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The intersection that’s slated to get a facelift is the Roncesvalles Avenue, The Queensway, King Street and Queen Street connection. Those changes are slated to come in the coming years, but not without some community input, says local residents’ association chair.

File photo/COURTESY FULL STORY: bit.ly/majorchanges WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: The local councillor also weighed in on the “complex project” to take place between 2018 - 2020.

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SMALL FX COMPANY IN LIBERTY VILLAGE HAS WORKED ON SOME BIG FILMS From the Oscar award-winning film The Revanant to Incredible Hulk and Allegiant, Soho VFX is making its mark in several big budget films. The visual effects team first set up shop at the John Brunswick building at 99 Liberty Ave. about a decade ago and has now grown to about 100 people.

The Parkdale Villager talked to one of the company’s co-founders who shared what they’ve accomplished to date. Staff photo FEATURE: PAGES 8 and 9

SKATEBOARDERS UNITE DOWNTOWN TO CELEBRATE ST. PATRICK’S DAY !

A group of longboarders helped kick off the parade during the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in downtown Toronto this past Sunday. They weren’t the only ones showing off their Irish pride as both young and old marched in the annual parade along with musical entertainers.

Staff photo/BENJAMIN PRIEBE GALLERY: bit.ly/stpatphotos WHY YOU SHOULD SEE MORE: The community got into the festive spirit wearing green including Mayor John Tory.

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CITY HEALTH AUTHORITIES RECOMMEND SAFE INJECTION SITE FOR QUEEN WEST Toronto’s public health authorities say opening safe injection sites in Queen West as well as South Riverdale and Yonge-Dundas Square will save lives and make those neighbourhoods safer. More than 200 people in Toronto died after injecting drugs in 2013.

FULL STORY: bit.ly/injectionsites WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: The statistics showing the increase of overdose deaths over the past decade are quite alarming.

Toronto Police Services have released this photo of a suspect wanted in connection with an incident last Thursday, March 10 in which a 43-year-old woman using an ATM at a bank in Roncesvalle Village was robbed by a man armed with a knife and aerosol repellent.

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A BRIGHT IDEA FOR EARTH HOUR THIS SATURDAY LIVE AND IN PERSON Historian, advocate and champion of the Humber River Madeleine McDowell will lead an Earth Hour walk, presented by Green 13 and Heritage York, on Saturday.

Here, she holds her grandfather’s lantern, which she will use to light the way. In its inaugural year, about 500 people attended.

Photo/DENNIS CANON FULL STORY: bit.ly/lambtonwalk WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Get more details on the Earth Hour walk and how to hook up with the host group.

FREE INTUITIVE EATING FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING WORKSHOP AT PARC A 12-week workshop with registered dietician Jen Schneider explores 10 simple foods that can be easily and cost effectively cooked at home. It also aims to help participants listen to their bodies when it comes to cravings.

Attendees will be making everything from a healthy bean salad to fish dishes.

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LOCAL TIBETANS MARK 57TH ANNIVERSARY OF TIBETAN NATIONAL UPRISING The Tibetan Community of Toronto rallied at Masaryk Park in Parkdale last Thursday to mark the 57th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising against China’s occupation.

Staff photo/DAN PEARCE FULL STORY AND MORE PHOTOS: bit.ly/tibetanrally WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Find out where protesters marched to and view more photos from the rally.

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EXPECT TO SEE MORE NEW STREETCARS STARTING IN APRIL FROM BOMBARDIER Bombardier plans to deliver four streetcars per month to Toronto starting in April. The new fleet of low-floor, air conditioned, smoothly running vehicles has been a hit with riders, but only 16 are currently in service. The TTC is suing Bombardier for the late delivery of its streetcars.

Staff file photo/IAN KELSO FULL STORY: bit.ly/newstreetcars WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Find out other transit news from columnist Rahul Gupta, including a retiring TTC vet’s last call.

