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But if you’re deciding whether to throw it into the blue bin or toss it in the trash, the ubiquitous

and plastic containers are out.

As are coffee pods - even the ones that say they’re compostable.

And don’t even think about putting any plastic that’s black coloured. That stuff’s recycling poison.

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CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com As a hockey historian whose expert video consultancy services have been called upon by the NHL, CBC, ESPN, and Hockey Hall of Fame, Paul Patskou has made a career of digging up rarely-beforeseen vintage hockey reels.

But it’s archived film of his century-old home team’s most famous goal that the lifelong Leafs fan from North York counts as his greatest discovery.

"The story started when I retrieved some old footage from the National Archives that was marked ’unidentified.’ I didn’t have any idea what it was, but when I started watching it, I started recognizing the teams and the players right away," he said, naming the black-and-white images of Maurice "Rocket" Richard of the Montreal Canadiens, and Toronto Maple Leafs’ Bill Barilko among those he was quick to identify.

"Then it dawned on me and I thought to myself, ’This couldn’t possibly be the final game in 1951 when the Leafs won the Cup, could it? Darn it, this IS the Barilko Game 5!’

"It was one of the best finds ever, because everyone talks about that goal."

True, countless articles have been written about that legendary Bashin’ Bill Barilko game-winner on April 21, 1951 that secured the Toronto Maple Leafs their ninth Stanley Cup championship.

Books, documentaries, and even a Tragically Hip song have cemented the four-time Stanley Cup-winning winger’s overtime goal - and his mysterious disappearance while on a fishing trip just three months later - a lasting place in Canadian folklore.

It was, after all, the last goal Barilko would ever score. And as fans of The Hip’s hit song FiftyMission Cap well know, the Leafs didn’t win another Cup until 1962, the same year Barilko’s skeletal remains were discovered in a plane wreck just north of his home-

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(Above) Toronto Maple Leaf Bill Barilko celebrates after scoring the Game 5 OT goal to clinch the 1951 Stanley Cup; (Right) Paul Patskou is known as the world’s foremost authority on video and film footage relating to hockey and boasts the largest known collection of early NHL era and Original Six hockey tapes in the world. town of Timmins, Ontario.

What many Leafs fans may not know, however, was that until last year there was a lesser-known mystery surrounding the gamewinning disc itself - a puzzle Patskou played a key role in unlocking.

For years, Hockey Hall of Fame officials believed they had the famous Barilko puck in their possession - the official story being that it had been donated to the Hall by a wheelchair-bound fan who had received it from referee Bill Chadwick right after Barilko scored it.

"But then a year or so ago, a fellow (Dan Donohue) came forward with a story about his father being at the game as a teen-

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ager, and jumping on the ice and retrieving it from the net while the Leafs were celebrating," Patskou said, noting that no one at that point put much stock in Donohue’s story about his family having the real Barilko puck.

"Everybody believed the Hall of Fame had it, and nobody thought there was any footage of the game that proved any differently."

That’s when Patskou - lauded by many as the world’s fore-

most authority on hockey video footage - dug back into his National Archive reels to pore over footage of the aftermath of Barilko’s Cup-winning goal.

"When the question of the puck’s authenticity came up, I said ’I’m going to check my outtakes’ and darned if I didn’t find postgame footage showing this guy going on the ice and heading towards the net," he said of the find.

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video not only showed a figure Patskou believes was a 16-year-old Harry Donohue making a beeline for the net, he said, it also shows Chadwick the referee leaving the ice without the puck in hand.

"That was a big deal, because we had these two pucks and didn’t know which one was real. And here, I sort of had proof now that what the fellow said about his dad retrieving it was true. Film doesn’t lie, you see."

The story of the two Barilko pucks and the long-lost video footage that helped prove which was real is now documented in Toronto Maple Leaf Treasures: Inside the Room with the Ultimate Leafs Fan by Mike Wilson.

Patskou’s co-author byline on that special Leafs centennial collector’s edition is just one of about 50 writing credits the longtime member of the Society for International Hockey Research member has racked up over the years - and that’s not even mentioning the countless hockey-themed documentaries he’s contributed to.

