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FEKETE, J{MBA, KRA 

sue city-· for. $3.2 _ million 

Full accounting sought from City Finance Department 

by David Perlman 

Oct 19 in a press conference at his campaign headquarters at 14 St 

Andrew Street, Zoltan Fekete announced that he is suing the City for 

$3,2 million --i.e. all the money the City collected from the 

Kensington area in 1989 and ·1990 

Fekete explained that he is a 

member of the Kensington Task 

Force which used its powers as 

a subcommittee of Council to 

get a report (May 31 1991) on 

-city revenue and expenditure in 

the Kensington area. That report 

showed that the City earned 

$1,622,157 from the Kensington 

area in 1989, and spent $1,175,- 

805. 

So based on this report the City 

took almost half a million more 

from Kensington than it put back 

in. The explanation offered for 

the half million dollar difference 

was that "there are a number of 

other expenditure items, under 

the heading "General Government" 

by the City which benefit 

all residents of the City including 

the Kensington Market 

Area. " Examples given of such 

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general expenditures were · 

"audit, discounts allowed on 

taxes, costs of debentures, etc." 

The explanation did not 

satisfy Task Force members who 

asked for details . on the 

etceteras. The request was refused. 

So the point of the lawsuit, 

Fekete explained, was to 

try to freeze the full $1.6 million 

for '89 and an equal amount 

for '90 until ~ full accounting is 

given of how the money has 

been spent. 

Timothy Kinnaird, the · 

lawyer retained by Fekete, 

elaborated: as his clients see it, 

he said, every penny of money 

collected from a community 

should be accountable to that 

community. This is not to say 

that every penny has to be spent 

directly in that community, but 

it is not enough for the City to 

simply say that large amounts of 

money are going into general 

revenues. The city has to offer 

an explanation of how general 

expenditures benefit the communities 

that contributed the 

money. 'We don't think that the 

generalization "general expen(litures" 

is specific enough,' he 

said. · 

See City will defend, page 2 

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and much much more 

Regular Features 

YOUR 

DRUM 

DIRECTORY 

News & Views 2,3 

Talking Drum 

(Editorial & letters) 

6,7 

Kensington 

• 1 Environmental 8,9 

Market Market 10 

Market Gourmet 11 

The Common 12 

The Pagan Way 13 

Downtown West 15 

Community & Arts 

16,17- 

Arts/Entertainment 

18,19 

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AND ALSO 

INSIDE!! 

BURNING Issue 

Hospital incinerator 

under fire: 

by Deborah Cowman 

PAGE2 

ELECTION '91 

IS NOV. 12 

(Your vote counts) 

pages 4-5 

276 AUGUSTA AVENUE • AT THE HEART OF THE DOWNTOWN WEST • (416) 363-DRUM



·Page two, Kensington Market Drum 

Burning Issue!? 

Incinerator at Western under fire 

by Deborah Cowman 

For years I have lived in the 

shadow of the tall chimney on 

Leonard A venue with little 

knowledge of the impact it has 

on our community. Occasionally 

I have looked up from my summer 

supper in our back yard on 

Leonard place and pondered the 

black plume of smoke drifting 

overhead in all but still air. This 

week I have had the eye-opening 

experience of touring the 

Toronto Western Hospital 

(TWH) incineration facility with 

David Allen, the Assistant Vice 

President . of Public Relations 

and John Horadeckyu the chief 

engineer. According to them, 

every seven minutes for 16 

hours a day for six or seven 

days a week a load of contaminated 

medical waste is reduced 

to ash while the emissions, 

containing heavy metals, dioxins 

and greenhouse gasses amongst 

other substances, escape up the 

chimney. 

The ·ontario Ministry of the 

Environment has recently done a 

study of five Hospital incinerators 

in the Toronto area which 

are representative of 122 

biomedical waste incinerators in 

the province. This constitutes the 

only data available on toxic pollutants 

produced by such incinerators 

and the first attempt to 

account for them. (The TWH 

incinerator was among those 

studied).If these figures are correct, 

about lOkg of cadmium, 

19kg of mercury, 91kg of lead, 

and 15kg of total dioxins are 

emitted from the TWH incinerator 

each year. 

COMPARED TO SWEDEN 

But what do these figures 

really mean? It depends upon 

who you ask. They fall within 

the Ministry of the Environment's 

guidelines but these 

guidelines are grossly out of 

date compared to the standards 

set by other countries with more 

recent research in mind. Sweden 

is considered to have progressive 

standards and so I have com- 

\ '-I 

pared their standards for 

emission concentrations with the 

emission concentrations of the . 

TWH incinerator. The TWH 

concentrations exceed the 

Swedish standards for mercury · 

by a factor of 14 (14 times as 

much), for cadmium by a factor 

of 35, for lead by a factor of21, 

and for dioxins by a factor of 

10. 

Why is ·our Ministry of the 

Environment so far behind 

Sweden? Bill Bardswick from 

the Waste Management Branch 

is the official in charge of the 

hospital incineration policy. He 

informed me that their new , 

policy position is going to cabinet 

at the end of this year but 

that these proposals are not 

available to the public until after 

cabinet passes them. This makes 

it difficult for the concerned 

public to monitor or influence 

the process. _ 

NO DIOXIN LIMIT 

We do know, for example, 

that up until now the air-:-pollution 

section of Ontario's Envi~ 

ronmental Protection Act has not 

directly limited the amount of 

dioxin an incinerator can release 

into the air, nor does it take into 

account the total load on the 

environment of dioxins emitted 

by several incinerators, such as 

the cluster of hospital incinerators 

in downtown Toronto. 

Both Mr. Bardswick and Hanna 

Corinthios of tpe Air Resources 

branch of the ministry, and 

author of the Incinerator study, 

admitted that the Ministry's 

general position is that hospital 

incinerators are outdated and 

inefficient and that they should 

be phased out. What then 

becomes of the biomedical 

waste? The Ministry recommends 

that many of the plastics 

now incinerated, and which 

produce high dioxin emissions, 

are more suitable for landfill and 

that the remaining contaminated 

waste should be burned at 

' -regional incinerators using the 

most modern technology. 

Such facilities, though not 

100% "clean", emit 95% less 

toxins than the Consumat "semicontinuous 

feed" unit used by 

the TWH. So the TWH is producing 

more toxic emission in 1 

year than a more updated facility 

would produce in 20 years. At 

the moment no such updated 

facilities exist in Ontario. Even 

if there was one, no one knows 

if the health risks associated 

with current state-of-the-art 

incinerators are acceptable. 

Should we be worried about 

the toxic emissions from the 

TWH facility? Again, it depends 

upon who you ask. Shaheen . 

Kassin-Jakab from the Environmental 

Protection Office of the 

Medical Officer of Health for 

Toronto assured me that the 

hospital was strictly monitored 

and operated within the legal 

limits according to the air 

emission standards for Ontario. 

This is cold comfort when these 

standards are admittedly outdated 

and in the process of being 

reevaluated, and when they 

allow for over 20 times the 

concentration of elhissions that 

are allowed in more progressive 

countries like Sweden. As long 

ago as 1986, the Toronto Department 

of Public Health found 

that an incinerator operating 

according to Ontario's provisional 

point-of-impingement 

guidelines would pose.real risks 

to human health. 

They reviewed 5,000 scientific 

sources from all over the world 

and determined that incineration 

causes dire health hazards which 

are little understood. 

HEAVY METALS 

According to the Physicians of 

Orillia who recently put together 

a report on the hazards of incineration 

to block the building of a 

regional incinerator; they 

reviewed 5,000 scientific 

sources from all over the world 

and concluded that incineration 

causes dire health hazards which 

are little understood. 

Their report suggests that 

particulate emissions cause a 

significant increase in respiratory 

allergies, deterioration of 

lung function and chronic respiratory 

disorders in children. 

Incineration is the largest single 

source of mercury entering the 

urban environment; the United 

States government has recently 

stated that there is no safe concentration 

of lead for fetuses and 

children;and there is no safe 

level of cadmium which has a 

half life of 30 years in humans. 

Low continuous exposure to 

cadmium damages the kidneys, 

and in high concentrations it has 

much more lethal effects. 

Dioxi.ns and Furans are simple 

organic molecules some of 

whi~h are highly toxic. One 

November 1991 

dioxin which is only found in 

municipal waste incinerators is 

stored in fatty tissue. Its presence 

in high quantities in 

mothers milk was the reason for 

a moratorium on incineration in 

Sweden in 1985. The types of 

plastics burned in medical waste 

are particularly high in dioxins. 

Recent studies show that cancer 

risk from exposure to even 

minimum levels of dioxin can 

vary from 1 to' 160 cases per 

million. There is also a risk of 

suppression of the immune 

system that protects the body 

from a variety of diseases · 

including cancer. 

See 1WH Incinerator pg 8 

City will defend against Fekete lawsuit 

continued from page 1 

1 

I' • ' 

Contacted October 27, Andrew 

Weretelnyk of the City Legal 

department confirmed that the 

City had "filed · a notice of its 

intention to defend." He said 

that basically the notice gives the 

city more time--until November 

18--to state its defence. But he 

would not comment further, 

saying that at this stage it has 

not been decided whether the 

City's own legal department 

would handle the matter or 

whether they would hire someone 

from outside City Hall to 

take on the case. 

Asked whether the suit was 

a way of trying to draw attention 

to social programs that could be 

cut, Fekete said that on the 

contrary, he and the associations 

hoped that the information 

would stimulate city spending on 

projects identified as worthwhile 

by the community itself. He 

mentioned as examples of business 

improvements the longstanding 

struggle of the Market 

to have the gas mains relocated 

to allow for an increase in the 

number of canopies in the market. 

As a 'Second example he 

mentioned the desire of people 

• in the community for a police 

substation in the area. 

Supporting Fekete at the press 

conference was Allan Schwam, 

who authorized Kensington 

Resident Association support of 

the suit. An example of resident 

concerns that the city ignores, 

he said, is the chronic low water 

pressure throughout the area. 

But he was less concerned with 

coming up with specifics at this 

stage than with stating the principle 

at stake. "We are told" he 

said "about the principle of 

taxing the better off to help the 

poor. But we are the poor. And 

we're paying. And we're not 

getting our share of what we 

pay." 

Martin Zimmerman, president 

of the business association 

and one of Fekete's campaign 

organizers, echoes Schwam. 

"They don't seem to have a 

problem collecting the funds," 

he said "but they seem to have a 

hard time telling us what we get 

for what we pay." 

The question was asked at 

the press conference as to 

whether the suit was in fact 

frivolous--not seriously meant. 

"It's a dramatic thing to have to 

do" was the reply, "but we felt 

as if we'd exhausted our options 

in terms of getting the information 

we asked for." . 

The City has till November 

18 to file its statement of 

defence. For anyone interested 

·in following this one up close, 

that defence will be available for 

peru8al at the University A venue 

courthouse (as is the claim): just 

quote the file number: 36815- '· 

/91U. 

Day and night, mostly nights and weekends, 1WH stack 

spews visible black smoke. This photo, Friday October 

25th was one of a series taken between 10 and 11 pm. 

VOTE 

Raymond 

POON 

FOR CITY COUNCILLOR WARD 5 

~ TO CREATE MONTHLY COMMUNITY MEETINGS 

• To Address Your Needs And Concerns 

• To Ensure Responsible Representation 

~ TO FIGHT FOR ECON01WC RECOVERY




Kensington: Market. Drum, page t.,ree 

'91 Election '91 Election '91 Election '91 Election '91 

NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 12 

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Election '91 Election: '91 Election '91 Election '91 

NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 1~ 

NQVEMBER 12 

A 

CITY COUNCIL, 

WARD5 

PRESENT COUflCIUOR: 

ELIZABETH AMER 

TO BE ELECTED: 

ONE 

NUMBER OF CANDIDATES: 

FOUR 

*ELIZABETH AMER: 

elected to her first term on 

council in November 1988. 

Previously, for 15 years, writer 

and editor for various publications. 

A community activist, she 

was co-chair of the Toronto 

Island Residents Association. 

On city council she is a 

member of the executive committee 

and chairs the personnel 

committee. She is also on the 

land use committee, chair of the 

fashion industry liaison committee, 

and the~ action committee for 

people with disabilities. She was 

also co-chair of the task force 

for CityPlan '91, Toronto's new 

official plan. Locally she has. 

worked with the Kensington 

Garbage Action Group to get 

Saturday night garbage pick-up 

and collection of cardboard in 

the MArket and introduced the 

motions at Land Use Committee 

which brough about the forma- · 

tion of the Western Hospital 

planning work group. Resident 

of Ward Island, she has lived in 

ward 5 all of her adult life. 

B 

PUBLIC SCHOOL TRUSTEES, 

DOWNTOWN WARD (WARD 5 AND 6) 

*HILARY GAIT (Team 

Toronto): 

"I want to bring my arbitration 

and mediation skills to City 

Council," says Hilary Gait, one 

of Toronto's leading arbitrators 

and the first woman chartered 

arbitrator in Ontario. 

Appraiser and licensed real 

estate broker, Ms. Gait has been 

active as a volunteer within 

Toronto's business community 

since 1971. Born in England, 

she immigrated to Canada in 

19712, and is President of John 

W. Combs (Toronto) Ltd., a 

real estate company. Her extensive 

volunteer work within the 

business community includes: 

Bay/Bloor/Yonge Association 

(Past President); 

Toronto Convention and 

Visitors Bureau (Director); 

Merton Davisville 

Ratepayers Association (Director); 

Bloor Yorkville BIA 

(Director). 

PRESENT TRUSTEES: 

OLIVIA CHOW; 

JOAN DOIRON 

BENSON LAU, 38, is running 

as an indep~ndent candidate. 

Born in Hong Kong he came to 

Canada in 1968, to Toronto in 

1972 after 4 years in Regina. He 

has a BSc and Medical degree 

from the University of Toronto, 

and two years at Osgoode Hall. 

He has a family medicine practice 

in the Dundas-Spadina area 

and is associated with both 

Doctors' and TWH. He is also 

home physician for the Mon 

Sheong Home for the Aged. 

Nursing Home. 

Active in community affairs 

for many years his activities 

have included: board member, 

University Settlement House; 

board member since inception of 

Deep Quong Housing Corporation; 

community liaison for 

Doctors Hospital; founding 

member, physicians group in the 

Dundas-Spadina area. 

He supports: community based 

policing, night lighting and 

neighbourhood watch; strict 

enforcement of parking by-laws 

for the benefit of residents; 

tenant advocacy including strict 

enforcement of building standards. 

He opposes market val~e 

assessment. 

*RAYMOND POON is President 

of Firs~ Counsel Corporation, 

a real estate and business 

consulting firm, and a restaurant 

entrepreneur. He is also Vice 

President of an investment company 

in Wrad 5 and a graduate 

of the MBA program at York 

University. He lives and works 

in Ward 5. His community 

involvement . inclides: Grange 

Safety and Garbage Committee, 

Vice-Coordinator; Council on 

Race Relations and .Policing, 

Board Member; S.E. Asian 

Community and Police Consultative 

Committee, Member; City 

Plan '91 - S.E. Spadina Reference 

Group Member; University 

Settlement Recreation Centre - 

Program Advisory Member and 

Deep Quong .Homes - a nonprofit 

housing corporation in 

Ward 5. 

The most fundamental 

issues, he feels are greater 

community consultation, safer 

neighbourhoods, and creative 

housing.He advocates a community 

consultative process that 

requires our elected representativers 

to hold monthly public 

meetings to address community 

needs, concerns, ideas and 

solutions. He would also 

increase foot patrols and set up 

mini-stations so Police can work 

closer with the community. 


