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JAMMER CLASSIC: Malvern Collegiate defender Chris Mills, left, pressures Upper Canada College’s Dom Peters during Jammer Classic lacrosse action at the Cherry Beach Fields Friday. Upper Canada College went on to win the game 7-4.
MALVERN LACROSSE ACTION Liens removed from homesin Leslieville JOANNA LAVOIE [email protected]
Ward 30 Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher said construction liens placed on dozens of homes and proper-ties in Leslieville is a “terribly upsetting” thing that “never should have happened.”
Just more than a week ago, scores of east-end residents were both shocked and angered to learn a payment dispute between the TTC, its Leslie Barns contractor, Pomerleau Inc., and sub-contractor, Ozz Electric Inc., resulted in liens placed against their homes and properties.
The news came to light after the lawyer for a condominium owner who is in the process of selling his unit learned there was a lien against his property.
On March 3, Ozz Electric fi led a claim for nearly $1.5 million in unpaid services and mate-rials supplied to Pomerleau from Jan. 24, 2014 to Feb. 25, 2016 for the Leslie Barns light rail vehicle maintenance and storage facility at Lake Shore Boulevard East and Leslie Street. Dozens of Leslieville homes and properties were named in the 23-page claim.
T h e To r o n t o Tr a n s i t Commission said it only “acci-
Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts, along with Ontario’s Minister of Transportation Steven Del Duca, hosts a transit town hall Monday, April 18.
The event runs from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Hope United Church, 2550 Danforth Ave. at Main Street.
Both Potts and Del Duca will be discussing and taking
questions about a range of transit issues including fare integration, rail electrifi cation and the expansion of Danforth GO, among other things.
Everyone is welcome to attend this transit townhall meeting.
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Every day, ordinary people go to extraordinary lengths to improve the lives of those limited by age,illness and disability.
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This program recognizes all types of paid and unpaid caregivers, including familymembers, neighbours, friends and health care workers who selflessly provide skilled andcompassionate care. Nominees might include a wife caring for her chronically-ill husband, a sonhelping his elderly mother live independently, or a personal support worker whose home visits areessential to a person with disabilities.
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JOANNA LAVOIE [email protected]
Beach Triangle resident and mother of two Zilla Parker wants to prevent other families from going through the pain hers has endured in the last three years.
On Sept. 14, 2013, Parker’s 45-year-old husband Domenic, who worked as a firefighter in Markham, was off-duty when he was stabbed to death at the former Rotana Café at 1530 Danforth Ave.
Nabil Huruy, who has a mental health disorder, was initially charged with first-degree murder in connec-tion with the unprovoked, random killing. Late last year, Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer found Huruy, who was known to police, not criminally responsible for Parker’s death.
At the time of the ruling, Parker posted a statement on social media indicating this case highlights the need for more understanding of mental health issues and more resources.
“We need more funding in our health-care system, more funding for research, more education and
awareness,” she wrote. “There is obviously a huge need for improve-ment on our current system. This is the conversation I believe we should be having. Maybe we can prevent this tragedy from happening to another family.”
Parker, who is seeking a coroner’s inquest, has recently launched an online petition at change.org calling on Ontario’s Chief Coroner Dr. Dirk Huyer to identify what changes can
be made to improve the health-care system so that those with mental illness can be better diagnosed and receive the treatment they need in the early stages.
“During the trial, I learned about a lot more details in relation to what happened,” she said earlier this week.
“I learned that the man who killed my husband clearly had mental health issues and had several inter-
actions with the police.” Just days before Parker’s husband
was killed she also learned Huruy had been behaving abnormally.
The court heard he was found on the roof of a school with bags of clothing he had taken from a mosque. Huruy reportedly told police he had been on the roof play-ing soccer. Police gave him a trespass notice. That same day, he was found standing on an overpass above Hwy. 401 with a large ring around his neck. Huruy told police the ring was part of him, wrote Nordheimer in his Dec. 10 ruling.
Nordheimer also wrote Huruy had previously made statements about people and the government being after him.
“Mr. Huruy was paranoid, had armed himself with two knives and was the subject of delusions, includ-ing hearing voices,” he wrote.
