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art admiration: Kim Wheatley and her daughter Alexandria Bipatnath, check out some of the jewelry from artist Louise Solomon during the Indigenous and Ingenious Show and Sale Saturday at the Ralph Thornton Centre.

Seventeen-year-old Upper Beach resident Kasha Slavner has been recognized for her commitment to leadership in the areas of peace and global citizenship, and her steadfast and deep engagement for the good of the planet.

Earlier this month, the east-end teen who lives near Kingston Road and Main Street, was awarded the first Kim Phuc Youth Award for Peace by Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW). Canada’s longeststanding feminist peace group, the 2,000-member, non-partisan, non-governmental organization (NGO) is comprised of a network of diverse women with consultative status at the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council.

Phuc is a VietnameseCanadian woman who at the age of nine appeared in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972. She is an >>>teen, page 8

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New TTC streetcars start rolling out of Leslie Barns facility Regular streetcar service has begun at the new Leslie Barns light rail vehicle maintenance and storage facility at Leslie Street and Lake Shore Boulevard East.

The Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) new low-floor streetcars started operating out of the state-of-the-art, 280,000-square-foot facility on the weekend. The first two streetcars left the building Sunday at 5:30 a.m., while the remainder of the vehicles entered into service from there between 10 and 11:30 a.m.

The facility, which also has one of the largest green roofs in Toronto as well as an on-site storm water management pond, will be the site for maintenance of the TTC’s fleet of 204 new streetcars. It will also be used to store and dispatch 100 streetcars daily and for all streetcar operator and maintenance training.

The TTC has two other streetcar carhouses: one at Roncesvalles, which

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will house 60 new streetcars, and the Russell Carhouse at Queen Street East and Connaught Avenue in Leslieville, which will store 40 vehicles.

The 30-bay Leslie Barns, which is still under construction, won’t be fully operational until early 2016.

Help the hungry this holiday season The Gerrard East Community Organization will kick off its neighbourhood food drive on Tuesday.

The non-perishable food drive, which runs until Tuesday, Dec. 15, supports the Glen Rhodes Food Program, which has been operating a weekly food bank at Glen Rhodes United Church, 1470 Gerrard St. E., for more than 30 years.

The program operates under the auspices of the Daily Bread Food Bank and is open Tuesdays and Fridays from 9 to 11:30 a.m. It helps feed more than 200 local families.

The most-needed items include powdered milk or TetraPak cartons of milk, juice, dry cereal and oatmeal, canned fruits and vegetables, canned fish and meat, peanut butter, and dry pasta and tomato sauce.

Students from the nearby Equinox Holistic Alternative School will be doing the bin collection and food

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hamper’s parade: Clockwise from top: Santa reacts to his fans on the street from aboard his float during Community Centre 55’s Hamper’s Santa Claus Parade along Kingston Road on Sunday; Dan Smith yells for Santa’s attention; the Malvern Collegiate marching band performs along the Kingston Road route; members of Beach Cheer perform for the crowd.

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he Toronto Transit Commission’s board is on the right track when it comes to the balanced approach it decided to take this week regarding fare increases.

At its meeting, the board voted to increase cash fares for adults by 25 cents, up to $3.25, and to increase the price of an adult token to $2.90. Considering one can literally ride the TTC the entire length and breadth of Toronto for that price, it’s a more than reasonable cost.

At the same time, the board wisely decided not to increase the cost of the Metropass, which now goes for $141.50. The monthly pass offers unlimited rides. It is a valuable item based on the service it provides, but its cost is high relative to other North American cities and it has been the chosen route for our view fare hikes for too long.

TTC board chair Josh Colle There’s a cost summed it up well when he said the system cannot rely on to pay for Metropass users as an “endless well of money.” It also doesn’t good transit hurt to reward the loyalty of those who use the TTC multiple times every day.

The cash fare and token fee hikes only apply to adult fares. The TTC will keep fares for seniors and students where they are, at $2 cash and $1.95 for tokens, which is a good decision. And, of course, due to a decision by city council last year championed by Mayor John Tory, children under 12 ride the system for free.

This is all part of having a grown-up transit system in Toronto. The whining that takes place every time a fare increase is mentioned is unreasonable. There’s a price for good transit, and part of that must be paid by those who use the service.

That being said, all city taxpayers must continue to pay for the TTC whether they ride it or prefer to drive their cars or use their bikes. Property taxpayers can’t be complaining about the cost of building infrastructure if they want to continue living in one of the best cities in the world.

