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Just as the kitchen is the heart of a home, so too is it for the nonprofit organization FoodShare which provides healthy food

and food education to communities across Toronto.

It is far more than its appliances and cabinets – it’s where FoodShare offers a place, for example, for women receiving breast cancer treatment to

cook together; it’s where young people learn the importance of a healthy diet, not to mention a space where people generally connect.

Yet the food agency is gearing up for a move from its current

location in a Toronto District School Board (TDSB) building at Bloor West and Dufferin streets to the Mount Dennis neighbourhood where its new space is lacking a kitchen. At >>>new, page 13

Whether it’s through ball hockey, photography, chess, or camping, 12 Division police officers are engaging youth, especially those who live in communities the city has identified as ‘Neighbourhood Improvement Areas’.

The division has seven of the 37 neighbourhoods determined by the Toronto Strong Neighourhoods Strategy 2020 as areas where the city needs to prioritize its resources, said police Supt. Scott Weidmark, a 37-year veteran of the force, who has been at the division for the past two years.

Weidmark, along with some of his officers, joined frontline youth and community workers for a discussion on how police officers and local agencies can work together to ensure the safety of children, teens, and young adults, while keeping them from making the wrong decisions.

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THE EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT PROJECT

Reduced wait times for families with autistic kids DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.om

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Information as of June 21, 2016

What is the Crosstown?

The Eglinton Crosstown is a 19-kilometre light rail transit (LRT) line that will run along Eglinton Avenue through the heart of Toronto, with a 10-kilometre underground tunnel in its central section. The line will connect Mount Dennis in the west to Kennedy Road in the east, and the new service will be up to 60% faster than the bus service today.

Eglinton Avenue West Road Closure, July 8 to July 11, 2016 What?

From July 8 to July 11, 2016 Eglinton Avenue West will be closed from east of Everden Road to Westover Hill Road for road deck maintenance.

As part of the general maintenance, crews will be resurfacing the road deck surface over the existing launch shaft between east of Everden Road and Westover Hill Road. There will be no access to Allen Road from the east side of the expressway.

When?

Friday, July 8 to Monday, July 11 (10 p.m. on Friday to 5 a.m. on Monday) Some work will be performed during overnight hours.

Work may be rescheduled due to weather conditions or unforeseen circumstances.

What to Expect A mild odour and some noise may be noticeable with this work. A tent will be installed around the work area to maintain a consistent temperature and protect from possible inclement weather.

Traffic Details The northbound Allen Road ramp will not be accessible from westbound Eglinton Avenue West. The northbound on-ramp can be accessed by travelling east along Eglinton Avenue West.

Vehicles exiting Allen Road must turn right (westbound) or continue onto Everden Rd (southbound).

Residential side streets east of the Allen Road, between Westover Hill Road and Bathurst Street, will be posted for local access only.

Additional fencing and barriers will be put in place at key locations to ensure the safety of motorists and pedestrians throughout the weekend work. Advance signage advising of the road closures will be posted to provide drivers’ notice of the specific road closures.

Paid Duty Officers (PDOs) will be on-site to assist.

Pedestrian Details There will be no change to the current pedestrian walkways already in use.

Transit Users TTC Subway service at Eglinton West Station will not be impacted.

32 Eglinton and 332 Eglinton Night bus routes There will be an increase in bus volume along existing routes in the area as buses will be diverted both ways via: Eglinton Avenue, Bathurst Street, Glencairn Avenue, Marlee Avenue and Eglinton Avenue. Buses will serve existing transit stops along the diversionary routing.

TTC signs will be posted for transit users.

Thank you for your patience as we work to build this important project.

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Families seeking treatment for a child’s autism will see reduced wait times and increased transitional funding for children moving from the existing intensive therapy to the province’s new Applied Behavioural Analysis service, as the Ontario government has announced $200 million in restored funding.

Newly appointed Minister of Children and Youth Services Michael Coteau made the announcement at Queen’s Park Tuesday, effectively changing the government’s $333 million five-year overhaul of the province’s autism program.

