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SONGS AND SPORTS: Dragonette’s Martina Sorbara performs on the Exhibition Place Panamania stage Sunday afternoon. Panamania, part of the Pan Am Games, continues, check out www.toronto2015.org/panamania for complete listings.

Dreaming Tree Grove at Trinity Bellwoods HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com A Dreaming Tree Grove is the latest edition to the treescape within Trinity Bellwoods Park. Twenty-nine new trees were

added to the area thanks to a partnership between Tree Canada, a not-for-profit charitable organization established to encourage Canadians to plant and care for trees in urban and rural environments, and The Dreaming Tree, an

American winery co-founded by musician Dave Matthews. The Grove, along with a plaque, was unveiled Tuesday afternoon in the park. “We know we have to replace 88 trees that we’ll lose to the emerald ash borer in this park

alone,” said councillor Mike Layton for Ward 19 TrinitySpadina. “So the addition of 29 new trees will certainly help out.” The idea to create the Dreaming Tree Grove came >>>MUSICIAN, page 10

An army of hipsters drinking craft beers mixed with a brigade of eco-friendly stroller-pushing parents and a dash of seniors indulging in Portuguese custard tarts only skims the surface of the cultural diversity on the Ossington Strip. Ossington Avenue wasn’t always this way – it was a “fortuitous, unpredictable kind of good luck” that made it this way, said Benj Hellie, Ossington Community Association (OCA) Recording Secretary. The OCA has nominated Ossington Avenue, between Queen Street West and Dundas Street West, for consideration as a Heritage Conservation District (HCD). The group led a historical walkabout as part of the nomination process Wednesday, July 15. “It seems all gap-toothed and weird, but it’s the gaptoothedness and the weirdness that’s the display of the history,” said Hellie, who wrote a book titled On the Ossington Strip, detailing the history of the neighbourhood. “That’s where the display of cultural value comes from.” Hellie guided a group of more >>>GUIDELINES, page 5

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Juno Award-winner QuiQue Escamilla to perform at Panamania Prepare to dance, says Parkdale musician HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

Canada’s rhythmic gymnasts perform their routine in the group all-around finals and qualifications competition Saturday at the Toronto Coliseum. Staff photo/Dan Pearce

trampoline Mexico’s silver medal-winning Dafne Navarro Loza, joins Canadian medalists Rosie MacLennan, gold, and Karen Cockburn, bronze, on the podium following the Pan Am Games women’s trampoline competition on Sunday at the Toronto Coliseum. Photo/MANNY RODRIGUES

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marathon Canada’s Rachel Hannah, centre, runs ahead of event winner, Peru’s Gladys Tejada, early in the Pan Am Games women’s marathon Saturday at the Ontario Place West Channel. Photo/ARMANDO VILLAVONA

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Left, Canada’s Audrey Marcoux, left, blocks Mexico’s Itzel Aguirre during women’s handball preliminary play last Thursday at Exhibition Centre. Mexico won the game 25-22. Right, Canada’s Casper Bilton (66) dives for a shot against a crowd of Brazilian defenders during preliminary round men’s handball action Friday at the Exhibition Centre. Brazil went on to win the game 34-17.

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For musician QuiQue Escamilla performing as part of the lineup of Panamania at Nathan Phillip Square gives him a double dose of hometown pride being able to represent Mexico, his birthplace, and Canada, the place he now calls home. “It’s nice to be part of that lineup and promote some of my culture through my music and the stories of my songs,” he told The Villager. “I’m just happy to see so many cultures coming to Toronto, too. It feels great.” Escamilla, a Parkdale resident, will be performing tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. as part of the 35-day Pananmania arts and culture festival running throughout the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games. “Toronto is a great city for this because of its diversity and multiculturalism that it has in different aspects,” he said. “I see this as only a positive official cultural event for the city.” Escamilla moved to Canada in 2008 from Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico. He’s been performing since he was six years old at family reunions, Friday parties, and at school. Anything involving singing and dancing, Escamilla said, he was always volunteering to entertain. He was introduced to the Toronto music scene through a bar on Queen Street West called Not My Dog three days after landing in Parkdale. “They had open mic night and that was the first time I actually played. That was my first gig,” said Escamilla, who lives in the King Street and Dowling Avenue area. “It allowed me to feel connected to the community right away. That place was like my living room extension when I moved there. I met a lot of friends there and musicians.” Fast-forward seven years and Escamilla, who plays guitar and sings, won a Juno Award this year for World Music Album of the Year after last year picking up a world solo artist of the year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards. His album 500 Years of Night, he said, is hard to peg into one music category because so many styles are incorporated into his sound. “ I t ’s d i v e r s e i n r h y t h m .

