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Armed with nothing but their winter clothing, sleeping bags and ground sheets a group of community members and police officers braved the cold temperatures and slept on the lawn of 11 Division headquarters.

The camp-out was part of the Warm4Winter campaign that’s been collecting warm winter gear for men, women and children to be donated to the West Neighbourhood House.

More than 2,000 pounds of clothing and close to $2,000 in gift cards from Metro, No Frills and Shoppers Drug Mart have been collected.

“It was really humbling,” said 11 Division Unit Commander Heinz Kuck during the Friday night camp-out. “It was a shared epiphany of how much we can do as individuals and how much we take for granted.”

Kuck, who is no stranger to camping and being in the outdoors, admits it was hard falling asleep because the cold would seep into sleeping bags over the course of the night and wake him up.

During the Nov. 7 event volunteers had a chance to also sit down and talk about the issues facing the city including poverty, homelessness and the lack of affordable housing.

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REMEMBRANCE DAY: Veterans Alf Hebbes, left, Ed Haddon and Alyre Gallant, members of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers, 27th armoured regiment, bow their heads in tribute during the Remembrance Day ceremony held Tuesday morning at the Fort York Garrison Common. For more coverage of the ceremony, see page 3.

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Despite the cold and rainy weather, about 50 Parkdale community members braved the elements and participated

in the first of two walking tours regarding the West Queen West Planning Study.

“The main goal of today is to get people thinking,” said Avery Carr, the project lead on the West Queen West study with

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Crowds gather at Fort York for Remembrance Day HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com The November sun blanketed the men and women in period military uniforms, as one by one they marched from Garrison Commons to the Strachan Avenue Burial Ground at Fort York.

With the Toronto skyline as their backdrop lined with trees in their full autumn glory, more than 150 people gathered to honour, remember and reflect on the fallen soldiers that paid the ultimate price for our freedom.

Among the crowd were three Second World War veterans, including 92-year-old Ed Haddon.

“I came up from Trenton.

It’s quite a long way to come, but it was a nice service,” said the vet, who spent 40 years in Toronto.

Ed served as a tank commander and joined the war when he was just 17 years old. He said he joined for the excitement and for the chance to see the world.

He served in France and Germany and also took part in the liberation of Holland in 1945.

He recalled one close

call: “I was out of my tank doing an orders group with my infantry and they spotted us and shelled us,” Haddon recalled.

Fortunately for Haddon he only suffered a bullet wound to his knee.

“That was pretty much the end of the war for me,” he said.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War and in remembrance, the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE), a Canadian women’s charity organization, hosted its 62nd annual Remembrance Day Service.

The IODE was instrumental in the restoration of the Fort York military burial grounds in the early 20th century.

The first ceremony was attended by about 100 people in 1952, but today that number has nearly doubled with crowds of men, women and children surrounding the burial ground.

As the musical notes of The Last Post drifted into the crowd from the bugle at the eleventh hour, a sombre mood spread across the grounds.

Haddon along with the two other veterans bowed their heads and closed their eyes in remembrance as the Canadian flag was lowered to half-mast.

During the two minutes of silence the noise of the city seemed to fall away and all at once everything became still. Nothing but the wind and rustling of the leaves was heard.

Shortly after, members of the Toronto Police, the Emergency Medical Service, high school students and local councillors laid wreaths at the bottom of the flag pole at the centre of the burial ground.

After the ceremony the veterans were thanked for their service by attendees young and old.

For Haddon’s daughter Dari it was a nice moment to observe.

“I was really touched by how many parents brought their young kids over to see these three gentleman and to thank them,” she said.

“It was very touching. You could see it (the tradition) getting passed down that way.”

She and Haddon were also pleased that many stopped

to ask him questions about the war.

“I think it’s wonderful. The enthusiasm they’re showing is tremendous,” he said.

“It shows they’re a bit interested.”

Dari added there’s the saying that goes with this day, Lest We Forget, and to her the children showing interest is hope that it won’t be lost as veterans slowly disappear.

“We will remember them,” she said. “This is a perfect example of that.”

