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CONFUCIUS MEMORIAL CEREMONY in scarborough

Nominations now open The Urban Hero Awards are back! The Scarborough Mirror and Toronto Community News are pleased to announce we are seeking nominations for the third annual Urban Hero Awards 2012.

Help recognize the good work happening in our Scarborough neighbourhoods.

The Urban Hero Awards is an annual awards program that recognizes those community members and grassroots level ‘heroes’ whose personal efforts, sacrifices or contributions have made a significant impact to a cause, a person or a group in our local community.

Our focus is the unsung hero, the average Joe or Jill – people who do great things but don’t always get the recognition they deserve. Now’s their time to shine!

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SHANDONG ASSOCIATION HOSTS EVENT: Hilda Lin, 9, performs during the Shandong Association Confucius Cultural Society of Ontario’s Confucius memorial ceremony held Sunday at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto in Scarborough.

Man sought in gas station sex assault

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Police have released this image of a man wanted in connection with a sex assault at a Morningside Avenue and Ellesmere Road gas station Saturday afternoon.

Toronto police have released a security camera image of a man wanted in connection with a sexual assault at a gas station in the Morningside Avenue and Ellesmere Road area.

Police reported that a woman was putting gas in her car at the station at about 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22, when a man approached her from behind and sexually assaulted her.

The man is described as white, with a tan complexion, about five-feet, eight-inches tall, 190 pounds, with a heavy build.

He was wearing a red multicoloured jacket, dark jeans and sandals.

Anyone with information on this incident, or who recognizes the man, is asked to call police at 416-808-4300 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-8477.

Don’t delay! Nominations are now being accepted in these categories: n Arts and Culture n Business n Community n Education n Environment n Health and Sciences n Sports Visit the website Nominations can be made online at www.urbanheroes. ca.

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Finalists will be announced in October, with a special reception and coverage in The Mirror.

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Police investigation into Byng Avenue house fires continues ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com Police questioned “a person of interest” in connection with a suspicious fire that destroyed a Scarborough home and damaged two others Tuesday.

Emergency crews were called to Byng Avenue near Pharmacy and Danforth avenues at 6:13 a.m.

“A fire was started at a house that was under construction. The house was destroyed,” Toronto Police Const. Tony Vella said.

“Neighbouring houses also

sustained fire damage, and police discovered two homes and a car in the area covered in gasoline.”

Vella asked people in the neighbourhood to “check their properties for anything suspicious.”

The fire marshal’s office is also investigating the three-alarm blaze.

No one was hurt.

District chief Stephan Powell of Toronto Fire Services said it took about an hour to get the fire knocked down. “The properties were fully involved. It could be seen for miles.”

There were 20 fire trucks dis-

patched to the scene.

As of yesterday afternoon, police had not released any further information regarding the person of interest they had questioned.

Anyone with information is asked to call 41 Division at 416808-4100.

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Ian Proudfoot Marg Middleton Peter Haggert Alan Shackleton Warren Elder Jamie Munoz

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Rider rudeness not acceptable on public transit

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aking transit in this city is not easy at the best of times. Long trips and a crowded system are a daily challenge for many, so we shouldn’t be surprised incidents of rudeness and bad behaviour by other passengers are becoming a growing concern for many transit users.

Part of this is simply a reflection of the society we live in. We see rudeness everywhere. People are always in a hurry, be it while drivour view ing or trying to get on a subway train. They put themselves first and care nothing for the people around them.

In our special report in today’s paper we look at the rude rides experienced by a number of TTC riders. Clearly, there are a lot of issues out there.

Riders told us of having to deal with intoxicated, swearing passengers themselves; being pushed aside by those charging the doors of trains and streetcars; being bumped by backpacks; or of not being able to sit down due to people sprawling over several seats. And don’t even get them started on the loud cellphone conversations shared with every other passenger.

Riders are dealing with this stuff everyday, but it doesn’t appear as if they’ll be getting help anytime soon from the TTC itself.

“We have a number of areas of concern, but customer behaviour isn’t even in our Top 10. It’s not what we focus on,” Chris Upfold, the TTC’s chief customer care officer, told us for this week’s story.

