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Enjoy the art of drumming during the 14th annual Muhtadi International Drumming Festival Saturday and Sunday at Woodbine Park.

The free festival celebrates the drum, its universality as an art form and its presence in all cultures around the world.

The event features 50-plus local and nationally touring master drummers and drum groups on two stages including Impact Percussion (Drumline), Maracatu Mar Aberto (Afro Brazilian), Mark Kelso (Drumkit), Professor Trichy Sankaran (India), Samba Squad, YoungPete Alexander (Drumkit), among others. In addition, there will be a Long & McQuade Drum Zone, interactive area where people can try percussion instruments, 20-plus international food trucks and vendors, arts, crafts and drum booths, a children’s area, drum clinics and more, including two drink areas with 20 beers and spirits.

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A community group representing Leslieville is pushing the city to create a priority plan for the emerging neighbourhood in anticipation of a future subway station, which is part of the proposed downtown relief subway line (DRL).

Though it will be years before the DRL is completed, if it is built at all, Friends of Leslieville (FOL) is calling on the city’s planning department to designate the emerging neighbourhood as a planning priority. The designation would benefit transit-friendly development centred around a potential Queen East subway station located at the intersection of Queen Street East and Carlaw Avenue.

“There’s no plan in place to make sure we’re building to the right density and mix of uses in advance of the subway station that’s being considered,” said FOL spokesperson David Donnelly this week.

Donnelly, an environmental lawyer, said he is concerned the city is employing a “piecemeal” approach to Leslieville.

He said he believes the city should act now to designate a “precinct plan” for the area, which would allow for a mix of highrise residential, commercial and industrial properties along a transit corridor highlighted by a new subway stop by 2031 – the earliest completion date for a potential 13-kilometre DRL, according to Metrolinx.

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Vaso’s Lane named for prominent community member REBECCA FIELD rfield@insidetoronto.com Neighbours on Withrow Avenue gathered to honour the life of the late community member Vaso Bogojevic.

Around 30 friends, neighbours and colleagues gathered Friday, May 24 for the unveiling of “Vaso’s Lane,” beside the house where he and his wife Julia lived for 50 years before he died three years ago.

“My husband, Vaso, was very well liked in the neighbourhood and he was always helping people,” said Julia ‘Miss Julia’ Bogojevic, who taught at Withrow Public School for 18 years.

“If a child was sick, he would take the mother with the child to the hospital,” said Bogojevic, who worked with Councillor Paula Fletcher to name the laneway despite city restrictions on dedicating laneways and the use of an apostrophe in the

name.

Helping community “Julia, she’s such a dear person, she knows how to get things done,” said longtime friend Lily Bullied.

“You can’t tell her it can’t be done because she will prove you wrong every single time.”

Bogojevic was presented with a miniature version of the street sign and had the honour of pull-

ing the cover off the sign after her and Fletcher each gave speeches about Vaso’s impact on the community, including cutting neighbour’s lawns.

“You know, they pulled the community, and kept the community together,” said Bullied, adding that Julia would sit on her veranda for the past 50 years meeting the neighbours.

The name took around six months to approve and the ceremony took

place a week after the couple’s wedding anniversary May 16.

“When you look out your window, you can see Vaso’s Lane every single day,” Fletcher said.

Bogojevic will be moving in a couple of weeks to live with her oldest son in Whitby, but the laneway will remain named after her husband.

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Nellie’s women’s shelter reaches 40 years Campaign launched with an aim to raise up to $5 million toward a new home

Rebecca field rfield@insidetoronto.com Hidden in the neighbourhood surrounding Broadview Avenue is a 136-year-old Victorian home with 36 beds.

The house fits into the neighbourhood inconspicuously, but its windows shield the interior with bulletproof glass.

Inside, women are living sheltered from violence, poverty and homelessness.

Opening in 1973, Nellie’s women’s shelter has reached its 40th year with no signs of being less of a necessity in the Toronto community – they housed 122 women and 22 children last year alone.

“For us, anniversaries are a little bit different in that it’s not always a celebration so to speak,” said Wendy Sung-Aad, development manager at Nellie’s.

“When the founders of Nellie’s established this women’s shelter, they probably never imagined that 40 years later it would still be needed.”

The shelter only had 16 beds when it opened, at a time when there were only 40 beds for women in the City of Toronto yet more than 400 for men.

Four decades later, the shelter not only provides housing, but helps women with legal aid, counselling, and transitioning into more permanent housing.