That program, announced in March, was to have begun in 2018 and would have left as many as 2,200 families uncertain as to how they would manage treatment for their children in the transition.

The $200 million will, Coteau said, ensure all children diagnosed with autism in Ontario will receive appropriate treatment, without a gap that families will have to pay for out of pocket.

“Every single child will receive the services that they need, period,” Coteau said. “If a child needs intensive programming they will receive that programming. The most important piece here is that every single family goes through assessment and will get the amount of programming that they require.”

The reforms announced by Coteau will also allow supports for children five years and over who were previously on the intensive behavioural analysis (ABA) wait list. That funding has increased to $10,000 for 10 weeks, from the previously announced $8,000.

Program to start sooner And the Ontario program will be instituted sooner – in June 2017, a full year ahead of the previouslyannounced plan aimed at 2018.

“A two-year transition period is too long for families waiting for services,” Coteau said.

“So we’re cutting the implementation plan in half. It will now begin in June 2017, which means every child with an autism diagnosis will have access sooner regardless of age.”

Parents and advocates said they were pleased with the news.

“I’m beyond ecstatic, this is a long time in coming,” said advocate Gal Geller, attending the announcement with other parents. “Minister Coteau is doing right by the children. Our parents have been unreal advocates.

It’s phenomenal.”

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Downtown lanes a ‘game changer’ as Toronto’s bicycle network expands

weLIKE toBIKE DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com In 1991, 15-year-old Yvonne Bambrick rode the streets of Toronto with brash confidence – making the considerable daily commute from her family home at Victoria Park in East York to Jarvis Collegiate by bicycle, along busy downtown streets that made scant accommodation for bikes.

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doored on the Danforth and had a wipeout on bad road conditions. Otherwise I was just a teenager on her bicycle, happy to be free getting where she’s going. It meant I could have all the ice cream I wanted.”

In 2016, the Toronto that Bambrick bikes around is a much safer place. Toronto has a total of 558.4 kilometres of on-street bike lanes, including white bicycle lanes, contra-flow lanes that run against the flow of traffic, so-called “sharrows”, signed routes without pavement markings, and even a few kilometres of cycle tracks that are fully separated from traffic.

A lot of people use those lanes.

According to the 2006 Census, Torontonians bike to and from work like nobody else in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, with 19,780 commuting by bike compared to 14,925 in 2001.

In 2015, Bambrick published a book for those cyclists: The Urban Cycling Survival Guide: Need To Know Skills and Strategies for Biking in the

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“Back when I was a naive teenager, I didn’t think twice about it,” recalls Bambrick 25 years later, sitting on a sunny patio in Kensington Market, steps from one of the city’s massive on-street bike racks and just over a block from the busy College Street bike lanes.

“The concept of bike lanes wasn’t on my brain at all. I did know it wasn’t safe – I got

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Cyclists make their way in traffic along the Sherbourne Street bike lane at Carlton Street on a recent Thursday afternoon.

City. It was a book culled from her work advocating for cyclists as the head of the Toronto Cyclist’s Union – now Cycle Toronto – and her years riding Toronto’s sometimes tricky streets.

There’s a lot to know: how to make a safe left turn (there’s more than one way); how to suit up for cycling in bad weather; dealing with potentially hostile interactions; and how to navigate all those different styles of bike road infrastructure.

Currently, most of those routes are in neighbourhoods surrounding the downtown core – including the relatively new cycle tracks on Sherbourne, Adelaide and Richmond streets.

“Richmond-Adelaide were a game changer,” says Bambrick. “I was having to ride there all the time (before), and I’m a confident rider but even for me it was tough. This is amazing.

Transformative.”

Bambrick and other cycling advocates are hoping for more change like that, on roads that extend beyond the downtown.

This summer, the city will be embarking on a pilot project to try a cycle track along Bloor Street through the Annex neighbourhood – a test, to see whether a city-spanning

track could be installed the length of Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue.

