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UrbanArts Toronto will be relocating to 5 Bartonville Ave., east of Jane Street, from its current location at 19 John St. The new site is still under construction, but UrbanArts is

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Dee Samuels is admiring artwork on the walls of her home.

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“I think butterflies are the most beautiful thing, the most beautiful creature I’ve ever seen,” Samuels said.

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“Definitely, I get a glimpse of my childhood (by looking at her art),” said the 33-yearold Samuels, an artist who has some of her abstract pieces in West Park Healthcare Centre’s recreation department.

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The remains belong to Rigat Essag Ghirmay, 28, of Toronto, police said Monday.

Not all of the victim’s remains have been recovered and police have not yet determined when or how she died, officers said.

Police arrested Adonay Samuel Zekarias, 41, of Toronto, on Sunday, May 26 and charged him with indignity to a dead body. An upgraded murder charge is likely, police said.

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Bala P.S. building First w Nations medicine wheel Trumpeter with York roots This is the first in a series of pieces on local artists participating in the festival

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HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Peace and inclusivity are the themes First Nations elder-in-residence Shannon Thunderbird is hoping to achieve with the installation of a medicine wheel at Bala Avenue Community School.

The medicine wheel, according to Thunderbird, represents “what it is to walk the Earth in a good way.” That includes treating people with respect and with honour to live in peace to eradicate bullying, racism and any negative behavior in schools.

“These are time-honoured teachings that go back thousands and thousands of years,” said Thunderbird.

“But the medicine wheel is universal in its teachings.”

Thunderbird has been an elder-in-residence to Bala Community School for three years and is there to educate and mentor students on First Nations traditions.

The building of the medicine wheel is a part of what Thunderbird calls Phase 2, the first phase being the Powwow on National Aboriginal Day on June 21.

Thunderbird has been working closely with Bala’s principal, Lisa Beischlag, to decide a place for the medicine wheel. So far, they’ve agreed that it will be a part of the school’s garden.

“It’s going to be surrounded in cedar, sage and sweet grass, which are the three sacred medicines First Nations people use in ceremonies,”

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Bala Avenue Community School is creating a medicine wheel similar to one in Wyoming called the Big Horne.

said Thunderbird, who also helped Charles E. Webster Public School build their medicine wheel.

Beischlag is hoping to involve the entire school as well as members of the community in building the wheel.

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The four colours will be red, white, black and yellow because they stand for the four original colours of human.

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“It’s symbolic that the children understand what it (the medicine wheel) means,” she said.

Beischlag and Thunderbird expect the wheel to be 21 feet in diameter and it will be built flat on the ground.

It will consist of four colors of gravel that will make up the circle.

“The four colours will be red, white, black and yellow because they stand for the four original colours of human,” Thunderbird said.

Different sized stones will be placed in specific directions, with each stone holding a special meaning of hope, courage, wisdom, peace or safety.

The school will have to raise $15,000 to construct the wheel and is looking for donations from the community as well as holding fundraisers.

“It will cover the purchase of a lot of cedar trees, about 38 globe cedar bushes, soil, gravel, limestone screening, ground barriers,” said Thunderbird. “There’s a lot of prep work on the property that needs to be done.”

Beischlag is hoping to get the entire community involved with the building of the medicine wheel, including the 260 children who attend Bala, as well as students at neighbouring high schools.

“We would like some of those students to come to Bala to help with the planting, learn about the teachings and mentor the younger children,” she said.

“I think it’s really meaningful putting it together because that creates a level of ownership and pride in the community.”

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r u m p e t e r Wi l l i a m Sperandei and jazz great Wynton Marsalis have more than just the trumpet and their appreciation for classical music in common.

Both hate to fly.

This became a real bonding moment for the men when they embarked on a European tour together in 1992, when Sperandei’s band opened for Marsalis.

“If we were playing in Rome and had to go to Switzerland I would take a train with him and everybody else would fly,” said Sperandei.

“So I got to hang out with him a lot and I learned a lot of things. We talked a lot about the music business, books and women – all sorts of things.”

Luckily for Sperandei, who grew up in the Bathurst Street and St. Clair Avenue area, his latest gig with the Toronto TD Jazz Festival is just a short drive away from his current home in Georgetown.

