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•that your vote counts:

The city says DRUM/and east

(aka ward 5) had the lowest

voter turnout in all Toronto -

28%. Depends what you inean

by a voter. We 'II have more on

this story in January.

· •that Kensington's other

election wd be November 15:

11 winners. Page 3. Oh - and

voter turfJOUt was 70%.

•that Spadina residents

wanting to form a committee

to work on LRT construction

noise problems should contact

Isobel Harry at the DRUM:

on the other hand, if you're

not concerned about the noise,

call John Thompson. Page 4

• that Alexandra Park's Coop

conversion drive was

under way:

ready for another referendum?

page 2. ·

•that there's help around for

people who decide it's time to

learn to read, no matter how

late they start:

/ see letters, page 5.

•that there's something for

music lovers to do almost

every night in the downtown

west, even on a slender

budget:

Pulker proves it yet again. See

page 12. ·

•That Puffer was spittin'

about indie life in worldclass

Toronto's music scene:

So what are we going to do

about? Read on ... page 17.

•That we shelved reviews of

two good plays to make room

for our extended coverage of

the November elections:

Famine to feast. Here are the

two, and two more.

•That DRUM delivers:

With a great deal of goodwill

and hard work from many .

dedicated people. Thank you

all. Best wishes for 1995.

Above:

Come join the parade!

Wednesday Dec 21, dusk-­

Kensington Carnival's 6th

WINTER SOLSTICE

FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS ••

Costume and mask making

10-5 every day till Dec 20

at 258 Augusta Avenue

(That Stoopid Bookstore).

For PARADE ROUTE

see page 17.

PHOTO: NIR BAREKET

Left: TOP DOGS!

For Who's Who following

tpe recent Municipal

elections, (and details on last

month's Kensington Business

Association elections), see

election wrap on page 3.

PHOTO: KAREN S1EYR

also inside:

Neighbourhood News ... 2,3

letters .. .4,5 ·

Standpoint .. .5

Kensington Place ... 5

Healing Ways ... 6

Pagan Way ... 6

Healing Justi~e ... 7

Rag & Bone ... 8,9

Renee Renew ... 1 0

All About the Garden ... 10

Boating for Everyone ... 11

Pulse ... 12

Artpage ... 14

Booktalk ... 15

Stages ... 16

Music ... 17

Screen ... 18,19

Bricks ... 20


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TTC APPROVES LRT

STOP AT SPADINA

AND SUSSEX

Report by Betty Pratt

Tuesday November 22, the TTC

commission approved a streetcar

stop and traffic lights to be added

at Sussex. It will cost around

$525,000 including $100,000 for

signals which need to be

approved by Metro.

Residents Joan Doiron and

Hamish Wilson prepared a video ·

to explain the pedestrian point-ofview

at Bloor and Sussex. We

thank Olivia Chow and other

residents such as Alan Campaign

for supporting this plan.

Another very welcome

addition to the LRT plan, will be

an underground tunnel walkway

which will exit from the west side

of Spadina station to the first

apartment building lot on Walmer

Road near Bloor.

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Alexandra Park

CO-OP CONVERSION

drive continues:

referendum date set

The Resident's Co-op Education

Committee has been meeting

weekly to figure out ways of

getting information out to

everyone in Alexandra Park about

what a resident run co-op would

be like.

The first community_ wide coop

information meeting was to be

held Wednesday, December 14 at

7:00p.m. And a date for a

referendum on co-op conversion

has been set for April 22 1995.

To find out more, drop in to see

Nick Saul at the Alexandra Park

Community Centre or give him a

call at 367-9603.

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PANDA MOUNTS

NUTCRACKER

"It will be a full production priced

so that entire families can afford

to attend", says Panda's Artistic

Director Xing-Bang Fu. (Tickets

are $8 for adults and $5 for

children, students and seniors.)

Performanc.es are at College

Street United Church, 454

College Street. See ad page 12.

Panda Dance Theatre fuses

Chinese classical and folk dancing

with ballet and contemporary

ballet.

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QUEEN WEST:

IT'S OLD, IT'S NEW,

IT'S THE SAME,

IT'S CHANGED

1087 Queen Street has been,

among other things, a YMCA, a

speakeasy, a Polish Centre, a

Music Gallery, an Art Centre and

host to some of the most

memorable after hour parties.

It is now owned by The Quays

Community Church (pronounced

"keys").

The Church worships in The

Great Hall Sunday mornings at

11, but rents out the space for

receptions, concerts,

performances, and parties. Other

space in the building is being

rented to arts groups and

musicians. A refugee reception

centre will operate on the top

floor.

There will be a special

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

on Saturday at 7:30pm.

University Settlement

Recreation Centre

23 Grange Road, Toronto

(Dundas/McCaul)

announces

Winter Program

Registration

To December 16th

. Winter Break Camp

. After School Program

. Aquatic Programs

. Martial Arts & Fitness

. Leaders-in-Training

41 6-598-3444

Register in Person

Monday to Thursday

3pm-7:30 pm

Friday 2:00pm -6:00pm

KEEPING IT ALIVE IN NINETY-FIVE

NOW WE ARE TWO!

1l1e KENSINGTON MARKET WORKING GROUP is beginning to gear up for the Annual

General Meeting on March 29, 1995. It will mark two years of hard work and accomplishments, l

and we think we should celebrate a bit. You can expect some refreshments, some special guests, l

and the election of a new Board of Directors.

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VOTE, VOTE, VOTE! 1l1e Municipal elections, to look at options for Community Economic

the Kensington Business Association elections, Development (CED). Allen Flaming of St.

and now the Working Group elections! Don't Stephens Community Centre is heading the

get bored, get involved. Our electoral rule committee, and we hope to join forces with St.

requires that voters have attended two of our Stephens and the Kensington Business

monthly meetings in the past year, so if you Association to begin a process called "Strategic

haven't been coming, you've got three

Planning". 1l1at means finding out who is

opportunities to qualify for voting: We won't coming to shop in the Market and why,

have a December meeting due to the holidays, identifying our strengths and weaknesses,

but we will resume the regular last-wednesday-of gathering ideas from merchants and residents l;

the-month meetings for January, February, and to improve the Market as a shopping area and (

March. tourist destination, and developing a specific :

STEP BY STEP In addition to the usual plan to implement the best ideas. With Allen's!

business, all of these meetings are part of the guidance, we are working on a proposal for a i

election process: Nominations for the new board Jobs Ontario Community Action (JOCA) grant!

will be opened at the January 25 meeting, the · so that we can begin work in this in1portant ;,

nominations will close at the February 22 area.

meeting, and the election_ will be held at the COLLEGE DAZE Our MPP, Rosario ,,

March 29 Annual Meeting. These three Marchese, reported that George Brown Colleg~

meetings give you the opportunity to put forward will definitely close down the Kensington i

your candidate, tell the candidates about your Campus during the next year, although the

concerns, listen to the candidates' responses, and official notice has not yet been given to the

choose the people who will work for our Provincial Government. When the College ,

community. It's important to have a Board that leaves, the Province has the option to take ove~

represents all the interests of the Kensington the property, and it is definitely interested in ~

Commuiiity, and that will work to make our the fate of the building. David Kehler, of tlie !

neighbour~1<?od .a better pl~ce to live and work. Working Gr~:mp, has. discovered that the City I

Your participation makes 1t happen. Keep your also has an mterest m the College, and that th ·

eye on this column for election updates, and Official Plan for Kensington (Bylaw 189-81)

watch your mailbox for flyers.

declares that "Council shall undertake a study

GROWING OUR LOCAL ECONOMY We all to consider alternate uses for the site having

know that Kensington has suffered in the particular regard to the feasibility of residentia

recession of the last few years. 1l1ere are too and/or commercial uses~ ' if the College vacates

many empty shops, struggling merchants, and the campus. Our new City Councillor, Dan

unemployed residents. As we reported last time, Leckie, is aware of this by-law, and will move

The Working Group has set up a committee to implement a study.

ICE IS IN! SKATERS ARE OUT!

Dig out your hockey equipment

and sharpen your blades. Another

skating season in the City has

begun. November 26, Parks and

Rec opened all of their 26

artificial ice rinks for pleasure

skating and permit and shinny

hockey.

Monday through Saturday 9

am to 1 Opm; Sunday 1 Oam to

6pm. Admission-to all rinks is

free. You can call Parks and Rec

Info Line at 392-1111 for a

brochure and more information.

City rinks in our area:

Alexandra (Bathurst/Dundas);

Barbara Ann Scott (Yonge/

College) ; Nathan Phillips Sq.uare;

Christie Pits (Bloor W & Christie)

Trinity-Bellwoods (Gorevale Ave,

s of Dundas Street West)

High hopes for health? r

Join the club! ::

University Settlement !

Recreation Centre ·

23 Grange Road,

(Dundas/McCaul)

416-598-3444

has memberships available:

Variable rates: Children .,

(free) Youth (12-15); Young i.

Adult (16-19) & Students; ::

Adults (20~59) and Seniors !

(60 +) ~!

Combined! memberships

(pool/weight room/gym), or

separate (Pool or Weight

Room or Gym) •

By the month, half year or

year. Day passes also

available.

High hopes for health?

Join the club!

University Settlement 598-3444 !!

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Scadding Court

Community Centre

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707 Dundas Street West (at Bathurst)

Multi-lingual Access

to

Social Assistance

for Chinese and Vietnamese

We offer the following services:

- information and referral

- counselling

- filling in application forms

- interpretation

- information workshops

far more information, please contact

Ming AuYeung or Leon Lau

at 363-5392

Bread & Roses

~

Support

community eco·nomic

development by

joining a locally

controlled financial

cooperative!

Call us today.

Our members are

our owners.

Bread & Roses Credit Union

16 years of Social Justice Banking

348 Danforth Ave., Suite 211, Toronto

461·7882

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TIME RUNNING OUT FOR

seniors' to apply for

$1 00 TAX CREDIT

City of Toronto seniors eligible for

the City's $100 tax credit have

until 4:30 pm on December 3 1 to

apply. If you're over 65 and have

owned and occupied a home in

the city for 5 years, you probably

qyualify. Call 392 ~ 7036 for

details.

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Looking for

DOWNTOWN

? DAY CARE?

CONSIDER

UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT

for children 4 months to 5

years of age.

We are located on Grange

Park behind the A.G.O.

Our programs include music,

swimming, kindergym.

We are non-profit

• United Way agency

• knowledgeable and caring

staff

• parent involvement

QUALITY CHILD CARE

BETWEEN 8 AM AND 5:30PM

Non-Subsidized spaces now

available for children .

Call 598-3444

23 Grange Road, Toronto,

Ontario M5T 1 C3

JOB POSTING

St. Stephen's Community

House's HARBOl_lRFRONT

CHILD CARE CENTRE

requires casual staff

to replace E.C.E. teachers

due to: illness, vacation, etc.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

Experience with infants and

toddlers in a daycare setting.

Recent medical assessment

and updated immunizations.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

•Replacing E.C.E. teacher in

his/her absence.

•Responsible for the

appropriate guidance and care

of the children in groups during

their play' learning activities

and routines

•Responsible for ensuring the

program practices are

consistent with the regulations

and guidelines set out by the

Day Nu(series Act, Metro

Operating Criteria, and policies

and philosophy of St.

Stephen's Community House.

•Responsible for the safety

and hygenic conditions of t/le

playroom, playground and

children's washrooms.

•Other duties as assigned by

the supervisor.

TO APPLY, send a resume to

Charlotte Sam, 627A Queen's

Quay West, M5V 386,

Toronto.

Alexandra Park

Child Care Centre

75 Augusta Square

392-5515

•Subsidized child care

provided for children

0-5 years _

• Parental Involvement

Invited

•Creative art/movement,

music activities, outdoor

programming, trips

• Visits to the library and

other community agencies,

special functions celebrated.

HERE FOR YOU


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Right: the eleven member

board of the new Kensington

Business Association at their

first meeting:

Back row, l. to r.

Renee Wortzman (board

member Anshei Minsk

Synagogue), David

Montiero (Miramar

Furniture), Bob Wilson·

(International Donuts and

Diner), Chok Keung

(Herman) So (CAAM

Hardware), George

Kalomiris (People's Fish

Market), Tim Chiu

(Cheese Magic), and

Shaim Jafri (Alvand Food

Mart);

Front row, r. to l. Shuresh

Ajodha (The Roti

Factory), Yvonne Grant

(Caribbean Comer),

Maihyet Burton (Lilith's

Garden), Peter Dean

(Bikes on Wheels).

And in the

other election

•Joe Pantalone and Olivia

Chow were elected to Metro

Council (Joe west of Bathurst,

Olivia east.)

•Martin Silva (w. of Bathurst)

and Dan Leckie were elected to

City Council

•John Campey and Tam

Go0ssen were elected public

school trustees for ward 5 (east

of Bathurst), and Fiona

Chapman was elected public

school trustee for ward 4.

•Metro Separate trustee for

wards 3,4, and 5 is Tony

Letra. ·

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Freshness, a family business!

Kensington

Fruit

Market .

(:hiltl '~are

Alexandra Park

Childcare Centre

75 Augusta Square, 392-5515

Subsidized care for children 0-5 yrs.

Parental involvement, an, music, library,

outdoors and more.

Palmers ton

Community Uaycare

734 Palmerston Ave., 533-9526

Nonprofit community-based daycare for

preschool and nursery chiUlren, school age

to age twelve.

St Stephen's

Community House

91 Bellevue Avenue, 925-2103

King Edward, 922-8705

Tel.: 368-2093

miramar

FURNITURE & APPLIANCES INC.

CASA DE MOBiLIAS PORTUGUESA

Everything for the Home at Low Prices

DAVID MONTEIRO

JOANA MONTEIRO

Rosario Marchese • (363-9664)

Member of Provincial Parliament

Fort York

• government policies

• advocacy

• community issues

244 AUGUSTA AVENUE

TORONTO, ONTARIO

M5T 2L7

Constituency Office: 854 Dundas St. W, Toronto, M6J 1 VS

34 St. Andrew Street 593-9530

SEASONS GREETINGS

Year.

Also, manythanksfor

your support iii the recetlf

local elec;tioh$; We lookc •-·

fOrward t() 'l.{)orking}ilit!{ ..

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John Campey & Tam Goossen

Downtown Trustees

Toronto Board of Education

155 College St., Toronto M5T 1P6

397-3060

Authorized by the CFOs of

the John Campey and Tam

Goossen Campaigns


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1995

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"NEIGHBOURS"

NEEDS MORE

NEIGHBOURS

Dear DRUM:

As a result of articles about

us in Drum people have

phoned asking for examples

of what we do. Please help

spread the word.

