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Rah 

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Garbage! 

New pickup 

schedule starts 

as expected 

(But we've got to get it 

right or it won't last) 

See 

EASY AS 1, 2, 3, 4 

page five 

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Tambor 

MAP 

& 

GUIDE 

See pages 8&9 

Wasn't that a party!! Etleen 0 'Toole hosting Drum's benefit bash 

upstairs· at the Silver Dol!at; Feb 24. Story, pictures, page 19 

photo: Frank Bu rr itt 

Regularly: · 

News & Views ....................... 2 

Market Matters ................... 4,5 

Talking Drum, Editorial, 

Letters and Kate's Place ....... 6,7 

News & Views 11 ................. 8,9 

The Drum Directory ........ ~.1 0,11 

Market Gourmet ••••••••••••••••••• 12 

Mutterings ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 13 

Kensington Common ......... 14, 15 

Learning With You, 

Dates To Watch ...... : ........ 16, 17 

Entertainment & Sports .... 18, 19 

Drum Hum (community ads) ... 20 

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Day 1 -Just in case. A wall tent with a wood stove 

photo by Chris Melo 

and much much more 

North of 

Supetior 

A Very 

Distant Drummer 

Chris Mmmelo Rrrrepportts ••• 

seepage 9 

Home 

Home 

on the Grange 

-see page 8 

OH CANADA! 

LETIER TO 

Bob the Waiter's 

AN UNKNOWN CHILD 

Breakfast see page 16 · 

see page 14 

MELODY 

RANCH 

at the 

elMo 

see page 19

2 NEWS & VIEWS The Kensington Market Drum, March 1991 

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COP TALK 

F~tal Staring Contest? Three Die 

by Colin Puf'fer 

Kensington Market was recently 

witness to another in a 

series of shootings that have 

plagued the area in the last few 

months. 

On Saturday, March 1, there 

was a triple murder at the A 

Dong Restaurant located on the 

north side of College St just 

west of Spadina. As was the 

case in the Quan Saigon Me 

Kong Restaurant shooting (see 

February's Drum) it seems that 

the incident grew out of a staring 

match rather than being the 

result of a personal vendetta or 

gang related crime. Though 

police have a description of the 

three yout.hs who did the 

shooting-they appear to have 

been teens - there are 

presently no suspects. 

KIMBO SHOOTING 

There has been some progress 

made in the Kimbo Restaurant 

shooting. The head of this 

investigation, Det. Sgt. Reeser, 

reports that 2 arrests have been 

made, one in Vancouver and 

one in New York City. The 

person charged in Vancouver 

had already been arrested on a 

' weapons charge in that city. 

Metro police are starting 

extradition proceedings' to 

bring the New York suspect 

back to stand trial in Toronto. 

Both men will be charged with 

1 count of 1st degree murder 

and 2 counts of attempted murder. 

HIGHER PROFILE 

Fourteen Division has responded 

to the escalation of 

violence in the Market/ 

Chinatown district with an 

increased police presence, 

believing that a higher profile 

will make it more difficult for 

violent crimes to be committed. 

Over the last couple of weeks 

there has been a very noticeable 

increase in the frequency of foot 

patrols and the number of 

police in those patrols- often 

4 or more officers. 

There has also been a blitz on 

parking offenders. A section of 

Dundas, between Spadina and 

A,ugusta was closed off late 

Friday evening, March 8, when 

a fleet of tow trucks descended 

to systematically tag and tow 

every illegally parked car. 

Accotding to Det. Sgt. Elford 

(head of 14 Div. A.C.U.) the 

increased presence is partially 

due to the reassignment of 

police from other duties. 

Fourteen Division (and the 

Asian Crime Unit in particular) 

still suffers from a manpower 

shortage and shuffling officers 

from other units is the only way 

to increase the number of police 

on the streets. But shifting assignments 

to put more cops on 

the beat is seen as only a 

temporary solution. As it is, 

police in cruisers can fall 20 or 

30 calls behind on a busy night 

so more foot patrols mean a 

longer response time to the 

complaints that make up the 

bulk of police calls. 

Elford still insists that little of 

the violent crime is gang related 

and believes that there is no 

connection between the rash of 

shootings i.e. there is no element 

of retaliation in the 

shootings. 

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The Kensington Market Drum, March 1991 NEWS & VIEWS 3 

Hospital To Make 

Western Plans Public, April17 

by David Perlman 

photo by Buzz Burza 

. 

Toronto Hospital Corporation 

(THC) has temporarily 

abandoned the series of 

meetings, more or less 

monthly, of a "Community 

Liaison Advisory Group". The 

group comprises in theory 

many individuals, groups and 

agencies affected by the 

Corporation's Plans for 

Toronto Western Hospital. 

But it is plagued by poor 

attendance. So the hospital has 

decided to hold a display and 

public meeting April 17 to 

show their plans to date. 

THREE ISSUES 

The display will be available 

for viewing from 6:15 pm and 

the meeting will commence at 

7:00. There will be two things 

to look at: plans for rebuilding 

the main site, ·and plans for 

what to do with the crumbling 

Leonard Street Parking 

Garage. . 

MAIN SITE REZONING 

APPLICATION 

The hospital is committed to 

going ahead with an application 

for a rezoning of the main 

site. They want six floors on 

top of the two under construction 

at the Bathurst/Dundas 

corner. And they want to build 

some new kind of outpatient 

facility at the north end, along 

Nassau Street. 

The rezoning application 

process contains a number of 

meetings at which the public 

hasrights. Theareacityplanner 

will be at the meeting to talk 

about the process. The 

Hospital's architects and 

planners will also be on hand to 

present their work to date and 

to listen to concerns. 

PRESSING ·GARAGE 

PROBLEM 

The second issue to be covered 

at the meeting is what to 

do with the crumbling Leonard 

Street Parking Garage. The 

range of options is very wide. 

The hospital could, for 

example, simply put up a fivefloor 

replacement garage, with 

very little further public input. 

Or they could take the chance 

of trying to do something more 

creative with the site-like 

putting the parking 

underground and putting 

affordable housing or other 

community uses on top. 

One developer, the Goldman 

Group, thinks they have an idea 

that could work-co-op housing 

on top, hospital parking below. 

They'll display some version 

of their ·plan, answer 

questions, and listen very hard. 

What they and the hospital 

will be listening forisanystrong 

community feeling about their 

plans-for or against. In the 

case of the Leonard Street 

garage, for example, it is 

unlikely that either Goldman 

or the Hospital will proceed 

with a housing initiative if 

neighbourhood reaction to the 

idea is mostly negative. 

MEETING INSIDE THE 

HOSPITAL 

The April17 meeting will take 

place inside the hospital, to 

make it equally accessible to 

people from east and west of 

Bathurst. The meeting place 

(fourthflooratrium,FraserFell 

Pavilion) can be reached from 

any of the hospital's entrances. 

DRUM 

offers some space 

free of charge for 

information about 

community events. 

S99:DRUM 

Bloorcourt 

Veterinary 

Clinic 

Consultation By Appointment Monday to Saturday 

Health Care, Surgery and Acupuncture 

1079 Bloor Street West 

,(416) 537-9677 Dr. Jack 

The House, 

91 Bellevue, 925-2103 

English as a Second Language Program 

(ask for Peggy Shek) 

St. Stephen's Daycare 

(ask for Fatima Alves) 

Youth Recreation 

(ask for Frank Pimentel) 

Community Work, 

169 Brunswick, 926-8221 

Adu)t Services 

(ask for Maria Santos) 

Senior Services 

(ask for Irene Tsang) 

Conflict Resolution Service 

(ask for Nathalie Rockhill) 

and also 

Youth Employment Centre 

531-4631 (ask for Anita Block) 

A.I.D.E.S. 

323-1498 (ask for Toni Lauriston) 

King Edward Daycare 

922-8705 (ask for B~trice Milner) 

TheComer , 

977-7223 (ask for Allen Flaming) 

The Drug-Free Arcade . 

920-8980 (ask for Kim Kazur) 

St Stephen's Community House: 

Serving Metro from the Downtown West 

THE HOUSE - 91 Bellevue Ave. 

English as a Second Language Program (ESL) • Ingles como segunda lengua • Classes de Ingles Como 

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4 MARKET MATTERS The Kensington Market Drum, March 1991 

Chicken Packers 

Expansion No-Go 

New Garbage Schedule Collection Area 

COLLEGE 

STREET 


Last time we reported that the 

city's Committee of 

Adjustment would consider an 

application from the owner of 

54-112 Kensington A venue, 

Lee's Poultry Ltd. to expand 

this chicken packing plant The 

applicant was requesting permission 

to "Construct a second 

floor addition having 

dimensions of approximately 

15.39 by 34.54 metres over the 

subject poultry killing estab- 

. lishment". The city's planners 

were opposed on the grounds 

that mixed commercial I 

residential and the use of the 

premises as a poultry killing 

establishment is already a 

"non-conforming use". The 

enlargement or extension of a 

non-conforming use is not permitted. 

Also they objected to 

the fact that motor vehicle 

parking spaces would not be 

provided on the subject 

property, and that the addition 

would be within one foot of the 

south lot line. The by-law 

requires a minimum setback of 

10 feet from the houses to the 

· south of the lot. 

This application was heard by 

The Committee of Adjustment 

on Tuesday February 12 1991, 

and was refused. 

At the hearing of this matter, 

the applicant explained that the 

proposed addition would 

enable them to merge this 

establishment with another 

poultry establishment operated 

by the applicant company at 33 

Kensington .Avenue.The 33 . 

Kensington plant does not 

satisfactorily meet modern day 

standards for food processing 

plants. The addition at 54 112 

Kensington would provide 

offices, an employee welfare 

area and storage facilities in 

the building. 

But the Committee noted 

that the proposal would involve 

an iqcrease of approximately 

100 percent to the size of the 

building, which contravenes the 

long-term intentions of the City 

54% Kensington Ave 


to eliminate non-conforming 

uses. The Committee was also 

concerned about the direct impact 

of intensifying the use of 

this site, in the heart of a 

commercial/residential district, 

and close to purely residential 

uses on Kensington Place. 

The applicant can appeal to 

the Ontario Municipal Board 

on or before March 221991. At 

time of press it was not known 

whether they would appeal. 

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The Kensington Market Drum, March 1991 MARKET MATTERS 5 

Kensington Market Area Task Force: 

East Market Report ~ 

March 20 meeting, Task Force Test 

The following report will be one of several reports on the agenda 

for the next task force meeting. Also up for consideration are 

a report on Sunday shopping/tourist designation, a report on procedures 

governing task forces and standing committees, a report 

on the relationship between City revenues and expenditures in the 

Market area. And, at last, the long-awaited planner's report on 

what should replace-the restaurant control by-law, which will 

expire in July. - 

This east market report has been In preparation for all but six 

months of the task force's existence. The report touches on many 

of-the issues that have {:Orne to task force attention. (One section 

of the report, section 7: problems. related to garbage disposal, has 

already been used by the garbage action group in obtaining public 

works support for a new garbage collection schedule for the 

market.) 

People with concerns, questions or suggestions relating to anything 

in the report can communicate them to the writers of the 

report, and to the task force do the City Clerk. 

Summary, January 1991 

1. ll\'TRODUCTION 

This report is jointly submitted by Chris 

Melo, 13 St. Andrew Street and David 

Perlman, 24 Bellevue Avenue": 

2 BACKGROUI\'D 

This east market report is the result of 

setting up a BALDWIN STREET COM 

MITTEE, in 1987, while Dale Martin was 

the chair of the Task Force. The Baldwin 

Street Committee was to do an inventory 

of the issues and problems we could fmd 

in one small section of the Market, to follow 

those issues and problems, and to recommend 

action. 

3. INITIAL STUDY AREA 

We chose as our study area Baldwin 

Street from Spadina: west to Augusta. 

4. TEN ISSUES 

Within a few months we had identified 

the following issues: 

1. at 376 Spadina, proposed demolition 

of a landmark building with Joss of stores 

on Baldwin, Joss of housing above the 

street, and aggravation of restaurant related 

parking problems along Spadina; 

2 problems relating to the design and 

function of the George Brown College 

building on Baldwin Street; 

3. possible impacts of the proposed 

Spadina LRT on access to Baldwin Street 

and to the Parking Authority Garage; 

4. possible impacts on Baldwin Street 

of the proposed expansion of the 

Kensington Parking Garage; 

5. arguments for and against limiting 

auto traffic and/or loading and deliveries 

on Baldwin Street; 

6. problems of littering; 

7. problems related to garbage disposal; 

8. problems relating to keeping and 

expanding affordable rental housing on 

Baldwin Street; 

9. community concerns with the style 

and focus of policing and Jaw enforcement 

on the street; 

10. problems relating to whether or not 

the city should enforce the street 

by-law permitting them to demolish a 

canopy (at Baldwin and Augusta). 

