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Three people, including a 17year-old male from Georgina, have been charged with human trafficking after York Regional Police responded to a 911 call from a victim in Georgina. Police received a 911 call March 12 from a female being held against her will at an unknown location for the purpose of prostitution. Officers were able to track down the location of the call and locate the victim. Three male suspects were arrested inside the residence and have been charged with several offences related to human trafficking, according to police. Contrary to common misperceptions that sex slaves are brought here from impoverished countries, 63 per cent of Ontario’s victims of human trafficking are Canadian citizens, says the organizer of a York Region awareness event on human trafficking. l See TRIO, page 21

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Stephanie Jackson and Marianne Deeks mark their wrists with an ’X’, the symbol for the global End It Movement aimed at putting a stop to human trafficking.

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LISA QUEEN lqueen@yrmg.com In about 18 months, shoppers will be able to wander among 25 best-in-class vendors at a new 40,000-squarefoot food market at Newmarket’s Upper Canada Mall. They can select the perfect steak from the butcher or sustainable salmon from the fish monger before picking up fresh vegetables from the produce stands, Camembert from the cheese shop, dessert from the bakery and a freshly squeezed mango smoothie from the juice bar. Part of the mall’s $60million redevelopment plans, the market will also offer a gift shop and restaurants facing on to Yonge Street. "I think for us it’s really a food market concept that’s quality driven. This is really to enhance people’s experience while visiting the shopping centre. It’s more of an experience that’s tied into food. We see the increasing popularity of food and beverage so it’s something that’s important to our customers," said BriAnn Stuart, general manager of mall owner Oxford Properties Group, adding this is the company’s first such food market. "It’s about experience and that’s what’s important to people and I think that’s what they’re asking for. To be honest, right now there are other grocery stores so that market’s filled so what is it that can offer an experience? Quality. A place of convenience and comfort. It allows customers a one-stop shop while complementing the other amenities the mall has to offer. Our location is great. We’re really the centre and the hub of York Re-

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Joan Stonehocker, executive director of the York Region Food Network, welcomes high-end grocery stores and locally sourced food but points out there are also many people in York Region on lower incomes that sturggle to access food. She would like to see the growing problem of income inequity addressed. gion." While an upscale food market in a shopping mall is rare, York Region is no stranger to grocery stores looking to make food shopping a posh experience. The grocery list includes Coppa’s Fresh Market in King City, Michael-Angelo’s in Aurora, Concord Food Centre in Thornhill, Vince’s Market in Newmarket and Sharon, Organic Garage in Thornhill, Nature’s Emporium in Newmarket, Yummy Market in Maple, T and T Supermarket in Markham, Unionville, Thornhill and Richmond Hill, Cataldi Fresh Market in Woodbridge and Longo’s in Aurora, Thornhill, Markham, Maple, Richmond Hill and Woodbridge. John Williams, senior adviser with retail and marketing consulting firm J.C.

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Williams Group, isn’t surprised by the growing number of high-end grocery stores settling in prosperous York Region. Food is trendy, he said, adding Canadian foodies have benefited from the tremendous influx of immigrants bringing their cuisine here. "Food has gone from a commodity to a hot product. A decade ago, fashion was paramount. Today, food is the new fashion. It is the status symbol. It is how you express yourself," he said. "Food is fashionable. It is driven by many things. One thing is there’s a lot of people making more money. There’s a lot of people who aren’t, too." Joan Stonehocker, executive director with the York Region Food Network, which advocates on food security issues, welcomes

high-end grocery stores and locally-sourced food but points out there is another side of the coin that shouldn’t be ignored. "I think that anything that supports our food infrastructure is a good thing," she said. "But obviously there is a growing food insecurity, poverty problem in York Region. We’re hearing from all sorts of agencies that more and more people are coming for assistance because of the high cost of housing and increasing inequality. To me, you’re not going to solve those or hinder them so much by the actual food. We really need to think about policies like basic income and all of these things that will make a difference because food insecurity is a poverty problem and you’re not going to solve it with food."