However, that does not let the federal and provincial governments off the hook when it comes to funding an essential service in Canada’s largest city.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made some big promises along those lines during the election campaign, and we expect him to honour them.

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Road to transit parity barely a ‘goat-path’ John Tory often talks a bit of sense – and he did so on Monday when asked what he thought about the thenimminent fare hike under debate at the Toronto Transit Commission.

“I believe fares should be adjusted for every year because the cost of running the system goes up and we have to maintain the financial viability,” said the mayor.

“I think it’s fair that those who use the system pay their share of the cost.”

This raised some eyebrows, if only because Tory had made some hay during the election and earlier this year in freezing transit fares, for 2014.

That he seemed fine with a 25-cent hike on the cash fare and a 10-cent hike on tokens... well that seemed a reversal.

Of course, Tory had only made the promise for 2014, and made it clear he never intended there be fare freezes all the way

david nickle the city down. And his position, that as costs to deliver a service increase so should the cost to the user, is as sensible as is his notion that services as they stand shouldn’t be cut.

Service should be reliable, and books should be balanced.

So far so good.

It is a shame, as my colleague Rahul Gupta remarked during the debate at the TTC, that the mayor couldn’t take the same even-handed approach to other matters of transportation financing, such as road tolls.

It’s a shame, sure, but it’s also an immovable factor in the politics of mobility, the disparity between the privileges of drivers and transit users respectively.

The latter occupy the bottom end of things.

Since the provincial government stopped funding operating costs for the Toronto Transit Commission, an uneasy balance of property taxpayers and transit users have been covering the cost of getting around to a greater and greater degree.

Fares rise every year or so, and service fluctuates too, and when service drops and fares rise, a portion of those transit riders who can afford to, use their cars more. The rest... well they get used to disappointment.

Drivers, on the other hand, are the demographic of choice, particularly for more conservative politicians, but not limited to that.

After the 2010 municipal election, politicians from across the political spectrum voted to shut down the vehicle registration tax along with then-mayor Rob Ford. Attempts to put a bike lane on Jarvis Street were similarly squashed.

And when Tory was elected, one of the first things he did was take immediate action to battle one of the few remaining irritants to the pampered driver: downtown traffic congestion in the presence of construction.

So while it would be sensible to look at revenue tools such as modest road tolls to help fund, for instance, the maintenance and reconstruction of the Gardiner Expressway, or more sensibly still, road decongesting public transit, the road to that solution is barely a goat-path these days.

Still, baby steps are better than none: and if a mayor can recognize decent public service requires a decent amount of revenue, well, that is at least a very tiny step in the right direction.

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Craft Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: St. John the Baptist Norway, 470 Woodbine Ave. COST: Free Local artisans will sell crafts and gifts for the holidays. Lunch and home baking will also be available.

Holiday Concert with Cadence WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave. CONTACT: Karen Dale, 416-691-8082, office@beachuc.ca COST: $20 and $10 for children under 10.

Holiday concert with renowned a cappella group Cadence. Doors open at 7 p.m. A cash bar (beer and wine) will be available before the show and at intermission. Proceeds will help support the church’s community programs.

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Country Winterland WHEN: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Beech Nursery, 4 Carlaw Ave. CONTACT: Michael Surgey, 416-4616555, michael@beechnursery.com COST: Free A rural winter day in the middle of the city. Farm animals, food and fun.

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Riverdale’s Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) of Toronto is holding its Best of Christmas church fundraising concerts.

The shows, which will get underway at 8 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday, will feature the MCC Toronto Choir with guests Alana Bridgewater, Heather Bambrick, and Sterling Javis with Pride and Joy, and music director Diane Leah.

Doors open at 7 p.m. at the church at 115 Simpson Ave., north of Gerrard Street East and west of Logan Avenue.

Admission is $20 for adults or $15 for students in advance, and $25 at the door. Visit mcctoronto.com/concert to purchase tickets.

Beach United hosts Christmas market Beach United Church’s Christmas marketplace will take place Saturday.

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It runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the church, 140 Wineva Ave., north of Queen Street East. Call 416691-8077 or visit http:// beachunitedchurch.com Up Riverside slated for Saturday wLight

The fourth annual Light Up Riverside, a community event celebrating the spirit of the holidays, while promoting shopping locally, is set for Saturday.

