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Maria Janchenko, owner of Janchenko Bakery, serves up traditional eastern European poppyseed buns. She feels proud to continue to provide Eastern European flavour to the neighbourhood. See what’s happening by visiting our online community calendar. www.insidetoronto.com/events

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Traditional food, dance, activities and parade in Bloor West The 21st annual Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival will take over the streets of the neighbourhood from Sept. 15 to 17. Discover Ukrainian culture in Canada at the street fest that has been happening since 1996. According to the event’s website, there will be various forms of entertainment with Ukrainian performers from the Greater Toronto Area, rest of Canada, U.S. and Ukraine including dancers, vocalists, musicians and a special youth performance. There will be two stages set up for the shows and guests can take part in traditional Ukrainian dance on the streets of Bloor West Village in the evening of

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Volya Dancers performing on stage at a previous Ukrainian Festival on Bloor Street West. The 21st annual festival takes place Sept. 15 to 17. the first two days. Vendor kiosks will offer authentic Ukrainian food, beverages, crafts and collectibles. "Cultural pavilions will feature interactive cultural activities and displays of historical and contemporary interest," the website said, adding there will be sidewalk sales by local shops and businesses. The festival takes place

on Bloor Street West, between Jane Street and Runnymede Road. It begins at 5 p.m. on Sept. 15 and ends at 7 p.m. on Sept. 17. There will be a parade taking place on Bloor Street West from High Park to Jane Street at 11 a.m. on Sept. 16. For more information, visit www.toronto.ukrainianfestival.com.

Runnymede Library to host reopening party LEGO-building, face-painting, prize giveaways and more Toronto Public Library will host an official reopening party for its Runnymede branch on Sept. 9. Guests can check out the new renovations, as well as participate in

small events suitable for families such as LEGObuilding and face-painting. There will also be cakecutting and prize giveaways. It takes place between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The library reopened in June after an almost fivemonth-long renovation project. The work included the

replacement of the service desk, relocation of the selfservice checkout, a new automated self-service check-in, reconfigured space for public workstations, additional seating, a study space, new flooring and finishes, and more. Runnymede is the third-busiest branch of the Toronto Public Library for visits and in terms of holds and pickups.

Learn about Roncesvalles heritage at walking tour How did Roncesvalles Avenue get its name? Who was Constance Avenue named after? What was daily life like in Parkdale and Roncesvalles in pre-Confederation days? The Sunnyside Historical Society and La Société d’Histoire de Toronto will answer those questions - and more during the Roncesvalles Heritage Walk on Saturday, Sept. 9. The free walking event will feature a combination of skits and short talks, focusing on one of the community’s main founding families the O’Haras. Along the way, participants will also learn about First Nations in the area, the 1837 rebellion and even the Napoleonic wars. Those interested in participating in the Sunnyside Historical Society tour are asked meet in the Peace Garden at the intersection of Dundas Street West and

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The Sunnyside Historical Society will host a free Roncesvalles Heritage Walk on Saturday, Sept. 9. Roncesvalles Avenue at 2:15 p.m. The walk begins at 2:30 p.m., and will end at Roncesvalles and the Queensway at 4 p.m. Meanwhile, a French language tour led by La Société d’Histoire de Toronto will depart from Dundas West subway station at 2 p.m. The walking tour routes will follow sidewalks the

length of Roncesvalles to the Queensway. The route is accessible and washrooms are available along the way. In case of inclement weather, check the Sunnyside Historical Society Facebook page at http:// bit.ly/2xsU4Vj or visit http://pvhs.info/ for updates.

Check out Bloordale’s Little Free Library fundraiser Groups want to install library in Susan Tibaldi Parkette The Bloordale Community Improvement Association and Bloordale Business Improvement Association are raising funds to install a Little Free Library in Su-

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fundraising party. There will be a free event featuring readings from children authors, live music and more. Also, there will be food and beverages available for purchase, as well as a raffle with local prizes. It will happen at Queen’s Shop at 1169 Bloor St. W. on Sept. 16 from 3 to 6 p.m.

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highparkwalkingtours@yahoo.ca Bonus event added to the normal schedule. Toronto Field Naturalists’ Bob Kortright tours the savanna’s autumn fields as plants produce seed and prepare to regenerate. Meet across from Grenadier Restaurant.

l Saturday, September 9 Runnymede Branch - Official Reopening WHEN: 10:00 a.m - 2:00 p.m WHERE: Program Room, Runnymede Branch Toronto Public Library, 2178 Bloor Street West, Toronto CONTACT: 416-3937697 Runnymede’s official reopening event, rain or shine. Giant LEGO blocks on the back lawn 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; face painting 10-11 a.m.;cake cutting 1 p.m. Free giveaways, while supplies last.

