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Box elder bugs prove a nuisance, but pose no threat Manitoba maples centre of west-end infestation CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com For Maria Miranda, the most effective tool against this late summer and early fall’s seasonal onslaught of box elder bugs has been duct tape.

As manager of Roger’s Music Centre at 465 Rogers Rd. – the epicentre of one of several large infestations reported in recent weeks – Miranda has been forced to seal off the store’s front door against invasion by the red and black beetle-like insects that have migrated from a nearby Manitoba maple.

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you have had a tattoo or piercing in the past six months you have had a dental cleaning or filling in the past 24 hours or dental surgery in the past 72 hours you have been pregnant or given birth in the past six months

you have spent three months or more cumulatively in the U.K. you take prescription medications

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Meet Yvonne Ohara: she’s done it 800 times TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com Yvonne Ohara is in the exclusive 800 club.

Recently, the Etobicoke woman became one of only a handful of Ontarians to donate blood an astounding 800 times.

“Blood is the ultimate renewable resource,” said Ohara, 68, who works for Toronto police. “You don’t know when you, a family member or a friend may need some blood.”

Every two weeks, Ohara heads to CBS headquarters at 67 College St. to donate a bag of platelets, which she can donate 24 times a year.

Ohara began donating blood at age 21.

She said she was drawn to more specialized platelets and plasma donation after seeing other donors on different blood-drawing machines.

“The nice thing about plasma and platelet donation is you’re essentially matched with (a recipient),” Ohara said.

Platelets, a component required to make blood clot, is in need by people with diseases associated with prolonged bleeding, such as cancer and bone marrow therapy. Platelets have a shelf

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Yvonne Ohara celebrates her 800th blood donation with Canadian Blood Services. Ohara has been donating for 47 years.

life of only five days.

Plasma donations help people with some bleeding disorders, liver diseases, and in some operations.

Blood donation is a family tradition for Ohara.

Ohara’s father, Charles Overton, began taking her at age four to his blood-donation appointments, including

at the former Hospital for Sick Children, which is now CBS headquarters where Ohara donates.

Overton donated 99 times until his age made him ineligible.

Michael Scharlemann, Ohara’s husband, has donated blood 78 times. He made a stem cell donation after being

notified he was a match on the national unrelated bone marrow registry.

“The trick is to get donors younger, in high school and in college,” Ohara said. “Make it a family tradition. Go with your parents or friends to a mobile clinic at the mall.”

Across Canada, CBS must collect 17,000 units of blood

every week. Since blood products have a limited shelf life, demand is constant.

“Roughly every minute, every day, someone in Canada needs blood,” CBS stated.

Blood and blood components are used to treat a number of injuries and illnesses, including various forms of cancer, hip and joint conditions, transplants, traumas, such as car accidents, blood disorders, and many others.

Across the country, less than four per cent of eligible Canadians donate blood, CBS reported.

One in 60 Canadians donate, despite the fact one in two is eligible.

Meanwhile, half of Canadians report they or a family member have required blood or blood components for surgery or medical treatment, CBS stated.

Type O negative blood is in highest demand. It can be used in emergency situations on anyone when there is no time to test a patient’s blood.

People with Type O negative blood are considered universal donors.

One person may donate whole blood up to six times a year, improving the lives of as many as 18 people, to CBS stated. The

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entire process takes just over an hour.

The standard blood donation is approximately 450 millilitres, slightly less than half a litre or two cups. An average adult’s body contains about five litres of blood.

This year, CBS has revised its donation eligibility requirements.

Health Canada approved CBS’s request to reduce the blood-donation waiting period for men who have sex with men from five years to one year.

CBS tests blood donations for syphilis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV-1 and 2, Human T-Cell lymphotropic virus HTLV-I and II and West Nile Virus.

CBS also revised its donation eligibility requirements to mitigate the risk, which it pegs at one in 8.3 million, of the Zika virus entering the Canadian blood system.

Anyone who has traveled outside of Canada, the continental United States and Europe is now ineligible to give blood for 21 days after their return.

The Zika virus lasts three to five days in the blood, and clears the body within 21 days, CBS stated.