5.MEETINGS 

The committee conducted meetings 

with representatives of George Brown 

College, the parking authority, public 

works, planning department, Kensington 

Residents Association, Kensington 

Market Businessmen's Association, the 

developer/owner of 376 Spadina, and 

other individuals livmg and/or working in 

the area. 

6. CHANGES TO STUDY AREA 

Very early on in the work of the committee 

we agreed that we had set our 

sights too narrowly to deal with the issues 

we identified. For instance, it was not possible 

to look only at Baldwin Street problems 

associated with the proposed expansion 

of the Parking Garage, because two 

of the entrance! exits to the Garage are 

one block south, on St. Andrew Street. So 

we agreed to widen the focus a little, to 

add Kensington Avenue From Baldwin to 

St. Andrew, St. Andrew from Kensinlton 

to Spadina, and Spadina From St. Andrew 

to Baldwin. We did not, however, change 

our list of issues-only re-emphasized 

them where necessary. 

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TASKFORCE 

Balwln Street 

1: ARISING FROM A PROPOSED ~ND.HI11J 

DEMOLITION AND REDEVELOP 

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Concerns: 

-this was a landmark building-at one Recommendation 3 (A-B) 

of the gateways to the Market; 

A. That the City recognize that the 

-the Joss of four stores on Baldwin 

LRT in the latest Metro plan still has significant 

impacts on the Kensington com 

would make that section of the street even 

more uninviting; 

munity; and that the City request Metro 

-dissatisfaction at the proposed 

and the TTC to consult with the 

Kensington community on the details of 

replacement of housing on the second 

floor-with yet another restaurant (on a 

the plan, if it proceeds; 

B. That the Task Force write to the 

section of Spadina with lots of retaurants)_. 

Minister of the Enviroment of Ontario 

Recommendation 1 (A·H) 

1) to say that, if the plan for the LRT 

A. That the developer of the site be goes forward to an environmental hearing 

required to restore the sense of that corner 

as a gateway to the Market; 

individuals from the Kensington area, with 

unchanged from the way it passed Metro, 

B. That at least four stores be restored the support of the Task Force, will seek 

on the Baldwin Street side of the building; intervenor status at that hearing; 

C. That the developer be required to 2) to request a meeting with a representative 

from the environmental assessment 

restore a residential second floor; 

D. That the developer be encouraged branch of the Ministry, once Metro's 

to expand significantly the residential use Spadina LRT environmental report is officially 

filed with the Ministry-to explain 

ofthe building; · 

E. That the City no longer grant parking 

exemptions for second floor restau 

the environmental assessment process. 

rants in the area; 

F. That the City grant parking exemptions 

for providers of affordable housing 

above commercial businesses in areas 

zoned CR (commercial/residential); 

G. That "cash-in-lieu" of parking revenues 

within the Market area go into a 

neighbourhood account, not into the 

Parking Authority's general construction 

fund; 

H. That the Parking Authority report 

to Council its revenues from Kensington 

area "cash-in-lieu" payments. 

2. THE PRESENCE OF GEORGE 

BROWN COLLEGE IN THE KENS 

INGTON COMMUNITY 

Concerns: 

that the south building of the campus 

creates a. dead zone on Baldwin Street 

east of Kensington-windows largely 

opaque, no invitation to community or 

passers-by to enter, no incentive for students 

to leave the building and enter the 

community; minimal interaction between 

college and community; the perception in 

the community that the location of the 

College in Kensington and on Spadina has 

little impact on what goes on at the 

College; the fear, therefore, that George 

Brown College will recommend selling off 

the Kensington campus-with the 

prospect of some large private development 

on the site that might have a very 

big impact on the market area. 

Recommendation~ (A· F) 

A. That a joint college/neighbourhood/local 

business committee be formed 

to examine joint college/community projects 

and cooperative education courses; 

B. That this committee identify among 

other things underutilized facilities and 

resources on the campus that could be 

made available to community groups; 

C. That George Brown College 

Kensington Campus encourage staff and 

students to use transit by reducing their 

stock of monthly parking. permits in the 

Kensington garage; 

D. That George Brown College, the 

Parking Authority, the City's Urban 

Design division and other owners and 

stakeholders on Baldwin east of 

Kensington Avenue join with the Market 

community in planning public improvements 

to Baldwin east of Kensington; 

E. That the community business centre 

situated in the basement of the baldwin 

street building of the college be. given 

resources, funding, and the mandate to 

support local initiatives, particularly those 

which involve joint college/community 

projects and ventures; 

F. That the college, and the Minister of 

Colleges and Universities make public - 

promptly any plan to sell off all or part of 

the Kensington campus; and that there be 

local public meetings on any such plan. 

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4: RELATING TO PROPOSED 

PARKING GARAGE EXPANSION 

Concerns: 

-that the spaces to be added will do no 

more than offset parking to be lost on 

Spadina as a consequence of the proposed 

LRT, and will therefore do nothing for the 

Market; 

-that the expa!lsion as presently 

planned entails sidewalk cuts on St. 

Andrew, with impacts on businesses and 

residents on St. Andrew; 

-that the expansion as planned will 

affect the value and use of adjacent properties; 

-that the Parking Authority does not 

seem to have to go through the same Citycontrolled 

planning processes as other 

developers. 

Recommendation 4 (A-L) 

A) that the Garage expansion be seen 

not as additional parking for the 

Kensington Market, but as replacement 

parking for the Spadina parking lost to 

LRT· 

B)' that the Parking Authority immediately 

commence a study of how to meet 

the market's parking needs now that the 

Kensington garage has become primarily a 

Spadina garage; 

C) that any plannned expansion take 

into account recommendation 2D above; 

D) that any planned expansion be 

based on turning the garage into a multiuse 

building; 

E) that among the uses to be considered 

for the expanded Garage should be 1) 

facilities for cyclists; 2) facilities (e.g. parcel 

depot, short term child care) for shoppers; 

3) public street-related uses; 4) space 

for vendors, 5) a Market tourist office; 6) a 

community police substation; 7) public 

washrooms; 

F) that the Authority not be permitted 

to proceed with the expansion of the 

Garage until they and the City's Public 

Works Dept have in place an effective 

plan for full use of both the Baldwin and 

St. Andrew garage entrances and exits. 

G) that the City not widen St. Andrew 

street by one extra lane until and unless 

there is a plan for the operation of the 

garage, otherwise the widened St. Andrew 

will end up ·being two lanes of cars parking 

to get into the garage; 

H) that the city examine the possibility 

in widening St. Andrew street not to take 

all the extra space off the south side of the 

street, but take an even amount off the 

north and south side; 

I) that in the event of widening St. 

Andrew the adjacent residential property 

owners be given the chance to apply for 

changes in zoning, to compensate them for 

Joss of amenity caused by the widening; 

J) that the plan for the proposed expansion 

of the garage be the subject of a 

Planning Advisory Committee meeting; 

K) that the Parking Authority be subjected 

to the same public planning processes 

as any. other developer; 

L) that notification of public meetings 

relating to land use and public works mat· 

ters in the market area be somehow 

extended to tenants as well as to property 

owners. 

5: AUTO TRAFFIC AND/OR 

LOADING AND DELIVERIES ON 

BALDWIN STREET 

Concerns: 

-traffic congestion at times of heaviest 

deliveries; 

-not enough offstreet parking for merchants 

to store their cube vans (so merchants 

not moving vehicles after delivery 

made); 

-some people's desire for pedestrian 

mall, in conflict with interests of those 

merchants whose customers are accustomed 

to being picked up, with heavy 

parcels, right outside the store. 

Recommendation 5 (A·F) 

A. That the Parking Authority remove 

the barrier gateway to its Bellevue lot 

presently preventing cube vans from using 

the lot; 

B. That the "I:ask Force support the 

heaviest users of Baldwin Street for deliveries 

(European Meat) in trying to get a 

rear loading dock for their store; 

C. That there be a ten minute parking 

limit, except loading and deliveries, on 

Baldwin Street during retail market hours 

(including people driving cars picking up 

shoppers); 

D. That the Task Force and local associations 

support the reintroduction of a 

pedestrian mall in the Market on a trial 

basis during the next twelve months-on 

up to 12 days, excluding Saturdays; 

E. That a working group be established 

to organize these Mall Days; 

F. That these Mall days be jointly sponsored 

by the City and the local associations. 

6. PROBLEMS OF LfiTERING 

Concerns: 

-there is chronic litter problem in the 

Market (as distinct from the garbage problem, 

which is also serious). Litter getsstrewn 

all over market streets in the course 

of a day, and there are almost no litter 

containers, primarily because public works 

department prefers to send in people to 

sweep the street than to empty litter containers. 

Recommendation 6 (A·D) 

A. That all stores selling snack foods or 

other products leading to immediate casual 

litter be provided with litter containers 

by the City for use on the boulevard outside 

the store; 

B. That the Public Works department 

with the help of local associations identify 

the sites where most casual litter accumulates 

and provide appropriate containers 

to reduce the amount of litter on the street 

in those places; 

· C. That the design of appropriate litter 

conta,iners be included in all areas of the 

market where "street furniture" is being 

designed for the Market; 

D. That the introduction of containers 

to reduce litter be accompanied by the 

introduction of a public awareness campaign 

and material. 

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376 Spadina 

3. IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSED 

SPADISA LRT 

Concerns: 

-that the LRT would cause traffic 

restrictions on Baldwin Street (no turns 

onto Baldwin from northbound Spadina 

at least 6 hours a day-a.m. and p.m. 

peak, and no turns onto northbound 

Spadina from Baldwin at the same times); 

-that the elimination of angle-parking 

on the adjacent block of Spadina Avenue 

will lead to increased traffic on Baldwin 

and St. Andrew, of Spadina shoppers looking 

for parking; 

-that these Baldwin restrictions, combined 

with the expansion of the Parking 

Garage would lead to traffic chaos on St. 

Andrew Street; 

-that the loss of the St. Andrew Street 

transit stop (southbound) will further isolate 

·the Market and make it less accessible, 

and hamper local efforts to encourage 

a reduction of cars in the Market; 

-that proposed changes to the street 

system (making Kensington one way north 

between Baldwin and St. Andrew) will 

make the Market's traffic problems even 

worse. 

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TALKING DRUM 

The Kensington Market Drum, March 1991 

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LAST TIME 

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Talking Drum 

Some 'people are wondering out loud what 

DRUM will and won't publish (see letters: 

who censors who? ) 

We're wondering too . But some 

things are clearer than a month ago ~ 

For instance, DRUM IS NOT 

"NONPARTISAN". The Leslieville Times and 

the Midtown Voice and the Beach Metro are 

nonpartisan (it says so right inside). DRUM 

is something else. 

We sometimes disagree with things 

people say in our pages. Sometimes it's an 

article, sometimes an advertiser. 

Sometimes rt's all of us disagreeing, 

sometimes it's not. Opinions it:J a piece are 

those of the person taking credit for the 

piece. Where no-one is credited, the 

responsibility's Drum's. 

DRUM is a "Kensington people's paper"- 

which is to say 

*mostly meant to provide a forum 

for people \1\fhO live or work in the 

Kensington market area (see maps page 

1 0) 

*mostly made by Kensington people. 

We think it's important to reflect · 

the Market's diversity. We don't think it's 

ok to preach hate. We accept that we have 

a responsibility to make it clear when 

something that's in here is the opinion of 

Drum. And when it's not. 

DRUM is multipartisan. 

We believe it's our responsibility to 

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the knowledge and consent of the writer. 

We believe that people have a right to ask 

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mentioned you should assume that you have 

a right to reply. - 

We have the right to accept or reject 

any piece. Responsibility for exercising 

this right lies with the publisher and the 

editorial collective. 

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S 18 a year. Bock isstm are available. 

Items in Drum credited to individuok ore in 

the copyright of those indivi~uals. Points of 

view in such items ore those of the writer, not 

necessarily Drum's. 

THAT there would be a 

benefit for DRUM upstairs 

at the Silver Dollar, 

February 24 

And another at the Santa Fe 

May 16. Stay tuned. 

THAT some would come 

just for a shot at the 

fabulous door prizes 

Rick; your dogfood is 

waiting. 

THAT a shootout on 

Dundas December 27 had 

people scared 

Now there's a feeling beyond 

fear-6 dead and life 

f?Oes on? 

Where did these children 

learn the culture of the gun? 

THAT a de.toxification 

centre for women at 

Claremont and Dundas 

would open as scheduled 

in April 

Is no news good news? 

