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High Park Zoo’s future to include major upgrades HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com From facing closure to getting a facelift, High Park Zoo not only continues to Master plan bring people c l o s e r t o doesn’t discuss nature, it now cost, priority has improveprojects as ments in its community future. consultations Plans for continue the zoo’s future improvements were unveiled to a room of eager volunteers and nearby residents last week, receiving a positive

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Advocacy group launches EA for Davenport rail crossing LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com As Metrolinx is launching its Transit Project Assessment Process (TPAP) for the contentious Davenport Diamond overpass, a local grassroots organization announced a plan to conduct its own environmental assessment.

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began last Thursday, will only examine the option for an overpass, ignoring the community and elected officials’ requests to study all three options – a tunnel, a trench, as well as the overpass, charged Options for Davenport.

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Elementary students enjoy new classrooms LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com It’s been about a year and a half coming, but students and teachers at both Keele Street and Swansea Jr. and Sr. public schools have moved into their new classrooms after significant additions were recently completed.

Staff and students were in the midst of the move Monday, Jan. 25, settling that same day.

“I can’t tell you how excited everyone is, both the teachers and students,” Swansea P.S. principal Mary Salvarinas said on move day.

The junior kindergarten to Grade 8 school on Windermere Avenue is planning an official grand opening for the spring. The new three-floor wing includes new science technology and engineering classrooms.

“One of the things that’s amazing is the amount of natural light. There are lots of windows,” Salvarinas said. “Every classroom has natural light.”

The science technology and engineering classrooms are separated by glass so you can see through to all three rooms, she added.

“The washrooms are spectacular. It’s great to hear all the ‘ooos’ and ‘aaahhs’ from the students,” Salvarinas said.

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expansion began in September 2014.

During construction, the school relied on six portables, which will be removed from the property in the spring after the ground thaws.

Students and teachers at Keele Street P.S. moved into their new space a week earlier.

Principal Jennie Petko called the new classrooms “amazing.”

“It’s been several years since our first local design committee. It’s so nice to see the design come to fruition,” Petko said.

The new addition is connected to the old school by a glass link, she said. The expansion is comprised of 12 rooms – 11 classrooms, plus one daycare room. The classrooms include visual art, music and design and tech spaces.

“The students are wide eyed. The Grade 8s are asking, ‘Is this for us,’” Petko said. “They’re thrilled.”

The school, situated at the corner of Keele Street and Glenlake Avenue, will celebrate with a grand opening event in June.

Robin Pilkey, Ward 7 Toronto District School Board trustee, said the neighbourhood is fortunate to see these additions.

“I hope they’re enjoying them,” she said of staff, students and the greater school communities. “They’re great educational spaces.”

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The Aangen Community Centre is holding a fundraising dinner to collect funds to build an industrial-sized kitchen in Nigeria where students are having trouble learning because they’re distracted by hunger.

Your meal at Aangen Community Centre will help feed hungry children in Nigeria LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com You can help heal hunger by taking part in an Aangen Community Centre event in support of the construction of an industrial-sized kitchen in Ebe, Nigeria.

The Dupont Street and Dovercourt Road-area self-sustained, not-forprofit centre that develops programs both locally and globally presents a fundraising dinner ‘Heal Hunger’ on Tuesday.

Luce Resto, at 793 King St. W. will host the meal, which takes place from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Organizer Heather Maciel, program co-ordinator at Aangen Community Centre, calls it “a preValentine’s Day mixer for family and friends.”

Last year, the community centre connected with a Dr. Shira Taylor, who visited Aangen to speak about her experience teaching in Nigeria.

She explained that students were unable to concentrate due to extreme hunger – many of them did not eat breakfast and did not have a lunch packed for school.

“Twenty-five per cent of children were not eating breakfast and didn’t have any lunch to eat and were in school from 7:30 a.m. until 3 p.m.,” Maciel told The Villager.

Aangen joined forces with Taylor and Father Charles Ogada, principal at the Nigerian school and founder of the Spiritan Self Awareness Initiative, a humanitarian group comprised of those from different countries and cultures.

“We’ve been able to wire transfer

funds to Father Charles to purchase food for the kids,” Maciel said.

Yet, Aangen wanted to help the children in a long lasting way.

