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of military service,” said Catto, whose paternal grandfather, Charles, as well as his greatuncle, Percy Taylor, served with the 48th Highlanders in Toronto >>>FATHER’S, page 3

Swansea Town Hall commemorates the men of Swansea who gave their lives in the First World War, and for whom Swansea Memorial Library was created.

The Remembrance Day service, which starts promptly at 10:45 a.m., honours all who served in wars and peacekeeping missions. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Veterans, or those attending with a veteran, are asked to contact Swansea Town Hall at 416-392-1954 in advance to be identified during the service.

The ceremony will be held on the front piazza, weather permitting, or in the Rousseau main floor in the event of rain.

A reception follows the ceremony.

Veterans and a companion may ride the GO Train or GO Bus for free on Nov. 11. GO Transit asks veterans to identify themselves by wearing their medals, beret, blazer or uniform while travelling. Immediate family members of deceased veterans may also take GO for free if they carry their veteran’s service papers or identification card.

The TTC states that all current members of the Canadian Armed Forces in uniform, as well as all veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces wearing military service medals or ribbons, and a companion, can ride the TTC free of charge on Nov. 11.

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Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus will be riding through downtown Toronto on Sunday, Nov. 20 and they’re excited to spread a bit of holiday cheer.

Approximately one million spectators will see the parade live this year.

Now in its 112th year, the Santa Claus Parade will start at 12:30 p.m. from Bloor and Christie streets, head east along Bloor, turn south onto University Avenue, then east on Front Street, ending at St. Lawrence Market. It’s a 6.5 km route.

The 2016 iteration of the parade offers up plenty of new or improved things to watch for. Here’s a few: HOLLY JOLLY FUN RUN The Holly Jolly Fun Run happens just prior to the parade. This year’s 5 km run starts half an hour before the parade.

“There are literally a million people cheering you on in the race,” said Mike Bartlett, executive director of MLSE Foundation, at a

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It’s hugs all around as a group of child volunteers for this year’s Santa Claus Parade get together with Santa and Mrs. Claus during the 2016 parade preview at Santa’s Workshop’s secret location in North York.

media preview day for the parade at Santa’s Secret Workshop near Weston Road in northwest Toronto Thursday, Nov. 3. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) is a part-

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The Toronto Maple Leafs are celebrating their 100th anniversary this year and will be parading at this year’s event. MLSE also has a Toronto Raptors and Toronto FC float.

The Leafs float celebrates some glory days from the team’s storied past and features Johnny Bower who won four Stanley Cups with the Maple Leafs, stopping a shot from Carlton The Bear, with a backdrop of Maple Leaf Gardens.

Claus float this year,” said parade general manager Alf Iannarelli at the media preview event. “It is the biggest, longest float that we’ve ever built.”

The float is 42 feet long and features the different temperate zones of Canada including Christmas trees, arctic zones, animals, and, of course, Santa himself.

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Mother Goose is perhaps the oldest member of the parade, except for Santa himself, having appeared in the event every year since the 1930s. This year, Mother Goose will be flying over a nightsky and moving side to side in her float. She’s one of 25 floats this year and will be joined by 21 marching bands.

Air Cadets will be selling red noses at a pre-parade festival Nov. 18 and on parade day Nov. 20 at Union Station. While the red nose is fun to wear, purchasing it also helps keep the parade going year after year. Red noses cost $2 or three for $5. The parade is a nonprofit operation that gets help from 3,000 volunteers. It also takes a full 12 months to build the floats at the secret workshop.

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Father’s mission flying Handley Page aircraft a source of pride for Catto >>>from page 1 dating all the way back to the late 1890s.

Charles Catto, who died in a canoeing accident in 1912 before he could serve in the First World War, joined the service around 1896 and was a major.

Four of Charles Catto’s five sons also entered the service. Charlie served with the army reserve, while Wilson was a captain with the 48th Highlanders. Kenneth was a corporal with the Signal Corps. John (Catto’s father) joined the Royal Naval Air Service in 1918.

“He was a young daredevil seeking adventure,” Catto said during a recent interview. “He qualified as a pilot and eventually piloted the largest night bomber the air service ever had.”

A great source of pride for Catto’s father, who flew a massive double engine Handley Page aircraft, was a successful night bombing mission that began on Nov. 4, 1918.

During this attack, the Allied Forces dropped 15, 112-pound bombs on Metz, France.

“The Germans gave up the next week,” said Catto. “I think it was a big lark although they must have been terrified out of their skulls.”

John Catto Sr., who returned home to Toronto in the summer of 1919 and studied engineering at the School of Practical Science, went on to serve in the Canadian Air Force until it was disbanded in 1924.