“He believed there were people, apparently on behalf of the govern-ment, who were intent on causing him harm, if not death.”
In the case of Huruy, Parker said she feels Bill 68, which is also known as Brian’s Law, should have been invoked. This law, which was named
after Brian Smith who, in 1995, was fatally shot by a person suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, allows for a community treatment order by an attending physician. This order is intended to provide comprehensive treatment outside of a psychiatric facility.
“If they had held him for 72 hours, my husband would still be alive,” Parker said.“What happened to Domenic is not an isolated incident. More early intervention is key to protecting the public and individu-als with mental health issues.”
So far, upward of 2,500 people have signed the petition, which can be viewed/signed by visiting http://www.mentalhealthletsact.com
Parker said her goal is for 100,000 people to show their support and down the line for improvement in Canada’s national mental health care strategy. Parker said she also intends to approach various levels of government to discuss improving the health-care system for those with mental illnesses and in turn prevent future tragedies like the one her family has endured.
-with files from Torstar News Service
RAHUL GUPTA [email protected]
The TTC is promising to replace volume controls on its new fleet of streetcars in an attempt to modu-late the loudness of external stop notifications.
No timetable was given, but the commission said it is working with vehicle manufacturer Bombardier to implement a fix to the loud alerts and door chimes that are waking Leslieville residents when the new streetcars pass by in the early morn-ings.
“This control will soon be replaced with a dynamic automatic volume control (AVC) similar to that on the buses and the old streetcars,” said the TTC in the response forwarded by Brad Ross, the TTC’s executive director for corporate communi-cations
“Volume output would then
essentially respond to ambient noise level in this control scheme.”
External noise alerts and stop notifications are mandated by pro-vincial accessibility legislation and the TTC must have all of its vehicles equipped by the end of the year. The TTC developed loudness guidelines with the Advisory Committee on Accessible Transit, which consults with the TTC on improving transit accessibility. According to the transit commission, ACAT members wanted the stop notifications even louder so they are audible while standing on a sidewalk across from a busy lane of traffic.
Martin Sherman, who lives near Queen Street East and Jones Avenue complained to The Mirror about the streetcar chimes earlier this month. Sherman was particularly confused why the noise was so much louder in the case of the new streetcar fleet, but markedly more quiet on the
buses and older streetcars.According to the TTC, buses
are quieter because they have one speaker located at the front, as opposed to the streetcars which have alerts ringing from all doors.
Reached this week, Sherman said there hasn’t been any change to the noise. “I haven’t had a solid seven hours of sleep since November,” said Sherman.
TTC CEO Andy Byford said the province has set a end of 2016 to have every TTC bus and streetcar outfitted with the external stop alerts.
“The imperative for me is to get the system on to the vehicles because we must meet that pro-vincially mandated legislation. It’s laudable, but this isn’t something the TTC chose to do,” said Byford last week. “But at the end of the day, we have a deadline to meet which isn’t going to move.”
Petition calls for coroner’s inquest into murder of Domenic Parker
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Beach Triangel resident Zilla Parker, second from left, has started a peti-tion to improve Canada’s health-care system for those with mental ill-nesses. Parker’s husband Domenic was stabbed to death in a random attack by a man suffering from mental illness on Sept. 14, 2013.
TTC turning down the streetcar chimes volume Petition to ban non-refundable waiting list fees for daycareJOANNA LAVOIE [email protected]
Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts presented a petition in the Legislature Monday that calls for a ban on the practice of charging non-refundable waiting list fees to parents for daycare spaces in Ontario.
Potts said he first heard about the practice after constituent Nadine Blum and her friend Kelly Doctor came in to discuss it with him.
During their conversation, Potts said he was “shocked” to learn Blum, who has a two-year-old son, was repeatedly asked to pay non-refund-able fees of $20 to $150 to put her child’s name on daycare wait lists in 2015.
Doctor said at least 200 people
have signed the petition since it was launched just a few weeks ago.
Visit bit.ly/waitfeeban to down-load the petition.
