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TAKE IN CANADA DAY FESTIVITIES ACROSS THE CITY INCLUDING FIREWORKS, MUSIC

TORONTO BIKE NETWORK GROWS With more than 500 kilometres of bike lanes mostly in downtown - cycling advocates hope Toronto politicians stay on track to connect the entire city.

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Our home and native land celebrates its 149th birthday on July 1. The national statutory holiday is celebrated in all provinces and territories. With the big 150 only a year away, the country began a 366-day countdown to a year-long celebration of its 150th birthday.

Jose Armando Villavona/file photo FULL STORY: bit.ly/canada149 WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: See what’s open and closed this Canada Day as well as holiday transit schedules.

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SECOND CAPYBARA FOUND AND REUNITED WITH FRIENDS AT HIGH PARK ZOO Bonnie and Clyde have been reunited. High Park Zoo’s second fugitive capybara, whose been living in Grenadier Pond’s 35 acres since it escaped in late May, was caught sometime overnight. It is believed to be male. Sarah Doucette/Submitted photo FULL STORY: bit.ly/capybarafound WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Find out where the guinea pig-like creature was spotted over the weekend.

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LANEWAY NAMING PAYS TRIBUTE TO FAMILY WHO’S LIVED ON MANNING FOR 60+ YEARS

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Roger Desmond, the current owner of 10 Manning Ave., believed it was only fitting that he be permitted to rename a nearby laneway after his family, particularly his parents, Ruth and Charles Desmond who served in the Canadian Armed Forces. Hilary Caton/Metroland

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FAMILIES WITH AUTISTIC CHILDREN WILL GET REDUCED WAIT TIMES FOR PROGRAMS The Minister of Children and Youth Services Michael Coteau announced increased funding for autism supports for children, youth and families, effectively changing the previous overhaul of the program.

David Nickle/Metroland FULL STORY: bit.ly/ontautismreform WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Find out how families with autistic children will benefit and when the new supports begin.

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OFFICIALS REVEAL RECOMMENDED DOWNTOWN RELIEF LINE ROUTE

FULL STORY: bit.ly/reliefroute WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: See how much this new subway line would cost and how it would reduce current congestion.

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The Downtown Relief Line has a recommended route and a staggering price tag. It would go from Pape Station to downtown via first Eastern Avenue and then on the west side of the Don River via Queen Street East. It was revealed as a part of an updated report on the city’s transit plan.

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Toronto’s Licensing and Standards Committee won’t talk about ways to licence medical marijuana dispensaries until the federal government outlines legislative changes to legalize the sale of pot. Debate was shut down at Monday’s meeting, and likely won’t pick up again for some months.

Joanna Lavoie/Metroland FULL STORY: bit.ly/nodecisiononmj WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: One councillor tried to continue debate and says police raids on dispensaries must stop.

UNITED WAY WILL NOW DISTRIBUTE ITS FUNDING THROUGH ANCHOR AGENCIES United Way Toronto and York Region is changing the way it funds community services, choosing “anchor agencies” from among its many community partners. That selection is underway now, and results will be announced during the coming winter.

Metroland file photo FULL STORY: bit.ly/uwtyrfunds WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: The move will help the ballooning charity become nimble and more responsive to community needs.

COMMUNITY RAISES FUNDS FOR WIDOW A large branch had broken off a tree at Trinity-Bellwoods Park and hit a man sitting under it.

Submitted photo FULL STORY: bit.ly/helpwidow WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Support will help pay for funeral.

CAMH OFFICIALLY OPENS THE FIRST SWEAT LODGE ON HOSPITAL GROUNDS IN ONTARIO

Residents work together to identify what makes Queen Street West from Roncesvalles Avenue to Bathurst Street unique to the neighbourhoods it connects.

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The Aboriginal Services program has been offered for 16 years at CAMH, and the sweat lodge, which complements an existing indoor ceremony room, represents the rebuilding of relationships.

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Property owner Orest Kelebay, a local residents himself, asked residents at a meeting last week what amenities they would like for the neighbourhood. Kelebay wants to build a three-storey daycare with micro-retail, perhaps a sandwich shop or bank kiosk, at High Park Avenue and Bloor Street.

