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PLAYING THE BLUES: Jack de Keyzer performs a set and talks on the history of the blues, during the Winterfolk Blues and Roots Music Festival at Black Swan Tavern Sunday. The festival hosted performances at a number of venues along Danforth Avenue.
Beaches-East York MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith has been selected to represent Canada on the Inter-Parliamentary Union
(IPU), an international orga-nization comprised of more than 140 parliaments from around the globe.
Erskine-Smith, who was
nominated and acclaimed for a one-year term as the Canadian group’s president/chair Jan. 27, said he views this opportunity as a chance
to help restore Canada’s role and standing on the world stage.
He said he’s looking forward to helping bring
attention to key issues his government strongly believes in on a global scale, notably human rights.
Beaches-East York MP named to international parliamentary group
>>>MP, page 2
The Pocket Community Association is hosting a neigh-bourhood skating party Sunday afternoon.
The event will include skating from noon to 2 p.m. and hockey from 2 to 3 p.m.
It will take place at Phin Avenue Parkette, 115 Condor Ave., which is east of Jones Avenue and south of Danforth Avenue.
All are welcome to come out and enjoy the skating, along with hot chocolate, cider, and treats/snacks.
Funds raised from the event will go toward the construc-tion and maintenance costs of the outdoor skating rink in the parkette.
Volunteers are needed to help with the barbecue, fire pit, and music/games among other things.
Email [email protected] to get involved.
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“I’m excited for the future and I’m looking forward to rep resenting Beaches-East York, but also representing the country as a whole,” Erskine-Smith said during a recent inter-view.
On Feb. 8 and 9, the Beaches-East York MP was one of two Canadian rep-resentatives who took part
in a two-day parliamentary hearing on the global war on drugs at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
While there, Erskine-Smith spoke about alter-natives to incarceration for dealing with the issue and Canada’s approach to making marijuana regu-lated instead of viewing it through a criminal lens.
“I think we can help move the global view of the public,” he said, pointing to directions taken that are based on evidence from a harm-reduction perspec-tive.
In March, Erskine-Smith will be attending a global conference on engaging youth in politics along with upward of 650 parliamen-tarians in Zambia. While
there, he’ll also be giving the opening address on behalf of the Canadian del-egation.
Erskine-Smith has also recently been appointed to serve on the public safety and national security as well as access to informa-tion, privacy and ethics committees.
– Joanna Lavoie
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The IPU, which was established in 1889 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, works in co-operation with the United Nations to foster dialogue among parliamentarians around the world. The union also contributes to the defense and promotion of human rights and serves as the focal point for world-wide parliamentary dialogue, while working for peace and co-operation among peoples and for the firm establishment of representative democracy.
MP says he aims to lobby for human rights
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The Artists Newsstand will be hosting a birthday party for the 50th anniversary of the Bloor-Danforth subway line next Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m..
The festivities will include live performances, music, complimentary cake, bal-loons and prizes.
The fun will begin with a historical char-acter perfor-mance about t h e s u b w a y construction. At 6:30 p.m., burlesque artist Dainty Box will present a family-friendly performance. In between, a DJ will play tunes from 1966.
The Artists’ Newsstand is a former Gateway Newsstand kiosk at Chester station (22 Chester Ave. at Danforth) that has been transformed into a whimsical newsstand and artists’ space. Visit facebook.com/artistsnewsstand
w Fairmount Park consultation
A community consulta-tion on state of good repair improvements scheduled for Fairmount Park is set for Tuesday.
The meeting will address the park’s soccer field, baseball diamonds, wading pool, and tennis courts. It will be held at Fairmount Park Community Centre, 1757 Gerrard St. E., west of Woodbine Avenue, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
The improvements at the park are set to take place in the fall and possible into next spring. All are welcome to bring their ideas for proj-ects.
For more information, contact Beaches-East York Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon’s office at [email protected] or 416-392-1376.
w Women Who care meeting slated
The quarterly meeting of the 100 Women Who Care Toronto East chapter, an organization that raises funds for local charities, is set for Tuesday.
The gathering will be held at The Grover Pub, 676 Kingston Rd., east of Main Street.
Registration will get under-way at 7:15 p.m., followed by the meeting from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
A social will run from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.
All are welcome. For more information,
please email [email protected] or go to www. 100womenwho-caretorontoeast.com
w souP comPetition at community centre 55
It’s time to ladle it up at Community Centre 55 (CC55).
The centre’s annual soup-tasting competition is set for today (Feb. 18) from 5 to 7 p.m.
This year’s contenders are Melanie’s Bistro, The Grover Pub, AMS Pizza and Wings, and the Gull and Firkin. The winner will be going home with the coveted silver ladle as well as bragging rights.
