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Get ready to run, climb, jump and crawl like the carefree days of your childhood in Parkdale’s soon-to-open playground for grownups – Pursuit Obstacle Course Racing (OCR).

“It’s a place to remind you that playing is an integral part of life,” said Eddie Chan, the co-founder of Pursuit OCR and the owner of Bolt Fresh Bar on Queen Street West.

“I feel like we get so inundated by our work and our stress and all the things we have to deal with and we forget to play. We just want to provide a place where you can learn, get fit and most of all have fun.”

Having fun is one of the main goals of the indoor centre along with socializing. The owners want the users of the space to think of it as reinstating recess.

“We want this place to be a break from their work week...

It’s a playground,” said cofounder Wil McLean, who also runs RedGate Body Works as a personal trainer in West Queen West.

“There’s a point at which in our tweens and high school that we don’t get recess anymore and it’s drummed home, unfortunately, that that kind of play is for babies and it’s not cool anymore.

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From left, co-owners of Pursuit Obstacle Course Racing (OCR) Eddie Chan and Wil McLean and program director Mikey Pamaputera hang out on one of their indoor obstacle course equipment in their nearly 10,000-square foot space at 444 Dufferin St.

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The Terry Fox Run in High Park takes place Sunday.

Registration begins at 8 a.m.

The start and finish line will be in picnic areas four and five, not far from the Bloor Street West and High Park Avenue entrance (between Keele Street and Clendenan Avenue). The closest subway stop is High Park station.

To register as a participant, visit www.terryfox.ca/terryfoxrun/toronto-highpark where you can use social media and email to ask for pledges or download a paper pledge sheet.

You can visit the same webpage to make a general donation to the cause.

Participants can also register at the run site on Sunday starting at 8 a.m. (registration will stay open until the run finishes at 1 p.m.). You can hand in your cash or cheque pledges at that time.

Fox had his right leg amputated six inches above the knee after he was diagnosed with bone cancer in 1977.

He decided to run across Canada in an effort to raise money for cancer research and began his Marathon of Hope on April 12, 1980.

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Former 14 Division space set to become affordable housing HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com The former home of 14 Division headquarters at 150 Harrison St. is finally getting a new lease on life.

After about a year of discussions, the aging lot will become the site of a new affordable housing development championed by Ward 19 Councillor Mike Layton (Trinity-Spadina) in partnership with the affordable housing committee, the City of Toronto Parks Department and the Toronto Parking Authority.

The vision for the space is to not only have an affordable family housing option, but also a new park space and expanding Green P parking lot.

“We believe we’ve landed on a form that touches on those goals and is something we can actually build, which is exciting,” Layton told The Villager.

The housing planned for the site will be in the form of townhouses or row houses, Layton said.

“The building will match the neighbourhood and have it be a low-rise development.

Our city is becoming more and more unaffordable and there are less and less sites to build this type of affordable housing.”

“When the city has an opportunity we need to leverage our assets to help ensure that there is an affordable housing stock for people.”

Housing prices are skyhigh in the city. The price for a detached home in Toronto is more than a million dollars according to the Toronto Real Estate Board. With that price tag, Torontonians are turning to renting, which is heading down a similar path, further-

ing the affordable housing crisis.

In a recently released Rental Housing Index based on 2011 data from Statistics Canada by six affordable housing groups from across the country, it showed there are 105,215 rental households in Toronto that spend more than half of their total income in rent.

Ana Bailao, the chair of the affordable housing committee and Ward 18 Davenport councillor, said she is hoping that acquiring the city-owned lot will provide an opportunity to work with profit and nonprofit sectors on this project, citing Habitat for Humanity as a possible partner.

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“We thought this would be a great location,” Bailao said. “Affordability is an issue in our community especially in the downtown area and by speaking with Councillor Layton, we thought this would be a great site to have to create some affordability.”

The chair added, however, this housing option “will not follow the model of the rent geared to income.”

This kind of development coming to the neighbourhood is one that is “very rare for this city,” Layton said.