Still, Patskou said, his very favourite part of the job remains digging up film on old-timers who have never seen clips of themselves playing before - lesser known Leafs from the ’40s and ’50s like Pete Conacher, Johnny McCormack, Phil Samis, and even Danny Lewicki, a member of that 1951 Stanley Cup-winning Maple Leafs team, who shared in the onice celebrations after Barilko scored.

"Most of the players from that game are passed on now, but a few are still with us and when I show them this (video), they’re astounded," he said, noting that he’s screened the footage for Lewicki.

"It takes them back in time to that moment, you see - when all the photographers were out there on the ice and they were getting ready to hoist Bill Barilko up for that famous photo. It takes them right back."

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Scholastic report reveals older kids use electronics more JASMINE HUI jhui@metroland.com Children all across Canada are reporting that they love reading for fun, but as they get older, academic requirements and electronic devices are beginning to taking up their time.

Scholastic released the Canadian edition of the "Kids & Family Reading Report" at the beginning of May and it revealed that older children from age 15 to 17 are starting to spend more time using digital devices rather than reading for fun.

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is taking steps to incorporate technology with reading to encourage students to have good reading habits.

Grade 6 students at

John Ross Robertson Junior Public School Joshua Gough and Saskia Diplock are both avid readers and said it is because of their parents and the school’s encouragement.

"We do this activity where we talk about newspaper articles or read a book and share things about it with my family," Saskia said "I also do it at school as well."

According to the report, seven in 10 children enjoy reading books for fun five to seven days a week, but the percentage decreases as they grow older.

Twenty-five per cent of older children are reading books for fun and more than 60 per cent are spending their time online and using electronic devices.

Teacher and librarian at John Ross Robertson Jennifer Tong said teachers should be open to including technology into their classrooms as academic workload increases with grade.

"There’s definitely a high interest in technology and I try to encourage a balance," Tong said. "Kids that don’t have access to technology are missing out on certain aspects of a functioning society and kids who do it too much and don’t want to pick up a book anymore are losing out as well."

The TDSB’s central coordinating principal of literacy David Hawker-Budlovsky believes that reading happens on all mediums and even unknowingly.

He said parents and teachers need to customize a time for students to develop good habits.

"Even when we say gaming, there’s still a lot of reading that can be done on a device, in context of a game," Hawker-Budlovsky said.

John Ross Robertson has also provided many different opportunities for children to read, including: Forrest of Reading, Fun

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Fair, Kids’ Lit Quiz competition, a competition that engages students to read for fun during a time where they are distracted by electronics and academic reading, and many more.

Joshua thinks the opportunities at school are already good, but more reading activities could be added.

"We could read a certain book by a certain author and after reading that, we could try to create our own short stories in the same genres and way the author did," Joshua said.

Saskia thinks reading is better than using digital devices because it helps people become more knowledgeable.

"There are history books, but there are also books that are fiction that are really enjoyable and it doesn’t just melt your brain," Saskia said. "Reading on a device is better, because you don’t play games that don’t help you. There’s a good book for everyone."

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John Ross Robertson JPS students Saskia Diplock and Joshua Gough are part of a team for the Kids Lit Quiz Competition and have to read a lot of children’s books in order to prepare. The competition is one of the many ways that the school encourages students to read.

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EDITORIAL | OPINION

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Is TO Council losing its civility as election looms?

There have been some rough patches at Toronto City Hall this term, but on balance, the months and years following the 2014 election have been remarkably civil.

It seems as though Mayor John Tory has fulfilled that much of his promise at least: bringing a measure of civility to Toronto, after four years of bad politics and worse behaviour under his predecessor, the late Mayor Rob Ford. Meetings are cordial.

Clean-living is the rule of the mayor’s office. And hot-button issues have largely been kept from the floor of council.

And it would be nice to believe that Toronto Council could maintain that agreeable trend. Alas, it appears not.

Last month, nearly a full day of Council was spent on a toxic debate over city funding for the Pride parade and Pride Toronto, given that the organization had asked that police not march in uniform in this year’s parade.

Led by Etobicoke Centre Councillor John Campbell, the debate dragged anyone who was watching into an ugly game of dog-whistle politics. It recalled earlier sociallyconservative pushes against the parade and the city’s active LGBTQ community: complaints about the public nudity in the 90s, or Queers Against Israeli Apartheid more recently. It set us back.

