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COMING UP WITH A CO-ORdINATEd STRATEGy TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING miKE ADLER AND fANNiE SuNSHiNE newsroom@insidetoronto.com The young man stands before the judge, barely crossing the age threshold of being tried in adult court.

Charges against him are lengthy and grim: a snippet includes forcible confinement, uttering threats, sexual assault, and human trafficking.

Police know the human trafficking charge will be the hardest one to land a conviction on, mainly due to the victim’s unwillingness to testify or memory lapses, and will often take pleas for lesser offences.

The total number of human trafficking convictions in Toronto since 2014 now stands at nine; in the first week of July alone, Toronto police arrested seven men within a four-day

span on human trafficking charges, one case involving a victim as young as 14.

And one York Region cop has no problem dropping human trafficking charges if it means pimps will land in jail.

“It doesn’t mean they all walk, they all got away,” said Det. Sgt. Thai Truong, adding as a police officer, as long as the accused is found guilty for what he’s done >>>human, page 3

Pokémon Go players try to ‘catch ’em all’ More than 1,000 attend official Canadian launch party at the base of the CN Tower KELSEY CHENG kcheng@insidetoronto.com Marina De La Peña remembers playing and watching Pokémon when she was little. Now at the age of 20, she never thought she’d be meeting over a thousand people that shared a collective memory of Pokémon – at the same time.

“I g re w u p w i t h Pokémon – I ‘ve watched all of the anime and played most of the games,” said De La Peña, who gathered at the base of the CN Tower on Monday night with her brother Rodrigo and many other Pokémon Go players to celebrate the official release of the game in Canada. “I am so happy about this launch because I get to meet people who love what I love. It’s brilliant.”

The launch of the game was particularly special to De La Peña, who was inspired by

Pokémon to study animation at Max the Mutt college in Toronto from Mexico.

She said the augmented reality aspect is what draws her to the new game.

“Pokémon has always been about travelling,” she said.

“Now, you get to explore the city while playing the game and you get to meet new friends along the way. It’s a really positive experience.”

The highlight of the evening was when a life-sized Pikachu mascot showed up, attracting >>>players, page 6

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There’s one thing FoodShare Toronto won’t be packing up and moving when it relocates from the Bloor West and Dufferin streets-area to the Mount Dennis neighbourhood mid-next month: its 1,000 sq. ft. greenhouse.

That’s why the non-profit organization, which works with communities and schools to deliver healthy food and food education, is seeking a new owner for the structure that has served as a FoodShare teaching tool for almost a decade.

“There’s been lots of interest in the building so far.

There are lots of people who would love it, but no one has the funds to cover the cost of taking it down and putting it back up,” said Angela ElzingaCheng, FoodShare’s urban agriculture and community food animation manager.

Dismantling, moving, and installing the greenhouse at a new location comes with a price tag of approximately $50,000. It was built by Rogers Custom Greenhouse Mfg. about eight years ago after FoodShare embarked on a fundraising campaign to offset its cost.

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Latanya Austini, a participant of the Canada Summer Jobs 2014 program at FoodShare Toronto, tends to the organization’s greenhouse. FoodShare is seeking a new owner for the greenhouse.

used to its full capacity. It has a big amount of growing capacity,” ElzingaCheng said. “We’ve used it as a classroom; for growing seedlings.

It’s a very functional greenhouse.”

FoodShare would like to see the greenhouse go to a community-led organization or a non-profit. Staff are willing to help these groups facilitate funding, from such organizations as the Ontario Trillium Foundation that offers a capital grant, said Debbie Field, FoodShare Toronto’s executive director.

FoodShare will add a green-

house at its new location, at 120 Industry St. FoodShare’s current building at 90 Croatia St. is being reclaimed by the Toronto District School Board. In the new location, FoodShare will be able to operate 24-hours a day, seven days a week as opposed to just daytime hours, which will allow for more programming. It will also be in proximity to other non-profit organizations.

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It will be game on for street hockey players this year, after Toronto Council voted without debate to permit the playing of hockey and basketball on some roads.