“We thought, ‘How do we come up with a sustainable solution? How can we empower people long-term,” she said. “We need to take care of each other.”

That’s how the idea of a kitchen came to fruition. The goal is to raise $30,000 to get the kitchen set up with a cook.

The Feb. 9 dinner includes an Italian vegetarian menu and raffle.

All proceeds from the event will go directly to this project the Nigerian kitchen project.

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Students have moved into the new addition of Keele Street Junior Public School. Here, contruction was taking place in April 2015.

Residential developer Plazacorp said it will be submitting an application to the City of Toronto for a 14-storey development at 2442-2454 Bloor St. W., the site of Humber Cinemas.

Parkdale-High Park Councillor Sarah Doucette has asked the company to host a community meeting prior to submitting the application so residents can share their thoughts

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othing makes Toronto angrier than a transit strike. Well, almost nothing: transit strikes made Torontonians angry enough that in 2011 Toronto council asked the provincial government to declare the Toronto Transit Commission an essential service – same as police and firefighters – so we would never be troubled by wholesale transit service denial again.

In response to the 2009, 40-day garbage strike, Torontonians did something that was arguably even more radical, and elected Rob Ford mayor.

The lack of garbage collection for more than a month that summer infuriated residents. Parks were filled with stinking bags of garbage that only got stinkier in the heat, and the only thing worse than hauling garbage there was keeping it festering in the yard. our view Toronto may well be heading for another garbage strike in Less impactful just a few weeks. But the city’s strategy in dealing with its two job action if unions has made that eventuality less likely. unions strike It was a strategy developed under former deputy mayor Doug Holyday during Rob Ford’s otherwise tumultuous term of office. Rather than let negotiations poke along until the warm weather, Holyday and the city’s negotiating team set the strike deadline clock ticking in December and pushed hard until the end. The result? No strike, but a negotiated settlement. The only workers who walked off the job were from the library, and that strike was over in the blink of an eye.

Will it be the same in 2016? In some ways, the city is in an even stronger position this time than last because, since then, Toronto successfully expanded its contracted out garbage collection to about half the city. So if garbage workers do walk off the job, only Torontonians east of Yonge Street will be impacted. And unless the last half of the winter is truly balmy, the smell won’t be that bad either.

That’s a real incentive to CUPE Local 416 and Local 79 to make a deal, and probably offer up concessions to the city negotiators, to avoid a long and possibly not impactful job action. With all that said, the city could well be shut down later in the winter, with not just outside garbage collectors, but also unionized inside workers. And even without the stink... that eventuality will make everyone more than a little twitchy. Let’s hope that nobody does anything rash.

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Toronto’s half-imagined transit future is not all bad Whatever you may think of the details, you’ve got to hand it to Toronto’s planning department and chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat for this achievement: the most completely imagined transit plan in recent memory.

There was one other: the OneCity Plan that former TTC chair Karen Stintz stitched together with the help of Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker that, in 2013, simply stitched together every dream project that caught their attention and put it on a map.

But that one, delivered to council in 2013, could barely stand up to a stiff breeze.

The plan that Keesmaat has put together and is completing is made of sterner stuff. The plan to make a one-stop subway crossing the gulf between Kennedy station and the Scarborough Town Centre is justified using economic development metrics rather than on a measure of local transit. The extended

david nickle the city Eglinton RT deals with the local transit needs along with a multi-station SmartTrack line running parallel. There will be more light rail in the west end, planners decreed, having looked with some rigour at Mayor John Tory’s SmartTrack plan through Etobicoke and pronounced heavy rail there to be impractical. The light rail would provide more stops and therefore more localized service as it makes its way to Mississauga and the airport. As was reported last week, meanwhile, a downtown relief line coursing south from Pape station at Danforth and along Queen Street East past Toronto City Hall would deal handily with the growing congestion at the Bloor/ Yonge subway interchange.

The detailed justification of that plan will have to

wait until Toronto planners actually release the leaked report later in the spring, but the plan has a sense to it: Queen Street is already a busy streetcar route and Nathan Phillips Square is a focal point for the city.

So: a downtown relief line, a SmartTrack only slightly truncated, more light rail and a nominal subway in Scarborough.

