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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
Columnist David Nickle on the Pride Parade protest / 4
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.
Michael Garron Hospital’s redevelopment process is offi-cially underway, the hospital and Infrastructure Ontario announced in a joint statement recently.
A request for qualifications (RFQ) has been issued to find companies able to complete the redevelopment work, which will add more than 500,000 square feet to the hospital for-merly known as Toronto East General.
From the RFQ submissions, a shortlist of qualified candidates will be invited to respond to a request for proposals that is
expected to be released early next year.
“Today’s announcement is an exciting milestone for the Michael Garron Hospital com-munity,” said Sarah Downey, MGH president and CEO.
“We’re one step closer to making the Ken and Marilyn Thomson Patient Care Centre a reality. This transformational project will help ensure that we continue providing high-quality care and specialist services to the residents of the east Toronto community for generations to come.”
The redeveloped MGH will feature a new eight-storey Patient Care Tower, main
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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Better wages, improved access are the keys to fighting food insecurity
We’re trying to bring fresh food at affordable prices to where people
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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 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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Life-long East York resident Alicia Taylor was out with a few friends early Saturday, June 25 when a man she didn’t know slashed her twice on the left side of her face.
Taylor, 24, wanted to get a bite to eat and was walk-ing eastward along Danforth Avenue near Pape Avenue around 3:15 a.m. when she said a man who “wasn’t all there” randomly started yell-ing at her.
“I didn’t even respond to him. I just kept walking,” said Taylor, a Canada Post mail carrier.
She said the man told her he had a knife and moments later slashed her in the face near her temple area and chin.
Blacked out
“I just kind of blacked out and I woke up in hospital,” she said in an interview with The Mirror.
Police and paramedics were on the scene within min-utes of the attack and Taylor was rushed to St. Michael’s Hospital with non-life-threat-ening injuries.
Taylor said the friends she was with started chas-ing after the man but came back to help her as she was bleeding.
“I lost about a litre of blood and needed three blood transfusions,” said Taylor, who spent the weekend in hospital and was discharged on Monday.
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She’s currently off work until her stitches come out.
In the days since the inci-dent, Taylor, who has a five-month-old son, has spoken out on social media and asked
people to help her spread the word so her attacker can be apprehended as soon as pos-sible.
“I want anyone with infor-mation to contact police,” said Taylor.
She said that the unpro-voked attack has left her feel-ing anxious and looking over her shoulder more than ever before.
“I grew up in the Pape and Danforth and I know the area very well. I’m always out at night and I never ever once felt like I was in danger,” she said.
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Police said the suspect was last seen fleeing west-bound on Danforth Avenue, then northbound on Pape Avenue.
Police said the suspect is only described as black, and was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt.
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Police are asking anyone who lives or runs a business in the area to check their security systems for possible footage of the crime or the suspect.
Woman slashed in face turnsto social media to find attackerthe Attorney General, this
award recognizes contri-butions by Ontario police services, alone or in partner-ship 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 established in March 2014 and launched at 55 Division, received this honour for the work it does to ensure victims have access to exceptional support and assistance to help them deal with the impact of crime.
The unit’s mandate is to provide support, referrals, and information to victims
of crime, witnesses and their families. “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 Committee, in a release.
A 22-year-old Toronto man has been arrested in connec-tion with a shooting this past weekend on Danforth Avenue in Greektown.
Police allege that on Sunday at 2:30 a.m., two men were in a fight outside a bar near
Danforth and Logan avenues. A short time later, one of the men returned to the scene with a gun and shot the other man, who is 39, in the shoul-der, police alleged. The victim suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said the firearm was disposed of near Warden Avenue and Finch Avenue East, but yet to be recov-ered.
Tom Stathopoulos is charged with attempted murder and gun charges.
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East York’s Alicia Taylor is reaching out on social media to help find the man who slashed her in the face with a knife during a random attack near Pape and Danforth on June 25.
Submitted photoDet. 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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Five area restaurants and the local butcher will meet on Danforth Avenue to match culinary wits in a batle to see who has the tastiest BBQ ribs at the 2016 Danforth Experiece Thrill of the Grill event.
The seventh annual event takes place on Saturday, July 9, from noon to 4 p.m.
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it’s happeningw Friday, July 8Entertainment at the LegionWHEN: Fridays: 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. WHERE: royal Canadian Legion, Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CON-TACT: , 416-425-3070, , COST: Freetonight: DJ Derek.
w Saturday, July 9Garage SaleWHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: royal Canadian Legion, 9 Dawes rd. CONTACT: Nancy Mcknight, 647-223-9646, [email protected] COST: FreeBarbecue, hamburgers, hot dogs, cold drinks, coffee, tea and muffins available.