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Fort York National Historic Site and the Toronto Municipal Chapter IODE (Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire) presented Remembrance Day Services at the Strachan Avenue Military Cemetery on Garrison Common. Counter clockwise from above: Ewan Wardle, left, and Kevin Hebib, in vintage uniforms, stand as honour guard at the flagpole. Piper Marilyn Willis of the 48th Highlanders plays, ‘The Lament’. Second World War veteran Ed Haddon, 92, was one of three World War Two vets on hand. Roland Wardle of the 8th Kings Regiment at Fort York.

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e’ve said it before, that if you’re unsatisfied with something or desire change in this city, you need to speak up. But better than that, the best way to effect change is to do it with a united front. There’s strength in numbers, but also strength in shared experiences and resources. This week we’ve seen great examples of that in stories we’ve covered.

In Parkdale, the Ossington BIA – the city’s newest BIA – recently became official, in choosing its first board members. The BIA formed after business owners saw a need to manage the transformation of the Ossington strip and mitigate relations with residents and area developers.

In another show of productive collaboration, transit advocacy groups and the airport worker’s union rallied together in order to push for affordable fares on the upcoming Union-Pearson air rail link. In forming the Our Union Pearson Coalition, the group offers a collective point of view, backed by the voices and experience of our view thousands.

On Monday evening, a group called (Why Should I Effect change Care?) WSIC based out of North York through shared held a forum on transit and urban planning. Motivated by experiences the desire to engage and inform, the group hosts public meetings like this to spur discussion and show citizens why municipal affairs matter to them.

And in Etobicoke, Glen Agar residents concerned about the intensification of development in their neighbourhood banded together and formed a new ratepayer’s association.

“We must have a say in the decisions that affect our neighbourhood,” reads their mandate. “No politician or city staffer has a more vested interest in how our community is growing and shaping than each and every one of us.”

Where groups can learn from each other, share best practices and experiences is where issues will be most effectively resolved.

Discover who shares that common interest or has an investment in your area and bring everyone to the table to make the most impact. BIAs can assist resident associations.

Issue-related advocacy groups may find a wealth of resources in grassroots community groups.

Politicians, school board trustees, police liaison committees – there’s no shortage of people to turn to, when you’re looking to strengthen your cause.

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Tory must speak firmly to feds about city’s transit needs During the election campaign, John Tory repeatedly said he would “shame” other levels of government into paying for big-ticket items beyond the scope of the property tax base.

Specifically, things like housing and transit.

Just a few weeks following the election, Mayorelect Tory seems to be waffling.

Disappointing When asked Monday whether he would turn transit into an election issue in the looming federal election, Tory chuckled.

After having finished a municipal election, he joked, “the last thought I have is getting involved in another one.”

It’s a disappointing note in what had been a hopeful tune: namely, that Tory, with his Rolodex full of contacts and relationships, might be the city’s most effective advocate when dealing with other levels of

david nickle the city government.

Surely the best time to bring that advocacy to a government is as it heads into an election and therefore has the most at stake.

That Tory seems unwilling to do so is puzzling.

A benign explanation might be that he simply doesn’t wish to be seen following the Toronto Transit Commission’s union leadership, who made the call earlier Monday as it released a report indicating the poverty of our transit system and the need for federal and provincial investment.

But the theory advanced by failed candidate Doug Ford – that Tory’s relationships are as much a constraint as they are an advantage – is another explanation.

Tory’s candidacy was endorsed by sitting politi-

cians of both Liberal and Conservative persuasion.

Taking a firm stance in the context of an election involving the careers of those politicians, after they’d been so kind ... well, it’s just bad manners.

Hopefully Tory’s reticence to bring up awkward truths with old friends, particularly in concert with natural opponents like the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113, is a temporary thing.

Hard talk Because it is going to take some hard talk, either publicly or privately, to engage the current federal government on municipal issues to any degree.

Left to his own devices, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is more likely to fight the coming election on tax policy and the country’s new military adventure against ISIS. Municipal matters are outside of the federal government’s

wheelhouse as a rule, and they’ll stay that way unless municipalities make some noise. That noise need not be confrontational.