_THAT a co-op was being 

proposed for western 

hospital's Leonard street 

lot 

See for yourself, April 17 

(story, page 3) 

That there would be major 

changes to Kensington 

garbage schedules come 

mid-February _ 

See Easy as 1 ,2,3,4, page 4 

That an "east market report" 

containing many 

recommendations for the 

market would be submitted 

to the Feb 13 meeting 

of the task force 

It was brought back for . 

further discussion to the 

March 20 meeting (seep. 5 

for text). It will be discussed 

by task force members privately 

the first Wednesday 

in April, a_fter which it 

comes back to a full task 

force meeting April 24. 

That the chicken packers 

at 541/2 Kensington were 

applying to expand 

No joy from the city. Seep. 

4 

G-ST RALLY !9'1 

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Letters to DRUM 

24 Bellevue Avenue, Toronto, M5T 2N4 

Who Is Censoring Who? 

We are writing in reference 

to the piece that appeared in 

the last issue of the Drum 

called "Cisco's list of drink 

personalities" by Cisco. We 

were shocked and angered to 

see that the Drum, a paper 

put together by people that 

quite clearly have a vision for 

the Market, a vision of a none 

orp or ate-de vel opme n t 

Market built on mutual support 

and respect, would 

choose to print a piece that so 

effectively targeted and 

insulted so many of the 9ifferent 

people that make up 

the 'Kensington Community'. 

The statements, such as 

"Tequila .. .for criminals who 

call themselves refugees," 

"No-name-brand ... for welfare 

families with no personality", 

"Vodka (Screwdriver, 

Caesar, etc) ... for discreet, 

horny women" and 

"Carlsberg ... for faggots", to 

name only a few, are racist, 

sexist, classist and homophobic. 

Our main concern is. that 

the Drum clarify its editorial 

policy. Obviously, the Drurp 

cannot claim to be 'non-partisan'. 

It has made choices in 

the past about whose voices it 

thinks should be heard and 

who they support on a variety 

of issues. Although we recognize 

the Drum is in a very difficult 

position of trying to 

accurately represent the 

Market community and yet 

also trying to promote social 

responsibility, an editorial 

policy is still possible. 

Firstly,. the concern that all 

Market residents should find 

the Drum accessible to their 

voice is a genuine one, but 

translates into simple liberalism 

when confronted with the 

question of people who try to 

promote race or gender 

hatred in the paper. These 

voices are all too forcefully 

represented constantly in our 

society, in the government, in 

institutions and in the mainstream 

media. The simple 

fact is, that by allowing these 

voices space in the paper, 

you ultimately discourage 

others (who are the objects 

of that hatred) from seeing a 

place for themselves in the 

Drum. Racism, sexism, and 

other oppressions silence 

_and exclude people. So it 

becomes necessary to choose 

between printing the voices 

of racists (for instance) or 

the many other voices of the 

culturally diverse Market 

community. If you get few 

negative responses to the 

printing of Cisco's 'article.' 

this may illustrate exactly 

that point. 

Secondly, the question of 

censorship. By defining-an 

editorial policy which clearly 

refuses to print hate literature, 

you are not censoring 

the voices of those people. 

You are merely refusing to 

collaborate with them by 

putting your labour and your 

collective efforts into publishing 

their material. That's 

primarily why we are concerned 

about the printing of 

Cisco's article without editorial 

comment. Since our 

labour helped produce the 

paper, it concerns us that th_e 

final product so clearly contradicts 

and insults our own 

values. That's not to say that 

we expect to agree with 

every opinion expressed, 

only that we expect a paper 

to be responsible as far as 

basic human rights and dignity 

are concerned. Ultimately, 

although you are trying to be 

accountable to 'the community', 

that community has 

many diverse elements and 

you can't be equally accountable 

to, say, queer bas hers 

and the Market's lesbian and 

gay population, so you have 

to choose who you are going 

to be accountable to and 

how. 

continued on page 7




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Letters to DRUM 

Letters 

continued from Letters, page 6 

No editorial policy can 

hope to foresee the complex 

questions you'll be forced to 

face with each issue, with 

·each article. We understand 

the difficulties that you are 

facing and are pleased to 

know that you take these 

questions very seriously. But 

in the future we feel very 

strongly that the Drum needs 

to both develop a policy of 

either not printing material 

that promotes racism, classism, 

sexism and homophobia, 

or if the Drum chooses 

:1 to run it, there must be clear 

editorial opinions attached 

so that the Drum be account 

'1 able for what it thinks are 

1 the merits of such material to 

the Market 

•I 

Blackbird Design Collec_tive 

Reform Party's 

Triple E 

To the editor: 

The Reform Party is a Western-based 

political party. It is a 

party of common-sense and innovation, 

taking aim at the tired 

practices of the political hacks 

in power now. 

The Reform Party offers an 

alternative to the nausea 

created by the Big Three . A 

sampling of our policies follows: 

-greater accountability of 

MPs through recall procedures, 

basically the firing of incompetent 

MPs by their constituents; 

and MPs would have to swear 

11 allegiance to the Queen and 

their constituents; ~ 

-a "triple E" Senate, 

meaning an elected Senate, an 

.e..qual Senate through equal 

provincial territorial 

representation so that no one 

province could dominate 

·another; and an effective Senate 

that would work to safeguard 

regional iqterests, things that 

you and I care deeply about; 

-voters' initiatives, where if 

a percentage of eligible voters 

sign a petition to the Chief - 

,1 Elecloral Officer, that issue 

would be part of the ballot in 

the next federal election. 

These are just some of the 

changes that the Reform Party 

proposes. Currently, .the 

Reform Party is examining the 

possibility of expansion east into 

Ontario and out to the 

Maritimes. They will vote on 

whether to become a truly 

nationa.:,tparty in Saskatchewan 

inAprill991. We,intheOntario 

Reform movement, are working 

towards this unique 

opportunity by sharing the 

Reform word with aU concerned 

citizens. 

I hope that interested readers 

of yournewspaper will write 

me for more information on 

other Reform positions and 

issues. I would be glad to tell 

them about it. My address is 

273 Highfield Road, Toronto 

ONTM4L2V4. 

Yours sincerely, 

Jeff Young 

TALKING DRUM 

may be posted or hand delivered to Kensington Market 

Drum, Letters. 24 Bellevue Av.e, Toronto Ontaro MST 2N4. 

Or you can fax your letters (but you have to phone ahead to 

599-DRUM). Letters will be published in full where space permits. 

Letters edited for length will be noted. 

Bush's Oil Holdings 

Drum: 

In solidarity with your exposure 

of the CBC newscaster 

Nash in February's Drum, I 

have slapped together some 

information I recently learned 

from here and there: 

-5,000 Egyptian women have 

been sent to the Gulf to 

"service" male American 

soldiers, 

- the Israeli cabinet drew up 

plans in December to conduct 

mass deportation, or "transfer, 

of as many as 200,000 

Plaestinians to Jordan, 

- the Pentagon claims 15 

percent, or 85,000, of Iraqi 

soldiers are dead or wounded; 

refugees say 150,000 to 400,000 

civilians are dead or wounded, 

- Iraq made about half a 

dozen peace offers before the 

war, the first on Aug. 12, the 

last on Jan. 14 when Perez de 

Cuellar met with Saddam 

Bussein; after that one, de 

Cuellar wrongly told the world 

Iraq was stubborn on the issue 

of withdrawal (The Nation, 

March4), 

- Kuwaiti internal security 

chief General Fahd Ahmed Al 

Fahd and minister of interior 

Salein Sabah Al-Salem Al 

Sabah met with CIA director 

William Webster at CIA HQ in 

Langley, Virginia, on Nov. 14, 

1989 to plan a campaign of economic 

warfare against Iraq, 

- on July 26, 1990, one week 

before the invasion of Kuwait, 

the U.S. State Dept. kiJ)ed a 

Voice of America .editorial 

criticizing Iraq for massing 

thousands of troops on the 

Kuwaiti border, 

- amount Socal Oil (now 

Chevron Corp.) paid for tights 

to all of Saudi oil in 1933:50,000 

pounds (with an extra 5,000 

pounds a month in rent), 

- George Bush Jr. has rights 

to all offshore oil off Bahrain, 

- in January, the Turkish 

army, driven by fears of a 

Kurdish insurrection in Iraq 

sparking the. same among 

Turkey's 9 million Kurds, razed 

141 Kurdish villages, displacing 

3,000 Kurds with bombing 

attacks; U.S. bombers have 

bombed Iraqi Kurdish villages 

(In These Times, Feb 13-19), 

- number of Yemenis expelled 

from Saudi Arabia over 

their country's opposition to 

the war: 500,000; hundreds have 

been tortured, according to 

Amnesty, 

- number of human-rights 

violations since October on 

Kahnawake, according to chief 

Joe Norton: 200 to 400 (no UN 

resolutions; no oil). 

Fuck, this war drives me 

totally nuts. 

Alex Roslin, 

Troops Out Coalition, 

McGill University, 

Montreal 

Marks Takes Schwam to Task 

Dear Editor: 

I was amused to read Allan 

Schwam's gratuitous attack on 

me in your Letters section 

recently. Schwam attacks me 

as having been, "bitterly 

opposed to the principles of 

citizen participation in the 

democratic process." Schwam's 

real complaint about Liz Amer 

is that she refuses to be pressured 

or manipulated by 

Schwam's rent-a-crowds. 

Schwam's attempts to hijack 

the democratic process span 

many years, and the pathetic 

modus operandi is always tbe 

same: get a few of your friends 

over for a beer, fax out a press 

release saying a new group of 

concerned citizens has spontaneously 

blossomed, then bully 

and threaten politicians who 

refuse to say "Yes, Sir !" 

Schwam has evidently 

improved his little game somewhat, 

by having City Council 

offer the "task force" a veneer 

of respectability. Schwam is 

blind to the contradiction that 

"task force" is defined as, "a 

group of people formed TEM 

PORARILY to solve a PAR 

TICULAR problem" while 

KMA TF, having (by its own 

accounts) conquered most of 

the known world, is now 

desperately searching out some 

brave new raison d'etre to 

rationalise its continued 

existence. 

The rest of us work a little 

more openly and honestly, 

forming genuinely non-partisan 

citizens' groups-as I did while 

Schwam was still in diapers, and 

. municipal politics were still 

untainted by party politicians 

and ideologues like Schwam. 

Cordially yours, 

June Marks. 

(former Controller City of 

Toronto) 

by Kate Burt McNeil 

Cucumber Wee~s, Again 

I. 

The cucumber weeds will bloom 

again since their demise last year 

there's been a war in the Gulf 

and a war in the market. The 

war in the Market most 

immediately disturbs me. 

However, the cucumber weeds 

will bloom again. 

A left wing friend said 

"Lithuania was asking for 

trouble." Curiously, I cried. 

Visions of torn bodies and 

desperate people invade my 

consciousness. The first pictures, 

unedited (a warning they 

may be disturbing brought my 

glasses to my eyes) shows the 

invasion of Lithuania by the 

soviets. Could my friend be 

right? Does that make killing 

an acceptable means to a better 

end? He accuses me of not responding 

as passionately to 

pictures of the slaughters that 

have occured recently in the 

middle east and other "hot 

spots". He suggests the 

American propaganda machine 

has controlled the media so that 

my response is assured. 

II. 

Landlord/tenant matters are at 

a standstill. Stalemate. 

Loggerheads. The basement has 

been pronounced officially uninhabitable. 

Its "not impervious 

to water," and lacks 

sufficient height. The furnace is 

supposed to be fully enclosed. 

It's not. The three "homeless" 

people who occasionally slept 

down there have found other 

places to stay. Still I wait to hear 

the knock of the basement police 

coming to check that no 

one is stupid enough to live 

down there. 

When I first saw the room in 

the back two years ago Feb. 20, 

I envisioned the raft bed, a 

design by Curved Space, a 

furniture store I once worked 

in. The very top of the line was 

a 10X10 8 inch high density 

foam covered in sturdy 

stainproof material and 

surrounded on all sides by a 

huge bolster. Shelves to the 

ceiling with TV set and VCRan 

entertainment centre. 

Here's the rub. Judge 

Hawkins heard testimony from 

us all, and decided Noam was 

the tenant and the landlord's 

youngest daughter was not. So 

if the landlord choseto charge 

her daughter nothing for the 

use of the front room, it simply 

meant that Noam and I would 

splitthe rent ofthe whole house. 

Now the youngest daughter is 

long gone, and they can't rent 

the front room, except for 

nothing. 

III. 

1985, and it was spring thaw. 

The river had spilled over into 

the plumbing and we were 

cautioned nottodrink the water 

out of the tap. "There's always 

a bottle in the fridge." The day 

was warm and long. At last, 

ready to sleep for a few hours 

before the journey back to 

Toronto. An irresistible thirst 

drove me to the kitchen. The 

bottle that was "always there" 

was not! What the heck-how 

bad could it be? I poured and 

quickly downed a long cold 

glass of murky green water. 

Hours later I lay in St. Michaels 

Hospital emergency with 

"Poisoned in Sudbury" written · 

next to my name on the board. 

