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Council votes to limit pay day lender locations LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com A motion to limit the number of pay day lenders that can operate in Toronto passed unanimously at Toronto City Council’s April 1 meeting.

“We are very excited that our motion passed the first hurdle at city council,” ACORN spokesperson Natalie Hundt told The Guardian in an email statement. “City staff now have been tasked with developing a

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bylaw and some options around imposing minimum distances on predatory lenders.”

ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) Toronto’s motion also calls for other levels of government to do more to protect borrowers from predatory lending practices.

ACORN has been working alongside York South-Weston Councillor Frances Nunziata and her colleague Toronto >>>minimum, page 10

Mount Dennis cleanup tackles illegal dumping DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com The Mount Dennis Community Association is cleaning up green spaces in the community this April in an effort to make the neighbourhood safe for kids to play.

The group already hosted its first of five cleanup days this past Saturday, despite the return of wintry weather, and

cleanups will continue each of the next four Saturdays this month, each in a different location.

The group has been doing this for several years, and it choose different sites from year to year, generally along the ravine of the Humber River, as well as at Eglinton Flats, along with other areas of Mount Dennis.

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baby cakes: Hypnotist Adam Graeme, left, interviews Chris Paton about giving birth to his ‘baby’ during the Comedy Hypnosis Show held Saturday at the Mount Dennis Legion. See more photos page 6.

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The hearse bearing the casket of former mayor Rob Ford makes its way to St. James Cathedral last Wednesday.

Rob Ford’s family will pay $19,000 to cover cost of councillor’s funeral DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Rob Ford’s family will reimburse the city the full cost of his visitation and funeral – reportedly costing around $19,000, they said in a statement.

“We have always fully intended to reimburse the City the full costs related to Rob’s funeral and memorial,” reads the statement, delivered via Ford’s executive assistant Dan Jacobs’ Twitter

account.

“We were initially told that this amount would be minimal, under $1,000, which is well under what we are now told the final tally is. We still fully intend to reimburse the City and are now simply waiting to be given a strict accounting of all the costs incurred.”

The late Etobicoke North councillor and former Toronto mayor Rob Ford lay in repose at Toronto City Hall for two days at

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He died March 22 at age 46 after an 18-month battle with cancer.

The cost, according to the city, was $18,678, and included the cost of opening Toronto City Hall on Easter Monday when it is normally closed and unionized staff receive overtime pay.

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LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Teens in grades 11 and 12 at St. Mary’s Catholic Secondary School listened intently to Davenport MPP Cristina Martins as she explained how the new Ontario Student Grant will make post-secondary education a possibility for more than 150,000 low-and-middle income students.

The politician visited the Bloor West and Dufferin streets-area high school last week to announce her government’s significant investment in post-secondary education.

“Today is truly an exciting day for students and their families across the province,” Martins told the students, who had gathered in the school’s cafeteria.

As part of its 2016 budget, the Ontario government announced it will create a single, targeted and non-repayable grant, available to students starting in the 2017-’18 term. Through “the single largest modernization-ever” of the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP), Martins said that the provincial government will make tuition to college and university free for students whose families earn a low or middle income.

“We are doing what we need to build a highly skilled workforce,” Martins said. “This blows off the barriers that prevents students from

Your odds of attaining a post-secondary education decrease if you’re a student from a low-income family.

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Davenport MPP Cristina Martins leans in to speak to students at St. Mary’s Catholic Secondary School. The stopped by on Tuesday morning to make an announcement about the provincial government’s Ontario Student Grant program.

pursuing a college or university diploma.”

The new program will mean the majority of students whose parents earn an annual income of $83,300 or less will receive enough money in grants to more than cover average tuition costs.

The program will also eliminate provincial student loan debt for

eligible students whose parents earn less than $50,000 per year.

The new Ontario Student Grant will also provide additional support for full-time mature and married students and eligibility will no longer be tied to the number of years a student has been out of high school.

“Ontario has achieved one of the

highest post-secondary attainment rates at 66 per cent. Your odds of attaining a post-secondary education decrease if you’re a student from a low-income family,” Martins said.

This is a predictable and up front grant, she told the students, which will enable Toronto-area families to plan for their children’s’ educa-

– MPP Cristina Martins, Davenport

tion on the basis of net price: the difference between the sticker price of tuition and what a student has to pay.