The 150 Harrison St. is just one of four sites the affordable housing committee is working on turning into an affordable housing option for Torontonians. A few others coming down the pipe, Bailao

said, are at 640 Lansdowne Ave, and Block 32 in the Fort York area.

When 14 Division closed in the summer of 2012 and moved the police headquarters to 350 Dovercourt Rd., Layton said he was concerned about the future of the space, but wanted to ensure something constructive and beneficial took its space.

“When it closed I made it clear I didn’t want this site to go to the highest bidder,” he said. “I wanted it to stay in public hands and serve some policy objectives... A developer would want to come in, buy the site for more than it’s worth and try to put in a several storey apartment building,” he said. “It just wouldn’t be right for this neighbourhood that is also suffering from a park shortage.”

Layton said in a matter of months the housing committee, the Parks Department and the Toronto Parking Authority were able to create a general mark-up of what they want the development to encompass, including access points.

So far, the space, which houses an industrial-looking building with Harrison Street and Dovercourt Road as its borders, will have the housing on Dovercourt while the park component will sit along Harrison.

Layton said he plans to get the community’s feedback on the development, particularly on the park space to ensure it’s satisfying the needs of the community in the coming months. There is no set date for that meeting yet.

But the councillor said he is looking forward to collaborating with the community on a project he believes will be “a very positive addition to the neighbourhood.”

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Speed on residential side streets lowered, signs to change later HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Motorists travelling through residential side streets within the Toronto and East York Council boundaries will be forced to slow down in the coming months.

The City of Toronto has approved lowering the speed limit from 40 to 30 kilometres per hour starting this week in Ward 22 St. Paul’s.

But the concerned residents of Ward 14 Parkdale-High Park will have to hang tight for a while longer before they can see the signs in their neighbourhood change, according to councillor Gord Perks.

“It’s coming, but it’s definitely not coming in the next month or two,” Perks told The Villager.

Bringing down the speed limit on side streets is a project Perks said he’s been working on for the past two years for the ward. “(City) Staff was very reluctant to do it... If you’re going to reduce the speed all the bylaws and signs have to match up (at the same time) which can be a bit of a headache,” Perks explained. “The other thing is the cost to do this.”

The price tag to change all 4,450 signs and adjust 310 traffic signals is a hefty $1.1-milion, but Perks pushed forward despite some push back.

Perks added his office got frequent calls from constituents about cars racing through the streets of Sunnyside Avenue, Indian Road and Grenadier Road, to name a

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“There’s a constant concern about neighbourhood streets in Toronto about people speeding. I don’t think you’ll find a street where someone isn’t concerned about it,” the councillor said. “There’s a lot of interest in the neighbourhood in making cars recognize when you’re on a neighbourhood street, children and their safety come first.”

In a report from the city’s Medical Officer of Health, pedestrians have a 20 per cent chance of being killed when hit by a vehicle travelling at 50 km/h. That number drops to a five per cent chance of death when the vehicle is travelling at 40 km/h.

“Those are the critical numbers. It makes a huge difference,” Perks said.

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Mark 35 years of the Terry Fox Run by taking part locally W hen Terry Fox began his Marathon of Hope in St. John’s, NL on April 12, 1980, there was little fanfare and not much attention to what he was trying to do to raise money for cancer research.

But as the 21-year-old Fox ran close to 42 kilometres a day despite having his leg amputated due to bone cancer, Fox’s persistence and dedication inspired more and more Canadians as the word got out about what he was doing.

Now 35 years later, it’s become our view much easier to spread the word through the Internet and various Lace up and social media channels about all upcoming local run events be a part of the happening across Toronto. the challenge Just search “Terry Fox Run” and the name of your community.

It won’t be difficult to find out where a local run is taking place near you.

The challenge today is to not just passively retweet or ‘like’ an event, but to be one of the millions of active participants around the world who take the next step to do their part to raise funds for a cause that is still relevant to this day.

While more than $650 million has been raised to date worldwide in Fox’s name, the search for a cancer cure continues.

