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An unpaid electrical contractor bill has resulted in construction liens being placed on several homes and properties in the
vicinity of the TTC’s new Leslie Barns facility.
On Thursday, March 3, Ozz Electric Inc. filed a claim for $1,449,943.26 in unpaid services and materials supplied to con-tractor Pomerleau Inc. from Jan.
24, 2014 to Feb. 25, 2016. Ozz Electric was one of sev-
eral contractors retained by Pomerleau to work on the TTC’s new light rail vehicle mainte-nance and storage facility near Leslie Street and Lake Shore
Boulevard East. Dozens of Leslieville homes
have been named in the 23-page claim, including Marigold Gardens Condominium at 1209 Queen St.
Contractor files claim over unpaid services for work on Leslie Barns
Leslieville homeowners shocked by construction leins
The South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC) is inviting the public to learn more about its harm reduction program and its future plans for supervised injection services.
The first open house will be this evening (April 7) from 5 to 7 p.m.
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Since November, Martin Sherman has had difficulties getting a good night’s rest.
It’s not falling asleep that’s difficult; Sherman and his partner are practically exhausted most days. Since November, the Leslieville resident said he’s regularly awoken as early as 4 a.m. by ringing streetcar chimes and stop announcements broadcast from the new TTC streetcar fleet.
“We’re having serious lack of sleep, and it’s becoming very difficult to have a regular life,” said Sherman last week. “It impacts my work and it’s impacting my partner’s health. It’s disruptive.”
The chimes, which are reminiscent of those heard on the automatic alerts on subway trains, are sounded, and a stop announcement triggered, whenever the doors open on the new streetcars. They are mandated by the provincial Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) that requires all tran-sit vehicles to provide external audio and visual alerts.
Sherman said he’s support-ive of increasing accessibility, but wonders why the alerts only seem to trigger in the early morning as streetcars leaving the Leslie Barns facility make their journey west, past his apartment at Queen Street East and Jones Avenue.
And he can’t understand why the 83 Jones bus, which also stops outside his door, doesn’t have alerts nearly as loud as the new streetcars. Try as he might, Sherman said he can’t get a straight answer
from anyone – not the TTC, his local councillor, or MPP – since the sounds began nearly five months ago.
“You phone the TTC office that’s there to advise and help the community, and they don’t have any answers,” he said.
“You go to your provincial representative, and you get passed down the chain. You go to your city representa-tive, and they deal with you for a little while before passing you back to the TTC, who did nothing in the first place. I’ve been spinning in circles.”
TTC spokesperson Brad Ross said the transit com-mission is well aware of the streetcar chimes, but admit-ted there’s little that can be done.
“We’re working to modu-late them as best as we can, given their need to be loud enough for our customers,” said Ross. “Our engineers and (new streetcar manufacturer) Bombardier are working on it, but I’m not sure there’s much
we can do.” Sherman forwarded to The
Mirror an email received in mid-February from the TTC’s head of streetcar operations, Stephen Lam, through the office of Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher, that promised a decibel reduction within a week in the overnight streetcar volume levels.
Lam also reported meetings between the TTC, Bombardier, and a Swiss subcontractor about developing an auto-matic volume control to allow for an “instantaneous volume adjustment depending on ambient noise level.” In the same email, Lam said a retrofit was anticipated to begin for the new streetcar fleet “in the next few weeks.”
Despite sealing up his win-dows and moving his bed, Sherman said the chimes still wake him regularly. He believes the lack of rest has contributed to his partner’s health issues, and they’re considering moving if the situation persists.
Chimes, announcements from new TTC streetcars causing sleepless nights
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Martin Sherman sits at his bedroom window overlooking Queen Street Monday as a streetcar passes. Sherman has rearranged his home and soundproofed it due to the loud chimes and voice alerts from the new TTC streetcars.
JOANNA LAVOIE [email protected]
A group of parents from Toronto’s east end are pre-pared to take their fight to establish an equivalent French-language secondary school in the community all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.
In September, the Coalition de parents pour une école secondaire de quartier, PESQ for short, retained the services of lawyer Nicolas Rouleau.
Just under a year ago, Rouleau won a case in the Supreme Court of Canada that determined British Colombia’s government vio-lated student constitutional rights to an equitable educa-tion as their school, Rose-des-Vents in Vancouver, was not equal to English-language schools in that area.