1991, and my second visit to 

Sudbury was prompted when a 

friend suggested a few days 

away from the Market's maelstrom 

would do me good. The 

blizzard hit at the same time 

the cold I'd evaded for weeks 

invaded my head. Boarded the 

bus at Dundas station. It rolled 

out of the bay at 1:05 am 

January 15 (The deadline). 

From the driver "just bear with 

me folks this bus doesn't have a 

generator, we'll have to detour 

for another bus"!! Didn't seem 

out of line considering the way 

everything seemed to be 

going .... 

IV. 

My 21 year old son Charlie 

joined the American Airforce 

before the wall fell and all things 

changed. He was in it for 

education and great deals at 

the PX's of the world. I watched 

with more interest than usual 

from Mid America somewhere 

Charles assured me that his job 

would keep him out of the fray . 

Nevertheless I watched all the 

coverage I could. The remote 

clickclicked frantically in my 

attempts to compare the 

coverage on all main stations. 

All I could think of was boy did 

they ever work on this one. 

They left no media stone 

unturned. Michelle 

Landsberg'scolumn in The Star 

says it for me, go out of your 

way to find it. 

v. 

The rooms upstairs are eerily 

empty. Because of disturbing 

effects of the attempted lockout 

Noam was not going to be allowed 

to return to Ryerson. He 

wrote a successful begging 

letter. Still it wa:s clear that the 

distractions in the Market, the 

inexorable push of the landlord 

to get us out, took their toll. 

Noam continues his brilliant 

film career in BC. Our loss. 

I have decided that I will not 

live another winter in these 

unnacceptablecqnditions. I will 

use the cucumber weeds and 

the flowers and the bees to help 

me decide what my next move 

will be. My fear is- will anyone 

in the Market want to rent to 

me? 

7



8 

NEWS & VIEWS II 


Grange Housing Work Group, Meeting: February 21 

Hoine, Home on the Grange 

by Drum Staff 

A meeting of close to thirty 

people February 21 heard 

presentations and discussion 

of several issues affecting life 

around Grange. 

TTC KING /QUEEN 

Ed Wright announced that 

there would be a meeting held 

at Ogden School on March 5, 

1991 at 7:00 p.m. The 

Department of Public Works 

would be giving an update to 

the community regarding the 

King and Queen Streets 

Transit Priority Initiatives, 

and that those that have any 

concerns or questions in this 

regard should come to the 

meeting. NOTE: This date 

was subsequently changed to 

Tuesday March 12, 1991, at 

Council Chamber, City Hall. 

MUSIC, U/S 

Annette Sanger, the new Coordinator 

of the U.S.H. Music 

School came to introduce 

herself, and outlined the 

events and activities planned 

for Spring of 1991 and future 

plans of the Music School. 

PRINCESS 

MARGARET HOSPITAL: 

Doug Hum explained that 

Karl J affary, legal counsel for 

the Princess Margaret 

Hospital, has brought the case 

to the O.M.B. with a hearing 

date set for February 18,1991. 

The Orde Street School 

parents wrote an appeal to 

the O.M.B. on the grounds of 

unfairness in that the parents 

had no chance up against Mr. 

J affary, unless they had more 

time to retain legal counsel. 

The appeal was granted, and 

the new date set for the 

O.M.B. hearing is April 29, 

1991. Doug appealed for our 

support at the O.M.B. as well 

as financially. A meeting is 

being held at Orde Street 

School with a presentation by 

the Atomic Energy Board on 

Wednesday April17, 1991 at 

7:30p.m. 

1 06 BEVERLY STREET 

(ST. RAPHAEL'S LODGE) 

David Perlman of the 

Kensington Drum, ·sean 

Goetz-Gadon from the 

Labour Council Development 

Foundation, Mr. John 

Metson of the Christian Resource 

Centre and Alice 

Heap, who are all from Deep 

Quang Non-Profit Homes 

Inc., came to explain that 

since the Deep Quang Housing 

Project planned for 25 

Cecil Street has not worked 

out, they are looking for other 

sites for nonprofit housing in 

the area. In this regard the 

Deep Quang group wanted 

the housing work group to 

know that Deep Quang 

Homes is interested in 106 

Beverley as an alternative 

project. 

The housing work group 

agreed that there is a need for 

singles housing accommodation 

in the Grange area and 

that provided there are no 

changes to the footprint and 

outside appearance of the 

building, the housing work 

group would be interested in 

discussing this project further. 

Three members of the housing 

work group agreed to 

form a subcommittee with · 

members of the Deep Quang 

board. Next Deep Quang 

board meeting is· scheduled 

for March 21. 

BASEMENT APARTMENTS: 

Mr. David Spence from the 

Planning and Development 

Dept. and Mr. David DeLuca 

The Grange Historical Society of Toronto 

presents 

UPDATING THE VICTORIAN GARDEN 

A free slide presentation and workshop by 

. Pleasance Crawford 

Saturday, April 6, 1991, 1:30 • 4:30 p.m. 

at the Sesquicentennial Museum 

263 McCaul Street 

Pleasance Crawford holds · a BA in Art History from 

Oberlin College as well as. a BA in Landscape 

Architecture from the University of Toronto. Pleasance 

researches and writes on Canadian landscape and garden 

history and is the editor of Landscape 

Architectural Review. 

_This. presentation will explore the componep.ts 

of a Vtctonan Garden, modern sources of Vtctonan 

P.lants, and ways the modern gardener can achieve a 

'greener" garden by using the enviromentally friendly 

methods of the past. . 

Refreshments will be provided. 

For more information please call 977-0681 

We hope you are able to attend. · 

from the Housing Dept., 

came to the housing work 

group to explain the 

proposed Bylaw, and the 

city's reasoning behind the 

change. The Bylaw would 

exempt basement apartments 

from the Gross Floor 

Area calculation for all 

single family dwellings. 

Planning department's attitude 

seemed to be that the 

committee of adjustment 

seems to be approving these 

anyway, no matter what the 

city thinks. But there was 

strong disa greement from 

the Housing,.. W ark Group. 

Some members said thatthey 

wanted people to have to go 

to committee of adjustment, 

because at least the complicated 

process was some kind 

of control. 

Still other group members 

blasted City Hall's attitude 

of accommodating the 

overflow of people at any 

cost.;I'hey felt the laws ought 

to be stricter and enforced in 

a proper manner, and expressed 

concerns at what has 

become of our city as a result 

of leniencies towards the 

law~. Many other members 

of the group also expressed 

their concerns on the outlook 

at City Hall. A letter will be 

submitted to City Council 

outlining our concerns in this 

issue. 

The next meeting of the 

housing action work group 

was scheduled for March 20, 

1991 at 7.30 pm. 

Thoughts on Homeles~ness 

by Kent Lee 

Corner Drop In English Class 

In Toronto there are many 

ho.neless people. Some 

people scorn them and kick 

them out of places where they 

go w get warm. 

There is an old man who is 

69 years old. He lives outside. 

Sometimes he goes into 7/11 

and gets a coffee and a donut 

and he stands up inside or sits 

down to drink and eat. He 

goes there to get warm. 

One time I asked him, 

"Why don't you go to Seaton 

House"? 

But he said, "No. I'm scared 

of Seaton House." 

There is also an old woman 

who sleeps outside the bank 

on cardboard cartons. She 

puts them on the ground and 

slel~ )Son them. But when it's 

' 

Grange Activist 

Anne Mason-Apps Honoured: 

City Announces 

Constance E. Hamilton Award Winners 


Grange Area tenant activist 

Anne Mason-Apps who 

passed away in January, was 

one of three people selected 

to receive this year's 

Constance E. Hamilton 

Award, part of the City's 

Civic Honours Day celebration 

on March 6, 1991. The 

Constance E. Hamilton 

Award, named after the first 

woman member of City 

Council, commemorates the 

1929 Privy Council decision 

by which women were 

deemed persons within the 

terms of the British North 

America Act. A maximum 

of three persons are chosen 

annually by the women 

members of City Council. 

Recipients are persons who 

have played a significant role 

in improving the social, cultural 

and economic status of 

women in Toronto, but have 

not previously been recognized 

for their contributions. 

HOUSING RE- 

SEARCHER AND ADVO 

CATE 

Ms. Mason-Apps worked for 

over 20 years to secure 

housing and decent living 

conditions for women. A 

researcher with Downtown 

rai·ting and windy she gets 

wet and cold. 

I asked her, "Why don't 

you go to Welfare?" 

Every morning she goes for 

shelter inside the library. 

She lives anywhere on the 

street. 

One night I was walking 

around City Hall and I saw 

four people lying on the 

heating grates. 

The security guards asked 

them, "What are you doing 

here? Can I see your ID." "I 

don't have it." 

The security guard wrote 

something in his book and 

put the book in his pocket. 

He had a walkie-talkie and 

he called somebody, maybe 

the police. 

ActiOn, a land devtrlopment 

and assembly organization, 

her research helped preserve 

housing and protect low-income 

mothers from economic 

disadvantage. She also created 

a greater public consciousness 

of the connections 

between development and 

hot;.:;ing loss. 

Other recipients of the 

award this year were Liz 

Stimpson, advocate for 

women with disablities, and 

Jos~·phine Grey, co-founder 

of Low Income Families 

Together(LIFf). 

~1s. Mason-Apps' award 

was accepted by her daughter 

Sarah Mason-Apps. 

Act For 

Disarmament 

Opens Military Counselling 

Hotline 

In response to inquiry calls 

from military personnel and 

their families, ACT for Disarmament 

has opened a 24- 

hour military counselling 

hotline, at 531-5850. This 

hotline will be available to 

provide advice and help for 

people involved in the militarywhoarequestioning 

their 

role in the Gulf War (or any 

other war) and would like to 

know what their options are. 

Says Maggie Helwig of ACT, 

"Unfortunately options are 

limited-there is not even 

conscientious objector status 

in Canadian law right now. 

But we intend to offer as much 

advice and help as we can." 

ACT will be involved in 

pressuring the government to 

establish CO status in law, so 

th_at Canadians who decide, 

after signing up for a term in 

the military, that they cannot 

morally complete their term, 

will have a legal option. 

The counselling hotline is 

supported by the local 

Quakers and Mennonites, as 

well as by ACT. Legal counsel 

is available for those who 

might need it, and other forms 

of advice and assistance can 

be obtained. 

For more information, call 

ACT at 531-6154, or the · 

hotline at 531-5850. ·




VIEWS 

9 

North of 

Superior 

A Very 

Distant Drummer 

Chris Mmmclo Rrrrepportts ... 

Outward Bound: 

what?, where?, when?, why?,·who? 

The words say it all folks. 

1) Outward:(adj) pertaining to the exterior or out 

-side, outer, external 

2) Bound: (noun) boundary, litpit; (adj) having 

one's cours~ directed on the way, destined; (verb) to 

leap; (past tense) to bind 

Combining the word "outward" with any of above 

definitions of the word "bound" would well describe 

this organization. Located at the top of the Great 

Lakes- the North of Superior area- one can find 

this school of widerness philosophy. The wilds surround 

you everywhere with little sign of progress 

other than "Home Place" from where we set out on 

our trip. 

Our winter course takes us out ofdoors, days into 

nights into days, in a frigid Canadian winter wonderland; 

cross country skiing, snow shoeing, dogs and 

sled mushing, sleeping, cooking, eating and living in a 

community of people eager to share what they have 

to offer. 

Everyone is part of our intricate environment; 

building, communicating personally and professionally, 

we all depend on each other for basic survival. 

Look around you and see only too clearly why we all 

have the desire to escape beyond our own world to a 

place only nature seems to provide - stretching the 

limits of mind and soul. 

~ 

Days 6and 7: The road side kitchen 

photobyChrisMeto _ 

Day 2: Doing lunch out on the lake 

photo by Chris Melo

10 The Kensington Market Drum, March 1991 

Drum's Kensing1 

l•at$1tt•l l•:m$11@•1 Three II 

1•«·~•1 1•·••1 llamt;c.,@m 1•@~•1 

WELCOME NEW 

DIRECTORY MEMBERS 

MARCH 1991 

Fashiontique 

38 Kensington, 596-6490 

Designer Resale, Vintage Antique 

and Collectibles 

Sanderson Library 

327 Bathurst St. at Dundas, 393-7653 

Books, information, music - for the 

whole family 

Cine Cycle 

317 Spadina 

Films, Bicycles, Expresso 

an.d Good Things 

St. Stephen-In-The-Fields 

103 Bellevue, 921-6450 

All are welcome 

St. Patrick's Church 

141 McCaul, 598-3269 

ARTS 

and LETTERS 

* • • • • • * * * * * * • 

Around Again 

18 Baldwin, 979-2822 

New and used records, 

tapes, COs. 

Buy, sell, trade. 