He then transferred over to the Corps of Guides until it too was disbanded.

In 1928, Catto joined the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals and was deployed overseas for a second time serving in the Second World War from June 1940 until the fall of 1945.

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Above: Remembrance Day is a special time of the year for Leaside resident John Catto, who was a member of the Canadian Officer Training Corps as well as a long-time reservist. Several of Catto’s relatives, including his father and grandfather also served in the military. On front: John Catto with a portrait of his grandfather Charles who served with the 48th Highlanders in Toronto during the First World War. 1945,” recalled Catto. “For six years of my childhood, dad was overseas but we had lots of letters.”

Catto’s father served in France, Belgium, and Holland. He was 46-year-old when he returned home from the Second World War and retired as a Member of the British Empire.

Around the time his father returned home from war, Catto was starting high school. In 1953, while attending University of Toronto Schools (UTS), he decided to join the Canadian Officers Training

Corps where he was allocated to the Signal Reserve Corps.

Over the next 13 years of service, Catto climbed the ranks becoming a lieutenant colonel and commanding the Toronto Reserve Signals.

In 1968, he retired from the Reserve but a decade later was invited back to serve as a staff officer at the District Headquarters at the Moss Park Armoury. In 1981, Catto was invited to move up to the area headquarters at Canadian Forces Base Toronto at

Downsview where he was promoted to full colonel serving as the senior advisor to the Commander of Communication Command and Chief Reserves. He officially ended his service in 1987.

In 1993, Catto was invited back for a second time to serve as the honourary lieutenant colonel for the Signal Regiment. Three years later, he was elevated to the rank of honourary colonel, a role he held until 2003.

“It was a privilege. I really enjoyed it,” said Catto, who for

the last seven or so years has been invited to attend the Remembrance Day ceremony at UTS. “The Signal Corps was a big part of my life. I’m proud of the achievement.”

Catto, who grew up in the York Mills area, has a number of boxes of old photographs and memorabilia from his father and grandfather’s military service safely stored in his home’s basement.

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t’s possible, even likely, that at some point next year, Ontarians will be able to search store shelves for ‘purple haze’, ‘blue dream’ and ‘kosher kush’ marijuana alongside their VQA merlots, sauvignon blancs and moscatos.

Work is well underway to lay the foundation for marijuana legalization in this country, with legislation expected in the spring.

Pot advocates have long argued legalization could give our economy a lift. A new report suggests that lift could surpass anyone’s wildest prophecy.

A study produced by the Deloitte firm – titled Recreational Marijuana: Insights and Opportunities – suggests a legal marijuana industry in Canada could be worth an incredible $22.6 billion – more than the sales of wine, spirits and beer combined.

Deloitte’s research values the recreational retail market The business for weed at between $5 billion and $8.7 billion annually. of pot could Tack on between $12.7 bilinject billions lion and $22.6 billion for the ancillary market (growers, into Ontario specialty product makers, testing labs and security) and you have what Deloitte calls “a bold new landscape” for businesses and governments.

But that’s not all.

Pot tourism, business taxes, licensing fees and paraphernalia could drive these astronomical projections even higher – high enough to stagger even the most jaded corporate CEO, or perhaps sway those still on the fence over whether or not legal pot is a good idea.

“There hasn’t been anything like this – and granted it wasn’t legislated – but you think of the dot-com … flurry,” Mark Whitmore, vice-chair of Deloitte, told the Toronto Star.

It’s no wonder that some ambitious medical pot entrepreneurs have tried to stake their claims by opening dispensaries long before a bill has been presented to MPs. Legal pot represents an extraordinary opportunity to jump-start our economy, which has been idling for far too long.

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Toronto budget deliberations kick off with trash talk

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o doubt about it, the big budget fight lies ahead at city

hall.

But for now, the usually unsexy rate-supported budgets – water, solid waste, and the Toronto Parking Authority – are shaping up to be a pretty good opening act for what is sure to be a fraught debate over the operating and capital budgets for Toronto.

The rate budgets were launched a week ago at a Friday morning meeting of Toronto’s budget committee. It was a good-news, bad-news affair.

The good news is that the regular hefty increase to the water rate will be lower in 2017: five per cent, compared to the usual eight to nine per cent.

Those increases had been paying for the upgrading of Toronto’s crumbling underground water infrastructure, and staff feel that Toronto is nearly square.

So toilet flushing will

david nickle the city cost more, but not as much of an increase as last year.

The cost of trash-tossing, however, is a different matter. Staff there are recommending bigger increases than in the past on the garbage bin fees, as well as a host of new ones.

