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Justin Skinner/MeTrOlandA shipping container market offering fresh fruits and vegetables recently opened in Moss Park, giving food-insecure residents in the area an option for healthy food.
Vulnerable residents work togetherto fight food insecurity in TorontoJUSTIN SKINNER [email protected]
While solving the problem of food insecurity will
require a concerted effort from all levels of government, there is a great deal being done at a more grassroots level to help make sure Torontonians can put food on their plates.
Organizations such as
Community Food Centres Canada (CFC), FoodShare, Building Roots and the Toronto Youth Food Policy Council (TYFPC) are engag-ing vulnerable Torontonians through a variety of programs and initiatives, providing not only food but opportunity.
CFC Chief Operating Officer Kathryn Scharf (www.cfccanada.ca) said aware-ness of food security issues is growing, as is action to
combat them. Her orga-nization originated out of The Stop Community Food Centre on Davenport Road, and now there are three such organizations in Toronto and eight across Canada.
“With almost one in 10 households experiencing food insecurity, we don’t have a hard time finding com-munities that could use a Community Food Centre,”
>>>BETTER, page 3
Police in 55 Divisionhonoured for workwith crime victims
Afrofest, the largest free African festival in North America, is on this weekend at Woodbine Park.
Started in 1989 by Music Africa, a not-for-profit, com-munity-based organization that promotes African music in Toronto, Afrofest aims to showcase and celebrate the best in African music, art, crafts, culture and food.
The fun, family-friendly fes-tival, which will run Saturday from noon to 11 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 8 p.m., is set to feature more than 35 live performances on the main, youth and drum stages.
This year’s featured acts are Ghanian music duo Ruff-N-Smooth; Sudanese child soldier turned recording artist/peace
The Victim Support Unit at 55 Division has been recognized for its outstanding work with victims of crime.
The VSU – the only unit of its kind in the Toronto Police Service (TPS) – received the 2016 Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) Victims Assistance Committee Award during a ceremony June 28.
Sponsored by the Ministry of the Attorney General, this award recognizes contributions by Ontario police services, alone or in partnership with private or public community agencies, for improving the level of service provided to victims of crime,
tragic events, or other unfor-tunate circumstance.
The VSU, which was estab-lished in March 2014 and launched at 55 Division, received this honour for the work it does to ensure victims have access to exceptional sup-port and assistance to help them deal with the consequences and impact of crime.
The unit’s mandate is to pro-vide vital support, referrals, and information to victims of crime, witnesses and their families.
The Victim Support Unit, which also works with victims to provide safety planning when necessary to improve their con-fidence and feeling of security, has a broad definition of the
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she said, adding that finding local partners willing to help deliver services is a key part of what her organization does.
Scharf noted that while teaching healthy food skills, offering cooking groups and classes, providing after-school programs where kids can have healthy snacks and creating community gardens are all great ways to combat food insecurity, the key is in making sure more Canadians can earn a living wage.
However, that’s something that will only come about when governments mandate it, said Scharf.
“The key is to fight poverty, fight for housing, increase wages and social assistance rates,” she said. “We can push for those things at a grassroots level, but we can’t make them happen.”
Darcy Higgins of Building Roots (www.pushfoodfor-ward.com/buildingroots) agreed that a wage policy, along with better social sup-port, is the best permanent solution, adding his orga-nization is doing its best in the meantime to bring food access to where people need it most.
“We’re trying to bring fresh food at affordable prices to where people need it most,” he said.
“We have a Moss Park Market that just opened in a shipping container on Toronto Community Housing property, and that’s a model we’re hoping to rep-licate in other communities. We’re exploring and looking for partners across the city, especially in the suburbs.”
He said those battling food insecurity can also benefit from connecting with community agencies that can help teach them to cut costs and stretch their food budgets further, by joining
cooking programs run by not-for-profits, or by grow-ing their own food, perhaps in community gardens near where they live.
The Ashbridge Estate near Queen and Greenwood is a prime example of using avail-able space to bolster food security. A new community garden has been planted there by Syrian refugees to complement an existing community garden at the site.
“There are so many com-munities – especially lower-income communities – where there aren’t stores for people to buy fresh food,” Higgins said. “It tends to be more convenience stores (instead of affordable grocery stores with more healthy options) in those communities, so you have to look at other solu-tions.”
