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Rolling on the river Canoeists take in the view from the river during the Paddle the Don event Sunday. Once a year, people have the chance to paddle the Don River from Ernest Thompson Seton Park in North York to the mouth at the Keating Channel, which connects t h e r i v e r t o To r o n t o Harbour on Lake Ontario.

Proceeds from Paddle the Don are used to protect, conserve, and enhance the Don River watershed.

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Police keep tabs on parks and beaches The arrival of the warmer weather means officers from 55 Division have once again upped patrols in east-end parks and beaches.

As more people enjoy the community, criminal and disorderly activities like drug and alcohol use as well as theft and robbery increase, police said.

Dubbed Parks N Rec, the spring/summer project will see a high visibility of uniformed officers on foot, bikes and ATVs patrolling all parks within 55 Division

and along the waterfront, a focus placed on people who present a risk, and officers educating people on bylaws and provincial statutes.

The goal of the initiative, which is set to run until November, is to increase and sustain the public perception of safety, deter criminal and disorderly conduct, and gather intelligence.

Also, 22 Division will be making use of social media to keep the public informed of crimes and arrests as well as prevention tips.

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Van crashes into Queen Street dance studio, killing woman inside Vehicle airborne before crashing through window ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com

A woman is dead and a man is recovering in hospital after a vehicle crashed into a dance studio in the Beach Tuesday.

Police said two women and a man were inside Bold Steps Dance Studio at Queen Street and Spruce Hill Road when a southbound 2013 Toyota RAV4 driven by a 65-year-old woman attempted to make a right turn into a parking spot at 9:49 a.m.

“The vehicle ends up going into the building,” Const. Clint Stibbe said at the scene.

“At some point, it left the ground and was airborne when it went through the window and, in fact, part of the vehicle did strike the upper portion of the building but (caused) minimal damage to the building.”

A 68-year-old woman was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead.

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Emergency services personnel remove a van that crashed into the Bold Steps Dance Studio in the Beach Tuesday. A woman in the dance studio was killed as a result of the incident.

ous injuries while another woman suffered minor injuries and was treated on scene.

The victims were getting ready for a 10 a.m. dance class. A fourth person who was part of the group showed up at 10 o’clock, missing the crash.

The driver received minor

injuries and wasn’t taken to hospital. Stibbe said police haven’t yet determined whether or not charges would be laid.

A Toronto fire department heavy urban rescue team was called to the scene to help remove the vehicle.

“We have to minimize the damage to the building,”

Stibbe said.

“At the same time we have to exercise extreme caution because of gasoline in the vehicle. We don’t want to have a gas tank rupture and then have any sort of fire as a result.”

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Anyone with information on the crash can call police at 416-808-1900

Dance party fundraiser to help Beach teacher who suffers from effects of brain injury and taught at Friday St. Theresa of Lisieux High School in Richmond Hill Friends, loved ones and s u p p o r t e r s h a ve c o m e together to help pay for renovations to the first floor of the family’s home so that Kavanagh can have the independence and privacy to enjoy time with his young family as his physical health becomes increasingly challenged.

According to a post on the Matt Kavanagh Benefit/ fundraiser party Facebook page: “While Matt focuses on healthy eating, he spends

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A dance party and silent auction fundraiser for Beach resident Matt Kavanagh is set to take place tomorrow at the Balmy Beach Club.

On Oct. 20, 2014.

Kavanagh, a popular high school teacher, suffered a seizure that led to the discovery of a cancerous brain tumour.

Within weeks of his diagnosis he underwent a craniotomy, which has left him with a series of dysfunctions including fatigue, short-term memory loss, poor co-ordination, loss of sensation, and balance issues.

As a result, Kavanagh stopped working. He was a history and science teacher

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much more time in our tiny kitchen. This tiny kitchen now causes him stress, irritability toward his three small children, and limitations.

Matt loves to cook for his kids and he does most of the grocery shopping to keep a stable routine. However; the kitchen counter is always loaded and piled with dishes, pots and pans and glassware. Matt has little room to work and combined with his impairments – coordination, sensation and balance – the kitchen can be dangerous...Matt desperately needs a workspace to suit his deficits which will only decline in the future.”

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be purchased online at www. donationaid.com/kavanaghkitchen The Balmy Beach Club is at the foot of Beech Avenue.

Choirs and concert bands serving up season finales NORM NELSON nnelson@insidetoronto.com Spring is in the air in east Toronto and so is music with several community choirs and concert bands gearing up for their annual spring concerts.

These long-running community music groups work hard through most of the year to present two or three main shows, with their spring presentations usually being their season finale.

