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North York Harvest Food Bank (NYHFB) has hit its Winter Food Drive goal, raking in $270,000 and 250,000 pounds of food. The drive, which ran Nov. 27 to Jan. 6, set a goal of $250,000 and 250,000 pounds of food, which would provide 750,000 meals to children and families in northern Toronto. NYHFB is the primary food bank for northern Toronto, distributing more than two million pounds of food every year through 77 neighbourhood programs.

Seniors into temporary space for four months LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com The mood was jubilant for members of St. Clair West Services for Seniors who returned home to their Eglinton Avenue and Scott Road location after four months in a temporary space. A group of seniors braved the frigid temperatures on Monday morning to parade from their temporary spot at 33 Gabian Way to reclaim their original home at 2562 Eglinton Ave. W. They carried flags, played tambourines and wore Hawaiian leis. “Oh, my gosh, it’s like I’ve died and gone to heaven,” an ecstatic Joan Morrison told The Guardian just before 11 o’clock as she arrived at the centre’s community room. “I’ve been waiting for this for ages.” Morrison joined St. Clair West Services for Seniors four years ago after she retired. She said she enjoys its many activities and events and takes part in the regular exercise and lunch programs. “Some of us live alone and it’s nice to have people to eat with,” Morrison said, adding she takes part in crafts and crocheting as well as volunteers at the centre. On the night of Sept. 2 a pipe burst behind a toilet in a second floor washroom and flooded the main floor. “It’s been a lengthy process,” said Wendy Robertson, manager of health and wellness, of cleaning up and >>>active, page 6

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St. Clair West Services for Seniors clients and staff march along Eglinton Avenue to their refurbished centre at 2562 Eglinton Ave. W. Monday morning. The centre had been temporarily housed at a location on Gabian Way, the starting point of the parade, after being displaced by flood damage in September.

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Crime Stoppers has teamed up with a Canadian comic book hero to raise awareness of the crime-fighting program. Captain Canuck, first published in 1975, will now have a secondary character called Crime Stopper. Toronto Crime Stoppers coordinator Det. Chris Scherk said the partnership promotes the program’s message to a younger audience, which it normally doesn’t reach. “I don’t expect them (young children) to pick up the phone and call Crime Stoppers,” he said. “But the fact that they already know what the program is about, when they’re in a position later on in life, (they’d) be able to pick up the phone and make that call. It’ll already be entrenched.” The partnership was announced Thursday, Jan. 7, at Toronto police headquarters where Captain Canuck repelled down the ten-storeyhigh atrium as Chief Mark Saunders, Mayor John Tory and Grade 4 students from Market Lane Junior and Senior Public School looked on. Asked what his message to the children is, Captain Canuck said “look after each other, look after your families, and if everybody is doing the best that they can, we’ll have a safer city, and I’ll have less work to do.” Scherk noted he had the Captain Canuck comics when he was a kid.

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Comic book character Captain Canuck displays a special issue at police headquarters on Thursday during the launch of a new Crime Stoppers initiative.

“I have a couple of them still in a box somewhere at home, so it was kind of cool for me to see the character make a resurgence.” The Crime Stopper character will appear in three to five issues. Saunders said the new initiative “can strike conversations in the house with parents with children on the importance of community safety, the steps that they can take to help keep their neighbourhoods safe.” In 2015, Toronto Crime Stoppers received 8,790 tips, leading to 107 arrests, 439 charges and the seizure of more than $7.3 million in

details Crime Stoppers is not a police agency. It is a partnership between the public, police and media that provides people with a program to assist the police anonymously to solve crimes. The program started in the U.S., while Calgary, AB became the first Canadian city to use the program in 1982. Since then, Crime Stoppers has expanded woldwide and now operates in more than 1,300 communities.