French-speaking parents from east Toronto are hopeful Rouleau can make the same case once again for them.
Leslieville resident Lianne Doucet, a mother of three daughters, is one of the par-ents fighting for equitable French-language education in the city’s east end.
Doucet, who has lived near Jones Avenue and Queen Street for 23 years, has had a frustrating time trying to figure out how to keep her girls in French-language sec-
ondary school.“When it comes to educa-
tion there’s proximity to home and language of choice,” she said. “I wanted a close French-language school. The issue isn’t Catholic or public.”
Doucet said that in 2007 the provincial government announced funding for a French high school in Toronto’s east end but there hasn’t been any movement on that since.
Doucet said it’s not just about opening up any French-language high school, but one that is equivalent to English
high schools in the area.With that in mind, PESQ
has provided the French public school board for cen-tral-southwestern Ontario, Conseil scolaire Viamonde, with a list of requirements including a gym, green space, cafeteria, and music room, to name a few.
Doucet said if the parent group doesn’t hear back from the Ministry of Education they’ll likely roll out a cam-paign and then explore taking the matter to court.
“That’s not our first choice but it’s something we may have to consider if we cannot get movement,” she said.
Rouleau said there is both a strong will as well as strong legal arguments in favour of establishing a French-language secondary school in Toronto’s east end.
Jean-François L’Heureux, chair and school board trustee for the Viamonde school board, said there is a real need for a high school in east-end Toronto but is waiting for the Ministry of Education to help fund it.
East-end parents lobby for French-language high school
Photo/COuRtESYLeslieville residents Marie Eve, 11, left, Isabelle, 17, and Geneviève Smith, 20, faced tough decisions when it came to attending French-language high school in Toronto. The girls’ mother, Lianne Doucet, is a member of the Coalition de parents pour une école secondaire de quartier, which is lob-bying for a French-language high school in east Toronto.
On Tuesday, April 12 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., PESQ will be hosting an information session for parents who want to send their children to a French-language secondary school in Toronto’s east end.The meeting will be held at the Kaza Family Centre, 1386 Danforth Ave., west of Coxwell Avenue.All are welcome to attend and meet the PESQ members and receive an update on an east-end secondary school for students in grades 7 to 12.Constitutional lawyers Nicolas and Sylvain Rouleau are expected to be in attendance to discuss the B.C. precedent and what it could mean for local families.Visit www.coalitionPESQ.com or email [email protected] for more information.
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When it comes to how the Toronto council seat belonging to the late Rob Ford will be filled, there should be no debate. Obviously,
the city must call a byelection for Ward 2 Etobicoke North.
Ford, the former mayor between 2010 and 2014 and before that Etobicoke North councillor from 2000 to 2010 and then again from 2014 until his death last month after a battle with cancer, would have wanted it that way.
The man believed in the power of the people and the voice of the voter as being supreme.
To do anything but call a byelection, would be a serious error on the part of Toronto council.
The first step for councillors will be to declare Ford’s Ward 2 seat vacant, and that is expected to happen at the May 3 meeting.
That’s a legal requirement under the City of Toronto Act: that the seat be declared vacant within two council meetings of a
councillor’s death, resignation or other reason why it can no longer be filled by the previously elected councillor. Since there’s already been a council meeting, late last week after Ford’s funeral took place March 30, next month’s council meeting is when his seat must be declared vacant.
At the May 3 meeting, councillors can consider one of two options as to what they can do to fill the seat – either they call a byelection or they appoint someone to be a ‘caretaker’ councillor for the ward until the next municipal election in 2018.
The City of Toronto Act gives councillors a lot of leeway as they are actually only required to appoint if it is fewer than 90 days prior to the next municipal election.
There is no maximum amount of time left in a term that requires a byelection over an appointment. The decision is at council’s discretion.
Given that there are more than two years left on this term, it seems clear councillors should decide to call a byelection. It’s the right thing to do.
Once called, the byelection must be held within 60 days of the seat being declared vacant. We look forward to a vote for the Ward 2 Etobicoke North council seat taking place in late June or early July.
That’s what’s best for democracy, the people of Etobicoke North, and Toronto council as a whole.
