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theBLOORDALEpressHttp://www.thebloordalepress.comJUNE 2012 VOLUME 2 ISSUE 5

Community News from Ward 18

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KENT GRADUATES ASSEMBLE FOR REUNION

Over 100 years following its opening, Kent Senior Public School held it’s final reunion on May 5.

After a decision in 2012 by the TorontoDistrict School Board to close the property following the 2011/2012semester due to the school only being 58 per cent full, hundreds ofcurrent and former cobras met at the gymnasium for a final night ofsharing memories in the building they grew up in.

The following are some of the more beautiful stories shared that-night.

Ron Spencer attended Kent from 1942 –1950 when the school offered grade 7, 8 and high school classes. Ronwas the bat catcher for the the Cobras 1950 softball championshipteam.

“We won pretty decisively, but I honestly don’t remember all ofit-- but a big part of it was Billy Van Evra, who was big hot in thelocal entertainment industry-- in fact, he sung with Sunny and Cherfor a couple of years-- he was the short-stop. Bob Dennis was ourcoach-- an ex-army man, so he didn’t mess

around. We did what he saidwhen he said. It paid off.”

Claudio Abreu attended the school in1994 and 1995.

“My favourite memory was playing inthe yard and all the

friends you make and going from primary schoolto highschool- the transition. Mostly the friendships you gain inthose two years.”

Christine King attended the school in1976 and 77 while her

sister Pauline attended in 1973 and 1974.

Christine – “When we went on thescience trips to Boyne River

see PARKS SUMMIT page 4

I N S I D ESAVE THE POST OFFICE

Federal MP, Andrew Cash aims to stop a possible relocation of a

neighbourhood post office Page 3

NEW ART GALLERY OPENS UP ON ERNEST AVE.

Arsenal gallery looks to put its mark on Toronto

Page 9

JANE’S WALK HITS BLOORDALE

A community group gathers to honour urbanist, Jane Jacobs

Page 4

After 104 years, Kent Senior Public School goes out in style

COMMUNITY GATHERS TO DISCUSS PARKS

The city’s first Parks Summit proved to be a success

BY JUSTIN [email protected]

Roughly 70 people participated in Ward 18’s first community parks summit at the Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club (180 Westmoreland Ave.) on May 5.

Ward Councilor Ana Bailão hosted the meeting with the idea that members of the community should have input when it comes to the improvement of their commu-nity parks.

“We want to make improvements and make parks in the neighbor-hood work,” said Bailão.

After a brief introduction from Bailão, long-time Friend of Duffer-in Grove Park, Jutta Mason spoke of how she would like to see parks in the neighbourhood develop finan-cially. A large part of her presenta-tion was spent discussing better ways to allocate park donations.

As the rule sits now, all park do-nations go into a “general revenue” fund held by the city. The fund fi-nances park improvements, where

TOP: Graduated in 1950, Ron Spencer was among hundreds of Kent Alumni in attendance. BOTTOM: Spencer holds a championship patch which represents one of his most cherished memories at the school. Photos by Gurpreet Ghag

BY GURPREET [email protected]

see KENT REUNION page 6

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The Bloordale Press JUNE 2012


There may be another high-rise tower in the works along the stretch of Dupont St., just west of Lansdowne Ave.

Developers from TAS Design Build presented their plans for a vacant lot at the corner of Camp-bell Ave. and Dupont St. (299 Campbell Ave.) to a handful of community members at St. Rita’s Catholic School (178 Edwin Ave.) in order to get some insight before submitting their application to the city.

The proposed building would have both residential and commer-cial use, explained Penio Di Mascio of Urban Strategies Design Group. It would have six stories facing Du-pont St. and then step back and rise another two stories. Repeat to add another 10 and you’ll reach its highest peak of 18 stories.

Di Mascio explained that there are currently 20,000 square feet of commercial space at the site. Plans for the site would bring that number up to 34,000 with 22,000 square feet for office and employ-

ment space and 1 2,000 for retail. Residential space would be ap-proximately 225,000 square feet with 290 to 300 one to three bed-room units.

The plans also included three floors of underground parking.

Following this brief overview of the space and the plans for it, the floor was opened up to community concerns and questions.

Most of these concerns were about the influx of traffic and lack of parking spots that another 300 residents would not provide any relief for. More specifically, a resident pointed out that parking spots are extremely hard to come by when soccer games take place at Campbell Park.

Councillor Bailao said that a re-striction could be placed on resi-dents buying street parking passes which has been done in other wards with similar situations.

Neighbouring the proposal’s site, a few managers from the SKOR Cash and Carry (1453 Dupont St.) came to voice their concern about the new laneway to their store that would come off Campbell Ave. and replace the one their customers currently use right from the corner

of Campbell and Dupont.David Correia, one of the store’s

managers, said he was concerned about how narrow the new lane way would be.

“We have 50 to 60 foot trailers come to do deliveries here and we

don’t know if [the new lane way] would be big enough for them to turn,” he said.

Correia said that he voiced his concerns to the Design Group after the meeting but has yet to hear any-thing back from them.

He is hoping the issue is ad-dressed at the next meeting.

The Cash and Carry currently serves roughly 900 customers (many of whom run businesses in the ward) and receives 25 to 30 de-liveries per week.

MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT PROPOSED FOR 299 CAMPBELL AVE.


Roughly 20 people met at the Parkdale Library (1303 Queen St. W.) to hear development plans for the stretch of property di-rectly north of the recently com-pleted Dufferin St. underpass.

An application to develop properties from 430 to 444 Duf-ferin St. and 41 Alma Ave. was submitted by Siteline Group to the city in Nov. 2011.

They proposed to develop three different buildings on that stretch with an eight story build-ing at the most northern point (41 Alma Ave.) that would be fol-lowed to the south by a 12-storey building and then at the most southern point, just before the Dufferin underpass, a 24-storey structure that would stand at 76 m.

The structure would encom-pass 399 residential units with 170 of those being bachelors: 111

one-bedrooms and 118 two-bed-rooms.

Included in the plans are 340 parking spots: 300 of these would be underground with 238 of them for residential use, 54 non-resident spots (for commer-cial use) and 48 for visitors.

In March, the Planning and Growth committee outlined a few issues with the designs.