And last week, Etobicoke North Councillor Michael Ford kicked off another blast-from-the-past debate. At the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee June 8, he persuaded committee-members to vote for a $500,000 study to look at replacing the streetcar service on Queen Street with buses.

This brings forward an idea that his late uncle Rob Ford floated in the 2010 election, and that found some traction with some of his supporters: get rid of streetcars, which often frustrate motorists with their frequent stops and loading and unloading rules, and replace them with buses.

This will not save money, it should be noted. Because of track and overhead work, buses are running on Queen Street now. And because those buses have less capacity than streetcars, there are more of them-and they are costing the TTC an estimated $1 million a month extra.

What the motion - or at least its debate - will do is help remind Councillor Ford’s constituents that he is indeed his uncle’s nephew. It will keep the Ford name alive going in to election year 2018 - much the same way that Campbell’s political theatre will remind his socially conservative constituents where he stands.

It also is a profound waste of this city’s political time.

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PEACH shows Jane-Finch youth they matter Community agencies change programs, change purposes, if they pay attention to the people they serve.

They lose funding, but the best hang in, because not to have them is unthinkable.

That’s true of PEACH, a Jane-Finch centre which has filled many roles over a quarter-century, and just went through the heartache of losing one.

Its School Away from School education program, after 10 years, was cut because PEACH couldn’t afford one worker the public school board thought it needed.

But PEACH – Promoting Education And Community Health – re-purposed its classrooms and is moving forward. Like the

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto young people who come to its Eddystone Avenue building, it’s resilient.

Most people don’t expect much of these youth.

Outside PEACH, they don’t often get asked what they want to be, or do, says Mary Lafontaine, managing director.

Many live in The Grassways, Toronto Community Housing townhouses scheduled to be torn down,

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sending them to another side of Jane Street, where they won’t feel welcome.

PEACH shows them everybody can turn their lives around. It’s given them somewhere to go, someone to talk to. Or a place where they can be left alone.

"A lot of them don’t share what’s banging around in their heads, and here they do, at least some of it," Lafontaine says.

PEACH’s music program has been steady for 10 years.

Terrence Penny started coming at 16. He’s now 22, and working four jobs, but still coming.

Penny recorded an EP here, then performed at the Sony Centre. "Every song I’ve ever made has come out of PEACH," he says.

"The support here of everybody is crazy."

Youth come from as far as Rexdale or Scarborough to learn music, says Dave Clarke, mentor and chef here, who DJs CIUT’s The Masterplan.

"Kids respect you when they see you grab a broom," he adds.

But programs get funded, not the $12,000 a month PEACH needs to stay open.

"Right now, we’re in more than a pickle as far as that’s concerned," Clarke says.

Lafontaine says PEACH, which needs creative ways to cover costs, gets few donations. What could they use?

"Anything," she says.

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Contamination rate is 26 per cent in Toronto on a pilot project this year to bring the city up to speed on its increasingly complicated responsibilities when it comes to solid waste diversion.

"What we’re doing in the next six months is we have staff going in front of the trucks, going bin by bin and inspecting what the contents are," said Jim McKay, Toronto’s General Manager of Solid Waste Management. "If they see there are problem materials, they’ll leave a little door hanger. It’s really an educational tool that we’re trying to use."

The project is part of a broad attempt by the city to reverse a multi-year trend that’s seeing more and more of the blue box recyclable material being contaminated by items that the city lacks the capacity to recycle.

Currently, Toronto’s contamination rate sits at 26 per cent of everything collected. That’s high for a couple of reasons, said McKay: first, because Toronto adopted a singlestream recycling system where paper is mingled with glass and plastic.

"Some of our neighbouring municipalities have a two-stream blue box system, and that’s a cleaner system than we’ve got . they’re at four to six per cent," said McKay. "In a two-stream system, cans and bottles go in one bin and paper fibres in another and so immediately if you have any liquid or soil or food still left in a container it doesn’t get mixed in with paper fibre."

In the single-stream system, Toronto can collect more recycling per day. But that leads to the second problem. Over the years, packaging compa-

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“It’s not just Toronto that’s dealing with this – it’s a problem we all have to face,” said Emily Alfred, a solid waste specialist with the Toronto Environmental Alliance. “Materials and packaging are getting more and more clever but we don’t have the technology to recycle all of that. The city is doing what it can. I do agree that there could be more education. Right now it’s education in posters and calendars that go out, but more regular communication is really effective.”