Polite Former mayor David Miller negotiated significant improvements in financing and governance with both former premier Dalton McGuinty and former prime minister Paul Martin.

Miller was polite about it, but by no means silent.

Tory needs to find his own voice, speaking firmly about Toronto’s unmet needs, and assigning responsibility for the fulfillment of those needs correctly, with the governments who have the greatest capacity to raise and disperse funds. He needs to make them aware of the shame inherent in failure to do so.

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Warm4Winter campaign collects clothing for West Neighbourhood House >>>from page 1 overnight, according to Kuck and one of them was Linda Martin, co-chair of the Community Police Liaisons Committee (CPLC) and the General Director of Green Apple Kids Childcare.

For her the experience of sleeping outside for one night was only a glimpse of what the homeless go through week after week on the streets of Toronto.

“As much as it was cold, I had two jackets, warm boots and good quality winter gear and that’s not normal for people who do this on a day-to-day basis,” said Martin. “(When it’s over) I’m going to go to my warm house with my loving and supportive family and the homeless don’t have that.”

Martin added it was a “pretty amazing experience” but an emotional one as well.

“It shakes your security; you take things for granted pretty easily,” she said.

Sarah Doucette, councillor for Ward 13 (Parkdale-High Park), also joined in on the experience and said sleeping on the hard ground with the constant noise of the city wasn’t ideal for a decent night’s rest.

She got about three hours sleep

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Toronto police 11 Division Community Police Liaison Committee co-chair Linda Martin, left, Toronto Councillor Sarah Doucette, Aux. Insp. Darren Lawrence, crime analyst Robert Tajti, Supt. Heinz Kuck, Det. Stella Karras and Sgt. Harry Nijjar get set to spend Friday night outside the station as part of the division’s Warm4Winter clothing drive and sleepover.

that night.

“When someone moves you’re wondering who it is…. I honestly don’t know how people living on the street get sleep, they’re probably always awake.”

The councillor hunkered down

for the night and slept in two downfilled sleeping bags, but she still couldn’t shake the chill throughout the night. Once the night was over, Doucette, along with Martin and Kuck, went to their respective homes where they had a warm bed to return

to. The same can’t be said for the 500 people who sleep outdoors all year round, according to the city’s 2013 Street Needs Assessment Report.

“It (the experience) did give me a very, very small insight into what it’s like,” the councillor said.

“I don’t think one night reflects what people are living through constantly, but it did open my eyes.”

According to Doucette the city needs to do more when it comes to ensure there’s affordable housing so people don’t end up on the street.

She also added that although shelters are an option some homeless don’t feel safe within those walls and it’s up to the city do a better job.

By 3:30 a.m. people began to burrow into their sleeping bags for the night, Kuck said. The success of the campaign was one he said went beyond his expectations, not just for the donations but for the “epiphanies” people were able to have that night.

Doucette and Martin encourage the public to not only keep donating, but also participate in next year’s event. Doucette would like to see all police divisions sign on for the cause as well.

“The experience was better than I thought it would be,” Martin said.

“It’s something worth experiencing once in your lifetime, everyone should experience it.”

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Little Italy filmmaker looks at The Secret life of Pigeons JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com

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hough they’re often overlooked when they’re not being seen as a nuisance or as scavengers, pigeons have a long and storied role in human history.

Documentary filmmaker and Little Italy resident Scott Harper’s latest work, The Secret Life of Pigeons, rebuffs common assumptions about the largely urban bird, pointing out they are far more than – as Hollywood director Woody Allen famously called them – “rats with wings.”

“Their reputation is completely inaccurate,” Harper said of the much-maligned creature.

“They’re seen as dim-witted, but they’re actually really smart.

They’re seen as dirty, but they’re really clean. They don’t spread disease as fast as other animals, even dogs and cats.”