The park height of the build-ings is 76 meters, whereas the city only allows for 14. Mean-while, the density of the struc-tures would be 5.5 times the space, whereas the city allows for two.

Currently, the site is desig-nated as an employment lands area. However, the developer is hoping to make it a mixed-use site (both commercial and resi-dential) in order to entice an ap-proval from the city.

There was also concern over the influx of people from a de-

velopment 64 meters from the site at 11 Peel Ave. that has 500 units, and how it would add to an already congested Dufferin St.

City of Toronto Planner Sarah Phipps said that council is cur-rently in the process of review-ing its land use policies and ex-

pects no verdict to be reached on this proposal until the process is completed at the end of the year.

For more detailed information and diagrams of the structures visit http://www.toronto.ca/leg-docs/mmis/2012/pg/bgrd/back-groundfile-45783.pdf

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A screenshot of the three buildings being proposed on Dufferin St. Photo by Gurpreet Ghag

A rendering of the 299 Campbell Ave. proposal which includes residential and commercial spaces. Photo by Gurpreet Ghag

PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT UPDATEProposal update for properties on Dufferin St. causes traffic concerns from community members

The Canada Post Office, located on Dovercourt Rd. near Bloor St. (772 Dovercourt Rd.), could be on its way out of Ward 18, but Davenport MP Andrew Cash is doing all that he can to make sure that doesn’t happen.

The threat of a relocation sur-faced some months ago when the post office – officially labeled as “Station E” – had a for sale sign posted on its property. The move by Canada Post pressed Cash to explore options to save the branch, which he calls a staple in the community.

“[This] has caused a great deal of concern for the community,” said Cash. “It’s a well used post office, it’s very busy.”

According to Cash, the ‘for sale’ sign was removed from the property just five days after post-ing and replaced with community notice that warns of the potential relocation. The notice also notes the community has the option to voice their opinion, but Cash said with little contact information re-leased, a better forum needed to

exist.“It’s difficult for people to

contact Canada Post [with the information given],” said Cash.

In an effort to amplify the public voice – and to provide a better forum, Cash started an online petition on his web-site on May 14 and since, the rookie federal MP has collect-ed well over 2000 signatures from residents in the neigh-borhood.

“We are looking for a so-lution, I think people in our community really care about their public services,” said Cash.

“[Canada Post] can’t arbi-trarily decide one day they are going to move, the consulta-tion has been terrible.”

Cash said he recently met with Canada Post representa-tives and was assured no offi-cial decision has been made. As for the whereabouts of the possible relocation, Cash said for now, it’s a “moving target.”

For more information or to sign the petition, visit

http://www.andrewcash.ca/save-our-local-post-office

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FEDERAL MP ANDREW CASH HOPES TO STOP POST OFFICE RELOCATION

This post office located at Dovercourt Rd. and Northumberland St. could be on the move. Photo by Justin Millerson


After Canada Post threatened to relocate the branch from the neighbourhood, Andrew Cash started an online petition to stop any chance for a move

Forty long distance runners grabbed their shoes and gathered at the West Toronto Railpath on May 26 to partici-pate in the fourth annual Oasis Duf-ferin Community Centre spring run.

This year marks the first time the

run took place at the rail path with each of the last three taking place on Brockton Stadium track, just north of the Dufferin Mall.

Executive Director of the communi-ty centre, Chris Ortiz said the change in scenery had a positive effect on the event.

“It was awesome, “said Ortiz. “I live in the neighbourhood and I run the [rail path] all the time. It was great to run on such a smooth course.”

The charity event, which included four and eight kilometer runs – dif-ferent from last year’s model of five and ten kilometers – raised just over $5,000, a hike from last year’s total of $4,700. Ortiz said the new course garnered more attention from cardio enthusiasts, thus translating into more donations.

In the four kilometer run, Peter Chang placed first with a time of 18:06, 1:54 ahead of second place fin-isher Hasan Subhani. The winner of the eight kilometer run was Nickson Rugut who ran it in 29:58, 2:04 before Eric Bang crossed the line for second place.

OASIS SPRING RUN HITS THE WEST TORONTO RAIL PATH

For the first time, runners taking part in the Oasis spring run ran on the West Toronto Rail Path. Photo by Justin Millerson


“It was awesome. I live in the neighbourhood

and I run it all the time. It was great to run on

such a smooth course.”

Chris OrtizExecutive Director of Oasis

About 100 people huddled around their tour guide at the Lansdowne subway exit on Emer-son Ave. on May 5.

In celebration of the late urban-ist Jane Jacobs and her love for urban communities, host Adam Popper welcomed everyone and laid out his plans for his Jane’s Walk entitled “Bloordale: A story of transit, entrepreneurship and neighbourhood.”

The turnout was almost triple than what Popper anticipated and the eager Jane-walkers listened closely to his instructions.

“I was only expecting 20 or 25 people,” Popper said. “I only made 35 handouts and one of the volun-teers counted over 90 people.”

Besides making the handouts, Popper said he spent the days leading up to the walk visiting Toronto Archives to get a better understanding of his neighbour-hood.

“I’m fairly new to the neigh-

bourhood,” he said. “I only moved here in 2008 and I don’t have a lot of the stories of how it was like when crime was really really bad. I frequent certain businesses, but not all, so I kind of had an idea of what I was going to talk about.”

Popper started the tour by in-troducing three Bloor St. W. en-trepreneurs who settled on the Bloordale strip between Emerson Ave. and Margueretta St. in three different time periods to the par-ticipants, who had the chance to ask questions about the neigh-bourhood and the changes it has

seen since the 1960s.The cross section of eras was

explored when the walking group

toured Vito’s Barber Shop at 1258 Bloor St. W., a family-owned busi-ness that opened in the 60s, South Indian Dosa Mahal at 1262 Bloor St. W., whose owners moved into the area in the 80s, and Nut-house at 1256 Bloor St. W., which opened in 2010.

The group then walked south on Margueretta St. while discussed the planning behind the street’s

development. Popper told the group to observe how the blocks were much longer south of Bloor and discussed how shorter blocks like those north of Bloor St. make for safer communities.

The group then made its way back up the street to Susan Tibaldi parkette where participants either went home or joined Popper for a cup of hot chocolate at his house.

