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Parkdale residents launch driveway parking app HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com It’s being called “the Airbnb of parking.”

The Rover Parking app was launched earlier this month.

The app is the brainchild of Parkdale residents Tim Wootton

and his business partner Grant Brigden, who also had a similar idea, but was working on it independently at the time. The two teamed up about a year ago to bring their idea to fruition.

The app, like Airbnb where people can rent out lodging, essentially pairs drivers look-

ing to park downtown with an unused parking space in a neighbour’s driveway, with the capped cost of $2 an hour. The peer-to-peer sharing model also takes 15 per cent of the transaction on either side.

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A ‘loophole’ in the City of Toronto’s zoning bylaw has left the Ossington community fighting against an influx of vertical duplexes in their neighbourhood.

“This kind of change in our residential neighbourhoods just can’t happen under the radar,” said Jessica Wilson, vice-president of the Ossington Community Association.

The duplexes, also called vertical splits, is when one single building on one lot is divided vertically into two separate homes.

According to the old zoning bylaw, a duplex is a building on a single lot that is horizontally divided into two units, and vertically split duplexes were not allowed, she said. However, under the amended bylaw that came into effect about a year ago, that definition has changed: now a duplex is a building on a single lot that can be vertically, as well as horizontally divided.

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Photo exhibit is a documentation of lives HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com For weeks members of Dale Ministries, a church-based community organization in Parkdale, have been wandering the neighbourhood taking photographs that reflect their lives.

A dozen black and white images are now on display in an exhibit called Through the Lens, currently on display at Gallery 1313, 1313 Queen St. W,, in its Process Gallery, until Aug. 2.

All the photographs are for sale and the proceeds go directly to the Dale Ministries to help with programming costs.

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Dale Ministries’s volunteer James Overton produced the exhibit ‘Through the Lens’ at Gallery 1313. Some of his pieces, including these portraits, will be on display as well.

“Our people are dealing with significant marginalization due to poverty issues.

So we didn’t know what to

expect. But what I love is that the photographs are quite beautiful,” said Erinn Oxford, Dale Ministries direc-

tor who helped co-produce the exhibit. “I think it outlines well that regardless of our circumstances we’re all looking for a bit of beauty in life.”

Dale Ministries, which runs on donations only, doesn’t have a building and instead runs all of its drop-in programs in partnership with local organizations including St. Francis Table, BonarParkdale Presbyterian Church and the Jeremiah Community Hub. “We run drop-in programs throughout the week and it’s all very come-as-you-are.

We want people to feel safe to come with whatever it is they’re struggling with,” said Oxford. “It’s better to deal

with them in the context of community.”

The exhibit was produced by volunteer and Parkdale resident James Overton, a graduate of Ryerson University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography, who joined Dale Ministries in February.

“We started doing this project with the idea of, ‘let’s just give them cameras and see what comes about.’ I had a pretty narrow window of what I could use, but I think I used what I had pretty effectively.”

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Parkdale artist wins Venture Award grant HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

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t’s been a good year for Parkdale artist Jesse Bromm. Not only did he complete his stint as the artist-in-residence at Habourfront Centre, he also is the recipient of a prestigious 2015 Dalglish Family Foundation Venture Award.

“It feels like a gamechanger, winning this award,” Bromm told The Villager.

The Venture Award is a $15,000 grant awarded to two graduating artists from the Craft & Design artistin-residence program. It’s the only award of its kind in Canada and aims to support entrepreneurship in craft and design.

His sculptural work incorporates blown glass, miniature figurines in landscape settings, found objects and taxidermy to contrast scenes of everyday life with various represen-

tations of morality, mortality and socio-cultural issues.

He also creates various functional glassware products.

“The miniatures came out of a desire to have representational things,” he said, adding if he created them out of glass they would have been “too cartoonish.” He wanted more detail.

The figurines and the objects themselves are meant to augment people’s perception of reality while exploring the dual reality between surface culture and what’s buried underneath.

Bromm graduated from Sheridan College in 2007 with a diploma in art fundamentals and again in 2010 with a craft and design diploma in glass.

A year after graduating, Bromm was accepted into Harbourfront’s artist-inresidence program. It was something suggested to

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Parkdale artist Jesse Bromm is the recipient of the 2015 Dalglish Family Foundation Venture Awards given out by the Harbourfront Centre’s Craft & Design Studio.

him and he decided to take a leap of faith. He’s glad he did.

