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Niklas Chandrabalan is the administrator at Extendicare Bayview, one of many aging long-term care homes in Toronto in need of renovation.
‘Time ticking’ on long-term care homesMIKE ADLER [email protected]
From the road, Extendicare Bayview looks a lot like a motel.
A single-story square around an open courtyard on North York’s Cummer Avenue, the home was built more than 40 years ago, a time when some
seniors moving into long-term care could still drive.
Now, they’re much older, frailer, and sicker than they were then, but the architecture of Extendicare Bayview remains much as it was.
The long-term home near Bayview Avenue – like many other aging facilities similar to it in Toronto – is patiently waiting
its turn to be rebuilt.“Every space in this home
is being used for something,” said Niklas Chandrabalan, the facility’s administrator for the past four years.
“Things are challenging right now because we are a home that’s designed for code 30 years ago.”
Ontario’s Liberal government
brought a spark of hope to the long-term sector last month by announcing it will renovate 300 homes in the province over the next nine years.
But the announcement named just six homes, and only one of those, Bloomington Cove Care Community in Whitchurch-Stouffville – visited on that day
Police in 55 Division have released details about a recent spate of commercial break-ins along Danforth Avenue.
Last week, several businesses along the strip had windows smashed and property stolen one night over a three-hour period.
Police were called and can-vassed for video surveillance from surrounding businesses.
The footage they obtained showed images of some of the entries and in one instance even showed a burglar wind up like a major league baseball pitcher before throwing a rock at a window. Other videos caught the perpetrator walking to and from the scene of the crime.
Investigators then used this footage to identify a suspect. One person has been arrested and charged with a number of related offences.
As a result, police are urging business owners to consider using video cameras for security purposes.
Anyone with information should contact 416-808-5500, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637).
– Joanna Lavoie
Surveillancehelps police nab suspect in Danforth break-ins
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wArtfest comes to the Distillery District
The annual Artfest Toronto outdoor arts and crafts show is coming to the Distillery Historic District Saturday to Monday.
Artfest Toronto, which features a range of one-of-a-kind and world-class artwork, runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
Admission is free.Artfest Toronto will also be held
on the Labour Day weekend from Sept. 2 to 5 also at the Distillery Historic District, between Cherry and Parliament streets, south of Mill Street.
Visit www.artfestontario.com/toronto for more information.
w mAtching trees to homeowners
The Toronto Parks and Trees Foundation, an organization that has been helping Toronto re-imagine and improve its parks, green spaces and urban forest since 2002, is looking to match homeowners with the right tree for their property.
The official funding partner of the City of Toronto’s Parks, Forestry and Recreation division, the foundation is offering people a local tree grown from tree seeds collected in Toronto.
Trees can be picked up
Saturday, May 28 at Riverdale Park East, near Gerrard Street East and Broadview Avenue,
Visit www.torontopark-sandtrees.ca to sign up for Tree for Me.
wBeAch gArDen society plAnt sAle
The Beach Garden Society is hold-ing a plant sale Saturday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Adam Beck Community Centre, 79 Lawlor Ave.
Hundreds of beautiful, organi-cally grown perennials will be available for purchasing.
Personal shoppers will also be on hand.
Call 416-699-4353, email [email protected] or visit the Beach Garden Society’s Facebook page for more details.
wtopophiliA showcAseD At riverDAle huB gAllery
Topophilia, a group exhibi-tion that explores the themes of location, displacement and aesthetic relationships to space, is now on display at the Riverdale Hub Gallery, 1326 Gerrard St. E., between Coxwell and Greenwood avenues.
The exhibit, which interprets how space forms our identity and how we, in turn, come to define
the spaces we reside in, is being showcased until May 30
Email [email protected] for details.
wApplegrove to Benefit from comeDy revue
The May edition of East End Comedy Revue, a monthly comedy show for charity, is set for Sunday.
The evening of laughs will be held at The Duke Live, 1225 Queen St. E. at Leslie Street. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
This time around, Canadian stand-up legend Mike MacDonald will be the headliner with spe-cial guests Matt O’Brien, Julia Hladkowiczl, Evan Carter, and special guests Nigel Grinstead and Courtney Gilmour.
A portion of the proceeds from this month’s show will be directed to Applegrove Community Complex.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketscene.ca and at The Duke Live.
wiX gAllery hosts contAct eXhiBit
Riverside’s IX Gallery, along with the News Photographers Association of Canada (NPAC), is hosting an exhibit for the 2016 Scotiabank Contact Photography
Festival.The show, which features
images from the 2015 National Pictures of the Year awards competition, runs until Friday, May 27.