All in all, Popper was quite hap-py with the turnout.

“I wanted to get a bunch of dif-ferent people out here for the walk and I think I did that,” he said.

Popper has no immediate plans for another walk, but hasn’t totally ruled it out.

“If I were to do it again, I would talk less and have more discussion arise,” he said.

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...needed, across Toronto.Since 1998, Dufferin Grove Park

has collected over $1 million in donations, Mason said, but only a fraction of that money will actu-ally go back into the park.

Mason believes in order to main-tain fairness, the money should go back into the park that raised it.

“We want donations to go back into Ward 18 parks,” she said.

Following Mason’s presentation, Anna Hill, Outreach Coordinator for Park People spoke about Park People’s initiative and how it can help optimize park development. Park People is an organization that encourages park volunteer groups.

The Park People organization, according to their website, believe

“Toronto is on the verge of a park renaissance” and Hill feels com-munity involvement is essential to guarantee success moving for-ward.

“A park group is a good oppor-tunity to get the community talk-ing about their parks,” said Hill.

Out of 16 listed parks in Ward 18, only six currently have a parks group, but Hill ensured starting

one is trouble-free. The first step is to visit Park People’s website, which can be found at http://www.parkpeople.ca.

After the presentations, commu-nity members in attendance broke into groups to voice their sugges-tions about how to improve their neighbourhood parks. Discussion was broken into categories includ-ing sports, art, community en-

gagement, greenery and finances.Bailão reported on her website

a long list of suggestions were col-lected and will be taken into seri-ous consideration upon any park upgrades in the future.

For more information about the summit or how you can get in-volved, visit http://www.anabailao.ca/2012/05/community-parks-summit-notes/

BLOORDALE HONOURS URBANIST JANE JACOBS

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“I was only expecting 20 or 25 people, I only made 35 handouts and

one of the volunteers counted 90 people.”

Adam Popperwalk coordinator and host

Host, Adam Popper introduces entrepreneurs in front of onlookers before his Jane’s walk. Photo by Gurpreet Ghag


PARKS SUMMIT, from page 1

MPP JONAH SCHEIN416-535-3158

Spring is here and more cyclists are taking to the streets in Davenport. Biking is a fast and easy way to get around our communities and our cities and keeps our bodies and planet healthy.

As urban riders, we all take steps to be safe on our bikes by wearing a helmet, using a light and bell, and taking care on busy streets. And recent studies show that more people would like to ride, but are afraid to cycle in Ontario.

Government has an important role to play to

protect cyclists, and our Ontario government is not doing their part. While cyclists continue to be in danger, the provincial gov-ernment has kept a draft copy of a new Ontario Cycling Strategy sitting on a shelf to collect dust for two years. We need the government to release its cycling strategy and invest in cycling infrastructure to prevent further injuries and deaths to cyclists in the future.

Through a freedom-of-information request, I’ve obtained the government’s draft cycling strategy that advises a more robust role for the Ontario Govern-ment in bike safety.

Quebec and BC have invested in cycling infra-structure, but the Ontario government continues to delay the release of this strategy and won’t commit financial support to protect cyclists in our province.

In the past few weeks I have met with cycling advocates to discuss ways to make cycling safer here in Toronto and across Ontario. If you have concerns or ideas to improve bike safety please send me an email at [email protected] or call my office at 416-535-3158.

Join me on June 16th to Cycle and Celebrate the West Toronto Railpath with the Davenport West Bike Project. From 1pm-4pm there will be bike tune-ups, live music, a scavenger hunt and more along the Railpath. Together, let’s celebrate clean and sustainable transportation options!

COUNCILLOR ANA BAILÃO 416-392-7012

Hello Neighbour,As you have no

doubt heard, the City of Toronto is currently exiting a time of fi-nancial stress. We are paying off our debt, and as a result will be saving $40 million in interest fees annually. As we work to mini-mize our costs in de-livering City services, all divisions are cur-rently undergoing a review of their spend-ing.

In particular, the City’s Affordable Housing department

is challenged with uncertainty around federal and provincial housing funds. Two of the key government housing programs ex-pired on March 31st and we are still waiting to hear if those programs and funding will be renewed.

As we at the City level work to-gether to identify ways of doing more with less, we must also be innovative and creative in how we tackle these issue. One way of do-ing so, is by working jointly with the private-sector.

In pursuit of improving our City’s ageing housing infrastruc-ture, I organized a Roundtable of Private and Non-profit groups to respond to identify ways of a joint partnership. It was very clear from these meetings over the last year that Private sector developers are ready to build and upgrade afford-able housing in Toronto as part of

the ongoing construction and ren-ovation boom.

The 12 recommendations from this committee were recently pre-pared in a report entitled Hous-ing Makes Economic Sense. As the report indicates, “the current construction boom presents the City with a golden opportunity to help improve housing outcomes for low- and moderate-income residents” and it is critical that we, as Toronto residents, seize this op-portunity to provide for our grow-ing housing needs.

Astoundingly, these 12 recom-mendations would allow more than 7,800 affordable homes to be created, maintained or repaired while additionally generating jobs for more than 13,174 people in the construction industry. And this is only within the first three years.

These recommendations are

both practical and doable. Simply because there is greater consider-ation regarding spending does not mean that the important services our City provides should be put at risk. By acting upon these recom-mendations, municipal, provincial and federal governments, in part-nership with the private and non-profit sectors, will guarantee more affordable housing opportunities for Torontonians – and all at mini-mal cost to the City.

We are being smarter with our money, hitting important social targets in our City, and reaching out to the many organizations that contribute to Toronto’s vibrancy every day. I encourage you to download the report online, speak with our office, or follow the report as it is presented to the upcoming Executive Committee meeting on June 12th.