Toronto Youth Food Policy Council (www.tyfpc.ca) co-chair Melana Roberts said projects to boost food secu-rity can range from relatively
small in scale, such as new pop-up food markets being launched at TTC subway sta-tions at Downsview, Kipling and Victoria Park stations, to Malvern Eats – a community lunch that hosts as many as 300 guests – to the CEED (community eco economic development), which could see hydro corridors turned into community gardens.
“We’re working with Toronto Public Health and looking at four different sites where (CEED) could work,” she said, noting those sites include Rexdale, northeast Scarborough, Flemingdon Park and the Danforth and Victoria Park area. “They’re in neighbourhoods charac-terized as priority neighbour-hoods with a really diverse mix of residents in terms of age, socioeconomic back-ground and ethnicity.”
FoodShare (www.food-share.net), meanwhile, helps various organizations bring food to communities by combining their buying
power. Rather than having each organization make con-nections and buy goods, they can pool their resources and make bulk purchases from the Ontario Food Terminal, stretching those dollars fur-ther.
“There’s $29 million spent a year by non-profit agencies in the community food sector (each year in Toronto,)” said Shawn Conway of FoodShare. “That’s a lot of buying power.”
“We started out with an emphasis on fresh produce, but now we have a dairy line and a bread line as well.”
Many other organiza-tions across the city are helping to keep vulnerable Torontonians fed, but they all acknowledge their work is simply addressing the symp-toms of the type of poverty that leads to food insecurity.
They say it’s ultimately up to government to determine if and when a permanent solution to the issue will be presented.
Food is an essential pillar of city building.That’s the premise behind a recently released report
titled Food by Ward: Food Assets and Opportunities in Toronto.
The report, which took about a year to put together, was initially launched by the Toronto Food Policy Council (TFPC) as a way to engage with municipal candidates during the 2014 election on the topic of food security.
Now that the election is over, the TFPC is continuing to work with elected officials as well as community organizations and individuals to advocate for more food security programs and initiatives.
Using resources from Toronto Public Health, Food by Ward provides a snapshot of food assets across Toronto’s 44 municipal wards, said Rachel Gray, chair of the Toronto Food Policy Council, during a recent interview.
Gray, who is the executive director of The Stop Community Food Centre in the Annex, said the find-ings of Food by Ward can and should be used to help identify food priorities and come up with viable ways to improve the availability of affordable, healthy food across the city.
She said the areas that tend to be lacking the most are the suburban, and often lower-income, parts of the city where people usually need a vehicle to go to the grocery store. The outer portions of the city are also often where marginalized individuals live, including those on fixed incomes, and newcomers.
Gray also said a lot of the findings in Food by Ward mirror those of the groundbreaking 2010 Three Cities Within Toronto report by David Hulchanski of the University of Toronto, which looked at income polar-ization in the city from 1970 to 2005.
The good news is that food insecurity problems can be improved when people and organizations come together, Gray said, pointing to simple things that can make a huge difference like community gardens and community food programs. And fortunately, a lot of people are interested in getting involved, she added. At Food by Ward’s launch event recently at Toronto City Hall, more than 100 community food champions as well as more than a third of Toronto city councillors same out to show their support.
n Visit www.tfpc.to/food-by-ward to view the report.
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The Toronto Food Council’s Food by Ward report looks at food security issues across the city on a ward-by-ward basis.
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A staged sit-in protest by the Toronto chapter of Black Lives Matter last Sunday at the Pride Parade certainly has people talking.
But are they talking for the right reasons? Given the status as an Honoured Group for the
parade, Black Lives Matter effectively halted the parade for half an hour as they issued a list of nine demands.
The annual parade that capped off Pride Month only began to move again once Pride Toronto execu-tive director Mathieu Chantelois signed the docu-ment, seemingly agreeing to those demands, which included reinstating and committing to increase community stages as well as the removal of police
floats in Pride marches and parades.
The latter, not surprisingly, has been getting a lot of attention with Toronto Police Association president Mike McCormack con-demning Pride Toronto for sign-ing the paper and accusing Black Lives Matter of “hijacking” the
grand event Sunday. People on Twitter had plenty to say about it too,
many siding with police and recognizing their contri-butions over the years to support the growing Pride movement.
