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DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com When you walk through the doors of Wychwood Open Door, you’re greeted with a delightful aroma to rival any home kitchen; and if you happen to sit down to eat, you’ll enjoy a conversation among friends.

That is the atmosphere at the nonprofit drop-in centre, which operates in the basement of St. Matthew’s United Church at St. Clair Avenue West, just west of Christie Street.

"Let me tell you, people are well fed here and they should be," said kitchen volunteer Jim White. "Our chef puts together

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Volunteers pack 3,000 winter survival kits York-based Engage and Change packed 3,000 survival kits during its Project Winter Survival Saturday, Jan. 21.

Volunteers from the organization made the packages at The Bargains Group Ltd. on Caledonia Road.

The packages will be distributed to 200 social service agencies, homeless shelters, and outreach providers across the GTA. Engage and Change says winter inflicts additional hardships for Toronto’s most vulnerable.

"The growing plight of our city’s homeless goes from critical to deadly during the volatile winter season," Project Winter Survival founder Jody Stein-

hauer said in a press release. "City cutbacks and overcrowded conditions mean increased numbers in need of warmth and shelter are left to fend off the elements as best they can. Unfortunately, the 3,000 kits that we provide can only offer marginal relief."

Engage and Change said an estimated 5,000 people sleep outdoors and in shelters, including about 1,000 homeless kids, each night. Project Winter Survival has received more than 12,500 requests for kits, a 20 per cent increase over 2016.

Thanks to corporate and civic partners, Project Winter Survival will give Toronto’s homeless a fight-

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Each kit contains such items as sleeping bags, clothing, food, and personal and health care items that often make a difference between life and death.

Since its inception in 1999, Project Winter Survival has assembled and distributed more than 30,000 winter survival kits to GTA and surrounding area homeless. For those less fortunate, a mere $25 donation per kit to Project Winter Survival translates into a lifeline of hope against the threat of death by exposure.

For more information or to make a donation, visit www.engageandchange.org

Free public art training for young people Public art not-for-profits Mural Routes and SKETCH are teaming up to offer a free six-week program designed to help young people in Toronto learn about public art and hone their own artistic skills.

The Introduction to Mural Art program will give youth from 16 to 29 years of

age a chance to learn the ins and outs of creating murals and public art pieces. Classes will look at colour theory to drawing and painting techniques, design challenges, collaborative design, and more.

Students will work on panel designs, with top designs to be exhibited at the SKETCH Open Studio on

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The program is open to those of all skill levels and will take place from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday nights from Jan. 31 to March 7 in the SKETCH studios at Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw St. For more information or to register, visit www.muralroutes.ca

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Information, funding needed for rail safety Rail carriers are working under a shroud of secrecy, putting Ontarians at risk every day.

Information regarding what hazardous materials are shipped through our communities remains elusive. At any given moment, emergency responders and local governments have no idea what, exactly, is being transported through municipalities across the province. Yet they are the ones tasked with keeping the populace safe in the event of a disaster.

The continued secrecy is putting the public at unnecessary risk and it is not a theoretical risk. The danger is very real.

In 2015, 144 rail-related accidents occurred involving dangerous goods in Canada. The five-year-average is 140.

One need only look to the disaster at Lac-Megantic to see how very real and devastating such disasters can be. When the unattended freight train derailed, it left 47 people dead and half of the community’s downtown destroyed.

That train had previously passed through the densely populated GTA. The disaster prompted renewed calls from municipalities and the province for increased transparency on the shipment of dangerous goods.

There have since been improvements to informationsharing, but has it gone far enough?

Emergency responders in municipalities have access to historic data of what has come through their community.

From that they can undertake disaster planning.

The burden - and cost - of preparing for these potential disasters falls squarely on the shoulders of municipalities.

Not only must our towns and cities prepare without knowing when, how often and what materials companies are transporting, they must also find a way to pay for managing the dangers these private rail carriers pose.

For security reasons, real-time information is not available. And what information is shared with select municipal officials is not intended to be shared with the public. No one wants to tip off a potential terrorist about the exact location of specific chemicals. And the rail carriers don’t want to panic the public.

