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Staff photo/Dan Pearce
space stage: student Brianna Roett from Forest Manor public school peers through the helmet of an astronaut’s bio-suit used for Mars explo-ration during the launch of Beyond planet earth tuesday at the Ontario science centre. see page 3 for the full story.
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The eight-acre plot of land hidden at the south-east corner of Jane Street and Steeles Avenue will soon be home to an urban agriculture project.
The Black Creek Community Farm (BCCF) is located on an unused portion of Toronto and Region Conservation Authority land. It is headed by Everdale, an organic farm and environmental learning centre and will be staffed and supported by neighbourhood residents and will harvest fresh food to feed the
community. The farm, operated in partner-
ship with FoodShare, Afri-Can FoodBasket and Fresh City Farms, will also serve as an intergenera-tional place of learning and training where a new generation of farmers will tackle needed skills. The first harvest is scheduled for 2013.
A ground-breaking was held on the site Tuesday, attended by Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Ted McMeekin. The event coincided with Ontario’s Agriculture Week.
“The goal is to start a farm here
There may be a lockout in the National Hockey League, but they’re still playing hockey in North York with two tournaments on tap throughout this Thanksgiving holi-day weekend.
The Toronto Avalanche hockey club is hosting a 42-team tour-nament, with all games at York University’s Canlan Ice Sports Today through Monday.
This tournament features seven rep ‘A’ divisions (midget, minor midget, bantam, minor bantam, peewee, minor peewee and minor atom) and one ‘AA’ division (peewee).
The Don Mills Civitan Hockey
League is hosting a 40-team tour-nament, headquartered out of its Don Mills Civitan Arena, but also including a couple of other North York Arenas – Victoria Village Arena and Pleasantview Arena.
A couple of games got underway yesterday in the evening hours, and action continues
to Sunday.This tournament features six
house league select divisions (midget, bantam, minor atom, novice, minor novice and tyke).
More info on the tournaments is at www.avalancheminorsports.com and www.donmillscivitanhockey-league.com
Urban farm at Jane and Steeles a ‘gem’Black Creek Community Farm’s first harvest will be in 2013
Lots of Thanksgiving hockey being played in North York
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Marking its 20th year of help-ing women, North York’s Elspeth Heyworth Women’s Centre is holding a fundraising gala later this month to celebrate.
The Peacock Ball will feature a reception, dinner, guest speaker, silent auction, tea bar, entertain-ment and dancing.
Over the last two decades, the centre has grown to provide a wide variety of services, executive director Sunder Singh said.
The organization originally began to offer settlement and employment services to newcomers to Canada.
Over the years, it expanded its focus to give support to vulnerable and abused women and to isolated and helpless seniors.
“Domestic abuse is largely caused by the stresses of settlement, unem-ployment and underemployment,” Singh said in a statement.
“(The centre) has pulled seniors out of isolation and depression by actively involving them as com-munity volunteers and contribut-ing members of the society. These seniors, experiencing isolation and marginalization, are now living a meaningful and enjoyable life that they deserve.”
The centre remains focused on helping women find jobs and build more “economically resilient” lives,
Women’s centre marking 20 years with gala
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Singh said, adding the centre’s staff can relate to the clients’ situations.
“As many of us who are immigrants ourselves, together we all can fan the flame of hope and help bat-tered women and isolated
seniors and help them inte-grate into the Canadian soci-ety, free of domestic violence and elder abuse, empowered with understanding of their rights and learning to take charge of their life,” she said.
The centre is celebrating a
number of recent successes, including winning the 2011 Mayor’s Community Safety Award, becoming the selected supplier for interpretation services for the 2015 Pan Am and Para Pan Am Games in Toronto, moving to a new location, intervening in 366
cases of domestic violence through the Reduce Abuse program, visiting more than 4,000 clients, holding a forum that allowed women facing domestic abuse to speak out during International Women’s Day and seeing Singh awarded a Queen’s
Diamond Jubilee Medal for her contributions to the com-munity and Canada.
The Peacock Ball will take place Wednesday, Oct. 17 beginning at 6 p.m. at the Claireport Banquet and Convention Centre at 65 Claireport Cr. southwest of
Albion Road and Hwy. 427 in Etobicoke.
