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Linda Ippolito was set on devoting her life to a classical piano career when, after a frustrating practice session led to a fight with the instrument and a torn tendon in her hand, she decided on a whim to write the law admittance exam.

Practice time inside Walter Hall at the University of Toronto for upcoming competitions in Montreal and Australia wasn’t going so well, and Ippolito angrily shoved the piano, which moved backwards and smacked her hand, tearing a tendon.

With her music career on hold, and needing something to fill the time, she decided to write the law entrance exam after watching a friend go through it, and ended up studying at Osgoode Hall Law School.

“It intrigued me, but it wasn’t my dream to go to law school,” said the Christie Street and St. Clair Avenue resident. “I was

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on a very specific path of being a solo classical pianist.”

After being called to the bar in 1994, Ippolito now focuses her practice primarily in family and estates law, and is a partner in firm Sheridan, Ippolito and Associates.

In 2009, she obtained a master’s of laws degree in alternative dispute resolution from Osgoode, with her thesis exploring collaborative vocal music making as an innovative approach to conflict resolution and peace building, and is now working on her doctoral degree in law at Osgoode with a focus on the intersection of the arts >>>york, page 16

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It’s been four years since her son was murdered and Dale Lowe says there hasn’t been a day when she hasn’t cried.

“We relive it every day,” she said. “ You wake up crying, you go to bed crying.”

Police said Lowe’s 30-yearold son, Glenn, and a woman were Glenn Lowe was cultivating shot to death in February 2010. marijuana at a house at 1562 Jane St. when he answered the back door and was confronted by a man who shot him dead at 11:12 p.m. Feb. 7, 2010.

“He had a huge heart, a heart of gold,” Lowe said of her son.

“He was just so full of life, so loving. He would give the shirt off his back to anyone.”

Glenn grew up in the Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue area after moving to Toronto from Northern Ontario at age five.

Lowe said her son was a handyman, a plumber by trade, and would occasionally smoke dope. That’s how his >>>glenn, page 8

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The event is based out of the west Danforth – five stages in four local venues. Chances are you’ll run into a performer from your own Toronto neighbourhood, including York’s Glen Hornblast.

Most of the weekend is free although there are four multiartist concerts with modest

at North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St., and March 7 from 10 a.m. to noon at Black Creek Community Health Centre at Sheridan Mall, 2202 Jane St.

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Off-reserve aboriginal residents in North York and York are invited to participate in community engagement sessions focusing on health care experiences and needs hosted by the Central Local Health Integration Network.

Local sessions take place March 6 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

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timeline w 1913: Kodak Canada opens its factory complex on property “beyond the northeast corner of Eglinton Avenue and Weston Road.” w 2005: Kodak manufacturing plant, at 3500 Eglinton Ave. W., shuts down. w August 2006: The property is sold to Metrus Properties. w September 2006: Toronto council approves demolition of all buildings on the site, except for the employees’ building. w May 2007: While no development application has been put forth to the city, Metrus has a representative in attendance at a Mount Dennis Community Association meeting where the future of the former Kodak lands is a point of discussion.

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a 23-hectare piece of property a community group in favour of development a call for residents to have a say in the future of the former Kodak lands

The Kodak lands, circa 1930

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website set to launch next week will encourage people to make suggestions and drawings of what they would like the redevelopment of the former Kodak lands and surrounding area to look like.

The website – www. refocuskodak.ca – will be up and running next Wednesday or Thursday, said Peter Frampton, executive director of the Learning Enrichment Foundation (LEF), who has taken the lead on the website project.

Public submissions will go online, where the public will get a chance to review and vote on them.

The York Guardian newspaper is a partner with LEF on the project.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime, once-in-a-generation opportunity,” Frampton said of potential area growth.

“We’re launching the website to see what people want Eglinton Avenue to look like. People can learn about the project, sketch out drawings, vote on what’s

retail.”

Community Association The two bidders, board, welcomed the Crosslinx Transit Solutions website as a means to gather and Crosstown Transit ideas for the site.

Partners, will “We need offices, spend most of stores, medical This is a facilities,” he said.