Doctor went on to say that this issue is a “symptom of a bigger prob-lem” where daycare providers are making parents compete for spaces instead of being a public good.
Both women, who are also law-yers at Goldblatt Partners LLP, also want policies put in place across Ontario to ensure families waiting for a daycare space for their child are being treated fairly.
“That’s the second part of our petition,” Doctor said.
“People are skipping the queue. It’s not a first-come, first-serve system.”
-with files from Torstar News Service
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A new pilot project that allows library patrons to borrow a musical instrument simply with their library card is a big step in the right direction.
The Sun Life Financial Musical Instrument Lending Library officially launched this past week at the Parkdale library, now giving the opportunity for aspiring musicians to sign out instruments ranging from violins and guitars to a full-size keyboard and a banjo.
It’s a step in the right direction in making music more accessible to the community especially for the youth as well as those who can’t afford to buy good-quality instruments.
Just as several organizations have seen the value in youth playing sports by subsidizing expensive equip-
ment, this program shines a light on the value of youth play-ing music to enrich their lives.
It’s also a step in the right direction in making Toronto a music city by cultivating home-grown talent.
It was fitting that in atten-dance at the launch event were
two successful Canadian musicians – Juno Award-winning artist Chantal Kreviazuk and her husband, Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida.
Maida told Metroland Media Toronto that he didn’t have access to musical instruments until his brother bought one when he was 12 years old.
To ensure more kids have that opportunity to play music, Maida and Kreviazuk donated a guitar and keyboard of their own to add to the 100 instruments already in the collection.
The community can support this initiative, too. Residents can donate their own gently used or new musical instruments to this pilot program, which runs until the end of 2017, and help it grow and expand to libraries across the city.
INSTRUMENT DONATION DRIvE
There’s a Musical Instrument Donation Drive, which continues until May 7, and things are off to a great start.
Calls have already come in from people wanting to donate such instruments as bongo drums, French horns, flutes, erhu (Chinese fiddle) and midi control-lers.
Library staff noted more diverse instruments from different cultures are welcome.
Call 416-393-7686 for details or to donate.
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NDP crisis has been a long time in the makingLast weekend, the New Democratic Party member-ship did what is unthinkable among mainstream Canadian party politics and ousted their leader Tom Mulcair. The shockwaves carried across the land: the NDP, stalwart voice of Canadian progressive thinking, is in crisis!
Of course, the NDP has been in crisis for years and particularly for those of us watching from Toronto.
Although you certainly can’t blame the late Jack Layton, it’s easy to mark the beginning of that crisis with the former federal NDP leader’s electoral success and then his death, both in 2011. The NDP was briefly the Official Opposition in Ottawa. As Stephen Harper’s Conservatives used their majority govern-ment to alienate much of the country, the NDP became a de-facto govern-ment in waiting.
But it wasn’t just that collection of newly elected MPs that walked away with expectations raised. Layton
himself offered inspiration from his death bed. Love, he told the country, is better than anger. Hope is better than fear and opti-mism, better than despair.
New Democrats at least politically, cherry-picked: Optimism and hope, that the party that had tradi-tionally been a third-party left-of-centre conscience, might persuade voters to allow them to lead; and also fear, that if they led too much with their left-of-centre conscience then they’d never win.
It was a bad and self-destructive lesson. The Ontario NDP forced a costly provincial election in 2014, rejecting in conscience the most left-of-centre provincial budget that a Liberal government had ever put forward. Leader Andrea Horwath made some gains for the party, but in Toronto lost some
of the party’s most histori-cally secure seats. The same year, Olivia Chow turned a commanding lead in the polls to a third-place finish in the Toronto mayoralty race, with a campaign that did tack more to the left, but was timid and unambi-tious. And last year, Mulcair did much the same thing federally, when he led the party to a place somewhat to the right of the Liberals, and predictably, collapsed. It was enough to wipe the slate clean for New Democrats in Toronto. Now there seems to be strong interest in the grassroots of the party in turning back to its progressive roots, embracing as many mem-bers have, the so-called Leap Manifesto, which urges the party to return to its environmentalist, socially- and economically-inclusive roots.