Rob Ford’s seat must be filled through byelection
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Ford would have wanted it that way
Will councillors go for a ranked ballot system?You don’t want to make judge-ments on character based on a single vote or action. We humans are more complex creatures than just one vote and we do things for all sorts of complicated reasons.
But it’s hard to not draw some pretty firm conclu-sions about the character or at least motive of councillors who don’t support ranked ballot voting in Toronto.
The system, not currently in use anywhere in Canada but applied in countries throughout the world, allows voters to rank their choices on a ballot. If their first choice candidate fails to get more than half the votes, their second choice is counted instead. This goes on until some candidate or another gets half of the total first, second, third and quite possibly 15th-place votes.
The point is that only candidates who can appeal to half the voters in their jurisdiction get to be coun-cillors.
In the last term of council, a majority of councillors
voted to ask the provincial government to give Toronto the option to use ranked ballots rather than the first-past-the-post system cur-rently in place.
Then a couple of things happened. The first was the 2014 election. In total, 29 councillors were elected with more than 50 per cent of the vote, and 11 of these 29 were elected with less than 60 per cent of the vote. Mayor John Tory had just 40.3 per cent of the popular vote.
The second was a late-night vote in 2015, when Ward 5 Councillor Justin Di Ciano, elected for the first time in 2014 with 54.1 per cent, put forward a motion to tell the province council didn’t mean what it said and was very happy with first-past-the-post system.
If the province puts the ranked ballot system
in place, his motion said, Toronto should be able to opt out or require a referen-dum to impose it. And that won, 25-18.
But the province didn’t listen, and this week announced that despite Toronto’s second thoughts, a municipality can select its representatives using ranked ballots if council agrees. No need for a referendum; just a vote of council.
And we’ll see how that goes when this inevitably comes before council again. I’m not optimistic it will go any better. A council chamber populated only by very popular councillors would not be the same one we have today. It’s not to say that the 14 councillors and one mayor who couldn’t get 50 per cent plus one on the first ballot would all be gone; they might well have made it up in second- and third-place choices.
But some, like vote-poor Ward 16 Eglinton-Lawrence Christin Carmichael Greb
would have had a real chal-lenge parlaying her 17.4 per cent of the vote into a majority.
But broadening her base of appeal, she might have. Who could say? From a campaign strategist’s point of view, particularly one working for an incumbent, that uncertainty makes for a real problem. Simply feeding one’s political base doesn’t ensure a lifetime in municipal politics under a ranked ballot system.
In fact, what it does do is ensure that catering to one vocal minority in a ward will pretty much guarantee defeat at the polls, because that leaves one a first choice of that minority, and a second choice for no one.
For politicians worried about their careers, that’s terrifying. For voters and taxpayers, that’s empower-ing. It’s a ray of hope.
David Nickle is Metroland Media Toronto’s city hall reporter. His column runs
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Janet MacDonald, who has lived at the 93-unit townhome complex since March 1979 and serves as the treasurer of its board of directors, said she only learned about the legal action around 10 a.m. Tuesday when the lawyer for another resident who is in the process of selling their unit found out about a lien against their property.
The unit in question is sup-posed to close on May 1, but the lien could prevent that from happening, MacDonald said.
“I’m not upset for myself because I’m not in the pro-cess of selling my unit, but I’m upset for my neighbour,” she said Tuesday afternoon.
With a number of residents looking to sell their condos, MacDonald said this news could “sabotage” their deals or even make for challenges when it comes time to renew a mortgage or other financial interactions pertaining to their property.
The Marigold Gardens Condominium has informed its lawyer about this situation. The condo’s legal counsel has been in touch with the TTC and the City of Toronto.
Eight-year resident Caron Court lives in one of the dozens of properties listed in the legal document.
Court was incensed to learn the news after living through six years of Leslie Barns con-struction.
“The TTC should have sent notices to every home immediately and set up a meeting,” she charged in a Twitter exchange with TTC
spokesperson Brad Ross.“Why didn’t you tell us
about this? It’s been over a month.”
Court, who is demanding a full explanation from the TTC, said she wonders about the implications this legal action could have on other transit projects underway in Toronto
Ross said the TTC only “accidentally” learned of the legal action on Monday, March 14.