IT’S A DONE DEAL: CITY RATIFIES NEW CONTRACT WITH INSIDE WORKERS Union members and Toronto City Council voted to ratify the collective agreement between the city (represented here by chief negotiator Bob Reynolds, centre) and CUPE Local 416, representing inside workers. The deal is similar to the one signed by the city’s outside workers.

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TORONTO POLICE CHIEF ADDRESSES CITY OVER SUSPECTED TERRORIST ATTACK At a press conference on Tuesday at police headquarters, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said a 27-year-old man charged with stabbing two Canadian Forces members appeared to be acting alone.

File photo/DAVID NICKLE FULL STORY: bit.ly/nyterror WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Find out more about this suspected terrorist incident at a recruitment centre at Yonge and Sheppard.

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There’s no doubt about it, March Break has arrived The sure signs that it’s March Break: 1. You get the sudden urge for maple syrup. Not just so you can lather it on an enticing stack of pancakes you are intending to inhale either. Your primary focus is to go to one of those festivals out of the city to actually see how they make the yummy stuff.

2. You constantly daydream of heading off to High Park, Riverdale Farm or the Toronto Zoo. After which you immediately break into a rousing chorus of Talk to the Animals, secretly hoping the next person who walks by will ask you if you speak rhinoceros.

So you can giggle, “Of courseros, can’t you?”

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Toronto Board of Health proposal to open safe injection sites for drug users in three neighbourhoods is bound to many residents uncomfortable, but it is the right thing to do. Put quite simply, these sites will save lives and make the city safer.

That being said, if you live in the Parkdale, South Riverdale or Yonge/Dundas area you are rightly feeling some concern.

Residents will be asking themselves if safety in the area will be compromised, are they at risk of being flooded with heroin and fentanyl addicts looking to shoot up? The answer is: ‘No’. The call for the safe injection sites has been made

in response to a growing number of deaths related to overdoses. T Those numbers are up 41 per cent from a decade earlier, and in the year 2013 a shocking 206 people died after injecting drugs. In the face of those numbers, to do nothing would be both irresponsible and immoral on the part of the health department and our city’s leaders.

“All lives are important, and nursesupervised safe injection sites save lives,” said Angela Robertson, executive director of the Queen West-Central Toronto Community Health Centre in Parkdale – one of the proposed safeinjection sites.

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4. You jot down Medieval Times in big bold letters on your thingsto-do list. There’s no getting around it. There’s just something about this holiday that has you itching to see a joust.

5. You find your ears perking up while eavesdropping on a friend’s conversation and you can’t stop yourself from interrupting, “Excuse me. But did I just overhear you say wagon ride? If so, count me in.”

6. Thoughts of scavenger hunts race through your mind.

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And a mobile phone.

Incredibly, the latter three often found perched on the lap of one co-worker. Sitting next to you, if you’re lucky.

10. Having celebrities such as Dora the Explorer drop by your local mall to put on a show.

11. Two words: nature trail.

12. Two more: must visit.

13. Last two: right now.

14. Going down to the boardwalk in the Beach.

15: Seeing monarch butterflies everywhere.

16. Being asked for directions to Casa Loma.

17. Wondering if this will be the year you actually hop on a plane to Florida to catch the Jays at spring training.

18. Or finally muster up the courage to do the scary EdgeWalk around the CN Tower.

19. (a) “Can we go to Ripley’s Aquarium? Can we, can we, can we?” (b) “Can we go to Black Creek Pioneer Village? Can we, can we?” (c) “Can we go to the Ontario Science Centre? Can we, can we?” (d) “Can we go to Disney On Ice? Can we, can we?” (e) “Can we go to all of the above? Can we, can we?”

20. I’ll take (e) please. And that’s for here and to go.

Jamie Wayne is a lifelong columnist who takes writing seriously? The topics? Not so much. Contact him at jamie.wayne@sympatico.ca

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The South Riverdale CHC and a Toronto Public Health office known as The Works near Yonge and Dundas are also proposed safe injection sites.

