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Traffic signal gets greenlight at busy Bloor Street intersection Move comes after three pedestrians were hit crossing this year CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com West-end councillors gave traffic lights the greenlight at the pedestrian-heavy intersection of Bloor Street West and Armadale Avenue this week.

Etobicoke York Community Council (EYCC) voted Nov. 10 in favour of installing activated traffic control signals at an intersection where local residents say at least three pedestrians have been struck this year alone.

One of those pedestrians, Verbena Avenue resident Marney Showalter, recounted for councillors her own frightening – and life-altering – experience on Sunday, Feb. 1.

“It was approximately 4 p.m. and it was still daylight. I was crossing Bloor Street on the north side. I crossed two lanes of traffic with no trouble, then stopped for a car turning left onto Armadale,” she said, noting that she made eye contact with that driver, then proceeded in front of the car where she stopped again to ensure no traffic was coming in the other lane.

Seeing her way was clear, Showalter said she stepped out and continued on at a brisk pace, unaware of a passing car that veered into the right lane to bypass the left-turning car until it was too late.

“It hit me on the leg and knocked me to the ground. The police were called and I was taken by ambulance to St. Joe’s for treatment,” she said.

“I had a fractured cheek bone and some damage to my eye that will be permanent. I had a severe concussion lasting for weeks...I also lost a front tooth, have nerve damage in my right cheek, and permanent pain that cannot be cured.”

Showalter said she wasn’t the only pedestrian struck at Bloor and Armadale this year, either – an elderly gentleman was hit at the same corner just 10 days before she was, and another woman was struck on Nov. 7, she said.

“That intersection has 111 pedestrians crossing per hour – that’s heavy traffic,” she added, noting

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The intersection of Bloor Street West and Armadale Avenue in Bloor West Village is set to see the installation of a pedestrian activated traffic light.

This is something local residents have been pushing for for years.

that the intersection is a pedestrianheavy one due, in large part, to the Armadale entrance to Jane subway station.

Showalter was just one of several residents who called on councillors at the EYCC meeting to heed a community petition, with 216 signatures, to approve a Transportation Services report recommending the installation of traffic lights at the intersection.

According to the report, a movement study conducted at the intersection on Sept. 15 revealed more than 900 pedestrians crossed Bloor Street at Armadale Avenue over the course of just eight hours.

The report also noted that Toronto Police Service collision records from Jan. 1, 2012 to Dec. 31, 2014 revealed there were four reported collisions that “would be considered preventable with the installation of traffic control signals”.

Those stats, however, weren’t enough to deter a contingent of other local residents, including Weatherell Street resident Leonard Fox, from arguing against the traffic lights for fear of what impact their installation would have on traffic.

“My concern is that traffic is already cutting through the residential streets to avoid Bloor and Jane. If you put a light at Armadale,

this will be a green light for all that traffic that wants to bypass that intersection...,” said Fox, one of three residents who argued in favour of a pedestrian crossing over traffic lights. “If they get a traffic light there, it’s gonna be a free-for-all.”

For her part, Parkdale-High Park Councillor Sarah Doucette said while she appreciated where Fox and those concerned about traffic impacts were coming from, safety remains her first priority.

“It’s hair-raising watching that intersection – it really is. I’ve heard from staff who actually did the study, and they said they had to close their eyes sometimes, because of the near misses,” she told her fellow councillors after moving staff recommendations to approve the traffic lights at Bloor and Armadale.

“So I’m asking you, listen to the residents who are concerned about the safety of people because, by golly, I don’t want to be hearing in the next year that we’ve had another accident and another pedestrian being hit here, when we could have had a light installed.”

EYCC councillors voted 9-1 in favour of the traffic lights at Bloor and Armadale, which Doucette noted she was “thrilled” to hear will be installed in 2016.

Function in the Junction looking for beneficiary Organizing has begun for the next Function in the Junction.

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Contact info@junctionra.ca for more information on the beneficiary program or for more information on Function in the Junction.

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Police chief to attend safety forum at 11 Division Monday Davenport Councillor Cesar Palacio hosts a community safety forum with Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders Monday, Nov. 23.

The safety forum takes place at the Joseph J. Piccininni Community Centre, 1369 St. Clair Ave. W., west of Lansdowne Avenue at 7 p.m.

