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McCormick Park, 66 Sheridan Ave., to share the overview of the project with the community. “We can’t build more roads, so we have to be more efficient, therefore we have to invest in better ways to move people around and there are very few ways to do it,” said Ward 18 Councillor Ana Bailão. The peak hours refer to the parking and driving restrictions during morning and evening rush hour times. These restrictions are set up to help improve

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Measures would increase no-stopping times >>>from page 1 the parking would be accommodated on the other side of the street, but agreed some side streets could see an increase of parked cars. A couple of residents were also concerned about how the no-stopping restrictions will affect those driving seniors around who need to be dropped off as close to their destination as possible due to mobility issues. “Three hundred extra metres are very difficult for someone who has mobility issues, or pulmonary disease,” said Parkdale resident Maria Brum. “I hope they take them into consideration.” Avid cyclist Liz Sutherland, a member of Cycle Toronto for Ward 18 was also in attendance and urged the city to be mindful of how these changes will effect experienced and novice cyclists. “Speaking as a cyclist there is ambivalence in the cycling community about the restrictions. Some cyclists feel safer with the row of parked cars because it gives them that

little buffer between moving traffic and where they can move,” said Sutherland. “Other more confident cyclists agree that reduced on-street parking will increase the flow of traffic and create more space for everyone to move.” The proposed peak hour changes along Queen Street, include increasing the nostopping times between Dovercourt Road and Dufferin Street to 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. from 4 to 6 p.m. heading west and extending the stopping time between Dovercourt and Bathurst Street to 7 to 10 a.m. from 7 to 9 a.m. heading east. There will also be no left turns between 7 to 10 a.m. onto Gladstone Avenue. Along College the nostopping times will change from to 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. from 4 to 6 p.m. between Manning Avenue and Dovercourt Road going westbound; going eastbound the no-stopping times will change to 7 to 10 a.m. from 7 to 9 a.m. For Dundas Street between Lansdowne Avenue and Roncesvalles heading west-

bound the peak hour restrictions will be changed to 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. from 4 to 6 p.m.; between St. Claren’s Avenue and Dovercourt Road heading eastbound will be reduced by one hour to 7 to 9 a.m. from its current 7 to 10 a.m. restrictions. Heading west between Bathurst and Ossington will also be changed to 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. from its current 4 to 6 p.m. restrictions. The city will monitor the changes and document whether it’s been a success or if it creates more issues. “The most important thing is to get the community’s feedback to make sure we do it right,” said Bailão. “Changes aren’t easy, but if we attempt to do it right the first time it makes it a bit easier.” Community consultations will continue throughout the month of June, with a scheduled meeting at Scadding Court Community Centre on June 25 from 6 to 8 p.m. Once the consultations are complete, the city will prepare a report for city council to vote on in September with the expected implementation of the hours to take effect in October.

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Aboriginal Day Pow Wow Celebrating heritage: The 14th Annual Na-Me-Res Traditional Outdoor Pow Wow was held Sunday at Fort York National Historic Site. The Native Men’s Residence Traditional Pow-Wow is held to recognize National Aboriginal Day, June 21, the Summer Solstice. The event, which followed a threeday Indigenous Arts Festival, featured traditional dancing and drumming, as pictured in these photos, along with other activities such as a kids area, craft vendors and Indigenous food. It was presented in partnership by Na-Me-Res, Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation, and Fort York. . Photos/ALESSANDRO SHINODA