They were identified as the best spots for the safe injection sites since they have the busiest needle exchanges in the city. Their staff say the existing services prevent the spread of hepatitis C and HIV among drug users. But more still needs to be done. Because many addicts are often alone, they are at high risk of a lethal overdose. Providing a safe place for them to do this lessens the chance of death or disease.

The health board will offer recommendations on the safe injection sites this summer, once community meetings are held in the identified areas. We encourage local residents to take part in those meeting and learn the facts about this proposal.

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From The Revenant to Incredible Hulk, Soho VFX in Liberty Village makes its mark on several big budget films

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When you’re in the special effects business, you never know if the film you’re working on is going to be Oscar worthy. But the Toronto-based company, Soho VFX, seems to have the Midas touch.

Co-founded by Allan Magled and his two partners, Berj Bannayan and Mike Mombourquette, Soho VFX had the opportunity to work on the highly buzzed about film The Revenant starring Leonardo DiCaprio who recently won an Academy Award for best actor.

And no, it wasn’t the bear scene, which Magled hails as “phenomenal work.”

“That bear sequence is amazing. It’s perfect. I wish we could

have said we did it,” he said with a laugh, while leaning back in his chair in his board room in Liberty Village.

Usually more than one visual effects team works on a film, Magled explained. Sometimes it’s as simple as removing a boom mic that somehow made it into a frame, other times its creating an army of Ultron robots shooting lasers at the Avengers crew.

For The Revenant, the Soho FVX team worked on what he calls “invisible environmental visual effects.”

It’s the seamless movie magic that makes the audience believe no retouching was done at all.

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His team worked on roughly 50 shots of the film. He said it isn’t a lot, but he was happy to be a part of it in some way.

With close to 100 movies under his belt, Magled still keeps his boy-like wonder about the magic of movie making; as long as he’s not watching a film he worked on.

“When you’re so heavily involved, you look at it differently. I always like other people’s movies more than my own because I didn’t work on it,” Magled said.

“When you know what’s happening, it’s different. I’m involved so heavily and I see it over and over again. A lot of the mystery is gone because I know how it’s all done, but the joy of watching films is still there.”

Soho VFX set up shop in Liberty Village’s John Brunswick building at 99 Atlantic Ave. about 10 years ago.

“When we came here, this was all we could afford. It was cheap, deserted, it was desolate,” Magled said.

Before Soho VFX, Magled worked at C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, a now defunct FX company before striking out on his own in 2002 with his partners.

“When we came here, we had one little office and then we kept adding and adding and adding,” Magled said.

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also something you wouldn’t even notice. We created effects you wouldn’t even think about. It just looks like that’s the way it was shot,” Magled explained.

“There’s a scene where they’re burning the village, so we made sure the fires were in the right spot. We had the smoke behave in a certain way so it looks great in the frame, just little things like that. It’s something you won’t notice, but when you’re watching the film it looks beautiful. We were very happy to be a part of it.”

Soho VFX helped with the overall look of the film, which entailed retouching the sky to the perfect blue hue to creating the perfect cloud to drift above DiCaprio’s head, all while sticking to the director’s vision.

“The film has a look to it and it’s beautiful and all the sky is just right and the nature was just right. Every shot to some degree is touched just to get it right,” he said.

“Each shot was meticulous.”

And all without any formal educational training. Magled said he never went to college to learn visual effects, but that didn’t stop him from sneaking into a class or two. Still, the CEO, a self-taught visual effects master, has done pretty well in the special effects business without it. Just don’t ask him to choose a favourite film he’s worked on. Like a proud papa, Magled said he can’t choose just one because he’s enjoyed them all.

“Some have different cool factors to them. Movies like The Revenant are pretty awesome because that’s the type of visual effects movie where they’re not in your face. It’s different from say a Marvel film that’s in your face, constant eye candy all the time,” he said.