Walking into the Richmond Hill Community Food Bank, the first thing clients see just beyond the reception area is a table with fresh bread, bagels, wraps and even a very small selection of packaged baked goods. Just beyond the bread table are two bins, one with some large carrots and the other with a few onions. In the summer, the Hillcrest Farmers’ Market supplies the food bank with fresh fruit. There are also two fridges with cartons of milk, provided by the Ontario Association of Food Banks, and eggs. But let’s face it, most of the staples at a food bank, where clients are only allowed to visit once a month, are cans and boxes. Shelves are stocked with soup, pasta, cereal, beans, canned meat, peanut butter, pancake mix and syrup and juice boxes. There are fruit cups and puddings but a sign says those are only to be taken for children. Along another wall are shelves filled with baby formula and diapers. A couple of bins contain some non-food supplies such as personal hygiene products and pet food. In the back room, this food bank is fortunate to have three freezers for frozen foods. In 2016, 10,449 residents relied on food from food banks in Georgina, East Gwillimbury, Aurora, Newmarket, Richmond Hill and Markham, up from 10,263 in 2015, according to Alex Bilotta, executive director of LifeCorps Food Share, which supplies food to a number of agencies that provide food to people struggling to make ends meet. Food banks in Whitchurch-Stouffville, King Township and Vaughan don’t belong to the LifeCorps network. There were 6,829 adults who received food from LifeCorps food banks in York in 2016, up from 6,607 the year before. The number of children served by the six food banks was 3,620 in 2016, down slightly from 3,656 in 2015. The number of households that turned to the food banks was 4,024 in 2016, up from 3,892 in 2015. Overall, the number of visits to the LifeCorps food banks was 49,127 last year compared to 46,297 the year before, Bilotta said.

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Mike Attaie, a volunteer with the Richmond Hill Community Food Bank, stocks the shelves with canned food.

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Transit requires big picture thinking At a certain point, a spoiled child needs to have its toys taken away. Perhaps that’s where we find ourselves with Toronto’s recent decisions regarding the TTC. Although the first T stands for Toronto, the TTC has grown from a local transportation service provider to an interregional one carrying riders on more than halfa-billion trips, from one end of the GTA to the other, making it the third-largest entity of its kind in North America after the New York City Transit Authority and Mexico City Metro. However, despite existing evidence supporting this fact - several TTC bus routes already operate outside of the city’s borders and a subway extension to Vaughan is expected to commence operation this year - and a scope only projected to expand, the priorities of Toronto’s decision makers remain bafflingly parochial. Take, for instance, the latest push for a Scarborough subway. Over the past seven years, Toronto’s plan has gone from a $1.5-billion, seven-stop light rail transit line (LRT), to replace the aging Scarborough RT, that would have been fully funded by the provincial government to a three-stop subway and now, most recently, to a sixkilometre extension to the Scarborough Town Centre that will cost an estimated $3.35 billion - with $1.48 million committed by the province, $660 million being contributed by the federal government and the remaining $910 million coming from the city - but could balloon to a final pricetag in excess of $5 billion. The Toronto Star’s Jennifer Pagliaro reported last week that the subway extension is expected to serve 7,400 riders per hour in the busiest direction during rush hour, considerably less than the 15,000 people per hour minimum threshold needed to justify a subway, and will save five minutes for users compared to travel times on the SRT. In any event, the project demonstrates Toronto council shouldn’t be behind the wheel any longer. The potential expenditure is too great when so many other transit projects in York Region and across the GTHA remain in need of funding. As such, the province and the federal government should balk at contributing money to this folly. What’s more, it may even be time for transit planning authority Metrolinx to take over the TTC to ensure funding is directed to projects that will deliver the maximum benefit for commuters in the GTHA. It’s an old idea whose time may have come. Something must change. There’s too much at stake.

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only on the data produced by the school board. The changes leave community representatives off schoolclosing review committees, and sharply reduce both the minimum length of time for school closings to be considered, and the number of public meetings about them. Take for example the most recent victim of these new rules: Our Lady of Peace Catholic School in Maple. While the process only commenced a few short months ago, this highperforming, fully occupied, community spirited academic institution is closing in a matter of months. Parents feel abandoned by their government - from their local councillor to their MPP to the premier - who have effectively sat on the sidelines. This is not leadership.

These changes are unfair and undemocratic, completely ignoring the value of local schools to their communities and the economy. With roughly 600 schools closed to date, and hundreds more estimated on the chopping block, I am joining the leader of the Ontario PC Party, Patrick Brown, calling on the Wynne government to issue an immediate moratorium on school closures, and commence an immediate review of the flawed review process that currently determines the fate of our local schools. Education and skills training is part of the foundation of a strong and dynamic economy. Let us rally behind our students, and place an immediate moratorium on these closures. Stephen Lecce Vaughan

