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Open courtyards, glass buildings, rooftop gardens, all part of plan HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com It’s all about integrating into the fabric of the surrounding community when it comes to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s (CAMH) Queen Street Redevelopment Project.

Glass buildings, open courtyards and rooftop gardens are all part of the vision CAMH shared with the community during a public meeting Wednesday, Oct. 21 in its community centre on Stoke’s Street about Phase 1C of the redevelopment.

“It (being more welcoming and transparent) has been

a part of the vision from the very beginning,” said Janet Mawhinney, director of community engagement.

“It’s also part of an antistigma orientation to mental health and addiction (to show) that you don’t need to be tucked behind walls (if you’re seeking treatment) and it’s an investment in (patient) recovery.”

Interested neighbours were given a glimpse into what CAMH envisions for the future of the Queen Street site for Phase 1C of the project, which includes the construction of two new buildings.

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Turn back the clocks one hour – Daylight Saving Time ends Halloween revelers can enjoy an extra hour of partying – or sleep – when the clocks fall back one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 1.

That’s when Daylight Saving Time ends, giving p e o p l e a l i t t l e e x t ra snooze, or celebration, time come Sunday morning.

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MUSIC: Tibetan artist Tseten Lhundup performs during the Library Settlement Program's (LSP) Music Around The World event Saturday at the Parkdale Public Library. The LSP is a partnership between Toronto Public Library, Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Kababayan Community Centre that aims to help new immigrants by providing assistance with their settlement in Ontario.

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Rendezvous with Madness explores mental illness More than 200 films from 25 countries were submitted to this year’s 23rd annual Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival and one person had the chance to watch them all.

Parkdale resident Geoff Pevere, program director for the film festival, had the opportunity to watch every short, feature and documentary film entered.

Presented by Workman Arts, the festival is the first of its kind and the largest film fest that investigates mythologies surrounding mental illness and addiction.

“It’s a lot of movie watching about mental illness and recovery.

“I learned a lot. I made a point to watch them all. I feel that it’s important that we give all the films as much consideration as we can and be fair to the people who submitted,” Pevere said.

“These are films that are in some cases quite challenging and quite controversial.

And (I had to) find a home for them where they’re not going to just be screened, but screened with dialogue about the issues that they raise.”

Forty films made the final cut, and will be featured in the nine-day festival that kicks off Nov. 6 and runs until Nov. 14.

“When I was asked to assemble the program this year I was delighted,” he said.

The film Pevere chose to launch the festival this year is the world premiere of Swift Current at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W. Directed by Joshua Rofé, a documentary chronicling the life of NHL player Sheldon Kennedy who went from hotshot hockey player to alcoholic to advocate for victims of sexual abuse.

“It’s an extremely compelling story about how he struggled with his own

films, with national itself and now as a Fri-Sat and international program director. filmmakers, a multiFor him, this film media installation festival is one of the exhibition, and a most significant in full-day symposium with a the city. spotlight on television and “It dates way back to a addiction. time where there weren’t too “The original idea behind many festivals in Toronto and the festival was to present an because the festival has grown opportunity for audiences to along with some really huge take a look at films that were shifts in public awareness and dealing with issues of mental thinking about mental health illness and recovery from and addiction,” he said. around the world,” Pevere For Pevere, a film fest like explained to The Villager. this one is crucial to showThe current goal of the case the role creativity and artistic expression play in festival, he added, is to increase awareness of and forming self-awareness and advocacy for mental health communicating, he said. and addiction issues among Most importantly, he said, the public. this is a way for people who “Rendezvous (with have experience mental Madness) is the place to be to illness to say “this is who I learn about mental health,” am, this is the way I see the he said. world.”

Pevere is a former movie critic, author and broadcaster For more info, visit,www. who’s been involved with the rendezvouswithfilm festival for years in varymaddness.com ing capacities; from moderainsidetoronto.com/enjoytoronto tor to reporting on the festival

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Parkdale actress takes on new territory in Age of Arousal HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

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laying a neurotic, starving drunk who finds freedom in dressing like a man in Berlin is new territory for seasoned Parkdale actress Aviva Armour-Ostroff, who stars in the play The Age of Arousal.

“I’ve never played a character with this high tension and (she) is such a shaky person. She’s somebody so fragile, she’s on the verge of collapse,” Armour-Ostroff said. “I come across as grounded and so I usually play more grounded and calm characters.”

