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Metrolinx last week, to update the community on the status of Keelesdale and what’s to come. “We’re looking forward to the new station,” Debbie Dileo told The York Guardian that evening at York Memorial Collegiate Institute. Yet, the couple, long-time Yore Road residents, were curious to find out what kind of traffic interruptions they’d have >>>watermain, page 11

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Woman injured in scaffolding collapse intends to sue: lawyers MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Hannah Somerset, a 66-year-old personal support worker walking along Eglinton Avenue West last month, saw a construction worker run from a building. A moment later, her lawyers say, she was pinned under rubble and collapsed scaffolding that broke both her legs and feet, and also fractured her spine. Somerset’s life was “perma-

nently altered” when the front of the former House of Chan Restaurant, chosen to be a station entrance for the Crosstown Light-Rail Transit line, fell forward onto the sidewalk, injuring seven people, on April 18 at around 2:30 p.m. She intends to sue the City of Toronto, Crosslinx Transit Solutions Constructors (a construction consortium of the province’s Metrolinx agency), and Delsan-AIM Environmental >>>victim, page 11

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yearly tradition: Jack Westbrook peeks out from behind his newly purchased plant during opening day at the Weston Farmers’ Market on Saturday at its temporary location this season in the Weston GO/UP lot. The market runs Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will stay open until the last Saturday in October. It is run by Weston Village BIA.

One year, Weston’s Catherine Swartz sold as many as 3,800 of her homemade butter tarts during her street’s annual yard sale, an event that’s taken place for almost three decades. This year, she’s only baking 1,000 – so, anyone who knows how scrumptious the tarts are, better get to the Saturday, June 11 sale early. The annual sale, now in its 29th year, features household goods, toys, antiques and homebaked treats, among a host of other items, and attracts visitors not only from across Toronto, but as far away as Montreal, North Bay, Windsor, Owen Sound and Barrie. “One year, a neighbour even sold his van,” Swartz told The Guardian. Swartz attributes the success and longevity of the event to the street’s neighbourly vibe. “We have a huge community spirit,” she said. “When people move onto the street, >>>more, page 7

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Finally, I came to my census So, did you get your 2016 census filled out yet? I did mine. Online. Truth be told, I would have much preferred to receive a paper questionnaire. But you have to specifically request one of those and I didn’t want to have to go through the hassle of ordering that on top of filling it out. Besides, I have a feeling whenever you choose to do anything on paper these days instead of online, that governments, institutions, companies, et al put an asterisk on your file. I especially don’t like the thought of al doing that. Al can be so condescending at times. Anyhow, I got with the program, as they say. I breezed right through it, too. There was only one question I struggled to answer. A puzzling one that asked if I wanted the information I had just provided to be available to future generations and historical researchers 92 years from now in 2108. I figured I better call the toll-free Census Help Line to get an explanation. Alas, all I

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Performance artist JessGo craves space for creativity DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com Toronto performance artist Jessica Gorlicky, who goes by JessGo, spends as much of her time creating visual art on the road in front of audiences as she does in the studio. But even though only half her time working as an artist is in the studio, when she is there, she requires space and lots of it, as she creates largescale paintings. “Large is really inspiring. It’s just my comfort zone,” she said. “If you’re making an eight or nine foot painting, you can’t do it in a small room. I tried. It doesn’t work.” Luckily for the Lawrence Avenue and Avenue Road area resident, she has found the perfect space in York’s Fairbank community, home to Toronto’s design district. “I fell in love with this 2,500 sq. ft. warehouse that was completely raw to begin with,” she said, adding creating the art space inside the warehouse was an art project in itself. “It was a labour of love and I’m really enjoying the space now... We have 30-foot wide windows. It’s like a New York loft and it’s a dream space for an artist.” Gorlicky is hosting an open house at her new studio. There’s an inviteonly event for 250 guests tomorrow, and a public event Saturday with the doors open to everyone. During the event, she’ll demonstrate her ability to turn painting into a spectacle. “I feel like you’ll have a completely

