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LOOKING FOR THINGS TO DO VICTORIA DAY WEEKEND? HERE ARE EIGHT SUGGESTIONS

CELEBS CONTRIBUTE TO BRAIN PROJECT A public art installation in Toronto aims to bring public awareness of brain health - with some help.

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Ready to kick off the first long weekend and the unofficial kickoff to summer? If you are planning to stay in the city this weekend, there are plenty of things to do like see the Victoria Day fireworks, take the family to HarbourKids Circus, or satisfy your hunger at the Northern Heat Rib Series.

File photo/WILLIAM MEIJER FULL STORY: bit.ly/vicdayevents WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Check out the rest of the Great Eight list of things to do on the upcoming holiday weekend.

ENTER FOR CHANCE TO WIN GIFT CARD All you need to enter is your name and email address. And you can earn extra entries by sharing this contest on social media.

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VETERAN FIREFIGHTER REMEMBERED AT FUNERAL AS ‘GENUINE, SELFLESS, SMILING’

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Hundreds of Toronto firefighters stood solemnly with family and friends Monday morning to pay final respects to their fallen colleague Sara Rosen. She died last Thursday in a mountain biking accident at Kelso Conservation Area in Milton, Ont. Staff photo/DAN PEARCE

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GETTING THE HEADS-UP ON HOW IT FEELS TO WEAR A TURBAN FOR A DAY Some 10,000 metres of folded fabric was brought in for Turban Up!, an event organized by the Sikh Youth Federation to spread awareness about the religion and dispel myths about people who wear turbans.

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FULL STORY: bit.ly/toturbanup Find out more about this unique initiative in the heart of Toronto at Yonge-Dundas Square - and what organizers hope to accomplish.

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COUNCIL TO LOOK AT OVERHAUL OF WARD BOUNDARIES FOR NEXT ELECTION The Toronto Ward Boundary Review recommends adding four new wards while eliminating an existing ward in time for the next city election in 2018. In the end it would result in an increase of the number of municipal wards - and city councillors - to 47 from 44.

Map graphic/COURTESY FULL STORY: bit.ly/towardchange WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: See which parts of the city would gain new ridings under this proposal.

TAXI COMPANIES VOW NOT TO CHARGE MORE FOR RUSH HOUR SURGE

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The recommendation from the city’s public works committee to implement a 10-year bike plan would delay for two years studies on major cycling corridors like Bloor Street/Danforth Avenue.

Staff photo/ANDREW LAHODYNSKYJ FULL STORY: bit.ly/tobikeplan WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Jarod Kolb of Cycle Toronto calls it ‘two steps forward, one step back’.

Despite new ground transportation rules allowing it, seven major Toronto taxi cab companies have vowed not to raise - or lower - their fare prices depending on demand. A rep from the taxi industry said they were responding to enquiries from concerned customers.

Staff photo/MIKE ADLER FULL STORY: bit.ly/taxisurge WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Find out which taxi cab companies are involved and what their spokesperson has to say.

The centre’s new aquaponics system marks the latest in a long line of innovations at Scadding Court Community Centre. The closed-loop ecosystem is looking to help boost food security in the area.

Staff photo/JUSTIN SKINNER FULL STORY: bit.ly/aqua707 WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Discover how the Aquaponics 707 works and the other benefits it provides to the community.

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SCADDING COURT CENTRE IS HOME TO A MINIATURE CLOSED-LOOP ECOSYSTEM

It looks as though the Cherry Blossoms in High Park will not reach peak bloom this year, according to the High Park Nature Centre’s executive director Diana Teal. Most of the Sakura trees are turning to leaf buds, something that takes place after bloom. The main reason? Toronto’s “really cold” spring. Staff photo/DAN PEARCE

COUNCILLOR GIVING AWAY COMPOST ‘Tis the season of greening, gardening and growth. That’s why Davenport Councillor Ana Bailão is hosting a community compost day.

FULL STORY: bit.ly/compostday Get more information for the event taking place May 27.

FULL STORY: bit.ly/nopeakbloom WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Regardless of the state of cherry blossoms, find out the other reasons to come to High Park.

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HIGH PARK CHERRY BLOSSOMS WON’T REACH PEAK BLOOM DUE TO COLD SPRING

MINI YIMBY FESTIVAL TAKES OVER THE GLADSTONE’S BALLROOM THIS WEEKEND

FULL STORY: bit.ly/yimbyfest WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Find out more about the YIMBY Festival taking place Sunday, May 22 at 11 a.m.