Sponsored by realtors Matt Casselman and Ben Ferguson, the festivities offer a treelighting ceremony, warm refreshments and food from participating businesses, a musical performance by The Beach Chorale, a visit from Santa Claus, and more.

Light Up Riverside will include a Shop the Hood holiday shopping event throughout the day, and will run from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at Mustard Seed, 791 Queen St. E. at DeGrassi Street.

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In early 2014, Slavner took a semester off from Monarch Park Collegiate to travel abroad with her mother, Marla, and snap photos, write blog posts, and shoot video for a documentary about what it means to be a global citizen through the eyes of a teenager.

Affectionately known as the Sunrise Storyteller, Kasha has created a 32-piece travelling exhibition titled Travels in the Heart.

She is also in the process of writing an e-book, Reflections of the Sunrise Storyteller, about her adventures abroad and is working to finish editing her documentary film, The Global Sunrise Project.

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Slavner, who attended the NGO’s inaugural summer youth peace camp and is a three-time youth delegate for the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace at the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women, said receiving the award is “a really big deal” to her.

“I was so shocked and really excited about it,” said Slavner, about her reaction to leaning she’d been selected for the honour.

“It’s really nice to be recognized.”

Beach resident Sandra Ruch, VOW’s national coordinator, said Slavner is the perfect candidate for the new award for youth.

“She was the clear frontrunner and we’re so proud of her,” Ruch said.

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baked item to be swapped as well as a $5 donation for The Hospital for Sick Children.

The event will also include live tunes by local musician Mark Battenberg, refreshments and prize draws.

Sayers was a well-loved Upper Beach resident who for several years ran a home daycare. She died of cancer on

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Fiona Bramzell, whose 14-year-old daughter Paige attended Sayers’ daycare, created the event in honour of her daughter’s caregiver and her good friend.

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Mercedes-Benz Toronto Corporate Retail Stores kick off the holiday season with toy drive

TORONTO, ON – The season for giving is upon us and for the second consecutive year, MercedesBenz Corporate Retail Stores will be holding a toy drive from now until December 15. This year, all unwrapped toys collected through this initiative will be delivered aboard Santa’s Sprinter to the Toronto Fire Fighters Toy Drive, a reputable non-profit charity that has helped thousands of families celebrate Christmas over the years.

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The Mercedes-Benz Toronto Corporate Stores are also pleased to announce that Santa Claus will be taking time out from his busy schedule to

make special appearances in support of the toy drive at participating dealerships across the GTA. This exciting chance to meet Santa in person is open to all and will be commemorated with a personalized digital photo taken with Santa and his Merry Metris.

“The employees from the Mercedes-Benz Toronto Corporate Stores are passionate about giving back to the communities in which they operate and we know that the donated toys will make a difference for those in need,” said Philipp v. Witzendorff, Vice President and Head of Toronto Retail Operations. “We are delighted to have the opportunity to put our retail facilities and our product, namely the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter and Metris commercial vans, to good use throughout the year and even more so during the festive season.”

In addition to conducting the toy drive, the Mercedes-Benz Toronto Corporate Stores have generously loaned a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van to the Toronto Fire Fighters Toy Drive for a three month period to support their toy distribution logistics throughout the Greater Toronto Area.

“We are extremely grateful that the Mercedes-

Benz Toronto Corporate Stores have wholeheartedly embraced our cause once again this year by providing us the use of a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter,” said Ray Easby, Executive Director for the Toronto Fire Fighters Toy Drive. “The MercedesBenz Sprinter commercial van is an exceptionally versatile vehicle that has been instrumental in helping us achieve our very important holiday season mission.”

Upcoming Santa viSitS: Mercedes-Benz Mississauga Friday, Nov. 27 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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Mercedes-Benz Downtown Saturday, Dec. 5 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Fun fair supports East Toronto Families for Syria East Toronto Families for Syria is hosting a drop-in fun fair in support of Syrian refugee families relocating to Toronto on Sunday.

The family event, which will include toys, games, a silent auction/ raffle, a bake sale and more, will run from 9:30 a.m. to noon at Oaks n’ Acorns, 1856 Danforth Ave., just west of Woodbine Avenue.

All proceeds will be directed to local groups sponsoring Syrian refugee families.