The National Pictures of the year awards competition was created by NPAC to recognize excellence in Canadian photo-journalism.
The gallery, at 11 Davies Ave., Suite 1010, is open Monday to Friday from 1 to 6 p.m.
Visit http://npac.ca
wleArn ABout gArDening At fArmers’ mArket
The Fairmount Park Farmers’ Market is hosting a second Build Your Garden event Wednesday, May 25.
From 3 to 7 p.m., community members are invited to Fairmount Park, 1725 Gerrard St. E., just east of Coxwell Avenue, to learn about sustainable gardening products and resources.
Seasonal vendors as well as special guest vendors will be on hand.
The event will also include lots of hands-on activities for the whole family, demonstrations and live music.
Visit www.fairmountmarket.ca
wpuBlic Artwork sought for leslieville
Artscape, in partnership with Rockport Group, is commission-ing and producing a temporary public artwork in Leslieville.
Artists can submit original proposals that aesthetically or thematically reflect the Leslieville neighbourhood, or the life of its founder, George Leslie.
The piece, slated for instal-lation in early August, will be reproduced on a 10’ by 16’ vinyl support and mounted on the eastern wall of Rockport’s George Condos sales office at 1258 Queen St. E., just east of Leslie Street.
Submissions should include a brief statement/description of the proposed project and how it relates to George Leslie and/or the Leslieville community; a sketch or mock-up of the proposed artwork in PDJ or jpeg form; a materials budget, a portfolio of five digi-tal images of past work with an accompanying image list, and a brief artist biography and CV.
Applications should be submit-ted to [email protected] by Friday, May 20 at 5 p.m.
A selection committee will shortlist three proposals, which will be showcased to the public. The winner will be selected from this shortlist.
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by a local MPP and Dipika Damerla, Ontario’s associ-ate minister of health and long-term care – is in Greater Toronto.
Which means the govern-ment still has to find a way to rebuild nearly half of its 626 licensed long-term care facilities.
Candace Chartier, CEO of the Ontario Long Term Care Association, said the situation is urgent.
“You’ve got these old buildings that are starting to fall apart,” Chartier said last month. “Time’s ticking, and all these licenses are expiring in nine years.”
Modernizing these older homes, many of them built to the design standards of the early 1970s, is long overdue, said Chartier, whose group represents facilities with 70 per cent, or some 54,000, of Ontario’s long-term care residents.
Most older homes still have some four-bed rooms, or have two-bed rooms with bathrooms shared by four residents.
Around 62 per cent of the residents have Alzheimer’s or other dementia, said Chartier, and they may be wandering, or calling out at night – and you can imagine the effect of this on someone just trying to get a good night’s sleep.
“People don’t want to put their loved one in an older
home,” she said.Chandrabalan has no doubt
renovating will increase qual-ity of life for his residents.
Some of its 203 men and women and their families like Extendicare Bayview’s one-floor design, he said, but you don’t find many homes like it anymore, and the com-plexity of care for residents is growing.
The home, meanwhile, has bought some time by learn-ing how to use spaces for multiple purposes – a dining room for physiotherapy and exercise, for example – but there are only four spaces in which to program activities for everyone.
Extendicare, which owns 34 long-term care (LTC) homes in Ontario and man-ages others, took over a long time ago.
Newer homes have only single and double rooms. There are no narrow hallways crowded with equipment, and no cafeteria-type spaces, but instead smaller and more intimate dining areas.
Extendicare Bayview’s larg-est dining room serves close to 90 residents, and close to 80 go to the next dining room across a hall.
There are no locked units. Memory boards, at the entrance to each room, display images from long ago, something residents can relate to their past, not short-term memory.
The washrooms are meant for people who can walk, not for the wheelchairs used by 60 per cent of residents, who need one or two staff to assist them.
Their tubs, Chandrabalan said, have been unused for 20 years, but the cost of removal would be too much.
The home has only one three-bed room, but 64 other double rooms share one bathroom through slid-ing doors.
T h e s e b a s i c r o o m s don’t have a lot of space. Chandrabalan said.
“At the end of the day it comes down to care, and the best we can do with it.”
Needs are great
Toronto, divided by the province into local health integration networks, or LHINs, has some areas where the need for bed renovation is greater.