They provide east-end residents the opportunity to take in breathtaking music in beautiful venues east of the Don Valley.

Here are three spring music shows to attend. Ticket prices range from mid-teens to mid-twenties, typically with modest reductions if you prepurchase.

VOCA CHORUS OF TORONTO WHEN: Saturday, May 7, 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave., home of the choir’s practice facility WHAT: Vast Eternal Sky is a performance of Gabriel Fauré’s renowned choral masterpiece – his powerful and profound Requiem – featuring Elizabeth Polese, soprano, Lawrence Shirkie, baritone, and the Talisker Players Orchestra. The second half of the concert will feature a wide range of secular and sacred repertoire, most of which celebrates themes of sky or heaven.

INFO AND TICKETS: www. vocachorus.ca EAST YORK CONCERT BAND WHEN: Sunday, May 15, 2 p.m.

WHERE: St. Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral, 76 Overlea Blvd.

WHAT: In the Spotlight concert will highlight the entire band INFO AND TICKETS: www. eastyorkconcertband.ca TORONTO CHORAL SOCIETY WHEN: Wednesday, May 18, 7:30 p.m.

WHERE:Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave., home of the choir’s practice

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W H AT : I n t h e C i t y : A Celebration of Toronto will take the audience to two destinations: Toronto ... and Iceland. The choir will feature music created in and around Toronto, including In the City, commissioned from Toronto composer Brian Finley, and will then shift the program to music from Iceland – where the choir will then head for two concerts later in May. INFO AND TICKETS: www. torontochoralsociety.org Plus we’re adding this one, just outside our area, as it’s a benefit concert organized by the Toronto Choral Society: TORONTO CHORAL SOCIETY WHEN: Sunday, May 15, 3 p.m.

WHAT: The Gift of Song: A benefit concert to support Street Haven Women’s Choir, featuring the Street Haven Women’s Choir, the Toronto Choral Society (TCS) and the TCS’s children’s choir.

WHERE: St. Paul’s Basilica, 83 Power St., east of Parliament Street. While this concert is west of the Don Valley it’s included because the Toronto Choral Society is based out of the east end (Eastminster United Church on the Danforth is their go-to practice and performance facility).

Toronto Choral Society artistic director Geoffrey Butler founded the Street Haven Women’s Choir (SHWC) in 2000 with a grant from the United Way of Greater Toronto. Street Haven is a multi-faceted organization located in downtown Toronto, serving women through emergency shelter beds, a drop-in program, addiction treatment programs, a learning centre, and supportive housing.

The choir is comprised of women who use, or have used, the services of Street Haven, as well as staff and friends. It’s funded through the Toronto Choral Society and with private donations.

INFO AND TICKETS: www. torontochoralsociety.org

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A good resource to find out about community choir performances throughout Toronto (and Ontario) is through Choirs Ontario. Visit www.choirsontario.org (click on events/ concert listings)

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We must adapt to condo boom T

here’s a shift taking place in Toronto that really should not come as a surprise given the amount of condominium construction happening in our city. One need only look at the number of cranes, not just downtown, but also in other parts of the city, to recognize this building boom.

But the stereotype regarding the people who these condos are being built for is changing rapidly in Toronto.

They are no longer the choice for young people, seniors and those looking to be landlords. More and more families are saying no to the so-called suburban dream of a house and yard, and are choosing to buy condos and raise their families in them.

Certainly some of this is driven by price, and the fact that single-family homes in Toronto are becoming more and more out of reach for many. For some, condo life is strictly a financial our view decision, but for many others it’s become a lifestyle preference.

As Amy Geer told Metroland Wise to plan Media Toronto of the decision for ‘vertical she and her husband Andy made to buy a two-bedroom condo in communities’ the Fort York area, it was a question of financial balance and the kind of life they wanted to live.

“If we bought a house we wouldn’t be able to afford a baby; a condo would allow us to have the lifestyle and the baby,” she said.

And that’s changing the way the City of Toronto’s planning department has to think and operate. The planning department initiated the study Growing Up: Planning for Children in New Vertical Communities as it works on ways to deal with what will be the increasing needs of families with children in what had previously been condo communities geared to adult residents.

The study is looking at how these high-density condo communities can better accommodate “households with children and youth.” That’s an issue for the present, and it will certainly raise some challenges as many of these communities are lacking in both recreational and educational spaces nearby.

This shift also puts pressure on Toronto’s public and Catholic school boards, which will find themselves with growing numbers of students living nowhere near schools, while many schools in established “suburban” neighbourhoods are seeing severely declining enrolment.