THREE 

NUMBER OF CANDIDATES: 

SEVEN 

*SANDRA ANSTEY (Team 

Toronto): has worked at three 

levels of government over the 

past 20 years. A political science 

graduate of Carleton University 

she has used her knowledge in 

such not-for-profit organizations 

as the Human Rights Institute, 

the Canadian Advisory Council 

on the Status of Women, the 

Metro Action Committee on 

Public Violence against Women 

and Children, and the Pay 

Equity Commission. 

Social achievements include: 

council bylaw requiring greater 

visibility in underground parking 

garages; 

acquaintance-rape seminars in 

Toronto High Schools. She also 

wrote Childcare Workers, Underpaid 

and Undervalued for the 

Pay Equity Commission secured 

funding for the first provincially 

funded sexual assault selfdefence 

course for women with 

disabilities. 

"We must work together to give 

our children an education that 

will prepare them for the hightech 

world of the twenty first 

century" she says. 

*JOHN CAMPEY: an NDP 

nominee, he has beeri assistant 

to the NDP trustees at the Board 

since 1985, a member of the 

Board Director's Group on 

alienated youth, a member of the 

board's health and fitness committee, 

and chair of the NDP's 

Education "Committee for '88". 

As a community activist he 

is a member ·of the Toronto 

Board of Health, past chair of 

the downtown community health 

board, a member of the board ?f 

Vote Raymond PooN 

for City Councillor Ward 5, November 12. 

HIS ACTIONS 

YOUR BENEFITS 

!.·Establishes Neighboll{hood Safety 1. Safer Neighbourhoods. 

Programmes With Police & Community. 

2. Spearheads Neighbourhoqd Beautification 2. Oeaner Communities. 

Programmes. . . 

3. Promotes New Business & Employu\ent 3. More Jobs & Economic Growth. 

Retraining. 

4. Supports Arts Development. 4. A More Vibrant Toronto. 

5. Fights For Balanced City Developments. 5 More Creative Housing & DevelopmenL 

6. Fights For Fiscal Accountability. 6. Lower Taxes & Better Social Services. 

Campaign Tel: 920-6040 

foroapportpl .... p•tlhllflyuiJU.,._;nmtpU... 

Authonze:l by tM: CFO lot RaYmond Poon Casnpmp1991 • 

health's AIDS, Environmental, 

and Budget sub-committees. He 

has also worked on the St Jamestown 

interagency network and 

the Gay Community Dance 

Committee. He has seventeen 

years of active NDP memb~rship 

with the St. George-St 

David NDP, the Broadview 

Greenwood Federal NDP and 

the Ontario NDP youth. He ran 

in St George St David in 1987 

and in York Centre in 1981. He 

has also managed trustee/council 

campaigns.He has a master's 

degree in public administration 

from Queens and is He is currently 

publisher of the Cabbagetown-Riverdale 

news. 

For biographies 

of trustee candidates 

CHAN 

DOIRON 

MABLEY 

MARSHALL 

WONG 

see page 5 

METRO COUNCILLOR 

DOWNTOWN 

Storm 

MacGREGOR 

Sandra 

CITY COUNCILLOR 

. WARDS 

PUBLIC SCHOOL TRUSTEES 

WARDS 5 & 6 

George 

CITY COUNCILLOR 

WARDS 

Peter 

MALONEY 

Margaret 

ANSTEY CHAN MABLEY 

We are committed to: 

•JOBS 

• A PROSPEROUS ECONOMY 

• A SAFE & LIVEABLE CITY 

On November 12 

VOTE TEAM TORONTO 

YOUR ALTERNATIVE TO THE NDP 

Campaign office: 1001 Bay Street, Toronto MSS 3A6 

922·1332 

FAX: 922·6599 

Authorized by the CFOs for the Storm MacGregor, Hilary Gail, Peter Maloney, Sandra Anstey, 

· George Chan, Margaret Mabley campaigns.



Page four, Kensington Market Drum November 1991 

Election '91 Election '91 Election '91 Election '91 

NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 12 

What is a Municipal Election? 

On November 12 there will be a municipal election in 

·roronto. 

This means that the people M the City will elect: 

• a Mayor 

• City Councillors 

• Metro Councillors, and 

• School Board Trustees. 

Who can vote in the Election? 

You can vote·if: 

• you are a Canadian citizen; and 

• you are 18 years of age or older; and 

• you or your husband or wife live, rent or own 

property in the City of Toronto, anytime 

between September 3 and October I I , 1991 . 

Where do I vote? 

If your name and address arc on the VotetJ' List, the people at 

City Hall will mail you a card by October 30, telling you that 

Election I hy is November 12. '!'his card will also tell you the 

place where )'PU vote. 

If your name and address are not on the Voters' List, or you 

do not get your Voter's Card in-the mail, call the Ciry Clerk's 

Department at 392-1600 and ask for help. 

When can I vote? 

You can vote on November 12 any time betWeen I 0:00 in 

the morning and 8:00 in the evening. 

What jobs 'lire people running for? 

People are running for the jobs of Mayor, C ity Councillo r, 

Metro C oupcillor, and School Board T rustee. 

The City-C ounci!J,Qss arc members of Toronto C it y 

CounciL The Metro Councillors arc members of Metro 

CounciL The Scliool Trustees are members of a Board of 

Education. There arc different Boards of Education lor · 

Engli·sh-languagc and French-language p~blic schools, and 

for Separate (Roman Catholic) schools. The Separate 

School Board has two sections, one for English-speaking 

and one for French-speaking people. 

What is a referendum question? 

A~ well as the names of the people running for office, there will 

he a question, or questions, on the ballot. You arc given the 

choice of answering yes or no to these referendum questions. 

For more on 

Election '91, see 

Talking Drum, p. 6 

and 

All Candidates 

(some of the 

time), page 12 

'91 Election '91 Election '91 Election '91 Election '91 

NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 12 

c 

PRESENT COUNCilLOR: 

METRO COUNCIL, 

DALE MARTIN 

DOWNTOWN WARD (5 AND 6) 

(rPtiring) ,- --- 

NUMBER OF CANDIDATES· 


\ I" FIVE - . ONE 

*OLIVIA CHOW: Ward 5 

trustee for the past six years was 

the NDP nominee to replace 

· Dale Martin, who retired this 

year. At the Board of Education 

she was chair of the Personnel, 

Race Relations, and English as a 

Second Language Committees. 

Among her community affiliations, 

she is on the board of 

directors of St. Stephen's Youth 

Employment Centre, the Urban 

Alliance for Race Relations, and 

the Metro Toronto Legal Aid 

Clinic for Chinese/South East 

Asians. She was also a community 

worker at Woodgreen Community 

Centre and assistant to 

Dan Heap (1980-84). 

Issues of concern to her: 

increasing the extent to which 

metro government listens to and 

shares decision making power 

with all residents, especially 

those whose voices have not 

: been heard; working towards -a 

: greener Metro by improving 

· public transit, through housing 

intensification; attracting more 

riders through special programs 

such as student passes and pr:oviding 

bicycle storage spaces in 

subway stations. 

*ZOLTAN FEKETE: independent. 

Born and raised in Kensington 

Market, Fekete now lives in 

Thornhill but remains an active 

member of the Kensington Business 

Association, and the Kensington 

Market Area Task Force. 

He has a B.A. in Landscape 

Architecture from the University 

of Toronto and is presently 

employed by the Liquor Control 

Board of Ontario. He has a 

, Cellarmasters Diploma from the 

Wine Academy and Higher 

Certificate from the Independent 

Wine Education Guild. 

He is against market value 

assessment, believes there 

should be more citizen input into 

planning the future of the city, 

and believes there should be 

regular audits to examine spending 

by City and Metro Council. 

A founding member of the 

Friends of Spadina, opposing the 

Spadina LRT, he was a member 

of the Spadina Transit Consultative 

Committee. He helped 

introduce a new market specific 

by-law to allow residential intensification 

and controlled restaurant 

growth and also represents 

the task force on the Toronto 

Hospital Planning Advisory 

Work Group. He says the key to 

his platform is that he is 

opposed to polarization of local 

councils by party politics. 

I 

LARRY LEE, who placed second 

in the mayoralty race in 

Uxbridge township in 1988 is 

running for Metro Council 

largely on the issue of free TTC 

ser:vice. Lee who runs his own 

advertising company came to 

Toronto from Hong Kong at age 

12 and has been active in politics 

and community service most 

of his life. 

Lee's free TTC idea comes, 

he says, from European cities 

where you pay one fare to ride 

all day. The plan can be carried 

out with no increase in Metro 

taxes. The 69% revenue shortfall 

could be met by increased 

advertising sales, a TIC lottery, 

and a less than 1 % deduction 

from metro paycheques. Benefits 

• 

. 

would be enormous, he says, 

from increased small business 

along TIC routes to cleaner air 

for all of us. 

On some of the other issues 

of the day: he opposes market 

value assessment; wants to see 

more police footpatrols; . wants 

lowrise affordable housing, bike 

paths, and a reduction of the tax 

burden for small business. 

*MICHAEL LOCKEY 

A 45 year old Civil Engineer 

gradute from the University of 

Toronto, Michael Lockey is a 

specialist in waste water treatment 

and public transit systems. 

He has long been active in 

community issues, sp~ifically 

dealing with problems of the 

handicapped. He is an original 

member of Pollution Probe, 

organized a citizens' action 

group to acquire Belt Line Railway 

as a 6.5 km linear park in 

Toronto and York, organized 

and ran youth and handicapped 

adult centres in Scarborough and 

East York. He also organized 

the 1st Annual Don River Canoe 

Race, is is active in neighbourhood 

community action group 

(ECRA) and is head of the 

University of Torono Concrete 

Canoe Club! 

THE ISSUES 

He believes the major issue 

facing the voters in the Downtown 

core is the massive public 

housing projects and opposes 

'- 

ef'eet 

market valuation but believes we 

must accept that changes will 

have to be made. He strongly 

opposes the idea that anyone has 

to pay more taxes when they 

improve their properties. He 

. also thinks something must be 

done to reduce the spiralling 

trends of crime and drugs and 

that economic opportunity will 

reduce though not eliminate 

these evils. 

* STORM MACGREGOR 

(Team Toronto) says "We must 

put Metro back to work with 

fundamental changes to the 

Municipal Tax System." A 

downtown resident since 1980, 

he is currently employed by the 

Ontario provincial government 

coordinating the construction of 

15,000 units of co-op and social 

housing. He has also been a 

member of the Police Community 

Committee for the past five 

years and is a member of the 

McGill-Granby Village Residents 

Association. In the mideighties 

he was a founding member 

of STOP (Save Toronto's 

Official Plan) which fought for 

more housing and better development 

in the Railway Lands. 

At the moment he is best 

known in the ward as co-founder 

of a lobby group called Citizens 

for Property Tax Reform --leading 

the fight against Market 

Value Reassessment. 

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Kensington Market Drum, page five 

GEORGE CHAN (Team 

Toronto) "I'm a product of 

Toronto's inner school system, 

and I want to bring my skills 

back to it" says George Chan. 

He grew up in downtown 

Toronto and took ESL programs 

as a child. "I'm proof that immigrants 

can achieve success" . he 

says. A graduate in industrial 

engineering from the University 

of Toronto, he is an active 

member of the downtown commuliity. 

He has worked for 

seven years as a process engineer, 

specializing in industrial 

development. Professional and 

community activities include: 

licensed member, Association of 

Professional - Engineers of 

Ontario; senior member, Canadian 

Society of Industrial Engineers; 

Member, Federation of 

Chinese Canadian Professionals;' 

volunteer work for Variety 

Village, United Way ,and Neighbourhood 

Watch. He has been 

actively involved in municipal, 

provincial and federal politics 

for the last nine years. 

*JOAN DOIRON: an NDP 

school trustee in downtown 

Toronto since 1978, and an 

active member of the Sussex 

Ulster neighbourhood for more 

than twenty years. Taught high 

school for 11 years, founded the 

community school workshop and 

the Metro Education Information 

Centre in the 60's and 70's, 

active in publishing newspapers 

and promoting better education 

for inner city and immigrant 

children. 

A founding member of the 

Stop Spadina Committee, Downto"Yfi 

Action, Metro Tenants 

Associacion, City Cy_cling Committee, 

Karma Food Co-op and 

the Downtown NDP, Joan is 

active on many school board 

committees--ModernLanguages, 

French, Alte111atives, Health and 

Fitness, and others. She also 

chairs a community group Environmentalists 

Plan Transportation 

which meets monthly at the 

board of education offices. 

*CLEM MARSHALL: is a 

graduate of the University of 

Toronto and the Sorbonne 

Working in the downtown 

schools of the Toronto Board, 

he has been a teacher for more 

than fifteen years 

He has worked as an antiracist 

trainer and · educator conducting 

workshops and seminars 

for institutions of government 

and · for community organizations. 

He served on the executive 

of the Toronto Teachers 

Federation and has extensive 

experience as a volunteer in the 

arts and education. He is presi~ 

dent of the Euclid Theatre, 

former chair of the anti-apartheid 

coalition, and chair of the 

Black Secretariat. He was cowriter 

of the multicultural curriculum 

Kaleidoscope of Health 

(199l)Marshall pledges to work 

with "determination, patience, 

and good humour" for the rights 

of all students to quality education. 

*MARGARETMABLEY(Team 

Toronto): "My own experiences 

will help me understand parent _ 

concerns" says Margaret Mabley 

who brings twelve years of 

parent volunteering to this 

Board of education election. 

Parent of three children in 

the public school system for 

more than 20 years, she was 

deeply involved with the Ont 

Federation of Home and School 

Associations. As a teacher, 

researcher, executive and volunteer, 

she has a broad base of 

experience in working 

·cooperatively with the community. 

Her varied background also 

includes: board of directors, 

OSSTF; representative, block 

p\rent association (founding 

member); . social planning council 

(appointed representative); 

Pine Ridge centre for the developmentally 

disabled (coordinator 

of volunteer services). She is 

also on the Ontario Women's 

Perspective Advisory Committee 

and has done volunteer fund 

raising for the United Way, 

Hospital for Sick Children, 

Variety Village, and Order of St 

Lazarus, Jerusalem. 

*MICHAEL WONG 

Born in the neighbourhood (on 

Wales Avenue) and edU



Page six, Kensington Market Drum 

TALKiNG 

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You'll notice,- maybe, that unlike last 

time round, there are election ads in 

this paper. Except for the mayoralty. 

That's because we're taking sides on 

the mayoralty, you see. 

We've got nothing against June 

Rowlands (except she : doen' t seem to 

understand that racially based crime 

statistics show mostly where the 

police like to - fish). It's not 

Rowlands we worry about. It's the 

people who back the people who back 

her. Them we worry about. . 

Maverick mayors like Layton are 

easily kept in their place in this 

city. He'll have only one vote out of 

seventeen after all. And he' 11 have 

his hands fulF letting down gently the 

people who' 11 be_ expecting miracles 

from him. But the last thing Toronto 

needs after ten years of Eggleton is 

more mayoral toeing of tne power 

elite's line. . 

Six months ago, when we predicted 

that Eggleton would head on to greener 

commissions, we wondered out loud who 

the Eggleclone would be. Then, three 

months ago it looked like an honest 

three- or four-way race was shaping 

up. Too good to be true? Too true. 

So what we want to say is: before you 

get red-scare stampeded into the 

Rowlands camp, ask yourself a few 

questions. What happened to that 

honest-to-goodness horserace? What 

made Susan Fish withdraw when she did? 