Toronto blues veteran Raoul Bhaneja relishes jazz festival gig HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com When it comes to singing the blues Raoul Bhaneja said he hardly had a choice in the matter. “I can’t say I chose this genre, it totally chose me,” he said. “I responded to it the first time I heard a single note of it. I was hooked.” As a kid Bhaneja was given a harmonica; to learn how to play he listened to music that had the instrument in it to try and play better and that’s what also drew him to the blues, he said. Fast-forward a few decades and the Queen Street West and Lansdowne Avenue resident is touring Ontario with his blues band, Raoul and The Big Time, and participating in this year’s TD Toronto Jazz Festival at the Nathan Phillips Square outdoor stage on Saturday, June 27. This will be the first time the band has played in that venue for the jazz

festival. He and band members Darren “That’s a big show for us. Any Gallen on guitar, Tom Bona on drums chance to play at Nathan Phillips and Terry Wilkins on upright bass Square is great; you have the opporhave been playing together since tunity to play for an audience that 1998. might be familiar with you but might He first met Gallen at a jam sesnot know the quality of musicians in sion one summer in Toronto in the Toronto,” Raoul told The Villager. mid-90s. “We’ve had some opportunity over “We’re totally different people the years to open for and play and we didn’t have much in for some legendary guys and Saturday common, in terms of where gals. But for us, it has always we were coming from, but been about entertaining whowe really connected when we ever’s in front of us, whether it’s played and I said, ‘we got to a small club crowd of 15 people or play together sometime,’” Bhaneja a crowd of 10,000.” recalled. The Toronto-based band will per“In 1998 after a couple of other form tunes from their latest album meetings I started the band with Hollywood Blvd Released in 2014, the Darren.” album was nominated for recordAfter that Wilkins and Bona ing of the year for the Maple Blues joined. Together they’ve released Awards and includes an eight-piece five albums, played at different gigs version of the band. The same sound and festivals in Toronto and toured will be transferred to the stage with a around California. Over the past “very cool and very different sound,” 17 years Raoul and The Big Time Bhaneja said. have formed their own extensive

and energetic mix of original songs with a Toronto/Hollywood/Chicago Blues sound that’s inspired by the genre’s greats, said Bhaneja. For him, being in the blues game for as long as he has with his fellow band members has given them the respect in the blues world, not only from fans but fellow musicians as well. “We’ve been doing it for so long that a lot of blues fans know who we are, but blues is a real long term journey. The hard thing is it takes a really long time to get good at it and to gain respect. You got to earn it and put in the time,” he said. “This is music I’ve played my whole life and music I’ll continue to play for the rest of my life.”

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uilding an environment where Toronto’s immigrant entrepreneurs succeed is just good business sense. And the City of Toronto, through an enhanced procurement policy, has an opportunity to improve outreach and to really tap into the talents of immigrant entrepreneurs. In this month’s exclusive feature on pages 14 and 15, we take an in-depth look at the experience of the immigrant entrepreneur in Toronto. Being an entrepreneur can be a struggle. Being a newcomer to Canada can be a struggle. Put those experiences together and one our view can imagine the complications. Later this year, city counEnsure equal cil is expected to consider being called a Social opportunities what’s Procurement Framework, one for newcomers that provides “diverse businesses with equal opportunities to share in the city’s growth and prosperity.” Among the possible features: more online posting of smaller contracts (under $50,000), actively soliciting bids on projects below $10,000 and more education on how to respond to documents such as Request for Proposals (RFPs). Concentrating on the many talents newcomers could bring to our economy can only build a stronger city. Nearly half of Toronto’s residents are foreignborn. Sound policy reflects a community’s make-up. But even so, such a policy must be complemented with more outreach to ethnic business groups – to help dispel the perception in some quarters that there is an uneven playing field when it comes to municipal procurement and also to remove some of the mysteries around dealing with government. A flourishing entrepreneurial environment means new jobs and a better overall economy. It can also mean less reliance on social supports. Last November, we listed a number of items Mayor John Tory needed to make a priority during his tenure. Diversity – which included the issue of procurement – was one of them. There’s an opportunity to establish this as a priority, to craft policy that is inclusive, reflective of the community and beneficial to its citizens. Visit insidetoronto.com/diversity for coverage on this issue as well as other stories from Toronto’s diverse neighbourhoods.