The 26th annual festival is set for June 20 to 29 with more than 350 concerts popping up across the city. More than 1,500 musicians will be performing and Sperandei, along with his band mate Amy McConnell, is one of them.

The duo will be performing in the Distillery District Tuesday, June 25.

The two have recorded the album Stealing Genius that has a list of well-known songs that they’ve given a jazz twist.

They’ve covered artists ranging from Leonard Cohen to Led Zeppelin.

“We play well together. And she’s a great singer,” Sperandei

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Trumpeter William Sperandei will be performing with Amy McConnell in the Distillery District June 25 as a part of the TD Toronto Jazz Festival.

said. “We do some mellow stuff and some more aggressive things. It’s big mix of styles and genres of music.”

Sperandei said he was inspired as a teen to pursue music as a full-time career the day he heard the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue.

“It changed things for me,” he said.

He took an interest in the more classical sound of the trumpet and credits that curiosity with developing his tone and sound, which he describes a “darker sound, very full and classical.”

“It’s not like a blaring or shrill trumpet sound. It’s a sound that people want to listen to He began mastering the trumpet late in high school, and was accepted into Wilfrid Laurier University’s music program on a full scholarship, then decided to pursue it further through the University of New Orleans jazz performance program.

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While in New Orleans, he became a part of a band that consisted of the top students in Elis Marsalis’s class, who were given the honour to go on a European tour with his son, Wynton.

“For me it was great,” said Sperandei. “It was my first time doing a tour of that kind.”

The best moment on that tour for Sperandei was when he played in Rome, where the majority of his family lives. He moved from Italy to Toronto when he was five with his mother and father. The rest of his family stayed behind, but they all came out to watch him play in Rome that year.

“Everybody’s there and they all came out and that was a really great moment.”

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hen it comes time to decide on how we’re represented at city hall – specifically the size and number of wards in the city and how they’re divided – Toronto council must be open to a variety of ideas.

Next week, there’s an Executive Committee report going to Toronto council on a Ward Boundary Review for the city. Toronto, currently divided into 44 wards, last undertook such a review in 2000.

Since then, the wards’ make-ups and populations have changed. A city manager’s report to the executive committee notes “significant discrepancies among Toronto’s ward boundaries that warrant a review.”

According to the report, any adjustments undertaken would be in place for the 2018 municipal election. our view Mayor Rob Ford, meanwhile, has made his position clear. In his comments at the Executive Important Committee, Ford said he believes debate needs a 25-member council can do the Noting Toronto is expected to citizen input job. receive three more federal ridings (bringing the total to 25), Ford said it’s an opportune time to consider reducing Toronto Council’s ward allotment from two wards per riding to one.

“At the rate we’re going we’re going to have 50 councillors,” Ford warned. “And you see the problems we have with 44 councillors.”

There’s no denying the current 45-member size of council (44 councillors plus a mayor) can be unwieldy at times. There is merit to Ford’s argument. But it’s early in the process. We need to hear many voices.

Toronto council will do Torontonians a disservice if it restricts itself – without considering any other factors – when defining new ward boundaries. Doing so may discount a more creative solution – one that gives a more effective voice to Torontonians – before it can be even explored. Figuring out what’s best for a diverse, multicultural city and its 140 neighbourhoods will be more complicated than shoehorning them into some cookie-cutter solution.

For Torontonians, this is not only about your representation at city hall. This is about how your neighbourhood fits into the city. This is an important debate that needs your input.

As the process moves along, we urge citizens to take advantage of the “broad engagement and public consultation process” referenced in the report.

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n Act IV, Scene I of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, three witches enter a dark cave and hover over a bubbling caldron, cackling “Double-double toil and trouble.”

Yesterday, in a setting that was more Much Ado About Nothing than Macbeth, five buddies dropped by a local fast food establishment and hovered over several different-sized coffee cups babbling about double-doubles, with nary a word, let alone rhyming couplets, uttered worth mentioning.

Act Foolish, Scene Umpteen: a brightly lit, Well-Known Coffee Franchise That Shall Remain Nameless. Enter five lads.

So, Jeremy, Mike, Ted, Nick and I hooked up for our daily java fixes and we each went for a doubledouble as is our went, er want. Whatever.

For those who are unfamiliar with the phrase double-double, it’s a coffee with two creams and two sugars. In that specific order.

