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BREAK THE ICE: Akido sensei Jesse Brown, right, demonstrates a move for Oliver Pearson at the dojo on Oakwood Avenue as part of the Break The Ice event held Sunday afternoon in the Oakwood Village neighbourhood.

Project Get Reel offers green solution to unemployment FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com

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Philip Yan is hoping to tackle how to get rid of VHS tapes in an environmentally friendly

w a y w i t h p r ov i d i n g j o b opportunities for those facing employment barriers. Though Yan said at least 80 per cent of VHS tapes are recyclable, there is currently

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Cleaning up in Mount Dennis Mount Dennis residents are invited to help clean up their community each Saturday morning in April. The Mount Dennis Community Association is hosting tevents from 10 a.m. to noon at various locations: w April 4: Hollis Street; meet at SuperCoffee at Eglinton Avenue West and Weston Road

w April 11: Dora Spencer; meet at Weston and Dora Spencer Avenue w April 18: GlenvalleySomerville-Sunnybrae ravine edges; meet at the west end of Glenvalley Drive w April 26: Lambton and Astoria avenues; meet at Jane Street and Lambton Avenue Visit www.mountdennis.ca.

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Rookie honours for Vaughan Road alum Guard Johneil Simpson averaged 19.2 points per game at Brock Guard Johneil Simpson, who played a year at Vaughan Road Academy, was selected as the top Canadian university basketball rookie. Enrolled in Brock University’s sports management program, he picked up the Dr. Peter Mullins Trophy as the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) rookie of the year during the CIS final-eight champion-

ship tournament hosted by the Ryerson Rams in March at the Mattamy Athletic Centre. “It’s a big honour, I’m definitely happy I could do that for the program,” said Simpson in a phone interview. Simpson split his high school years between Riverdale Collegiate and a final year at Vaughan Road

where he closed out his high school career with an Ontario Federation of School Athletic Association (OFSAA) provincial title at the ‘AA’ level. This season, he averaged 19.2 points per game, which was sixth in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) league and 13th in the CIS.

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Weston Community Hub granted preliminary funding Project to offer affordable housing and workplace space DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Toronto Council has approved a plan to fund the new Weston Community Hub. The plan will see Toronto Artscape and 22 John Street Developments Inc. build a new affordable housing/ workplace project constructed on surplus Toronto Parking Authority lands at 22 John St.

The project will see a total of 26 affordable rental housing live/work units built both on the land and the adjacent rental high-rise building at 33 King St. When the project is finished, Artscape will be the operator of the development, managing the units and the hub. The project is a significant one for Weston, which has been identified as one of 31

Neighbourhood Improvement Areas in the city. The project will help on two fronts: the area’s higher-than-average unemployment rate will be lessened by the 940 new jobs, and the new units will help alleviate the neighbourhood’s lack of affordable housing. Toronto Council approved a preliminary funding model for the $13.3-million project without debate this week. But it is still some time before there will be shovels in the ground. Staff expects it will have completed due diligence on the development by 2016.

AluCine Festival screening indie Latin American films DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com This year’s aluCine Latin Film and Media Arts Festival is exploring the diversity of South America, executive director Sinara Rozo said. The festival, run by a St. Clair Avenue West nonprofit organization of the same name, begins today and takes place at venues across the city. Films will be screened April 2 to 5, while other events, including art exhibits, workshops and more will run until April 16. “Mostly, we are celebrating the diversity of

the Latin American continent – the South American continent – the richness in everything that is media arts, performance, music,” Rozo said. This year’s event, the 15th annual aluCine festival, is a showcase of highly anticipated Latin Canadian and Latin American award-winning independent films. More than 70 films will be screened; all have English subtitles. “All the films that we show here don’t pay tribute to corporations,” Rozo said. “They’re made by local and international heroes and they talk about realities and issues that

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mainstream festival.” Rozo said this year’s

program reflects the Latin American diversity. “We have films for children, we have documentaries, we have LGBTQ films, we have experimental films, we have feature films, we have fiction, drama, animation. It’s a little bit of everything to celebrate that diversity,” she said. There will be two art exhibits at this year’s festival, both running April 2 to 16 at the Beaver Hall Gallery, 29 McCaul St. One, titled Feelings, is a contemporary exhibit featuring the work of 16 artists. The other is a showcase of Heidi Hassan’s work, titled My

Own Skin/Mi Propia Piel. This year’s film venues include The Jackman Hall at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. W.; Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Ave.; and Theatre Direct at Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St. Besides film and art exhibits, there will be opening and closing galas and an awards ceremony, special presentations, live performances, panel discussions and artist talks. Regular admission tickets cost $10 per screening, or $75 for an all-access pass.