“You’ll know up front what your tuition will be – in some cases, it will be free,” Martins said. “We’re levelling the playing field regardless of how much your parents make.”

Even though the Ontario Student Grant doesn’t come into effect until next year, Martins encouraged this year’s high school graduates to continue with their post-secondary studies.

“There’s a lot of assistance available now,” she said.

Christopher Belnavis-Grant, a Grade 12 student, said he was grateful to Martins for visiting his school.

“It made me aware of all the opportunity I have,” he said, adding that he plans to study social work at Seneca at the York campus next year.

The grants application process will be online.

Resident discovers she has a green thumb with YIMBY gardening program The Stop Community Food Centre’s garden-sharing initiative stretches to York area LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Taking a bite out of her own homegrown tomatoes takes Julie Blair back to her childhood, to memories of her grandmother’s garden.

There was a time when the Corso Italia area resident thought she had a black thumb.

“Now, people ask me gardening questions,” she told The Villager during a conversation on a recent spring morning.

It all started about five years ago when Blair came across a flyer in a local laundromat promoting The Stop Community Food Centre’s ‘Yes In My Backyard’ (YIMBY) program.

YIMBY connects those who would like to garden, but don’t have the space to people who have the space in their yards that they’re willing to share.

“I thought it looked interesting; I’d never really gardened before. I thought it’d be a great way to start,” she said.

Prompted in part by her boyfriend who had been growing cherry tomatoes on his deck and was giving her pointers, Blair said she was first matched with a woman who lived about a 20-minute walk away and had six gardening plots. She shared two of them with Blair.

“She taught me how to prepare the soil,” Blair recalled.

The pairing ran its course over the next two years and Blair went on to be paired with a 92-year-old woman, who owned “the most lush garden I’d ever seen.”

“I’d seen her garden on a YIMBY tour (of local gardens at the end of the season). She had eight-foot tomato plants,” recalled Blair, adding she never dreamed she would ever get to share a gardening space with the woman.

It’s been two years since Blair has been gardening at a home just blocks from her home and she and the homeowners have agreed to continue their partnership for another year.

“We sit down with our YIMBY partners to decide what we want to grow,” she said. “We negotiate.”

They determine the day and time she’ll be over, if she’s allowed inside the house to use the washroom and if she can invite a friend with her because she might need some additional help – “because it is their property,” Blair said.

Blair’s harvest has included tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, peas, arugula, herbs, and zucchini, among other produce.

The Stop provides a tool library, gardening and urban agriculture workshops, some free seedlings and a seed exchange.

“We want to make sure people are supported in a way that makes them comfortable,” said Stop spokesperson Kathe Rogers.

“At the end of the season, YIMBY participants come together for a potluck and tour of all the gardens within walking distance.”

YIMBY’s catchment area encompasses the neighbourhoods around

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Julie Blair, a Corso Italia area resident, is part of the Stop Community Food Centre’s Yes In My Backyard program, which pairs those who would like to garden with those who have extra land to share.

The Stop’s two locations: Davenport Road and Symington Avenue and St. Clair Avenue West and Christie Street. This area extends north from Bloor Street West to Rogers and Vaughan roads, and from Bathurst Street to Dundas Street West and Old Weston Road.

“All matches share in the harvest,” Rogers said. “It’s a great way to encourage the sharing of food in a way that is healthy and sustainable.

It brings people together through good, healthy food.”

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hen it comes to how the Toronto council seat belonging to the late Rob Ford will be filled, there should be no debate. Obviously, the city must call a byelection for Ward 2 Etobicoke North.

Ford, the former mayor between 2010 and 2014 and before that Etobicoke North councillor from 2000 to 2010 and then again from 2014 until his death last month after a battle with cancer, would have wanted it that way.

The man believed in the power of the people and the voice of the voter as being supreme.

To do anything but call a byelection, would be a serious error on the part of council. our view Toronto The first step for councillors be to declare Ford’s Ward 2 Ford would will seat vacant, and that is expected happen at the May 3 meeting. have wanted to That’s a legal requirement it that way under the City of Toronto Act: that the seat be declared vacant within two council meetings of a councillor’s death, resignation or other reason why it can no longer be filled by the previously elected councillor. Since there’s already been a council meeting, late last week after Ford’s funeral which took place March 30, next month’s council meeting is when his seat must be declared vacant.