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twitter Re: Downtown’s Le Neuf Café battles Toronto’s growing sex trafficking problem, June 27, 2016 (bit.ly/servinghope) @LaurieWeir @CovenantHouseTO @InsideTOnews It was a gr8 night raised over $5,000 very proud of Fouzia Boukantar Le Neuf Café owner. @twittgit (Leo Slocombe )

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Writes Tory (at about the 600 word mark): “But many of the subway’s loudest critics do not live or work in Scarborough, where more than half the population is born outside of Canada.

When they say this is too much to spend on a subway, the inference seems to be that it’s too much to spend on this part of the city.”

Oh dear. It’s hard, indeed impossible, to parse that down to a particularly ugly accusation – that those who fancy a light rail network in Scarborough and not a subway are anti-Scarborough nativists. Indeed, at least one of Tory’s colleagues on council, the subway-opposing, lightrail-loving Josh Matlow, parsed things exactly that way.

“Sad, desperate and shameful.

I had hoped for much more from a mayor who preached civility,” tweeted Matlow.

This is the kind of trouble that isn’t really very much trouble at all for professionals. We’re used to people crossing the street to avoid us after a particularly vigorous application of fair comment on their dealings. It goes with the territory.

For a mayor, who’s built his brand on civility and teamwork as Tory has? Both Tory and his office tried to make it clear that the column wasn’t intended to be divisive, but to point out that Scarborough’s poorly served by transit. They weren’t out of line: Josh Matlow was out of line.

It was too late by then. It is one thing that those of us writing columns for the newspapers learn early: there are no takebacks when you write something, however unintentionally it may have been, that makes you look a bit of a jerk.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and U.S. President Barack Obama met in Ottawa for the “Three Amigos” summit to discuss trade, environment and refugee issues.

You can get into a lot of trouble, writing a column for a newspaper.

Even if you’re a professional, it can be hazardous: sticky fingers for other people’s ideas and phrases will (or should) sink you; you can get facts wrong, or get caught making it up, which should and does sink you.

Or, like this columnist, you can realize a couple of days after you tried to link Brexit with spurious transit plans and bad public finance, that you may have just overreached – in which case you’ll get called on it, often on Twitter. And that stuff never goes away.

It’s worse when you’re not a professional. Worse still, when you’re not a professional who has skin in the game.

And so we come to Mayor John Tory, who tried his hand writing a column for a newspaper, The Toronto Star, on Tuesday: a column about his besieged $3 billion Scarborough subway plan, on the eve of its debut on the floor of Tuesday’s Executive Committee. It was a substantial piece in the Toronto Star, just a hair over 800 words long, noting that he ran in 2014 promising to build a subway in Scarborough, that we are behind on transit construction, that there’s political consensus between the three levels of government that the subway’s the way to go, and that city staff have said the Scarborough subway could help boost ridership in a part of the city where it’s currently low.

So far, Tory has penned a good and boring op-ed. It gets troublesome when he goes for what some of us professionals might call “the dig”: that part where you try and nail down just what’s wrong with the thing we’re

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Toronto Environmental Alliance launches INHALE project to educate about pollution Every day here in The Big Smoke each of Toronto’s 2.79 million inhabitants inhales an average of 22,000 times– totalling 61.38 billion collective daily breaths.

Is it any wonder, then, that in a city whose air pollution is estimated to give rise to 1,300 premature deaths and 3,550 hospitalizations each year, that many residents have begun to take a more vested interest in learning what it is they’re breathing in?

The Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) doesn’t think so. In fact, the not-for-profit environmental watchdog banked heavily on Torontonians’ willingness to take a hands-on approach to air monitoring with the launch of the INHALE – Initiative for Healthy Air & Local Economies – Project.

And they haven’t been disappointed, said TEA’s campaigns director Heather Marshall.

“What we’re doing with INHALE is making the invisible reality of air pollution visible for people, using tools like mobile air quality monitors and our Fresh Air Finder map to make them more aware of the fact that air pollution still poses risks to their health,” Marshall said of the Metcalf Foundation-funded project, which has attracted more than 150 volunteers in Toronto.

Lauded as Canada’s first community air monitoring initiative, TEA’s INHALE Project arms volunteer “citizen scientists” with compact and easy-to-operate air quality monitors and GPS devices, which they can strap to their backpacks, bicycles, strollers or wheelchairs.