The Central LHIN, which includes North York and York Region, has the short-est long-term bed supply of all LHINs. Most of its beds to be redeveloped are in North York – 1,620 of them.
But the Central East LHIN, which includes Scarborough and Durham, has the largest number of beds scheduled for redevelopment, including 2,149 (slightly more than half) of 4,234 beds in Scarborough alone, where 12 of 22 of long-
term homes could be on the list.
Since 2003, the ministry has created just more than 10,000 new nursing home beds, and 13,500 have been redeveloped, but more than 30,000 in those 300 older homes remain.
Chartier thinks there will be a need for the province to build new beds, too, given Ontario’s aging population and a 83-day average wait time for an LTC bed.
She said the renovation program – giving homes a construction subsidy of $16.65 per bed per day over 25 years – is enough, if it could work for everybody.
Right now, the program works for some members of her association, she said, but not all. A 60-bed home in a rural area can’t afford redevel-opment, and with land prices so high in downtown Toronto, homes there may have to look at building elsewhere, she said. Some older homes won’t want to rebuild; the ministry may take a couple of years to count who does or doesn’t, Chartier said.
In an interview last week, Ontario New Democratic Party Leader Andrea Horwath argued the province’s long-term care system “has been pretty much ignored” over the past 13 years of Liberal government, which Horwath said “has a lot of catching up to do.
Homes waiting for redevelopment across the province>>>from page 1
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Students and teachers from Bowmore Road Junior and Senior Public School did their part to help those impacted by the wildfires in Fort McMurray, Alberta last Friday, when they did a support walk around the school. Each class-room was been given a Bristol board with a big bubble letter on it. These boards will were laid out on the back pavement at the school to spell #BowmoreBacksFortMac! After the walk, everyone gathered around the banner to have their picture snapped from the roof. Students also made a monetary contribu-tion.
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bowmore helps out
The Friends of Stephenson Park stewardship group has partnered with Community Centre 55 to raise funds to install a commemorative tree in the park in honour of Marilyn Ullrich, who died in a car crash.
Ullrich was killed Tuesday, May 3 when a vehicle crashed into the front window of the Bold Steps Dance Studio in the Beach.
She often volunteered at Stephenson Park, located near Danforth Avenue and Main Street.
A 30-year east-ender, Ullrich was also a member of the seniors group at Community Centre 55
(CC55) and did volun-teering there as well.
Those who are inter-ested in making a
donation can call CC55 at 416-691-1113. Tax receipts are available. The goal is to have enough funds raised to plant the tree this fall.
A memorial for Ullrich’s will take place at Community Centre 55, 97 Main St., Saturday, May 28, from 2 to 5 p.m.
Funds sought to plant a tree for Marilyn Ullrich
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A long weekend is just about here, and many of us will hit the road for this Victoria Day holiday.
No matter when or where you go – be it in the city or on a longer road trip to a cottage or to pitch a tent – your main focus should be arriving at your destina-tion alive.
The excitement of having a few days off from the everyday sometimes causes people to throw common sense out the window (along with some litter – don’t do that by the way). While you and other drivers snake through slow traffic, you can expect the Ontario Provincial Police to be keeping a close eye on how you drive.
Last year, 27 motorcyclists and four passengers died, with 17 of those motorcycle drivers reported as driving properly at the time of the crash, the OPP
reports. While speed and loss of control
also played a role in the deaths, the OPP is cautioning both motorcyclists and other drivers to do a better job of sharing the road.
These weekends away from our routine don’t have to be reckless.
Speeding, careless lane changes and unnecessary risk-taking can cause more than a rush – it can end your life or someone else’s.
If you follow the rules of the road, and the person driving next to you does the same, along with the vehicle ahead of you and the other trailing a safe dis-tance behind, there’s no reason this shouldn’t be a holiday to remember – for all the right reasons.
And if you want to celebrate the birthday of the late Queen Victoria with fireworks, be safe about it.
The Canada Safety Council believes it’s best to enjoy fireworks at a show put on by professionals such as the City of Toronto set for Monday night at Ashbridges Bay Park.
But if you’re going to be your own pyrotechnic protege, follow these tips:
• Read the instructions, cautions and warnings on each firework item.
• Set up outdoors in a clear, open space. Light fireworks on a hard, flat and level surface to ensure stability.
• Spectators should be at a safe distance.• Only adults (18 years or over) should handle the
fireworks.• If you are impaired, do not handle fireworks.Visit www.canadasafetycouncil.org for more safety
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Be safe this Victoria Day long weekend
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Council needs to make Toronto sustainableIf recent history has taught us nothing else, let us remem-ber this: that left to their own devices, Toronto’s political leadership is about as good with a budget as a pack of 12 year olds with their parents’ credit cards.