If you want book an appointment, download the GiveBlood app on IOS or Android, visit www.blood. ca to find a clinic near you or call 1-888-2-DONATE (1-888-236-6283).

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Could we elect a Trump-like leader?

Here in Canada, the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency is a terrifying one.

The real-estate mogul and reality television star has been building support on a campaign of bigotry, misogyny and violence. While his campaign is still trailing that of former secretary of state, senator and first lady Hillary Clinton, the gap in polls is narrow and it is conceivable that Trump might prevail.

The leader of our closest neighbour, biggest trading partner and longtime ally might be a whitesupremacist-approved, lying, narcissistic tyrant.

The only comfort we might take in this distressing scenario: at least something like that could never happen here. Or could it?

Our parliamentary system of government treats executive power very differently the American bicameral OuR ViEW than system. In some ways a prime with a firm majority can It can happen minister exercise far more power than a in the U.S., so president whose party doesn’t also control both the House of why not here? Representatives and the Senate. A Trump-like prime minister could make profound and potentially damaging changes to our country, with few to none of the checks on the power of a like-minded president.

Our nomination process means it’s less likely that any party would choose such a polarizing figure as its leader, and in a federal election, voters aren’t faced with a simple choice between two candidates as happens in the U.S. But, it would be naive to think that Canadians are immune to the kind of xenophobic bigotry and nativism that has fuelled Trump’s rise.

At its core, Trump’s success depends on two things – people who are profoundly worried about their future and a society where systemic racism makes it easy to blame “the other” for its problems. We have both here.

In 2015, when Stephen Harper’s Conservatives banned women from wearing niqabs when taking citizenship oaths, vowed to revoke citizenship to dual citizens convicted of terrorism and floated the idea of a snitch line for “barbaric cultural practices,” the party had strong support.

Now, Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch is promoting a plan to screen out immigrants who hold “anti-Canadian values.”

Does that mean that Canadians are ready to consider handing a Donald Trump the key to 24 Sussex Dr.? We like to think not. But we’d like to think the same of our friends south of the border.

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Is Toronto Hydro Mayor Tory’s next gold mine?

There has to be gold in here somewhere.

That sentiment, or a variation of it, has been a mantra for political leaders and would-be leaders since amalgamation.

Former premier Mike Harris and his municipal affairs minister Al Leach were the first to see the mythical El Dorado in the 416 area code when they amalgamated the city from seven municipal governments into one. Surely, pulling all those bureaucracies together into one would save hundreds of millions of dollars.

When that didn’t pan out, provincial scolds like former Scarborough Tory MP Steve Gilchrist helpfully suggested that amalgamated Toronto might sell off Metro Hall.

But that never made sense in the end, as the former seat of Metro government housed a sizeable part of the city’s bureaucracy.

Privatize garbage collection city-wide? Maybe one day it’ll save the cash-

david nickle the city strapped city millions, but Toronto had to break free of job protection language in collective agreements to even consider the idea. Now that’s happened, maybe contracting-out advocates will make one more attempt, and may pull it off.

It’s hard to say whether Mayor John Tory will succeed at one of the most often-sought gold mines in the Toronto portfolio: that being Toronto Hydro, the electricity distribution company wholly owned by the City of Toronto.

Certainly, many before him have tried and failed.

Mel Lastman mused about selling it off. Jane Pitfield, running to unseat David Miller in 2006, gave it a go on the hustings, as did Karen Stintz in 2010 – and in neither case were they able to get near a mandate to do so.

Tory has been ruminating about a Hydro sale for months at least – or a species of Hydro sale, perhaps similar to the notion that Karen Stintz floated in 2010.

Stintz argued that selling off about half of the city’s interest in the company would raise enough money to pay for the downtown relief subway line. She also suggested that leasing the company could work, if it weren’t possible to avoid the provincial taxes placed on the sale of more than 10 per cent of the asset.

Either of these options might work well for Mayor Tory’s purposes. He, too, needs to finance a downtown relief line, and could also use some coin to build his scaled-back SmartTrack plan.

