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PHIN PARK FUN: Youngsters line up to get a high-five or a hug from the Easter Bunny, after the easter egg hunt held at Phin Park on Saturday morning.

Toronto police are looking for the public’s help finding a man wanted in conncetion with an attempted murder investiga-tion in the Thorncliffe Park area earlier this month.

According to police, Haaris Khan, 21, met with another man at 50 Thorncliffe Park Dr. on Monday, March 14 at 11:55 p.m., and an altercation took place between the two men

Police allege the other man was shot twice in the abdomen and Khan fled the area.

The victim is still recovering from his injuries.

Khan is known to frequent the Thorncliffe Park area, police said.

Police consider him to be violent and dangerous. Do not approach him if spotted, but call police at 9-1-1 immediately.

Anyone with information is

asked to contact police at 416-808-5300, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-8477.

Police seek manin ThorncliffePark shooting

Toronto police are looking for Haaris Khan in connection with a Thorncliffe Park Drive shoot-ing.

Eastern, a documentary film about Eastern Commerce’s last chance at win-ning a basketball championship before the east-end school closed forever, is set to have a private premiere screening on Sunday, April 3 at 7 p.m. at The Royal Cinema, 608 College St.

Admission to the event is PWYC with

a suggested donation of $5. All proceeds will be directed to Peoples

Basketball, a registered charity that provides boys from downtown Toronto access to elite subsidized basketball and life-skills programming.

Ryerson University’s Communications and Design Society is funding the screen-

ing. Eastern, which is directed and exec-utive produced by east-end resident Luke Galati, was initially screened at the Toronto Short Film Festival on Thursday, March 17.

For more information on the screen-ing of Eastern, please call The Royal at 416-466-4400.

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The Danforth East Community Association is looking for a few people to help clean up this Sunday. At least 10 volunteers are needed to help prep the park for spring and the farmers’ market.Email [email protected] for details.

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STICKHANDLING: The East York Bulldogs’ Ken Sortirou, right, stickhandles around a Unionville Jets defender during West Hill Minor Hockey Shamrock Tournament minor bantam action at Canlan Ice Sports on Friday. Unionville went on to win the game 3-0.

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The beat will go on as it always has – for two days – at the 28th annual edition of Afrofest at Woodbine Park.

Just more than two weeks ago, Music Africa, which runs and produces the event, issued a press release expressing discontent with the City of Toronto for its decision to reduce this year’s permit from two days to one due to excessive noise and time violations.

This news resulted in an outpouring of support for the festival.

Dozens of supporters emailed Beaches-East York Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon, whose ward is home to Woodbine Park, as well as Mayor John Tory to express their concerns about the decision.

In a matter of days, upward

of 5,000 supporters signed an online petition (www.ipetitions.com/petition/say-no-to-1-day-event-or-friday-to-saturday-dates).

Meeting held

In the end, a meeting was called for last Wednesday, bringing together mem-bers of the Toronto Music Advisory Council, staff from the mayor’s office, the Economic Development and Municipal Licensing and Standards departments as well as Music Africa repre-sentatives.

Later that afternoon, McMahon posted a joint statement on her website and social media announcing this year’s edition of Afrofest has been restored to two days.

“ C o u n c i l l o r M a r y -Margaret McMahon, the City of Toronto and Music Africa Inc. are pleased to announce

that an agreement has been reached to grant Afrofest a permit for July 9 and 10, 2016 in Woodbine Park,” it read.

“All parties are commit-ted to working together to ensure Afrofest is successful this summer and in future years.”

A f r o f e s t o r g a n i z e r s “acknowledge that there were some permit violations related to past years of the festival and the city admits to unclear communication regarding permit end times,” the statement read.

Afrofest, which started in 1989, is the largest annual African music festival in North America. It draws up to 60,000 revelers daily. For the past four summers, it has been held at Woodbine Park in the Beach. Up until 2011, the festival was held at Queen’s Park, but it “outgrew” that space and relocated to Woodbine Park in 2012.

Two-day event permit restored for Afrofest at Woodbine Park

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East Yorkers marked Agnes Macphail Day by celebrating Macphail and the community at the East York Civic Centre last Thursday night.

The Agnes Macphail Award Ceremony is held every year on March 24, Macphail’s birthday.

The annual award honours com-munity leaders making significant volunteer contributions to support issues that were important to Macphail, including women’s and seniors’ rights, criminal justice and penal reform, international peace and disarmament, and access to education, housing and health care.