As those volunteers pound the pavement around their neighbourhoods, the monitors automatically draw in air and count the volume of fine particulate matter (or PM2.5, defined as those particles 2.5 microns or less in diameter) that passes through its internal laser.

“Our monitors are such a unique tool, in that they can make people understand that,

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Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) campaigns director Heather Marshall (left) and climate change campaigner Dusha Sritharan demonstrate the use of a mobile air particulate monitor on Tuesday at the intersection of Richmond and Duncan streets. TEA is in the midst of an initiative that has volunteer community air trackers carrying the devices in order to map the city’s air quality.

even though you might not see them, (these particulates) are definitely out there in the air we breathe and they can have an impact on people’s health,” said Dusha Sritharan, TEA’s climate change campaigner.

What are these particulates, one might ask?

Defined by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) as “the term used for a mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets in the air,” particulate matter can include anything from aerosols, smoke and fumes, to dust, ash and pollen.

But it is the smallest amongst these particles of matter – the PM2.5 particulates that TEA’s INHALE Project focuses on – that ministry officials assert cause the greatest adverse health effects, especially amongst people with asthma, cardiovascular or lung disease, as well as children and elderly

people.

Those particles – which can include cancer-causing heavy metals, carbon, and gas-related particles like benzine – Marshall added, are “the ones that get into your lungs and are really hard for your body to deal with.”

Identifying neighbourhood hot spots for such air particulate pollution, therefore, is an important first step in TEA’s mission to spark community dialogue around neighbourhood-level solutions designed to improve air quality.

To those ends, all street-level data collected thus far by TEA volunteers who have participated in the INHALE pilot project – the monitoring of which kicked off in south Etobicoke last summer and just launched in Toronto’s downtown core last month – has been collected, collated, and illustrated on TEA’s Fresh Air Finder online map at inhalemap.com

“With south Etobicoke, what we consistently saw with the data – especially for areas along Lake Shore Boulevard – was pretty poor air quality,” Marshall said, pointing to the many red zones on the map in the New Toronto area, which she said is considered a virtual “tree desert”.

While south

Etobicoke was chosen by TEA as one of its INHALE pilot project study areas because of its rapidly changing condo landscape, waterfront location and urgent transit needs, Marshall said the downtown core study area – bounded by Dupont to the north, DVP to the east, waterfront to the south, and Bathurst to the west – was selected for its bustling nature.

In the span of just one city square city block, Marshall’s monitor displayed PM2.5 readings that jumped from the mid-300s at the foot of TEA’s relatively quiet Duncan Street offices, to well into the 3,000s on construction- and trafficheavy Richmond Street.

“For us, the INHALE Project isn’t just a way to activate community members to get involved – although it’s certainly been successful in that. Our big focus as an environmental organization is to see major changes in what we, as a society, do to improve air quality,” Marshall said, citing anti-idling campaigns and tree-planting initiatives at the local level, as well as largerscale discussions about transit expansion and particulate matter bylaws.

“So our next step with this project is going to be talking about how we can use this data that our INHALE volunteers have collected to engage with decision-makers and to prompt air quality solutions in the community. Cleaner air is our ultimate goal.”

For more information, visit www.inhaleproject.ca CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com

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TORONTO LANDMARK TURNS 40 YEARS OLD AND RESIDENTS ARE INVITED TO CELEBRATE Happy Birthday to the CN Tower, which celebrated 40 years last Sunday.

The famous tower first opened its doors to the public June 26, 1976.

The CN Tower has a height of 553.33 metres.

Edwin Luk/photo FULL STORY: bit.ly/cntowerturns40 WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Visitors can write their own greetings and have them displayed. Find out how.

IT’S AN END OF A LONG QUILTING TRADITION AT A TORONTO HOSPITAL Four quilts - one queen, two twins, and one wall hanging - were raffled off at North York General Hospital, marking the last quilt raffle after 30 years at the hospital. The raffle was kept going by a dedicated group of about 15 volunteers, who raised about $60,000 over the years for the hospital.

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With more than 500 kilometres of bike lanes mostly in downtown – cycling advocates hope Toronto politicians stay on track to connect the entire city

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Downtown lanes a ‘game changer’ as Toronto’s bicycle network expands

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In 1991, 15-year-old Yvonne Bambrick rode the streets of Toronto with brash confidence – making the considerable daily commute from her family home at Victoria Park in East York to Jarvis Collegiate by bicycle, along busy downtown streets that made scant accommodation for bikes.