“It’s the best program in the country that’s got a subsidized studio space.

The program has always had a good reputation for having the best contemporary glass blowers and craftsmen,” said the King Street and Dowling Avenue resident. “Almost every glass blower I look up to or

have followed their career are past residents of this program.”

Although Bromm was excited to follow in the footsteps of the craftsmen he admired, he admits it was intimidating when he first started.

“At the time, all the residents were phenomenally skilled and just technically skilled when I started,” he said. “And their ideas were

just above what I’ve been experiencing at school.

It was intimidating to be honest, but I couldn’t wait to learn from them.”

Bromm plans to use this award to embark on a selfstructured apprenticeship program, in what he calls “the next step” in his development.

“I’m going to travel across Canada to different studios to apprentice, whether for (studio) time, money, skills or equipment,” he said.

The money will help him build an enclosure on the back of his truck that will double as a place to stay and place to hold his current tools and the equipment he will acquire along the way, he said.

“This will help cover travel costs, tool acquisition and some money to buy older equipment so I can slowly amass the equipment I need to eventually open my own (glass) studio,” he said.

Chow joins race in new federal riding After leaving her post as Trinity-Spadina MP last year to run for mayor of Toronto – a bid that resulted in a disappointing third-place finish – Olivia Chow is making a return to politics.

Chow, whose experience in politics includes a stint as Toronto District School Board trustee from 1985 to 1991 and as city councillor from 1991 to 2005 in addition to her time spent as an NDP MP, had been teaching at Ryerson University since shortly after the election loss.

The widow of former NDP leader and Canadian political icon Jack Layton, she announced on Tuesday, alongside federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair her intention to run as the NDP candidate in the newly-formed riding of Spadina-Fort York.

“We’re on the edge of having a government that will finally build affordable childcare for kids across this country,” she said, pointing to the NDP platform. “I refuse to stand on the sidelines and watch the desperation of parents waiting for child care – 17,000 in Toronto alone.”

Other key planks of her platform will include stable funding for public transit and social housing, as well as a $15 minimum wage.

Chow’s plan to run as the NDP candidate sets up a battle of political heavyweights in Spadina-Fort York, where she will square off against Liberal incumbent Adam Vaughan, who won Chow’s vacated seat in Trinity-Spadina after she left to throw her hat into the mayoral race. Both are popular within the riding.

Ry e r s o n Un i v e r s i t y applauded her decision to re-enter the political arena.

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e like the enthusiasm, goodwill and optimism Toronto’s Pan Am Games appear to have generated.

But we must stress this is a time for prudence and caution as it relates to the Olympic Games and the city considering a bid.

With the Pan Am Games portion of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games complete, what were once merely isolated whispers of a future Olympic bid for our city have grown noticeably louder – and in fairly fast fashion.

As a concept, a Toronto Olympic bid is not an outrageous one. It really isn’t. Reviews of the Pan Am experience are largely positive. While there would be work needed to bring facilities up to Olympic standards, there’s been a good start made with the Pan Am/Parapan Am our view Games facilities. Also, the city’s and cultural diversity Objective review ethnic make Toronto an ideal showof Pan Am Games piece for a global event.

And as the Pan Am Games the first step have shown, these kinds of events can serve as an important catalyst for needed infrastructure improvements that serve the community at large well after the Games have left town.

But... one thing at a time, people.

First, let’s have a proper assessment of the Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games – which aren’t even over yet. This review should provide relevant, objective information that can help inform not only an Olympic bid decision, but also ongoing aspects of life in the city, particularly as it relates to traffic and transit.

Also, Toronto has been down this Olympic bid route before. The two most recent bids being the one for the 1996 (which went to Atlanta) and 2008 (which went to Beijing) Games. The bids alone are a significant undertaking. It’s worth examining what happened in those instances.

The post-Pan Am Games euphoria for Toronto is understandable. Indeed, it’s better than the alternative.

But it will take more than euphoria to fuel a legitimate Olympic bid. The city must assess its needs and capabilities.

So let’s rush to the finish line, not to the starting gate. We all need to take a deep breath, and understand just what something like this would entail before we decide it’s the right course of action.

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There’s a showdown in Spadina-Fort York

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t is going to be a hot time in Spadina-Fort York this summer and fall.