To be honest, the bin fee increases aren’t that big.

The overall increase in the cost is 3.9 per cent, compared to 1.5 per cent each year over the past eight years. The biggest increase, on the extra-large bin as it happens, is $24.34 a year.

The smallest increase is probably the most irksome: $12.73. When the program was introduced and for several years afterward, the city maintained no charge on the wee bins, as a way to reward homeowners who are good at recycling and keeping garbage to a minimum.

And that leads to the really irksome parts of the proposed budget; a host of additional fees, some of which will create more of a disincentive to divert.

Now homeowners who want to try a smaller bin, and recycle more, will be hit with a $25 fee for the bin exchange. The yellowbag system of garbage collection for commercial districts will go up by $1.61 a bag, creating an incentive for businesses to drop the city service and go with a private hauler that won’t necessarily be as concerned about recycling and other diversion.

And there’ll be an $8 per household flat fee for collecting oversized items.

The increases are to pay, in part, for replacement of city-owned garbage trucks – trucks that may, in fact, prove unnecessary if council decides to contract out more or perhaps all of the city’s garbage collection, as it already has in the west end of the city.

Budget chief Gary Crawford indicated Friday that all this fee-charging business won’t make it to council should he have anything to do with it.

“We need to keep the city affordable,” he said outside the meeting.

Presumably that will mean keeping these double-digit increases in check. And doing so shouldn’t be that difficult, given that those digits are loonies and not percentiles.

The next struggle - with Toronto’s mammoth operating and capital budgets - is going to be a much harder fight.

But it is likely to be the same story: staff bringing forward unpalatable options to cut services and hike fees, budget chiefs dropping gauntlets - and councillors, finally, doing their best to sort it out.

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MADD Red Ribbon campaign launches at police HQ Victim of drunk driving crash spent three months in hospital; husband, daughter killed Andrew PAlAmArchuk apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com When Brian Wijeratne heard a knock on his door on a Sunday morning in August 2012, he was expecting to see his family.

Instead, he saw a pair of OPP officers who informed him that his father Neil and sister Eleesha were killed in a crash and that his mother was seriously hurt.

“I was told at the door, and that’s when my life just fell apart,” Wijeratne said. “You don’t process that. I went into almost a robotic mode and I started listening to what the police officers were saying and I just did what they said.”

The officers took Wijeratne to Sunnybrook hospital where his mom Antonette was being treated.

“I didn’t even want to go into emergency to see my mom because I knew what I would have to tell her, and when I went in, I couldn’t tell her,” Wijeratne, 23, said in an interview. “Finally the doctors said ‘We’ll tell her if you’re present’ and

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Brian Wijeratne with his mom Antonette tie a ribbon on an ambulance during the 2016 launch of MADD Toronto’s Project Red Ribbon Campaign at police headquarters. Brian’s sister Eleesha, 16, and father Neil, 49, died after the vehicle they were in was struck by an impaired driver on Aug. 5, 2012. Antonette was seriously injured in the crash.

I went and held her hand and I told the doctor to tell her and we just cried.”

Antonette spent more than three

months in hospital and has permanent injuries.

The crash was caused by an impaired driver heading the wrong

way on Hwy. 427.

After the crash, Wijeratne and his mom joined MADD in an effort to raise awareness of drunk driving.

“We want to let people know that this is an issue in Canada.

Canada has one of the highest rates of impaired driving in the world,” Wijeratne said. “And it’s the leading cause of criminal death in this country, and we need to act.”

Wijeratne and his mom joined other MADD Toronto volunteers at police headquarters Monday for the launch of the organization’s annual Red Ribbon campaign to promote sober driving during the holiday season.

“My family didn’t consider the fact that there could’ve been an impaired driver on the road that night,” Wijeratne said. “That was not something that struck us with fear. Now it strikes us with fear almost every night. Any time I go out with my friends, my mom is incredibly worried that I might get hit.”

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Everilda Ratnakumar encouraged people to tie red ribbons to their vehicles or purses. “It’s just a way to show support. It’s a reminder to not drink and drive and it’s also a tribute to victims of impaired driving.”

Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said nearly 1,100 people have been arrested for impaireddriving related offences in the city so far this year.

“As a community we are getting better at solving the problem, not by being spectators, but being active participants,” he said. “If you see something, report it. The men and women of the Toronto Police Service are going to enforce.”

This year marks the 29th anniversary of the Red Ribbon campaign.

The ribbons are available from the MADD Toronto office and Allstate Canada offices now and at LCBO stores beginning Dec. 1.

MADD volunteers will also be distributing the ribbons at TTC subway stations during rush hour from Nov. 28 to 30.

