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TCHC buildings to undergo $4M in energy retrofits Aging highrises cause half of city’s greenhouse gas emissions LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com

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A dramatic reduction in energy and water use is expected at seven social housing buildings in the city, as well, its residents will see a significant reduction their utility costs.

The Toronto Atmospheric Fund ( TAF) and Toronto Community Housing Corporation ( TCHC) made that claim at the launch of the “ground breaking” TowerWise

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“The fact is that buildings in the city are responsible for half of Toronto’s greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change,” said TAF CEO Julia Langer to an audience who had gathered in the green space between 710 and 720 Trethewey Dr. “So, why is that? We heat them, we cool them, we light >>>UPGRADES, page 21

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PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER: Our senior population is expected to see a drastic increase in dementia cases in coming years. Metroland Media and The Mirror present a three-part series investigating the challenges of preparing for it and the efforts underway to improve research, diagnosis and treatment for those affected by the disease. Read part one on page 6.

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Feeding your own hungry belly can help do the same for a local child or youth.

This Saturday, Weston’s Frontlines is hosting its Big Breakfast event at Central United Church, 1 King St., at 9 a.m. Admission costs $12. The event supports the organization’s youth programs.

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The culinary focus is new, started about a year ago, developed based on World Vision’s mission to end child hunger.

The culinary programs include cooking basics for the six to 18 crowd, with programs for different age groups. >>>FOCUS, page 16

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An all-candidates debate for York South-Weston will take place Monday, Sept. 28 at the York Civic Centre, 2700 Eglinton Ave. W., from 7 to 9 p.m.

The meeting will include candidates Ahmed Hussen (Liberal), John Johnson (Green), James Robinson (Conservative) and Mike Sullivan (NDP).

Doors will open at 6:15 p.m., giving people a chance to meet and greet the candidates for the Oct. 19 federal election prior to the debate.

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BULGING BULBS: At left, Patrick Carter proudly displays some of his Aylmer Garlic at the 5th annual Toronto Garlic Festival at Wychwood Barns on Christie Street Sunday. Above, Adam Somers of North Shore Organic Garlic sells some of his produce to Mary Roy. The event featured cooking demos, raw garlic shots, presentations, vendors, and film screenings.

Humber River Cleanup needs sponsors LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Shopping carts; car seats; TVs; water bottles; plastic bags.

That’s just an example of the kind of garbage local kayaker and conservationist Rick Crawford and his team pulls out of the Humber River each year.

“Last year, we found a door from an outhouse,” Crawford, the president of the rubbish removal company 1-800 RID-OF-IT, told The Villager.

On Wednesday, Sept. 30, Crawford and representatives from businesses, including the Complete Paddler and Shorncliffe Disposal Services, will head to the river as part of the fifth annual Humber River Cleanup.

The event attracts as many as 40 volunteers each year, who collect an

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Kelly McDowell, from The Complete Paddler, hauls a recycling bin from Richard Vandentillaart’s canoe during a previous cleanup.

average of two tonnes of garbage.

Crawford attributes this to the length and size of the Humber River, accidental or illegal dumping of debris

or from storm water runoff.

This year’s cleanup could be the last unless sponsors willingly step up to help ease the financial cost.

Annually, the event costs approximately $8,000 and Crawford said he can’t continue on his own. Spinnaker Recycling Corp. recently announced it was coming on board as a financial sponsor, however, more support is needed to keep it running, Crawford said.

He and his team rely on as many as eight canoes to rid the Humber and its shoreline of garbage. Crawford then takes it to a transfer station to dispose of it properly.

Those who would like to participate are asked to meet in the parking lot, just south of the Petro Canada gas station/car wash, north of the Queensway, just off of the South Kingsway at 8:30 a.m. Cleanup is from 9:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.

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The Regal Heights Residents’ Association hosts an all-candidates’ debate for Davenport on Thursday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. The event takes place at Oakwood Collegiate Institute, 991 St. Clair Ave. W. Confirmed participants include Andrew Cash (NDP), Julie Dzerowicz (Liberal) and Daniel Stein (Green).

