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Weston church collects for hamper program on Dec. 8 Weston Park Baptist Church will be accepting food supplies for its 24th annual Christmas food drive with all donations given to the Weston Area Emergency Support’s (WAES) Christmas Hamper program.

Each year, volunteers from Weston Park Baptist Church travel the streets of Weston in

vehicles, collecting the bags and then sorting them at the church.

To donate food, residents who have received a brown paper bag can put non-perishable foods and baby supplies in the bag and place it by their front door in plain view on Sunday, Dec. 8 between noon

and 4 p.m.

Those who did not receive a brown paper bag at the door can take their donations to the church on 1871 Weston Rd. between noon and 4 p.m. on Dec. 8.

All the food supplies collected are used to support the Weston community.

Santa comes to town Sunday Come out this Sunday at 2 p.m. and take a seat along Church Street between Weston Road and Sidney Belsey Crescent where Santa Claus will be making his annual visit to Weston.

Along with the man in the red suit, there will be 10 marching bands, 50 floats, character performers, stilt walkers, clowns and jugglers.

And before the parade begins, the Hit Men Brass Band will be performing at Weston and Lawrence at 1:30 p.m.

Weston Area Emergency

Support Food Bank will pickup donations of non-perishable food items along the route.

For more information, visit www.westonvillagebia.com Parking is available at the following locations: ◗ Weston Lions Arena on Lawrence Avenue just east of Weston Road ◗ Green P parking lot at John Street just east of Weston Road ◗ St. John the Evangelist School at 23 George St.

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More Crosstown street closures, lane reductions More street closures and lane reductions are planned for Eglinton Avenue West near Allen Road to aid Eglinton Crosstown LRT construction.

Among the work projects planned

by Metrolinx, the most prominent could be the construction of a temporary northbound Allen Road onramp to be used while tunnel launch and extraction shafts are built below Eglinton to deploy tunnel boring machines east of the Allen towards Yonge Street, starting in 2014.

Work materials and deep excavation for the installation of the shafts is expected to begin this week. During that time, westbound and eastbound traffic will be limited to one lane each along Eglinton between Atlas Road and the existing Allen Road northbound on-ramp, which will remain in use until further notice.

Throughout the launch shaft construction, street closures are planned for Strathearn, Flanders and Park Hill roads.

Temporary pedestrian access points are to be constructed on the north and south sides of Eglinton leading to Eglinton West subway

Hippo Hurrah Top, Joanne Opsteen, left, and her daughter Jocelyn Rice play at the fish pond along with Uros Jelic and his daughter Katya during the Hippo School’s Craft Fair on Saturday. Above left, vendors Jordana Handler, right, and her mother Estelle Goldberg sell their head warmers. Above right, chef Amy Stoddart demonstrates her skills.

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Courage Canada’s blind hockey tourney gets boost One local organization that helps blind and legally blind kids learn to skate across Canada recently received a provincial grant for a hockey tournament to be held in Toronto.

Courage Canada Hockey for the Blind Inc., started by Weston resident Mark DeMontis who himself is visually impaired, received $16,800 over nine months from the Ontario Trillium Foundation

(OTF) to support the 2014 Courage Canada National Blind Hockey Tournament.

More than 50 players who are blind or visually impaired from across Canada are expected to participate. Funding will go towards the purchase of adaptive pucks, ice rental and accommodations.

OTF is investing in 46 not-forprofit and charitable organizations in Toronto this year.

“Local organizations are best placed to understand the unique needs of their communities,” said Norman King, chair of the OTF Toronto Grant Review Team, in a statement.

“That’s why I am so pleased to be a part of Toronto’s Grant Review Team, and that the Ontario Trillium Foundation has invested in notfor-profit organizations across our community.”

station, 13 Division police station and Ben Nobleman Park.

The tunnel launch work is one of several construction projects taking place for the Crosstown. Other projects include: w Next stage of Dufferin and Oakwood stations headwall construction, which started mid-November and will last until the spring. Over that time, access to Eglinton is limited at Shortt Street, Locksley Avenue and Times Road. w Removal of Eglinton subway materials left from the 1990s taking place near Old Park Road, which re-commenced in early November. A TTC bus stop at the intersection was relocated as a result of the work. w Installation of monitoring equipment to track the tunnel excavations.

The work is expected to continue until next summer at various points between Black Creek Drive and Yonge.

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For more on the construction work contact the Crosstown’s Community Relations Office at 416-782-8118 or visit www.thecrosstown.ca

Project Winter Survival joins national charity FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com An initiative that helps keep the homeless warm during frigid winter months is now part of a national charity.

Project Winter Survival is now under charity Engage and Change, which also has Project Water under its umbrella.

Both Project Winter Survival and Project Water were founded by The Bargains Group president and CEO Jody Steinhauer, which assembles kits and hands out bottled water to those living on the streets in the winter and summer, respectively.