The focus for the TTC is on serving its riders by running on time, and having polite and helpful employees. If the riders cannot behave or have bad manners, the TTC’s position is that it is not up to its employees to scold them. “I would argue the obligation of the operator is no greater than anybody else on that vehicle,” said Upfold when it comes to dealing with a rude passenger.

We disagree. TTC passengers have a right to expect a ride free from obnoxious behaviour. We know most riders are courteous and respectful, but it only takes a few to leave a lasting impression on visitors, get already stressed passengers upset and lead to unfair perceptions of a TTC ride.

Other countries promote courtesy on their transit systems with public awareness campaigns. The TTC should do the same.

A campaign that makes people think about their behaviour and the impact it has on other passengers is much needed and should be a priority.

TTC must promote civility

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electronic or other forms. Letters can be sent to letters@insidetoronto.com, or mailed to The Scarborough Mirror, 175 Gordon Baker Rd., Toronto, ON, M2H 0A2.

To the editor: Re: ‘Politics must be controlled through the ballot box, not courts,’ Beyond the Headlines, Sept. 6.

Both columnist David Soknacki and Mayor Rob Ford served on council when the MFP leasing scandal inquiry and External Contract’s Inquiry was running and when Justice Denise Bellamy’s report on the MFP scandal was released in 2005.

Though the questioned contributions to Ford’s charity were small and there’s certainly no evidence of corruption, there’s the potential perception of it.

Breaching provincial conflict of interest laws in large municipal contracts stinks to high heaven and even someone who briefly discussed the Bellamy inquiry in a civics class seven years ago would have no difficulty recalling how to avoid this mess now.

Donald Smith

Politicians should not plan transit To the editor: Re: ‘Back to school, back to talking about transit,’ Editorial, Sept. 20.

Why are we looking for a national transit policy?

Canadians have been asking, in fact pleading, for a national energy policy for this country for years.

Do we even have an energy strategy 40 years later?

There is no need for a national transit policy, only an initial regional policy forcing the provinces to develop an all encompassing provincial

policy.

And even then, it is not really a transit policy that is required, but simply a transit funding policy, funding that should be coming from the provincial general revenues and not from municipal taxpayers, or special interest groups, such as vehicle operators.

Yes, we need a common vision and plan for transit within the regional scope, however, that plan has to be adjustable to differing regions, user volumes and available funding models.

What may work in

Toronto as policy will not work in KitchenerWaterloo or in the small towns of rural Ontario.

To have this paper call on everyone on city council to stop arguing about transit vision and commit to one vision is simply a waste of printer’s ink.

Toronto council should not even be involved with the business of transit planning.

City councillors, right, left or middle have about the same visionary capacity as some of the squirrels that gather nuts in my backyard.

Transit planning is simply not a political process, you might as well start asking the general public for an educated opinion.

Leave transit planning and transit vision up to the people that get paid for their expertise; there are already many of them who receive regular municipally funded salaries.

Simply let them do their job. Keep the politicians out of this process, other than to approve the plans and ascertain and maintain funding.

Clifford J. Layne

Canadians don’t want to pay for auto workers To the editor: Re: ‘Canadians won’t let governments erode hardearned wages,’ Letters, Aug. 16.

CAW’s Roland Kiehne

makes the erroneous statement that “Canadians won’t let governments erode hard-earned wages” when in reality we taxpayers had no say whatsoever

in the bailout.

Yes, the taxpayers once again got totally shafted.

CAW are/were a private entity but not any more.

They are living on bor-

rowed time and taxpayers’ dollars, and they are still taking home, compliments of the taxpayer, megabucks.

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MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Eleven months after Toronto Council overruled its decision on where to send the Toronto Zoo’s three remaining elephants, the zoo’s management board is asking for another vote.

A majority on the board, along with senior zoo staff, had wanted to send the aging Thoka, Thika and Iringa to another zoo recognized by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), but council last Oct. 25 ruled the elephants would go the PAWS sanctuary in California.

Zoo CEO John Tracogna emerged from a board meeting Tuesday to say the zoo is still preparing in good faith to send the three African elephants to PAWS (Performing Animal Welfare Society), but though “much progress” has been made, issues remain.