Tickets are $75 each or $700 for a table of 10.
There are also sponsorship packages available, ranging from $1,000 to $10,000.
For details, visit www.ehcw.ca or call 416-663-2978.
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Brianna Roett was over the moon.
Attending the launch of the Ontario Science Centre’s Beyond Planet Earth: The future of space exploration exhibit on Tuesday, the Grade 6 student at Forest Manor Public School was talking a mile a minute, possibly even as quickly as the approximately 290 miles a minute a space shuttle must maintain to stay in orbit.
“I think it’s awesome,” she said after looking at a model of the Mars Rover that landed on Mars in 2004, one of the first dis-plays in the exhibit.
“Before, we had technol-ogy to go to space. Now, we have technology to build life-sized models of (equipment) and space but there’s so much we don’t know, even with the technology we have at this time. I think (space is fas-cinating) because we can still find out about so much and there’s so many people who want to go to space. We can follow in others’ footsteps like (astronauts) Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.”
She wasn’t finished yet.
‘i love space’
“I love space so much. There’s nothing I would rather do. I would love to be an astronaut. It would be so amazing because you can explore so many other things than Earth,” she said.
“You can go to New York and say ‘Oh, wow’ but if you’re an astronaut, you can go to other plan-ets. Mars is my favourite planet.”
Later, checking out an astronaut bio-suit, Brianna made it clear the rest of the exhibit was not letting her down.
“I’m very excited to be here. Everything is very cool, there’s so many things I’ve never seen before,” she said, adding her top three space bodies are Mars, the sun and Neptune.
“It’s also cool to be sur-rounded by super smart people (at the Science Centre). They know so much.”
On loan from the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the exhibit is both a retrospective of past space travel and a look at the pos-sibilities of interplanetary ventures over the next 50 to 100 years.
For example, visitors can “smell the moon” by taking a whiff of the gunpowder
odor the astronauts of Apollo 11 detected when they brought rocks into their spacecraft after land-ing on the moon on July 20, 1969.
Or they can get an idea of what it might be like to visit Mars by taking a stroll through a walk-through diorama of the planet’s sur-face or trying out an inter-active fly-over simulation.
Romanos Binti, a Grade 6 Forest Manor student, was impressed with the exhibit, particularly a life-sized nine-foot model of NASA’s rover Curiosity, now explor-ing Mars.
aiming for venus
“I think it’s really good for Grade 6ers or any grade to explore Mars,” he said.
“If I can, I always wanted to be an astronaut. Since I was seven. I’m 11. I will try
to be an astronaut. I want to explore Venus because no one ever did it before.”
Science Centre chief executive officer Lesley Lewis encouraged the students to consider the mysteries about space that might be discovered during their lifetimes as they explore the exhibit.
“You can be part of this discovery,” she said.
The exhibit runs at the Science Centre, 770 Don Mills Rd. south of Eglinton Avenue, until Jan. 1.
It is included with admis-sion to the Science Centre, which is $22 for adults, $16 for youth aged 13 to 17, seniors and post-secondary students with identifica-tion, and $13 for children aged four to 12.
For more information, visit www.ontarioscience-centre.ca or call 416-696-1000.
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Exhibit is out of this worldontario science centre launches Beyond planet earth
Staff photo/Dan Pearce
Students from Forest Manor Public School check out the life-sized model of the Curiosity rover during the launch of Beyond Planet Earth Tuesday at the Ontario Science Centre.
next spring,” said Gavin Dandy, farm director at Everdale. “There is no piece of land like this in the city. It’s a gem.”
Everdale, which has oper-ated a farm-based charity near Hillsburgh for 15 years, delivers hands-on learning programs on food and farm-ing to people of all ages and backgrounds, including farmer training, school programs and workshops, which will be offered at BCCF.
While the farming compo-nent can run without funding, Dandy said they are looking for financial contributions to help with other programming.
“I think the support will be there,” he said. “I feel the com-munity is really ready for this. We want to create an urban farm model that can be used across the world.”
Phillip Collins, co-founder of Fresh City Farms, which has a one-acre plot of land at Downsview Park, said he believes urban agriculture has the potential to change the world.