Not only are emergency responders faced with a lack of information, the public remains largely in the dark about what dangerous goods are rolling through their communities.

This culture of secrecy does not allow residents to make informed decisions or adequately prepare for possible disaster scenarios.

More information is needed. The public needs to have general data regarding what is regularly transported through their backyards. Municipalities need more up-to-date information about what dangers their first responders might have to battle. And those first responders need adequate funding to defend against the worst case scenarios.

Rail lines are an important part of this country’s economy, but the dangers they pose need to be better managed. It shouldn’t take another Lac-Megantic to bring about these much-needed reforms.

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Thorncliffe Park, a place of unsolvable problems What’s happening in Thorncliffe Park is what’s happening in Toronto’s other highrise neighbourhoods, only more so.

Its problems can’t be solved, only patched.

The elevators grind, fail, sit waiting for repair. Bugs crawl. Kitchen cabinets fall apart.

Thorncliffe’s aging: 43 apartment buildings in a horseshoe of land on the Don River. They were built long ago, like St. James Town, Flemingdon Park, and Scarborough’s Markham Road highrises, when Toronto apartment towers rose at the rate condos are popping up today.

Thorncliffe’s overcrowded: grandparents and cousins are shoehorned in. Families rent rooms in other people’s apartments. Designed for 12,000 residents, the neighbourhood has 30,000, possibly

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto 45,000.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, the area’s MPP, pronounced the overcrowding unsolvable, except through "community conversation," last week when Thorncliffe tenants and landlords met.

"We don’t even know exactly how many people are in these communities," she said.

So much of Toronto lives like this, and will continue because, while the gap be-

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tween renters and home ownership widens, few apartment towers are built.

Daryl Chong of the Greater Toronto Apartment Association told Thorncliffe tenants most of them are in Thorncliffe "because we haven’t built any new (apartment) buildings in 40 years."

"If you had more choice, you would vote with your feet."

Apartments pay three times the property taxes houses do, Chong and political representatives added, so people in the city’s poorest areas are subsidizing Rosedale.

"One of the reasons it’s a long road (to changing that) is that homeowners vote," said Jon Burnside, Thorncliffe’s councillor.

Landlords want property tax breaks, or big cuts in development charges before they build apartments.

Tenants who live in Thorncliffe, or anywhere there are roaches or the hot water cuts out when people are showering, can mostly look forward to more of the same.

But they’re tired of landlords being awarded rent hikes above inflation while renters get no raises at work, work orders that see months go by without results, and a tenant board seemingly weighted toward landlords.

If they’re lucky, they’ll get tougher city enforcement – thanks to a new landlord bylaw – and rebuilt elevators that beep angrily when overcrowded, until enough people step off.

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Tweet Mayor Tory to stop daycare cuts, proponents urge DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com A panel at a daycare forum at Oakwood Collegiate Institute is calling on parents to take action to contact their local politicians and Mayor John Tory to stop funding cuts to Toronto’s daycare occupancy grant.

Forum members even passed around Tory’s phone number to an auditorium of nearly 50 people, mostly moms and dads, and a few toddlers providing occasional comedic relief on Tuesday, Jan. 17.

"I cannot tell you the difference it makes when each person makes a phone call, leaves a message - freak politicians out.

You get a handful of phone calls on an issue and it means something to you," said Toronto District School Board Ward 9 trustee Marit Stiles, who hosted the meeting.

Stiles organized the meeting in response to a

proposed City of Toronto cut to the school occupancy grant, which the city pays to offset the cost of child care centres operating inside schools. The cut would save the city $1.13 million in 2017.

Some say this cost would be downloaded to the parents, who would see a $350 annual increase to their daycare costs.

The proposed cut comes from city staff who were asked to find savings as Toronto’s budget committee is grappling with a $91 million shortfall. Recently, Tory said the city would fund child care subsidies to 300 more families instead of funding the occupancy grant. The city currently provides subsidies to approximately 26,000 families, while 18,000 are on a wait-list.

