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inside Make cultural connections; check out our weekly calendar for Black History Month events / 5 Guardian columnist David Nickle is on the City Hall beat / 15 Residents learn the latest crime stats out of 12 Division / 3

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Elijah Lloyd Anthony Marsh, 3, was found last Thursday morning about 300 metres from his grandmother’s building after wandering away during the night. He later died in hospital.

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12 Division police update residents on crime stats

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Residents came armed with neighbourhood concerns to a 12 Division town hall meeting Wednesday, Feb. 18.

The small crowd of approximately 20 people inside Weston Collegiate Institute on Pine Street heard what’s being done to combat crime in the north-west division, as well as last year’s crime statistics.

According to Toronto Police Service’s Major Crime Indicators, robberies, auto thefts and sex assaults were up slightly in 2014 from the previous year within the division, which is bounded by Hwy. 401, the CNR, St. Clair Avenue and the Humber River. The division had 21 shootings – the second highest number in the city – and four homicides, two of which have been solved and the majority gang related.

A number of projects were launched in the division last year, resulting in numerous arrests. Overall, 1,116 arrests were made within 12 Division in 2014.

Though there are a number of high crime areas spread throughout the division, Jane Street and Lawrence Avenue appears to be a hot spot where the majority of shootings, mostly gang related, happen.

Staff Sgt. Joanne Rudnick of the Community Response Unit said most of the complaints she receives are related to drugs, traffic or disorderly behaviour, noting although the Keele Street and Eglinton Avenue area has moments of high crime, she credits an active BIA to keeping things relatively quiet as of late.

Supt. Scott Weidmark urged the public to call police for all issues, including mischief and graffiti concerns.

He acknowledged smartphone street robberies remain high, with the hours following the end of school a prime time for thefts.

“Toronto is still the safest city in Canada,” he said,

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adding police need to be informed of all incidents in order to properly serve the community.

If residents prefer to report complaints online instead of by phone, they can visit the Toronto Police Service’s website and do so from there, he said.

Online reporting is only available for traffic complaints, theft under $5,000, theft from vehicle under $5,000, damage to property under $5,000, and damage to vehicle under $5,000. All online reports will be followed up, he said.

Traffic complaints officer Const. Peter De Quintal urged residents to call police instead of a city councillor’s office for traffic concerns, adding of the 2,047 collisions in 12 Division last year, none were fatal.

Ibrahim Kureshi said he’s concerned about crime in the Richardson and Kane avenues area, specifically what he perceives as an increase in shooting deaths.

“I have to walk by that area and I don’t feel safe at all,” he said of the area near Keele Street and Eglinton Avenue.

However, Weidmark said murders don’t happen regularly in that area, noting the division has two to four murders a year on average and not usually in the same spot.

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Elaine Gold of the Canadian Language Museum pins her mother language on a map of the neighbourhood at Maria A. Shchuka Library as part of an exhibit celebrating International Mother Language Day. To learn more about the museum, visit www.languagemuseum.ca

Poverty fact-finding mission coming to York If you’ve lived with poverty in Toronto, the city wants to hear how you and others can leave it behind.

D e p u t y M a y o r Pa m McConnell will be in eight neighbourhoods this month to hold conversations about poverty reduction “that will be kept in the room,” she said.

But McConnell added stories from these closed-door sessions, dubbed 8 Days of Dialogue, will form part of an anti-poverty strategy that should reach Toronto council this May or June.

Heritage district AGM wWeston Residents are invited to attend the annual general meeting of the Weston Heritage Conservation District (WHCD) taking place on Tuesday, March 31 at 1901 Weston Rd., Unit F. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. with the program including a look at the WHCD over the past year,

“We know poverty is everybody’s business, and we know we need to get moving on it,” said the Toronto CentreRosedale councillor.

“I wouldn’t be doing it if I didn’t think it was possible.”

McConnell’s fact-finding tour, to which city media are not invited, has already included visits to the MasarykCowan Community Centre downtown, the Scarborough neighbourhoods of Malvern, Eglinton East and KingstonGalloway, and North York’s Dr i f t w o o d Co m m u n i t y

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Today, the tour will stop at Kingsview Village Community Centre in Etobicoke from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The final visit will be to the Jane Street Community Hub in Weston-Mount Dennis on Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m.