“Every time I come on the (BCCF) site, there is a new wave of possibilities and con-nections,” he said. “I see this farm being the heart of this community.”
Utcha Sawyers, food justice manager for Food Share, said the organization runs markets in the Jane Street and Finch Avenue area and sees a need for a farm in the community.
“We are developing the framework, but we want the flesh of it to be produced by the local community,” she said. “They are the ones who have to live around this every day.”
Standing on land that will soon house a farm, McMeekin said partnership is about achieving together what would less likely be achieved apart.
“You are here to give the land renewed meaning and purpose,” he said. “We will have a real working farm in the heart of the city.”
An information meeting on the BCCF will be held Saturday, Oct. 13 at Driftwood Community Centre, 4401 Jane St., from 2 to 4 p.m.
To donate, visit www.ever-dale.org/blackcreek/
Farm in heart of the community
Photo/courteSyProvincial minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs Ted McMeekin, centre, joins Everdale for a new urban agriculture project focused on local food and diversity, at the Black Creek Community Farm Tuesday.
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‘We want to create an urban farm model
that can be used across the world.’
– Gavin Dandy
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As families gather together for turkey, stuff-ing and all the trimmings to celebrate Thanksgiving this weekend, it’s a good time
again to extend that generosity to those less fortu-nate in our communities.
The Salvation Army released a report this week that revealed more families are turning to its food programs and centres for assistance. One-third of Salvation Army food banks also reported seeing a decrease in donations at their centres within the last year.
“As long as they require the services offered by The Salvation Army, we will be here to provide them, as we have for the last 130 years,” said Graham Moore, public relations secretary for The Salvation Army in Canada.
It’s important to answer the call for assistance from local organizations that work year round to support the families struggling to live above the poverty line.
At the same time, however, it’s also important to think of ways to work toward a more long-term sus-tainable solution for those same families where they become less dependent on local food banks.
Rather than continuously providing a hand-down to address their short-term needs, let’s provide a hand-up to give the help they need to support them-selves.
Like the Habitat for Humanity projects. A recent survey showed that once families received initial assistance to own their homes, they felt empowered to break the cycle of poverty.
Furthermore, no child who grew up in a Habitat home has ever needed one himself, said Neil Hetherington, CEO of Habitat for Humanity.
We recognize the solution is not simple, but rather complex and that it involves a host of factors such as addressing employment needs, government policies and providing other social supports.
But the solution will only come from the commu-nity putting our heads together and brainstorming ideas on how to start. We welcome your feedback and suggestions to get this dialogue going.
In the meantime, we should do what we can for those in need now. There’s no shortage of food drives taking place during the long weekend including the Fall Food Drive by North York Harvest Food Bank. The Daily Bread Food Bank is also hosting its annual Thanksgiving drive benefitting communities across the city.
Visit www.northyorkharvest and www.dailybread.ca to volunteer or for more information.
Remember to share Thanksgiving with those less fortunate
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To the editor:Re: ‘Housing report stands
chance of success,’ The City, Sept. 20.
I do agree with columnist David Nickle’s observa-tions that the report titled “Putting People First” will in all likelihood be accepted by council.
However, I do not agree with his quite obvious dis-dain for our mayor and his attempts to turn the tide in Toronto.
Yes, Mayor Rob Ford continues to blunder along with a great number of either poor or misdirected attempts at controlling the middle and the left on city council.
One of his largest blun-ders, after Karen Stintz of course, was to appoint Councillor Ana Bailao to head up the housing task force. It was incredibly obvious to even an inexpe-rienced observer that the decision would come back to haunt him.
I do not fault our mayor for this, simply his advisors and the leftists on council who are constantly pushing him to compromise and gain a consensus.
Leaders do not gain a consensus, they lead.
Clifford J. Layne
Leaders never seek compromise, they lead
To the editorToronto Mayor Rob Ford
is certainly a politician who cares.
I will never forget when I once wrote to him about an issue pertaining to traf-fic havoc in my neighbour-hood, where I suggested he consider installing traf-fic lights at an intersection to solve the problem.
Even though I was not part of his constituency, he did not ignore me. Instead, he took the initiative to call me personally.