"It is not unreasonable to expect the mayor of this city to support all of our families in Toronto, not to decide which ones he’s going to support," said To-

lor, the mayor, their MPP as child care is a provincial priority - and their MP, since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated he wants to create a national child care strategy.

She also said it’s not too late to reverse the city’s recommendation to cut the occupancy grant; but people need to take action and let the mayor know how they feel.

"I do think the mayor has to feel the pressure, and he has to feel it before the executive meeting on Feb. 7," Davis said.

The item will be debated at the budget committee on Jan. 26, then at the executive committee on Feb. 7, before it finally arrives at city council on Feb. 15.

"Phone him, email him, tweet at him," Davis said of the mayor.

Proponents also urged parents to call the media, write letters to the editor, tweet and retweet stories relating to the issue.

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Ascot Avenue Community Daycare board president Karen Kollins (left), ronto Coalition for Better Child Care’s Jane Mercer at the forum.

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Janet Davis, who also attended but not as a panellist, urged everyone to contact their local council-

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Anne Marie Aikins in a statement last week. "The etching and the remaining diluted paint can be removed by mechanical buffing using a light polishing compound, however, it can only be performed in warm weather. It will be done in the next few months once the warmer weather arrives."

Aikins said the residue is made up of left-over paint from tagging "and the resulting removal process damaging the surface, as well as diluted paint remaining".

The situation represents the latest black mark in the eyes of residents living along the West Toronto Railpath against Metrolinx, which has yet to release details about a longterm graffiti removal strategy for the noise walls, which have proven a frequent target of tagging since they were completed back in 2015.

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RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Residents will have to wait until the weather improves before a "translucent white residue" is removed from the train noise walls along the rail tracks near Dundas West GO Station, says Metrolinx.

The opaque substance which resembles ice frosting, appeared late last year following the most recent scrubbing of the noise walls to remove graffiti tags, the responsibility of Metrolinx which operates the UP Express rail service.

A spokesperson for the provincial transit planning agency said there is no permanent damage to the transparent panels making up the walls located approximately north of Ruskin Avenue, but they will require buffing and polishing to remove the lingering stains.

"The damage isn’t permanent, fortunately," said

and trains get top priority, forwarding an image of a heavily vandalized GO train compartment as an example of what gets removed.

"Any graffiti on our trains and buses must be removed before they can return to service," said Aikins.

But Davenport city councillor Ana Bailao said the agency must live up to the commitment it made for regular cleaning of the walls.

"We were guaranteed there would be a plan for graffiti, but clearly it’s not working," said Bailao on Friday. "Not even the cleaning is working."

Bailao, who said she’s spoken with Metrolinx officials numerous times about tagging, could only laugh when asked if she expects a long-term solution to emerge.

"What we were promised hasn’t come to fruition," she said.

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A train passes noise walls installed by Metrolinx along the Union Pearson Express tracks by the West Toronto Rail path, which remains tagged with graffiti.

Junction Triangle Rail Committee who first alerted Metroland Media Toronto to stains, said Metrolinx has failed to live up to its commitment to properly maintain the noise walls, despite personal assurances from the likes of CEO Bruce McCuaig.

Putnam said recent emails sent to McCuaig in

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Aikins said Metrolinx currently spends $250,000 on graffiti removal throughout its network, which includes GO Transit, but was unable to disclose how much is spent specifically on maintaining the West Toronto noise walls.

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Punching Nazis, Toronto style Is it ever OK to punch a Nazi?

If you’ve been spending any time on social media over the past week - or watched the news out of Washington over the last weekend - you’ll be familiar with this question. It arose from an incident caught on video by an Australian news crew, as they interviewed so-called "altright" (definitively white supremacist) leader Richard B. Spencer, considered by many who know a bit about Nazis to be, well, a Nazi.

Spencer was just getting finished explaining how he wasn’t a Nazi and what his lapel pin really meant, when a black-clad, masked man leapt into the frame and clocked him in the side of the head. The culprit ran off, and so did Spencer, who appeared uninjured as he hightailed it into the crowd.

Of course it went viral.

team from the Harbord playground, who were playing the St. Peter’s team, at what was then known as Willovale Park.

