Don Valley West


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Mayor Tory serves up free-breakfast initiative

The program director at the Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office applauds Mayor John Tory’s initiative to provide free breakfasts to Toronto-area grade school students, but believes the program doesn’t go far enough.

In 2014 the Government of Ontario released a poverty reduction strategy; it included $10 million made available between 2014 and 2019 to reduce poverty in Ontario communities. On Monday, Mayor Tory announced the allotment of $500,000 (of that $10 million) to offer breakfasts to communities in need. Mohan Doss, the program director of Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office, appreciates the initiative, but has some criticism.

“What about youth between 19 and 28, who are not in high school, who will not have access to free-breakfast programs?” Doss said.



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Carmichael to spend time with family after election loss

Defeated MP John Carmichael stood with his family when he thanked supporters for backing his unsuccessful campaign to hang on to the Don Valley West riding for the Conservative Party. While he said “it’s too early to tell” what he will do next, or whether he will seek election again, he was sure about one thing.


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Back to the future in Don Valley West

The openly gay former United Church minister captured a true majority of votes cast in the riding — 54 per cent, and despite six rivals. That was more than 8,000 votes ahead of Carmichael. All of the other candidates were stuck in the single-digits, percentage-wise.


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Liberal ‘red wave’ rises in Atlantic Canada, carries into East York

At 10 p.m. the CBC announced that Liberals will form the next federal government. With earliest results coming from Atlantic Canada, the CBC said that the so-called “red wave” had swept the Atlantic region, unseating such sitting Conservative cabinet ministers as Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea and Aboriginal and Northern Development Minister Bernard Valcourt.



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Thorncliffe protesters demonstrate against new Ontario health curriculum

An organizer of the Oct. 1 protest, pulling students out of classes at Thorncliffe Park Public School, says his group wants to send a strong message to the Ontario government regarding its new health curriculum. About 200 parents and children gathered outside the school in East York on Oct. 1. Protestors formed human chains and marched with their picket signs on Thorncliffe Park Drive. They were protesting the new sex component of the health curriculum in Ontario’s public schools. The parents pulled more than half of the students, about 740 children, from the school for the day.



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Gershon’s re-election bid overcomes controversy over trustee expenses

Gershon has been in the limelight in recent weeks after a provincial auditor’s report questioned some trustee expenses. For instance, the audit showed Gershon spent $3,765 on a tour of Israel. Gershon told the Globe and Mail that the trip had “very much to do with her role as trustee.” And judging from the returns tonight, many East Yorkers seemed to take her at her word.