It had always been so, at least within the lifespan of amalgamated Toronto.
In 1997, Mel Lastman was elected the city’s first mayor on a promise of a three-year property tax freeze – deliv-ered at the same time as the city was reconstituting itself into the largest municipality in the country at the behest, but without the support of, the provincial government.
Lastman’s first term set a tone that subsequent councils have maintained: namely, that marginal prop-erty tax increases are the most injurious thing a gov-ernment might inflict upon homeowners – about an equivalent evil to reducing services upon which those homeowners had come to rely and limiting promises of improved service to come.
And so over the years, council has approved proj-ects, maintained services, and kept property tax increases slim to none.
This week, Toronto’s city manager Peter Wallace brought out another in what is developing into a series of despatches, delineating what to many has been obvious for years.
Toronto has been able to maintain the fiction of a growing city and a low property tax environment thanks to factors that are either entirely beyond its control (a booming real estate market that pours in revenue through the munic-ipal land transfer tax) or measures of which council should frankly be ashamed (approving capital projects for future years with no means of financing).
At some point, very soon, the boom’s going to end and the projects will have to
be built.Wallace first pointed
this out to councillors in the fall shortly after he took the job. That early report gave Mayor John Tory a small amount of political cover, to propose that the city maintain a 0.5 per cent levy on the property tax bill currently in place to help finance the Scarborough subway, to finance more transit infrastructure.
This report, coming to next week’s Executive Committee, provides an imperative for more of the same: a debate on what other ways we might find to support ourselves in the style to which we’ve become accustomed. To whit: revenue tools.
These conversations haven’t gone well in the past. In the last term of council, politicians balked at supporting any revenue tools, even as they voted to go forward on subway expansion in Scarborough.
Former mayor David Miller was able to get a couple of major revenue
tools through council, but the battle over the land transfer tax and vehicle registration tax nearly broke council.
Will it be any different now? It’s not encouraging.
Toronto council this term has shown just as little appetite for long-term financial planning as ever. Under the leadership of Tory, council approved a billion-dollar rebuild of the Gardiner Expressway’s elevated lanes, against expert advice.
The Scarborough subway, absent all but one stop, remains on the books. And this week, Tory made it clear himself that one thing he won’t support is any significant increase to Toronto’s bargain-base-ment property tax rates.
There’s no doubt about it: the arrested 12 year olds on Toronto council have a lot of growing up to do.
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East-end residents are still reeling from the sudden, unannounced closure of the Rocca’s No Frills grocery store at 269 Coxwell Ave., just north of Gerrard Street East.
Last Wednesday morning, the supermarket posted a note on the front and back doors of the store indicating it had closed its doors for renovations for an undetermined, albeit extended, period of time.
“We have served this com-munity for decades. We hope to serve the community for decades more,” it read.
“To do that, we need to modernize the store. This will include improvements to the building and renovations that will make your shopping experience even better.”
To assist those who rely on No Frills for their groceries, parent company Loblaws said it would be looking into providing a shuttle bus to the Dave and Charlotte’s No Frills store at 449 Carlaw Ave., north
of Gerrard.Three days later on Friday,
May 13, the free service was launched and is running every 15 minutes between 8 a.m. and
7:30 p.m. daily with a break between 1 and 2 p.m.
Carrie, a 30-year area resi-dent, came by the store early Friday afternoon to find out
more about it.“I think the shuttle is a nice
gesture but they should have forewarned us also (about the closure). They should have done a better job preparing the community,” she said.
Carrie, who doesn’t drive and expects she’ll have to make a number of trips if she has to buy big or heavy items, admitted she’s skeptical about how long the shuttle will be offered.
Therese Cowie also dropped by the east-end No Frills to buy some items for dinner and was surprised to find it closed.
“I’m just inconvenienced,” said Cowie, who opted to try out the free shuttle bus.
Like many, 20-year east-end resident Janet dropped by the Coxwell Avenue No Frills to pick up a few items and was surprised to see the windows papered over.
“I would have bought more yesterday (when I was here), if I had known. This is disgust-ing,” she said, adding the supermarket is relied upon by a lot of lower income and older
people in the community.Cyclist Cindy also hoped
to pick up a few things at the store but was stunned to learn it’s now closed.