Get stuff fixed A Repair Cafe is coming to Toronto’s York neighbourhood to help residents repair their broken household items for free.

The Repair Cafe is happening Saturday, Sept. 26 at the Skills for Change office, 791 St. Clair Ave. W., on the second floor, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The organization says people can bring computers, electronics, small appliances, furniture, clothes, jewelry, books and more. Visit www. repaircafetoronto.ca

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The York-South Weston-based Squabbles debate club is hosting its next event tonight.

The topic of debate is: Should Europe close its doors to refugees?

Event is free.

The debate happens at the Mount Dennis Neighbourhood Centre, 1269 Weston Rd., from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

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Seniors deserve a nation-wide care strategy T aking care of an aging senior can be a heavy burden, particularly when they’re suffering from a complex health issue.

It’s a day-to-day struggle for families and individual caregivers, but it’s also about to become a massive problem for our province and country.

According to the Canadian Medical Association, our senior population is about to double in the next 20 years and the 85 and older age group will quadruple.

Health-care issues will similarly increase, including cases of dementia.

The latest numbers from the Alzheimer Society of Canada show that 14.9 per cent of Canadians 65 and older are currently living with our view dementia. That’s projected to jump by 47 per cent in just 16 We are facing years.

This warning was delivered an impending to the editors at Metroland wave of dementia Media earlier this year by mental health professionals and it’s the reason we undertook a special investigative series on seniors and dementia, publishing this week.

We heard the difficult stories. A husband who can’t leave home with his once-perfect match because his wife now behaves like an unruly five year old. Brilliant minds, once highly respected in their fields, struggling with simple daily tasks. Children of aging parents with dementia crippled by the financial cost of quality health care. South Asian families giving up their livelihood to care for a parent at home because they’re too culturally shamed to put them in a long-term care home or even admit they have dementia.

We’re putting a spotlight on the issue – the challenges that currently exist in addressing the coming wave, but also the efforts made so far, the innovations being developed and the positive stories that offer hope for our future.

Canada needs a long-term strategy for senior health care and dementia, one that takes into account the perspectives of people currently affected by the disease and establishes sufficient funding to offer quality care. With the federal election only weeks away, it’s the perfect time to apply pressure on policy makers.

Visit www.insidetoronto.com/dementia to get a sense of the bigger picture. Then ask your local federal candidate what they propose to do to help our population as it ages.

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The good and the bad of term limits Seasoned councillors have value...

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t should hardly come as a surprise that Beaches-East York Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon wasn’t able to summon more than a smidgen of support for her motion to place term limits on municipal politicians.

Being a city councillor in Toronto, after all, is a good gig.

Governing the largest city in the country provides interesting and varied work for the diligent.

For the vainglorious, there are plenty of opportunities to see oneself on television, hear oneself on the radio, read about oneself in the newspaper.

For the opportunistic, there are other perquisites

david nickle the city like travel and nights out at the film festival and ball games.

And for everyone seeking to pay off a mortgage in Toronto’s overvalued real estate market, there’s a six-figure salary attached.

For the cynical, that’s enough to explain the vote at executive committee on McMahon’s motion Monday to ask that term limits be included in revisions to the City of Toronto Act. But there are good arguments for keeping councillors along past their best-before date.

Toronto is a complicated government, and it makes sense that at least a few of its overseers should be well-schooled in its operations.

Given that there are no

... but not all politicians are created equal

formal requirements that a candidate for council go to councillor school before taking the job, it is essential that at least a few council members are able to contribute their experience and understanding of the place.

Indeed, some of council’s most reliable members are its veterans: people like Shelly Carroll and Norm Kelly, Pam McConnell and Denzil Minnan-Wong.

Before he stepped down, veteran councillor Howard Moscoe was able to play city hall like a well-tuned instrument that, if you agreed with his progressive politics, you’d count that a good thing.

The trouble, of course, is that not all veterans are

created equal.

Giorgio Mammoliti by way of example has been a city councillor since 1995, and in that time made a name for himself primarily as a showboater and class clown. Yet he has proven himself undefeatable in his ward, such being the power of incumbency. He is not the only one.