McConnell said the talks – examining affordable housbe hosting a Black History Month event, celebrating Toronto’s Reggae Roots, this evening at the Fairbank Legion, 1A Ramsden Rd. The festivities begin at 7 p.m. with an evening of fellowship, live music and traditional foods including jerk chicken, rice and peas, chicken back soup, and mac n’ cheese.

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ing, transportation, food security and other issues – won’t seek to re-invent work done over the last eight or nine years in areas the city has called priority neighbourhoods and neighbourhood improvement areas.

People “know exactly what they need” to improve their lives, and strategic investments by the city can lead to lifetimes of success, she said.

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ith International Women’s Day on March 8, we’re looking at what it means to be female, the relationships between men and women in the workplace and Canadian society and some of the challenges women are facing and how they differ from a century ago.

The history of International Women’s Day goes back to New York City in 1908 when women marched for shorter working hours, better pay and the right to vote.

While it may seem hard to believe today, there was a time in both the United States and Canada when the right to vote did not extend to women. It wasn’t until 1919 in Canada that women were given that right. In the United States it was 1920, though some states had allowed women to vote going as far back as the late 1800s.

All of which should remind our view us that the issue of women’s rights is still a part of recent Despite gains, history and ongoing news.

Locally, in today’s papers women’s rights we talk with Toronto District remain an issue School Board student equity advisor and body image consultant Jill Andrew on the issues women and girls face when it comes to self-esteem and equity.

Andrews said an event such as International Women’s Day is a good time to remember that women need to not simply be satisfied that they are at the table when it comes to making decisions in politics, business and their personal lives. “We need to be the people forming the table and finding people to push our ideas forward.”

Lorna Marsden, a former president and vicechancellor of York University, agrees there is still work to be done even in a society that appears equitable and tolerant such as ours. “We have made tremendous gains, but we don’t have equal pay, we are still lacking in representation of women in decision-making positions such as business and cultural,” she pointed out.

We hope the stories in today’s paper of local, inspiring women serve to get both women and men thinking more about the issue of gender equality and what needs to be done next.

Those looking for more information on International Women’s Day events in Toronto, wishing to see our stories with local women of influence, or to add to the conversation with their comments, are invited to visit us online at www.insidetoronto.com

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The secret to rolling up the rim success I dropped into my neighbourhood Tim Hortons Sunday morning and ran into my buddy Mike, who is usually all smiles. He was slumped in his chair, shaking his head.

“I never win,” he sighed as he showed me the PLEASE PLAY AGAIN written on the inside of his rim.

“Forget about a car, I can’t even win half a Timbit.”

“Chin up, lad. If it’s any consolation, I haven’t won half a Timbit either.”

“Jamie, you know there’s no such prize. Can’t you be serious for even one second in your life?”

“Beats me. Why don’t I buy you another cup of coffee. If you win a stopwatch you can time me and you’ll know once and for all. How’s that sound?”

“You know they don’t give away stopwatches in the contest, either. But I’ll take you up on your offer because I’m itching to take another shot at the rim.”

“Coming right up and to show you what kind of guy

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY I am, while you try again I’ll watch and then give you some tips on how to improve on your rim game plan.”

I could see in his eyes he wanted to ask me if he could just get the java without having to be subjected to my tips. But he knew better. Anyhow, we talked over our coffees, intermittently our coffees talked over us and then it was time to get down to business. Mike did his thing, but it ended up in the same old same old PLEASE PLAY AGAIN. He showed it to me and whined, “See?” “What do you expect, man? You didn’t do it right,” I replied.

“What do you mean I didn’t do it right? I rolled it up. Just like I always do.”

“Precisely, my point.

That’s why you never win.

You’re not following the exact instructions. They clearly state you have to RRROLL it up. Not roll.

RRROLL.” I got him another, but alas, it was deja vu all over (PLEASE PLAY) again.

“How do you explain why I lost this time, Mr. Know-It-All?” “That wasn’t a RRROLL, either. You PPPOPPED it up. Come on man, you’re not concentrating. I’ll go get you one more. But please, focus this time.”