The move came on July 15, the fourth day of Toronto Council’s last meeting before the summer break, as weary politicians gave the thumbs-up to EglintonLawrence Councillor Christin Carmichael Greb’s motion setting out rules for on-street basketball and hockey.

Transportation staff had recommended against allowing the age-old practise of playing ball hockey and bas-

ketball on streets with portable nets, “as it encourages children and adults to play on the roadway” and could create a safety hazard.

Council decided it was worth the risk.

“We’re dealing with an age where obesity’s a problem and kids don’t have the space to get out and run around,” Carmichael Greb said. “I think that parents need to teach their kids how to be responsible and play safely. Most of us grew up doing it and it’s not anything different now.

You yell ‘car’ and you go away, and you yell ‘play’ and you go on and play.”

Carmichael Greb moved an amendment to the bylaw prohibiting playing on roads.

Now hockey and basketball are permitted on local roads that have a speed limit of 40 km/hr or less, only during daylight hours and never before 9 a.m. or after 8 p.m..

Those who decide to play are responsible for finding locations that are safe and playing safely, and they waive all claims against the city in the event of mishap.

Portable nets are allowed so long as they don’t obstruct sight lines, nor obstruct driveways or create safety hazards for vehicles and pedestrians.

They also can’t interfere with street cleaning or traffic control devices and must be removed on completion of the activity.

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Human trafficking issue is ‘a provincial, national crisis’ >>>from page 1 and justice is served, “I’m happy with that.”

The provincial government unveiled the long-awaited human trafficking strategy Thursday, June 30, which calls for an investment up to $72 million aimed at increasing awareness and co-ordination, enhancing justice-sector initiatives and improving survivors’ access to services. Currently, Ontario is grappling with roughly 65 per cent of police-reported human trafficking cases in Canada.

The strategy involves nine ministries and is based on four pillars: strong leadership through an antihuman trafficking office through CommSoc, which will collect and share information; increased awareness and community supports to help survivors heal; justice sector initiatives to identify trafficking earlier and hold traffickers to account; and indigenous-led approaches.

Det. Sgt. Nunzio Tramontozzi of Toronto Police Service’s human trafficking team called the strategy a great start, noting specialized Crowns are a police asset.

If Crowns don’t understand “trauma bonds” between the victim and pimp, it’s hard for them to wrap their mind around why a girl would protect a guy who brutalized her for years, he said, adding instead of forging ahead and putting the victim on the stand, they tend to take pleas for lesser offences.

“As of last summer we only had

one (human trafficking) conviction in Toronto,” he said. “One guy. It’s pretty sad.”

Ontario’s Attorney General Yasir Naqvi, who was on hand for the strategy’s release, called human trafficking an increasing, complex problem.

A specialized team of Crown attorneys will ensure cases are prosecuted effectively and consistently across province, he said, adding expanded quick response programs will be in place to help victims, including paying for things such as travel costs, identification replacement, and enhancing 24-hour crisis assistance.

But not everyone was pleased with the strategy.

Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MPP Laurie Scott, who put forward a private member’s bill Saving the Girl Next Door, which calls for victims to obtain restraining orders against their trafficker and sue them for damages, said while the strategy is a step in the right direction, it ultimately falls short.

The Conservative MPP took issue with the lack of permanent multiyear funding and firm deadlines for establishing a multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary task force.

In an interview with Metroland Media Toronto prior to the strategy’s release, she said the province needs to take the lead in human trafficking enforcement.

“It’s modern day slavery,” she said.

“Will all survivors sue? No, but it’s a means of justice.”

Scott’s bill would also include traf-

ficking as a sexual offence under the age of 18.

Michelle Smith, executive director of Women’s Support Network of York Region in Newmarket, which runs a human trafficking help line, called the issue a “provincial and national crisis.”

She hoped the strategy would include long-term core funding, along with people specialized in human trafficking and infrastructure for couselling.

Trafficked women sometimes require “eight, nine, 10-hour care”, with psychological and emotional trauma the most pervasive aspect.

“We have women that are servicing eight to 10 men a day, against their will,” she said.