It is useful to wonder, then, just how much value would we lose on city council if it were made up more completely of other bright lights – people like Kristyn Wong-Tam, Josh Matlow, Mike Layton, Josh Colle come to mind – who are working in their second term?

And what would we gain in having a cadre of councillors who were treating the job as a short stretch of public service rather than a long-term career choice?

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THE IMPENDING WAVE

Mobilizing policymakers and stakeholders ‘critical’ to addressing influx of dementia cases among seniors

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On May 6, Nickel Belt of dementia is MP Claude Gravelle tabled about to engulf private member’s Bill C-356 Canada’s aging population.

Respecting a National Strategy for Dementia. The bill was defeated Today, 747,000 Canadians are living with dementia, including Alzheimer’s in a vote of 140 to 139 in the House disease. This number is expected to increase of Commons after Liberal MP Yvonne to 1.4 million by end of 2031, according to Jones failed to stand up and register Alzheimer Society of Canada (ASC). her vote.

Annual costs of dementia will “It was heartbreaking to see increase from $33 billion today we lost this very importo $293 billion by 2040 says ASC, tant strategy because posing an overwhelming threat one Liberal MP was to the country’s health-care not paying attention,” system and economy.

Gravelle said.

Mimi Lowi-Young, the The deciding vote CEO of ASC, is pushing for a could have also come A METROLAND national dementia strategy that from Conservative MP MEDIA SERIES will prevent persons living with Joe Preston who initially dementia and their caregivers from voted in favour, but then PART 1 OF 3 being pulled into the undertow of this changed his vote to a nay. wave.

Gravelle was inspired to champion a She calls dementia a “non-partisan issue and strategy after watching his mother battle health priority” and has asked the main political Alzheimer’s disease until her death in 2003. parties to include a national dementia strategy “When my mom had dementia, we didn’t in their platforms leading up to the Oct. 19 know enough,” he said. “We didn’t understand it federal election. ASC also just launched and at the time we thought it was just age. But it’s its ‘Raise your Voice’ civic engagement not age, it’s a disease.” campaign to encourage those affected Though she voted against Gravelle’s bill, in by dementia to speak to candidates October 2014 Health Minister Rona Ambrose about why a national strategy is so announced $31.5 million in funding for critical.

Alzheimer’s research and committed to With just under a month to go working toward a national strategy to fight until voting day, the NDP have the “impending loom” of dementia. pledged to invest $40 million THE 2015 FEDERAL BUDGET includes over four years in a Canadawide strategy, focusing on a commitment to continue supporting screening, diagnosis, support innovation in health care and dementia and research. The Green Party, research. The government proposes to through its National Seniors provide up to $42 million over five years to Strategy, has also committed Toronto’s Baycrest Health Sciences to supto a national plan for dementia port the establishment of the Canadian - though no funding details have >>>WORKING, page 7 been announced.

Currently, Canada is the only G7 country without a national plan in place. Earlier this year, a single vote could have changed that.

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Mimi Lowi-Young is CEO of the Alzheimer Society of Canada.

objectives for a national strategy on dementia

According to Mimi Lowi-Young, Alzheimer Society of Canada CEO, key objectives of a national dementia strategy should include:

1 Increasing investment in research, fostering collaboration and improving knowledge exchange and translation.

2 Providing a surveillance system and evidence-based information on all aspects of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias to inform best practices.

3 Enhancing the competency and capacity of those delivering dementia care.

4 Increasing awareness about dementia risk factors, early diagnosis and timely interventions.

5 Strengthening the integration and co-ordination of care and service delivery across the health-care continuum.

6 Recognizing family caregiver needs and developing supports that provide options and flexibility.

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DEMENTIA ADVISORY GROUP GIVES A VOICE TO THOSE AFFECTED

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Mary Beth Wighton at the 2014 Walk for Alzheimer’s in Kitchener.

A fervent group of people living with dementia is out to prove life does not end with a diagnosis.

The Ontario Dementia Advisory Group (ODAG) was formed in 2014 with the purpose of giving people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias a voice in shaping Ontario’s healthcare policy.