“Back when I was a naive teenager, I didn’t think twice about it,” recalls Bambrick 25 years later, sitting on a sunny patio in Kensington Market, steps from one of the city’s massive on-street bike racks and just over a block from the busy College Street bike lanes.

“The concept of bike lanes wasn’t on my brain at all. I did know it wasn’t safe – I got doored on the Danforth and had a wipeout on bad road conditions.

Otherwise I was just a teenager on her bicycle, happy to be free getting where she’s going. It meant I could have all the ice cream I wanted.”

In 2016, the Toronto that Bambrick bikes around is a much safer place.

Toronto has a total of 558.4 kilometres of on-street bike lanes, including white bicycle lanes, contra-flow lanes that run against the flow of traffic, so-called “sharrows”, signed routes without pavement markings, and even a few kilometres of cycle tracks that are fully separated from traffic.

A lot of people use those lanes.

According to the 2006 Census, Torontonians bike to and from work like nobody else in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, with 19,780 commuting by bike compared to 14,925 in 2001.

In 2015, Bambrick published a book for those cyclists: The Urban Cycling Survival Guide: Need To Know Skills and Strategies for Biking in the City. It was a book culled from her work advocating for cyclists as the head of the Toronto Cyclist’s Union – now Cycle Toronto – and her years riding Toronto’s sometimes tricky streets.

There’s a lot to know: how to make a safe left turn (there’s more than one way); how to suit up for cycling in bad weather; dealing with potentially hostile interactions; and how to navigate all those different styles of bike road infrastructure.

Currently, most of those routes are in neighbourhoods surrounding the downtown core – including the relatively new cycle tracks on Sherbourne, Adelaide and Richmond streets.

“Richmond-Adelaide were a game changer,” says Bambrick. “I was having to ride there all the time (before), and I’m a confident rider but even for me it was tough. This is amazing.

Transformative.”

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INFRASTRUCTURE There are 558.4 total lane kilometres of on-street cycling infrastructure. Here is the breakdown: 15.1 km – cycle tracks 209 km – white bicycle lanes 6.1 km – Yellow ‘contra-flow’ bicycle lanes 26.2 km – lanes with shared lane pavement markings 302 km – signed routes (no pavement markings) – courtesy City of Toronto

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“With cycling, distance isn’t that much of a problem,” says Keesmaat. “The city is really not that big, and 10 kilometres, 20 kilometres isn’t really a big deal.

And from the centre of the city you can get pretty much anywhere on a 10 kilometer bikeway.

If you’re cycling from Scarborough to Etobicoke, that’s a big trip. But from the centre of the city you can get anywhere – all you need is safe infrastructure.”

The other thing that a cyclist needs, of course, is the will, and a bit of know-how. Bambrick is an evangelist for the former and a resource for the latter. When asked what it takes to get on a bike, after dutifully recommending a careful read of her book, she suggests a step-by-step approach. Borrow a bike-share bike; go riding with a friend on a quiet street. If it’s been awhile, take a BikeShare course.

And remember: roads were originally for bikes.

“We paved our roads because wheelmen’s clubs advocated to get the roads paved. The bicycling movement has been around for a long time,” says Bambrick.

“It’s never gone away.”

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Bambrick and other cycling advocates are hoping for more change like that, on roads that extend beyond the downtown.

This summer, the city will be embarking on a pilot project to try a cycle track along Bloor Street through the Annex neighbourhood – a test, to see whether a city-spanning track could be installed the length of Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue.

And the outcome of that could determine the implementation of parts of the city’s next big plan for cycling expansion: the Cycling Network 10 Year Plan. Under that plan, Toronto’s bikeway and bike trail network would be extended to the ends of the city: north along Yonge Street to Steeles Avenue; on Kingston Road in Scarborough from Eglinton Avenue to the Highland Creek Trail; Kipling Avenue from Bloor Street to the Waterfront Trail; and Midland Avenue, from Steeles to Lawrence avenues.

To ro nt o ’s C h i ef P l a n n e r Jennifer Keesmaat said to provide an effective cycling alternative, the network needs to expand in the same way that transit networks expand – in a continuum. Do that, she says, and it becomes viable to commute, at least to downtown, from nearly anywhere in the city.

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