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Speed limit decision at community council best for Mayor Tory to leave alone One might choose to look at the Toronto and East York Community Council’s move to slow down traffic in the city core as a bit of a retaliation. The June 22 vote came just a few weeks after Toronto councillors not in the Toronto and East York Community Council area voted to rebuild the eastern part of the Gardiner Expressway in the middle of it, against the wishes of every councillor elected there. So there is something of a statement in this vote: anyone who wants to drive on one of the city core’s well-treed, compact little residential streets will have to slow down now: what was 40 kilometres an hour is now 30 kilometres an hour. As retaliations go, this one’s fairly benign.

david nickle the city Slower speeds on residential streets will almost certainly result in fewer deaths and serious injuries from collisions between cars and pedestrians and cyclists. But it is also an historic exercise of power. Community councils have, since the former mayor David Miller years, had the power to make decisions on stop signs and speed on local roads without need for ratification from mayor or council or anyone else. Usually, those decisions are deeply local: in Toronto and East York, councillors routinely reject one request for a parking pad or a tree removal at a time.

Not this time. The reduction of speed limits will cost more than $1 million to implement, and it will have a lasting, if incremental, impact on a vast and contained area of the city. Toronto and East York has, in making this decision, effectively treated itself as not just a community, but a municipal jurisdiction all its own. Council could squash it all eventually – at some point, at least part of that $1.1 million bill will have to come before the budget committee and council for its 2016 allocation. On Tuesday, however, Mayor John Tory indicated to reporters that although he disagreed with the decision, he wasn’t going to do anything to mess with it. That is a sensible retreat for a couple of reasons.

First: the community council move may play as retaliation, but it is also a good public response to the rash of cyclist deaths that have helped define the late spring of 2015 in the city core. Getting into a pedantic fight over the best way to manage pedestrian safety in local councillors’ wards is a losing battle for a mayor, and also for other councillors. And second, it does Tory no good to get into a fight over safety with the 12 downtown councillors, whose constituents largely voted for Tory in 2014. It is a long ride to 2018, but even at this slightly reduced speed, it’s not that long.

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Bird images adorn McCormick Park shipping container HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Community members gathered in McCormick Park to celebrate the unveiling of a mural on the McCormick Park Shipping Container Café. Created by Toronto graffiti artist MagicFinnga Wong, the once plain blue shipping container was transformed in 24 hours into a piece of art that reflects the nature in the park and its parkgoers with large images of birds eating out of a person’s hand. “It represents the kind and gentle nature of the people who use the park and the nature within the park itself,” said Wong, whose artwork on the container was sponsored by Mac’s Convenience Stores. Wong has painted more than 50 murals across Toronto in partnership with Mac’s Convenience including a mural at Dundas Street West and Howard Park Avenue. However, this is the first time he’s painted a freight

container. Wong said he used about 50 cans of spray paint to create the mural. All the community groups involved in bringing this concept to life, including The Friends of McCormick Park, Ward 18 Councillor Ana Bailão (Davenport), The Toronto Police Service’s 11 Division Crime Prevention officers, Aangen Community Centre, Mac’s Convenience Stores and StreetARToronto, said they were thrilled with the final result. “I love it,” said Gurbeen Bhasin, the executive director of Aangen Community Centre, a self-funded, not-forprofit organization in charge of the day-to-day operations of the café since its inception last September. “There’s no question, it’s just beautiful. He made an amazing mural for us.” The McCormick Park Shipping Container Café serves nutritious foods, freshly baked goods and local farm products. It also has recently gone completely vegetarian

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Toronto-based artist MagicFinnga Wong displays his latest mural located in McCormick Park on the Shipping Container Cafe.

and hosts a $5 Friday night dinner. It’s open five days a week from Wednesday to Sunday from 3 to 8 p.m. on weekdays and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. Steven Moniz, community relations and crime prevention officer for 11 Division, said the McCormick Park StreetART Mural initiative began due to reports of vandalism on the container. “Gurbeen called us and said we’d like to do something to

prevent people from doing it again and asked us to come up with a mural concept,” Moniz said at the Wednesday, June 17 event. From there, he got in contact with StreetARToronto, which supplied the paint, and teamed up with a representative from Mac’s Convenience, which provided the artist. They worked together to come up with a concept design and two months later, it’s splashed across the con-

tainer. “We have found that doing graffiti art like this does deter the vandalism. It’s a nice mural and nice artistic work and for the most part a lot of these taggers stay away from stuff like this out of respect for the other artist,” Moniz said. “That’s why work like this in the community is great. It came out really, really well.” Bailão told The Villager she was proud of how her community came together over