He was going to set up an appointment to see me personally at the intersec-tion in question and bring city engineers along to
assess the situation. Unfortunately, that
meeting never happened as I was going out of the country. But when I returned he followed up with me and said he con-sulted with the city and was told traffic lights were not an option as there were already many traffic light intersections in the immediate area.
HONEsT POLiTiCiAN
I was impressed to see such an honest politician, who are few at our times.
They usually knock at your door and promise to make the sky rain milk
and honey, but when the election is over, they don’t care whether you’re dead or alive.
I hope the court will not dismiss him from his job. But rather, take appropri-ate measures to make sure the alleged conflict of interest would not happen again.
While I cannot take side on this issue, but having seen how caring the politi-cian is, I can confirm that he would not do such a thing deliberately.
He must have done it with every good intention to help those who are less fortunate.
Abubakar N. Kasim
Ford’s caring side evident before he became mayor
To the editor:Re: ‘TTC will operate LRT
lines for Metrolinx after all.’ insidetoronto.com, Oct. 4.
Time and again the tax-payers are not asked, but told who, what, when, why and where. I am sick and tired of it.
Metrolinx was supposed to take charge of the TTC expansion, but now it is back in the hands of the TTC.
The whole system needs a major shake-up, and priva-tization should be front and centre.
W.D. Adamson
TTC should be privatized
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n Saturday, Oct. 6Meet Writer in Residence Farzana DoctorWHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: North York Central Library Auditorium, 5120 Yonge St. CONTACT: 416-395-5639 COST: FreeFarzana Doctor was the recipient of the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Grant (2011). She is a co-curator of the Brockton Writers Series. Call to register.
OUA Women’s HockeyWHEN: 2 p.m. to WHERE: Canlan Ice Sports - York, 989 Murray Ross Pkwy. COST: $8 adults, $5 non-York students, seniorsThe Guelph Gryphons visit the York Lions in regular season play.
n Sunday, Oct. 7Simchat Torah ServiceWHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto, 210 Wilson Avenue CONTACT: The Education Office, 416-487-3281, www.templesinai.net, [email protected] COST: FreeCelebrating the Joy of Torah from gen-eration to generation.
Junior A HockeyWHEN: 3 p.m. WHERE: Carnegie Cen-tennial Centre, 580 Finch Ave. W. COST: AdmissionThe Buffalo Jr. Sabres face the North York Rangers.
n Wednesday, Oct. 10Basic Genealogy and Family HistoryWHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St.
CONTACT: Toronto Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, www.torontofami-lyhistory.org, [email protected] COST: $132 ($120 for OGS members)
Home Sweet Home Buying for First-Time PurchasersWHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: YMCA North York Employment and Newcomer Centre, 4580 Dufferin St., Suite 200 CONTACT: [email protected] COST: $5 donation to YMCA Strong Kids CampaignAll registered participants will receive a training manual, pen, light refreshment, and home buying information. RSVP required.
Toronto Diabetes Discussion GroupWHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge St. CON-TACT: Anne Lee Qiang, 416-408-7145, diabetes.ca, [email protected] COST: FreeMonthly meeting to discuss and dis-seminate information on diabetes. The group is looking for new members and family supporters of persons with diabetes. Call to RSVP.
n Thursday, Oct. 11Spaghetti DinnerWHEN: 5 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Willowdale United Church, 349 Kenneth Ave. CON-TACT: Lina Posa, 416-225-2309, www.willowdaleunited.com, [email protected] COST: $5All proceeds help the community garden project. Spaghetti sauce made from
vegetables from the gardens. Call for tickets.
Oktoberfest in the SquareWHEN: Today through Sunday, Oct. 14 WHERE: Shops at Don Mills, 1090 Don Mills Rd. CONTACT: 416-447-0618, http://www.shopsatdonmills.ca, [email protected] COST: $5 to $15Raise a stein, grab your lederhosen and enjoy live music, traditional German delicacies and an Oktoberfest keg in the Town Square. Hours: Thursday and Friday 5 to 10 p.m., Saturday 4 to 10 p.m., Sunday 2 to 6 p.m.