Neighbours Helping

Neighbours links neighbour

to neighbour by introducing

helpers to people who need

help. Of course, many

people in this neighbourhood

do this already. We try to

build on this natural

foundation.

In our project, for

example, we have a women

whose husband has an illness

requiring constant nonmedical

attendant care. We

arranged a male volunteer to

sit with her husband a few

hours every week while she

attends her women's group.

She gets to carry on an

activity she enjoyed before

her husband became so ill;

the two men enjoy sitting

and chatting. Everyone

benefits. That's what we

mean by Neighbours

Helping Neighbours.

Another example: we have

a senior volunteer who is

active and independent but

new to the neighbourhood.

We have linked her with a

parent-child program. She

visits once a week to read

stories, do activities, chat.

She is giving, and she is

getting. Should she find

- herself in need of a favour,

there will be neighbours now

who know her.

A final example: a man

in our program who

struggles to walk, and must

visit his doctor's office

every two weeks. We have

linked him with a young

volunteer who owns a car,

and speaks his language.

The helper takes him to

his appointment, waits with

him, and then drives him

home. Most times, he comes

in for a coffee and.asks if

there is something that needs

doing; a light bulb that needs

changing, or an errand to the

store, etc. -just what he

would do for his own

grandparent if he had one in

this country. Again both

men benefit.

We already have

volunteers with a variety of

skills who speak 9 languages

at last count.

So how about it? Call us if

you want help (or if you

can offer it) with things like

grocery shopping, meals,

changing the battery in a

smoke detector, shovelling

snow, escorting to

appointments, a friendly

ear, a partner to play cards

with, someone to read a

letter to you, "checking in"

regularly to make sure things

are ok . . . The list goes on.

We are at St. Stephen's

Community House, 169

Brunswick A venue 926-

8221. Ask for Carolyn

Moore, David Cheng or

Zizina Estevens

SPADINA LRT:

DEFENDED

Re: Isobel Harry, "Spadina III:

Working on Preserving the

Comfort Zone", Drum, Nov '94

Wrong again! Harry assei."ts that the

LRT is incorrect historically and

ugly. It was not long ago that

streetcars plied Spadina. The

Spadina streetcar operated till 1948,

and the Harbord streetcar continued

to use the avenue till 1966.

In fact, if one looks at old pictures

of Spadina, one may see what

amounts to LRT. Light Rail Transit

is a mode of transit using streetcartype

vehicles in a reserved right-ofway,

like the one that used to be on

Spadina, bordered by treed median

strips. LRT is entirely appropriate

for Spadina and together with the

beautiful streetscaping will restore

the avenue to its glory.

Ugly? For Harry's information the

Spadina LRT Streetscape Design

consultant won an award of merit

from The Canadian Society of

Landscape Architects. Regards and

appreciation are due to David

Perlman and the other residents

who participated constructively in

the streetscape design study.

As for the streetcars themselves, '

Toronto's streetcars are among the

most aesthetic transit vehicles in the

world. They are so round, feminine

and sensual. The older PCC

streetcars and even the Peter Witt

cars were masterpieces of design.

What happened to Toronto's love

affair with ·the streetcar?

Twenty-five years ago, there was

not only a battle to stop the Spadina

Expressway, but a battle to retain

streetcars when the TTC wanted to

scrap them. Streetcars are one

of the reasons Toronto is such a

pleasant city in which to live. Ask

anyone who ever left Toronto what

they miss the most and often the

answer is the TTC and its

streetcars. If only others were so

lucky.

Many other North American cities

have restored streetcars in the form

of LRT to their transit operations.

These include Portland, San Diego,

Santa Clara, Denver, St. Louis,

Sacramento, Buffalo, Calgary and

Edmonton. LRT makes possible

what would be impossible with

subways -- the provision of quality

transit at a fraction of the price,

1/3 to 1/6 that of subways.

Strangely enough, some opponents

of the Spadina LRT wanted a

subway on Spadina. One poor

misguided soul at the infamous

public meeting of October 1st,

1986 actually said, "The LRT is

too expensive, build a subway

instead." Others were oblivious to

the severe disruption subway

construction causes, muchmore so

than LRT. And worse, after

construction the areas around the

stations would have become prime

real estate, subject to land use

intensification.

And why does Harry obliquely

blame the LRT for housekeeping

activities on Spadina? The market

area and Spadina A venue are

working environments. They have a

life that starts early in the day. This

is part and parcel of living here. I

suggest that if Spadina merchants

would do as in Europe and clean

the sidewalks themselves, Harry

would be spared the swooshing of

the sidewalk cleaning machine.

And if Harry is so concerned

with the historicity of Spadina

A venue why does she not concern

herself with historical preservation

of the street's architecture. The

photo of the building she provided

is such an example. It has been

defaced and mutilated. Unauthentic

materials have been used to cover

its beautiful cornices among other

things. This is something that

should be pursued. Restored

buildings together with the

historically concordant new

streetcar line would be a crowning

achievement of citizen action.

John Thompson,

Palmers ton Ave

Reply to John Thompson

From Isabel Harry

I am not saying that streetcars on

Spadina are "incorrect historically"

or that I hate streetcars. I am

saying that these new streetcars are

ugly, they are too big for the size

of the street's buildings, they do

not "fit" the avenue's architectural

integrity or history nor do they

enhance them.

Nor am I saying that only

old is beautiful and that nothing

modern can blend with the

historical. Rather that this LRT

has not been designed properly and

all the "beautiful streetscaping" you

refer to actually lessens the

inherent beauty of the street.

Those curving plexiglass transit

shelters in the drawings may be

beautiful to you but they look like

more of that tacky "world class"

planning department schlock to me.

They diminish rather than heighten

the historical references in the

existing buildings and turn the

street into a mishmash in which

nothing is clearly one style or

another: All of which causes ·

anxiety and frustration in the

viewer (pedestrian, resident, transit

rider), rather than ease and a

pleasurable aesthetic and historical

experience.

I am not obliquely blaming

the LRT for housekeeping

activities, I blame it directly. The

TIC does not accept responsibility

for any of the peripheral work that

is going on on the avenue in

anticipation of the LRT

construction such as the digging by

Hydro that is now going on

curbside the whole length of the

street between Queen and Dundas

in order to bury cables, nor any of

the other utilities work that is or

will be occasioned by LRT

construction, such as gas mains

which will need to be repositioned

or whatever.

As for the rest of the noise of

garbage collection, sidewalk

sweeping, and so on, all I am

saying is that there are residents on

Spadina ALSO, not just businesses.

No-one tells the residents when

new lightbulbs will be clangorously

installed on the street at 2 a.m.,

and that they will light up their

front rooms in a white blaze like a

Blue Jays game. Is it just the

residents' tough luck to live on

Spadina? Can no consideration

whatsoever be given to their

comfort? Maybe the message is that

we shouldn't be living here

anyway.

And so, that is why the LRT

makes me shudder. I can feel the

vibrations from those rolling metal

behemoths already. I can hear the

clickety clack of the metal on

metal, the grinding and squealing

as they round the circle. Add these

to the existing cacophony and

you're living in hell, John.

(Yes I know in your Nov. letter

you wrote that you live "adjacent to

Bathurst Street" and 9an "attest to

the fact that Toronto streetcars are

flOt loud." But now that I know that

"adjacent" means Palmerston

Avenue, I'm not reassured.)

Why not noiseless transit? Why

couldn't Spadina be considered for

a truly revolutionary,

compassionate transit plan? That's

what I would call a satisfactory

blending of the old with the new.

And speaking of that "infamous

public meeting of October 1st,

1986", which I attended, I recall

that the public clamour was

overwhelmingly against the LRT.

Who 'approved it, finally? Not the

community.

Regarding your last comment on

historicity, I will be addressing that

in another column. You make it

sound so easy, but it isn't.

Restoration of buildings is up to the

owner of the building. Do you

know there are only two declared

"historical areas" in Toronto: Fort

York and Wychwood Park.

"Crowning achievements of citizen

action" take decades of hard

slogging. It must be a smoother

ride on the TTC bandwagon.

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WHERE OUR ECONOMY

HAS GONE ... AND WHY!

"( ... 111e desire by Canadians for accident. The letter is an early Regrettably, the majority of

a higher standard of living) is example of the continuing failure CIV AC members, led by Messrs.

being frustrated by the rapidly by our leaders to understand what Crombie and Eggleton, saw no

increasing costs of living in our is really happening in the cities of reason to take on the task either.

large population centres." our Nation. . They were concerned mainly with

Next, we observed that these Our final appeal to Mr. getting into public office. That

higher costs were being exported Belaire, on November 8th, 1968, would be refonn enough; save the

to other sections of the country. is also revealing. In it Mr. Wright City from all the bad old

Costs of the cities, we said, were stated the following: "A more politicians, and the Economy

LATE in November, there was a continue to be for the worse. being "transported to 'depressed realistic [economic analysis] would take care of itself. With

Conference here, dedicated to rediscovering

what must be done to course, be true. After all, the ever increasing numbers of City of Toronto with Guelph or wouldn't go away.

Both observations must, of areas' at the same time creating could be 1nade by comparing the them in charge, Lake Ontario

revive the Metro economy (THE speakers had experience and insufficient income people in the Kitcfiener both of which by virtue How right they were.

ECONOMIC FORUM ON THE research to back up their ideas. cities the1nselves." . of s1naller size have been far **********************

FUTURE OF THE METROPOLITAN

Pity, isn't it, that we didn't start (This 30 year old insight was more efficient in creating wealth The latest on Metro Council: If

TORONTO AREA). I think the

our own fundamental research the Cornell Urbanologist's main for their citizens, than Toronto." we are to to believe our media,

impetus for the gathering came

when we needed to, years ago? point.) On Monday December 5th, Allan Tonks' routine refrom

the business sector, but

I have felt that way since May In our next report to the the Toronto Globe and Mail led coronation as Metro Chairman

participants included the

of 1968. Let me explain why. ECC, sent in August 1968, Mr. off its Business Section, with an was preceded by a "fierce threemandatory

Academics, Civil

In the spring of 1968, I met Wright strongly criticized the item detailing the dramatically way race for the Chairman's

Servants and of course, former

with Mr. Fred Belaire, Secretary "tendency to artificially split by higher levels of economic growth job."

Toronto mayor, David Crombie.

of the then 4 or 5 year old zoning lines, various land uses in the Cambridge (formerly If true, this would be a

(Since he quit politics, some

Economic Council of Canada that are basically compatible and Guelph) and Kitchener regions of comfort: as the Lesser Historian

years ago, Mr. Crombie has had

(ECC). Mr. Belaire told me that interdependent." Ontario, compared with Metro. says: "The more irrelevant the

a whole number of appointments,

the newly elected PM of Canada, (This was precisely the point (This is the very thing thatMr. Institution, the fiercer the struggle

including one from the Province

Pierre Trudeau, had acknowl- made by the Austin City Belaire said could not happen.) for a favoured place on it."

to watch over Lake Ontario,

edged the ECC as the nation's Manager, adding that the Naturally, Belaire was

vigilantly. He must be doing a

pre-eminent economic planning tendency had now led to a sufficiently impressed by our

wonderful job, because the Lake

agency, in a personal meeting destructive "war" between the '1968 research proposal to suggest

is still there.)

with him, and had signalled his core city and its surroundings.) that it would be important for

Two speakers seemed to gain

intent to use it in that fashion. So what was the reaction of some other level of government to

more media attention than the

Following that meeting, my the Secretary of the ECC to our carry it out. A responsible

others. One was was a Professor

colleague and partner, Ken 1968 draft proposal, in terms of Toronto organization should be

of Economics and Urbanology

Wright, and I decided to carry on its basic premises? Well, on Oct found to sponsor it. Easier said

from Cornell University, NY, and

the dialogue with the ECC. At a ll, 1968, Mr. Belaire sent me a than done.

the other was the City Manager

further meeting, Mr. Belaire letter containing the following: City Council was in the

of Austin, Texas.

expressed strong interest in

"-; •• the fact remains that as control of an "old guard " much

The Urbanologist pointed out receiving a proposal from our the size of the city has as Metro Council is today. There

that the cost of running our

company, Research Planning grown, so also has its its was little hope that Council would

Metropolitan cities has been Consultants. May 21, 1968 we capacity to provide rising care to know anything unpleasant.

grossly underestimated by

obliged with a "draft study levels of income per person There was a reform-minded

economic experts, and hence,

outline." and per capita .... it appears group on the scene, mind you,

politicians.

This is not the place for a the larger the agglomer- calling itself CIVAC, a civic

The City Manager asserted

de.tailed presentation of the ation, the greater are the reform party. It was headed by a THE BIG BM

that the notion of suburban

proposal. But a brief mention of. potentialities for achieving young man who had not yet won .

prosperity vs. inner city poverty

what it was about_, a~d . higher._.. inc_ome." polit~cal offic~, ~avid Crombie, ' IN THE SKY

idea is a myth--that the two

whathappened to it, iS certainly · This letter iS an important and mcluded m its ranks a future K t B t M N .

economies are linked for better or

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germane. document, proving that the mayor, Art Eggleton; and some .

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for worse. And unless core and The second paragraph of our mismanagement of the Economy "young Turk" politicians like OOPSh Wh~':l ~ast h~ard from I

'burbs work together, it will Proposal reads as follows: since the 1960's was not an Tony O'Donohue. was r apso iZmg a out m~ new

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Jerry Miller's

"Unreadable

world" article

strikes chord

Dear Jerry:

I'm an adult student. I go to

Clinton School at 460

Manning and I read your

story about your past. I'm

sorry to hear about your

past. But now I'm happy to

hear that you can read and

write very good. I hope one

day I will be able to read

and write as good as you.

Yours truly

Alvina Halbot

Dear Jerry:

We are adult students at

Clinton Street Public School

at 460 Manning Ave. We

read your article called an

unreadable world. We

understand you are going

through. You have

accomplished a lot in schooL­

There is a lot more to

accomplish. We wish you a

lot of success.

Yours truly,

Tom, Stephen, Joe,

Stanley, Seatceah

TOWARDS BETTER

ROOMING HOUSE

HOMES

Toronto's many better roorriing

houses.

Certainly, they have never

asked themselves "What does it

take to provide good rooming

house homes for the tenants who

Many thanks to Drum for

addressing, after all these years live in them?" The answer is

some. of the problems faced by ' not in ~e-inventing the wheel.

roorrn?g house operators. Up to Better JUSt to fi~ the flat. The big

now, it seemed the only "good advantage of pnvate rooming

rooming house story was a bad house stock is we do not have to

rooming house story". This has spend millions to build and

led to the sad present state where operate it from scratch. We only

many forms of discrimination are need ways to encourage rooming

flourish.ing against rooming houses · house operators to stay in the

and then tenants.

market ~nd upgrade their buildings

About 50% of this good, low and service~. _We were able to

cost housing has been lost over

the past 15 years.

develop pohcies to produce a

healthy film industry in Toronto.