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Parkdale musician QuiQue Escamilla will perform at the culture and art festival Panamania.

pan am games panamania Coming from Latin America, a lot of the stuff I’ve heard and collected in my mind over the years in terms of rhythms and flavours can be heard,” he said. “There’s Mexican and Colombian, with a modern take. I also include northern flavours, which is rock and a little bit of the Caribbean with ska and reggae.” Escamilla said all his songs carry a message or commentary on politics and social issues happening in the Americas. Most of it reflects the things he’s seen that represent other people’s reality as well as his own from his time in Mexico. “My own country is really affected by poverty, corruption and discrimination toward the indigenous cultures, all that is very soaked in the songs,” he said, adding the issues transcend to North America, especially when it comes to the Indigenous population. “I do get angry in some songs and I do scream a lot in some songs. It’s a real frustration,” he said. Those coming out to Panamania can expect Escamilla to perform songs from his latest album with a full band and even some theatrical performances. “We always have a pretty highenergy set – we make people dance,” he said. “They should be prepared to dance.”

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ast week, Mayor John Tory took to Twitter to ask Torontonians where the ‘Toronto’ sign, now in front of Nathan Phillips Square, should travel

next. Ideas for the huge multi-coloured sign will be accepted until the end of the Parapan Am Games (Aug. 15) and should be Tweeted to @JohnTory with the hashtag #TORONTOsign The fun social media campaign is looking to crowdsource ideas for where the sign should be placed next – it’s scheduled to stay in front of Toronto City Hall until the end of the year. In a short video introducing the campaign, Tory cites places such as High Park, YongeDundas Square, and even jokes about putting the sign outside the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, home of the NHL’s Senators. Suggestions and photographs our view with the sign plunked somewhere in Toronto have started coming in: Build unity the new George Brown Campus, the Scarborough Bluffs, a resiby sharing dential neighbourhood, and even our sign perched atop the CN Tower. Some ideas are funny, others logical, and some just ridiculous. However, what this sign does offer Torontonians is a way to weigh in on how the city can connect. It’s one city, so the #TORONTOsign should visit every corner of Toronto. It would be a great way to build unity across the city. Imagine coming upon the sign in Mel Lastman Square, at Artscape Wychwood Barns, or the Guild Inn Park. Maybe as an entry point along the major highways coming into the city. How about walking along Queen Street in Parkdale and coming upon the sign at the amphitheatre at Dufferin Street? Maybe Councillor Norm Kelly is right, and the sign could sit above the Scarborough Bluffs looking out across Lake Ontario. How about Sunnyside Beach, the Financial District, Todmorden Mills or the Junction train platform? Toronto is considered a city within a park so why not a travelling park tour? One thing is certain: the sign, installed for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, shouldn’t outstay its welcome. It should be on a tour of the entire city until it lets Torontonians feel they have connected with other Torontonians. This tour could pique interest in other areas of the city many people have not seen. It’s tough to get the west to travel east, or the north to head south. But, a #TORONTOsign might jump-start that migration.

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Pondering a new role for UP Express route Next week, the tunnel connecting the mainland to Billy Bishop Airport on the Toronto islands will be open to the air-travelling public – becoming the second piece of air-travel infrastructure to come online in Toronto this year. The first opened its doors less than a month ago – the Union Pearson Express train service running from Union Station through Weston to Pearson International Airport. It is telling that these two pieces – one privately funded and the other using federal and provincial dollars – are providing transportation services to people with passports and plane tickets and cash. Meanwhile, transit improvements for the rest of us, simply trying to get around town day-to-day, plod along at their own pace, in the best case fully funded and at worst pie-inthe-sky political dreams. It is in this context that I look at the TTCriders’ sug-

david nickle the city gestion last weekend that Metrolinx simply give up the Union Pearson Express as a mass-transit route, with a bit more sympathy than usual. The advocacy group based their argument on what seems a dubious study of their own, spending a morning rush-hour counting the number of riders going in and out of the Pearson station of the line, and counted just 14 on each train. Metrolinx offers up slightly better numbers and maintains that the new $27.50-a-ride train to the airport is a success. Yet, there is compelling reason to think about what the express might do for the morning commute – and that has to do with the morning commute itself. As matters stand, the TTC is busting at the