MP ANDREW CASH 416-654-8048

Words mean a lot. And when you are a govern-ment hell bent on mak-ing life harder for regular working folks words are revolutionary. Take for example the term “Em-ployment Insurance”. EI for short. Not long ago we called this “Unemploy-ment Insurance” and when we called it that—or UI for short the program actually did what its title suggested. It helped insure Canadians against those unfortunate times of unemployment. While never a perfect sys-tem it was the crucial buf-fer between jobs. Today under Stephen Harper’s Reform/Conservative gov-ernment EI has become an insurance policy for employers seeking to pay workers as little as possible. The changes, hidden in the doorstopper of a bud-get implementation bill,

means that after a short period of benefits, workers must accept lower wage jobs than what they had before or face losing their benefits altogether. So those in pre-carious employment could see their wages continually driven down by the need to take jobs at 70% of their previous wage. And this is before we even talk about the 60% of unemployed Canadians who can’t access EI in the first place. Stuck as they are in the 1950’s, the Conservatives have been completely blind to the new reali-ties of work in cities like Toronto where more and more are contract, part time, self employed and freelance workers. With no benefits, job security or pension, these Urban Workers are shut right out of the system. What I see in Davenport are people working really hard to get by. I constantly meet folks who are trying to hold down three jobs and raise a family, or who have been looking and looking but still can’t find a stable, decent job. They want EI help them through the storm--not sink their boat.

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Letters from your political representatives


BY JONAH SCHEINDAVENPORT’S MPP416-535-3158

It won’t be easy, but I’m determined to change politics in Davenport.

After working on three election campaigns in Davenport in less than two years, and listening to thousands of residents, I’ve heard repeatedly that people have lost faith in politicians and the political process. I understand why.

The political process often seems unclear and doesn’t seem to make sense, and many times it is unclear and doesn’t make sense. Too many people hear promises that never come true. They hear politicians talking but not listening. They feel like they are paying more to get by and get-ting less service and support in return.

It’s easy to become discouraged, but we cannot

afford to give up on government. Without an ef-fort to renew and repair our democratic process, we stand no chance to meet the challenges that face us. We need government to work for us, to help us steward our environment, to educate our young people, to create good jobs and to care for the sick and vulnerable people in our com-munity.

We are constantly told that government is “inefficient” and ineffective, yet recent and pro-posed cuts to programs and services make our government less effective and less efficient.

We need to reverse this from the ground up. For us that has to start right here in Davenport.

Earlier this year, I opened my community of-fice to better serve our riding. My fantastic and dedicated staff is working to serve you in our new office on St. Clair Ave. W. I’ve worked hard to create a team that is passionate and skilled and build an office that is accessible and welcoming.

In addition to providing information, advo-cacy, and assistance to constituents who need help accessing programs, our office will also be a meeting place for our community to discuss provincial issues that matter to Davenport, for educationals, coffeehouses, and to provide ser-vices like tax clinics for low income community members.

We often feel like government is working against us and not for us. If we’re going to turn this around, we need you be part of a new poli-tics in Davenport. My office wants to hear from you. We want to be in conversation with you. We want to work with you to make this province work better for all of us.

We’re on your side and we’re here to help. Please drop by our office at 1674 St. Clair Ave. W. and see a great exhibit of local artists. You can contact our community office by email at [email protected], by phone at 416-535-3158. To stay connected online, email and ask to join our mailing list.

BY ANDREW CASHDAVENPORT’S MP416-654-8048

Well it has been a wild ride in Ottawa these days. The Conservative government of Stephen Harper has been intent not only on ramming laws through Parliament without sufficient debate or oversight, but of using outrageous rhetoric to divide Ca-nadians and silence debate. For folks in To-ronto this is particularly disturbing since so much of what Harper is doing is toxic here. For example the vote to axe the long gun registry and destroy all the records will weaken gun control in big cities like Toron-to. Their proposed Lawful Access legisla-tion will permit law enforcement agencies to access your private online information without a warrant from a judge. That’s bad!

I held a townhall discussion of this bill in Davenport and knocked on doors in several neighbourhoods to discuss it. Overwhelmingly you had serious concerns. Well so does both the Ontario and the Federal Privacy Commissioners. But what does Vic Toews, our Public Safety Minister say a couple weeks ago? If you don’t stand with the government on this bill then you stand with child por-nographers! Ya, he really said that.

Which leads us to the topic of government’s crime bill C-10. Bil-lions for super jails and nothing to address the roots of most crime—mental illness, drug addiction and poverty. But it will divert precious financial resources away from what we DO need—comprehensive and affordable childcare, more recreation centres and programs for our youth, better public transit and much, much

more affordable housing.The Conservatives have run out of plans,

and the ones they have don’t work for Toronto. It is one of many reasons why I was proud, as one of the NDP Official Opposition’s housing critics, to introduce a National Housing Strategy recently. Affordable housing is one of the biggest issues facing people in Toronto and Ca-nadians right across the country. Over the next several months we’ll be pressuring the government to adopt this plan. And boy do they need one. Recently I asked the Human Resources Minister Diane Findlay about the lack of affordable rental accom-modations in Toronto. She said it wasn’t a problem since interest rates were so low people were simply buying houses. What?! Ya, she really said that too.

BY ANA BAILÃOWARD 18 COUNCILLOR416-392-7012

Dear Neighbours, After transit, I strongly believe the

biggest issue facing Torontonians is affordable housing. The need for safe, well-kept affordable housing is a criti-cal aspect of a caring and cohesive society, and provides dignity to the many low-income Torontonians that contribute readily to our social and economic health.

Toronto’s biggest landlord for af-fordable housing is also Canada’s, with the Toronto Community Hous-ing Corporation providing accom-modation for 154,000 tenants. Since amalgamation, the TCHC has strug-gled significantly under the responsi-bility of caring for the aging housing stock that was downloaded from the Province. Since then, the organiza-tion has been unable to keep up with the growing repair backlog, which is

currently estimated at over $750 million. This backlog, in combination with the corporation’s debt of over $2 billion, is a significant threat to the continued service delivery of affordable housing in Toronto

For this reason, a proposal was brought for-ward that would sell nearly 700 stand-alone units of housing scattered across the City. This would result in over $250 million to be injected directly into repairs to existing TCHC units.

While I recognize that the TCHC faces a growing backlog, the sale of these buildings will not help our City address the over 80,000 households currently on the waiting list for affordable housing; nor does it address the shortage of family housing units - the large proportion of the stand-alone units. Addition-ally, for truly prosperous neighbourhoods, we must value and maintain a mix of incomes and housing types in our communities.