Community safety and crime prevention strategies will be discussed. Saunders, as well as local division commanders, will be in attendance.

Email councillor_palacio@ toronto.ca or call 416-392-7011 for more information.

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he CN Tower lit up in blue, white and red last Friday, symbolizing the solidarity of Torontonians with the people of France after the terror attacks in Paris.

As more reports surface about the Islamic State group that claimed responsibility for the attacks, it’s in solidarity we stand up against the hate demonstrated through their violent acts that left more than 120 dead.

But it’s just as important to stand up against vioincidents closer to home our view lent that have been reported this week, which also appear to be Take pride motivated by hate, according to police. in Toronto’s Toronto The unprovoked attack on a Muslim woman by two males just diversity outside Grenoble Public School in Flemingdon Park should be condemned. This comes only a couple of days after a mosque in Peterborough was set on fire, which is also being investigated as a hate crime.

While police have stepped up vigilance in public spaces in light of the Paris attacks, we need to be vigilant now in promoting, reaffirming and upholding the values of respect that’s crucial to living peacefully in a multicultural city such as Toronto.

Just as the actions and beliefs of the Islamic State group aren’t representative of the local Muslim community, let’s make it clear the actions and beliefs of the few who are committing these hate crimes aren’t representative of all Torontonians.

As Mayor John Tory noted in a vigil last weekend at Nathan Phillips Square, any retaliatory attacks only target the majority of Muslims who have nothing to do with the actions of extremists such as ISIS. “These people who perpetrated these attacks represent no one,” he said. “They are not representatives of any faith or nationality; they are people that have decided to take on a set of values and try to destroy our way of life.”

It’s also important to heed the mayor’s statement that the city will run business as usual.

For Toronto residents, that means living peacefully in a city that prides itself on its diversity.

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Do not give in to the fear, the anger, the hate It was barely a year ago that the shootings in Ottawa made their lasting impact on security at Toronto City Hall.

Since that day, security has stationed a single guard at the little-used north entrance to City Hall, which gives quick access to the elections office and the City Hall Press Gallery. The door is locked, and only those with key-cards can make it inside.

Otherwise, there has been very little change – visible change, at any rate – in the way security is conducted at the centre of government of Canada’s largest city.

There has been no local equivalent, certainly, of the federal Bill C-51 enacted by the old prime minister Stephen Harper government to broadly empower police and security agencies and to limit freedom and privacy rights, beyond the level that those agencies themselves deemed necessary.

But for those working at City Hall? A well-mannered,

david nickle the city unarmed guard watching a door that’s used mainly by employees, and otherwise it is business as usual.

Well, it’s not entirely business as usual. Over the course of that year, Toronto elected a new mayor, and in the course of the year that mayor, John Tory, was moved not by fear, but by laudable compassion for Syrian refugees, fleeing from the same terrorist gang that inspired the Ottawa shootings. Tory, unlike other political leaders in this and other countries, has made it clear Toronto will be a welcoming place.

And so it is that as we consider last Friday’s atrocities in Paris, we do so from a city that has generally acquitted itself well in the face of terror, in a manner similar to those good Parisians who opened their doors to strangers, stranded

in their locked-down city.

Torontonians too are good people, or at least have the demonstrated capacity for goodness, and courage, and levelheadedness.

That capacity may well be tested. As I write this Tuesday, police are investigating what appears to be a hate crime – the beating of a Muslim mother on her way to pick up a child from school in Don Mills.

A mosque was also burned in Peterborough over the weekend. These things both seem to be hate crimes, brewed from that toxic combination of fear and anger.

Given Torontonians’ general civility and levelheadedness, there is legitimate hope the incidents will be outliers.

The question now is what we do next, and the answer immediately is to simply carry on with our lives as they had been.

The terrorists would prefer that we not, that we show them a trembling respect by withdrawing from civic engagement, by

isolating the religious and cultural groups from whom they would like to recruit, by posting more guards, agreeing to laws that restrict our liberties even further.

We should prefer to do otherwise. On Tuesday, the city announced an exceedingly generous private donation to build parkland in an ugly space underneath the Gardiner Expressway. That is cause for celebration.

We will soon be welcoming new residents, first as refugees, then perhaps permanent residents and finally if they choose to remain, citizens. As this goes on, we will work and plan and sometimes squabble over how best to build transit and repair public housing and improve our lives here.