The Brock Avenue and Queen Street resident describes the play as dark and funny, and her character as more “tightly wound” than the average person.

Set in London in the 1880s, in a secretarial school, two women and a man enrol and politics and passion erupt forcing each character to confront their repressed sexual desire and identity. The play, directed

by Jennifer Brewin and written by Linda Griffiths, is part of Factory Theatre’s Naked Season 2015/16. It runs from Oct. 20 to Nov. 8.

Armour-Ostroff plays the main character of Virginia, one of three sisters who realize they have no real skills in life and develop a drinking problem in the process.

“There’s a lot of meat to sink your teeth into. There are a lot of levels (to the play),” she said. “I’m in a place right now, in the middle of the second week, where I just feel the sadness of it. But in the play itself that’s not what comes across at first. Finding all those levels to play in is a real challenge and therefore is a delight.”

Taking on this character was also physically challenging for her because the character is not only drunk most of the time, but she’s also starving. So, ArmourOstroff has to be conscious of how her character’s demeanour is presented to the audience.

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She’s somebody so fragile, she’s on the verge of collapse.

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is she in this scene, or is she in withdrawal or is she hung over; how does that affect the body and add to that the fact that she’s starving and

add that she’s scared and desperate and how does that manifest in your body.

It’s all a challenge,” she explained. “She’s physically

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weak, but she’s present in the scene and has a lot to say. But she’s totally drained of any kind of physical strength so playing with that, that’s challenging too.”

Armour-Ostroff attended the Etobicoke School of the Arts and then went on to graduate from the theatre program at George Brown College in 1997.

“So from the age of 14 I was immersed in it (theatre) and when I got into George Brown it was a pivotal moment for me,” she added.

She was also the artistic director for the popular Toronto Lab Cab Festival, a free annual multi-disciplinary arts festival including music, dance, theatre, film,

visual art, comedy, clown, puppetry and more. It had a two-kilometre stretch in Parkdale for the last two of its eight successful years.

However, Armour-Ostroff decided to retire the event in 2014 to focus on her own “personal, creative journey.”

“It was a lot of work. I don’t have any regrets about retiring it. I don’t think I’d be doing this play right now if I was still doing Lab Cab,” she admitted. “I do miss the actual festival, I really loved it and I was very proud of it. I loved what it did for Parkdale and the artists and businesses. I thought it was very successful for the amount of money we did it for and the amount of time we put in.”

It was a hard decision to let it go, but when she thought about not doing it anymore she felt relieved, she said.

“That was the nail in the coffin for me. If I’m feeling relief that means there’s a lot of pressure,” she added.

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ith fall’s darker days now taking hold, and the turning back of the clocks early this Sunday morning as we go back to standard time, pedestrians are at an increased risk of being struck by a vehicle on our city’s streets.

Toronto police will be warning drivers, pedestrians and cyclists to be extra cautious once Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday.

Caution should be the operative word at all times, but it’s especially important in these dark days of November as the number of incidents in which pedestrians are struck by vehicles rises significantly in Toronto.

The first week of November last year saw five incidents in the city involving pedestrians being struck in one day (Tuesday, Nov. 4, two days after Daylight Savings Time ended).

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We can all That’s when the advancing take basic darkness, along with confusion to the time change in the precautions due morning hours, has its greatest impact on the roads.

The most dangerous time of day is between 5 and 7 p.m., police say.

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By taking a few moments to think, and being aware of the increased dangers, we can make this Halloween and November safer for all.

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Trudeau’s election comes with lack of mandate Politics often seems a kind of echo chamber. Themes and movements bounce back and forth, distorting as they go but recognizable for longer than might make sense.

It’s tempting to trace the election of Justin Trudeau’s majority back through the election of Kathleen Wynne, the improbable spectacle of an NDP government in Alberta – even the ascent of gentleman John Tory in Toronto – as a particularly resonant echo. nod to the left wing All of these elections mark a repudiation of the hard right conservatism exemplified by the nowformer Harper government, the Progressive Conservatives in Ontario, the depraved populism of Etobicoke’s Ford family, and a nod, at least, to the left wing big-government ideas that the New Democratic Party used to get behind.

david nickle the city In none of these cases, of course, is it a sea-change toward precisely those ideas.