Recently, I was pleased to receive support of the Executive Committee to delay the proposed sell-off until after a Special Working Group is created and able to report back on innovative ways of improving the shape of our TCHC housing. This Working Group will reach out to the non-profit, private and public sectors to

better manage our housing assets in a compas-sionate and more financially sustainable way.

Only with an understanding of the broader housing landscape can we maintain and reaf-firm Toronto’s stake in providing affordable housing by keeping this invaluable social asset viable and effective. As both a Councillor and Chair of the Affordable Housing Committee, I will continue to meet with tenant groups and ownership assistance organizations to have a stronger vision for Toronto’s affordable hous-ing future.

It is also critical that the Province and Federal government share in this commitment and rec-ognize their responsibility to the many thou-sands of Canadians who need housing support by investing in this issue through long-term, sustainable funding of affordable housing.

Toronto’s current housing situation is too critical to wait for solutions; we must begin the work to create them, and we must begin today. We must move forward with a vision that treats people respectfully and provides for the future needs of our City. This will continue to be my priority as these important discussions, and the work of the Special Working Committee, take place.

05The Bloordale Press MARCH 2012

Letters from your Representatives

BY JONAH SCHEIN Greetings Davenport! This is my

first article submission for the Bloor-dale Press. I’m really grateful to the editors for offering me this space to connect with you readers each month.

In many ways the Bloordale Press does more than tell the news in our neighbourhood – it’s part of the good news in our neighbourhood.

Bloordale Press is an example of a growing spirit of community engage-ment our riding.

I feel so lucky to represent this rid-ing where many people are making huge contributions to our neigh-bourhoods. Whether that’s the good folks at Bloordale Press, young people at City View Alternative School, organizers at Dufferin Grove Park, activists with The Clean Trains Coalition, or my old colleagues at The Stop Community Food Centre; people in Davenport are passionate about making our community a bet-ter place to live.

I know that the NDP reflects the values of Davenport. We all know what it means to work hard to pay the bills each month, and we are deeply

committed to the environment and social justice. As residents we all contribute a lot to our community but we also know that government has to do its part too. We need government to help people when they are vulnerable, to steward our environment, and to make life more affordable. We need government to invest in public transit and childcare, and to support senior citizens. And we know we can’t continue on the same old path. In tough economic times, we need our governments to stop giving billions of dollars away to corporations and start investing in our communities. This is the mes-sage that the NDP and I have been bringing to the legislature this fall.

I’m deeply honoured to have earned your support and I’ll work everyday to serve our riding and bring your voices to Queens Park.

I look forward to hearing from you and working together to make this a better riding and province to live in.

I am currently in the process of setting up my office at 1674 St. Clair West, and am available at 416-535-3158 or [email protected] At Queen’s Park I can be reached at 416-325-0014 or [email protected]

BY ANA BAILÃO Dear Neighbours,

With cooling weather, rosy cheeks, and arriving home from work in the dark, the signs of the season are upon us. Yet, despite these weather grievances, Ward 18 is alive with activity and colour.

Whether it is the beautifully wrapped packages in the arms of residents walking out of Queen Street shops, the beautiful lighting along Dundas Street, or the shouts and sounds of skates on ice at our many outdoor rinks - the holidays are here.

The holidays are also a busy time to move around our neighbour-hood. While good public transit is vital for a well planned City, the increased ridership during the winter months - when many driv-ers and cyclists find refuge from the salt and snow - is an important time to reflect on our current tran-sit priorities.

As a candidate, I campaigned on the principles of fast, efficient and affordable public transportation. With those principles in mind, any transit decisions that I support will

have the interests of Davenport residents at its heart while never neglecting the need for a global transportation vision for the City of Toronto.

In order to pay for improved transit infrastructure, and meet spending reduction targets, the TTC has proposed route changes across the City.In Ward 18, the 506 Carleton, 29 Dufferin, 505 Dundas, 26 Dupont are among the routes experiencing reduction in service. In each case these reduc-tions mean riders will have to wait longer (in most cases less than 50 seconds) between vehicles. I am pleased, however, that we will ac-tually see service increases to the 501 Queen, 168 Symington and 40 Junction routes.

These service cuts raise serious concerns about how transit will effectively serve Ward 18 residents. It is critical that affordable and ac-cessible transit be the focus of any transit changes in our Ward and we must look at a variety of methods of accomplishing this goal without compromising transit routes.

I support the notion that we must demand our fair share of transit funding from other levels

of government, and also strongly believe that we must seek to do more with the resources at hand by addressing efficiency concerns like overcrowding and vehicle bunch-ing.

For example, I have requested that City staff investigate solutions to the bunching of buses along the 29 Dufferin route and the TTC is now closely examining this matter. The Queen Street car is a further high-ridership route that suffers from bunching. Especially with the increased population that is predicted with upcoming develop-ment opportunities along Queen Street, it is necessary that we take a proactive approach now in order to guarantee the infrastructure to support the future.

Regardless of the season, I will continue to advocate for afford-able, accessible and sustainable transit for our neighbourhood and would like to wish all the residents of Ward 18 a safe and happy holi-day.

Best wishes to you and your loved ones and I look forward to seeing many of you over the holi-days.

05The Bloordale Press DECEMBER 2011

The Councillor’s Corner

The MPP’s Corner

BY JONAH SCHEINDAVENPORT’S MPP416-535-3158

It won’t be easy, but I’m determined to change politics in Davenport.

After working on three election campaigns in Davenport in less than two years, and listening to thousands of residents, I’ve heard repeatedly that people have lost faith in politicians and the political process. I understand why.

The political process often seems unclear and doesn’t seem to make sense, and many times it is unclear and doesn’t make sense. Too many people hear promises that never come true. They hear politicians talking but not listening. They feel like they are paying more to get by and get-ting less service and support in return.

It’s easy to become discouraged, but we cannot

afford to give up on government. Without an ef-fort to renew and repair our democratic process, we stand no chance to meet the challenges that face us. We need government to work for us, to help us steward our environment, to educate our young people, to create good jobs and to care for the sick and vulnerable people in our com-munity.

We are constantly told that government is “inefficient” and ineffective, yet recent and pro-posed cuts to programs and services make our government less effective and less efficient.

We need to reverse this from the ground up. For us that has to start right here in Davenport.