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Alzheimer Society CEO was anti-poverty’s ’designated pit bull’ LISA QUEEN lqueen@yrmg.com It started with hotdogs. In the early 1980s, just after Lorne Freid graduated from university and was trying to chart out his life, he went to a Blue Jays game. Now CEO of the Alzheimer Society of York Region, the then-young man pondered what happened to unsold ballpark hotdogs in a city where thousands of people didn’t have enough to eat. Freid put together a team that would establish the North York Harvest Food Bank, where he became the founding executive director at the age of 25. Freid’s life of community activism had begun, a calling which reached new heights during the late 1990s when the former Mike Harris provincial government slashed welfare benefits. Harris blamed the federal government for cutting

transfer payments to the provinces, Freid said. "So, the Harris government took it out on Canada’s poorest people," the 56year-old Richmond Hill resident said while sitting in his Aurora office, which is adorned with a "What would Johnny Cash do?" picture. A group of food bank officials headed to Ottawa to hold a press conference, appointing Freid as their "designated pit bull." He lambasted politicians for the downward domino effect of policies that devastated Canada’s most vulnerable. Freid was at the food bank for more than 20 years before taking over at the helm of York’s Alzheimer society in June 2008. The son of a father who survived the Holocaust and mother who fought breast cancer twice (both his parents are now deceased), he learned to advocate in a new way, moving away from the

"fire and brimstone" methods of the anti-poverty movement to a more diplomatic approach more common in health care. "I came from that experience and that history to be a bit in your face, a bit pushing the message out and now I’m in health care and I’m not in Toronto, I’m in York Region and there was a bit of an abrasive air that, really, I had to learn to pull back on a bit because things are just done differently. "I just come from those Mike Harris years where you were just getting no respect and, so you were just firing it back," he said. "I had to learn how to pull back and how to establish relationships in a different sort of way here. So, that was a bit of a learning experience. I’m mellower but people will say you keep pushing, you just keep advocating, you just have to keep on pushing back but I’ve done it now in a different sort of way."

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McMichael showcases work of Toronto contemporary artists A new exhibition at the woodsy McMichael gallery invites you to contemplate the playful juxtaposition of colourful Canadian wilderness landscapes with scenes from city life. Size Matters: Steve Driscoll and Finn O’Hara features 16 of Driscoll’s large, luminous landscape paintings and 14 digital chromogenic (full-colour, photographic) prints by O’Hara, which capture his collaborator’s paintings strategically erected in different urban settings. For instance, a wooded portage

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’Spring Sing’: Chorus York, Richmond Hill WHEN: 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. WHERE: Thornhill Presbyterian Church, 271 Centre St., Thornhill CONTACT: Mary-Lou Montgrain, 905-8847922, info@chorusyork.ca COST: $25, $20 (Seniors), $15 (Students with ID) Join Chorus York for a celebration

of the season of renewal, as we welcome back the warmth of the sun and the beauty and fragrance of the new flowers of spring l Tuesday, March 28 First Link Memory Cafe at Mosaic WHEN: 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. WHERE: Mosaic Home Care and Community Resource Centre, 2900 Steeles Ave. E., Suite 218, Thornhill CONTACT: 905-597-7000 COST: Share your stories. For individuals with early Alzheimer’s disease and/or related dementias, their care partners, and people worried about memory problems l Thursday, March 30 York Region Better Business Expo WHEN: 1 p.m. - 8 p.m. WHERE: Le Parc Banquet and Conference Centre, 8432 Leslie St., Markham CONTACT: 905-581-2512 COST: $20 The Better Business Expo offers its attendees the opportunity to connect with more than 80 business-to-business exhibitors.

5 things to do this weekend l Saturday, March 25 Earth Hour Vaughan WHEN: 6 a.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Vaughan City Hall, 2141 Major Mackenzie Dr., Vaughan CONTACT: 905-832-2281 COST: You don’t want to miss Earth Hour Vaughan’s 10th annual celebration. Join us for an evening full of fun, entertainment, and tips on how you can #ChangeClimateChange.

Curl For Care WHEN: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. WHERE: Sutton Curling Club, 15 Fairpark Ln., Georgina CONTACT: 905722-9333 COST: $40 Hospice Georgina Bonspiel. Morning coffee and light snack. Hot lunch and afternoon snack. Sliders, brooms and instruction provided. Whitchurch Riding Academy Open House - Free Tour WHEN: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. WHERE: Whitchurch Riding Academy, 19480 McCowan Rd., Newmarket CONTACT: 905-473-5260, wra@whitchurchriding.com COST: Established over 35 years in the GTA, Whitchurch Riding Academy

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To Art and Vines: Earth Hour 2017 WHEN: 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. WHERE: Holland Marsh Wineries, 18270 Keele St., King CONTACT: Holland Marsh Wineries, 905-775-4924, info@hmwineries.ca COST: $25 Featuring Flamenco guitarist Roger Scannura. Includes three wine samples and light snacks. A

Destroyer Canada - Tribute to KISS WHEN: 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Aurora Legion, 105 Industrial Pkwy. N., Aurora CONTACT: 905-727-9932 COST: $20 Canada’s premier KISS tribute band. Support the Legion and their Raise the Roof fundraising efforts.