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY You can look it up in the Canadian Oxford dictionary. In fact, if you ask for your double-double to have two sugars and two creams instead of two creams and two sugars you will get a very funny look. And when I say funny, I don’t mean funny as in ha-ha, either.

What’s more, if you make the mistake of telling the cashier that, “I hate to be a stickler for detail here, but given the location, shouldn’t that look you just gave me have been not funny as in double-double ha, as opposed to ha-ha?” the cashier will give you an even funnier look.

Moving right along, we plunked ourselves down at a nearby booth and not being able to mind our own business, as is our custom, we listened to the next 15 people order their morning coffees.

For the record, 10 of them ordered double-doubles and five asked for triple-triples, a triple-triple being three creams and three sugars, presumably. I say presumably because while doubledouble is in the dictionary, triple-triple is not.

What confused us is that in the entire time we were there, we didn’t hear anybody order the regular.

In fact, only two of us in the group even know what the regular is: cream and sugar. I’m assuming the regular was once the regular purchase, hence the handle.

Perhaps it’s time the name was changed to: the once most popular and now no longer in fashion.

Anyhow, we were all gleefully sipping our respective double-doubles when it dawned on us that each of us had a different size of cup. Jeremy had the extra small, Mike the small, Ted the medium, Nick the large, and me the extra large.

The question was raised: is a double-double for an

extra small the exact same double-double as it is for a small, medium, large and extra large? Or is the doubledouble proportioned accordingly to each size?

Enquiring minds wanted to know and as usual Nick was unanimously nominated to go and find out.

We all looked over to the counter with bated breath as he walked up and before Nick could even open his mouth to say anything this time, the cashier gave him the funniest look ever.

We’re talking a real doozy.

My best guess is that it was somewhere between a quintuple-quintuple ha and octuple-octuple ha.

Which I have a sneaking suspicion, when it comes to funny looks dished out from now on around here, is destined to be Nick’s new regular.

Jamie Wayne is a lifelong columnist, who takes writing very seriously. The topics?

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Case made for airline’s We’re not all part of the same transit challenge expansion at island To the editor: I’m an aviation enthusiast and want to share my opinion on why Porter Airlines should be permitted to expand.

Why, you ask? It’s due to the fact that the CSeries jets which Porter is planning to purchase are the most environmentally friendly and quietest in their class.

They are even comparably quieter to the Bombardier Q400s that Porter is currently operating out of the airport right now.

Keep in mind that Porter is asking for an extension of the runway of only 168 metres on each end, which does not go beyond the marine exclusion zone.

Porter is also asking for an exemption of the “no jets allowed” regulation for only the CSeries jet. The airline is not asking for new noise restrictions, different flight paths, or alterations to the marine exclusion zone.

What many people fear is

that once Porter is allowed to expand, other (dirtier, and noisier) jets will be allowed to fly in and out of Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport, however, that won’t be the case.

The Toronto Port Authority (TPA), for over 30 years, has made it clear that only aircraft which comply with the TPA’s noise limits (such as Porter’s proposed CSeries aircraft) are allowed to be operated out of the airport.

My point? We need more competition for flights and lower fares, especially in Canada.

If Porter expands, more jobs will be created, and will further benefit Toronto’s economy.

Before we rush to deny Porter’s expansion, let’s all do the research and number crunching, and listen to everyone’s take on the matter.

Then, only then, do we make the final decision.

Albert Przylucki

To the editor: Re: ‘We’re all part of the same transit challenge,’ Editorial, May 30.

We are not “all part of the same transit challenge”. Those who made the effort to live near their work, who work from home or who can time their travel do not have the problem.

The problem is that too many people who chose short-term savings (low price and taxes) or a lifestyle that uses lots of land now want everyone to fund their transportation.

I rarely go more than 10 stops on the TTC but pay the same as someone who travels the length of the system. If the proposed

routes would solve the transportation problem, I could support them.

An examination of the Sheppard subway should quickly dissuade anyone from believing the projec-

tions.

The original proposal projected annual riders of 20 million.

In 2009 to 2010, the TTC reports about 15 million people used it. The subway has several bus routes feeding it so most of the revenue is split.

The board of trade claims a cost of $5 billion a year in congestion costs.

Assuming we could cut that in half (impossible), we are going to spend $5 billion a year to save $2.5 billion (maybe) and add a huge subsidy to the city’s budget for public transit.