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an issue and found a way to turn a negative into a positive by pooling their resources together. “This is about building community spirit so the more organizations in the community we can bring together the better. It’s all about creating those links in the community,” Bailão said. “Only when we come together with this kind of community building spirit that we’re able to do projects like this.”

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Roncesvalles Village author-illustrator releases her first children’s picture-book LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Roncesvalles Village based authorillustrator Kate Beaton’s first-ever picture book for children, The Princess and the Pony will be released Tuesday, June 30. Its debut has been a long time coming, although in the picture book publishing industry, this is not unusual, she said. “I finished it last July after working on it for some time,” Beaton said. “We made a deal with Scholastic the year before that. The standard wait time in the picture book world between handing in the book and when it is published is so long, it feels like a big buildup.” The book tells the story of Princess Pinecone, who wants to be a great warrior. To be a great warrior, she needs a great horse. She asks for one for her birthday. Instead, she gets a round little pony – hardly a brave steed. Regardless, Pinecone remains determined. As for the pony – there could be a champion inside waiting

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to be unleashed. Born and raised in Nova Scotia, Beaton said growing up in a small, “isolated place” played the biggest role in developing her artistic style and the characters she has created. She would relish in drawing alone, losing track of time. “We didn’t have that much coming in from the bigger pop culture world, so I’d seek out whatever art odds and ends I could find,” Beaton said. “But it wasn’t a conscious decision to develop anything, just to keep doing what I was doing and get better at it.” Beaton’s talent could be in the genes. “Mom was just showing me her old drawings the other day. The only difference for me is that I never stopped drawing, so I never lost it,” she said. While she wasn’t exposed to a variety of art growing up, Beaton said she checked out the comics in the newspaper every day. It wasn’t until university when she was introduced to alternative comics, which opened

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way more work into the newspaper than into my studies, which was a sign maybe,” Beaton recalled. Her comics reflect a curiosity and interest in history and pop culture. Although, she can’t put a finger on where her inspiration comes from. “I wish I knew,” she said. “I’d go back there instead of banging my head on the desk. It’s always a new blank page, and you have to fill it. There is no other way around it, so you do whatever you can.” Beaton will be at Little Island Comics, 742 Bathurst St., Saturday, July 4, from noon to 2 p.m. For further details, visit www. beatontown.com; follow the illustrator on Twitter @beatonna

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Holy Family Catholic School to buy books with Indigo Love of Reading grant HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Holy Family Catholic School couldn’t be more grateful to the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation for choosing them as one of 20 schools across Canada to receive a grant to update their school and class libraries. The Parkdale elementary school, at 141 Close Ave., will receive $67,000 over a three-

year period from the foundation, which has donated $1.5-million in grants this year. The funds couldn’t come at a better time, explained principal Joanne Greco, who said the school’s current average book age sits roughly around 55 years old. The book budget for the library has also been hovering at zero, as the school chose to devote what funds they

received through book fairs and put it toward classroom literacy, which adds books to each classroom. Along with being outdated comes a lack of diversity, an issue Greco said she hopes to address with the grant by choosing books that represent the diverse backgrounds of the students enrolled in her school. “ You could have the simplest story that relates

to everyone, but when the pictures don’t necessarily look like you and all the pictures in the library look like families that are different to your family, you might not be interested in picking up that book because it doesn’t speak to you,” Greco said. Students will also be given the chance to have a say in what books come into the library. “We established with each

classroom what kind of books we would want in each grade through charts, so every students’ voice will be heard once we undergo the process,” said Nina Zicarelli, the school’s French teacher, who helped put together the grant. “Primary kids want more books on dinosaurs and bugs and animals. The older kids want more graphic novels and biographies.” Students will also be given

the chance to visit the Indigo location on The Queensway in Etobicoke and choose some books, Greco said. It’s important to Greco the books chosen strike a balance between academic and leisure in order to attract kids to the library for various reasons. “We don’t want just Captain Underpants books, we also want books students can use for independent studies,” Greco said.

