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ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com "It was just chaos." That’s how a 49-year-old man described the moments after a man opened fire inside North York Sheridan Mall, killing 22year-old Etobicoke resident Jovane Clarke. The 49-year-old, who didn’t want his name published, said he was in the mall with his wife around 5:30 p.m. Aug. 31. "We were in the food court. We got something to eat," the area resident said. The couple then went upstairs on an escalator and turned left toward a clothing store. It was then that Clarke, who had braided hair and wore white pants and a blue shirt, was seen running into the mall through the entrance by the CIBC, followed by a man with gun in hand. "I was in the middle of them," the witness said, adding Clarke stopped by a games store and "looked around the corner to see if the guy was coming around

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adding long-term plans include building an additional three to five multi-function stations across the city, with the next one targeted for Scarborough. "The design allows for more efficient maintenance and stocking of multiple ambulances, a more cost-effective process as the demand for our services continues to grow," acting chief Gord McEachen said in a release. McKinnon stressed Toronto Paramedic Services are not closing any stations; adding the multi-function station is a response to growth in call volume. "Other stations are smaller and house one or two ambulances," she said. "(It’s) a central large station to book on and sign off at the end of the day (before paramedics) are dispersed to the smaller stations across the city.

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Paramedics Duane Lichty (left) and Marc Dugas give a tour of Toronto’s first new multi-function paramedic station, which is slated to open Oct. 11. The key is this is the central location for equipment technicians to restock and clean vehicles for the paramedics." Fourteen equipment technicians have been hired to prepare and stock the ambulances at the multi-func-

tion station, something that was previously the responsibility of paramedics, McKinnon said. Though paramedic crews can be sent anywhere in the city, the paramedics assigned to the multi-function station will spend most

of their time covering the west and north ends of Toronto, she said. The new multi-function station will allow the service to meet the growing needs of the city, she said, noting "more paramedics require more stations and vehicles

to house them. "(This) allows the service to continue to provide response times we do now." The city plans to hire an additional 200 paramedics over two years, with some 1,100 currently serving Toronto.

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that way." The witness said Clarke was then shot twice from about 10 feet away and collapsed. "Then he (gunman) ran up closer to him and he shot him two more times," he said, noting "one of the shell casings hit my foot." The witness said he was focused on getting his wife and the other people around him out of the line of fire. He said he pushed his wife and another woman into a store. "Then there was another lady in a wheelchair. Her husband actually ran and left her in the middle by the escalator," the Good Sa-

maritan said. "I didn’t know at that point whether there was going to be more shots fired or what was happening, and I pushed her literally with the wheelchair (into a jewelry store)." The woman, the witness said, fell out of her wheelchair because the front wheels hit a metal hump. "It was just chaos," he said, adding people were "yelling and screaming" and "kids were crying." The gunman, who wore a hoodie and had his mouth and nose covered, ran off. As Clarke was dying, the witness said, people were taking cellphone videos "instead of helping this

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Left, Jovane Clarke, 22, was murdered Thursday, Aug. 31. Right, police have released a security camera image of a suspect car in relation to the shooting at North York Sheridan Mall. poor kid." The witness added one man went up to Clarke "and took a selfie, which literally disgusted me."

He said it was "extremely lucky" that no one else was struck by bullets. The witness said his wife hasn’t been able to

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or call MPPs with their concerns. In an interview, Deena Ladd, a spokesperson for Toronto’s Workers’ Action Centre, said the Chamber "sees it from one side only." Going, as the government plans, from $11.40 per hour to $14 on Jan. 1, and $15 in 2019, will lift people out of poverty, boosting spending and creating jobs, she argued. There will also be a spillover effect which should lead to pay increases for people making up to $19 an hour, Ladd said. How to handle this "differential" above minimum wage worried some owners at the Scarborough meeting, including Adam Watson, a partner in Pristine Property, a local landscaping company with 165 employees. Watson said employees he’s paying $17 or $18 will want raises, setting up a "domino effect throughout our company."