As our city changes, so must we change the way we think, plan and adapt.

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Tory well versed to take on raccoons

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was struck last week, attending the official launch of Toronto’s new raccoon-proof green bins on a lovely, quiet street in Scarborough, at just how suitable the event was to the talents of our current mayor, John Tory.

That may sound mean, but I don’t intend it to be. When Tory arrived at the foot of the driveway of Scarborough resident Rhoda Potter, the host of the launch event, he could not have been more charming, or dare we say it, funny.

He joked around with the city sanitation worker who was driving the truck.

He kidded around with Ms. Potter, who was demonstrating her own raccoonproofing on her green bin as a contrast with the city’s new, Atlanta-designed higher tech solution (Ms. Potter used a rock and a bungee cord). He kidded around with reporters while demonstrating the even higher-tech robot

david nickle the city arm that is designed to lift the green bin into the sky and dump its offal in the truck from a height even raccoons would find dizzying.

At least we think he was kidding when he suggested one of us try the robot arm.

The whole event went like one of those stand-up comedy routines that ask the audience if they’ve ever noticed how absurd something-or-other is, how irritating whoeverwe’re-irritated-with is or (as in this case) how darn cute and clever whateveris-vexing-us is.

It occurs to me that this is one of the most formidable skills that Tory brings to the job of mayor, in the post-Rob Ford Toronto: the ability to be pleasant and funny, an ability honed no doubt by his years hosting talk radio,

and one that has lent the mayor a great advantage with the public.

It is no coincidence that Tory’s biggest successes fall into this category, too, first pointing out, and then dealing with, the many small irritants in city life.

One of Tory’s first acts as mayor was to announce a towing blitz on those darned cars that keep parking illegally on downtown streets during rush hour. Don’t you hate those?

And isn’t it absurd to pay the equivalent of a meal out, to haul your kids onto the subway for a Sunday trip? Free rides for children was the answer to that.

And then there was the business of the raccoons.

They’re comedy gold, those clever little, erm, bandits. Dealing with the ingenuity of raccoons has turned us all into hapless coyotes trying to catch a road runner, and Tory is more than happy to deliver

the ACME raccoon-proof bin, that (like all ACME products in Road Runner cartoons) looks raccoon proof, if possibly not fool proof.

It made for a breezy and pleasant afternoon last week, having a bit of fun in Scarborough with Ms. Potter, commiserating about a silly but still troublesome problem and offering up a simple solution.

As I write this, I’m watching Toronto Council try and figure out another troublesome problem – the city’s coyote-and-roadrunner relationship with UberX, and the troubled taxi industry.

If only the solution to this problem were as simple as building a better green bin, our excellent mayor would know just what to do.

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up for Joggin for the Noggin wSign Registration is open for the annual Joggin for the Noggin 1and 5-kilometre family fun run.

The fundraiser, which benefits SickKids Hospital’s neurosurgery department, is set for Sunday, May 29 at Ashbridges Bay starting at 10 a.m.

Registration is $25.

Joggin for the Noggin was created in 2014 as a sign of gratitude by the Jacques family. In 2012, east-end teen Jillian Jacques developed a life-threatening brain infection and underwent life-saving surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children.

Visit https:onlineregistrations. ca/or/events/145352418543097 to sign up.

Centre hosts flea market wChild-Parent

The South Riverdale Child-Parent Centre is hosting a family flea market event on Saturday.

The event, formerly known as the Mom-to-Mom Sale, will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen St. E., just east of Broadview Avenue.

Everyone is welcome to buy/ sell gently used family items such as books, clothes and toys. The

event will raise funds for the South Riverdale Child-Parent Centre, and will also include a bake sale and refreshments, with all items priced at $1.

Admission is free. This is a cash-only event. Don’t forget to bring your own shopping bags.

For more information, email srcpc@bellnet.ca or call 416-4693776. walks kicks off with two events wriverside

The 2016 edition of Riverside Walks, a series of free guided walking tours throughout the spring, summer and fall, will kick off for the season on Saturday with two walks.

The first event, Wild Plants for Food and Medicine in Riverside, will run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Herbalist Danette Steele will be leading this walk.

From 3 to 5 p.m., people can take in the Riverside Pub Walk led

by Team Sheppard Re/MAX. Riverside Walks is sponsored by the Riverside Business Improvement Area and Team Sheppard Re/MAX. All walks are led by business owners, residents, and Riverside personalities.

Visit www.riverside-TO.com to RSVP.

Jazz Band plays at Beach United wDowntown The May edition of Beach United Church’s Jazz and Reflection series is set for Saturday from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m.