drugs. “They’re not the highest numbers we’ve ever had. They’re not the lowest. They’re good numbers,” Scherk said. By comparison, in 2014, the program fielded 8,740 tips, resulting in 90 arrests, the laying of 300 charges and the seizure of drugs worth more than $3 million. “We’d love to talk about big cases that we’ve solved, but we can’t because it could compromise that anonymity of our tipster, which we’d never do,” Scherk said. “But I can tell you that serious crimes such as homicides, robberies, serious assaults, assaults on children have all been solved this (past) year as a result of Crime Stoppers tips.” Since its inception in 1984, the program generated 124,947 tips, allowing police to lay 36,896 charges against 10,839 people and seize more than $312 million worth of drugs.

Artscape program given Trillium grant Funding will help creative types build entrepreneurial skills Artscape is one of the 300 initiatives the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) recently announced it is funding. Artscape, a not-for-profit organization that has and continues to establish creative cultural centres in Toronto, including Wychwood Barns and the Weston Hub, received a $450,000 grant to be used over the next three years. The funding will go towards equipping as many as 2,320 creative sector professionals with the skills they need to become successful entrepreneurs, a program that has been in the works for about eight years. The Artscape grant is supporting the creation of an entrepreneurship training program that’s tailored to the specific needs of artists and designers in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. “We’re really grateful to the Ontario Trillium Foundation. They’ve shown such a tremendous amount of foresight,” said Pru Robey, executive vice-president and director of the Artscape Launchpad Program. “It’s a pretty unique project from an arts and culture perspective and they were one of our early supporters. It’s wonderful that they’ve come back.” The Artscape Launchpad Program is designed to support its participants in establishing profitable and sustainable creative businesses, stabilizing existing businesses or expanding into new business areas. “A lack of business entrepreneurial skills is a factor for creative

Grants are available to homeowners in the Weston Heritage Conservation District. To find out more, attend the Weston Heritage Conservation District Board’s annual general Thursday meeting Thursday, Jan. 28 at 6:30 p.m. The guest speaker will be Dr. Gary Miedema of Toronto Preservation Services who will give a brief overview of how the Toronto Heritage Grant Program works and provide advice on how to submit a strong application. There will also be an update on the status of the Weston Heritage Conservation District and its Trillium grant. The meeting takes place at the Masonic Lodge, 2040 Weston Rd. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome. Visit www.heritageweston. com for details.

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people,” Robey said. “Thirty-three per cent are self-employed and often supplement their income through non-creative work. We heard this early on in our research. We’ve been designing this program as a result.” The program has been piloted for the past 18 months. By the end of the program period in December 2018, it will have helped to launch at least 180 creative sector businesses while allowing professional artists and designers to earn their incomes from their creative practices.

“With the Ontario Trillium Foundation funding, we’re significantly ramping up the program in the next two and a half years,” Robey said. The program targets people who are working in the arts or creative sector including visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers and music producers. The Ontario Trillium Foundation announcement was celebrated with the help of the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport Michael Coteau. The foundation is investing in more

than 320 initiatives it said will positively impact almost one million people across Ontario. “The grant review teams have gone above and beyond to ensure that OTF is making the right decisions when making investments in communities,” said Janet Yale, board chair of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, in a statement. “Congratulations to all our grantees. I am looking forward to hearing about your work and the successful stories that flow from your initiatives.”

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Esker Ridge Farm’s Dianne Webber shows off an Australian blue crown squash during The Stop Farmers’ Market at the Artscape Wychwood Barns last October.

