#9103 - Apr 1991

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Digital Archiving Completed by the Ethnography Lab, A University of Toronto Anthropology Initiative and Produced in Collaboration with David Perlman/Wholenote Media Inc between July-December 2015. 4 MARKET MATTERS · The Kensington Market Drum, April 1991 ;I ·- I I Task Force continued from page 3 Ticked Off At Ticketing A group of Kensington task force members agreed Wednesday April 2 to ask the local Metro Councillor Dale Martin to arrange a meeting with the chief of police to convey community concerns. The meeting Wednesday April2 was to discuss how the task force would react to the east market report. One section of that report deals with policing. It calls among other things for ticketing in the market to be based on whether or not an infraction impedes the flow of people. And the report calls for police to know a neighbourhood, and the neighbourhood to be able to recognize its police. The April 2 meeting was most interested in the section of the report dealing with ticketing. All the business owners at the meet: _ ing spoke out heatedly against the present wave ot ticketmg , agreeing that it is now having a definite impact on business. People come to get food and clothing cheap in hard times and find after paying the bill that there's an extra $20 in Metrotax on the windshield. And they're just not coming back. The group agreed to convey the request to Councillor Martin at the·next scheduled task force meeting (City Hall, Wednesday April24). Be1ow: BaiJlU/L-t>t and Aicine.. Pulling ihe "can" in canopy ( wii_h ihe &1Lt:>-t>ing ot PuPJ!.ic UJo/lk-t>) Special Assistant - Constituency To work with and advise the Minister of Culture and Communications on riding issues. Familiarity with Fort York riding and experience in community development an asset. For more information call 325-6200. Send resume to: Attention: Adrianna Tetley, Minister's Office, Ministry of Culture and Communications, 77 Bloor Street West, 6th floor, Toronto, Ontario. M7A 2R9. Deadline for Applications: April19, 1991 CITY RESIDENTS URGED TO SAVE PAPER FOR RECYCLING DURING EARTH WEEK Most Toronto residents don't know how to go about recycling fine paper. Well here's your chance. The Toronto Recycling Action Committee (TRAC) otters residents an opportunity to recycle their waste computer paper, white and ' coloured letter paper, and bond photocopy paper. Bring it ·to ·city Hall, on Sunday, April 21 for recycling. TRAC volunteers and staf-f will be on hand from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to collect the paper in Blue · · Barrels. The paper will be manufactured int9 new paper products. PLEASE NOTE: envelopes, magazines, brown bags, wrapping pap.er, glossy pamphlets and brochures CANNOT be recycled under this program. "By saving fine paper and bringing it to City Hall during Earth Week, City residents will. help keep this valuable· forest _resource out of landfill sites, save trees, and reduce air and water pollution," says TRAC chair, Paul Jansen. This message brought to you by the Kensington Garbage Action Group the request for the meeting with the commissioners to Councillor Amer at another meeting - the Western Hospital public meeting April 17, which both the councillor and the task force members were planning to attend. And Finally Canopies Seems like a ray of hope ... Gus Fisher now has a copy of a letter from Commissioner V ardin saying that a canopy near Bathurst and St. Clair meets his departments' standards. "It's just like a good Kensington canopy" Fisher exults. Merchant Support For Mid Week Mall continued from page 1 Sopro-mallpeopleshiftedplans to supporting a few car-free Sunday events in 1991, like the Carnival and the Survivors of Assault festival. Sunday pedestrian days in 1991. Carnival in particular, with vendors, buskers, bands and lots of people opened a few merchants' eyes as to the potential of a car-free Kensington. But the confusion over Sunday shopping makes Sunday a very marginal day for getting things hopping in Kensington except for . really special events. People who don't like total car domination in the Market are getting restless at the lack of willingness among the merchants to try anything new. Now it seems the merchant tide is turning. Many merchants say that ticketing for parking viola- -tions has reached an all time high, and many customers are being scared away for good. Business has never been worse. So there's a bit more willingness to look at the mall option again. No one wants to jeopardize Saturdaysit's not the "war on automobiles" lobby whose livelihood is being threatened. But for the first time there seems to be significant support for the idea of car-_free Wednesday-s. Stay tuned. J£]1 City of Torontc- RETAILERS, WE WANT YOUR CARDBOARD BOXES FOR RECYCLING Instead of throwing your cardboard boxes out with your garbage, let us recycle them into useful products. Here's all you have to do: 1. Remove all plastic wrappings, metal and plastic straps, wood or liners from boxes. 2. Flatten the boxes. 3. Tie and bundle them together. 4. Place the bundles at the curbside before 11 p.m. nightly, Monday through Friday, for collection. Remember, only corrugated cardboard boxes can be recycled in this programme. Please do not include waxed or coated boxes; cereal or shoe boxes; glossy printed cardboard; or cardboard stained with oil or food. For more information, please call 392-1040. Nicholas Vardin, P. Eng., City Engineer and Commissioner, Department of Public Works and the Environment