“It’s (The Revenant) the extreme opposite and the fact that it got nominated for that (visual effects) is very cool.”

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PARKDALE HAPPENINGS SISTEMA STUDENTS PERFORM AT PARKDALE SCHOOL, PARKDALE FLEA IS BACK, FUN AT SEEDY SATURDAY Photos in and around Parkdale: (Clockwise from top left) Sistema teacher Amber, left, leads her students in a bass and cello concert, during a Sistema concert held at Parkdale Junior and Senior Public School on Tuesday; A young Sistema student from Ms. Yuen’s class plays her violin during a Sistema concert; Eamon Fitzgerald prepares fresh chai lattes at the Chai Walla booth inside the Parkdale Flea Market during the first weekend of the season; ’The Panned Piper’ plays steel pan drums to attract shoppers at the Parkdale Flea Market; Laura Delguidice, left, and Stephanie Nixon discuss the benefits of heirloom seeds, during a ‘Seedy Saturday’ event inside Bonar Presbyterian Church earlier this month; Hienz performed live music for those taking part in the ‘Seedy Saturday’ event at the church.

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PO ON PU LI LA N R E Music Africa, Afrofest organizers, said they are upset about the city’s decision to reduce their two-day event to one day.

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Afrofest organizers are denying these allegations.

File photo/EDUARDO LIMA FULL STORY: bit.ly/afrochange WHY SHOULD YOUR READ MORE: Hear what the councillor is saying about how the event was pushing the envelope.

ANOTHER CUTE ALERT AT THE ZOO WITH THE BIRTH OF AN INDIAN RHINO If you have been wanting to get to the Toronto Zoo, now is the time because an Indian rhino, born Feb. 17, is waiting for you to check him out – and vice versa. The baby, who is currently nameless, weights more than 140 pounds, but will eventually weight up to 6,000 pounds.

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TORONTO RESIDENT IS WALKING 25 KM TO HELP IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER For the 10th year in a row, Lori Goldenberg is taking part in the Rexall OneWalk to Conquer Cancer benefitting Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in celebration of her mother, Carol Solomons, who died in in 2005 from gall bladder cancer. To date, Goldenberg’s team has raised about $40,000.

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SPRING-LIKE TEMPERATURES ARE GREAT EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHO LOVE WINTER The warmer weather has put a damper on the winter sports season.

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HAVE YOU SPOTTED THESE SMALL PAINTINGS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD? Toronto artist Jorge Molina is getting ready to launch the 416 Project, where he will hang 416 petite paintings, without his signature, across 35 different Toronto neighbourhoods.

Photo/LAURA DASILVA FULL STORY: bit.ly/416project WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Read why the artist is creating these small pieces of art and how he feels about the project.

NXNE IS COMING TO THE PORTLANDS The North by Northeast festival is looking at Cherry Street for its annual June event.

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EXHIBIT CELEBRATES WOMEN WHO HAVE CHALLENGED DISCRIMINATION Toronto the Just: Stories of Women and the Struggle for Equality will examine the lives of women past and present who have done their part to ensure women have the same rights and rights as men. The exhibit features seven women and one group.

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Myseum Intersections is a festival of exhibits exploring different perspectives on the city’s natural, cultural and historical diversity.

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Enjoy reading? Join librarian Caroline Ingvaldsen for a cup of tea new mystery novels.

This show has a focus on local handmade, homegrown talent with a chance to meet the makers.

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Local artists, crafters, musicians or buskers needed for Spring into Parkdale Sidewalk Festival.

Shakespeare in the Ruff’s Guerrilla Twenty of Toronto’s best Ruffian creates an improvised play bartenders create cocktails to based on audience suggestions. compete for the national finals.

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“Street inspired” entertainment and activities from beat boxing to percussion of the streets.

Focus will be on authors who have migrated and adapted to a different country.

A monthly potluck and prayer on the first Thursday of every month.

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Families can receive two free relief sessions per month at Creating Together Parkdale.

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