We are a group of rooming Why not do t_he same to save this

house owners working to advocate ~orm of ~ousmg for Toronto's low

for this kind of ?ousing. Recently, mcome smgle tenants? We

some members m our community adv~ate for non-profit and co-op

have been asking a dangerous housmg, why not for this other

question: are rooming houses much-needed low cost housing?

obsolete?

We know many

We were glad to see the neighbourhoods do not want

majority of respondents, to your rooming houses because. they do

survey replied that rooming not conform to ~he_ single-family

houses are needed and should be house norm. This mfluences some

s';lpport~. We were very . politici~s agendas. But the

disappomted with Olivia Chow's answer iS not, as one candidate

response that "Homes-First" type suggested,_ banni~g low income

of government housing is the only people to mdustnal areas. Better

good answer. It is hard to for us to face the NIMBY monster head

to believe that she does not object on a~d ~d~ocate for the removal

to the loss of Toronto's rooming

houses.

of discnrrnnatory zoning codes,

such_ as nonsensical parking

We agree there is a need for reqmrements and severe

non-profit and co-op housing, but restrictions in the number of units

there is no evidence that these

forms of housing could ever

allowed.

We are. hopeful and

replace the large numbers of encouraged by the replies given

rooming house units that have by Barbara Hall, Joe Pantalone

b~n lost in recent years. We and Martin S~lva. They have

thmk mlmy of those opposed to shown by then answers that they

~ooming houses are overly have taken a very important step

mfluenced by the many one-sided beyond token support for rooming

sl~ze and bum stories seen in our ?ouses to advocating solutions. It

media. These people should take iS our hope that we can have a

the time to look at one of chance to work with this kind of

elected representative in order to

develop solutions to Toronto's

rooming house problems .

With regards to rehabilitation

grant funding - we feel that this

form of funding sometimes

rewards those rooming house

operators who let their buildings

get run down. Why not reward,

by promoting, those operators

who keep their buildings well

maintained and provide good

service? This would send out the

right message and effect far

greater results through leveraging

of scarce funding. This would be

a · start towards creating conditions

that would act like a vacuum to

draw in good rather than bad

operators.

We feel that there are many

low-cost and no-cost solutions to

more and better housing that need

to be developed before we

continue throwing grant money

and non-profit money at the

problem. And so, over the

Christmas season, soine of us

dreamers will be watching Jimmy

Stewart in "It's a Wonderful

Life", which depicts an era,

perhaps a golden era for rooming

houses, when they were

considered good homes where

even our mother might be the

landlady. We will be dreaming of

the return of this golden era. If wt !

built it, it will come.

Larry Chilton

Toronto Rooming House

Association

PS With the introduction of Bill

120, there is another much larger

group of small landlords (about

JOO,()(X) units province-wide), that

will now face many of the same

problems that caused such a

severe decline in Toronto's

rooming houses.

graduated highschool, on the road

is my happiest natural state. My

greatest fear is motionlessness.

So, in a big box of a room in

the Spadina Hotel, I sit facing

north. The bright little BM (Bank

of Montreal or a family short

form for an unmentionable

function) logo sits comfortingly

steady and true neon blue, the

highest sign in my sky. Next, a

little down and to the right the

Holiday Innvitation. Still further

right, brightest item in my sky, is

the Metro loopy logo crowning a

weird round building wearing a

little party hat. ·

If I lean way forward, looking

back and up, the Canada's

famous phallus, CN's longest

spike, looms. When father townplanned

Scarborough, he would

proudly point out it was the

world's tallest free-standing

structure. Is it still free?

12:24pm Fri, December 2

Agonies of deadline-meeting as

usual left me reading and

rereading my diarized litany of

troubles. But it all pales beside

the troubles of Mr. Bouchard.

Months ago I notoced with

ghoulish interest this wicked

flesh-eafing disease.

In one way or another, I

suspect, most of us wish him

well. The Bouchards of the woHd

help us know how we.stand.

Without him the balance will be

out of whack, even: in Quebec.

Hang in, eh.

Saturday, December 3

Last Tuesday, Kate's Place (jazz

at the Cabana Room) was such a

success we're going to do it until

someone tells us not to.

Performance time ?:00 pm (after

din-dins) Tuesdays at the Cabana

Room, King and Spadina. Come

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h.elping to preserve the previous

:xlitor's energy put into The

Pagan Way. By writing from

both personal experience and

research, I hope to dispel some

Jf the myths imposed on the

term pagan.

Caring for our mother earth,

worshipping whatever deities one

wishes, praying (and acting) for

humanity, celebrating our

ancestors and celebrating the

earth's cycles are some aspects

of the pagan way.

A few months ago, I

responded to an ad in a· Wiccan

publication in which a Pagan

was seeking contacts in his area

(close to my neighbourhood). In

responding, I learned very

:J_uickly that his definition of

Jagan had a very sour flavour.

fie was looking for an

'eliminator" - someone to "get

:id of' his 85-year-old mother.

fie thought I might be inclined

o "light candles" for this

mrpose, for a fee - and I believe

'rom the desperate tone of his

voice that he would have paid

ne a significant amount of

noney to complete this task. His

nother, in his mind, was

What is wrong with this

picture? ... Where do I begin?

... This ign5lrance of the true

meaning of the pagan way is

indicative of society's general

view. This man may well have

been informed by Webster's

Dictionary, which defines pagan

as "a person who does not

acknowledge God in any

religion; a heathen" (p.323).

Heathen is further defined as "as

person or nation that does not

recognize the God of

Christianity, Judaism, or Islam;

in the Old Testament, a Gentile;

non-Jew" (p.213).

But simply not believing in

the Christian God does not in

itself make one a pagan.

Paganism is an encompassment

of many non-organized nature

religions, ih which one or more

of many deities, including the

Christian God, may be

worshipped.

The primary deity whom I

worship is Brighid, an ancient

Celtic goddess, because my

heritage is predominantly Celtic,

and Brighid is associated with

many things with which I relate.

However, I also believe in a

whole array of deities, male and

female, including the Christian

God.

Throughout the centuries, the

term pagan has acquired aiL

kinds of false definitions due to

organized "Churches"' attempts

to undermine a power that would

not fit into their mould.

I recall, from childhood, a

movie in which college students

were shouting vehemently to

another student, "Pagan!" There

were also several movies in

which "pagans" used pentagrams

tO Call On m>llP.vnlrant cnintc mhn

inevitably harmed people. (See

Note*)

Throughout my childhood,

the message became imprinted' in

my brain; whatever the word

pagan meant, it was evil. Thank

Goddess I had the determination

to ' search for- I don't know - the

Jppressing him with organized

~eligion, when he did not believe

.n "God". · truth? The truth is clear to me.

He went on to say that he

.vanted to become Wiccan and

tsked me if I could initiate him.

Lie also asked if he could

'worship me as a goddes"s.

Being pagan is the farthest thing

from evil. The pagan way

includes taking care of the Earth,

whom people continue to

systematically destroy.

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*Note: The pentagram in Wicca

is a symbol of protection and the

Goddess. The five points

represent the human being: one

head, two arms and two legs.

And along with four elements,

(fire, earth, air and water/is the

essential fifth (the spirit).

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to the lake and I just stared at

the sky. The sky seemed to

understand ~y feelings.

I walked to High Park and

the swans seemed to make the

noise I haven't been able to.

On the street again, before

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five people along the way who

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SMILES and a few said hello.

The last person was a child of

three. She chose me out of the

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Recently, a little

organization called the

Harriet Tubman Association

has been in the news.

They were attacked by

a Crown Attorney called

Michael Leshner for

allegedly demanding special

privileges for black youths,

and possibly even wanting

a separate justice system

for blacks and whites.

There was a big furor.

What was it about?

In some ways the Harriet

Tubman Association can thank

Michael Leshner for bringing

their name into the news. Many

of us had never heard of them

before. I looked them up in both

the phone book and the Blue

Book Directory of Social

Services without success, and

finally got hold of them through

Bell's Information service. Now

most of us have read about them,

at the centre of a storm of

controversy.

Harriet Tubman, as many of

us know, was a lady who never

scorned controversy or risktaking.

Having escaped the

horrors of slavery herself, she

returned again and again to the

American south, to escort groups

of slaves north to Canada to

freedom. They used the stars for

guidance, and "Follow the

Drinkin' Gourd" was one of their

theme songs, as they used the

heavenly pointing stars of the big

dipper to guide them on their

hazardous and painful journey to

freedom.

So what is an agency named

after this courageous lady getting

into?

History of the Proposal

As part of its work to help black

youth, the Harriet Tubman

Association has a court worker

program, launched in June of

1993. As with all new programs,

there was an evaluation

component. The evaluation of the

new program pointed out the

need for a service that was

directly focused on black youth,

in the courts. In July of 1994,

after studying the evaluation

report, the Harriet Tubman.

Association approached the

Attorney General with their

concerns, and what emerged was

a proposal for an Alternative

Measures program with a special

cultural program for black youth.

Alternative Measures is a

program which has been going

in· most provinces for some time.

Ontario, under the influence of

the neanderthal Attorney

Generals offered us by every

party in power, dragged its feet

until a court appeal forced it to

offer its youth the same

opportunities as other provinces.

Now we are working at catching

up. Alternate Measures offer

youth who admit responsibility

for a criminal act a chance to

take responsibility in ways which

court route, but works out a

response to the· offence that

shows full responsibility and

offers growing opportunities for

the offender.

So why did the Harriet

Tubman group get into this act?

They felt that the alternatives

offered were not recognizing the

particular cultural experiences of

black youth. We know that native

people need programs that offer

them native spiritual resources

and pride; Spanish speaking and

other language minorities are

offered programs that respect

their language and heritage. The

Harriet Tubman group was

suggesting that black youth,

having inherited a common

history of African origins, the

ugly shadow of slavery, and the

continuing burden of racism,

have some things in common that

should be recognized.

Enter the

Crown Attorney

In submitting their proposal to

the Attorney General, the Harriet

Tubman Association agreed to its

being circulated. Among the

Crown Attorneys who read it

was Michael Leshner, a senior

Crown at College Park. Mr.

Leshner reacted strongly. He

went to the press and made

comments implying that the

Tubman group wanted a separate

justice system for blacks and

whites, and at the least,

preferential treatment. He

threatened that there would be

meltdown in the system if this

Misery justice never

seeks to heal or help.

It always seeks justice

in TAKING AWAY and

MAKING MISERABLE.

program were offered. I talked

with Mr. Leshner, who was as

helpful as he could be, but was

unable to talk to me at this point

because there is a hearing

coming up about his remarks.

So how did we get from a

black cultural respect program to

preferential treatment and two

separate systems?

Some Perspectives

Sheila Gallaway of the Harriet

Tubman Association stressed to

me that services were not being

denied to whites, nor forced on

blacks. Nor would the program

in any way affect the free

decision of Crown Attorneys to

offer diversion or not offer it to

any young offender.

It appears that several

factors are involved in this

misunderstanding.

--We accept the value of cultural

programs for language and ethnic

minorities, and for native people,

but we remain ambivalent about

the fact that centuries of racism

has given black Canadians a

common cultural heritage which

they also need to understand and

respect.

--The common instinct of our

retributive justice system is for

something I call "Misery

Justice.'' That is, we never

seriously try to heal victims, or

any of the families of victims and

offenders. Rather, we seek

justice by making offenders as

miserable as everyone else.

Misery justice never seeks to

heal or help. It always seeks

justice in TAKING AWAY and·

MAKING MISERABLE.

The dramatic anxiety that

black youth might actually get

something good that white youth

aren't getting never led anyone to

say, "What a great idea - why

not offer this to whites AND

blacks!" Rather, the traditional

knee-jerk response of Misery

Justice is "Let's make sure

NEITHER group gets anything

that could help them or heal

society!"

Ms. Gallaway spoke

feelingly about the struggle to do

something positive for our young

people today. She spoke of the

endless destruction we see

through our whole misery justice

system. She said, "We of the

African Canadian community

want to be responsible. But this

system is

FAILING. And when we try to

take responsibility, to get

involved in a positive program,

we are attacked for it. If we

don't take responsibility for our

own youth, the system isn't

going to do it."

/Where is it now?

I wondered where the program is

now: had the public furor killed.

it? Not yet - but it has slowed it

down. It is hanging in the

balance, and the Harriet Tubman

folks are struggling to keep it

alive, in the face of so many

confused allegations. It seem~ we

need their ancestral spirit with us

again. Harriet Tubman led a lot

of lost, yearning souls from

darkness toward the light of

freedom. 150 years later, here

we are wandering in the swamps

of Misery Justice. Where are you

now, Harriet, when we need

·you?

HEALING JUSTICE

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Dear Tom,

My good news for the holidays?

instead of saying "DRESS RIGHT!"

my dad's "buying me a suit."

The bad news? if I have one -

I'm going to need three. Because

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Bob

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WITH

R~.-.~

or

festive food, I used to welcome

sharing in the ritual of washing

dishes at holiday gatherings.

Sleeves rolled up to wash or dry

the effort was rewarded with

gossip and laughter. Now,

disposable throwaways have

leaked into homes everywhere!

Last season I attended six festive

celebrations of ten or more

persons. At each party, two or

three large glad bags were filled

with disposable trash. I don't

even particularly like doing

dishes in my own home or at

least I avoid it, so I may seem

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advocate, but I do miss the ritual

at parties because I always sort of

liked it.

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incredible benefits of Cannabis

Hemp. I apologize for the length

of the letter, but a smaller letter

would have just left out too much

information. Hemp definitely

deserves the space.

First, please note that Cannabis

hemp has ridiculously been given

a bad name because of its

association with Marijuana.

In my view Marijuana itself has

some wonderful benefits, in the

treatment of [many medical

conditions] . . . Also, as a

recreational drug, Marijuana is a

thousand times bt<tter for our

bodies and minds than alcohol or

tobacco ...

Nevertheless, Marijuana

invokes instant negative feelings

in too large a proportion of the

general public. For this reason, it

is necessary to point out that a

strain of Cannabis can be and is

being grown (even in Ontario on

a small-scale test basis) that

contains so little of the

intoxicating ingredients that it is

of absolutely no use as a source

of the recreational (and

medicinal) drug. These plants are

good only for industrial purposes.