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The BIA is hosting its fifth annual Baby it’s Cold Outside Holiday Open House and Charity Soup Festival.

It happens Saturday, Nov. 19 in the Baby Point community at Jane and Annette streets.

Soup will be served from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. or while supplies last.

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Metroland Media Toronto appoints Grace Peacock as Editor-in-Chief

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rePorTinG on The rePorTer: Congratulations to our Bloor West Villager reporter Lisa rainford who welcomed baby girl Quinn Michelle Goguen on oct. 27, 2016. Baby was delivered at St. Joseph's health Centre at 10:59 a.m., weighing five pounds, five ounces. Staff at Metroland Media Toronto wish the new family all the best.

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Grace Peacock has been named Editor-in-Chief, Metroland Media Toronto announced this week.

Peacock will direct editorial strategy for the Toronto newsroom, which is responsible for the city’s nine community newspapers and its website, insidetoronto.com.

“We’re fortunate to have a journalist of Grace’s calibre leading our Toronto news team,” Metroland Media vice-president Dana Robbins, Metroland Central region group publisher, said in a statement.

“She’s a passionate, innovative journalist who cares about the communities we serve. I know our readers will be well served by her leadership.”

Peacock had been a managing editor with Metroland Media Toronto for the past eight years.

Her promotion comes three weeks after returning from maternity leave.

Peacock has two boys at

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Grace Peacock is the new editor-in-chief for Metroland Media Toronto.

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“Our strength is our connection to our communities, and that will continue,” Peacock said in a statement.

“There’s much opportunity for that to happen through innovative, exciting new ways.

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Flu season may be worse than last: Toronto Public Health Tara HaTHerly thatherly@insidetoronto.com Another flu season is upon us, and getting vaccinated has never been more convenient.

Almost 500 pharmacies in Toronto now offer flu vaccines, up from less than 100 during the 2012/2013 season when pharmacies started offering them. Vaccinations are still available from doctors’ offices and Toronto Public Health clinics as well.

All are offered free.

When it comes to getting vaccinated, there’s no time like the present, said Dr. Vinita Dubey, associate medical officer of health with Toronto Public Health.

“You want to get it before influenza starts peaking in the province. We’ve already seen cases of influenza in Toronto,” Dubey told Metroland Media.

“Usually, the largest cases of influenza occur end of December, beginning of January, but it can change

every year. So because it takes two weeks for the vaccine to be effective, getting it in early November is a good time.”

Kids four years and younger must be vaccinated at doctors’ offices or clinics. This year, kids ages two to 17 can opt for a nasal spray vaccine.

The spray protects against four flu strains, two A and two B strains, while the shot protects against three – two A and one B. Influenza B strains can affect children more seriously. There are only two B strains, and it can be hard to predict which will circulate each season, so both are included in the kids’ spray vaccine, noted Dubey.

A valid OHIP card is needed to get vaccinated at a pharmacy or doctors’ office.

People without cards can get vaccinated at Toronto Public Health clinics.

Last year was a milder flu season in Toronto due to the H1N1 strain that circulated, said Dubey, but this season Toronto could see H3N2, a more virulent strain, circu-

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Browns Line Rexall pharmacist Johnson Edavattal gives Diane Amaro her flu shot in a past year. This year, the free flu shots are available at more pharmacies than ever – about 500 – as well as at doctors’ offices and public health clinics.

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“You can’t rely on any previous flu vaccines in previous seasons to protect you for the coming season, so that’s why it’s important every year that you have to get the flu shot,”

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After becoming infected, people spread flu germs for days before developing symptoms.

“The more people are vaccinated, the more you’re able

to prevent the spread of the infection, and the more of an impact you can make on preventing severe disease and deaths,” Dubey said. “The vaccine will cut your risk in half of getting the flu.”

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And it is safe, she said, with redness or swelling of injection sites the most common side effects.

“There is something that may be associated with influenza in general called Guillain-Barre syndrome, and that’s a neurological disorder and those who get vaccinated have a rate of about one-ina-million of getting this,” she explained. “But if you actually got the flu, your rate of getting this Guillain-Barre is actually higher.”

An estimated five-to-10 per cent of adults, and 20-to-30 per cent of kids, get the flu each year in Ontario, and vaccination is the best protection.

“There’s things that you can do to try to prevent the spread of influenza - like washing your hands, covering your cough, don’t go to work when you’re sick, those kinds of things,” said Dubey.

“Beyond that, I’m not aware of any other prescription or natural remedies that could prevent the flu.”

Learn about lighting plans The Bloor by the Park Business Improvement Area is inviting residents to learn about its proposed pedestrian lighting project.