A couple of weeks ago now, Tory turned his attention very publicly to the nuts-and-bolts workings of Toronto Hydro, in particular dealing with the multiple outages in highrise downtown Toronto condomin-

ium towers like CityPlace.

The culprit, Tory noted first in a news release and then in front of reporters at the Toronto Board of Trade, was aging infrastructure serving growing areas.

And he made it very clear that he not only wanted to get some power flowing from the utility, but also some cash, which he said should not be at the cost of public accountability.

This is going to be a delicate balance. It’s hard to imagine very much money coming out of a partial sale of a power grid already in dire need of upgrade and repair – particularly one that will offset the loss of part of the annual dividend Toronto gets, amounting to approximately $60 million.

But it looks as though in the short term at least, we’re going to dip our pan into that river one more time.

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Advanced Line Dancing WHEN: Noon to 1:30 p.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-2454395 Ext. 223 COST: $4.50 per class Basic line dance steps are used to create routines. Beginners and intermediate dancers welcome.

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Cyanotype Workshop WHEN: 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre, 341 Oakwood Ave. CONTACT: 416-394-1040 COST: Free Artist in the Library – Geneviève Thauvette teaches the art of cyanotype. Workshops compliment the core “Memento Mori” program. Registration required.

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Family Time WHEN: 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Richard, 416-3941006 COST: Free Stories, songs and rhymes for children newborn to age five.

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Open House WHEN: 1 p.m. to midnight WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-0231, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: Free

featured event Casino Rama Day Trip WHEN: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-0231 COST: $5 Board the bus in the parking lot at 8:15 a.m.for 8:30 a.m. departure. Tickets include: transportation to and from the casino and a $15 credit on players card. First timers please bring photo ID to obtain a players card at the casino. a home/transitions. Grief and loss.

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Easy Italian Lessons 55+ WHEN: 9 to 10:30 a.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-2454395 Ext. 223 COST: Free Lessons include basic grammar and vocabulary and conversations.

Getting Well With Routes WHEN: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Speakers from Routes, talk about its mental health programming. Routes is funded by the Canadian Mental Health Association (Toronto).

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Healthy Mind, Healthy Bodies WHEN: Noon to 1:30 p.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-2454395 Ext.223 COST: Cost: $21 for 14 weeks Topics: Grown children issues. Maintaining a home as you age; giving up

Citizenship Education Circle WHEN: 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: 416-3941006 COST: Free Assistance for landed immigrants, convention refugees, and live-in caregivers.

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New program provides emergency mortgage loans to homeowners A shor t time ago, Exper t Mortgage launched the “85-Alive” program in Ontario.

The concept was simple: as long as you had a pulse, Expert Mortgage would provide you with a home equity loan, up to 85 percent of the value of your property. No job required. Bad credit, OK. The reason why Exper t Mortgage could offer a “no questions asked ” lending program, while the major banks could not, is that they represent over 200 private lenders who lend str ic tly on proper t y value. These subprime lenders specialize in mortgage clients who have had some bad luck, and need a helping hand until they get back on their feet.

The program has been so successful that Expert Mortgage can barely keep up with the volume of calls. To help fund this unexpectedly large number of borrowers, it has partnered up with dozens more private lenders.

Licensed Mortgage Agent D e b b i e Tr u e m a n , E x p e r t M o r t g a g e ’s “ 8 5 - A l i v e ” representative for the GTA Region, says, “We’re seeing mostly homeowners behind on mortgage and property taxes. The banks are refusing to restructure their loans. Many of these people have lost jobs due to the bad economy... or they’re self-employed. Unless you are a perfect applicant, the bank doesn’t want to talk to you.”

But not everyone condones Expert Mortgage’s easy lending criteria. A local real estate agent with 25 years of experience, who has asked to remain anonymous, says, “When this market turns down, it’s going to get ugly! It’s utter financial suicide for Expert Mortgage to be giving money away so easily to clients without the ability to make payments. I’d be surprised if they’re still in business five years from now.”

Nonetheless, homeowners l i k e An i t a P. d o n’t s e e a problem with the program.

