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A shipping container market offering fresh fruits and vegetables recently opened in Moss Park, giving food-insecure residents in the area an option for healthy food.
There won’t be demonstrations in the streets of East Scarborough if Toronto City Council shelves the Eglinton East Light Rail Line next week. The 18-stop surface rail route Mayor John Tory promised area residents in January is known to very few of them, and their own councillors have said little about it. But if council, seeing the huge price increase for Tory’s one-stop Bloor-Danforth Subway extension, consigns Eglinton East to a transit slush pile, there will be some who will notice and object. It’s Scarborough’s post-sec-
ondary campuses who stand to gain the most if Eglinton East survives, or - if the unlikely happens - a previously discarded LRT line to Scarborough Town Centre is revived. Future plans for University of Toronto Scarborough are based around the Eglinton East LRT, a route from Kennedy Station through its campus called (in a previous incarnation) the Malvern-Scarborough. Years ago, students at UTSC voted to donate $30 million to build the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre because a previous mayor, David Miller, promised the LRT would reach the campus in time for last year’s Pan American Games, Sitharsana Srithas,
Vulnerable residents work together to fight food insecurity in Toronto Taste of Lawrence starts three-day street party JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com
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hile solving the problem of food insecurity will require a concerted effort from all levels of government, there is a great deal being done at a more grassroots level to help make sure Torontonians can put food on their plates. Organizations such as
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combat them. Her organization originated out of The Stop Community Food Centre on Davenport Road, and now there are three such organizations in Toronto and eight across Canada. “With almost one in 10 households experiencing food insecurity, we don’t have a hard time finding communities that could use a Community Food Centre,”
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TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com Scarborough’s biggest street party, Taste of Lawrence, returns with food, fun and more this Friday through Sunday. Lawrence Avenue East will close from Warden Avenue to Birchmount Road for the three-
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day festival, which is expected to draw up to 250,000 people throughout the weekend. Admission is free, with lots to enjoy. “Come on out,” invited Steve Wanless, this year’s co-chair. “We’ve got a huge array of entertainment, from the family
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