Two of Toronto’s highest-profile progressive pols, Olivia Chow and Adam Vaughan, will be facing off in the newly minted riding. Vaughan, a former broadcast journalist and city councillor, is the incumbent of sorts; he has held the vanishing federal riding of TrinitySpadina for a year, winning it for the Liberals in a byelection necessitated

by New Democrat Chow’s departure to run what turned out to be an unsuccessful mayoral bid.

It wasn’t a great surprise when Vaughan took the byelection. Indeed, voters in the NDP-supporting riding could have been forgiven for not realizing they weren’t voting NDP again when they elected Vaughan. He had been a proper nemesis for the right on council –

david nickle the city then-mayor Rob Ford in particular – and a strong supporter of progressive causes.

Several of his colleagues privately wondered why he hadn’t joined Thomas Mulcair’s team, given all that.

But Vaughan threw in with the Liberals for a pragmatic reason: in the spring of 2014, Justin Trudeau seemed the best bet to replace Stephen Harper and the Conservatives in government.

Things appear very different in 2015. It’s not trending well for the Liberals, and the fortunes of Mulcair’s New Democrats have risen considerably. If the trend in polls continues, Vaughan will have to rely principally on his own record

as a local representative - which is not inconsiderable, as he will also draw on his accomplishments as city councillor and profile as a media-savvy former journalist.

Chow, conversely, will be riding an orange wave propelled further by the profile she built during the 2014 mayoral campaign.

She didn’t win, and didn’t, in the end, even run a terribly effective campaign against Doug Ford’s bombast and John Tory’s reassurance. It was an honourable defeat.

And there is that orange wave. In most elections, the NDP policy book shows up as a utopian document no one seriously thinks has a chance of being implemented.

But this time, promises to fund child care and public housing and transit infrastructure carry the weight of possibility.

It will be a hard fight, for that. A year ago, Vaughan

was a serious catch for Trudeau and the Liberals.

On Tuesday, he made it clear that he still is.

“Olivia Chow has never given me a free ride in this city and I’ve prevailed,” Vaughan told reporters.

And that much is true.

He took over Chow’s seat on council when she left for Ottawa by beating her preferred candidate. He defeated Chow’s chosen successor (and now city councillor) Joe Cressy a year ago.

And the new riding concentrates Vaughan’s support, and contains polls where Chow did not do as well in her bid for mayor.

What it boils down to is this: in 2015, it’s a good bet the new Member from Spadina-Fort York will be a member of the governing party.

All other things being, in this case, nearly equal.

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Discussion needed about duplexes >>>from page 1 a n d Wa rd 1 9 ( Tr i n i t ySpadina) Councillor Mike Layton.

Roughly 40 residents from Ossington Village and neighbouring communities of Parkdale, Roncesvalles, Swansea and West Queen West attended the July 14 meeting.

Wilson said her concern, along with some in attendance, is the removal of needed rental housing, pushing housing prices up; boxing in adjoining neighbours with three-storey walls; and encouraging overbuilding.

This is the first public consultation there’s been on this issue, which is of city-wide significance, said Wilson, who added this new type of housing is being sold separately as “luxury semis” for roughly $1-million each after they’ve been bought, torn down and rebuilt.

“The new zoning is introducing a kind of building form that was not permitted on the old zoning. It’s doing something quite extreme,” Wilson said.

“This is effectively saying two houses per lot are permitted. We’re concerned that they inadvertently opened up a Pandora’s box to allow two houses on one lot…If this is what really the upshot of the new zoning is, where all of a sudden two houses on one lot is the new norm there needs to be a public discussion about it.”

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A vertically split duplex on Givins Street has local residents unhappy about the city's zoning by law that permits homes like these to be built.

said a duplex at 25 Givins St. is so completely out of character with the area, she wonders how it was ever approved in the first place.

Both sides “I’ve heard arguments on both sides that allowing this subdivision allows for a slightly less expensive alternative,” Layton said.

“But then the other side is if you start allowing this, speculators are going to come in and starting buying properties that would classically be for entry-level purchasers, like the smaller bungalows, and are buying them, bulldozing them and putting up two more expensive homes.

That’s my major concern.”

Layton added the larger homes that are built after a property has been torn down can have a negative impact in the surrounding neighbourhood.

