street to be killed by a gun in the past two years. Pastor Allan Bowen, of Abundant Life Assembly in north Etobicoke, told Metroland Media Toronto his community needs saving from drugs, guns and gangs. He says they need a champion to come forward to change the community’s fate. And while the police have their obvious role in eradicating crime from these areas, there are other players that need to come to the table. We, the media, need to keep the spotlight on these issues and these communities. It defeats the purpose of serving the broader, public good when we swoop in on tragedy and fly out at the first sniff of the next breaking news story. Politicians can help push for change within government. They can secure funding for community investment and investment in at-risk youth. But their actions rely significantly on the will of the people. And it’s people who live outside of these neighbourhoods who need to start caring. There are world issues that get more support than the problems happening in our own backyard. This is our city’s problem and these people need our support.

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The live press conference is just part of the story An epiphany came upon the city hall press gallery Tuesday, after Scarborough-Agincourt Councillor Jim Karygiannis finished a morning news conference offering a scaremongering interpretation of the Highway Traffic Act. It was not that Karygiannis was being irresponsible when he warned Torontonians and visitors that they could be fined up to $20,000 for booking an Uber ride. He was being irresponsible, of course, selectively reading sub-clauses from the act to conflate the responsibility of a customer with that of a driver and dispatcher. It was straightforward work for journalists at the event to dismantle that fallacy. Had Karygiannis consulted a lawyer in coming to this position? He had not. Had he spoken with the police about the likelihood of such charges being laid

david nickle the city against passengers booking a ride with the Uber app? He had written them, but not heard back. Had he heard of anyone in any jurisdiction being charged for calling an Uber cab? No. Epiphany The epiphany didn’t really have much to do with Karygiannis. It had to do with us. Because the fact is that while the councillor and former Liberal MP was twisting facts, cameras were rolling – and his words were going out live on CP24, to dental office waiting rooms and airport lounges across the Greater Toronto Area. And before anyone got a chance to ask any

questions – including CP24’s own journalists – Karygiannis had the floor. People who were called in to see the hygienist before questions began might have come away thinking this imaginative scare tactic was a real thing. And that is the epiphany: the institutionalization of live-TV coverage of press events has made it easier than ever for demagoguery to take hold. The Ford brothers used live television news conferences to great effect – shouting down reporters who challenged assertions that were flat-out and selfevidently wrong. Former councillor Doug Ford was a master at this live-TV obfuscation – often picking out a particular journalist by name, and insisting their questions were inspired by personal animosity to his poor brother mayor Rob Ford. One wonders how much of Ford Nation is comprised of people waiting to get the

keys to their car from the muffler shop, watching half or two-thirds of these ohso-distorted spectacles? Karygiannis’ bit of mischief will likely have a similar but smaller effect – driving uninformed visitors and inattentive Torontonians from Uber cars to the waiting arms of Toronto’s licensed taxi drivers, a group that has enjoyed the unwavering support of Karygiannis at committee and council this term. Others, who read newspapers, watch news conferences to the end and partake of the good, balanced work that broadcast journalists do piecing the story together for newscasts, won’t be so easily fooled. But really, that’s just damage control. The medium itself has already delivered its message.

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Baby steps planned for this year >>>from page 1 will be an issue for those with a disability or seniors in the area who want to garden, as the raised beds will be put on the grassy area of the lawn. McGuire said the hospital has managed to get scooters on the lawn without a problem, but will have to consider a harder surface within the year for wheelchair users. Although the idea and concept for the garden are still green, McGuire plans to have the wooden raised beds constructed by the end of the month and will have seasonal vegetable and herbs planted. “We’re thinking of doing baby steps this year. Doing something small and get it going and get people excited about it and see where it goes,” he said. “We’re going to keep it pretty simple since it’s already July, so we want to start trying to plant as soon as possible so we can get something growing between now and the fall. “We just want to get things going and get a little crew

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together to start maintaining the garden and have a schedule. Next spring hopefully we can have a bigger crew together and discuss what we’ll do with the food and host events.” The idea to start this initiative came from patients McGuire has spoken to, he said, who’ve suggested the hospital start a community garden initiative for staff, patients and the community. He added he’s spoken to a few dieticians at the hospital who are excited and eager to turn the garden into a teaching tool for kids and the community. It could also be used by horticultural therapists as part of their programing, he added. “We’d like to have a lot of patient involvement. It could also be part of their treatment

and not just something to do,” McGuire said. Ryan White, a resident of Galley Avenue, has been interested in something like this shooting up in the community, he said. “My spouse and I garden a lot, to the point where I’ve looked around the neighbourhood to see where we could have community garden space,” he said. “I feel like for all the places to have a garden this is one of the more appropriate spaces.” White added he’s interested in having a community garden that isn’t “strictly utilitarian,” but engages the community in a variety of ways. “There are plots in High Park, but it’s almost impossible to get into one. Very few become available. It’s very exclusive,” he told The Villager. “It would be nice to have a less formal, more communal structure. In fact, it would be a great thing to have.” If you would like to participate or suggest ideas for the garden, email Ryan McGuire at mcguir@stjoe.on.ca

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The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s site at College and Russell streets could be in danger of closing down due to its rent potentially more than tripling. CAMH has occupied the building, the former site of the Clarke Institute, since 1998, operating under a 20-year lease with two 20-year options to renew. The building was formerly owned by the province of Ontario, but was sold off to a numbered company owned by Brookfield Asset Management in 2004.