The Secret Life of Pigeons looks at a number of studies that show the birds’ brighter side. Different experiments show how pigeons can recognize humans based on facial features and how they actually create a network to dis-

tribute themselves in near-perfect proportion to how much food is available – a necessity, given that pigeons are never more than a few days from starvation due to people feeding them, which prevents the population from stabilizing naturally.

“I think you really see how nimble they are, and how beautiful they can be,” Harper said. “You see how they’re able to survive in a place that’s basically designed to destroy them.”

Pigeons were not always seen as stupid animals – in early days, they were used for communications and were invaluable in this capacity in times of war from ancient Egypt to the battles of Genghis Khan to more modern warfare.

“Since the earliest recorded battles, they’ve been used,” Harper said. “When you look at them, you don’t really stop to think they’ve been around for 5,000 or 10,000 years or that they’re a huge part of the human story.”

The Secret Life of Pigeons also looks at how the birds have served as a source of food, as messengers for early stock markets and

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Documentary filmmaker Scott Harper is promoting his new production, The Secret Life of Pigeons, which airs on The Nature of Things, Nov. 20 on the CBC.

as entertainment, with pigeon racing popular among royalty, celebrities and others. Some even keep them as pets.

The birds have hardly outlived their usefulness to humans.

Pigeons are now being used in scientific research surrounding Alzheimer’s disease.

“They encode spatial information the same way we do and as they age, they lose it the same way we do,” Harper said.

While pigeons are seen by many as vermin and are often forced to scavenge for food, some people still take the time to feed the city-dwelling birds.

While that helps them survive in the short term, Harper noted that feeding them prevents the population from stabilizing naturally.

Harper got his start in news and current affairs production before striking out on his own to work on documentaries.

Through his production company, Sunday Night Entertainment, he has created a long list of documentaries, including the award-winning Lost Adventures of Childhood, which highlights the dwindling freedom afforded children at play.

“That’s probably the one I’m most proud of,” he said. “I didn’t have a lot of team (members) around me, so I did pretty much every aspect of that film. It caught on a little bit and still sells a little bit.”

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Harper is now working on Clara’s Big Ride, which follows Olympian Clara Hughes on her cross-country tour to speak and raise awareness about mental health. In the meantime, however, he is looking forward to seeing the reaction to The Secret Life of Pigeons.

“It’s kind of a great underdog story mixed with something we all see, even if we don’t notice it, in our lives every day,” he said.

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Music therapy doc a fundraiser for group LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Diagnosed with polio as a child, Chin Injeti had to overcome major obstacles to be able to walk again.

He credits music therapy for helping him heal. Music therapy, says the Grammywinning music producer and songwriter, saved his life.

Music therapy was also the key to helping a newborn without sight learn to engage her other senses; music therapy comforted a dying man, who recorded a love song for his wife.

These are some of the people featured in the documentary film ‘The Gift of Music: Stories of Music Therapy,’ by The Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund, directed by one of its board members, Scott Rondeau.

“Making this film changed my life,” Rondeau told The Villager. “I think a lot of us are fans of music, but this film attempts to uncover in part, why we like it so much.

“Throughout the film, scientists, doctors and music therapists talk about how music is just in us. That was a bi-product of the film as I set out to make a very different film at the beginning, simply about what music therapy does.”

Screenings of the film

continue until Nov. 28 with a showing at the Palmerston Library, located at Bloor West and Bathurst streets, Thursday, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m.

“The goal is to raise awareness (of Music Therapy),” said the Bloordale Village-based centre’s spokesperson Chrissy Pearson.

The screenings that take place across the country are serving as a fundraiser for the trust.

Through a fundraising initiative in 2007 called ‘Campaign Think 10’ during which participants came up with ways to raise increments of $10, such as hosting a concert for $10 tickets, which ended up raising $10,000, the Music Therapy Trust was able to pay for the creation of the documentary.

Rondeau, a filmmaker by profession, offered to make the movie for free, however the trust covered his travel and equipment costs. He travelled coast to coast to meet with Music Therapists (MT) and filmed them doing their work, according to Pearson.

“I think the stories throughout do a good job in scratching the surface of what an MT does – we would need a six-season series to truly show all that it can do – but I loved digging deeper into the effects of music and how and why it is so transformative

and powerful,” said Rondeau.