College Books 

321 College, 975- 

0849 

A new bookstore 

serving 

university and 

community 

Checkerboard 

Gallery 

204A Baldwin, 979- 

7254 

Peter Matyas, Market 

Artist 

Kensington Artwear 

Portuguese Book 

Stor.e 

86 Nassau, 364-7954 

Jornais - Revistas - 

Livros - Discos - 

Portuguese Cook Books 

in English. 

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s Pineapple Room 

2 Kensington, 

340-7859 

Vintage Clothing 

& Accessories 

ff Razzmattazz 

14 St. Andrew 

Vintage Sparkle, 

Pizzazz, _Jazz. 

Wear It! Share It! 

Screenplay 

9 Kensington, 

"' 593-9260 

Lingerie, Cotton Lycra, 

Fabric, 

Suit Jackets, Vintage, 

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and more. 

Shoney's 

Recycled Clothing· 

206 Augusta, 

979-0700 

Lowest Prices. 

Best Selection in 

Second Hand. 

Tlmbuktu 

36 Kensington, 

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International Design 

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FISH STORES 

* * * * * * * * * • • • • • 

Caribbean Sea Fish 

Market 

175 Baldwin St., 

591-1439 

Freshness comes first! 

Customers come next!!! 

Kensington Market 

' Fish Company 

189 Baldwin, 

593-9269 

"Come Experience 

Fresh Fish". 

Osler Fish Company 

194 Augusta, 

348-9251 

Something new, 

something different. 

More fish for your $. 

Saigon Fish Market 

186 Baldwin 

When It Comes To Fresh 

Fish, 

We Speak Your 

Language. 

Seven Seas Fish 


196 Baldwin 

Fresh Food and Seafood 

From Around the World. 

FOOD STORES 

* • * * * * * * * • • • • * * 

Augusta Fruit 


255 Augusta, 

593-9754 

Fruit and vegetables 

fresh daily-groceries. 

Barraca das 

Frutas/Roszler 

Fruits 

186 Augusta, 

593-9709 

Fruit and Vegetables. 

Casa Acoreana 

235 Augusta, 

593-9717 

Nuts Make The World Go 

Around. 

Cheese Magic 

149 Baldwin, 

593-9531 

The Neighbourhood's 

Favourite Cheese Shop. 

Caribbean Corner 


593-0008 

Fresh tropical foods 

Select Imported 

Groceries. 

Castle Fruit 

80 Kensington, . 

593-9262 

Market's Best Produce. 

Essence Natural 

Foods 


596-2176 

Serious Health Food. 

Fibre. 

(Coffee, Ice Cream, 

Spice ...) 

Farmer Bob's 

Tropical Harvest 

70 Ken~ington, 

583-9279 

The Market's ltal Shop. 

Nice Spice. 

Fong On Foods 


598-7828 

House of Spice 

Importers 

190 Augusta, 

594-8724 

or 182 Baldwin, 

593-9804 

Spice, Coffee, Fruits, 

Nuts. 

International Food 



596-6637 

Fresh Fruit and 

Vegetables 

Retail and Wholesale. 

Kensington Fruit 


Bean Cake, Soy Milk, ' 34 St Andrew, 

Fresh Rice Noodles, no 593-9530 

preservatives. Fruits, vegetables, 

aloes too!! 

Freshness, a family 

_Flying Monkey 

Natural Foods 

314 College, 

968-1515 

Open 7 days a weekfrom 

bulk food to 

crystals. 

Great Horse 

Natural 

Foods 'n Things 

378 College, 

964-1805 

Organic meats, tofu, 

business. 

Melo's Food Centre 

Rebelo's 


5~3-2784 

The Market's 

Supermarket 

Juice Bar Too. 

Sanci Tropical 


593-9625 

Freshest Herbs, 

Avocadoes, Mangoes, 

Exotica, Since 1914. 

Tutti Fruttl 


593-9281 

Chinese & European 

Foods, 

Under New 

Management. 

Coffee, Cheese, 

Chocolate. 

HOUS 

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151 Augusta, and HOME 

natural cosmetics, etc. from South and Central 

596-8344 * * * * * * * * * * * * * 

Portuguese Style 

Sausages 

CAAM United 

Import and Export. 

Hardware 

Perola's 

160 Augusta & 564 

Supermarket 

Dundas 

247 Augusta, 

598-8195 or 

593-9728 

All kinds of groceries 596-8098 

Two Locations! 

Judy Florist 

America. 

374 College, 

920-2177 

Special Flowers for 

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Special 

Anthropology 

People. 

Initiative 


Leaderwave 

Trading Co. Ltd. 

369 Spadina, 

340-1727. 

Locksmith & 

Safemen 

38 Baldwin, 597-1212 

Builder's and locksmith 

hardware. 

Leading brands. 

Parkly Gardens 

Florist 

28 St Andrew, 

585-2159 

Fresh cut flowers and 

plants for all occasions. 

Relngewlrtz Paint 

Stores Ltd. 

107 Baldwin, 

977-3502 

Paints, varnishes and 

imported wallpapers. 

SERVICES 

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Blue Mountain 

Consulting 

253 College, #208, 

235-9959 

IBM and clone 

computers, 

diagnostic, software, 

and repair 

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Services 

continued from previous page 

Central Guaranty 

Trust 

· 343 College, 

961-8247 

Mon closed. Tues-Thurs 

1 0-5' 

Fri 10-7, Sat 12-3. 

Century 21 

First Realty Inc. 

377 Spadina, 

340-8900 

lonny Louie, broker. 

Front Row Video 

Centre 

400 College, 

927-1702 

Great selection, great 

popcorn. 

Jenina's Unisex 

Hair 

368 College, 

966-0830 

Portuguese & Spanish 

spoken. 

K . F Editorial 

24 Bellevue, 599-3786 

Kim's Hair Fashion 

280 Augusta, 

924-5943 

The hair salon for 

women and men. 

Lazerline Desktop 

Publishing & Design 

Inc. 

317 College, 

924-8726 

Fax 924-3826 

Newcomer's 

Business Self-Help 

Office 

George Brown College 

21 Nassau, 867-2370 

Info and advice to new 

business. 

Samko Coin Laundry 

150 Augusta, 

595-5277 

Clean and Friendly, 7 

days a week. 

Dry Cleaning Too! 

Spadlna Retail Post 

Outlet 

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576-578 Dundas, 

593-8885 

Full service retail 

postal outlet. 

Sun King Cleaners 

576-578 Dundas, r,-CI'7~-· 

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593-8885 ~~!1\LJ 

Quality Dry Cleaning, 

Repairs and Alterations 

-Fast! 

Sun One Hour Photo 

Lab 

310 Spadina, 

591-9307 

One hr. processing, 

cameras, 

accessories, passport 

photos. 

DON'T 

FORGETI 

DEADLINES 

FOR 

THE NEXT 

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ARE 

COMING UP 

Call599-DRUM 

for info 

St. Stephen's 

Community House 

91 Bellevue 

ESL, Daycare, Youth 

Recreation, 

925-2103; 

Adult Services, 

Senior Services, 

Conflict Resolution, 

926-8221; 

Youth Employment 

Centre, 531-4631; 

A.I.D.E.S. 323-1498; 

The Corner, 

977-7223; 

The Drug Free 

Arcade, 920-8980; 

King Edward 

Daycare, 922-8705. 

Holy Week and Easter 

At the Church of 

St. Stephen-In -The -Fields 

(Anglican) 

I AM ThE 

RESLI RRfCTION 

AND Thf LIFE 

Saturdays (to May 18) - 7pm, Vespers 

March 24 - Sundays of the Passion, with liturgy of the 

Palms 

8:30 am - Said Eucharist, 11:15 pm - Sung Eucharist 

5:00 pm - The Gatherings: The Passion & Modern Dance 

March 28 - Maundy Thursday 

6:00pm Parish Supper, 7:30 pm - Sung Eucharist 

March 29 - Good Friday, 12:00 noon - Solemn Liturgy 

March 30 - Holy Saturday 

9:00 pm - The Great Vigil of Easter 

(continues all night until 6 am - Sung Eucharist) 

March 31 - Sunday of the Resurrection - Easter Day 

11 :15 am - Sung Eucharist 

St. Stephen's is located on the south side of Coll~ge St. at 

Bellevue, between Spadina & Bathurst. Further 

information: 921-6350. 

All are welcome 

ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH 

THE REDEMPTORISTS 

141 McCaul Street 

Toronto, Ont., Canada 

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Telephone: (416) 598-3269 

ST. PATRIC#KS PARISH COMMUNITY 

WISHES YOU PEACE AT THIS 

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The· Market· GOtirmet 

During Passover and Easter- visiting friends to cook with them, 

or sharing a festive meal at home has reminded me once again how the 

best fish recipes arc the ones that waste nothing. This is a measure 

born out of thrift, and out of respect for the bounty of the sea, but one 

which is also the secret to some of the most delicious meals I have ever 

eaten. 

Both of the recipes that follow were acquired from people who 

"didn't have a recipe". Capturing the flavour of the cook is part ofthe 

fun. 

by Popular Demond 

yfish 

BOUILLABAISSE 

·A chowder made of several 

varieties of fish and crustaceans, 

flavoured with wine [Provencalfrom 

boui (boil) and abaisso (to 

settle, go down] 

The classiest dishes are of- 

. ten the simplest. This Good Friday 

classic makes a hearty and 

delicious supper. Serve it with 

plenty of garlic bread or polenta 

to soak up all the wonderful juice, 

and a green salad afterwards. And 

the rest of the wine. 

(courtesy of Ida Carnevali) 

"Go and buy fish with easy, 

big bones. Not little bones. Like 

cod and some bass. Or grouper. 

And get some shrimps, some 

squid, anything you like. Clams 

(but you have to soak them in 

water and cornmeal overnight to 

GEFILTE FISH 

A Passover tradition. 

Every year in the spring 

Sally's family and mine get together 

just before Passover to 

make gefilte fish. As our little 

children get older the necessary 

fish shopping becomes more and 

_ more interesting for them, and 

making the fish balls is a wonderful 

excuse for a fun cooking/social 

event. 

Neither Sally nor I have 

Jewish mothers (our husbands 

do), so Sally got this recipe from 

the woman in the fish store. 

"You buy whitefish and pike, 

or pickerel, enough so it's a pound 

of each kind once it's cleaned. 

Ask for all the heads and bones 

and skin in another bag. 

Put the skins and heads and 

bones in a big pot with at least a 

quart of water. 2 sliced onions, a 

couple of stalks of celery with the 

leaves on, a teaspoon of salt, 

pepper, and 3 teaspoons of sugar. 

Boil it and then let it simmer for 

a long time with the lid on. The 

soup is ready when the heads fall 

apart and the bones look clean 

after you stir. When it's ready, 

strain it carefully, and keep it hot. 

Grind the fish into a big bowl 

(or get it ground in the fish store). 

Add 2 teaspoons salt, a little 

pepper, a grated onion (or you 

by Masha Buell 

clean the grit away) or octopus, 

scallops or mussels. And fish head 

for broth - one big one. 

So you cut the fish into 

chunks, and you shell the shrimp 

and clean the squid. Then you put 

an onion and the fish head, salt, 

pepper, parsiey and water to boil 

for about half an hour. 

So put the fish - the white 

fish- with some butter, olive oil, 

beat it up with fine garlic, onion, 

maybe some coriander or tarragon, 

and saute it all. As the oil 

absorbs, add the broth in little 

bits but you have to strain it off 

first Open the wine and put some 

in. 

After the fish is looking almost 

done you add the seafood 

because it doesn't take long to 

cook." 

can put the onion through the 

grinder with the fish) 2 tablespoons 

of matzo meal. In a smaller 

bowl beat 2 eggs with 1 tablespoon 

of water and 2 tablespoons 

of oil. Mix this thoroughly into 

the fish. Taste- it should be saltY, 

and peppery. 

With wet hands shape the 

fish into balls about the size of a 

lemon. This recipe should make 

about 15 pieces. 

Drop the balls into the soup 

which should be simmering but 

not boiling hard. Then take a big · 

carrot and make slices. Put them 

on top of the fish to help hold 

them down in the soup. Cover the 

pot and simmer for about2 hours. 

Check the soup and add hot water 

if necessary. 

Remove the fish from the 

soup with a slotted spoon. Remove 

the carrots as well. Cover 

and refrigerate. They are best if 

they stand for a whole day and 

night before you serve them. 

Use the carrots for 

garnish,and serve the fish with 

horseradish and beetroot sauce. 

Keep the soup and make 

chowder with it or freeze it for 

another time. It is delicious and 

nourishing. 