Say Cheese! Say Cheers!WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross Pkwy. CONTACT: Geri, http://blackcreek.caJoin expert Julia Rogers and treat your-self to a rich journey into the delicious world of cheese. Guests will sample five local cheese varieties each paired with a selected craft beer, along with our popular homemade root chips and fresh-baked bread. Tickets are $32 per person, $29 for members.
n Friday, Oct. 12Tot Shabbat Dinner and ServiceWHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto, 210 Wilson Ave. CONTACT: Education Office, 416-487-3281, www.templesinai.net, [email protected] COST: $20Bring your family and friends for dinner and an evening of crafts, laughter, and fun. Time: Cost: member adults $16;
member children (aged 3 to 7) $9; non-member adults: $20, non-member children $10. Registration required by Wednesday, Oct. 10 at noon.
n Saturday, Oct. 13Toronto Cat Rescue AdoptathonWHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., also hap-pening Sunday WHERE: Pet Valu, 486 Lawrence Ave. W. CONTACT: Alison, 416-538-8592, www.torontocatrescue.
ca, [email protected] COST: Adoption fee applies
Miniature Enthusiasts of Toronto Show and SaleWHEN: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond Ct. CONTACT: Heather, 416-463-1817, http://met.miniature.net, [email protected] COST: $8 (free for children under 12)
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50th anniversary: richelle Mogan, 12, left, and Fiona Okbat, 13, lead the st. raphael Catholic school neighbourhood Procession of the Cross last Friday morning as part of the school’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
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on stagen WHAT: ‘The Singing Animals of Bremen’n WHEN: Oct 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 & 21; at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.n WHERE: Solar Stage Children’s Theatre, 4950 Yonge St., in The Madison Centren TICKETS: $16 ($13 on Oct. 6 and 7)n DETAILS: A music-filled production, adapted from Grimm, tells about the adven-tures of a donkey, dog and chicken who are too old to be kept by their owners anymore. For ages 3 to 10.n INFO: www.solarstage.on.ca, [email protected], 416-368-8031
n WHAT: Wiesenthaln WHEN: Oct. 9 to 18n WHERE: Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St.n DETAILS: Wiesenthal is based on the story of Simon Wiesenthal, the renowned Holocaust survivor who dedicated years to tracking down fugitive Nazis. n INFO: Visit www.tocentre.com/studio/nazihunter or call 416-733-0545 for tickets and performance times.
n WHAT: ‘Fiddler on the Roof’n WHEN: Oct. 25 to Nov. 4n WHERE: The Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St.n TICKETS: Email [email protected] DETAILS: Presented by Encore Entertainment, a not-for-profit theatre company, providing family entertainment at an affordable price since 1997. n INFO: www.encoreshows.com/
artn WHAT: Out Of The Blue: A Father’s Inspiration n WHEN: Oct. 5 to Nov. 4; opening reception Oct. 15, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.n WHERE: Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery, 901 Lawrence Ave. W. n ADMISSION: Freen DETAILS: An exhibit by Bina Colen INFO: www.villacharities.com/Carrier
n WHAT: Purely Pastel n WHEN: Oct. 5 to Nov. 4; opening recep-tion and silent auction Oct. 11, 7 to 9 p.m.n WHERE: Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery, 901 Lawrence Ave. W. n ADMISSION: Freen DETAILS: The 21st annual open juried exhibition by Pastel Artists Canadan INFO: www.pastelartists.ca
n WHAT: Pascal Paquette: What I’ve Learned in the Last Five Years; n WHEN: Oct. 23 to Nov. 30
n WHERE: Glendon Gallery, Glendon Hall, Glendon College, York University, 2275 Bayview Ave.n DETAILS: The artist combines alterna-tive practices of graffiti and street art with contemporary painting and site-specific dependent installations. n INFO: www.glendon.yorku.ca/gallery/
n WHAT: Imaginary Homeland n WHEN: Exhibit continues to Dec. 4n WHERE: The Art Gallery of York University, Accolade East Building, York University, 4700 Keele St.n DETAILS: The culmination of a three-year experimental residency project with Colombian artists that explored the oscilla-tion of people, ideas and materials between two places, Toronto and Bogota.INFO: theagyuisoutthere.org/everywhere/
musicn WHAT: NYCO Mozart Vocal Competitionn WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 6, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.n WHERE: St. Michael’s Centre for the Arts, 1515 Bathurst St.n ADMISSION: Freen INFO: http://nyco.on.ca
