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Listening to the concerns of 61 Pelham Park Gardens tenants recently are Sgt. Tom Urbaniak (left), from Toronto Police 11 Division's Community Response Unit; Toronto Community Housing Corporation CEO Greg Spearn; and Davenport Councillor Cesar Palacio.

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madler@insidetoronto.com Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) doesn’t have the money to put security officers in its buildings overnight, and can’t screen tenants before they move in, CEO Greg Spearn says.

Speaking recently in Pelham Park Gardens, a city-owned complex near Davenport Road, Spearn said TCHC has only half the 200 officers it had when formed in 2002, and only 16 to 18 patrol at one time.

“We are underresourced for the security people you would like to have across our communities,” Spearn told a meeting in the building, which saw some violent incidents this summer including a midnight shooting that wounded a girl and a man.

Davenport Councillor Cesar Palacio said Pelham Park Gardens is home to seniors and other vulnerable people who don’t have the support services they need.

“Some become the victims of drug dealers and prostitutes, especially at the end of the month,” when pension and disability cheques arrive, he said.

Palacio said his office was flooded with calls for

months asking for help with the building’s security and infestation problems.

Spearn, however, said it’s very unlikely the building and adjacent townhouses will ever have onsite security officers. The housing authority has been asked, like all city corporations, to cut its budget by 2.6 per cent, he added.

Instead of on-site officers, Toronto’s largest landlord of 2,200 buildings is relying on new digital cameras as a deterrent to crime.

All of TCHC’s 5,000 cameras, which are analog and “don’t have enough definition to recognize a bad guy” are being replaced, Spearn said, with 1,500 digital cameras installed this year and 2,000 more for 2017.

Extra cameras are being added after audits with tenants and police, he said.

For now, Spearn told the tenants TCHC has no control over who moves into its buildings, and won’t know until about six months afterward if there’s a problem with their behaviour.

“My hands are tied by the (province’s) Housing Services Act,” he said, adding the city has asked the province to change the law so the authority can refuse people on TCHC’s waiting list.

“I would love, frankly, to screen out the bad guys.”

Sgt. Tom Urbaniak from the Community Response Unit of Toronto Police’s 11 Division said the unit is a visible deterrent to unwanted activity. “We want to get the people involved in criminality out of here,” he said.

CRU officers work days and evenings, but don’t work midnight shifts, when tenants are sleeping anyway, Urbaniak said.

A man at the back of the room disagreed: “That’s incorrect. Because that’s when it (criminal activity) all goes down.”

Palacio later said he doesn’t believe TCHC cannot afford to have on-site security. “Mobile security is a joke,” he said, because when tenants call and security officers arrive, the criminals are gone.

This week Ana Bailao, another Davenport councillor and the city’s housing advocate, said together the new cameras, better relationships with police, and support services for tenants can improve TCHC security.

Bailao thought the authority won’t undergo the suggested 2.6 per cent cut. “I don’t think council will have an appetite” for that, she said.

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Agencies join forces to offer the support northwestern Toronto needs

DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com Sondra Langille loves her neighbourhood.

The 21-year-old also knows that Weston is an area with a high poverty rate and with many social problems.

“Over the years, a lot of violence has been going on,” the 15-year Weston resident said.

Those problems are not just isolated in Weston where the average annual household income is about $20,000 less than all of Toronto. Those social problems, say community agencies, spread to many parts of northwestern Toronto, including northwards and eastwards into North York, southwards into Mount Dennis and Rockcliffe-Smythe, and westwards into Etobicoke.

It’s an area where employment opportunities are limited, transit is limited and funding for social support is also limited.

But, it’s an area with lots of heart.

The area is blessed with organizations that are also collaborating with each other so they can have the greatest effect on the community, with a great focus on supporting youths.

One of those organizations is Frontlines, which has been providing an after-school drop-in and much more in Weston for the past 30 years.

“Until everybody is connected and we know about each other and what we’re doing, then we can’t really make a difference,” Frontlines executive director Stachen Frederick said.

Collaboration is already happening, but it needs to be greater and needs to be hyped up, Frederick said, adding that local businesses and schools also need to get involved. She has joined the safe schools committee at CR Marchant Middle School hoping that she’ll be able to guide struggling students toward some help.