(Fish by Matyas)



The Kensington Market Drum, March 1991 MUTTERINGS 13 

Info For A Price 

Directory of "Environmentally 

Sound ProduCts and Services" 

Now Available (for $50.00) 

This Directory which lists mainly 

Canadian suppliers of a wide range 

of environmentally sound products 

and services was co-ordinated 

by the City of Toronto DepartmentofPurchasing 

and Supply. It 

was developed to assist governments 

and businesses in locating 

suppliers who have environmentally 

sound products and services 

to sell. 

Copies are available from Ann 

Carino, Department of Purchasing 

and Supply, 18th Floor, West 

Tower, _City Hall, Toronto, 

Ontario Canada M5H 2N2. 

Phone(416) 392-7311 Fax: (416) 

392-0801 

And Speaking Of 

Recyclable Paper 

There are now (count 'em) 

TWENTY separate reports and 

publications available on one or 

another aspect of CityPian '91, 

the ongoing rewrite of the City's 

official plan. 

All you need to get all of them 

is 

- a phonecall to the clerk's 

office (to get an order form) 392- 

7410 

-$139 (plus GST) 

Us? We're waiting for the movie 

to come out (it's called election 

'91 and will be in your ward by 

November). - 

And Speaking Of 

Election Time 

Who out there hasn't received a 

copy of a true blue little newsletter 

called The TaxReformer (with 

our nonpartisan mayor smiling 

from the cover)? The 

TaxReformer is putout by a group 

called Citizens for Property Tax 

Reform, 122 McGill Street. This 

issue, their second, wants us to 

believe that market value assessment 

in metro, a.k.a. property tax 

reform, is a monster of the provincia! 

NDPs making. Gee, we 

thought it was generic provincial 

greed for metrobucks, and metro 

greed for citybucks. It may be a 

realmonsterallright,sowhymake 

divisive party politics out of a 

grassroots issue? 

And StiU Speaking Of 

Election Time 

PROSPECTIVE MUNICIPAL 

ELECTION CANDIDA iES 

would be advised to register early, 

according to Mr. Bob Clark, director 

of the legislative services 

division, city of Toronto. 

While Toronto doesn't go to 

the polls until November 12, under 

Ontario election rules individuals 

seeking office must register 

with the City Clerk before they 

can raise or spend any campaign 

money. This applies to candidates 

for the offices of Mayor, City 

Councillor, Metro Councillor, and 

School Board Trustees. (Registration 

forms for all these offices 

are now_available from City Hall.) 

by Drum Staff' 

For people seriously thinking 

of running, City Clerk Barbara 

Caplan advises that they "become 

fully informed of their obligations 

under the Municipal Elections 

Act." The Act can be purchased at 

Publications Ontario, 880 Bay 

Candidate: Jack Layton, Office: Mayor 

Street, telephone 392-5320. Info 

about registering can be obtained 

from the Commission of Election 

Finances, 151 Bloor Street West, 

Suite 800, telephone 965-0455. 

Mr. Clark's Division of the 

Clerk's office, phone 392-7036, 

will also provide information to 

those considering running. (The 

first thing they will tell you? Don't 

plan on being a last-minute entry 

in the race.) 

Candidates for any office affecting this ward are invited to provide photographs 

to Drum upon registration 

Cure For The No-Ray 

Of-Fiscal-Sunshine Blues 

Bob didn'l_forget to shut up shop 

MPP =Man Perpetually in Politics . 


Not much that most of us can do. 

But if you're a health professional 

(i.e. eligible for grants) there's 

always a syndromeyoucanstudy. 

Here's an example: let's hypothesize 

that there's a condition 

called "Seasonal Affective Disorder" 

(SAD, for short). And let's 

observe that SAD happens most 

when there isn't any sunshine. So 

if we design a box that gives out 

light, like sunshine, then we can 

apply for grants - to study 

whether, once someone gets used 

to sitting in the box, she or he is 

less SAD than before. And after 

that we can apply for grants to 

design portable boxes so that SAD 

sufferers can get mobile again. 

Good idea, right? Only one 

problem. The Clarke Institute beat 

us to it. 

If you want to participate in the 

"largest ever study of the use of 

light therapy visors in the treatment 

of seasonal affective disorder" 

you must be "between the 

ages of 18 and 65, experiencing 

non-psychotic major d~pression 

of the seasonal sub-type according 

to psychiatric diagnostic crite 

.ria." 

From right to left, George Kalomiris, Osler Fish 

photo by Buzz Butza 

You can't have the cat but you can rent this space. Cal/599- 

DRUM for advertising info.

14 KENSINGTON COMMON The Kensington Market Drum, March 1991 

The Maple Leaf for Breakfast 

by Bob the Waiter 

The historian had become tired 

and just a little drunk. 

Outside of the Cafe far below 

the grey winter sky, hollow 

boned Chinese women are 

spreading their arms; parkas 

billowing with wind they sail 

up the street. Bright African 

yellow oranges are blown off 

the vegetable stands and roll 

sun hot hissing into the slushy 

gutter. 

The Mediterranean produce 

vendors are wearing their r 

. mirrored sunglasses to protest 

the winter sleet blowing just 

past their noses-to reflect back 

inside all the sea blue memories 

of sun they save; to energize 

themselves so they can 

jump over houses and hHls, 

demonstrating life in Canada 

to their relatives when they go 

back home on vacation. 

Vacat ion .... some days everyone 

around here wishes they were 

someplace else. The Quebecois 

historian and I have been 

discussing separatism and more 

separatism until both our heads 

ache. The salad has a headache, 

the waiter and the cutlery 

have headaches and if we 

discuss it much more I'm going 

to spend the night in a bottle of 

aspirin. 

The point at which my head 

starts to ache is this: that 

according to the historian 

Quebec has been pouting in its 

. room since 1759 and is presently 

packing everything into its gym 

bag a:1d is about to slide down 

the drainpipe in order to set up 

shop in the backyard. I 

shouldn't be surprised at all. It 

was Sir John A. MacDonald 

who first moaned long and loud 

that Canada was impossible to 

govern. It's only to be expected 

that our oldest part should be 

the most likely to break first. 

Quebec has every reason to 

feel like the odd man out in 

Confederation. 

Separated from the rest of 

Canada by the barrier of language 

mostly, Catholic Quebec 

and Protestant English Canada 

have lived under the terms of 

an unintegrated truce since 

Confederation and all the best 

efforts of successive 

governments to integrate and 

harmonize this nation have 

missed the mark. 

Quebecers feel unloved and 

unwanted by the rest of Canada. 

Years of misunderstanding and 

sterotyping by both sides have 

left Canadians living in a house 

of strangers. 

Our government official 

bilingual policy of the last thirty 

years has not worked. Outside 

of Quebec the majority of Canadians 

are simply not 

bilingual. 

Typical of our relationship is 

the fact that as recently as the 

1950's Montreal hotel 

employees could be fired for 

speaking French in front of 

English speaking guests,-this 

ana countless parallel situations 

weigh heavily on the mind of 

Quebec. 

But whoa .... wait a minute 

headache time ... when I lived 

in Alberta I generally found 

Albertans amazed at the 

prefer~nce given to Quebec by 

politicians during election time. 

Not only is Quebec considered 

a have not-province, thus the 

recipient of the considerable 

federal funded equalization 

payments, but, due to federal 

government language requirements 

our civil service and 

armed forces are top heavy with 

French Canadians. 

Unfortunately the disproportion 

of population in this 

country which politically 

favours the thickly settled east 

leaves many western Canadians 

feeling like they are living under 

the political/economic domination 

of Quebec. 

Our Federal government's 

official bilingual policy-is the 

heel of the boot for many 

western Canadians who feel 

galled at being forced to pay 

millions of $'s per year to offer 

duplicate language service 

during tough times for their tiny 

French speaking population. 

Left to themselves, Albertan 

parents will camp out overnight 

to pre-register their children in 

French Immersion classes but 

anything shoved down from 

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above causes bitter resentment. 

Canada is being governed to 

death. Decades of dangerous 

deficit spending by 

governments trying to grease 

every squeaky wheel which can 

vote in this unwieldly nation 

left us with a national debt that 

may turn us into a western industrialized 

slum. This country 

in its present configuration 

cannot afford itself.. Our 

country no longer works. 

We need profound redistribution 

of power down from the 

top. 

The independence stirrings 

of Quebec do us a great service 

in bringing us a unique 

opportunity to re-confederate 

our nation into a mor.e 

manageable whole. 

Much of the business presently 

handled by Ottawa could 

be conducted better by the 

Provinces and municipal 

governments could assume 

power over areas that affect 

them the most. 

Maybe we should become a 

series of confederated semiautonomous 

republics like 

Switzerland or the United 

States. 

A federal government 

empowered with protecting the 

rights of all citizens enshrined 

in a bill of rights, defence, the 

post office, international trade 

and maintaining national standards 

for those social programs 

the regions elect to maintain is 

much more desirable to me than 

our present big brother from 

afar federal systems. 

The most depressing aspect 

of our political system is the 

fact that government can irresponsibly 

tax us and then spend 

us into debt. The Government 

should be restrained by law 

from deficit spending.' 

Once during a tour of the 

Parliament building in Ottawa 

our tour group was ushered into 

the office of a politician (whom 

will remain nameless). 

We were treated to a demon-· 

stration of his new $90,000 

computerized desk. A $90,000 

computerized desk!!! The son 

of a bitch even had it set up on 

a six inch high podium so any 

visitor had to look up at him. 

I'd feel better served as a 

taxpayer if he was using an old 

door set on top of two garbage 

cans. 

I don't think Qut:,bec could 

make it financially as a separate 

country. If Quebec splits 

the scene they will be burdened 

with almost a one hundred 

billion dollar national debt! 

Great, a northern Brazil. 

Hey, Mr. Parizeau what are 

you going to print on your new 

currency?, this note is legal 

tender and backed by maple 

syrup? 

That group of right wing 

muffin dealers with Donald. 

Trump sized egos that passes 

for Quebec's new entrepreneurial 

class may find that 

running a country is a bit more 

difficult than "flipping" 

snowcones at the all night 7-11. 

So in a few months if you're 

the last one home, switch on the 

porch light and chances are 

you'll see Quebec sitting at the 

end of the driveway with its 

thumb in its mouth wondering 

what's for breakfast. 

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(CORNER HURON STREET) 

TORONTO 

Boiling over: 

DRUM's Buzz Burza 

catches himself 

looking for a Kensington 

angle 

at an angry meeting 

at the Hsin Kuang 

last fall. 

Market merchants 

were as teed off as 

the Spadina nerchants 

at the fruit and veg 

vendors who took over 

the n.e. corner of 

Dundas and Spadina. 

By the time this 

photo was taken, 

"teed off" had tipped 

over into boiling- 

largely because of the 

jackboot style of 

the newest city inspector, 

marching thro' 

the Market handing out 

$106 spot fines to any 

merchant inches over 

the yellow line outside 

their own stores. 



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KENSINGTON COMMON 

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continued from page 5 

7. PROBLEMS RELATED TO 

GARBAGE DISPOSAL 

Concerns: that city, metro and community 

must come up with a comprehensive 

waste reduction action plan for the market, 

or run the risk of losing the essence of 

the Market-the sale of produce. In 

essence the problem is that the Market 

receives basically the same garbage disppsal 

service from the City as the surrounding 

residential areas (two nights a week) 

Recommendation 7 (A-J) 

A. one additional garbage pickup a 

week, so therefore, collections Monday, 

Thursday and Saturday; 

B. In the absence of A., immediate 

reinstatement of the previous practice: 

Monday garbage collections missed 

because of a holiday should be postponed 

to the Tuesday instead of cancelled out 

.right; 

C. that the City resume nightly collection 

of cardboard (5 nights a week); that 

merchants and local garbage action groups 

participate in a program to separate waxed 

from unwaxed cardboard; that the 

province look to introducing a "discouragement 

tax" on produce delivered from 

outside the province in waxed cardboard; 

that there be a public education program 

in the area to educate people to the differenc~ 

between waxed and unwaxed cardboards; 

D. that community, metro and city 

develop means for merchants to separate 

at source food matter from cardboard, and 

to store the food matter for return to the 

Ontario Food terminal for composting or 

other use; 

E. that the task force advise metro of 

Kensington Market support for a plan to 

set up composting facilities on a commercial 

scale at the Ontario food terminal 

F. that the Task Force support nightly 

waste collection for all areas restaurants; 

G. that the introduction of nightly pickup 

of garbage for. retaurants be followed 

by introduction of a plan for commercial 

recycling and food waste separation by all 

restaurants receiving nightly pick-up; 

H. that following the successful introduction 

of commercial recycling and food 

waste separation by retaurants, nightly 

garbage collection be extended to all area 

businesses willing to implement this commercial 

recycling and food waste separation 

plan; 

I. that City Metro and local garbage 

action group try to arrange for as many 

homes as possible in the area to receive 

backyard composters; 

J. that wherever possible, a comprehensive 

garbage action program in the 

Kensington area be used to generate work 

for local people, and cooperative educational-opportunities 

for local youth. 