Which leads us to the industrial

uses of Cannabis Hemp. These

are no less impressive than the

medicinal uses of Marijuana.

We could end our dependency

on fossil fuels and provide all of

our gas and oil energy needs by

farming only 6% of North

America's acreage with Hemp for

Biomass. Burning the gasoline or

methanol produced from Biomass

gives off no sulphur and would

help solve our acid rain

problems.

One acre of Hemp produces 4.1

times as much pulp for paper as

an acre of trees. Hemp is

obviously a perfect replacement

for trees as a source of pulp.

Hemp paper can be produced

without many of the pollutants

(including dioxins) necessary for

the production of paper from

trees.

, Hemp can also be used to make

high-quality construction

materials such as press-board,

more elastic and durable than

hardwood, again reducing

deforestation. Hemp seed oil can

be used to make all sorts of

products such as paints, varnishes

and lubricants.

Hemp would also be a perfect

replacement for cotton as a

source of fibres to make rope,

clothing and canvas. Hemp

produces the strongest, most

durable natural soft-fibre on

earth. Hemp cloth is also warmer

and more absorbent than cotton.

An acre of Hemp will produce 2

to 3 times as much fibre as an

acre of cotton. Cotton cannot be

grown in Canada, while our

climate is prefect for top-quality

industrial hemp. Cotton

. production accounts for

approximately half of all pesticide

use in the United States. Hemp

discourages the growth of weeds,

is insect, disease and drought

resistant, grows like crazy with

hardly any effort, and is easy on

the soil (thus reducing

agricultural reliance on chemical

pesticides and fertilizers).

Hemp can also be used to make

plastics.

And to top it all off, Hemp

seed is arguably the world's best

source of protein and essential

fatty acids. While Soy produces

more protein than Hemp seed, the

protein from Hemp seed is of

hillher aualitv. Hemo seed is the

only seed which contains the '

essential fatty acids and almost no

saturated fat.

So there, in as little space as

possible, is a quick mention of

the benefits of Cannabis Hemp.

There is obviously a lot more

information available to your

readers, and as society becomes

more educated on the issues

surrounding Cannabis, new

information is and will be

becoming available.

For now, you need to know

where to get Hemp products ...

.(HEMP --Help End Marijuana

Prohibition-- and NORML -­

National Organization for the

Reform of Marijuana Laws -- are

two organizations working to

educate Canadians on the issues

surrounding Cannabis)

There are quite a few

companies in Canada

manufacturing and/or importing

Hemp products. Mama Indica and

Sister Sativa's, The Emperor's ·

Clothing Co., and Ecosource

Paper are a few providing such

products as nutritious hemp-seed

based snacks, clothing and paper.

Toronto Hemp Co. is a retail

store located at 593 Y onge Street,

Suite 217, near Wellesley. Our

phone number is (416) 923-3556.

We have a large selection of

books and research materials,

Hemp clothing, and much more.

Please come by and pay us a

visit. Hemp is a truly incredible

plant that can help save our

planet.

Yours sincerely,

Dom Cramer

Partner, Toronto Hemp Co.

Thanks so much to the other

readers who've responded this

month with questions. I'll have

answers to your reusable

questions next issue.

P. S. keep writing! R. R.

Hello Rene Renew:

My blue box is both split and

cracked. Getting a new one

should be no problem, but what

can I do with the old one? Since

it is made from recycled plastic,

can it now also be recycled

again? Thank you.

E. Bauer, Toronto

The Dept. of Public Works &

Environment agreed that this is a

good question and after some

inquiry, the answer is that old

blue boxes can be recycled. When

you call in for a replacement,

also arrange to have your

cracked blue box picked up.

Phone 392-7742.

are now

available! For $9.99 you can be

part of making this dream a real

facility. A fundraising and

publicity launch is planned for the

end of January.

The GARBAGE PALACE can be

described as a non-profit

organization dedicated to the

creative re-use of garbage to

enrich individuals, schools,

community centres, daycares and

families in Toronto. For more

info, to become a founding

member or to become involved

write: The Garbage Palace, 105

Massey Street, Toronto M6J 2T5

or phone Patti Smyth 863-6778.

Avenue Phone 466-2841. What

an amazing store! You can bring

your fine paper for recycling

here, they sell a variety of hemp

products, clothing, cloth

menstrual pads, ecoinventions and

a large selection of recycled

paper products including envelope

labels for those envelopes you

want to re-use.

•TORONTO HEMP CO., 593

Yonge St., Ste. 217, Phone 923-

3556 is selling hemp clothing,

twine and info. ·

•REUSE BUILDING CENTRE

380 Birchmount Road, Unit 3,

Scarborough 699-6000 bring your

used sinks, toilets and such after

renovating or buy used supplies

there.

• MIDDLE EARTH

CREATIONS, 11191 Hwy. 27

Kleinberg LOJ 1 CO 905-893-0495

Normand Comeau is making twig

furniture and/or furnishings out

of native hardwoods.

•THE EVERGREEN

FOUNDATIONS 24 Mercer

Street, Suite 300, Toronto M5V

1 H3 They are offering grants to

schools as part of a school

ground naturalization project.

Contact them for more

information.

Write me, send a fax, or phone.

Do it now! Rene Renew wants to

hear from YOU! SEND YOUR

IDEAS ON HOW TO GO

BEYOND BLUE BOX TO

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or Fax 363-8743.

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,~ Plants and Clean Air

i: Speaking of inside, Philodendron, Spider Plant and Pothos were

::found to reduce levels of formaldehyde in an enclosed space by

::over 80% in a 24 hour period. During photosynthesis, air is

::constantly absorbed, cleaned and released into the atmosphere.

j NASA Studies concluded plants absorb pollutants and carbon

!'dioxide from the air in exchange for oxygen. They are very

\! effectivein filtering benzene, formaldehyde and trichloro-

1 ethylene. NASA recommends one 5' plant per 100 square feet.

Next time, some thoughts on tropical plants.

r·x;~s Trees

:: There are a variety of shapes

·: and sizes & prices are very

~: good. Many people still prefer

i! real trees and all the work

''i that goes with them.

1: A few benefits of a real tree:

:: 1. the wonderful smell

:~ 2. brings people together

:~ 3. fun arguments on what tree

!! to choose and how to ~decorate

!1 ~~;~~~~:n~~~e a::;ular

1:: trees are scotch pine, white

!! spruce, Norway spruce and

~: Balsam Fir. Each one has its

!: distinctive characteristics.

!! ,. Balsam fir seems to last a

1~ little longer.

~· .

:~ To make your trees last:

~! 1. place in cool area (if

:! possible); 2. spray daily;

:~ 3. place bottom of tree in a

:' small container of water

I

:: Poinsettias

! Be sure to wrap well, these

! plants are very sensitive to

'cold. Latin Name - Euphorbia

!~ Pulcherrima; History - US

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1st Ambassador to Mexico

(1825) Joel Robert Poinsett sent !,

a few back home. Fact -

Poinsettias are not poisonous.

The stems contan a nulky white i

substance which may cause ·

minor irritation. Care -

Place plant in a bright area.

Keep very moist. Leaves! wilt

if plant is too wet or too dry.

Amaryllis

These plants grow best when

pot bound so pick a pot about

6-8 inches deep but only

slightly widerr than the bulb.

Make sure the pot has drainage

holes, amaryllis will die from

soggy roots. Cover the holes

with small stones or pieces of

broken clay pots.

Use commercial potting soil,

top 1h of bulb should stick out .

above the soil line, pack firmly. !

Water well, but only once bulb ·

shows active growth.

Well, that's it. Happy holiday

folks, and if watering is too

much work, try selfwatering

containers.

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AND PI.A.NTS

Gardening ... inside, out

All tropical plants come

with a 90-day guarantee.

Free house call

without any purchase.

Excellent service.

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Aiexandra Park

Community Centre

I 05 Grang~ Court 367-9603

Playgroup Drop-in, Toys, Crafts, Gym ,

Librmy visits & young children's clothi

Parent relief for regulars. Info. Judy

(Et1glish , Cantonese, Mmularin). Tues I<

Fri lOam-noon.

Centre 276

276 Augusta Ave, 966-4059

Southern Africa supp011 and infonnatiori

Crafts, music & more! Drop in!

Harbord Street Business

Improvement Area, 961-1698

Serving our neighbourhoods.

KYTES - Kensington Youth

Theatre & Employment Skills

457 Richmond Street West (basement),

504-0597, fax 504-0598

A progressive employment training pro~

for disadvantagetl street youth. Call San

for theatre space rental.

Mr Rosario Marchese,

Member of Provincial

Parliament, Fort York.

Constitu~ncy office:

854 Dundas St. W., 363-9664,

fax: 363-0835.

Advocacy, community issues, provincial

policies. Serving downtown & the west

Scadding Court

Community Centre

707 Dundas St. W.,

M5T 2W6, 363-5392~;

The Centre offers a vft1;ie~ .-s)( social,

recreational and edui(uir·m•;:,Hograms

Sistering: a women' s organization

providing practical and emotional suppi

to wom~n living in poverty and wom~

who are socially isolated.

•Drop In , 523 College Street,

9:30am-3:30pm, 926-1946

•Administrative office 926-9762

•Outreach program 588-3939

St. Stephens

Community House

91 Bell~vue

•ESL, Daycare, Yo111h

Recreation, 925-2103;·

• Community Work, Senior Setvices

Adult Setvices, Conflict Resolution,

926-8221;

• Youth Employment

Counselling Centre, 531-4631;

•A.I.D.E.S. 323-1498;

• T7te Comer Drop-In, ,

964-8747;

•The Youth Arcade, Senior Drop In

920-8980;

•King Edward Daycare, 922-8705

• Harbowfront Childcare Centre

363-1370

University Settlement House

23 ~range Rd. at Grange Park, 598-3

Mustc school, recreation centre, dayca

ESL, employment and other social servii

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as good as any of them in

TwENTY BOATS. .

The boat you see here was

designed by Robert Bosley to be

used on Lake Michigan. It was

the one boat in the book that

interested me and my

grandfather. We plann~ o~

building it. But I left Wmmpeg

, to become a cadet on a

Newfoundland tug and then a

little thing like WW2 intervened.

But I had the book with me.

I've carried that book with

me everywhere I've gone for the

last sixty years. And I dreamed

of having her built.

by Hal Conroy . It's about to come true.

Alongside is a picture of anctent

history--1935 to be exact.

It's from a book called HOW

TO BUILD TWENTY BOATS

published in Chicago back w~en

I was 15. it cost SOc, today 1t

would cost probably $15-20 and

from what I see of modem plans

My friend Jerry Pelletier

and 1 are going to build the little

1311 2 footer for anyone who has a

couple of thou.sand bucks--

however if their are any embryo

boat builders among my readers

who would like to build this boat

for themselves just send me a

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SCAit

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CAaiN CRU15£R--.,

couple of bucks for mailing and

I will send you the plans.

A simple boat to build, little

argosy is a flat-bottomed rowboat

with a cabin. she is a safe boat

and designed for inshore, smalllake

and river cruising. she is

ideal for someone who wants a

(By the by, it may be of

interest to you to know that you

could build this 131/2 foot cabin

cruiser for $45. back in 1935).

A•B•C

TAX SERVICES

Accounting, Bookkeeping.

and Consulting

An Business & Individual Returns

Best Rates including Bookkeeping

Computerized Results

Direct Deposit Refunds

Electronic Filing/environmentally

friendly

For fast service call 532-5469

Note: Anyone who knows of a

good warm garage/workshop

Anthony Brett Campbell .

with wide doors, power and

boat, who hasdn't got much light, and reasonable rent, for .

money, or room for a big boat, Jerry and me to build in, call the 11 Temple Ave., Suite #6

and the boat can be driven by as DRUM at 363-3786 and leave a Toronto, Ontario M6K IC7

small as a 5-hp outboard. message for me. Hal. (416) 532-5469

bikes -,on wheels

A WORKERS' CO-OP

Pre-cycled bikes bought and sold, repairs,

classic bikes, new and used parts and

acessories, customizing and rentals.

Finandal Ser-.i~es

A.B.C. Tax Services,

II Temple Avenue, Suite #6

532-5469 - contact Brett Campbell

Tax return preparation and bookkeeping.

Local Employment

& Trading System

974-9555 Nonprofit community barter

network that works to create sustainable

local economies. LETS allows people to

meet their needs outside the cash economy.

1\Ietro Credit Union

(formerly Unicoll)

245 College, 978-5505

Still your full service banking altemative

Queen Financial Services,

744 Queen St. W.

(at Niagara), 504-0254

£-File or regular tax rewms starting at

$25. Certified bookkeeping and

accounting, personal or corporate. Drqp in

or call.

Plants & ·• 1

A Thousand

Leaves and Plants

538-9789

Gardening inside & out.

Free house calls.

GJve your old racing bike

ci''new life wider tires

straight handlebars

new brake levers

thumb shifters

A

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691f2 NASSAU ST

Kensington Market

599-8799

rs.

Ilouse and lloJue

Terry Cooper, Home Cleaner

Dear sir or madam,

I do all house and apt. chores, paint,

fix, plant care and more. Please call

656-2414. P.S. I clean offices and other

businesses too.

CAAM United Hardware

160 Augusta, 598-8195

Ten years in the community.

Open Sunday

Locksmith & Safemen

38 Baldwin, 597-1212

Builder's and Locksmith Hardware.

Leading brands

Miramar Furniture &

Appliances Inc

244 Augusta Avenue, 368-2093

Everything for the home at low prices.

Mould's Custom Carpentry

Your neighbourhood specialist

Free estimates, finish carpentry, cabinetry,

outside work, no job too small.

Call Melvyn Mould, 381-6046

Neil N Wright

Real Estate Ltd.

94 Harbord Street, 961-1698

Respectable! Reliable! Responsible!

Paul Oberst, Architect

201f2 Bellevue Avenue

For all your building projects and

problems. Design consultation, pennits and

review of constmction. 862-2716. No

charge for our first meeting.

Reingewirtz

Paint Stores Ltd.

107 Baldwin, 977-3502

Paints, varnishes and imported wallpapers.

Pets & Vets

Annex Animal Clinic

716 Bathurst St. 537-3128

Medical, diagnostic, surgical and dental

facilities. Parking

Annex Pet Supplies

718 Bathurst St. 588-1925

Specializing in pet nutrition. Next to Ann~

animal clinic. Open Sundays.

Pet Vatu

339 College (at Augusta)

Discount pet food and supplies. For

infonnation, call Anny 944-0314.

Services

Dinoris Leather Clinic,

303 Augusta, 968-0890, fax 323-1828

Repairs, alterations, new linings, new

zippers, cleaning.