It seems counterproductive and counterintuitive to exclude police from a parade celebrating inclusiv-ity, especially as some in the LGBT community also work in the police force.
While the protest brought both public and media attention to Black Lives Matter, the reasons for the protest were overshadowed by the tactics. People are talking about whether it was appropriate or justified to do what they did during the parade, rather than how events like Pride can be even more inclusive and welcoming to other marginalized communities.
Perhaps continuing the dialogue at the upcoming community meetings on anti-racism that the pro-vincial government is hosting this summer is a good place to start.
The first meeting is scheduled to take place in Toronto on July 14 with another in Scarborough on Sept. 13.
For effective change to occur, Black Lives Matter must first gain the public’s empathy and support for their cause.
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Tactics overshadow issues in the Pride Parade protest
Black Lives Matter disruption of Pride Parade what you’d expectIt’s hard to know what to make of the Black Lives Matter – Toronto (BLMTO)/ Pride Toronto dust-up.
That, of course, won’t stop me from weighing in on the spectacle – even if it wasn’t really much of one.
To recap: Black Lives Matter – Toronto, a group that has seen great success staging discomfiting public protests, accepted an invi-tation from Pride Toronto (another group that has in the past seen great success staging discomfiting public protests) to be an “hon-oured guest” at this year’s Pride Parade.
And things went exactly as you’d expect: a discom-fiting public protest, in the form of a disruption to the Pride Parade that was only able to resume once Pride Toronto had “agreed” to a list of demands from BLMTO.
Among those demands? No coppers please, at future Pride parades.
The pearl-clutching began. The Toronto Police Association demanded
Pride Toronto apologize for signing off on the deal. Mayor John Tory, through his office, joined voices on Toronto council includ-ing local councillor and longtime Pride supporter Kristyn Wong-Tam to make it clear that police should be welcomed at the parade for if nothing else than the purpose of keeping open lines of communication between the LGBTQ2S community and the police.
And finally Pride Toronto’s executive director Mathieu Chantelois made it clear himself that signing a deal with BLMTO, while he was trying to simply get the parade moving, wasn’t going to be binding, and ultimately, Pride and the community would make the final decision. It would be an excellent bet that police will be back in the parade next year.
It’s tempting to look at all this from the outside and dismiss it as silliness, or an “inside-baseball” dispute… tempting to see this as a bit of a nadir for Black Lives
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Matter, pulling a disruptive stunt at what was otherwise a healing event for a com-munity still processing the massacre in Orlando – all to extract promises that won’t be kept, and for the most part are over internal Pride matters that might have been dealt with as well using nothing more than a few stern emails.
That is, however, missing the point of successful pro-test movements like Black Lives Matter, which are combatting not only very small issues, but very, very large ones.
A few days earlier, Metropolitan Community Church pastor and gay rights activist Brent Hawkes stood with Police Chief Mark Saunders for what had been billed an historic apology by police for the bath house raids in the early 1980s that destroyed the lives of closeted gay
men, and ruined busi-nesses.
An apology was a big thing, but also a small thing – and Hawkes spoke that day of how he had contacted the chief, and negotiated an apology, and that sometimes, negotia-tion was necessary.
The only trouble? At the end of all that negotiation, Saunders did not in fact apologize; he very deliber-ately expressed “regrets” for police actions, and prom-ised to do better — and really, with that, closed the matter as far as police were concerned.
It’s comforting to think that change can happen with comfortable negotia-tion. But the reality is that genuine change requires an irritant to motivate it. Black Lives Matters understands that, and so of course they showed up in full, irritating glory on Sunday.
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it’s happeningw Friday, July 8Sounds of Leslieville and RiversideWHEN: today to Sunday: 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Jimmie Simpson Park, 870 Queen St. E. CONTACT: , 416-698-2152, , [email protected] COST: FreeBeaches Jazz Festival outdoor music series with Exodus and KC Roberts and The Live Revolution.
w Saturday, July 9Annual Rugby FootballTournamentWHEN: 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. WHERE: Balmy Beach Club, 360 Lake Front, Foot of Beech Avenue CONTACT: 416-691-9962, [email protected] COST: FreeThis is the largest fundraiser for our senior rugby players and has been a club tradition for more than 45 years.