Chief of these is how well Toronto’s elephants will be protected from tuberculosis once they are transferred to the California preserve.

PAWS was aware it had Asian elephants which had

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Toronto Zoo CEO John Tracogna, right, and the zoo’s senior veterinarian Dr. Graham Crawshaw speak at a Tuesday afternoon press conference on the elephant transfer plans.

been exposed to the disease.

On a visit last December, Dr. Graham Crawshaw, the zoo’s senior veterinarian saw some sanctuary staff wearing masks and noted they “appeared to be following quarantine protocol.”

But zoo staff were allowed to see only two of the five elephant barns by PAWS staff, who cited “legal advice from PAWS lawyers,” he told a press conference.

Since then, PAWS has told the zoo, one of the Asian elephants tested positive for active tuberculosis.

Tracogna mentioned other

outstanding concerns - the sanctuary’s import permit which expires Oct. 1, the size of Thoka’s travel crate, the size of the airplane cargo hold but he and Crenshaw spoke most about the danger of TB, suggesting it is the main stumbling block.

The board’s report on this will go to council’s executive committee on Oct. 9, possibly along with a proposal for giving the zoo a larger board independent of any council decisions in future.

Both items may then end up at council for another vote later this fall.

York West Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti, attending the meeting as Mayor Rob Ford’s representative, said the council decision to send elephants to PAWS was a “stupid” one that lost the zoo some credibility.

Council should respect the advice of zoo veterinarians such as Crawshaw instead of Bob Barker, the retired game show host who has offered to pay the elephants’ transport costs to PAWS, said Mammoliti.

Goverenance model The proposed new governance model for the zoo, released earlier this month, would create a board of 24 with only one “non-political” city representative, instead of the six of 14 seats now filled by city councillors, and “managerial authority would reside with the zoo.”

A consultant’s report the zoo board approved stated the new board should be in place

by Dec. 15 and the zoo given its independence during the

following month.

In his remarks, Tracogna acknowledged the zoo - which lost four of its elephants in three years - decided to phase out its program and had looked with interest at the still-emerging AZA-accredited National Elephant Centre in Florida, which he said may be open by January.

Julie Woodyer of Zoocheck, a group acting as PAWS’ representative in Canada said the zoo staff are setting up obstacles for the transfer and are using TB as “a bogeyman.”

The AZA has pressured the zoo to send the elephants to another zoo, but PAWS has more space than any zoo can provide, she said, adding no elephants have died of TB at PAWS and when the active case was discovered, sometime in June, sanctuary staff phoned the zoo immediately.

As for access to PAWS medical records and protocols against TB mentioned often

by Crawshaw and Tracogna, Woodyer said the zoo was

granted full access but the sanctuary, because of thirdparty agreements, can’t allow the records to be copied or transmitted.

Crawshaw said TB is “hard to diagnose and even harder to treat” in elephants and has a long latency period and its transmission to elephants isn’t well understood. Crawshaw said PAWS must satisfy the zoo on how it will guard against possible TB transfer by staff contact, inanimate objects, food and other factors.

If there’s a choice between a place that doesn’t have the disease and one that does, the zoo’s preference is obvious, he said later.

Glenn De Baeremaeker, a Scarborough councillor on the zoo board who supports the transfer to PAWS, said zoo staff are trying “scare tactic after scare tactic” to stop it.

Council may revisit the issue, but the result of the vote will be the same, he predicted.

“This is an attempt to sabotage the will of council,” De Baeremaeker said.

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he woman who spoke so loudly during her phone conversation her words could be heard in excruciating detail all the way from the back of the streetcar. The patron who charged the closing subway doors without a care for anyone around him. The time when a fight nearly broke out over a seat during rush hour.

When it comes to rude behaviour on the TTC, nearly every rider, it seems, has a story.

Some say they tolerate inconsiderate behaviour because it’s not worth getting into a potential altercation. Others have spoken up on behalf of fellow patrons being subjected to rudeness.

Amanda Hiebert recalls a time on board a Parkdale bus when an extremely intoxicated patron spewed non-stop profanities in front of small children and their parents during the heart of rush hour.