Unfortunately, the number of people in need of winter survival kits is only going up, with requests for 13,000 kits last year, said Steinhauer, adding 3,000 were assembled.

Now in its 15th year, Project Winter Survival packages kits to be handed out to more than 170 social service

agencies for distribution, including Canadian Red Cross, Covenant House, Out of the Cold programs, and the Salvation Army.

Last year, Project Winter Survival expanded to Vancouver, and now hopes to reach all major cities in need from coast to coast, Steinhauer said.

“It’s very sad this is needed,” she said. “As our team assesses demand, demand is up. Engage and Change is all about bringing the community together to make a difference for the less fortunate.”

A $25 donation helps sponsor an entire kit with a retail value of $165.

Engage and Change will issue tax receipts for all financial donations.

Along with monetary donations, Project Winter Survival is also looking for new items for donation, such as toiletries, gloves, mittens and hats.

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To donate to Project Winter Survival, visit www.engageandchange.org

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he increasing demand for the necessary funds for ice time is a serious, ongoing challenge in Toronto.

In this month’s feature, we looked at the rising cost of ice time in the city. With Toronto facing its own budget limitations, funds are scarce for new capital projects such as indoor arenas, which would help meet additional needs. Newer facilities, such as the Buckingham Arena complex at Downsview Park, tend to be built and operated by the private sector – and that ice time is even more costly.

But we are seeing municipal funds going toward smaller, outdoor projects. The good news is that there is growth in the city’s free outdoor ice offerings – the latest being the $3.4-million at Greenwood and Dundas our view facility streets that opened last weekend. Last year, an outdoor rink Outdoor opened at Cedarvale Park in York.

Renovations for a twin outdoor projects pad at Dieppe Park in East York encouraging are nearly complete.

So what needs to be done?

Access to recreation is a smart community investment.

Of potential concern is a recent survey conducted of 1,011 Canadian parents by Ipsos Reid on behalf of RBC that showed 60 per cent of respondents named “cost of equipment and instruction” as a top-three barrier to learning how to skate, while 46 per cent named “access of ice” as another top-three barrier.

In order to ensure optimal access, we encourage the continued development, funding and maintenance of these outdoor projects in local neighbourhoods.

As for the thornier issue of indoor ice it’s a contentious one, one that sees alternating pressure on user fees and property tax hikes to help pay the bills.

Budget deliberations kicked off this week and councillors are grappling with the cost pressures of a multi-billion-dollar budget, where they are tasked with finding efficiencies, maintaining existing service levels and dedicating money for new projects such as the Scarborough subway – all while keeping any tax increase to a minimum. It’s a tall order.

In one respect, indoor ice time is no different than other public services such as transit.

We will get what we pay for and what we deem to be a priority.

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Gearing up for those cold, winter treks

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udging by all the congestion and the accompanying honking out there it’s clear not everybody has gotten around to winterizing yet.

If you’re one of the procrastinators, all I can say is: tsk, tsk, shame on you. That preparation should be done in early November, long before the temperatures began dropping.

Oh well, better late than never. Here’s a quick winterizing checklist.

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY is the perfect time for your annual checkup with your physician.

3. Tank.

Make sure it’s never less than half full. An empty stomach increases your susceptibility to chills in sub-zero weather.

1. Engine.

This should be job one.

Idling and stalling in frigid temperatures can lead to frostbite. So get that fitness club or yoga studio membership, pronto. You’ve got to keep your motor running at all times, of course, but during such conditions it’s of the utmost importance.

4. Fluids.

Regularly topping up your fluids is essential this time of year. Were talking hot chocolate, soup, broth, hot chocolate. Coffee, espresso, hot chocolate.

Apple cider, buttered rum, hot chocolate. Hot toddy, hot chocolate, hot chocolate. Did I mention hot chocolate?

2. Battery.

Have it inspected. Plan on making it a regular habit, going forward. November

5. Wipers.

Replace old wipers. We get more sniffles during late fall and winter than

any other time. So get new wipers regularly. I’m as environmentally conscious as the next guy, but I draw the line when it comes to recycling used tissues.

6. Insulation.

Proper insulation is a must. Turtlenecks, long johns, boots, mittens, scarves and toques are highly recommended. But don’t put them all on too early. You need to gradually increase your winter attire as the temperatures decline.

already bitter cold is exacerbated by a blustery wind blowing in your face, music is a wonderful distraction.

9. Keep an emergency kit with you at all times.

This should include at least one, if not all, of the following: Hot chocolate, soup, broth, hot chocolate.

Coffee, espresso, hot chocolate. Apple cider, buttered rum, hot chocolate. Hot toddy, hot chocolate, hot chocolate. Did I mention hot chocolate?

7. Thermometer.

It needs adjusting immediately. Convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit and watch those negative temperatures magically disappear.

