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world19News This e-mail is going to people on the mailing list for world19. If you don't want to receive further notices, please reply to this e-mail with "remove" in the subject. Let us know if you prefer to receive this in "plain text" format. Please forward this to anyone you think may be interested. Past newsletters are posted at www.newsletters.world19.com In this issue: Our world19 mailbag has been filling recently, so this newsletter primarily reports items sent to us over the last couple of weeks. First however, a couple of world19 items, and then notices and news from several of our subscribers. 1. WORLD19 GARDEN PARTY - June 18 2. BLOOR WEST VILLAGE URBAN DESIGN STUDY The purpose was to provide guidelines for future acceptable development along the Bloor corridor in the Village area. While it will have no legal standing, the expectation -- or hope -- is that it will be given significant weight by City Planning staff and the OMB in future development applications -- including the Humber Theatre site. We hope copies of the study will be made available in local libraries and/or on CD's. In the meantime, we have posted a copy on our website. Be warned however, it's a 9 mb PDF file (requiring the free Adobe Reader software). It can be downloaded from: www.bloor.world19.com/. (On a closely related note, see the notice
below for the Bloor West Village Residents Association meeting focusing on
the future of the BWV area). 3. RESIDENT ASSOCIATION MEETINGS a) Swansea - Annual General Meeting May 24 The Swansea Area Ratepayers' Association (SARA) is having its Annual General Meeting. The guest Speaker is Sarmite Bulte, M.P. Please let your neighbours know and please come out and support SARA. Thank you. b) Bloor West Village Residents - May 24 The newly formed Bloor West Village Residents Association invites the public to attend two upcoming town hall meetings: May 24th at 7 pm at Runnymede United Church
on "Shaping our Neighbourhood". Note also their next meeting in June: For more information on these meetings or the Association, please visit our website at www.bwvra.ca.
The event will feature a keynote speech by former Toronto Mayor, John Sewell. All Parkdale residents are encouraged to attend the meeting and participate in the election of an executive, the adoption of a constitution, and discussion about the future of our community association. For more information, contact pra <AT> parkdale.to (substitute "@" for the <AT>... this is to prevent web harvesters collecting email addresses for spam.) or phone Walt at 416 536-1824.
4. SUPPORT FOR MOTHERS: I have been concerned with the 6 week public health programme that is given to new Mums across Toronto. This Spring it was postponed and there is still talk of restructuring (as the euphemism goes) in favour of only economically disadvantaged women. I believe that this is wrong and have written a letter and a petition in support of the programme and I'm hoping that you may be able to help me out by passing it on to your members. I've had some wonderful support so far (St. Jo's breastfeeding Clinic and Metro Mothers Network to name a few) and would like to have as many signatures from across the city as possible in order to ensure that other new mothers are able to benefit from this programme as many of us already have. I would like to have the petition back by Friday May 27th in order to have it mailed by the Monday, if that's possible. Note: See our main page to find copies
of the petition and Maria's letter. If you would like to contact her for
information, or to support her campaign, she can be contacted at: Maria
Thorburn, phone: 416 767-1944. or email albertins <AT>
sympatico.ca
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harvesters collecting email addresses for spam.) 5. TORONTO POLICE SERVICE: Community
Updates The Toronto Police Service operates several mailing lists to help keep citizens of Toronto up-to-date on current happenings across the city, and in their community. If you would like to sign up for 11 Division community updates, please sign up on the police website, as follows: main website:
www.torontopolice.on.ca 6. COMPUTER RECYCLING Community Computer Recycling Event in Toronto! Looking for an environmentally sensitive way to get rid of your unwanted computer equipment? Leave it with us! From June 13 - 19th we're inviting the general public to drop-off their unwanted computer equipment for recycling (limit of two complete systems per household). For larger quantities, organizations, businesses, and special requirements, please contact us about our services. Computation is a computer equipment
refurbisher and recycler. Drop-off is available at our Toronto facility,
2444 Bloor St. West (entrance at rear), from noon until 9pm - seven days a
week, while pick-up by our staff can also be arranged. We make all efforts
to refurbish the equipment placed under our stewardship, remarketing and
donating where possible. Irreparable equipment is recycled for its raw
materials. 100% of the equipment under our care is diverted from landfill.
In addition to recycling we offer computer and IT services for the home and
office. Contact Dennis Maslo @ 416.910.4358, or dmaslo
<AT> computation.to
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harvesters collecting email addresses for spam.)
for
more information. 7. SMART LAND USE PLANNING: We are a network of 43 environmental, housing and rate payer groups working to stop sprawl, promote compact development and increase public participation in the planning process. To help achieve this, the OSGN is holding seminars on several planning topics related to smart growth in order to educate and empower our members and the public so that they feel more confident when making deputations, speaking to politicians, etc. The Ontario Smart Growth Network presents: "Making Your Dream Community Happen: Understanding and Applying Planning Law to Ensure Smart Land Use Planning in Ontario" With Theresa McClenaghan, Legal Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association Are you confused and frustrated by the countless legal instruments, processes and institutions that both help and hinder the implementation of smart planning in Ontario? Designed as a primer on planning law, this educational and empowering seminar will help end your confusion by: · clarifying jurisdictional issues, legislation and landowners' rights; · explaining how legislation is created, how it is applied, and how it has supported or delayed smart growth; · presenting current planning and policy issues that are having a bearing on legislation; · providing practical resources and other tools that will help you solve your own smart livable community challenges; · answering your questions at the conclusion of the 1-hour presentation. Even if you believe that you intimately know the Planning Act, Provincial Policy Statement, Municipal Act, Official Plans and Zoning (to name a few!), you're sure to learn something at this seminar. Please join us! Theresa McClenaghan has practised public interest environmental law, both in private practice since 1985 and since joining the Canadian Environmental Law Association (www.cela.ca) as counsel in May 1998. Her expertise in environmental law includes land use, environmental health, water law and policy, and constitutional law. Theresa, along with other lawyers at CELA, represented the Concerned Walkerton Citizens in both parts of the Walkerton Inquiry. She was CELA's representative to the province's Source Protection Advisory Committee and currently sits on both the province's Nutrient Management Advisory Committee and Source Protection Implementation Committee. Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 2:00 - 3:45pm
Further Information: www.greenontario.org/osgn/seminars
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