Thrill of the GrillWHEN: 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Danforth Avenue (Broadview to Jones) CONTACT: 416-429-4479, www.thedanforth.ca/ COST: $20 and $10Bike Fun Zone: decorating and safety tips from Ward 29 Bikes and Ward 30 Bikes. Proceeds will benefit kidney cancer research. Participating restau-rants include: Allen’s Globe Bistro, the Combine Eatery, Factory Girl, the Meat Department and more.
w Sunday, July 10Sunday Afternoon Euchre
WHEN: 12:30 to 3 p.m. WHERE: royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: 416-425-1714 COST: $6Everyone welcome.
Jazz/Swing DanceWHEN: 3 to 6 p.m. WHERE: royal Cana-dian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: [email protected] COST: FreeVic Lawrence and the Vintage Swing Band with classic jazz, swing, Latin and more. Everyone welcome.
w Tuesday, July 12East York Farmers Market
WHEN: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: East York Civic Cen-tre, 850 Coxwell Ave. CON-
TACT: 416-429-9684, rabbott@sympatico.
ca COST: FreeA wide range of fresh Ontario
products from fruits and vegetabels to honey and pre-
serves, smoked meats and cheeses, fresh baking,
home made soaps and lotions and freshly made smoothies and more.
Art Bar Poetry SeriesWHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Black Swan tavern, 154 Danforth Ave. CON-TACT: [email protected]
COST: PWYC Featured readers plus an
open mic. Check web site for details and schedule at artbar.org
w Wednesday, July 13Mixed Snooker LeagueWHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: royal Cana-dian Legion, Branch No. 10, 1083
Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-425-3070 COST: FreeSpares welcome.
The Danny Loves Music SeriesWHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. WHERE: East Lynn Park, 1949 Danforth Ave CON-TACT: Oliver, , , [email protected] COST: FreeFeaturing Stephen Stanley. this is a family friendly event which has many vendors and a beer and wine tent. Brought to you by the Danforth Mosaic BIA.
w Thursday, July 14Pole Walking Club WHEN: thursdays: 9:30 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Mosaic home Care Ser-vices & Community resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave. CONTACT: 416-322-7002 COST: FreeWalking takes place around the
areas of Bayview and Eglington avenues and Sunnybrook Park.
w Saturday, July 16Flea MarketWHEN: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: true Davidson Acres home for the Aged, 200 Dawes rd. CONTACT: Carly, 416-397-0400, [email protected] COST: FreeLightly used goods for sale, a barbe-cue, and raffles.
Live MusicWHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. WHERE: royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave.CONTACT: 416-425-1714 COST: FreeMusician David Wildsmith.
w Sunday, July 17Rib Feast DinnerWHEN: 1 p.m. to WHERE: rCL 345, 81 Peard rd CONTACT: , 416-759-5291, , COST: $15Activities start at 1 p.m. Dinner at 5 p.m.; Surprise basket draw.
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Go Wild for CraftsMake cool crafts that will impressfamily and friends.Thu, Jul. 7, 1:30 – 2:30 pmDawes Road Branch, 416 Dawes Rd.
Comics WorkshopLearn everything you need to createyour own comic. Ages 8 and up. Call416-393-7783 to register.Wed, Jul. 13, 2 – 3 pmDanforth/Coxwell Branch, 1675 Danforth Ave.
Reptilia!Get up close and personal with a fewwild critters! Ages 4 and up. Tickets at1:30 pm.Thu, Jul. 14, 2 – 2:45 pmS. Walter Stewart Branch, 170 Memorial Park Ave.
Creepy Stories from the WildYou’re invited to a night of spooky andhaunting tales. Ages 7 and up.Wed, Jul. 20, 7 – 7:30 pmPape/Danforth Branch, 701 Pape Ave.
Puppet Show: The Monkey andthe CrocodileTake in this retelling of a classic tale.Free tickets at 1:30 pm.Thu, Jul. 28, 2 – 2:30 pmS. Walter Stewart Branch, 170 Memorial Park Ave.
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Enjoy nature in the backyard at Todmorden Wildflower PreserveWhile the lead up to summer has been a roller-coaster ride of hot and cold weather, our local plants have survived surprisingly well.
The best place to see nature is at the Todmorden Mills Wildflower Preserve, located in our community.