n WHAT: Music at Midday Series: Music for Thanksgivingn WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 11 at noonn WHERE: Jubilee United Church, 40 Underhill Dr.n ADMISSION: Freen DETAILS: Half-hour recital showcasing the church’s new Phoenix organ. n INFO: www.jubileeunited.ca, 416-447-6846
n WHAT: Xiao Ping Chorus 20th Anniversary Celebration.n WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m.n WHERE: George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St.n TICKETS: $28 to $88n DETAILS: Opera arias and art songs; vari-ety of Western and Eastern music; Butterfly Lovers Concerto and other works. n INFO: 416-229-1838 or 416-733-4175
n WHAT: David Rovics in Concert, a memo-rial tribute to Peter Kastnern WHEN: Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m.WHERE: Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke Ave.n TICKETS: $18 in advance by Oct. 12, $20 at the doorn DETAILS: A fundraiser to erect a monu-ment at the gravesite of Peter Kastner. n INFO: www.winchevskycentre.org, 416-789-5502
Plenty to take note of this monthThis pastel, titled Evendozen by artist Evalynne McDougall, is among the works on display at the Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery this month as part of the Purely Pastel exhibit.
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Toronto’s plan to ban plastic bags from retailers by Jan. 1 stands, after opponents of the plan failed to get the required two-thirds majority to re-open the issue.
The bag ban was originally implemented in June, after Willowdale Councillor David Shiner’s motion to ban all plastic bags got unexpected support on the fl oor of coun-cil.
Council had been recon-sidering another bylaw, one introduced by former mayor David Miller’s council, to force retailers to charge fi ve cents for every plastic bag they hand out.
Mayor Rob Ford had vowed to reverse that bylaw – and he did – but council also sup-ported the total ban of plas-tic bags, which would mean that on Jan. 1, every retailer would have to stop handing out plastic bags and go back to paper.
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Councillor Peter Milczyn and Don Valley East Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong intro-duced a notice of motion at the Wednesday council meet-ing to reconsider the ban, but under council’s rules, it would take two-thirds of council, or 30 votes, to re-open the issue and reconsider it.
In the end, they were three short, with just 27 votes to 19 to re-open.
Shiner said after the vote he would be introducing a motion to hold an abbreviated public consultation session prior to the fi nal bylaw being
introduced at council at its November meeting.
It was unclear, however, just what that consultation would accomplish.
Milczyn, who moved the re-opening, said council hadn’t yet delivered the fi nal word on the bylaw.
“It’s clear to me that a majority of council doesn’t want to enact a bag ban Jan. 1,” he said.
“That was pretty over-whelming. The solicitor’s advice was that if you want to do this, good idea or bad idea, you did it in exactly the wrong way. So having some round of consultation to try and safe-guard us from lawsuits will be too little, too late.”
Milczyn said ultimately, council will have to approve a bylaw, and when that comes up, it’s possible it can be shot down.
“Every bylaw, every bill in the legislation has to be adopted by council. If there is no bill, there is no bylaw, and it would be a simple majority. We’ll see whether there’s going to be some consultation at public works.”
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‘It’s clear to me that a majority of council doesn’t want to enact a bag ban Jan. 1.’– Councillor Peter Milczyn
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A conference held at York University in late September rightfully recognized the politi-cal importance of post-sec-ondary school students when it comes to regional transit planning, said a Toronto city councillor this week.
Adam Vaughan, who helped organize Going to School: A Transit Summit, which took place last Friday at York University, said the event suc-ceeded in bringing attention to the importance of universities and colleges as central transit nodes crucial to the mobil-ity of an estimated 650,000 post-secondary students in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).
“We have a fresh focus now,” said Vaughan on Monday of the inaugural summit, which was held inside the Underground restaurant in the York Student Centre and co-organized by
the university’s CITY Institute. “We’ve never looked at who we were serving, that’s been miss-ing from the debate. Focusing on students gives us a political base.”