The five-member group is erasing the assumption that people living with dementia are unable to communicate their needs, wants and perspectives. They are working with the provincial government to develop an Ontario dementia strategy that will impact the province’s aging population.

Mary Beth Wighton is a retired owner of a recruiting firm. She was diagnosed with probable frontotemporal dementia in 2012 at age 45. As a member of ODAG, she shares the triumphs and challenges she faces with her partner and daughter through writing and speaking engagements. Here’s what she has to say:

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If you don’t hear it from the people experiencing it, they just become numbers on a spreadsheet.

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Wouldn’t you As soon as rather put in you switch from a ramp and your home into some dementia- long-term care, friendly devices your finances are in a home, than out the window. put someone in a room?

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1.4 MILLION PEOPLE As The Canadian population ages, we are seeing a growth in the country’s dementia problem.

In 2011, 747,000 Canadians were living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias - that’s 14.9 per cent of Canadians 65 and older.

Here are some stats that show how the dementia burden on Canadian society will begin to accelerate:

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By 2031: If nothing changes, 1.4 million people will have dementia in Canada - a 47 per cent increase from 2011 levels.

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Today, the combined direct (medical) and indirect (lost earnings) costs of dementia total $33 billion per year.

By 2040: That’s expected to climb to $293 billion a year, if Canada maintains its current path.

In 2011, family caregivers spent in excess of 444 million unpaid hours looking after someone with cognitive impairment, including dementia.

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This figure represents $11 billion in lost income and 227,760 full-time equivalent employees in the workforce.

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By 2040: Family caregivers could spend 1.2 billion unpaid hours per year.

Source: Alzheimer Society of Canada; www.alzheimer.ca

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‘All About Me’ is a booklet for people with dementia, to help them create a personal record of their background and what is important to them. An editable PDF version of ‘All About Me’ is available for download at www. alzheimer.ca

Working to diffuse the dementia time bomb >>>from page 6 Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation.

Since 2006, the government has invested more than $860 million in support of neuroscience research, allotting $182 million for the prevention, diagnosis and care of dementia.

However, Lowi-Young said more needs to be done.

A national strategy would ensure someone living in Northern Ontario would receive the same kind of service as someone in Vancouver, B.C. She said objectives of the national strategy should include more investment and focus in research, better integration, co-ordination and accessibility of primary, community and home-care across the country, improved training of health-care workers and better supports for family caregivers.

The ASC has requested a total of $150 million over five years to create and fund the Canadian Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Partnership, which would bring together researchers, Alzheimer societies and federal and provincial governments to develop and implement a Canadawide plan.

“We need to take these objectives and make them real,” Lowi-Young said. “We need to prepare now. We can’t wait for the future.”

ONTARIO IS A LARGE PIECE

cases to 255,000, according to the Alzheimer Society of Ontario.

Efforts are underway that may help diffuse the province’s dementia time bomb.

In November 2014, Premier Kathleen Wynne and Health Minister Eric Hoskins mandated Indira Naidoo-Harris, the Halton MPP and parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Health and Long Term Care, to develop a comprehensive Ontario dementia strategy.

“It’s critical we start planning for our future today. It’s going to involve research, supports for caregivers and care partners, but it’s also going to involve educating people,” Naidoo-Harris said in an interview.

Her mandate includes championing more research and innovation to better understand the disease,

supporting the implementation of 25 new memory clinics across Ontario (designed for early dementia detection and prevention), and working across levels of government and agencies to identify ways to expand supports to family caregivers.

The politician watched her fatherin-law battle Alzheimer’s and calls it an “extremely painful and emotionally draining” experience.

“It was very hard for our family to sit by and watch one of the smartest men that we knew slowly lose the ability to speak and express himself,” she said.

An advisory board of more than 30 experts has been formed to bring together key stakeholders from Alzheimer societies, the Ontario Long Term Care Association, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and community care access centres, among

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David Harvey, chief of public policy and programs initiative for the Alzheimer Society of Ontario, is part of that board and said it is critical to have people at the table who are experiencing dementia first-hand.