different experience from any artistic one you’ve had in Toronto. The space, the energy, the artwork, it’s yours to discover,” she said. “I have a vision of what an event should be like. I feel like you should walk into a whole other world.” She’ll create a painting at her open house that will later be available for purchase. Gorlicky is certainly at ease when eyes are on her. She performs at public and private events, at corporate functions and for charities, doing approximately 100 performances a year. In 2012, she was signed to 77 shows with Cirque du Soleil. Her work has been commissioned by Google, Holt Renfrew, Sephora, the Olympics, Nordstrom Canada, and her art hangs around the world. Her art can get quite large too, such as the 63-foot mural she painted for the Nordstrom store in Ottawa last year. “Jobs like that make my whole world. That’s the most amazing thing that can happen,” she said. Gorlicky intends to spend everyday at her new studio; however, admission is by appointment as she’s constantly on the road and gallery hours may be irregular. The studio is at 660 Caledonia Rd. Saturday’s open house runs from noon to 5 p.m., with the live painting happening around 1 p.m.

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Elissa Antonio can sit up, stand, lift both her feet and maneuver herself into a wheelchair. It’s an accomplishment just six weeks after the Toronto woman fell 40 feet off a cliff in the dark while foraging wood for a family bonfire while on vacation in her native Trinidad. She broke her pelvis, her right sacrum and fractured her right leg. Her right heel was so broken, her foot was twisted around 180 degrees. Antonio, 40, languished in a Trinidadian hospital for 14 days, no doctor able to perform the needed surgeries. The hospital’s CT scanner didn’t work. Antonio had travelled home to visit her parents, as she always had, without travel insurance. Aubrey Clarke, a friend, launched a GoFundMe page, which raised more than $60,000 in seven days to transport Antonio home last month on a medical airlift. Antonio was rushed to a Toronto hospital where she underwent a 10-hour surgery to repair her pelvis, right sacrum, and right leg. The following day, a surgeon had to re-break her heel before surgically repairing it. The mother of two teenage daughters spoke with reporters Wednesday, May 4 at a media availability in the lush gardens of St. John’s Rehab on Cummer Avenue in North York, where she is recovering. “The support has been overwhelming,” Antonio said, seated in a wheelchair, her right leg in a cast. “Every time I got an email from Aubrey, my sister, strangers saying ‘keep your head up’ or sharing that they’d never had travel insurance... There are no words to thank everyone who donated, supported me, who said and who continue to say prayers.” Her ordeal is a cautionary tale on the importance of travel insurance. “I’ve learned my lesson. I think I’ve overlearned my lesson,” Antonio said, noting she “buys an airline ticket and I’m gone.” Never, until now, had she given travel insurance a thought. Six weeks later, Antonio said she has pain that runs down her back to her toes, keeping her up at night. She sometimes sleeps during the day. “I feel great,” she said. “I’ve accomplished so much in so little time. Nobody expected me to get this far this fast.” Currently, Antonio is undergoing occupational therapy to strengthen her upper body, and physiotherapy to retrain her muscles in her leg. Doctors

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Elissa Antonio, 40, speaks to the media about her recovery from a broken pelvis, sacrum, right heel and fractured right leg. told her she must stay off her right leg for 12 weeks. Doctors believe she will walk again. Antonio’s recovery is expected to take up to a year. During that time, she cannot work. She has no shortterm or long-term disability through her employer. The GoFundMe campaign remains open to assist Antonio with living expenses during her recovery. “It will be a long road to recovery. We want her not to have to worry about her finances,” Clarke said of the ongoing GoFundMe campaign. “We don’t want her to be stressed. We’re not trying to raise a million dollars. We just want her not to worry about how she’ll pay her rent or make her car payment.” Antonio recalled for reporters the moments before and after she fell. “I kept on walking. I couldn’t see exactly where I was going. I used my

phone to help me see. Basically, I just walked off the cliff,” Antonio recalled. “I had the thought, ‘hang on to something.’ But there was nothing.” Incredibly, she landed on the beach atop a large piece of foam someone had left there. A sea of rocks surrounded her. Antonio said she prayed to God for strength as she writhed in anguished pain in a Trinidadian hospital, often choosing to go without pain medication for days. “I have a lot of faith in God,” Antonio said. “In Trinidad, the medicine they gave me gave me muscle spasms. It made the pain worse. So most of the time, I didn’t take it. I had to ask God to take the pain from me. Without that, I would have died.”