The preserve is a unique site, being made up of nine hectares of the remains of the original Don River and adjacent forest.
It is hard to believe today, but the original valley was filled with old growth pine, oak trees and elm trees, with wolves and bears living amongst them.
The blanket of wild flow-ers that bloomed from the spring into the autumn was also an important part of the forest.
As the European popula-tion grew, a sawmill was built and the forest was cut down in order to build the settlements that were
growing.The location became
the site of a brewery and flower mill. In 1991, Charles Sauriol, the man who saved Todmorden Mills from demolition and promoted the environmental conser-vation of the Don Valley, initiated the establishment of the wildflower preserve.
He was assisted by Dave Money, past-president of the Ontario Horticulture Association, and a number of local volunteers.
The site has a well marked and maintained half-kilometre path that takes you through the pre-serve.
What you will see are a group of small ponds and marsh that are the rem-nants of the river, plus liter-ally hundreds of species of
native plants.Along with the mainte-
nance of the trail and pres-ervation of native species of plants, there is also an effort being made to reduce invasive non-native plants.
One of the worst prob-lems being faced is the large amount of human-generated garbage that comes in due to either ille-gal dumping or the debris that comes from the Don Valley Parkway.
The on-going work of maintaining the site is the responsibility of the Todmorden Mills Wildflower Preserve Committee (TMWPC), which you are welcome to join.
People are welcome to simply enjoy the preserve or join in the events.
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T h i s y e a r ’ s R o b b i e I n t e r n a t i o n a l S o c c e r Tournament, which marked its 50th year, was an extra special one for retired MLS/Canadian national team soccer star Dwayne De Rosario.
The Scarborough native’s 15-year-old son, Osaze, played in the under-16 boys division with Toronto FC Academy.
“I played in the Robbie and now I’m the father of a kid in the Robbie. I’m going to live vicariously through him and get back some special memories,” De Rosario said, following a June 30 press conference at the Delta Toronto East Hotel in Scarborough in advance of the tourney which ran from July 1 to 3.
In the tournament, Toronto FC Academy went on to win the championship with a 4-1 over FC Durham.
De Rosario, who was the
Robbie’s honourary chair this year, said the event – the larg-est youth soccer tournament for charity in the world – is a way for young players to showcase their potential and dream big.
“I thank the Robbie whole-heartedly for creating that environment for kids like myself,” he said.
De Rosario is a former Robbie champion with his Malvern Magic team.
Celebrity game
Along with being hon-ourary chair, De Rosario organized a celebrity soccer match on Sunday afternoon at Birchmount Stadium as part of the championship day events.
The Robbie, which this year welcomed close to 400 teams playing at about 25 east-end Toronto venues, kicked off its 50th edition on June 25 with a tournament featuring 220 teams of players ranging in age from 8 to 12.
This past weekend’s soccer action saw about 160 teams of players aged 13 to 18 com-peting.
Mike Ellis, tourney chair for the last six years, said the Robbie is all about promoting soccer as well as raising funds to help find a cure for cystic fibrosis (CF).
The Robbie was established in 1967 in honour of Robbie Wimbs, who died in 1996 at the age of 33.
Since its creation, the tour-ney has raised more than $1.7 million for research into a cure and treatment for cystic fibrosis research.
This year, Robbie organiz-ers presented a cheque for $50,000 to Cystic Fibrosis Canada.
The 2016 Robbie tourney champs and finalists are as follows:
n In boys under-13, the Montreal-Nord Pumas beat Rush Academy Rush Canada 2003 Blue 3-1
n In girls under-13, the Barrie FC Strikers beat the
Wexford T-Birds 4-3.n In boys under-14,
Hamilton United Regional E l i t e b e a t A d v a n c e d Development Pathway ADP 5-0.
n In girls under-14, the North Mississauga Soccer Club Black Panthers beat Hamilton United Elite Regional Black 3-0.
n In boys under-15, Erin Mills beat Ajax FC 01B Red 4-2.
n In girls under-15, the Norwest Strikers beat Saltfleet Stoney Creek Black Elite 2-1.
n In boys under-16, Toronto FC Academy beat FC Durham 4-1.
n In girls under-16,
Cambridge United beat Edmonton Southwest United 5-0.
n In boys under-18, Rush Canada beat the North Scarborough Soccer Club Attack 3-1.
n In girls under-18, the East York Blue Devils beat the Unionville-Milliken Strikers 3-0.
East York Blue Devils win Robbie soccer crown
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