“Our focus has been developing a strategy that enables persons living with dementia to have a voice in articulating what their needs are and what the solutions might be moving forward,” he said.

The Ontario Dementia Advisory Group (ODAG) consists of people living with dementia whose motto is “nothing about us without us.”

They have been working with Naidoo-Harris on the Ontario strategy and will help government create policies and procedures through first-hand perspectives.

ODAG member Bea Kraayenhof is a retired nurse who has been living with Alzheimer’s disease for 15 years.

She said dementia should not be politicized and that Ontario needs to prepare for the “tsunami” by implementing a set of rules for long-term care homes and health-care agencies to follow.

“The people in government now making the policies will be the ones living those policies,” she said. “If they’re lucky enough to live long, it’s probably going to happen to them.”

An initial meeting was held in July to collect opinions and by 2020, more than jumping off points on how to best go about building a personA QUARTER OF A MILLION centered model of care. seniors in Ontario

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Families need more support to keep loved ones with dementia at home Beverly Verwey believes home is where the heart should stay.

In 2007, she gave her mother, Betty, the option to move into a retirement home or to live with her in her Newmarket home. Betty chose the latter.

Verwey watched her mother’s early signs of dementia progress to the point where Betty no longer recognized her daughter.

Betty became blind and was later diagnosed with breast cancer.

In 2012, Verwey retired early from her job with the Canadian Red Cross to stay home and take care of Betty. The local Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) provided 12 hours per week of personal support worker (PSW) help.

She had a front row seat to gaps in the home care system, and noticed inconsistencies in PSWs’ implementation of her mother’s daily exercise routine, a critical component to her physical and mental health.

“The family caregivers need some sort of

respite,” she said. “They have to trust that the support worker they’re leaving their loved one with is going to do the right thing.”

She believes students in college PSW programs need more time in the classroom and doing clinical work.

“The PSWs take a four-month course, then they have a short practical part where they work in a long-term care home,” she said.

She said an occasional evaluation of PSWs’ skills, attitude and work ethic needs to be implemented.

According to Verwey, an overhaul of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is needed: “Funding, tools and resources from the government should be allocated to families who are keeping their family member at home.”

Betty died in January 2014 at the age of 94.

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Yarn Lovers Wanted WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Arlene Williams, quanah@look.ca COST: Free Bring your supplies or project and join us every week.

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Let’s Get Pole Walking WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre, 1900 Davenport Rd. CONTACT: 416-252-1928, ext. 299 COST: Free An eight-week Nordic pole walking program for people who have pre-diabetes or have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The program starts today and goes until Nov. 6.

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Seniors Tech Drop-In WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Popular topics include using Facebook, Email, downloading an eBook, transferring files from a digital camera. Some computer experience is required. Call to register.

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Anyone Can Learn to Draw WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Richard, 416-394-1006 COST: Free Three short, easy lessons will give you the tools you need to begin expressing yourself through drawing. Drawing materials, animal skulls and other oddities, encouragement, and handouts for every lesson will be provided. Call to register.

Central King Seniors Residence, 15 King St. CONTACT: Florida, 416-6141053, ccoordinator-cksr@bellnet.ca COST: Free Fall Fair: Crafts & Flea Market WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-0231, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: Free The sale features a Thanksgiving theme, with a silent auction and 40 vendors.

Yard & Bake Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: St. John’s Anglican Church Weston, 2125 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Don McCamus, don.mccamus@gmail.com COST: Free Household items, clothing, toys, games, books, tools, baked goods, barbecue.

Neighbourhood Fun Day WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Weston Presbyterian Church, 7 Cross St. CONTACT: Lynn, 416-241-1571, Lynn@westonpresbyterianchurch.ca COST: Free Activities for children and adults, games, hot dogs and hamburgers, craft table, a draw.

Origami WHEN: 2 p.m.

WHERE: Mount Dennis Library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416394-1008 COST: Free For ages six to 12.

Reggae Music, Conscious Music: Performance with Lazo WHEN: 3 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre, 341 Oakwood Ave. CONTACT: 416-

394-1040 COST: Free The Juno Award winner explores social justice through his reggae ‘riddims’, melodies and lyrics.