tion. Ontario’s labour market is changing. Self-serve kiosks at stores and movie theatres are eliminating lower-wage jobs. But people disagree on whether people earning minimum wage - 30 per cent of working Ontarians - will be hurt or helped more by raising it to $15 an hour by 2019. Challinor said small businesses will react to the province’s timetable by cutting employees, while large ones will speed up automation. "With Bill 148, you’re making it harder to employ people. Employing people is kind of against the trend right now," she said during a Sept. 13 Small Business Administration meeting at Centennial College. Challinor said the Chamber, which will release a detailed report on Sept. 26, believes small business owners will be hit hardest and should write

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Legacy continues with Invictus Games The Toronto International Film Festival may have wrapped up last weekend, but Toronto has kept the red carpet rolled out with the Invictus Games about to take over. If there’s anyone that deserves the spotlight, it’s these soldiers and veterans - about 550 of them from 17 allied nations - who will take part in the event which kicks off with the opening ceremonies Saturday night. Competition takes place from Sunday through to the closing ceremonies the following Saturday night. The nations involved have all asked a lot of their armed forces. For those of us who live in a democracy, such as Canada, we have the privilege and responsibility to question our political leaders - past, present and future - whether the right decisions have been made in the deployment of our troops. What should never be up for debate is the support we must always have for those troops - the men and women we have sent, and continue to send, into harm’s way on our behalf. For Canada, that commitment includes being a part of the Global Coalition against Daesh in Iraq on the heels of a more than 12-year deployment in Afghanistan. These athletes, according to organizers, "have become ill or injured during or as a direct consequence of their service." You can bet they will try to win their events, but they have already won, in some cases hard earned battles, just by participating. Supporters are welcome to check out their efforts. There are some free events. Watch wheelchair tennis at Nathan Phillips Square, archery at Fort York, cycling in High Park, golf at St. George’s Golf and Country Club as well as the Jaguar Land Rover Driving Challenge, which is being held on a special course being built on the parking grounds adjacent to the Distillery District. Ticketed events (most at a very reasonable $25) include athletics at York University, swimming at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre in Scarborough and, at Ryerson’s Mattamy Athletic Centre (formerly Maple Leaf Gardens), indoor rowing, powerlifting, sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby. Beware, some sessions have already sold out. The Invictus Games follow on the heels of this summer’s successful North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) for Indigenous youth. Both events benefited from the facilities bequeathed to us by The Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games. Arguably, this is a much better use of our resources than an Olympics could ever be.

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The urban heroes you don’t know about We live with heroes in Toronto, but we don’t know who they are. I met one, Martha Nyame, in Rexdale. From a village in Ghana called Abosamso, she never attended school. Her family was too poor. After emigrating to Canada, she returned to Abosamso in 1994 and saw many children that she knew faced a sad childhood like hers were uneducated. So, she changed their future. What was to be a family home became an orphanage and free school. In Toronto, Nyame worked two jobs and sent every dollar and box of supplies she could to Abosamso. "Even $5 is money," she says. More than 100 children

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto were housed and taught at Abosamso, even as fibromyalgia and arthritis advanced in Nyame to the point where she can’t work anymore. Last week, she made an agonized decision to close the school - only 18 orphans will remain there - and I was struck by how few people outside Abosamso knew what Nyame had done for more than 20

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The extreme devastation that has recently struck the tiny island nation of Barbuda is extra close to home for one east Toronto family. On Sept. 7, the category five hurricane Irma destroyed an estimated 90 per cent of the buildings in the eastern Caribbean country. Long-time Scarborough resident John Teague grew up there. Roughly 50 of his immediate family members and numerous friends still lived in Barbuda until recently. Since the disaster, the entire island has been evacuated. Despite having left Barbuda 36 years ago, Teague, his wife Vicky Tsorlinis, along with their children Isaac and Phebe, have visited Barbuda on a number of occasions as they have a family home there. The couple plans to one day spend the winters there. "All of my sisters- and broth-

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ers-in-law, my nieces, and nephews are in Barbuda," Tsorlinis told The Mirror during a recent interview. "Everything’s destroyed. Anyone who returns only has the clothes on their back. They have to start again from zero." Reality really started to set a

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few days later when the local family started to receive emails from relatives that contained photos of local landmarks they’d seen countless times over the years completely razed. "I couldn’t stop crying," she shared. Tsorlinis, who has volun-

teered for a number of causes over the years, immediately felt compelled to do something to help her loved ones. "I wanted to show them I cared. I didn’t want people to be forgotten," said Tsorlinis, who has held a number of book sale fundraisers over the years.