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dered clothing, shirts and also waving Ukrainian flags," said resident Oleg Mikhailenko. "I really feel like there’s a good Ukrainian community here." The Kyiv native has lived in the area since 1997, and works at Ukraine Canadian Social Services, located at Bloor and Jane streets, which is having a mural dedicated to Ukrainian-Canadians installed on the side of the building just in time for the festival. "There are lots of places to go that have an imprint of Ukrainian culture," he said. "If you kind of think about it, you’re part of something bigger and important in the city of Toronto." Ukrainians living in Toronto date as far back as the beginning of the 20th century, mostly in today’s downtown area and Junction Triangle neigh-

bourhood, according to Kaitlin Wainwright, director of programming at Heritage Toronto. She said almost 6,000 came to the city over a 15year period after the Second World War ended in 1945, and that’s when Bloor West began to establish itself as a Ukrainian area. "Personally, living in the west end, I know that if I want to go to a Ukrainian butcher or Ukrainian grocery store, Bloor West Village has long been the place to go for that," she said, but adding she has seen other cultures influencing the area over time. "(But) I think if that’s where the community comes to gather to share in their culture (the festival), then that absolutely means that the community still has a presence there," she said. Maria Janchenko is the owner of Janchenko Bakery near Bloor and Jane.

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The North York resident, who has Belarusian roots, left her day job and took over what was a long-standing Polish bakery there in April. She said customers have come into her store and told her they’re happy she continued to keep serving goods that remind them of their culture. "It makes me feel proud," she said. "I guess I could have found a cheaper place in a plaza in like North York or Mississauga, but something told me that I just wanted to save this place . something tells me it’s important to keep it here in this neighbourhood." As for Mikhailenko, he knows why he chose to move and work in Bloor West. "It feels like I’m part of a Ukrainian community in the Bloor West Village area," he said. "It makes you feel proud."

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New blood-alcohol rules just make sense The news that the federal government might lower the legal blood-alcohol limit for drivers might seem to have come out of nowhere. After all, thanks to concerted efforts by lawmakers and police, the rate of impaired driving incidents in Canada dropped to a 30-year low in 2015. Yet despite this progress, there is no better time than now to consider tougher drunk driving laws in this country. In less than a year, a new kind of impaired driver could be menacing Canada’s roads - one who just legally smoked marijuana. It is vital that if the federal Liberals permit the recreational use of cannabis starting next summer, they get tougher with drivers caught under the influence of drugs. As they do that, a stricter law on how much people can drink before driving is also very much in order. The federal government is justifiably concerned that when recreational marijuana is legal, more people may drive under the influence of the drug. And some of those irresponsible people might even drive after mixing marijuana and alcohol. That potentially lethal combination is reason enough for Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to consider lowering the legal blood limits for drivers from the current 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood to 50 milligrams. Rules that helped limit drinking and driving in the past might be too lax if booze and pot are mixed. Yet her proposal has other merits. While decades of anti-drunk-driving campaigns have produced positive results, we still have a long way to go. A recent study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranked Canada first out of 19 wealthy countries for the percentage of traffic deaths linked to alcohol impairment. Canada’s current rules were established in 1969 and based on research that concluded the risk of being in a car crash was twice as likely if a driver has 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood in his or her system. It turns out that’s wrong. New research shows the risk of being in a collision is almost triple at the 80-milligrams level and rises exponentially when alcohol levels are even higher. Many European countries, as well as Australia, have wisely lowered the limit to 50 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. Canadians are headed down a new and unfamiliar highway with legalized marijuana. We can make the journey safer with stronger laws prohibiting every kind of impaired driving.

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Toronto’s immigrants are cheated at work Winli Apparel Manufacturing shut down in Scarborough, and its sewing-machine operators, making little more than minimum wage, got four weeks’ pay. Chinese-speaking immigrants, some worked for Winli for more than 20 years. Thirteen got legal help to get the rest of what they were owed. Winli was ordered to pay them $26,000, and didn’t. The province dragged the company to court and, on Aug. 21, fined it $49,000, none of which the workers will see. That’s normal. Avvy Go, director of Metro Toronto Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic, represented the workers, and says many won’t approach the Ministry of Labour if they think they can keep their job.

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto When they hear "We’re shutting down," or "You’re fired," it’s often too late to collect, she said. How much some Greater Toronto employers cheat workers was spelled out in the clinic’s report last year, Sweet and Sour, covering 184 restaurant workers’ experiences over the previous three years. If you’re a non-Englishspeaking newcomer, Go

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says, chances are you’re more willing to accept less than you’re entitled to when employers say, "That’s just the way it is." The report’s findings: 43 per cent of the restaurant workers earned less than minimum wage, 57 per cent didn’t get vacation pay, and 20 per cent were owed wages. Faced with yawning gaps in provincial enforcement, the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto and other groups are encouraging volunteers to talk to Chinese-speaking workers about their rights. In the early 1990s, Ontario had a Wage Protection Fund which, if it hadn’t been erased, could have paid the Winli employees. The catalyst for the fund was another clinic case,

Lark Manufacturing, which shut its factory on Carlaw Avenue in 1988, owing 148 people, nearly all of them Chinese, more than $500,000. Its owners opened another factory nearby. Bringing the wage fund back, Go argues, would lead to fewer injustices like Winli. Meanwhile, owners of the Regal restaurant chain around Toronto are finally going to court in November, after being ordered by the ministry to pay former employees $475,000. Go, whose clinic represents 60 of them, doubts they’ll get a dime. They may get satisfaction. Reach Edges columnist Mike Adler at madler@insidetoronto.com

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