“This is going to be a night-mare. Lots of people who live around here don’t have vehi-cles,” she said. “I always drop by on my way home. Now I’m going to have slim pickings for dinner.”
Resident Coreen Barton also said she’s not too sure where she’ll go for her grocery shopping.
“As a neighbour, I’ve been here for 12 years and I got no notice. I saw the manager the other day and nobody said a word,” she said. “This is where I go to shop. Where am I going to go to shop now? There’s nowhere nearby to go.”
A cashier from the now-shuttered store stopped by to pick up a few items she’d left behind Friday afternoon.
The part-time employee, who asked not to give her name, said she found out about the store closing from a co-worker.
“I was shocked to find out but management told me they would try to help me find a job at another location,” she said, adding she was also promised a position at the new store once it reopens.
She said she was told the store would be closed for eight to 10 months.
In an email to The Beach Mirror, Kevin Groh, Loblaws Companies Ltd.’s vice-pres-ident of corporate affairs and communication, said the Coxwell Avenue No Frills would only be closed tempo-rarily, and the store’s employ-ees are being taken care of.
“What I can tell you is that the owner of Rocca’s No Frills and the No Frills team are doing everything possible to identify employ-ment opportunities at other No Frills locations during the closure. In the interim, employees will be provided financial support in excess of employment standards,” he said, adding all employees will be welcomed back when the store reopens.
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The City of Toronto hosts Victoria Day fi reworks at 9:45 p.m. Monday at Ashbridges Bay Park at Lake Shore Boulevard East and Coxwell Avenue. Thousands of
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This year’s HarbourKIDS: Circus Festival has been re-imagined. Organizers have teamed up with circus artists and curators to offer circus acts that will have
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Beasley Bear’s Teddy Bear Picnic is a free event at Centreville on Centre Island that combines outdoor fun with physical education to teach school-aged children
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The Ultimutts Stunt Dog Show is a circus-style show jampacked with non-stop tricks to wow the audience and keep them on the edge of their seats. Comprised
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Rib fest and barbecue bash feature what organizers say are the best rib teams in Canada along with bar-becue foods from different cultures. Runs Friday and
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The original Jersey boy himself, Frankie Valli is a true American pop icon. His incredible career with the Four Seasons, as well as his solo success, has spawned
countless hit singles. The concert takes place Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, 1 Front St. E. Tickets range in price from $95.39 to $168.39.
OUTSIDERS: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM
Documenting American life in all its startling complex-ity and diversity, the photographers and fi lmmakers featured in the AGO’s latest exhibition, Outsiders:
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Beaches-East York MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith recently announced funding for four programs for youth and seniors in the city’s east end.
Erskine-Smith made the announcement late last month on behalf of Québec MP Jean-Yves Duclos, the minister of families, children and social development.
“Our gover nment is dedicated to ensuring that Canadian seniors can get involved in community activi-ties that meet their needs and interests, tap their collective resources and experiences, and promote their participa-tion,” Erskine-Smith said in a release.
“We support New Horizons for Seniors Program projects like these so that seniors in Beaches-East York can lead and participate in local activi-ties.”
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executive director of The Neighbourhood Group, also expressed her appreciation for the funding.
“Neighbourhood Link Support Services, one of The Neighbourhood Group, is delighted to be awarded funding from the Ministry of Employment and Social Development for our Youth Works Program,” she said.
“This vital program provides at-risk youth ages 18 to 30 with pre-employment training and real workplace experience giving them the tools and con-fidence they need to succeed. We truly value this important and long-standing funding partnership and look forward to many more years providing this valuable program.”
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Federal funding to help seniors and youth praised
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New Horizons for SeniorsThe local groups set to benefit from the funding, which is
part of the federal government’s New Horizons for Seniors and Skills Link programs, are:
w Bangladesh Centre – Intergenerational Project to Integrate South Asian Seniors into Canadian Society and Culture, $24,056
w Mennonite New Life Centre of Toronto – From Garden to Table: Bridging Generations for a Sustainable Healthy Lifestyle, $24,850
w The Neighbourhood Centre – Seniors Arts and Brain Booster Club, $25,000
w The Neighbourhood Group – Skills Link, $408,598
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Toronto Beach native Rich Clune picked an excellent time to score his first goal of the American Hockey League (AHL) playoffs on Monday.
His goal, with less than three minutes remaining in the third period, held up as the winner as the Toronto Marlies clinched the seventh and deciding game 4-3 at home at the Ricoh Coliseum against the visiting Albany Devils.