Digital Archiving Completed by the Ethnography Lab, A University of Toronto Anthropology Initiative and Produced in Collaboration with David Perlman/Wholenote Media Inc between July-December 2015. The Kensington Market Drum, Aprill991 MUTTERINGS 5 by Kate Burt McNeil A friend remembered ·and reminded me of the time we'd spent living in New York City, "If I gave something to everyone who had a hand out I'd be broke in a block." It disturbs me to find I can now say the same thing as I walk a block in my community. Most of the hands belong to natives. March 14. Heard today that my friend D. Sharpe , author of the letter to Bell ( see December Drum ) was a little miffed that I hadn't identified her other than "an activist friend" Preferred to err on the side of Non-Liability. March 19, On my way to Centennial College to talk for 15 minutes about '"Poverty and what it means to me." to a group of adult students mostly daycare workers taking a course on early childhood education. I was asked yesterday and have done little preparation beyond thinking about it a lot. And telling a few key friends .. those who are most likely to, as my aunt May would say "be severe" with me. Natalie laughed and found it titillatingly absurd that this "middle-class" woman could possibly know anything about real poverty. True. I don't know yet what it's like to be a bag lady. As an American Embassy wife in London.('68- '72) Ididn'tknow yet what it was like to be on welfare ('83 -present) Accepted an opportunity to play the "Poverty Game" last Saturday. Somewhere in Don . Mills . Developed by several women in B.C. along the lines of Monopoly. Each player assumes the role of a welfare. recepient. A throw of the die determines how you will go through a month on what you have been given . Landing on "chance" can mean a setback or a windfall.There was not a shred of good humor in any of it, excep£ among the players. We chatted amicably as we sat down, slapped the "role" name tags on and were sharply reminded by the two facilitators assuming the role of social service workers, "You don't know each other, you cannot communicate with anyone in the room except the welfare workers!" The game was on ..... All "roles'' were single mothers in their thirties. I was Pamela . A short description on a card told me I was a thirtyish mother of a profoundly hyperactive child. I have a 1Oth grade education and would work as a waitress except that Danny, · 7 needed ongoing supervision.· Most of the players were gainfully employed as lawyers and social service clinicians. I was the only player who was actually on welfare. Two men played the game. One of them in the end when asked how "she" felt about her circumstances, proudly announced that it hadnt been too bad and it was now time to get off of welfare. Good for him! . Glaringly absent from the game: alcohol and drugs (except cigarettes), men, seniors. Nevertheless a worthwhile experience. And preparation for the talk I give tonight. And Speaking of Stereotypes ... k / , .· · 1 .· Candidates ~ ~ ;;.;;; · for any office . / ,,\ ._.· '·affectingthisward ~ 1 f l ·· are invited to )' . .; . · ttrprovide photographs ~ \t1.. ···; to Drum "' yt j upon registration. " . f :& fh a local dyed in.the J.yoolliberal turned sarcastically to last months mutterings, and pointed to this space (page 13 in 9102, March). Jack Layton was there, leaning on the railing of a bridge overlooking A BLURRY railway lands. "You'll put Eggleton 's there I'll bet" he said. SO WE'LL RI!PEAT WHAT WE SAID, TO TRY TO GET THROUGH THE WOOL: THIS SPACE JS FOR CANDIDATES (For a warning about that bridge and that blur, see Railway Lands Report elsewhere on this page.) And Speaking of the .Railway Lands by David Perlman At a meeting April 10 at the St Lawrence Town Hall the City was to unveil its offer to the two railway real estate giants that control 200 acres between downtown Toronto and the waterfront. The report is largely the brainchild of the lawyer the City hired to battle CN at the Ontario Municipal Board, Richard Shibley, working closely with a City-hired consultant, architect/planner Michael Kirkland. The two of them had the very close cooperation of the planning commissioner's second in command, Eudora Pendergrast, , 'who was largely responsible for drafting the 1985 Railway Lands Part II Plan in the first place. But·the very thing that led to this n'
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