And the outcome of that could determine the implementation of parts of the city’s next big plan for cycling expansion: the Cycling Network 10 Year Plan.

Under that plan, Toronto’s bikeway and bike trail network would be extended to the ends of the city: north along Yonge Street to Steeles Avenue; on Kingston Road in Scarborough from Eglinton Avenue to the Highland Creek Trail; Kipling Avenue from Bloor Street to the Waterfront Trail; and Midland Avenue, from Steeles to Lawrence avenues.

Toronto’s Chief Planner Jennifer Keesmaat said to provide an effective cycling alternative, the network needs to expand in the same way that transit networks expand – in a continuum. Do that, she says, and it becomes viable to commute, at least to downtown, from nearly anywhere in the city.

“With cycling, distance isn’t that much of a problem,” says Keesmaat. “The city is really not that big, and 10 kilometres, 20 kilometres isn’t really a big deal. And from the centre of the city you can get pretty much anywhere on a

65% of people who ride a bicycle to work are male, and 35% are female 58% of people who ride a bicycle to work are between the ages of 25 to 44

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10 kilometer bikeway. If you’re cycling from Scarborough to Etobicoke, that’s a big trip. But from the centre of the city you can get anywhere – all you need is safe infrastructure.”

The other thing that a cyclist needs, of course, is the will, and a bit of know-how.

Bambrick is an evangelist for the former and a resource for the latter. When asked what it takes to get on a bike, after dutifully recommending a careful read of her book, she suggests a step-by-step approach. Borrow a bikeshare bike; go riding with a friend on a quiet street. If it’s been awhile, take a BikeShare course.

And remember: roads were originally for bikes.

“We paved our roads because wheelmen’s clubs advocated to get the roads paved. The bicycling movement has been around for a long time,” says Bambrick.

“It’s never gone away.”

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n Friday, July 1, we Canadians pause to celebrate another year as just that: Canadians.

We have been able to do that for 149 years now, and let’s be honest: it feels good.

We’re a good country, after all.

We look after each other, and try to extend that compassion abroad.

We have bad days – who doesn’t? – but on balance we’ve lived our 149 years well, and we look pretty good for our age.

The same can’t be said for the rest of our family of nations, and it’s tempting to feel smug about that. our view The United Kingdom, to whose Queen we still swear Be proud, not allegiance, is not doing well at all. smug, about In an ill-managed referentogetherness dum, its people have voted to take it from the European Union (EU), in the process throwing its economy, and the world’s economy, into turmoil.

The vote to leave was decisive but not universally so, and now the U.K. is on the verge of fragmentation, with Scotland poised to hold another independence referendum, not two years after it narrowly voted to remain in the U.K. This time, with EU membership in the balance, polls indicate the Scots might well succeed.

We in Canada have flirted with this sort of thing in the past, through two nail-biting referendums in Quebec, each of which might have put us in a similar place: a country split at the seam, where nativism and nationalist intransigence make dissolution seem inevitable.

Good for us that we didn’t take the plunge. We’re still here, in one piece, with the capacity to engage ourselves and the world as proud Canadians.

Let’s be proud, then: proud, but not smug.

It is unlikely-to-impossible that separatists in Quebec could marshal support for another referendum any time soon – the Parti Quebecois has yet to find a leader, and in any case will not be in a position to govern until the fall of 2018, when the next provincial election is scheduled.

But it is a point for sober reflection this Canada Day, just how precious is our unity and civility, and how easy it is for a nation – any nation, even our own – to allow that to slip away.

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Mayor Tory’s op-ed column stirs controversy You can get into a lot of trouble, writing a column for a newspaper.

Even if you’re a professional, it can be hazardous: sticky fingers for other people’s ideas and phrases will (or should) sink you; you can get facts wrong, or get caught making it up, which should and does sink you.

Or, like this columnist, you can realize a couple of days after you tried to link Brexit with spurious transit plans and bad public finance, that you may have just overreached – in which case you’ll get called on it, often on Twitter. And that stuff never goes away.