Funded by Canada’s Department of Justice, York Region launched a bus campaign several weeks ago aimed at trafficked women, Smith said, suggesting a go-to guide and app needs to be available for school boards to inform teachers about human trafficking signs to look out for.

Besides a strategy, greater emphasis on social media literacy must be taught in schools to help combat human trafficking, said Debbie Gordon, director of kidsmediacentre at Centennial College.

Being able to share case studies about other young victims works, but voices of young people who question the sensibilities of the social media culture need to be heard, she said.

“Kids will listen when it’s one of their own.”

FOR IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE Like the York Regional Police campaign ‘The Other Side’ that is helping victims hurt in the sex trade find a way out, there are other people and organizations offering assistance to survivors of human trafficking in the Greater Toronto Area. Here are a few: • Covenant House: 416-598-4898, www.covenanthousetoronto.ca/homeless-youth/Home.aspx • East Metro Youth Services: 416-452-3018, emys. on.ca • Women’s Support Network of York Region: 905758-5285, www.womenssupportnetwork.ca/ • Toronto Police Service human trafficking team: 416-808-8385, www.torontopolice.on.ca/sexcrimes/ htet.php • York Regional Police human trafficking team: 905758-5581, www.yrp.ca/en/about/human-trafficking. asp

MORE ONLINE VIDEO: Watch this Covenant House Toronto video: a dramatization of the real-life experience of “Amy” – a teen who found herself enslaved by a man she believed was her boyfriend. (bit.ly/covenantvid) STORY: Read this story from York Region about a real court case from 2014 involving a man who police alleged was pimping out a 16-year-old girl, and the subsequent verdict. (bit.ly/yorkcase) STRATEGY: Get more details about the provincial anti-human trafficking strategy and the four areas of action the strategy will be focused on. (bit.ly/ ontariostrategy) STATISTICS: See statistics from Toronto Police Service about the number of occurrences, arrests, charges and victims related to human trafficking in the city since 2013. (bit.ly/policestats)

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n hastily snatched hindsight, it’s fair to say that last week probably wasn’t the best time for Toronto Council to vote to ban texting while walking.

The same time as councillors supported a motion

by York South-Weston Councillor Frances Nunziata to ask the province to change the Highway Traffic Act making it illegal to text and otherwise distract yourself while walking, Torontonians were downloading the walking, distracted gaming app Pokemon Go to their smartphones.

The provincial government, no doubt sensing trouble, made it clear that Toronto can make an antitexting bylaw if it likes, but really, should Toronto enact such a bylaw, compliance will be, to put it mildly, an issue.

It’s not to say that pedestrians OuR ViEW shouldn’t take some responsibility for their own safety, or that Council fail by Toronto streets aren’t safer when not speeding everybody has their eyes on the road. up plan But really: it doesn’t take a trending gaming app to tempt reasonable adults to check their smartphone for texts, emails or just to make a change to the music they’re listening to, as they move around the city. And frankly, pedestrians aren’t the ones who are responsible for the genuinely deadly players on Toronto streets; the multi-ton motor vehicles that almost inevitably come out on top when collisions occur are.

Nunziata’s motion came as Toronto Council was considering a broader, $80-million plan to make Toronto’s roadways safer. To councillors’ credit, they unanimously supported that plan, and bolstered it beyond its original scope. So over the next five years, speed limits will be reduced on key roadways in the downtown and beyond, more signalized crossings will be installed and slow-speed zones around schools will be implemented.

All good – although it’s a shame that councillors didn’t support an amendment from another councillor, Kristyn Wong-Tam, to accelerate the so-called Vision from five years to two. That failure, and the scolding fingerwag of the amendment by Nunziata that council finally did support, inspires little confidence. While they were at it, they might have approved another bylaw – preventing dyspeptic amendments being passed late on the third day of summer council meetings, when legislators are clearly too tired to think straight.

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Council leaves behind subways, spending for summer reprieve A quiet has descended on Toronto City Hall in the wake of last week’s marathon July council meeting.

It seems almost peaceful.