And how is the red-scare stuff being 

spouted now by the Star and Co. any 

different from the same b.s. before 

Peterson fell last fall? And if you 

didn't buy it then, why should you buy_ 

it now? And do you really believe that 

Toronto could have -skippeq the 

recession _if Layton had voted for the 

Olympics? 

This kind - of WASPneck stuff is 

far scarier to -us than tne thought of 

a Layton mayoralty in a · city with a 

hide as thick as its skin is thin. 

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And By _the way 

It was significant this time round that 

we didn't see or receive a single piece 

of campaign literature or infQrmation 

from any . of the . other mayoral 

candidates (there are several others). 

More than ever before there seemed ·to 

be no room (here as elsewhere) to enjoy 

the one issue campaigns, the fine 

fringe~ Sign of the serious times. 

LOCAL 

FOCAL 

276 AUGUSTA 

363-DRUM 

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Drum is a publication of 

Kensington Market Drum 

Drum is distributed free door 

to door between Queen and 

Harbord, Euclid and McCaul. 

And it is available at the 

commercial outlets listed in 

the map guide as well as 

selected outlets across Metro. 

For schools and study groups 

up to 1 00 copies of Drum are 

available, free of charge if you 

collect. 

Drum - is available by 

subscription outside our door 

to door distribution area. The 

cost is $18 a year. Back 

issues are available. 

Items in Drum credited 

to individuals are in the 

copyright of those individuals. 

Points of view in such items 

are those of the writer, not 

necessarily Drum's. 

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lAST TIME 

WE REPORTED 

THAT the hospital meeting drew 

a good -crowd and 25 volunteers 

for the work group. 

The work group is going 

strong, sort of (meeting #4 

Wednesday Nov 20, 7pm). See 

pg 12. 

THAT users of St. Stephen's-inthe-Fields 

church have plans for • 

a flagstone pathway. 

Contact Elaine Gager, 

evenings (4-7pm) at 536-8584 

THAT there'd be No Walkovers 

in the upcoming municpal election. 

And the race is on. 

THAT · people were worried 

about emissions from the hospital 

smokestack and incinerator. 

Now judge for yourself pg 2 

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DRUM's New 

Home 

THAT barring accidents we'd 

have a new restaurant/housing 

bylaw through concil by the end 

of October. 

The letter of the law is on 

pg 10. 

THAT people had until OCT 31 

to ask the· Minister of the Environment 

for a Spadina LRT 

hearing. 

At least two did. See next 

page, so now it's up to her. 


d 

THAT there'd been a Kensington 

Task Force Accounting 

Coup (finding our what the city 

gets and gives here). 

We also said as interesting as 

the info would be what people 

did with it. 

Ah yes. Pg 1. 

THAT November might see an 

end to the Kensington gas wars. 

Dare we suggest the end is 

in sight? See Gas Mains pg 10. 

THAT Ready, Set, Grow! A 

government funded project 

brought gardening to Alexanra 

:Park children. 

So why cut the project's 

funding off at the roots? See pg 

8. J 

THAT Eric Layman's most 

recent book To a Stark and 

Clean Place, can be obtained by · 

contacting the DRUM office. 

There's more Layman on pg 

18 and the book is at 276 

Augusta. 

THAT Scadding Court and 

Alexandra Park Community 

Centres were working hard to 

~ make AIDS Araweness Week 

work. 

So now the week's over, 

we' r~ keeping the word out. See 

pg 18. 

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Kensington Market Drum, page seven 

1 Letters-to--Drum · 1 

• 

Letters will be published in full where space permits. Editing for length will be acknowledged. 

Letters can be hand delivered to 276 Augusta Avenue, poste~ to DRUM, P.O. Box 67590, 576 Dundas 

. Street West, -r-dronto M5T 388, or faxed to (416) 363-DRUM. 

Halloween: -hatred for women of power 

Dear Drum: 

We want to share a sort of letter 

with yr readers. A teacher in 

our child's school sent this out 

about Halloween. Seems worth 

thinking about. The teacher's 

name is Barbara, and this is 

what she says: 

With Halloween approaching I 

fmd myself once again .confronted 

with Halloween "witch" 

images that are offensive to 

women, since Halloween is a 

time about TRANSFORMA 

TION. I find myself turning to a 

book that challenges stereotypes 

and encourages critical creative 

thinking and action as a means 

of transforming our world. Anti 

Bias Curriculum by L.D. Sparks 

and A.B.C. Taskforce ( available 

at Parent Books), writes 

this about Halloween; 

"The Halloween image of the 

"witch" old,ugly wicked and 

dressed in black reflects stereotypes 

of gender, race and age: 

Powerful wom~n are evil: old 

women are ugly and scary, the 

colour black is evil (a connection 

which permeates our language) 

moreover, the mean, ugly, 

evil witch myth reflects a history 

of witch hunting and witch 

'burning in Europe and North 

America-from the Middle Ages 

through the Salem witch hunts 

of the 17th century directed at 

midwives and other independent 

women." 

Using curriculum ideas from the 

book I will talk about witches as 

• healers as well as providing 

experiences to contrast imagery 

of black and evil' during 

Halloween. 

Thanks for publishing this. 

Chip and Hazel 

Gourmet, 

eh? 

Dear Drum: 

We miss market gourmet. If you 

don't have people to go to restauranteurs, 

ask the food merchants 

for ideas. Simple stuff is 

still good. 

Rennie Wicks 

No sooner said than done. See 

p. 11. 

~ 

Swings and 

Ro'undabouts 

Drum, 

Regarding the complaints 

last time about the climbers in 

the-' park, that is o.k. but if you 

try to~. get action one item at a 

time you'll just lost on the. roundabouts 

what you gain on the 

swings ha ha. We need the parks 

people to work with the community 

in a committee to discuss 

everything wrong with the park. 

Petra Offer 

Other P.eople's· mailboxes • • • • • · • • • • • 

r 

October 24, 1991 

Hon. Ruth Grier 

Minister of the Environment 

15th floor 

135 St. Clair Ave. West 

Toronto, Ont 

M4V 1P5 

Re: Spadina LRT Environmental 

Assessment 

Dear Minister Grier: 

I believe that an Environmental 

Assessment of the Spadina LRT 

proposal is necessary in order to 

address a number of outstanding 

concerns about. both the merits 

of the LRT and its effects. 

I recall that during discussions 

of the LRT at both City 

of Toronto and Metro Toronto 

councils, those who held reser- · 

vations about the proposal were 

told by proponents that many of 

their concerns could only be 

addressed comprehensively 

through an Environmental Assessment 

hearing, and that neither 

the City nor Metro had 

jurisdiction over these elements 

of the proposal. Therefore, I 

believe this is one consideration 

that must be kept in mind when 

assessing the need for an E. A., 

given the expectations that have 

been raised. 

My municipal colleagues 

who represent the communities 

concerned about the proposal 

also have strong reservations 

about the project. I am speaking 

of City Councillor Liz Amer, 

and Metro Councillor Dale 

Martin (who was a player in the 

Spadina Transit Consultative 

Committee process). Both politicians, 

along with their communities, 

argued for a simpler streetcar 

solution for Spadina, but 

were outvoted by suburban 

colleagues who view Spadina not 

as a vital community, but as a 

transit corridor. 

The simpler streetcar 

option, unlike the LRT, can be 

introduced without an Official 

Plan Amendment and the need 

for an Environmental Assessment. 

What troubles me most 

about the LRT option is that its 

megaproject scale and cost ($200 

million) further relegates public 

transit into the category of "expensive 

second-choice" vis a vis 

the automobile. · The presently 

conceived LRT provides no 

reduction in auto traffic lanes. It 

provides the status quo -- 3 lanes 

in each direction, making it 

easier to drive on Spadina than 

ever before. 

We already have the experience 

in my riding of the Harbourfront 

LRT, where ridership 

is very low, and where no reduction 

in auto lanes was 

sought. The traffic lanes are 

full, while the LRTs are virtually 

empty. To me, the L~T is 

really not pro-transit. It is also 

an expensive proposal, concentrating 

vast amounts of provincial 

resources in one City ward 

which, I submit, could be more 

usefully deployed in underserved 

areas across the GT A. 

The Spadina LRT was 

hatched in an era of TIC megaprojects; 

but has become outdated 

in view of more ingenious 

and less expensive "urban clearway" 

models being experimented 

on Toronto's Bay Street, and 

currently under consideration for 

Queen Street and King Street. 

The Bay Street proposal, in 

contrast to the LRT, was 

b~dgeted at a mere $90 thousand, 

and relies on regulated, 

policed transit lanes which are 

shared with bicycles and taxis. 

Painted lines, signage, and 

enforcement have made this 

experiment a success. 

The LRT vision, however, 

is fixed on the belief that North 

American auto drivers must face 

physical barriers to prevent them 

form driving in transit lanes. 

Bay Street proves otherwise, as 

do countless working models in 

Europe. 

The Spadina LRT's cost is 

also of great concern to me. The 

total cost is nearly $200 million. 

This is a very hefty sum when 

one considers that the TIC 

originally proposed to build both 

the Harbourfront AND Spadina 

LRTs at a combined cost of 

around $60 million. What should 

we expect the final cost . after 

construction to really be? This 

concentration of provincial 

resources within one City ward 

is also of concern given the 

urgent need to provide transit to 

under-served areas elsewhere in 

the GTA. 

Two other important considerations 

persuade me to 

believe that an Environmental 

Assessment is both useful and 

necessary. Both relate to the 

future development of the City's 

central core and downtown 

neighbourhoods. 

The Spadina LRT is a very 

high-capacity system, designed 

in expectation of the development 

of the transit needs of the 

Railway Lands. City Council, 

however, has significantly 

reduced the scale and density of 

~he Railway Lands. It would be 

useful to re-evaluate the LRT in 

light . of this decision, and 

another recent Council decision 

to resolve Railway Latids transit 

needs WITHIN the Railway 

Lands as much as possible. 

Given that the full Railway ' 

Lands development will be built 

out over a 20-year period,. it 

seems premature to build today 

a system with a capacity to serve 

needs that will not exist in the 

near future, if at all. 

The existing · communities 

near Spadina A venue will also 

be negatively affected. Extensive 

sidewalk cuts of up to 15 feet 

will be required for road widenings 

to maintain the status quo 

of lanes for private autos. As 

you know, Spadina has a very 

lively pedestrian nature, and the 

LRT proposal will have a net 

negative effect on Spadina stree- · 

tlife. In addition, LRT stops will 

be fewer than those currently 

provided for existing Spadina 

bus service, leaving me with the 

impression· that LRT service is 

skewed towards through-service 

rather than providing good local 

service as well. 

Finally, I would ask you to 

review the attached letter from 

David Perlman, one of my 

constituents who lives in Kensington 

Market and who has 

dedicated many volunteer hours 

over many years to find a balanced 

transportation solution for 

Spadina A venue. I believe the 

concerns he sets forth in his 

letter further point toward the 

need for an Environmental 

Assessment in this matter. 

Thank you for your consideration 

of my concerns and 

those of my constituents. 

Sincerely, 

Rosario Marchese 

MPP, Fort York 

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Note, this next letter has been 

editeds for length. 

Re: Spadina LRT Environmental 

Assessment 

Date: October 23, 1991 

Minister: 

In response to the province's 

review under the environmental 

assessment act of Metro/TIC's 

proposed Spadina LRT, I am 

writing to say that I believe 

there should be an environmental 

hearing into the proposed 

Spadina LRT. I have followed 

thf? Spadina LRT "presubmission 

consultation" pro~ess since 

August of 1986, first as a concerned 

Kensington area resident, 

then as a member of the socalled 

STCC--Spadina Transit 

Consultative Committee--now 

again as a concerned citizen who 

lives .and works in the Spadina 

area. 

There are certain aspects of 

the ttc/metro lrt proposal that 

are greatly improved since 1986, 

because of the consultation 

process that took place in the 

preparation of the report. But 

there are many issues that have 

not been resolved, which the ttc 

and its consultants, and metro 

council were either unwilling or 

unable to deal with. There are 

also serious questions relating to 

the environmental assessment 

process that should be addressed 

in a hearing---to prevent the 

deterioration of environmental 

assessment in the province, as it 

applies to municipal undertaki- , 

ngs. , 

My .basic position is that Jl 

would support the reintroduction 

of streetcar service on Spadina 

avenue if such streetcar service 

was introduced as part of a plan 

to make the whole surface network 

of streetcar lines in the 

downtown viable. 

I will list briefly here the 

issues which ttc/metro has not 

addressed, and which therefore 

in my opinion require provincial 

hearing--preferably in a joint 

board hearing, since some of 

them also involve municipal 

affairs and the O.M.B. 

1.) The ITC/METRO DECI 

SION TO SEEK AN OFFICIAL 

PLAN AMENDMENT TO 

PERMIT A SPADINA LRT IS 

NOT THE ONLY ALTERNA 

TIVE FOR INTRODUCING 

STREETCAR SERVICE ON 

SPADINA--NOR IS IT THE 

MOST DESIRABLE ALTERN 

ATIVE. 

a)it is unnecessary for the level 

of service presented by the 

proponent to the public (i.e. 

"Just a streetcar") and therefore 

leads us to doubt that the service 

described is all the proponent 

wants in the long term 

b) it is counterproductive in that 

it does not help ttc/metro to 

tackle the issue of how to secure 

right of way protection for 

streetcars on all the routes in the 

downtown surface grid network. 

C) it would enable ttc/metro to 

avoid a full environmental assessment 

in the future . if they 

change from "just a streetcar", 

to a form of surface rapid transit 

with a much higher capacity 

(15000 per hour as opposed to 

6000 per hour) permitted by the 

definition of lrt in the metro 

official plan. 

D) it allows for the complete 

build-out of the Spadina subcentre 

of the CN railway lands 

without metro requiring further 

study of the transportation needs 

of the railway lands--( and in fact 

for the complete buildout of the 

western railway lands with !ill 

provincial environmental assessment, 

start to finish). 

Continued to page 9



Page eight, Kensington Market Drum 


- ..... 1 KENSINGTON ENVIRONMENTAL! 

THE . ·cHILDREN'S 

GARDENING PROJECT 

by Martin Smith 

Last summer the Alexandra 

Park/Kensington Market communities 

saw a flurry of gardening 

activity. · 

In its wisdom the new NDP 

government at Queen's Park 

established a $700 million antirecession 

program in last april's 

budget for 1991. 22 ministries 

had already designed 3000 projects 

when the budget was 

announced. The goal for the 

anti-recession program was to 

provide 18,000 new employment 

opportunities throughout the 

province. 

The Health Promotion Branch at 

the Ministry of Health used the 

anti-recession project money to 

enable community gardening 

projects across the province to. 

hire gardening project 

coordinators. 

In Drum's Beat, the West Cen- 

. tral Community Health Centre, 

and the Walk For World Survival 

received grants to conduct 

gardening projects. 

Children who live in downtown 

Toronto greatly need directed 

educational and recreational 

activities during the summer 

months. The recognition of this 

need by various agencies and 

individuals in the community, · 

and the endorsement of the Walk 

For World Survival's grant 

application by Peace Magazine 

and the Kensington Market 

Drum helped get the Children's 

Gardening Project started. Food- · 

share and the Food Policy Council 

of Toronto assisted the Children's 

Gardening project with 

information, guidance, and 

support. 

The children planted flowers. 

herbs and vegetables. The herbs 

and flowers were started plants 

which were donated by neighbourhood 

merchants. The 

children started the vegetables 

from seeds which were a donation 

from Foodshare. 