For anyone who has yet to experience a community-bonding event like the Terry Fox Run, this 35th anniversary of the Marathon of Hope is a great way to get involved.

Or by the same technological means used to communicate with others about the run, it’s easier to make a personal donation, which can be done online at www.terryfox.org Fox didn’t intend his run to just have people cheer for him on the sidelines, but rather to join him in something greater than himself.

“It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others,” said Fox during his marathon. “Even if I don’t finish, we need others to continue. It’s got to keep going without me.”

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Mayor John Tory’s decision to not hold the 2024 Summer Olympics shows civic prudence

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he roof of the burger joint at Nathan Phillips Square turns out to be a pretty good place to hold a press conference.

If the weather’s right, it affords a view of Toronto City Hall that is quite inspiring – the sort of sight that underscores bold visions of civic greatness.

On Tuesday morning, Mayor John Tory used the spot for a press conference for a rather different kind of announcement: one of sensible aspirations for civic prudence.

It was a good fit.

We are not, Tory told Toronto, going to make a play for the 2024 Summer Games.

Timelines are short, competition is stiff, and in any case, there are better things with which to occupy our time just now than jockeying for the right to foot the bill for a mas-

david nickle the city sive international Olympic event.

This was something of a shift from the signals Tory had been sending out in the early days of September – meeting privately with leaders in business and politics and sports, councillors and community representatives, speaking with nothing but optimism when cornered by cameras and reporters.

Tory’s reversal based on precedent was nothing short of seismic.

Earlier in the summer I based a rather inaccurate prediction on this matter on exactly that precedent: that when faced with an opportunity to lead with its jaw in a fight outside its weight class, Toronto’s political leadership cannot

resist.

I am quite happy to see that my rather cynical assessment was incorrect.

Tory seems happy too, based on his answer to a reporter’s question: “I am really happy with the fact that I am now going to devote myself to traffic and transportation, affordable housing, to making sure that we can provide opportunity for people who are on the outside looking in, to getting on with other governments and getting them to make the investments that should be made,” he said.

“We do have real problems for the people who live here today.”

If it’s possible to put an even brighter face on Tuesday’s announcement, consider this: for the first time since the election, Tory and former mayor and Ward 2 Councillor Rob Ford have found themselves in

agreement at least in the broad strokes.

Doubtless this is not Ford’s doing: he clearly misread Tory’s earlier signals as badly as I did, and took a consistently contrarian view with a slightly less sunny argument: hosting the Games is too expensive and therefore we ought not try.

On this, Tory and the former mayor seem to differ. At some point, Tory said, Toronto might well bid for an Olympic Summer Games, or indeed something else. In the meantime, Toronto should get to work on its tangible future – and demand to be treated as something more than a good place to throw a party.

It is the sort of message that anyone should be proud to deliver with city hall in the backdrop.

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https://soraurenpark.wordpress.com The Wabash Society presents the 20th anniversary celebration of Sorauren Park Saturday, Sept. 26 with music, food, kids activity and more. Volunteers needed.

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Toronto Oktoberfest WHEN: 6 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Ontario Place, 955 Lake Shore Blvd.

W. CONTACT: www.torontooktoberfest.ca COST: $22 to $25 Dig out your lederhosen and dirndls and join us for Toronto’s only authentic Oktoberfest party! Inspired by traditions started in Munich, Germany, more than 200 years ago, Toronto Oktoberfest brings a taste of Munich to the city as it captures the essence of authentic food, drink and merriment. Bavarian Carnival from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for all ages plus tapping of the keg and closing party for those 19-plus.

Sorauren Park anniversary WHEN: 4 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Sorauren Park, corner of Sorauren Avenue and Wabash Avenue, south of Dundas Street West CONTACT: https://soraurenpark.wordpress.com The Wabash Society presents the 20th anniversary celebration of Sorauren Park Saturday, Sept. 26 with music, food, kids activity and more. Volunteers needed.