The proposed solution is not an investment – an investment is supposed to have a positive return

– it is an expense that will limit the city forever.

Most bus routes are subsidized near 50 per cent for each rider and the further out generally take a much larger subsidy.

The new routes will be no exception.

In regard to David Nickle’s The City column (Metrolinx shows leadership; unlike councillors,’ May 30) neither the board of trade nor Metrolinx people have to get elected.

David Vallance

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Toronto Zoo’s elephants deserve much better future To the editor: While we are basking in the pandas who are costing a great deal to keep at the Toronto Zoo, maybe we could give a thought to the

poor elephants.

They looked pathetic last year when I saw them.

I think we could do better than that. Who is being selfish to keep them from going.

I would like to hear that every animal lover in Toronto has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to approve a cargo plane to take the elephants to

where they need to go before they have to stand another summer here.

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Alternative to Metrolinx 16-foot noise wall suggested ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com By contrasting a stark barren noise wall against their lush green landscaped plans for linear parks along the rail corridor’s edge, James Brown and Kim Storey painted a picture of what they believed lands along the Kitchener GO line could become.

Brown & Storey Architects made a presentation on May 29 at the Gladstone Hotel, outlining a green alternative to the Metrolinx plan to build 16-feet high concrete noise walls through the communities along the rail corridor including Parkdale, Roncesvalles Village and the Junction.

should be seen as a positive attribute that can re-invigorate and increase pedestrian and cycling networks, be a catalyst for the reconnection of historically separated neighbourhoods for Toronto residents, and ultimately

become a new international gateway for Pan Am guests and all future visitors.

“It is not just about the communities on the inside but people coming from all over the world,” Storey said.

“We are losing an opportunity to brand our city in a really positive way.”

The architects, who were commissioned to make the designs by the Junction Triangle Rail Committee

June 25 forum

serves as a buffer Brown & Storey’s plan uses trees, green walls, pathways, bridges and community nodes to both buffer the community from the noise of the trains and to create a linear park along the tracks.

According to the architects, the new rail link doesn’t need to be treated as something that needs to be separated as much as possible in a virtual tunnel.

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and the Wabash Building Society, are proposing that Metrolinx plant 10,000 trees along the rail corridor, phase in building anything along the corridor in order to see what is actually necessary and desired by the community and assign separate budgets to each of the eight communities who share boundaries with the corridor to develop their own unique approaches and green designs.

“You have actually provided hope that if the walls are necessary they don’t have to look bad,” said resident and architect David Oleson following the presentation.

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Brown and Storey will make the presentation again on June 25 at 7 p.m. at the Perth Avenue Co-Op, 120 Perth Ave. Kevin Putnam of the Junction Triangle Rail Committee said they, along with the Wabash Building Society, will be meeting with Metrolinx to share the green alternative to a noise wall with the provincial transit body.

See the plans and drawings by Brown & Storey at www.brownandstorey. com/projects/metrolinx/BSAMetrolinx-05-29-13.pdf

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Humber River Hospital wins award for redevelopment project Humber River Hospital has been presented with a prestigious award recognizing its new hospital at a ceremony in England.

The redevelopment project at Hwy. 401 and Keele Street was named the best accommodation project at the 2013 Partnership Awards on May 23

at the Park Plaza-Westminster Bridge hotel in London.

Humber River was selected from a number of global entries, including projects

in Australia, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. Judges praised the Humber River project for “marrying highly complex and good quality

design with an innovative approach to financing. They were impressed by the speed of the project’s financial close despite these complexities,”

Humber River said in a statement.

The $1.75-billion hospital is expected to open its doors in the fall of 2015.

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Dennis Avenue Community School Fun Fair WHEN: 5 to 7 p.m. WHERE: 17 Dennis Ave. CONTACT: Naomi Van De Visch, vandevischs@gmail.com COST: Tickets can be purchased for food and games Jumping castle, games, raffle, barbecue, bake sale, live music and more.

Giant Book Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Weston Library, 2 King St. CONTACT: 416-394-1017, westaff@ torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free There will be adult fiction and children’s books, hardcovers and paperbacks for a fraction of the price. Proceeeds will support the Toronto Public Library Foundation.

0231, www.facebook.com/mountdennislegion, legionbr31@yahoo. com COST: $25 per two person team Email for entry form.