“That truly made the film special.”

These music therapists were chosen by the Music Therapy Trust and were for the most part recipients of its grants.

“The film showcases different kinds of music therapy with different people of different ages and different kinds of disabilities and illnesses,” said Pearson. “It’s a snapshot of the diverse work that music therapists do.”

It was important the screening take place in an accessible location close to public transit. Rondeau will attend as will the “grandmother” of music therapy, Fran Herman, and Raoul Bhaneja, a Parkdale resident, local actor, musician and director, to take part in a question and answer period following the screening.

“Music therapy is such an essential part of so many people’s healing process,” said Pearson. “I see it every day. I also believe it.”

This kind of therapy is not funded by the government or insurance agencies.

“People who can use this the most are the ones who can’t afford it,” said Pearson.

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Rendezvous with Madness focuses on mental health issues JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Cinephiles and art aficionados are getting set to book their Rendezvous with Madness when the world’s largest film festival focusing on mental health issues returns.

The Rendezvous with Madness festival was founded in 1993 by Workman Arts, an organization dedicated to supporting and empowering artists with mental illness and addiction issues.

In addition to the multitude of films being screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, this year’s festival, which started

Monday and runs until Saturday, includes a pop-up multimedia art installation at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

“We wanted to add an (art) installation component to the festival last year but we didn’t manage to work it in, in time,” said Rendezvous with Madness program director Jeff Wright. “It can be hard to get people out to see the films sometimes, but this gives people a chance to take in some of what the festival’s about.”

The exhibit, dubbed Snoozeland, brings video, found footage, animation,

sculpture, drawings and audio together to turn CAMH into a bright and colourful feast for the senses.

Artists Marc Ngui and Magda Wojtyra, who live nearby in the Christie Pits community, worked with Workman Arts participants to create Snoozeland.

“Very early on, there was a push for something that was comforting and warm and that looked at the good parts of life, partly because of the location and partly because that’s a big part of mine and Marc’s work,” Wojtyra said.

“It’s a diorama – kind of like a Santa’s workshop where

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Snoozeland is part of the Rendezvous with Madness festival’s multimedia installation at CAMH.

dreams are made.”

The artist added working with artists from the Workman Arts program was a great experience as they shaped the piece together.

“It was a lot of fun just work-

ing together with them, and as a bonus, we got to make some great art,” she said.

The film component of the festival will once again feature some of the best films involving mental health and addiction from around the world.

Wright said Rendezvous with Madness differs from more mainstream festivals that tackle those issues, focusing on realism over sensationalized accounts.

“The films we’ve chosen give an accurate and respectful depiction of mental illness and addiction, which is great to see,” he said.

This year’s festival lineup

includes full-length animated feature Rocks in my Pocket, which depicts filmmaker Signe Baumane’s family’s struggles with mental illness; No-No: A Documentary, which highlights former major league pitcher Dock Ellis’ triumph over amphetamine addiction; and Art of Darkness, which follows artist Bryan Lewis Saunders, who has painted a self-portrait every day since 1995, including some while using perception-altering drugs.

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The Royal Winter Fair returns to Exhibition Place Hilary Caton hcaton@insidetoronto.com Farm fresh fun is in store for families this year as the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair gears up for its 92nd year in Toronto.

Its 10-day run through to Sunday, Nov. 16 in the Direct Energy Centre and Ricoh Coliseum, boasts a diverse list of programming, which showcases food, farming and entertainment.

“There’s so much that they can take in,” said Paul Larmer, the president and chairman of the board of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.

This year’s newest and tastiest feature is the Food and Lifestyle stage, which will host the first Road to the Royal Chef Challenge.

Six regional chefs who competed in fairs in Peterborough, Barrie, Markham, Collingwood, Simcoe and Paris will all compete.

There will also be an International Chef Challenge

that will have the 2013 returning Royal Chef Champion Collin Thornton competing against the chefs from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City and the Peninsula Hotel in Chicago, with renowned chef Michael Bonacini judging the competition.