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Cabbies and left-wing councillors lose in Uber debate Last week’s vote on Uber at Toronto City Council did undeniable harm to two very vulnerable groups in our city. Taxi drivers form one of those groups. The suite of amendments moved by Mayor John Tory and approved by a solid majority of Toronto councillors makes the lives of drivers who don’t own their own plates undeniably worse. Licenced taxi drivers come away from the debate with less stable income, in a position that makes it virtually impossible to compete with a potential flood of Uber-X cars and drivers. And then there is that other vulnerable group – one that’s not vulnerable economically or socially perhaps, but is practically an endangered species in the political ecology of Toronto City Hall: Toronto’s small but vocal group of left-wing councillors. Tory left them gasping

david nickle the city in disbelief, after he abandoned a long negotiation with them to come up with a more progressive and taxi driver-friendly set of amendments, to make a sharp turn to the right and champion a very different, very Uber-friendly set of amendments. Those amendments mollified some of the bigger voices on the right – notably Giorgio Mammoliti and Jim Karygiannis. But they left the leadership on the left – Janet Davis, Gord Perks, Deputy Mayor Pam McConnell – seething more than usual. The negotiations had been long, and the left went into the May council meeting thinking they had a deal. The reversal was a clear indication that the left could count on no reli-

able negotiations with the mayor’s office, so there was no point in trying. None of this should concern Tory much. While it’s true he has promised to bring Toronto Council together in a way that no other mayor has, the reality is that Tory does not really need to do so in order to govern. His natural allies, council’s centrists and right wing, will support him on most matters. If the mayor wants to put policy in place that strays to the left, he can rely on council’s left without a thought. Is the left going to vote against bike lanes, public housing dollars, public health matters? Given that Tory’s mandate seems to be based on offering comfort to voters of nearly every political persuasion, will the left really be able to bring forward a credible, winning mayoral candidate in 2018?

Council’s left wing meanwhile, is in a corner. Unless a Bernie Sanders municipal figure emerges very soon, there is very little that a left-leaning councillor can do to harm Tory politically, particularly as Tory is far more likely to face a strong challenger from the right. And as was demonstrated last week, there is scarcely more that left-wing councillors can accomplish in working with Tory and his staff. They can vote for policies they agree with, of course, but influence them? Put a mark on them? Well they can certainly try – if, that is, they can put from their minds the May 2016 council meeting, when they and Toronto’s cab drivers both lost it all.

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100th Anniversary of Loretto College School WHEN: 2 to 6:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Clare Parish Church, 1118 St. Clair Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-393-5511, www.lorettocollege100.com/liturgy--receptionmay-14-2016.html COST: $35/ person for reception Celebrate this milestone with a Mass of Thanksgiving celebrated with Cardinal Thomas Collins at St. Clare Roman Catholic Church at 2 p.m. followed by a reception at Loretto College School, 151 Rosemount Ave. at 3:30 p.m. RSVP is required. MAP Family Saturdays: Museum of Inuit Art WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Richard, 416-394-1006 COST: Free Get up close and personal with sculptures and cultural items from the Museum of Inuit Art’s educational collection. Learn how artists create sculptures and prints. Make your own piece of art to take home with you. The Stop’s Farmers’ Market WHEN: 8 a.m. to 12:30 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, the market has become a neighbourhood meeting place, attracting more than 1,500 people each week and providing an important source of income for local farmers

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Van Trip to Ripley’s Aquarium WHEN: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Danna McBride, 416-245-4395, ext. 223, danna@ywalc.ca COST: adults $29.98 / 65+ $19.98 As Canada’s largest indoor aquarium, Ripley’s Aquarium welcomes you to the Waters of the World. Transportation: Members $15, non-members $20.

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Karoke WHEN: 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-0231, www.facebook.com/mountdennislegion, legionbr31@ yahoo.com COST: BBQ food available at reasonable prices Join organizers for their weekly Friday barbecue from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Karoke with KJ Peter DeBruin begins at 8:30 p.m. Cash Bar. All 19-plus are welcome. Introduction to the Brain’s Functions WHEN: 3 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Learn about the five brain functions and do fun activities with other seniors to sharpen them. Get some tips to prevent memory loss. Call to register. After-School Club WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Valeriya, 416-394-1006 COST: Free Join them after school, every Tuesday, for fun. Show off your skills with our weekly Lego challenges, or just chill out with some board games, chess, cards, colouring and music. Space is limited. Call to register.