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McCormick Park Festival WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: McCormick Park, 66 Sheridan Ave. CONTACT: Karen Falkenberg, 416402-2064, kar_falkenberg@hotmail. com COST: Free Live music, corn roast, bouncy castle, face painting, buttons, giant mural painting, parkour workshops, cartooning, ukulele lessons, scavenger hunt, festival games and more!

CONTACT: Keith Denning, 416537-2701, ext. 1 COST: Free The festival offers the best in Polish and international music, dance and cuisine, as well as midways, beverage gardens and unbeatable offerings from the merchants of Roncesvalles Village.

vard CONTACT: www.terryfox.ca/ terryfoxrun/toronto-canoelandingcityplace Run, walk or inline skate during the Terry Fox Run. Includes warm-up, coffee and face-painting. All are welcome including pets.

Open Mic Night WHEN: 8 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Toronto Institute for the Enjoyment of Music, 821 Queen St. W. CONTACT: Howard Goldbach, 416-5045444, felipebasena@ gmail.com COST: Free Listen or participate.

Inland WHEN: noon to 9 p.m. WHERE: The Glass Factory, 99 Sudbury St. CONTACT: Jessica Moy, 416-928-1978, jessica@lotusleaf.ca COST: $5 Inland is a curated a marketplace where consumers and buyers are invited to join rising Canadian fashion designers and shop their latest fall 2015 collections.

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Terry Fox Run WHEN: 10:30 a.m. registration WHERE: Canoe Landing Park, Dan Leckie Way and Fort York Boule-

Roncesvalles Polish Festival WHEN: 11 a.m. today and tomorrow WHERE: Roncesvalles Village,

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Sorauren Park anniversary WHEN: 4 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Sorauren Park, corner of Sorauren Avenue and Wabash Avenue, south of Dundas Street West CONTACT:

Great Fall Yard Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Copernicus Lodge Auxiliary, 66 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: 416536-7122 The event promises great bargains for housewares, furniture, clothing, jewelry and a barbecue.

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More than 40 per cent of $35,000 goal raised to help launch business >>>from page 1 foot indoor obstacle course is at 444 Dufferin St., just north of Queen Street West, and features a 160-yard obstacle course (roughly the length of a football field and a half ) complete with a ring swing and ball pit, and a cargo net climb.

It also has various rest stops throughout the course and an elevated deck gallery space where participants can grab a drink of water, cheer on their friends and instagram a couple of pictures.

The space is not only for adventurists looking to get fit and have fun simultaneously in a unique way with friends or solo, but is also for pro level athletes who participate in obstacle course races, said McLean.

“We’ve also done it in a way that provides serious training for athletes that are looking to do obstacle course racing so they can come in and work hardcore on things that they’re trying to overcome.”

One of the options for obstacle course athletes is a 14-foot cove wall ramp and ascending monkey bars. Participants will also have the option to enter a cryotherapy chamber that drops to -153 degrees Celsius for 90 seconds.

“It’s to help rejuvenate your body and reduce inflammation in joints and can be used for therapy as well,” Chan explained.

The idea for the indoor adult jungle gym is the brainchild of McLean who came up with the idea years ago.

“It actually came from a business plan I had when I was 17 from an entrepreneur class in high school,” McLean told The Villager.

“At the time I developed it as a youth centre and it’s evolved since then.”

The pair, who both live on Queen Street West, took over the space in May despite talks of it possibly being redeveloped by Site Line Group into a mixed use block with one eight storey building and two 12-storey buildings.

“It’s pretty rare to get this volume of space in this area. We were lucky to swoop in and grab it when we did,” said Chan. “(We know) the building is in flux. So what we’d like to do is have it as a strong proving ground to have it stick around.”

Open by end of month They’re hoping to open up to the Parkdale and West Queen West community by the end of the month.

To help make the launch a success the fitness duo also launched an Indiegogo campaign with a goal of $35,000, and so far the Queen West owners have raised more than 40 per cent of their goal with $15,130.

The funds raised will help pay for the purchase of fitness equipment and “accelerate our programming,” McLean said.