If all that could somehow be built, to the specifications of the planners...well, Toronto would be in pretty fine shape.

That might be a trick.

There are engineering problems to overcome, financial hurdles to beat and the raw uncertainty of fickle Toronto politics.

Odds are good that some or all of this well-imagined future will not manifest.

More likely, it will be some of it. Two elements of this plan are particularly vulnerable: the one-stop subway to the Scarborough Town Centre and SmartTrack itself. In the

case of the former, the costs remain high to send trains to service a single stop. In the case of the latter, the realities of geography and engineering may make it cost prohibitive. It might be useful to imagine, then, a scenario in which those two elements are absent.

In the case of SmartTrack’s imagined demise, it might not be as bad as that: Metrolinx is still planning to expand GO Train service along that route. And if the subway vanishes – well, there are light rail plans on the book for linking the Scarborough Town Centre and Kennedy station. In the meantime, the plan would still encompass massive light rail expansion and a downtown relief line that would improve transit for everyone. As half-imagined futures go, it’s still not a bad one.

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Baby Time WHEN: 10:30 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: Kara, 416-394-1014, COST: Free Bouncing and tickling rhymes, songs and stories for babies from birth to 18 months with their parents and caregivers. Call to register.

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Vegetarians of High Park: Dinner at Humble Beginnings WHEN: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Humble Beginnings, 3109 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: Barbi Lazarus, highparkveg. wordpress.com, highpark@veg.ca COST: Pay for your own meal Join us for dinner at Humble Beginnings.They are a veg-friendly place and they may put together a special vegan menu for us that night. RSVP

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Ready for Reading for babies WHEN: 10:30 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free Storytimes for babies from birth to 18 months shows parents and caregivers how to help their child get ready for reading. Drop-in.

walkingtours@yahoo.ca COST: Free A Toronto Urban Forester leads a walk through High Park to see how trees survive winter and how to identify them. Meet at the benches across from Grenadier Restaurant.

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Saturday Knitting WHEN: 3 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free Meet with other knitters to chat as you knit. Bring your own supplies.

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The Naked Trees of Winter WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: highpark-

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Stop the Violence Valentine’s Day Breakfast WHEN: 8 to 10 a.m. WHERE: Grenadier Restaurant, 200 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: Shelley Pringle, 416-5971518, http://www. cfuwetobicoke.ca/, shelley@polarisprinc. com COST: $25 CFUW Etobicoke’s 3rd annual Stop the Violence Valentine’s Day Breakfast. Money raised is going

to Women’s Habitat. Breakfast buffet.

Mary Gordon, founder of Roots of Empathy, will speak. Space is limited.

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Hand of Franklin screening WHEN: 6:15 to 8:15 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free The Hand of Franklin is about a fourman expedition attempting to be the first to row self-propelled through the Northwest Passage.

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Creating from Within presented

by ART for Cancer Foundation WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: AFC Place, 1884 Davenport Rd., Unit 1 CONTACT: Cid, 416-763-8752, cid_palacio@yahoo.ca COST: Free

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Ready for Reading for toddlers WHEN: 10:30 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free Ready for Reading storytimes encourage a lifelong love of reading, build reading readiness and show parents and caregivers how to help their child get ready for reading. This sixweek program is for children aged 18 to 36 months.

Toronto’s 2016 Budget town hall WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School, 1515 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Councillor Sarah Doucette, 416-392-4072, Councillor_Doucette@toronto.ca COST: Free Ward 13 Councillor Sarah Doucette and Ward 14 Councillor Gord Perks host a town hall style meeting on Toronto’s 2016 Budget. RSVP is appreciated: http://goo.gl/forms/ aalH4QhoZO

Claxton, members@shoutsisterchoir. ca COST: Free We are always welcoming new members. We do not audition and we sing a fun variety of music from pop and Motown, to folk, to a touch of country and blues.

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Swansea Book Club WHEN: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7638 COST: Free The theme of Swansea Memorial Library’s book club this winter is Paris.

Read three books and discuss.

Steel Drum Performance WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: lszczesniak@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Caribbean Steel Drum performance, an enriching and satisfying musical experience for all ages.