This month’s featured musical guest is the Downtown Jazz Band.

Admission is by freewill offering. Beach United Church is at 140 Wineva Ave., north of Queen Street. Visit www.beachunitedchurch.com

Bayview Ave., is hosting a free screening of the documentary film Accidental Parkland: The bounty and the burden of Toronto’s Ravines on Tuesday, May 10 from 7 to 9 p.m.

Everyone is invited to learn more about Toronto’s vast ravine system and the role it plays in the new Don River Valley Park.

The evening will also include a panel discussion with the filmmaker Dan Berman.

Register at www.evergreen.ca/ whats-on/event-details/12253

series launched in Beach Hill wreading talks about literary adventure wAuthor The Toronto Authors Gallery will host the inaugural event of its new reading series on Saturday in the Beach Hill neighbourhood.

The event will take place at 1999 Gerrard St. E., just east of Woodbine Avenue from 7:30 to 9 p.m.

All are welcome to come hear three writers read from their works and answer questions about their process, inspirations and challenges on writing about difficult topics.

Visit torontoauthorsgallery. wordpress.com Brick Works screens ravine doc wEvergreen

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Canadian author Douglas Gibson will be speaking about his latest book, Across Canada By Story: A Coast-to-Coast Literary Adventure next Thursday in the Beach.

The event will be held at the Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E. at Lee Avenue from 7 to 8 p.m.

Call 416-393-7703 for details. preps for streetcar wTTC tracks on cherry

The Toronto Transit Commission is now in the testing and commissioning phase for new streetcar tracks on Cherry Street.

In the coming weeks, crews will be installing new stops at the

Distillery Loop and Front Street in the West Don Lands.

Service on the new 514 Cherry streetcar is set to officially begin Sunday, June 19. The route will run along King Street from the Distillery Loop to the Dufferin Gates Loop.

A bus line is also in the works for communities along the waterfront starting on June 19.

Visit www.ttc.ca for details.

Gems auction raises $185,000 wArt

Art Gems, an annual celebrity art auction fundraiser, has raised more than $185,000 for Riverdale’s Creative Works Studio.

The sold-out 10th annual event, which took place Tuesday, April 26 at the Berkeley Church, 315 Queen St. E., featured original paintings and photographs donated by celebrity and professional artists including Col. Chris Hadfield and Rick Mercer.

All proceeds from Art Gems 2016 will be directed to Creative Works Studio, a fully equipped, safe and accepting art studio for people living with severe and persistent mental health illness or addictions.

Visit www.artgems.ca for details about next year’s event, set for April 27, 2017.

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prom 911: to serve and protect, in style Toronto police Const. Lisa Prechotko helps Nicole Giraldo find a prom dress and jewelry at 55 Division’s third annual Prom 911 program held Saturday at the Beaches Lions Clubhouse. The local police division collected prom wear and made it accessible to students free of charge so they can attend their prom in style.

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Join a Jane’s Walk, learn about your neighbourhood

Eglinton Crosstown Update: Station Open Houses The Eglinton Crosstown Project is building the Eglinton Line, a 19-kilometre light rail transit (LRT) line that will run along Eglinton Avenue through the heart of Toronto, with a 10-kilometre underground tunnel in its central section. When complete, the line will connect Mount Dennis in the west to Kennedy Road in the east, and will move passengers up to 60 per cent faster than bus service along Eglinton Avenue today.

Jane’s Walk, a series of free, locally organized walking tours that aim to get people exploring, talking about, and celebrating their neighbourhoods, is set for this weekend.

Here’s a list of local walks:

Join us at our upcoming open house and learn about the future stations on the Eglinton Line in your neighbourhood.

Saturday, May 7

Starting in May 2016, the next phase of construction begins at Cedarvale Station and Laird Station, and many other Crosstown stations will be under construction before the end of 2016.

Join Metrolinx and its constructor, Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS), at an open house to find out: • what construction is happening in your neighbourhood • why it needs to happen • how it may impact you • who to contact if you have questions/concerns • when construction is happening

Cedarvale Station Open House

Laird Station Open House

Monday, May 16, 2016 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Beth Sholom Synagogue 1445 Eglinton Avenue West

Tuesday, May 17, 2016 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Leaside Memorial Community Gardens 1073 Millwood Road

Visit a Crosstown Community Office for more information.