The focus for the Children's 

Gardening Project was environmental 

education. The children 

learned about how nutrients 

travel from the sun through the 

water-soil-plants-animals to 

people. The learned about composting 

to maintain the soil 

habitat for worms and bugs, and 

all about how different plants 

and bugs live together. These 

lessons provide an awareness of 

biological niches with a view to 

enabling the children to . understand 

the impact of toxins in the 

environment on the food chain 

and their health. 

The children's activities included 

digging in the soil, hunting for 

and playing with bugs an(i 

worms, drawing pictures of 

plants in the garden, pulling 

weeds, picking dead leaves from 

plants, and eating lettuce, carrots, 

beans and radishes out of 

the garden. ·The children cared 

for the garden, doing all' the 

weeding and watering. 

Cheers to the Ministry of 

Health, Health Promotion 

Branch. The Community Gardens 

Project promotes good 

p:ublic health in many ways. The 

new green space benefits the 

entire community. Just watching 

a garden grow over the weeks as 

one walks by daily, makes a 

person feel better. The expansioa 

of green space improves the 

mental health in the community, 

maybe even resulting in fewer 

assaults on women and children, 

and reducing the number of first 

time drug and alcohol users (our 

children). 

\' 

Of greatest impo~ce however 

is the less tangible impact gardening 

experience has had on 

our community. The planet 

Earth is our collective primal 

Mother. The Mother our Earth 

is under assault from the many 

destructive activities of this 

industrial and military civilization 

and She is dying. People 

are completely dependent on Her 

ability to nurture and sustain 

life. We suffer with her when 

She is abused. At the same time 

the gardener administers first aid 

to our ailing Earth, the gardener 

is also healed through the therapeutic 

activity of gardening. 

The reclamation of green space 

and practice of participating in 

natural ecological cycles and 

niches in our urban setting· has 

far reaching and valuable effects 

on the community. The children 

have learned new skills, values 

and behaviours. They have 

changed their relationship to the 

Earth in a way which benefits 

their personal well-being and 

invites a whole new understanding 

of their community. 

On a Global scale the Impact of 

more gardens and gardeners, 

and the value/behaviour shifts 

which come out of the practice 

of gardening effect the quality of 

air, water, soil, and vegetation 

toward a healthier state. All of 

this promotes good public health 

and a finer quality of life. 

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The children will continue to 

garden as long as The Walk for 

World Survival is able to organ- 

. ize and supervise the Children's 

Gardening Project. They are 

composting over the winter to 

enrich the soil for next year's 

garden. All indications are that 

next year there will be more 

children who will participate. 

Also there is room for the garden 

project to increase the number 

of gardening sites. 

Unfortunately the Ministry of 

Health has no plans to fund 

community gardening -projects 

next year. The Heaithy City off 

ice and the Toront0 Food Policy 

Council have begun work at 

City Hall to gain support for 

community gardens, but without 

funding the likelihood that our 

children will have a supervised 

gardening activity next summer 

is slim. Nc•w is the time to tell 

our MPP, the Premier, and the 

Ministry that funding the teaching 

0f gant~ning tour children is 

a priority for a healthy environment 

and healthy children. 

Call or Write 

to keep 

our gardens 

funded 

Rosario Marchese, MPP Fort 

York 

Constituency Office 

854 Dundas Street West 

Toronto, Ontario 

M6J1V5 

(416) 363-9664 

I The HonoW"able Floyd Laughren 1 

Treasurer of Ontario 

... burning issue: incinerator under fire, continued from page 2 

TWH 

INCINERATOR 

The · United States government 

has recently stated that there is 

no safe concentration of lead for 

fetuses and children. There is no 

safe level. of cadmium, which 

has a half life of 30 years in 

humans. 

The TWH incinerator is releasing 

quantities of toxic substances 

into the Kensington area. Most 

of these will fall within 2 kilometres 

of the source. Within this 

area is a major food market as 

well as a number of densely 

populated neighbourhoods. This 

is not the whole picture. There 

are a number of other incinerators 

in the downtown core, 

mostly as old and inefficient as 

the Toronto Western Hospitals. 

The dispersal areas of this collection 

of chimneys overlaps so 

that there is an accumulated 

effect of,toxicity. Much of the 

toxic accumulation will be in the 

soil, the trees and the roof tops. 

This is called the bioaccumulation. 

This accumulation has not 

been . measured by the Ministry 

of the Environment. Note that 

many people in the Kensington 

community grow gardens which 

means handling the soil and 

' OH OH! 

In a bad news/ good news kind 

of week, we heard first that the 

City Public Works Department 

is just about to give up on the 

five-night-a-week cardboard 

collection introduced for merchants 

in the spring. "merchants 

are just treating it like garbage 

collection" one field manager 

complained. "We'd need twenty 

workers to sort the stuff. " 

But at the same time we 

learned that St. Stephen's Community 

Worker Magadalena 

Silva has been given the . goahead 

to work with the local 

waste reduction action group 

two and a half days a week, out 

of Centre 276. 

First task will be to call a 

meeting among interested merchants 

and other people, to see 

if (and if so, how) the cardboard 

collection program can be saved. · 

Drum Staff 

accumulation of toxins in the 

food produced. In the past, toxic 

bioaccumulation in city soil was . 

considered an acceptable condition 

of life in the concrete 

jungle, because urban dwellers 

have little contact with the soil. 

Now we know better. 

The Toronto Western Hospital 

bums 300 pounds of garbage 

an hour. About 60% comes 

from the TWH and the Toronto 

General Hospital (TGH) which 

share their administration. The 

cost to these hospitals is $330- 

,000 a year. The TWH also 

bums garbage from the Wellesley, 

St. Michael's and other 

hospitals. If the incinerator were 

closed tomorrow they would be 

forced to ship contaminated 

waste to special facilities at a 

40% increase in cost ($132,~ 

000). 

Is this annual savings of 

$132,000 in the combined 

budget of the TWH and TGH 

worth· the health hazard of incineration? 

Any discussion of this 

issue must consider the human 

health costs, and particularly the 

real costs in increased need for 

health care for those adversely 

effected by pollution. In fact, 

many would argue that the 

failure to include the health costs 

of toxic emissions in hard costbenefit 

analysis is dishonest and 

irresponsible-- nothing more that 

"voodoo economics." 

The TWH is currently 

making an application for expansion 

of the hospital. They have 

met with considerable resistance 

from the area residents who feel 

that existing problems such as 

levels of traffic, noise, and 

density should be dealt with , 

bef~re expansion iS: considered. It 

would seem that the incinerator 

is not the least of these problems. 

There are safer alternatives for 

disposing of biomedical waste 

which are economically feasible 

(see incinerator article on page 

9). As a community it is time to 

talk about working with the 

hospital to make this transition a 

fiscal possibility and a timely 

reality. :. 

See ·also-Incineration Gets 

Roasted, page 12 

· 

Milli•try ofTn,amry and Ecim"" ~ City of Toronto Residents: 

OmiCS 

Queens Park, 


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(416) 965-7171 

Ontario Ministry of Heaf'th 

Paul Kopas or Peter Coleridge 

Health Promotion Branch 

Community Development Unit 

700 Bay Street #1401 


M5G 1Z6 

(416) 324-7175 

The Honourable Bob Rae 

Premier of Ontario 

Queens Park 

Toronto Ontario 

M7A ??? 

RECYCLE YOUR 

USED APPLIANCES 

Announcing a new and improved system to recycle used 

appliances into new metal products in the City of Toronto. 

If you need to discard a clothes dryer, 

dishwasher, 

freezer, 

refrigerator, 

stove, or 

washing machine, 

I 

NUCLEAR 

UPDATE 

INDUSTRY 

Private Memb~rs bill C-204 will 

amend the Atomic Energy Control 

Act to prevent the licensing 

of any new nuclear facility in 

Canada. 

The Campaign for Nuclear 

Phaseout requests citizens to 

help send Bill C-204 to legislative 

committee for review. All 

that is needed is to contact 

House of Commons MPs by 

phone and ask them to vote to 

send the bill to committee. The 

vote is scheduled to take place 

on November 20. 91. 

All MPs should be reminded of 

the Conservative government's 

promised inquiry on the nuclear 

industry. Sending Bill C-204 to 

Committee will provide for 

public input from environmentalists 

and peace activists in issues 

surrounding the nuclear industry 

and ' the viability of replacing · 

nuclear power will other sources 

of energy. · 

For information about Bill C- 204, call Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout (613) 563-2004 

call the Department of Public Works and the Environment . 

at 392-7742 to arrange a date for a special 

c_ollection of your unwanted appliance. 

Join in our recycling efforts. Give us a call. Don't just 

leave your appliance at the curb. 

Nicholas Vardin, P.Eng., 

City Engineer and Commissioner 

Department of Public Works and the Environment




Kensington Market Drum, page nine 

Spadina LRT Hearing Requested ... 

• 1 ---. 

continued from page 7 

2. THE KIND OF "RIGHT OF 

WAY" BEING PROPOSED IS 

NOT THE ONLY ALTERNA 

TIVE AND IS NOT THE BEST 

ALTERNATIVE BECAUSE: 

a)contrary _to appearances it is 

part of a transportation policy 

that does not improve transit's 

"modal split"--at the most maintains 

transit's share of increased 

commutint' through south Spadina--at 

the expense of local 

uses of Spadina Avenue 

b. It encourages private vehicle 

commuting on Spadina A venue 

(south to north) and will in the 

long term lead to renewed pressure 

to make Spadina Road 

north of Bloor Street some form 

of arterial roadway. 

C. unlike other alternatives for 

securing right of way for -street- 

, car vehicles it requires construction 

of a very expensive tunnel/ 

portal at Bloor Street 

d. Unlike other r.o.w. alternatives 

rejeeted by the proponent 

without adequate study it contributes 

nothing _ to improve 

transit modal split on the other 

surface streetcar routes in the 

network of which, according to 

the priority objectives for the 

study, this line is supposed to be 

a part. 

3. THE ALTERNATIVE 

CHOSEN REPRESENTS A 

FALSE COMPROMISE 

BETWEEN TWO SQUABBL 

ING DIVISIONS AT METRO 

(ROADS AND TRAFFIC, AND 

THE TIC) RATHER THAN A 

VIABLE TRANSPORTATION 

ALTERNATIVE. 

4. IN OPTING FOR SPEED 

OF SERVICE AS OPPOSED 

TO FREQUENCY OR CLOSE 

NESS OF STOPS, AS KEY 

CRITERIA, T!IEPROPONENT 

OPTED FOR A TRANSIT 

SERVICE THAT WILL SERVE 

PEOPLE PASSING THROUGH 

SPADINA AT THE EXPENSE 

OF PEOPLE TRA YELLING 

WITHIN OR TO SPADINA. 

5. FLAWED ANALYSIS OF 

THE TRANSIT ALTERNAT 

IVES: 

*highly dubious criteria and 

process were used in shortening 

the list of alternative methods to 

arrive at lrt as preferred option. 

6. AS ANOTHER ALTERNA 

TIVE NOT EXPLORED, IN 

TRODUCTION OF STREET 

CAR SERVICE ON SPADINA 

WOULD NOT REQUIRE A 

FULL ENVIRONMENTAL 

ASSESSMENT. IT IS TTC/ 

METRO'S INSISTENCE ON 

SEEKING AN RT OPA THAT 

HAS MADE THE EA PRO 

CESS THIS DRAWN OUT 

AND DIFFICULT. Means to 

prevent that streetcar service 

from bogging down once introduced 

can be introduced once 

the service is in place~ And they 

should be means that apply to 

other streetcar lines. What is the 

point in by-pass surgery (exclusive 

right of way through opa) 

on Spadina, if all the other 

streetcar arteries are clogged. 

7. IMPACT OF ALTERNA 

TIVE CHOSEN ON THE 

NATURE AND RATE OF 

DEVELOPMENT IN THE 

SPADINA SUBCENTRE HAS 

NOT BEEN ACKNOW 

LEDGED BY THE PROPONE 

NT. 

8. IN SEVERAL DEMON 

STRABLE WAYS, THE PRO 

PONENT HAS NOT UVED 

UP TO THE TERMS OF REF 

ERENCE/PRIORITY OBJEC 

TIVES WHICH THE STCC 

HELPED TO THRASH OUT 

WITH METRO AS A PRE 

CONDITION OF GETTING 

INVOLVED WITH THE CON 

SULTATION PROCESS AT 

ALL. 

9. EVEN IF ONE REJECTS 

ALL ARGUMENTS FOR AL 

TERNATIVES, LISTED 

ABOVE, AND ACCEPTS 

THAT A SPADINA LRT IS 

tHE PREFERRED ALTERN A- 

Incineration. Gets Roasted at 

Grassroots Environmental Fair: 

Biomedical Wa~te Management as if the Future Mattered 

by Christopher Lowry . 

Concerned citizens from around 

Ontario met in Woodstock on 

Saturday October 26 to , learn 

more about solid waste inciner- 

'1 a tors from Dr. Paul Connett, 

Associate Professor of Chemis- 

.,. try at St. Lawrence University 

in Canton, New York. Dr Connett 

explained that incineration is 

a poor solution to the, hospital/ 

biomedical waste problem 

because it generates acid gasses, 

it liberates toxic byproducts like 

dioxins and furans from chlorinated 

plastics, and it generates 

toxic ash which must be landfilled 

in special facilities. ' In 

essence it "converts a biological 

problem into a set of formidable 

chemical problems." He argued 

that incineration is an unnecessary 

high-tech process that can be 

eliminated 'by sorting recyclable 

waste from contaminated 

materials and treating these with 

onsite autoclaving (heat sterilization) 

and/or chemical treatment. 

The most rational thing about 

this proposal is that it is costeffective, 

safe; and avoids the 

tl need to export our waste into 

other people's backyards. His 

proposal shows hospitals and 

government how to avoid dependence 

on private waste "management" 

companies that -inflate 

the costs and tend to transfer the 

problem to less politically active 

communities. 

Presented by Grassroots 

Woodstock, the day-long event 

included a lively panel discussion 

on Biomedical Waste 

Incineration with Dr. Joe Cummins, 

a genetic expert with the 

University of Western Ontario, 

Sarita Srivastava of Greenpeace, 

Linda Matthews from · the 

Ontario Ministry of the Environment, 

and Dr. Connett. 

When asked if the M.O.E. 

would help to finance the conversion 

of hospitals from incineration 

to safer on-site waste 

disposal systems, Linda Matthews 

said she was not at liberty 

to 9iscuss it until after the 

M.O.E. makes new recommendations 

on Biomedical Waste 

Incineration to cabinet later this 

year. She did say thatthe thrust · 

of the recommendations will be 

to eventually phase out the 

existing incinerators and replace 

them with "regional" incineration 

facilities. Dr. Connett 

warned the audience to beware 

of regional facilities which are 

often expensive, privately-run, 

money-making ventures. ' He 

presented figures that show the 

public cost of incineration in '-- 

TIVE, THERE REMAIN 

MANY QUESTIONS OF 

METHOD OF IMPLEMENT A 

TION WHICH HAVE YET TO 

BERESOLVED, ADDRESSED 

OR~ SAFEGUARDED. FOR 

EXAMPLE: 

·*meaningful obstacles need 

to be there to prevent ttc/metro 

simply upgrading their simple 

streetcar service to a rapid transit 

line without further environmental 

assessment 

*ttc/metro must be compelled 

to take responsibility for 

mitigating the identified impacts 

of the line--they are denying 

financial responsibility for lost 

parking, for example 

*ascertaining whether the ttc 

is in fact willing to commit' the 

personnel resources (i.e. inspectors) 

to ensure that local Spadina 

transit needs are me~. For 

example, if a streetcar leaves 

Spadina station, or the Sky Dome 

full of people, it becomes useless 

to people travelling locally. 