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Tyrique listens to a track he made at the UrbanArts’ Beats, Mind, Movement program. UrbanArts focuses its services in York-South Weston but draws kids from North York, including some who come from as far away as Jane and Finch.

There are many causes for the social problems in the area, each one posing an added challenge.

There are few job opportunities in the area, but getting elsewhere in the city for work or training is difficult as the area is far from the TTC’s subway system. Across the road from Frontlines is the Weston GO station, but GO Transit is too costly for many in the area, Frederick said. A high immigrant population means there are many who don’t speak English.

It’s this system that puts local families and particularly young people at risk, she said.

“There’s a lot of things happening in this community that really put these youths at risk and they’re not able to find resources because it’s a limited area,” Fred-

erick said.

That’s why Frontlines and many other organizations are working together to help. One example is the Weston Mount Dennis Community Hub where a number of agencies provide services so clients don’t get bounced around from one place to another.

The Learning Enrichment Foundation, which provides job training and much more, hosts services such as resume workshops at Frontlines.

UrbanArts serves kids anywhere from Rockcliffe-Smythe up to Jane and Finch and Chalkfarm Drive to the north, eastwards to Dufferin Street and into northern Etobicoke. It is active at 16 schools, its two locations and in collaboration with other agencies.

It is one of six Local Arts Service Organizations (LASOs) in Toronto, all created to promote arts. But for UrbanArts, art is a tool to deliver community development.

“We are in the middle of one of the most marginalized areas – I

think the third or second poorest in Ontario – so serving that community is very different using art as a tool than say Lakeshore Arts,” said UrbanArts program manager Shah Ashraf Mohamed.

For them, collaboration with other agencies is essential to maximize the impact of their work. It helps create wraparound support.

As an example, a person who is in need of housing or social support will be able to access those programs and arts much easier.

“By collaborating, we’re able to support the community more holistically,” Mohamed said.

“You find that once you break the silos down and collaborate, the impact on a certain amount of resources is doubled, tripled, quadrupled.”

For Langille, that’s good news.

She sees value in what these agencies do. After all, she attended Frontlines as a kid everyday after school, got her community service hours in high school there, and now works there. It’s where she had some really great role models and hopes to be just that for other kids as well.

It’s a safe place that gets kids off the streets.

“These kids are in a lowincome area. They’re free programs. We feed them. We teach them. We bring them on trips,” she said.

“All these things definitely make a difference. It lets the people in the community know there’s still some care left.”

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Here are some of the involved agencies: ☛ Frontlines – offers drop-in after school, culinary skills for those aged 18 to 29, leadership, music, mentoring and many other programs. ☛ Yorktown – youth development, mentorship, counselling, outreach and more. ☛ Learning Enrichment Foundation – youth job links and assistance, settlement and other programs. ☛ Weston Mount Dennis Community Hub – a collaboration of many service providers. ☛ UrbanArts – an array of arts-based programs. ☛ Youth Winning Youth – child mentorship through music.

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Toronto Council mustn’t be timid when it comes to highway tolls

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ext week, Toronto Council will gather to talk about the prospect of tolling two highways: the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway.

It wasn’t so very long ago that politically at least, such conversation would have been unthinkable.

Ontario’s only experiment with a toll road, the privatized Highway 407, has not been the best proof-ofconcept for commuters and taxpayers - and that was a road that was purpose-built in parallel to the existing toll-free Highway 401. The idea of putting tolls on roads already built, without easy free alternatives, has been political poison for more than a decade in this town.

Now, road tolls on the DVP and the Gardiner are more pill than poison, and even John Tory, who once ran for mayor opposing them, seems to understand that. He’s thrown the weight of his office behind the idea, along with a couple of other revenue sources - a hotel tax, and the closing of a tax exemption for vacant businesses - and it’s unlikely that Toronto Council will turn him down next week.

Of course, voting in favour of tolls will be easier for some councillors than others. Those who represent wards along the two highways will get pushback from their residents. Indeed, Tory’s own deputy mayor Denzil Minnan-Wong’s ward 34 (Don Valley East) straddles the Don Valley Parkway and at the Executive Committee he was concerned that his constituents would wind up being disproportionately gouged with tolls. His solution was to look into providing a cap on tolls for Toronto residents.

There will likely be other solutions designed to mitigate the impact of the new fee on constituents by the time this gets to Council and we would urge councillors to look at any such measures with caution.

