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While York residents will have to wait a few more months for the long-anticipated opening of their new $30-million community centre, west-end councillors put an end this week Council picks to speculation a name over what the for future two-decadescommunity in-the-making centre facility will be called.

Etobicoke York Community Council voted unanimously last week in favor of ‘York Recreation Centre’ as the name of the 6,500-square-metre facility still under development at 115 Black Creek Dr. After years of being plagued by construction delays, the centre is finally slated to open its doors to the public in September, said York SouthWeston Councillor Frances Nunziata.

“I know this recreation centre is technically in Councillor (Frank) Di Giorgio’s ward, but you know what? I’ve been working on this centre for over 20 >>>councillor, page 6

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The body of Sara Rosen travels to the grave site on the back of a 1939 fire truck after the funeral service at Benjamin’s Park Memorial Chapel Monday morning. The Toronto firefighter died last week in a mountain biking accident at the Kelso Conservation Area in Milton.

Firefighter remembered as ‘full of life’ TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com A sea of hundreds of Toronto firefighters wearing their dress black and white gloves stood solemnly with family and friends Monday, May 16 morning to pay final respects to their fallen colleague Sara Rosen, whom one remembered

as “genuine, selfless, smiling and full of life.”

Mourners packed Benjamin Park Memorial Chapel on Steeles Avenue West near Keele Street in North York for Rosen’s 90-minute funeral.

Jackie Gaistman, Rosen’s partner, called her “my compass.”

“Sara is the fiercest, most

genuine, brutally honest, inspirational, joyful, free-spirited, soulful, generous, strong, determined, feisty, loyal, courageous person I’ve ever met,” Gaistman said, calling her his wife. “Sara loved her parents and her brother Mark with every ounce of her heart. Mark is living testament to Sara’s love, generosity, caring and courage. She was,

and still is, such a hero.”

Twelve years ago, Rosen donated her kidney to her brother, Mark. Since then, the siblings would celebrate an additional “birthday” every year marking the date of the transplant, said Rosen’s father, Allan.

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Toronto paramedic delivers his own child on the side of the road ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com Toronto paramedic Pascal Turmel had delivered five babies while on the job.

His sixth delivery was extra special: his own daughter. And it took place at the side of the road.

Pascal’s wife Lisa began having contractions the evening of May 1.

“Up until about 9 o’clock, they were still a good 10 minutes apart, and then all of a sudden it started accelerating,” Pascal said.

The couple then left their Weston home and made their way to North York General Hospital.

But while on Hwy. 401, Lisa told Pascal, “We’ve got to pull over.”

Pascal stopped at Avenue Road, called 911 and hopped in the back of his minivan.

“At that point the head was crowning. You could see the head during contractions,” Pascal said. “My fear was just if there’s a complication.

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trained, but without equipment you can’t do a lot.”

Once an ambulance pulled up, Pascal was more relaxed, and a few pushes later, the baby was born.

“It was pretty special. The pride level was quite high,” Pascal said.

Baby Madelaine made her entrance at 10:11 p.m., weighing in at seven pounds, 14 ounces and surrounded by flashing emergency lights.

“We took our time to wait for the cord to stop pulsing ... and then clamped the cord, cut the cord and moved our way into the ambulance,” Pascal said.

“I brought the baby into the ambulance all wrapped up and the crew helped my wife onto the

stretcher and into the back of the ambulance.”

Despite the unusual circumstances, Lisa noted she had a very positive birthing experience, all in all.

“And it was private. It was just me and my husband right to the end, until the last two pushes.”

Pascal had planned to experience the birth as a father, not a paramedic.

“It happened so quickly, I really didn’t have a choice,” he said of putting his skills into action.

How does Pascal feel about delivering his own baby?

“Well, my wife did the work. I just assisted,” he said.

Paramedic supervisor Supt.

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“We’d like to thank the medics who joined us and gave us a hand,” Lisa said.

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Drivers may not realize, but planning starts years in advance of road closures, traffic tie-ups RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com It’s another busy construction season for Toronto.

That means even more road closures, traffic tie-ups and headaches for commuters and residents.

But while infrastructure work may seem on the surface to have been hastily organized, planning begins several years in advance, requiring coordination not just between city agencies, but by private owners of utilities as well.

“We plan several years ahead so that everyone’s needs are being met,” said Jeff Climans, the city’s director of major capital infrastructure coordination. “Major projects can be planned many years in advance and often need to be.”

