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HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com As the temperature drops and the holidays approach, the cofounder of the Toronto-based initiative Ripple Clothes For Kids is trying to keep little ones in need warm this winter with Project Snowman, a 30-day snowsuit drive and fundraising campaign running until Dec. 1. “It can cost $100 a child just to outfit them in winter clothes and if you don’t have that kind of money it can be very diffi-

cult to get your kids the warm clothing they need,” said Janis Lempera, a mother of three. The Oakwood Avenue and St. Clair Avenue area resident teamed up with an old friend, Kate Zed, to launch Project Snowman after she found out Zed was working on a similar project. “We just both wanted to keep kids warm and it’s such a concrete way to make a difference in the life of a child because if you don’t have a snowsuit you can’t play outside. Winter is going to >>>FAMILIES, page 6

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Santa is coming to the annual Toronto Art Crawl presents its Christmas Market the most wonderful time to offer a one stop shop for painting, door prizes and of High Park Christmas celebration It’s of the year! unique, hand crafted gifts for course, Santa will be in the The Grenadier Restaurant hosts the fourth annual High Park Christmas celebration, Sunday, Nov. 29. Sponsored by the High Park Grenadier Fund, the event will feature fun for children and families, including a sing-a-long with the Withnells, hot chocolate and cookies, a marshmallow roast,

face painting, a raffle, ornament making and a visit from Santa followed by the tree lighting at 5 p.m. The event starts at 2 p.m. Participants are asked to bring a non-perishable item for the food bank.

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The second annual Christmas Market, hosted Sun. by the Toronto Ar t Crawl, is happening Sunday. This one day event features 65 of the city’s artists and designers coming together

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Celebrate Incredible. Help us recognize the junior citizens who make our communities better. Nominate someone age 6–17 for a 2015 Ontario Junior Citizen Award! Annaleise Carr, 2012 and 2014 Ontario Junior Citizen, Simcoe, ON At 14, Annaleise Carr was the youngest person ever to swim across Lake Ontario. Two years later, Annaleise swam across Lake Erie. Combined these efforts raised awareness and hundreds of thousands of dollars for Camp Trillium, a family camp for children with cancer. Her book, Annaleise Carr: How I Conquered Lake Ontario to Help Kids Battling Cancer, inspires others to take on great challenges and help their fellow citizens.

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City to clear abandoned bikes from streets Derelict bikes will soon be cluttering up Toronto sidewalks no more. The City of Toronto will be removing abandoned bicycles from city streets and sidewalks until Nov. 20 to help clear up the city’s right of way. Bikes that are missing parts, flat tires or are otherwise unusable will be among the first to go, while bikes that have been chained up in the same location for more than a month are also likely to be removed. Residents can call 311 to

report any abandoned bikes. When calling, they should clearly identify the bike in question and its location. Clearly derelict bikes will be removed with no warning. If it is questionable as to whether or not a bicycle has been abandoned, the city will place a notification on it. Owners will have 14 days to remove the tag and move the bicycle to another location.

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Public space under Gardiner to link waterfront to rest of city Philanthropists bring Gardiner project to life through $25-million donation JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The Gardiner Expressway has long served as a de facto dividing line throughout the downtown west core, separating residents who live in the neighbourhoods surrounding it. That is all set to change, however, thanks to an ambitious plan to revitalize the space under the expressway, transforming four hectares of unused or underused land along a 1.75-kilometre stretch from just west of Strachan Avenue to Spadina Avenue into a series of vibrant public spaces. Dubbed Project: Under Gardiner and financed through a $25-million donation from philanthropists Judy and Wil Matthews, the initiative will serve as a common space for the roughly 70,000 residents of the Exhibition Place, Liberty Village, Niagara, Fort York, Bathurst Quay, Wellington Place and CityPlace communities. At a launch Tuesday, Nov. 17, Judy Matthews said she and her husband have been looking for ways to invest in building up Toronto’s public

realm by improving vacant or neglected spaces, adding the area under the Gardiner offers a great chance to do just that. When the couple was approached with the concept of the Under Gardiner plan, “we were just blown away… just the majesty, the monumentality of it,” Matthews said. “We saw the incredible potential and we thought if we could create this long, linear path, that we could connect all the existing and surrounding neighbourhoods.” The area in question has seen tremendous growth in recent years, but there has been little attention paid to ensuring residents in the highrise-dominated part of the city have public space or feel connected to others who live around them. The $25-million donation aims to turn that around, with plenty of options as to how it can be turned into a public destination. Mayor John Tory welcomed the donation, calling it “an incredible and transformative gesture.” He said the future of the space would be determined by those who use it via public