Shout Sister Choir Toronto South West WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Emmanuel-Howard Park United Church, 214 Wright Ave. CONTACT: Oriole

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Notice of Commencement Transit Project Assessment Process Davenport Diamond Grade Separation

Metrolinx, an agency of the Province of Ontario, is working to transform the way the region moves by building a fast, convenient and integrated transit network across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). Part of this plan is to bring frequent and reliable service to communities along the Barrie rail corridor.

The Project Metrolinx is moving forward with Regional Express Rail (RER), a program that will provide significant new travel choices on the GO Transit network across the region. Current plans for this rail line include electrified, all-day, two-way service every 15 minutes to Aurora GO Station as well as peak, midday, evening and weekend GO train service to Allandale Waterfront GO Station. The service increase will be phased in over 10 years while Metrolinx builds additional infrastructure.

To support this service increase, Metrolinx is planning to build an elevated rail corridor that follows the current GO Transit route between Bloor Street West and Davenport Road. The Davenport Diamond Grade Separation project is intended to eliminate the ‘Davenport Diamond’, one of the busiest train intersections in North America, where CP Rail freight trains and GO Transit passenger trains cross at a ground-level rail crossing.

The Process Metrolinx is assessing the environmental impacts of building this new infrastructure according to the Transit Project Assessment Process (TPAP) as prescribed in Ontario Regulation 231/08, Transit Projects and Metrolinx Undertakings. As part of the TPAP, an Environmental Project Report (EPR) will be filed documenting any potential environmental effects and mitigation requirements of the Project. Viewing locations for the agency and public review of the EPR will be published in the Notice of Completion.

All information produced as part of this project is available at, www.metrolinx.com/RERDavenport.

Consultation We thank everyone for their feedback to date during our pre-engagement. As we launch the Notice of Commencement and formal six-month TPAP process, we continue to encourage our neighbours, agencies and other interested persons to actively participate in the TPAP by attending future meetings or by contacting staff directly with information, comments or questions. Your participation is an important part of this process and we welcome your input.

If you have project-related questions or would like to be added to the project’s mailing list, please contact: Davenport Diamond Grade Separation c/o Georgina Collymore Senior Advisor – Environmental Assessment Communications & Community Relations Metrolinx 20 Bay Street, Suite 600, Toronto, ON M5J 2W3 tel: 416-202-4921 e-mail: rerdavenport@metrolinx.com All personal information included in a submission – such as name, address, telephone number and property location – is collected, maintained and disclosed by the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change for the purpose of transparency and consultation. The information is collected under the authority of the Environmental Assessment Act or is collected and maintained for the purpose of creating a record that is available to the general public as described in s. 37 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Personal information you submit will become part of a public record that is available to the general public unless you request that your personal information remain confidential. For more information, please contact Georgina Collymore (contact information above) or the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change Freedom of Information and Privacy Coordinator at 416-327-1434.

Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez composer le (416) 869-3200 or le 1 888 GET ON GO (438-6646).

Metrolinx is working to provide residents and businesses in the GTHA with a transportation system that is modern, efficient and integrated. Find out more about Metrolinx’s Regional Transportation Plan for the GTHA as well as GO Transit, PRESTO, and Union Pearson Express, divisions of Metrolinx, at www.metrolinx.com.

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Design rendering of a bridge Metrolinx wants to construct to replace the Davenport Diamond rail crossing. The provincial transit planning agency launched an Environmental Assessment for the project last month, while resident group Options for Davenport has commenced its own.

Group will investigate overpass, trench, tunnel >>>from page 1 crossing where GO Transit intersects with CP freight trains. The bridge, Metrolinx says, is necessary in order to double the current Barrie line GO train service.

Options for Davenport will conduct its Environmental Assessment (EA) over the following four months and will rely on the province’s own EA framework.

“We’ve reached out to a few prominent planners,” spokesperson Sam Barbieri told The Villager.

Among the more than 1,500 supporters of the group, there are professional architects, engineers, designers, professors, lawyers and artists.

“It’s become clear that Metrolinx is bent on taking shortcuts so we’ve concluded that the only way to find answers to our concerns is to utilize the talent within our community and dig those answers up ourselves,” he said.