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The day after the disaster hit, she immediately reached out to businesses along Queen Street East in the Beach to see if they’d offer their space for a book sale. And while Harold Weisfeld, or Zoltzz as he’s better known, was unable to offer space at his former Ends storefront at Queen and Elmer as is had officially been sold, he has come forward to donate some leftover items from his discount emporium for those in Barbuda. Andrew Beckett of Beaches Pharmasave was able to donate some room for Tsorlinis to hold a book sale on September 9 and 10. That fundraiser raised $1,300. Last Saturday, she sold books for Barbuda at the inaugural Toronto Beaches Festival at Woodbine Beach raising $1,150. Event organizer Christiane Tetreault donated space for the fundraiser. Tsorlinis, who is aiming to raise $5,000 for her relatives Barbuda, is holding another book sale in the Upper Beach on Saturday, Sept. 23 from 7 a.m to 3 p.m. at Savoury Grounds, 283 Scarborough rd. She’s still finalizing locations for a few more upcoming book sales. "So far the response has been incredible. I’m so happy," said Tsorlinis, who stores donated books at her southwest Scarborough home in large supermarket bags. In early November, Toronto doctor Greg Flynn will be sailing to Antigua and has generously offered to transport any items the Teague family may need at his expense. Funds raised by Tsorlinis will be used to purchase those essentials. In the near future, Tsorlinis and her husband along with other family members abroad plan to travel to Barbuda to assist with cleaning up and rebuilding. Email Tsorlinis at vickytsorlinis@rogers.com for more details about the times and locations of upcoming book sales and/or to make a donation.

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No consequences when police don’t call SIU ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com The Dafonte Miller assault case is raising questions about how some police forces interpret the Special Investigations Unit’s mandate. Miller, 19, was seriously injured, losing sight in one eye, during an altercation with an off-duty Toronto police officer and his brother in Whitby on Dec. 28. But neither Durham Regional Police, which initially investigated the incident, nor the Toronto Police Service contacted the province’s police watchdog. The alleged assault was reported to the SIU nearly four months later by Miller’s lawyer, and the agency charged both the officer, Const. Michael Theriault, and his brother Christian in July. The SIU investigates whenever there is a serious injury, death or sexual assault allegation involving police and its jurisdiction doesn’t differentiate between on-duty and off-duty officers, so police services are under a duty to report both onduty and off-duty occurrences. However, as a matter of practice, the agency normally doesn’t investigate conduct by off-duty officers unless police equipment or property is involved or the officer’s status as a police officer was implicated in the incident.

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Dafonte Miller in a photo (left) from before his altercation with off duty Toronto police officer Michael Theriault and in hospital (right). "Durham said it’s Toronto’s (case) because it’s a Toronto officer; Toronto said it’s Durham’s (case) because it’s a Durham inves-

tigation," said Scott Nicholls, a former Peel Regional Police officer who teaches police oversight at Humber College. "That goes to the

reporting question. Who is responsible (for contacting the SIU)? Maybe they both should have." The SIU cannot invoke their

mandate unless they are contacted, and no one reached out to them for months. Nicholls stressed there should be consequences when a police service or a police officer either refuses to or neglects to notify the SIU. "That’s an issue that any review of the SIU mandate, any review of the SIU function needs to address: What happens to a police service, what happens to an individual officer who doesn’t follow the mandate, who doesn’t notify the SIU in a timely manner," he said. "It’s like a traffic law. If there’s a law against speeding, and no one enforces it, then it’s an ineffective law. People will speed because there are no consequences." The interpretation of serious injury is also an issue and could explain why some cases aren’t called in to the SIU, Nicholls said. The SIU says it uses the definition created by its first director, John Osler. A key aspect of the Osler definition is the impact the injury has on the victim’s life, health and ability to carry on in a normal fashion. "It leaves it to the discretion of a police officer, it leaves it to the discretion of the police service, it leaves it to the discretion of the SIU, and in the end someone is always going to be unhappy with the exercise of that discretion," Nicholls said.