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Councillor Joe Cressy, left, Waterfront Toronto president and CEO John Campbell, Mayor John Tory, donor Judy Matthews, urban designer Ken Greenberg, councillor Mike Layton and City Place Residents' Association president LaiKing Hum stand below the Gardiner Expressway near Fort York on Tuesday. A new project will see the area below the Gardiner revitalized and converted into a welcoming public space.

consultations. “I can’t wait to see what the residents and what all the people that are going to be involved in making this happen have to say and what the result is going to be,” Tory

said. Waterfront Toronto president and CEO John Campbell said Project: Under Gardiner provides a great opportunity for his organization and the city to continue to turn the

area around Lake Ontario into a vibrant destination, not just for nearby residents, but for people from across the city. “We’ve always been aware of the challenges posed by the barriers between the waterfront and the rest of the city – the rail corridor and the Gardiner,” he said. “People find the area underneath (the Gardiner) is unpleasant, it’s dark, unwelcoming, despite what’s on the other side.” Councillors Joe Cressy and Mike Layton, who represent residents living in portions of the area encapsulated by Project: Under Gardiner, were excited at what the plan could bring. “For a lot of my constituents, they live in vertical neighbourhoods, in vertical towers,” Cressy said. “Parks become your backyard. Arts and culture and recreational spaces become your living room. This helps to create a livable neighbourhood.” Layton called on residents, innovative thinkers and citybuilders alike to lend their thoughts and ideas to the plan. While Project: Under Gardiner will make the area more welcoming for all Torontonians, residents in the immediate area will no doubt benefit the most. “Historically, the Gardiner has been seen as a barrier to

our access to the waterfront,” said CityPlace Residents Association president Lai-King Hum. “The Under Gardiner project will dramatically transform the area into a unique public space and pathway between the neighbouring communities and the waterfront.” She pointed out CityPlace and many of the developments around the area came about because neglected public space was reclaimed and transformed into something better. Project: Under Gardiner will represent a huge step forward in the revitalization of the area. “The neighbourhoods bordering the Gardiner have growing needs for expanded parks, for active transportation networks and for public space,” Hum said. “We will work together to create a dynamic living link facilitating movement through the city to its waterfront that is also a destination in itself.” The project will be designed by urban designer Ken Greenberg and landscape architects PUBLIC WORK, who will take the public’s views into account in creating a plan. The first phase is expected to be completed by late 2017.

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Residents’ plea for delay of lawn parking bylaw ‘falls on deaf ears’ hiLARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com South Parkdale residents who count on making a few extra dollars during the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) by allowing cars to park on their front lawns for a fee, could be out of luck by 2016. The request to remove the bylaw that allows such parking during the 18-day run of the CNE was amended and adopted by Toronto and East York Community Council Tuesday, Nov. 10, and will head to city council in December for a final decision. “It was disappointing to see,” said Springhurst Avenue resident Greg Barry, who attended the council meeting with a handful of other South Parkdale residents and spoke out against the motion.

Barry has been providing parking during the CNE for the past two summers, but used to help his grandmother, the former owner of the home on Springhurst during the summer since he was 16 years old. He and his neighbours in attendance at the meeting all requested council delay the removal of the bylaw until proper alternatives have been put in place to deal with the significant lack of parking in the area during popular events on the Exhibition grounds. “They weren’t even open to that,” he said. “Our requests were falling on deaf ears.” The bylaw as it stands, allows front yard and boulevard parking on Cowan Avenue to Springhurst Avenue at the south end; Spencer Avenue to Springhurst at the

south end; on Springhurst from Fort Rouille Street to Dunn Avenue; the entire north side of Thorburn Avenue and Tyndall Avenue near Thorburn to the south end. There are roughly 104 properties where this bylaw is applied. The cost to park at Exhibition Place is a $30 flat rate, whereas South Parkdale residents charge anywhere between $10 and $20. The city receives no revenues from this practice. The motion was passed with an amendment made by Parkdale-High Park councillor Gord Perks, which included the creation of a working group, consisting of city staff and area residents. The councillor told The Villager he decided to make the suggestion after a heated community meeting held Nov. 2. in Parkdale about the

