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Syrian refugees in Toronto need more help from governments and the public than first

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Federal and provincial governments should make new plans, and continue tapping the

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The West End Green Asset Map part of Big on Bloor Festival LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com There’s a new attraction at this year’s Big on Bloor Festival, July 23 and 24, an ecology hub dedicated to environmental education that boasts a series of participatory, multi-disciplinary art and culture events.

Within 80 feet of a tented area, these projects coined ‘How We Live in Cities,’ explore ways to “animate, enhance and improve” the experience of city living. One of these projects is a ‘West End Green Asset Map.’ “(The festival marks) the beginning of a project that I hope will carry on,” said Dyan Marie, artist in residence of the 2016 festival and founding co-chair of the Big Improvement Group.

The map will identify green spaces within a study area that encompasses St. Clair Avenue West to the north, College Street to the south, Christie Street to the east and Keele Street to the West. Its intention is to also pinpoint key environmental advocates, connect and promote the green spaces and be relied on as a public resource. The ultimate

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The Big on Bloor Festival boasts a new ecology hub dedicated to environmental education. The hub will include art and culture projects such as a West End Green Asset Map, which aims to identify green spaces within St. Clair Avenue West to the north, College Street to the south, Christie Street to the east and Keele Street to the West. Here Lia Tran, Tony Lieu, Michela Sutter and Darren Leu are working on the map while wearing flower crowns to encourage bee-friendly gardens.

goal is to create a ‘West End Garden Corridor,’ Marie said, “a walking system from park to park.”

“We have these really great side streets and laneways. I’m astounded

by the skill and artistry these homeowners have put into their gardens,” she said.

The West End Garden Corridor would link green spaces together as

part of a series of ‘Walk Here’ routes where gardens and trees could be planted and art installations could be created – it’s all about developing community engagement, Marie

said.

“At the festival itself, we’ll introduce the map. We want people to come and find their house on the map, to mark it with a green sticker,” she said, adding this is the first step in creating links, finding out who is where.

In addition to the West End Green Asset Map, the hub includes spot projects such as ‘Bees on Bloor.’

Learn more about how important bees are to the environment by using a magnifying glass to examine the insects, their pollen and wax honeycomb patterns or add chalk-drawing petals to a ‘Bees on Bloor’ stenciled sidewalk flowers.

The Botanicus Art Ensemble presents a garden-inspired theatrical extravaganza with activities culminating in a bumblebee flash mob.

The How We live in Cities hive will be situated along the south side of Bloor Street West, just west of the Dufferin tennis courts, Sunday, July 24 from 2 to 5 p.m.

To find out more about the West End Green Map as well as the list of features at the ninth annual Big on Bloor Festival, visit www.bigonbloorfestival.com

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ESCAPING THE TRAP:

SEx TRAffICkING REvEAlS THE dARk SIdE of SoCIAl mEdIA MIKE ADLER AnD FAnnIE SUnSHInE newsroom@insidetoronto.com Girls are growing up online, and many in Greater Toronto spend as much time with social media as they do in school, chatting, liking, posting.

They don’t know pimps are watching.

Predatory men and boys are waiting not just at the shopping mall, but on Instagram, Snapchat, free dating sites, anywhere they can catch a girl at the right moment.

Experts say that could be after she argues with her parents, or expresses vulnerability about her looks.

“They’ll tell her how smart she is, how pretty she is, that she’s a grown-up who can make her own decisions and doesn’t have to listen to her parents,” says Michele Anderson, human trafficking advocate for Toronto’s Covenant House.

Sixteen is a typical age, but girls as young as 12 are targets.

“They tell their life stories online,” saying things like, “I look fat today,” said Det.-Sgt. Nunzio Tramontozzi, head of the Toronto police human trafficking team.

Trolling, traffickers start out by assuring the girl, “You’re not, you look great,” he said.

“Within days, they hook them.”

Online luring is one reason sex trafficking happens around Greater Toronto – a hub for this type of crime through which victims are moved quickly from hotel to hotel – not just to homeless girls, but to the girl next door.

If a child looks for validation or acceptance in an online space, and someone offers it, “that’s an adrenaline rush, that’s dopamine,” said Debbie Gordon, director of kidsmediacentre at Centennial College.

Online culture puts pressure on children to get approval for posts, or to build up followers, without really caring who those followers are, she said.

Some may say, “If I show more, take more risks, the next selfie will get more likes,” added Gordon. “You see so many kids taking such incredible risks.”

A trafficker will suggest meeting for dinner or coffee, and will shower a girl with expensive designer purses or cell phones, said Anderson.