It’s worse when you’re not a professional. Worse still, when you’re not a professional who has skin in the game.

And so we come to Mayor John Tory, who tried his hand writing a column for a newspaper, The Toronto Star, on Tuesday: a column about his besieged $3 billion Scarborough subway plan, on the eve

david nickle the city of its debut on the floor of Tuesday’s Executive Committee.

It was a substantial piece in the Toronto Star, just a hair over 800 words long, and for most of those words it chugs along well, noting that he ran in 2014 promising to build a subway in Scarborough, that we are behind on transit construction, that there’s political consensus between the three levels of government that the subway’s the way to go, and that city staff have said the Scarborough subway could help boost ridership in a part of the city where it’s currently low.

So far, Tory has penned a good and boring op-ed.

It gets troublesome when he goes for what some of us professionals might call “the dig”: that part where you try and nail down just what’s wrong with the thing

we’re critiquing.

Writes Tory (at about the 600 word mark): “But many of the subway’s loudest critics do not live or work in Scarborough, where more than half the population is born outside of Canada. When they say this is too much to spend on a subway, the inference seems to be that it’s too much to spend on this part of the city.”

Oh dear. It’s hard, indeed impossible, to parse that down to a particularly ugly accusation – that those who fancy a light rail network in Scarborough and not a subway are anti-Scarborough nativists. Indeed, at least one of Tory’s colleagues on council, the subway-opposing, lightrail-loving Josh Matlow, parsed things exactly that way.

“Sad, desperate and shameful. I had hoped for much more from a mayor who preached civility,” tweeted Matlow.

This is the kind of trouble

that isn’t really very much trouble at all for professionals. We’re used to people crossing the street to avoid us after a particularly vigorous application of fair comment on their dealings. It goes with the territory.

For a mayor, who’s built his brand on civility and team-work as Tory has?

Both Tory and his office tried to make it clear that the column wasn’t intended to be divisive, but to point out that Scarborough’s poorly served by transit. They weren’t out of line: Josh Matlow was out of line.

It was too late by then.

It is one thing that those of us writing columns for the newspapers learn early: there are no take-backs when you write something, however unintentionally it may have been, that makes you look a bit of a jerk.

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Nice to meet biG biTe: Above, Mark-Anthony White, 4, enjoys a hot dog during the elm Street Neighbours Night Out barbecue last Friday. At right, isaac brooks, 18 months, (left) takes in the performance by Captain Cowboy and the Money Maker (Dana Pirso and Alex Shaw). The event was a chance for neighbours to get to know each other and find out what area organizations, such as Weston Heritage Conservation District are up to.

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Dignitaries from The Rockport Group, City of Toronto, Artscape, Toronto Parking Authority and Woodbourne Capital Management officially break ground on a vibrant new community development in Toronto’s Weston neighbourhood last week.

Artscape breaks ground in Weston Mayor John Tory was on hand to help break ground for the Artscape Weston Hub alongside York SouthWeston Councillor Frances Nunziata, Weston Business Improvement Area and Rockport Group representatives June 22.

“The transformation of the Weston community

shows how we can reimagine Toronto and build up the city when we work together,” Tory said in a statement. “Through this public-private partnership, residents are going to get a complete neighbourhood with mixed housing, public space for farmers’ markets, and space dedicated for arts and cultural events.”

Scheduled to open in 2018, Artscape Weston Hub will transform ground floor space in the podium of an existing high-rise apartment building and will include the redevelopment of a surplus parking lot into outdoor public space.

For more details, visit www.artscapeweston.ca

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Canada Day Party WHEN: 2 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-0231, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: food available at reasonable prices Canadian trivia quiz, door prize every half hour, barbecue from 4 to 5 p.m., free birthday cake and DJ Tom O’Rourke.

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Books and Tea: Celebrating Toronto Caribbean Carnival WHEN: 3 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Looking for great reads to put you in a Toronto Caribbean Carnival mood?

Whitney French, writer, storyteller and literary advocate, has got suggestions.