2014 planning and preparing once-in-a-lifetime, “There used to be their teams 15,000 working once-in-a-generation there. Now it’s a and proposals, said Jamie opportunity. wasteland. We Robinson, – Peter Frampton really need someMetrolinx thing there.” director Metrolinx has of community relations been working closely with and communications. It’s the Mount Dennis commuexpected a partner will be nity and understands and selected in spring 2015. appreciates the neighbourPeter Haggert, editor-inhood’s interest and desire chief of The York Guardian, for economic development, said the newspaper’s intensification and job creinvolvement in the website ation in the area, including project grew out of last the former Kodak lands, year’s successful community Robinson said. discussions around the “Metrolinx will continue Eglinton Crosstown transit to engage the community project. through the design and “The former Kodak lands development phases of the are at one end of the project maintenance storage facility and we’re big believers the in order to build upon the entire community has to be local community’s interest involved in their redevelopin the revitalization of the ment,” he said. “We love to Mount Dennis area,” he play a role of catalyst for said. community discussions.”

Check out the website project Mike Mattos, a member at www.refocuskodak.ca of the Mount Dennis

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The redevelopment of the former Kodak lands is part of the Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit (LRT) project, which is also made up of stations, track work, signalling and a maintenance and storage facility set for the former Kodak lands. The LRT will run 19 kilometres across Eglinton between Weston Road and Kennedy Station. Metrolinx, the provincial transit planning agency that owns the former Kodak lands, has invited two groups to submit proposals.

The 23-hectare site of the

former Kodak lands should house more than LRT vehicles, Frampton said, adding unlike most communities across the city, site development is being welcomed with open arms.

“We want (the bidders) to feel comfortable with intensification,” he said.

“We want to create some excitement. It’s an amazing opportunity to create a degree of intensification.

We certainly recognize and welcome the maintenance yard but we’re hoping for the creation of a mixed-use area with condos, offices and

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w February 2008: The city’s economic development department announces it is proceeding with an employment study for the area. w January 2009: York SouthWeston councillors Frances Nunziata and Frank Di Giorgio are briefed on a proposal submitted to the city by Metrus for 600,000 square feet of retail space and 200,000 of office space on the site. w March 2009: At a community meeting, Metrus meets stiff opposition from residents after a detailed presentation of its proposal for a mixed-use office and retail development on the land. w November 2009: Toronto council authorizes staff to negotiate to acquire 46.8 acres of land of the former Kodak site for “the Eglinton Crosstown LRT Maintenance and Storage Facility.” w February 2012: The former Kodak property is sold to Metrolinx, the provincial transit planning agency. w May 2013: Toronto council requests Metrolinx agree to additional public consultation on the Maintenance Storage Facility.

Council also requests Metrolinx establish a community working group “to identify additional space for other uses and/or possible phasing of the yard construction.” w October 2013: Council endorses the community working group’s vision for the former Kodak lands. The vision includes nine proposed principles, the first of which reads: “The former Kodak lands provide an opportunity to introduce a broad range of uses that has the potential to make the site a destination for Torontonians and not just for transit users and Metrolinx employees.” w February 2014: Refocus Our Kodak Lands project launched.

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While today’s libraries offer a far more diverse and sophisticated range of materials to the user, a library’s true value comes from more than the tangible materials on its shelves.

Consider the entertainer visits, educational experiences and community connections that happen within library walls in this city every day.

The Toronto Public Library system has 98 branches, offering a range of ways citizens can interact with one another and get engaged. It’s those types of interactions that enable communities to evolve.

This week, Metroland Media Toronto published its interview with new Toronto Public Library board chair Michael Foderick. You can see our story online at http://bit.ly/1bJfDj0 “The local library is the cornerstone of virtually every single successful neighbourhood in this city,” Foderick says. “That’s true from our view Etobicoke, to North York to Scarborough.”

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Facilities are They’re places to learn, and places to go get entertained. community Whether it’s an English converhubs in action sation circle at Flemingdon Park branch, a small business workshop at the Maria A. Shchuka, a garden society meeting at S. Walter Stewart or a baby time literacy program event in High Park, what you have is a community hub in action. Many of the city’s facilities – not just libraries – have that same multi-purpose aspect.

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o, I went to get my morning cup of coffee in the food court. At the usual place.