They’ll then head to a hotel, where the girl is introduced to some of the trafficker’s friends, and she’s forced to have sex with them in exchange for the gifts she received.

“They’ll say, ‘What, you think this is all free?’” Anderson said.

If the girl resists, blackmail ensues. Or the trafficker gets aggressive and abusive.

Victims are typically allowed home at night, but the threat of physical violence always looms if they dare tell

anyone what’s happening, Anderson said.

In Olivia’s case, the trafficker was someone she knew from high school, entering her life when she was about 20, struggling with her mental health and severely low self-esteem.

There was a honeymoon phase where she felt special and loved. Olivia (not her real name) began living with the trafficker, feeling like she hit the jackpot.

“He played on those vulnerabilities, knowing I wanted this relationship to be my forever.”

Olivia worked as his girl for two years, in hotel rooms from Burlington and Oakville to Markham, Richmond Hill, and downtown Toronto.

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He played on those vulnerabilities, knowing I wanted this relationship to be my forever.”

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“To some degree, the industry itself met a lot of my needs. Now I felt good at something. I felt desired.”

Leaving was difficult. She was incredibly scared for her reputation, and her trafficker threatened to send her sex ads to people she cared about.

One day, a police officer posed as a John, checking Olivia’s identification to see if she was underage. She wasn’t, and wasn’t too receptive to his questions, but kept his card.

It was six months before she called, hoping to escape and rebuild her life.

Some trafficked women and girls finally, literally run for their lives. Others are held in place by ingrained feelings of love, dependence or fear.

Luring is sometimes done by women, most often by friends who are victims themselves.

Some are told they could be “partners” with their trafficker if they recruit replacements.

Recruiting is a means of self-preservation, a chance to have sex with fewer people, said Carly Kalish, a therapist for the Scarborough-based East Metro Youth Services.

“The illusion of being their partner is a big part of why you stay, but it’s never actually the case,” she said.

NEXT: How Ontario’s new anti-trafficking strategy could convict more traffickers and offer crucial support to more survivors.

This is some of the language and words used which could indicate a girl is trapped in “The Game” (prostitution).

Sources: East Metro Youth Services, kidsmediacentre, Toronto police detective

MORE ONLINE Karly’s story: From being homeless and a drug addict who engaged in the sex trade as a teenager, Karly found a way out and is now giving hope as a peer counselor to women and girls who survived sex trafficking or are still in the sex trade. (bit.ly/karlystory) Signs a girl is being lured: Experts say sex trafficking masks itself as a typical relationship for a girl. Parents and friends can spot these and other warning signs a girl is in a dangerous relationship. (bit.ly/luringsigns)

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on’t talk to strangers is a common piece of advice parents give to their children.

Warning your kids to not go with someone to find their ‘lost’ puppy or enter a vehicle with mommy’s ‘friend’ because she’s late picking them up is part of parents’ basic arsenal of street proofing.

This isn’t new.

What’s new are the strangers lurking behind fake profiles on social media – canvassing the vulnerable for a life in the sex trade.

This week, Metroland Media Toronto is publishing the first of two parts on human trafficking of young girls.

Our reporters found in their research that predatory men and boys are spying on Instagram and Snapchat – any place they can find a girl who is down after a fight with her parents, a blow out with her boyfriend, ostracized by her friends or feeling or unaccomplished in OuR ViEW unpretty an online world where image, or the optics of having it all, is paraTalk to kids mount. in human trafficking about human tellExperts Metroland Media Toronto that girls around 16 years old are trafficking the main targets, but some as young as 12 have been lured into the sex trade.

“They tell their life stories online,” saying things like, “I look fat today,” said Det.-Sgt. Nunzio Tramontozzi, head of the Toronto Police Service’s human trafficking team.

Trolling, traffickers start out by assuring the girl, “You’re not, you look great,” he said. “Within days, they hook them.”

If a child gets the validation and acceptance they seek online it’s like a ‘dopamine’ hit experts say, the ‘adrenaline rush’ they need to feel valued.

You’ll read some troubling stories in this feature.

Stories of young girls being passed around from man to man, shuttled between hotel to hotel.

It’s important to trust our children enough to do the right thing online. But when the young mind is growing and emotions and hormonal changes are unbalanced, a kind word or a sweet gesture from the wrong guy at the right time is all it takes for the unthinkable to happen. We hope these stories educate and inform you of the dangers that are present.

Speak to your children. Open the discussion about human trafficking no matter how uncomfortable or awkward. Anything can happen to anyone at anytime.