The federal by-election in Markham–Thornhill is April 3. Away or busy on that day? You can vote in advance If you’re ready to vote early, you can vote at your advance polling place this Friday through Monday. The polls are open from noon to 8:00 p.m. Or you can vote at the Elections Canada office in your riding any day until March 28 at 6:00 p.m. For all voting locations, check your voter information card, visit elections.ca or call 1-800-463-6868. Elections Canada has all the information you need to be ready to vote.

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children about sex, pornography, social media and self-esteem. "I think the thing that’s most important is that we understand what our kids are doing online and what’s happening with regards to their social media life. Being aware of who’s following your kids and who they’re connected to, I think we often just assume they’re fine, they’re

in our house, we can see everything, we understand it," she said. "But we’re giving them this machine that literally has access to everything in the world at their fingerprints . We have to recognize who they’re talking to and who’s following them. If you’re in Grade 5 or 6 or even Grade 10 and you have 1,000 followers, who are they?" While it’s important not to go overboard in assuming every child or teenager is at risk, it’s crucial to talk early and often to your children about appropriate behaviours and risks, and to also recognize that vulnerable youngsters are most targeted by predators, Deeks said. The Ontario government needs to do more to combat human trafficking, Jackson said, adding parents and caregivers must be aware of the insidious methods predators

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use to lure victims into human trafficking. "The typical approach here, and this is what we really want to educate parents and grandparents and youth leaders and people in the community (about), is that a 20- or 21year-old guy who looks unassuming is going to actually target your 14-or 15year-old daughter," Jackson said. "She’s at a prime age of wanting to feel loved and accepted and validated and just significant. We were all there, we were all teens and tweens and when you’re 13, 14, 15 years old, you just want to be accepted and loved. So, the trafficker knows that and preys on that." What often begins as a seemingly romantic and trusting relationship can quickly result in the victim being trapped in the sex trade through threats, shame and violence, Jackson said. "It’s domestic, it’s violence, it’s slavery. The most vulnerable are between 12 and high school age, 16 or 17. Typically, she enters in at around age 13 or 14," she said, quoting research from the Alliance Against Modern Slavery Ontario Coalition Research Initiative on The Incidence of Human Trafficking in Ontario. "What we want to do is change the perception of what people think of this human being, that she is definitely for the most part not there of her own

volition. It’s not like she chose it, it’s not empowering, it’s not respectful, it’s not honouring her as a human being." In relation to the Georgina incident, Ahmed Sheikh, 26, of Richmond Hill, is charged with numerous offences, including trafficking, kidnapping, forcible confinement, sexual assault, trafficking cocaine and breach of probation. Ali Gulud, 45, of Montreal is charged with forcible confinement, sexual assault and trafficking in persons. A 17-year-old male from Georgina is facing charges of trafficking in persons, forcible confinement and sexual assault. Anyone with further information is asked to contact YRP’s human trafficking team at 1-866-8765423 ext. 7817 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222TIPS, by leaving an anonymous tip online at 1800222tips.com, or by texting the tip to CRIMES (274637) starting with the word YORK. For more information on human trafficking, visit York Regional Police at yrp.ca/en/about/humantrafficking.asp She’s Not For Sale, a free event open to everyone high school age and older, will be held March 28 at 7 p.m. at Springvale Church at 3885 Stouffville Road, at Kennedy Road, in Whitchurch-Stouffville. - with files from Heidi Riedner

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Females make up 90 per cent of victims, with 63 per cent ranging in age from 15 to 24. About 24 per cent entered trafficking through pimps falsely portraying themselves as boyfriends and 96 per cent of victims have experienced multiple forms of violence, Stephanie Jackson said. "I think the perception, especially in a lovely suburb-type area like York Region, we don’t think something this dark and heinous is happening here. It’s always something that we would see in the news that is happening in Cambodia or Africa or just somewhere else but not that a culture that is sophisticated and privileged should be facing this kind of issue," she said, adding Newmarket and Markham appear to be "targeted" communities for human trafficking. "But the reality is that it

does happen and it is happening more and more. The Internet is a proponent in it. There is a dollar figure, and it’s really disgusting to say this, but each girl who is trafficked represents about $125,000 a year (in income for the trafficker)." Jackson is organizing She’s Not For Sale on March 28 in WhitchurchStouffville. It will feature keynote speaker Casandra Diamond, who will draw on her past experiences in the sex industry and her position now as director of BridgeNorth, a program of Grace Church in Newmarket that helps women trapped in prostitution, sexual exploitation and trafficking. Marianne Deeks, a youth worker and speaker with faith-based charity Youth Unlimited, will talk about building resiliency in youth and point to ways parents can talk to their

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