◗ Saturday, June 8

◗ Monday, June 10

26th Annual Queens Drive Yard Sale WHEN: 8 a.m. to noon WHERE: Queens Drive between Jane and Rosemount CONTACT: Pauline Broadbent, queensdriveyardsale@ hitmail.com COST: Free More than 40 houses participating.

◗ Sunday, June 9

Giant Open Cribbage Tournament WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-

Yoga for Older Adults and Seniors WHEN: 1 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Nerissa Craigg, 416-394-1000, ncraigg@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Urban Roots Yoga instructor Melanie Woolsey will teach participants modified options for poses to keep bones strong, and muscles and joints healthy. Call or drop in to register.

Space is limited.

◗ Tuesday, June 11

Building Connections: Tuesday Morning Friendship, Fun and Learning WHEN: 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

WHERE: North York Women’s Centre, 2446 Dufferin St. CONTACT: 416781-0479, www.nywc.org, info@ nywc.org COST: Free Meet other women in a relaxed, welcoming environment. Get information and learn about available resources.

Van Trip to Chutney’s Restaurant WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Rita, 416-245-4395, rita@ywalc.ca COST: $7/$9 Book by Friday, June 7.

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Purchase your ticket by Thursday, June 13.

Building Connections: Women Achieving Personal Growth Together WHEN: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: North York Women’s Centre, 2446 Dufferin St. CONTACT: 416-7810479, info@nywc.org COST: Free Network with women who have similar goals; access information and resources to help you move forward.

◗ Monday, June 24

Roselands Horticultural Society: Organic Gardening WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Church of the Good Shepherd, 1149 Weston Rd. CONTACT: roselandshs@gmail.com COST: Free Shari-Lyn Safir is the guest speaker.

Five Essentials of Health to Live to 100 WHEN: 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-394-1008 COST: Free Presented by Dr. Hoof. Call to register.

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Walking Club WHEN: 9:30 a.m. to noon. WHERE: Jane Park Plaza (bus stop area), 853 Jane St. CONTACT: Karima, health promoter at Unison Health, 416-6535400, ext. 1227 COST: Free Free walking club meets on Tuesdays, starting June 18, open to all adults.

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Weston Memorial JPS Fun Fair WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: 200 John St. CONTACT: www.westonmemorial.com COST: Tickets can be purchased for food, games and bouncy castles Lots of games, raffle items, bouncy castles, barbecue and bake table.

Elder Abuse Information Session WHEN: Noon to 1 p.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Rita, 416245-4395, rita@ywalc.ca COST: Free Register by Friday, June 14.

St. Matthew Catholic School Community Barbecue WHEN: 3:45 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Matthew Catholic School, 18 Lavender Rd. CONTACT: Nancy Das Neves, 416-393-5240, Nancy.

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on PearsonUnion air link wMeetings More public meetings are planned by Metrolinx on the progress of future electrification of the Union Pearson Express air rail link.

Both the provincial transit planning agency and the Ministry of Transportation have pledged to convert the link running along the GO Kitchener rail corridor from diesel to electric, but only after the express service between Pearson International Airport and Union Station is completed in 2015.

While no confirmation has been given for a completion date for the conversion, Metrolinx has indicated it would like to electrify by 2017 and is conducting an environmental assessment to be completed next year. Four meetings (three in Toronto) are planned to update residents on the EA and address concerns about the controversial project. w Monday, June 10 at Metro Hall, Room 314, 55 John St., 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. w Tuesday, June 11, Mimico Presbyterian Church, 119 Mimico Ave., Etobicoke, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT w Wednesday, June 12, Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Visit www.metrolinx.ca weighs in on transit funding wTwitter

Mayor Rob Ford’s Twitter account, @TOMayorFord, which usually posts innocuous announcements about city initiatives, took a decidedly political tone last week when several tweets were posted taking shots at taxes and fees proposed by Metrolinx to improve transit.

“I don’t suppor t the Province’s @Metrolinx plan to slap new taxes onto the backs of hard working families,” stated one of the tweets.

Another tweet was directed at the premier: “Until @Kathleen_ Wynne exhausts every avenue I will not support new taxes on residents, who are telling me they can’t afford it.”

The mayor’s sentiments echo a recent poll taken by Forum Research that shows

a majority of Ontarians don’t support raising taxes to benefit transit. Metrolinx has said the charges are necessary to build the Big Move plan, which will need $2 billion in funding to complete. on City transit announced wconsultations

At a public meeting in Riverside last week, the city’s chief planner announced a second phase of public transit consultations.