He tried once more, but the outcome was still nada.

“So?” “Admittedly a slight improvement, but you merely UUUNCURLED that rim.” ...Later that afternoon.

“Come on Mike, even a child of four knows that was a textbook LLLIFT up.” ...Later that evening.

“Also not a RRROLL, I’m afraid. That was a TTTWIST and SSSHOUT. For what it’s worth, Twitter didn’t care for the TTTWIST at all,

but went bonkers over your embarrassing SSSHOUT.” That was the last straw.

Mike officially threw in the towel. “OK, hotshot, since you’re such an expert, I’ll buy you a cup and you can show me how it’s done.”

“Be glad to. I thought you’d never ask.”

I gulped the coffee down, rubbed my hands together a few times, wiggled my magic fingers and then made my move, after which I broke into a huge grin.

“Read and it weep, pal. I just won half a...”

An astonished Mike interrupted. “Timbit? You just won half a Timbit?”

“Better. Half a stopwatch. So even though you won’t get the answer to your original question, at least you’ll be able to find out if I can be serious for half a second.”

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Movie: Good Hair WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Join us Fridays evenings in February for our Black History Month film screenings. In ‘Good Hair’ Chris Rock visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, laboratories and Indian temples to explore the way hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, relationships and self-esteem of the black community. Rated PG.

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efore Scarborough native Jill Andrew became known for giving empowering speeches to young women about selfesteem and before she provoked deep conservations about female body image and female representation in the media, she was just Jill: a curvy woman with her own set of insecurities and hardships she had to overcome.

“As a child I was sexually abused. I was a victim and a survivor of that,” she said.

“One of the first things that I had to get over is that I had done nothing wrong.

That’s a huge part of it. It doesn’t matter what poster you read or what PSA (public service announcement) comes on, you oftentimes sit with this feeling of what did I do? Was it the way I was dressed? What did I say to egg the person on or entice them?”

After years of therapy and support Andrew accepted that what happened wasn’t her fault.

“Your body is not to blame, your person is not to blame and that these are bigger issues than an individual thing. These are systems that we’re living with where men predominantly feel as though they have ownership over women’s bodies,” she When Frances Nunziata first entered politics in 1985, she recalled the negative comments people made about her.

Not everyone approved of her running for school trustee as a divorced, single mother, who was working multiple jobs at the time to support her son and herself.

“I found it very discouraging,” said

explained.

“Looking back over my years now, I started to realize I had to take ownership of me and that’s all I can take ownership for; not somebody else’s wrong doings because that’s how we grow.”

It’s that same self-ownership Andrew lectures about in her keynote speeches at conferences on university campuses across Toronto.

Her acceptance of what happened to her and her own body image led her to become founder of the Body Confidence Canada Awards, the Curvy Catwalk Fashion Fundraiser and co-founder of FatinTheCity.com, a plus-size fashion “fatshion” blog.

She also doubles as a body image consultant and works for the Toronto District School Board as a student equity program advisor.

There she helps plan conferences, events, workshops and opportunities for children to learn and connect with each other and also help shift their perception of gender roles, what women are capable of achieving and self-esteem.

“There’s this idea that we (women) should be thankful that we should be at the table. No. We need to be the people forming the table and bringing the ideas to the table and finding people to help us push our ideas forward. A lot of the work that I try to do is

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around that,” Andrew told The York Guardian.

During her speeches, Andrew focuses on the long-term negative effects on women and girls as they begin to police their bodies.

Self-policing, according to Andrew, happens more often than women think; it’s in the form of not going out past a certain time because you could get hurt or not wearing spaghetti straps because you doesn’t want to be labelled a slut.

This follows girls into adulthood, she said, explaining some women mute their opinions to avoid being called “bitch in the boardroom” by the boys club.

“It’s all of this self-policing we do that doesn’t pay attention to the larger systemic issues going on that create

the environment where women and girls feel like they have to censor themselves, with what they wear or their ideas,” Andrew said “(If it continues) you start to chip away at your own self-esteem and your own worth and your own knowledge and it happens to women all the time.”

Andrew believes it’s time we look at how these images affect a woman financially as well as emotionally and physically.