But don’t count out the lure of power to eclipse conscience. Alberta New Democrat Premier Rachel Notley is still providing a
lone successful example of the pragmatism that has proved so toxic to the party. At the convention, she provided a reminder the only way to make that stick for more than one term is to lighten up on the pipeline opposition. You’d like to think that in this age of surging U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and “Sunny Ways” Justin Trudeau, the original Canadian party of hope and social justice and change would be in an unambigu-ous position to capitalize on the mood, and maybe use that to take their shot at forming a serious progres-sive government one day.
Instead, the NDP is tan-gled in its own ambitions. Disentanglement will take time, and when it’s over, who’s to say what will be standing in its place?
David Nickle is Metroland Media Toronto’s city hall reporter. His column runs
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featuredw Sunday, April 24Earth Day Ravine CleanupWHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Glen Stew-art Ravine, 350 Beech Ave. at Kingston Road CONTACT: Cherie Daly, [email protected], 416-691-7150 COST: FreeRavine cleanup starting at the Beech Avenue entrance to the Glen Stewart Ravine at 10 a.m. The Friends of Glen Stewart Ravine invite the community to lend a hand to clean the ravine in celebration of Earth Day. Bring gloves and dress to get dirty. We will also create a sign encouraging continuing care of the ravine and will have treats for participants.
ChECK oUT oUR complete online community calendar by visiting www.beachmirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your Beach neighbourhood as well as events from across Toronto.
it’s happeningw Friday, April 15Anthony Ranieri Solo Exhibition: Film & SurrealWHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Ben Navaee Gallery, 1111 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Anthony Ranieri, www.imaginationrootsinmadness.net, [email protected] COST: Freeopening reception today; exhibit continues until April 28.
w Sunday, April 17Kingston Road Village Concert Series: The Cecilia String QuartetWHEN: 1:30 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. CONTACT: Krista, www.kruc.ca/concerts, [email protected] COST: FreeThe Cecilia String Quartet is ensem-ble-in-residence at U of T. Tickets in advance, online, or at the door.
w Monday, April 18Let’s Talk about Advance Care PlanningWHEN: 6 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: East End Community health Centre, 1619 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Joanne Gallagher, 416-778-5805, ext. 218, www.eastendchc.on.ca COST: FreeAdvance care planning is about mak-ing choices now on how you want to be cared for in the future. Get tools
and resources to help your planning process. A light snack will be served at 6 p.m., followed by a presentation and discussion at 6:30 p.m.
w Thursday, April 21Jones Book ClubWHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE:
Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Teresa, 416-393-7715 COST: FreeRead ‘The headmaster’s Wager’ by Vincent Lam and join in the discus-sion.
eh List Author Reading Series: Sally Christie
WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 416-393-7703 COST: FreeThe eh List Author Series presents Sally Christie and The Rivals of Ver-sailles, the second installment of The Mistresses of Versailles Trilogy. Book signing to follow.
w Tuesday, May 3Stratford Festival Screenings:‘Antony and Cleopatra’WHEN: 2 p.m. WHERE: Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 416-393-7703 COST: Free
w Wednesday, May 4Hamlet...A Puppet Epic!
WHEN: 1:15 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: www.spurofthemomentshakespeare.weebly.com COST: FreeChildren’s company Shakey-Shake and Friends offers a playful re-telling of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy.
eh List Author Reading Series: Alissa YorkWHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 416-393-7703 COST: FreeThe eh List Author Series presents the award-winning author of novels ‘Fauna,’ ‘Effigy’ and ‘Mercy,’ Alissa York, with her new novel, ‘The Natu-ralist.’ Book signing to follow.
w Friday, May 6Ask An Expert: Pollinator GardensWHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 416-393-7703 COST: FreeJoin a representa-tive from Toronto Master Gardeners for a presentation about the latest buzz on creating a haven for pollinators. Learn about the reasons why you should plant a pollinator garden, details and recommendations for specific plants, and how to create
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ongoingFigurative Art ClassesWHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. Thursdays WHERE: Art in the Beach by the Beach Guild of Fine Art, 140 Wineva Ave. CONTACT: Nathaniel Stroud, 647-574-4278, [email protected] COST: FreeA weekly figurative art class. There will be a half time break with food and drinks. It is a great way to meet other artists in your community and share your creativity.