10. And above all? I can’t emphasize this enough.

Please make sure to ALWAYS carry a cellphone with you wherever you go.

Oops. What’s that doing in the list? Like anybody has to be reminded to do that.

8. Get a tune-up.

I’m not a big fan of iPods and headphones, but if you’re stuck outside waiting for bus or streetcar for a long period when an

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

Not so much. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at jamie.wayne@sympatico.ca

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◗ Friday, Nov. 29

Are You Starting a Food Business?

WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Learning Enrichment Foundation, 1267 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-7602576, dtemple@lefca.org COST: Free Workshop and networking session with guest speaker Lorraine J. Hawley, owner of Mabel’s Bakery and Speciality Foods.

◗ Wednesday, Dec. 4

Seniors Information and Active Living Fair WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

WHERE: St. Clair West Services for Seniors, 2562 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Laura McGill, Eglinton Hill Centre Co-ordinator, 416-787-2114, ext. 227, lauram@servicesforseniors. ca COST: Free A public education initiative, developed to increase seniors awareness about programs and services. This year’s event will feature organizations such as Toronto Public Health, the Ministry of Finance, the CAH, the Distress Centre of Toronto, the Canadian Hearing Society, Toronto Police, Alzheimer’s Society and more.

Weston HIstorical Society Christmas Carol and Hymn Sing WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Central United Church, 1 King St. CONTACT: Mary Louise Ashbourne, 416-2476677, westonhistoricalsociety@rogers. com COST: Free All are welcome. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

◗ Tuesday, Dec. 17

CHECK OUT OUR complete online community calendar by visiting www. yorkguardian.com. Read weeks of listings from your York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto.

◗ Saturday, Nov. 30

Standard First Aid and CPR Level C Training WHEN: 9 a.m. WHERE: UrbanArts, 5 Bartonville Ave. E. CONTACT: Joan, 416-241-5124, joan@ urbanartstoronto.org COST: Free Choice of two weekend sessions: Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 or Dec. 7 and 8. Call or email to register.

WHEN: 2 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Weston Road and Church Street CONTACT: Marion O’Sullivan, admin@westonvillagebia. com COST: Free

Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-0231, www. facebook.com/mountdennislegion, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: Free Sale features a silent auction and more than 40 vendors.

◗ Friday, Dec. 6

Food Handling Training/Certificate WHEN: 9 a.m. WHERE: Learning Enrichment Foundation, 1267 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Joan, 416-241-5124, joan@urbanartstoronto.org COST: Free Learn about food safety, public health legislation, the role of public health inspector, food borne illness, and more.

OWLS Seniors Christmas Lunch WHEN: Noon to 2 p.m. WHERE: St. John’s Anglican Church Weston, 2125 Weston Rd. COST: $8 Full hot turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Raffle and goodies table.

◗ Saturday, Dec. 7

◗ Sunday, Dec. 1

Christmas Gifts and Crafts Fair WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE:

The Weston Santa Claus Parade

MPP Laura Albanese’s Holiday Open House WHEN: 3 to 7 p.m. WHERE: MPP Laura Albanese’s Community Office, 99A Ingram Dr. CONTACT: 416-243-7984, lalbanese.mpp.co@ liberal.ola.org COST: Free Join Laura Albanese and her community team for some holiday cheer.

Bring along non-perishable food items for the food banks of York South-Weston. Light refreshments will be provided. Call or email to RSVP.

◗ Tuesday, Dec. 31

New Year’s Eve Dinner/Dance WHEN: 5:30 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: Free

Enjoy a buffet meal prepared by Chef Jerry McElvanna at 6:30 p.m. followed by music provided by DJ Tom O’Rourke. Party favours, dance prizes and door prizes included. Cash bar. Tickets must be purchased by Dec. 14.

looking ahead

Emerging Entrepreneurs WHERE: The Learning Enrichment Foundation, 116 Industry St. CONTACT: Dianne Temple, 416-7690830, dtemple@lefca.org COST: Free This introduction to entrepreneurship runs Monday to Thursday for six weeks starting Jan. 20. Application forms are due to LEF by Jan. 10 and sessions run from 9:30 to noon.

Meet with expert speakers, work on your business plan, and build your network. Topics include business planning, running a home-based business, marketing, sales and customer service, and more.

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The chilling cost of Toronto’s ice time

The city is ‘barely’ meeting the demand for indoor rink time, but the cost is skyrocketing NORM NELSON nnelson@insidetoronto.com

In fact, the city just celebrated the grand opening of its latest outdoor facility last weekend at Greenwood hile the city of Toronto has and Dundas streets in the east end. managed to add very little The $3.4-million facility is being indoor ice over the past billed as Toronto’s first and only few decades, private enterprise outdoor covered rink and skating seems to be filling the gap. path.