Climans and his staff of 19 work on revolving five-year planning windows, coordinating the city’s construction plans with Toronto Water, the TTC and various private and public agencies which may also need to engage in infrastructure repairs so that “if a road is being torn up, it’s only torn up once”.

The department is currently determining 2021’s planning needs, moving on to 2022 once this year is through.

In fact, chances are great any major city works project requiring months of closures, from replacing ancient sewer watermains to road

rebuilding and re-surfacing, had years of planning and coordination behind the scenes.

It wasn’t always the case; the department for infrastructure coordination has only been around for six years. Climans admits the past approach was more reactive, limited to the sharing of project spreadsheets. But with better technology, it’s now possible to map out a project and automatically determine if there’s a red flag or any conflicts with another project,

even if no communication about the work has yet taken place.

That allows the department then to attempt to soften the edges of a plan, and ensure everyone is on the same page before the work is scheduled to start, Climans said. Sometimes that means providing greater incentives, or in rarer cases, withholding private construction permits so city work can proceed.

“There is a good deal of negotiation that takes place, and one of the interesting

challenges that comes about is the fact each organization has had to realize their programs have to give way to something else,” he said. “We have to ensure organizations don’t plan in isolation”.

This year, he said the city has come to the realization there’s an “upper limit” to how many closures residents can suffer in a year, leading to a deferral of some work so that more essential projects can be done. Last year for example, several city projects were deferred until after the Pan

Above, a revamped city road sign provides details of a road work affecting the intersection of Dundas and Bay streets on May 12. The new signs are part of the city’s effort to better inform the public about ongoing construction projects. Left, Workers cut sewer pipe on a worksite at the intersection of Gerrard and Church streets. The work involves replacing 100-year-old underground sewer watermains and is scheduled to continue until the fall. Right, lane closures and shared space is the reality at Gerrard and Church where a major road work project is taking place for the next several months.

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On Gerrard Street, at the intersection of Church Street, sub-contracted work crews are busy replacing 135-yearold watermains and sewer pipes from Yonge Street to Sherbourne Street. Later on in the summer, road reconstruction will commence on the same stretch of Gerrard, including a complete resurfacing of the street and surrounding sidewalks, new lane markings including bike lanes, trees and better lighting.

City spokesperson Michael D’Andrea said the work on Gerrard alone has involved consultations with Toronto Water, the transportation services department, the local BIA and Ryerson University.

The work is being done, he said, when a majority of Ryerson’s student population isn’t on campus, meaning less disruption.

“We integrated the needs of all our clients to one single project ultimately to reduce and minimize any conflicts and disruptions to the community,” said D’Andrea, director of the city’s engineering and construction services.

In order to get the word out to the public, detailed construction signs are posted at every site, he said. The signs were revamped to clearly indicate the nature of work taking place, the duration and other important details.

“They’re descriptive, written in plain-speak and with a large font,” D’Andrea said.

“It gives people information which was currently lacking.”

In addition, the blue and white signs also display a numerical code, indicating who to contact in case of concern or complaint.

“When you contact 311 and give them the code, it goes directly to the manager of this project,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any other municipality out there which gives you that kind of level of detail.”

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Council needs to step up to make Toronto sustainable If recent history has taught us nothing else, let us remember this: that left to their own devices, Toronto’s political leadership is about as good with a budget as a pack of 12 year olds with their parents’ credit cards.

It had always been so, at least within the lifespan of amalgamated Toronto.

In 1997, Mel Lastman was elected the city’s first mayor on a promise of a three-year property tax freeze – delivered at the same time as the city was reconstituting itself into the largest municipality in the country at the behest, but without the support of the provincial government.

Lastman’s first term set a tone that subsequent councils have maintained: namely, that marginal property tax increases are the most injurious thing a government might inflict upon homeowners – about an equivalent evil to reducing services upon which those homeowners had come to rely and limiting promises of improved ser-

david nickle the city vice to come.

And so over the years, council has approved projects, maintained services and kept property tax increases slim to none.

This week, Toronto’s city manager Peter Wallace brought out another in what is developing into a series of despatches, delineating what to many has been obvious for years.