Shout Sister Choir Toronto South EastWHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays WHERE: Kingston Road United Church, 975 Kingston Rd. CONTACT: www.shoutsisterchoir.ca COST: DuesIf you are interested in joining, send an email to [email protected] and specify Toronto SE as the subject line.
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A new Tim Hortons loca-tion is set to open up shop at Boardwalk Place, which is also home to Paralia sea-food restaurant and Athens Pastries.
What makes this news controversial is that back in June 2010, Tuggs Inc., which is run by the Foulidis family, signed a 20-year sole-sourced lease extension granting them exclusive rights to sell food, drinks and souvenirs at the what was then known as Boardwalk Café as well as at the Donald Summerville pool, the concessions at Kew Beach, and at Kew Gardens, Wo o d b i n e B e a c h a n d Ashbridges Bay. Supporters of this extension, which raised some ire and was also a major issue in Rob Ford’s 2010 may-oral campaign, believed an exemption from the city’s tendering process was to ensure a big chain couldn’t just step in and take over the family-run operation.
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Organists Patrick Dewell and Elizabeth Anderson will be the featured performers at Beach United Church’s Bach on the Beach event on Saturday.
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The April edition of the Leslieville Flea is set for Sunday in the Fermenting Cellar of Toronto’s Distillery Historic District, 28 Distillery Lane, near Parliament Street, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The curated market features vintage, salvaged, up-cycled goods, furniture, antiques, col-lectibles and select artisans. Admission is free.
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A community clean-up event in the Beach Hill/Smalls Creek/Williamson Park Ravine area has been organized for Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Anyone interested in taking part should meet at the north side of Gerrard Street East at the entrance of the Williamson Park Ravine just east of Coxwell Avenue.
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The Beach Garden Society is hosting a presentation titled the Trials and Triumphs of Weir’s Lane Lavender Farm, on Tuesday.
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TTC spokesperson Susan Sperling said as of Monday, April 11, all of the liens have been removed.
A letter from the commis-sion went out to affected resi-dents and property owners the following day.
“It’s not something that, in our opinion, should have happened,” Sperling said, underlining that it’s the TTC’s goal for those impacted by the liens to have no “long-term impacts”.
“The TTC can’t speak to any specific cases but we are taking steps to ensure nobody trying to sell their home is negatively impacted,” she said.
Sperling would not address the contractor payment dis-pute that led to all of this.
“Our priority over the last several days has been to have the liens removed and ensure there are no negative impacts. We really have been working to protect our neighbours,” she said.
Regardless of the liens being removed, Fletcher said people’s homes should never have been included in the claim.
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somehow those properties got listed. I’m happy (the liens) were taken off so quickly, but I’m extremely unhappy they were even there in the first place,” she said late Tuesday afternoon.
Fletcher, who commended neighbours for stepping up so quickly and refusing to accept the liens, said the TTC should be reviewing its practice of turning over addresses. She said despite being a small piece of a $1-billion proj-ect, a sub-contractor’s legal action has resulted in undue stress for those living in the neighbourhood. “People are feeling resentful. They have done their best through years of construction, noise, dust, noise and inconvenience,” she said. “Really, the neighbours didn’t deserve that.”
Fletcher went on to say that she hopes the TTC under-
stands this incident isn’t just a “simple mistake”, but one that has been “extremely upset-ting” for people.
“The fate of their largest investment was in jeopardy and it was no fault of their own,” Fletcher said, adding everything that could go wrong with this project has gone wrong. “There’s a lot to learn and I hate being Ground 0 for learning,” she said, adding the TTC needs to ensure residents in the vicin-ity of major transit projects are taken care of. The TTC must continue to fine tune its approach in the neigh-bourhoods they work. I’m just looking forward to the day when there are no more problems.”
Pomerleau Inc. was con-tacted, but a spokesperson said the company has nothing more to add.
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