Admission is $20 per family or $15 with a new toiletry or house cleaning item. Visit www.facebook.com/ events/1671597313052420

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The clinic will run from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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Playschool hosts photos with Santa Beaches Co-operative Playschool is hosting a day of photos with Santa Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Residents are invited to help clean up Glen Stewart Ravine Sunday, Nov. 29.

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of Glen Stewart Ravine stewardship group, the pre-winter clean-up event runs from 10 a.m. to noon.

Those interested in taking part should meet at the ravine’s Beech Avenue entrance.

Participants should bring their own garden or rubber gloves. Bags will be provided. Boots are suggested.

Call 416-691-7150 for more information. a historical walk in the Beach wTake

Local historian Gene Domagala will be hosting a historical walk in the Beach neighbourhood on Sunday.

The free tour, which will include stops at historically and architecturally significant buildings that residents have worked hard to preserve, will get underway at the corner of Balsam and Pine avenues at 1 p.m.

All are welcome. Call 416-691-5229 for details. on future of Oakcrest Park wMeeting

A community consultation on the 2016 revitalization project slated for Oakcrest Park, which is south of Danforth Avenue and east of Woodbine Avenue, will take place Monday at Press Books, Coffee and Vinyl, 2442 Danforth Ave., just west of Main Street, starting at 7 p.m.

Email lsmith@toronto. ca to confirm your attendance. program seeks helpers wbreakfast St. John the Compassionate Mission in Riverside is reaching out for help to operate its Winter Breakfast Program that provides a warm welcome, a hearty breakfast, and a few hours of respite from the cold for men and women

who spent the night in shelters or outdoors People can support the program in three ways: volunteer, donate food (eggs, milk, breakfast meats, cereals, pancake mix, peanut butter, jams), or donate funds.

Cheques should be made payable to St. John the Compassionate Mission; write “breakfast” in the memo line The program runs Monday to Friday from 6 to 9 a.m. Anyone interested in volunteering is asked to commit to one four-hour shift per week to help with set-up, clean-up or food preparation. A volunteer orientation session will take place Dec. 2 at 155 Broadview Ave., north of Queen Street East.

Contact Cornelius at 416466-1357, ext. 29.

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The Ralph Thornton Centre’s Exchange Loft has extended its weekend hours for the next few weeks.

The space, which provides community access to computers, fax machines, and copiers, will now be open on Fridays until 7 p.m.

Previously, the loft closed its doors at 4:30 p.m.

The Exchange Loft, at 765 Queen St. E., just east of Broadview Avenue, will also be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays.

The extended hours will run until Saturday, Dec. 20. As a result, the centre’s weekend reception area will be moved to third floor.

Anyone with questions or feedback can call the centre at 416-392-6810.

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The city announced the $19.7-million project will begin construction next spring and open in 2017. The Fort York Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge will span in separate sections across two railway corridors, connecting three downtown parks with the Fort York grounds.

The project was cancelled in 2011 by then-mayor Rob Ford and his suburban allies on council, including David Shiner, who decried its ornate design as too expensive.

But a compromise between Shiner and local pro-bridge Councillor Mike Layton was reached for a more affordable design, and both were on hand for the Tuesday announcement. service on YONGE LINE returns wLATE-NIGHT

North York’s long-standing late-night transit nightmare, early closings of the Yonge line from Eglinton to Finch stations, will officially end by

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Since 2008, service has been ending just after midnight six days a week to accommodate critical subway tunnel repairs.

At the TTC’s recent customer town hall, CEO Andy Byford promised an end to the early closures.

Now it can be confirmed, thanks to the TTC’s Brad Ross, the Yonge line will return to regular night-time service beginning the weekend of Dec. 18 and 19.

IMPROVE TRANSIT TO THE PORT LANDS wHELP

The TTC is looking for feedback on a proposal to improve transit service for the port lands.

The transit commission is examining the prospect of bringing back continuous service of the 72 Pape bus from Pape Avenue to Union

Station. The service was split at Commissioners Street to accommodate a renovation of Union, supplemented by a new version of the 172 Cherry Street bus.

With the Union renovations complete, the TTC is considering replacing the 172 with two new routes: from Pape Station to Union via Queens Quay, and extending Front Street service to the burgeoning CityPlace development.

Complete the survey at www.ttc.ca/survey by Dec. 14. becomes enterprise carshare wAUTOSHARE

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The company, which has more than 12,000 members in Toronto alone, will be known as Enterprise CarShare.

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