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Tips for seniors to keep active June is Senior’s Month and a it’s great time to remember the importance of being active, particularly for those in their advanced years. Many seniors want to become involved in activities where they can socialize and engage with others, but often don’t know how or where to go to do so. With health concerns often top of mind and not knowing where to turn to find out about senior-related programs, many seniors feel frustration about their limited access to community supports. The Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) provides seniors with healthcare within the home that they require, but also works with a variety of external community agencies to provide external help to seniors as well. For those who are willing and able to get out into the community (with

assistance, if required), there are a number of adult day programs and seniors groups that they can attend. Visit the Toronto Central Healthline for more information or call the main number for assistance. Other options for seniors who want to stay active include: 1. Keep Your Mind Working – Read a book, do a crossword puzzle, practice memory games. The more you use your mind, the stronger it will become. 2. Socialize – There are many activities that can support an active social life, especially for seniors. Day programs, regular phone calls with relatives and friends, online socializing via email or other methods are just some of the ways for the elderly to keep connected. 3. Engage in Light Exercise –

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Second annual Taste of Toronto culinary festival runs July 2 to 5 at Fort York >>>from page 1 with maple syrup since 2006. Their “lab” as Brault calls it, is located in Roncesvalles at 35 Golden Ave., that kicks maple syrup “up a notch.” The cube will be featured at the second annual Taste of Toronto that will transform Fort York into a utopia for foodies from July 2 to 5. Attendees will have the chance to enjoy their pick of restaurant dishes, browse the artisan stalls and experience some of the many attractions including the Taste Theatre, and the Tasting Room. There will also be more than 70 producers of food, beverages for this culinary festival. In addition to the Cube,

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oronto is edging closer to being a city where more than half of residents are foreign-born and more than half are non-white. But many first- or secondgeneration Canadians who own companies here think they are at a disadvantage getting business from city hall. “They feel there’s an unequal playing field,” said Zubair Patel, community relations director for the Toronto Network of Indian Professionals. This “long-held sentiment” among minority-led businesses covers not just municipal procurement, but hiring for city jobs, Patel said. When city hall and its contracts reflect the city, he argued, “it creates a greater sense of belonging,” but if not, “it slows down the process of integration.” Mayor John Tory is aware of the perception minorityled businesses don’t get a fair share. It’s true, but there’s nothing sinister behind it, he said. “The city just doesn’t know who these people are.” As long as minority-led companies know they’re free to bid on contracts, the mayor said, “that shouldn’t be an obstacle.” social procurement To change the playing field, city council started experimenting with a “social procurement framework” before Tory was elected last fall. The mayor said it could lead by next year to a policy ensuring one of three short-listed bids for each city contract comes from a minority-led or “diverse-led” company. “They will win or lose on their own merits after that.” The city started posting contracts worth $10,000 to $50,000 online, and soliciting some bids for smaller projects worth $3,000 to $10,000.

It’s too early in these experiments to say if they’ve made a difference. Not enough people know about them, and the city hasn’t posted as many contracts as was hoped, said director of procurement Michael Pacholok. “I feel we need to be a little more proactive.” City hall doesn’t have a closed list of vendors, he said, but speculated many small and medium-sized companies could be daunted by large contracts or think working with government, “generally seen as very rigid,” is too difficult. Pacholok said the city wants them to know they’re free to compete, and if a company is small, sub-contracting is an option. In recent years, applying

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for city projects as a “diverse” company seems a sound strategy: in 2012, just seven per cent of bidders were “selfdeclared” as minority-led or controlled – which includes women, aboriginals, and gay and lesbian people – but they got $339 million in city business. In 2013, $434 million went to a self-declared five per cent. “There might be more out there that just didn’t tell us,” said Pacholok, who said his staff is planning more outreach to ethnic business groups on how to do business with the city.