Speaking at the Ralph Thornton Centre where she was a panelist for a transit discussion, planner Jennifer Keesmaat said the next phase of the Feeling Congested? public campaign would focus on specific transit project priorities for the city. Dates and locations had not been finalized at press time. Visit www.feelingcongested.ca for updates.

The first meeting is today from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at the St. George subway station. For more info, visit www.feelingcongested.ca Rahul Gupta is The Guardian’s transit reporter. His column runs every Tuesday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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Adding artwork to West Park walls lifts residents’ spirits >>>from page 1 West Park, southwest of Weston Road and Jane Street.

Samuels, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy and has been in a wheelchair since she was 12, and five other residents live in the enhanced living service (ELS) unit.

Opened since October, the unit is a home-like setting with four apartments for patients requiring chronic assisted ventilatory care (CAVC), meaning they need mechanical assistance to help them breathe.

On May 29, the ELS residents organized an art show called Rejuvenation, with art supplied by the students of Etobicoke’s Martingrove Collegiate Institute.

Pham, a Grade 12 student, is pleased the art work will continue to hang on the walls for

Staff photo/LISA QUEEN

Martingrove Collegiate student Diana Pham, right, shows off her art work last Wednesday to Dee Samuels, a resident at the West Park Healthcare Centre’s Enhanced Living Service unit.

the residents to see.

“It brings me happiness for others to enjoy my work,” she said.

Samuels shares the senti-

ment.

“I think it brings our home alive, basically,” she said. “I really feel like it makes our experience more lively.”

Martingrove Collegiate visual arts teacher Christina Yarmol said the students created artwork based on themes depending on their grade.

The Grade 9s focused on food, the Grade 10s shared personal stories, the Grade 11s incorporated clothing, and the theme for the Grade 12s was mapping their way around the world.

The students are accustomed to having their artwork seen at venues such as art shows, but they were excited this time to see the art hung in the home of the ELS residents, Yarmol said.

“For the kids, it’s all about sharing their artwork,” she added. “The residents, when we were putting up the art, they were saying, ‘It looks good here.’”

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It’s nice art to fancy up this place, not to have it so drab and not to have it bare all the time.

– Raquelle Neto

ELS resident Pat Godin, who has hereditary motor neuropathy, is a patient organizer who has been instrumental in turning the CAVC unit, with its communal family room, kitchen and ground-floor access to West Park’s sprawling 11-hectare (27-acre) campus, into a home.

In addition to spearheading the art show, Godin and the other residents have organized events such as an Easter parade and regular tea parties.

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The art show was a success, Godin said.

“We jumped all over it. It’s good for us. It takes the bareness away,” she said.

“You get to socialize, especially with young people. When you’re not in the community all the time, it gives you an idea how teenagers think and feel.”

Godin likes the shopping bag art, especially one showing a monkey. “Everybody needs laughter. It’s medicine,” she said.

Raquelle Neto, left a quadriplegic after her neck was broken at birth, is thrilled to see art work spruce up the ELS residents’ home.

“It’s nice art to fancy up this place, not to have it so drab and not to have it bare all the time,” she said.

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At a construction site 12 metres below Eglinton Avenue West, Ontario Minister of Transportation Glen Murray helped commemorate the start of tunnel construction of an Eglinton “subway” expected to start running in 2020.

Flanked by York SouthWeston MPP Laura Albanese and Metrolinx CEO Bruce McCuaig on Wednesday Staff photo/Dan Pearce morning, Murray launched the first massive tunnel borer Minister of Transportation Glen Murray flips the switch to machine to begin excavatactivate the boring machine at the official launch of the first ing the first six kilometres tunnel for the Crosstown LRT during a ceremony Wednesday of tunnel for the Eglintonat Keelesdale Park.

Scarborough Crosstown light rail transit (LRT) line.