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issue. “A number of people had ideas on how to make things better, whether the parking stayed or not and I thought at a minimum we should sit down with city staff, and folks in the neighbourhood,” Perks said. “And a number of people said, all we get out of this mess we call the Ex is the little bit of revenue and if we’re not getting the little bit of revenue, you’ve got to do something else for us to reduce the

impact on our neighbourhood, and that’s reasonable and fair.” The working group won’t meet until after a decision is made at city council in December. However, Barry doesn’t see the point. “At this point it would be having a moot conversation with my councillor,” he said. “At the meeting you had a working group there speaking and they virtually didn’t care about anything we had to say and passed the motion anyway. So what is the point?” Perks said the push for this motion has been a long time coming because he’s received numerous complaints from homeowners and tenants about the traffic and safety concerns the front yard park-

ing creates. The City of Toronto also has its own issues with front lawn parking, which were written in a report by the City of Toronto’s right of way management, such as soil compaction, poor turf quality and stunted tree growth as negative impacts. “Nobody in Toronto is allowed to turn their lawn into a for-profit parking lot,” Perks said. “It’s not like we’re not putting in a new regulation for these people, we’re just now saying you follow the same rules as everyone else in the city.” According to city staff, any unauthorized parking on the city boulevard is subject to enforcement measures, which may include the tagging of the vehicle, as well as a $50 set fine.

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he CN Tower lit up in blue, white and red on Friday night, symbolizing the solidarity of Torontonians with the people of France after the terror attacks in Paris. As more reports surface about the Islamic State group who claimed responsibility for the attacks, it’s in solidarity we stand up against the hate demonstrated through their violent acts that left more than 120 dead. But it’s just as important to stand up against vioincidents closer to home our view lent that have been reported this week, which also appear to be Take pride motivated by hate, according to police. in Toronto’s Toronto The unprovoked attack on a Muslim woman by two males just diversity outside Grenoble Public School in Flemingdon Park should be condemned. This comes only a couple of days after a mosque in Peterborough was set on fire, which is also being investigated as a hate crime. While police have stepped up vigilance in public spaces in light of the Paris attacks, we need to be vigilant now in promoting, reaffirming and upholding the values of respect that’s crucial to living peacefully in a multicultural city such as Toronto. Just as the actions and beliefs of the Islamic State group aren’t representative of the local Muslim community, let’s make it clear the actions and beliefs of the few who are committing these hate crimes aren’t representative of all Torontonians. As Mayor John Tory noted in a vigil last weekend at Nathan Phillips Square, any retaliatory attacks only target the majority of Muslims who have nothing to do with the actions of extremists such as ISIS. “These people who perpetrated these attacks represent no one,” he said. “They are not representatives of any faith or nationality; they are people that have decided to take on a set of values and try to destroy our way of life.” It’s also important to heed the mayor’s statement that the city will run business as usual. For Toronto residents, that means living peacefully in a city that prides itself on its diversity.

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Do not give in to the fear, the anger, the hate It was barely a year ago that the shootings in Ottawa made their lasting impact on security at Toronto City Hall. Since that day, security has stationed a single guard at the little-used north entrance to City Hall, which gives quick access to the elections office and the City Hall Press Gallery. The door is locked, and only those with key-cards can make it inside. Otherwise, there has been very little change – visible change, at any rate – in the way security is conducted at the centre of government of Canada’s largest city. There has been no local equivalent, certainly, of the federal Bill C-51 enacted by the old Harper government to broadly empower police and security agencies and to limit freedom and privacy rights, beyond the level that those agencies themselves deemed necessary. But for those working at City Hall? A well-mannered, unarmed guard watching a

david nickle the city door that’s used mainly by employees, and otherwise it is business as usual. Well, it’s not entirely business as usual. Over the course of that year, Toronto elected a new mayor, and in the course of the year that mayor, John Tory, was moved not by fear, but by laudable compassion for Syrian refugees, fleeing from the same terrorist gang that inspired the Ottawa shootings. Tory, unlike other political leaders in this and other countries, has made it clear Toronto will be a welcoming place. And so it is that as we consider last Friday’s atrocities in Paris, we do so from a city that has generally acquitted itself well in the face of terror, in a manner similar to those good Parisians who opened their doors to strangers, stranded in their locked-down city.