At the May 3 meeting, councillors can consider one of two options as to what they can do to fill the seat – either they call a byelection or they appoint someone to be a ‘caretaker’ councillor for the ward until the next municipal election in 2018.

The City of Toronto Act gives councillors a lot of leeway as they are actually only required to appoint if it is less than 90 days prior to the next municipal election.

There is no maximum amount of time left in a term that requires a byelection over an appointment.

The decision is at council’s discretion.

Given that there are more than two years left on this term, it seems clear that councillors should decide to call a byelection. It’s the right thing to do.

Once called, the byelection must be held within 60 days of the seat being declared vacant. We look forward to a date for the Ward 2 Etobicoke North council seat taking place in late June or very early July.

That’s what’s best for democracy, the people of Etobicoke North and Toronto council as a whole.

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Will councillors go for a ranked ballot system?

You don’t want to make judgements on character based on a single vote or action – we humans are more complex creatures than just one vote and we do things for all sorts of complicated reasons.

But it’s hard to not draw some pretty firm conclusions about the character or at least motive of councillors who don’t support ranked ballot voting in Toronto. The system, not currently in use anywhere in Canada but applied in countries throughout the world, allows voters to rank their choices on a ballot. If their first choice candidate fails to get more than half the votes, their second choice is counted instead. This goes on until some candidate or another gets half of the total first, second, third and quite possibly 15th-place votes.

The point is that only candidates who can appeal to half the voters in their jurisdiction get to be councillors.

david nickle the city In the last term of council, a majority of councillors voted to ask the provincial government to give Toronto the option to use ranked ballots rather than the first-past-the-post system that’s currently in place.

Then a couple of things happened. The first was the 2014 election. In total, 29 councillors were elected with more than 50 per cent of the vote, and 11 of those 29 were elected with less than 60 per cent of the vote.

Mayor John Tory had just 40.3 per cent of the popular vote.

The second was a latenight vote in 2015, when Ward 5 Councillor Justin Di Ciano, elected for the first time in 2014 with 54.1 per cent, put forward a motion to tell the province council didn’t mean what it said and was very happy

with first-past-the-post system. If the province puts the ranked ballot system in place, his motion said, Toronto should be able to opt out or require a referendum to impose it. And that won, 25-18. But the province didn’t listen, and this week announced that despite Toronto’s second thoughts, a municipality can select its representatives using ranked ballots if council agrees. No need for a referendum; just a vote of council.

And we’ll see how that goes when this inevitably comes before council again. I’m not optimistic that it will go any better. A council chamber populated only by very popular councillors would not be the same one we have today.

It’s not to say that the 14 councillors and one mayor who couldn’t get 50 per cent plus one on the first ballot would all be gone; they might well have made it up in second and thirdplace choices. But some,

like vote-poor Ward 16 Eglinton-Lawrence Christin Carmichael Greb would have had a real challenge parlaying her 17.4 per cent of the vote into a majority.

But broadening her base of appeal, she might have.

Who could say? From a campaign strategist’s point of view, particularly one working for an incumbent, that uncertainty makes for a real problem. Simply feeding one’s political base doesn’t ensure a lifetime in municipal politics under a ranked ballot system.

In fact, what it does do is ensure that simply catering to one vocal minority in a ward will pretty much guarantee defeat at the polls, because that leaves one a first choice of that minority, and a second choice for no one. For politicians worried about their careers, that’s terrifying. For voters and David Nickle is Metroland Media Toronto’s city hall reporter. His column runs every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @DavidNickle

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Through the Lens WHEN: 4 to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: 416-394-1006 COST: Free Participants will create their own paintings, as they learn various techniques from emerging local artists.

The program will focus on Canadian Second World War artists for inspiration. Participants will go on a field trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario. Call to register. Space is limited.

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Family Time WHEN: 10:30 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-394-1008 COST: Free Stories for children under age five.

Community Cleanup WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: West end of Glen Valley Drive, 41 Glenvalley Dr. CONTACT: MDCA, 416-614-3371, cleanups@mountdennis.ca COST: Free Join Mount Dennis Community Association to clean up the Somerville and Sunnybrae ravine edges. Gloves and bags provided.