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Lastman set tone on keeping property taxes low It was only appropriate that as Toronto Council began to debate its budget directions for what could be a very austere 2017, surviving mayors of Toronto’s pre-amalgamation municipalities should be gathered to unveil a display of portraits and a bit of a light history lesson on amalgamation.

Former Toronto mayor Barbara Hall was there along with ex-Etobicoke mayor Doug Holyday.

Former York mayor Frances Nunziata was on hand to officiate, along with East York’s last mayor Michael Prue. The late Frank Faubert of Scarborough was in the picture, and there in memory.

And of course, there was Mel Lastman – North York’s first, last and only mayor; and arguably one of the preeminent co-authors of the financial conundrum that Toronto is facing today.

Lastman was North York’s favourite son, a successful municipal politician whose boosterish approach

david nickle the city to governance made his re-election in North York a certainty and made him a good bet to win the mayoralty in the first election of amalgamated Toronto.

It was a good bet but by no means a sure thing, and to nail it down, Lastman relied on two things: the love of his North York constituents, and a promise to freeze property taxes for three years straight.

This, he did for the first three costly years of amalgamated Toronto. And they set a standard – impossible to meet, but always there – of very low property tax increases. Because of that, revenue has never quite kept up with demand.

On Tuesday, Lastman offered a reminder of his original pitch. “People don’t understand. Take a look at the price of food: you go in to buy apples, you buy a

lettuce, a celery. Six bucks, eight bucks. It’s crazy. Then you come along the last thing in the line, the taxes.

You increase taxes? Where the hell will they get the money?”

Other mayors have put this more gracefully, but this is the blunt narrative that leads us to Toronto’s financial problems today.

Upstairs, Lastman’s successors spent the day grappling with the need for a 2.6 per cent cut to all programs in order to write a budget that’s sustainable. Property taxes have actually been shrinking over the years, and services have become more expensive.

Under questioning from councillors, senior staff acknowledged that services are going to be constrained and necessary growth in services in, for example, poverty reduction, will be nearly impossible. The tricks that saved Lastman and his successors – deferring expenses through what turned out to be bad

leasing deals, or ballooning revenue from our everbubbling land transfer tax, rescues from more sympathetic provincial governments – won’t be available for long.

So that means service cuts in the short term, and in the long term? Maybe revenue tools.

But Lastman wasn’t so sure about those. A little alcohol tax, some tobacco tax… maybe hotels would be fine.

“But if they start hitting on other taxes they’re in trouble, because the people can’t afford them and they’re going to get fed up with politicians completely,” warned Lastman.

With words of wisdom like that from amalgamated Toronto’s founding father, it seems pretty clear that we’ve all been in trouble for a very long time.

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Junction Seniors Gathering WHEN: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Pascal’s Baguette and Bagels, 2904 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: Eleanor Batchelder, 647-2350843, www.junctionra.ca/junction-seniors, eob62@yahoo.com COST: Free The group meets twice a week at a local coffee shop for conversation as a social network of neighbours. Tuesdays from 10 to 11 a.m. at Agora Cafe, 3015 Dundas St. W., and Fridays from 2 to 3 p.m. at Pascal’s, 2904 Dundas St. W.

w Saturday, July 16

Summer Book Sale WHEN: Noon to 4 p.m. WHERE: Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: Kara, 416-394-1014 COST: Free Proceeds will benefit children and youth services at the library.

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Junction Night Market WHEN: 7 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Junction Train Platform, 2960 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: info@junctionmarket.ca COST: Free admission, $5 food and drink tickets Proceeds go towards helping community members access fresh and healthy food through local community food programs, including their voucher program. Funds collected at the market are distributed in the form of vouchers through the Four Villages Community Health Centre.

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Exploring Spring Creek Ravine WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: highparkwalkingtours@yahoo.ca COST: Free Arborist Steve Smith investigates the geography of the defining feature of High Park’s east side. Meet at the benches across from Grenadier Restaurant.

w Monday, July 18

Kundalini Yoga: Breathe, Move, Sing, Relax and Meditate WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free A free eight-week series. Bring a yoga mat.

w Thursday, July 21

Rock-a-bye Zoo Baby WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: 416-394-

1014 COST: Free Toronto Zoo staff have been singing a lot of nursery songs this past year, with the arrival of a polar bear cub, two giant panda cubs, three baby desert grassland whiptails and four white lion cubs. Join us as we learn more about these very special zoo babies.

Tickets will be handed out 30 minutes before the program starts.

Organic Farmers’ Market WHEN: 3 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Dufferin Grove Park, 875 Dufferin St. CONTACT: Maria, 416-887-0651, dufferingrovemarket.ca COST: Free Eat local and organic year-round.