This year’s winner is Patrick Rocca, who was honoured at the ceremony along with the winners of the 2016 Agnes Macphail Public Speaking Contest — Hayden Landolt and Olivia Walsh.

Olivia, a Grade 6 student at St. Anselm Catholic School, spoke about ending homelessness, while Hayden, a Grade 8 student at Westwood Middle School, gave a speech about lowering the wage gap between company CEOs and employees.

Rocca, unaware he had been nomi-nated, was surprised and embarrassed to find out he had won.

“I felt very, very honoured, and very humbled and somewhat embarrassed, because I do what I do not for rec-ognition, but for the giving back to the community and helping those in need,” he said.

“It’s not recognition that I’m look-ing for.”

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Born in New Brunswick, Rocca moved to East York in the 1990s. A local real estate agent, he has been a member of the Leaside Rotary Club for more than 20 years.

He also contributes to the commu-nity by supporting and volunteering with New Circles Community Services and Prostate Cancer Canada, among other efforts.

The Agnes Macphail Award comes with a monetary prize for the winner to donate to charity.

Rocca split his $3,000 prize between New Circles, Prostate Cancer Canada and the Leaside Rotary Club.

Last year’s winner, Muhammad Masood Alam, presented Rocca with the 2016 award. To have his name included alongside previous Macphail winners like Alam means a lot to Rocca.

“To be mentioned in the same breath as those people is very impres-sive and very humbling,” he said, adding Macphail was an incredible woman whose remarkable accom-

plishments he is also humbled to be mentioned alongside.

As well as an East York leader, Macphail was a political pioneer. She was the first woman elected to the House of Commons and one of the first two women elected to the Ontario Legislature.

The guest speaker at this year’s ceremony was former MP David MacDonald, who spoke about Macphail’s uniqueness. The VOCA Chorus of Toronto kicked off the cer-emony with O Canada and other songs, on what would have been Macphail’s 126th birthday.

Snacks and refreshments followed the ceremony. Local Ventures served as ushers, while local Pathfinders helped with the food.

New CiRCLes

Rocca became involved with New Circles approximately five years ago, through its prom boutique program that provides free dresses, suits and accessories for Toronto teens who can’t afford to spend a lot on an outfit.

Along with his son and daughter, he collects items for the boutique every year. Last year they collected more than 500 outfits. He also contributes to New Circles’ post-secondary scholar-ship awards.

He recently became involved with Prostate Cancer Canada, raising funds to support the organization’s Wear Plaid for Dad campaign.

He’s looking forward to furthering his support of the campaign this year, by challenging fellow realtors to get involved.

He contributes to local schools and student breakfast programs, and other community initiatives as well.

“I’m very proud of what I’ve done and what I can do to help those who need it,” he said.

“I get gratification out of doing what I do, and I don’t look for awards, or medals, or trophies or any of that type of stuff, but it’s nice to be rec-ognized.”

Prize money for the Agnes Macphail Award comes from community con-tributions. Tax receipts are issued for donations, which are collected by The East York Foundation.

Visit www.bit.ly/1SQL443 for dona-tion details and more information about the Agnes Macphail Award.

Patrick Rocca wins Agnes Macphail Award

Agnes Macphail Award recipient Patrick Rocca, left, and 2015 winner Muhammad Masood Alam take part in the 2016 awards ceremony held Thursday at the East York Civic Centre. Bottom, right, last year’s recipient of the award, Muhammad Masood Alam, right, presents Rocca with his medal. Bottom left, St. Anselm Catholic School student Olivia Walsh, one of the winners of the Agnes Macphail public speaking contest, delivers a speech about homelessness at the ceremony.

Photos by Michele Weisz

To be mentioned in the same breath as those people in very impressive and very humbling.

– Patrick Rocca, Agnes Macphail Award 2016 winner

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Money for transit, and possibly more for hous-ing. It was welcome news from Ottawa last week, when newly minted Finance Minister

Bill Morneau released the federal Liberal government’s first budget, and it included those two things.

Among other things, the budget pledged $3.4 billion in public transit investment across the country over the next three years. And an $11.9 billion infrastructure plan will allow for federal funding of housing.

Both of these announcements are good for Toronto, which needs major investment in both areas, and has for many years.

With the exception of the late former mayor Rob Ford, everyone occupying the Toronto mayor’s office has agreed that the federal government needs to engage in the direct financing of municipal needs – housing and transit in particular.

But mayoral advocacy has only ever achieved partial suc-cess, and often none at all.

Count this year’s budget as another partial win.