When questioned on how she plans on making payments on her mortgage when she has no income, Anita responds, “We were four months behind on our mortgage and they saved our house. My husband has been unemployed for nine months. He won’t be unemployed forever. We used the 85-Alive loan to pay off all our debt. We also had $25,000 left over that we put in the bank for emergencies. And to make life easy, they worked it out so we have no mortgage payments for 12 months.”

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Yarn Lovers Wanted WHEN: Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m.

WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: quanah1@gmail.com COST: Free Knitting and crocheting. Share or learn. Bring your project or supplies.

Yarn or needles are not provided.

w Tuesday, Oct. 25

w Saturday, Oct. 22

After-School Club WHEN: 4 p.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: 416-394-1006 COST: Free Tuesdays. Lego challenges. Play board games, chess and music.

Photo Painting Workshop WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre, 341 Oakwood Ave. CONTACT: 416394-1040 COST: Free Artist in the Library Geneviève Thauvette teaches the art of photo painting. Registration requied.

w Wednesday, Nov. 23

Opening ceremonies at 1 p.m.

Military memorabilia and live entertainment with Terry Chisholm & Company at 8 p.m. Light buffet.

w Thursday, Oct. 20

Spadina Museum Visit WHEN: 11 a.m. to noon WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: 416-394-1006 COST: Free Using objects from the collection, staff of Spadina Museum guide participants through history.

Special FX Makeup Workshops WHEN: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre, 341 Oakwood Ave. CONTACT: 416-394-1041 COST: Free Join Artist in the Library – Geneviève Thauvette for a special FX zombie makeup workshop.

Managing Your Finances in Retirement WHEN: 2 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Branch, Toronto Public Library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416394-1008 COST: Free How can you stretch your retirement resources? Presented by CPA. Employment Preparation WHEN: 4 p.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: 416-394-1006 COST: Free Topics: resumes and cover letters, marketing yourself to employers, and the interview process. Spaces limited.

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RBC Foundation cuts a big cheque The RBC Foundation has made a $500,000 donation toward establishing a new day hospital as part of a massive impending transformation of the West Park Healthcare Centre.

The day hospital, when it opens, will provide intensive rehabilitation therapy to patients living with serious respiratory illness while helping them to live independently in their own communi-

ties. The day hospital will also expand to include a new geriatric service, enabling seniors to live at home longer.

“West Park Healthcare Centre helps people get back to their daily lives after suffering a physical hardship or accident, and supporting the expanded day hospital to help more people live at home while undergoing treatment makes today so worthwhile for us,” said Richard

From left, Richard Pereira, regional vice-president, Toronto West, RBC; Ian Troop, chair of the Get Your Life Back Campaign (and a member of the West Park Foundation board of directors); Joanne Cole, CEO of West Park Foundation; and AnneMarie Malek, CEO of West Park Healthcare Centre make a presentation of a $500,000 donation to West Park Healthcare Centre from the RBC Foundation.

Pereira, regional vice president, Toronto West, RBC, in a statement. “I am so proud to have been able to make this donation announcement on behalf of RBC, and proud of the impact this will have on our community.”

The day hospital will be located in the new state-ofthe-art building.

To date, more than $19 million has been raised toward an $80 million campaign.

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Residents lobbying city hall to remove Manitoba maples >>>from page 1 with small children who say it’s ridiculous because they can’t even stay in their backyard because of the bugs. They’re a big, big nuisance.”

A nuisance, yes – but are box elders dangerous?

Not at all, according to Stephen Smith, a certified arborist and owner of Urban Forest Associates Inc. Box elder bugs, he explained, are a generally harmless native insect that cause little to no damage to trees and structures, nor do they pose any biting or stinging threat to humans or animals.

“They’re part of our natural ecosystem and every now and then they’ll have an eruption and you get lots and lots of them, but they do no serious harm,” Smith said, noting that he recently investigated a similar complaint about box elders outside a home in the Eglinton Avenue West and Scarlett Road area of Etobicoke.

“It’s this time of year when they tend to congregate on people’s houses where it’s nice and warm and sunny – and that’s when people start to notice them.