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Typically a citywide event, for this edition the Gladstone Hotel has teamed up with Shape My City to create a local version similar to last year’s event pictured above where people came to learn more about the organizations that help engage the community. Courtesy photo

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Have fun, but be safe this Victoria Day long weekend

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long weekend is just about here, cyclists and four passengers died, and many of us will hit the road with 17 of those motorcycle drivers for this Victoria Day holiday. reported as driving properly at the time No matter when you go – be it in the of the crash, the OPP reports. city or on a longer road trip to a cottage While speed and loss of control or to pitch a tent also played a role in – your main focus the deaths, the OPP is should be arriving cautioning both motorat your destination cyclists and other drivalive. ers to do a better job The excitement of of sharing the road. hare the road and having a few days off These weekends from the everyday away from our routine, be firwork safe this sometimes causes don’t have to be holiday people to throw reckless. Speeding, common sense out careless lane changes the window (along and unnecessary risk with some litter – taking can cause more don’t do that by the way). While you than a rush – it can end your life or and other drivers snake through slow someone else’s. If you follow the rules traffic, you can expect the Ontario of the road, and the person driving Provincial Police to be keeping a close next to you does the same, along with eye on how you drive. the vehicle ahead of you and the other Last year, a total of 27 motortrailing a safe distance behind, there’s

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means of financing). At some point, very soon, the boom’s going to end and the projects will have to be built.

Wallace first pointed this out to councillors in the fall shortly after he took the job. That early report gave Mayor John Tory a small amount of political cover, to propose that the city maintain a 0.5 per cent levy on the property tax bill currently in place to help finance the Scarborough subway, to finance more transit infrastructure.

This report, coming to next week’s Executive Committee, provides an imperative for more of the same: a debate on what other ways we might find, to support ourselves in the style to which we’ve become accustomed. To whit: revenue tools.

These conversations haven’t gone well in the past. In the last term of council, politicians balked at supporting any revenue tools, even as they voted to go forward on subway expansion in Scarborough. Former mayor David Miller was able to get a couple of major revenue tools through council, but the battle over the land transfer tax and vehicle registration tax nearly broke council.

Will it be any different now?

It’s not encouraging. Council this term has shown just as little appetite for long-term financial planning as ever. Council approved a billion-dollar rebuild of the Gardiner Expressway’s elevated lanes. The Scarborough subway remains on the books.

And this week, Tory made it clear that one thing he won’t support is any significant increase to Toronto’s bargain-basement property tax rates. There’s no doubt about it: the arrested 12 year olds on Toronto council have a lot of growing up to do.

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no reason this shouldn’t be a holiday to remember – for all the right reasons.

And if you want to celebrate with fireworks – be safe about it.

The Canada Safety Council believes it’s best to enjoy fireworks at a show put on by professionals such as the City of Toronto set for Monday night at Ashbridges Bay Park. But if you’re going to be your own pyrotechnic protege, follow these tips: • Read the instructions, cautions and warnings on each firework item.

• Set up outdoors in a clear, open space. Light fireworks on a hard, flat and level surface to ensure stability.

• Spectators should be at a safe distance.

• Only adults should handle the fireworks.

• If you are impaired, do not handle fireworks.

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If recent history has taught us nothing else, let us remember this: that left to their own devices, Toronto’s political leadership is about as good with a budget as a pack of 12 year olds with their parents’ credit cards.

It had always been so, at least within the lifespan of amalgamated Toronto.

In 1997, Mel Lastman was elected the city’s first mayor on a promise of a three-year property tax freeze – delivered at the same time as the city was reconstituting itself into the largest municipality in the country at the behest, but without the support of the provincial government.

Lastman’s first term set a tone that subsequent councils have maintained: namely, that marginal property tax increases are the most injurious thing a government might inflict upon homeowners – about an equivalent evil to reducing services upon which those homeowners had come to rely and limiting promises of improved service to come.

And so over the years, council has approved projects, maintained services and kept property tax increases slim to none.

This week, Toronto’s city manager Peter Wallace brought out another in what is developing into a series of despatches, delineating what to many has been obvious for years. Toronto has been able to maintain the fiction of a growing city and a low property tax environment thanks to factors that are either entirely beyond its control (a booming real estate market that pours in revenue through the municipal land transfer tax) or measures of which council should frankly be ashamed (approving capital projects for future years with no

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Throwback: (Counter clockwise from top) Paul Barkett helps his son Levi pick out flowers for a Mother’s Day present during the monthly Toronto Flower Market earlier this month; Lauren of CFlora Design, left, helps Caroline select her favourite vase, at the Toronto Flower Market; Isabel Hellyer plays with bubbles in Sorauren Park on a sunny day; Gianna Ceschia prepares a fresh and hot pasta dish during the Gluten Free Garage food fair event, which took place at Wychwood Park Barns; Denise Bebenek starts off the annual Meagan’s Walk alongside Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders in honour of Meagan Bebenek who died in 2001 due to an inoperable brain tumour. The crowd of hundreds walked from Fort York to SickKids Hospital.