When Tory won the 2014 Toronto mayoralty race on a platform of big transit infrastructure and progressive social policies, he was closely followed by Doug Ford in support, leaving New Democrat candidate Olivia Chow in the dust.

Similarly, Wynne and Trudeau may have their majority governments, but they didn’t mop the floor with their right-leaning opponents.

Trudeau did very well, but it was hardly a rout.

If Harper had chosen to stay, he would have led a healthy official opposition – a far cry from the electoral massacre visited upon the federal Progressive Conservatives in 1993, when the caucus

was reduced to only two.

Lots of people supported Harper, and the Fords, and former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak in his plan to gut the public service.

The common thread?

Lots more people decided that they definitively did not want any of those politicians anywhere near the levers of power, and collectively sent someone else along instead. voter trust It’s a funny sort of mandate – not really a mandate at all, when you think of it – that makes it more difficult than usual to chart success.

Do a plurality of people in Toronto really think Tory’s central campaign promise of building SmartTrack is a good idea, or are they just relieved to know that the Fords won’t be in power?

Voter trust in Ontario Premier Wynne is a big

question, as her Liberal government embarks on a very Conservativesounding sell-off of Hydro One. And as for Justin Trudeau and the new Liberal government in Ottawa: do his supporters also support his deficitrunning plan, his support of Bill C-51 in some form or another, or whatever else the Liberals choose to bring about?

Perhaps, but it appears from polls and the numbers that what Trudeau’s supporters really want is that he replace Stephen Harper.

This is the downside of strategic voting. It is both a way of saying what it is that you don’t want, and not particularly caring about what it is you do.

The echo is, as echoes often are, discouragingly empty.

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New buildings at CAMH include auditorium, library, ground-floor retail space >>>from page 1 home of the acute care building just west of Gordon Bell Road will have a partial hospital program, outreach services, 24/7 emergency department, transitional age youth day program, an extended assessment unit and inpatient complex mental illness units where all client beds have a view of therapeutic green space.

Building D will house the complex care building to be on Queen Street West just east of Lower Ossington.

Building D will feature inpatient units, an auditorium, an inpatient library and education and research facilities and a therapeutic neighbourhood, where clients can participate in programming to help with their recovery, such as yoga and the arts.

These two new buildings will replace two of the current older buildings on the site, Units 2 and 4, and the maintenance building, which will all be demolished.

The redevelopment also includes the extension of Stokes Street through to Shaw Street and Workman Way to Adelaide Street West.

Both buildings combined will have 235 patient beds

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We want them (the community) to feel comfortable with clients. There will be some clients who will be here for a long time and will be taking up space on the property and we want that kind of integration.

for those who are acutely ill.

All emergency and inpatient services currently located at CAMH’s College Street site will be relocated to Phase 1C at Queen Street.

The community centre and mall will remain during construction. The new buildings will also have ground-floor retail space that will mirror the businesses on the opposite side of Queen Street, Mahwinney told The Villager.

“They’ve designed very specific things to keep with that scale, so things like the retail space, they’re chunked into smaller units to keep with traditional store sizes,” she explained.

“So when you’re a pedestrian or riding your bike or coming along on transit it (the new building) doesn’t feel like a complete anomaly.”

The redevelopment also includes turning a parking

lot near Shaw Street into a massive green space for clients, enhancing its existing park nearby and the creation of a linear park near Joseph Workman Park on Shank Street.

The community is welcome to enjoy all green spaces once they are complete, Mawhinney said.

“We want them (the community) to feel comfortable with clients.

“There will be some clients who will be here for a long time and will be taking up space on the property and we want that kind of integration,” she said.

“So people don’t have that freaked-out very stigmatizing attitude, which is changing.”

The construction of Phase 1C is expected to begin in the fall of 2016 and last until December 2019 with an occupancy date of 2020.

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Officers to sleep outside in TTC to improve traveller front of police station to raise waiting areas at Pearson awareness of homelessness >>>from page 1 The station, situated at Davenport Road and Osler Avenue, is seeking donations of new socks, mitts, hats and gloves; sleeping bags and blankets; and undergarments and toiletries.

The items will then be donated to a number of charities in support of the homeless and to those who “sleep rough,” Kruk said.

In an effort to raise awareness of the plight of homelessness, officers, alongside members of the Community Police Liaison Committee and staff from the West Neighbourhood House, (formerly St. Christopher House), a non-sectarian social services agency in west central Toronto, will be sleeping outside on the front lawn of the station at

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People should think about how fortunate they are to live in a warm accommodation.