Samko Coin Laundry

150 Augusta, 595-5277

Clean and Friendly, 7 days a week.

Dry Cleaning Too!

Spadina West Postal Outlet

576-578 Dundas, 593-0612

Full service retail postal outlet. Fax and

photocopying.

Sun King Cleaners

576-578 Dundas,-593-8885

Quality Dry Cleaning, Repairs and

Alterations - Fast!

Sun One Hour Photo Lab

310 Spadina, 591-9307

One hr. processing, cameras, accessories,

passport photos.

Wringling Electronics Services

1860 Queen St. East, 698-9767

Recycle by Repairing! Radio, Hi Fi. VCR

and video. New & Antique. Sales and

service. Spacious new premises. Same

great service. Come across town and see

us.

We're

·Moving!

But ••.

... JUSt a

few steps

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by Allan Pulker

Satisfaction times six:

Friday, November 4,

the English medieval vocal

ensemble, The Gothic Voices, in

its Canadian Debut at St. Paul's

Church presented a programme of

two, three and four-part

compositions - rondos, virelais

and ballades - composed in the

fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,

~orne by relatively well-known

figures, like Machaut and Dufay,

others by less known composers,

such as Solage, Cesaris, Cordier,

Morton and Enzina.

Literally half the program

consisted of compositions by

anonymous musicians. Besides

the fact that all the music they

sang was secular, mostly songs

about unrequited love (things

haven't changed much, have

they?), its technical difficulty was

remarkable, and indicative of a

highly developed vocal art five

and six centuries ago.

To the Gothic Voices, no

technical difficulty was too great,

as they performed consistently

with ·a practically unsurpassable

~erfection - their rhythm,

intonation and dynamics had been

carefully and artfully worked out

to a point where they could

hardly have been better.

Congratulations to the Toronto

Early Music Centre for bringing

us the Gothic Voices.

Sunday, November 6

two days later, the choir of

Christ the Saviour Russian

Orthodox Cathedral, under the

direction of its new conductor,

Galina Belov, with guest

conductor, her predecessor.,

Sergei Boldireff, presented a

programme of music of the

Russian Orthodox Church. Ms.

Belov, who came here from

Russia two years ago and who is

a demanding, dynamic and, at

times, exciting conductor, called

from her singers an impressive

energy, attention to detail and a

dynamic range.

Indeed, one of my usual

complaints about choirs in general

is that they seem chronically

incapable of producing a true

pianissimo. Finally, in this

concert I heard a true pianissimo;

there is something incomparably

exciting about hearing fifty voices

produce a sound barely louder

than a whisper. Of course, when

the whisper becomes a · gradual

and controlled crescendo that

grows into a full-voiced

fortissimo, as occurred several

times in this concert, the effect is

breath-taking!

Just a few days later

another church choir, the choir of

the Church of St. Mary

Magdalene, gave a concert under

the direction of Dr. Robert

Hunter-Bell and assistant

Healey Willan's compositions, as

one might hope, were definitive.

The alto section is to be

especially commended for its

strength, resilience and

expressiveness, qualities shared

but to a lesser degree, by the

other sections.

Sunday evening,

November 13,

pianist-composer, Alice Ho; with

violinist, Carol Fujino, cellist,

David Hetherington and pianist,

Winnie Yeh premiered eleven

new works by Canadian

composers, in celebration of the

thirty-fifth anniversary of the

Canadian Music Centre.

I was unable to attend, but my

colleague, Anne Chan went and

reports "It was an evening filled

with a kaleidscope of sounds - the

type that tease your ears and

stretch your imagination." She

also enjoyed meeting and talking

to the performers and composers,

but lamented the absence of

melody in their work.

The evening of Friday,

November 25,

the University Settlement House

Music School presented an

evening of Italian music,

performed by its students,

teachers and guests. If the quality

of the playing by Christoper

Doan, who played the piano with

a facility and maturity beyond his

ten or so years, is any indication,

then the music school and

teacher, Tania Lee Osmond, are

doing a fine job.

Another student, Cheryl Joseph,'

sang two love songs with an

entirely appropriate tenderness,

sensitively accompanied on the

piano by Tania Lee Osmond.

Other highlights were baritone

James Westman, who sang with

beautiful diction and great style -

totally engaging! Soprano, Linda

Karry, who, with mezzo soprano,

Margaret Ball, performed

Rossini's riotously funny Duetto

Buffo di due Gatti (the funny two

cat duet) sang with flawless

intonation and perfect control.

Her acting too, subtle and

understated, done mostly with her

eyes alone, was both entertaining

and supportive of the music. Che

Anne Loewen's accompanying in

these and other pieces was

superb, imbued with an energy

James R. Tennyson

Certified Piano Technician

dedicated to the support of the

soloist and yet retaining its own

character without ever getting in

the way.

Friday, December 2nd

was my last event of the month at

St. Patrick's Church, where the

Elmer Eisler Singers, the

MacMillan Singers and the

Toronto Children's Chorus

joined forces to present an

evening of choral music for

Christmas.

In the first half of the

programme the Eisler and

MacMillan Singers combined to

present Wie Schoen Leuchtet Uns

der Morgenstern, by Praetorius,

four Motets for the Season of

Christmas by Poulenc, and twelve

carols composed or arranged by

Canadians. Five of these were

composed for the Amadeus

Choir's annual carol-writing

competition. ·

The Praetorius composition is a

magnificent work in nine parts,

that conveys with fervour not

only the message of the season

. but also what lwould term the

possibility. of the Christian

experience. The acoustics of the

building, unfortunately,

diminished its impact, turning the

density of the texture into a1;1

aural blur.

The Poulenc motets came,

therefore, as ·a relief, their more

open textures navigating more

readily the acoustical ravages of

the environment. It was possible

to appreciate the finesse with

which all the singers treated all

details ofarticulatiori, rhythm and

intonation. I really cannot even

imagine a better interpretation of

these motets than I heard that

night.

The combined choirs sang the

Canadian carols with equal

polish. These short but delightful

compositions conveyed the

musical vitality of our country,

and I thank Dr. Eisler and his

singers for including them.

The Toronto Children's

Chorus, directed by Jean

Ashworth-Bartle, then joined the

Eisler and MacMillan Singers in a

performance of "A Boy Was

Born", an early work by

Benjamin Britten. It was a

superb performance, that made

me appreciate more than ever

Britten's incredible imagination

and originality.

Best of all, while the

complexity is there, the utter

-melodic and tonal originality,

never overwhelms the text,

always serves the underlying

emotion and atmosphere.

To return to the performers,

who put themselves with such

commitment in the service of the

music, their labour was

acknowledged with a standing

ovation by the audience.

Bra vi!

conductors Stephen Halloway and

Andr~w Agar. This is~ lo~g

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esta~hshed chor~l orgam~tiOn, 335 Markham Street, Toronto, Ontario M6G 2K8

and It sang consistent_ly With a. . 967-6653

superbly blended, relrable styhsttc '"'" •

sense. Its interpretations of

Classical heaven

on $100 a month

This time "Classical Heaven"

spans about six weeks, so I've

upped my budget to $1 03!

•I'd like to hear the conjunction

of five of Canada's top recorder

players at the Church of St.

George the Martyr on Sunday,

December 18 at 3:00. They will

be performing on a matched set of

Renaissance recorders 16th

century settings of music for the

festive season by composers such

as Tye, Gibbons, Praetorius, Senfl

and Isaac. Ticket prices are $14.

and $8.00 (Students, seniors,

unemployed).

- •The very next everiing, Monday,

December 19, a group called the

St. Andrew Chorale will be

performing "A German Baroque

Christmas", music by

Hammerschmidt, Buxtehude,

Pachelbel and Bach, for choir and

orchestra. This is at St. Andrew's

United Church, 11 7 Bloor Street

East.

•After this the concert scene is

quiet until about the second week

of January. On Tuesday, January

10 at 8:00 Benjamin Butterfield, .

described in the publicity as " .. ,

one of the most exciting young

tenors in Canada today" will

perform music from the French

Baroque period with Les Coucous

Benevoles at the Glenn Gould

Studio. Ticket prices are $15.00

and $10.00.

•Saturday, January 14 will bring

harpsichordist, Maria Ezerova, to

the stage at Eastminster United

Church, 310 Danforth Avenue,

playing works by Royer, Couperin

and a Scottish composer, W.

Kinloch. Admission is $14.00,

$8.00 for students and seniors.

•Monday, January 16 at 8:00 in

Walter Hall a woodwind quintet

(flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and

horn). the Meridian Ensemble will

perform works by Beethoven,

Holst, Villa-Lobos and Poulenc

with pianist Kent McWilliams.

Admission is $15.00.

•Saturday, January 21 at 8:00,

also in Walter Hall, flutist par

excellence, Susan Hoeppner, w ill

· b~ playing works by Berio, Villa­

Lobos, J.S. Bach, Crumb and

Hanson, solo, with piano and

with string ensemble.

•Friday, January 27, the Toronto

Consort will be back, this time

with "Hidden Treasures" from the

Renaissance, little known works

by Dutch, Jewish and Scottish

composers. This will be at Trinity­

St. Paul's Church. Admission is

$20.00 and $15.00.

•There are also a couple of free

noon hour concerts in Walter Ha ll:

Thursday, January 19, U. ofT.

jazz ensembles at 12:10 and

Thursday, January 26, student

chamber ensembles, also at

12:10.

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Christmas Eve Dec.24 7:30 P.M.

Candlelight Service

Christmas Day Dec. -25 10:30 A.M.

New Year's Eve Dec. 31 11:00 P.M.

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ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH

THE REDEMPTORISTS

141 McCaul Street

Toronto, Ont., Canada

MST 1W3

Telephone:: (416) 598-3269

Dec. 15: sacrament of reconciliation 7-8pm

Dec. 19 & 23: celebration of evening prayer 5:05 pm

Christmas Eve: 8pm and midnight;

Christmas Day: 8:30am & 12::10pm

Jan. 1: 8:30am & 12:10.

ST. PATRICK'S PARISH COMMUNITY WISHES

YOU JOY AND PEACE IN THIS HOLY SEASON

C H R I S T M A S IN B E L L W 0 0 D S

St. Matthias Church

(Anglican)

45 BELLWOODS AVE.

366-6720

Dec. 24:

4:30Pm,

Children's Mass

& Mummer's Play

11:00 Pm,

Christmas Tableau

by Sound Image Theatre

and Midnight Mass

Dec. 25:

10:30 Am Sung Mass .

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The Church in The Great Hall

1087 Queen St. West (Southeast Corner of Queen & Dovercourt).

Worship at ll:OOa.m. Sundays. Dress casual. 533-3241.

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College Street United

(Colleg.: & Bathurst), 929-3019

A wam1 welcome awaits you.

The Quays

Community Church

1087 Qu.:en Street West(comer of

Dovercourt and Queen) 533-3241

Sundays at 11 am a new community in your

community.

St. George the Martyr

197 John Stre.:t, 598-4366

Sundays 9:30 and 11:00 am. Loving our

neighbourhoods

The Church of St. Mary

Magdalene (Anglican)

477 Manning Ave. (at Ulster)

531-7955

Sunday Mass, 8:00am, 9:30am, ll:OOam.

St. Matthias' Anglican

45 Bellwoods Ave., (6 blocks west. of

Bathurst, I block north of Queen),

366-6720

Serving Trinity-Bellwoods and Niagara

since 1873.

St Patrick's Church (Catholic)

141 McCaul Street, 598-3269

A caring Catholic community

St. Peter's Catholic

840 Bathurst Stre.:t (jusl north of Bloor)

534-4219.

Sunday mass: Saturday 5pm, Sunday 9am,

]0:30am, noon, 7pm.

St. Stephen

-in-the-Fields (Anglican)

103 Bdlevue, 921-6350

All are welcome.

C H R I S T M A S IN B E L L W 0 0 D S

Service begins Sunday December 25 at 11:00 am

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Chiesadi 5. Pietro·lgreja de 5. Pedro· Iglesia de 5. Pedro

659 M a rkham St.

. Toronto.Ontario M6G 2M1

Christmas Masses:

Dec 24: 8:00 p.m. English

Midnight Four Languages

Dec 25 9:00 a.m. Italian

10:30 a.m. English

12:00 noon English

2:00 p.m. Portuguese

5:00 p.m. Spanish

(416) 534-4219

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477 Manning Ave. at Ulster St. 531-7955

Sunday 18 December 1994: ADVENT IV

. 8:00 am Low Mass, 9:30 am Sung Mass - Modem Rite

11:00 am Solemn Mass with music of Palestrina

4:00 pm Neighbourhood Christmas Carol Sing-a-long

Saturday, 24 December: CHRISTMAS EVE

- 11:00 pm Solemn Mass & Procession with music of Victoria,

followed by Reveillon

Sunday, 25 December: CHRISTMAS DAY

8:00am Low Mass; 10:00 am Folk Mass (Children most welcome)

Sunday, 1 January 1995

8:00am Low Mass; 9:30am Sung Mass- Modem Rite

11:00 am Procession & Solemn Mass with music of Willan,

followed by New Year's Day Levee. Everyone welcome.

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by Virginia MacDonnell

CHRISTMAS/CHANNUKAH

SOLSTICE SHOPPING:

•Uniqt,~e and fine art gifts are a

welcome alternative to the mass

merchandizing in malls. Instead of

buying something safe and usual,

take a chance on something truly

reflective of the person for whom

it is being bought. And in case

you are worried your budget

doesn't allow for such a purchase,

these suggestions should help

•Gallery Gabor is hosting a group

show featuring paintings,

drawings, etchings and collages.

Works are priced from $50-$250.

•Art Auctions are becoming

extremely popular and there are a

number of them taking place this

month. "Artfair" hosted by Cold

City Gallery (nothing over $1 00),

the "Mistletoe Magic" auction at

the John B. Aird Gallery and the

9th Annual Miniature Auction and

Art Sale at Gallery 788 to name a

few.

• The "Artist Proof and Sale" at

Open Studio offers original prints

with nothing over $200. Gallery

44's "Annual Mini-Print Show &

Sale" features framed 8" x 10"

original photographs for $44 each.

The Craft Gallery's "Holiday

Collection" will run until December

24th.

•Mariposa Stained Glass has

windows, lamps and clay and

ceramic decorations ranging in

price from $6 to over $600. They

will also custom design any

stained glass item which you

might want.

• Wonderworks offers small

s~atues, unique jewellery and

beautiful objects, which are all

inspired by a love of the· earth and

harmony in the universe. From

Celtic window decals that are a

couple of dollars to more

elaborate art

• Native Arts & Crafts Sale: There

will be a TWO DAY SHOW, Sat.