Bring your own teacup (BYOT) and they will provide the tea. Call to register.

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.

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Party by the Pond WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Eglinton Flats Park, 3601 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Mount Dennis Community Association, mailings@mountdennis.ca COST: Free Mount Dennis Community Association hosts its annual Party by the Pond at Topham Pond at Eglinton Flats. There’s a Fishing Zone: no licence required on this day, tackle and bait provided for kids, ambassadors will help kids and novices, learn about fly fishing for trout or salmon. There will also be a Kids Zone, sports and games, plenty of food available, a community zone, free bike tune-ups and more.

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.

WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Community Action Resource Centre, 1652 Keele St., Unit 110 CONTACT: Ana Leon, 416-652-2273 COST: Free The Community Action Resource Centre and Parks and Recreation Toronto host an information session on ‘care and use of our plants’ with speaker Alfredo Correa. Call to RSVP.

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Applefun Puppetry - The Purple Pirate WHEN: 11 a.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Richard, 416-394-1006 COST: Free Drop in for an exciting and interactive puppet show.

Adult Chess Tournament WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre, 341 Oakwood Ave CONTACT: 416-3941040 COST: Free Join them for monthly chess tournaments. Chess players of all levels are welcome.

w Wednesday, July 6

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Nanabozho and the Raccoon WHEN: 2 p.m. WHERE: Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre, 341

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Oakwood Ave. CONTACT: 416-3941041 COST: Free Mischievous raccoon plays tricks on two old blind men until Nanabozho sets things right and marks raccoon with the signs of a thief. After the show enjoy a craft program. Drop in.

legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: food available at reasonable prices Join organizers for their weekly Friday barbecue. Karoke begins at 8:30 p.m. Cash bar. All 19-plus are welcome.

Intergenerational Line Dance WHEN: 6 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Danna McBride, 416-245-4395, ext. 223, danna@ywalc.ca COST: Free Come alone or bring your child, grandchild and enjoy dancing together.

HGTV Canada looking for Backyard Transformations WHEN: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: HGTV Canada, 1655 Dupont St. CONTACT: Ajay Hoffer, www. hgtvseries.castingcrane.com/, ajay@ groundglassmedia.com COST: Free HGTV Canada is casting a series, and they want to showcase just how creative people can get with their outdoor space. They’re hoping to find people transforming sheds into yoga studios, or home offices or a chic tree house that’s as appealing to mom and dad as it is to the kids. Apply online.

Trades Win Support Program WHEN: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Community Action Resource Centre, 1652 Keele St., Unit 110 CONTACT: 416-652-2273, Zerit@communityarc. ca COST: Free A bridging program to prepare internationally trained skilled trades professionals for a Red Seal license.

The course is run by Humber College in partnership with Skills for Change.

Call to register.

w Friday, July 8

Karaoke WHEN: 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-0231, www. facebook.com/mountdennislegion,

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Bike Share adds 120 new stations Bike Share Toronto has begun a promised expansion of its operations, adding 120 new stations and 1,000 more bikes.

The agency first announced in April it was purchasing the new infrastructure from Montreal-based PBSC Solutions, which ran the bike share originally called Bixi The purchase comes from a near $5-million funding arrangement with Metrolinx announced in 2015.

The new rides are expected to be available by July 11.

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A group cheerleading for the SmartTrack transit project has now released a report claiming the city can raise billions towards its cost.

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Metrolinx may have to postpone commencement of an Environmental Assessment for electrifying much of GO Transit’s rail operations.

The 120-day Transit Project Assessment Process (TPAP) was supposed to begin in July. But prior to that, a draft of the project report was to be completed by the end of June, which is now delayed to later in the summer.

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Const. Shane Beaudoin, a resource officer with the Community Response Unit, has been working in the areas of the Humber Boulevard townhouses and the Jane Street-Wolner Avenue corridor for the past four years where he said he and his partner have had a lot of success connecting with kids.

youth photography “We ran a photography program where (youth) were given cameras and asked to show Toronto from their perspective,” Beaudoin said last Friday.