Toronto stands to get a size-able portion of the federal transit funding, as the allocation

will be based on ridership and the Toronto Transit Commission’s ridership is formidable.

But 26 per cent – the share that Mayor John Tory’s office estimates will come to the city on that basis – is still only $884 million. The Toronto Transit Commission’s state of good repair backlog currently sits at $2.7 billion.

Similarly, it’s hard to imagine federal infrastructure money, which will be divided more equitably, will get Toronto very far in completing the $2.6 billion repair backlog in Toronto Community Housing.

Will there be more money in future budgets? One might hope so, particularly as Prime Minister

Justin Trudeau and Morneau have signalled that they’re not going to be shy when it comes to running deficits higher than usual.

But we shouldn’t confuse hope with expectation, and Toronto needs to accept that it will be, at least to some degree, on its own – with maybe, just maybe, a bit more help from the cash-strapped provincial gov-ernment.

That means that later this year, when Toronto con-siders new revenue tools, councillors will need to look very seriously at the options. We’ve been given a boost. But we’ll have to climb the rest of the way ourselves.

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I’ve been thinking a lot about forgiveness lately.

Generally, the act of forgiv-ing is a healthy one. Carrying grudges, nursing old wounds, maintaining rifts is bad for the soul if you believe in that kind of thing, and for the digestion whether you do or don’t. It feels good to let go.

But in the case of Robert Bruce Ford, interred yester-day after his untimely and awful death at age 46, for-giveness becomes… prob-lematic.

It’s not that he didn’t beg our forgiveness.

When he was still mayor, before cancer struck him, Rob Ford offered a fulsome apology for the behaviour he exhibited while under the influence of his alcohol addiction. He went so far as to apologize on television, in the summer of 2014, where he accepted “full responsibil-ity” for his “poor judgement.” During that time, he’d been recorded saying an awful thing about his mayoral rival, city councillor Karen Stintz,

and he apologized for that.With that done, of course,

he launched into an eyebrow-raising stump speech for his bid to be re-elected mayor then left without taking ques-tions. But still: an apology is an apology, and it’s only good manners to accept it.

And even if he hadn’t apologized, there is still the generosity we all feel toward the terminally ill. Imagining ourselves at a dying man’s bedside, a long-held grudge becomes an unimaginable burden.

And so it feels good for us to absolve: to recall Rob Ford as a good bloke after all, whose sins were egged on by the demon rum; to conclude that he was simply the mayor that loved Toronto too much; and that through it all, return-ing phone calls and posing for selfies, coaching grateful high school footballers and hobnobbing with celebrities,

he somehow did great good for the city.

That this doesn’t square with the historical record is problematic. Indeed, it is significantly problematic, as our consideration of the Ford years is not simply a matter of the historical record.

In addition to a widow and two children, Ford leaves behind a political machine, in the form of Ford Nation: tens of thousands of people who supported him unques-tioningly, and a political heir, in the form of his brother, former councillor Doug Ford.

Earlier this week, Doug was front-and-centre at the visita-tion that the family requested be held in the Toronto City Hall rotunda, greeting well-wishers, embracing support-ers, and posing for the selfies with those in line to visit his brother Rob’s flag-draped casket. We all grieve in dif-ferent ways, but to onlookers, it seemed an awful lot like campaigning.

And in the context of campaigning, the narrative

of what really happened between 2010 and 2014 in the mayor’s office matters.

The truth of that is that Rob Ford stepped off a well-run campaign and into a job that he bungled from nearly the beginning. At some point, booze and other drugs over-took him and made things worse.

But there is little evidence that he loved Toronto enough, never mind too much, and plenty of evidence that drunk or sober, he despised significant elements of the city. His accomplishments – abolishing the car tax and the contracting out of some garbage collection – are few. The damage he did – to public transit, to the simple level of discourse – is considerable.

And for that, and many other things, he never once apologized. As good as it might feel to grant, forgive-ness is really not an option.

Trying to find forgiveness for Rob Ford

David Nickle is Metroland Media Toronto’s city hall reporter. His column runs

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featuredw Wednesday, April 6 Ask an Expert: Growing from SeedWHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: FreeMaster gardener Susan Lipchak will discuss where to get seeds, tools and equipment needed to grow seeds indoors, caring for seedlings, starting seeds outdoors, collecting and storing seeds – plus 19 great plants to grow from seed.

Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.east yorkmirror.com Read listings from your East York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto.

it’s happeningw Thursday, March 31Daffodil Month Volunteers neededWHEN: 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Loblaw Victoria Park Market, 600 Victoria Park Ave. CONTACT: Anika Austrie, 416-323-7152, myccsschedule.ca The Canadian Cancer Society is look-ing for people who can spare a few hours to sell daffodil pins in support of the its Daffodil Month campaign. Volunteers are needed March 31 to April 3, and April 7 to 10.

w Friday, April 1Community Variety ShowWHEN: 7 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Presteign-Woodbine United Church, 2538 St. Clair Ave. E. CONTACT: 416-755-8352, www.presteignwood-bineuc.com, [email protected] COST: $7, or $20 for a family of fourShowcase your talent or enjoy the talents of others. Auditions will be held March 30 from 6:30-8:30. Musi-cal talent, skits, dance, comedy and much more. Call or email to reserve your tickets.

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w Saturday, April 2Family StorytimeWHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Riv-erdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: FreeFor children from birth to age six and their caregivers. Registration not required.

w Sunday, April 3EuchreWHEN: 12:30 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, [email protected] COST: $6Everyone welcome.

KaraokeWHEN: 5 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, [email protected] COST: FreeBring your singing voice or simply come out to listen.

Be Smart OnlineWHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Leaside United Church, 822 Millwood Rd. CONTACT: 416-425-1253, [email protected] COST: Donations welcomeThis workshop provides a positive message of finding the balance when using social media.

w Monday, April 4After School Maker’s Club

WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Riv-erdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: FreeFor children aged 9 to 12. Registra-tion required.

Intro to Mindful Meditation Monthly ClassWHEN: 7 to 7:50 p.m. WHERE: In-sideOut Studio, 210 Laird Dr. COST: Pay What You CanBegin your journey toward greater health, balance and personal growth. You may choose to bring your own mat/pillow.

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Drop-in DartsWHEN: 7:30 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, [email protected] COST: $5Blind draw format and all are wel-come. All money returned in prizes

w Tuesday, April 5Heart HealthWHEN: 2 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memo-

rial Park Ave. CONTACT: 416-396-3975 COST: FreeWoodGreen Community Services presents a free information session on heart health.

w Wednesday, April 6Willowdale Group of Artists Juried Art Show and SaleWHEN: Noon to 4 p.m. WHERE: Todmorden Mills Papermill Gallery, 67 Pottery Rd. CONTACT: Margie Wagner, www.willowdaleartists.com, [email protected] COST: FreeShow dates: April 6 to 10; 13 to 17. Reception is on Sunday, April 10 from 2 to 4 p.m. Show hours: Wednesday to Friday, noon to 4 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 4:30 p.m.

Mixed Snooker LeagueWHEN: 6 p.m. to WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-425-3070, COST: FreeSpares welcome.

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Spring seems to be battling its way forward with on-again off-again appearances over the past two weeks. It is cer-tainly good to see the snow melt after the long winter that we have had.

Frankly, a sight that will be truly welcome is when the first flowers begin to poke their heads out of the ground.

Hopefully it will be nice enough out that I can start thinking about this year’s renovations and improve-ments upon my home and property. The big project last year was putting a new roof on the house and evicting the squirrels that were living there.

I wondered where they would find a new home, and now I know. They are back in my attic. So that’s the next project – humanely evict my unwelcome tenants.

Despite these small prob-lems, I have to say that over-all I am lucky. Much of this comes from living in a good neighbourhood that East York affords to its residents.

Truly, the foundation of a

good home starts and ends with the community it is located in.

The other day I was driv-ing through one of the newer communities that was being built up in the area north of Toronto. It was just a sea of houses all crammed together with no trees or character.

One of the reasons why I have such passion for the community that I live in comes from having seen what happens when people stop caring about their neighbour-hood.

I’ve travelled around Canada and the U.S. a fair bit, and I’ve seen neighbourhoods that are not fit to live in.

There is one thing that I will say in seeing these other places that are in a decline, and it’s that is poverty is not necessarily the cause of such living conditions.

If you want a cause, I would argue that a collective feel-ing of powerlessness brings

it about. We have been very lucky

here in East York and Leaside because people still take the time to fix up and repair their homes, and keep their yards looking clean and pretty.

I worry though because over all I am beginning to see some signs that something is not going well in the rest of the city.

If there is one thing that will quickly bring about vandalism and petty crime in an area it is when a sense of abandonment creeps into a neighbourhood due to its unkempt streets.

I really hope that after the debates about the city budget that have taken place our politicians remember this fact.

Let’s make sure that in the race to save money by spend-ing less, that our clean streets are not sacrificed for the sake of making the bottom line look better.