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2054 Davenport Rd. “Anyone who would like to take part is welcome to,” Kuck said, adding they must bring their own sleeping bags and ground sheets.

“We think it’s an important component of the event – it allows us to live vicariously through those who are living rough.”

The sleepout takes place Friday, Nov. 6, from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m.

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again is, at midnight, is to sit down and talk earnestly about what sleeping rough means to (each participant),” Kuck said, recalling last year’s conversation that drew some people to tears.

The idea to take a few moments to chat among each other was inspired by a roundtable discussion Kruk had while on a fundraising dog-sled expedition he embarked on in the name of Victim Services Toronto.

“People should think about how fortunate they are to live in a warm accommodation,” Kuck said, pointing out that there are 500 people in Toronto who sleep rough nightly.

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The non-descript waiting areas at Terminals 1 and 3 will receive renovations, including more fare vending machines, better signage and heated bus shelters, tweeted the TTC’s Ian Dickson last week.

In early 2015, the TTC began branding its 192 Airport Rocket route, which provides a dedicated bus service between Kipling station and Pearson airport.

Last year, a TTC spokesperson admitted the airport terminal bus waiting areas could be made more obvious, especially for tourists.

At the time, signs were limited and unclear, and information was still on display for discontinued bus routes.

STREETLIGHT OUTAGES IN CITY ◗REPORT

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PLANNING NOV. 25 FUNDRAISER ◗TTCRIDERS

TTCriders, which has made headlines in 2015 for several transit advocacy campaigns and scathing criticism of Metrolinx’s Union Pearson Express service, will hold its second annual fundraiser in November.

The group is offering discounted tickets to the Nov. 25 event at the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre with the purchase of a group membership.

Former Toronto mayor David Miller is scheduled to provide a keynote address and the evening will be emceed by Evalyn Parry, Toronto playwright and Buddies’ executive

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Musical entertainment will be provided by fiddler Shelley Coopersmith, a TTC busker.

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GO Transit users have been contacted by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation over the last couple of weeks to complete an online survey seeking feedback on infrastructure planning for the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and beyond.

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All feedback will be valued considered the limited sample size.

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Take your best shot against seasonal flu LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com The flu shot is the single best way to protect yourself against influenza every year, according to St. Joseph’s Health Centre’s Dr. Jennie Johnstone.

“We know it helps prevent influenza and if you do get it, it isn’t as severe,” Johnstone told The Villager Tuesday, a day after the hospital’s flu clinic officially opened on Monday, Oct. 26.

Johnstone, an infectious disease physician and infection control officer at St. Joe’s, explained that the flu shot changes every year.

“It’s always based on our best guess. Every year, the flu vaccine components are looked at,” she said. “Three to four different (flu) strains – all slightly different from each other – included (in the vaccine).”

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pointed out. Anyone older than six months is recommended to get the shot.

There is an alternative to the needle, the doctor said.

There is a nasal spray for children and youth between the ages of two and 18 for those who don’t like needles. The nasal spray, she said, is not effective in adults. The flu shot is also recommended for pregnant women, Johnstone added.

“It’s never a good idea to get vaccinated if you’ve got a fever or you don’t feel well,” she said.

In f l u e n z a s y m p t o m s include fever, respiratory illness, aching muscles and what many patients describe as the feeling of “being hit by a truck,” Johnstone said.

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During influenza season, people are encouraged to wash their hands regularly, particularly after being in common areas like taking public transit or at the library.

Also, people should keep their hands away from their face and eyes. Don’t go to school or work, Johnstone advised. And, remember to cough into your sleeve, not your hands.

‘Who are you protecting’ St. Joe’s’ flu clinic is open for people 18 years or older.

The hospital is also having a little fun with the experience.

It is asking people, ‘Who are you protecting by getting the flu shot?’

It is encouraging everyone to send in a selfie of themselves at the clinic or wearing a mask to protect others.

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The province has created a new streamlined process for municipalities to follow when it comes to submitting proposals for environmental assessments (EA) on new paths and trails.

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a little over a year to choose the perfect location for the statues with the help of Exhibition Place staff, E.B. Cox family members, City of Toronto staff and a stone conservator.

To narrow down their selection they came up with seven overarching criteria, which included accessibility, site suitability/sustainability, security on site, relocation costs, ongoing care and maintenance and acceptance by the new owner.