Last year, Nellie’s served 40,000 meals, answered 2,000 crisis calls, and created around 300 safety plans for women to escape their situations without harm.

“There are not a lot of permanent homes out there that people can afford,” Sung-Aad said. “The length of stay at shelters has really increased.”

Sung-Aad attributes longer stays to the near-elimination of secondstage housing in Toronto.

Most women stay at the shelter for approximately four months, but some with unique circumstances stay up to nine months.

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Above, photographer Annie Sakkab displays her documentary project, ‘A Life Reclaimed’ at Nellie’s 40th anniversary open house Saturday, while, left, entertainers perform at the event.

meant for women to stay long term,” said Sung-Aad, who noted the shelter has several housing support workers who try to locate housing for the women.

“If they don’t, women are left cycling around in the shelter system, or they’re forced to go back to abusive situations, or worse, they just end up homeless on the streets.”

Nellie’s is run entirely by women.

The shelter was the first in the city

to offer a home for the homeless as well as abused women. The home is accessible for the disabled, and offers rooms for transgendered females as well.

“There’s a negative stigma about women in shelters,” Sung-Aad said.

“By the time a woman gets to a shelter, she has much more strength, much more courage. If she’s able to get herself and her kids from whatever situation there was in the past,

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to be there, they’re extraordinary women.”

One way the shelter has tried to make the public understand the strength of the women staying at Nellie’s is through the photo documentary work of Annie Sakkab.

Sakkab approached Sung-Aad in February with the idea of documenting the lives of women in the shelter.

“It was very difficult for me to approach the women,” said Sakkab, whose photos were shown in the Nellie’s administration building during Riverside’s Beats and Eats

celebration.

“To ask the women to talk about their stories and to document them – it’s never easy to talk about what they’ve been through,” Sakkab said.

Some of their stories are listed on Nellie’s website, including one where a woman was kicked out of her house into the rain without clothing on and brought to Nellie’s by a taxi driver.

“I felt that it’s quite incredible to see how much Nellie’s is supportive of their women,” said Sakkab, who took portraits of six women staying in the shelter. “They feel safe. They feel that they can rely on everyone that’s working there.”

Going into her project, titled ‘A Life Reclaimed’, Sakkab wanted to document what it’s like for a woman living in a shelter. She changed her mind about the focus of the project after spending more time with the women.

“In the end, the project turned out to be more about the strength and the resilience of the women despite all of the trauma that they’ve been through rather than the way that they live in the shelter,” Sakkab said Nellie’s is campaigning to improve the lives of these women with a new shelter project, and a goal to raise between $3- and $5-million for a new home.

“The cost of maintaining the shelter has become a burden,” said Sung-Aad, who cites issues with old electrical and plumbing, and not being able to expand due to restrictions on historical buildings – they may end up having to leave the neighbourhood.

Staff at Nellie’s are hoping to provide more private space for the women, as well as a building that is more accessible for the disabled.

“It hopes to be a wonderful space that women who are physically disabled can be truly independent,” said Sung-Aad.

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hen it comes time to decide on how we’re represented at city hall – specifically the size and number of wards in the city and how they’re divided – Toronto Council must be open to a variety of ideas.

Next week, there’s an Executive Committee report going to Toronto Council on a Ward Boundary Review for the city. Toronto, currently divided into 44 wards, last undertook such a review in 2000.

Since then, the wards’ make-ups and populations have changed. A city manager’s report to the executive committee notes “significant discrepancies among Toronto’s ward boundaries that warrant a review.”

According to the report, any adjustments undertaken would be in place for the 2018 municipal election. our view Mayor Rob Ford, meanwhile, has made his position clear. In his comments at the Executive Important Committee, Ford said he believes debate needs a 25-member council can do the Noting Toronto is expected to citizen input job. receive three more federal ridings (bringing the total to 25), Ford said it’s an opportune time to consider reducing Toronto Council’s ward allotment from two wards per riding to one.

“At the rate we’re going we’re going to have 50 councillors,” Ford warned. “And you see the problems we have with 44 councillors.”

There’s no denying the current 45-member size of council (44 councillors plus a mayor) can be unwieldy at times. There is merit to Ford’s argument. But it’s early in the process. We need to hear many voices.

Toronto Council will do Torontonians a disservice if it restricts itself – without considering any other factors – when defining new ward boundaries. Doing so may discount a more creative solution – one that gives a more effective voice to Torontonians – before it can be even explored. Figuring out what’s best for a diverse, multicultural city and its 140 neighbourhoods will be more complicated than shoehorning them into some cookie-cutter solution.