And unlike buses, an empty 

streetcar cannot overtake the full 

one. To maintain flow of service, 

inspectors would have to 

ensure, for example, that streetcars 

leave the station or the 

Dome less than completely full. 

Nowhere in the report are per~ 

sonnet - issues of this nature 

addressed. 

To conclude, may I draw:. 

your attention to the executive 

summary of your o~ review. 

The three criticisms stated there 

are well-founded and significant: 

*I agree that the "do nothing" 

alternative was not 

considered--including a 

refusal to consider the 

alternative of doing nothing 

but make more efficient use 

of existing resources. 

*I agree that the methodology 

used to evaluate alternatives 

was "difficult to 

trace"--this is because the 

method was one of el,iminat- 

these high-tech facilities to be 

much higher than on-site processes, 

and he reiterated that no 

community wants to bear the 

burden of pollution from the 

burning of garbage from a large 

collection area . 

Dr. Cummins provided a 

historical overview of how 

successive provincial governments 

in Ontario have virtually 

turned a blind eye to industrialstyle 

pollution produced by 

institutions such as hospitals and 

universities. He cited the 

example of an incinerator at 

UWO in London which was 

originally licensed to bum ordinary 

garbage in the 1970's and 

has been burning all manner of 

plastics, chemicals, and· hazardous 

substances including PCBs 

with impunity for over 15 

years. When asked about the 

incinerator at Toronto Western 

See acutely hazardous, page 12 

,.,, 

ii 

f 

ing all alternatives to 'the 

undertaking the proponent 

preferred from the start of 

the study. 

*I agree that there are 

significant gaps in the-documentation, 

primarily in areas 

where adequate documentation 

would have shown 

opposition to the direction 

the study was headed. 

I must however add here that 

even in the four areas where 

your review suggests the proponent 

is to be commended, 

there are, in my opinion, problems: 

*Yes, there was a public 

consultation process, but 

many of us would have 

dropped out of that process 

part way (some indeed did) 

had we not been reassured 

on several occasions that we 

would have the opportunity 

to raise matters beyond the 

TIC/Metro jurisdiction in 

the context of an EA hearing. 

Without such a hearing, the 

process so far becomes· in 

retrospect one of public 

information rather than 

consultation. _ 

Yes, there is some discussion 

of a "short term bus 

service" to be implemented 

-but what is thoroughly 

obscured in the report is 

that the "short term bus 

service" was one element in 

a whole series of recommendations 

made by the 

consultative committee, 

thought out and presented as 

an alternative to an LRT - 

based on better use of existing 

resources. Again, the 

method appears to have 

been that of reducing an 

alternative to something that 

could be compared to an 

LRT for purposes of rejecting 

it. 

Yes, a wide range of alternatives 

was identified--but 

surely it cannot be enough 

under the act to identify 

alternatives simply for the 

purpose of eliminating all 

those that the proponent 

does not wish to consider. 

This letter is only a sketchy 

ovenriew of what I believe to be 

a credible argument for a hearing 

to take place, as well as a 

brief outline of the case against 

the LRT tha_t I would _ wish to 

see brought forward at such a 

hearing. As a concerned citizen 

I will seek to intervene along 

these lines, if Y.OU deem a hearing 

necessary, as I hope you 

will. 

Let me add, finally that I 

am not an opponent of transit. 

·For me the TIC is not "the 

better way," it is the only way, 

since neither I nor any member 

of my family drives. The problem, 

as I see it, is that a poorly 

conceived and executed transit 

project like this LRT sets the 

cause of transit back inuileasurably. 

The TIC is a disempowered 

operational arm of a floundering 

and internally divided 

municipal government. It would 

be within the province's power, 

through the mechanisms 

afforded by a hearing like the 

one I am asking for, to give 

TIC/Metro some of the clout it 

needs to make public transit part 

of the solution to a severe urban 

environmental problem--misuse 

_ and overuse of the private automobile. 

Yours truly, 

David Perlman 

IMPORTANT REMINDER FOR TORONTO 

RESIDENTS . "···nbl 

DON'T LET YOUR 

LEAVES 

HEDGE TRIMMINGS 

WEEDS, AND 

PLANT CUTTINGS 

GO TO WASTE! 

Put them in c.lear bags or open 

rigid containers, -such as bushel 

baskets, for separate collection 

on your regular Thursday or 

Friday garbage day. 

Brush (twigs and branches under 

3" in diameter) should be tied· in 

bundles no longer than 4 feet. 

Be good to your grass: leave 

grass clippings on your lawn. If 

not, please put them out in 

bushel baskets or other rigid . 

containers. 

All garden apd yard waste will 

be centrally composted. Remember, 

garden and yard ma teri~l 

not put out in clear bags or rigid 

containers cannot be collected 

for composting. 

QUESTIONS? 

Call the City of Toronto Department 

of Public Works and the 

Environment at 392-7742. TDD 

/TTY users call 392-0678. 

Thank you for your consideration. 

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Page ten, Kensington Market Drum November 1991 


Consumers Gus! Deal on gas mains ·in sight? 

' 

To follow this story, you have to 

understand three things: first, 

that when you say canopy in 

Kensington you're not talking 

awning or cloth, you're talking 

glass, wood and aluminum; 

second, that when Gus Fisher 

says gas, he's talking boulevards, 

not beans; third, that in 

the curious arithmetic of the 

open market, boulevard minus , 

gas equals canopy. 

CALL IT SCENE ONE FOR 

CONVENIENCE 

The story starts,so long ago that 

we won't even try to go back to 

the beginning. If we pick it up 

three and a half years ago, we 

find the City's Public Works 

Department on the warpath 

against Kensington's canopies. 

The canopies did not meet the 

definition of the City's Streets 

by-law, which says that anything 

attached to the front of a store 

has to be II temporary, 

unenclosed, and easily removable. 

It sounded like an open and 

11 

shut case for chopping many of 

Kensington's canopies which 

have been built to stay (as they 

must, to protect produce in the 

winter, for example). Problem 

is, though, that Kensington 

without canopies is like a fish 

without a bicycle. And no politician, 

left right or centre wanted 

to reduce the market to a piece 

of sterile urban design. So Public 

Works was not getting much 

sympathy in its efforts to 

enforce a rule to which Kensington 

seemed to be the logical 

exception. 

But Public Works was not 

backing down. They called in 

the reinforcements in the form 

of Consumers Gas. It's not just 

a question of the by-law, said 

Consumers Gas, it's a question 

of safety. There are gas mains 

under those boulevards, and 

some of the canopies are 

__. .. __ 

enclosed. If there's a gas leak 

under one of those canopies 

overnight then, come the merchant 

in the morning with a 

cigarette in his mouth, boom 

goes Kensington. 

For a while it looked grim. 

While no politician wants to be 

fingered - as the villain who 

razed Canada's favourite 

multicultural backdrop, the great 

god safety commands respect. 

By'Summer 1988 it looked as if 

the canopies' days are numbered. 

Bring them into conformity 

with the by-law or tear them 

down, was the Public Works 

ultimatum. And it looked as 

though it was really going to be 

game over. 

SCENE TWO: ENTER FISHER 

WITH SOME LOGIC 

The axe it seemed was about to 

fall, but for the umpteenth time 

Gus Fisher refuses to give up. 

His argument was infuriatingly 

simple: if the gas mains are a 

problem for the canopies, he 

said, then move the gas mains 

from under the boulevard to 

nnder the sidewalk or the street. 

A short silence (short in bureaucratic 

terms) while Public Works 

and Consumers Gas regrouped. 

O.K., they said, eventually-, but 

it will cost something over a 

million dollars to relocate the 

mains. If the merchants want to 

pay, that's fine by us. (We're 

now in October-November 1988, 

for those of you wanting to 

know when this will end.) 

Council, as expected 

rejecte




Kensington Market Drum, page eleven 

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Page twelve, Kensington Market Drum 

HOSPITAL WORK GROUP 

SLOW- PROGRESS 


(note: this is a subjective 

account of the meeting written 

by a partiCipant in the process. 

For a more thorough rendering 

you can obtain the official minutes 

by contacting Suzanne 

Pringle in the City Planning 

Department at 392-7740). 

Hospital staff attending the 

October 23 meeting of the 

planning advisory committee 

work group were caught 

between a rock and a hard 

places, and their discomfort 

showed by the eral of the three 

hour meeting. There they were, 

trying to be specific abouttheir 

ten-year plan, which includes all 

kinds of ambitious and expensive 

thinking, knowing that outsi(le 

the room the story was breaking 

that the hospital is cutting beds 

and staff because of its current 

financial crisis. The tension 

heightened throughout the meeting 

as community members 

persisted in trying to get the 

hospital to be specific about 

what it would do with the extra 

300,000+ square feet it wants to 

build on the Western site. Over 

and again Bill Louth, V.P. for 

the hospital talked about "an 

ambulatory care facility" and a 

"comprehensive health organization," 

and over and again committee 

members asked for details 

about what would actually be 

happening in this space. Adding 

• 

to the tension, there are quite a 

few committee members who 

want to get specific concerns 

about the existing hospital 

addressed before beginning the 

task of commenting on the hospital's 

plans for the future. 

These range from annoyance at 

the hospital being a noisy neighbour 

on Nassau Street, to growing 

alarm and consternation 

about the incinerator (see pages 

2 and 9 for articles). 

In any event, the hospital 

finally agreed that at the next 

meeting (No.vember 20) they 

would come prepared to break 

down the general expansion 

figure into a description of the 

health care that would take place 

in that additional300,000 square 

feet. But they also served notice 

that they would not sit around 

indefinitely discussing health 

care with the community. For 

better or worse, the work group 

was set up to look at how the 

hospital's plans will affect the 

neighbourhood, and to reduce 

the negative impact where possible. 

So what seemed to be becoming 

clear by the end of the 

evening is that there is more 

than one forum needed for the 

various matters at issue here. To 

have the long term planning 

work group bogged down in 

present concerns is going to lead 

to the hospital rejecting the work 

group. To have no formal way, 

for the community to action on 

present concerns is going to lead 

to some member of the community 

rejecting the work group. 

The hospital's discomfort at this 

}l_bint probably couldn't be 

greater. They have developed 

the Western site to the last inch 

allowable under their existing 

zoning. So here they are seeking 

a rezoning for the whole site. 

And the city is saying, o.k. spell 

out exactly what you want 

covered by that rezoning, 

because we don't want you 

coming back for one little thing 

after another time after time. If 

truth be told, the hospital would 

probably prefer to shelve the 

whole rez



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Grandmothers 

PAGAN WAY 

by Mary Fish 

She was the wisest, oldest, most 

fearless person in the village. 

Most beloved for her healing 

ways 

All people, even other med-wyfs 

sought her advice. 

What was this fever from? 

How to set that broken bone 

with the least pain? 

Always she could be found. 

Always she was ready to help, 

love, heal, advise, console, 

teach, birth, embrace; celebrate, 

pray, sing, tell stories, dance, 

gather medicine, prepare, anything 

one could need, tirelessly, 

She went on. 

She was the first to be taken. 

If others depended on her testimony 

then none would have 

been. 

The first round of torture was 

ali most could take and yet she 

spoke not. She turned no other 

in.She denied allegiance to their 

God Satan. 

Round two of torture. She nearly 

died from the pain. She was 

very old and had to be revived 

over and over so they could 

continue the torture. But she 

never let the names of the others · 

cross her lips. 

"Name one other" they said 

"and this torture will stop." 

"No other," said she 

"Do you deny Satan is your 

leader?" they demanded. 

"I know no one by that 

name". said she. 

Over and Over. 

She died before her trial. 

Naked on a stone prison floor, 

trying to heal the wounds of the 

woman beside her. The one she 

had not named. The one they 

took anyway for healing.a child 

's fever. 

On and on they killed our 

Grandmothers. For 5 hundred 

years they burned into our hearts 

and minds and souls the hatred 

for the ·~witch". 

Daughters 

She comes home in tears, 

one of many times. 

"Mom, I want to be a christian". 

she says. · 

"Ok, Hon, whatever you 

want to be you can be. May I 

ask you why?" 

"Because my friend's 

mother said I am evil and I am 

going to bum in hell. And so 

will everyone else in my family 

because we're Pagans." 

"I asked my teacher today when 

we are going to learn about the 

Inquisition and she said I will 

have to get that information 

some place else. They aren't 

going to teach it, so my friends 

are going to go on believing I'm 

a bad person. One who has a 

Mom who wears an ugly black 

outfit and an ugly green face. I 

want to be a christian so they 

won't be afraid of me." 

Myself 

I sit beside my lover of ten 

years We have spent hours 

talking about our past story. 

Many nights we've spent this 

way. Discussing the Inquisition 

of our grandmothers and the 

racism of today. My beloved 

was raised an Anglican. We are 

at a silenc.e. Holding hands, side 

by side. Staring off to a window. 

Both deep in thought about 

what we have discussed. 

My partner coughs slightly. 

"Way back in the deepest depths 

of my mind, even with everything 

I know about the truth and 

the lies, I still have this fear that 

I will go to hell for loving you." 

I am not surprised nor hurt 

by this revelation. It is only an 

awareness of the depth of the 

pain, burning and torture of our 

ancestors. I was not raised in 

Christianity or Judiasim. Just 

raised in this society and I, in 

the deepest, darkest depths of 

my mind am afraid I will bum 

in hell (which I don't believe in) 

for being me. 

And there is always the possibility 

that I may be "burned" literally 

in this life as long as the 

inquisition continues. "Satan is 

unknown to me." I will not 

name others and I hope I will 

have the courage of my Grandmothers. 

• • • • • • • • • • • 

From the early 1200's until 

the 1700's there was a destruction 

going on in Europe the likes 

of which had never been encountered 

before. Wimmen and 

men in the millions. were tortured 

and burned, drowned or 

beheaded for living their tribal 

ancient traditional life. The 

burning times were before and 

during the enslavement of African 

peoples and the genocide of 

the 1st Nations of Turtle Island. · 

Today we are aware of 

these destructions of entire 

peoples and many people are 

active to stop the racism, the 

oppression and the unbalance of 

power. There are few people, 

however, who know much about 

the Inquisition. It has been 

relegated to secondary knowledge 

and the victims are 

believeP to be myths. In reality 

the Inquisition was a massive all 

out destruction of the original 

peoples of Europe. Not only 

were all our traditions, culture, 

and hereditary lands destroyed, 

but it was a ~rofitable business 

for the Inquisitors as well, amassing 

unprecedented wealth in 

the hands of a few men. 

We still use pictures of old, 

ugly, "evil" creatures in black to 

depict Witches. Before he died 

Jim\ :ijenson produced a movie 

called "Witches" which had the 

subject been Africans, Ojibway, 

Mohawks, Jews or any other 

culture in our society it would 

have been considered hate propaganda 

and would not likely 

have been made by the people it 

was or would never have gotten 

into the theatres. 

P,.t one point a room full cif 

normal looking wimmin plot to . 

murder all of the children in 

England and they remove their 

hair and skin to reveal horrifying 

and repulsive monsters. And 

yet how many protests have you 

heard. We went to the movie out 

of curiosity never believing for 

a moment Jim Henson could be 

. that gross. Ten minutes into the 

film we walked out and got our 

money refunded. 