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Ex-pats split on impact of Donald Trump’s election win Justin skinner jskinner@insidetoronto.com

pointing to economic predictions from sources such as Moody’s Analytics and the Wharton School of Business.

“If those predictions come true, it could lead to a terrible crash for the U.S. economy and Canada’s economy if he puts into action what he promised to do.”

He urged all ex-pats to register to vote in the U.S. congressional election in 2018 at votefromabroad.org

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The Democratic expat said he began seeing the writing on the wall relatively early Tuesday night.

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He said the Democrats would be left to wonder whether another challenger – say, Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden – would have resonated more with voters.

Ungar was concerned heading into the election, with trends heading Trump’s way, particularly in light of a

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As Americans headed to the polls and the world watched, engrossed as the results trickled in, U.S. expats living in Canada were split over what the election of Donald Trump would mean for the future.

Mark Feigenbaum, chair of Republicans Overseas Canada and Democrats Abroad board member Ed Ungar had decidedly – and unsurprisingly – differing views on the outcome of the election, which saw Trump defy most polls and predictions to become the president-elect.

The surprises started coming in early, and Feigenbaum said he saw a path for the Republicans to take control of the White House early on as key battlegrounds swung red – something many pundits felt was unlikely heading into the election.

“I was telling everybody, once (Trump) got Florida, North Carolina and one other state, that was the end,” he said. “It came down to him winning those two states and one more. You knew he wasn’t going to win New York or California, you knew she wasn’t going to win Texas.”

Feigenbaum noted that Trump’s victory was both an endorsement of his policies and a repudiation of Hillary Clinton.

“A lot of it came down to people finding her disfavourable – people disliked her,” he

offer more perspective.

“Right now, there needs to be a lot of reassurance because a lot of people seem to think the world is ending,” he said.

“Clinton said she had some problems with some agreements, so he’s not alone there (in talking about renegotiating trade deals).

“I think it’s going to be a lot less dramatic than people are gearing up for.”

Ungar was more concerned,

that we hadn’t taken Scranton and we weren’t taking Berks County which the polls said we would take, when we needed much more of a cushion in Philadelphia than we were getting.”

Looking ahead, Feigenbaum said it’s now time to parse the rhetoric on both sides.

He noted Trump’s declarations that he will renegotiate NAFTA may have an impact on Canada, but he said time will

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Bailão seeks details on Davenport Diamond bridge plans Davenport councillor is asking for city council’s help to compel Metrolinx to address eight community concerns Rahul Gupta rgupta@insidetoronto.com Ana Bailão wants Toronto Council to help compel Metrolinx to address existing concerns for the Davenport Diamond bridge proposal.

Bailão’s member’s motion is on council’s agenda for November, and scheduled for a vote during this week’s multiday meeting. It requests Metrolinx, which announced earlier in the year plans to proceed with the 1.4-kilometre, two-track bridge for the Barrie rail corridor between Bloor Street West and Davenport Road, to address eight separate “community issues” for the plan.

The motion is intended to bring Metrolinx and community opposition together following acrimony over the agency’s plans to proceed with the $140-million rail bridge rather than a tunnel.

While there is still tension between the community and Metrolinx over the plan, Bailão said both sides share a common goal of creating something of lasting value and improving the Diamond lands, located on underutilized lands near Dupont Street and Davenport.

“There’s a relationship repair that needs to happen with this community that has gone through a lot with Metrolinx,” she said. “The understanding is, if we do it right it can bring better transit and more public space. But if done wrong, it can damage our community to no end.”

Bailão’s motion also calls on Metrolinx to address sound

traffic and is considered one of the continent’s busiest rail crossings. Only the bridge was studied under the EA, which led to criticism from community members seeking an evaluation of all alternatives for replacing the Diamond.

But Metrolinx rejected further study of the tunnel proposal beyond an initial report on the grounds it is far more expensive, will take years to complete, as opposed to months for the bridge, and will create more construction-related disturbances for local residents.

Metrolinx estimates it will save $500 million in construction costs going ahead with a bridge, with the money going toward improving transit.

Metrolinx will not hold an international design competition for its Davenport Diamond bridge plan.

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Davenport city councillor Ana Bailão wants Toronto Council support for her motion seeking answers from Metrolinx on its Davenport Diamond rail bridge plan.

and vibration concerns from expanded GO traffic as well as committing to a long-term maintenance program for the bridge and public space planned below.

While acknowledging the bridge will continue regardless of potential objections, Bailão said it was paramount for the city to fight to ensure community voices

are heard.