For Torontonians, this is not only about your representation at city hall. This is about how your neighbourhood fits into the city. This is an important debate that needs your input.

As the process moves along, we urge citizens to take advantage of the “broad engagement and public consultation process” referenced in the report.

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Media told where it stands at city hall these days We news media are stalkers these days at city hall.

We perch outside Mayor Rob Ford’s office, waiting for his noon-hour arrival to demand to know about allegations of smoking crack, cover-ups and staffing changes.

Early on in the multiweek stakeout, a woman passing through city hall called a group of us “vultures.”

A few days later, the mayor apologized for calling us “maggots.”

Can’t say we weren’t told where we stand at city hall these days.

In truth, since the story broke of the possible video of the mayor allegedly smoking crack cocaine, the media has mostly been standing in the hall outside the mayor’s office.

In refusing to answer the pertinent questions in this story, the mayor has all but invited us in.

And we’ve tried to be good house guests.

But it’s becoming clear

david nickle the city this short-term standoff with the mayor’s office could warp accountability and accessibility at city hall for years to come.

Evading questions Absent his press secretary and communications staff, Mayor Ford has taken to seconding city hall security staff to escort him between his parking garage and office doors.

Security has meanwhile made a space to the rear of the mayor’s office, inside the councillors’ secure area, inaccessible to news media who are accredited to enter the space.

There’s nothing illegal in doing this – indeed, the press gallery (and full disclosure, I’m serving as president of the gallery) had lost a battle in negotiating new council-

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Our view...has been that hard questions asking by professional journalists shouldn’t be flagged as a security concern.

approved security access rules, requiring reporters not to linger in the councillors’ common office area.

But the enforcement of the policy is new, and the purpose of that enforcement can only be to allow the mayor and his staff to continue to evade embarrassing questions from reporters – in this case, on a matter of city-wide interest.

This is not a new problem, or one endemic to the Ford administration.

The city’s security team along with a number of politicians have been looking for ways to restrict and even remove media access to councillors’ office areas

since the mayor David Miller administration.

Some councillors were very keen on such a move – often because reporters would, when a politician got into hot water, show up at their office doors with cameras in hand to ask hard questions.

Our view then and now has been that hard questions asked by professional journalists shouldn’t be flagged as a security concern.

Indeed, using the pretext of security to bar those questions from being asked raises a serious public accountability concern.

All of this would be irrelevant, of course, if our elected politicians would come forward and answer the questions put to them.

Or if they don’t wish to do so, they relied on their own resources to muddy the water and left the public service out of it.

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Community Centre 55 hosts trip WHEN: 9:30 a.m. WHERE: Community Centre 55, 97 Main St. CONTACT: Evonne, 416-691-1113 to reserve COST: $45 The trip includes a donkey sanctuary, Aberfoyle mill and shopping at Old Quebec Street in Guelph.

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Muhtadi International Drumming Festival WHEN: 9 a.m. WHERE: Woodbine Park, 1681 Lake Shore Blvd. E. CONTACT: 416-848-3838 COST: Free The event features 50-plus local and nationally touring master drummers and drum groups, interactive area to try percussion instruments, food and drinks, arts, crafts and drum booths, children’s area and more. Visit www. muhtadidrumfest.com Beaches Arts and Crafts Show WHEN: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Kew Gardens, 2075 Queen St. E. CONTACT: www.beachesartsandcraftsshow.ca COST: Free Showcasing more than 150 of Canada’s leading artists, artisans and designers from Ontario and Quebec, as well as local talent from the Beach. Admission is free. For the benefit of Neighbourhood Link Sup-

Cupcake Ride 2013 WHEN: 1 p.m. WHERE: Tori’s Bakeshop, 2188 Queen St. E. Meet at 1 p.m. at Tori’s Bakeshop, 2188 Queen St. E., bike west on Queen, down Coxwell to take the Martin Goodman Trail over to Tommy Thompson park. The tour will then loop through Tommy Thompson and bike along the lake and then back up to Queen to end at Life is Sweet. Visit www.facebook.com/ events/128115507387818/ Retro Dance Party WHEN: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: Riverside Public House, 9725 Queen St. E. Retro Dance Party supporting the Nzirambi Education Fund. A grassroots initiative that funds a familyrun orphanage in Uganda. Donations are accepted at the door.

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Leslieville Farmers’ Market WHEN: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward Ave. CONTACT: www.leslievillemarket.com Fresh food, music, programs, events.