Roscoe about the Monday market’s past and future, the challenges in making it work, and food and farm issues. This event will be held in the Oakwood Room at St. Matthew’s United Church, 729 St. Clair Ave. W., a five-minute walk from Wychwood Barns. For details, visit www.gn21.ca

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Cookie Roscoe, founder and manager of The Stop Community Food Centre farmers’ market at Artscape Wychwood Barns, will be speaking at an event hosted by Green Neighbours 21 on Monday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. She’ll be discussing what it’s like to run the market, deemed one of the best in the city. Take part in talking with

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ome mid-January, the post-holiday blues are in full effect as many have returned to their regular work schedule and the kids are back in school after time off. The festivities enjoyed just a couple weeks prior are nothing but a distant memory with the focus solely on surviving the winter that is now fully upon us. But what shouldn’t be so easily forgotten is all the goodwill Torontonians have shown throughout the Christmas season and the start of the new year. Charitable organizations as well as individuals who have requested for donations to be given to numerous worthy causes found their pleas answered. The numbers don’t lie. The North York Harvest Food Bank recently announced that it has hit its Winter Food Drive goal having raised $270,000 and 250,000 pounds of food. That’s enough to provide our view 750,000 meals to children and families in northern Toronto. The De Sario family, who live Help those near Keele Street and Sheppard who help Avenue, just tallied how much they raised with their annual others Christmas lights display consisting of 50,000 LED lights. Passersby opened their wallets during the month of December and the first week of January to the tune of nearly $16,000 for The Hospital for Sick Children. Across the city, residents and non-profit organizations also gave whatever the Syrian refugees who arrived in Canada this winter needed as they began to settle into their new adopted country. Embrace the challenge

The easy thing to do now is to feel good about what’s been achieved collectively and not think about doing anything charitable until the next holiday season. Instead, embrace the challenge to financially give if you’re able to do so. Or donate your time or any goods to groups that might need to help the disadvantaged in your community. For example, Soles 4 Souls Canada, https://soles4souls.org/canada/, is hosting a shoe fundraiser, accepting unwanted pairs of gently used or new shoes to give to those in need. Extend the spirit of giving and the warm feeling it brings throughout the rest of this cold winter.

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Mayor John Tory can take a lesson from Rob Ford on avoiding City of Toronto strikes Rob Ford caused his supporters a lot of grief over his term in the mayor’s office, but no one who voted for him had cause to complain about his mayoralty’s handling of labour relations. Unlike his two predecessors, Ford got through his tenure with just one strike: a short one, of library workers. Council under Ford’s leadership went so far as to end the possibility of work stoppage at the Toronto Transit Commission, convincing the province to turn the TTC into an essential service. And through it all: no garbage strike, no inside workers’ strike, nothing to trouble Torontonians’ summer holidays an iota. All other things being equal, this alone might have guaranteed the Ford family a key to the mayor’s office as long as they wanted. It was, after all, the discontent with the 40-day garbage strike presided

david nickle the city over by former mayor David Miller in 2009, that helped buoy Ford from his council seat to the mayoralty in 2010. The lesson – that job security for mayors and job security for garbage collectors can’t really coexist – was well-learned. It seems as though this too is the one positive lesson Mayor John Tory has taken from Ford. Because right before Christmas, just as Ford and his deputy mayor Doug Holyday did in their day, the new team asked for a labour conciliator just weeks after negotiations between the city and its outside workers began. This was a very effective strategy the last time the city used it. The conciliation process accelerates the timeline toward a possible

strike or lockout situation, making it impossible for the negotiators at CUPE Local 416 to time their work stoppage for the warm, potentially stinky, days of summer. That happens, and the city negotiators are under pressure from an increasingly exasperated public to settle. And politicians need to look no further than 2009 to understand the political cost of holding ground, as Miller and company did. Would matters be any easier watching garbage pile up in parks and parking lots in a mucky, rainy March? It’s likely we’ll never find out. With half the city’s garbage collection contracted out, there is a serious disincentive for outside workers to walk off the job when first, it’s damp, and second, nobody notices. That is likely why the city’s other major union, CUPE Local 79, held its

strike vote over the weekend. Toronto negotiators have so far not requested conciliation with its inside workers. And while they may have yet done so, as matters stood it would be easy to see a circumstance where both unions are negotiating contracts months apart from one another – so any labour disruption would only come from one element of city services and not both. But these are defensive maneuvers for unions that are in a losing battle with their employer. If Tory and council somehow find themselves facing a strike or ordering a lockout, Ford’s reliable if often off-base criticisms of his successor will finally have some real bite.