Family Nature Walks in High Park WHEN: 6 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: High Park Nature Centre at the Forest School, 375 Colborne Lodge Dr. CONTACT: Julie Read, 416-392-1748, naturecentre@highpark.org COST: Recommended Donation of $2- $5 Discover the natural wonders in High Park’s incredible savannahs, woodlands and wetlands. Walks are led by nature interpreters and volunteers, often with the help of guest naturalists. Meet at the square of benches just south of the Grenedier Restaurant.

w Saturday, July 23

BIG on Bloor WHEN: 1 to 6 p.m. WHERE: Bloordale Village, 1140 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: www. bigonbloorfestival.com COST: Free A two-day street celebration of arts, culture and small business.

w Saturday, July 30

Roncy Flea: Vendors Wanted WHEN: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Roncesvalles United Church, 240 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: 416-536-1755, roncyflea@ gmail.com COST: Free Looking for those selling antiques, collectibles, kitsch, crafts and other unique items.

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Construction underway for new Baby Point Gardens LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Construction crews have broken ground on the new Baby Point Gardens on the corner of Methuen Avenue and Jane Street, just south of Annette Street.

About two years after the Baby Point Gates Business Improvement Area (BIA) unanimously accepted the parkette committee’s design concept at its board meeting in September 2014, work has begun on the long-awaited parkette that for years has been a derelict space. “It’s a really ugly corner that’s just cement,� said Danica Loncar, BIA board member and owner of the nearby Art Works Art School. “This wall had awful graffiti; the (building’s) owner had to

keep painting over it. We’re transforming it into a beautiful garden with trees, shrubs, park benches and custom metal artwork.�

The corner is a deceptively large space, the largest space within the BIA’s boundaries and had been crying out for attention, Loncar said. Its curb is configured in such a way that it invites drivers to park there despite the fact it’s an illegal spot and can result in a $40 ticket.

The garden is a collaboration between the BIA and the landscape architectural firm Forest and Field and is funded with help from the City of Toronto because it is cityowned property. Perimeter fencing was erected last week to secure the site during construction and digging began early this week. Pedestrians

are asked to use caution when walking in the area. “It should be finished by the end of summer. It’s going to be awesome,� Loncar said.

Not only will it be a place for area residents and Baby Point visitors to stop and enjoy a coffee, but also a place to decorate with Christmas lights and a venue for bands to play during such events as the BIA’s sidewalk sales.

With many stores being renovated and the BIA’s plans to continue greening more corners, “there’s lots going on in Baby Point,� Loncar said.

Baby Point Gardens will be the BIA’s second parkette. The Baby Point Gates Parkette, at the corner of Annette and Jane streets, was officially completed at the end of

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Work has begun on the long awaited Baby Point Gardens at the corner of Mehuen Avenue and Jane Street, which has been a non-descript, all-cement corner for years. The corner will be transformed by plants and shrubs, park benches and original metal artwork.

December 2013. Funded and built by the BIA in partnership with the city and Baby Point community, it celebrates the

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Mental health services, ESL classes needed to support refugees >>>from page 1 We can’t let ourselves down now,” he said by telephone from New Brunswick.

“We have to get on with making this work.”

The all-party committee called on the federal government to provide the refugees with more Englishas-a-Second-Language c l a s s e s a n d c h i l d c a re while parents, particularly

women, attended them.

It called for more mental health services for the refugees, more speed in approving the Child Tax Credit to families and replacing government loans made to refugees with grants.

Jamillah MananghayaPoernama, who coordinates the Agincourt Community S e r v i c e s A s s o c i a t i o n’s Syrian Newcomer Project in

Scarborough, said some of the project’s 200 recentlysettled Syrian families will find it hard to cope during the next six months.

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January have depleted their savings.

Their private sponsors, didn’t fully support them financially, thinking they could get jobs once they reached the safety of Canada, said MananghayaPoernama.

“Even entry-level jobs are very hard to find.”

She echoed findings of the committee, adding refugees who arrived before the federal government changed last fall are still paying back the cost of their air fares to Canada.

“It’s the financial part of it that concerns them the most,” said MananghayaPoernama.

When approached now by people who want to sponsor new Syrian refugees, she said, she asks them to support those already here.

Debbie Douglas, executive director of the Ontario Coalition of Agencies Serving Immigrants, said her group gets concerned about refugees entering “Month 13,” because government and private sponsors only commit to support them for one year.

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Many of the refugees are at beginning stages for learning English or French.

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“I don’t think there’s a sense of panic,” Douglas a d d e d . “ I t h i n k i t ’s doable.”