Take time to care for your neighbourhood

Joe Cooper is a long-time East York resident and community activist. His column appears

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Tickets cost $20, while admission is free for Syrian newcomers and children under 12.

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Rookie Liberal MPs Julie Dabrusin (Toronto-Danforth) and Nathaniel Erskine-Smith (Beaches-East York) said they feel the Liberal government’s recently released federal budget is a step in the right direction.

“I’m really excited about this budget because it really responds to what I was hear-ing at the door during the election and in the course of our pre-budget consulta-tions held in the community,” Dabrusin said during a recent interview.

“What’s nice is that a lot of the budget covers all of the

issues that were raised time and time again. (The Liberal government) is ready to invest in Canada and invest in our communities to make sure Canadians have a stronger future.”

The Toronto-Danforth MP pointed out some of the bud-get’s highlights, notably the various ways it helps fami-lies through increases to the Canada Child Benefit.

“It effectively creates an annual guaranteed income for children,” said Dabrusin, who also pointed to a $500 million commitment to early learning and childcare.

“It’s a really great way of helping families get money now to address their

needs.”She also spoke about how

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Dabrusin also mentioned how the budget benefits seniors, especially those receiving the Guaranteed Income Supplement.

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mum that’s payable for the most vulnerable of seniors. This will benefit almost a mil-lion seniors across Canada,” she said, adding the budget is also rolling back the eligibil-ity for Old Age Security to 65 from 67.

Lastly, she said the budget is dedicating $3.4 billion over three years to funding public transit across Canada, $1.49 billion of which will be directed to Ontario.

It also promises to invest $675 million over five years to the CBC, an issue Dabrusin said she often heard about while out canvassing.

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Beaches-East York MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith said the budget delivers on many of his government’s promises.

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“It also commits to fair-ness for Canadians, through increased direct funding for families with kids, making historic investments in First Nations communities, increasing GIS for low-income seniors, improving supports for veterans, and making post-secondary education more affordable.”

Erskine Smith went on to say that the federal budget fulfills many of its platform promises in this first budget including “its commitment to infrastructure investments in Toronto, its commitment to tackling climate change, and its commitment to Canadian arts and culture, including new funding for the CBC.”

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The late former mayor Rob Ford’s body lay in repose at Toronto City Hall Monday and Tuesday – and as had been the case in life, throngs of people who knew him, worked with him and just knew of him came to pay respects.

And the most heart-felt respects came from a group of young men who’d played football at Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School, where Ford had volunteered as a football coach.

“It was difficult coming into here,” said Deshawn Stevens, who’d played on the Don Bosco Eagles football team for four years under Ford’s tutelage.

“The man meant a lot to us – the time he put in on and off the field. It was truly special and truly valued, and brings back a lot of past memories that hurt. Thank God he can rest easy now.”

Ford died March 22 in hospital, after an 18-month battle with a rare and aggres-sive form of cancer. He was a member of Toronto Council at the time of his death, having served as mayor from 2010-2014, in a tumultuous and controversial term of office that brought international ridicule and finally saw coun-cil strip him of his powers.

At the request of Ford’s

family, his body was brought in a closed casket to Toronto City Hall’s rotunda, where he will lay in repose, for two days of visitation before a Wednesday morning funeral.

Ford’s family was in atten-dance, taking condolences from politicians, former colleagues, friends and just ordinary folk.

The Bosco team showed up in school jackets, near the front of a line that eventu-ally stretched outside into the damp Nathan Phillips Square.

Player Andre Laport said that the Rob Ford known through his behaviour inside and outside the political arena

was not the Ford his players remembered.

“Everything that the media put on him was always so bad and no one ever got to see the good he did for us as football players,” Laport said.

“He taught us the values of life. What to do after foot-ball. How to make it in the world.”

Mayor John Tory and members of council came to quietly pay their respects to Ford early in the morning before the event was opened to the public. Later, an old adversary, former Ontario Health Minister and 2010 mayoral candidate George Smitherman stopped by to offer his condolences.

Mourners pay their respectsduring Rob Ford visitation

Photo/ANDREW LAHODYNSKYJA view from the second floor inside Toronto City Hall as people pay respects to the late Rob Ford on Monday. Please visit us at www.eastyorkmirror.com for coverage of Ford’s funeral, which took place yesterday.

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Team Canada’s second train-ing camp for the 2016 Invictus Games has wrapped up at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre (TPASC) in Scarborough.