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If I’m not mistaken, I believe that’s snow Well, well, well. Look who finally decided to pay us a visit. If it isn’t snow. Wait a minute. I should pinch myself first to make sure I’m not dreaming. Ouch! (Memo to self: take it easy, man. Not so hard. It’s only a column. It ain’t the UFC, for heaven’s sake.) Anyhow, snow, I’m glad I’m not imagining things and that it is indeed you. Welcome back, stranger. I was wondering if I’d see you this season. Granted, I wish there was more of you to embrace. What I’m staring at is not exactly the massive snowfall I have come to know and love. But flurries are better than nothing. I’m not greedy. It’s great to have you around in any form. What’s that, snow? You say there’s more where that came from. Unlike that 24-hour snow/slush routine of a few weeks ago? You mean that? Or are you messing with me? You are serious? That’s great news. Wait until the word gets out. There are plenty of others who have missed you just as much, if not more than me. Take the hills around town,

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY for starters. They haven’t been themselves without you, snow. They were heartbroken for the entire school break without any kids, toboggans and sleds on the slopes. When they discover they have a chance to get back in the game, they’re going to be positively ecstatic. Ditto for the trails. They’ve been pining away all winter. It’s no secret they’re lonely without you this time of year. But once you drop a nice blanket on top, their spirits will soar. Meanwhile, the dogs in the city are going to be bouncing up and down when they actually see you on the ground for more than one morning in a row. They love snow more than anybody. They’ll be barking up a storm to get their owners to take them outside so they can make up for lost time. Mittens and gloves will be wanting to play some serious catch up with you too, snow. They’ve been itching to get

their hands on you since last winter. Snowsuits and parkas will also be eager to greet you with open arms. And leading the chorus of those serenading you will be all the outdoor rinks, who have had far too many down days this winter. Of course, not all in the city will be happy, particularly if your stay is a long one. I don’t expect sidewalks, driveways, streets and highways will ever be liking you on Facebook. Anyhow snow, that’s it. I won’t keep you. I just wanted to touch base and thank you for finally showing up. From where I sit, winter was hanging in the balance, but you saved the day by arriving just in the nick of time. As for you not being able to make it in the St. Nick of time? I wouldn’t lose any sleep over that if I were you. There’s always next year. 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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Active living fair, grand re-opening set for March 2 >>>from page 1 refurbishing the space. New floors were finished Friday in time for the seniors’ arrival on Monday, Robertson said. “We’re all so excited. The seniors really have been misplaced. Some of our clients had used the temporary space, but the consensus was they wanted to come home.”

Members and staff celebrated with music, a (nonalcoholic) champagne toast, and refreshments. “They’re just so excited. Two of our ladies have been here since 8 a.m.,” Robertson said. Membership dropped to about one third of its regular numbers during the relocation. Getting to the temporary spot proved to

be difficult for some with mobility issues, she said. The centre had approximately 270 members before the flood. “We’ll have to get on the phone to let people know we’re back here after four months,” Robertson said. Di a n a Ko u ra k o s w a s another member who was happy to return. She has been a member with St. Clair

Help decide the future of the Gardiner Expressway East We invite you to join us at an upcoming public meeting where you can comment on the results on the evaluation of the alternative designs for the Hybrid option for the future of the Gardiner Expressway East. The Study Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto are jointly carrying out the Gardiner Expressway / Lake Shore Boulevard Reconfiguration Environmental Assessment (EA) and Integrated Urban Design Study. The EA will determine the future of the Gardiner Expressway East and Lake Shore Boulevard East, from approximately Jarvis Street to approximately Leslie Street.