“If they’re not big lots, but deep houses, people’s backyards can be put in between two other homes, which does not improve their quality of life.”

Layton said from what he heard from the meeting, residents are mainly concerned about what happens after the proposal is made to the committee of adjustment.

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It’s all fun and games at unique Queen Street West pop-up space HiLARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com For the next few months it will be fun and games at a unique new pop-up space on Queen Street West called The Everyday.

Board Again Games has come in as the lead vendor as The Everyday this month kicked off its first pop-up with a theme (fun and games), slated to run until mid-

October.

“We’ve been getting a real positive response (from the neighbourhood), said Michelle Isocianu, co-owner of Board Again Games and a Parkdale resident herself.

“It’s a great space to hang out and meet new friends which is what we’re all about.”

Located at 1516 Queen St. W. the pop-up space is the brainchild of Ghazeliah

Etezal. Through an initiative called Vacantful, she had previously run both pop-ups and also a website that hooked up vacant storefront owners with willing vendors. The Queen Street West pop-up, which opened in April, marks the first time they will have a location on an ongoing basis.

The Vacantful business model is simple – businesses looking for temporary bricks and mortar can

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contact Vacantful to work out a short term contract to rent the space.

B o a rd A g a i n G a m e s launched online in February, with Isocianu and her coowner David Rudoler. The pair hosted game nights and began to notice there was a growing interest in people wanting to stray from the classic board games and learn new ones.

“We just built this love of board games, trying new ones and we found out how much people love meeting new people as well as learning a new game,” she said.

“We just kind of thought, ‘hey, why don’t we try and

take this outside of our home and do it at a bar or café.’”

From there they began generating partnerships with cafes to host game nights about four times a month.

Etezal told The Villager the success of the game nights pushed them to look for a space and Vacantful was “a good fit” for them.

“We have our social media presence, but having this space is helpful as well. It was a good opportunity for us to get our brand out there so more people know about us,” she said.

“We were looking for any space downtown, but when I found out about Vacantful, I

really liked the idea of sharing the space and having a sense of community.”

So far the venture has been a success for both Etezal and Isocianu, who are both getting a lot of buzz about their businesses.

“The shared economy concept where everybody is contributing in different ways and that’s the direction Vacantful is heading,” said Etezal.

“It’s an open platform where everybody can contribute their skills...This has been a collaborative effort.”

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App has 50 locations on it so far >>>from page 1 a spot not a corporation. It’s a neighbour sharing your spot so when you have a dinner party your neighbour will let you park in their spot. Now there’s a vehicle for that communication, for a relatively low dollar value.”

Those interested in posting a spot simply have to sign up, provide a picture of the spot and a detailed description.

Those looking for a spot, look on the map provided, and head over to the desired space. The user also has complete flexibility about when the parking is available. The app doesn’t have control over that.

“When they list a spot it’s not listed for 24/7,” Wootton said. “They have control. It could be just weekends, evenings, or 9 to 5. It’s up to them.”

So far, Rover Parking is available across the city as spots become available through those interested in making some extra cash for an unused parking spot.

However, there are issues

challenging as they do not apply to the current state and reality of the situation,” said Wootton. “We are doing all we can to work with the city so that they understand all the relevant data around these types of new technologies and their overwhelmingly positive impact at both the community city level.”

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Rover Parking App creators, Tim Wootton, bottom, and Grant Brigden are two Parkdale residents who want to change the way Torontonians approach parking in the city.

that have come up with the city claiming this type of parking isn’t legal under the city’s bylaw.

“Regulations on new technologies, such as ours, are

Wootton said they have about 50 spots since its launch on July 11 and the app is already into the four-digit download mark on iTunes.

“The response has been tremendous so far,” Brigden said. “The challenge for us is to get the spots, but we understand it’s going to take more time.”

They’ve already been in touch with local business improvement areas, such as Liberty Village and West Queen West.

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Situated north of Lake Shore Boulevard West between Ellis Avenue and Colborne Lodge Drive, the Sunnyside Bike Park is the first official outdoor off-road cycling facility of its size in Toronto.

Initially proposed for the parking lot in the southeast corner of High Park, the strip of land between the Gardiner Expressway and Lake Shore Boulevard was a better fit for its larger size, its accessibility and visibility.

Even though surrounded by roadways, there are still lots of trees and shade, making it feel like it’s immersed in nature.

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