Bill Cosby show. One «:laughter 

dreams that her niece is 

evil and a "Witch" · (3 year old 

child) another sister says "You 

know there are no such thing as 

Witches", 

Scadding Court and almost 

everyone else advertises "Rallo-· 

we'en" with a racist image of an 

old, ugly womyn on a broom, 

etc. I practice anti-racism as part 

of my tradition. Institutionalized 

racism affects my children and 

myself at least as much as anyone 

else. Who speaks for me? 

Christmas is deadly. The pressure 

is (as with any non-Christian 

family) tremendous. We live 

·in fear. Our children are embarrassed 

to say who they are, 

afraid someone will find out. 

As the Inquisition of the 

tribal healers spread across 

Europe so did plagues. Wimmin 

would only tr~t their own for 

fear of being foun~ out. 

We don't have access to the 

medical technologies as they are 

an extension of the Inquisition. 

Nor do we have access to in~ 

elusive education. We don't 

receive reeognition as a people 

or a culture in a society where 

we are still feared or consl



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.Kensington ., Ma~ke~ ; Drum, page fifteen 

Update from St. Stephen's Drug Free Arcade 

by Kate Scowen 

.The Drug-Free Arcade is going 

strong in it's second year and 

we have been busy with a variety 

of programs this fall. The 

"Girls Only" group is still meeting 

on Wednesdays from 3:30- 

5:30pm. and we are currently 

organizing the Anti-Drug Logo 

Competition for youth 12 and 

under. Every Thursday night 

(6:30-9:00pm.) is movie night at 

the Arcade for youth 13 to 18. 

Drop by and watch a movie with 

us. 

AIDS Awareness Week has 

just passed and there were a 

varietx of activities held at the 

Arcade. For youth 12 and under 

we held and AIDS workshop 

and a poster competition. For 

youth 13 to 18 we held a workshop 

and information session. 

We also set up information 

booths at two local schools and 

provided workshops for a grade 

7 and a 8 class. We ended AIDS 

Awareness Week with an open 

house at the Arcade on Saturday, 

Oct. 12th which the girls 

group ran. Unfortunately participation 

was low but we will be 

better prepared for next year! 

Drug Awareness Week is almost 

here (November 18th to 22nd) 

and we are already planning our 

activities. On Tuesday the 19th 

we will be holding a modelling 

.. 

clay competition for youth 12 

and under. We will provide the 

clay and will ask the youth to 

create a character . who shows 

what drug abuse can do to your 

body and/or how it can make 

you feel. 

The staff at the Arcade have 

been working on tWo very exciting 

projects, one of which is the 

Young Women's Recreation/Advocacy 

Project. We have sent 

out grant proposals to a variety 

. of funding sources to help us get 

this project off the ground. 

Should funding be made available 

this project will ensure the 

enhancement and expansion of 

young women's social recreational 

programming throughout 

the City of Toronto. It will 

provide educational workshops 

and seminars for both young 

women · and youth workers to 

help them overcome the barriers 

which keep young women from 

participating at their local community/recreation 

centres . (ie. 

safety issues and family responsibilities). 

As well, it will ensure 

the continuation of the Young 

Women's Days which began in 

1991. The second project is a 

Drug/ AIDS game which is 

already under way. Allan is 

developing a focus group of 

youth to design, implement' and 

promote the final product. Ideally'\it 

will be made available to 

educational institutions, community 

centres and even to the 

general public to be used as a 

tool to tackle the fears and 

misconceptions youth hold about 

AIDS and drug abuse. If you are 

13 to 18 years of age and would 

like to be a part of this project 

please call Allan at 920-8980. 

• • • • • • 

OUR HOURS: Monday 

(3:30-5:30pm.) youth 12 and 

under 

Tuesday (3:30-5:30- 

pm.) youth 12 and under 

Tuesday (6:30-9:00- 

pm.) youth 13 to 18 

Wednesday (3:30- 

5:30pm.) GIRLS ONLY ages 13 

to 18 · 

Wednesday (6:30- 

9:00pm.) youth 13 to 18 

Thursday (3:30- 

5:30pm.) youth 12 and under 

· Thursday (6:30- 

. 9:00pm.) youth 13 to 18 

. Friday (3:30-5:30- 

pmJ youth 12 and under 

• • • • • • 

ANTI-DRUG LOGO COMPET 

ITION: We are holding an Anti 

Drug Logo Competition at the 

Arcade. It is open to all youth 

12 and under in the Kensington 

community. We are asking for 

black and white drawings no 

larger than 7 by 7 inches which 

show why we should not abuse 

drugs. For example a youth 

could draw a picture showing 

what they think abusing drugs 

does to a persons body or mind. 

The winning drawing will be 

silk-screened onto t-shirts and 

distributed to all the youth who 

enter the contest. A dance will 

be held sometime in December 

to celebrate the end of the contest. 

Also, a selection of the 

drawings will be published in 

the Kensington Drum. 

• • • • • • 

AFTER SCHOOL SNACK 

PROGRAM: We now provide 

nourishing snacks for our after 

school kids (youth 12 and under) 

from 3:30-5:30pm. on Monday, 

Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. 

Thanks to the support of the 

Daily Bread Food Bank we are 

able to offer a. variety of foods 

which the youth seem to really 

enjoy. If you would like more 

information about this program 

please call Allan or Gundu at 

920-8980. 

• • • • • • 

PART-TlME YOUNG WOMEN'S 

RECREATION WORKER: 10 hours a week to 

organize and implement young women's recreation 

programming at St. Stephen's Community 

.House. Must be available evenings and 

· weekends. Send resumes by November 8th to 

Kate Scowen, 91 Bellevue Ave., Toronto, 

Ontario M5T 2N8 

ST. STEPHEN'S YOUTH 

EMPLOYMENT 

COUNSELLING CENTRE by 

Anita Block 

Now, more than ever before, 

looking for a job by yourself 

with no support can be a frus, 

trating experience - At St. Stephen's 

Youth Employment 

Counselling Centre, we know 

it's tough out there and ·we'll 

give you the help you need. 

That includes providing you with 

a resume, leads on jobs, practice · 

with job interviews, and techniques 

on how to show 

employers you're the one they 

should hire. · 

St. Stephen's Youth Employmen( 

Co'unsellingn C'entre 

was founded in 1982 to meet the 

needs of unemployed youth in 

the Downtown West area of the 

city. This area, 

of course, 

includes Kensington Market. 

- ~very Thursday 

evening is video night 

at St. Stephen's Drug 

Free ·Arcade, 293 

The needs ot young people have 

changed over the last ten years. 

Older youth are having a ha~der 

ime finding and keeping jobs. 

rhe Youth Employment Centre 

·ecognized this so two years ago 

Ne opened our ser¥ices to 

people who are 29 years old or 

under. 

As always, the neighbourhood 

where the Centre is located 

serves as a reception area for 

recent newcomers of all ages, 

from all around the world. The 

Centre has kept up with the 

demand for language-specific 

services, so that community 

members who are seeking work 

or training may benefit from the 

expertise of employment counsellors 

who speak their languages. 

St. Stephen's -Youth 

Employment Counselling Centre 

offers service in English, 

French, Chinese, Vietnamese, 

and most recently, we have 

begun to offer service in two 

East African languages, Amharic 

and Tigrigna. 

If you, or someone you 

know, is under 30, looking for a 

· full-time job, upgrading or 

training, we can help! Call us 

for an appointment at 531-4631. 

The Metro Toronto Association 

for Community Living needs 

people willing to spend a few 

hours a week with a person 

with a developmental disability. 

CONTEST!CONTEST!CONTEST!CONTEST!CONTEST! 

:~ 

7 ,··•..~~ 

:A;·~- ·~ 

Open to Youth ages 12 and under 

• Draw a picture explaining why we should not abuse drugs 

·• All pictures must be in black and white 

• Pictures must be no bigger than 7 by 7 inches 

• Hand it in or mail it to the staff at the Drug-Free Arcade 

The winning picture will be printed on t-shirts 

A dance will be held to announce the winner 

Everyone who hands in a drawing. will get a free t-shirt 

Only the firSt 60 picfureS will be accepted 

$25.00.PRIZE FOR WINNING DESIGN! 

$15.00 PRIZE FOR 2ND PLACE! 

$10.00 PRIZE FOR 3RD PLACE! 

Deadline for entries: November 22nd, 1991 

For more information contact Kate at 920-8980 

St. Stephen's Drug-Free Arcade 

293 Augusta Avenue 

Toronto M5T 2M2 

CONTEST!CONTEST!CONTEST!CONTEST!CONTEST! 

L Call Volunteer Services, 968- . I __,, " jj · 

lb=====;;========rd!:: 0650. [If you find your present school --- · · · · .. 

I t:t:N WHI riNG CLUB. 

-----ll--- - ---;is in need · of an overhaul 

Way of Greater Toronto .nowhere in sight, or you've Just for the fun of it. Two 

is looking for volunteers to help already left, even if you've Saturdays a month. 

answer calls on a recently joined the rank and file, Phone Sanderson Library 

Canadian Guide Dogs for the 

Blind, a non-profit organization 

dedicated to . providing guide 

dogs to visually-impaired 

Canadians, is looking for people 

to foster puppies . for 

approximately 12 months. If 

interested, please call (613) 

692-7777. 

Talented? Energetic? Creative? r· 

Time on your hands? Be a 

volunteer on our Christmas 

production. Call Kensington 

launched information phoneline, s.econdary school credits can 93-7653 for info. J= Carnival 351-8702 

_j" 

1 

directing calls from peoJ?le who be obtained through individ~l- ===:; - := • WE ARE LOOKING for 

need help to the ~ge~ctes that ize4, independent learntng • healthy, normal, yo~~g 

provide 1 t. If you re. mterested contracts. For further A!l new 1992 • Festival of volunt,~rsf.q~;~Jest?'lrc~p_ro)~t 

in helping staff the hne, please information or ~o arrange .an Ltgh.ts :need~ \:··' you. Call on the rel;ttio'nship bptWee~ _dtet 

call the Volunteer ~entre of visit, call Oasts Alternative · ~ensmgton Carntval 351-8702 and .niood.. $80. For more info, 

Metro Toronto at 961-6888, .Secondary School, 707 Dundas 

I call-979-6940. 

weekdays from 9 a,m' t 5 PID· St. W. at Bathurst, Rm. 3, 393- ....:..:..:..:.________ ~~"""""B 

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Page sixteen, Kensington Market Drum November 1991 

Linti!ed Edition Serigraph 

"Batl1ing Geese" 

. TRANSITIONS 

by 

RICK BEAVER 

Grade 8 to Grade 9 

PARENTS AND STUDENTS: 

Come to an information meeting to learn about the secondary 

schools in your area. 

You may attend any of the following sessions: 

King Edward Public School 

, 112 Lippincott Street 

DATE: Tuesday, November 5 

TIME: 7-9 P.M. . 

DATE: 

TIME: 

Annette Public School 

265 Annette Street 

Wednesday, November 6 

7-9 P.M. 

DATE: 

TIME: 

Kent Public School 

980 Dufferin Street 

Thursday, November 7 

7-9 P.M. 

You are welcome to v!sit your local secondary school during 

Transitions Week (November 4-8). Call to arrange a time. 

393-9835 t 

TORONTO BOARD . 

OF EDUCATION 

't! 

" 1\:tthing ( ;ccsc,'' by C:maJian Ojilm:ay ;lJtist Hick Bc:.t\CJ, has 

been specially commissioned by the Toronto Educational 

Opportunity Fund (TEO!·} It is a limited edition handcoltJured 

serigraph (silkscrcen) p rint with additional illu!llination 

applied by the artist's hand during the printing process. 

All proceeds from the s:!le of the serigraph will go into the 

Toronto Education:d Opportunity Fund. TEOF is a registered 

charil:lhlc organization that focuses on health :md nut1jtion in 

city of Toronto clcmcnt:uy schools. E:tch year JJHJrc th:1n 2700 

junior a11d senior kinderg:nten students hen\.-fit fro111 the TFOF 

Nutrition Program. 

To order your copy, call TEOF: tel. (116) 393-1018 

fax (·116) 393--9969 

/ 

I 

. . Jl A workshop on current Steel Band with Harris 

I Films for semors at Palmerston immigration law for Cantonese T dm Lea the Caribbean 

DATES TO WATCH \public library. "East German~; speakers. Saturday 2 pm, b~t. ~~idren~uesdays 4-5:30 

Immigration Law for Chinese. FOR THE CHILDREN I 

------------- West Germany; Yugoslavia November 16 at Sanderson T d adults Tuesdays 

M d 2 

on ay pm, 

N 

ovem 

be 

r 

4 

. · pubhc 

. 

hbrary. 

. pm. eens an , 

8 _ 9 . 30 . at University 

I Ingrid -- a biography of Ingnd L. S tt.l pt mH e 

• u Bergman Monday 2 pm, 

e emen ous . 

I 

Author Reading. Native 

novelist Thomas King, author 

of Medicine River and editor of 

All My Relations will read from 

his work. Thursday 7 pm, 1· 

November 7 at Spadina public 

library . 

Faculty Recital by Music ~ovember 1~. Children of the Music Th~tre with Anne Palmerston public library's 

School Teachers at University Ice; Edge of Ice Monday 2 pm, I Yardley-Lev1tan. Learn to . 20th anniversary! Come and see 

Settlement House. Admission November 25. perform excerpts from your 1 Sheila Ferguson celebrate the 

free, everyone welcome. Friday II l favourite musicals, such as The life and poe. try of Pauline 

November 8 at 7:30pm. · Sound of Music. Ag~ 8-~8, Johnson. Saturday 2 pm, 

II .,. Kathak dance from India with Saturdays, 1-2 pm a:t Umvers1ty November 16. 

]I Joanna Das ... Learn a 2,000 Settlement House. · . . . .cL • Jl 

year-old traditional dance frm, Stories rhymes songs and Top Twenties Dancang With lid. M d 

and keep fit at the same time. s for childre~ 2 to 3 ears Lili Ng. Learn the latest dance Author R~a mg. . au e 

Teens and adults, Saturdays, ~:~;e istration re u~red · movements to music by Paula Barlow, Na~10nal Cha~rpersn 

9·45-10·45 am at University Th dg · 10 Nq be. Abdul Michael Jackson and of the Council of Canadians will 

· · urs ays am ovem rj ' · h b k Tak 

1 Settlement House. 7 14 21 28 at Palm~rston public- others, and keep fit. Ag~s 9-~2, talk about er !lew oo , t" e 1 

II . · · I ·' ' ' Saturdays 12-1 pm at Umverslty Back the Nation -a terna IV~ 

II Russian Evenmg. C.lass1cal and hbri!!:Y_. . Settlement House. and solutions for a Canada m 

traditional folk music from the i Tales for T~os, stones and JL crisis. Tuesday 7pm, November 

region and delicious Russian songs for children 10 to 36 Scadding Co~rt Community 26 at Sanderson public library. 

food. Tickets $10. Friday months. }>lease register. Fridays Centre presents a Co-operative 

November 22 at 7:30 pm at 10:45 am, November After School Program, ages 6 

University Settlement House. 1 1,8,15,22,29 at ' S~derson = to 12, Sept 30 to Dec 15. ForJ'I II 

WRITERS GROUP. An public library. . , more info, includi~g a schedule 11 

j n form a I month I Y il of programs and times, contact I Designers of women's clothing 

h · Poetry short . •I Len Wong or Donna Harrow at or accessories are now being 

II gat .enng. t Call Scadding Court Commumtyl 363-5392. offered a fashion gallery to 

stones, . nre~s, e c. Centre Chinese Outreach! _ display and sell their work as a 

Sanderso~ Library at 393- Project for pre-teens (ages_10:[ , fashion artist. If you are + 

1 ___JL 7653 for InfO. 14 _years). Eleven sessiOns creative and innovative, can 

--..-w· t S I C rt t startmg from Oct 2, Wednes-f produce sophisticated up-to-date 

1 ~ er . easona once a days from 4 to 5:30, free 0 designs, show quality work and 

Umv~rs~ty Settlement House. charge. For info, call Leon Lau 'desire exposure, call (519) 439- 

AdmissiOn free, everyone at 363-5392. 9914 · 

welcome. WednesdayDeceQJber 

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Kensington Market Drum, page seventeen 

'CTION 

STREET STORY 

By Channa Verbian 

At the bustling intersection of Dundas and Y onge, a 

_story is breaking--not the usual headline grabber of child 

abduction, gang fights or drug busts. Just one of those 

small everyday stories about a not-so-ordinary guy. 