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Resume Clinic - One on One Optimization WHEN: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Got the resume blues? Need immediate resume assistance? North York Community House is offering a one-hour resume support and optimization clinic. In addition to one-on-one resume support, participants will also receive a resume building kit to make a professional, job-ready resume. Register at 416-500-6225 or Lmoreno@nych.ca.

TACT: toronto-st-pauls@greenparty. ca COST: Free Angela Bischoff, from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, will present the Ontario government’s plan to rebuild and extend its aging nuclear fleet, and she’ll outline the viable green alternatives available.

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Comics Jam WHEN: 4 to 6 p.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Richard, 416-394-1006 COST: Free Write, draw, and make your very own comics.

Homework Help for Teens WHEN: 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416394-1000 COST: Free Voluneteers provide one on one

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Ask An Expert : Garden Wise: Organic & Sustainable Methods WHEN: 6 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre, 341 Oakwood Ave. CONTACT: 416394-1040 COST: Free Learn about smarter and safer ways to garden and key elements of organic and sustainable gardening.

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power of suggestion: From top to bottom, Chris Paton executes Kung Fu under the suggestion of hypnotist Adam Graeme during the Comedy Hypnosis Show held Saturday at the Mount Dennis Legion; Graeme, standing, sends Nicole McAllister, left, and Rick Cartier into a deeper trance; and Joyce Brown, left, and Mark Coveyduck respond as if they are freezing cold under the suggestion of Graeme.

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Outlook bright for Jays opener It’s hard to believe another Blue Jays home opener is just around the corner. The offseason flew by quicker than, well, Jose Bautista’s memorable bat flip.

It’s even harder to believe that Friday night will be the 40th home opener.

Rather than make the de rigueur prediction for the season, I figured I’d do something useful for those lucky enough to have tickets to the game: provide them with the meteorological forecast for the big night itself.

An extremely large mass decked out in Jays jerseys and clutching white rally towels is expected to descend on the subways on the YongeUniversity line beginning as early as 5 p.m. It will then run headlong into a thunderous burst of “Who Needs Tickets?

Who Needs Tickets? Who Needs Tickets?” from spirited scalpers surrounding the bustling Rogers Centre.

With the roof slated to be closed, visibility inside will be 100 per cent. Unless you’re sitting behind somebody built

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY like an NFL defensive end and decked out in a sombrero the size of the CN Tower.

What’s the barometric pressure? Don’t sweat the small stuff, meteorologists reply.

The only pressure that matters is the pressure of having the Red Sox, Yankees, Orioles, and Devil Rays in the same division. And that number goes though the roof during all of those games. Whether the roof’s open or closed.

Gusts of selfies emanating from the north, south, east and west will emerge during Jays batting practice, courtesy of exuberant fans leaning over the rails and the dugout. After which an Environment Indoor Canada advisory will go into effect: “Be on the lookout for a sprinkling of opportunistic would-be celebrities trying to sneak into your photo-ops.”

A saturation of standing ovations will commence during the Jays player’s intro-

ductions and continue off and on into the evening. There’ll be a flurry of “MVP! MVP! MVP!” when Josh Donaldson comes to the plate and a stream of “Jose! Jose! Jose!” each time Joey Bats does the same.

An extreme cold front on the ice cream bars is in the forecast. And an extreme cold back, too. Ditto for an extreme warm front, and back, on the ballpark franks.

The crowd will experience intermittent waves throughout the game with a tidal wave to be unleashed during the seventh-inning stretch.

The expected low? There won’t be one, even if they lose. All that matters is that it’ll be great to see the boys of summer, who captivated us in the fall, finally back home again in the spring. Even if it does feel like winter.

And the expected high? You can’t put a number on that.

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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>>>from page 1 Centre-Rosedale Councillor Kristen Wong-Tam, who tabled the motion called ‘Establishing Regulations and Minimum Separation Distances for Predatory Lenders.’

“Everyone supported it which means all the councillors are experiencing issues with pay day lenders. It’s a citywide issue,” Nunziata said of the motion.

The issue has been a concern of Nunziata’s for several years and one she has been working to combat because these companies target the most vulnerable, she said.

“Right now, they are not even licensed,” she added.

“I’m pleased that the City of Toronto is taking a lead on this.”

ACORN is “proud” its proposal to have the city use its zoning powers to limit predatory lending in the city was approved by city council on Friday.