“The body image conversation needs to go deeper, we need to encourage women and girls to think about how a negative self-concept or negative self-worth might impact your salary. We know that women are missing statistically from board of directors, women are missing

from politics,” she said.

However, the future isn’t bleak. Andrew said awareness is growing of manipulation tactics used when it comes to perceptions of feminine and masculine ideals. And with that awareness, younger people tend to be more vigilant and thus quicker to point out the manipulations online.

“I got to tell you they’re more receptive now. I feel like this generation is a frustrated generation. I feel they’re a generation that wants things to be better and are willing to do the work and have the conversations and are willing to do a little more than maybe I did.”

“There’s something percolating here that will make way for a better world as we move forward.”

celebrate women’s success Nunziata, adding those kind of comments would follow her even as she was elected as the only woman on the former city of York council in 1988.

“They thought I wouldn’t be able to handle the challenges.”

As a councillor in

the former city of York, Nunziata was credited for helping uncover municipal corruption in a controversial deal to sell Fairbank Park to a developer to build condos.

After a police investigation, two York councillors, a Metro councillor

and a developer were sentenced to jail.

Nunziata was later elected mayor of York in 1994 prior to the amalgamation of the City of Toronto.

She acknowledged that much has changed since then and the annual

International Women’s Day on Sunday, March 8 is a great opportunity to celebrate women and their careers.

“It’s been a struggle for years and I think we’ve come a long way,” said Nunziata, noting it’s especially encouraging

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for younger women to hear the success stories of other women. “You see a lot more women getting into politics.”

And for the young women out there, Nunziata encouraged them to pursue their goals.

“Nothing is impossible if you work hard enough,” she said.

– Clark Kim

scramble may come to a halt wpedestrian The Bay-Bloor pedestrian scramble is one step closer to extinction thanks to the city’s public works and infrastructure committee.

The committee voted 5-1 during its meeting on Monday to support a staff recommendation to get rid of the scramble at Bay Street and Bloor Street West which forces car traffic in all directions to come to a halt so pedestrians can freely cross from any side of the four-way intersection.

According to staff the negative impact on vehicle traffic is not worth the “modest” benefit to pedestrians.

The decision, which requires final assent from city council to become reality, has pedestrian advocates concerned about the future of other scrambles, such as at the intersection of Yonge Street and Dundas Street.

Hydro, TTC Power struggle wToronto

Toronto’s still in the dark as to who was responsible for Monday morning’s electrical outage, which knocked out

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT subway service from BloorYonge to Union during the rush-hour period.

Initially the TTC attributed the delay to flooding at an electrical substation owned by Toronto Hydro, cautioning it would take up to a minimum three hours to clear up.

But around 8:30 a.m., about an hour after the TTC’s statement, Toronto Hydro through its official Twitter account said the delay was not because of the substation but “TTC owned equipment failure”.

HOSTS PUBLIC FORUM wTTCRIDERS

TTCriders is taking stock of the state of local transit as part of an upcoming public forum.

The city’s largest transit activist group has gained prominence with a series of high-profile social media campaigns intended to bring attention to the overburdened TTC system. With the John Tory era promising meaning-

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Pan Ams: athletes’ village complete – on budget, on time Justin Skinner jskinner@insidetoronto.com Toronto is officially set to welcome thousands of athletes from across the Americas for this summer’s Pan Am/Parapan Am Games.

With less than half a year to go before the Toronto 2015 Games start, the athletes’ village is officially complete, with dignitaries and Toronto-area athletes on hand for an official ceremony last Friday.

“In less than five months from now, the eyes of the world will be focusing here in Toronto, the GTA and Ontario as we welcome 41 countries and more than 10,000 athletes and officials here to compete in the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Games in 51 sports, the largest sporting event in the history of Canada,” said Michael Coteau, Ontario minister responsible for the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games.

The village will feature a new YMCA, a coffee shop, a store, a dining tent, banking facilities and more. Once the athletes leave, the area will undergo a six-month transformation before becoming a vibrant downtown community with a mix of affordable housing and retail, plus accommodations for George Brown College students.

“After the Games, our community partners will transform the athletes’ village into the foundation of a vibrant new Toronto neighbourhood, the Canary District,” said Premier Kathleen Wynne, who noted that, with work complete, the West Don Lands area already shows a glimpse of its long-term future.