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PAM DOUGLAS pdouglas@thebramptonguardian.com The province’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) launched investigations into 74 police-involved deaths and injuries in Toronto last year – but you only heard about 33 of them. That’s because the SIU doesn’t have enough staff to issue news releases for every investigation, according to SIU spokesperson Jason Gennaro. "Each year the SIU starts hundreds of investigations all across the province," Gennaro wrote in an email to Metroland Media. "The unit has limited resources and does not have the ability to issue an initial news release and to provide details in every case it begins." The SIU isn’t required by law to report to the public. It does so as a

matter of policy. That’s one thing Justice Michael Tulloch, in his Independent Police Oversight Review report, has said must change. "The SIU must be more open, candid and communicative than it is now," Tulloch concluded in the lengthy report released this past

Since the release of Tulloch’s report, the Attorney General has committed to releasing all reports publicly, online. That decision will give the public access to information about all SIU investigations in which charges are not laid, but only after the case has been closed.

Provincially, SIU only notifies the public of 1 in 4 investigations

April that included 129 recommendations for improvements to the current system of police oversight in Ontario. He quoted the Police Services Act, which states only that the SIU must report to the Attorney General.

Tulloch recommended the law require the SIU report to the public on every investigation, and he even set out guidelines for how often the unit should update the progress being made on ongoing investigations - after 120 days, and then every 60 days thereafter.

Gennaro has said the SIU is committed to issuing news releases in all death cases, shootings, and for "major" vehicle collisions involving police, which has meant few details released in the majority of SIU-involved cases. Under that policy, news releases are issued by the SIU only 25 per cent of the time, or for one out of every four investigations it conducts, Tulloch’s review found. The SIU handles hundreds of cases each year. Last year, it opened 327 investigations. Tulloch emphasized the correlation between accountability and public trust in the SIU and the amount of information the unit shares with the public. In 2014/15, the SIU spent 4 per cent of its total expenditures on "communications, outreach and affected persons," or $352,584 out of approximately $8.2 million.

"Public accountability is vital to the SIU’s success. Yet the SIU currently has only one person responsible for public communications," Tulloch concluded. Approximately 80 per cent of expenditures were spent on investigations and identification services. "This disparity between the two functions should be addressed," Tulloch concluded, calling for more resources to fulfill its public accountability function. Since the release of Tulloch’s report, the Attorney General’s office has begun releasing the reports the SIU submits and a spokesperson for the Attorney General said that, going forward, all reports will be released to the public. That means the public will be notified of all SIU investigations, after they are completed.

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mer/early fall of 2018. The observatory at York has been a prominent hub for science outreach to the broader community since 1969, the university said, adding about 5,000 visitors a year come for public viewing Wednesday nights. In honour of Allan Carswell’s gift, his longtime contributions to science and long-standing philanthropy to the uni-

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l Sat., September 23 AutumnFest in Maple Leaf Park WHEN: 1:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m WHERE: Maple Leaf Park, 320 Culford Rd., Toronto CONTACT: Rustic Neighbourhood Improvement Group COST: Celebrate the park and participate in building a strong, safe community. Free hot dogs, corn roast, treats and face painting. Bring a blanket or lawn chairs. l Sunday, September 24 Melanoma Walk for Awareness WHEN: 9:00 a.m - 1:00 p.m WHERE: Sunnybrook Park, 1132 Leslie St., Toronto CONTACT: Lisa Mayeski, 905-901-5121, walk@melanomanetwork.ca, https://www.melanomanetwork.ca/walk2017/ COST: $25 dollar registration fee includes a t-shirt and bottle of sunscreen Lace up your sneakers and join the Melanoma Network of Canada (MNC) for the sixth annual 5-km. Strides for Melanoma Walk for Awareness supported by Neutrogena.

Fall Sale of African Violets and Gesneriads WHEN: 10:00 a.m - 4:00 p.m WHERE: Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence Ave. E (at Leslie), Toronto CONTACT: in-

When you throw the wrong items (like clothing, curtains, blankets, etc.) in your Blue Bin, they can get tangled in sorting machines, damage equipment and cause workplace injuries at the recycling facility. Last year, an estimated 45,000 tonnes of garbage was incorrectly put into recycling. That’s a big problem you can help fix.