For all the details and a full festival schedule, visit www. alucinefestival.com

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An update on what kids are thinking today It seems like everybody at work has young kids. It’s always a lot fun when they bring them to the office and I get a kick out of listening to parents talk about them, too. Little ones have been the topic du jour around here since March Break, so I thought I’d provide an update on how they’re doing. What they think is their official bedtime: They’re not quite sure. When they think their bedtime should be: That they are sure about. They’d like it to be later. Much later. And that it should be mandatory to have one big book and two little books read to them before they hit the sack. How would you describe kids’ attention spans: Same as adults. They’re long if they’re interested in what they’re doing. If they aren’t interested in what they are doing, their atten-

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY tion spans are short. Is it possible to outsmart kids: Yes, but it takes a little ingenuity. Is it possible to get them dressed in less than a couple of hours: Also, yes, but it takes an awful lot of ingenuity. On saying please and thank you: They have to be reminded to do that. Constantly. Just like adults. Why kids need to go to the bathroom right after you leave home, yet when you asked them a zillion times before you left, they insisted they didn’t have to go: They say they don’t know – and I believe them. Why a toy they had no

interest in a few minutes earlier they suddenly want to play with the moment they see their brother or sister playing with it: They say they don’t know – but that I don’t believe. What about humour: They love to laugh. Their reaction to seeing another kid crying: It makes them want to comfort them. What happens when they hear somebody in the room pass gas: It makes them giggle. Just like adults. What they think about cellphones and tablets, Part I: They get antsy watching mommy or maddy yakking or texting on devices instead of paying attention to them. What they think about cellphones and tablets, Part II: They want to know when

you’re going to buy a cellphone and tablet for them. Getting their choice of ice cream or candy or chocolate chip cookies: Yummy, yum, yum. Being told that they’d have to eat all of their vegetables first: Figures. We knew there had to be a catch. Why they say they have a tummy ache: It’s not from inhaling too much ice cream, candy and chocolate chip cookies. Or being forced to eat all their vegetables first. The tummy’s not actually upset, in fact. It’s just a euphemism for feeling left out or feeling ignored or feeling sad. You know, the same reason adults say they have a tummy ache. Jamie Wayne is a lifelong columnist, who takes writing very seriously. The topics? Not so much. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at jamie.wayne@sympatico.ca

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Karaoke WHEN: 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416767-0231, www.facebook.com/ mountdennislegion, legionbr31@ yahoo.com COST: Barbecue food at reasonable prices

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Movie: Mockingjay Part 1 WHEN: 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Courtney or Amena, 416-394-1000, www. torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Free admission; bring your own snacks. Movie is rated PG.

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Movie: Big Hero 6 WHEN: 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Courtney or Amena, 416-394-1000, www. torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Free admission; bring your own snacks. Movie is rated PG.

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Darren Evorglens & Friends WHEN: 6:30 p.m. to midnight WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-7670231, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: $15 Music from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. Purchase dinner tickets in advance at the clubroom bar. Dinner at 7 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. All 19 years and older are welcome. Cash bar.

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100 in 1 Day WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-394-1008 COST: Free Discuss your dreams and hopes for our city and devise ideas for Mount Dennis.

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Learn About The Stop WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Courtney or Craig, 416-394-1000 COST: Free The Stop provides frontline services to the community at two locations: a main office at 1884 Davenport Rd. as well as The Stop’s Green Barn,

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Americas wheelchair basketball challenge with a 3-2 record. The host Canadian men’s wheelchair basketball team held a friendly tournament, which offered a sneak peek at some of the top teams set to compete at the 2015 Parapan American Games in August. The tournament ended with a 67-54 loss to the United States on March 26 at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto.

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rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT found in the company’s traffic database, finds only Vancouver has more congestion than Toronto among the study’s ranking of worst Canadian cities for traffic. The 2014 data shows Toronto’s congestion rate increased slightly from 2013 and the average car commuter here spends at least 84 hours per year delayed in traffic – five hours above the national average. Istanbul, Turkey was ranked the worst city in the world for traffic. In comparison Toronto ranked 47th globally. PACHI takes a RIDE on THE TTC A certain rainbow-coloured porcupine took to the TTC last weekend to drum up attention for the Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games. Pachi the official Games mascot took an impromptu ride from Spadina to Union Station on one of the TTC’s new streetcars Sunday. He

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The next time you’re in the subway system, you may be a muse to an artist’s creation. Ten artists did just that at selected stations, sketching commuters as they waited for their ride, or sat on the train. Now, the output of that exercise is on public display as part of Sketching the Line, a showcase organized by Art in Transit. You can view around 60 of the sketches until the end of April while they screen on the Pattison OneStop video screens, found on most subway platforms. For more information visit www.artintransit.ca or search for the Twitter hashtag #sketchingtheline Rahul Gupta is The Guardian’s transit reporter. His column runs every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