“We have enough ice, barely,” Last year, a new outdoor arena said John Gardner, Toronto’s longwas built in Cedarvale Park, behind time volunteer presiPhil White Arena. dent of the Greater “That place is used To r o n t o Ho c k e y like crazy – the outLeague (GTHL). door one,” said Joe The league is basiMihevc, councillor cally the umbrella for Ward 21 (St. Paul’s West). organization for TO CALL THEIR “It’s throw your b oy s’ h o c k e y i n skates over your Toronto and some shoulder and your adjacent municipalities, with about hockey stick – some40,000 members times it is (scheduled split between house for) pleasure skating, league, select and What’s your experience been sometimes it’s hockey competitive levels.

– and you go down to with your family and ice “It (membership) times / fees in the city? Email the outdoor arena and is down a bit this year us at ykg@insidetoronto.com away you go so we in both the house have increased that.” league and the GTHL The city has also (competitive) teams,” he said from poured $2.4 million into a comthe GTHL offices, at 265 Rimrock plete overhaul and realignment of Rd., in North York. the twin outdoor rinks at Dieppe What is going up, however, is the Park in East York, including “new cost to use the ice. refrigeration equipment, two new Gardner said his league is defipads, renovation of the adjacent nitely impacted by higher fees. building, and a new storage shed,” “You know, I was once assured by said Mary Fragedakis, councillor for parks and recreation that (Toronto) Ward 29 (Toronto-Danforth). was not going to go to user pay,” he “We are days away from resaid. “Well, they sure as heck are opening the artificial ice rink at going to user pay and they have Dieppe Park. I am pleased to say been. And what they’re doing is raisthat project is on time. It started last ing the price on kids’ hockey – and spring and will be finished before the kids are primarily the biggest the start of this year’s season. So, no users – and the kids can’t vote, they ice time was lost. I am very happy have no say in the situation.” with that.

On the other hand, while the city “I am also pleased the city rechas been lagging with its indoor reation programs at our outdoor ice, it does actually serve up plenty rinks are free.” of ice at its outdoor pads for both Indoors, of course, as Gardner pleasure skaters and shinny players observed, the ice is definitely not – all for free and artificially chilled free and, he added, “They keep jackso only stormy weather need keep ing (it) three per cent a year. “ users off.

For his huge group, that means

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Where to lace up in York INDOOR ICE ■ Chris Tonks Arena (opened in 1956), 2801 Eglinton Ave. W. ■ Lambton Arena (founded in 1968), 4100 Dundas St. W. ■ Phil White Arena (founded in 1954), 443

Arlington Ave. ■ Weston Arena, 2125 Lawrence Ave. W. OUTDOOR ICE ■ Cedarvale Park (behind Phil White), 433 Arlington Ave. For a complete list, visit bit.ly/1jCcHYQ

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York Toro coach Satoshi Takani talks on the bench with players William Goodridge and Jackson Ebbott during minor atom AA action against the North York Avalanche at Canlan Ice Sports Sunday morning. On the cover: George Bell Titans players peek over the boards at the George Bell Arena. (photo/PETER C. MCCUSKER)

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What (the city is) doing is raising the price on kids’ hockey...and the kids can’t vote, they have no say in the situation.

– John Gardner, president, GTHL

for “municipal ice you’re talking approximately a mean average of $200 an hour, a little bit more...It’s gone up tremendously. It’s getting ridiculous.”

Mihevc agreed it’s a contentious issue.

“That’s the decision we have to make in council. The current mayor (Rob Ford) has been averse in raising property taxes, but he has not been averse in raising user fees,” he said. “So these pendulums go back and forth a little bit. Now the pendulum has gone in the direction of user fees.

Private rinks, of course, have to charge even more – “usually about $100 more,” Gardner said.

“But there’s a reason for this,” he explained. “The problem is that the city rinks don’t have to pay municipal taxes on their own rinks

whereas the privately owned ones get charged the same as a motor parts company or a manufacturing company.”

The other obvious difference is private rinks do, at the end of the day, have to make a profit. And arenas are not cheap to build or run.

Buckingham Sports Properties, one of two major private players in Toronto (the other being Canlan Ice Sports), quietly opened up the Buckingham Arena fourplex in the fall in the bustling new sports centre at Downsview Park, which also includes the MLSE’s new training facility for Toronto FC as well as the Hoop Dome.

“The biggest investments have been from MLSE (Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment) in opening up the soccer academy for Toronto FC and our investment of opening up a four-rink hockey complex,” said John Cook, vice-president of Buckingham, which already operates Chesswood Arenas in North York and Westwood Arenas in Etobicoke (four- and five-pad facilities, respectively).

“So we’re very excited that in the vision for the sports part of this

park we’re able to provide facilities (indoor ice pads) that cities just don’t have the capital monies to spend anymore on large facilities like this.

“And hopefully the city sees the value in our complexes because my largest expense, as John Gardner (mentioned), is probably taxes. We pay very high property taxes and at the end of the day we’re competing against the municipality selling the ice.”