“She was cussing like she invented swear words,” said Hiebert. “I turned around and said, ‘Can you clean up your mouth?’”

For intervening, Hiebert says she received a fresh volley of abuse from the inebriated woman, who finally decamped the bus a few stops later.

“I’m not one of those people who can just sit there and say nothing,” she said.

Most patrons who spoke with Toronto Community News said the TTC should act more proactively to deal with rude riders, whether that means an awareness campaign or directing staff to intervene.

“If there was an ad campaign with some kind of statistic or something, it might strike a

Loud talk and litter irritating for Victoria Park bus riders

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TTC chief customer service officer, Chris Upfold calls rudeness on the transit system a ‘societal’ issue.

chord with me,” said Hassan Ibrahim, a passenger on the 501 Queen streetcar last week.

“It’s happening in their stations, on their vehicles,” said commuter Sunny Wong, waiting for a bus at Victoria Park and Sheppard Avenue.

“There should be standards for whenever a closer you take the look TTC.” Inside But while Toronto the TTC does make announcements related to transit etiquette, such as asking riders to remove their large knapsacks during rush hour, spokesperson Chris Upfold said there are no plans to deal with the issue much more than that.

“We have a number of areas of concern, but customer behaviour isn’t even in our Top 10. It’s not what we focus on,” said Upfold, the TTC’s chief customer care officer.

“Rudeness is not something that catches my attention as being high.”

Upfold, who was hired by the TTC to improve customer care, said the transit agency’s employees shouldn’t be required to improve what he termed a “societal” issue.

“I would argue the obligation of the operator is no greater than anybody else on that vehicle,” said Upfold.

He said riders should alter their travel patterns and the times they travel in order to reduce potential disputes.

“Let’s say you travel at 8:30 a.m. and it’s tough to find a seat. Leave 15 minutes earlier and there’s a better chance you’re getting on the train,” said Upfold.

Transit agencies in other cities have taken steps to reduce rude behaviour by riders.

For the last seven years, New York City subway riders face a $50 ticket, and in some cases can even be arrested, for sitting “improperly” on a seat or taking up more than one seat.

More recently, the Paris, France rapid transit authority RATP (Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) launched a

publicity campaign targeting rude patrons of the Metro.

Phil Wood, who retired recently from the London Underground where he was manager of operational analysis, said the rudeness of patrons riding the subway was never considered much of a problem, though laws targeting certain behaviours have proved effective.

He said Underground workers are directed not to get into confrontations with transit users, and instead are to alert the transport police responsible for patrolling the system’s 402 kilometres of track.

He recalled a regulation adopted by British lawmakers a couple of years ago that made it illegal for riders to travel the Underground with open containers of alcohol. “It’s more of a perception issue, really,

and they made a rule that put people at ease,” said Wood, who was in Toronto last week.

Upfold said the TTC is set to examine the findings from a study that examined nearly 5,000 rider complaints in hopes of offering better service.

But he said rudeness on the TTC, just as it exists in other places in the city, would remain a reality, “TTC is part of society,” he said.

“The problems we face are the same as what society faces.”

Valentino Assenza, who commutes to work downtown from the Beach via the TTC, said while he’d like to see steps taken to address the issue of rudeness, he was unsure how it should proceed.

“It’s hard to legislate courtesy,” he said. “How we go about enforcing this, I don’t really know.”

ON THE COVER: Transit user Valentino Assenza says he is exasperated with the lack of respect passengers on the TTC have for each other. (Photo by Nick Perry) TWITTER: Read tweets from transit users pinpointing their pet peeves about impolite TTC passengers; insidetoronto.com, search keyword: TTC_Rude_Riders

n the 24 Victoria Park bus, John Maisterra and Mayan Reicher are eager to relate their irritation with the conduct of their fellow TTC patrons.

For Maisterra, who started taking the route about three months ago, the major annoyance he finds is having to tolerate loud cellphone conversations from passengers sitting close by.

“That’s number one for me, people speaking loudly on their phones not considering your personal space,” said Maisterra.

“Those loud conversations where you can make out every detail.”

Reicher would also like the TTC to install trash receptacles on all of its vehicles in order to prevent excessive littering.