That is a busy and virtuous schedule. There is no time in it for fear, and there is no place in it for hate.

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Trakkers ski club reunites at open house Trakkers Cross Country Ski Club hosts an open house toomorrow at the Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. Come out and reconnect with club members in anticipation of the upcoming season or to find out more about the club. Light refreshments will be served. There will be door prizes.

The event takes place from 7 to 9 p.m.

Visit trakkers.ca for details. craft and bake sale at Swansea Public School More than 70 vendors will be selling their wares at the annual Swansea craft and bake sale, Saturday at Swansea Public School, 207 Windermere Ave. The event features jewelry, Christmas decorations, cookies, candles, pet items, knitted goods, gourmet edibles, soap, toys, pottery, greeting cards and much more.

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St. Martin-in-the-Fields Anglican Church, 151 Glenlake Ave., hosts a Nutcracker Fair on Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

There will be a silent auction, a bake table featuring homemade pies and preserves, holiday baking, ready-made dinners and homemade fudge. There will also be gifts, knits, crafts and more.

A lunchtime cafe will be available.

Visit www.stmartininthefields. ca for more details.

Art Works Art School hosts Open House Art Works Art School, 238 Jane St., hosts its 19th annual Open House and Family Day event, Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.

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The Grenadier Restaurant hosts the fourth annual High Park Christmas celebration, Sunday, Nov. 29.

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Group aims to raise $50K >>>from page 1 In just seven weeks, Bloorcourt Sponsors has come together and mobilized the necessary resources to sponsor a family of four in Toronto.

“We’re responsible for supporting the family for a year after their arrival,” Snyder said.

The group has reached 40 per cent of its $50,000 goal.

Bloorcourt has now launched a $30,000-in-30 days campaign.

“We need all of ‘Toronto the Good’, and especially our Bloorcourt neighbours, to get behind us so that

Upcoming @ St. Olave’s Sunday, November 29, 4 p.m.

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we can welcome this family to our great city,” Snyder said.

The group has held fundraisers such as a ‘Family Farm Day’ and a charity luncheon. One of its members is a stand-up comedian who is set to present a benefit show at the Comedy Bar. “We want to get the money in the bank before they get here so we can focus on the family,” Snyder said.

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Federal Immigration Minister John McAllum announced Friday, Nov. 13, Canada’s target to take in as many as 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year.

Snyder said she is buoyed by the number of people, locally, who want to do all they can.

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Swansea Craft & Bake Sale WHEN: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Community Centre, 207 Windermere Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-9080 COST: $1-kids, $2-adults, $5-family pass More than 70 vendors selling jewelry, Christmas decorations, cookies, candles, pet items, knitted goods, gourmet edibles, hand-made chocolate, jams, cheeses, soap, toys, pottery, greeting cards and handcrafted items.

Roncy Yule Market WHEN: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Camaraderie Artisan Market, 2241 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: market@camaraderie.ca COST: Free A boutique holiday market weekend, showcasing artisans and artists of Toronto.

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EHP’s Christmas Arts & Crafts Show WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Emmanuel Howard Park United Church, 240 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: Lisa Forestell, 416-536-1755, emmanuelhowardparkuc@ gmail.com COST: $2 More than 100 artists and artisans selling their unique hand-made products, including jewelers, bath and body products, Christmas gifts, hand knitting, home decor and more.

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Green 13 Monthly Meeting WHEN: 6:15 to 8:15 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free Green 13 is a group of Ward 13 residents concerned about the impact humans are having on our climate and environment, which meets monthly. New members are welcome.

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How We Changed Toronto: The Inside Story 1968-1980 WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: High Park Library, 228 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: Brian Bertrand, 416393-7671 COST: Free Hear former mayor of Toronto John Sewell discuss issues raised in his new book ‘How We Changed Toronto’. Learn about various political figures involved in the reform period of 1970s Toronto.

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Read Around the World Family Night WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: Kara M., 416-394-1014 COST: Free Delight in stories, poems and games from faraway places. Come dressed in traditional clothing or with a toy or treasure from another country. For families with children six and up.

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Zumba for Seniors WHEN: 1 to 1:45 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: Swansea Area Seniors Association, 416392-1953, swanseaareaseniors@gmail.com COST: $50 for 5 weeks Get exercise and enjoyment with lively dancing and great music.