8. PROBLEMS RELATING TO 

KEEPING AND EXPANDING 

AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOt:SING 

ON BALDWIN STREET (note: as with 

several of the other recommendations 

here, these apply not only to Baldwin 

Street but to all the streets in the CR zone 

of the Market) 

Concerns: 

- rapidly rising rents due to high tenant 

turnover, 

-high proportion of absentee landlords 

willing to allow apartments above 

stores to deteriorate; 

-incentives for people to convert second 

story residential uses to other uses; 

-prohibitive parking requirements for 

people wanting to put in affordable rental 

accommodation above stores; 

- high land cost downtown making new 

affordable housip.g starts less likely, and 

making nonprofit housing starts in the 

area almost impossible. 

Recommendation 8 (A· E) 

A. That the Task Force support the 

establishment of a Kensington Market 

Tenant Association, and make provision 

for representation of such a tenant group 

on the Task Force; 

B. That the City provide the Task Force 

with a list of known rents in the Market 

area; 

C. That the City provide incentives for 

property owners in the CR zone who are 

attempting to expand the supply of housing 

aqove stores in the CR area (see recommendation 

1F above); 

D. That the City and Task Force sup 

. port variances from the commercial density 

allowed on a site where the property 

owner is seeking at least as much new 

rental housing on the site as new commercial 

square footage; 

E. That City, Task Force and community 

associations support efforts to have all 

the people who inhabit Kensington adequately 

housed. 

9. COMMUNITY CONCERNS 

WITH THE STYLE AND FOCUS OF 

POLICING AND LAW ENFORCE 

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16 COMMUNITY & ARTS The Kensington Market Drum, March 1991 

Letter to An Unknown Girl 

by Alma Penn 

Hello. 

I don't know your name or where you live. You are 

about eight or ten years old. 

One day just after school I saw you crossing 

the road, wearing a pink snowsuit. You were crying 

in a very scared sort of way. You were 

with two grown-up people who were pulling you by 

your arms so that your feet were off the ground. 

There was a woman with you and a man. The 

man looked angry and the woman looked scared. 

The man was shouting at you about playing with 

boys after school. He said you were a bad girl. He 

said that you were going to grow up to be a bad girl 

who gets into trouble. Many times he told you to 

stop crying. 

When you didn't stop he said' if you didn't stop 

crying he was going to give it to you right there in the 

street. And he said he was going to tell your old man 

· about you. He said that your old man was going to 

give it to you too. 

He raised his arm up high like he was going to 

hit you very hard. 

So I am the person who stepped into the 

· street. I had two children with me who stayed on 

the sidewalk. And the man said that you were making 

people stare at you. So I said that I was staring at 

him, not you. Then he said did I think you should 

play with five boys after school and I just said again, 

I was watching him. 

Then the woman said come on Jet's go, (:l.nd 

the three of you disappearep into a bunch of big 

buildings. 

I don't know what happened to make the man 

so angry. And I don't know what happened later. 

But I'm very worried that he was hurting you, and 

that he was going to hurt you again. And I was afraid 

that if I tried to help you he would hurt you even 

more. But there are three things I want to tell you. 

1) Nobody has the right to hurt you. It doesn't 

matter who they are. It doesn't matter what their 

reasons are. If someone at school hits you or hurts 

you, you have to let them know it's not ok. And to 

ask for help if you need it. The same goes for that 

man. It's not ok for him to hit you. You have the 

right to feel safe, to feel happy, to go to school, to 

have friends. And if he is hurting you, you have to 

tell a grown-up person who you trust. And keep 

telling them until you get some help. 

2) If you feel like you don't know how to ~et 

help here's an idea. Call the KIDS HELP PHONE . . 

It's free. You can even call from a pay phone with no 

money. If you call from home the call will not show 

up on your phone bill. You have to dial 1-800-668- 

6868. 

You can call anytime day or night, 7 days a 

week, as often as you want to. You don't have to say 

who you are, or where you live. The people who 

answer phone calls at the KIDS HELP PHONE are 

good listeners. And they've talked to other kids with 

lots of different problems. They're not going to do 

anything themselves unless you ask them to. Mostly 

they help kids figure out a way to solve problems for · 

themselves. · 

And the phone number is on milk boxes and in 

the phone book under KIDS. · 

3) You don't have to grow up to be a bad girl 

who gets into trouple. He can't make you bad by 

calling you bad. You can g row up to be bra,ve and 

strong and special. It's up to you, not him. 

SUNDAY -MARCH 17, the 

start of the City's annual spring 

flower show in the rotunda at 

city hall. This year's show is 

called contemplations . on a 

Japanese garden. The show runs 

till March24, 9.00am to9.00pm 

daily. 

MONDAY MARCH 18, and 

MONDAY MARCH 25: from 

9.30a.m.-11.00pm(withbreaks . 

for lunch and dinner): in the 

ONT ARlO ROOM, 

MacDonald Block, Bay and 

Wellesley, 2nd floor, west side, 

the public is invited to comment 

on proposed changes to the 

provincial environmental 

assessment process. Call 323- 

2669 (Environmental Assessment 

Committee) for further 

information. 

WEDNESDAY MARCH 20: 

7.00 p.m. Kensington Market 

Area Task Force; committee 

room 6, City Hall 

Grange Housing Work 

Group, 7.30 pm University 

Settlement House 

COMMUNITY OF SOUTH 

AFRICANS/AZANIANS 

FOR NATIONAL RECON 

CILIATION . 

MEDIA RELEASE 

On Thursday, March 21,1991, 

at the St. John's Lutheran 

Church, 274 Concord Avenue 

_(west of Ossington Ave:, and 

south of Bloor St W.), in 

Toronto, at 7 p.m., the 

Community of South Africans/ 

Azanians For National 

Reconciliation invites the 

Media and the Public toaD A Y 

OFPRA YER to commemorate 

those who died in Sharpeville 

and other Cities and Townships, 

in 1960, when the South African 

police and army opened fire on 

unarmed civilians, killing many 

people, wounding and maiming 

many others including women, 

the old and children. 

Joining us will be the Rev. 

Maurice Ngakane, exile in 

United States. He brings with 

him a message that will challenge 

all of us. 

The 21st MARCH, 

ADOPTED BY THE 

UNITED NATIONS as the 

INTERN A TIONALDA YTO 

END RACISM,and dubbed by 

Blacks as SHARPEVILLE 

DA Y,isanimportantlandmark 

in the history of the struggle of 

the African people against 

apartheid and racism. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMA 

TION CALL: REV. L. 

PAYNTER (416) 282-6073. 

SUNDAY MARCH 23: 

BUNNYMANIA RETURNS 

TO NATHAN PHILLIPS 

SQUARE 

Hippity-hop down the bunny 

trail Saturday, March 23 for all 

the egg-citment ofBunnymania 

IlonCityHall'sNathanPhillips 

Square. Hare-raising fun for 

kids 10 and under, from 1 to 4 

p.m.; the Laura Secord Easter 

Bunny, the secret Bunny Trail, 

Bunnymania maps, tailtwitching 

Bunny Tales, a 

warren of wacky wabbits, ears 

and nose-making, rabbit-style, 

with puppeteer Jeff Esery, 

Magic Mike and Bunny Magic. 

THURSDAYS: Scat Cabaret 

at Scadding Court: free coffee, 

free child care (under five), 

starts at 7 pm, pay what you can. 

Music and a bit of theatre. 

Phone 588-8580 for info. 

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DATES TO WATCH 

BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG 

CITY: History of Electricity in 

Toronto 

Electric lighting arrived in 

Toronto in 1879 when two arc 

lamps were turned on at 

McConkey's Restaurant at 145 

Yonge Street. Things would 

never be the same. 

The trexpendous impact of 

electricity and the ways it 

changed how people in 

Toronto worked, played and 

organized their homes is presented 

in Bright Lights, Big 

City: The History of Electricity 

in Toronto, a free exhibit of 

archival photographs, 

documents and artifacts on 

view at the Market Gallery of 

the City of Toronto Archives 

from March 2 to June 23, 1991. 

Electrifying stuff! 

From the beginning, T AAG 

was determined thatthe exhibit 

should extend beyond the 

Market Gallery venue. This 

objective is being accomplished 

through the production of an 

exhibit catalogue, written by a 

local historian, and the production 

of educational kits for primary 

and secondary schools. 

The Market Gallery is located 

on the Second Floor of 

the historic South St. Lawrence 

Market at 95 Front Street East. 

Admission is free. For more 

information, or to arrange 

group or school visits, please 

telephone (416) 392-7604. 

THERE IS LIFE BEFORE 

DEATH! TheN ew Intelligence 

Lectures given by Jan Cox, 

author of "The Death of 

Gurdjieff in The Foothills of 

Georgia" are screened Sundays 

at 6:30 p.m. at 1044 Bathurst 

Street. 652-0099 

Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 

JULY 12-14 at CITY HALL 

More than 400 artists 

More than 80,000 visitors 

30th annual exhibition. 

Applications to display are 

invited from professional and 

amateur artists. 

Call Ms. Tracey Capes, Coordinator, 

967-6149 (answering 

service) for information. 

outdoor art mart 

in kensington 

Call for artists, multicultural, 

interested informing - 

open air art market in 

Kensington. 

call 921-0738. 

Ski.n. II t.y Re.nee. Long 

RENEE LONG 

ALMA GALLERY 

APRl L 6 -28. 1991 

~ 

Opening-Saturday April6. 3pm 

Wednesday to Saturday 12 - 5pm 

588 Markham St. o 2nd Floor o Toronto 

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588-2978 

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DRUM IS ALSO 

photographers 

advertising + editorial 

industrial + portrait 

still life + location 

post production 

videographers 

inquire 416-599-drum 

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LEARNING WITH YOU 

Drum's TV Survey 

Not long ago some results from a survey were published in the 

Toronto Star. 

The survey was done by the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute's 

children's television course. 

The survey was intended to find out about two things: 

what young people watch on television, and 

whether or not they watch tv with someone or alone. 

We thought it would be fun to do our own survey. We'll let 

you know in future DRUMs what people said. So have a look 

at the questions, and then write us a letter. If you like, you 

could get someone to help you - they could ask the questions 

and write down your answers. Big kids can help little people 

with this - so can grown-ups. 

How old are you? 

Are you a boy or a girl? 

What shows do you like on tv (1st, 2nd and 3rd choice)? 

Do you watch tv shows or videos alone? 

Which ones? 

Do you watch tv shows or videos with someone else? 

Which ones? 

Who watches with you? 

Who chooses what gets watched? 

Do you have to ask someone if it's ok before you watch tv? 

Do you watch tv before school? 

Which shows? 

Do you watch tv at lunch time? 

Which shows? 

. Do you watch tv after school? 

Which shows? 

Do you watch tv after supper on a school night? 

Which shows? 

How much time do you spend watching tv shows or videos on 

the week-end or during holidays? 

· Do you talk with people in your family about the shows you 

watch? 

SEND YOUR LEITERS TO: 

Learning With You 

c/o Kensington Market Drum 

24 Bellevue Avenue 

Toronto Ontario M5T 2N4 

HIDS'ACTION FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE! 

HIDS'ACTION FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE! 

Every day 35.000 children die from hunger related 

disease and thousands more from wars. drugs. car 

accidents. at home, AIDS. environmental causes and lots 

of other things that can be fixed. 

How would we feel if more than 35.000 children· in Canada' 

died tomorrow7 Would we do more to try to stop It fromhappening? 

What would the grief be like if it was 

happening In our own homes rather than other places7 

Adults In our part of the world will know what It would 

be like if children all over the place drop to the ground 

and pretend to be dead for ten minutes. Everywhere, 

schools. playgrounds. malls. movies. anywhere_ you are. 

·Be safe ! Plan to be with friends. the more the better. 

Small people ask big people to help you ! 

Make copies If you can. give them to ten friends, or make 

posters or just tell all kids. 

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18 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Kensington Market Drum, March 1991 

Benefit Drum Roll 

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Here's as complete a list as is possible of those who contributed to 

the benefit. 

Musicians: The Virgins, Keith McKie B~nd, AI Cromwell, Steve 

Fever, The Workshop, Caitlin Jenkins, Lee Shropshire, The Foggy 

Mountain Deadboys, Culture Shock, Kate McNeil, Norm Amadio, 

Eileen O'Toole Showband, Rod McBimie 

Equipment: Bob Boucher, Steve's Rentals 

Food and Drinks: Upper Canada Breweries, Patty Palace, Hsin 

Kuang, Diaz Fruit, Castle Fruit, Augusta Fruit Market. 