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When it comes to women’s health, we always give 100%

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The Kiwanis Club of Toronto, one of Ontario’s most active community service organizations, donated $2,500 to 100 different youth charities this past year. Kiwanis Board members Michael Currie (centre in purple shirt) and Tim Simpson (sunglasses), present a check to Toronto Youth Development.

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tivities club members have participated in lately. Another key directive for the Kiwanis Club of Toronto over the next century, Williams said, will be in the area of youth leadership - particularly with the development of Kiwanis Key Clubs at local schools. "Talking about the next 100 years, what I think we have to look forward to and where we can really make an impact, is in the whole youth leadership area," he said. "We want to start focusing on getting these programs and Key Clubs in the schools, because youth leadership is so important these days in getting kids more and more community minded." Meanwhile, Kiwanis will continue its ongoing efforts to help Toronto children and youth build selfesteem and leadership skills through its legacy as founders of two of Toronto’s most successful youth charities - The Toronto Kiwanis Music Festival and the Toronto Kiwanis Boys and Girls Club. For more information on the club, visit www.torontokiwanis.ca

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One of Toronto’s oldest community service organizations is marking its centennial anniversary this week by looking to its past to help shape its future. The Kiwanis Club of Toronto, which was first chartered in 1917, will celebrate 100 years of service to this city’s children tonight (Thursday, Sept. 21) with a Centennial Gala dinner at the Old Mill that will both honour its century-long legacy of milestones, while also looking forward to the club’s next 100 years of achievement. "While the Centennial Gala gives us a great opportunity to look back with pride, it also provides a chance to look forward with hope - for the kids and youth in Toronto and our role helping them," said Toronto Kiwanis President Joe Elkerton. "The Kiwanis slogan has become ’Kids Need Kiwanis,’ and we intend to be there when they do." One of the ways the club has already helped fulfil that mandate is with its Kiwanis Centennial Grant

program, which awarded 100 grants of $2,500 each totalling $250,000 - to local children’s charities over the summer. "We have a soft spot for the smaller, more local, hands-on groups," Hugh Williams, the executive director of the Kiwanis Club of Toronto, said of the recipients of the grant - all of whom have been invited to the gala dinner, at which one will be awarded Toronto Kiwanis’ $40,000 Centennial Impact Award. In addition to such financial contributions, Williams said looking forward, the club would also like to get back to its hands-on roots with the recently created Kiwanis Cares program - an innovative outlet for volunteering that gives club members the opportunity to directly support worthwhile local organizations. "We really want to get our members out in the community and engaged through Kiwanis Cares," he said, pointing to last year’s Christmas dinner at the Salvation Army in Regent Park, and a recent Habitat for Humanity build as examples such ac-

COMMUNITY

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Community sessions planned Community sessions to bring the public up-to-date on plans for the Columbus Centre/Villa Charities and Dante Alighieri Academy redevelopment project will be held throughout the fall. The one-hour informal question-and-answer sessions hosted by Anthony DiCaita, president and CEO of Villa Charities, will be held in the main boardroom of the Columbus Centre, 901 Lawrence Ave. The meetings will be held Monday, Sept. 25 at 6 p.m., with an RSVP date of Friday, Sept. 22 at 4 p.m.; Monday, Oct. 23 at 6 p.m. with an RSVP date of Fri-

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A public consultation focused on the next steps of Re-Imagining Yonge will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 10. The drop-in will take place at North York Memorial Hall, 5110 Yonge St.,

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A rendering shows the Lawrence Avenue perspective of the redevelopment of the Columbus Centre and Dante Alighieri Academy into a mixed-use centre. day, Oct. 20 at 4 p.m.; and Tuesday, Nov. 28 at 6 p.m. with an RSVP date of Monday, Nov. 27 at 4 p.m.

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from 5 to 8 p.m. The project focuses on making over the stretch of Yonge Street between Finch and Sheppard avenues. Suggestions have included removing a traffic lane in favour of wider walkways, adding trees, plantings, public art and street furniture, along with

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