“I think it comes down to using technology and using our connections,” said Tory, adding many large private firms are “doing a better job than the city on this,” and its government can learn from them. The mayor dismissed arguments adding a social procurement policy will increase the city’s costs or slow things down. free enterprise By broadening the nature and number of bidders, you can get a better price and quality, plus benefits you didn’t know about, he said. “To me, it’s a very freeenterprise way of doing it.” Courtney Betty, founder of the Diversity Business Network, said the biggest challenge for minority-led businesses “really is the lack of connections,” and providing opportunities for them will make us all wealthier. With a social procurement policy, “no one’s going to lose, but it will require courage to move this forward,” said Betty, a lawyer. “It’s the right business thing. It’s the right social thing.” He has faith Tory will make the right changes happen. “He’s a believer,” Betty said. Patel also welcomed the pilot projects in procurement, saying while the city should do more outreach, minority-led companies should do more research themselves on how to apply. A report on social procurement is expected to lead to a draft policy by the end of this year.

CITY CONTRACTS, 2013 % of contract bidders self-identified as minority-owned or controlled: 5 $ awarded to those businesses: $434 million

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mmigrant entrepreneurs often come to their new country armed with a strong work ethic and grand ideas, but without the knowledge of what’s involved in making their dreams reality. That’s where organizations geared towards helping this targeted group come into play, with programs and service referrals available to assist those hoping to launch a business in the city. L a u r i e Fl e m i n g , c o ordinator of The Learning Enrichment Foundation’s (LEF) Emerging Entrepreneur Program, said the majority of the immigrant entrepreneurs she has worked with aspire to get into the food business, replicating what they did in

their home country. “The restaurant business in Toronto is hard,” she said. “Often they don’t have the culinary skills or the financial resources. Finances is the biggest barrier they face. Lots of people think the roads are paved with gold and the government hands out money.” While there are government grants available to entrepreneurs, often they will have to take second jobs to help finance their business, Fleming said, adding a restaurant idea might turn into a catering business. LEF offers two free components to its Emerging Entrepreneur Program: a two-week course testing the viability of an idea, making

tweaks and adjustments along the way, followed by a six-week program that involves taking their research and building a business plan. The entrepreneurs come from across the globe, Fleming said, adding her program has seen large numbers of participants from Central and South America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. “We have one engineer whose family has a clothing business in Pakistan and his family wants to sell their goods here,” Fleming said. “There is definitely family pressure.” Participants in the Emerging Entrepreneur Program will go on trips to Toronto Reference Library to get help with research, and LEF will bring in accountants, lawyers and mentors to help budding >>>newcomers, page 15

Entrepreneurs advised to ‘never give up’ w For more information on Connect Legal and its programs www.connectlegal.ca w For more information on Skills for Change, its locations and services www.skillsforchange.org

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n 2003, when Carolina Velez immigrated to Toronto from her native Colombia she had dreams of making her mark on corporate Canada. A 21 year old armed with a business degree from a top-tier Colombian business school, she didn’t know her lack of Canadian experience would hold her back from climbing the corporate ladder. She’d spend the next eight years toiling in reception and clerical jobs, for which she was over-qualified, at companies where she had no real chance of advancement. “I’m not sure if things have changed for professional immigrants now, but for me it was very difficult because I didn’t have the experience (Canadian companies) wanted. I thought I was going to be able to find a managerial position Carolina Velez launched a now-successful business importing exotic fruit like this pitahaya.

like all my friends from university, who started working right away with multi-nationals in Colombia,” said Velez, who studied economics and international business at Icesi University, one of Colombia’s top-tier business schools.