“You see people throwing bottles and pop cans just right on the ground, just tossing them,” said Reicher.

Not respectful “It’s definitely not respectful to the other riders or the TTC itself.”

Cordella Simpson, who boarded the bus at the intersection of Victoria Park Avenue and Sheppard Avenue, said she didn’t appreciate when riders play loud music right beside her.

“If that person had some thought for their neighbour they wouldn’t do that,” pointed out Simpson, who is retired.

“It’s very selfish of someone to make others unhappy and makes for unpleasant traveling.”

Simpson, who takes several Scarborough bus routes, said her experience on the 24 bus is usually uneventful.

More considerate “I guess I tend to bypass people’s behaviour,” she said.

“I’ve been fortunate not to have it directed at me.”

Simpson said she would like to see the TTC do more about rudeness, but stressed the importance of commuters showing more respect for each other.

“We can improve our experience by being more considerate to each other,” she said.

– Rahul Gupta

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Reporter’s role does not include being friends with city politicians

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t has come to this: two hours of simian chestthumping radio on a Sunday afternoon by the mayor and his brother has become the official response to questions and criticism here in the largest city in the nation.

As I write this on Tuesday morning here in the Toronto City Hall Press Gallery, my fellow scribes are reeling from a tirade from our chief magistrate and his immediate family: we have been branded “pathological liars,” embarrassments to our city, and most pointedly perhaps, as “a bunch of pricks,” by city councillor Doug Ford as he fled questions following a Monday budget committee meeting.

The outbursts are a response to a spate of bad press for the Ford brothers.

Reports have alleged the mayor used city resources to help with his high-school football coaching duties, in violation of Toronto Council’s

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code of conduct. In the summer, the mayor met with city staff to urge them to hurry up and repair potholes in front of his family’s business, in advance of a 50th anniversary celebration. He justified it by explaining that if those repairs weren’t done, someone might have twisted an ankle and sued.

And it all comes in the context of a pending decision by Ontario Chief Justice Charles Hackland, on a conflict of interest matter that could see Mayor Ford removed from office.

Vaguely obscene invective is probably not the best response to all those allegations, but it’s certainly understandable.

And it’s not without precedent. Sometimes, tempers flare.

Former Mayor Mel Lastman, for instance, once famously and publicly threatened to have then-television reporter Adam Vaughan killed, because he believed that Vaughan was responsible for leaking a story about his wife to the satirical political magazine. (For the record, Adam Vaughan was never killed by Mel Lastman or any of his staff in the weeks and months that followed.)

Mayor David Miller was a bit more sophisticated about it. He avoided death-threats and cuss-outs, but he had a way of eviscerating reporters who dared to ask ill-informed or too-pointed questions that stung deep.

As a journalist covering this beat, I’ve been on the frosty end of freeze-outs by politicians who haven’t appreciated stories I’ve written about them. Sometimes, I’ve been called names.

Sometimes — and this is probably hardest to take — I’ve been simply told that the story has hurt their feelings.

But it’s all an occupational hazard. The fact is that none of us in the media are here to be friends and confidantes to the politicians we cover.

As far as the Ford brothers go, the fact is that Rob, at least, is in trouble. Details have emerged that call into question his political character as he’s presented it to voters. Where now is the harsh critic of councillors who feather their nests with public money, the everyman who vows to ensure that residents get fair treatment from city bureaucrats, when he’s accused of using his office budget for football and encouraging staff to put his family’s needs ahead of others?

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@issue Meeting today’s healthcare challenges

Refreshing our Strategic Plan

By Dr. John Wright, President and CEO The Scarborough Hospital has begun work to refresh our Strategic Plan and Clinical Action Plan in an effort to provide clarity and guidance regarding which hospital services should expand, remain fixed or decrease in order to meet the acute healthcare needs of our community.

So why is this necessary, and what will it mean for Scarborough?

Simply put, the healthcare system in Ontario is undergoing a significant transformation that will change the way patients receive care. The province’s tra-

ditional provider-centered model of care is becoming more patient-focused, and funding is being reformed so that healthcare dollars follow the patient through the continuum of care.