Lynn Park, at Danforth and Woodbine avenues CONTACT: http://bit. ly/18NAOkH COST: Free There will be activities with Zero Gravity Circus, performance by Pegasus Studios (5 p.m.), experts from Toronto Master Gardeners on hand to answer all your planting questions, live music and facepainting.

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RISE Up basketball tourney WHEN: 9 a.m. WHERE: 445 Coxwell Park/ Courts CONTACT: Krissie, 647-973-1304; www.facebook.com/communityriseup There will be live DJ performances, raffles and giveaways. Prices range from $20 to $50.

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Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.beachmirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your neighbourhood as well as events from across Toronto.

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Green Party of Beaches-East York AGM WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Community Centre 55, 97 Main St. CONTACT: bronwyn@greenbeaches. ca COST: Free Calling all members of the federal or provincial Green Party who reside in Beaches-East York. Come share your thoughts and vote for your executive members. Contact Bronwyn: bronwyn@greenbeaches.ca

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The Keep on Truckin’ – 2013 Morsestock WHEN: 5 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Morse Jr. Public School, 180 Carlaw Ave. The Keep on Truckin’ - 2013 Morsestock includes a barbecue, food trucks, entertainment, bouncy castles, exotic animals, used book sale and more.

Volunteers, donations and creative ideas are always needed. Email morsestreetschoolparentcouncil@gmail. com for details.

East Lynn Market grand opening WHEN: 3 to 7 p.m. WHERE: East

Yard sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to noon WHERE: Withrow park, 725 Logan Ave. The Frankland Community Centre hosts a yard sale. Rain or shine.

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Woof-Fit Mini-Triathlon for dogs and their people WHEN: 8 a.m. WHERE: Balmy Beach Club, Foot of Beech Avenue Woof-Fit Mini-Triathlon for dogs and their people, in support of The Smiling Blue Skies Cancer Fund. It includes a run/walk, cycle/blade/roll and a swim/paddle. Visit http://on.fb. me/18LOcVr

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YMCA celebrates its new Centres of Community JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Once the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games are over, residents in the West Don Lands will have a sparkling new community hub to call their own.

The YMCA of Greater Toronto celebrated the topping off of its forthcoming site – still currently under

construction – near the corner of Front and Cherry streets Wednesday, May 29.

The new YMCA facility will feature 82,000 square feet of space and will stand as one of the organization’s Centres of Community, with programming designed to meet the needs of the area’s diverse population.

YMCA of Greater Toronto Vice-Chair Tim Penner said

the community will be invited to offer input into what they would like to see take place at the centre.

“We’ll start a process where we have a number of meetings with the community to determine what services are most needed,” he said.

“We know there will be a pool, a gymnasium and a fitness facility, and at other, similar facilities, we offer

things like child care, newcomer placement services, job placement services, substance abuse programs, seniors programs and youth leadership training programs.”

The YMCA of Greater Toronto will pay some $10 million of the venue’s estimated $25 million to $30 million cost.

Prior to becoming a YMCA Centre of Community, it will be used as a training site for the Toronto 2015 Games.

A donation of $2 million by philanthropists Krystal Koo and Michael Cooper through the YMCA’s Strong Start, Great Future campaign will certainly help cover the costs.

For the couple’s generosity, the new site will be dubbed the Cooper Koo Family YMCA. The Cooper Koo Y will include a two-storey climbing structure, a 7,000-square-foot gymnasium, an 11,000square-foot open fitness space, a 25-metre, five-lane pool and a smaller training

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Alex Verluis, YMCA of Greater Toronto vice-president for property management leads a tour of the Y’s new Cherry Beach facility. The YMCA celebrated the ongoing construction at the site with a topping off ceremony May 29.

pool and more.

It will boast five change rooms – one for families and two apiece for men and women, with one men’s and one women’s change room featuring a whirlpool and steam room.

The fully accessible site will also provide community access to a 26,000-square-foot green roof.

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No downtown casino, thanks to community campaign

by Peter Tabuns, MPP, Toronto-Danforth

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oronto’s City Council recently voted, by a wide margin, not to allow a casino in Toronto. We can take down our lawn signs. We can celebrate, at least for now, this local victory.

As I went door to door over this past year I could tell the depth of feeling that our community had on this issue. There were quite a few who opposed the casino but told me it was a done deal, that the wellconnected types had made a decision and we were going to have to put up with it.