Dec. 17 & Sun. Dec. 18 at the

Native Canadian Resource Centre

of Toronto, 16 Spadina Rd.

(north of Bloor). 1 Oam to 4pm.

Authentic Foods, Turkey Raffle.

Everyone Welcome.

BE NICE, SLICE SOME ICE!

•Once again the City invites

professional and amateurs to take

part in the annual Ice Sculpture

Competition on Nathan Phillips

Square, December 28-0.

Trophies and cash prizes of $500,

$300 and $1 00 for amateurs &

pros. For more information call

(416) 392-7902. Registration

deadline is Friday, December 16.

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THE MIXMED

STUDIO

GALLERY:

Within the "art world" itself, one

can see evidence of

compartmentalization. The

musician may not know film, the

poet doesn't know painting and

the sculptor doesn't know dance.

In the 1920s Picasso, Stein and

Stravinsky would meet in cafes,

sip coffee, swig brandy and

discuss art, culture and everything

in between. By meeting with

each other they had a chance not

only to further define their

particular craft but to do so by

interaction with fellow artists.

There really hasn't been a place

which has filled that need for

artists in present day Toronto.

Vladimir Nikolic hopes to provide

just that though.

In a pre':iously industrial space

at College and Bathurst the

Mixmed Studio Gallery is set to

become a meeting place for artists

of all sizes and persuasions.

It's divided into three large

rooms. The first houses a bar,

eclectic furniture and

knickknacks, a totem pole,

woode_n monkey and large black

book case. It's a place where

you could sit alone, with three

friends or circulate amongst 100

and always feel comfortable. It

lends itself naturally to a

comfortable ambience. There are

large windows, and paintings .

decorate every wall.

The next room over is used for

performance. It's darker and

slashed down the middle of the

ceiling are vibrant red, green and

tangerine lights. A small stage

provides performance space for

poetry readings, plays and bands

for late night parties. The third

section is devoted to Nikolic's

worlffoom and display area for

the Incredible furniture he both

restores and creates, under _the

name of "Iron Fist".

CATHERINE CARROLL)S

POTTERY STUDIO

ORIGINAli-IANDPAINT[D POTT[RY AND Til[~

((CHRISTMAS SALE))

December.z DaHcv

I O:OOam to 6:OOpm

Thw:zsoa;y onl;y - ll:OOam to 9:00pm

WE CARRY A SELECTION OF

UNIQUE HANDPAINTED TILES

BY CANADIAN ARTISTS

60S Mankbam Stneet, Minoisb ViLLage, Tononto

1-416 -S16 -47 9 2

Donations for the Toronto Food Bank are welcome!

Pottery Classes Available

The Mixmed Gallery, which

opened in October 1994, is

already establishing itself as the

place to go for interesting times.

On a regular basis events as

divergent as a French opera,

Egyptian theme night or an

African Drummer's CD release

party will be held.

On the third Sunday· of every

month the Les Amis Concert

Series will host a workshop. And

during February and March the

Late Harvest Journal of Creative

Culture will hold its "Festival of

Creative Culture" featuring visual

arts, film, dance, music and

poetry.

From A·Z.

there's morel

See our DlllECTORY

INDEX

on the bat!k a e

·-:: ............... ... :::: ... ·= . .::·

A SPACE 364-3227 183 Bathurst

To Dec 17 "Unforgiven"

Jan 14-Feb 25 "Time, Space, Realities"

JOHN B. AIRD GALLERY 928-6772

900 Bav

Dec 8-Dec 31 "Royal Canadian Academy

of Art"

Jan 3-28 "The Eye of the Beholder"

opening Jan. ~th.

ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA

905-896-5088 300 Citv Centre Drive

Dec 15-Jan 21 "Vi-sual Arts Mississauga:

17th Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts"

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO

977-0414/979-6648 317 Dundas W.

To Dec 31 "The Barnes Exhibit"

To Jan 8 "Perspectives 94"

To Jan 15 "John Gutmann: Portfolio"

To Jan 22 "Satisfying Companions"

To Jan 22 ..!: Line and Form"

To Jan 29 "Bruce Nauman: Editions"

To Oct 29, 1995 "18th Century British

Landscapes and Portraits"

ART METROPOLE

367-2304, 788 King St. W.

Dec 3-Dec 24 "William Wegman"

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE 978-8398

Hart House, Universitv of Toronto

Dec 8-Jan 1995 closed

_ BAU-XI 977-WXJ 340 Dundas w.

Nov & Dec "Group Show: Gallery

Artists"

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To Feb 1 "New Works by Ted Godwin"

COLD CITY 363-6681 686 Richmond w.

Dec 19-Dec 21 "Artfair"

Jan 5-Jan 28 "Dyan Marie, Shirley

Yanover, Cathy Daley"

COSTIN & KLINTWORTH

363-7800 80 Spadina

Nov & Dec "K.M. Graham"

Jan 3-Jan 28 "Gallery Artists"

CRAFTS GALLERY 977-3551 35 McCaul

Nov 3-Dec 31 "Holiday Collection"

DELBELLO GALLERY 504-2422

788 King W.

Dec 4-Jan 28 "9th Annual Exhibition and

Sale of Miniature Art"

GALLERY 44 363-5187 183 Bathurst

Jan 7-Feb 11 "Cicatrix: Donna Nield"

GALLERY 788 363-9280 788 King w.

Dec 4-Jan 28 "9th Annual Exhibition and

Sale of Miniature Art"

GALLERY GABOR 534-1839

To Dec 31 "Group Show: Buzanko, Patt,

Boyd, Roberts, Doiron, Seigfreid, Mezei,

K. Rutherford, Aikins, R. Rutherford"

Jan 1-Feb "20 years in the Art Business:

From the beginnings on Prince Arthur to

Markham Street"

Ooen Studio

52.0 King West

a nonprofit artist-run centre; safe

qffonlable and well-equipped prinrmaking

swdios. Gallety on site featuring local

national and imemational primmakers.

Call 368-8238, M-F 9:30-5:00

Parentbooks

201 Harbord, 537-8334

(just e. of Bathurst). Boob on family

issues for pare/lis and professionals

Portuguese Book Store

86 Nassau, 364-7954.

Jomais, Revistas, Lh.,-os, Discos;

Porwguese Cook Boob in English

Tern II Art Supplies

363 Spadina Ave.

.-.IITS _._ LETTEIIS 596-6543,596-8513 (fax)

..t1l ~ !' Anist supplies for students & professionals

nooKS A STIJFF

After Dark Video

That Stoopid

Bookstore • Cafe

1043 Bathurst Street (2 blocks n. of 256 Augusta Ave, 944-3665

Bloor). 533-7500

We've moved! We're new and improved!

Cult, foreign, B-jlicb, indies, horror, Full menu, readings & entet1ainment. Call

altematives and new releases.

for info.

Catherine Carroll's

Wonder Works

Pottery Studio 79A Harbord, 323-3131 . .

608 Markham Street (Mirvish Village) Bo_oJ:s &_tapes on alternative healmg,

Christmas sale, December lOam to 6pm,

Thut~<day's llam Jo 9pm. Original hand-

~pmtuallty, ecology. _Also crystals,

;ewellery, natural skincare products,

painted pottety and tiles. Pottety classes herbals, 1eJton menstrual products.

available.

ComnJon Knowledge Books,

Etc. 602 Markham St. 539-8550

Wiele selection of "books for people. "

Coffee house, event space. Stmytelling,

special guests, crajis.

Checkerboard Gallery

204A Baldwin, 979-7254

Peter Matyas, Market Artist, Kensington

Artwear

Japanese Paper Place

887 Queen Street W., 369-0089

For paper/overs!

Metropolitan Cinema

Collt:g.: & Euclid (one light wcst.of

Bathurst) 323-3233

(24 hour infonnation line). Toronto's only

indeperuiem jirst-nm art cinema.

.1\fiki Toma, Photographer

593-0833

Promotional photography, digital photo

enhanceme11t, I can preserve, modify and

enhance any photo or snapshot.

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GARDINER l\IUSEUl\1

586-5858 !II Queen's Park

Until Jan 22, 1995 "Home Sweet Home:

Pastille Burners of the 19th Century"

GARNET PRESS 366-5012

580 Richmond W.

to Spring 95 John Abrams: Brute -

Outdoor Wall Mural

To Dec 20 "I Oth Anniversary Exhibition"

reopening March 1995

YDESSA HENDLES ART

FOUNDATION

941-9400 778 King W.

To Mar 31, 1995 "Bernd Becher and

Hilla Becher, Eddie Adams, Hanne

Darboven, On Kawara"

SUSAN HOBBS

137 Tecumseth 363-3699

Dec 1-Jan 15 "Ian Carr-Harris"

LEO KAMEN GALLERY 365-9515,

80 Spadina

To Dec 17 "Group Show"

Jan. 5-28 opening Jan. 14 "Jolin Kissick:

Ether Day and Other Stories"

Feb 11- "Gordon Rayner"

LAKE GALLERIES 863-5234, 624

Richmond W.

To Dec 9 "Lise Melhorn-Boe"

Dec 10- Jan 7 "Recent Acquisitions ­

Special Section Carl Beam"

Jan 7-Feb 3 "Mendelson Joe"

L' ALLIANCE FRANCAISE 922-2014

24 Spadina Road _

To Dec 17 "ChristopheBonniere: Ariege

Terre Courage"

MADISON GALLERY 365-7332 80 Spadina

To Jan 15 "Lui Liu"

Jan-Mar "Group Show: Gallery Artists"

MARKET GALLERY 392-7604, Front and

Jarvis Sts.

To Feb 5 "A Century Ago: Art in

Toronto 1890 - 1910"

MEZZANINE GALLERY, 392-1090, Cecil

Community centre, 58 Cecil Street

To January 31 "Recent Landscapes by

Maris Gailitis"

OPEN STUDIO 368-8238 520 King West

Dec 2-22 "Annual Open House and

Artists' Proof Sale"

Jan 3-28 "Ina Brekelmans: Dress Me Up"

(opening Jan 5)

POWERPLANT 973-4949

231 Queen's Quay W.

To Jan 8 "Kiki Smith"; "Vera

Frepkel: ... from the transit bar--";

"Stephen Schofield"

Feb 3-Apr 2 "Spring Hurlbut"; "Robert

Youds"; "Peter Bowyer: Future

Arrangement"

Hotly & Soul

Oracle Tearoom

596 St. Clair Ave. W.

653-4648

Reservations 11 :AM-til 9:PM daily. All

readings include free tea cup reading,

buffet refreshments, & cass.ettes.

RED HEAD 863-165-1 96 Spadina

To Dec 24 "Bridget Corkery"

Jan 3-Jan 28 "Gene Threndyle: The

Omnipotent Pansy"

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM

586-5858 100 Queen"s Park

To Dec 31 "Visual Journeys: The

Photography of Roloff Beny"

To Jan 2 "Art of the Persian Courts"

To Jan 8 "The Centre of Attraction:

Centrepieces for the Table";

to Spring "In the time of the Kayak";

To Jul 9 "Krieghoffs Canada: An

Artist's View 1844-1872";

indefinite run "A Canadian Portrait

Gallery"; "Bedroom to Boudoir"

RYERSON GALERY

368-2235 80 Spadina. Ste. 305

Dec 2-17 "5th Annual Student Show"

Jan 24-Feb 11 "Darby Goulden: In Point

Form"

SCULPTOR'S SOCIETY OF CANADA

GALLERY 21W 389 1st Canadian Place

Dec 6-Jan 13 "Themes and Variations:

Desmond Scott"

TORONTO SCULPTURE GARDEN

485-9658 115 King Street East

To Apr 15 "Bernie Miller: Cornucopia"

WOMEN'S ART

RESOURCE CENTRE

86Hl074 80 Spadina

To Dec 17 "Mary Paisley"

Jan 5-Feb 4 "Cindra McDowall"

WlYNICK!fUCK 364-8716 80 Spadina

To Dec 17 "Tony Urquhart"

Closed Dec 8-Jan 7

Jan 7-28 "Gallery Artists:: G. Curnoe,

G. Ferguson, J. Hall, L. MacKenzie, G.

Molinari, E. Penny, A. Stamp" ·

YORKQUA Y GALLERY 973 ~5319

235 Queen's Quay W.

ARTSEE: AROUND THE

GALLERIES

is free to our community's artists,

galleries, and art resource centres.

Next deadline is January 15 '95

Phone 363-DRUM

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Looking

Back and

Forward

Late in 1992, I launched this

column in the Drum. The focus

was to be owner-operated

bookstores within walking

distance of the Market; secondhand

dealers, because there were

so many, and because they sold

books at moderate prices, were

to have pride of place. By and

large, barring the odd digression

into politics· and science fiction,

I have kept to this theme.

Now, about two years since, it

is time to look back, to see what

has changed, what has remained.

Also, it is time to think about

books as holiday gifts.

Now as then, the area around the

Market (which for a reasonable

walker includes the University,

the Annex and Queen West)

supports many bookstores.

Though some have closed,

others have opened; and most of

the well-established ones are still

there.

In my first column, I wrote:

"It would be terrible if the

Market had its own second-hand

bookstore: I don't need anv

more excuses to spend money."

Well, that "excuse" has arrived.

As I wrote a few months back,

we now have 71wt Stoopid

Bookstore, also a cafe, at 258

Augusta. (I recommend the

chili.) And another store,

Common Knowledge, with a

wide spectrum of new books and

magazines including children's

books, has opened at 602

Markham in Mirvish Village.

We must count some losses,

Old Favourites, to escape the

value-added tax, moved to

Pickering; College Books, once

on College near Augusta, has

given way to ' a computer store,

and Abbey Books, on Harbord

west of Spadina, to a cafe.

Likewise the Book Factory on

Bloor near Bedford: it was a

restaurant years ago, and appears

to be on the way back to cafeite.

(According to a September 1994

article in Quill & Quire,

Abbey's former owner Brian

Spence has another bookstore in

Paris, France, which is alive and

well. Operating two stores

somewhat more than walking

distance apart can pose problems

of logistics.)

Since the death of Christine

Duff; long-time owner of Ten

Editions at 698 Spadina Avenue,

her daughter Susan has taken up

the torch; Ten Editions is still

open for business_,_ Live long and

prosper, Susan!

In general, owner-operated

bookstores have staying power,

Atticus and About Books, at 83

and 84 Harbord respectively, are

still offering readers a wide

range of used scholarly and

literary titles, including

languages other than English;

Annex Books, at 1083 Bathurst

just south of Dupont, still offers

its rich selection of used

Canadiana.

Seekers, at 509 Bloor West,

has always appealed to me

because it's in a basement.