On the other hand, Cook said his company recognizes the contribution of public facilities, whether outdoor or indoor.

“Those municipal rinks are the ones that are building the foundation for later-on years when the more competitive GTHL teams need facilities like ours, and then of course for adults to continue playing hockey.”

The city’s only recent success has been twinning Leaside Arena, which opened in the fall, and it was only completed after considerable community fundraising.

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community check-up: oakwood village As part of a new neighbourhood feature, The York Guardian looks at the changing trends and demographics in its local neighbourhoods. Data courtesy Statistics Canada via the City of Toronto. This feature will appear every second Thursday.

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community check-up This week: Oakwood Village

The Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre on Oakwood Avenue.

Oakwood Village – Population (2011): 21,090

Languages Portuguese is the most common nonofficial language in Oakwood Village. In the 2011 census, 9.4 per cent of residents listed Portuguese as their Mother Tongue, and 6.1 per cent listed Portuguese as their Home Language. Italian is next in both categories

Top 10 Mother Tongues

Top 10 Home Languages

1. English 2. Portuguese 3. Italian 4. Spanish 5. Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 6. Greek 7= Cantonese 7= French 9. Chinese (not otherwise specified) 10. Vietnamese

1. English 2. Portuguese 3. Italian 4. Spanish 5. Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 6. Greek 7. Cantonese 8. Vietnamese 9. Hungarian 10. Tigrigna

City context A comparison of a neighbourhood statistic with its Toronto equivalent

DWELLINGS When it comes to dwelling counts, the percentage of the housing stock in Oakwood Village that is either single- or semi-detached houses is 48 per cent, according to the 2011 census. That number is 33.1 per cent in all of Toronto.

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2006 070809102011

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Five-Year change

-24.4%

-32%

The number of people in the Youth age category (age 15-24) in Oakwood Village has decreased by 24.4 per cent between 2001 and 2011.

+94.9%

The number of people listing Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) as their Home Language has nearly doubled between 2001 and 2011.

-9.6% The overall population in Oakwood Village decreased by 9.6 per cent between 2001 and 2011.

While it’s still the thirdmost spoken Home Language, the number in Oakwood Village listing Italian as their Home Language dropped by 32 per cent between 2006 and 2011.

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Only one of the four listed age groups (Children, Youth, Working Age, Seniors) experienced a population increase between 2006 and 2011.

That was Seniors (65+), a group that grew 4.9 per cent.

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Investigation of Flooding and Combined Sewer Overflows Humber River and Black Creek area (Study Area 6) Municipal Class Environmental Assessment Study Notice of Public Information Centre #2 Please join us at our second Public Information Centre to learn about the options considered and solutions recommended to help prevent future basement and surface flooding, and to address combined sewer overflows in the study area. You will have an opportunity to view displays, speak one-on-one with project staff, and tell us what you think about the recommended solutions. Drop in anytime between 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m .on the date and location noted below. We look forward to seeing you there. Details are as follows:

Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Location: C.R. Marchant Public School - Gymnasium 1 Ralph St. (Lawrence Avenue West, east of Weston Road) Background The City of Toronto has historically experienced severe storm events that have resulted in recurrent surface and basement flooding and have contributed to the degradation of water quality in Toronto’s waterways. In response, the City of Toronto is undertaking a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) study for the Study Area 6 (see map). The study will identify the causes of flooding and develop solutions to reduce the risk of future flooding within the basement flooding area.

Solutions to improve combined sewer overflows into the Humber River and Black Creek within the study area will also be addressed.

We would like to hear from you If you are unable to attend the Public Information Centre but would like to receive information or would like to be added to the study mailing list, please contact:

Mae Lee (Rigmea) Public Consultation Unit City of Toronto Metro Hall, 19th Fl. 55 John St. Toronto, ON M5V 3C6

Tel: 416-392-8210 Fax: 416-392-2974 TTY: 416-338-0889 E-Mail: rigmea_lee@toronto.ca Visit: toronto.ca/involved/projects Issue Date: November 28, 2013

Information will be collected in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record.

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CONSUMER FEATURE

Avoid medication errors at home Recently, a report prepared for the Ontario government received a lot of attention for its conclusion that medication errors in hospitals are putting people in serious danger. But this is eclipsed by a more silent killer: medication errors in the home. In fact, problems with medication account for 1 in 7 emergency admissions of people aged 65 years and over, according to government of Ontario information.

That wasn’t surprising to me. The average senior’s home can be a very dangerous place.

It is quite common for a person to be taking from six to 15 different medications, including prescriptions, over-thecounter remedies, herbals and supplements. Many people have several doctors for different conditions, resulting in multiple active prescribers. Labeling on prescription containers is often difficult to read and many pills look alike, or have similar sounding names. Pharmacies may also change the brand of medication, resulting in changes in tablet appearance or name on the label.

