The Scarborough Mirror, East, November 24, 2016

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MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Scarborough wants out of Toronto. Seriously. The Free Scarborough campaign is out door-knocking for signatures to redraw a municipal boundary along Victoria Park Avenue in 2018. Leader Robert McDermott isn't trying to de-amalgamate the whole Megacity Ontario's Mike Harris government created. He just wants to give Scarborough back its tax money, autonomy, and city hall. "We'd manage our own affairs," he told a woman living near Craiglee Nursing Home in Cliffside, a South Scarborough neighbourhood where McDermott signed up several residents near Kingston Road. He said he may need 400,000, recorded by volunteers in each Scarborough ward, before the province would hold a referendum. When one man said he didn't know enough about the issue, McDermott said Scarborough ● See FREE, page 20

A Special Report on Child Poverty Hundreds of thousands of Canadian children are growing up in poverty. In Ontario, more than 370,000 children (or 13.8 per cent) lived in a low-income household in 2013, only slightly better than the national average of 14.3 per cent. Poverty often means food insecurity, an inability to fully participate at school and difficulty accessing services. See our story on page 8 to find out how Toronto’s young citizens are faring. Metroland file photo

Yousuf Qureshi, 8, (left) and Fareed Mustafa, 11, take part in the July summerlunch program in East York earlier this year.

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