That’s because by any estimation, as ambitious as it might seem to raise money for transit and transportation through road tolls, road tolls alone are not enough.

Mayor Tory selected his three revenue measures from a list of nine put forward by city staff. Those include alcohol and sales tax, an income tax, changes in residential property tax rates, a parking tax and the reintroduction of the vehicle registration tax, at double the rate that it had when briefly in place.

At some point, council will have to revisit some or all of these measures, after having taken this first step of tolling roads. Knowing that, it would behoove councillors not to stumble out the gate.

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Continuing our rooming house standoff in the suburbs The electrified third rail of municipal politics isn’t road tolls, after all.

No, in what used to be Toronto’s suburbs, it’s rooming houses.

Homeowners in Scarborough, North York and north Etobicoke can’t abide them. A generation after amalgamation they are illegal, a threat to property values, blamed for nearly everything dragging a neighbourhood down.

Yet, those parts of the city - in five selected areas across the north end - are where city staff want to introduce some form of legal, licensed rooming houses before the next city election in 2018.

Here’s a prediction on the number of rooming houses licensed north of Highway 401 by then: none.

It’s easy for suburban

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto councillors to side with homeowners, call for fresh crackdowns, talk about petitioning the province to give city bylaw enforcers the right to immediately enter homes.

None of this will change things in the five selected areas, and these councillors know it.

Enforcement takes too long; fines are too low.

Demand for cheap housing in these places isn’t going away.

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Four are near campuses (Humber College North, Seneca’s Newnham, York University’s Downsview, University of Toronto Scarborough) enrolling more students than they can house; the fifth, is across northwest Scarborough, in aging neighbourhoods conveniently close to Markham.

It’s said many rooming house tenants don’t know their housing is illegal, but let’s assume many do.

They are usually newcomers to Canada, or young adults, or both.

They learn they need to break the rules, to dump their garbage somewhere else, to furtively move their cars around, and to expect no protection from the city they live in.

Some rooming houses need to be shut down, but

shutting them all before licensing begins is impossible.

In old Toronto, licensing at least provides rules and inspections that can keep people safe.

Mel Lastman - once mayor of a North York where three persons unrelated by blood or marriage couldn’t legally live together - used to say legal basement apartments would lead to disaster in his former suburban city.

The province made second suites legal in Toronto - all of amalgamated Toronto - in 1995, and the disaster has yet to arrive.

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Trivia Challenge WHEN: 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.

WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd CONTACT: 416-767-0231, legionbr31@ yahoo.com COST: Food reasonable prices; trivia $3 Weekly barbecue from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Trivia will begin at 8:30 p.m. All 19-plus are welcome.

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Carol Singing WHEN: 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

WHERE: Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas Street CONTACT: http://www.lambtonhouse.org/, COST: Free Join us by the Lambton House fireplace for Heritage York’s annual Carol Singing in a unique and historical building. Doors open at 6:30pm and singing begins at 7pm.

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Knitting & Crochet Circle WHEN: 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

WHERE: Weston Library, 2 King Street CONTACT: 416-3941016, COST: Free Join us for an informal knitting and crochet circle. All skill levels welcome. Please bring your own items/supplies.

● Thursday, December 15

Kingsway Conservatory orchestras in concert WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Kingsway Lambton United Church, 85 The Kingsway CONTACT: 416-234-0121 Ext.222, http://www.kingswayconservatory.ca/, COST: $10 Adults, $7 Students/Children Performances of festive repertoire by the Junior, Intermediate and Senior Orchestras of the

In the Zone WHEN: 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: 416-394-1006, COST: Free Guinness World Record-setting rapper Duane D.O. Gibson shares the power that can be gained through reading, creative writing and speech. Ages 6 and up.

Creative Yarn Works WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745

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Digital Literacy WHEN: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000, COST: Free Digital literacy discusses many frequently-encountered technical challenges: to save the file in the cloud vs. to save in USB flash; to share files vs. to send huge files through email, etc. Web browsing and basic Email skills required.

● Saturday, December 17 Holiday Open House WHEN: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Richard, 416-394-1006, COST: Free Get into the holiday spirit at the Toronto Public Library! It’s the Evelyn Gregory branch Open House. No registration required for this event.