In addition, many older adults have physical limitations, such as limited vision, limited hearing, or impaired cognitive function. Medication devices (such as inhalers) can be challenging to use properly. Add to this the fact that many patients take non-traditional supplements (e.g. St. John’s wort, devil’s claw) that can interact with their prescription medications, reducing their effectiveness or causing dangerous side effects.

To make these difficulties more serious, many seniors living at home have a difficult

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time accessing conventional pharmacist services and advice in the community.

I lead a team of pharmacists at the Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) designed to help these seniors by counseling them and their caregivers right in their homes, advising clients how to avoid hazards, and giving them specific advice on their medications.

At Toronto Central CCAC, pharmacists are part of a highly integrated team that includes clients, family caregivers, doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, community pharmacists, social workers, therapists and personal support workers.

My role also includes col-

laborating with the client’s prescriber(s) about potential medication side effects, interactions, and the long term medication care plan. With their sometimes overwhelming case loads, the doctors we work with are very appreciative of the information and support we provide.

As the senior population climbs, and the use of medication continues to grow, we all need to do our part to make safe medication practices part of the home care culture everywhere in Canada To learn more about Toronto Central CCAC services, call 416-506-9888.

—Norm Umali, Toronto Central CCAC Pharmacist

Tips for using medication safely at home: • Up to 50 per cent of all medication is taken incorrectly. Make sure you know what your medication is for, and how to take it.

• Whenever possible,use the same pharmacy every time.

Your pharmacist keeps a thorough and up-to-date record of all the medication you are taking.

• If you miss a dose, ask your pharmacist or doctor what to do.

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Ford makes case he’s no gelding Participate in the City’s 2014 Budget Process How City Council establishes the City’s budget and priorities directly affects the quality of life for every resident.The Operating Budget determines what programs and services the City will offer and how much the City will raise and spend.The Capital Budget and Plan provides funding for the facilities and infrastructure required to deliver those services.

A Staff Recommended 2014Tax Supported Operating Budget and 2014-2023 Capital Budget and Plan are now being considered by the Budget Committee for recommendation to the Executive Committee and then to City Council.

If you want to make your views about the 2014 Budget known there are several ways to do so.

1. Make a public presentation to the Budget Committee 2014 Operating Budget and 2014-2023 Capital Budget and Plan Hearing: Budget Committee December 2, 2013 Committee Room 1,Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West Please contact the Budget Committee at 416-392-4666 or e-mail buc@toronto.ca no later than 4 p.m. on November 29, if you intend to make a public presentation. Please register to ensure that your name is placed on the speakers list.There will be a five-minute presentation time limit, unless the Committee decides otherwise.

The Committee will hear speakers starting at 9:30 a.m. on December 2, and if necessary, the Committee will reconvene at 9:30 a.m. on December 3, to hear remaining speakers on the speakers list.

2. Submit a written presentation to: Budget Committee Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West 10th floor, WestTower,Toronto, ON M5H 2N2 Fax: 416-392-1879 E-mail: buc@toronto.ca 3. Send a letter or e-mail to the Mayor or your local City Councillor.

For information on how to contact the Mayor or your City Councillor, call 311.

Toronto City Council will review and approve the final 2014 Operating Budget and 2014-2023 Capital Budget and Plan at the Council meeting on January 29 and 30, 2014.

For more information about the City Budget and the 2014 Budget process please visit our website: www.toronto.ca/ budget2014.

Notice: If you write or make a presentation to the Budget Committee, we will collect and use your personal information in accordance with applicable laws. We also videotape meetings and make recordings publicly available on request. For more information about the collection and use of your personal information, please visit: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/privacy.htm

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ayor Rob Ford may have been politically neutered by his colleagues on Toronto Council, but on Monday, he was anxious to prove he’s no gelding.

That was when city staff unveiled their proposed 2014 operating and capital budgets. These are enormously complex documents, but here are some of the basics: property taxes will go up 2.5 per cent for homeowners, and that figure includes a 0.5 per cent special levy to pay for a subway in Scarborough.

The Land Transfer Tax, estimated to bring in $335 million, will stay at the same rate as it was in 2013.

Now these are not the basics as Ford had explained them. He has been dining out these past 11 months on a promise of a tax increase of no more than 1.75 per cent in 2014, and a 10 per cent cut to the Land Transfer Tax. When Toronto Council approved the idea of a 0.5 per cent property tax levy to pay for nearly a billion dollars in city costs for the Scarborough subway, Ford said that amount would be

david nickle the city rolled into the 1.75 per cent increase.

No one agreed with the mayor on this strategy except his brother, Councillor Doug Ford. But that didn’t stop the mayor and the rhetorical bulldozer he brought to budget committee.

The budget, he said, was an example of what happens when you take mayoral powers away from a guy like him. Joe Pennachetti, the city manager, had told Ford it would be possible to cut the Land Transfer Tax and deliver a 1.75 per cent property tax increase, subway included.