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The two-day tournament, which brings together players of all skill levels, is held in memory of Alex Shapiro, a son, brother, friend and loyal teammate of the Toronto Eagle’s Hockey Association.

His love of hockey persevered even after he was diagnosed with Undifferentiated Sarcoma, a rare form of childhood cancer, in the summer of 2012.

As a member of the Toronto Eagles’ Minor Peewee AA team, Alex caught the attention of The Sports Network (TSN) when he was supposed to get chemotherapy, but instead, when there wasn’t a hospital bed available, he went home, grabbed his hockey gear and joined his teammates on the ice to score the first goal of the year.

It was on that day that he earned the nicknamed ‘The Fighting Eagle’ (watch the clip here: www.bit.ly/1IoP7L9).

In April 2013, his cancer returned and he died just two weeks after he played his last hockey game at the age of 11.

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The IPC began a probe after hearing that some Ontarians were denied entry into the U.S. because of their mental health history. The sensitive

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Offer(s) available on select new 2016/2017 models through participating dealers to qualified retail customers who take delivery from July 1 to August 2, 2016. Dealers may sell or lease for less. Dealer order may be required. Some conditions apply. See your Kia dealer for complete details. Vehicles shown may include optional accessories and upgrades available at extra cost. All offers are subject to change without notice. All pricing and payments include delivery and destination fees of $1,740, new tires tax ($15) and $100 A/C charge (where applicable). Excludes licensing, registration, insurance and applicable taxes. *Cash Purchase Price for the new 2016 Forte Sedan LX MT (FO541G)/2016 Optima Hybrid (OP74AG) is $11,995/$23,993 with cash discount of $5,575 (including a $500 competitive bonus** or loyalty bonus¶ and $575 dealer participation)/$7,777 (including $1,000 ECO-Credit). Includes delivery and destination fees up to $1,560, new tire tax ($15) and $100 A/C charge (where applicable). Cash discounts are available on cash purchase only of select 2016/2017 models and vary by model and trim and are deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes. Some conditions apply. See your Kia dealer for complete details. Excludes licensing, registration, insurance and applicable taxes. Offer ends August 2, 2016. ≠Lease offer from 0% is available on approved credit (OAC) on select 2016 models. Cash discounts are available on select 2016 models and vary by model and trim and are deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes. Some conditions apply. See your Kia dealer for all the details. Representative Leasing Example: On new Soul LX MT (SO551G)/2017 Sportage LX FWD (SP751H) with a selling price of $18,950/$26,650, including discounts of $0/$500 competitive bonus** or loyalty bonus¶ is based on 60/48 month term and 260/208 weekly payments of $37/$63. Lease for 60/48 months at 0%/2.9%, with a $950/$1,950 down payment or equivalent trade. $0 security deposit, first payment and RDPRM fees, including agent fees (up to $110) due at lease inception. Lease has 16,000 km/yr allowance (other packages available and $0.12/km for excess kilometres). **Competitive Bonus offer available on the retail purchase/lease of any new 2016 Rio, 2016 Rio5, 2016 Forte, 2016 Forte Koup, 2016 Forte5, 2016 Sorento, 2017 Sportage, and 2016 Rondo for the amount of $500, 2016 Sedona and 2016 Optima for the amount of $750 from participating dealers between July 1 and August 2, 2016 upon proof of current ownership/lease of a select competitive vehicle in the relevant class/category. Competitive models include specific VW, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Honda, GM, Ford, Jeep, Pontiac, Suzuki, Saturn, Chrysler, Chevrolet, Subaru, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Lexus, Land Rover, Infiniti, Acura, Audi, Lincoln, Volvo and Buick vehicles. ¶$500/$750 loyalty bonus offer available on the retail purchase/lease of any new 2016 Forte, 2016 Sorento, 2017 Sportage, 2016 Rio, 2016 Rio5 and 2016 Rondo/2016 Sedona and 2016 Optima from participating dealers between July 1 and August 2 upon proof of current ownership/registration of Kia vehicle. Some conditions apply. See your dealer or kia.ca for complete details. ‡Model shown Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price for 2016 Soul SX Luxury (SO758G)/2016 Forte SX AT (FO748G)/2017 Sportage SX Turbo AWD (SP757H) is $29,350/$28,370/$41,250. ALG is the industry benchmark for residual values and depreciation data, www.alg.com. The 2017 Sportage was awarded the 2016 Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) for model year 2017. U.S. models tested. Visit www.iihs.org for full details. Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov). Information in this advertisement is believed to be accurate at the time of printing. For more information on our 5-year warranty coverage, visit kia.ca or call us at 1-877-542-2886. Kia is a trademark of Kia Motors Corporation.