A look at funding reform

Health-Based Allocation Model (HBAM) HBAM looks at the number of patients we serve and the complexity of their healthcare needs, taking into account factors such as age, gender, socio-economic status and patient

The bottom line is that we expect hospitals will receive less money, as programs and services that can be provided outside of a hospital setting are moved into the community. flows. It is based on the types of disease most common in our community over the past few years, and the diagnosis and treatments that have taken place.

HBAM now accounts for 40 per cent of our overall funding.

Quality-Based Procedures (QBP) Hospitals will now be paid for specific procedures using a simple formula of price multiplied by the number of procedures performed. The government is setting the price for these procedures, and may also decide the maximum volumes each hospital can perform. For

are witnessing a transformation in Ontario that is unlike anything that has happened since the introduction of universal healthcare more than half a century ago.

To meet the challenges ahead, we are working with a wide range of stakeholders to find solutions that will make our organization stronger moving forward, and a vital part of an integrated health delivery model.

We know there will be tough decisions to make, but we are confident that we can work together with our stakeholders to find solutions that allow us to continue our growing reputation as a leader in quality care—not just in Scarborough, but throughout the Greater Toronto Area.

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As of April 2012, Ontario has adopted a Patient-Based Funding model, meaning healthcare organizations are now compensated based on how many patients they look after, the services they deliver, the quality of those services, and the specific needs of the population they serve.

Historically, about 97 per cent of our funding was provided in the form of a global budget, which paid for the programs and services we provide, as well as wages, drugs, supplies, and administrative and facility costs.

Under the new model, our global budget will be reduced to just 30 per cent of our total funding by 2014-15.

Additional revenue will be earned in two ways: Health Based Allocation Model (HBAM), and Quality-Based Procedures (QBP). The new model will be phased in over the next two fiscal years.

Some services that are currently offered in hospitals will move into community clinics, providing they can be offered at the same high quality and at less cost.

Hospitals will begin to specialize, focusing on services that can only be done in acute care hospital settings. For patients, it will mean receiving the right care, at the right time, in the right place.

These are the realities The Scarborough Hospital—and, indeed, all Ontario hospitals—face in the coming years.

Health system transformation is about more than just financial challenges. It’s a philosophical change in the way our healthcare system will care for patients. We

Global (Base) Budget 30%

0% One-Time Health Based Allocation Model (HBAM) 2012-13, QBP includes cataracts, hip and knee replacements and chronic kidney disease—additional procedures will be added over time. By 2014-15, QBP will account for 30 per cent of our funding.

As an example, a patient who has a total knee replacement requires both

Global (Base) Budget Quality Based Procedures (QBP) surgery and rehabilitation. Assuming the surgery takes place in hospital, and rehabilitation takes place in a nonacute care setting, QBP determines the amount each provider will be paid for its contribution to that patient’s care journey.

Finding efficiencies and innovative ways to care for our global community is nothing new at The Scarborough Hospital. Many of our existing hospital services are already well aligned with the province’s Action Plan for Health Care, and several new initiatives are being planned. Here are a few examples:

n Our four satellite dialysis units, operating in community-based hubs throughout Scarborough, have revolutionized care for our hemodialysis patients by moving life-saving treatment closer to home, and out of a hospital setting. The result is high-quality care provided in

Involving our stakeholders n Is the service critically required to support emergency, birthing or mental health? n Does the service provide material financial benefit to the hospital?

We are committed to ensuring all of our community stakeholders have the opportunity to participate in our Strategic Plan Refresh. As a first step, community stakeholders are being asked to provide input into decision-making criteria that will be used as a lens to evaluate options for any program or service changes. The criteria are presented on the back of this page.

Stakeholder engagement sessions are being planned that will then allow interested parties to participate in the evaluation process. Details of those sessions will be shared as soon as they are available.

The engagement process is being overseen by a committee comprising members of the hospital Board, staff and Community Advisory Council, as well as community leaders and a representative from the Central East Local Health Integration Network. A report outlining the stakeholder feedback obtained and how it was used to inform decision-making will be shared publicly following the engagement process.

DrAft Decision-MAking criteriA It has been proposed that the following criteria should be used to determine the relative priority of each clinical service or service element: n Is the service meeting a population need?

n Is there a binding contract with the Ministry of Health and Longterm Care, Cancer Care Ontario, or other organizations? n Is it an insured service? n Does the service have a significant positive impact on the organization?