Services for Seniors for about a year and has participated in the exercise classes and knitting groups. “It feels great. It was nice there too, but it’s nice to be back home. I come here every day for the fitness program,” Kourakos said. Mary Bennett, a member for two decades, said she would walk every day to the centre. One of the seniors who made the chilly trek from Gabian Way back to Eglinton Avenue, she admitted she wasn’t too impressed with the weather. “It was really cold,” she said as she warmed up in the community room. Nico Cassidy, manager of community development, thanked paraders for their involvement. “We caused a fuss along Eglinton this morning,” she said. “We’re going to make this place alive again.” The centre, she said, serves as an anchor for so many. The non-profit, chari-

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Violet Hall, Zeter Monrose and Herma Lewis participate in a sing-a-long at the temporary facility of St. Clair Services for Seniors at 33 Gabian Way before they members marched back to their home site at 2562 Eglinton Ave. W.

table organization provides such support as adult day services, Meals on Wheels, respite care and supportive housing and transportation. Established in 1973, the centre provides its services in several languages by trained

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session, that Toronto must turn its poverty reduction strategy into “a living document,” and help ensure good jobs are available to keep

workers such as pages in a decent standard of living. CUPE Local 79 president Tim Maguire noted Toronto is “the

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reduction strategy “a signal of hope” that needed to be matched in the budget. While budget chief Gary Crawford has indicated council will likely do so, at this point there is no explicit funding for the strategy in the budget as staff has proposed it. It wasn’t all union leaders who spoke at the meeting. Grade 6 students from Mountview Alternative School took the city and Mayor John Tory to task for failing to adequately fund the many promises that have been made with higher tax rates. Tory has insisted property tax increases might be kept at the rate of inflation. Mo u n t v i e w s t u d e n t A n y a scolded councillors for their fear of property tax increases. “It is time we stopped thinking about taxes as the monster under our bed and instead thinking of them as the knight in shining armour coming to rescue us from that monster,” Anya read, from the statement prepared as a project by her class. The committee also heard from the Toronto Region Board of Trade, which came with specific budget recommendations and a set of three priorities: first, to come up with a funded and firm infrastructure plan, to maximize its assets through selling air rights over new Toronto Parking Authority parking lots, and to find more efficient ways to manage services. In particular, they urged councillors to heed the advice of a KPMG report looking at ways to economize at the Toronto Police Service.

Anti-poverty group suggests new revenue tools for Toronto DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Toronto could solve its budget problems with just two new revenue tools – the vehicle registration tax and a parking tax – according to a report from an anti-poverty advocacy group. But Toronto’s budget chief Gary

Crawford reiterated last week that the ideas put forth by Social Planning Toronto and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) won’t be a part of the 2016 budget process. “That’s not even on my radar at this point,” Crawford said. “My goal is to be able to achieve a 1.3 per cent property tax increase, and there will be a number of important invest-

ments that we’ll be doing, but at this point I don’t see revenue tools as an answer.” Crawford made the comments during a break in budget deliberations last week about an hour after a news conference at which CCPA economist Sheila Block unveiled estimates that the city could take in as much as $240 million a year implementing two

new taxes. Doing so, she said, would allow the city to fill what the Toronto Board of Trade and the United Way of Greater Toronto estimate to be $75 million of unmet needs in the area of poverty reduction. She noted that last year, Toronto unanimously approved a poverty reduction strategy that is currently not funded in the city’s 2016 budget.

“How do councillors be true to their word and actually deliver on something that will improve the lives of low-income people and improve all of our lives?” Block said. The budget committee is looking to find a total of $90 million to maintain services as they are now and also cover $67 million in unfunded commitments approved last year.