Toronto has been able to maintain the fiction of a growing city and a low property tax environment thanks to factors that are either entirely beyond its control (a booming real estate market that pours in revenue through the municipal land transfer tax) or measures of which council should frankly be ashamed (approving capital projects for future years with no means of financing). At some point, very soon, the boom’s going

to end and the projects will have to be built.

Wallace first pointed this out to councillors in the fall shortly after he took the job. That early report gave Mayor John Tory a small amount of political cover, to propose that the city maintain a 0.5 per cent levy on the property tax bill currently in place to help finance the Scarborough subway, to finance more transit infrastructure.

This report, coming to next week’s Executive Committee, provides an imperative for more of the same: a debate on what other ways we might find, to support ourselves in the style to which we’ve become accustomed. To whit: revenue tools.

These conversations haven’t gone well in the past. In the last term of Council, politicians balked at supporting any revenue tools, even as they voted to go forward on subway expansion in Scarborough.

Former mayor David Miller was able to get a couple

of major revenue tools through council, but the battle over the land transfer tax and vehicle registration tax nearly broke council.

Will it be any different now? It’s not encouraging.

Toronto council this term has shown just as little appetite for long-term financial planning as ever.

Under the leadership of Tory, council approved a billion-dollar rebuild of the Gardiner Expressway’s elevated lanes, against expert advice.

The Scarborough subway, absent all but one stop, remains on the books.

And this week, Tory made it clear himself that one thing he won’t support is any significant increase to Toronto’s bargain-basement property tax rates.

There’s no doubt about it: the arrested 12 year olds on Toronto council have a lot of growing up to do.

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Residents need to step up to end gun violence: police chief Public outrage alone at the murder of a pregnant woman in Etobicoke will be enough to stop criminals CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com

ball game in the city’s east end Sunday, May 15, when they were shot at by a stillunknown person or persons in the Jamestown Crescent and John Garland Boulevard area of north Etobicoke shortly before 11 p.m.

Five months pregnant, Bobb was struck in the chest and rushed to a nearby hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries – but not before undergoing an emergency caesarian section to deliver her baby, who remains in stable condition after being transferred to a trauma centre.

Bobb’s murder not only marks Toronto’s 29th homicide of 2016, but perhaps the one of the city’s most shocking, Saunders said.

“The tragedy of a pregnant woman shot to death, while medical staff are fighting to save the life of her unborn child, has reminded us of the threats we face,” he said.

“We have seen this year

Public outrage will not be enough to solve the recent murder of a pregnant woman in Jamestown, nor to stem the increasing tides of gun violence on our city streets, according to Toronto’s top cop.

“Many people over the last few days have said that ‘something must be done.’

That is not enough,” Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders said during a media briefing at police headquarters on Tuesday – less than two days after the shooting death of 35-year-old expectant mother Candice Rochelle Bobb.

“We must translate that genuine anger and concern into tangible action that increases the ability of our city to beat those who commit to cause violence.”

Bobb was one of four occupants of a vehicle returning from a men’s league basket-

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Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders takes questions from reporters during a press conference at Toronto Police Headquarters on Tuesday in response to the recent spate of gun violence in the city.

in Toronto very significant increases in homicide and other gun-related crimes.”

While still maintaining that Toronto is still the safest urban city in North America, Saunders noted the city’s homicide tally of 29 for 2016 so far is a marked increase from this time last year, when Toronto had just 15 murders

in the books.

He also noted police have seized 250 firearms to date in 2016 – more than 100 of them handguns.

What police need to help them solve some of those murders and to assist them in removing more of those guns from the streets, Saunders said, is cooperation from residents

in areas where gun violence is most prevalent.

“There are people out there that have information. They have information right now and, for whatever reason, they’re not giving that information – either because they’re too afraid or they’re supporting the people that are carrying firearms out there...” he said.

Saunders’ press conference on Tuesday afternoon came on the heels of the release earlier in the day of an open letter from the Toronto Police Association (TPA) expressing concern that “the safest city in North America has a gun violence problem.”

“While politicians and some community groups are focused on reducing the cost of policing, there has been a significant increase in violent crime,” wrote TPA President Mike McCormack, who represents 8,000 uniform and civilian members of the police force in Toronto.

“Compared to a year ago, shootings have increased 61 per cent. Shooting deaths have increased 217 per cent. And typically gun violence only gets worse in the summer.”

Warning of the “growing disconnect” between the police and the community, the TPA letter – entitled Shouldn’t Public Safety be a Public Matter? – states that its association members are 100 per cent committed to building mutual trust and respect with the communities they serve and protect.