At the usual time. From the usual cashier. And before I even had a chance to open my mouth, as usual, the cashier asked, “The usual, sir?”

(By the way, that’s a large quintuple quintuple, for those keeping score at home.)

Anyhow, also as usual, she waited for my usual vertical nod of approval. But said nod was not forthcoming. Much to her surprise, my head movement was of the horizontal variety, signifying an unexpected negative response.

“Not this time,” I replied.

“I’ll still take a large, but instead of the usual, I feel like I want to have it slopestyyyyyle.”

The crowd gasped.

The person right behind me tapped me on my shoulder.

“Excuse me, mister, but I couldn’t help but overhear

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY your coffee request. Did you just order a large slopestyle?”

“Close. Actually, what I said was slopestyyyyyle. You have to make sure to elongate the styyyyyle for effect.

Try it a few times. You’ll get the hang of it.”

Then the cashier gave me my cup and a high five and I scurried off to work while in the background I could hear everyone enthusiastically screaming their orders, “Slopestyyyyyle.

Slopestyyyyyle.

Slopestyyyyyle.”

Impressed by my morning java, for lunch I went back to the food court to grab a slice at the pizza counter. I stood in the usual line. For the usual length of time. I was greeted by the usual cashier. Then, as usual, without me having to say anything, the cashier inquired, “The usual, sir?”

(That’s a pineapple quintuple quintuple, for those still keeping score at home.)

Again, I didn’t follow the usual script.

“I’ll take a rain check, if that’s OK. Can you make it slopestyyyyyle, instead?”

Then he gave me my slice, a low five (he’s taller than me) and I left serenaded by another chorus of, “Slopestyyyyyle.

Slopestyyyyyle.

Slopestyyyyyle.”

A trend was clearly developing. So, not one to mess with a good thing, after work I decided to go back to the food court one last time before calling it a day.

I went to grab a sub first and it was more of the same routine.

“The usual, sir?”

“Nah. I was kinda hoping for slopestyyyyyle.”

Next, I went to pick up some ice cream.

“The usual, sir?”

“Nope. What I had in mind was slopestyyyyyle.”

Then, it was off to the organic juice hut for a

smoothie to wash it all down.

“The usual, sir?”

“No thanks. Today has slopestyyyyyle written all over it.”

Well, soon after inhaling the goodies, I had to make a beeline for the drugstore on the lower level. The pharmacist could tell by my expression I’d eaten too much too fast. To help relieve my tummy ache he suggested a liquid antacid.

“The usual, sir?” I mumbled.

“Not in this case. You’re going to need something way more powerful.”

“What do you recommend?”

“A magical new product that works wonders. It’s a specially designed winter formula that’s taking the world by storm. It’s called Slopestyyyyyle.”

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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Valentine’s Day Meet and Greet with MPP Laura Albanese WHEN: 8 to 10 a.m. WHERE: Golden Wheat Bakery, 579 Rogers Rd. CONTACT: Effie, 416-243-7984, lalbanese.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org COST: Free Stop in for free coffee and chat with your MPP. Karaoke WHEN: 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-0231, www. facebook.com/mountdennislegion, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: Food available Weekly barbecue starts at 6 p.m.

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Financial Advice for the Cohabiting, Married and Soon to be Married WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416394-1000 COST: Free Julie Cazzin from Moneysense magazine will answer your questions about money and relationships. Call to register.

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Resume Workshop WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416394-1000 COST: Free Learn resume essentials before launching your job search. Open to all ages. Call to register.

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Ethnic Lunch: Italian WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-2454395, ext. 223 COST: $10 Purchase your ticket at the reception desk by Thursday, Feb. 13.

Facebook Workshop WHEN: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-2454395, ext. 223 COST: $26 Four-week course. Pre-requisite: basic computer skills and an email account. Register by Monday, Feb. 17.