Torontonians too are good people, or at least have the demonstrated capacity for goodness, and courage, and levelheadedness. That capacity may well be tested. As I write this on Tuesday, police are investigating what appears to be a hate crime – the beating of a Muslim mother on her way to pick up a child from school in Don Mills. A mosque was also burned in Peterborough over the weekend. These things both seem to be hate crimes, brewed from that toxic combination of fear and anger. Given Torontonians’ general civility and levelheadedness, there is legitimate hope the incidents will be outliers. The question now is what we do next, and the answer immediately is to simply carry on with our lives as they had been. The terrorists would prefer that we not, that we show them a trembling respect by withdrawing from civic engagement, by

isolating the religious and cultural groups from whom they would like to recruit, by posting more guards, agreeing to laws that restrict our liberties even further. We should prefer to do otherwise. On Tuesday, the city announced an exceedingly generous private donation to build parkland in an ugly space underneath the Gardiner Expressway. That is cause for celebration. We will soon be welcoming new residents, first as refugees, then perhaps permanent residents and finally if they choose to remain, citizens. As this goes on, we will work and plan and sometimes squabble over how best to build transit and repair public housing and improve our lives here. That is a busy and virtuous schedule. There is no time in it for fear, and there is no place in it for hate.

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Families living in shelter to benefit from donations >>>from page 1 hurt if you don’t have a snowsuit.” The project aims to provide 1,000 quality snowsuits for babies and children, from newborns to 16 year olds, in need this winter. So far the fundraising component of the project, powered by Indiegogo, has raised more than $2,200 of its $5,000 goal to buy new onepiece snowsuits, snow pants and jackets for children across the city. One of its charitable partners (for both Ripple Clothes for Kids and its Project Snowman initiative) is Parkdale Parents’ Primary Prevention Project (5Ps) at the Parkdale Community Health Centre on Queen Street West. “Many of our families that come to the 5Ps program struggle to provide food and clothing for their children,” said Stacia Stewart, the program coordinator for the 5Ps.

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“Each year we rely on donated snowsuits, hats and mitts to give out to our participants for the cold weather.” The program focuses on helping families living on low or no income, newcomer families, lone parent families, those facing mental health and or substance abuse challenges, as well as teens and youth who are parenting. “Parents should not have to struggle with these issues and have to worry about how to get a coat for their baby,” Stewart added. “For our families that are living in shelters it’s really

helpful for them to be able to get adequate amounts of good quality clothing.” Ripple Clothes for Kids is the brainchild of Lempera, who got the idea for the project out of her own need for clothing for one of her children in May. “It was just becoming spring and my daughter needed new clothes and I just reached out to my friends casually and said, ‘hey do you have any 4T Girls clothing?’” Lempera recalled. “And within a week I had three giant bags of clothes. I was overwhelmed with how easy it was to access great clothing.” From there, she began collecting and sorting all the donated clothes she didn’t need into bundles for those who were in need. Before long, Lempera recruited her friend Christine Panowyk, a resident of Sorauren Avenue and Queen Street, to help co-found Ripple Clothes For Kids, and the pair along with