“Our staff, every time t h e y ’r e m e e t i n g w i t h Metrolinx they’re raising these issues, so for me it’s really important to understand really clearly the issues under discussion,” she said.

The motion also calls for Metrolinx to build a new GO station at Bloor Street and Lansdowne Avenue, which

was announced by both the city and the province as part of the SmartTrack transit plan to adding six stations to Toronto’s portion of the regional transit network. She also seeks a firm timeline for electrifying the Barrie corridor, and a guarantee for limiting the amount of diesel-fueled train service until electrification takes place.

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The provincial agency had not publicly ruled out going ahead with such a competition, which proponents claim would ensure the project has input from world-class architecture firms. In an email exchange with resident Kevin Putnam, forwarded to The Villager, CEO Bruce McCuaig promises community input will be crucial to the eventual design for the elevated bridge.

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MAP Family Saturdays: Black Creek Pioneer Village visits Annette St. branch WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692, COST: Free Learn how wool from a sheep becomes a sweater. Kids can try their hand at carding and spinning wool themselves. Call to register.

A Party to Murder WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Village Playhouse, 2190 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: 416-767-7702, villagerplayers. net COST: $24 regular; $20 over 65 (Wed, Thurs, Sun) and under 30 A Canadian thriller by by Douglas E. Hughes & Marcia Kash, on stage.

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Bazaar and Gourmet Soup Lunch

WHEN: 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: St Joan of Arc Parish Hall, 1701 Bloor St W. CONTACT: Maria, 416-5880700, COST: Free Bazaar and gourmet soup lunch.

Toys, trinkets and treasures, crafts, knitting, jewelry, books, baked goods, a twistie draw and a silent auction.

High Park Buckthorn Busting WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

WHERE: Grenadier Restaurant, 200 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: stewards@ highparknature.org COST: Free Help remove the invasive Buckthorn and restore the park’s ecology. Meet in front of the Grenadier Restaurant at 10:30 a.m.

w Monday, Nov. 14

Holocaust Education Week WHEN: 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: Kara, 416-394-1014, COST: Free In honour of Holocaust Education Week and in partnership with the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, Denise Hans will be speaking about her personal experiences during the Holocaust.

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Metrolinx Electrification Meeting WHEN: 6:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Loretto College School, 151 Rosemount

Ave. CONTACT: www.metrolinxengage.com, electrfication@metrolinx. com COST: Free Metrolinx hosts a series of public meetings as part of the TPAP process for GO Rail Network Electrification as well as other Metrolinx projects.

Authors in Conversation about their Works WHEN: 6:30 to 8:15 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692, COST: Free Not what they seem: the stories, intrigue and other possibilities that underlie lives, cottages, history, and burlesque. Lisa de Nikolits, John Oughton, Heather Babcock, Terri Favro and Rosemary McCracken.

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Ukulele Jam – PA Day WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: 416-393-7697, COST: Free Come to the library and play some simple tunes on a ukulele. Instruments provided to share, but bring your uke if you have one. This program is for children ages six-12.

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Swansea Craft and Bake Sale WHEN: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE:

Swansea Public School, 207 Windermere Ave. CONTACT: 416-3939080, www.swanseacraftsale.comCOST: $1-kids, $2-adults, $5-family Vendors offering jewelry, Christmas decorations, cookies, candles, pet items, knitted goods, clothing, handmade chocolate, jams, cheeses, soap, toys, pottery, greeting cards and many more distinct, handcrafted items. Santa is visiting at noon.

Christmas Bazaar WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: St. Pius Parish, 2305 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Mary DiFrancesco, ,marydifrancesco@gmail.com COST: Free Cafe and hot luncheon. Featuring: new gift items, bake table, silent auction, Christmas items, knitted items, white elephant table, jewelry, gift baskets, books and more. All proceeds go to charity.

Christmas Craft Show WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: St. Olave’s Church, 360 Windermere Ave. CONTACT: St. Olave’s Church, 416-769-5686, stolaves@stolaves. ca COST: $2 admission for all over age 12 Unique items from more than 20 artists and craftspeople, book fair, treats, specialty brewed coffee.

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Baby Point BIA Baby It’s Cold Outside Charity Soup Festival & Holiday Open House WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: 399 Jane St. CONTACT: Lena Burek, 647-646-2788, lenaburek@hotmail. com COST: Free The Baby Point Gates’ merchants delight in decorating their stores for the holiday season and offering special sales for community members. Entertainment includes a small animal petting zoo, a string quartet, carolers singing traditional holiday songs, as well as Scrooge and Santa Claus.