“You can already see that this is a neighbourhood,” she said.

“You can see with your imagination people walking up and down these laneways, in and out of these buildings.”

The new community will feature shops, the Cooper Koo YMCA, health-care facilities and housing, with the first permanent residents slated to move in as soon as April 2016 and George Brown students set to enter the school’s residences on site in September 2016.

Mayor John Tory noted the development of the $709-million athletes’ village – and the legacy uses for the site – serve as a longoverdue revitalization of an area close to Toronto’s waterfront.

“We’ve gathered in a place which people had basically written off not too long ago,” he said. “If you go back and look at what people were saying about this very site that we’re standing on today 20 years ago, I think it’s a miracle we’re standing here today.”

Toronto 2015 CEO Saad Rafi also

lauded the work on the athletes’ village, which came in on time and on budget, and which will provide plenty of benefits to the city well beyond the scope of this summer’s sporting event.

“Beyond the Games, we’ve launched a new Toronto waterfront community,” he said. “When the athletes have gone home, you’ll see

children playing, students rushing to class, seniors living independently. That vision is soon becoming a reality.”

Canadian athlete Samantha Sendal had a chance to visit the athletes’ village while construction was still underway and said she was pleased with what she saw.

She pointed out the athletes will

want for nothing – particularly the Canadian athletes, who had first choice of accommodations and had their own area painted red to convey Canadian pride.

“There’ll be coffee shops, banks and a 24-hour food tent, and it has a really homey feel,” she said. “There will also be stations set up near the village where our friends and family

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The Toronto 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games will take place this summer, with the Pan Am Games running from July 10 to 26 and the Parapan Am Games taking place from Aug. 7 to 15.

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Firing up the Pan Am Games Torch Relay Excitement is building for the 41-day journey of the Pan Am Games Torch Relay, which will have more than 180 celebrations.

The details of the route have just been released and more than 130 Ontario communities and five communities outside of the province will host the Pan Am flame.

The torch relay starts when the Pan Am flame is lit during a traditional Aztec lighting ceremony at the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico.

It will end on July 10 with the lighting of the cauldron at the opening ceremony in downtown Toronto.

The torch relay will visit six Canadian Forces Bases, a national and a provincial park, as well as five First Nations communities, including the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation, the official Host First Nation of the Games. The torch relay will also visit five national historic sites, including Fort Henry in Kingston and the Halifax Citadel.

It will also be part of the Canada Day festivities on Parliament Hill on July 1.

Three-thousand torchbearers will carry the flame through communities across Ontario as well as Richmond, BC, Calgary, Winnipeg, Montreal and Halifax.

The torch will see more than 60 modes of transportation while touring through Canada and exceed 5,000 kilometres on the road and 15,000 kilometres by air.

Specific timing for the more than 180 community celebrations, as well as the street-level route, will be confirmed beginning in May.

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Veronika Anissimova wins national gold medal from Royal Conservatory >>>from page 1 graduate-level exam that is professionally recognized in performance, theory or pedagogy.

While she said the national top honours may not be enough to ensure she achieves her dream, it will help.

“To say the least, this is a bit of a confidence boost,” said Anissimova, who lives near Bathurst Street and Eglinton Avenue West. “Now I know that I have it in me to be the best at some level. I hope it will mean something.

It looks really good on my resume.”

Anissimova is in her third year at the University of Toronto majoring in piano.

She has an ARCT diploma for piano already, though she didn’t receive a national medal for that achievement.

She calls voice her primary instrument.

Born in Moscow, Russia, Anissimova immigrated to Canada with her family at age three.

At age four, she was singing in a choir, where she learned to sight read, which she said helped her ease into piano when she started taking lessons at age eight.

At age 11, she started taking formal vocal lessons and now sings mostly opera repertoire.

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surprised she achieved the highest mark in Canada.

“I didn’t think of anything like that going into the exam.

I just wanted to do justice to the music I was singing,” she said.

Her vocal exam featured French, German, Italian and English music by composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert, plus modern music and more.

Her vocal teacher, Inna Golsband, said the young musician’s musical ability is a result of her dedication to the art.