Tory’s fortunes lie in the hands of city’s provincial, federal cousins It may well be that when all the accounts are in, the success or failure of Mayor John Tory’s debut term as mayor will be decided by factors entirely beyond his control. To a degree this is so with most political leaders. A moribund federal government can be buoyed by a robust economy; a competent provincial government, sunk by a collapse in the markets. And a mayor, particularly in a city like Toronto, succeeds or fails based on the actions of both of those levels of government. If goodwill flows from above, it will rise from the electorate. Of course, a smart mayor can make lemonade with a stack of lemons from unfriendly governments. But Tory has, through both the city’s circumstance and his own declarations, tied his own hands. Firstly, Toronto has great and immediate need for moneys beyond its means. The Spadina subway extension

david nickle the city is in need of $150 million more in order to be finished, and neither the province nor the federal government has shown willingness to assist. On Monday, Tory affirmed his election promise to deal with the repair backlog at Toronto Community Housing – spending $864 million over the next decade to fix the housing stock, and asking other levels of government to help. And that’s just this week. Toronto will need billions of dollars from the provincial and federal governments if it is to move ahead with Tory’s SmartTrack plan. Toronto really did need some $86 million this year, to balance its budget, and didn’t get it. Tory is putting everything – literally everything – on his ability to work with Liberals provincially, and nominally

Conservatives federally, and do so well enough to cause them to let these billions flow. Tory believes it’s a good bet. Since before he even joined the race for mayor, his biggest selling point has been his ability to sell the city to a blue-chip Rolodex of government and business contacts. But if in a year or so nobody’s buying, Tory may have to do things that violate his other electionyear brand: that of a fiscally conservative business leader unwilling to burden taxpayers with more taxes and fees. If he does those things he might be able to fulfill at least a portion of his agenda. But for people who voted for Tory in 2014, will the shift be acceptable enough to csupport him for a second term? Tory needs the federal and provincial governments to listen. His fate is in their hands.

David Nickle is The Guardian’s city hall reporter. His column runs every Thursday.

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Top, Carolin Ingvaldsen reads a children’s book at the Dufferin-St. Clair Library as part of the Toronto Storytelling Festival, which wrapped up Sunday. Above left, Michael and Joseph Costa enjoy the festival. Above right, Amanda Visram tells a story.

CUTS TO HEALTH CARE MEAN CUTS TO YOUR FAMILY’S CARE. If your mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she might also experience issues related to depression or diabetes and require multiple physicians to provide care. Ontario’s Doctors believe the provincial government’s cuts will put her health care at risk.

Tell the Premier and your MPP you support care not cuts at OntariosDoctors.com

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JOB POSTING JOB TITLE: Machine Operator (Full Time; 40 hours/week) BUSINESS UNIT: Toronto, Warehouse - 175 Gordon Baker Rd. THE COMPANY A subsidiary of Torstar Corporation, Metroland is one of Canada’s premier media companies. Metroland delivers up-to-the-minute vital business and community information to millions of people across Ontario. We have grown significantly in recent years in terms of audience and advertisers and we’re continuing to invest heavily in developing best-in-class talent, products and technology to accelerate our growth in the media landscape and strengthen our connection to the community. For further information, please visit www.metroland.com. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES • To ensure all products are properly managed according to various versions of flyers for insertion. • To supervise the Department and ensure production through the effective performance of staff. • To ensure that quality and production standards are met. • To ensure that the proper maintenance of equipment and machinery in scheduled to keep equipment operating at an optimum level while causing as little interruption to the workflow as possible. • Work in a secure and safety conscious manner as outlined in the Company and department safety policies. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR • Previous knowledge of Alphaliner/ inserting operation equipment • Ability to remain alert and maintain a high level of concentration • Good interpersonal skills and customer service orientation • Good judgment and the ability to react quickly in emergency situations • Basic equipment and tool maintenance training and/or related experience • Mechanical ability required for making minor repairs • Basic computer skills (MS word, Ms excel) • Must have excellent command of English language (reading/speaking/writing) • Must be able to work up to 40 hours per week (7 pm to 7 am) • Have excellent time management skills • Ability to set priorities and multi-task • Ability to perform repetitive tasks accurately and thoroughly, with minimal errors WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU • Opportunity to be part of an exciting company at the cutting edge of the media industry • Work for a well-established and respected company that is connected to your communities • Be part of a company that is committed to providing a healthy and safe work environment • We’ve got your health in mind; you’ll receive a comprehensive benefits package including pension and health care If working for a highly energized, competitive team is your ideal environment, please email your resume to hr@insidetoronto.com. Thank you for your interest. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

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