According to the Food and Lifestyle stage programmer Krizsanta Greco, the stage’s food events will have an interactive component that will involve audience members getting a chance to not only sample the food but also be a judge.

“If food is involved you got to get people to try it,” said Greco, adding there will also be a Toronto Taste Experience, where different restaurants from varying neighbourhoods within Toronto will have a chance to highlight their flavour and taste.

The fair will have its usual entertainment staples such as The Royal Horse Show, currently ranked as the No. 1 indoor equine competition

in North America, which will have competitors battling it out for more than $800,000 in prize money.

Three new full national classes for young riders has also been added to the show this year.

Attendees will also get the chance to shop their hearts out with 350 different vendors selling everything from riding boots to trailers to heated jackets.

A fair favourite is also the Scotiabank Ring of Excellence competition where farmers bring in their best looking livestock to compete in several national competitions.

The Animal Theatre will host 10 hours of live performances to showcase the talents of trained farm animals from horses to goats.

Royal fair goers will also get the chance to see agriculture in action with 13 different education centres.

“They can get a bit of the farm but what’s really important is that families can see where their food comes

from.”

To help educate Toronto families the fair will have an exhibit called the a-MAZE-ing Food Journey, which encourages families to explore the path their food takes from farm to table.

“We’re so blessed in Canada to have such a plentiful supply of food and I think that’s a really good opportunity for people to see that,” Larmer added.

There’s also a strong educational component to the Royal, which Larmer said is a part of its core mandate.

He added it’s important children today know that their food doesn’t just come from the store.

“It’s hard work and they’ll get to meet some of the people that farm every day and really understand where it comes from because we take it for granted,” Larmer said.

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Coalition wants affordable fares for Union Pearson Express link RaHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com A labour coalition of transit advocates and airport workers is urging Metrolinx to make the Union Pearson Express (UP) air rail link affordable enough for all riders when it launches next year.

O u r Un i o n Pe a r s o n Coalition is planning a series of rallies and canvassing events until Dec. 11, when

Metrolinx is expected to officially announce the fare levels for the four-stop rail service offering rapid trips between Terminal One at Pearson International Airport and Union Station, beginning in the spring of 2015.

It’s been speculated fares will cost between $20 and $30 for a regular one-way trip travelling the full length of the line. In recent months Metrolinx officials have pub-

licly stated there’s room for “alternative” pricing. That’s not good enough for coalition spokesperson Jessica Bell, who said all UP fares should be fixed at the level of TTC cash fares: around $3 per trip.

“It’s outrageous,” said Bell, who is also chair of the transit advocacy group TTCriders.

“What we don’t understand is why would you take this massive 23-kilometre line and turn it into a service for just the One

Percent.”

“Why should we be paying 20 or 30 dollars when it should be a true transit line?”

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A petition created by the group calling for lower UP fares and directed at the Ontario government and Premier Kathleen Wynne has

already received more than 700 signatures as of Tuesday evening.

NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo, the party’s urban transportation critic, also lent her support to the coalition saying in a press release UP would ultimately cost taxpayers almost a billion dollars, “all for no public benefit.”

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Participants made suggestions during the walk >>>from page 1 tion for the street from future development.

Carr was joined by Ward 14 Councillor Gord Perks as well as City of Toronto staff in the transportation, urban planning and community development departments.

In order to properly envision the future of Queen Street, participants of the Saturday afternoon walking

tour were tasked with travelling from Dufferin Street to Roncesvalles Avenue, while considering various improvements and problem areas.

Participants were asked to focus on six areas: built form, which focuses on building heights, setbacks and stepbacks; the streetscape; transportation, including parking; the heritage attributes of the street; the character of the

area; and public spaces.

The tour began in the amphitheatre at Queen and Dufferin streets and was immediately pointed out as a public space that could use some more trees and could be better utilized. One attendee spoke out to say it was nothing more than a concrete skate park.

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Planner Dan Nicholson spoke with community members about improvements along the street and was approached about public spaces.