In honour of CC55’s 40th anniversary, this event is free. CC55, is at 97 Main St. All are welcome. Call 416-691-1113 for details.
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At top, volunteers organize the cookies during the Guinness World Records attempt for the Largest Cookie Mosaic Monday at Evergreen Brick Works. Centre, vol-unteer Tyson Coady organizes the treats. Below, once the title was achieved everyone was invited to take a bite out the record-setting mosaic.
The challenge was taken up by the Robin Hood Baking Team on Family Day in support of We Bake for Change, an initiative of WE Day. The sweet mosaic was made up of more than 13,000 shortbread cook-ies and designed to resemble a map of the world. Each cookie was individually wrapped to help coun-ter any food wastage. After the record was established the cookies were shared with guests and local food banks.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau celebrated his milestone of 100 days in office by marking what he hopes will be a new milestone for Canadian
youth. Trudeau wants to get close to 70,000 youth working this summer, and the federal Liberals are committing massive amounts of money over the next three years to make that a reality.
On Friday, he made a surprise visit to Toronto’s Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club where he announced the government would be injecting $113 million each year for the next three years to get young people in the workforce.
The Canada Summer Jobs program provides fund-ing to not-for-profit organizations, public-sector employers, and small businesses with 50 or fewer employees in an effort to help create summer job
opportunities for students.The Trudeau government is
on the right track to setting up students for success.
When people are offered help, there tends to be a ripple effect. Support gives rise to more sup-port, and a spirit of giving and receiving is created.
At the centre of this decision is not political popu-larity, but an understanding that empowering youth today will make them the engaged adults of tomor-row. They will learn life skills by doing them.
They will learn co-operation and interpersonal skills by dealing with employers, customers, and co-workers. They may develop meaningful friendships, build savings, and start dreaming of a future of pos-sibilities.
A job today equals an education tomorrow. A job today allows one to support her family in tough eco-nomic times. A job today gives a young person hope.
The federal funding will be distributed to Canada’s 338 ridings. Areas that have higher levels of unem-ployed youth will get more funds.
The program funds job opportunities for young people aged 15 to 30 years who are full-time students intending to return to their studies in the next school year.
Employers and students interested in the program can visit servicecanada.gc.ca/csj for more informa-tion. The application period for Canada Summer Jobs 2016 has been extended until March 11, so there is still time to get involved.
Summer jobs can inspire positive futures for youth
There have been few issues at Toronto City Hall so consistently suffused with sadness as the Uber-X ride sharing fight with taxi driv-ers has been this past 18 months or so.
From the outside, it’s been easy to confuse that sadness with rage. At the early February meeting of Toronto council, taxi driv-ers’ rage was certainly on display: several had to be removed from the council chamber as they watched councillors step away from seeking an immediate court injunction to stop Uber-X from operating in the city.
Last week, Paul Sekston, one of those taxi drivers, took that anger to the air-waves and announced the new United Taxi Workers’ Association would be stag-ing a protest to disrupt the NBA All-Star Game and run-up to it. It would have been a bad scene had it happened, but it didn’t. The same day, Feb. 11, he and other members of the taxi industry had a
sit-down with three city councillors – Janet Davis, Glenn De Baeremaeker and Kristyn Wong-Tam – after which, they decided to call it off. What clinched it? They simply needed to hear city councillors say aloud the thing that is undeniably true. Uber-X, as it’s cur-rently operating in the city, is illegal. And there it was: the heart of the sadness beating beneath the crum-bling front of rage.
Taxi drivers, or at least Sekston, need if not a hug, then at least some clear allies in what they perceive, correctly, as the fight for their vocational lives.
Mayor John Tory has tried to provide some assurance after he mused about the inevitability of disruptive technologies in a way that seemed to be giving Uber-X a moral if not entirely legal break.
And from the perspective of taxi drivers seeing their livelihoods dry up, Uber-X has gotten an easy ride from almost everyone else on the legal front. Yes, it’s complicated. When cab drivers came to the Toronto Police Services Board demanding more drivers be charged, Chief Mark Saunders explained doing so en masse is legally and operationally challeng-ing. And when cab drivers demanded Toronto enforce its own bylaw – passed just last fall – setting up requirements for Uber-X’s continued operation that the ride-sharing app and the drivers who use it couldn’t and wouldn’t meet, council demurred. Again, it was for strategic reasons: if an injunction can’t be heard for three months, and the city’s new regulations governing ride-sharing apps will be before council in two, the entire matter may become moot. Meanwhile, Uber Canada continues its charm offen-
sive, delivering kittens to stressed-out office workers and experimenting with shuttle services to under-served communities near the downtown – and, of course, by undercutting taxi fares for customers who are becoming used to trading fare savings for the invisible risks of riding an unregulated service.