The “gravy train” – that 2010 shibboleth that helped make Councillor Ford into Mayor Ford – is up and running again, he said, just days after council had so cruelly and undemocratically stripped him of his powers.

Et tu, Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly.

It was a bravura performance, ably supported by Doug Ford. It, of course, had

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Something we need to talk about Part three of the series shares one family’s story to highlight the need for discussion

By Alison Brownlee

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ulie Robbins was bubbly, athletic, popular and known for helping others. But she suffered from depression.

“We always did treat it as an illness,” said her mother Elaine. “I encouraged Julie to speak freely of it because it was an illness.”

Despite medication, counselling and support from her family, Julie lost her battle with depression while at university, shortly after she turned 21.

Tana Nash, president of the Ontario Association for Suicide Prevention, encourages everyone to discuss mental illness and thoughts of suicide.

“It’s OK to talk to somebody,” Nash said.

“Break down the myth that asking

about it will plant the seed.”

Thoughts of suicide are less about wanting to die and more about feeling hopeless, and the fear and shame associated with those feelings can isolate and prevent someone from getting help.

Asking a loved one whether they are considering suicide will not plant the idea, but create an opportunity to talk about other options, reduce risk and save lives.

Nash said while a person considering suicide often won’t say so, subtle hints, such as crying, unkempt appearance, withdrawal, giving away possessions, declarations of hopelessness, despair, anger, numbness or sharing stories of traumatic experiences can be some of the invitations to talk.

And if someone admits to considering suicide, listen with empathy and understanding, while offering to help find crisis intervention or

counselling resources to keep them safe.

A person with thoughts of suicide should never be left alone.

Nash, who has lost her grandmother and sister to suicide, said the majority of suicides are linked to mental health problems, and are preventable.

“It’s the 10th leading cause of death in Canada and we need to do something about it,” she said.

“We are losing way too many people every year to a preventable death.”

That prevention, she said, is everyone’s responsibility.

“We need to work together to learn more as neighbours, co-workers and friends,” she said.

Help can include medication, counselling, nutrition or sleep, as well as coping strategies or communication training.

Nash admitted that talking about emotions can be challenging because it opens up vulnerabilities.

But mental illness is not like a broken arm, easily identified by others and fixed in a hospital emer-

gency department.

“We have to learn how to talk about our emotions and communicate those feelings so we can get the better help we need,” she said.

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After I hung up the phone, a light went on in my head and I said to my husband, ‘Oh my God, that was a goodbye phone call’.

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And preventing suicide can also prevent the enduring pain felt by the family or community left behind.

“It’s heartache like no other kind of grief because of all the questions that come up and those feelings connected to losing someone,” Nash said.

Julie’s mother, Elaine, said the death of a friend in her daughter’s final year at Gravenhurst High School triggered her depression.

Julie was taking medication and undergoing counselling by the time she enrolled in Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo.

She came home several times that September, including for her 21st birthday spent with family, friends and her boyfriend. She seemed to be managing.

Ever ything changed by Thanksgiving.

Julie told her mom she wanted to return home. She agreed to continue university through distance education courses.

She left her parents on Thanksgiving Monday.

Julie called her parents that evening and something about the conversation unsettled her mother.

“After I hung up the phone, a light went on in my head and I said to my husband, ‘Oh, my God, that was a goodbye phone call,’” Elaine said.

Her husband, Dave, then called Julie. It was too late.

Julie ended up in hospital on life support because of an overdose.

She suffered cardiac arrest and >>>REPRESSING, page 19

Repressing emotions can inhibit the grieving process >>>from page 18 The secrecy that suicide is often had too many drugs in her system shrouded in makes it all the more to recover. She died before her difficult to cope with. mother was able to make it to her “And if we keep things secret, bedside. then they only fester,” Bechthold “When we walked into the hospisaid. “They are wounds that will tal, we didn’t know she was gone,” not heal.” said Elaine. “We were informed The grieving process related to when we arrived.” suicide can also be intense because Elaine, usually quick to tears, slid of the trauma caused by the shock down the corridor wall and crouched of the loss. into a ball.

Bechthold said grief is a circular process that can include waves of She didn’t cry. guilt, fear, denial, anger, despair, “I was in shock,” Elaine said.

She said her family experienced a numbness, sadness and resolution deep sorrow after Julie’s death. The for an indeterminate amount of family’s grief has subsided over the time. past decade, but the pain will always Those grieving need to reach out remain. for help to get them She encourages through it. parents with children “People who get Embrace (grief), stuck battling depression in grief, their reach out and get the lives really do kind to get them help, whether through a resources you need of stop,” she said. family physician or “They’re stuck in to move through it. the grief process, in counselling.

And for those who You’re going to be a bitterness or pain or have lost a child, stronger person on sadness.”