“As we put more and more people in the neighbourhoods, the streets serve as public spaces and there’s relative few opportunities in a mature area like this to create new parks,” Nicholson told The Villager.

“We need to use the streets and small spaces to the best of our advantage and get the most use out of it.”

As the Nov. 8 tour progressed suggestions of removing planters and replacing them with the similar frames around the trees found on Roncesvalles Avenue was brought up as well as preserving the front facades of the two-storey buildings along Queen, which are not well kept.

At one of the stops at Queen Street and Close Avenue one resident, Christine Irving of Queen and Triller Ave., pointed out the problem of

the lot that used to be home to a gas station.

“It’s an eye sore and a waste of space,” she said.

“They (the city) talk about beautifying the neighbourhood and this looks derelict.”

Irving suggested taking down the fence, repaving it and donating some the sculptures she and other artists have created to brighten up the corner and suggested other community groups with interests in gardening could find a use for it.

“Just give us the opportunity to take care of it,” Irving said.

Although Perks admitted he himself hates that corner, he said nothing can be done with it.

“It would be lovely to get rid of it but there are legal problems in Canadian law that incent oil companies to pave, fence and forget old gas stations,” Perks said.

Another issue that was brought up with unanimous agreement is the volume of

cars that backs up Queen Street from Dufferin to access the Gardiner expressway during rush hour.

The suggestion of better timed lights was mentioned.

As the walking tour came to a close, Nicholson told The Villager the next steps for the study, which include continuous work with the community over the next several months: “We’ll collectively come up with a plan, draft a zoning bylaw and come up with design guidelines for the streetscape program,” he said. “That will then go before the community and then council who will make a decision on it.”

By the end of the tour Perks was not only pleased with the turnout, but also the number of suggestions the community came up with.

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Show features pre-web computer graphics JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Bill Perry, a 30-year Little India area resident, was surprised to learn dozens of photographs of the preInternet computer graphics he created more than three decades ago existed.

One day last summer while visiting Inter/Access Electronic Media Arts Centre at 9 Ossington Ave. – a space Perry founded back in the mid-1980s – he uncovered 55, 4x5 inch photographs of his work in the archives.

“The actual work is all lost so it was a shock to find out somebody took photographs of it,” the semi-retired independent publisher shared during a recent interview.

The black-and-white images were of a videotext (essentially a now-obsolete term used to describe websites before the advent of the Internet) documentary Perry created back in 1982 called ART vs Art. This project, done in collaboration with Deanne Taylor

and VideoCabaret, was part of Computerese: The Electronic Media Magazine, an online magazine he owned and operated back in 1982.

Inter/Access has since invited Perry to showcase those 55 images – snapped by photographer Ric Anis – in a group show called Mean Time To Upgrade.

Perry has also taken the 55 images from what he called “Canada’s first website” and created ART vs. Art: A Videotex Documentary, a 10-minute simulated user session video.

The short film, which features selections from a 21-day campaign/performance based on the 1982 Art Eggleton mayoral run, can be found at www.youtube.com/ watch?v=cjLXuX1mQXo Perry’s ART vs. Art documentary is also part of the Mean Time To Upgrade art show along with the 55 photos of his work, which are mounted on a wall in the art space in a tree structure pattern.

Curated by InterAccess’

Curator of Public Programs Maiko Tanaka in collaboration with Farah Yusuf and Luis Hernandez, the ‘works in existential crisis’-themed art show runs until Saturday, Nov. 22.

Mean Time To Upgrade also features works by Phil Baljeu, Steve Daniels, Hannah Epstein, Dragan Espenschied and Nancy Paterson.

Perry’s pre-web computer graphic work was the result of what he called “technological patriotism” where the federal government funded the research and development of Telidon, a videotext/ teletext service the Canadian Communications Research Centre developed in the late 1970s and commercial enterprises led by Bell Canada supported in the early 1980s.

Government support for the project ended in March 1985.

The 55 images are all that remain of Perry’s innovative Telidon art.

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tume inside Santa’s Secret Workshop recently.