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Roselands Horticultural Society Meeting WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Church of the Good Shepherd, 1149 Weston Rd. CONTACT: roselandshs@gmail. com COST: Free Catherine Kavassalis will share her love of growing berries.

w Thursday, Oct. 1

Facebook Fan Page WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416394-1000 COST: Free Learn what a Facebook Fan Page is and whether it is useful for your business. We will also open and create a Fan Page. Call to register.

Chess Club WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Richard, 416-394-1006 COST: Free Play a game of chess with your friends or challenge new opponents.

All skill levels welcome. For ages six to 13. Call to register.

Understanding Ontario Employment Law WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Barbara Baillargeon, bbaillargeon@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Call to register.

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MAP Family Saturdays: Gibson House Visits Evelyn Gregory WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave. CONTACT: Richard, 416-3941006 COST: Free Join costumed interpreters from the Gibson House Museum and discover historic toys and games.

These hands-on activities are available for everyone to come and play with at the library. Children will also be invited to make a small toy to take home. Call 416-394-1006 to register. Space is limited.

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Poverty is moving to Toronto’s suburbs: food bank report TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com Poverty is migrating outside the city’s downtown core accompanied by a soaring need for food banks in the suburbs of Etobicoke, North York and Scarborough, a justreleased report indicates.

Daily Bread Food Bank’s 2015 hunger report, Who’s Hungry: A Tale of Two Cities, found food bank visits in those Toronto suburbs spiked 45 per cent since the 2008 recession.

While food bank visits in the downtown core fell 16 per cent during the same period, the report indicates.

Red hot real estate prices are largely the cause of the geographic shift of poverty in Toronto, Daily Bread and North York Harvest food banks’ officials argued.

“One of the most important findings of the report is the increasing demand on our services as rates of poverty move from the city core to the inner suburbs, a devel-

opment largely the result of skyrocketing real estate costs leaving people looking for a place to live,” Ryan Noble, executive director of North York Harvest Food Bank, told reporters gathered Monday morning at Daily Bread’s Etobicoke offices for the report’s release.

Food bank officials issued the report to coincide with National Hunger Awareness Week Sept. 21 to 25.

Nearly 900,000 people visited a Toronto food bank from April of last year through March. That is a 12 per cent increase since the 2008 recession.

Last year, more than 1,000 food bank clients across Toronto answered a 31-question survey to provide a picture of who’s hungry in the city.

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I don’t know,” one survey respondent said.

Some 27 per cent of people using a food bank for less than six months reported it was due to job loss, while 20 per cent reported they were new to the area, and 19 per cent reported being disabled.

That migration of the poor out of downtown Toronto required North York Harvest to expand its traditional mission of providing food to member agencies to now operating food banks of its own in three priority neighbourhoods, Noble said.

Growing demand created a further challenge “endemic” in the food bank sector – finding “safe, accessible, dignified” spaces to locate food banks in the suburbs, he argued.

“This has created crisis conditions certainly in a very acute sense in the inner suburbs,” Noble said. “We’re funded through private donations with very little government support.”

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Metrolinx eyes new GO station sites List of sites is part of Regional Express Rail plan RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Metrolinx is studying more than 50 locations across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area for new GO Transit stations as part of its Regional Express Rail (RER) plan.

Devising the list of sites is part of the provincial transit planning agency’s $13.5-billion expansion of the GO network.

It will span seven rail corridors and is intended to transform the commuter service to one akin to the TTC subway system, with electric trains offering every day frequent service.

It’s scheduled to be completed within a decade.

A final list of preferred station locations will be presented to Metrolinx’s board of directors next spring for approval, but until then CEO Bruce McCuaig said it is “premature” to estimate how many new GO stations will eventually be approved,

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communities with the expectation of returning in spring with a shortlist.”

Part of the challenge, said McCuaig, is dealing with a number of factors including securing government environmental approvals, accounting for population densities and minimizing congestion from existing stations.

“None of the potential stations have approvals and some of the sites are in built-up areas, others in green fields, it will vary,” he said.

“For something that’s already approved, typically the construction is a threeyear period, but there’s still planning, design and engineering before you get to that point.”