Councillors won’t be getting together again to disrupt that peace until September rolls around – and it would be nice to think that when they and Mayor John Tory meet once more, it will remain in a spirit of peace, and reconciliation.

The debate over the Scarborough subway, after all, appears to be over.

Whatever one thinks of the one-stop subway extension to the Scarborough Town Centre (coming in now at $3.4 billion and probably a good deal more), council decided on its second day of meeting that it was fine with the plan, and the expense.

The fight, between critics like Josh Matlow and Gord Perks and boosters like Deputy Mayor Glenn De Baeremaeker and Tory himself, had been seismic until then.

david nickle the city When the vote finally came late in the day July 12, it wasn’t even all that close: just 16 councillors voted in favour of an amendment to scrap the subway plan and build light rail there instead, with 27 siding with Tory.

It might have been closer, but Tory’s team made a point of rewarding its allies. In addition to the Scarborough subway’s continued approval, council also approved studies for no less than three additional transit projects not on any list but the ones on certain local councillors’ election literature.

So in the coming months, we’ll hear about a westward extension of the Bloor-Danforth Line 2, from Kipling Station to Sherway Gardens (courtesy of Etobicoke Lakehsore Councillor Justin Di Ciano); a subway

connection between the Yonge-Sheppard interchange and Downsview Station (a long-held dream of York Centre Councillor James Pasternak); and a Sheppard subway extension from Don Mills Station to McCowan Road (championed by Scarborough Agincourt Councillor Jim Karygiannis).

The studies aren’t, of course, anything approaching a commitment, but they are the sort of thing that has a limited but real effect of papering over possible divisions – both on council and inter-regionally.

The Scarborough subway, now that it’s going ahead, is going to eat up a huge amount of money and resources. As we must remind ourselves, it is the only major transit project in the city’s long-term transit plan that is fully funded, and the only other one that’s even partially funded is also in Scarborough: the Eglinton Crosstown line that will actually service Scarborough neighbour-

hoods. The downtown relief line, which transit planners have noted is essential to stave off unacceptable levels of crowding on the Yonge line, is not funded, nor is light rail servicing the city’s waterfront.

And as was revealed this week, it will likely be more difficult than not to wrestle more money from the provincial government. Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office noted in a report released Tuesday that the province is in danger of overextending itself on transit spending as matters stand, with an extra $50 billion in provincial debt in 2021 due to transit alone. So fulfilling those dreams – of subways, eventually, everywhere – will be a long shot. In the short run of these summer months, as pleasant and peaceable as these dreams are, dreams are all they are.

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City to invest $80 million to air conditioned ttC debuts keep cyclists, pedestrians safe RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Toronto Council has approved a new safety plan intended to reduce pedestrian and cyclist fatalities on Toronto roads.

The plan calls for a number of measures to reduce road fatalities to zero – part of a Vision Zero aspiration adopted by several cities – including adding more signalized crossings, establishing slow-speed zones around schools, doubling existing fines for speeding and increasing traffic signs.

By u n a n i m o u s v o t e, Council opted to support the approximately $80-million, five-year plan, half of it new money, which received a boost to funding last week following criticism from pedestrian and cycling advocates for not going far enough in addressing road safety.

Public works chair Jaye Robinson said with the new

measures added, the plan will allow the city in some cases to quadruple its efforts in improving road safety.

“From the beginning, this plan had great bones but the scale and scope were not enough,” said Robinson during last week’s meeting. ‘pivotal step’ “This plan is a pivotal step for all Torontonians, whether they walk, cycle or drive.”

Trinity-Spadina councillor Joe Cressy called the plan a good start, but hardly revolutionary considering smaller cities such as Oakland and Portland have committed $200 million annually towards improving road safety.

“While the plan will result in fewer fatalities, we have to think the headlines (about road fatalities) will continue in the years to come because ultimately a radical rethink of our streets, and the money

needed for that, is required,” said Cressy.

Council also supported measures to reduce speeds on sections of Richmond, Adelaide, Front and Wellington streets, from 50 km/h to 40 km/h, as well as a stretch of Gerrard Street, east of Victoria Park Avenue.