At the summit, York University student Michael Collens said students want to take transit to get to school, even though they are forced to rely on cars due to minimal service.
“We haven’t addressed how people are going to get places via transit because of a lack of connectivity,” said Collens, who took part in a panel dis-cussion along with TTC chair Karen Stintz and GO Transit president Gary McNeil.
“We have connections in place but don’t synchronize them between transit authori-ties,” he said. “And we have to do it more with the population increases in the region.”
During his keynote speech Vaughan, who represents Trinity-Spadina on Toronto City Council, used presenta-tion slides to illustrate how the establishment of universities in the GTHA has historically fuelled urban growth, begin-ning pre-Second World War
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“The development of transit goes together with a boom in university building like a hand in glove,” said Vaughan.
Urban planner Sean Hertel told the estimated 150 partici-pants that continued regional development is dependent on better transit. Suburbs in particular have formed their own regional identity and are no longer defi ned by their proximity to larger city centres, he said.
“We live regional lives now,” said Hertel who spoke on a panel moderated by new Toronto chief city plan-ner Jennifer Keesmaat. “We’re engaged in city building whether we realize it or not.”
At the Keele campus, where a subway station for the upcoming Spadina extension
is currently under construc-tion, 1,900 buses from five different transit agencies visit York daily, said Christopher Wong, the university’s director of transportation planning. He called for more transit, par-ticularly connections linking east and west.
“East and west connec-tions are vital and will set the stage for the next 25 years of growth for the university,” said Wong.
City councillor Shelley Carroll, who represents Don Valley East, told the audience she wanted to see fellow transit
campaigners alongside her at developer meetings and Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearings “fighting density”.
“Transit supporters need to be in the conversation because higher density sup-ports greater transit,” said Carroll on Monday.
“If you’re an activist, flip through every newspaper and know when people are discussing growth and devel-opment issues.”
Too often, said Carroll, local councillors are left to advocate alone in favour of unpopular high density projects without support from either the transit intelligentsia or politicians too nervous to infl ame tensions of residents who don’t want a highrise development in their neighbourhood.
“The safest thing to do politically is push off a transit project and not do anything at all,” she said.
Carroll said she was dis-appointed to see only like-minded individuals taking part in the conference.
“The people who could learn from this stuff weren’t in the room,” she said.
Transit summit focuses on post-secondary students
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New Toronto city planner Jennifer Keesmaat, right, joins the panel of transit experts during the inaugural ‘Going to School: A Transit Summit’ on Friday at York University. Keesmaat, who assumed her role on Sept. 10, moderated a discussion about land use and transit planning for campuses. Also taking part in the discussion were the head of the Building Industry and Land Development (BILD) Association Bryan Tuckey, Neptis Foundation researcher Marcy Burchfield, York University transportation director Christopher Wong and urban planner Sean Hertel.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETINGDonalda Club is hosting 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 at Donalda Club in 2011.The meeting will take place at the Grounds Maintenance Operations’ facility located at
1413 Don Mills Road, at 4:30pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012.Scott White, Golf Course and Grounds Manager, 416-446-5899
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Firewood
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$300-$3000
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Home Renovations
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Electrical
ELECTRICIANWiring, trouble
shooting, plugs. Fridge, stove,
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Free Admission andMore...Arrive early to enjoy free coffee and pastries from 10am to 11amand a complimentary lunch from 1pm to 2pm.
Who should attend?• Anyone who has or suspects they may have hearing loss• People who wear or have worn hearing aids• Spouses, children, parents and friends of people with hearing loss
What is included?• Presentations by industry experts on hearing loss and hearing technology• Exhibits by leading hearing aid manufacturers and dispensers• Free hearing evaluations by a registered audiologist• Local audiologists on hand to answer questions about your hearing concerns• See the latest hearing technology including the new Invisible Hearing Aids• Free minor repairs and batteries at the Technician’s Corner
Pre-register today to receive a free re-usable gift bag.Visit www.TheHearingShow.ca or call 416-384-1500
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WHEN• Thurs, Oct. 18, 2012 - 1Oam to 4pm
WHERE• Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre6 Garamond Ct, Don Mills (Garamond north of Wynford Dr.)