Door Prizes/ Auction Items: Rebelos, Cheese Magic, Micalaense 

Bakery, Dancing Days, Fairland Bargain Centre, Bloorcout Veterinary 

Clinic, E.M. Porter, Asylum, Timbuktu, Bears Lair, Noise, 

Expose, Asylum, The Second Cup, The Silver Dollar, Spadina 

LCBO, Kensington Sound, Nimkiis, Allematives 

Photos: Buzz Burza, Miki Toma, Frank Burritt 

For the Benefit 

Of ... 

Just above Spadina and just above the table dancers - the 

Upstairs Silver Dollar; home of the Drum benefit 

photo by Frank Burritt 

Other Good Folk: Shawna MacGregor, Bob The Waiter, Adam 

Calhoun, Larry Walker, Norah MacTaggart, Nancy Harvey, Doug 

Macfarland, Mike Milando, Chris Melo, Joanne Harburn 

Matyas 

The Rest of the People we forgot to mention 

by Colin Puffer 

It may be unbecoming for a 

newspaper to say "we told you 

so", but it is nice to see 

predictions borne out. There 

was a lot ofbombast and puffery 

in the last Drum, telling 

Kensingtonians about a great 

party that was going to take 

place at The Silver Dollar on 

Sunday, March 24. Well, it was 

truly a great party. Those in 

attendance ate, danced, drank, 

bid on auction items, won some 

of the fabulous door prizes and 

listened to music until a little 

after 1 am .. It would take · 

columns tosaysomething about 

everyone who helped out with 

the benefit but there are a few 

people. · who deserve special 

mention. 

The Drum would like to 

thank Eileen O'Toole for her 

role as M.C., chief auctioneer, 

band leader and stage manager. 

We'd like to thank Lee 

Shropshire for opening with 

AI Cromwell helping the audience walk their blues away 

Steve Fever raising peoples temperatures with a hot set 

such a strong set and Culture 

Shock (which turned out to be 

99% of Revelation) for staying 

so late and providing such a 

perfect ending to the evening. 

And Angie Choly who came 

just to party and ended up on 

the door most of the evening. 

A definite thanks is also due 

to Lawrence MacTaggart, 

Manager of the Upstairs Silver 

Dollar for giving us the space 

and helping so much during 

difficult times. And thanks to 

Glenn MacLaren for doing 

sound set ups for more than 10 

acts and providing such good 

sound under trying circumstances. 

And finally, a big thank you 

to Adam Calhoun of Upper 

Canada Brewery for providing 

::: the brew to keep the delicate 

-~ throats of the musicians well 

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Problems with "No Probl-ems" 

by Maisela Kekana 

No Problems Here - this is 

Canada. Racism is the disease 

of uncivilized and barbaric and 

savage white people 10,000 

miles away with their apartheid 

plague. This is overall the myth 

that the Company of Sirens play 

No Problems Here seeks to 

explode. 

The play was good. The 

theme obviously catchy, the 

actors were excellent. But the 

overall production lacked that 

something to write home about. 

There were too many 

unconnected scenarios, so the 

play did ·not develop. For 

example racism comes in many 

forms, but a very important 

part of the message needs to be 

that unfortunately the 

substance always stays the 

same. Whether Oka 

Kanesatake or Alabama 

Mississippi or Brixton-England 

or Auschwitz-Germany or 

Gaza Strip-Israel or Soweto 

South Africa, racism is boringly 

the same. It is the ruthless tool 

of international white power. 

A play cannot afford to be 

boringly the same. 

No Problems Here was 

successful in making the point 

that Canadian society is in the 

league of Racist Nations. The 

play was also successful in 

pointing out the subtleties of 

plot possible in a society with a 

very multicultural racial 

makeup. 

But the drama lacked equal 

sophistication in its treatment 

of the way these incidents 

reflect tactics and strategies 

employed by the system in its 

day to day discriminatory 

process. This lack meant that 

the large, mostly white audience 

in the Scadding Court gym 

failed .to get emotionally and 

psychologically involved in the 

drama. The audience was not 

left with the final responsibility 

of searching for answers and 

solutions to the questions and 

probkms presented by the play. 

For example there was a 

potentially telling moment 

during the job search discrimination 

episode. The white male 

job interviewer asks the native 

guy if he has any Canadian 

experience. So far so good. 

Leave the message to sink into 

the auqience. Instead the job 

interviewer gets to deliver a 

"just kidding" kind ofline. And 

the victim looks like someone 

with no sense of humour. The 

same went for the job interview 

with the Caribbean woman - 

because the dramatic choice is 

for an overacted scene, the 

whole thrust and message get 

lost. · 

The Classic example oflosing 

the message was the student 

party scene where the alleged 

victim, a black woman from the 

Caribbean, new alone at a socalled 

"white" party is approached 

by this drunk. The 

panorama could have had an 

indelible impact on the 

audience.The storyline should 

have been - to add insult to 

injury, then there was this drunk 

who approached me, and told 

me he does not mind sleeping 

with black women. Instead we 

get "then this~drunk came 

on to me" investing her with his 

motives. 

The Star praised the Company 

of Sirens for being able to 

"sound the siren without scaring 

people off," for not being 

"preachy or absolutist", and for 

evoking "a new understanding 

of racism". 

But it is not nece~sarily 

understanding of racism that 

we are looking for. It is the end 

to it. And if a siren doesn't 

scare people off, then what is it 

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14 Division 2 - Dundas Gunners 0 

Kensington Packers 0 - City Adiusters 1 

Jets vs. Republican Guards 

(default: Jets win) 

Scott Mission Baggers 0 - Market Munchers 0 

Cecil 9 to Sers vs. Kensington Drummers 

(postponed) 

College Juniors 3 - A Dong Diners 3 

Wilson Waririors 50- Toronto Smoke Eaters 0 

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Scat Cabaret, Scadding Court 

Com:nunity Centre, 707 

Dundas W: Thurs. March 14, 

AI Cromwell - Thurs. March 

21 Leanne Haze - Thurs. March 

28, Spirit Drummers and 

Rachel Fainman 

The Greeks, 197 1/2 Baldwin: 

Sat. March 16, Foggy Mountain 

Deadboys - Every Thurs 

evening, Toby Swann 

The Silver Dollar, 484 Spadina: 

Every Tuesday in March, Da + 

Friends (Brazilian acoustic) - 

Fri. March 22 + Sat. March 23, 

Days of You (rock) - Thurs. 

; March 4, The Originals (rock), 

~ Fri. March 29, Bongocongistas 

f (reggae) - Sat. March 30, 

l Mother Tongue (world beat) 

Sneaky Dees,431 College: Wed. 

March 20, Trains ofWinter-Fri. 

March 22, The Amanda 

Marshall 6and - Tues. March 

26, David Sereda 

matriphiles - don't miss this 

band, they are superb, Thurs. 

March 28, The Cameron - Fri. 

April 5, The Cameron - Tues. 

April 9, The Opera House 

Angels of Montenegro: Fri. 

March 22, The Music Gallery, 

1087 Queen St. W.- Fri. March 

29, Clinton's,693 Bloor St. W. 

Fri. AprilS, The Music Gallery 

Eileen O'Toole, aka Ethel 

Chicken: Fri. March 29, 

Wallaceburg Highschool, 

Wallaceburg, Ontario 

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Hands up Baby Hands Up 

You can claim your auction prize by phoning us at 599- 

DRUM and reminding us what you paid for it 

El Mocambo: Melody Ranch 

every Saturday afternoon 

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by Colin Puffer 

It's Saturday afternoon and 

you've just finished navigating 

through hordes of shoppers 

while buying your weeks 

supplies. Or perhaps you've just 

rolled out of bed after a long 

and exuberant Friday night. 

You're looking for the perfect 

place to chill out or maybe warm 

up for Saturday evening and 

you wander into the . El 

Mocambo. You discover some 

of the hurtinest music played 

this side of the Rio Grande - 

the Melody Ranch Saturday 

afternoon matinee. 

Melody Ranch isn't a band 

you're likely to find playing 8 

gigs a week all over Toronto. 

The Saturday show is just about 

the only chance you'll get to 

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Earth calling Caitlin 

The music of Culture Shock was a real Revelation 

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if you want to place an ad, you've got to phone it in!! 

DEADLINE: 7 days before the end of the month, every month 

Regular type: .50¢/llne · 

Bold type: $1.00/line 

Inside a box (minimum 3 lines): 

Regular type: $1.00/line Bold type: $2.00/line 

Phone (or fax by arrangement) (416) 599-DRUM 

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I DRUM HUM * COMMUNITY ADS I 

00 For Rent and Sale 

. WANTED: ads for 

apartment and rental 

houses. Phone 599-DRUM 

THINKING OF 

SUBLETTING YOUR 

PLACE? let your 

community know first by , 

phoning 599-DRUM. 

For rent: cute detached 2 

storey 2 bedroom house 

Queen W. 820.00+ Utilities 

Immediate 922-87 49 and 

leave message. 

For Sale: only $135,000!!! 

Cute, detached 2 storey 2 

bedroom house, near ttc, 

shopping. 922-8749. Leave 

message. 

02 Child Care 

SNOWFLAKE CHILD 

CARE CENTRE has 

spaces available for 

children 2 1/2 to 5 years. 

Small, non-profit day ca,re 

in this area. Individual 

approach, whole foods 

menu. Phone 368-9124. 

03 Help Wanted 

Greenpeace, sav·e the 

planet. We're currently 

hiring concerned people for 

our door to door 

canvassing. · We're 

particularly looking for 

people fluent in Mandarin, 

Cantonese or Portuguese. 

Hours: 2:30 -10 pm. 

Salary: $235-350/week. 

For info call Don, 351- 

0430. Equal opportunity 

employer. 

VOLUNTEERS for 

DRUM DELIVERY. Join 

the growing team of Drum 

volunteers. Take Drum 

door-to-door in your 

neighbourhood. It's fun. 

Short easy routes available. 

VOLUNTEERS WANTED 

Meaningful work in a friendly 

environment. Connexions, a 

project which provides information 

and resources enabling 

individuals to 'make a 

difference' by taking action on 

environmental, social, and international 

issues, seeks 

volunteers to help with writing, 

editing, bookkeeping, typing, 

filing, research. Call Ulli 

Diemer at 960-3903. 

JOBS JOBS JOBS 

SUMMERWORKS WITH 

TORONTO PARKS 'N REC 

The City of Toronto Department 

of Parks and Recreation . 

is now accepting applications 

for SummcrWorks. 

SummerWorks provides work 

at pools, playgrounds, and 

community recreation centres 

throughout the City ofToronto. 

Positions arc available in the 

following areas: 

aquatics; 

recreation for seniors; 

programmes for children 

physically or developmentally 

challenged; 

playground leaders; 

teen leadership; 

summer music festival; and 

Riverdale Farm. . 

Some of these jobs require 

previous experience, but many 

do not. Applicants must be at 

least 16 years old at the time of 

employment. 

Job descriptions and applications 

are available from Toronto 

Parks 'n Rec offices located at 

Toronto City Hall, 21st Floor, 

East Tower; or from Scadding 

Court Community (:entre. 

For more information, contact 

the City of Toronto 

Department of Parks and 

Recreation at (416) 392-1035. 

04 Help At Hand 

ADVOCATES FOR 

INJURED WORKERS. 

Free legal services for low 

income people with WCB 

and CPP claims. For info 

phone 363-0304. 

Help at hand: Daoist-style 

Tai Chi is an excellent exercise 

for health improvement. 

Try our beginner Tai Chi 

classes at 58 Cecil Street 

(Cecil Centre)-see map 

page 10. Tuesday 7-9pm or 

Thursday 6-8 pm. For further 

information or other locations, 

call656-2110. 

05 Births ' 

KIYO, NICO AND CALE 

would like to introduce their 

new sister QUIN RAE 

ELLIOTT-ARMSTRONG 

born at home Monday March 

4. Parents Keith and Jade 

thank midwives Merryn, 

Arlene, Cathy and Elizabeth. 

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Advertising Sales 

Representatives - 

On your own time 

On foot or by phone 

$ Commissions $ 

Inquire by phone only . 

599-DRUM 

We're going to need a bookkeeper. 

But first we have to 

find the books. 

GeneraJ Office Help 

required (part time) 

Inquire by phone only 

599-DRUM 

DRUMMERS 

Angle Choly, Malsela Kekana, Buzz Buza, Bob The 

Walter, Colin Puffer, Larry Walker, Nancy Harvey, 

David Perlman, Peter Matyas, Mike Milando, Kate 

McNeil, Masha Buell, Roberto Agricola, Susan Graham, 

Doug Macfarland, Chris Melo, Pelgl Rockwell, Sophia 

Perlman, Julia Pine, Phylis Sawyer, Kevin Thomas, 

Greg Heptlnstall, Mikl Toma, Frank Burritt, Kent Lee, 

and the people at Bread and Roses 

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