The pilot project will go on for six months, and eventually move west to Etobicoke as well.

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Toronto Public Library billed users $3.8 million in fines, collected $2.7 million and waived $280,000 in 2016.

Public Notice 2017 Final Property Tax Bills The City ofToronto has now mailed final property tax bills for 2017.

Property owners are responsible for paying property taxes by the due dates listed below. The final bill is the second of two tax bills mailed this year.The interim tax bill was mailed in January. If you have not received your property tax bill, please contact the City to obtain a copy.

Libraries waived $280,000 in fines same year

2017 Final Bill Payment Due Dates • For the regular instalment plan: July 4, August 1, September 1 • For Pre-AuthorizedTax Payment Programs: (if enrolled by June 9, 2017) - 2-Instalment Plan: July 4 - 6-Instalment Plan: July 4, August 1, September 1 - 11-Instalment Plan: July 17, August 15, September 15, October 16, November 15, December 15

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To enrol in the Pre-AuthorizedTax Payment (PTP) Program, visit toronto.ca/propertytax.

Late Payment Penalties Payment must be received by the due date to avoid penalty and interest charges. A penalty of 1.25% on the unpaid amount of an instalment will be added on the first day after the instalment due date.

A further 1.25% of the outstanding amount will be added as interest on the first day of each month thereafter, as long as taxes remain unpaid.

Monthly interest charges are also imposed on any unpaid taxes from prior years. Penalty and interest rates are set by City bylaws, pursuant to the City ofToronto Act, 2006. Penalty and interest charges on overdue amounts cannot be waived or altered.

Property Tax Inquiries Use the PropertyTax Account Lookup self-service tool at toronto.ca/revenueservices to view your account details online, anytime, anywhere, from your computer or mobile device.

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Call 311 – Tax & Utility Inquiry Line Monday to Friday 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Call within city limits: 311 Call outside city limits: 416-392-CITY (2489) TTY: 416-392-0719

Fax: 416-696-3605 (for tips on faxing, visit toronto.ca/revenueservices) Email: propertytax@toronto.ca Write: City of Toronto Revenue Services Division 5100 Yonge Street Toronto, ON M2N 5V7

Those small library fines for late returns really do add up.

Toronto Public Library collected more than $2.7 million in fines in 2016.

These fines may have been for charges billed to library users in prior years but collected in 2016. Additionally, the library system billed its users $3.8 million in fines in 2016, but is waiting for some clients to pay up.

While Toronto’s 100 libraries charged quite a bit of coin for unreturned or late material, they were also fairly forgiving. In 2016, the organization waived $281,899 in fines, $80,000 of which was allocated through a city council-directed fine forgiveness program as part of the city’s poverty reduction strategy.

Libraries in Toronto’s Neighbourhood Improvement Areas (NIA) were allocated these funds to help users overcome financial barriers and return to using the library again.

The program helped 2,076 customers between January 2015 and March

2016 by clearing their accounts.

"It’s just about providing access to those who have stopped using the services because they’re too afraid or too embarrassed, or can’t afford to actually pay the fines and really do need the service," said Moe HosseiniAra, director of branch operations and customer experience.

"With this particular program, those individuals whose fines were waived borrowed about 140,000 items within the year after."

While the fines forgiveness program is officially over, libraries can still waive fees. Some fines may be waived to help individuals overcome their financial barrier. A fine could also be waived or reduced when a lost item eventually gets returned, or if there is an error and the individual should not have been billed in the first place. For the library, it’s most important to get the item back, as replacement is costly.

Staff are trained to use their judgment to waive fines, but it’s based on circumstance, Hosseini-Ara said.

Some individuals are also more forthcoming to describe their situation, he said, while others may simply stop coming back to the library.

Community librarians, who work in such places as shelters, employment agencies and elsewhere, can also use their judgment to waive fines when they meet an individual who stopped using the library due to unpaid fines.

For some people, using the library’s resources such as borrowing its materials or using its computers - may be a factor in their ability to get a job and improve their circumstances, Hosseini-Ara said.

Certain libraries are also more forgiving than others.

North York Central Library forgave the most in fines at $20,471, but it also had the highest volume of fines billed at $190,112.