Also unveiled at the cermachines will be Don and Promising Toronto resiemony were the winning Humber, representing the dents a high quality transit names of the four tunnelDon and Humber rivers.” project with a budget of $4.9 ling machines, called moles, Metrolinx spokesperson billion dollars funded by the chosen through a online Jamie Robinson said tunprovince, Murray said he voting contest organized by nelling towards Allen Road was bowing to public sentiMetrolinx. will likely by completed by ment and calling the project ‘Dennis’ followed within a next year. a subway rather than an LRT couple of months by ‘Lea’ will He said the transit planline. begin excavating east from ning agency had abandoned a “I want to officially say this Black Creek to Allen Road, plan to close off the Eglinton is a subway because I am tired before being re-deployed and northbound connection to of explaining a train that runs sent towards Yonge Street. the Allen Expressway for a underground is not a subway,” Two more moles, ‘Don’ and year in order to aid construche said the minister during a ‘Humber’, will drill the tunnel tion. ceremony at the Crosstown’s path west from Brentcliffe But he said Metrolinx was west tunnel launch shaft near still considering an “extended Road to Yonge. McCuaig the intersection of Black Creek said the names were chosen closure” of the roadway to Drive and Eglinton Avenue. as a tribute to the legacy of Lawrence Avenue, which Eglinton neighbourhoods. would require approval from He also made mention of a past Eglinton transit proj“These names reflect the the city’s transportation serect, a subway line which was historic neighbourhoods vices department. cancelled by the Progressive at the ends of the project,” “There will be periods of Conservation former Bad Murray Slug Information:of Lastman’s Boy said in regards to time where the Allen will be Premier Mike in the Dennis, whichAdisSize named closed for a couple of weeks Project : Apr Wk Harris 3 Teaser AD : 5.145for in x 2.857 in 1990s. “This almost the 18th the Mount Dennis neighbourwith lots of advance notice Client : Lastman’s Bad Boy Publication : Community News anniversary of when the bullhood and Lea, inspired by to the local community,” File Name : BB_CommunityTeaser 6 Insertion Date : June 6, 2012Robinson following the dozers arrived to fill in the last JuneLeaside. said hole we dug here,” he said.

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Mazzotta showcase the use of watercolours, pastels and even magic markers in her work to show lights, darks, shadows and the beauty of aging.

Mazzotta has been an artist for 30 years and does some graphic design

through her company Intimate Dimensions.

She’s also a community artist, who does face painting at festivals and also runs a workshop in two after school programs at St. Albans Boys and Girls club and at North York Community House.

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Toronto Police Services 12 Division is hosting its 14th annual Community Day celebrations.

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Smythe Park to unveil $175,000 baseball diamond After $175,000 worth of upgrades, baseball lovers w h o e n j oy p l a y i n g i n Smythe Park will finally get the chance to dig their cleats into a brand new diamond.

The new main diamond will be unveiled today at 5 p.m. with former Toronto Blue Jays alumnus pitcher Duane Ward, Sportsnet’s Buck Martinez, Blue Jays staff, and representatives from the City of Toronto and York Baseball Association.

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Activities planned for the unveiling include a barbecue and a free Blue Jays Baseball Academy instructional clinic put on by Blue Jays staff and Duane Ward.

The Jays Care Community Crew, made up of 50 volunteers from the Toronto Blue Jays and Rogers Centre staff, will be following up with a field cleanup next week.

The Community Crew will sand and paint rusty bleachers, edge the diamond, and tamp the pitcher’s mound.

Smythe Park, at 77 Scarlet Rd., is one of the locations for the Blue Jays Baseball Academy Rookie League, a summer program for children living in underresourced communities across Canada.

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New bike strategy on the way: Murray Ontario Transportation Minister Glen Murray has promised a revamped provincial cycling strategy by the end of summer in a bid to ensure cities across the province are more bikefriendly.

Murray served as keynote speaker at the Ontario Bike Summit on May 29 and spoke to a crowd of roughly 200 cyclists and cycling advocates of the importance of active

transportation both for the health of residents and to help combat gridlock.

While Ontario has a cycling strategy, the Minister said it is in need of an overhaul to make cycling a safer and more attractive transportation option.

Murray, an avid cyclist, is in favour of an enforceable one-metre separation between cyclists and passing motorists, though he

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Budget committee told of $248-million surplus DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Lower-than-expected energy prices and higher-than-predicted revenues from parking, land transfer and investments mean the city has about $248 million more than its finance staff expected when Toronto council set its 2013 budget.

Today, Toronto’s Budget Committee will be looking at the Operating Variance Report for 2012. The report is the penultimate word on the health of the city’s books – finance staff still have to complete the audit of the 2012 financial statement.