The group will execute its EA study in three phases: overpass; trench; and tunnel over the next 120 days. This is the amount of time that Metrolinx has to receive and respond to concerns regarding its bridge plans from other regulatory agencies and members of the public. Once that time is up, all responses must be included in the final project report, which must BEST BUY - CORRECTION NOTICE NEWSPAPER RETRACTION FOR THE BEST BUY JAN 29 CORPORATE FLYER In the January 29 flyer, page 4, the Sony 48” 1080p HD 60Hz LED Smart TV (KDL48W700C) (WebCode: 10368738) was incorrectly advertised with the LG LAS454B 300-Watt 2.1-Channel Sound Bar with Wireless Subwoofer (WebCode: 10394199) as a package. TheSony 48” Smart TV does not come with the LG Sound Bar with Subwoofer. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our valued customers.

then be approved by the Ontario Ministry of Environment.

Options will continue to undertake significant door-to-door community consultation and polling in addition to its monthly meetings.

Barbieri admits he has no idea how his group’s EA will be received.

“Metrolinx and the provincial government has ignored us thus far,” he said. “We’ll try to study this as best we can, all three options.”

Options for Davenport chair Laura Zeglen acknowledged that its grassroots EA is not going to be as technically thorough as the kind of report that Metrolinx could have produced given the group’s resources, yet she believes people are going to be surprised with what it comes up with.

“The bottom line is this: Davenport residents are going to have a say, in a meaningful and real way, in what happens to their community,” Zeglen said in a statement. “Metrolinx has made some encouraging adjustments to their plans recently, but they haven’t gone far enough. There is still no dedicated public realm improvement funding, no commitment to a stop in the neighbourhood, no clear plan for noise, vibration and pollution mitigation. And their decision to move forward with the TPAP against all advice is troubling.”

Recently, residents packed the Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre to see Metrolinx’s updated designs for the bridge, which has now been reduced in length, although the project footprint remains the same at 1.4 kilometres from Bloor Street to just south of Davenport Road.

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COLLEGE & sHAW One of Toronto’s High Demand Neighbourhoods + Location, 3 Bdrm 2 Storey, Gorgeous Original Wood, Open Concept Living & Dining Room, Finished Bsmt, Detached Garage. Amazing Value & Opportunity! sOLD IN 1 WK FOR 122% OF AsKING!

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Detached Bungalow on Large 40x133ft fully fenced lot. Needs some TLC, Huge Potential for Renovators, Contractors or Investors. Updated Windows& Doors, Furnace & A/C, Electrical Panel. Huge Basement, 6 Car Parking, Super Value. sOLD IN 1 WK FOR 113% OF AsKING!

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The former marketing communications executive is nearing his fifth year in the real estate business and has a genuine interest in helping people to transact property ownership; one of life’s biggest acquisitions or divestitures, not to mention, major life transitions. His passion for Bloor West, the neighbourhood in which he lives and works, and his continued success prove he made the right choice.

Rod has access to all the regular tools of the real estate trade: a networking community, MLS® and private listings, an in-depth knowledge of the process and more.

His unique offering however includes marketing communications expertise and a top interior designer.

Rod applies years of marketing communications experience when marketing a client’s home for sale. He also happens to be married to Andrea Crawford, a highly successful interior designer, with over 20 years of residential design experience across Canada and an impressive portfolio (andreacrawfordinteriordesign.com). Between them, the duo can list, market, update, stage and prepare a property for sale, as well as help clients purchase property and design the home of their dreams. Andrea specializes in creating uniquely personal, casual and elegant interiors and has had her work featured in Canadian House and

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Rod finds helping his clients through life stage property transitions most gratifying. Whether assisting first-time home buyers, move-up buyers with growing families, or downsizing empty nesters, Rod’s clients appreciate his patience and attention to detail.

When he isn’t with clients, Rod enjoys spending time with Andrea and their teenage daughter, Olivia, on a ski hill or at the cottage. Like her mom, Olivia enjoys interior design but plans on applying to university for international development studies. Rod also enjoys the occasional round of golf and a good run.

Prior to a knee injury, Rod ran to raise money for pulmonary fibrosis, an illness from which his dad suffered; he hopes to be back in stride soon. He also sits on the committee for an annual golf tournament, to raise funds for the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation, which helps abused women and children rebuild their lives.