Finishing RER will represent the single biggest growth opportunity for GO since its inception in 1967, said Metrolinx chair Rob Prichard.

“It should be the best decade in our history,” he said.

None of the potential stations have approvals and some of the sites are in built-up areas, others in green fields, it will vary.

– Bruce McCuaig

and where, for RER expansion.

There are currently 63 stations on the GO network with another seven approved locations, including Downsview Park, Caledonia and Mount Dennis in Toronto, undergoing designing and planning approvals.

“It’s going to be less than 50, but I can’t really say what the (final) number will be,” McCuaig told reporters following Metrolinx’s quarterly board meeting Tuesday morning.

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Municipal Class Environmental Assessment Notice of Study Commencement Study Overview

The City ofToronto has initiated a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) study to address problems and opportunities with the Black Creek SanitaryTrunk Sewer (STS) within the Black Creek Sanitary Drainage Area (see study area map).The purpose of the Class EA study is to assess capacity issues of the Black Creek STS and to address the adverse impacts of combined sewer overflows to Black Creek within the study area.The study will recommend solutions to achieve the following objectives: • Accommodate sanitary flows for projected future growth in the sanitary drainage area • Reduce surcharge levels of the Black Creek STS • Reduce combined sewer overflow discharges to Black Creek • Reduce Inflow and Infiltration into the Black Creek STS

Background

Built around 1960, the Black Creek STS is a 15 km sanitary trunk sewer that services the 5,700 hectare Black Creek Sanitary Drainage Area.

The Black Creek STS is a tributary to the Humber STS and ultimately conveys sewage to the Humber WastewaterTreatment Plant.

The Black Creek STS has experienced capacity issues during some rainfalls, which have caused flooding due to the surcharging of the trunk sewer. Over the next few decades, a significant population increase is expected to occur within the Black Creek sanitary drainage area, which will result in an increase in capacity constraints on the trunk sewer. In addition, during some storms, combined sewer overflow discharges to Black Creek occur from three combined trunk sewers in the study area.

The Process

The study is being planned as a Schedule “C” project under the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment document. The Class EA process provides members of the public and interested parties with opportunities to provide input at key stages of the study.The studies will define the problem and the causes of the problem, consider and evaluate alternative solutions, assess impacts of the preferred solutions, and identify measures to lessen any adverse impacts.

Public Consultation

Three sets of Public Information Centres (PICs) are planned for this Class EA project.The first set of PICs is expected to take place in the spring of 2016. City staff and the consulting team will be present to answer questions and discuss the next steps in the process.The second and third sets of PICs are anticipated to take place in fall and winter of 2016. Notification of the PICs will be advertised in the local community newspaper and notices mailed to residents within the study area.

We would like to hear from you

Public consultation is an important part of this study. Visit the project website for more information or contact us if you want to be placed on our mailing list for updates.

Mae (Rigmea) Lee, 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: rmlee@toronto.ca Visit: toronto.ca/blackcreekstudy Issue Date: September 24, 2015

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Focus put on clients’ goals Uncle of murdered Russell Sahadeo pleads for second suspect to surrender Toronto police live-stream press conference seeking leads DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com

stabbed. Police received multiple 911 calls around 12:20 a.m.

When emergency services arrived, they found Sahadeo conscious. He was rushed to hospital where he died.

The suspects fled in a late-model sedan. Police eventually identified both suspects as Marcus Richard Lee, 21, of Toronto, and Ton Quoc Hoang Ngo, 20, a.k.a. Tommy Ngo, of Toronto. Neither of the two men were known to the victim, Dunkley said, but they are known to police.

Three days after the incident, Lee surrendered to police. He is charged with second-degree murder.

Ngo is still at large.

“Do the right thing, get a lawyer, turn yourself in. This is not going to go away. We won’t stop looking for you,” Dunkley said.

The victim’s uncle pleaded with the suspect to turn himself in, and to anyone who may know of his whereabouts to come forward to police with information that could lead to locating him.