While Saunders said he read the letter and “didn’t think much of it”, he agreed that more resources need to be put into the communities where firearms are most prevalent.

Anyone with information about Bobb’s murder is asked to contact the Toronto police homicide squad at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-8477. To read the TPA letter, visit www.tpa. ca/news-article-2/

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Police cruiser gets crammed in Weston Event supports Weston King Neighbourhood Centre, Fort McMurray first responders

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The future York Recreation Centre is set to open in September.

Councillor Nunziata says wait for community centre was ‘difficult’ >>>from page 1 years since I was mayor of York – and in my opinion it should be named the Nunziata Recreation Centre,” she joked, before ultimately putting forth a motion to name the facility the York Recreation Centre.

Nunziata explained that while she and city staff had at one point hoped to engage local school children in a contest to help name the rec centre, the unexpected delays in its construction prevented that initiative from ever getting underway.

“It’s really been a very difficult process. It’s taken longer to build this centre than it would to build a couple of towers,” she said, attributing some of those delays to the

transfer of the development lands’ ownership from the province to the city.

“It is just unbelievable the delays we’ve had. This was supposed to open two years ago...then we were supposed to open a few months ago, then we were told we’d open in June, now we’re opening in September.”

The long wait, however, will be worth it.

Once open, the centre is set to feature a double gymnasium, a running/walking track, a six-lane 25-metre indoor training pool, an indoor leisure pool, two multi-purpose rooms, and weight, aerobic and dance rooms.

Toronto police said they had an “overwhelming response” to a Cram A Cruiser event held in Weston on Saturday.

Local residents were invited to help fill a police cruiser from 12 Division with food donations for local food banks and agencies at the event which was held on Saturday at the Real Canadian Superstore at Crossroads Plaza at Weston Road and Hwy. 401.

The event was run by the Auxiliary police officers of 12 Division with the support of the Community Response Unit officers.

Organizers said a van full of food donations, with an estimated value of about $1,500, was dropped off to the Weston King Neighbourhood Centre on Saturday.

The event also collected toiletries and other basic necessities for first responders and their families dealing with the forest fires in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Those items will be delivered with the help of the Toronto Police Operations Centre.

Organizers said the support Real Canadian Superstore, which advertised the event and also put specific

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Toronto Auxiliary police Const. Gerard Chalasinski, left, Toronto police Const. Shane Beaudoin, and Auxilliary Staff Sgt. Joyce Kwok take part in the Cram-A-Cruiser event on Saturday at the Real Canadian Superstore on Weston Road.

needed items up on sale, helped make the food drive a success.

Police at 12 Division are continuing to collect toiletries and other needed supplies for the first responders and their families in Fort McMurray. Most needed items are gift cards, shampoo, soap, tooth-

brushes, toothpaste, deodorant, hand sanitzer, baby wipes, washcloths and diapers. Donations, which need to be travel size, can be dropped off at the 12 Division station, 200 Trethewey Dr. For more info, call the station at 416-808-1200.

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Rosen planned to attend law school on full scholarship >>>from page 1 Toronto firefighter, who worked out of Station 443 on Islington Avenue in central Etobicoke. She had planned to take a year’s sabbatical from her job this September to attend law school on a full scholarship.

Rosen died last Thursday in a mountain biking accident while out riding with a colleague at Kelso Conservation Area in Milton, Ont. Gaistman called his life with Rosen a “magical journey” because of Rosen’s “joy of life, excitement and passion. You made everyone around you laugh, feel happy, feel worthy, feel respected. You made everyone want to enjoy life. You always fought for what was right.

“It is your strength that is helping me get through this terrible tragedy.”

A strong sense of self, determination, and a spirit to fight for what was right were themes woven throughout the stories Rosen’s father told from his daughter’s life.

“Nothing would stop Sara,” Allan Rosen said.

He recalled how she stood playing with water in a sink while other children in her class gathered as per a teacher’s instruction. How she pulled an astounded 240-pound male firefighter, wearing 75 pounds of weights, from a smoke-filled room during a training exercise.

How she persevered to another fire hall and was hired when the platoon chief of the first hall she approached said they weren’t set up to accept women firefighters. “Do you have a lock on the door? Do you have a bunk?” Rosen had asked.