But there’s really no cause for concern. Even if the odd one gets in under a window or a door, they can’t really do any damage.”

As such, Smith said chemical-free solutions are the best approach to dealing with the colourful critters.

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“They’re going to go away, so why would you want to

spray pesticides and kill everything just because of them?” he reasoned, noting that the box elders will likely only stick around a couple more weeks. “As soon as we get the frosty weather, their life cycle will end and they’ll be dead and gone for the year.”

That sentiment was echoed by Edith George, a self-described “tree hugger” and advisor to the Ontario Urban Forest Council.

“I’ll tell you one thing, you don’t want to spray – because you just look at what’s happened in Florida,” she said, referencing the large number of bees that have been inadvertently killed off by spraying for the Zika virus.

“When you spray, you kill all the other insects – namely the bees – so we just have to suck it up and accept the nuisance while it lasts.”

George said she, too, has received reports of box elder swarms this late summer and early fall – namely in the Albion and Weston roads area.

As with the infestation outside Roger’s Music Centre, that North York swarm site is likewise situated in close proximity to

a Manitoba maple tree, George added, calling the tree an “invasive species” that many arborists classify as weeds.

Known more commonly as box elder trees in the U.S., Manitoba maples are box elder bugs’ natural hosts and where they like to lay their eggs – and, as such, act to attract the insects in large numbers.

It’s because of that magnetic effect the trees tend to have on box elder bugs that Miranda and her neighbours on Rogers Road are petitioning the city to remove their Manitoba maple – and hopefully the scourge of insects that come with it.

“That’s what we would like to see happen. They could even put some other tree in – as long as it’s not that same kind,” she said.

“It seems to be the root of the whole problem, so next year we’ll probably have the same issues all over again if the tree is still here.”

A representative from Cesar Palacio’s office confirmed that the Davenport councillor has requested the city arborist go out to the site to inspect the tree – whose health is also in question for possible removal.

In the meantime, the landlord of the building – which houses both Roger’s Music Centre and the upstairs apartment of the blind woman – is in the process of hiring someone to rid the tree of the box elder bugs, said Gino Orsi, Palacio’s constituency assistant.

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Late last month, the officer joined York SouthWeston Councillor Frances Nunziata, 12 Division colleagues, and representatives from Toronto’s Municipal Licensing and Standards (MLS) division and Toronto Hydro, with members of the local Business Improvement Area, and residents, to conduct an audit in Mount Dennis.

The group focused its efforts between Ray and Lambton avenues, dividing themselves up to tackle the northern and southern portions.

“Councillor Nunziata started this a number of years ago. We used to do it every year,” Lambe told The Guardian.

“There used to be a lot of issues – it was a mess. But, we’ve seen a vast improvement, especially while we were (conducting regular audits).”

The area’s condition has radically improved since audits were first held years ago, he said.

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Nonetheless, the group did come across a variety of issues that did need addressing.

There were several abandoned vehicles in laneways behind the retail strip, particularly a recovered stolen car, Lamb said. Police will tow the vehicles, but it’s Lambe’s preference that he try to find the owners before doing so.

The group discovered graffiti, garbage and renovation waste in laneways as well as derelict vehicles without license plates abandoned in parking lots, Nunziata said. ‘eye opener’ “It’s really an eye opener for those who haven’t been on an audit before,” she said.

The audit unearthed illegal apartments, which MLS will be addressing, damaged fences, and dangling telephone wires, charity clothing drop boxes covered in graffiti, and patrons illegally selling goods, like CDs, and clothing, in local bars.

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The city will issue work orders, where appropriate, giving business owners a specific amount of time to, for example, clean up any garbage. If they do not comply, the clean-up cost will be added to their property tax bill.