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Junction Seniors Gathering WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Pascal’s Baguette & Bagels, 2904 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: Eleanor Batchelder, 647-235-0843, http://www.junctionra.ca/junction-seniors/, eob62@yahoo.com COST: Free Group meets twice weekly at a local coffee shop for conversation; Tuesdays at Agora Cafe, 3015 Dundas St. W., from 10 to11 a.m.

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High Park Christmas Celebration WHEN: 2 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Grenadier Cafe, 200 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: Diana, 416-762-1277, highpark.org, info@ highpark.org COST: Free Family activities at the Grenadier Restaurant patio from 2 to 5 p.m.

Tree Lighting at 5 p.m.

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‘Dukale’s Dream’ documentary film screening WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Runnymede Community Church, 60 Colbeck St. CONTACT: Runnymede Community Church, 416-767-1401, http://www.runnymedechurch.org/, info@runnymedechurch.org COST: Free “Dukale’s Dream” featuring Hugh Jack-

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Subway will run to Vaughan, Presto on streetcars by 2017, TTC CEO says RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Imagine a world where the subway runs to Vaughan, Presto readers are installed in every streetcar and TTC employees courteously usher riders into a station equipped with Wi-Fi. For regular TTC riders, the prospects of such an idealized transit future might seem remote.

Yet that’s exactly the vision TTC CEO Andy Byford is pitching to his customers, one he vows will be reality in the next two years.

“That might sound like a utopia a long way away, but we’re talking about the end of 2017,” Byford said during

last week’s TTC Customer Town Hall.

Within two years, Byford and TTC Chair Josh Colle are promising the completion of the Spadina line six-stop extension, Presto availability and other improvements included in the transit commission’s five-year master plan to modernize service and customer care.

The meeting at Toronto City Hall allowed transit riders

to voice their opinions and give feedback on improving the TTC’s operations directly to senior officials.

The audience of about 100 was largely approving, breaking out into loud applause at times for Byford and Colle.

However, not all were willing to praise the TTC. “I’m fed up that people with disabilities are being shafted in Scarborough,” said Emily Daigle, a transit

accessibility advocate.

She has complained to the TTC about her difficulties commuting from near Bellamy Road to downtown, a trip that can take hours.

One man asked Byford when early subway closures on the Yonge line would no longer be necessary, a practice that has continued for several years as the TTC makes repairs to the subway tunnels between Finch sta-

tion and Eglinton.

Byford said the practice will end at the end of the year.

TO in TRANSIT will return next week but you can check out Rahul Gupta’s column online

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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.

St. Clair Avenue West Area Transportation Master Plan Invitation for Public Comment and Input Public Consultation Event #1 The City of Toronto is examining potential solutions to improve transportation options in the area around St. Clair Avenue West between Keele Street and Old Weston Road.

We invite you to attend an upcoming public event to review, discuss and provide your feedback on the long-term solutions being studied and how they will be evaluated.

Details are as follows: Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 Time: Drop-in 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Presentation at 7 p.m.

Location: Joseph J. Piccininni Community Centre 1369 St. Clair Ave. W. Background The north/south rail corridor in the vicinity of St. Clair Avenue West between Keele Street and Old Weston Road limits east/west movement for cyclists, pedestrians and vehicles.This results in issues of congestion and connectivity.TheTransportation Master Plan will evaluate alternatives to improve movement using existing and potential new road connections for the benefit of all modes of travel.

Solutions being considered 1. Widen St. Clair Avenue West 2. Extend Gunns Road east 3. Connect Davenport Road to Lloyd Avenue 4. Extend Keele Street south to meet the Gunns Road extension between Weston Road and Union Street 5. Extend Davenport Road northwest to Union Street, in addition to Option 4 We want to hear from you Visit the project web page to view information on the solutions being evaluated and criteria that will be used to evaluate them. Provide comments using the online comment form or mail them in using the contact information below. www.toronto.ca/stclairwesttmp Please provide comments by Friday December 18, 2015.

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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/stclairwesttmp Issue Date: November 19, 2015

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 jets at Toronto island airport, says federal transport minister DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com With two tweets, Canada’s new Transportation Minister Marc Garneau seems to have permanently cooled the prospect of jet aircraft using Billy Bishop Airport.