How cAn i Be involveD? We welcome and encourage your feedback on this set of draft decisionmaking criteria. You may comment before October 4, 2012 as follows: Online: Add your comments to our community engagement blog at tshengagement.wordpress.com. You may also subscribe to the blog for updates on the Strategic Plan Refresh, including dates, times and locations for future engagement sessions when they are made available.

By email: info@tsh.to Speakers’ Bureau: If you are part of a community group that would like to arrange a face-to-face consultation with the hospital, please contact Dave Bourne, Manager of Corporate Communications, at 416-4382911 ext. 6836, or email dbourne@tsh.to.

Social Media: We are active on Facebook and Twitter, too:

n Uniqueness; is the service available elsewhere? n Is there a strategic fit with the hospital’s Clinical Action Plan?

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a more convenient, comfortable and less expensive environment. This is an excellent example of providing the right care, at the right time, in the right place. n Frail seniors are now diverted from our Emergency Department thanks to our Geriatric Assessment and Intervention Network (GAIN) clinic, a partnership between our hospital, Rouge Valley Centenary, Lakeridge Health, Peterborough Regional Health Centre, the Scarborough Community Care Access Centre, and the Central East Local Health Integration Network. GAIN provides comprehensive interprofessional care for frail seniors, allowing them to be assessed, treated and discharged home safely. When appropriate, additional supports can be arranged to ensure the patient is able to remain safely at home until their follow-up appointment. n The CE LHIN has the highest rate of diabetes in Ontario for youth and adults. To meet the needs of these patients, The Scarborough Hospital has teamed up with CE LHIN partners to

provide comprehensive complex care to individuals experiencing complications from diabetes. The Centre for Complex Diabetes Care (CCDC), which supports the Ontario Diabetes Strategy, and is aligned with our own chronic disease strategy, gives both inpatients and outpatients access to a range of coordinated healthcare services across the region. n TSH is rolling out a new model of care—I CARE—that is aimed at improving the patient experience by having interprofessional staff work to their full scope of practice and by linking patients with a range of services post-discharge including our GAIN clinic, our NPSTAT program or services offered by the Community Care Access Centres. Ensuring that patients have appropriate follow-up care, often in community-based settings, is about providing the right care at the right time. It can improve overall satisfaction, reduce re-admission rates, and improve patient outcomes.

HEALTH SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION

BY THE NUMBERS

What’s driving the need to transform healthcare in Ontario? Here’s a quick snapshot of the statistics: n 42 cents of every Ontario tax dollar is currently spent on healthcare. Without making changes now, that amount could rise to 70 cents within 12 years. n Our population is aging, and the number of seniors in Ontario will double in the next 20 years. n The cost of caring for seniors is three times higher than for the average person. n In 2010-11, 271,000 patients visited Emergency Departments in Ontario for treatment that could have been provided in alternative primary care settings. n By not receiving the right care at home, 140,000 Ontario patients were readmitted to hospital within 30 days of hospital discharge in 2009.

n Diabetes, which has a higher than average prevalence in Scarborough, costs Ontario $4.9 billion each year. Contributing to that cost: obesity, which affects more than 50% of adults and 20% of youth.

SOURCE: Ontario’s Action Plan for Health Care

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Forum hears concerns over immigration bill MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Immigrants and their supporters must “speak directly to some Canadians’ fears and misconceptions about immigration” if they hope to overturn recent changes to the system, a public forum in Scarborough heard last week.

Immigration is “one of the founding principles of this country,” and “as Canadian as hockey,” but political parties are trying to use it for political goals instead of nation-building, Jehad Aliweiwi of the Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office told those attending the forum at the Scarborough Civic Centre.

Aliweiwi and other speakers said people in the audience had better start acting themselves in order to reverse changes they don’t like, particularly those federal Immigration Act amendments in Bill C-31 which became law this summer.

C-31 promises faster processing and removal from Canada of refugee claimants from “safe” countries of origin, causing a “real loss of access to justice,” said Shalini Konanur of the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario.