East Community Office Unit 110, 660 Eglinton Avenue East 416-482-7411

West Community Office 1848 Eglinton Avenue West 416-782-8118

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n New Ideas Need Old Buildings: A walk of the Carlaw and Dundas area with Toronto-Danforth MPP Peter Tabuns and Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher. Walk starts at 10 a.m. at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, 955 Queen St. E., just east of Carlaw Avenue. n Walking Around Gerrard Square: Explore the past, problems and potential to be found around a plucky neighbourhood mall with Dylan Reid and Todd Irvine. Walk starts at 10 a.m. at the southwest corner of Gerrard and Carlaw. n Green Gem of the TDSB: Explore the Toronto Urban Studies Centre greenhouse, which has not been open to the general public in years, with Paul Hackl.

Walk starts at 10 a.m. at the greenhouse at the City Adult Learning Centre, 1 Danforth Ave., near Broadview. n Wild Plants for Food and Medicine in Riverside: Take a walk on the wild side and identify common wild plants that are good for food and medicine with local herbalist Danette Steele. Walk starts at 11 a.m. at the corner of Queen and Saulter streets. n The Death and Life of Upper Midway: Learn about the economy and history of The Other Danforth, an enigmatic neighbourhood on the rise, with Stephen Wickens. Walk starts at 10 a.m. at 2301 Danforth Ave., the former Wise Guys pub. n KXN: Literary and Photo Walk in the Beaches: This walk is part of a full-day series of walks all led by celebrated novelists, poets and photographers. The local walk is lead by Catherine Graham and Elle Buetow. Walk starts at 11:30 at Beaches Library, 2161 Queen at Lee Avenue. n Erie Terrace to Carven Road: Tiny

House, Tall Tales and 100-Year Fence: Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Craven Road’s one-of-a-kind fence and the street of tiny houses with Joanne Doucette. This walk starts at 1 p.m. at the corner of Woodward and Queen.

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n Let’s walk: Explore south Riverdale with Rajeev Tandyal, 11 a.m. Walks starts at the corner of Gerrard and Pape. n Green Street meets Coxwell: Join local councillors and city staff in exploring new green infrastructure along Coxwell Avenue, including two new parkettes.

Walk starts at 1 p.m. at the Fairford Avenue Parkette at Coxwell and Upper Gerrard Street. n 21 Don Roadway: Learn more about the former Unilever factory and the First Gulf’s planned development with Derek Goring, 2 p.m. Walks starts at 21 The Don Roadway. n Riverdale RainWalk – managing stormwater where the rain falls: Meet neighbours who are using clever ideas to capture rain water at home, thereby reducing Don River water pollution and keeping basements dry, with Kevin Mercer, 2 p.m. Walks starts at Withrow Park, 725 Logan Ave. n The Upper Beaches: A Duel, Graves and Golf, Forgotten Waters and “ModeratelyPriced Homes”: This walk, led by Michael Hume, goes where country estates once stood, graves were dug, golf was played, and creeks flowed into ponds now gone.

Walk starts at 2 p.m. at the northwest corner of Kingston and Woodbine. n Join design leaders and Beachers Lisa Rochon and Shauna Levy for a feast of music, dance and community fire: Celebrate Jane Jacob’s love of the city’s “intricate ballet...replete with new improvisations.” Walk starts at 2 p.m. at the corner of Queen and Kenilworth. n Public Art in the Beach Village: The Beach Village is home to many spectacular murals, come see them and meet some of the artists, with Adam Smith. Walk starts at 3 p.m. at Neville Park Boulevard and Queen.

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eh List Author Reading Series: Edward Riche WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 416-393-7703 COST: Free Award-winning author, producer, and film maker Edward Riche’s latest comic novel is ‘Today I Learned It Was You’, highlighting the drama and dysfunction of local politics, overzealous rights activists, and the perils of contemporary social media. Book signing to follow.

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

Stratford Festival HD Production Screenings: ‘King John’ WHEN: 2 p.m. WHERE: Beaches Library, 2161 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 416-393-7703 COST: Free

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‘Idiot’ sorry for overtaking streetcar A self-professed “idiot” motorist apologized this week for cutting off riders disembarking a TTC streetcar.

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“I honestly had a lapse in judgement and instead of stopping when the streetcar slowed, I continued moving and as such endangered the people getting off,” states the penitent motorist.

According to the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, all vehicles must leave at least two metres of space from the nearest doors of a stationary streetcar.

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You can vote for your favourite option once a day until Saturday.

Announced last year by the city, the $25-million project is fully funded through a private donation. Waterfront Toronto is co-ordinating construction and hoping to have it done by mid-2017.

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TTC spokesperson Brad Ross said 19 buses from the transit commission’s Queensway garage have the readers so far, and all 1,895 vehicles are expected to be online as of summer.

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