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Digital Archiving Completed by the Ethnography Lab, A University of Toronto Anthropology Initiative and Produced in Collaboration with David Perlman/Wholenote Media Inc between July-December 2015. Page six, Kensington Market Drum December 12 1991 . ----ti .KENSINGTON ENVIRONMENTAL t-1 -- Parking My Bike by Martin Smith I Every gasoline motor vehicle emits tons of; carbon'' dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, , lead, benzene and ethylene.- These emissions not only contribute to smog, acid rain and global warming, but poor health for urban residents. The mix of gases resulting from cars and trucks cause great stress on peoples' respiratory system, (especially children are vulnerable). Plenty of people will say, "there's too much traffic." in Kensington Market, but few are ready to tackle the immense task of reducing traffic. ( Now, make me a liar! ) Only one of the traffic problems is, " Where can I park my bike?" The side walks are full of pedestrians and merchandise. The streets are full of cars and trucks. The only store I know of whic~ provides a bike stand is Courage My Love. There are only some post and ring style bike stands on Baldwin, across from George Brown College; in front of the parking garage. Even th~ park at Augusta and Wales doesn't have any bike stands. So every gas main,(a definite no no) and patio railing, and even clothes racks, b~come instant · bike lock ups. It's to everyone's credit that merchants don't complain much about where people lock their bikes, but why not look for some real solutions. NUCLEAR UPDATE The Toronto cycling· committee runs the bike stand installation program at present, but recently City Council approved a plan to transfer the bike stand program to the Department of Public Works and the Environment. Daniel Egan at the Toronto Cycling Committee, is making a priority list of streets and blocks which should get bike stands, and said he'd be happy to work with residents, and ·merchants to sight possible locations for bike stands in The Market. He said that ten bike stands could fill the space of one parked car if bike stands were placed on the street in some blocks, but the question of snow . removal and garbage pick up comes to mind. Public works plans to install500 post and ring stands in 1992, and request have been taking about one year to be filled. Any property owners or .residents who want to request a bike stand should call the Toronto Cycling Committee and ask for an application to be mailed. If some of you would like to form a committee to· meet with public works and consider a Market wide bike _stand project, just let DRUM know. We'll make a list and schedule the meeting. THINK SPRING! THINK GREEN! THINK CLEAN AIR! Phone 392-7592 to request a bike stand application form. INDUSTRY * General Electric makes; light bulbs, Hot Point appliances, RCA products, NBC television and U.S. Nuclear Weapons. (also CANDU reactor components and reactor fuel assembly parts) An international consumer boycott of GE, Hot Point, RCA products is under way, in protest of GE's nuclear weapons work. Now the GE boycott committee is forming in toronto. The boycott committee is collecting signatures from consumes, and showing a video tape calle d "DEADLY DECEPTION" To groups in Toronto. You can support the boycott by; 1. Not buying GE, Hot Point, and RCA products. 2. Writing to the CEO of GE and telling him of your decision. 3. Ask the boycott committee to MSR 2R4 show the video to your group. Write To: John F. Welch CEO of General Electric Co·. c/o GE Canada Inc. corporate offices 2300 Meadowvale Blvd. Mississauga, Ontario for Info: GE Boycott Committee c/o Act for Disarmament 736 Bathurst St. Toronto, Ontario ' Patio railings and clothes racks .. .instant bike locks This holiday season ... Give the gift of peace! What better gift than a donation to the local peace movement? ACT for Disarmament has been working to build peace within the community and the world for nine years, and has just launched a new campaign - Peace Action '92 - for our 1Oth anniversary year. ACT will be working to support the lnnu of Nitassinan, help end wars in East Timor and Yugoslavia, oppose violence against women, boycott General Electric, and free all prisoners for peace. But peace needs you~ support. Won't you help us with a donation this year? Together, we can make a difference. A donation of $10 or more gets a subscription to our monthly peace newspaper, The ACTivist. $50 or more gets you a free copy of Our Generation Against Nuclear War, a collection of peacefui writings from Our Generation magazine in Montreal. Send to: ACT for Disarmament, 736 Bathurst St., Toronto, M5S 2R4. Phone 531-6154. Name ________________________________ Address ________________________________ ____________ Postal Code __________ Phone Donation---·'--! ____ E :::> 0 (/) Q) > :.:::i t Q) .D 0 0: 0 +-' 0 .r: c. '·
Digital Archiving Completed by the Ethnography Lab, A University of Toronto Anthropology Initiative and Produced in Collaboration with David Perlman/Wholenote Media Inc between July-December 2015. December 1 2 . 1991 lnVIRON• MENTAL! SCAT CABARET Returns (DECEMBER, 12 AND 19 -for starters) DRUM Staff Scadding Court and Mixed Company's very popular SCAT cabaret will be back for another season. Held in the foyer of Scadding Court, so open to all, the Thursday evening series blends music, drama, drums--a bit of the best of everything. It kicks off December 12 and 19- special holiday concerts--then returns for a full season in the spring. If last year is any indication, some very good times will be had by all. $250 prize for TON logo design DRUM Staff Toronto Disarmament Network is running a logo competition with a prize of $250. They are , seeking a fresh, new look which reflects the scope of the Toronto Disarmament Network (TDN) and what they represent. What is the TD N? The TDN is a non-profit coalition of peace groups and individuals throughout Greater Metropolitan Toronto. The focus of their work is world peace. "Disarmament