Although the group has chosen the home for the statues, none of them will be moved until the terms of the lease with Muzik nightclub are addressed, which won’t be until early next year.

According to the report, presented to the board of governors at its Oct. 23 meeting, “the terms of the Muzik Clubs Lease would require agreement of the tenant to relocate The Greek Gods from the leased premises… In Spring 2015 the tenant (Muzik) indicated to both Exhibition Place staff and chair of the board that it was not willing

to consider removal of the sculptures.”

Councillor Mike Layton who sits on the board of governors and is also a member of the working group made it clear to the board that including the sculptures in Muzik’s lease was more than just an oversight by the board.

“It was a mistake to include it (the sculptures) in the lease in the first place,” he said to the board last week.

Initially the group proposed 13 possible locations for the sculptures across the city, some of which included a few west-end locations such as Sir Casmir Gzowski Park, High Park, Ontario Place and Trinity-Bellwoods Park.

But the Rose Garden scored top marks in more than half of the criteria, which included accessibility to the public, available night lighting and the size and condition of the location. It was also the closest site to the sculptures’ current location and would cause no damage to the host site to accommodate the sculptures.

It was also the original

location for the art that her father wanted back in 1979, Sutton said. She also preferred that it did stay on Exhibition grounds. “ T h e w o rk i n g g ro u p worked hard and did its due diligence looking at a variety of different sites to come up with a clear choice. It took us a year to do this,” she said.

“We tried to make a very objective decision. It’s all based on facts and not emotions.”

Now that the group has recommended a location for the statues, Sutton and her supporters will have to play the waiting game until an official decision is made regarding the renewal of Muzik’s lease.

However, she did tell The Villager that she and the nightclub owner have established a working relationship and plan to meet again in November along with Councillor Mark Grimes and Layton to discuss the art’s removal.

Exhibition Place is currently conducting regular assessments of the sculptures and undertaking repairs as recommended by the stone conservator.

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it's happening w Thursday, Oct. 29

Former Toronto Mayor John Sewell Speaks About His Book WHEN: 8 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Magna Carta exhibit, Fort York, 250 Fort York Blvd. COST: Free Former Toronto mayor John Sewell talks about his new book How We Changed Toronto. He will also speak Nov. 25 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at High Park Library, 228 Roncesvalles Ave. Syrian Refugee Assistance Forum WHEN: 6:30 p.m. WHERE: 248 Ossington Ave. CONTACT: Paulina at 416-536-1234, ext 412. To RSVP, email Kaleigh at kaleighwi@westnh. org or call 416-532-7586, ext. 215 COST: Free West Neighbourhood House is hosting a Syrian Refugee Assistance Forum. Join like-minded community members to discuss how the community can support refugees. An overview of the refugee sponsorship program will be conducted.

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Public Consultation about condo development at King and Dufferin WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Parkdale United Church, 171 Dunn Ave.

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Sorauren Park Pumpkin Parade WHEN: 6 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Sorauren Park, 50 Wabash Ave. CONTACT: Colleen Kennedy, colken3@hotmail.com COST: Free Bring all “leftover” Halloween pumpkins to the park - light their candles and line them up in one long line around the park’s path. Celebrate one joyous display of down-to-earth creativity. No two pumpkins are the same and each one is cherished. This is a non-commercial event. All welcome.

The City of Toronto and Councillor Gord Perks hosts a public consultation about the proposed rezoning application to permit two residential buildings – 19 and 21 storeys – at 1182 and 1221 King St. The plan has commercial use on the ground floor and three levels of underground parking with a total of 749 residential units between the two buildings.

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Art and Laughter - A Celebration Of Creativity WHEN: 7 to 11 p.m. WHERE: 99 Sudbury St. CONTACT: Lawrence Peddie, 416-486-8046, http://artandlaughter.ca COST: pay what you can The Mood Disorders Association of Ontario hosts its Art and Laughter Celebration. Organizers are celebrating the organization’s 30th anniversary, the ninth annual Touched

By Fire Art Show and Sale, and the Laughing Like Crazy program’s 10th year.

