Welcome to RPTV Weekly News Show Episode 50 (April 20th to April 27th). In this weekly news show hosted by RPTV reporters Fred Alvarado, Ryan Field, Jabin Haque, and Victoria Nanetti, we present news that impacts on Toronto's Regent Park and the surrounding areas.

Episode 50 features segments on:

• SPD planning committee allocates operational funds to the Evaluation and Benchmark committee (01:35 min);
• Daniels Corporation presents the Regent Park Spotlight Report on April 4th, 2023 (03:39 min); Regent Park celebrates Eid Bazaar & Market 2023 (08:11 min);
• Stephanie Beattie speaks about revitalization and rezoning in Regent Park (15:04 min);
• A new condo coming to Parliament Street displacing the 509 Dance Studio (32:43 min);
• City of Toronto launches new Housing Data Hub as part of Housing Action Plan (33:55 min);
• City of Toronto launches Identify ‘N Impact Youth Grant Program on March 22nd, 2023 (34:55 min);
• Covid-19 and Vaccination Update: DTE Vaccine Engagement Team celebrates appreciation event as project comes to an end (36:03 min);
• Events and Jobs in Regent Park Community (44:23 min).

This week’s lead story:

By Fred Alvarado Fred is a community journalist with FOCUS MEDIA ARTS CENTRE

On Wednesday April 19th, 2023, the Regent Park community celebrated Eid Bazaar and Market 2023 at the Daniels Spectrum Centre, 585 Dundas St East from 3 to 8PM, as the Regent Park Muslim community marked the end of the Holy Month of Ramadan and celebrated Eid in their neighbourhood. The event was put on by the Centre for Learning and Development, Mothers of Peace, Daniels, THCH, Artscape and the City of Toronto.

Regent Park residents and visitors came to shop and support local entrepreneurs offering women’s clothes, jewellery, crafts, cotton candy, popcorn, snacks, henna, and more.

Sureya Ibrahim is the Supervisor of Community Connections at CL&D and the founder of Mothers of Peace, who is also the organizer of the Regent Park Eid Bazaar and Market 2023.

“As you know in Regent Park there’s a huge population of Muslim community that resides here and this community event is one way of creating a sense of belonging and doing a bazaar related to the Holy Month. Muslim community wants to do some shopping for the Eid, henna for their kids and for themselves, buying Eid clothes and arts, buy some snacks, and all it’s here in the same building to support local vendors; all the vendors are from Regent Park and each one of them have different backgrounds. The Centre for Learning and Development is the lead organization and most of the heavy lifting is done by Mothers of Peace volunteers who are also Regent Park residents”, said Sureya Ibrahim.