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WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Library staff will discuss this trend in independent learning and demonstrate how to search and sign up for courses and actively participate once you’re registered. This six-week course is organized by University of California, San Francisco. Call to register. Course can be found at www. coursera.org/#course/nutrition Mount Dennis Local History WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-394-1008 COST: Free The history of Mount Dennis through pictures, presented by John Maniezzo, creator of the Facebook

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Fridays WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Joselen, 416-245-4395, ext. 233, www.yorkwestactivelivingcentre.ca, joselen@ywalc.ca COST: Free A program for people 55 and older who want to improve their English language skills, gain fluency, meet new friends, and get information about social and community services in their community.

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Women’s Empowerment: Discovering our Power WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. or 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays WHERE: North York Women’s Centre, 2446 Dufferin St. CONTACT: 416-781-0479, info@ nywc.org COST: Free Gain an understanding of difficult emotions and the effect they have on mental and physical well-being.

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Toronto’s first black electrician dies at age 91 John Riley a community pioneer LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com

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fter cooking for his fellow troops during the Second World War, John Riley was supposed to become a cook – that’s what the elder Riley told his youngest son, Stephen.

Instead, Riley would come home from the war to become an electrician, Toronto’s first black electrician, something that never fazed him.

He was the only black student at the three schools he attended – J.R. Wilcox Community School, D.B. Hood Public School and Vaughan Road Academy – and one of the first blacks to enlist in the

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Keith Searles, left, and Laverne Coker, right, were on hand to help John Riley celebrate his 88th birthday at Fairbank Middle School in October 2010. Riley, who died Feb. 4 at the age of 91, grew up in the Dufferin Street and Eglinton Avenue neighbourhood, served in the Second World War and was one of the first black electricians to be certified in Ontario.

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The long-time York-area resident died Feb. 4 after a long illness. He was 91.

He is survived by four of his children, daughters

Bev and Ollie and sons Stephen and Bobby. He is predeceased by son Herbert.

“We were the first Negroes in York, really,”

said Riley, about three years ago during a ceremony to recognize his role as a community pioneer at Fairbank Middle School.

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families who moved in around the same time as us, but I was the only black student all the way through school. My father was a blacksmith with the TTC and the only black worker at the time.”

At D.B. Hood, Riley was the only one on the football team who was black.

“We won the championships in the ’30s and I was the only coloured kid on the team at the time. I got along with everybody and didn’t pay too much attention to it,” he said.

For 57 years, Riley operated an electrical contract company, which his son Stephen said wired the entire neighbourhood where he grew up as well as the former Runnymede Theatre at the corner of Runnymede Road and Bloor Street West.

Riley met his first wife in Nova Scotia during the war. She played piano and sang for the troops. Riley drove a motorcycle with

a sidecar at the time, said Stephen.

“When we were kids, he wanted the family to always stick together. My mother and father always said, ‘United we stand, divided we fall,’” recalled Stephen.

Riley’s first wife died in her early 50s. Riley remarried, but his second wife has passed now too.

Riley had a large circle of friends, said his son, who followed in his father’s footsteps to become an electrician.

“He coached my baseball team when I was little,” he said.

Stephen lives by his father’s philosophy: “If you’re going to do a job, do it right.”

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Investigation of Flooding and Combined Sewer Overflow Humber River and Black Creek Area (Study Area 4) Municipal Class Environmental Assessment Study Notice of Public Information Centre #3 Please join us at the third Public Information Centre to learn about the solutions recommended to help reduce the risk of basement and surface flooding and manage combined sewer overflows in the area.This Public Information Centre will focus on the recommended locations and conceptual design for the proposed underground storage facilities.

You will have an opportunity to view displays, speak one-on-one with project staff, and tell us what you think about the underground storage solutions.

Drop in anytime between 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on the date and location noted below. We look forward to seeing you there. Details are as follows:

Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Location: Archibishop Romero School – Cafetorium 99 Humber Blvd.

(Weston Road/south of Eglinton Avenue West) Background Study Area 4, located in the Weston Road/Black Creek Drive, south of Eglinton Avenue West area, has experienced basement and surface flooding during extreme storm events in the past. As a result, the City of Toronto began a Class Environmental Assessment (EA) study in late 2012 to investigate the causes of flooding and identify solutions to reduce the risk of future flooding in the study area. Solutions to address combined sewer overflows have also been identified as part of the study.