The camp, which ran from March 18 to 23, brought the athletes back for another round of training with Canadian Sport Institute Ontario.

“It’s been a really successful camp and everybody’s had a great time,” said athlete Mark Hoogendoorn during a media event at TPASC March 23.

Team Canada completed its first training camp in January. Thirty men and women will represent Canada in Orlando, Florida at the 2016 Invictus Games, taking place from May 8 to 12 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World.

This will be the second installment of the Games, which began in 2014 in London, England.

The international sporting event for ill and injured Armed

Forces members and veterans was founded by Prince Harry. The Prince, a military man himself, was inspired by an event in the United States called the Warrior Games. The third Invictus Games will be hosted in Toronto next year, from Sept. 24 to 30, Prince Harry recently announced.

Invictus means uncon-quered. It represents the unfai l ing spir it of the wounded warriors compet-ing. The Games celebrate the contributions of Armed

Forces members, while har-nessing and highlighting the power sport has to support mental and physical recovery and rehabilitation.

Athletes will compete in 10 individual and team sports at the 2016 Games — archery, swimming, powerlifting, indoor rowing, road cycling, sitting volleyball, track and field, and wheelchair bas-ketball, rugby and tennis. Hundreds of athletes from 15 nations will compete for medals at the event, while also

supporting and applauding each other’s performances.

Ho o g e n d o o r n , f r o m Grimsby, Ontario, is compet-ing in powerlifting, indoor rowing and shot put. The Canadian Army Master Corporal is both nervous and excited to be a member of Team Canada.

“We really want to bring back some medals,” he said. “First and foremost, we’re just going to go down, and have fun, and try to work as hard as we can. And if we’re fortunate enough to stand on a podium and bring a medal home, that would be a bonus to everything else.”

He added just being part of the team is awesome.

It’s a dream come true for Natacha Dupuis, who was a track-and-field champion before joining Canada’s Armed Forces. Dupuis, from Chelsea, Quebec, is competing in track and field and powerlifting. Training at TPASC has pushed her and Team Canada’s per-formance up a level, said the retired Canadian Army Master Corporal.

“This camp has been so awesome,” she said. “The team spirit’s been so great. We’ve been working so hard here for the past week, put-ting in hours and hours of training.”

She will be thinking of two of her heroes when she com-petes, Trooper Jack Bouthillier and Trooper Corey Hayes, who were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Dupuis has lived with PTSD since wit-nessing their deaths.

“For me, the Games repre-sents a lot of things. It’s really good for me and helps me in my ongoing recovery, but also it’s a good way for me to do something in their honour,” she said.

“It’s a great opportunity to represent my country at another level, and it’s been a wonderful journey.”

She hopes to bring back gold from Orlando, but noted the outcome doesn’t really matter, because the Games are about more than com-peting.

“It shows that we’re not forgotten, and it shows that

people see potential still in you. Even though we have injuries, we still have dreams, we still have abilities,” she said. “It’s a real positive event that creates a lot of awareness for the public, for the military and other injured that can maybe identify to us and find maybe a bit of hope.”

For the athletes, the excite-ment of this year’s Games is paired with the anticipation of hosting next year.

The Toronto Invictus Games will be the largest yet, with more sports, athletes and countries. A national torch relay visiting Canada’s 32 military bases, and neigh-bouring towns and cities, will bring the country together ahead of the Games. School programs will be launched, in partnership with the Rick Hansen Foundation, to fur-ther engage youth.

Prince Harry will visit Toronto in May to officially launch the countdown to the city’s Invictus Games.

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Team Canada’s Nicolas Meunier trains with his teammates at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre recently for the 2016 Invictus Games being held in Orlando, Florida.

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Uber is putting out the full-court press in support of expected new regulations governing rideshares in Toronto.

The city’s Municipal Licensing and Standards department will reveal in April a draft bylaw widely expected to formally legalize rideshare services such as UberX.

The regulations would likely require Uber drivers to be licensed by the city, have commercial insurance, be subjected to background and criminal record checks and generally submit to the same kind of municipal oversight as cabbies.

The bylaw must be rati-fied by Toronto Council, which could come as early as May’s meeting, but Uber has organized an online peti-tion, created a web video and is encouraging customers to contact councillors directly.

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T h i s w e e k t h e O P P announced it has expanded the number of collision reporting centres in the GTA to eight.

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Without much fanfare, the TTC this week launched express bus service.

As of Sunday, express or Rocket buses were running on Don Mills Road and Kipling Avenue. Also launched was the 186 Wilson Rocket between York Mills station and Humber College .

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