In Nunziata’s Ward 11, residents have been concerned about the number of pay day loan centres that are opening.

Toronto City Council has passed a motion to limit the number of pay day loan centres within limited distances. This Google Map image shows four such lenders closely situated on Weston Road.

These operations lend their customers small amounts of money at high interest rates with the agreement the loan will be repaid when the borrower receives his or her next pay cheque. These such businesses include cash-for-gold and rent-to-own furniture stores, among others.

The motion includes a recommendation to establish a Payday Lenders Minimum Distance bylaw that requires any new payday lenders, installment lenders, title lend-

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Last month, ACORN hosted a fair banking forum in Weston with more than 80 people in attendance. It will be working with city staff to develop the bylaw while continuing to campaign city council to ensure the bylaw is passed.

Mom’s Secret Recipe Earns Vegan Entrepreneur Fans Amongst Toronto Carnivores As Well No matter the occasion, a holiday or visit during spring break, Kailey Gilchrist knew that when she made that drive from university in Toronto back home to Barrie, she’d be greeted by a familiar smell – that secret family recipe, her mom’s cashew sauce. “She had been making this cashew sauce for years,” she says.

So when the theatre major went vegan, her mom followed suit and they took to evolving the cashew sauce into a vegan alfredo. It was a work in progress when her mother died. “I was finishing up my degree and cooking like crazy to deal with the grief,” she says. The rest of her time was devoted to working her job demoing products at a health food store. “And my sister was like ‘hey, you should sell some of the stuff that you’re making.’ ” It was an a-ha moment for Kailey. The entrepreneurial theatre major set out perfecting the sauce and launched NONA Vegan Foods, expanding to include two more vegan sauces – carbonara-style and cheesy-style. She’s grown from local, independent shops to over 50 stores including Loblaws and Whole Foods throughout Ontario especially the Greater Toronto Area.

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Washers, dryers tossed into ravines, past cleanups find >>>from page 1 gerous places, but the tops and bottoms of ravines, we find we can get in there and do a reasonable clean up,” said Mike Mattos, vicepresident of the community association.

Mattos said city crews do a reasonable job of cleaning up the community in areas accessible from the sidewalks.

“But, they don’t go onto the ravine hillside, and they don’t do anything that’s beyond the mowed grass,” he said.

“We find that if we go into the parks in the springtime, there’s a lot of trash that’s blown there, some of it is illegal dumping. We’ve actually pulled out laundry equipment – washers and dryers – from the ravines. We also pull out a lot of bottles.”

These are places where kids play in the summertime, so it helps to increase their safety, Mattos said.

Mattos said it takes about

20 people to make a good cleanup group. The community association asks residents along the ravine to help out when cleanups happen near their homes. Plus, students can earn volunteer hours.

This year, supercoffee in Mount Dennis is a sponsor of the cleanups. All participants will get a half-off coupon for a beverage and those who tweet or Instagram photos from the event can receive a free drink.

To tweet or Instagram a photo, you are asked to mention #MDSpringClean, @supercoffeeMD and @MountDennisCA to receive your freebie.

Bags, gloves and other tools will be provided.

The community association said this is a great way to help beautify the neighbourhood and to meet your neighbours, plus get some outdoor time and exercise.

The cleanups happen from 10 a.m. to noon. The cleanups will occur through

some mild weather, including light rain.

The remaining cleanups are at: n April 9: Somerville Avenue and Sunnybrae Crescent ravine edges – meet at west end of Glenvalley Drive n April 16: Dora Spencer Road (plus possibly Emmett Avenue) – meet on Weston Road at Dora Spencer n April 23: Lambton and Astoria avenues ravine edges – meet at Lambton at Jane Street n April 30: Eglinton Avenue West south side ravine edge – meet on Eglinton at S.E. Flats entrance.

For more information about the cleanups, contact Mattos at 416-550-2683, or cleanups@mountdennis.ca Learn more about the Mount Dennis Community Association by visiting www. mountdennisra.wordpress. com

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The zoo’s board of directors will vote on the proposal this week. If the project passes all necessary approvals, it will likely take an additional 33 months for construction.

The zoo hasn’t operated a train service since it closed its monorail attraction following an accident almost 22 years ago. living SAVES you MONEY wHIGH-DENSITY

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