He said despite the TTC being behind the project, it’s really a “dispute” between Pomerleau Inc., the contrac-tor, and its subcontractor, Ozz Electric.
Ross said the matter is being taken care of and property owners have nothing to worry about.
“The subcontractor issued a lien about permission to enter. It’s not about property taking. No property sales will be affected,” Ross said early Tuesday afternoon. “Those liens will be removed as quickly as possible. It will not affect any sales. We have made that commitment.”
Ross said a notice is in the process of being put together to advise property owners about what has transpired.
Ward 30 Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher said she’s looking for answers from TTC CEO Andy Byford and said she’s been in touch with the city’s legal department.
“I’d be so worried if there was a lien against my home,” she said Tuesday afternoon.
“(The contractor and sub-contractor) are in a fight. This has nothing to do with the
neighbours on Leslie Street. It’s despicable,” she said.
Pomerleau Inc. spokesper-son Carolyne Van Der Meer said this dispute is, in fact, one involving three parties: the contractor, the subcontractor, and the TTC.
“The amount claimed and protected by the lien is not recognized by the TTC and TTC has not paid Pomerleau. Therefore, Pomerleau is not in a position to pay its subcon-tractor,” she wrote in an email to The Mirror.
Van Der Meer said the TTC, as the project owner, is responsible for issuing the certificate of substantial performance (CSP) as per the Ontario Construction Lien Act and for including within it the relevant property identifica-tion numbers.
“When Pomerleau received the CSP from the TTC, we approached the TTC because we questioned the number and relevancy of the properties listed,” she said.
“We received no answer from them. As per the estab-lished industry process, the CSP was made public as origi-nally issued by the TTC.”
Van Der Meer indicated that since the initial publication of our story online Tuesday after-noon, they’ve learned the TTC is in direct communication with the subcontractor, who has asked the commission to identify the private proper-ties that should not have been included in the CSP issued by the TTC.
She said Pomerleau ques-tioned the TTC about this, but had received no answer as of Tuesday night.
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A number of houses in Leslieville have had liens put on them due an electrical contractor’s dispute over work done at the TTC Leslie Barns project.
Liens will be removed ‘as quickly as possible:’ TTC
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featuredw Saturday, April 9Bowmore ‘Make It!’ FairWHEN: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Bowmore Public School, 80 Bowmore Rd. CONTACT: Andrew Duff, [email protected] COST: Free/pay-what-you-canOpen to the public, with maker demonstrations, activities and unique products for sale. Try an Oculus VR headset, play with robots, learn finger knitting, and more. Check out the Facebook page for details at www.facebook.com/bowmoremakeitfair/
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 Sunday, April 10Toronto Silent Film Festival: ‘The Mark of Zorro’WHEN: 4 to 5:45 p.m. WHERE: Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen St. E. CON-TACT: Toronto Silent Film Festival, www.torontosilentfilmfestival.com, [email protected] COST: $15 / $10With live piano accompaniment.
w Tuesday, April 12Situation UnknownWHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Gerrard/Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard St. E. CONTACT: www.spurofthemoment-shakespeare.weebly.com COST: FreeA playful improvised staging of vari-ous Shakespearean scenes immersed among the shelves to explore the spontaneity of the Bard’s words.
w Wednesday, April 13Run to Quit Information NightWHEN: 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Running Room - Beaches, 1977 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Kaylyn Sutcliffe, 416-323-7046, [email protected] COST: Free
Run to Quit is a 10-week program that helps participants to stop
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w 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.
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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
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w Thursday, April 21eh List Author Reading Series: Sally ChristieWHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 416-393-7703 COST: FreeBook signing to follow.
w Sunday, April 24Earth Day Ravine CleanupWHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Glen Stewart Ravine, 350 Beech Avenue at Kingston Road CON-TACT: Cherie Daly, 416-691-7150, [email protected] COST: FreeRavine cleanup starting at the Beech
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ongoingShout 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.
Figurative 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: FreeFigurative art classes are kicking off every Thursday evening. There will be a half-time break with food and drinks. Meet other artists and share your creativity.
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Fauteux, who has lived in the Upper Beach neighbour-hood near Gerrard and Main streets for 10 years, performs in the five-member ensemble production.
“It’s a very dark comedy about a family that lives in Texas, somewhere. They’re poor, uneducated with a very narrow world view and their choices are from that perspec-tive,” Fauteux said.