A dispute over the site’s fair market value has left CAMH and Brookfield $74 million apart in renegotiating their lease. CAMH is arguing because the land is zoned for institutional use, its value is only as great as what a hospital would pay for it, whereas Brookfield is looking at the market value of the land if it were redeveloped into condos. “The lease was written specifically for CAMH to operate a hospital on the site,” said CAMH executive vice-president of corporate service and redevelopment Dev Chopra in explaining his side’s $26-million valuation. Chopra added CAMH has already seen its rent jump from $830,000 to $1.2 million in April 2013. T h e n e w re n t u n d e r

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HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com It was a late evening game but that didn’t stop Canadian fans from cheering on the women’s beach volleyball team, who played their first match Monday night. Canada faced off against the Cayman Islands in Pool A during the preliminary rounds held at the Chevrolet Beach Volleyball Centre at CIBC Pan Am Park. Fans poured into the stadium 15 minutes before the match with as much excitement as if it were a medal round. That’s the kind of support Canadians show their home team. “I’m going to cheer them on,” said Diane Mabee of Scarborough, who brought along her son. “We brought our Canadian flag and we’re going to have fun with it.” Mabee, like many of the fans that showed up to cheer on team Canada are huge fans of the sport itself and jumped at the chance to see at least

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Diane Mabee, left, and Brandon Mabee from Scarborough came to show the women’s beach volley team some home town love at Monday night’s beach volleyball game against The Cayman Islands at the Chevrolet Beach Volleyball Centre at CIBC Pan Am Park.

one match. “I’ve always been a fan of beach volleyball. I watch during the summer Olympics,” she said. “I’m looking forward to seeing it live and I’m looking forward to a victory.” Her son Brandon used to play beach volleyball when he was younger and this would also be his first live match.

“I thought it would be a pretty cool event to come see. It’s a once in a lifetime, maybe, game for me,” he said. “And it’s Canada playing too, anything Canadian I’m down for it.” Although the stands weren’t completely full for the first match, the cheers were as loud as a full stadium when Taylor Pischke and Melissa

Good start for Canuck pair >>>from page 1 the Cayman Islands team and was relentless with scoring, winning the first 13 minute set 21-8 easily. Despite their nerves, the women never showed it and that might have something to do with being able to play in front of thousands of cheering Canadian fans. “I think regardless of who we play I’m always a little nervous to jump on the court,” said Humana-Paredes, a fourtime team MVP in both girls volleyball and co-ed volleyball at Humberside who is now attending York University. “But at home with all these amazing people, they made us super comfortable and super fun.” Team Canada never let up their lead as the second match progressed seamlessly with Humana-Paredes and Taylor Pischke in tune with one another, anticipating each other’s moves and winning 21-10. Pischke credits their connection to having played four years together.

We brought our Canadian flag and we’re going to have fun with it. – Diane Mabee

Humana-Paredes stepped out onto the court. Torontonians looking to catch a beach volleyball game should be prepared to dance in their seats as well as see some international talent as the resident DJ and hype man kept the crowd amped and engaged with music, trivia in between plays. In a sea of red and white that filled the stands to cheer on team Canada was Diana Ibranovic from Burlington who came with her family for her mother Aisha’s birthday. She was excited to see the athleticism of the women’s team and their high skill level. “It’s fun to see someone who’s really good at it,” said Ibranovic. “I expect to be blown away by how good they are.”

“When she’s at the net I know where she’s going to be without seeing her. It’s something you learn as you play together and I guess something that you just have from the beginning,” Pischke said. “It’s pretty awesome.” Pischke said they didn’t have much of a strategy coming into their first match, as they didn’t know how well their opponents played. “We just wanted to go into the match and take care of our side and just test them and see what we were going to do during the match and things kind of worked well for us,” said Pischke. “We figured it out pretty quick… We played really well.” Team Canada still has two more teams to play in the pool as this is the preliminary rounds of the tournament. Up next is Puerto Rico and Uruguay, but they’re not worried. “I think moving forward and into the playoffs it will just get tougher,” Pischke said. “So we just got to step our game up.”

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Canada got off to a good start with rugby gold HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com The Canadian women’s Rugby Sevens team had the Midas touch as they pummelled team USA, 55-7, to take home the gold on home turf at Exhibition Stadium Sunday, July 12. “This has been such a buildup of a season,” said Ashley Steacy, the game’s top scorer, with two tries and three conversions. “I c o u l d n’t b e m o re proud.” The women played a heartfelt and entertaining game that night, with head coach John Tait calling it the “best performance of our year.” As team Canada ran away with the game, more than 18,000 fans were there to cheer them on through every tackle and scrum. They cheered and waved their Canadian flags as they showed their team some hometown love. Team Canada captain Jen Kish said she advised the

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Canadian flags poured into Exhibition Stadium Sunday as day two of the Ruby Sevens tournament, both men and women, were underway. Sporting red and white from head to toe, some with the Canadian flag tattooed on their cheeks, fans cheered on the men’s and women’s team from morning till night. One of those hard core fans was 16-year-old Holly McKeever from King City, who came with a handful of friends. “It’s been really great

everyone is so into all the games even when it’s not Canada everyone is cheering them on,” she said. “It’s such a great experience. There’s so much love.” Niagara Falls resident Jay Peterson was there to soak up every game. “Talent level of both (teams) is high, both are extremely talented,” Peterson told The Villager. “The hits are great, the ball movement is amazing and the way the Canadian teams are controlling the game is great to see.” -Hilary Caton

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