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Improved pen sizes part of project >>>from page 1 and absolutely exciting.”

With the construction of the new Deer Pen Road slated for 2017, which will have more curves and less curbs, the zoo looks to receive a slew of enhancements. Following the meeting, Raymond told The Villager that once the city announced the roads construction, it “unlocked all of its potential,” and called it a “real catalyst for everything.”

The zoo enhancements range from the large, such as increasing the size of the bison pen by seven-metres and creating a new administrative building; to the small,

such as improving lighting, installing flags and signs so that the zoo is more noticeable, and improving the overall plant quality.

The master plan also looks to improve the zoo experience for the animals as well with new creative furnishings for them to enjoy such as ponds and interactive feeders.

Although the master plan isn’t a formal city project, the FHPZ, a community and volunteer driven organization that’s launched this initiative, is working with the City’s Parks, Forestry and Recreation department, to enhance and sustain the zoo.

The next step in the master

plan process is to take feedback and comments from residents and make any necessary changes. Following that, the group will determine overall costs and determine which projects have the highest priority and when should they happen. The plan will set out improvement projects in phases.

Farmosa said, the FHPZ will also be lobbying all levels of government, foundations and corporations for funding in the near future.

“This is one of the jewels of Toronto,” Formosa said.

There is no set date for when improvements in the zoo will start.

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Alongside TTC chair Josh Colle, Mayor John Tory announced this week the extra funding, part of a commitment of $95 million made to the transit commission in 2015. For this year’s budget, the TTC has had to trim $5 million from its operating expenses and suspend service expansions such as the Cherry Street streetcar.

Tory also promised to cut subway delays by half within three years. Last year, according to the TTC, delays across the network were down 13 per cent because of additional service, while customer satisfaction was at a historic high of 81 per cent.

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GO offers fare refunds for delays of 15 minutes or more in certain situations. Visit serviceguarantee.gotransit.com EQUITY REPORT TO BE RELEASED wTRANSIT

York University’s City Institute is about to release a report, detailing the socio-economic barriers to transit access in the Toronto region.

Prepared by Sean Hertel, Roger Keil and Michael Collens, Next Stop: Equity seeks to determine just how

easy it is to make use of transit, particularly in low-income neighbourhoods. The authors spoke with transit riders, planners and writers – I was also interviewed – in determining recommendations for agencies like Metrolinx to address the ongoing concern of improving transit equity.

The report is expected to be released this week.

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H E LP PLAN T RAN S I T I N TO R O N TO The City of Toronto and TTC together with Metrolinx and GO Transit are working to bring more transit to communities across the city with connections throughout the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

During February and March we have organized several meetings for you to learn more about integrated transit planning and provide your feedback on key projects and studies underway.

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• Relief Line: Toronto City Planning and TTC will present the preferred corridor and next steps to select the preferred alignment and stations.

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• Scarborough Subway Extension: Toronto City Planning and TTC will present plans for Scarborough Subway Extension and optimized transit in Scarborough.

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• Electrified GO Network: Electrification of Metrolinx-owned rail corridors will enable more frequent and faster train service.

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• Integrated Transit Fares: We want to make crossing municipal boundaries and switching between transit systems simple and hassle-free.

REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN REVIEW

• Regional Transportation Plan Review: Metrolinx is launching the formal review process for the Regional Transportation Plan, which guides the work being done to transform the transportation network in the GTHA.

JOIN US AT ANY OF THESE MEETINGS TO LEARN MORE. YOU CAN ALSO PARTICIPATE ONLINE. Tuesday, February 16 Jean Vanier Catholic Secondary School 959 Midland Ave 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, February 20 Richview Collegiate 1738 Islington Ave 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

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Wednesday, March 9 Lakeshore Collegiate Institute 350 Kipling Ave. 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

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Thursday, February 25 Riverdale Collegiate 1094 Gerrard St. East 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 22 Nelson Mandela Park Public School 440 Shuter St. 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Connect with the City of Toronto by: • Visiting toronto.ca/TransitTO • Emailing: TransitTO@toronto.ca or by calling 416-338-2848

• Contact us if you require other accessibility accommodations

Metrolinx, an agency of the Province of Ontario, is working to transform the way the region moves by building a seamless, convenient and integrated transit network across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).