The uncle said the family is griev-

The family of 23-year-old Russell Sahadeo, the city’s 36th homicide victim of 2015, has spoken out, pleading for the outstanding suspect to turn himself in.

Sahadeo’s uncle said there is nothing that can help the family deal with their loss.

“There is nothing that can heal the immense level of grief,” the uncle said, who asked not to be named, during a live-streamed Toronto police news conference Friday morning.

According to lead investigator Det. Leslie Dunkley, Sahadeo was at Noble Park on Sunday, Sept. 6 with four friends. They were in a grassy area near Sandcliff Road, around midnight. Two individuals came by and an argument started between the victim’s group and the two men.

The two men left, and then returned approximately five minutes later, Dunkley said. An altercation ensued, which escalated, and the victim was

ing together and with a network of friends, plus through counselling support through the Toronto police victims services.

Sahadeo had enrolled into a business administration program at a college that was about to start. His uncle said his nephew was a good person, out doing what a typical young adult would be doing on a summer long-weekend, outdoors with friends.

“Russell was a kind, gentle, loving person, beloved nephew, beloved son, beloved brother,” his uncle said. He said his nephew had never been in trouble with the law.

Ngo is described as Asian, approximately 5’7”, with a slim build, and short black brush-cut hair, possibly with spikes on top. If you see him, do not approach, but call 911, police ask.

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Ultimate signs of Blue Jays fever 1. Upset tummy Losing an unimaginable one in a row will do it to you every time.

2. Sweaty palms You can thank the visiting team for loading the bases in the top of the ninth for that.

3. Blue skin Courtesy of easy, peasy removable paint, needless to say. Don’t forget Jays logos on each cheek, too, of course. A logo on the forehead is optional.

4. Shortness of breath Yet another mindboggling grab by Ryan Goins took it away, no doubt.

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Legally Blonde 25 just came out?”

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jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY day after? My treat.”

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Uber users petition city to make rideshare company a legal service Thousands have signed an online petition in support of Uber.

As of Monday, the petition had almost 25,000 names calling for Toronto council to vote for regulation of the private rideshare company’s operations so that it’s considered a legal service. The company’s rampant popularity – 20,000 new users join per week according to recent figures provided by Uber – has come at the expense of cab companies who say they can’t fairly compete.

Council will consider the issue at its Sept. 30 meeting.

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Metrolinx says a new GO rail station for Downsview Park will open at the same time as the TTC’s planned subway station.

The new service is part of an expansion which will see increased rail service on most GO lines within a decade. The new Downsview Park stop will run on the Barrie line and connect with the current underconstruction TTC station of the same name, which is part of a northern subway extension of the Spadina line.

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We run elevators, etc. That’s why, reducing energy waste in buildings is a priority for meeting the City of Toronto’s ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets.”

TAF is financing the retrofits at the seven buildings at a cost of approximately $4 million. It is using what Langer called an “innovative” financial strategy, an energy savings performance agreement.

“Basically, we provide the capital on a non-debt basis and we are repaid with a share of the savings,” she said.

“We share the savings with Toronto Community Housing Corporation.”

These energy efficiency retrofits include double glazed windows, low-flow faucets and toilets, high efficiency refrigerators, boilers, motors and lighting, that use offthe-shelf technology and can generate multiple benefits, Langer said.

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“Through partnerships like this one, we have an opportunity to start tackling that challenge. Working with TAF, we are able to accelerate high impact upgrades to these two buildings plus another five others across the city. This will improve these buildings, but more importantly, improve the quality of life for residents that live here.”

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if we have the co-operation of the residents. It’s been rewarding to see that they’re looking forward to change at TCHC and to see this change happen right in their homes,” Bailao said. “It’s about bringing better homes to the residents of TCHC and a better climate to the residents of Toronto.”

The City of Toronto and the provincial government have set ambitious climate change targets, Langer pointed out.

“In Toronto, emissions are down about 22 per cent since 1990 levels – even while Toronto has grown over that time,” she said. “To meet our 30 per cent reduction target by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050, much, much more needs to be done. The good news is that energy efficiency is cost effective, has many benefits and there are leaders like Toronto Housing Corporation helping to move that dial.”

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