Read all about him. For forty-five years Maurice_ (pronounced 

Morris) has been selling News from corner 

stands in downtown Toronto. For the past twenty-eight 

he has been here. 

Dressed in layers to -keep the brisk autumn air 

from cooling the steel plate in his back causing him 

excruciating pain, hi. sits hunched on a .milk crate by his 

blue metal kiosk by the curb. Holding out a gnarled 

hand, stained grey from a lifetime of handling newsprint, 

he collects coins from anonymous passersby. 

"My first job was the south-east corner of Dundas and 

Spadina when it was all Jewish people, now it's all 

Chinese, "he informs me. "This corner will probably be 

my last." 

Tonight his corner by the Eaton Centre seems 

unusually quiet. But it's still early on this All Hallow's 

Eve. Maurice will be safe at home "up north", his 

eleven-and-a-half hour shift finished, by the time 

ghoulish pranksters have taken over the street. And 

that's a good thing-since police began cracking down, 

chasing away the usual backdrop of peddlars, huskers 

and holy-rollers, he no longer feels safe. 

"It sure has changed Ma'am. At one time it was 

so crowded you couldn't walk on the street. I wasn't 

scared. It was bad in one way but good in another. 

There were drug dealers, panhandlers and call. ladies, 

"he says. "All watching over me ." I felt safer then. They 

were bad to themselves but good to me." 

Since they've been gone he's not had any real trouble. 

Sometimes the street kids try to take advantage of him, 

but mostly they come to him for help. 

"I've qelped a lot of kids get off the street, "he 

states proudly. "I tell them to get a job. I send them up 

the street to the Evergreen drop-in." 

But sometimes these kids disappoint him. "I've 

stopped giving them money. They ask for a meal, then 

spend it on drugs. I bought one kid supper with my own 

$3.50. He threw it. in the garbage before my very eyes. 

That really hurts. Next day he came back for more. " 

Perhaps it's his own troubled childhood that 

gives him this soft spot for kids. Moving his stubbled 

face close, he releases an eerie laugh from -the dark 

canyon of his toothless mouth, then reflects on his day. 

"Today I went for my birth certificate. I will be sixtyfive 

on March 31. When the lady asked for my mother's 

maiden name, I had to say I don't know." Again he 

laughs, this time it sounds more like a baby's anguished 

cry. 

ETCETERA For information about United 11 

I Way and its agencies' services, 

0 L D P H 0 T 0 S 0 F call the new infoline, 360- 

KENSINGTON wanted for 

before/after photo essay on the 

UWAY. Callers can also be 

connected directly to a special 

Market. Inquire at 367-4017 donation hotline for making J 

David 

their 1991 campaign pledge. 

~"" 

by B. Glenn 

by Kate Burt McNeil 

* 

• 

** 

**** 

Kate's Place 

You're invited 

to another Kate's Place 

featuring-the Norm Amadio Trio 

& Kate's special ·guest Ed Bickert 

Sunday December 15 

Bpm-12 

Suggested donation $10. 00 

(beverages included) 

276 AUGUSTA A VENUE 

(Kensington Place will be back December 12) 

· Centre 276 is many things 

Kensington Market's latest 

·venture is many things to differ- . 

ent people. Centre 276 houses 

the DRUM, which you are now 

reading, a retail space. The 

Southern Africa Support and 

Information Centre (SASIC) and 

ESL and Citizenship classes 

. for adults. Please ask for details 

at Sanderson public library. 

A chance to pat a python! 1 

Special guest Paul Houston and II 

his python, who starred in I 

Friday the 13th on TV. II 

Saturday 11 am, November 9 at 

Bloor and Gladstone public 

library. 

One World rehearsal studio. 

The Centre is located on .the 

west side of Augusta between 

Oxford and College Streets and 

will have been in operation for 

almost 2 months by the time this 

edition is published. 

The retail space is an outlet 

for crafts created by the African 

people of South Africa (Azania) 

as well as local artisans. Funds 

generated by the sale of goods 

from Azania are returned to 

them as part of a-program called 

Operation Hunger. 

According to the New State 

of the World Atlas (Simon and 

Schuster) black Azanians daily 

food requirements are undersupplied 

by -2.5% while Canadians 

enjoy a 25% surplus. 

One World rehearsal studio 

(also located in the Centre) is 

equipped for band practice, 

dance classes, drumming or as a 

meeting place. / 

Photocopy, fax, and desktop 

publishing services are also 

available. 

African culture is reflected 

throughout the space from the 

paintings on the wall by artists 

Paul Forrester and Mac Eteli to 

the sounds of the musical groups 

Siyakha and Diliza. 

Inspired by Shakes Noto, 

who started a similar centre in 

Amsterdam, three men - Maisela 

Kekana, David Perlman 

and John Stollmeyer - started 

Centre 276 hoping that is can 

play a vital role in the Kensington 

community. 

. If you want more inforination 

on South Africa or ever 

wondered how you can assist in 

a people's struggle against an 

inhuman regime please stop by 

276 Augusta or call 966-4059. 

I 

One Occasionally regular Jazz 

, Nite every month or so. Remember to put corrugated 

Sundays. Semi-open stage. cardboard out with your blue 

Spm-12. Interested in playing box, just flatten and bundle 

along? contact Kate 340-6312. it. Also, if you take your blue 

__ 

Chinese Film. Marvelously fast 

box out only when full, there's 

more attention paid to each 

juvenile delinquents, a pick-up. Questions? Call the 

Mandarin Chinese film with Depart!Dent of Public Works ' 

English sub-titles. Thursday 

6:30 pm, November 21 at 

and the Environment, 392-7742. 

Sanderson public library.



Page eighteen, ·Kensington Market Drum 

University Settlement 

Music School 

23 Grange Road, 598-3444 

FACULTY RECITAL~ BY 

MUSIC SCHOOL TEACHERS 

Friday November 8 at 7.30pm 

• Martin Humphrey--piano 

• Anne Yardley-Lev~tan--soprano 

• Bob La Possie--piano 

• Michael Do~nie--jlute 

Baroque, Romantic, and Modern music 

by a variety of composers including 

Bach, Chopin, ~iszt, -and Barber 

• Refreshments 

•Admission free, everyone welcome 

Russian Evening 

with music and food 

Friday November 22, 7 .30pm 

A night in-old Russia! 

Music by Tchaikowsky, Rachmaninov, 

Prokofiev, and others. 

Traditional folk music from the region, 

including Eastern Europe 

Delicious home-made Russian food 

Tickets $10 

a fun evening 

and support your music school 

(Russian dress optional) 

MUSIC SCHOOL STUDENT RECITAL 

Wednesday December 11· at 7.30pm 

Mid-Winter Concert and Party 

• A selection of music by our 

students. Choirs will sing some 

seasonal songs. 

• Refreshments 

•Admission free, everyone welcome 

/ 

\ ' 

OPEN 

STAGE 

by Colin Puffer 

Tiffany's Open Stage 

AI Cromwell is back hosting an 

open stage in the ~arket. Tiffany's, 

is a pretty small place 

and it would be a shame to 

destroy the intimacy of the 

Friday and Saturday night open · 

stages by having too many 

people turn up and make the 

place into a rowdy Market 

venue. As it is you can actually 

make out lyrics and hear some 

of the subtleties in the music that 

is played. So don't tell too many 

people about it. Keep it a Mar- 

ket secret. - 

Centre 276 

Tired of hearing sensitive singer 

songwriters? Bored with country 

covers? How about an open 

stage South African style? 

Hosted by the band Diliia, the 

- evening is more of a jam than an 

open stage. It's sort of a do it 

yourself party. The Centre 

provides a good sound system, 

drums and various implements 

of percussion (did you catch that 

H?). So bring a guitar, sitar, 

kalimba, or jew's harp and join 

in. It happens every Friday 

night. 

486·DRUG 

If you or someone you care 

about has a drug or alcohol 

problem, help is close by. 

Just call, free of charge. 

We're here for you, 24 hours 

a day, every day of the year, 

with confidenti,ll, personal 

· help. 

® 

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Thur, Nov 7- Joseph Maviglia 

at the Free Times 

Fri, Nov 8 - Cate Freisen - The 

Traditions Room 

Fri, Nov 8 - Ken Whiteley - 

The Free Times 

Sat. Nov 9 - fundraising dance 

party for the matriphiles. at the 

Cameron. Denise Benson DJ. 

Sat. Nov 9 -Imagine Rainbow 

Warriors - the Greeks 

Sun, Nov 10- David Parry and' 

Ian Robb at the Flying Cloud 

Folk Club, 292 Brunswick 

Thur, Nov 14 - Ani DiFranco 

w/Cate Friesen at Ultrasound, 

269 Queen W. 

-November 1991 

MUSIC 

NOTES 

Thur, Nov 14- Angels of Montenegro 

at Clintons, 693 Bloor 

w. 

Moo, Nov 15 - Bob Snider at 

the Free Times 

Thur, Nov 28 - Battlefield 

Band, one of Scotland's best 

trad bands, at the Spectrum 

Every Thursday - John T. 

Davis and Jim Heineman at the 

Greeks 

Every Fri - Open Stage at 276 

Augusta - til late 

Every Fri and Sat - AI 

Cromwell hosts an open stage at 

Tiffany's, 256 Augusta 

THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS 

ACCORDING TO ERIC LAYMAN 

Did you know 

that if you piled all the sugar cubes in the world, 

one on top of the' other, 

and the Chinese built a bridge across Bering Straits, 

and started marching, 

by the time all the hippopatami in Africa, 

laid side by side, 

had sold short the next ten years's futures in hog 

bellies, . 

there'd be enough wooden matches, 

laid end to end. 

(with a lifetime subscription to the National 

Geographic, 

starting at the world's largest advertising agency) 

to tie a ten-centimetre firehose 

four times round the moon, 

and keep all the lightbulbs in Ponoka 

equipped wit}l enough cornflakes 

to power all the automobiles in France, Wes 

Germany and the USA 

with a year's supply of hotdogs 

to stuff the world's Kleenex reserves 

into the mouths of all the liars in the world? 

He Is Something 

He is something from another time 

A n antique . ... 

A ntlqmty. .. ? 

Hopeless, Homeless 

Aimless ... Nameless- But we have names 

With cheerful phrases said to some 

Like "Get a job you fucking bum" 

Sad eyes slouching in a painted alley 

Eric Layman 

HELP AT HAND 

HOUSEKEEPER for Hire. 

Reliable, Responsible, Really 

Cute. Call 864-0185 Ask for 

Nancy. 

Stereo and 'Hi Fi Service, 

repair and recycle rather than 

replace. Call the experts at 

Wringling Audio Service, 364- 

5738. 

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Invitation for Francophone 

Women. Do you feel isolated in 

.Toronto? Would you like to 

- I 

Pump it up! Weight training at 

Scadding (18 and older) Mon. 

Wed. Fri. $20. Contact 

Herman Ellis at 363-5392 for 

Korean ESL classes, Monday 

Thursday 11:30-1:30 pm, 

November 4-29 at Palmerston 

library. ! 

Eurythmics with David Frego. 

Through Emile Jacques 

Dalcroze's pioneering method 

learn to' understand musical 

experience by relating it to 

.. time, space, and energy. Teens 

and adults, Thursdays 7:30-9 

pm, Oct 3 - ,Nov 14 at 

University Settlement House. 

He is something outside time 

Beyond the bustle of routine 

Beyond Hopes, Careers ... Dreams 

A stone outside the daily mottle 

He hides inside his empty bottle 

And waits until the day is done 

H~ is something ... No longer someone 

meet other Francophone ll J Richard Leggatt 

women? To make friends? To . PROBLEMS WITH DRUGS 1- ---- - ----- - - --- --- --- - 

chat, exchange ideas? Or form OR ALCOHOL? You or __ __ ------·-·- ...... 

a support group? Come and join - someone you care about. Call 

High Quality Child Care. 

us. For more info, call Marie- the · DRUG HELPLINE. George - Brown Cllege has 

Josee at 922_-2276 or . the Trained volunteers. Support, spaces available for mfants to 9 

~rancophone distress and mfo info abt. community resources. year olds at several downtown 

hgne, S.O.S. Femmes at 323- - Friendly listening ear. Free, locations. Call 944-4545 for 

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November- 1991 

Kensington Market Drum, page nineteen 

Of Note 


Since we had to print an apology 

to the matriphiles for spelling 

their name with a capital M, we 

figured we may as well continue 

in the same mode and rave on 

about this band. After an extensive 

series of gigs around 

Toronto the matriphiles are 

taking some time off to work on 

a new recording, a 10 song 

offering this time. , 

The matriphiles have 

already released an indie cassette 

entitled momolith. Though it 

lacks the power of their live 

shows it is a pretty good reflection 

of the group's individual 

talents and strong song writing. 

Party Time 

A couple of months ago The 

DRUM. reported on a robbery 

that relieved the matriphiles of 

the bulk of their equipment. 

They are still recovering from 

this loss. On Saturday, Novem-· 

ber 9, CKLN' s Denise Benson 

will DJ a party at the Cameron 

from 10:30 until 2:00 am. Proceeds 

from the party will go 

toward helping replace the band 

's equipment. The first 25 

people to arrive get a free catburglar 

mask. Sounds too good 

to miss. 

Ani DiFranco: 

A Preview . 

Every now and then there 

appears an artist who blows 

people away. Critics search their 

thesauruses for suitable superlatives 

and the public ignores all 

those wonderful things the 

critics have to say and falls in 

love with the performer anyway. 

Ani DiFranco is one of these 

performers. 

DiFranco is probably unfamiliar 

to people who didn't 

attend this year's Mariposa. And 

although she was an unknown at 

the beginning of the Festival, by 

the finish of the weekend she 

ended up selling more product 

than any other performers at the 

Festival, John Prine, Los Lobos 

and Jane Siberry not excepted. 

Her manager was pven forced to 

phone back to Buffalo for a 

emergency shipment of more 

tapes. (It may be hard for a 

Torontonian to believe that 

someone this good is from Buffalo 

but indeed she is). 

Many of DiFranco's songs 

are what could loosely be 

termed "relationship songs". But 

they're not the type of tunes that 

you'd hear Madonna singing. 

She looks at her relationships 

(and herselt) through very criti 

.cal and analytical eyes. 

Most of today's songwriters 

have abandoned consciously 

poetic lyrics, preferring a 

straight-ahead, street-level 

approach. Ani's songs are often 

poetry set to music, and sometimes 

just poetry without the 

music. Be not afraid. Certairily 

there are some embarrassingly 

twee lyrics written in the name 

of poetry but DiFranco isn't this 

type of writer. Her lyrics, combined 

with a strong sense of· 

rhythm and a wonderful gift for 

melody make her one of the 

most promising new performers 

on the scene today. 