Besides second-hand books of all

kinds, it stocks new and used

tapes and CD's, as well as new

titles on occult, myth and New

Age themes. Usually, it's a rich

source of used SF, fantasy,

mystery and horror -- except that

everyone seems to know this, so

the stock is sometimes depleted

in a hurry.

New-book dealers seem as

stable as second-hand. Pages has

been there for ages, at 256

Queen West, as has Bob Miller

at 180 Bloor West. Between

these two, and the U of T

bookstore at the corner of St.

George and College, it should be

possible to locate any new title

which qualifies as serious,

however scholarly or bohemian.

Book City is a new-book

chain, hence usually outside the

scope of this column. The staff

at their 502 Bloor West branch,

however, are pleasant and

helpful; they have interesting

bargains from time to time; and

they carry plenty of illustrated

books.

Also, back when the Ayatollah

Khomeini put a price on Salman

Rushdie's head, both Book City

and Pages did not just sell, but

displayed The -Satanic Verses.

Since the dangers of censorship

are always with us, their courage

must be remembered.

Longhouse, at 497 Bloor West,

is a long-established new-book

dealer which sells only Canadian

books. For both new and used

fantasy and science fiction, with

new books and magazines

predominating, Bakka is still

operating at 282 Queen West, as

it has for two decades.

Two long-standing rare-book

dealers, Steven Temple at 489

Queen West, and Abelard at 519

Queen West, are still very much

Sp.eak Freely

Others can't. Around the world, writers are imprisoned, tortured

and executed simply for what they have written. You can help

end this injustice by sending a generous

tax-deductible donation to:

PEN Camda, Suite 309, 24 Ryerson Avenue

Toronto, Ontario MST 2P3 (416) 860-1448

P E N

C A N A D A

FIGHTING FOR .FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

alive. Steven Temple is still

living up to its reputation for

modern first editions and

Canadian literature, especially

poetry.

This list is far from

exhaustive, reflecting my own

interests. I don't often have

cause to go to Parent Books on

Harbord, for example so I could

well have overlooked it. Everi

so, the list should give an

overview of what is available

and where :._be it for personal

pleasure, or for holiday gifts.

I think that in the future when

I write another retrospective,

there will be some losses, some

gains; but plenty of the old

standbys will still be there.

CLAIM

YOURlS

MINUTES

OF FAME!

TVO's show Imprint (airs

Thursday evenings) is about

books, ideas and they may

have a place for you as a

member of the live audience,

discussing books and ideas

with some of the most

engaging and provocative

names in literature.

Every Monday afternoon

Imprint transports itself to

The Left Bank, at 567 Queen

West. (A restaurant-bar.) So

join them for an afternoon of

Imprint. "Entertaining,

informative and fun" is the

promise.

For tickets and more

information call (416) 484-

2692 (Say you saw it in the

Drum). ·

BOOI( DRIVE

BOOKS NEEDED FOR

COMMUNITY CENTRE

If you have any extra books, our

drop-in centre would appreciate

a contribution to our new library

old books, new books, used books

Call 964-8747 or drop them off at

370 College St., 7:30am to 5:00pm

Merci, Jt,feegwetch, 11wnkyou, Afuchos Gracias

St. Stephen's

«"~'' e•1.. L Community House

DEADLINE FOR 1995

CITY OF TORONTO

BOOK AWARD

SUBMISSIONS

YOUR TORONTO PuBLIC LIBRARY

BRANCH BY BRANCH

•BOYS AND GIRLS HOUSE, 393-7746,40 St. George St.

•CITY HALL BRANCH, 393-7650

•COLLEGE/SHAW BRANCH, 393-7668,766 College St.

•NIAGARA-TRINITY MINI-LIBRARY, 533-7153, 155 Crawford St.

•PALMERSTON BRANCH, 393-7680, 560 Palmerston Ave.

•SANQERSON BRANCH, 393-7653, 327 Bathurst St.

•SPADINA ROAD BRANCH, 393-7666, 10 Spadina Rd.

•PUBLIC LIBRARY FILM DEPARTMENT, 393-7600,

40 Orchard View Blvd.

•OSBORNE COLLECTION OF EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS,

393-7753,40 St. George St.

•MERRIL COL(ECTION OF SCIENCE FICTION, SPECULATION AND

FANTASY, 393-7748,40 St. George St.

M UL TICUL TURAL SEASONAL CELEBRA liONS IN

TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY BRANCHES

DEC 1994, JAN/EARLY FEB 1995

* ALL EVENTS ARE FREE!

College/Shaw Branch

Monday, December 19, 1994 2:30pm

Portuguese Christmas for classes

•Introduction of Portuguese Christmas traditions

•Portuguese Christmas carols and stories reflecting the Portuguese

cultural heritage

Boys and Girls House

Thursday, January 26, 1995 10:00 am

Chinese New Year celebration for classes:

. Introduction of Chinese New Year traditions and Chinese folk

dance

Palmerston Branch

Saturday, January 28, 1995 2:00pm

Korean Dance Studies Society of Canada presents Korean New Year

traditions, Korean songs, dance and drums in celebration of Korean

New Year.

Everyone welcome!

the poet's corner

poem

by Degan Davis

I am sitting. in a chair at the library

Old men walk past with canes

the young fall over themselves

faces stumbling closed

Their expressions are loud

they fill the room

I sit reading poems

looking at the photos of those who've

spent their syllables

weaving their lives together

wondering if I have in my face

what they have

wondering about their smiles and

marriages and innocences and

the man to my right is dying

to talk

he keeps dropping words and names

to the librarian

Nostradamus

Mozart Puccini

She smiles after each one

and leads him to the shelves

his face reaching for any

chance

extraneous phrase

I am sitting in a chair at the library

reading poems

We are all silent

Words have failed us

pointing

Authors of fiction and nonfiction

boo~ evocative of

Toronto are reminded that the

deadline for the 1995 City of

Toronto Book Awards is January

30, 1995. These Awards,

totalling $15,000, are available

for adults' and children's books

that were published for the first

time in 1994. Send five copies of

each book to the Book Awards

Committee, c/o Communications

Division, City Clerk's Dept,

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New theatre season flies, then falters

(/)

by Dominique Russell

The now not so new theatre

season promised to be a good

one, judging from October­

November offerings at the

Tarragon and Factory theatres.

Both presented solid productions

of tightly and very well written

plays; ensemble pieces, about

friendship, illusory triumphs,

society: Digging for Fire

(presented by Paramour

Productions at the Factory) set in

Dublin, during the reunion night

of a group of old friends from

university; and Wild Pig's

production of Manfred Karge's

The Conquest of the South Pole

at the Tarragon, which follows a

group of unemployed men's

imaginary excursion to the

Antarctic.

Silliness, pathos

and power

Despairing of a routine that

consists of going to the Jobcentre

and hanging around prinking

Schnapps, Conquest's Scottish

group sets out to reenact

Amundsen's journey to the South

Pole, an adventure that included

robbing the "mountaineering

store", learning to cook and an

almost obsessive reading,

interpretation and re-reading of

the book that recounts the deed.

It's an imaginative set-up

from which both silliness and

pathos emerge. The ending is

particularly powerful,

contradicting the audience's

expectation of facile solutions.

Under Josephine Le Grice's

direction the cast gave fine,

understated performances. David

Jansen was especially compelling

as Slupianek, the leader of the

group, entirely believable, and

very human. Tamara C. Bink

was also noteworthy as "La

Braukmann". Indeed, the overall

calibre of the acting was very

high.

Andrea Lundy's set was

visually compelling, though I

think it might have gained from

more starkness, stripped to the

essentials to represent imaginary

spaces.

Karg's language -in Tinch

Minter and Anthony Vivi's fluid

translation - is a distillation of

everyday speech into its poetic

elements; it is simple and

natural, yet close to poetry in its

symmetry and repetition. The

play is also very carefully

structured, though it falters

slightly by having two new

characters introduced three

quarters of the way through the

second act.

But Karge's work is a

powerful imaginative

construction that centres on the

drama of ordinary life and covers

a range of emotions with nuance

and insight.

In sum, The Conquest of the

South Pole was satisfying theatre:

excellent writing given an

excellent production.

Gen x energy

and intelligence

The same can be said for Declan

Hughes' Digging for Fire, for

different reasons. Where Karge

works with poetry and imaginary

flights, Hughes stays close to

life. These characters, a group of

late twentysomething urbanites,

sound like people you might

meet anywhere. Rooted as they

are in Dublin, there is a

universal element to their

concerns and situation. No mean

feat, this, to get the relationships

and the dialogue so right, nor to

create a moving play from a

situation that's been done before,

a night bathed in booze and_selfrevelation.

But Hughes carries it off,

helped by the fact that the group

he is looking at has been largely

ignored. He deals not with the

stereotyped gen x slacker, but the

ambitious and Gmployed who live

in the boomers' shadow. That in

itself is gratifying.

It was also gratifying to see

the cast do so well, and have fun

with their roles, under Jeannette

Lambermont's sure direction.

There were a few wobbly

moments in the first act, but by

the second it really flew. Shawn

Doyle was excellent as Danny,

wholly embodying the part oLthe

rebel in the group. Lesleh

Donaldson and John Ralston also

gave noteworthy performances.

Mattea Golstein's set was

naturalistic almost to a fault, but

adaptable to the different

environments with a minimum of

fussing.

Digging for Fire was an engaging

and exhilarating; intelligent

entertainment to make you laugh,

and make you think.

"Third Land" misses

in spite of itself

The Third Land, (from Volcano),

now winding down at Factory's

Studio Cafe, tells of an encounter

between two displaced people.

She's from the countryside where

the best thing is that's it's a

beautiful place to be buried, he's

from somewhere apparently

rougher. The action takes place

inside the room where he lives

and waits for work.

Written by Susanne Fritz, a

young German playwright, the

play is skeletal in terms of

re~erence to place and time; the

dialogue is more often than not

opaque. In this first English

language production, translated

and directed by Ross Manson, it

feels built from the outside in.

The scenes are visually arresting

thanks to Jan Komarek's set

design and Laura Taler's

choreography

(It's unfortunate, though,

that a large part of the movement

takes place on the floor of the

stage; at the Factory Studio this

means that those who aren't

sitting at the front tables miss

most of it, no matter how much

neck-craning they engage in).

Waneta Storms and Nigel Shawn. ., -

Williams give fine performances,"---+--' "' ·~·"' 1

bringing emotional intensity and

depth to their portrayals. Storms

is especially good as a woman

whose romantic fantasies .are

always bubbling to the surface.

Rounding it off is Andrew

Miller's haunting music; as it

rises in the last scene, one wishes

there had been more of it.

All of these elements combine to

flesh out the text, or perhaps

even to compensate for it. The

production is decidedly high

quality, very polished,

impressive in its multi-media

combination and its daring to go

all out for mood. But the play is

essentially static, and the

impenetrability of the speeches

makes it ultimately unengaging.

"Nothing sacred,"

falls flat (and folds)

Theatre

briefs

Panda Dance Theatre

(see photo ~bove),

presents a

local and affordable Nutcracker

(with a 30-member cast) at the

College St. United Church (College

and Bathurst). Runs Dec. 16-21.

Info. 929-3019. (See ad on page

12.)

The sixth, annual

Kensington Festival of

Lights Solstice Parade

takes place Wed. Dec. 21 "with

an explosion of light in the winter

darkness" . Don a costume-and

join the parade at St. Stephen-inthe

Fields Church (College &

Bellevue) The parade leaves at

5.30pm sharp.

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YPT' s A Christmas

Carol Revived

Michael O'Brien's adapta-tion of

the Dickens tale, is reprised this

year. John Gilbert returns as

Scrooge but Kyra Harper directs,

leaving Maja Ardal to perform. It

runs until Decemoer 31 with a

PWYC Tuesday. Dec. 20 (tickets

go on sale that day at 11 :00) info:

862-2222.

Lampoon Puppet

theatre-magic

Lampoon puppet theatre

presents' a series of shows

including "Folktales from Around

the World" and "Monkey

Business" at the Palmerston

Library Auditorium Dec. 28, 29,

30, 31 at 10:30 and 2:00

("Clowning Around", pictured

here, on the 30th, morning only).

Also Jan. 7, 14, and 21.

The Theatre Centre

hosts R&D #29,

twelve performances and four

readings dramaturged by Brian

Quirt Dec. 7-20 8:00. Week 2

(Dec 16-18 features Fusion (what

happens to performers when the

tech~icians create the show) and

Laugh Laugh a night of comedy

and storytelling with Toronto's

funniest Black comics.

Theatre briefs

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Nothing Sacred

falls flat (and folds)

Nothing Sacred could certainly

have done with Volcano's visual

flair: one of the striking things _

about this show was just how bad

the set was. It looked like it was

made from leftover green garden

fencing, with panels riding up

and down obtrusively for no

obvious reason, leaving one

distracted from the performances,

puzzling over this gaudiness.

I'll admit, too, to being

puzzled by the play itself, why

George F. Walker would take the

subtlety out of Turgenev's

Fathers and Sons and play it as

farce. In this incarnation, codirected

by the author and Patrick

McDonald, the main character,

Bazarov, loses his youthful

excesses and political conviction

to become a mocking

troublemaker who wields irony

like a knife for the greater glory

of his own amusement. When he

says that it grieves him to cause

hurt, at least as Randy Hughson

plays it, it's hard to give any

credence to his sincerity.

The play as a whole is that: an

ironic distancing that sets aside all

emotional resonance in the pursuit

of a good quip. Mine is a

minority critical opinion, though.

Nothing Sacred has garnered

praise since it was first produced

in Toronto in 1988. (Note: I've

just heard the production has

closed, somewhat abruptly--just

before DRUM went to press).

Don't get me wrong. There was

a great deal right about the

production. Wit and humour, and

consistently good performances

with the comic characters coming

off best. Eric Peterson practically

stole the show as Pavel, the aging

dandy, rivalled by Sonja Smits

meaty Anna, a free spirit with

political ambitions and the object

of Pavel's misplaced affection.

David Storch was charming in the

central role of Arkady. David

-Fox excellent as his father and

Michael McManus suitably

ridiculous in the part of Viktor.

Randy Hughson's Bazarov, as I

mentioned, was not terribly

likeable, but he has charisma and

is always interesting to watch.

In the end, this was a show

theatre briefs

continued from page 16

Theatre Centre's

January Umbrella

7 2 performances of 9 new shows

come to the same space- ( 1 42

George Street) for Under the

Umbrella Festival, Jan 17-Feb 5.

Works by among others, Tabby

Johnson, Jason Sherman, Jessica

Runge and Alejandro Ronceria.