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Aviva Canada announces plan UberPool returns to Toronto this week to sell insurance to Uber drivers MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com UberX drivers in Toronto, criticized for not having proper insurance coverage for passengers, may soon be able to get some. Aviva Canada says it will be the first company in the country to sell supplementary insurance to its drivers who ride-share for the money. “Ride-sharing is not going away,” Glenn Cooper, a spokesperson for Aviva Canada, said last week. “Consumer demand drives this, just like anything else.” UberX dr ivers aren’t licensed by the city, but use an app to turn their cars into a rolling business. With an estimated 16,000 operating in Greater Toronto, said Cooper, “we knew there was a gap in coverage.” Last fall, Aviva Canada cancelled some policies for UberX drivers in Ottawa after their commercial use was revealed

because, a company document stated, driving for Uber “is still considered commercial use and is unacceptable for personal vehicles.” Aviva’s position is that most UberX drivers are ride-sharing part-time, and their add-on coverage, which the company hopes to offer starting next month, isn’t a commercial policy but covers driving done on a commercial basis. Coverage is capped at 20 hours a week and could cost as little as $500 per year, Cooper said. Licensed taxis in Toronto are required to have commercial insurance. The city, after trying unsuccessfully in court to shut down Uber within its jurisdiction, is working on new regulations to cover both taxicabs and ride-sharing drivers. Cooper said Aviva is not taking sides, but hoping this will help municipalities make decisions on how to deal with ride-sharing services.

“If ride-sharing is outlawed, then we would adjust accordingly,” he said. Uber has said its drivers are covered by a $5-million insurance policy, but members of the taxi industry and politicians have questioned whether this covers passengers or meets Ontario regulations. Asked whether Uber Canada would recommend such supplementary insurance to its drivers, Susie Heath, a spokesperson, said Uber hasn’t seen details of the new Aviva policy. “We are encouraged to see a growing number of Canada’s insurers show interest in innovation in the transportation space,” Heath added last Wednesday. “We remain committed to working with insurance companies and regulators across Canadian jurisdictions to quickly offer viable insurance products that embrace ride-sharing.”

Uber Canada will resume its carpooling service in Toronto this week, the company has confirmed. UberPool was launched on a trial basis during last year’s Pan Am Games. Over the two-week period in July, fares could be split between two riders headed in the same direction. And with costs to the user ending up 30 per cent cheaper than UberX – Uber’s controversial private taxi service – it was only a matter of time before the carpool option became permanent. UberPool will be available in wide swathes of the city, although suburban areas are largely excluded. Only two riders per ride can take advantage of the fare-splitting option. HOLDS DAVENPORT MEETING wMETROLINX

Metrolinx will hold a public meeting in Davenport to discuss its planning study for an overpass to separate local rail traffic. The provincial transit planning agency has come

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under fire for its proposal to build a rail bridge for Barrie line GO trains, which opponents fear will have the same effect as placing the Gardiner Expressway in their neighbourhood. The meeting is 6:30 p.m. Monday at the DavenportPe r t h Ne i g h b o u r h o o d Centre. LAYTON FERRY TERMINAL update wJACK

Waterfront Toronto will provide an update on plans to renovate the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal. A new vision for the ferry terminal and surrounding Harbour Square Park was the focus of an international design competition held in 2015, won by a partnership made up of local architectural firms KPMB and Greenberg Consultants, and West 8 from the Netherlands. The winning proposal

entails a terminal roof made of wood and topped by parkland – a far cry from the current concrete structure. Waterfront Toronto will reveal an update of the winning design at a Jan. 26 meeting at the Brigantine Room in Harbourfront Centre starting at 6:30 p.m. TO DISCUSS FUNDING at bathurst wTTCRIDERS

TTCriders will take their message of better transit funding directly to the transit commission’s customers during a public event this week. On Friday, members of the transit advocacy group will take to Bathurst station between 1 and 3 p.m. to lobby riders about the TTC’s cash flow woes. This month, the TTC increased cash and token fares, and the group said it is fed up with what it sees as a lack of government support. Rahul Gupta is Metroland Media Toronto’s transit reporter. His column appears every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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