Well, it seems that the well-connected don’t always get their way.

Thank you for putting up a lawn sign, or contacting your councillor or the mayor, or going to a meeting.

It's because so many in our community took the trouble to participate, to express their opinions, that council made the right decision.

Councillors Mary Fragedakis and Paula Fletcher worked hard to stop the casino. They were leaders on council and in the community. Hundreds of others — volunteers — went door to door, talked to their neighbours, and came out to public meetings. You all deserve our thanks.

Although a few councillors might say they voted against a casino because the province would not guarantee enough money for city coffers, I am sure councillors voted against the casino for the same reasons so many in our community opposed it.

Casinos do not reinvest in local communities. Most of the profits end up with outside investors. Casinos do not attract more tourism. In fact, they drain money from existing local businesses and attractions.

Casinos do contribute to crime as they are hot spots for money laundering. Studies also show they contribute to an increase in alcohol-related crime.

In the short term a casino could mean more tax revenue, but the social costs would soon outweigh this.

While we were successful in stopping a casino in Toronto, the Liberal government is still pushing for casinos in the rest of Ontario. They’re still working on privatizing gambling. And, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation still plans to close slots at racetracks, which will cut up to 60,000 jobs in what used to be Ontario's excellent horse racing and breeding industry.

This fight about casinos is over, for now. What continues is the broader, province-wide discussion on this vast expansion of privatized gambling.

As we take that sign off the lawn, we need to remember there is no such thing as a done deal when the public decides to speak out.

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Open beaches include Bluffer’s, Centre Island, Cherry, Hanlan’s Point, Kew-Balmy Beach, The Bowmore End of Year FUN- Sunnyside, Ward’s Island and Woodbine beaches. raiser Carnival is set for Friday, Visit www.toronto.ca/beach for details.

June 14 and you are invited.

Scrubs in the City Block Party set Money raised through the for tonight second annual event, will go to enrichment Party with some of Toronto’s most influential movers and shakers in support of The Hospital programs.

The carnival, which for Sick Children. goes from 3 to 7 p.m.

Block Party, which takes place at 6 p.m. tonight at the school at 80 at Evergreen Brick Works, features a night of Bowmore Rd., fea- fashion, food, music and culture with proceeds tures activities such to benefit SickKids. Tickets are $175. Visit www. as bouncy castles, sickkidsfoundation.com/scrubs mega-inflatable obstacle courses, carnival games, dunk tanks, BIRKDALE ART IN THE PARK candy floss and popcorn, Sat. June 8: 10am - 4pm a petting zoo and entertainment such as jugglers, musicians and clowns in addition to the school’s pop-up ukulele band and the Centre of Gravity Circus School.

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The Project Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto have resumed the preparation of the Gardiner Expressway / Lake Shore Boulevard Reconfiguration Environmental Assessment (EA) and Integrated Urban Design Study. The EA will determine the future of the Gardiner Expressway East and Lake Shore Boulevard East, from approximately Jarvis Street to approximately Leslie Street. Four alternatives will be considered within the study area, including: maintaining, improving, replacing, or removing the elevated expressway. Improvements to other roadways could also be required.

The Environmental Assessment The proposed study area for the EA is shown on the map below. Key components of an EA include consultation with government agencies, Aboriginal communities and interested persons; consideration and evaluation of alternatives; and the management of potential environmental effects. Conducting an EA promotes good environmental planning before decisions are made about a proposal.

Get Involved Your input into this important project is critical. The Project Team will be hosting a number of public forums, live webcasts, workshops and online opportunities for interested persons to participate in the EA planning process. We invite you to the first public forum where you can learn more about the project, the alternatives being considered and what other jurisdictions have done with elevated waterfront expressways. You will also be able to ask questions and speak directly with members of the project team, offer input and submit comments.

Gardiner Expressway East Public Meeting Thursday, June 13, 2013 6:00p.m. – 8:30p.m. (open house will begin at 6:00p.m. followed by presentations at 6:30p.m.)

Metro Toronto Convention Centre Room 701, South Building 222 Bremner Boulevard Please register for the event at: http://gardinerconsultation.eventbrite.com If you can’t attend the meeting in person, you can participate and watch the meeting online. Please join us at www.gardinereast.ca where you can learn about the project and contribute your insights, ideas, and views. For more information or to be added to the project mailing list, contact info@gardinereast.ca, or call (416) 479-0662.

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He grew up in the area of Coxwell Avenue and Gerrard Street, attending Bowmore Road public school before heading to Birchmount Park Collegiate in south Scarborough for their exceptional athlete program.