Council also supported by a 24-17 margin Frances Nunziata’s motion requesting the Ontario Ministry of Transportation to ban pedestrians from using handheld devices while on a traveled road, for example while crossing an intersection.

Council did not support Kristyn Wong-Tam’s motion to accelerate the plan to two years, opting instead to support a less aggressive motion from Mary-Margaret McMahon which seeks staff advice on whether a faster timeline is “do-able”.

McMahon’s motion passed by a wide margin, 39-2.

aware. Not so in the catering industry, however, where food is often frozen and efficiency is the name of the game.

Peter Harvey doesn’t buy into that. He wants PG Harvey Events to align with his values – local, seasonal, handmade food.

While his seasonal menus evolve, Harvey says some of his signature items include his lobster bisque with cognac cream, and his prized béarnaise sauce.

Through weddings, corporate galas, a private Valentine’s eight-course dinner and a children’s Christmas party, he says customizing a menu is one of the most enjoyable aspects of his work – a flexibility he says larger caterers often can’t indulge.

Peter Harvey takes the clean, local organic food trend to catering It’s easy to find locally-grown organic menus these days as consumers become more health-conscious and environmentally

“People need to start eating better and I think it starts with where you get the (ingredients). That’s definitely going to be indented into my company.”

While Harvey has been a chef for many years, he hasn’t always been a businessman. For guidance, he joined the City of Toronto’s Food Venture Program, which covers goal-making, balance sheets and other essential skills.

“I think it’s an excellent program that all people planning to start a business in catering should experience,” says Harvey.

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Faced with frustrated and sweltering transit riders due to a lack of air conditioning on its subway trains, the TTC has resorted to a novel solution.

Some lucky Bloor line riders had a chance to board a Toronto Rocket train last week, which are normally seen on YongeUniversity-Spadina line.

The vehicles are characterized by barrier-free access allowing for uninterrupted travel from one end of the train to the other. And blessedly, all Toronto Rockets are air conditioned.

TTC spokesperson Brad Ross said the goal is to add a few Rockets to Line 2 service while repairs are made on the broken trains. texting and walking on streets wbanning

More than a few eyebrows were raised when Toronto Council passed a motion last week seemingly banning the simple practice of using a handheld device while walk-

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The move came as part of the passing of the city’s Vision Zero safety plan, to reduce pedestrian and cycling deaths to none.

The motion asks the Ontario Ministry of Transportation for permission to enact the ban.

However, ministry spokesperson Patrick Searle said no consent is needed, and wouldn’t be given at any rate. go users receive warning wpokemon

Transportation agencies are advising aspiring Pokemon Go masters to be watchful of their surroundings while they play the hit game.

Pokemon Go has spurred on hundreds of thousands to take to the streets in search of cute digitized sprites to add to their collections. While no deaths

have yet been recorded, there’s concern an unsuspecting player could get killed while on the hunt. So, be mindful of your real-life surroundings.

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New double-decker GO buses were unveiled last week by Metrolinx.

The buses are fully accessible due to their lower floors and wider entrance ramps, which slope more gradually. As per provincial accessibility guidelines, the buses also have automated next-stop announcements. The double-deckers are also low enough to enter stations such as the Union Station bus terminal. These are manufactured by Scottish company Alexander Dennis, which also provided the older fleet.

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Players compete against each other at the ‘Battle for the CN Tower’

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>>>from page 1 hundreds of fans. Tanisha Grewal was one of the lucky ones to get a picture with the mascot.

“I’ve always been a huge Pokémon fan since I was two years old – I’ve watched all the anime series and played all the games,” she said. “I am so excited to see Pikachu here – it’s like my childhood dream came true.”

Matthew Cashman, 30, the organizer of the “meet-up” and co-founder of Legacy Gamers, a Toronto-based gaming events organization, created the event “on a whim,” and was surprised at the turnout. He thought it was a great way to celebrate an important game in many people’s childhood.

“I used to play Pokémon back in the day when it first came out, on my Game Boy black-and-white screen,” he said. “As a kid, I was pretty passionate about it.”