“She’s a very hard worker,”

– Veronika Anissimova

said Golsband, who has been teaching Anissimova the past four years. “She’s disciplined, absolutely disciplined and she works. She’s very intelligent and understands the importance of hard work and she does it. She actually does the work.”

Anissimova understands the competitive nature of opera, but said she enjoys the challenge.

“There are so many good singers out there. It’s hard.

Even at my level right now, it’s a very competitive field.

All you can do is just improve yourself as much as you can and express what you have to say,” she said.

She encourages other young singers to keep working at their craft if this is what they want.

“The only thing that will matter in the end is whether you gave it your all,” she said.

Anissimova received her medal at a recent ceremony in Koerner Hall at the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning in Toronto.

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Newcomers fair at Metro Toronto Convention Centre DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com The Newcomers Canada Fair is returning to Toronto for a third year, putting a number of services under one roof to help new Canadians.

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“We hope that attendees meet and get connected with relevant people, whether it’s an employer looking for people, or if it’s a settlement organization

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looking for more people,” said Michelle Kearney, spokesperson for the event, put on by Newcomers Canada.

“I’ve been speaking to a lot of people at our Calgary fair and they said it’s great to have all this information in one place,” she said.

Organizers are anticipating having approximately 40 vendors from four key areas.

They are immigration officials, employers, settlement organizations and education service providers.

Kearney said the employers are in the sectors of construction and trades, manufacturing and production, marketing, engineering and more.

Newcomers Canada anticipates approximately 2,000 visitors at the one-day

event, Kearney said many of the attendees will be wellprepared, having picked up a lot of information they need online, but that web experience doesn’t compare to speaking one-on-one with someone who is an expert in his or her field.

“To have all of that under one roof, with various different areas, is very helpful,” she said.

“To have the attendees coming out of the fair and finding what they needed, whether it’s information on their permanent residency or getting further educated or whatever it is, just the fact that they get whatever they were looking for is deemed a success for us.”

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What may be considered simple tasks or errands for many of us can take on substantial effort for those who are elderly and physically challenged. For this reason, there are a number of things that should be done to assure that those in need receive the required support to get them through the cold winter months. The Toronto Central Community Care Access Cen-

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Cuts create a nasty little mess The budget committee had been doing so well under the circumstances. Its new chair Gary Crawford had run pleasant and accommodating meetings, absent any of the chiding nastiness and bladder-challenging standoffs with deputations.

There had been some trouble but overall it had been going so well, until the very last moments of its deliberations last week.

That was when budget committee member Michelle Berardinetti brought up some last-minute, and on the face of it perplexing amendments. Berardinetti moved to cut some planned staffing enhancements – from two of the city’s accountability offices, the ombudsman and the integrity commissioner, and also from the complement of planning staff whose duties included helping the city deal with its backlog of heritage conservation districts.

The motions were a surprise to everyone watching and at least one of the committee members – Shelley Carroll.

david nickle the city She called the planning cuts in particular “a disaster.”

The eight additional planners that are no longer in the budget would have let the city work on a more aggressive schedule of assessing and establishing heritage conservation districts. Maybe that didn’t seem like such a disaster on Friday when the motion passed. But on Tuesday, heritage advocates begged to differ.

Currently the city has a backlog of 16 neighbourhoods that are candidates for preservation of their heritage elements, and there are likely more that haven’t been flagged. If the city doesn’t get going on that, then buildings and elements that reflect Toronto’s history will continue to erode — and eventually, vanish.

A s R i c h a rd L o n g l e y, President of Architectural Conservancy Ontario, told the

planning and growth management committee: “I see that proposal at budget committee as a kind of suicide note.”

As for the ombudsman and integrity commissioner, both of those offices represent crucially important checks against incompetence and malfeasance. They were established in legislation in response to political and administrative corruption unearthed in the Bellamy inquiry.

Both offices investigated and shed light on improprieties at the last council and at a staff level that offered real consequences and remedies.

Some of those investigations had serious consequences indeed.

Though those cuts were in the interest of “fiscal responsibility,” the method of their delivery indicates something not quite so pure. It is indeed a nasty little mess, that the city’s executive committee and council will either have to wear, or clean up.

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