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Blues For The Red Door Shelter WHEN: 7:30 to 11:59 p.m. WHERE: Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: Lorraine Johnson, 416446-1649, www.bluesforthereddoor. ca COST: $25 Join us for our Star-Studded Blues Cabaret, where talented musicians band together to raise money and awareness for the Red Door Family Shelter. Just for fun, we ask an assortment of male performers to sing one or two songs while being backed up by an all women band, which is intended to be a kind of twist on the traditional model, where female singers were expected to dazzle the audience while being

Open Mic Night WHEN: 8 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Toronto Institute for the Enjoyment of Music, 821 Queen St. W. CONTACT: Howard Goldbach, 416-504-5444 COST: Free The open mic series provides an ideal setting for both contributors and audience members alike.

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Understanding Behaviour and Communication Strategies WHEN: 5 to 7 p.m. WHERE: West Neighborhood House, 248 Ossington Ave. CONTACT: http://bit. ly/1LQEx7q COST: Free This workshop hosted by the Alzheimer Society of Toronto is for family caregivers and friends of individuals in the middle stages of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Participants will get an overview of dementia.

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Falloween Costumes in the park: Left, Damien Rego, 7, with Christian Cotroneo after winning the halloween costume contest during the Joe Boo-ster Way Fallowe’en Picnic at Rita Cox Park on Saturday afternoon. Below, members of the community joined in the fun.

at the market: Right, Igor Ramade from Chocollata Gourmet with samples of Brazilian sweets brigadeiro at the Flea Market event on Studio Bar on Saturday afternoon.

Below left, Karine Collette looking at some vintage plates by Lousongmade at the flea market.

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Please Slow Down lawn signs available to Toronto residents Toronto’s Transportation Services rolled out its new “Please Slow Down” lawn signs this month as part of a $40,000-Fall Safety Awareness Campaign.

Residents are invited to place these signs on their front lawns as a way of “immediate, but temporary, response to concerns of vehicles speeding on residential streets,” according to Transportation Services. The signs became available to residents Oct. 19.

The signs measure at 61-by51 centimetres, and are yellow and black.

They consist of a metal wire frame inside of recyclable plastic material.

“These signs are to be used as a communication tool to motorists in addressing residents’ concerns regarding speeding on their street,” Transportation Services said in a report, while noting that “not all drivers will necessarily heed these warnings.”

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Toronto’s Transportation Services division has unveiled its new lawn signs, set to be made available to residents in mid-October as part of a $40,000-Fall Safety Awareness Campaign.

Through the Fall Safety Awareness Campaign, each of the city’s 44 councillors was expected to receive between 300 and 500 of the new signs, to be distributed free-of-charge to residents upon request.

South Etobicoke residents might notice the similarity of the newly released signs to those already rolled out

earlier this summer in the Etobicoke-Lakeshore wards of Councillors Justin Di Ciano (Ward 5) and Mark Grimes (Ward 6).

During September’s meeting of the Etobicoke York Community Council, transportation staff noted that the signs are intended to be re-useable and will be allowed to be on display on public right-of-ways from April 1 to Nov. 30 each year.

The signs are permitted on public property between the curb/edge of the roadway and the property line. They must be located at least two feet from the curb, in areas where they will not obstruct sight lines for pedestrians, cyclists or drivers.

For more information or to request a Please Slow Down sign, residents are urged to contact their local city councillor’s office.

– Cynthia Reason

Cycle Toronto, police and McLeish Orlando teaming up to ensure cyclists ‘Get Lit’ at night Initiative ensures cyclists have proper lighting, reflective gear Cycle Toronto has recently partnered with the Toronto Police Service ( TPS) and McLeish Orlando personal injury lawyers on a new campaign to ensure the safety and visibility of cyclists.

Called Get Lit!, the initiative was developed with the goal of renewing the emphasis on cyclists having proper lighting and reflective gear on their bicycles.

An initial education campaign, which involved flagging down unlit cyclists along busy commuter routes, educating them on the importance of staying visible and providing them with a free set of reflector lights for a safe ride home, was held recently at the Boulton Drive Parkette near Avenue Road and Dupont Street.

“Cycling is a year-round activity for many people across Toronto,” said Jared Kolb, Cycle Toronto’s execu-

tive director, in a release.

“It gets darker earlier this month and we’ve got to watch out for one another out there. Safety is everyone’s responsibility, including the cycling community.”

Supt. Gord Jones, unit commander of TPS’ Traffic Services, said in a release improving road safety and traffic flow is part of Toronto police’s commitment to safe communities and neighbourhoods. ‘everyone’s responsibility’ “ Traffic safety is the responsibility of everyone who uses our roadways, and active transportation continues to grow in the city every day,” he said.