Developed by American software company Niantic, Inc., Pokémon Go operates very much like a fantasy Google Map. The game is set in augmented reality, where players physically walk to “capture” Pokémon. The game also includes PokéStops that are city attractions, historic sites and art instillations for players to collect extra PokéBalls, lures to attract Pokémon to the area, as well as other items.

Pokémon Gyms, located at various physical locations, are places where players

Even before it was available here this week, Nintendo’s augmented-reality phone game Pokemon Go was showing numbers to rival social-media giants like Twitter; filling parks and boulevards with giant mobs of like-minded players, hunting for virtual sprites in parks and boulevards, through the camera-lens of their smartphones.

As viral phenomenon go, Pokemon Go is near the top of the heap. But it may well signify something more significant than even that.

“It’s important not to underestimate how important this phenomenon is on different levels,” says Natalie Zina Walschotts, a Toronto-based game critic and designer who’s been playing and watching the game since it first emerged.

“Literally a third of the world is playing this game,” she says.

“More people are playing this game than anything else, and that’s important. The other thing that’s crucial is that it has already changed the discourse with which we move through the world.”

Moving through the world – and interacting with objects that are not in fact in the world – is a cornerstone of a suite of applications known as augmented reality (as opposed to virtual reality, which through devices like the Oculus Rift immerse users in a completely invented space).

Pokemon Go is not the first AR technology or application – several years ago, Google introduced an experimental device “Google Glass,” which projected images and text on a pair of camera-equipped eyeglasses – but Pokemon is the first to catch on. Given its success, it is not likely to be the last. Walschotts was immediately struck by the power of a game that takes the imaginary friends of childhood, and places them in a familiar environment.

“You are literally doing the thing you were pretending to do in a video game, and you are doing it in a real physical space,” she said.

And because it is a game – one shared by millions of other users – it is safe, in the way that Google Glass, with its cameras and potentially disturbing and voyeuristic applications, might not be. But make no mistake.

Augmented Reality will soon enough have numerous practical applications.

“Augmented Reality makes the invisible, visible,” says Toronto-based science fiction writer and strategic foresight expert Karl Schroeder. “It has the potential to be a kind of heads-up display showing us what’s going on around us in a much more live and detailed way than traditional news or word of mouth. Our phones already show us where the nearest restaurant or gas station is… Everything from dating to political activism can be supercharged by AR.”

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Sarah Musso brings Pikachu along to the Pokémon Go players’ Canadian launch party at the CN Tower plaza on Monday evening.

become trainers and battle other Pokémon players on different teams.

The event is dubbed by Cashman as “The Battle for the CN Tower”, meaning players will compete against each other for Toronto’s most iconic Pokémon gym.

“It’s Canada’s icon as well – so I thought it would be the

best place to celebrate the launch of the game,” he said.

Jill Vienneau came to the event to accompany her son Jackson, but ended up installing the game on her phone as well. She became a level five Pokémon trainer in one day.

“I was skeptical at first,” she said. “But I must say, it’s been a lot of fun. You definitely get

sucked into the game.”

Chris Mackinnon, 28, came all the way from Etobicoke with his friends. He says Pokémon Go gave them a purpose to go outside.

“We’re all out here to live out our childhood dreams of becoming Pokémon trainers,” he said. “We have proven this game is better to play with friends and we’re so glad the game is out for everybody in Canada.”

However, Mackinnon admits the game poses a safety risk for people.

“I think the most dangerous thing is that you’ll end up in areas that you’re not familiar with,” he said.

Toronto police Const. David Hopkinson says safety plans are in place and police officers are on site to make sure everyone is able to have fun in a safe manner during the event. But more importantly, he advises the public to be in charge of their own safety and not get carried away when playing the game.

“The app does not account for your safety, as it does not take into consideration any traffic or trespassing onto private property,” he said.

“Be aware of your surroundings, and be aware of how it might affect those around you.

A Squirtle is not worth your safety.”

MORE ONLINE Safety tip list issued for young Pokemon players at bit.ly/pokesafety

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The franchise is created by Satoshi Tajiri.

The first Pokemon trainers battle for glory.