“We don’t want to have a rationing of services,” McLean explained, adding he and Chan want to give their customers everything they have to offer right out of the gate because it’s tailored to the neighbourhood needs.

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Director Patrick Reed, left, from Parkdale and co-director Michelle Shephard’s film Guantanamo’s Child premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The name Omar Khadr is sure to spark debate between those who see him as someone forced into a life as a child soldier and others who brand him a terrorist.

The Toronto-born Khadr, who spent a decade in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility before being repatriated to Canada in 2012 and released from incarceration earlier this year, will tell his side of his story in a film set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Dubbed Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr, the film was a collaborative effort between filmmaker Patrick Reed and journalist/co-director Michelle Shephard.

Not surprisingly, given Khadr’s time in Guantanamo, gaining access to the young man posed a serious challenge until recently.

“I had been following the story for the (Toronto) Star for years and I knew one day I’d be able to get more of the story from his own perspective,” said Shephard, who lives in the Leslieville area.

“But for years, access to him was completely blocked by the Pentagon, and then I fought with the Canadian government to get access.”

While both Reed and Shephard had heard plenty

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“He (Omar Khadr) was reluctant to tell his story at first and wasn’t seeking the limelight...

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about Khadr, both tried to keep an open mind when they finally had a chance to meet and speak with the controversial figure.

They had gathered plenty of background information after speaking with Khadr’s lawyer and former cell mates, but wanted to refrain from judgment until they had a chance to speak with the film’s subject himself.

“He was reluctant to tell his story at first and wasn’t seeking the limelight, but Canadians have heard so much about him, a lot of them have their minds made up based on what they’ve already seen and heard,” said Reed, who lives in Parkdale.

“This was a way to help people make up their own minds.”

While Guantanamo’s Child offers a more sympathetic eye to Khadr’s life than some pundits would have people believe, the filmmakers did not pull punches.

They did their best to separate fact from fiction, including challenging some of Khadr’s own claims where

they did not seem to fit.

“It’s not a one-sided film,” Reed said. “We talked to members of the U.S. military who were in a firefight with him, people on both sides of the debate,” he said.

“Regardless of people’s opinions of him, he’s a central figure (in the conflict in Afghanistan) and we wanted to paint a fuller picture.”

Shephard admitted moving from the written word to the big screen posed its share of challenges, but credited Reed’s skill with making the transition easy.

“I’m used to working alone, so it was good to be part of a team, but I was quite the rookie,” she said. “I was lucky to have teamed up with such a talented filmmaker.”

Reed was quick to deflect the praise back to his co-director, pointing out Shephard’s journalistic skills worked well in creating a documentary dealing with such a complex and divisive subject.

“She brought impartiality, accuracy and facts – things that I as a documentary filmmaker don’t care about,” he joked.

Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr will screen at TIFF at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Scotiabank Theatre, 259 Richmond St. W.

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candidates debate in Swansea T h e Sw a n s e a A r e a Ratepayers’ Association is sponsoring a federal all-candidates’ debate for ParkdaleHigh Park, tonight from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

This is your chance to question, hear and discover where the local candidates stand on Swansea and Canadawide issues.

The doors will open at 7 p.m. and the debate will begin at 7:30 p.m.

The town hall is situated at 95 Lavinia Ave., Rousseau Room, a block south of Bloor Street and three blocks west of Runnymede.

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Polish Festival’s wEmmanuel annual book sale Howard Park

United Church hosts its fifth annual Great Big

Book Sale, Saturday, from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.

There will be thousands of books in all subjects ranging in price from $1 to $10.

There will also be CDs for sale.

The sale takes place during the Polish Festival. The c h u rc h i s a t 2 4 0 Roncesvalles Ave. Call 416-536-1755 or email emmanuelhowardparkuc@gmail.com for details. walk with words wWriter from The Bard Julia Bennett

leads a Shakespeare in the Park walk, Sunday, Sept. 20, from 10:30 a.m. until noon.

The walk is an easy, social ramble featuring some nature writings from The Bard.

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