RUC’s Christmas Arts & Crafts Market WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Roncesvalles United Church, 240 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: Lisa Forestell, 416-536-1755, roncesvallesuc@gmail.com COST: $2 This upscale market will feature over 100 vendors, selling everything from jewelry, pottery, apparel, children’s goods and much more.

Nutcracker Fair Christmas Bazaar WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: St. Martin-in-the-Fields Anglican Church, 151 Glenlake Ave. CONTACT: 416767-7491 COST: Free Featuring silent auction, vintage jewellery, festive wear, holiday greenery, knits, home baking and more.

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The City of Toronto holds public consultations as one way to engage residents in the life of their city. Toronto thrives on your great ideas and actions. We invite you to get involved.

Park Lawn / Lake Shore Area Transportation Master Plan Municipal Class Environmental Assessment Notice of Commencement and Public Event #1 The City of Toronto is initiating aTransportation Master Plan Study to identify transportation improvements needed to support all road users and the further improvement of the Park Lawn / Lake Shore community. We invite you to learn more and participate in workshop discussions at an upcoming Public Event.

This first round of public events is being offered on two dates with the same content and information presented at each.

Attendance is limited by venue capacity.You do not need to attend both events. Please RSVP online: toronto.ca/parklawnlakeshore Date: Thursday, November 24, 2016 Time: 6:30 to 9 p.m. *presentation and workshop table discussions at 7 p.m.

Date: Saturday, December 3, 2016 Time: 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m *presentation and workshop table discussions at 10 a.m.

Location: Assembly Hall 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Dr. (Kipling Avenue and Lake Shore Blvd. West) This venue is wheelchair accessible. Please contact the City one-week in advance of events to arrange for additional accommodations.

Background

The Park Lawn / Lake Shore AreaTransportation Master Plan Study is a critical first step in a multi-year process towards long-term transportation improvements in the Park Lawn / Lake Shore area. It will build upon past studies and advance the required municipal planning process towards permanent upgrades to keep this community moving.

The Study will evaluate solutions including: • New connections and better access to roads, transit, and pathways • Additional safe and convenient crossings of physical barriers • Planning for investment in public transit, pedestrian, and cycling networks • High quality streetscape design

The Study Process

The Study will follow Phases 1 and 2 under the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) process, which is an approved process under the Environmental Assessment Act. • Phase 1: Identify the transportation problems and opportunities • Phase 2: Develop, evaluate and recommend alternatives to address the identified problems and opportunities.

Once completed, the Study will recommend a series of transportation projects, initiatives and policies to support the Park Lawn / Lake Shore Area. Some of the projects will require completion of additional phases in the EA process including opportunities for public consultation.

We want to hear from you Public consultation is an important part of this Study. We welcome your feedback via in-person participation at public events, or by phone, mail, fax, and email.

For more information please contact: Robyn Shyllit Senior Public Consultation Coordinator City of Toronto, Metro Hall, 19th Fl., 55 John St., Toronto, ON M5V 3C6 Tel: 416-392-3358 Fax: 416-392-2974 TTY: 416-397-0831 Email: rshyllit@toronto.ca Visit: toronto.ca/parklawnlakeshore Issue Date: November 10, 2016

Information will be collected in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record.

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No amount of road safety campaigns no matter how well-intentioned will have any impact on the fatality rate without acknowledging the role speed pays. It’s long past time to start playing the blame game.

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Until Sunday, Nov. 13, police promise a greater presence in the vicinity of “pedestrian crossovers, crosswalks, intersection...and crossing areas frequented by seniors.”

The police insist they’re not blaming any one group for the deaths of dozens of the city’s most vulnerable population, that every road user, whether behind a wheel or on foot, needs to be vigilant for their own safety. Not picking sides may seem like an improvement to past attitudes – see past comments from police slamming pedestrians for not wearing bright enough clothing or carrying distracting mobile devices

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Toronto Council has approved a costly deal with Metrolinx to fund part of the construction of six SmartTrack stations on the provincial agency’s Regional Express Rail route, and also pay to operate and maintain the SmartTrack service and new light rail lines.

Council voted in favour of the deal after a daylong debate Tuesday, with more than 30 of the 44 councillors supporting individual elements of the plan that was delivered from a special executive committee meeting last week. The deal sees Toronto contribute billions of dollars to a diminished version of Mayor John Tory’s SmartTrack plan and the province’s light rail plan, and hinges on Mississauga and/or the Greater Toronto Airport Authority’s willingness to pay $470 million to extend the Eglinton West light rail portion of SmartTrack to Pearson airport.

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Mayor John Tory addresses the media following an announcement in June of a deal with the province to fund a new SmartTrack plan. Council gave final approval of the plan Tuesday.

sible for $2.35 billion in capital costs, $60 million over three years for GO Transit’s own capital plan, and ongoing operating and maintenance costs for new light rail lines on Eglinton, Finch and Sheppard Avenues.