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Notice is hereby given that: MARKLAND WOOD GOLF CLUB 245 Markland Drive, Toronto, Ontario, M9C 1R1 Will be holding a public meeting to present its annual report on Class 9 pesticide use as required by Ontario Regulation 63/09 under the Pesticides Act. The annual report summarizes the use of Class 9 pesticides used in 2015:

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RAY PLUMBING SERVICE LegaL Notice To Anyone Who Attended: The Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf (formerly the Ontario School for the Deaf, Milton); The Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf (formerly the Ontario Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb; and/or The Ontario School for the Deaf), the Robarts School for the Deaf Or are the Family Members of Someone Who Did

A Lawsuit May Affect Your Rights. Please Read this Notice Carefully this notice is to advise of a lawsuit brought as a class action relating to the ernest c. Drury School for the Deaf (formerly the ontario School for the Deaf, Milton) (“Drury”), the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf (formerly the ontario institute for the education of the Deaf and Dumb and the ontario School for the Deaf) (“Sir James Whitney”), and the Robarts School for the Deaf (“Robarts”), collectively referred to as the “Schools”. it involves anyone who was a student at Drury since 1963 to the present, Sir James Whitney since 1938 to the present, and Robarts since 1973 to the present and certain of their family members. If you know a student of the Schools who cannot read this notice, please share this information with them. if you are within this group, you have a choice of whether to stay in the class or not, and you must decide this now.

What is this case about? the lawsuit says the Province of ontario failed to properly care for and protect people who attended or resided at the Schools. the lawsuit says that students were emotionally, physically, and psychologically traumatized by their experiences at the Schools. the Province of ontario denies these claims. the court has not decided whether the Plaintiff or the Province of ontario is right.

Are you included?

You are included in this lawsuit if: • you attended or resided at Drury at any time between 1963 and august 23, 2016 and have not otherwise released your claim • you attended or resided at Sir James Whitney at any time between 1938 and august 23, 2016 and have not otherwise released your claim • you attended or resided at Robarts at any time between 1973 and august 23, 2016 and have not otherwise released your claim • you are the parents, spouses, children or siblings of someone and who is included in the lawsuit and who attended or was in residence at one of the Schools between 1978 and august 23, 2016 • you are an estate trustee for a person who was a student or family member of a student who is included in the lawsuit and that person was living on or after august 10, 2013 Who are the lawyers who represent the class?

Koskie Minsky LLP are the lawyers for the plaintiff and the class. You don’t have to pay Koskie Minsky LLP for this case.

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instead, the lawyers will be paid only if there is recovery of money or other benefits for the class. if there is success, the lawyers would either receive a portion of recovery or be paid by the Province of ontario.

What are your options?

Stay In the Class Action: You do not have to do anything to stay in the class action. You will be legally bound by all orders and judgments of the court, and you will not be able to sue independently the Province of ontario about the legal claims in this case. if money or benefits are obtained, you will be notified about how to ask for a share.

Staying in this Class will not impact the residence or services and supports received by class members from community based agencies which are funded by the Province of Ontario.

Get Out of the Class Action: if you want to keep your independent right to sue the Province of ontario over the claims in this case or if you do not wish to be bound by the orders and judgments of this case, you need to opt out or remove yourself. if you remove yourself, you cannot get any money or benefits from this lawsuit. to ask to be removed, send a letter to School abuse class action administrator, c/o crawford & company inc., 3-505 133 Weber St. N., Waterloo oN N2J 3g9 or go to www.Schoolsforthedeafclassaction.ca. the letter should say that you want to be removed from Welsh v. ontario class action and must include your name, address, telephone number and/or email address, and signature. the deadline to opt out is September 1, 2017.

More Information? go to www.Schoolsforthedeafclassaction.ca, call toll-free 1-855-823-0656, ttY: 1-877-627-7027 or write to: School abuse class action administrator c/o crawford & company inc.

3-505 133 Weber Street North Waterloo oN N2J 3g9 Schoolabuseclassaction@crawco.ca Getting information to people who can read.

We ask for the help of family members, caregivers and friends of students in getting information to students who have trouble reading. More information about this lawsuit is available at www.kmlaw.ca/Schoolabuse or by calling the toll-free and ttY numbers above. Please show this notice to people who are impacted by this lawsuit or their caregivers.

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Say nine times a day for nine days. Prayer will be answered by the eighth day, it has never failed. Publication must be promised. Thank you very much Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and St. Jude, for favors granted. - D.J.S.

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