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5 things to do this weekend ● Friday, December 9

Union Station Holiday Market WHEN: 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

WHERE: Union Station, 65 Front Street West CONTACT: unionstationholidaymarket.com/, holidaymarket@torontomarketco. com COST: Free December 5-16. This holiday market running Dec. 5-16 features local businesses, designers, artisans and gourmet food vendors.

The Twelve Days of Christmas WHEN: 7 p.m. to WHERE: Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. CONTACT: tso.ca/concert/twelvedays-christmas COST: Free Sing along with your favourite carols and songs as part of The Twelve Days of Christmas – a live-action pageant, narrated by comedian Colin Mochrie. Dec. 9 and 11.

● Saturday, December 10

Wish Upon A Star at Casa Loma WHEN: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

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The City of Toronto’s Centennial Park Conservatory holds its annual Christmas event this Sunday with floral displays, carol singers, hot cider, horse and buggy rides, and a visit from Santa.

SpinMaster workshop, more.

The Nutcracker Ballet WHEN: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. CONTACT: national.ballet.ca COST: $85-170 The National Ballet of Canada performs this famous ballet, choreographed by James Kudelka.

A children’s story time takes place 45 minutes before each show in

the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre. Dec. 10-31.

● Sunday, December 11

Christmas Flower Show WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Centennial Park Conservatory, 151 Elmcrest Rd. CONTACT: 416394-8543 COST: Free Grand opening show. Visitors treated to horse and wagon rides, carolers, hot apple cider and a visit from Santa. Runs until January.

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Ben Munshaw, left, Caroline Munshaw and Glen Munshaw work to sort donations to the North York Harvest Food Bank into categories and boxes, during one of the food bank's 2015 volunteer sorts. The food bank's Winter Food Drive is now on.

NYHFB kicks off Winter Food Drive With its Fall Food Drive wrapped up, North York Harvest Food Bank (NYHFB) is now focusing on raising $250,000 and collecting 250,000 pounds of food for its Winter Food Drive.

The drive, running from Thursday, Dec. 1 to Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, is aiming to collect nutritious non-perishables such as fish, dried beans, cooking oils and whole grains. Monetary donations will be used toward purchasing and distribut-

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"The winter is the busiest season of the year for food banks in our community," Ryan Noble, executive director of NYHFB, said in a release. "The weather is cold and many families will struggle to put food on the table. A gift of $1 will provide three nutritious meals to someone that is hungry in our city."

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Chief planner calling for more diversity to reflect city RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Toronto is undergoing a “crisis of public participation”, with feedback of residents on city-building not at all reflective of the communities which live here, said the city’s chief planner.

Speaking at an event organized by the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) last Friday, Jennifer Keesmaat talked about her work to shape urban planning priorities to fit a rapidlychanging city whose residents are now more than ever likely to come from another country, live in a tower rather than a bungalow, and rent rather than own.

While thousands of people have attended city planning meetings over the last couple of years, after analyzing the participants, Keesmaat said it soon became clear the input received was not at

all reflective of the city’s demographic diversity.

“We discovered the vast majority of people participating are over 55, white and homeowners,” said Keesmaat during her morning keynote address at the Artscape Sandbox.

“Does anyone see a problem there? Fifty per cent of our city rents, over 50 per cent of the city is not white, and the fastest growing demographic is between 18 and 35.”

To gain a broader view, a resident advisory panel was recently established to regularly review planning initiatives. All 28 members were chosen via lottery from a pool of over 500 randomly selected residents in a bid to more accurately reflect diversities of age, gender, race, economic background, geography and other factors.

“The result is a panel, whose make up reflects the general demographics of the city,” she said. “It’s

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Lisa Cavicchia from CUI admitted the organization has historically had trouble with attracting more diversity to its events.

Cavicchia said the organization has tried several strategies to improve inclusiveness, from holding Toronto events outside of downtown and offering rebates to students and others who can’t afford the often high price for tickets.

The organization also runs an annual awards program highlighting urban achievement in planning.

Despite this, she said it hasn’t managed to draw a more diverse group of attendees.

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Mojgan Rasouli, involved with an outreach campaign by the United Way for recent immigrants living in the Bathurst and Finch neighbourhood, urged the room of planners, architects and designers to do better in particular engaging with inner-suburban communities.

Rasouli said the goal of the program is to to better inform participants not just about civic planning and projects underway, but about how the city works.

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