AfroFest 2016WHEN: today and tomorrow; various times WHERE: Woodbine Park, 1681 Lake-shore Blvd. E. CONTACT: 416-469-5336, www.afrofest.ca/ COST: FreeCelebrating African music and culture.
Roast of PJ Phil
WHEN: 8 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Underground Cafe, 670 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Derryck Birch, 416-450-9125, [email protected] COST: $20Hosted by Big Norm.
w Tuesday, July 12Face Painting PartyWHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715 COST: Free
Join us for face painting.
w Thursday, July 14Pyjama TimeWHEN: 6:30 to 7 p.m.
WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: COST: FreeBedtime stories, songs, rhymes and activities for children age 5 and un-der with their parents and caregivers. Bring your teddy bear.
w Saturday, July 16Festival of South AsiaWHEN: today and tomorrow: Noon to 11 p.m. WHERE: Gerrard India Bazaar, 1426 Gerrard St. E. CON-TACT: www.festivalofsouthasia.com COST: FreePrograms representing Indian, Afghani, Pakistani, Bengali and Sri Lankan cultures. Activities include: Rangoli floor art, folk tale storytime
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w Sunday, July 17The Leslieville FleaWHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Ashbridges Estate, 1444 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 647-267-8538, www.leslievilleflea.com, [email protected] COST: FreeA curated monthly market with more than 60 vendors selling vintage, sal-vaged, furniture, antiques and more.
w Tuesday, July 19Make your own Wild Lego MovieWHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715, [email protected] COST: FreeMake a Lego movie. Bring your own device. App required before the program. Call to register.
w Friday, July 29Toronto Food Truck FestivalWHEN: Friday: 5 to 10 p.m.; Satur-day: noon to 10 p.m.; Sunday: noon to 8 p.m. WHERE: Woodbine Park, 1695 Queen St. E. CONTACT: toron-tofoodtruckfestival.com/ COST: FreeEating challenges. Live music. Farm fresh food from more than 30 food trucks.
w Monday, Aug. 8Family TimeWHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. COST: FreeStories, songs, rhymes and activi-ties for children aged 5 and under. parents and caregivers.
w Tuesday, August 9TD Summer Reading Club WHEN: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715, , [email protected] COST: FreeJoin us for button-making fun.
w Volunteers Needed Dusk DancesWHEN: Aug. 1 to 7 from 4:45 to 10:30 p.m. WHERE: Withrow Park, 725 Logan Ave. CONTACT: www.kindnessconnect.com/dusk-dances/toronto-2016-withrow COST: Free Dusk Dances Withrow Park is looking for 12 volunteers for seven evening performances (Aug. 1 to 7) and for 2 matinée performances (Aug. 4 and 7). We also require five volunteers for dress rehearsal on July 31.
featuredw Sunday, July 24Beaches Jazz RunWHEN: 7:30 a.m. WHERE: Leslie Street Spit, 1 Leslie St. CONTACT: www.beachesjazzrun.com/ COST: See web site for infoToronto Beaches Runners Club presents a 5k run at 8:15 a.m.; 10k at 8 a.m. Half marathon at 7:30 a.m. Chip timed. Flat and fast route. Refresh-ments after the race. Chance to win prizes.
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The 28th annual Beaches International Jazz Festival continues this weekend with another new event, Sounds of Leslieville and Riverside.
This new and free-of-charge event will run Friday from 4 to 10 p.m., Saturday from noon to 10 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. at Jimmie Simpson Park, 870 Queen St. E.
This weekend’s featured music acts include JUNO award-winning reggae per-former Exodus, seven-piece Toronto funk band KC Roberts and The Live Revolution, the Toronto All-Star Big Band, tra-ditional New Orleasns-style horn band Turbo Street Funk, Toronto music collective Kim and Company, award-winning Canadian multi-instrumentalist Johannes Linstead, pianist, composer, arranger and producer Eddie Bullen and Friends, Chicago Blues-style Jerome Tucker Band, and Paul James and his band.
The Beaches Jazz Farmers Market Jazz Series, which kicked off July 6, at Fairmount Park Farmers Market, contin-ues tonight at the East Lynn Park Farmers Market, 1949 Danforth Ave., with a perfor-mance by the Toronto All-Star Big Band from 2 to 6 p.m.