We would like to hear from you If you are unable to attend the Public Information Centre but would like to be provided with information or would like to be added to the study mailing list, please contact: Mae Lee (Rigmea) City of Toronto Public Consultation Unit Metro Hall, 19th Fl., 55 John St. Toronto, ON M5V 3C6

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Glenn Lowe shot at Jane Street grow op four years ago >>>from page 1 brief involvement in the marijuana grow business began.

“I think he was led easily astray, and he got involved in the grow op end of things by helping some friends with the wiring or hooking up things, the plumbing aspect, and then it snowballed on him,” Lowe said. “He just got into the wrong crowd.”

Lowe said she knew about her son’s involvement in grow operations and tried to convince him to change his ways.

“He was planning on cutting all ties, just before this happened, with those particular friends because they had promised payment for some services that he did and he wasn’t paid,” she said. “He just saw that he was being taken advantage of, so he had told these friends that this was it for him.”

Lowe said her son’s decision to leave the illegal business came just weeks before he was murdered.

“This was supposed to be the last grow that he was helping out with,” she said. “My husband really had a bad feeling about it and just kept on warning him: ‘It’s going too far and you have to get back on track,’ and he just did it too late.”

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Dale Lowe, mother of murder victim Glenn Lowe who was shot and killed Feb. 7, 2010 at a marijuana grow house on Jane Street south of Lawrence Avenue.

On Friday, police marked the fourth anniversary of the murder with the release of a YouTube video appealing for information leading to the killer.

“At the time, investigators spoke to several witnesses that were near the scene, and they were of the belief that not everybody was being truth-

ful and honest with their answers,” Det. Sgt. Steve Ryan says in the minute-long video.

“It is my hope that those same people are in a better position today, and they’ll come forward and give us information that will lead to the identification of the person that killed Glenn.”

Police are offering a $50,000 reward for that information.

“But more importantly, Glenn’s family who are grieving over the loss of their son deserve answers, and I hope that people out there that have information take that into consideration,” Ryan said.

The gunman was seen getting into a four-door car that fled south on Jane. The suspect is black, 5’7” to 5’9” tall and 170 to 180 pounds.

“The person or persons responsible have just devastated our whole family, and I know that there are people out there with information,” Lowe said.

“Even if you just know a little bit and you don’t think it’s important, report it anyway because you never know.”

Police had said the shooting wasn’t random.

There were more than 800 marijuana plants in the home at the time.

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Nothing was stolen.

“It’s been a battle every day for us to carry on,” Lowe said. “The only thing that keeps us strong is our daughter and our grandchildren now.”

At a news conference in June 2011, homicide squad Det. Andrew Ecklund said: “Glenn Lowe wasn’t a bad person. He was involved in a bad business.”

The detective said he believed the gunman “is from another group that’s involved with the drug trade.”

Glenn didn’t live at 1562 Jane but would sometimes stay there overnight, police had said.

“He missed out on getting married, having his own children, building a life for himself. He missed out on everything. He was only 30,” Lowe said.

“It won’t bring our son back, but knowing that somebody is being held accountable, yes, that would be very important.”

The reward expires April 19.

St. Clair West residents Nick Adams and Taes Leavitt were nominated for a JUNO Award last week for their sixth children’s album.

The children entertainers known as Splash’N Boots received their first JUNO nomination for Children’s Album of the Year for their album Coconuts Don’t Fall From The Tree, which was written entirely with the help of their fans.

The JUNO Awards week takes place at the end of March.

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The provincial transit planning agency is constructing the underground section of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line which has resulted in traffic disruptions even with the main construction taking place below the avenue.

This week, Metrolinx announced it is reducing northbound access to the Allen to one westbound lane for “many months”.

That’s in addition to the existing lane restrictions along Eglinton Avenue West.

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The premier answered approximately 10 questions during the one-hour AMA and promised to address some of the many more left unanswered throughout the week.

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‘Two-tier citizenship’ created: immigration advocates Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants critical of proposed changes to rules MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Proposed changes to rules for Canadian citizenship and the power to revoke it send the wrong message to new Canadians in Toronto, local advocates for immigrants’ rights said last week.

In the city last Thursday, federal Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announced what the Conservative government says is the first complete overhaul of the Citizenship Act since the 1970s.