Parkdale, which was the next most forgiving with $13,772 in waived fines, had only billed users $84,021 in fines in 2016. In comparison, Cedarbrae billed users $92,083 but waived only $5,676.

Hossenin-Ara said Parkdale could be more forgiving because it is in an area with a higher level of poverty.

"Parkdale is in one of those Neighbourhood Improvement Areas," he said.

"What it comes down to is serving the community."

To see how much in fines each library collected and waived, visit bit.ly/ tplfines2017

l Friday, June 16 Annual BBQ WHEN: 5:00 p.m - 8:00 p.m WHERE: Our Lady of Victory Catholic School, 70 Guestville Avenue, Toronto CONTACT: 416393-5247 COST: All are welcome to attend school’s annual barbecue. l Saturday, June 17 Official Opening of Weston Farmers Market WHEN: 9:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m WHERE: Weston GO Station, 1865 Weston Rd., Toronto CONTACT: westonvillagebia.com Join the Weston Farmers Market grand opening festivities, including bouncy castle, face painting, balloon artist and music.

Market runs every Saturday. l Monday, June 19 Citizenship Education Circle WHEN: 10:00 a.m - 12:30 p.m WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave., Toronto CONTACT: 416-394-1006 Assistance for landed immigrants, convention refugees, and live-in caregivers. Join weekly group for help with your Citizenship Test.

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WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave., Toronto CONTACT: Vince, 416-394-1006 Children and their caregivers are invited for songs, stories, rhymes, and a small craft to take home.

For preschool and kindergartenage children. Drop-in.

l Friday, June 23 Neighbours Night Out WHEN: 5:30 p.m WHERE: Church and Elm, Church Street and Elm Street, Toronto CONTACT: contact@welcometoweston.ca COST: The Weston Village Residents Association hosts with activities, food, and entertainment.

Saturday Storytime and Craft WHEN: 2:00 p.m - 3:00 p.m WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave., Toronto CONTACT: 416-394-1006 Children and their caregivers are invited for songs, stories, rhymes, and a small craft to take home.

For preschool and kindergartenage children. Drop-in.

Films on Shortt Street WHEN: 9:00 p.m - 11:00 p.m WHERE: Shortt Street, Shortt Street and Eglinton Avenue West, York, Toronto CONTACT: info@fairbankvillagebia.ca COST: Children’s films outdoors monthly.

Bring your own chair. Free popcorn. Rain day is Saturday.

l Thursday, June 22 Yarn Lovers Wanted WHEN: 6:00 p.m - 8:00 p.m WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W., Toronto CONTACT: quanah1@gmail.com COST: Join on Thursday evenings for knitting, crocheting, and company. Share or learn. Bring your project or supplies. They do not provide yarn or needles.

l Tuesday, June 27 Carmen’s Dinner Theatre 55+ WHEN: 9:00 a.m - 3:30 p.m WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Road, Toronto CONTACT: 416-2454395 COST: $89 members; $99 non-members On our way to the theatre we will stop at Bennett’s Farm Market.

Ride in deluxe motor coach.

Register by June 16.

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Legends Mentoring Program launches at Jake’s House A York-based charitable organization supporting families who have children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) will launch a mentoring program thanks to funding from the provincial government.

Jake’s House will be one of three pilot sites for the Legends Mentoring Program in partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada, which will pair children and youth with autism between the ages of six and 18 with mentors to help them develop strong communication and relationship-building skills.

Volunteer mentors will commit two hours a week over a one-year period to spend time with the youngsters.

The provincial government will invest $650,000 over the next two years to support the Legends Mentoring Program. Three pilot sites will begin in 2017-18

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Minister of Children and Youth Services Michael Coteau speaks during a press conference at Queen’s Park last June about autism supports for children, youth and families in Ontario. in Toronto, Ottawa, and Lanark County.

This support is in addition to the new Ontario Autism Program (OAP), which will begin Monday, June 26.

"The partnership between Jake’s House and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada is a testament to true community collabora-

tion that ultimately helps Ontario’s young people succeed and thrive," Don Valley East MPP Michael Coteau said in a release.

Coteau made the announcement Tuesday, June 13 at Chaminade College School in North York where Jake Bodanis attends. Jake’s House is named after the youth.

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