The band will return to the both markets the fol-lowing week. The Fairmount Park Farmers Market, at 1725 Gerrard St. E., runs Wednesdays from 3 to 7 p.m.. Musicians from Discovery Through the Arts music school are slated to perform at the Leslieville Farmers Market, 20 Woodward Ave., on July 10 and July 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. both days.
The jazz festival runs until July 24. Visit www.beachesjazz for more info.
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The community’s vigilance played a key role in the recent arrest of a man in
Leslieville.On July 1, police appre-
hended and charged a 58-year-old man who was allegedly seen peering into the screen doors of homes near Queen Street and Greenwood Avenue.
In one case, one home in the area was broken into while the resident was there.
The alleged burglar fled the scene once he realized someone was home.
Police were notified and located the wanted man nearby.
Officers arrested and charged him with break and enter, obstructing a peace officer, and failing to comply with probation.
Const. Jon Morrice of 55 Divisions Crime Prevention Unit said in this case the alleged thief attracted atten-tion by being on private property.
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Vendors, arts and activities for kids planned for Afrofestactivist Emmanuel Jal Gatwitch; Black Parents, a musical group from Haiti; Lynda Thalie, a Canadian singer-songwriter whose roots are Algerian; and musical art-ists Toto Guill of Cameroon.
The inclusive and acces-sible event will also include an interactive children’s village with games, story-
telling and art-based activi-ties throughout the day as well as a marketplace with more than 70 vendors sell-ing African crafts, artwork, clothing and food.
This year, organizers have also included an area catering to anyone with special needs as well as an area where nurs-ing mothers can change their children. Volunteers will be on
hand with more information. More than 120,000 people are expected to attend the two-day event in the Beach.
On Friday there will also be an Afrofest pre-party at the Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave., starting at 9 p.m. Asiko Afrobeat Ensemble, an all-original contemporary Afrobeat band led by Nigerian craft master, Foly Kolade, will be the featured musical act.
Earlier this year, Afrofest was almost reduced to a one-day event when the city cited excessive noise and time violations. In the end, a meeting with mem-bers of the Toronto Music Advisory Council, staff from the mayor’s office, staff from the Economic Development and Municipal Licensing and Standards departments as well as Music Africa saw its reinstatement as a two-day festival.
Visit www.afrofest.ca/ for more information.
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The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) has begun its call for CNE ambassadors for the 2016 season.
Now in its 16th consecutive year, “Friends of the CNE” is a community initiative that has engaged more than 2,000 youth and adults, who have contributed nearly 63,000 hours of service.
CNE volunteers assist with various roles and duties including greeting guests,
providing directional assis-tance, acting as tour guides and supporting special events and programming such as the daily Mardi Gras Parade.
“Volunteers are at the heart of the Fair, and play an inte-gral role in making the CNE a positive experience for all our guests,” Virginia Ludy, General Manager of the CNE, said in a press release.
The Friends of the CNE enlists more than 100 vol-
unteers each year and more than 80 per cent of those volunteers are between the ages of 14 and 17. Ontario secondary school students can earn credits toward com-munity service hours.
Volunteers must be at least 14 years old and must be able to commit to a minimum of six shifts, at four hours each. For more info, visit www.TheEx.com. Deadline to apply is July 15.
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Fairy Tales Reinvented /les contes de fées réinventésHelp us re-imagine some favouritestories! / Que se passe-t-il lorsqu’onprend un livre de contes de fées etqu’on le brasse un peu?Thu, Jul. 21, 2 – 3 pmBeaches Branch, 2161 Queen St. E.
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Intended to update the public on changes to the accessible transit service as per provincial guidelines, the first consult was scheduled to take place on Tuesday. Subsequent meetings will take place July 12 in Scarborough at the Civic Centre, July 14 at North York Memorial Community Hall, and July 21 at Father John Redmond Secondary School, 28 Col. Samuel Smith Park Dr. in Etobicoke. All meetings start at 6:30 p.m.
According to the TTC, the service registers 1,000 new riders a month and 11,000 door-to-door trips a day.
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It was a busy Canada Day holi-day weekend for the OPP.