And to add to the sting: the Toronto licensed taxi model isn’t a sterling alter-native. While taxis are regu-lated, the vehicles more rigorously inspected and drivers more comprehen-sively insured, Toronto’s system of commodified plates and absentee owners still makes for an ugly feu-dalism under which drivers work now. It’s been awful to watch, no doubt awful to live, and it’s hard to see anything near a happy ending to it all.
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David Nickle is Metroland Media Toronto’s city hall reporter. His column runs
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Call it the funding gift that keeps on giving: the TTC announced this week it is expanding service on almost 40 bus routes, particularly during rush hour.
The move, made possible with the introduction of 50 buses, comes out of a funding boost granted by the city to the transit commission last year that worked out to $95 million more for operational improvements. The money has helped pay for everything from more frequent service in non-peak travel times to the expansion of the Blue Night bus network.
For a full list of improved routes, visit www.ttc.ca
wFREE UP EXPRESS RidES ATTRACT CROWdS
Long lines were spotted inside Union Station’s Great Hall over the holiday weekend to take advantage of a special promotion for the Union Pearson (UP) Express.
Following the release last week of disappointing rider-ship numbers for the new ser-
vice linking downtown with Pearson Airport, Metrolinx announced free rides for the weekend and the result was a record number of customers getting on the train.
With heavy scrutiny coming from all corners, including Premier Kathleen Wynne, it’s destined UP’s fare prices will see some kind of cut.
wEXHiBiT TRACES SUBWAY HiSTORY
Just as the Bloor line gets ready to celebrate its 50th anniversary, an exhibit traces the development of Toronto’s subway network.
Tunnel Vision: The Story of Toronto’s Subway is a collec-tion of historical maps, photos, and artifacts tracing the his-tory of underground transit, starting with the opening of the Yonge line in 1954.
The collection is pre-sented in partnership with
the Toronto Transportation Society and will be on display at the St. Lawrence Market Gallery, located on the second floor of the market at 95 Front St. E., until June 11.
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Options for Davenport, the resident group opposed to Metrolinx’s plans for a rail bridge in the neighbourhood, launched its own environ-mental assessment for the project.
The group launched the study titled Our EA, Our Say at a launch party last week. Unlike the official EA, which will take six months to com-plete, the group said its study will focus on underground options already ruled out by Metrolinx for eliminating the Davenport Diamond rail crossing.
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Rahul Gupta is Metroland Media Toronto’s transportation and infrastructure reporter. His
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Making sense of the City of Toronto budget is not an easy thing, but it is not impos-sible.
The city staff and our local councillors make consider-able effort to summarize it. There were several town hall and community meetings during January to review its contents.
One was held at East York Civic Centre, where a group of concerned citizens were given a detailed overview of the proposed structure of the 2016 budget.
At this point the budget is still at the consultation stage. It still has to go to city council for final debate and approval, so it is far from complete.
The key points regarding the 2016 budget lay in the areas of public transportation, service improvement, and infrastruc-ture expansion.
However, there are still key issues that need to be addressed due to the urgency of many of the public concerns they cover. For example, there is a poverty reduction strategy that has been proposed, but while it sounds good on paper, it is still underfunded.
Poverty in Toronto is a
growing issue as many groups in different locations around the city remain marginalized from the economic benefits that are offered here.
Likewise, the city still remains behind most modern urban centres when it comes to having a truly effective public transportation system.
Rather than expanding, child care in the city was actu-ally reduced by one per cent last year, which may not seem a large number, but the effects are noticeable.
Toronto Community Housing continues to be a public embarrassment as the city’s public housing needs repairs that are months, if not years, behind schedule. Our wonderful resource of parks and the associated equipment remains precariously under-funded, while more and more people come to use them.
Critical services, such as the city’s fire prevention opera-tions, remain underfunded despite the city’s increasing population.
This past week’s cold snap underscores the fact that the city’s emergency cold weather drop-in service is being pushed to its limits.
Major transportation ini-tiatives, such as Mayor John Tory’s SmartTrack proposal, are at risk of being shelved or seriously downgraded as there are no funds to finance them.
Plans to revamp the rap-idly deteriorating Gardiner Expressway are no further ahead, despite being approved by council, simply due to a lack of funding.
On top of all of this, there is $30 million in “ordinary” capital projects that are on hold due to lack of funding.
Only 34 per cent of the operating costs come from property taxes. The majority of the money paid out goes to emergency services, trans-portation, infrastructure, and core services. Not frivolous items as some would have you believe.