Earlier this year, I opened my community of-fice to better serve our riding. My fantastic and dedicated staff is working to serve you in our new office on St. Clair Ave. W. I’ve worked hard to create a team that is passionate and skilled and build an office that is accessible and welcoming.

In addition to providing information, advo-cacy, and assistance to constituents who need help accessing programs, our office will also be a meeting place for our community to discuss provincial issues that matter to Davenport, for educationals, coffeehouses, and to provide ser-vices like tax clinics for low income community members.

We often feel like government is working against us and not for us. If we’re going to turn this around, we need you be part of a new poli-tics in Davenport. My office wants to hear from you. We want to be in conversation with you. We want to work with you to make this province work better for all of us.

We’re on your side and we’re here to help. Please drop by our office at 1674 St. Clair Ave. W. and see a great exhibit of local artists. You can contact our community office by email at [email protected], by phone at 416-535-3158. To stay connected online, email and ask to join our mailing list.

BY ANDREW CASHDAVENPORT’S MP416-654-8048

Well it has been a wild ride in Ottawa these days. The Conservative government of Stephen Harper has been intent not only on ramming laws through Parliament without sufficient debate or oversight, but of using outrageous rhetoric to divide Ca-nadians and silence debate. For folks in To-ronto this is particularly disturbing since so much of what Harper is doing is toxic here. For example the vote to axe the long gun registry and destroy all the records will weaken gun control in big cities like Toron-to. Their proposed Lawful Access legisla-tion will permit law enforcement agencies to access your private online information without a warrant from a judge. That’s bad!

I held a townhall discussion of this bill in Davenport and knocked on doors in several neighbourhoods to discuss it. Overwhelmingly you had serious concerns. Well so does both the Ontario and the Federal Privacy Commissioners. But what does Vic Toews, our Public Safety Minister say a couple weeks ago? If you don’t stand with the government on this bill then you stand with child por-nographers! Ya, he really said that.

Which leads us to the topic of government’s crime bill C-10. Bil-lions for super jails and nothing to address the roots of most crime—mental illness, drug addiction and poverty. But it will divert precious financial resources away from what we DO need—comprehensive and affordable childcare, more recreation centres and programs for our youth, better public transit and much, much

more affordable housing.The Conservatives have run out of plans,

and the ones they have don’t work for Toronto. It is one of many reasons why I was proud, as one of the NDP Official Opposition’s housing critics, to introduce a National Housing Strategy recently. Affordable housing is one of the biggest issues facing people in Toronto and Ca-nadians right across the country. Over the next several months we’ll be pressuring the government to adopt this plan. And boy do they need one. Recently I asked the Human Resources Minister Diane Findlay about the lack of affordable rental accom-modations in Toronto. She said it wasn’t a problem since interest rates were so low people were simply buying houses. What?! Ya, she really said that too.

BY ANA BAILÃOWARD 18 COUNCILLOR416-392-7012

Dear Neighbours, After transit, I strongly believe the

biggest issue facing Torontonians is affordable housing. The need for safe, well-kept affordable housing is a criti-cal aspect of a caring and cohesive society, and provides dignity to the many low-income Torontonians that contribute readily to our social and economic health.

Toronto’s biggest landlord for af-fordable housing is also Canada’s, with the Toronto Community Hous-ing Corporation providing accom-modation for 154,000 tenants. Since amalgamation, the TCHC has strug-gled significantly under the responsi-bility of caring for the aging housing stock that was downloaded from the Province. Since then, the organiza-tion has been unable to keep up with the growing repair backlog, which is

currently estimated at over $750 million. This backlog, in combination with the corporation’s debt of over $2 billion, is a significant threat to the continued service delivery of affordable housing in Toronto

For this reason, a proposal was brought for-ward that would sell nearly 700 stand-alone units of housing scattered across the City. This would result in over $250 million to be injected directly into repairs to existing TCHC units.

While I recognize that the TCHC faces a growing backlog, the sale of these buildings will not help our City address the over 80,000 households currently on the waiting list for affordable housing; nor does it address the shortage of family housing units - the large proportion of the stand-alone units. Addition-ally, for truly prosperous neighbourhoods, we must value and maintain a mix of incomes and housing types in our communities.

Recently, I was pleased to receive support of the Executive Committee to delay the proposed sell-off until after a Special Working Group is created and able to report back on innovative ways of improving the shape of our TCHC housing. This Working Group will reach out to the non-profit, private and public sectors to

better manage our housing assets in a compas-sionate and more financially sustainable way.

Only with an understanding of the broader housing landscape can we maintain and reaf-firm Toronto’s stake in providing affordable housing by keeping this invaluable social asset viable and effective. As both a Councillor and Chair of the Affordable Housing Committee, I will continue to meet with tenant groups and ownership assistance organizations to have a stronger vision for Toronto’s affordable hous-ing future.

It is also critical that the Province and Federal government share in this commitment and rec-ognize their responsibility to the many thou-sands of Canadians who need housing support by investing in this issue through long-term, sustainable funding of affordable housing.

Toronto’s current housing situation is too critical to wait for solutions; we must begin the work to create them, and we must begin today. We must move forward with a vision that treats people respectfully and provides for the future needs of our City. This will continue to be my priority as these important discussions, and the work of the Special Working Committee, take place.

05The Bloordale Press MARCH 2012

Letters from your Representatives

BY JONAH SCHEIN Greetings Davenport! This is my

first article submission for the Bloor-dale Press. I’m really grateful to the editors for offering me this space to connect with you readers each month.

In many ways the Bloordale Press does more than tell the news in our neighbourhood – it’s part of the good news in our neighbourhood.

Bloordale Press is an example of a growing spirit of community engage-ment our riding.

I feel so lucky to represent this rid-ing where many people are making huge contributions to our neigh-bourhoods. Whether that’s the good folks at Bloordale Press, young people at City View Alternative School, organizers at Dufferin Grove Park, activists with The Clean Trains Coalition, or my old colleagues at The Stop Community Food Centre; people in Davenport are passionate about making our community a bet-ter place to live.