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Hollis childcare to move up the road The City-operated Hollis Early Learning and Child Care Centre in Mount Dennis is moving a few blocks up the road as its current location will be closed to make way for an Eglinton Crosstown LRT stop. T h e c i t y ’s G o v e r n m e n t Management Committee approved a recommendation to expropriate vacant property just north of the existing childcare centre at a May 9 meeting to relocate the facility. City Council must still approve the

temporary location, and the actual relocation costs. The childcare program will move to a temporary location at 1296 Weston Rd., and then to a permanent location. The city intends to purchase property at 1230-1234 Weston Rd. through expropriation. A city report says the property is an appropriate location as it is currently vacant, is the correct size for the program and had previously used as a childcare centre.

Eglinton Crosstown Update: Station Open House The Eglinton Crosstown Project is building the Eglinton line, 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. When complete, the line will connect Mount Dennis in the west to Kennedy Road in the east, and will move passengers up to 60 per cent faster than bus service along Eglinton Avenue today. Join us at our upcoming open house and learn about the future station on the Eglinton line in your neighbourhood. Starting in summer 2016, the next phase of construction begins at Mount Dennis Station, and many other Crosstown stations will be under construction before the end of 2016. Join Metrolinx and its constructor, Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS), at the open house to find out: • what construction is happening in your neighbourhood • why it needs to happen • how it may impact you • who to contact if you have questions/concerns • when construction is happening

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Appliance Repairs/ Decks & Fences Installation

0 ALL Decks built in 1 day. Highest quality. Spring discount! Free design and estimates. Call Mike 416-738-7752 www.griffindecks.ca Masonry & Concrete

Masonry & Concrete

Brick ~ Blocks ~ Stonework Chimney’s ~ Tuck Pointing Porches ~ Flagstone Window Sills. All masonry work. Insured & Licensed.

For free estimates call Roman

416-684-4324

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Appliance Repairs/ Installation

Professional Repairs of all brands of: Refrigeration, Stoves, Dishwashers, Washers, Dryers, Air Conditioning & Heating. Free Estimates. Warranty, Credit cards accepted. Seniors discount. 416-616-0388

BRICK, NATURAL STONE & CHIMNEY WORK Tuck Pointing, Crack Repair, Flagstone, Windowsills and Much More! For Free Estimate Call Peter:647-333-0384 www.stardustconstruction.com

Flooring & Carpeting

NESO FLOORING

Real Estate Misc./Services

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Business Services

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Mortgages/Loans

MONEY

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Special Services

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Special Services

Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Marriage and Family Therapist/Specialist, Pastoral Counselling.

Dufferin Medical Clinic, 2045 Dufferin St., Suite 301

Contact Silva Redigonda, M.A.M.S, RP, RMFT. silva.redigonda@utoronto.ca Call 416-878-4945 Notices (Public)

Notices (Public)

St. Matthew’s R. C. Church

c/o Committee of Our Lady of Light 706 Old Weston Road, Toronto, Ontario, M6N 3B8 Tel.: 416-653-7191 Holds a Festival on September 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th, 2016 (Noise Dispensation has been requested by the City of Toronto) The concerts will be held on the following days and times: The schoolyard will be used on the following days and times: • Friday, September 2nd, 2016 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. • Saturday, September 3rd, 2016 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. • Sunday, September 4th, 2016 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. • Monday, September 5th, 2016 from 1:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Vehicles Wanted/Wrecking

$100-$10,000

Vehicles Wanted/Wrecking

Cars

Cash 4

Dead or alive Same day Fast FREE Towing 416-831-7399

Articles Wanted

Carpet installation starting from $1.19/ sq.ft. Hardwood, laminate at low prices. 27 yrs experience. Free Estimates. Best Price!

Articles Wanted

ANTIQUES

& Collectibles Wanted Cash for Older:

647-400-8198

Home Improvement