1996

1998

Pokémon media, Pokémon Red and Green, are released.

TV show Pokémon, I Choose You! airs on Sept.

8 and the game is launched in the United States on Sept. 30.

1999

Pokémon Gold and Silver for Game Boy Color are released.

1999

2002

2006

Nov. 9 Pokémon: The First Movie starts a franchise that grows to 17 movies.

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire for Game Boy Advance introduce 135 new adorable pocket monsters.

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl for Nintendo DS comes out.

2010

Pokémon Black and White for Nintendo DS is out.

2013

Pokémon X and Y comes out for the Nintendo 3DS

2016

A Super Bowl 50 ad tells the world Pokémon Go is coming.

Gotta catch ‘em all.

2016

The Canadian version of Pokémon Go is released in July. Everyone is playing everywhere.

2016

Up next is Pokémon Sun and Moon for the Nintendo 3DS - due in November.

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Volunteers Needed WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Humber Community Seniors’ Services, 1167 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Cecilia Cortés, 416-249-7946, info@ humberseniors.org COST: Free Humber Community Seniors’ Services is looking for volunteers to help with the Meals On Wheels program. Drivers and servers are needed to deliver hot nutritious meals to seniors in the Weston-Mount Dennis Community.

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Movie Mania WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Richard, 416-394-1006 COST: Free; Drop in Stop by on a hot summer afternoon to cool down with a family movie.

Films on Shortt St. WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Fairbank Village, Shortt Street and Eglinton Avenue West CONTACT: info@ fairbankvillagebia.ca COST: Free Outdoor family movie viewing of Big Hero. Bring your own chair. Art workshop runs 6 to 8 p.m.

Barbecue WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-0231, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: Free

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Aging and Immunity WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free; Registration required The immune system is a vital component of our body that helps us to fight against infectious diseases. As we get older, this defense mechanism undergoes a number of changes that impairs its ability to function properly. This presentation will introduce the immune system as well as our current definition of aging and its impact on immunity against infection.

Weekly barbecue. Enjoy food at reasonable prices.

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Weston Farmers’ Market WHEN: 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Weston GO Station, 1885 Weston Rd. CONTACT: www.westonvillagebia. com COST: Free The Weston Farmers’ Market is one of the oldest and highly respected markets in the GTA. The Stop’s Farmers’ Market WHEN: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St. CONTACT: www.thestop. org COST: Free The Stop’s Farmers’ Market is open year-round, featuring local, sustainable, organic and artisanal products, and great music.

Woven: Knitting Community Together Through Art WHEN: 1 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Walter Saunders Memorial Park, 426 Hopewell Ave. CONTACT: Arts in the Parks COST: Free Woven engages Beltline communities through a series of art programming hosted in Walter Saunders Park and adjoining Beltline spaces.

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Nordic Pole Walking WHEN: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Danna McBride, 416-245-4395, ext. 223 COST: Free Join this group on walks through Weston. This type of walking program is a low impact exercise that can be done by nearly anyone.

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Wild Activity Hour WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: 416-394-1006 COST: Free Games, Lego, music, art and more.

Bucc n Flavr WHEN: 6 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free; Registration required Two dance crews host a two-week workshop combining the creative culture of krump and hip hop. This program is for teens ages 12 and up.

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Stars of the African Safari WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre, 341 Oakwood Ave. CONTACT: 416-394-1040 COST: Free Join them to meet and greet some fantastic animals from the Wild African Safari. Learn about animal habitats, lifestyles and diets.

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Toronto Mini Repair Cafe: Clothing and Jewelry WHEN: noon to 4 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Do you need some clothing or jewelry fixed? They invite residents to bring their pants that need hemming or a broken necklace and learn how to fix it themselves

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Adult Chess Tournament WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre, 341 Oakwood Ave. CONTACT: 416-394-1040 COST: Free Join a group of players for monthly chess tournaments. Chess players of all skill levels are welcome to participate

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Teen Gaming Tournament WHEN: 2 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Richard, 416-3941006 COST: Free Playstation 3 tournament. Everyone welcome. Prizes for the winners.

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