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Organized by the White Ribbon campaign, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes raises funds and awareness to promote the role men can play in stopping violence against women. This year, several hundred men pledged to play an active role in combating violence.

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WOMAN SURPRISED AFTER $19,000 LIEN PLACED ON HOME FROM LOCAL COMPANY Frances Clarke wants the government to warn people about door-todoor salespeople after she was told about a lien place on her home after signing a 10-year contract for a water softener.

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Running Friday, June 3 to the end of August, The Brain Project exhibit will be made up of 100 customized brain-inspired sculptures designed by artists and sponsored by philanthropists and corporations. The brains will be on display at venues across the city, including Nathan Phillips Square, MaRS Discovery District, and OCAD University.

Once the artwork is on display, the public will have a chance to vote on their top five. A number of sculptures will then be auctioned off in October, with all proceeds going to Baycrest to support crucial care, research, education and innovation in the fields of aging and brain health at the Bathurst Street and Hwy. 401 site.

Toronto’s Baycrest is home to the Canadian Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation (CC-ABHI), a new national hub and network of seniors care organizations dedicated to the development, validation, commercialization, dissemination and adoption of brain health and seniors care products and services.

The brain sculptures are designed by world-renowned and emerging members in the arts community, including street pop artist Mr. Brainwash, and artists Gary Taxali and Karim Rashid – along with some added star power.

Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy will have his brain sculpture design on display, along with a sculpture created by North West - who had a little help from her mom, reality TV star Kim Kardashian West.

Artist Dani Cooperman knew she had to be involved with The Brain Project the second she heard about it.

“Two of my grandparents battled Alzheimer’s disease so this cause is very close to my heart,” she said. “My grandmother was also an artist, so to open the conversation of brain health through the arts is quite fitting. Based on my personal history, I have a strong connection to Baycrest and to their groundbreaking work and research. After witnessing it firsthand, I truly believe that no brain deserves to go blank.”

Her sculpture, titled The [Em]powered Brain, showcases how gray matter can be improved and strengthened.

“Graffiti-styled descriptors like ‘pow’, ‘flash’ and ‘zing’ illustrate the conceptual sound of neurons firing, while arrows show the expanding hippocampus,” she said. “Prisms demonstrate the creation of new neural connections, and colourful neural pathways change direction and travel throughout the brain. LED lights within the sculpture are constantly changing colour and intensity furthering this point. Recent advances in brain research demonstrate that we have the ability to reshape and strengthen our neural connections – a huge paradigm shift that empowers us to be active participants in our brain health. I hope to be a part of this conversation and to inspire people young and old to take

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Inspired by New York’s Fabergé Big Egg Hunt, Erica Godfrey, co-chair of The Brain Project, said the fundraiser expands the role of art programing at Baycrest, while highlighting brain health.

“Three of my husband’s grandparents lived at Baycrest and we are firm believers in what they do,” she said. “Art plays a fundamental role in Baycrest’s continued care and rehabilitation of its residents so we knew this would be an amazing project for them to lead. The Brain Project expands the role of art at Baycrest in a very organic and meaningful way.”

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Kim Kardashian West and her daughter North contributed to The Brain Project, a public art installation benefitting Baycrest Health Sciences.

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Garry Foster, president and CEO of Baycrest Foundation, noted the number of people with Alzheimer’s disease is set to rise dramatically as the baby boomer population ages in the coming decades.

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Artist Gary Taxali talks about his sculpture while supporters Ben and Jessica Mulroney, Noah and Erica Godfrey look recently at the launch of The Brain Project, a public art installation benefitting Baycrest Health Sciences.

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Organized by the White Ribbon campaign, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes raises funds and awareness to promote the role men can play in stopping violence against women. This year, several hundred men pledged to play an active role in combating violence.

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WOMAN SURPRISED AFTER $19,000 LIEN PLACED ON HOME FROM LOCAL COMPANY Frances Clarke wants the government to warn people about door-todoor salespeople after she was told about a lien place on her home after signing a 10-year contract for a water softener.

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PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CELEBRATING 15 YEARS OF HELPING STUDENTS SUCCEED In 15 years, Pathways to Education has helped not only to dispel the myth that children from low-income backgrounds could not succeed in school, but increased the percentage of students going to post-secondary education from 20 per cent to 85 to 90 per cent. Pathways gave a future to those children, says a local councillor.

Staff photo/JUSTIN SKINNER FULL STORY: bit.ly/stuhelp WHY YOU SHOULD READ MORE: Read about the success stories of people who have gone through the program.

JOE FRESH RECALLS PRE-WALKER ‘FOOTLETS’ BECAUSE OF CHOKING HAZARD “Fabric attached to the back of the slipper has the potential to detach and may pose a choking hazard to children,” states a company media release, adding that no injuries have been reported.

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