Supreme Court Konanur said she’s confident parts of the law will be struck down - law offices including her own have launched cases against C-31 and one will reach the Supreme Court - but that will happen years from now, she said.

“The problem is how many people are going to be victims (of these new rules) before we can get there.”

Personal stories from refugee claimants can speed up change and make the public less apathetic on these issues, Konanur said, though she added some of her clients are in dire situations but afraid to speak.

Konanur also acknowledged some Canadians are pleased by the Conservative government’s new directions in immigration, and

“we have not done enough to speak for the thousands who are not pleased.”

Ezat Mossallanejed of the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture said what’s at stake with the changes under C-31 is the very idea of asylum, which the United Nations says is every person’s right, as well as the compassion towards refugees Canadians have boasted about.

Torture cases Under the new rules, he said, his clients have 15 working days to apply for refugee status, but the story of torture doesn’t come out quickly, especially when it involves rape.

Mossallanejad said it can take months to document torture cases.

Also, people coming in a group, such as on a boat of asylum-seekers “can be detained forever,” and it’s unjust to leave people “in limbo” like that, said Mossallenejad, a former refugee.

“L e t t h e Ca n a d i a n public know about you and your stories,” he said at the forum hosted by Scarborough Civic Action Network last Wednesday, Sept. 19.

The group said immigration changes are strongly felt in Scarborough, where 68 per cent are first-generation Canadians and 20 per cent arrived after 2000.

Among the issues discussed were the “temporary pause” declared last fall on accepting parent and grandparent familyclass applications, and new two-year renewable “super visas” the government said it created to bring older relatives over in months instead of years.

The Conservative government has said since 2006 Canada’s target for immigrants have been at the “highest sustained levels” ever, but Konanur said immigration to reunify families is “slowly being carved away to nothing.”

The super visa application is not very different than the visitor visa process, but the relative’s financial independence, medical insurance and ties to the home country

- proof someone is ready to care for them when they return - must be well-documented, she said.

“This program is clearly set up for people who have a certain level of financial security and no one else.”

One man in the audience said he wanted to sponsor his parents and was frustrated he could not.

“The law is there but it’s for the powerful,” he said, adding it could be appealed to the Supreme Court in 10 years, “but within 10 years my parents will die.”

Amy Casipullai of the Ontario Co u n c i l o f A g e n c i e s Se r v i n g Immigrants said Canada, accepting more and more migrant workers, has a long history of bringing in workers to fill an economic need “and then directly or indirectly forcing them out.”

People with no permanent resident status “must live in the shadows” and work just to survive, Casipullai said.

Scarborough-Agincourt MPP Soo Wong also appeared at the forum to complain the federal government cut funding to settlement services in Ontario and isn’t “at the table” negotiating a new agreement with the province, which accepts 40 per cent of new immigrants, on immigration.

“Why is the Government of Canada picking on Ontario?” she asked Wong also said cuts to refugee health coverage under C-31 are costing Ontario $7 million, “which we’re going to address,” she said, urging audience members to tell refugee claimants who are not insured to go to an emergency room or community health centre if they need to.

Best Buy CORRECTION NOTICE NEWSPAPER RETRACTION FOR THE BEST BUY SEPTEMBER 21 CORPORATE FLYER We would like to clarify the Bose CineMate Series II Digital Home Theatre System (Bose CineMate SII) (WebCode: 10131232) found on page 6 of the September 21 flyer. Please be advised that the advertised price of $552.99 is applicable only when purchased WITH an HDTV, WITHOUT the HDTV, the home theatre system is $649.99.

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NICK’S NO FRILLS LIGHTS UP THE GRILL FOR THE SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION On Saturday, Nick’s No Frills at 3850 Sheppard Ave., held a barbecue to raise money for the Scarborough Hospital Foundation. Proceeds raised from selling burgers, hotdogs and refreshments will go towards purchasing a new MRI machine. The Scarborough Hospital’s vision is to be recognized as Canada’s leader in providing the best health care for a global community. Nick’s No Frills continues to sponsor the hospital’s initiative by continuing to raise money with in-store promotions.

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222 Linden Ave.

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51 Manderley Dr.

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