But for now, at least, the news is good.

Toronto has about $248 million in unanticipated revenues and savings from 2012.

That comes from a variety of sources.

The mild winter and a

slightly lower Ontario Works caseload, as well as vacancies in the civil service that went unfilled saved $65 million by the end of year.

As well, city agencies – notably the Toronto Transit Commission – underspent their budgets to the tune of about $70 million.

TTC underspent The TTC in particular saved almost $41 million, cashing in on lower market prices for energy and lower energy consumption due to the milder weather. It also enjoyed higher-thanexpected ridership.

Toronto police, meanwhile, underspent by about $15 million.

There were other savings.

The city underspent by about $182 million, and rev-

enues from the Municipal Land Transfer Tax and the Third Party Sign taxes were higher than anticipated as well.

And the city’s investments also did better than expected.

Once the city had allocated nearly $60 million to comply with various legislative requirements, the $248 million surplus remains. Staff are recommending it be allocated to capital financing reserves and other reserves.

Pa r k d a l e - H i g h Pa r k Councillor Gord Perks called the variance a product mainly of good fortune.

“This is not a result of a deliberate plan, this is having a really good year on the revenue side,” he said.

“Frankly, we should be putting more money away for an operating tax savings account.”

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Media being told where it stands in relation to coverage of city hall stories

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e member of the news media are stalkers these days at city hall. We perch outside Mayor Rob Ford’s office, waiting for his noon-hour arrival to demand to know about allegations of smoking crack, cover-ups and staffing changes.

Early on in the multiweek stakeout, a woman passing through City Hall called a group of us “vultures.”

A few days later, the mayor apologized for calling us “maggots.”

Can’t say we weren’t told where we stand at city hall these days.

In truth, since the story broke of the possible video of the mayor allegedly smoking crack cocaine, the media has mostly been standing in the hall outside the mayor’s office.

In refusing to answer the pertinent questions in this story, the mayor has all but invited us in.

And we’ve tried to be good house guests.

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security access rules, requiring reporters not to linger in the councillors’ common office area.

But the enforcement of the policy is new, and the purpose of that enforcement can only be to allow the mayor and his staff to continue to evade embarrassing questions from reporters — in this case, on a matter of city-wide interest.

This is not a new problem, or one endemic to the Ford administration.

The city’s security team along with a number of politicians have been looking for ways to restrict and even remove media access to councillors’ office areas since former mayor David Miller administration.

Some councillors were

But it’s becoming clear this short-term standoff with the mayor’s office could warp accountability and accessibility at City Hall for years to come.

Absent his press secretary and communications staff, Ford has taken to seconding city hall security staff to escort him between his parking garage and office doors.

Security has meanwhile made a space to the rear of the mayor’s office, inside the councillors’ secure area, inaccessible to news media who are accredited to enter the space.

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Notice of Annual and General Meeting of Members Notice is hereby given that the Annual and General Meeting of Members of Humber River Hospital (the “Corporation”) is called for and will be held at 200 Church Street, Weston, Ontario, on Tuesday, the 18th of June, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. (local time).

General Public Welcome Dated this 6th day of June, 2013.

By Order of the Chair of the Board Rueben Devlin Secretary

very keen on such a move — often because reporters would, when a politician got into hot water, show up at their office doors with cameras in hand to ask hard questions.

Our view then and now has been that hard questions asked by professional journalists shouldn’t be flagged as a security concern.

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would violate a deal agreed to between the province and the Harper government when the harmonized tax came into effect in 2010.

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expansions including a new subway line to relieve existing pressure on the Yonge line.

Also in the letter, Sousa calls on the Flaherty to commit to a national transit strategy, something he writes the Liberals have asked for since 2010.

“This is not only an economic, social and environmental imperative, it is also an urgent obligation of national importance,” states the letter.

Last week, Metrolinx released its long-awaited recommendations for funding the Big Move plan and advised the prompt adoption of a five per cent gas tax, increased developer charges and a levy assessed per space to commercial parking lot operators in addition to a regional HST hike.

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to raise the HST by one per cent in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) to benefit a regional transit plan.

“As the Minister responsible for the Greater Toronto Region, I hope you agree that a dedicated source of funding by your government is an economic and health imperative and would be one of your utmost priorities, similar to that of other projects already

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