The changes in Bill C-24, the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act, “reinforce the value of citizenship while ensuring the integrity of the immigration system is pro-

tected,” the minister said in a release.

Campaigners for the group I Vote Toronto have variously estimated the number of permanent residents in the city at 200,000 and 380,000 (about 15 per cent of the population), and say the city receives 50,000 immigrants a year.

Alexander’s proposals would grant citizenship to permanent residents only if they remain in Canada for four of out of six years, instead of the current three out of four.

Immigrants would also have to pay Canadian income tax during those years, and sign a declaration saying they intend to live in Canada.

Tests to prove proficiency in either English or French

would be extended to applicants aged 14 to 64, instead of the current 18 to 54, and the applicants would no longer be allowed the help of an interpreter.

There would be harsher penalties for citizenshiprelated fraud, and the minister would be able to revoke dual citizenship, or deny it to permanent residents who were found to be members “in an armed force or organized armed group engaged in armed conflict with Canada” or convicted of terrorism, treason or spying offences.

The government can only revoke dual citizenships, because Canada has signed international agreements against rendering someone stateless.

Citizenship could also be denied to applicants charged with or convicted of serious crimes outside of Canada.

Already put in place is a rise in the application fee for citizenship from $200 to $400. (The Conservative

government in 2006 cut a it represents hope to talk to Canadians about the govern$975 landing fee imposed on permanent residents by ment’s proposals. the previous Liberal regime Douglas said she was pardown to $460.) ticularly concerned about On Friday, Feb. 7, the requiring people over 60 to Ontario Council of Agencies prove a language proficiency, Serving Immigrants (OCASI) and argued doubling the said increasing the time perapplication fee creates an manent residents wait before “undue burden for many they can fully parfolk.” ticipate in Canadian About 85 per Be a part of the society “will not cent of Canada’s discussion. Visit strengthen democpermanent resithis story on our racy in Canada.” website and share dents become citIn an interview, your thoughts in izens - a figure we Debbie Douglas, should be proud the comments about - but the OCASI’s execusection. minister’s protive director said posals will make the government bit.ly/1emKBNJ  was, in effect, crethis more difficult a t i n g “t w o - t i e r to achieve, she citizenship” because some said.

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Metro Toronto Chinese and “Citizenship is about Southeast Asian Legal Clinic, also said she is concerned equality,” and Canada’s criminal justice system can the government is making it deal with criminal behavharder to become a citizen, when it should be making iour, said Douglas, saying the Toronto-based council it easier. and the 231 organizations The proposed changes tell

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newcomers “you are not really that welcome here,” said Go, adding the minister seems to be “questioning the loyalty of some permanent residents, when in fact the reason they moved to Canada is they want to be part of this country.”

Though the government says the changes will speed up citizenship applications, Go said she doubts it, and the increased length of stay before applying means “someone here today basically has to wait eight years” for citizenship.

Davenport MP Andrew Cash, a New Democrat, said the government “has failed to take action” on the backlog of citizenship applications, one of the system’s most obvious problems. “Instead of giving himself more power, the minister should focus on helping thousands of families still waiting to reunite,” he added in a release.

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The poll was released a day before and the protest came the day after Ford clarified, on YouTube, that he’d lied about using crack cocaine because he was “embarrassed,” as many people would be under the circumstances, and so chose to lie... as people, he said, do.

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And therein lies the confounding puzzle: how it is that a man who has seemingly embraced bigotry, dishonesty and criminal substance abuse can hold the support of such a significant percentage of the city? To say that Toronto has a growing strain of conservatism is not enough. Toronto has, apparently, an unbelievably high level of tolerance for intolerance and dishonesty.

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Filion says he suspects many voters support Ford and himself for the same reason.

“I’m a little like Rob Ford in that I’m out in the community all the time,” said Filion “They see me in the community, say, ‘that guy understands us.’ Last election, I often had people saying I’m voting for you and for Rob Ford. They basically say it because ‘we think you both care about us.’”

Filion said he could see Ford winning in October, if the field is crowded and another candidate doesn’t emerge who provides the same feeling of commonality that he does, “I hope there’s someone else the public can identify with more,” said Filion. “I haven’t seen who they are yet.

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