At the London Olympics, Brown finished ninth in the world in the 200m with a new personal best of 20.42 seconds.

Local sports fans will get a rare chance to see the speedster in action next week as he competes in the third annual international track and field meet at the University of Toronto’s Varsity Centre (299 Bloor St. W.) Tuesday, June 11.

The Toronto competition serves as the second of five stops this year in the fledgling Canadian National Track League.

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Malvern grad earns first rugby cap Liam Underwood, who once helped Malvern Collegiate to a city high school rugby title back in 2008 (and a tier two city football title in 2007 as the quarterback), was due to earn his first start for the senior national men’s rugby team in Ottawa last night.

Underwood was pencilled in at the fly half position as Canada was set to host Fiji in the second game of the fivenation Pacific Nations Cup tournament. It got underway beyond press deadlines.

He got his first senior national team cap in the opening game of the series, which saw Canada defeat arch rival United States 16-9 in Edmonton on May 25.

He was subbed in for the second half.

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Never too early to make requests >>>from page 1 the area as a whole,” he said.

“The action, as everyone knows these days, is in Leslieville and I want it to have its own planning priorities.”

Even though the estimated $7.4 billion DRL has not yet been guaranteed funding from any level of government, Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher said she wants to make sure her community’s concerns are taken into account from the outset of planning.

“I think it’s good to state early that we don’t want simply to be a community that a subway runs under,” said Fletcher June 3 from Vancouver where she was attending a conference organized by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

“It’s never too early to put your ask on the table, and thinking ahead is the most important thing with these large transit agencies.”

At the Making Transit Work discussion at the Ralph

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The eastern expansion of the Downtown Relief Line (DRL) includes a Queen East stop. The TTC’s DRL report from last fall detailed four main options for building the line.

Thornton Centre May 29, Chief City Planner Jennifer Keesmaat made no secret of her preference for a Leslieville location.

As long as I’m chief planner, you’ll get your station because I feel passionately about local transit service,” said Keesmaat in answering a question from Donnelly at

the event, which was moderated by Fletcher.

Keesmaat said she would have recommendations for priority transit projects to present to city council for final approval in about five months.

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The conductor of the Toronto Concert Orchestra said they have done some off-thebeaten path performances including playing on the floor of the Design Exchange, at the Windsor Arms Hotel and Phoenix Concert Theatre, but nothing quite like their upcoming show.

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The concert takes place Saturday, June 8 from 4 to 8 p.m. at Echo Beach, 999 Lake Shore Blvd. W. Also at the event will be an Ask the Vet booth for pethealth-related questions, sampling of Iams, doggie swag bags and a dog-friendly photo booth.

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Metrolinx planning more public meetings on electrification of express air rail link More public meetings are planned by Metrolinx on the progress of future electrification of the Union Pearson Express air rail link.

Both the provincial transit planning agency and the Ministry of Transportation have pledged to convert the link running along the GO Kitchener rail corridor from diesel to electric, but only after the express service between Pearson International Airport and Union Station is completed in 2015.

While no firm confirmation has been given for a completion date for the conversion, Metrolinx has indicated it would like to electrify by 2017 and is conducting an environmental assessment to be completed next year.

Four meetings are planned to update residents on the EA and address concerns about the controversial project, which has seen vigorous opposition from

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT West Toronto advocacy groups like the Clean Train Coalition.

The first meeting was held Tuesday at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and the next three are slated as follows: • Monday, June 10 at Metro Hall, Room 314, 55 John St., 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

• Tuesday, June 11, Mimico Presbyterian Church, 119 Mimico Ave., Etobicoke, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

• Wednesday, June 12, Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

For more information on the meetings, visit www. metrolinx.ca twitter weighs in on transit funding Mayor Rob Ford’s Twitter account, @TOMayorFord, which usually posts innocu-

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by Metrolinx to improve transit.

“I don’t support the Province’s @Metrolinx plan to slap new taxes onto the backs of hard working families,” stated one of the tweets. Another tweet was directed at the premier: “Until @Kathleen_Wynne exhausts every avenue I will not support new taxes on residents, who are telling me they can’t afford it.”

The mayor’s sentiments echo a recent poll taken by Forum Research that shows a majority of Ontarians don’t support raising taxes to benefit transit.

Metrolinx has said the charges are necessary to build the Big Move plan.

Rahul Gupta is The Mirror’s transit reporter. His column runs every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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