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Even if you’re not finding your way right away, don’t give up. Follow your dreams and your passions and everything else will follow. – carolina velez

“I thought I was going to have the same luck here in Canada, but that was far from reality, so I started thinking, if nobody’s going to hire me to be a manager, I will hire myself.” So in October 2011 the entrepreneurial seed for ColombiaExotic – Velez’s now-thriving import company dealing in exotic fruits from Colombia – was planted. Velez was struck by inspiration in the form of a spiky yellow fruit from back home. “I was assisting at a business match-making forum

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Carolina Velez visits Vista Cargo in the Pearson Airport district, where she receives her merchandise.

in Toronto organized by the Government of Colombia and we were sent a basket with a bunch of fruit. When I tried the yellow pitahaya, I fell in love with it, it was fantastic,” said Velez of the fruit that would become the cornerstone of her start-up, which she describes as a “sweeter, more delicate

and refreshing” version of the dragon fruit. “I was filled with all these ideas on how to market it. I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t think about anything else. I wrote my business plan in a week.” While the business struggled in its fledgling years after

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Surranna Sandy is the executive director of Skills For Change.

>>>from page 1 entrepreneurs in their quest for success, she said. As for how the city benefits from immigrant entrepreneurs, Fleming said if their business brings in even an extra $100 a month, it means they don’t need to rely on things like food banks. Starting in 2013 as a pilot project, the Entrepreneur Connections program run by Access Employment has served about 90 people a year who are looking for ways to bring their business ideas to fruition on Canadian soil, said Irene Sihvonen, director of services and organizational development programs. “They learn about the market in Canada and develop and refine their business plan and idea,” she said. The free four-week program

touches on legal considerations when starting a business, employment standard law, Canadian workplace culture, networking and business communication, Sihvonen said, adding participants often arrive in the city without business contacts, which is critical for success.

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Some need a business plan, access to grants and funding. But they all have passion for starting a business. – Surranna Sandy

While the entrepreneurs run the gamut from arts and entertainment, education, health and medicine, 66 per cent ran a business outside of Canada and most seek help

with learning how things are done in their new country, she said. “The lack of knowledge of the Canadian market place, the legal requirements, accessing loans and funds,” said Sihvonen of the areas participants need the most assistance with, adding if immigrant entrepreneurs are successful, that means new jobs for the city and a better economy. And Entrepreneur Connections participants have been successful, with 61 businesses registered and 37 generating sales, she said. Surranna Sandy, executive director of Skills for Change, said some of the immigrant entrepreneurs who access their programs have strong business ideas, while others aren’t so certain.

“Some need a business plan, access to grants and funding,” she said. “But they all have passion for starting a business.” Most of the entrepreneurs come from South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, South America and Mexico and arrived in Canada within three to six months of reaching out to Skills for Change, she said. The biggest barrier they face is accessing financial support, she said. “They don’t have the broader networks yet, the social connections,” she said. By creating jobs and generating incomes, immigrant entrepreneurs are contributing to the city’s economy, which is a win-win situation, Sandy said.

launching in 2012 – Velez’s parents even sold their car after the banks refused to give her a loan – the one-woman start-up has expanded nationwide and, last year, saw its sales double. With Loblaws as its primary customer, ColombiaExotic now imports six varieties of fruit to the grocery giant’s stores in Quebec, Ontario, Newfoundland and New Brunswick. In recognition of her company’s strides, which Velez still runs almost single-handedly, she was named as one of the city’s Most Promising Immigrant Entrepreneurs in 2013 by Connect Legal, a registered charity that aims to foster entrepreneurship in the immigrant community. She was also honoured in March as one of Canadian Im m i g ra n t m a g a z i n e’s Five Immigrant Women of Inspiration in a cover story intended to motivate other newcomer women to reach for their dreams. To fledgling entrepreneurs, Velez offers one simple piece of advice. “Even if you’re not finding your way right away, don’t give up. Follow your dreams and your passions and everything else will follow.” WHAT’S YOUR

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