How emotionally struck she was when she was with the first fire crew to respond to a devastating fire in two barns at Woodbine Racetrack in August 2002 that killed 31 horses.

How unreservedly she had offered a kidney to her brother when his health began to fail. And how she then became a vocal advocate for organ donation.

Many mourners wept when Allan Rosen closed his eulogy by saying, “I won’t hear my daughter say ‘I love you’ anymore. Goodbye, Sara. I love you.’”

Rabbi Tina Grimberg read American poet Mary Oliver’s poem, “When Death Comes” because it spoke to Rosen’s mark on the

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The body of Toronto firefighter Sara Rosen travels to the grave site after the funeral service at Benjamin’s Park Memorial Chapel Monday.

world, she said.

“When it’s over, I want to say all my life/I was a bride married to amazement... I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world,” Grimberg read. “Sara Rosen did not simply visit this world. She was a bride married to amazement.”

Frank Ramagnano, president of the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ Association, shared messages of condolence offered by Toronto firefighters.

“Sara was powerful and fierce.

People like Sara make you want to do more in the world to help others,” one firefighter said.

Another offered: “She was honest, caring and full of life. She was always looking to make things better.”

“If we had 3,000 Saras, we would have the most-successful union in the world,” Ramagnano said.

Toronto Fire Chief Jim Sales, who is out of the province, also offered a message of condolence.

The chief said he met Rosen weeks in recent

when she spoke with him in his office about her role as a volunteer Toronto ambassador for the Positive Space campaign. The campaign seeks to create a more-inclusive workforce for members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer and two Spirited (LGBTQ2S) communities.

“I was immediately impressed by Sara’s grace, professionalism and her commitment to this project. Sara was giving and kind, it was clear to me in our all-too-brief meeting,” Sales wrote.

Mike McCoy, Toronto fire deputy chief of operations, said Rosen carried out her duties with “courage and compassion.” He first met Rosen in 2005 when he was her platoon chief.

“The position of a firefighter is often dangerous, thankless, and at times, pushes you to limits you never thought you were capable of. It is not an occupation for the faint of heart or something to be entered into lightly. You have to love this job to do it well. Sara did it well.”

McCoy said her col-

leagues will remember Rosen “as a truly compassionate person, a humanitarian with a zest for life and a person with a strong, determined personality.... She was generous and caring, and always eager to lend a hand.”

McCoy encouraged mourners to take some comfort in the knowledge Rosen was doing what she loved when her life ended.

“On a beautiful spring day, she was living life to the fullest and enjoying every minute of it,” he said.

Rosen “made us all better people,” John Getty, acting captain of Rosen’s firehall, said of the colleague he had known for a decade.

Getty shared how Rosen had often tried to co-opt him into endurance races like Tough Mudder, miles of mud and obstacles designed to test mental grit, strength, and physical fitness. “When Sara mentioned a race, I learned to Google it first,” Getty said to the laughter of mourners.

Getty said Rosen will be remembered for living true to her values.

“These are some of the values that

meant so much to Sara: Speak your mind. Listen to people. Give everyone a chance. Work hard and play hard. Love your family and friends.

Don’t be afraid to go into the tide; it will make you a stronger swimmer.

Love animals. Never stop learning.

Consent to be an organ donor. And of course, follow your dreams.” Getty said.

Rosen’s firefighter jacket, helmet and boots stood outside the chapel where mourners signed condolence books.

Hundreds of firefighters stood at attention in two lines on either side of Alness Street outside the funeral home as members of the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ ceremonial unit piped Rosen’s funeral procession to the cemetery.

Rosen leaves her partner, Jackie Gaistman, children Frelan and Alex and her beloved dog, Brownie, as well as her parents, Allan and Ann, and her brother, Mark.

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Plant Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to noon WHERE: Eglinton Flats Park, 3601 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: roselandshs@gmail. com COST: Free Roselands Horticultural Society’s annual plant sale will take place in the northwest quadrant of Eglinton Flats (enter off Emmett Avenue). Lots of perennials from members gardens, as well as commercially grown annuals, herbs and vegetables.

Family Time WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

WHERE: Mount Dennis Library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-3941008 COST: Free Stories for children under five.

w Sunday, May 22

Weston Presbyterian Choir WHEN: 9 a.m. WHERE: Weston Presbyterian Church, 7 Cross St. CONTACT: Lynn, 416-241-1571, Lynn@westonpresbyterian.ca COST: Free The Weston Presbyterian Church choir welcomes singers of all ages for Sunday mornings. Some singers read music and others learn by rote.