And that grief can she urges them to the other side. lead to other forms embrace their emotions and talk. of depression and – Marie-Louise Bechthold, “It’s very helpful to physical harm, such executive director, Meeting Place Centre for talk to someone who as alcoholism, drug Healing and Growth has walked the road addiction or obesity, that you’re about to she said. walk,” she said.

“Those addictions are really a Some days, the only way to cope slow form of suicide and they affect with the loss is to weep or scream. everyone in a family as well.”

“Go ahead and do it,” she said.

Grief though, in its many forms, “Feel whatever you’re feeling. Don’t cannot be rushed. squash it and make yourself sick.”

“Human beings, particularly Elaine said she heard and saw Julie North Americans, seem to, in our for a long time after her death. very privileged state, think we should “Some people thought I was not have to grieve. There should be a pill or something that we can loony, but I didn’t care. I wasn’t going to extinguish her presence shortcut grief,” Bechthold said. if I felt it because it meant a lot to “Unfortunately, there isn’t.” me,” she said.

No one fully heals by pushing Marie-Louise Bechthold, execugrief aside, she said. tive director for the Meeting Place “Embrace it, reach out and get Centre for Healing and Growth in the resources you need to move Muskoka, said some try to push through it,” she said. “You’re going aside grief, a necessary part of the to be a healthier, stronger person on the other side.” healing process.

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Inspiring chef loved spending time in Muskoka elaborate dinners.”

“That was happiness for him, to be able to create this great meal that he could eat, and that others could enjoy,” she said.

Daniel also loved ne thing Daniel Muskoka. Originally Keane loved to from Milton, Keane do was cook. said the family spent “He became a very every summer and holiaccomplished chef,” Daniel Keane day since 1999 at the said his mom, Lynn Keane. cottage on Joe River, but for She said growing up, her son had a Daniel the cottage was sacred. lot of food allergies, and was limited “It was where he was most conin choices. tent,” she said.

“As a result he became obsessed As a student in the summer of with the Food Network, and learned 2007, Daniel started a small business, how to create these wonderfully Cottage Concierge, in Muskoka.

The loved ones of Daniel Keane share his story in the hopes that his lost life is never forgotten and can inspire the change needed to avoid further preventable deaths in Ontario.

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Daniel liked music and his love of the Tragically Hip rubbed off on his family.

“We travelled all over the place to see them,” Keane said. The first time Keane saw the Hip was in Bala with Daniel. “It was incredible to experience this moment together,” she said.

On April 28, 2009, Daniel committed suicide at the cottage.

He was 23 years old.

This summer, Keane had the opportunity to meet Hip lead singer Gord Downie, and she told him about Daniel. After his set they spoke again.

“He said, ‘Thank you for telling me about Daniel. I played harder because of him,’” she said.

- By Laura Finney

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Make sure to keep the discussion alive This concludes our three-part series on suicide among young people in Ontario.

Our goal has been to provide some compelling case studies of youth in need, some signs for parents to watch for and some hope for the future of our youth.

Simply put, we’ve learned through our discussions with experts, our discussions with parents of youth who have committed suicide, and others who have lived through the darkness and realize there is a bright future, and we hope you have, too.

We’ve learned that this topic kept in a closet will not be fixed.

We’ve learned that there are many, many people and agencies poised

to help a troubled teen, a parent in need, or surviving family members who need to cope with a tragedy.

We encourage you to keep the discussion alive.

As parents, friends and mentors we encourage you to keep abreast of your teen’s activities and build deep relationships with those you love.

In a perfect world we’d love to eradicate the stories of pain and see them replaced with stories of hope.

Every time.

TELL US WHAT YOU THINK If you have a story to share about youth suicide or an opinion on our series, please feel free to share it with us.

Reach us at ykg@ insidetoronto.com Our newspaper is here to support you and our community and we value whatever feedback you are able to offer.

Prevention/Coping Resources CALL 911 if you are thinking of harming yourself or if someone you know is in imminent danger of harming themselves.

Ontario Association for Suicide Prevention >> ospn.ca Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention >> suicideprevention.ca Hope and Healing After Suicide: >> www.camh.ca A practical guide for people who have lost someone to suicide Lesbian gay bi transgender queer (LGBTQ) Youth Line 1-800-268-9688

Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868 Your Life Counts >> www.yourlifecounts.org Website for youth to share thoughts and get help with their problems Mobilizing Minds >> www.mobilizingminds.ca A mental health project led by young adults, community organizations and health professionals Mind your Mind >> mindyourmind.ca A website for youth created by youth offering resources and tools to help manage stress, crisis and mental health problems

Teen Mental Health >> www.teenmentalhealth.org Information about adolescent mental health to advance the understanding of mental illness and to improve lives The Trevor Project >> www.thetrevorproject.org Information about suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth River of Life Program >> www.riveroflifeprogram.ca Online training about Aboriginal youth suicide

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