Clune was left with an easy tap-in after a shot from the point missed the net but hit the end boards and bounced right back in front of the net.
The 29-year-old veteran, who kicked off the sport in the Ted Reeve Hockey Association, was tabbed as the game’s first star for his efforts.
Clune has three points (one goal, two assists) in 10 playoff games.
The Marlies local flavour also includes Connor Brown,
who grew up in Etobicoke and attended Michael Power/St. Joseph High School, with eight points (six goals, two assists), and Zach Hyman, 23, who grew up in Forest Hill, attend-ing North York’s Community Hebrew Academy Toronto (CHAT), with five playoff points (3 goals, 2 assists).
The Marlies move on to the
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Waterfront Toronto and city officials will present preliminary design and planning concepts for pos-sible new, yet currently unfunded, transit routes that may include the East Bayfront LRT.
Two meetings are scheduled for the study, with the first taking place Wednesday, May 25 at Brigantine Room inside Harbourfront Centre start-ing at 6 p.m.
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The Tunnel Vision subway exhibit is down to its final month.
The installation inside St. Lawrence Market fea-tures photographs, maps, and other artifacts from
nearly 100 years of transit planning, dating back well before the opening of the city’s first subway stations.
Organized by the Toronto Transportation Society, the exhibit, which opened in February, closes June 11.
wMOVE OVER UBER, HERE COMES APPLE
The legalization of Uber is well at hand, but could another tech giant one day enter the ride-hailing market?
It certainly seems like Apple is interested, with the company announcing last week it is investing $1 bil-lion in a Chinese competi-tor of Uber, and acting as a “strategic” investor to the company, Didi Chuxing.
It’s certainly conceivable Apple will never operate a ride-hailing service on its own.
But the company’s deep pockets combined with the burgeoning growth of the industry could mean there’s a day when Apple-branded vehicles are providing pri-vate rides in this city, and rivalling Uber in popularity.
wLONGTIME TTC HEAD OF PLANNING HAS RETIRED
The TTC’s longtime head of planning has finally called it a day after a career spanning more than three decades.
For 21 years of his career with the city, Mitch Stambler was the com-mission’s chief planning official, having a hand in developing transit expan-sion projects and plans.
Stambler had a direct role creating the Transit City light rail network plan, and he was also part of planning for the Spadina subway extension.
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it’s happeningw Thursday, May 19An Evening with Tanis RideoutWHEN: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Jones Public Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Te-resa, 416-393-7715 COST: FreeThe Jones Book Club welcomes Tanis Rideout, bestselling author, as she shares the inspira-tion behind her debut novel ‘Above All Things.’
w Saturday, May 21The Umbrella ThiefWHEN: 11 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Jones Public Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Te-resa, 416-393-7715 COST: FreeA puppet show based on a Sri Lankan folktale that follows Kiri Mama as he tries to find the thief who keeps stealing his umbrellas.
w Saturday, May 28Lawn Bowling Open HouseWHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Kew Beach Lawn Bowl-ing Club, bottom of Lee Avenue, on the Boardwalk CONTACT: Fay Henderson, 416-466-6598, [email protected] COST: Free
Central Connection Art Show and SaleWHEN: 3 to 6 p.m. WHERE:
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w Saturday, June 4Dundas Fun FairWHEN: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Dundas Public School, 935 Dundas St. E. CONTACT: Tracey, 647-388-5555, www.dundasfunfair.ca, [email protected] COST: FreeThere will be food, games and prizes, bouncy castles, ice cream, face painting, entertainment, 50/50 cash raffle, and more. All proceeds go to Dundas Public School.
Make a MuralWHEN: 11 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Teresa, 416-393-7715 COST: FreeHelp us make a mural to bright-en our city. Tell us what you love about Toronto, and what makes it so amazing.
w Tuesday, June 7Stratford Festival HD Produc-tion Screenings: ‘King John’WHEN: 2 p.m. WHERE: Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E. CON-TACT: 416-393-7703 COST: Free
w Wednesday, June 8At Home Alone: Five Easy Steps to IndependenceWHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Jones Branch, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715 COST: FreeA workshop led by Toronto Public Health to help families prepare their 10 to 14 year old to be home alone safely. Call 416-393-7715 to register.
w Friday, June 10What is Bannock?WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715 COST: FreeLearn the history behind ban-nock, a traditional First Nations bread, and learn how to make your own, with help from the staff from local restaurant Tea n’ Bannock.
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