538-0630 for info.

Two from Buddies

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

presents Stains by new playwright

Danny Zambilowicz, described as

a "sexy black comedy" . Runs to

December 17 at 8:00.

Also at Buddies is a midnight

"scream play". Each night As You

Sleep I Destroy the World draws

its inspiration from horror films,

the Book of Revelations and the

Manson family. By Richard Feren,

directed by Stephen Seabrook.

Dates as above, at midnight. 12

Alexander St.

BROWN BEAR,

by George

Winnie the Pooh is back at Hart

House for the t}olidays, from

George Brown Theatre School

December 17 at 1:OOpm & 3:00

pm. Box Office 9787-8668

Eyes on Findley at

Passe M uraille

Upcoming at Theatre Passe

Muraille, the Toronto premiere of

Timothy Findley's The Stillborn

Lover from Jan. 12. The awardwinning

novelist's "return to

stagecraft". Top cast, tight play.

Tarragon times two

PUPPETMONGERS Powell return

to Tarragon for the '94 holiday

season with Tea at the palace.

Combining the allure of Russian

folklore with the magic of theatre

and puppetry. Tea at the

Palacehas played to sold out

houses for the last four years in

Toronto. Tea at the Palace runs to

J anuary 1. Matinees and

evenings.

And also from Tarragon

Last Respects "The relationship

between a troubled young woman

and her blissed-out, serene - and

very dead - 90-year-old Buddhist

friend ... incredibly funny and

touching." By Deborah Kimmell,

author of the 1993 comedy hit

Miracle Mother. Opening Tuesday,

January 3 at 7:30pm (previews:

December 28 to Jan 1 ).

worth seeing on the strength of

the performances, for the wit, and • .,.. --·

the charm of an evening of

commercial theatre. It was not for

purists, however, or those

expecting Russian soulfulness.

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DRUM's quest

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lndie 500

Janua1y 26 1995, DRUM kicks

our sputtering pop music

coverage back into high gear

with the start of a long look at

the INDIE music scene.

Colin Puffer sets the stage.

So, just what does the-term

"independent" really mean? You

read it all the time in the music

press. There are indie labels,

indie acts, indie distributors, indie

promoters, etc. Sometimes indie,

when referring to a label, is used

as an antonym of "major" (as in

Sony). Sometimes bands are

considered indie because they

aren't signed to a major label, but

they display aU the trappings of

big commercial acts -

management, agents, publicists, a

couple of successful Cds, and a

' national following. Often indie

seems to be just a synonym for ­

"cool".

Why then, you may ask, is the

DRUM planning to go indie in

it's music section - especially if

we don't know what the word

means?

There are a number of reasons,

some of them pretty obvious,

some obscure, and some that will

undoubtedly not be revealed until

a later time in the universe's

unfolding.

Most of the DRUM's music

coverage is already oriented

toward independent music.

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Craig, the Nationals, the Spits

and many other acts that are

Market-based or who have strong

ties to the area. So in some ways,

maybe we're just attaching a

trendy name .to what we're

already doing. In any case, the

Market generates more tunes per

square metre than any other part

of Canada and a good deal of that

music is certainly independent, by

some definition at least.

Another good reason to

concentrate on independent music

is the nature of our publication.

When you only come out once a

month (more or less) it's sort of

pointless to cover that Green Day

show at the Coliseum. It's been

hyped, dissected and forgotten by

the dailies and weekly tabs. Does

the world really need another

review of Green Day?

Maybe one of the best reasons

for focusing on independent

artists is to provide a service for

musicians and their potential

audiences. Sometimes being an

independent is almost like being

in a witness protection program.

It guarantees you total anonymity.

The DRUM itself is an indie

paper and we know how hard it is

to make ends meet. Independence

should not be a vow of poverty.

It is an approach to music, or

publishing or nationhood for that

matter. DRUM hopes to

to serve as vehicle to promote

independent artists. It is only

through exposure of these acts

and the ensuing ticket sales, CD

sales etc., that will enable

performers to retain their

independence.

So far we've been working with

the assumption that independence

is a good thing in itself. Well, is

it? That's another thing we hope

to address in these pages. DRUM

is tapping into the Net in January ­

and with this new tool at our

disposal we hope to open a

discussion on the benefits and

pitfalls of independence. Why go

the indie route? Is it just a

philosophical choice or are there

any real benefits to be gained

from it?

Should artists even be looking

for benefits, i.e. food, clothing,

accomodation, cool designer

drugs, and all those things that

most Canadian's expect? Or

should they be content with

husking for change in front of

European Meats? l)e starving

artist syndrome.

We don't ever expect to come

up with a final definition of

independence. That's not the

point. But examining the word,

and turning it over in our

consciousness, just may make us

better people, bring peace to the

world, end starvation and be a lot

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hr documentary

and lives!

01ristmas is coming with

Chanuka also still on the way as I

write but gone by the ti1ne you

read this. (Maybe Christmas will

be too!) Me, I'll be at the movies,

first run and repertory,from now

to the next DRUM at the end of

January.

What a month of Premier

Screenings this past one was.

•·ARIZONA DREAM with

Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway and

Jerry Lewis. Depp and Dunaway

give two brilliant performances as

dreamers with a quest who

confront sexuality, frustration,

suicide and death. The

cinematography is spell-binding.

and what a plot! 4 Silver Stars.

•KILLING ZOE Roger A vary

worked with Quentin Tarantino,

on RESERVOIR DOGS;

Quentin Tarantino moves up (or

down, depending on your view)

to Executive Producer on this

latest Roger A vary piece

KILLING ZOE like Pulp Fiction

is a comic book, comedy

nightmare adventure that will

have you retching in the aisles.

Probably one of the most violent

and thrilling story lines released

in a long time, it makes

RESERVOIR DOGS a walk in

the park. It's like SLEEPLESS

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FICTION, the other comic

book. In the vein of classics like

RAIDERS OF THE LOST

ARK. But very much its own

movie. John Travolta and U1na

171Unnan steam up the screen in

one of the most talked about dates

in Hollywood history. since

Bogart and Bergman in

CASABLANCA. Maybe the date

stole the show, but what the heck,

I'm a believer. 5 Silver Stars.

•And how about STARGATE,

an MGM Production. A science

fiction and adventure, great

imagination, moving storyline.

Hey, with Kurt (TOMBSTONE)

Russell as army man, James

(WOLF) Spader as scientist and

faye (Crying Ga~ne) Davidson

wearing an outfit that makes him

look and move like an ancient

Egyptian Michael Jackson, what

could go wrong? 5 Stars for the

Outfit, 3 for the film.

• And, yes, I went to

MONTANO at the Metropolitan,

the life and times of Yves

Montand, singer, performer and

actor, a documentary on his life

in his own words. His

relationships to the people he

· worked with, the famous and the

lovely--Edith Piaf, Simone

Signoret, Marilyn Monroe,

including very rare footage and

clips.

Yes, but two and a half hours

worth? in French with English

subtitles {do you know how hard

that is for someone like me who

doesn't like to read?) So am I

recommending it?

You better believe it. Or you

you will miss out on a fascinating

man and a fascinating life next

time it comes round. 5 Silver

Stars.

~

Closing Comments:

In the corning months in the first

run category I'm watching for the

following releases:

NELL (In Limited Release),

TRAPPED IN PARADISE, and

SPEECHLESS.

And at the Metropolitan

Cinema, College & Euclid (1

light west of Bathurst) I'm taking

in TANGO, PRIVATE

PRACTICES, SLACKER and

the Monty Python Double Bill, for

starters.

Finally, at the Bloor Cinema

Warner Brothers of Canada and

the Festival Cinemas have a

special presentation of THE

BUGS BUNNY CARTOON

FILM FESTIVAL from

December 16th to January 2nd,

1995. 3 weeks of cartoon

mayhem, something for the entire

family.

Happy Holidays.

ho ho h ..

o .. oh oh!

by Gerald Beeston

The Hectic Holiday season

is upon us again, and we all

get the impulse to check out

some festive films. Now of

course there are the old

classics or standards such as

"It's a Wondeiful Life",

"Holiday Inn", etc. and

newer run of the mill pulp

such as "Scrooged", "Xmas

Vacation", etc.

But what about

something different, darker,

weirder, perhaps even

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Burton of Beetle juice, Batman

and Frankenweenie fame weaves

a warped and wondrous tale of

Xmas gone bad . . Santa is

kidnapped by the Pumpkin King

of Halloweentown who wants to

do Xmas his way with some

rather disturbing gifts and

nastiness galore. It could be the

end of Xmas forever if someone

doesn't save the day. Filled with

a combination of computer

graphics, claymation, and stop

action effects that were nominated

for Academy Awards.

•The Ref 1993- 97 min. Denis

Leary steals the show and the

Xmas spirit in this dark comedy.

A cat b,urglar picks the wrong

chimney when he attempts to hold

up a couple with marital problems

and weird relatives· coming for

Xmas.

• Black Adder's Xmas Carol

1991 - 45 min. Rowen Atkinson

(Mr. Bean) as Ebenezer Black

Adder's sidekick Baldricks, and

Robbie Coltrane as the Spirit of

Xmas turn the classic Dickens

tale upside down and inside out.

They travel through Victorian,

·Elizabethan, and space age times

in this hilarious romp.

•The Silent Partner 1978 - 103

min. This is an excellent suspense

filled psychological thriller and a

Canadian film to boot. Starring

Elliott Gould, Christoph~r

Plummer and the late great John

Candy. Soundtrack by Oscar

Peterson. It's the holiday ·season

and all is merry until a Santa robs

a bank and a teller decides to take

a piece of the action himself.

When the stealing Santa figures

out he didn't get all the spoils he

stalks the teller to get his loot

back and the terror begins.

379 Spadina, 977-7000

Neighbourhood Bar. Mghtly

Entertainment

Heart Pizza

455 Spadina (at College) 599-1-599

Pizza, salads, fresh, fast, great value.

Delivery too

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Starring our own Margot Kidder

and filmed in and about the U of

T's dorm and campus this horrific

thriller is built on spine tingling

suspense. A homicidal psychopath

makes obscene phone calls,

stalks, terrifies and kills sorority

house members and as the days to

Xmas count down, the body count

goes up.

•Christmas Evil 1983 - 91 min.

It's Santa with a butcher knife in

this B-grade Xmas horror. When

a little boy our loser killer sees

mommy making it with Santa ....

he grows up seriously deranged

and working in ... you guessed it

.. a toy factory. He's got a list of

those who've been naughty or

nice and the naughty ones are in

big trouble. Better Watch Out,

Better Not Cry ...

Others worth a look with some

seasonal flavour are "Comfort

and Joy", "Santa Clause Defeats

Aliens", "Silent Night Deadly

Night series" "Die Hard" 1 and

2, "Misery", "Don't Open till

Xmas".

Oh, and do I need to add: Keep

in mind who you're watching

these with - particularly children,

or older relatives who may not

grasp the humour or spirit of

these flicks at family gatherings!

All videos reviewed here,

courtesy After Dark Video,

1043 Bathurst Street

Massimo's

302 College, 967-0527

Sit down, Pick-up, Delivery.

Pizza and Pasta Heaven

Pazzo's Ristorante et Cafe

505 College (at Palmerston) 921-9909

Come to the real creator of Pazzos

International

where food is an art, quality is a

guarantee, and service a pleasure.

Donuts and Diner

29 St Andrew Street (at Kensington) ,

Brealifastsfrom 6.30am!

Pazzo s Sandwich & Deli

Specials to midnight. 257 Augusta Avenue, 345-9373

, • • Sausage, burgers, steak, chicken, bacon

J?hn S ClaSSIC ltahan

on a bun. Always fresh, good, fast. The

P1zza & Cafe

crazy thing about Pazzo 's is the price.

591 College Street, 537-0598 R t' F t

lWI y ha ve any o ld p1zza. · Ge C'la · , o 1 ac ory

I a SSIC.

, 177 B a ld wm . Street, 340-9540

Jumbo Empanada

Fresh hot and delicious_! West Indian

251 Augusta Ave, 929-0353 roli and doubles. Jerk, curry, snapper,

Humitas Pastel De Choclo Vegetarian and other delicacies. Eat in or take out.

Kensington Kitchen Spadina Garden Restaurant

122-24 Harbord St. 961-3404 416 Spadina, 598-2734

Annapurna

Mediterranean specialties.

Szechuan-Hunan & Peking Cuisine.

Vegetarian Restaurant Open 7 days for lunch & dinner Fully licensed, LLBO '

1085 Bathurst Street, 537-8513

Mon-Sat, noon-9 (Wed noon to 6:30). Korinthean Diner

The Greeks (LLBO)

Indian food not available 3-Spm 79 Kensington Ave. 593-2537 1971/2 Baldwin, 597-8771

Newly opened! All home-made.. Greek and Canadian Food.

Brasil Restaurant

Brealifast-lunch-dinner eat in/take out. The Original Special Coffee

83 Nassau Street, 591-6476 '

Authentic Portuguese & Brazilian Food Kos Bar & Grill

The Second Cup

434 College Street, 923-1868 340 College, 323-3702

Cafe La Gaffe,

All-day brealifasl, cheap good draft, 7ired of the same old grind? Try ours.

24 Baldwin Street, 596-2397

Kitchen open Sunday 11-4 & 6-10.

large no-smoking area, families The Silver Dollar Room

Man-Sat 12-4 & 6-11.

welcome. 484 Spadina (at College) 964-2245

Casa Abril em Portugal

Kowloon Dim Sum

Toronto's holiest new club, serving up

5 Baldwin St. 977-3773

the best blues and food thi~ side of the

159 Augusta Avenue, 593-0440

Specialize in Dim-Sum, BBQ & Mason-Dixon line.

Fine Portuguese Dining

seafood. LLBO

Kwangtung Dim Sum

10 Kensington Avenue, 977-5165

Luncheon Special, UBO

Golden Finch Cafe

Last Temptation

2A Kensington, 598-1573/598-3664 I~ Kensington, 599.-2551

Hong Kong style cafe, all-day Dim Smful Food, Temptmg 7imes

Sum. 8 am-9pm. UBO. Free delivery . . The Market Bar and Grill

277 112 Augusta Ave. 977-5959

Grossman's Tavern

Come in for a good time. Pool, big

screen sports, music.

Vienna Home Bakery & Cafe

626 Queen St. W. 366-1278

Fresh fruit pie. Vegetarian soup.

Weekend brunch. Thurs. Fri. Sat. 10-6,

Sun. 11-4

From A-Z,

there's more!

See Index

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towels. Please drop.your

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WANTED: Do you have a

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disabled couple in Neighbours

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