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Films on Shortt Street WHEN: 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Fairbank Village, Shortt Street and Eglinton Avenue West CONTACT: Laura, www. fairbankvillagebia.ca, info@fairbankvillagebia.ca COST: Free Fairbank Village is offering monthly outdoor movie screenings. The first movie is ‘The Incredibles’. Bring your own blanket or chair. Free popcorn is available.

w Monday, May 23

Homework Help for Teens WHEN: 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416394-1000 COST: Free Voluneteers provide free one on one tutoring for students in grades 7 to 12. Drop-in.

w Tuesday, May 24

Leading to Reading WHEN: 5 to 6 p.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Richard, 416-394-1006 COST: Free Students in grades 1 to 6 requiring help with reading, homework, and study skills receive individualized help for one hour per week.

Registration is required. Volunteers are also needed.

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Body Language of Trees WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Church of St. Mary and St. Martha, 1149 Weston Rd. CONTACT: roselandshs@gmail.com COST: $2 for visitors, free for members Owen Goltz, consulting arborist/organic farmer/educator speaks at the monthly meeting of Roselands Horticultural Society. If we observe, trees will teach us how they need to be pruned, how they should be planted, and what their health status is.

w Thursday, May 26

Yarn Lovers Wanted WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Arlene, quanah1@gmail.com COST: Free Do you knit or crochet and want company? Would you like to learn to knit or crochet? Join this group for knitting, crocheting, and company.

Bring your project or supplies.

vases), books, toys, movies, music, tools, electronics, garden accessories, jewelry, clothing, homemade baked goods, etc.

Van Trip to Black Creek Pioneer Village WHEN: 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Danna McBride, 416-245-4395, ext. 223, danna@ywalc.ca COST: General Admission : adult $15; senior (60+) $14 Black Creek is a working village, typical of those established in south central Ontario between the 1790s and the 1860s. Discover how things are made and how they work. Some activities may have additional fees.

w Monday, May 30

Stress Management Thru Restorative Meditation WHEN: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre, 341 Oakwood Ave. CONTACT: 416-394-1040 COST: Free These classes consists of a relaxing meditation session and tension relieving stretches.

Please bring a yoga mat or a non-slip surface mat to the class. Call to register.

Baby Time WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: Mount Dennis Library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-394-1008 COST: Free For children from infants to 18 months: Storytime and Living and Learning with Baby

w Saturday, May 28

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Families of St Clare Annual Garage Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to noon WHERE: St Clare School, 124 Northcliffe Blvd., parking lot CONTACT: Nancy Santos, nancy_santos@rogers.com COST: Free Come and check out the deals, which include small kitchen appliances, dishes, pots, home decor (lamps,

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Public meetings on waterfront transit Two public meetings are coming up this month to discuss transit proposals for the waterfront.

Waterfront Toronto and city officials will present preliminary design and planning concepts for possible new, yet currently unfunded, transit routes which may include the East Bayfront LRT. Two meetings are scheduled for the study, with the first taking place Wednesday, May 25 at Brigantine Room inside Harbourfront Centre starting at 6 p.m.

Another meeting takes place in Mimico the next day at John English Junior Middle School at 95 Mimico Ave. at 6 p.m.

LAST CHANCE TO TAKE IN TUNNEL VISION The Tunnel Vision subway exhibit is down to its final month.

The installation inside St. Lawrence Market features photographs, maps and other artifacts from nearly

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Organized by the Toronto Transportation Society, the exhibit, which opened in February, closes June 11.

OVER UBER, HERE wMOVE COMES APPLE

The legalization of Uber is well at hand, but could another tech giant one day enter the ride-hailing market?

It certainly seems like Apple is interested, with the company announcing last week it is investing $1 billion in a Chinese competitor of Uber, and acting as a “strategic” investor to the company, Didi Chuxing.

It’s certainly conceivable Apple will never operate a ride-hailing service on its own.

But the company’s deep pockets combined with the burgeoning growth of the industry could mean there’s a day when Apple-branded vehicles are providing private rides in this city, and rivalling Uber in popularity.

TTC HEAD OF PLANNING HAS RETIRED wLONGTIME

The TTC’s longtime head of planning has finally called it a day after a career spanning more than three decades.