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Federal transport minister says no to jets at Toronto island airport DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com With two tweets, Canada’s new Transportation Minister Marc Garneau seems to have permanently cooled the prospect of jet aircraft using Billy Bishop Airport. “A s n e w Mi n i s t e r o f Transport, I have been enjoying learning about all my files

including the Toronto Island Airport,” Garneau said on his Twitter account late Nov. 12. “I confirm that the Government of Canada’s position is the same as the Liberal Party of Canada’s commitment: we will not re-open the tripartite agreement for YTX (the Billy Bishop Airport.)” T h e G ov e r n m e n t o f Canada’s refusal to re-open

the agreement effectively renders any further discussion or study of the airport expansion moot: it requires all three levels of government’s agreement to make any changes to the restrictions against jet aircraft at the island airport. Porter Airlines had been requesting permission to extend the runway at the

small commuter airport so it might accommodate jet aircraft. Porter had hoped to expand the range of its flights, which currently are limited by the range of its fleet of turboprop aircraft. Fo u r d ow n t ow n c i t y councillors – Mike Layton, Joe Cressy, Pam McConnell and Paula Fletcher – issued a joint statement following

Garneau’s tweet. “We now know that jets will not fly out of an expanded Island Airport. Full stop,” the statement reads. “With the formal confirmation that jets will not fly out of an expanded Island Airport, our city can now return to the work of ensuring existing airport operations better fit in with the local neighbourhood and

city.” City officials have been working with the Ports Toronto and Porter on ways jet aircraft might be accommodated. Trinity-Spadina Councillor Layton said work should stop immediately and not wait for official word from the federal government.

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Public-Private Partnerships an option for building infrastructure in Toronto RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Mayor John Tory said the city will examine making more use of PublicPrivate Partnerships (P3s) for future transportation projects, but insisted it’s only one option in addressing the city’s infrastructure deficit. P3s have grown increasingly popular among governments because they shift the burden of delivering major construction projects such as subway lines to the private sector. Recent projections put P3 investment as representing $92 billion in investment in the national economy. But critics say they end up costing the public purse more money over the long term and exclude unionized labour from bidding on lucrative construction contracts. Speaking after a keynote address to launch the Toronto Region Board of Trade’s Transportation Summit Monday, Tory agreed looking toward P3s as a vehicle for speeding up construction on transportation

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plans represented a policy change for the city. “But there is no ideological basis to this. There is no suggestion 100 per cent all the time (construction) should be done under this model. We will definitely look at P3s for all projects to see if it’s appropriate for restoring an environment where we get things done on time and on budget and restore public, and

eventually get the transit built.” In regards to the transit plan that helped get him elected, Tory insisted he hasn’t read any reports indicating cost estimates or construction challenges for SmartTrack, saying ongoing studies haven’t yielded any recommendations. Tory also denied media reports that indicate costs for SmartTrack are already known. It is expected to exceed preliminary estimates of $8 billion because of the expense of building a “western spur” to the Airport Corporate Centre in Mississauga. “I haven’t seen a draft or extract, not one word,” said Tory about ongoing planning and ridership modeling studies underway for SmartTrack. “We’re doing the studies to address some of the issues on the western part of SmartTrack so we will know what the implications are, engineering challenges and the costs, and we have said once the studies are finished…they will

be made public and they will form part of the discussion. “But this notion there’s a report floating around that everyone’s seen is just not correct.” Tory – who in his near 30-minute address to some 350 summit attendees at the Westin Harbour Castle hotel urged his fellow elected officials not to use transit building to score political points – defended releasing the SmartTrack proposal absent of comprehensive study during the 2014 election. Whatever its conclusions, he said he was confident the studies will provide strong evidence the route is essential for improving transit reliability. “I’m going to tell you SmartTrack with utilization of existing rail corridors in Toronto is going to be done, and so if we have to make some adjustments we will have that discussion when the reports are submitted,” he said.

City planning officials are expected to release their SmartTrack study findings in 2016.

Toronto police stepped up vigilance after Paris attacks: Mayor Tory In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, Mayor John Tory said police would step up vigilance, but the city’s business will continue as usual. Speaking to media following his appearance at a transportation summit, Tory said emergency and security plans are already in place, which includes increased security presence at subway stations and other public spaces and overseen by Toronto police. “Toronto has extensive emergency plans for all kinds of eventualities,” Tory said. “I’ve checked with Chief (Mark) Saunders to make sure these plans are in place and we are being vigilant of any potential risks to the city.” More than 120 people were reported killed as a result of a series of assaults by ISIS-affiliated gunmen Friday, Nov. 13 at multiple sites in France’s capital.

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