It was a deal that many councillors found distasteful, and city staff said was the result of tough negotiations with the province. But Tory said it was as good a deal as the city could likely get.

In particular, Tory scoffed at notions the province might

be held to its old promise to fully fund the new light rail lines in operating costs as well as capital.

“There was never an intention by them to pay that, they confirmed it in their budget and there’s no language in any agreements to enforce it,” he said, and said that sending city staff to Queen’s Park to demand otherwise would have achieved nothing.

But critics on council said the deal as it sits has Toronto paying too much for too little.

Trump must moderate now that he’s in office: Mayor Tory DaviD Nickle dnickle@insidetoronto.com Mayor John Tory reacted with cautious hope and optimism to the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States Wednesday morning.

“Look, the United States is an incredibly resilient country – probably the most resilient country in the world,” he said.

“I would never bet against the United States. They will adjust to this type of leadership and so too will Mr. Trump adjust.”

Trump, a political neophyte, defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, seizing control of both Congress and the Senate for his Republican ticket.

Through the campaign, Trump has promised to build a wall to keep illegal Mexican

immigrants out of America – people he referred to as murderers and rapists – and also mass deportations of Muslim Americans.

Tory said that now that he is in office, Trump will have to moderate that, and he said that Trump’s victory speech indicated that he may be doing that.

“I saw him this morning saying I’m president of all the people,” Tory said. “That’s a welcome thing for him to say and one trusts he will act that way. That’s what you discover with these jobs in public office. You are there to represent all the people. He said he’s going to work hard to get along with other countries and that’s important because that is the job of the president of the United States.”

Tory offered Toronto as an example to the President-

Elect.

“We believe in bringing people together, make sure it’s one Toronto,” said Tory.

“We welcome people from all over the world, of every description, every faith, every colour of skin, every nationality. That’s what we’ll do in Toronto and I hope he’ll realize that’s what the United States has a history of doing.”

Trump has also indicated he would “tear up” trade deals including the North American Free Trade Agreement. Tory said Toronto would remain welcoming to American business. “(We will) reach out to Americans, say we want to do business, we want you to visit and treat Americans as we always have. What they do on their end of it we have little control of it, and we’ll have to see how it will go.”

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Bishop Marrocco soccer team formally thanks its sponsors The Royals Soccer Team at Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton C.S.S. hosted a special event last Friday to formally recognize the individuals and organizations that sponsored their trip to Attawapiskat last June.

Guests and students at the school were treated to the premiere of the school’s documentary of the trip titled “The Parting of the Rocks”, produced by teacher Sean McClare.

Guests included local MPP Cheri Dinovo, trustee Barbara Poplawski, TCDSB

Director of Education Angela Gauthier, Associate Director of Academic Affairs Rory McGuckin and past principal Derek Chan.

Representatives for the sponsors included Katherine Janson, executive director of communications and public affairs at ParticpACTION, Toronto FC staff and many other generous donors.

The team plans to return to Attawapiskat again this school year. The team’s coach, Paola Pereira, spoke of the learning experience and the wonderful welcome that they received

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Nominate an Ontario Junior Citizen for award The Ontario Community Newspapers Association (OCNA), of which Metroland Media Toronto is a member, is looking to honour outstanding young people.

The organization is seeking nominations for its Ontario Junior Citizen Awards, open to children ages six to 17.

Nominees can be youth

who have engaged in worthwhile community service, including those who have overcome physical or psychological limitations; individuals who have performed acts of heroism or bravery in the past ear; excellence in personal achievements; or ‘good kids’ who have shown a commitment to make life better for others

and do more than is normally expected of someone their age. nominate a young person The OCNA asks people to nominate a young person who is performing worthwhile community service, contributing to their community while living with

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away. No purchase necessary. The Contest open to Ontario residents 18 years of age or older. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.

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limitations, have performed an act of heroism, excellence in personal achievements, or is a “good kid” who is making life better for others and doing more than expected of someone their age The OCNA’s 300 member community newspapers support the awards program.

All nominees will receive a Certificate of Recognition from their local newspaper, and 12 final recipients and their families will be invited to Toronto in the spring of 2017 for an awards presentation.

Those wishing to nominate a candidate are asked to fill out the nomination forms and include back-

ground information, including supporting material such as letters of endorsement or newspaper clippings.

The nomination deadline for the Ontario Junior Citizen Award is Nov. 30.

For more information, or to download or file a nomination form online, visit www.ocna.org/juniorcitizen

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