“The characters are all great. They’re all really com-plex.”
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“Things get very compli-cated,” Fauteux said of Killer Joe, which is Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning writer/actor Tracy Letts’ first play.
“It’s a great plot and a great script. It gets into some very dark territory.”
Somehow Chris Smith convinces his not-so-bright father, played by Fauteux, that killing his son’s mother is a good idea.
“He’s got a very narrow per-spective on things,” Fauteux said of his character. “His solutions to problems are very simplistic.”
Killer Joe runs until April 24 at the Coal Mine Theatre, 1454 Danforth Ave., west of Coxwell Avenue. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased by visiting www.coalminetheatre.com/tickets.
Fauteux studied theatre at the University of Victoria before going on to attend the National Theatre School, graduating from the conserva-tory program in 1997.
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Not only did she set a Canadian record on open-ing night Tuesday, she also qualified for this summer’s Rio Olympics.
For Oleksiak, a 15-year-old Beach teenager who is a student at Monarch Park Collegiate, it will mark her first Olympics.
“It’s been my dream since I started swimming and the fact that I can go this year makes it so much better than I could ever dream,” she said in the media scrum following the race.
She won the women’s 100-metre butterfly in 56.99 seconds, shaving 1.01 seconds
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This year’s annual Jammer Classic marks the unofficial start to the youth lacrosse season in Ontario.
It’s set to run this weekend at Cherry Beach Sports Fields on Unwin Avenue at the foot of Cherry Street.
As usual, opening day tomorrow is a high school tournament with eight teams involved this year, including five Toronto schools (Malvern Collegiate from the Beach, Birchmount Collegiate from south Scarborough, Father John Redmond from Etobicoke, and mid-town private schools St. Michael’s College and Upper Canada College) along with three out-of-town teams (Donald A. Wilson Secondary from Whitby, Monsignor Paul Dwyer Catholic High School from Oshawa, and Christ the King Catholic Secondary from Georgetown).
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Saturday and Sunday, April 9 and 10, has the rep clubs taking over, including the host Beach club as well as neighbouring Mimico (from Etobicoke) and Toronto Stars (from Scarborough) youth clubs. Participating clubs from out of town include Newmarket, Clarington, Oshawa, Peterborough, Orangeville, and Oakville in various divi-sions.
Sunday’s annual border challenge has Hill Academy, an elite sports school in Concord, hosting Michigan State University.
The tournament is a memorial to Beach youth Jamieson Kuhlman who died at 15 years of age from a freak accident while playing lacrosse, the sport he loved.
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Water main replacement is set to take place along Coxwell Avenue from Queen Street to Gerrard Street.
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Call 416-392-1376 for more information.
wCHoir! wrAps up seAson witH spring ConCert
CHOIR!, a new community-based choral group, will wrap up its second season with a spring concert on Saturday.
The free event, which like its first will be featuring a variety of secular, spiritual and fun non-verbal choral pieces, will be held at Forward Baptist Church, 1891 Gerrard St. E., just west of Woodbine Avenue, starting at 7 p.m.
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Call 416-691-8082 for more information.
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The organizers of the Beach Community Edible Garden are hosting a seed planting and potluck afternoon Sunday.
The event, which will include live music by Alex Rochon-Terry and Kristin Lindell as well as a video screening showcasing the past year at the Beach Community Edible Garden, will run from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at 51 Beech Ave.
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The meeting runs from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the WoodGreen Health and Wellness Centre, 721 Broadview Ave., Lower Level, south of Danforth Avenue.
Judith Wahl, the execu-tive director of the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly, will serve as the evening’s guest speaker.
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The Toronto Beach Chorale will mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death with a special event in the Beach.
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All are welcome. Call 416-393-7703 for details.
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The organizer of The Artists Newsstand, a former Gateway Newsstand kiosk at Chester subway station that has been transformed into a whimsical newsstand and artists’ space, has put out a call for buskers to perform at its closing party on Thursday, April 28.
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The Beach Village Business Improvement Area (BIA) is looking for a local artist to paint a traffic signal box at Queen Street East and Wineva Avenue.
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The BIA will choose its top five preferred designs and send them to StreetARToronto (StART) for its final decision.
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