Ani DiFranco will be appearing 

at the Ultrasound Showbar 

on Thursday, November 14, 

with Cate Friesen opening. This 

is an absolute must see concert. 

Ani DiFranco 

Live at The Greeks 

After . a . couple of musically 

rather slow months the Market's 

favourite nightclub is back with 

a stronger lineup than· ever. 

During the past month Johnny 

has played host to Lori Yates 

with Strum and Twang, Jim 

Heineman and John T. Davis, 

the blues guitar stylings of Ernest 

Lee and the Cotton Tractor 

as well as regulars such as AI 

Cromwell, Ted Rush, the Foggy 

Mountain Deadboys and Andy 

Carruthers and the Others. 

Some of the above mentioned 

new faces are returning 

. for regular gigs at the Greeks. 

Jim Heineman and John T., long 

time favourites at the Rex, will 

be performing regularly on 

Thursday evenings. These two 

superb musicians play a very 

accessible jazz - the type of jazz 

you can sing along with. Well, 

almost. 

Steve Hall and Imagine 

Rainbow Warriors is in for one 

night only on. Saturday, November 

9. As for the rest of the 

Greeks programming? Check it 

out. There's music happening 

almost every night. And when 

there's no music, you can just. 

soak up the atmosphere. , 

Correction 

In last month's review of The 

Angels of Montenegro, a typographical 

error misspelled Darcy 

McFayden's name. ·· We apologize 

for that error. 

Mu$ic Notes and Open Stage 

are on page 18 

MARIPOSA presents . • . 

'the Gordon Lightfoot of the Prairies' ~ 

JAMES KEELAGHAN TRIO 

with special guest Doug Feaver 

This Saturday, Nov 2, 8:30pm door 

Ultrasound Show bar, 269 Queen W 

adv tickets $12.50, call 778-9063 (Visa/MC) 

England's Finest Folksinger 

JUNE TABOR 

with special guest Carole LeClair 

This Sunday, Nov 3, 7:30pm door 

Flying Cloud, 292 Brunswick Ave, $1 5 

The No. 1 hit at Mariposa Festival '91 

ANI DIFRANCO 

with special guest Cate Friesen 

Thursday, November 14, 8:30pm door 

Ultrasound Showbar, 269 Queen St W. 

adv tickets $10, call 778-9063 (Visa/MC) 

Celebrate St Andrew's Day with Scotland's Finest 

THE BATTLEFIELD BAND 

with special guest Bobby Watt 

Thursday, November 28, 8pm door 

The Spectrum, 2714 Danforth Ave 

adv tickets $14.75, call 778-9063 (Visa/MC) 

TICKET OUTLETS: BACK BEAT, 132 DUNDAS EAST . 

THE COUNTRY MUSIC STORE, 2889 DANFORTH AVE 

Stuck? Want to play. 

& rehearse music? 

We have the right 

place for you ... 

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: Rehearsal Space 

• Available 

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($10 an hour plus $2 for amps) 

CALL 

Centre 276 


Heart of Kensington Market 

(416) 966-4059 

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Saturday, November 9th :« 

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Proceeds will go towards recovering over $8,000 !NOrth of band 

equipment stolen from The Matriphiles and Random Order 

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Open Stage 

Friday Night 

8pm- Late Night· 


In The Heart of Kensington Market 

D9nation: $2.00 

Info: 966-4059 

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WANTED IMMEDIATELY 

Writers, cartoonists, 

5 honest, reliable 

II 

photographers: DRUM has 

persons for street sales 

assignments if you have time 

HELP WANTED 

NEVER RUN SHEER MAGIC 

10.30pm--1 .OOam and will. Phone 363-DRUM: 

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PANTYHOSE--absolutely 

SUN.-FRI. nights 

ask for David. Or visit us at 

II 

our Centre (276 Augusta). 

guaranteed not to run. 

(6 nights a week) selling ~ Ground floor business_ 

THE Globe & Mail Metro Toronto Association · opportunity. Orders _ byearly 

edition for Community Living: people DRUM needs carriers BABYSITTER WANTED - appointment only: 41 6-781- 

Excellent commission! to volunteer a few hours per (volunteers), people to h~lp occasional evenings, our home 2307 and leave message. 

Call page 381-7297. week with someone who has staff our office (Centre 276). (College and Spadina), excellent 

a developmental disability. Call 363-DRUM. pay. Call 971-6281. 

Phone 968-0650. 

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It occurred to me while walking 

through the market that beyond 

all these store fronts you'll fmd 

what really makes Kensington 

interesting aside from what is 

sold and that's the merchants. 

This is obvious enough but what 

is more interesting is getting to 

know the stories of the merchants 

who serve the market 

shoppers.In this and future 

editions of DRUM we will bring 

you the stories behind the faces. 

Seemingly unaffected by the 

chaos of the world that surrounds 

here in the depths of 

_ Kensington Market located a 206 

Baldwin Street on the north side 

near Augusta A venue is a neat 

little kosher meat market that 

remains and reminds of a simper 

time. "Max and Son Meat Market" 

This is the only kosher meat 

market existing in Kensington 

today.(Jack's poultry, down the 

street is the only other). Herein 

you'll find 6 days a week a 

pleasant fellow named Solly 

Stem; butcher, a son of a 

butcher as the sign on the window 

says. Solly's father Max, 

who passed- away three years 

ago, came to Canada from 

Warsaw Poland in 1949. He 

operated a restaurant just north 

of Kensington on College Street 

(Morris' Restaurant) before 

running a fruit market into a 

meat market on· Baldwin Street 

in 1955. Max ran the meat 

market wttb his wite and 15 

year old son Solly who helped 

out after school. Solly attended 

Central Technical School. 

Helping out at the meat 

market included delivering by 

bike to mostly Jewish clientele 

as far north as St. Clair A venue. 

by Robert Boucher 

When Solly got his driver's 

license deliveries were made 

with the family . car. Solly 

became a partner to his father 

20 years ago and 13 years ago 

took over full operation of the 

shop. Today this son of a 

butcher runs his shop with 

Ellen, his wife of 30 years. 

(Today, October 29, the day of 

this interview, is as a matter of 

fact their anniversary. Solly and 

Ellen have two daughters and 

one son between the ages of 23 

to 28. The "kids" have no desire 

to join mom and dad in the 

family business so Solly says of 

the future he plans to expand but 

will retire someday "if they 

don't bury me first" . 

Solly who strives for_ only 

the best quality of meats for his 

customers can be found at suppliers 

every morning at 6 am 6 

days a week. Personally selecting 

what he will sell. Asked for 

his motto he states that he " 

wouldn't sell it if I could not 

take it home and eat it myself" . 

He closes the shop every February 

and usually heads south. 

·Customers today are a vast mix 

of cultural backgrounds as you 

might imagine. Many customers . 

have been buying their meat at 

Max and Son's for as long as 

they remember. If Solly doesn't 

know the customer's name he 

knows what the customer wants. 

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Blue Mountain 

Consulting 

253 College, #208, 

235-9959 

IBM and clone 

computers, 

diagnostic, software, 

and repair 

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 

Tonny Louie, broker. 

Front Row Video 

Centre 

400 College, 

927-1702 

Great selection; great 

popcorn. 

K F Editorial 

24 Bellevue, . 599-3786 

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Lazerline Desktop ,/ 

Publishing & Design 

Inc. 

317 College, 

924-8726 

Fax 924-3826 

Newcon:ter'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! 

Spadina Retail Po·st 

Outlet 

576-578 Dundas, 

593-8885 

Full service retail 

postal outlet. 

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Chinese Vegetarian 

House 

39 Baldwin, 599-6855 

Baldwin at McCaul 

Friendly place, fine 

fresh food 

Chiu Yuen Dim Sum 

Restaurant 

2A Kensington, 

598-.1573 

Dim Sum and Cantonese 

Dinners 

Open Sam to 3am. LLBO 

and Patio 

The Greeks (LLBO) 

197 1/2 Baldwin, 

597-8771 

Greek and Canadian 

Food. 

The Original Special 

Coffee. 

Grossman's Tavern 

379 Spadina, 

977-7000 

Neighbourhood Bar. 

Nightly Entertainment. 

Kensington Cafe 73 

73 Kensington, 

971-5132 

Good Taste, Best View, 

Very Local Deliveries. , 

Kensington Patty 

Palace 

172 Baldwin, 

596-6667 

Best Jamaican Beef 

Patty. 

Kwangtung Dim Sum 

Restaurant 

10 ' Kensington, 

977-5165 

Luncheon Special, LLBO. 

La Gaffe on Baldwin 

24 Baldwin (E. of 

Spadina), 596-2397. 

Same hours as 

Kensington La Gaffe. 

No Sunday. 

Last Temptation 


599-2551 

Sinful Food, Tempting 

Times, Live Music. 

Rice Noodles, no 

preservatives. 

The Second Cup 

181 Baldwin, 

597-8398 

The Second Cup 

340 College, 

323-3702 

Tired of the same old 

grind? 

Try ours. 

Silver Dollar 

484 Spadina, 

925-8832 

Music most evenings. 

Reggae, jazz, rock and 

blues. 

Spadi11a Cafe 

401 Spadina, 

340-6383 

A Pleasant Change. 

A Little of the Continent 

in Chinatown. 

Le Uyen 

56C Kensington, 

59.~/3328 

Authentic Vietnamese 

Food, LLBO 

Major cards, Karaoke 

after 8pm. 

Mars Food 

432 College, 

921' -6332 

Out Of This World 

Massimo's 

302 College, 

967-0527 

Sit down, Pick-up, and 

Delivery 

Pizza and Pasta Heaven 

Peter's Chungking 

Restaurant f;.(,t4 

281 College, 

928-2926 

Szechuan, Mandarin, 

and Hunan dishe.s 

Toronto's best! Fully 

Licensed. 

Spadina Garden 

Restauran.t 

416 Spadiria, 

598-2734 

Szechuan-Hunan & 

Peking Cuisine 

Fully licensed, LLBO. 

Spadina Garden 

Restaurant 

116 Dundas West, 

977-3413/4 

Szechuan-Hunan & 

Peking Cuisine 

Fully licensed, LLBO: 



e FASHION 

Alter Natives 

30 St Andrew, 

593-6891 

Where Elvis shops. 

Get it while it lasts. 

Asy.lum 

42 Kensington, . 

595-7199 

Style Sanctuary of the 

Stars. 

Caza National 

200 & 224 ·Augusta, 

596-6417 

Clothes For The Whole 

Family. 

Choice of Champions 

44 Kensington Ave. 

Vintage Clothing. 

That's it. 

Courage My · Love 


979-1992 

Dancin'g Days 


599-9827 

New & Vintage; 

Exclusive designers; 

Asia, Africa, Central 

America. 

Exile 

34b St Andrew, 

596-0827 

As Usual The Unusual 

Expose 


971-8815 

Vintage, Leather 

Jackets, 

and Pretty Eyelet 

Originals! 

Fairland Bargain 

Centre 

241 Augusta, 

593-9750 

Kensington's Largest 

Quality Discount 

Clothing Store 

Get Dressed 


977-2930 

Fine and Refined Finds. 

Vintage and More. 

Jaggs 

16 Kensington Class 

Rags for Scallywags 

London N.Y. Paris 

Kensington. 

Noise 


971-64 79. 

Pineapple Room 

2 Kensington, 

340-7859 

Vintage Clothing 

& Accessories 

Razzmattazz 

14 St. Andrew 

Vintage Sparkle, 

Pizzazz, Jazz. 

Wear It! Share It! 

Screenplay 

9 Kensington, 

593-9260 

Lingerie, Cotton Lycra, 

Fabric, 

Suit Jackets, Vintage, I 

and more. 

Shoney's 

Recycled Clothing . 

206 Augusta, 

979-0-700 

Lowest Prices. 

Best Selection iri 

Second Hand. 

Timbuktu 


971-8815 

International Design 

Located in Kensington. 

Tom's Place 

190 Baldwin, 

596-0297 

Brand name clothes 

At kensington Prices. 

• 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 differenC 

More fish ·for your $. 

Saigon Fish Market 

186 Baldwin 

When It Comes To Fresh 

Fish, 

We Speak Your 

Language. 

Seven Seas Fish 

Market 

196 Baldwin 

Fresh Food and Seafood 

From Around the World. 

e FOOD STORES 

Augusta Fruit 

Market 

255 Augusta, 

593-9754 

Fruit and vegetables 

fresh daily-groceries. 

Barraca das 

Frutas/Rosz ler 

Fruits 

186 Augusta, 

593-9709 

Fruit and Vegetables. 

Casa Acoreana 

235 Augusta, 

593-9717 

Nuts Make The World Go 

Around. 

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Cheese Magic 

149 Baldwin, 

593-9531 

The Neighbourh,aod's 

Favourite Cheese Shop. 

Caribbean Corner 


593-0008 

Fresh tropical foods 

Select Imported · 

Groceries. 

Castle Fruit 


593-9262 

Market's Best Produce. 

Essence Natural 

Foods 

56D Kensington, 

596-2176 

Serious Health Food. 

Fibre. 

(Coffee, Ice Cream, 

Spice ... ) 

Farmer Bob's 

Tropical Harvest 


583-9279 

The Market's ltal Shop. 

Nice Spice. 

Fong On Foods 


598-7828 

Bean Cake, Soy Milk, 

Fresh . . 

Flying Monkey 

Natural Foods 

314 College, 

968-1515 

Open 7 days a weekfrom 

bulk food to 

crystals. 

Great Horse 

Natura I 

Foods 'n Things 

378 College, 

964-1805 

Organic meats, tofu, 

natural cosmetics, etc. 

House of Spice 

Importers 

190 Augusta, 

594-8724 

or 182 Baldwin, 

593-9804 

Spice, Coffee, Fruits, 

Nuts. 

International Food 

Market 


596-6637 

Fresh Fruit and 

Vegetables 

Retail and Wholesale. 

Kensington Fruit 

Market 

34 St Andrew, 

593-9530 

Fruits, vegetables, 

aloes too!! 

Freshness, a family 

business. 

Melo's Food Centre 

151 Augusta, 

596-8344 

Portuguese Style 

Sausages 

Import and Export. 

Perala's 

. Supermarket 

247 Augusta, 

593-9728 

All kinds of groceries 

from South and Central 

America. 

Rebelo's 


593-2784 

The Market's 

Supermarket 

Juice Bar Too. 

Sanci Tropical 


593-9625 

Freshest Herbs, 

Avocadoes, Mangoes, 

Exotica, Since 1914. 

Tutti Frutti 


593-9281 

Chinese & European 

Foods, 

Under New 

Management. 

, Coffee, Cheese, 

Chocolate. 

• 

and HOME 

CAAM United 

Hardware 

160 ALgusta & 564 

Dundas 

598-8195 or 

596-8098 

Two Locations! 

Judy · Florist 

374 College, 

920-2177 

Special Flowers for 

Special i)eople. 

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. 

Reingewirtz Paint 

Stores Ltd. 

107 Baldwin, 

977-3502 

Paints, varnishes . and 

imported wallpapers. 

e RESTAURANTS 

and ENTERTAINMENT 

Ace Pizza 

272 Augusta, 

961-2020 

2 for 1 

Great Slices 

The Boat 

158 Aug usia, 

593-9218 

International Cuisine 

Specializing in 

Portuguese Food

#9107 - Nov 1991

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