“The safety of cyclists and other road users in the City of Toronto is very important to us. We are pleased to be in partnership with our col-

leagues at Cycle Toronto on this innovative and important campaign.”

In addition to Toronto Police Service and McLeish Orlando, local bike shops Urbane Cyclist Worker’s Co-op and Sweet Pete’s Bike Shop are community supporters of Get Lit! The Ontario Ministry of Transportation has recently increased the set fine for improper lighting of a bicycle from $20 to $110.

From half an hour before sunset to half an hour after sunrise, all cyclists in Ontario must have a front white light and either a rear red reflector or rear red light on their bicycle. Ontarians riding bicycles also need to be lit when it’s dark due to rain, fog or snow.

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Book brings forth new revelations about controversial former mayor DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com O n Tu e s d a y, O c t . 2 7 , Willowdale Councillor and former journalist John Filion’s book about former Mayor Rob Ford will land in bookstores.

The Only Average Guy: Inside The Uncommon World of Rob Ford is not, Filion has said, intended to be a sensational piece of investigative journalism that will reveal new dirt about Ford’s tumultuous time in office.

Filion maintains his book is less a tell-all book about Ford’s drug-and-alcohol fuelled, controversial term as mayor than it is an attempt to understand the phenomenon of the Ford family and their continued popularity in Toronto.

But in an advance copy provided to Metroland Media Toronto, Filion’s book offers

perspectives and details that haven’t found their way into newspapers and other accounts.

The book digs into both Filion’s own relationship with Ford as both a fellow city councillor and through interviews into the people that surrounded Ford: city and political staff, politicians, public supporters and detractors, and Ford’s brother Doug.

Absent from the interviews is Rob Ford himself.

Here are some of the highlights of revelations small and large.

The book spends some time looking at the Ford family patriarch, Doug Ford Sr., who founded the family’s label-making company Deco and through his tough-love parenting helped shape the family dynamic.

Doug Ford Jr., who took

He was a good guy.

Straight up. He’d help anybody. Give you the shirt off his back.

over the management of the company and helped expand it internationally, spoke with Filion at some length.

Doug Ford acknowledged that even when he came back from Chicago, having expanded Deco’s business there without his father’s blessing, Doug Sr. would not directly let Doug Jr. know he was proud of him.

“He’d tell everyone else how proud he was of us and he’d tell everyone else what a great

job we’re doing. But he’d never tell us,” said Doug.

Doug also spoke about his love of sales and the zen of good packaging: Filion also spoke with some of Rob Ford’s childhood friends. Fabio Basso, who in 2013 hosted Rob Ford’s crack smoking video in his home, remembers that Rob was a generous kid who threw big, open parties in the family home.

“He was a good guy. Straight up. He’d help anybody. Give you the shirt off his back,” said Fabio. “He’d be there if you were down and out. What’s mine is yours.”

Filion also spent some time with Nick Kouvalis, Rob Ford’s

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They were all lining up to literally put their fricking lips right on his ass.

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2010 campaign manager.

Kouvalis tells Filion many things publicly known – about the scam that a Ford campaign worker pulled, using a false Twitter account to obtain a recording in which Ford offered to help purchase Oxycoten on the street – and some not, as the meeting Kouvalis describes with the Fords and former Progressive Conservative Premier Mike Harris, where Kouvalis nixed an offer of $250,000 in fundraising assistance. The reason?

Kouvalis said that the Fords shouldn’t be at all associated with elites – either from the left or the right.

“They all wanted to be on

the winning team. All of them.

All of them who said Rob Ford is a knuckle-dragging animal who couldn’t tie his own shoes and should never be the mayor of Toronto, they were all lining up to literally put their fricking lips right on his ass,” said Kouvalis in Filion’s book.

In a n o t h e r c h a p t e r, Toronto’s former City Manager Joe Pennachetti admits to Filion that he had never believed that Ford would win the mayoralty, and when he was elected, the two only bonded when Pennachetti revealed that he used to play football.

Later, Pennachetti said he outright refused to meet with Mayor Ford in his preferred locations: at sidewalks, front yards and laneways across the city where Ford was dealing with constituent calls.

For the full advance review on the book, visit our website at http://bit. ly/1KBxEQ8

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