For 21 years of his career with the city, Mitch Stambler was the commission’s chief planning official, having a hand in developing transit expansion projects and plans.

Stambler had a direct role creating the Transit City light rail network plan, and he was also part of planning for the Spadina subway extension.

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FIREWORKS Toronto hosts Victoria Day fireworks at 9:45 p.m. Monday at Ashbridges Bay Park at Lake Shore Boulevard East and Coxwell Avenue. Thousands of people are expected to take in the 14-minute show. People are encouraged to keep the car at home. Bus service will be increased between Queen Street East and the BloorDanforth subway line. Visit www.toronto.ca HARBOURKIDS CIRCUS T h i s y e a r ’s a n n u a l HarbourKIDS: Circus Festival has been re-imagined.

Organizers have teamed up with circus artists and curators to offer circus acts that will have you gasping in awe, doubling over with laughter and even joining in. The event happens Saturday to Monday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 235 Queens Quay W. BEASLEY BEAR’S TEDDY BEAR PICNIC Beasley Bear’s Teddy Bear Picnic is a free event at Centreville on Centre Island that combines outdoor fun with physical education to teach school-aged children about the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. Visit www. centreisland.ca/centreville/ rides-attraction ULTIMUTTS STUNT DOG SHOW The Ultimutts Stunt Dog Show is a circus-style show jampacked with non-stop tricks to

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Toronto hosts a fireworks display at Ashbridges Bay Park.

wow the audience. Comprised of rescued animals, these dogs love to work and perform.

Shows start at 1, 2:30 and 4 p.m. at PawsWay, 245 Queens Quay W. Visit www.pawsway. ca/victoria-day-ultimutts2016/ for details. Free.

NORTHERN HEAT RIB SERIES This rib fest and barbecue bash features what organizers say are the best rib teams in Canada. The event runs at Yonge-Dundas Square Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS The original Jersey boy himself, Frankie Valli performs Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, 1 Front St. E. Tickets range in price from $95.39 to $168.39.

OUTSIDERS: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM Documenting American life, the photographers and filmmakers in the AGO’s latest exhibition, Outsiders: American Photography and Film, 1950s – 1980s, present images of individuals and communities on the margins of society. The show runs until May 29 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. W. WORLD FIDDLE DAY Join workshops, listen to a concert with Dan MacDonald (Cape Breton Fiddle), Mark Marcyk (Hutsul Fiddling from Ukraine), Rosalyn Dennett (Appalachian Fiddle), Yosvai Castaneda (Latin Violin) and a community “Around-theWorld Jam”. The event takes place Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Fort York National Historic Site, 250 Fort York Blvd. Free.

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That’s a lot of Catelli pasta More than 20,000 boxes of Catelli pasta were delivered to North York Harvest Food Bank (NYHFB) May 4 as part of campaign Help Us Feed the Hope.

Some 20,004 boxes were delivered to NYHFB on Industry Street to help stock shelves for slow summer months.

“Summer is a time when the stock at food banks is at its lowest – a fact many people don’t realize – so this initiative couldn’t come at a better time,” Ryan Noble, executive director of NYHFB, said in a release. “This pasta will go a long way in helping to provide the thousands of families who use the food bank with enough food this summer.”

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Art Gallery of Ontario executive chef Renée Bellefeuille, left, and North York Harvest Food Bank executive director Ryan Noble were on-site at the food bank this month to help unload 20,004 boxes of pasta donated by Catelli Foods.

The pasta donation was one of many deliveries that took place nationally, as Catelli Foods aims to reach

a donation goal of one million servings of pasta to feed the hungry across Canada.

Visit www.catelli.ca

Have your say on homelessness The West Coalition on Housing and Homelessness hosts a roundtable discussion about affordable housing with York South-Weston MP Ahmed Hussen Friday from 10 a.m. to noon.

The purpose of the roundtable is to discuss affordable housing and its availability in the riding.

Greg Suttor of the Wellesley Institute will discuss the historical role the federal government played in affordable housing.

Hussen will talk about the Community Benefits Bill that he introduced in Parliament and what he is doing to address the affordable housing situation in York South-Weston.

The roundtable takes place at Unison Health and

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The free three-hour event features an overview of key issues in the new policy and interactive, scenario-based learning drawing from legal cases.

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Registration

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