I know that the NDP reflects the values of Davenport. We all know what it means to work hard to pay the bills each month, and we are deeply

committed to the environment and social justice. As residents we all contribute a lot to our community but we also know that government has to do its part too. We need government to help people when they are vulnerable, to steward our environment, and to make life more affordable. We need government to invest in public transit and childcare, and to support senior citizens. And we know we can’t continue on the same old path. In tough economic times, we need our governments to stop giving billions of dollars away to corporations and start investing in our communities. This is the mes-sage that the NDP and I have been bringing to the legislature this fall.

I’m deeply honoured to have earned your support and I’ll work everyday to serve our riding and bring your voices to Queens Park.

I look forward to hearing from you and working together to make this a better riding and province to live in.

I am currently in the process of setting up my office at 1674 St. Clair West, and am available at 416-535-3158 or [email protected] At Queen’s Park I can be reached at 416-325-0014 or [email protected]

BY ANA BAILÃO Dear Neighbours,

With cooling weather, rosy cheeks, and arriving home from work in the dark, the signs of the season are upon us. Yet, despite these weather grievances, Ward 18 is alive with activity and colour.

Whether it is the beautifully wrapped packages in the arms of residents walking out of Queen Street shops, the beautiful lighting along Dundas Street, or the shouts and sounds of skates on ice at our many outdoor rinks - the holidays are here.

The holidays are also a busy time to move around our neighbour-hood. While good public transit is vital for a well planned City, the increased ridership during the winter months - when many driv-ers and cyclists find refuge from the salt and snow - is an important time to reflect on our current tran-sit priorities.

As a candidate, I campaigned on the principles of fast, efficient and affordable public transportation. With those principles in mind, any transit decisions that I support will

have the interests of Davenport residents at its heart while never neglecting the need for a global transportation vision for the City of Toronto.

In order to pay for improved transit infrastructure, and meet spending reduction targets, the TTC has proposed route changes across the City.In Ward 18, the 506 Carleton, 29 Dufferin, 505 Dundas, 26 Dupont are among the routes experiencing reduction in service. In each case these reduc-tions mean riders will have to wait longer (in most cases less than 50 seconds) between vehicles. I am pleased, however, that we will ac-tually see service increases to the 501 Queen, 168 Symington and 40 Junction routes.

These service cuts raise serious concerns about how transit will effectively serve Ward 18 residents. It is critical that affordable and ac-cessible transit be the focus of any transit changes in our Ward and we must look at a variety of methods of accomplishing this goal without compromising transit routes.

I support the notion that we must demand our fair share of transit funding from other levels

of government, and also strongly believe that we must seek to do more with the resources at hand by addressing efficiency concerns like overcrowding and vehicle bunch-ing.

For example, I have requested that City staff investigate solutions to the bunching of buses along the 29 Dufferin route and the TTC is now closely examining this matter. The Queen Street car is a further high-ridership route that suffers from bunching. Especially with the increased population that is predicted with upcoming develop-ment opportunities along Queen Street, it is necessary that we take a proactive approach now in order to guarantee the infrastructure to support the future.

Regardless of the season, I will continue to advocate for afford-able, accessible and sustainable transit for our neighbourhood and would like to wish all the residents of Ward 18 a safe and happy holi-day.

Best wishes to you and your loved ones and I look forward to seeing many of you over the holi-days.

05The Bloordale Press DECEMBER 2011

The Councillor’s Corner

The MPP’s Corner

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News


...and saw the teachers in a whole-different light.”

Pauline - “and they got to see us in the same light.”

Truman Phillip attended during 1991 and1992 and said he will nev-er forget playing on the basketball teams.

“We ended up going to the finals thefirst year I was here, but we came just short. I think we lost toCar-leton Village. The next year we went to the finals again and won.So that was nice. It was all nice-- going to the mall, playingstreet-fighter at the 7-11’s, the mountain dew Slurpees.”

Wendy West went to Kent in 1978 and1979, Donna West was there 1972 and 1973 and Cindy was there during1973 and 1974.

Wendy - “I remember my gradu-ationdress – it was just so ugly, hor-rible – I can’t believe I woreit”

Donna - “My favourite teacher was Mr.Donny and I had him for grade 8 in homeroom. He was really nice andgenuine.”

Cindy - “I remember going across thestreet to ‘Local’ for fries and gra-vy, but now it’s gone.”

Shah Syed attended the school in 2005and 2006 and remembers how he got back at a bully.

“One time we were playing out-side and my friend got injured by abully. I ended up fake-crying to get him into trouble.”

Michelle Gagne and Stephanie Munsattended the school in 1985 and 1986 and recall the last day

Michelle - “The last day of school,everybody took an afternoon off and there was a massive shaving creamfight at the back of the school. There were cans upon cans of shav-ingcream. Everybody was covered in it- it stunk, but it was a nice,sunny day.”

Marcia and Hayden Degannes at-tended theschool in 1978 and 1979. They weren’t planning on coming to thereunion, but were just driving by when they noticed the festivities.The two met each other at Kent and have been married happily since.

Hayden - “We’ve been married for 25 years now and have two girls.It all happened right here.”

Yasin Farizanali attended Kent in 1997and 1998. He recalls the hard times growing up at Kent.

“I was picked on a lot and now

thatmy antagonists haven’t come back for me to laugh at sucks. I am veryheartbroken about this whole situation.”

Effi Kapoulis taught at the school-since 1990 and said there are many reasons why she stayed at Kent forso long.

“The students at this school have-been spectacular. Just good kids overall, even the kids who liked to-cause trouble weren’t bad- they were just mischievous. Every yearthere was just something special about the graduating class. Thisyear is one of the best years – the attendance, the marks... forus, as staff, knowing that this is out last graduating class isreally sad to see. We’re packing up now, we’re doing inventory –every-thing is being moved and relocated. It’s very sad.”

KENT REUNION, from page 1

Captions clockwise: Claudio Abreu, The West’s (Wendy, Donna and Cindy), Shah Syed, Truman Phillips, Marcia and Hayden Degannes, current instructor, Effi Kapoulis and Yasin Farizanali. Photos By Gurpreet Ghag

On a sunny afternoon on May 4, children were running wild

throughout Pauline Public School beyond normal school hours as a “Square Foot” art show filled the gymnasium.