Helena, along with several other costumed children, celebrity clowns, St. Nick and his wife, was on hand to launch the Christmas season with details for this year’s Santa Claus Parade at the Weston Road and Wilson Avenue-area workshop.

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Helena Kirk knows what she’s going to ask Santa for this year, even though she’s pretty confident she won’t get it.

“I want to get my ears pierced, but my mom said I have to be 12,” said the 9 year old, who was decked out in a crystal princess cos-

Parade, will be held Sunday at 12:30 p.m. with 31 floats, hundreds of costumed participants and 21 live bands.

Like last year, the 6.2-kilometre parade will get going at Christie Pits on Bloor Street, east of Ossington Avenue, and head east to Avenue Road. It will then turn south before continuing east on Wellington Street before ending at St.

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Helena used to watch the Santa Claus Parade on television and in person, and became involved this year through The Hospital for Sick Children, where she is a patient and ambassador.

Helena, who will be part of Swarovski’s Swan Lake float, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at age three and a half and celebrated five years of living cancer-free this past April 1.

Peter Beresford, president of the Santa Claus Parade, said they partnered with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) over the summer. Along with bringing in new sponsors, MLSE is also arranging the second annual Holly Jolly Fun Run, starting at noon Sunday and following the same route as the parade. All proceeds from the run will support the Santa Claus Parade, and will end with a celebration at Ford Fan Zone at Maple Leaf

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Santa and Mrs. Claus join the preparations at the secret Santa Claus Parade workshop in advance of the 110th annual parade Sunday.

Square. The run will be limited to 2,000 participants.

Former Toronto Maple Leaf Wendel Clark, who works as a community representative for the Toronto Maple Leafs, will start off the Holly Jolly Fun Run. New this year, the Lady Leafs will be selling noses at the Toronto Maple Leaf game Friday and the Lady Raptors

will do the same thing the following night at the Toronto Raptors game, and on parade day at Union Station.

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Red noses will cost $2 each or three for $5.

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Former councillors debate Tory’s SmartTrack at Why Should I Care event RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Give John Tory’s SmartTrack transit proposal a thorough evaluation before jumping to conclusions about its usefulness, said a former chair of the TTC this week.

While there are key, unanswered technical questions in regards to the mayor-elect’s ambitious rapid transit plan, Adam Giambrone said Tory deserves a chance to provide more details about his SmartTrack plan to create a new surface rapid transit route for the city, which would run on existing GO Transit rail lines city wide and connect to subway and light rail lines.

“I think we owe the new mayor an evaluation of SmartTrack,” said Giambrone Monday, during an installment of the popular Why Should I Care (WSIC) discussion series. “He knows and I am sure has been told there are some significant engineering challenges. But frankly, engineering often comes down to money.”

Giambrone, along with fellow former city councillor Richard Gilbert, was a featured speaker during Monday evening’s pub-night discussion held at a Willowdale bar. The two took part in a moderated discussion, which touched upon a variety of transit themes and took questions from the audience of about 50.

his SmartTrack proposal,” said Gilbert, who held office in pre-amalgamation Toronto for 15 years and has since worked as a transit consultant in such far-flung areas as Hong Kong and Sweden.

He called the proposal an “election-winning device” which offered nothing when it comes to questions of future development and land use, questions which Gilbert said the media largely side-stepped while covering the municipal election campaign.

Gilbert was also frustrated by the media focus on mayoral transit plans, which he said unfairly shined a larger spotlight than necessary on the ideas of a single candidate even though council as a whole makes the final decision on what plans to pursue.

“It’s council which decides what happens about transit, or SmartTrack or anything else,” he said.

The Why Should I Care series is intended to get people more politically

Complementary While insisting SmartTrack will never replace the need for a new relief subway line to ease congestion throughout the existing network, Giambrone said it could effectively complement the province’s stated intention to expand and electrify all GO rail service within 10 years.

Gilbert disagreed with Giambrone, saying while he has great respect for Tory as a man, and even offered his expertise to the new mayor’s successful election campaign, he has little regard for Tory’s transit plan.

“I have no respect at all for

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