Currently, he is working on getting youth involved in the City of Toronto Adventure Race, similar to the reality show ‘The Amazing Race’.

Barbara Spyropoulos, chair of the 12 Division Community Police Liaison Committee (CPLC), also runs

the Restorative Justice program. The program works with a variety of organizations to keep young people out of the court system and helps them to understand the consequences of their actions. It brings together the child’s family and the family that his or her action impacted.

“We discuss, ‘how can we fix it?’ ‘How can we stop it from happening again,’ and how to keep them on the road to success,” Spyropoulos said.

Shadya Yasin, coordinator at York Youth Coalition Network, which hosted the event, wanted to know how police are dealing with those with mental health issues.

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The program pairs a mental health nurse with a specially trained officer to respond to 911 emergencies and police dispatch calls that involve people experiencing a mental health crisis.

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“People in the exchange send me a message and I sent out an email blast,” Spyropoulos said.

Within a half hour of a request, she said she gets about 10 responses. The virtual hub contains a list of more than 180 agencies and their specialities.

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FoodShare is in the midst of a crowdfunding campaign in an effort to raise $30,000 to install a kitchen in its new space at 120 Industry St. “We see the kitchen as the heart and soul of FoodShare,” spokesperson Heidi Pyper said. “The kitchen is a pricey piece of the move. We’re asking for a little bit from a lot of people. Ten dollar donations add up.”

As of Tuesday, the campaign had raised $27,535 – in its second week. People are asked to make donations before July 16 in anticipation of the move in mid-August. To keep costs down, FoodShare is keeping as much equipment as possible, such as coolers and ovens. It is in need of a new range hood, some plumbing and some walls.

“The building we are in now is being reclaimed by the TDSB,” Pyper said about the reason for the move.

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FoodShare is moving from Bloor Street West and Dufferin Street to the Mount Dennis neighbourhood in mid-August.

The new space does not have a kitchen so the food agency is in the midst of a crowdfunding campaign to get one.

hours. The move will allow for more “breathing room,” said Alvin Rebick, kitchen and good-food program senior manager.

“We’re moving into a (building) where we’ll have free use of the space 24-hours a day, seven days a week,” he said.

It is also in close proximity to other non-profits.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on behalf of All About Water Ltd. application will be made to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario for an Act to revive the Corporation.

The application will be considered by the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills. Any person who has an interest in the application and who wishes to make submissions, for or against the application, to the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills should notify, in writing, the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, Legislative Building, Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, M7A lA2.

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Celebrate Canada Day Le Canada en Fête

Friday July 1, 2016 5-10:30pm

Weston Lions Park (Weston Rd. & Lawrence Ave.) Brought to you by Councillor Frances Nunziata, the Weston Village Residents' Association and the City of Toronto, Parks, Forestry & Recreation

Free children’s activities and live entertainment, featuring DJ Dominic, Elvis, Jack Squat, the Foundation Band featuring Devon Irie, Danny B, Beatboxing Champion Scott Jackson

Special thanks to our Community Partners: • Humber Community Seniors’ Services • North York Harvest Food Bank • Options for Homes • Rockcliffe-Smythe Community Association • Spice Isle/Grenada Day Cultural Association

• Syme 55+ Centre • UrbanArts • York Youth Coalition • Access Alliance

We would like to thank our sponsors: • Trinity Development Group Inc. • St. Helen’s Meat Packers Limited • Caplan’s Appliances • Rockport Weston Hub Inc. • B.G. Schickedanz Homes Inc. • All Canadian Self-Storage

• SmartREIT • Topper Linen and Uniform Service • Mount Dennis Medical Group • World of Cake Decorating • Old Mill Cadillac Chevrolet Buick GMC Ltd.

Help support the North York Harvest Food Bank by bringing a non-perishable food item.

This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada and the City of Toronto

For more information, please contact Councillor Frances Nunziata at 416-392-4091 or email us at councillor_nunziata@toronto.ca www.councillornunziata.com