is one aspect of peace work. Other important issues that we address are violence in our streets; violence against women, racism, environmental and other social issues .... Our ideal logo would be bright, inviting and simple .. It would express the hopes and aspirations that 'we have for the future of our world." Deadline for submissions is Friday, January 17, 1992. The · jury will · be made up of professional graphic artists, instruc- __ tors and a TDN representative. There will be a showing of all submissions at a Toronto gallery, with a winner announced by the end of January. All submissions must be well labelled, including name, address, telephone and school. Once all designs have been submitted, notice will be given regarding time and place .of showing. Submit designs to: Toronto Disarmament Network, 555 Bloor Street West, Toronto M5S 1Y6 or phone 535-8005. Stereo and Hi Fi Service, repair and recycle rather than replace. Call the expE!rts at Wringling Audio Service, 364-5738, 555 Queen West. CHILDREN OF ORDE STREET SCHOOL AND THE PROPOSED RELOCATION OF THE PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL The Ontario Municipal Board Decision The Ontario Municipaf Board (OMB) conditionally approved the relocation of the Princess Marg~et Hospital to 610- 620 University Avenue. The site is lodted diagonally across the street from Orde Street Junior Public School. The site includes a small parkette and two historical buildings that formerly were the headquarters of Ontario Hydro. The approval was given in a decision released on August 20, 1991 some two months following almost three weeks of OMB hearings into the proposed relocation. The hearings concluded in mid lune. The conditions of approval stipulated that the facade of the historical buildings on the site would be retained and that the Toronto -"City Council, by resolution, commits itself to the establishment of public green space" to replace the parkette that would be lost to the community in the proposed relocation of the hospital to this site. The Board's twenty page decision is a litany of reasons of why the hospital does not belong on this site adjacent to Orde Street School. The Board acknowledged through its decision "that the local community" and most importantly, the children, have "indeed been asked to sacrifice too much even for such a humanitarian reason" for the hospital's proposed relocation to this site. The Board further .acknowledged that the -community and the children will be "asked to absorb quite a severe impact", and that the safety of the children will be reduced as an increase in traffic is, ~d using the Board's own words, "a mathematical certainty". The Board recognized that the children will suffer. It recognized that their environment will be degraded and there will be a loss of open space for the children. Despite these reasons, the Board approved the proposed relocation. See Children page 9. This holiday season, make sure your tree is a farm grown . "Peace Tree" • 'Thp quality Pine, Spruce and Balsam •i •• Full size •• range • Tree stands, wreaths and cedar rope available • • • • 2"LOCATIONS Bathurst St. United Church 736 Bathurst St. South of Bloor behind Honest Ed's St. Barnabas' Church 361 Danforth A\'e, Chester subway station across from the Big Carrot Daily llam -9pm 535-8005 Merchandise available at the tree lots and T.D.N. 555 Bloor St. W. RECEIVE FREE GREETING CARDS Present this leaflet when you buy your PEACE TREE & Kensington Market Drum, page seven GREENPEACE WARNS FRIGHTENING NEW UN FIGURES ON OZONE DEPLETION'S HEALTH EFFECTS London--2 December 1991--For the first time, the United Nationshas put figures on the cost to human health from ozone depletion, predicting breakdowns in immune systems and an enormous rise in skin cancers and eye cataracts, Greenpeace said today. Greenpeace made publicly available the United Nations Environment Programme's executive summary of its 1991 update on impacts of ozone depletion. The report is based on the conservative estimate that 10 percent ozone depletion occurs by the year 2000. The increased ultra-violet radiation will break down the irnmune system·. "The findings describe the devastating consequences of the rapidly worsening ozone depletion crisis. They underline the urgent need for an immediate ban on all ozone-destroying chemicals," said Greenpeace campaigner Sheldon Cohen. He characterised the impacts on the immune system as an environmental version of AIDS. The estimated increase in skin cancer cases from UV-B are considerably in excess of 300,000 cases a year. Nearly two million eye cataracts a year are also predicted. "Meanwhile, Governments just stand by and watch while international companies like Du Pont and ICI still continue to pump out hundreds of thousands of. tons of CFC's annually.( alot:lg with substitutes such as HCFCS and HFCS, which still destroy the ozone layer. All of course are powerful global warming gases." said Cohen. "We cannot wait for these companies to phase out the chemicals at a rate which fits their annual profit margins. What do we have to do to sto\) these global experiments on the world's population? "The report's authors themselves admit the conservatism of their 10% ozone depletion estimate," he said. The British scientist who discovered the Antarctic ozone hole, Dr Joseph Farman, stated recently that ozone depletion over Northern Europe could reach ltwels as high as 30% by 2000. Cohen also warned that the ozone depletion we are seeing now is the result of chemicals released before the big production boost of the mid-1970's. .llill1l City of Toronto Residents: 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, call the Department of Public Works and the Environment at 392-7742 to arrar:Jge a date for a special collection of your unwanted appliance: Join in our recycling,efforts. Give us a call. Don't just leave your appliance at the curb. Nicholas Vardif'!, P.Eng., City Engineer and Com,missioner Department of -Public Works and the Eiwironment
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