The young Nazi sympathizers unveiled a white sheet, with a large black swastika - the symbol of the new, hate-filled government in Germany.

There was a fight. A big one. And vicious too. You could say that the Nazis provoked it, and the Harbord playground team were provoked. Local allies from the surrounding communities, immigrants themselves, joined it. The police let it play out. And so it did. For six hours.

No one was killed, but plenty were hurt. When it was over, City Hall banned the swastika. Not long after that, we went to war.

DAVID NICKLE The City And it split the world, at least online, on that question: Is it OK to punch a Nazi?

Well it’s certainly not legal - there or anywhere - to punch a Nazi.

And yet ...

It’s not to say good has never come of it.

We in Toronto have firsthand experience with this.

In August of 1933, quite a lot of Nazi-punching went on in the Christie Pits. It was between Canadian Nazi sympathizers from Toronto’s east end and, initially at least, a Jewish baseball

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Protestors display their signs during the anti-Trump march in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington in Toronto on Saturday. Thousands of people gathered at Queen’s Park and walked along University Avenue to the American Consulate.

"It is shameful. This kind of hatred towards Muslims is not new. This kind of hatred towards our indigenous communities is not new. It is how this country was built."

Today’s event, organizers said, was coordinated in reaction to the rise in acts hate coinciding with the election of Trump, whose inauguration took place yesterday.

"We come together to say we will not be silent in the face of the hate that has threatened, demonized and insulted so many of us - Muslims, Jews, racialized people, Indigenous people, migrants and those with precarious or no legal status, members of the LGBTTQQ2SI communities, differently abled people and women," organizers said in a statement.

"The lived experiences of colonialism and antiblack racism, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia, sexism and oppression has existed long

before Trump, but we worry that the recent U.S election has provided a new wave that normalizes and makes hate acceptable."

Colleen Gauthier, a dual citizen, brought her seven-year-old daughter Kailyn to today’s march at Queen’s Park.

"I voted in the U.S. election and it was quite a disappointment for me, obviously...in particular because of my kids. They were actually extremely disappointed in the results as well. They said, ’He’s such a bully! Why does he say mean things?’" she said.

"So I thought it was important to stand up for what we believe in and that we don’t accept people who speak poorly of other people and treat people the way he treats people."

A pink-hatted Judi Forbes, meanwhile, travelled from Beaverton to attend the Women’s March on Washington: Toronto event - her first protest ev-

er.

"I have two daughters and I don’t want them to grow up in a world where people like ’The Donald’ are giving people permission to hate and to sexually harass women, and to call on people to kill or jail their opponents," she said.

"Those values are not my values. I stand with the

women in the United States and with women in Canada to say that’s not right."

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From the steps of the legislature all the way down to College Street and beyond, thousands of protestors took part in the Toronto event - one of more than 600 sister marches that took place around the world the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration to the U.S. presidency.

"We want you to know that you are part of history right now. You are part of a global rising," said Kavita Dogra, founder of We Talk Women and one of the Toronto march’s organizers.

"There are women’s marches today on all seven continents - there are hundreds of marches. Thank you for being here."

Organized by a small, diverse group of women/ women-identified volunteers, the Toronto event featured guest speakers including indigenous elder Catherine Brooks; Farrah Khan, Ryerson University’s sexual violence support and education coordinator; TDSB Trustee Ausma Malik; Idle No More Toronto activist Crystal Sinclair; and Andria Babbington, VP of the Toronto and York Region Labour Council.

"I want you to know that I won’t stop fighting and I want you to fight with me, too. When we were scared about Trump - yes, his election is horrifying, but we have lived through a decade of violence from the Conservative government, where Muslims were harassed, were surveyed, where we were deported," Khan, a nationally recognized speaker and educator on violence against women, told the chanting crowd at today’s rally.

digenous community, and Andria Babbington, VP of the Toronto & York Region Labour Council, taking newly minted Conservative Party leadership candidate Kevin O’Leary to task.