After the provincial police force vowed to crack down on speeders, impaired driv-ers and other law-breaking motorists, it issued 6,500 tickets province-wide over the long weekend. While the
vast majority of the tickets were for speeding, the OPP also laid 126 impaired driv-ing charges and issued warn-ings to 55 drivers. Eighty-four vehicles were also impounded for street racing. No deaths were reported.
The OPP was also active on the water, laying impaired boating charges on 55 indi-viduals over the weekend.
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It was another fatal day on the streets of Toronto.
A 70-year-old man was killed on Monday, July 4 after being hit by the driver of a van in Rexdale. The incident was just one of 13 separate incidents that same day where pedestrians or cyclists were struck in all corners of the city. If that wasn’t enough, 10 separate incidents were reported over the Canada Day weekend, either involving
pedestrians or cyclists. Next week, Toronto Council
will debate recommendations for a new plan to improve road safety.
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The trains headed for Bloor-Yonge might be moving a little faster than usual.
The TTC announced it has lifted restricted speeds in place on the outdoor track section between Summerhill and Rosedale stations, which were instituted for safety con-cerns last month. The restric-tions resulted in trains moving at a snail’s pace to and from Bloor station and seem to be an ongoing occurrence due to the conditions of the outdoor track section on Line 1, which is more than 60 years old and has needed to undergo exten-sive rehabilitation work in the recent past just to extend its shelf-life.
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who were duped out of their life savings. “This work of this unit is rewarding for both the victim and the officer,” said OPP Supt. Carson Pardy, who serves as the chair of the OACP Victims Assistance
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Det. Const. Jennifer Metzger (left), Det. Stacie Branton, Det. Const. Jason Larmer, and Det. Sgt. Warren Wilson participate in the recent presentation to Toronto police 55 Division’s Victim Support Unit of an award from the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police.
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The city’s east-end is well rep-resented in the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival, which runs until July 10.
Numerous area residents are presenting shows in the 12-day festival which mostly features plays selected through a lottery system.
L o n g - t i m e e a s t - e n d Toronto residents Joan
Jamieson and Shelley Hobbs are both fortunate to have been selected to present plays in this summer’s edition.
A retired teacher, Jamieson has written and is staging a children’s show named
Downtown Jay, which is described as a family musi-cal about leaving your home and learning to build a new one.
Part of Fringe Kids, this show features a massive, colourful set, dancing, music, singing and crazy costumes. Downtown Jay, which is directed by Ryan Kelley and stars Amy Swift, Dale Miller, Kristi Woods-Nogal, and Tanner Homonko, tells the story of a blue jay who moves to a big city and sets out to make his new home with the help of a wise police horse, a pair of tech-savvy squirrels, some dancing raccoons with a bistro and a house finch realtor.
Jamieson, who is originally from northern Ontario and has written several children’s plays, said the show perfectly lends itself to conversations about refugees and newcom-ers.
Hobbs, who is a lawyer by day, has written and is producing a play called A Good Death, which is part of Fringe Toronto’s 60-minute
category.A play about family and
choices, A Good Death takes a closer look at the stories of people, many of whom are from the LGBTQ com-munity, who have drifted or been driven away from the family that raised them and forge new community from friends who become their chosen family.
The play, which is directed by Elizabeth Saunders and stars Tracey Ferencz and Laura Schutt, tells the story of the best friend and hockey teammate of a woman named Adrienne and her estranged mother and the tough deci-sions they must make when Adrienne is mortally injured and left in a coma.
Downtown Jay is being pre-sented at the George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place, while A Good Death is being staged at the Tarragon Extra Space, 30 Bridgman Ave.
Also, life-long Beach resident Alex Eddington is presenting a work in the festival.
Called Life List, Eddington’s
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The solo show, which is part of a juried section of the Toronto Fringe, gets audience members involved in help-ing track down a rare white robin spotted around Seaton Village.
During a recent interview, Eddington said he created Life List in honour of his mother, who died of breast cancer a year and a half ago and kept a list of the birds she’s seen and where.
“It is ultimately a show about how we deal with losing loved ones,” shred Eddington, who last appeared in the Toronto Fringe in 2013.
“The audience is on a bit of a journey both physically and emotionally. We’re looking for a bird but we’re also search-ing for why we’re looking for that bird. ”
Visit www.fringetoronto.com for more details about performance times and information on purchasing tickets.
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