There were 224 unique pieces

drawn by almost every student at the Pauline Ave. elementary school on display as a strings ensemble from Bloor Collegiate warmed up the gym with some light music.

It’s called a Square Foot art show because each piece of art is on a 12-inch square canvas.

Somewhere among the families looking over artwork and one of

the several sporadically occurring games of tag taking place on the gym floor, organizer Sheila Mul-herm held her daughter Stella as she announced the event was a huge success.

“Kids have been coming in all day and trying to find their pieces on the wall,” she said. “They’re so excited that they were in a real art show.”

Mulherm, along with Ann Ma-rino, the other half of the organiz-ing team, came across the idea of a square foot art show from Awol Gallery, at 78 Ossington Ave., and thought it would be a great way to unite the parents and students of the school and celebrate the creativ-ity in its walls.

Marino said the event was solely for the kids Pauline.

“We want our kids to see the school as a community rather than an institution,” she said.

Besides the art displays, there was also a silent auction of art donated from the community, a variety of snacks to taste, and a draw for a crayola art pack with proceeds go-ing towards extra curricular activi-ties in the school.

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Almost every student attending Pauline Public School participated in the art fair with each completing a square foot drawing. Photos by Gurpreet Ghag

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Arsenal Toronto sits across from a scrap metal yard, a stone’s throw away from where the street meets the West Toronto Railpath.

At first glance, it looks nothing like your traditional gallery – it’s a box, an industrial unit, with two huge garage doors, the only iden-tifying piece a small strip of text at the bottom of the door on the side of the building that says www.ar-senaltoronto.com.

The new gallery located at 45 Ernest Ave., has set up shop in Bloordale, looking unique amongst others in the neighbour-hood.

“We were looking for a large sort of warehouse or factory set-ting to really allow the artworks to breathe in them, [have] space around them, tall ceilings and good light,” said Jean-François Bélisle, art director of Arsenal To-ronto.

Arsenal opened a month and a half ago on the quiet street. Its sister gallery, Arsenal Montreal, opened just half a month before

that and the two carry some dis-tinct similarities.

“We really want them to be col-laborative spaces where we invite different curators and different people from the art world to build the projects and exhibitions with us,” Bélisle said.

This contemporary art gallery is set apart by that, but it also has a unique twist on how people inter-act with the art on display.

“Corporate events and private events happen every day in Mon-treal and in Toronto in these big cities and people tend to be tired of the same setup all the time, when you show up to a dinner and you have an hour cocktail and then you have a two hour dinner,” Bélisle said. “Bringing the art world into this gives it a completely new flare and a new touch, especially for event orga-nizers that want to put the em-phasis on creativity.”

So far, Arsenal Montreal has had a lot of success, hosting events such as fashion shows, gala evenings and gourmet dinners in the space. Bélisle said while they would like to do the same thing

in Toronto, they are not sure they have the resources for it.

Montreal’s gallery includes an enormous catering kitchen, whereas the building on Ernest Ave. is a “pure exhibition space.”

Bélisle has been art director with Arsenal for just over a year, but he has art experience that spans many years. He has run the AGAC – a contemporary art gal-lery association based in Montreal and a gallery in New York City. He has also worked for UNESCO

in Paris. Arsenal Toronto is some-thing he is excited and very pas-sionate about and said he is really looking forward to collaborating with other venues in the area.

“We quickly came to the con-clusion that the Junction was really interesting because there are other similar spaces that ex-ist [there]. There’s a little hub of contemporary art places that have opened up in the last couple years and if it keeps on going like that then maybe we’ll have a true little

hub,” he said.The gallery is currently only

open Fridays from 12 to 7 and Saturdays from 12 to 5.

Bélisle said after the next couple of shows, they will hopefully have someone local running the space so it can be open longer. In the meantime, he said he is optimistic about the gallery.

“We’re hoping for a great suc-cess and lots of good thrilling ex-hibitions and we’re going to put all our energy into that.”

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Art Gallery Guide

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The Daniel Faria Gallery is proud to present Patterns of Emancipation, Shan-non Bool’s first solo exhibition in Canada.

Bool’s new work explores the need to obtain freedom from prescribed spaces. A continuation of Bool’s

previous work, the exhibition examines the visual identities of a culture or era (colours, ornaments, prints and patterns) and decontextualizes these visual codes un-til a new pattern or object emerges.

Taking its name from a piece of weather lore, the exhibition puts into conversation artworks that con-tend with atmospheric effects and environments—whether the austere solo living systems in Absalon’s Propositions d’habitation, or the abstraction of the sky into the printed page in Bruce Nauman’s LAAIR, or the reverie of a bubble in an infinite float in Cao Guimarães and Rivane Neuenschwander’s Inventory of small deaths (blow).

A complete set of Jack Goldstein’s 45rpm sound ef-fect recordings form an important context in the exhi-bition, including The Tornado, pressed to purple vinyl in order to signal the ominous sky of an impending storm. Jonathan Monk trains a 16mm camera on the very same Goldstein record, capturing it in the cyclone of its turntable play, yet suppressing the sound to ren-

der The Silent Tornado (for Jack Goldstein). For the photograph Nimbus D’Aspremont, Bernd-naut Smilde uses smoke, mois-ture and spot lighting to manu-facture an indoor cloud that lives momentarily suspended in a surrealist wish fulfillment. John Massey’s photo series Twilight’s Last Gleaming is exemplary of his longstanding interest in en-closed spaces. Based on a scale model of an interior setting, the resulting image frames a situa-tion of contained existence anal-ogous to consciousness.

Known for video in-stallation, photography and sculpture, Los Ange-les-based Canadian art-ist Jed Lind investigates technologies that high-light the way the natural and the manmade in-tersect, with particular reference to 1960s and 70s ideology. For his third exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Lind takes the dystopian novel Concrete Island

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Pete Smith presents “Blind Carbon Copy”

In his first solo exhibi-tion with p|m Gallery, Smith projects an anima-tion titled “Blind Carbon Copy” onto one of the gal-lery’s walls. In this piece, Smith remixes five years of his previous work: prelimi-nary computer sketches as well as images of his paintings. The oil on can-vas works in the font of the gallery are painterly repre-sentations of still images selected from that anima-tion. These works negoti-ate the interstitial space

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