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It is in this context that I look at the TTCriders’ suggestion last weekend that Metrolinx simply give up the Union Pearson Express as a mass-transit route, with a bit more sympathy than usual.

seams, and city council, in its wisdom, has decided to prioritize costly transit improvements that won’t provide relief very soon and will likely become even more costly. The Scarborough subway extension that council approved will likely have to be realigned, to make way for Mayor John Tory’s SmartTrack surface rail that follows at a point the precise same route as the subway. And SmartTrack could run into its own problems, particularly in the west end through Etobicoke, on

land that the city no longer owns. Putting commuters on trains on the Union Pearson line would immediately reduce the need, if there ever was one, for that western SmartTrack line. It is not, of course, as easy as that. The 15-minute service currently available in each direction for SmartTrack would probably have to be increased. Politically, abandoning air travellers for transit users would involve a mea culpa for the Premier Kathleen Wynne government and Metrolinx that might be untenable. It is, however, easy to get resentful while packed into a subway car, thinking of the ease those few wellheeled travellers have now, making their way from their suite at the Royal York Hotel to the departure lounge at Pearson.

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Guidelines would carry weight at OMB >>>from page 1 than 20 people along Ossington Avenue detailing how historical buildings are mixed in with more contemporary architecture, making the area unique in its lack of a single architectural aesthetic. Hellie managed to pick up plenty of interested pedestrians as the walk progressed north toward Dundas Street as he pointed out the eight original buildings of the neighbourhood, which have been standing since the 1880s. Hellie’s wife, Jessica Wilson, who is vice-president of the OCA, was also guiding the walkabout. The couple moved to Toronto from Chicago and have been living on Argyle Street for the past eight years. Wilson noted one of the reasons Ossington Avenue hasn’t been completely redeveloped yet is because it sits between two large avenues (Queen Street West and Dundas Street West) that have received the brunt of the

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The Ossington Community Association’s Benj Hellie, centre, points out the fire hall that sits at 16 and 18 Ossington during an historical walkabout on Ossington Avenue.

west-end’s redevelopment. “The history in this street is astonishing,” said Wilson, who noted their HCD application emphasizes the cultural history over the architectural history of the strip. “Heritage Conservation District doesn’t just mean rows and rows of fancy architecture or houses. It means a lot of things, and cultural heritage and history, those are really important. In fact, they’re sufficient.” The guidelines would have

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Aboriginal Pavilion WHEN: 7 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Fort York National Historic Site, 250 Fort York Blvd. CONTACT: Dalton Higgins, 416-964-9087 The Aboriginal Pavilion is a 19-day Indigenous arts, culture and sports festival concurrent to the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games from July 10 to 26 and from Aug. 7 to 9. Sun Life Financial Museum + Arts Pass (MAP) CONTACT: www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/museumarts-passes/index.jsp Explore the best of Toronto’s arts and culture with Sun Life Financial Museum + Arts Pass (MAP) library pass, which gets for two adults and five children free admission to local museums, art galleries and more. Shakespeare in the Park WHEN: gates open at 6 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. until Sept. 6 WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. COST: pay what you can at

the gate or online CONTACT: www.canadianstage. com Shakespeare in the Park returns with The Comedy of Errors and Julius Caesar on alternate nights.

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High Park closed to traffic for Pan Am Games CONTACT: www.toronto2015.org High Park will be closed to vehicular traffic today and tomorrow for Pan Am Games events. There will be no access to parking lots. Barricades will be in place and event marshals and volunteers will be present to control pedestrian traffic and athletes moving through the park during the cycling and marathon events. EMS, Toronto Fire and Toronto Police Service will be on site and using horses, ATVs, service vehicles and bicycles to move within the park. Non-vehicular access is normal.

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WHERE: Studio Bar, 824 Dundas W. CONTACT: www. bellwoodsflea.com COST: Free With a fresh lineup of local artisans and vendors, music and cocktails. Bellwoods Flea has it all. Bringing you the very best handmade, vintage, fashion, jewelry and art vendors this awesome city has to offer. Dogs welcome.

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