"We recently found out that we have a new wannabe Trump: Kevin O’Leary," Babbington said to boos from the crowd. "He threw his hat in the ring and said ’I’m the best man for the job.’ But when we stand here today, we want to send a message to him: that we’re not going to roll over and take the Trump style here."

Ausma Malik, who became the first hijab-wearing Muslim woman elected to public office in Canada when she was elected as a Toronto District School Board trustee in 2014, left the crowds with a message of hope in the face of adversity.

"When I ran in the City of Toronto election in 2014, I experienced a well-resourced, vicious and organized campaign of hate, Islamophobia, lies and innuendo against me," she said, noting that she was repeatedly targeted over the course of her campaign.

"But I also experienced the absolute best of who we are as Torontonians and as human beings: together, women from all walks of life led the fight, stood close and joined me to champion justice, fairness and opportunity for all in the face of hate - and we won."

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great meals. You ask anyone here and I think they’ll tell you it’s probably the best food they can get anywhere."

The doors are truly open too, just as the name on the sign suggests. The organization doesn’t do intake, not asking for personal or financial information.

"It’s to respect them and their privacy and their position, which is probably why most of the people here are regulars, because they feel safe and respected," Wychwood Open Door operations manager Kazzrie Cormick said.

Each Monday, Wednesday and Friday, a few staff and many volunteers serve approximately 140 meals, including breakfast and lunch. The centre is open from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. those three days.

Many who come in are homeless, but members come from all walks of life.

There are seniors who come in for the company and a meal, people on Ontario Works or the Ontario Disability Support Program who struggle to pay for groceries, those suffering from mental health illnesses, people with seasonal jobs and struggle to pay the bills when they’re off, and beyond. More people come through the doors during the winter, Cormick said.

The centre draws people in with a free meal but keeps them in for its programs.

Some programs are social activities such as board games, dominoes or discussion circles. There are health programs run by partners. There’s life skills programs, nail care, clothing distribution and more.

"We’re always looking at ways we can develop the program further and how we can jump in and help," Cormick said.

The program relies on funding from the City of Toronto and the United Way, and on fundraising.

Formed in 1986 by several church ministers who saw a need in an area where there were 10 boarding homes for people discharged from psychiatric institutions, in its first year the centre fed 13

people per week.

The target clientele has changed since then and the number of visitors has grown significantly over the years. The drop-in centre is now separate from the churches and rents space in one of them.

Chef and kitchen manager Sue Ellen Metcalfe takes pride in the work she does.

"Our motto is: we don’t serve our members anything less than you would serve your guests," she said.

Everything in the kitchen is made from scratch, there are no set recipes, and no meal is ever served two days in a row.

One member, who says she’s such a regular she’s part of the furniture at the drop-in centre, has been coming for more than a decade.

Sabrina (not her real name) had spent a lifetime working, from age 16, right up to around age 55 when she suffered some health problems, had a nervous breakdown and became de-

TRIVIA NIGHT Wychwood Open Door is hosting its ninth annual Trivia Night fundraiser, happening Saturday, Feb. 11, an event with food, drinks, silent auction and trivia fun.

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From top: Chef and kitchen Manager Sue Ellen Metcalfe and volunteer Jim White start to prepare lunch at the Wychwood Open Door; volunteer Mary Dray serves breakfast to a client. pressed. She isolated herself at home and became housebound and stopped working or taking care of herself.

She did eventually get medical help and a social worker who visited her at home suggested Sabrina come to the drop-in centre near her home, but it took her years before she made that venture.

"I was pretty righteous; I had this kind of attitude about places like this," she said. "It took at least a couple of years before I came here."

Before she came to the drop-in, and reliant on welfare money, she starved herself, which created more health problems.

Now a senior with a pen-

sion, she continues coming and enjoys the company at Wychwood Open Door and even volunteers to help run some programs.

One volunteer, Jodie Endicott, came in 10 years ago simply to keep busy when she wasn’t working and has enjoyed her time since. She’s helped in the office, kitchen, on the floor

and wherever the need arose. She’s even used some of the centre’s services when she needed them herself.

"It’s a good feeling that you’re helping someone who is less fortunate," she said.

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