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MAY 1–14, 2014 5 email [email protected] comment dailyxtra.com & facebook/dailyxtra.com Comment tweet @dailyxtra FEEDBACK Like the rest of the country and Lessons from the ACT cuts economy, people are polarized Ellen’s letter severely criticizing Ha- between rich and poor, and the zelle Palmer’s direction of ACT from 2009 to 2013 is very unfair and cannot poor are losing. Parti Québécois go unchallenged [Re: “AIDS Commit- tee of Toronto Cuts Staff to Control [RE: TORONTO LGBT PHILANTHROPY CONFERENCE] Deficits,” dailyxtra.com, March 19]. enormous gains within the province: EDITORIAL Everything ACT does is essential and ROBIN PERELLE Québécois culture is strong and per- #769 APRIL 17–30, 2014 love, compassion and any teachings in there is nothing there that’s a luxury FREE INSIDE! 36,000 AUDITED vasive; francophones are now better CIRCULATION Xtra Living the book they clutch to so dearly. This activity. ACT regularly reviews its pro- THE BEST OF TORONTO’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS GAY & LESBIAN When Pierre Karl Pé- educated and have access to the highest- TORONTO grams for efficacy and winds down is cruel and against the new laws they ladeau pumped his newly paying jobs; music, fi lms and even the at More must adhere to but not surprising. old programs that no longer serve a dailyxtra.com anointed Parti Québécois fi st for sover- most vacuous homegrown TV shows MARY MILKETTE (FACEBOOK) useful purpose while starting new facebook.com/dailyxtra eignty in March, he might as well have celebrate and refl ect Québécois realities. TORONTO, ON ones to address new areas of need. been talking about sexual liberation. Yet as a direct result of these signifi cant Hazelle Palmer became the executive @dailyxtra Not that Péladeau has given any indica- gains, the separate state now seems un- I agree with everything Christopher director of ACT at a point when ACT tion that he supports sexual liberation. necessary and nearly impossible. To even is doing, except removing the book began to suffer severe unexpected But like sexual liberation, sovereignty suggest it during an election campaign is Poison from the curriculum. If you funding cutbacks from various levels of is both the end game and potentially the political suicide. don’t want to be censored, don’t be government, and she and ACT senior greatest liability of a cultural movement Not unlike sexual liberation. Once a banning books. It’s a slippery slope! staff and its board struggled to cope Raging homosHas the gay lobby E8 that has earned enormous gains without goal of the gay liberation movement — to become the bully? with the resulting unexpected defi cits JACQUES LAPLANTE (FACEBOOK) managing to ultimately dislodge the transform society as a whole to embrace all OTTAWA, ON without severely cutting back essential governing social system. forms of sexual pleasure and relinquish its services to the gay community and When the Parti Québécois stepped onto uptight fi xation on sin — we have settled new manager of the Church-Wellesley Toronto LGBT without butchering its cadre of profes- the political scene in 1968, it was the prod- largely for carving spots for ourselves, and Business Improvement Area (BIA), as Philanthropy Conference sional staff , and this was not easy. ACT uct of profound social upheaval. The Quiet to some extent our culture, within existing saying, “I don’t read Xtra or any of the has been very much in survival mode Canada’s middle and working class is Revolution was barely eight years old but institutions. Rather than challenging mar- major papers,” [“New Blood at the during the last few years, and Hazelle BIA,” Xtra #769, April 17]. That’s a economically tapped out [“When the had already transformed a conservative, riage, for example, we demanded our share Money Dries Up,” dailyxtra.com, April Catholic Church–driven, anglophone- of its sanctioned rights and responsibilities. coped very well with this ongoing crisis warning sign. If you have a leadership in funding for ACT, which is why SHC position in the Toronto gay village, 25]. In Toronto, service industry jobs, dominated province into a more modern, Nothing wrong with demanding our due, which traditionally cover a big chunk was so happy to hire her. you need to read Xtra. 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Like the rest of the country and you wouldn’t know it [“When Furthermore, if you have a leadership nationalized foreign-owned hydroelec- overall structure that surrounds it? and economy, people are polarized Toronto Hosts WorldPride, Will Any- position with a BIA in Toronto, you tric plants throughout the province and The latest incarnation of the Parti between rich and poor, and the poor one Show Up?” dailyxtra.com, March need to be aware of municipal issues begun training francophones to take over Québécois shows what can happen are losing.
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  • Davie Village Public Space Improvements

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    ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT Report Date: December 4, 2015 Contact: Kevin McNaney Contact No.: 604.871.6851 RTS No.: 11066 VanRIMS No.: 08-2000-20 Meeting Date: December 16, 2015 TO: Standing Committee on City Finance and Services FROM: Acting General Manager of Planning and Development Services and the General Manager of Engineering Services SUBJECT: Davie Village Public Space Improvements RECOMMENDATION A. THAT Council approve the detailed design for Jim Deva Plaza, as shown in Appendix B, and a multi-year capital project budget of up to $2.3 million for the completion of Phase One of the Davie Village Public Space Improvements including the installation of an Accessible Automated Public Toilet and the transportation improvements and monitoring described in this report; source of funds to be 2016 Capital Budget for Community Plan Transportation Improvements, subject to approval of the 2016 Capital Budget. B. THAT Council direct staff to continue to work with key stakeholders to prepare, implement, monitor and refine the Jim Deva Plaza Stewardship Strategy, as described in Appendix D, and report back to Council by 2018 with the long-term Jim Deva Plaza Stewardship Strategy as part of the broader Stewardship Strategy for City-owned Plazas. C. THAT Council approve a grant of up to $100,000 from the City’s Innovation Fund to prepare the Stewardship Strategy for City-owned Plazas, initially for Jim Deva Plaza, in partnership with the following non-profit organizations (as described in Appendix E): i. West End Business Improvement Association ($40,000 grant); ii. Vancouver Foundation ($18,500 grant); and, iii. The remaining grant funds to be allocated when matching funds from additional community partners have been secured.