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Joe Cooper is a long-time East York resident and com-munity activist. His column
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ALL IN A DAY’S WORK: These hardy cyclists are westbound on the Danforth participating in last Friday’s chilly fourth annual International Winter Bike to Work Day. The route, which kicked off from Alexander the Great Parkette (at Logan Avenue), went to Bay Street with cyclists dropping out when they reached their place of work. While it was cold with Toronto temperatures not making it past minus-four, it was nowhere near the deep freeze on Saturday and Sunday with ‘highs’ of minus-16 and minus-10, respectively, according to Environment Canada. At left, Sylvia Slaughter, right, her husband Jason and son Max, 5, lead the ride. Above, the ride is underway on the Danforth.
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it’s happeningw Thursday, Feb. 18East York Garden ClubWHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Stan Wadlow Clubhouse, 373 Cedarvale Ave. CONTACT: Susan Bartlett, 416-668-7872, [email protected] COST: FreeKyla Dixon-Muir will speak about Cold Frames: Get an Early Start in your Spring Garden. Doors open at 7 p.m. for refreshments, speaker is at 7:30 p.m.
w Saturday, Feb. 20Family StorytimeWHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: FreeStories, songs, and rhymes for chil-dren from birth to age six and their caregivers. Registration not required.
w Monday, Feb. 22CribbageWHEN: 7:15 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, [email protected] COST: $6
w Tuesday, Feb. 23Foot Care at CNIB CentreWHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Mosaic Home Care Services & Com-
munity Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave., Suite 215H CONTACT: 416-322-7002, [email protected] COST: Clinic $40, in-home treatment $55Clinics run every third Tuesday of the month. Call for an appointment.
Riverdale Historical SocietyWHEN: 6:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Matthew’s Clubhouse, Riverdale Park East at Langley and Broadview CONTACT: riverdalehistoricalsociety.com COST: $5 at the door; free for membersTopic: George Leslie (1804 to 1893), owner of Toronto Nurseries. Speaker is historian Joanne Doucette.
Riverdale Family Book Club
WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: River-dale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: FreeA book club for children aged eight to 12 and a parent. For our first meeting we will discuss ‘Save Rafe!’ by James Patterson. Additional meet-ings will be on March 29, April 26, May 31, and June 28. Call to register.
w Wednesday, Feb. 24Hearing Loss ScreeningWHEN: 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Mosaic Home Care Services & Com-munity Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave., Suite 215H CONTACT: 416-322-7002, [email protected] COST: FreeCall to register.
Men’s BridgeWHEN: 1 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Leaside United Church, 822 Millwood Rd. CONTACT: Jim Krafchik, 416-488-7720, [email protected] COST: $3
East York Historical SocietyWHEN: 2 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memo-rial Park Ave. CONTACT: Margaret McRae, 416-429-7821, www.easty-ork.org/eyhs.html, [email protected] COST: FreeAuthor Jason Ramsay-Brown will speak about the ravines and urban forests in the East York area.
PAIL Network Leaside Peer SupportWHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Don Mills and Overlea area CON-TACT: Lynn Davis, 1-888-301-7276, www.pailnetwork.ca, [email protected] COST: FreeSupport for families who have suf-fered pregnancy and infant loss.
w Thursday, Feb. 25Heritage Presentation SeriesWHEN: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Presteign-Woodbine United Church, 2538 St. Clair Ave. E. CONTACT: 416-755-8352, www.presteign-woodbineuc.com, [email protected] COST: $7 per presentation
w Saturday, Feb. 27Live Music @ the BranchWHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Far-rell, 416-425-1714, rcl22.com, [email protected] COST: FreeFeaturing Blaze and Glory.
w Wednesday, March 2Seniors Hypertension Info SessionWHEN: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Cecelia Murphy Building, 11 Coats-worth Cr. CONTACT: Janet Keenan, 416-691-7407, ext.224, [email protected] COST: FreeOffered in collaboration with Coxwell Pharmacy and Neighbourhood Link Support Services. For seniors aged 55 plus. Call to register.
w Friday, March 4Live EntertainmentWHEN: 8 p.m. to midnight WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-425-3070Featuring Blaze and Glory.
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The East York Bulldogs peewee A team competed in the Scarborough Hockey Association tournament last weekend, winning this game 3-1 over the host Scarborough team. Scarborough, however, got revenge in the championship game downing previously undefeated East York 2-0. Above, East York Bulldogs player Kayden Seguin fires a shot. At left, East York Bulldogs player Dylan Rogers, centre, pushes up the ice.Staff photos/BENJAMIN PRIEBE
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The Leaside Wildcats have made incremental strides every year they’ve been in the Provincial Women’s Hockey League (PWHL), which fea-tures the best junior women’s hockey players in the prov-ince.
This year, however, could be termed a huge leap forward no matter the result of their final regular season game this Sunday, Feb. 21 against arch rival (and longtime city powerhouse) the North York-based Toronto Aeros.
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Leaside heads into the game with 53 points out of 37 games while Toronto, with a game in hand (host-ing Brampton Saturday at 3 p.m.) sports 51 points in 36 games.
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