“As new Minister of Transport, I have been enjoying learning about all my files including the Toronto Island Airport,” Garneau said on his Twitter account late Nov. 12. “I confirm that the Government of Canada’s position

is the same as the Liberal Party of Canada’s commitment: we will not re-open the tripartite agreement for YTX (the Billy Minister Marc Bishop Airport).”

Garneau uses The Government of Canada’s refusal Twitter to to re-open the make airport agreement effecstatement tively renders any further discussion or study of the airport expansion moot: it requires all three levels of government’s agreement to make

any changes to the restrictions against jet aircraft at the island airport.

Porter Airlines had been requesting permission to extend the runway at the small commuter airport so that it might accommodate jet aircraft. Porter had hoped to expand the range of its flights, which currently are limited by the range of its fleet of turboprop aircraft.

Four downtown city councillors — Mike Layton, Joe Cressy, Pam McConnell and Paula Fletcher —

issued a joint statement following Garneau’s tweet. ‘jets will not fly’ “We now know that jets will not fly out of an expanded Island Airport.

Full stop,” the statement reads. “... our city can now return to the work of ensuring existing airport operations better fit in with the local neighbourhood and city.”

City officials have been working with the Ports Toronto and Porter

on ways that jet aircraft might be accommodated.

Scarborough Southwest Councillor Gary Crawford said he would have liked to learn of the decision in a more official capacity, but he was resigned to the decision.

“But when you consider the amount of work that staff has done, that Toronto has done ... It would have been nicer if it had been done differently than a tweet late at night,” he said. “We should give it the debate that it deserves.”

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With negotiations between Metrolinx and the city not yet concluded, the agency will now launch the six-month Transit Project Assessment Process (TPAP) in January, said Metrolinx Spokesperson Anne Marie Aikins.

“Conversations between the city and Metrolinx continue so a final decision has not been made on which option to proceed with,” said Aikins via email Wednesday.

“We will confirm how we are going to proceed in January when we launch the EA.” Elevating GO Transit rail service over CP Freight train traffic appears to remain Metrolinx’s preference for eliminating the congested Davenport Diamond rail crossing, just north of Dupont Street near Lansdowne Avenue. In

September, Metrolinx released a report prepared by a thirdparty engineering consultant bolstering the case for the overpass, which, at an estimated $140 million, is far less expensive than an underpass or tunnel. Now, these options could also be included in the study.

However, even though Metrolinx has offered to redevelop lands located under the overpass area, from Bloor Street West to north of Davenport Road, city planning staff having already expressed concerns for the project and urged Metrolinx to suspend the TPAP until the spring, which would provide enough time for a full review of the overpass option.

Aikins said, however, further delaying the study – it was initially supposed have gotten underway in September – would have been unacceptable given the project is part

of the Regional Express Rail plan (RER) introduced by the Premier Kathleen Wynne government to expand and electrify much of the GO network within 10 years.

“We’ve agreed to continue talking with the city about options, but have determined we cannot wait beyond January without it impacting RER on the Barrie line,” she said.

The community group Options for Davenport, which opposes the overpass, said Metrolinx was moving ahead with a project that is “seriously flawed”.

“We understand the sense of urgency to address this region’s transit problems.

But...this overpass is going to be here forever,” said group Chair Laura Zeglen in a statement issued this week. “All we want is for Metrolinx and the province to think long term.”

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20 BLOOR WEST VILLAGER | Thursday, November 19, 2015 |

OVERSTOCKED 2016 KIA FORTE5!

FREE Winter Tires with ANY INSTOCK 2016 KIA Forte5

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FINANCING FOR UP TO

84

MONTHS

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ON SELECT MODELS

IN DISCOUNTS

OFFER ENDS NOVEMBER 30TH

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THE NEW

2016 FORTE THAT’S LIKE PAYING ONLY

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SEDAN LX MT LEASE FROM

$750 DOWN AT

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MONTHLY APR FOR 60 MONTHS≠

2016 SOUL THAT’S LIKE PAYING ONLY

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Soul SX Luxury shown‡

LX MT LEASE FROM $1,000 DOWN AT

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2015 SOUL “HIGHEST RANKED COMPACT MULTI-PURPOSE VEHICLE IN INITIAL QUALITY IN THE U.S.” BY J.D. POWER

APR FOR 36 MONTHS≠

FREE WintER FlooR MAtS! With AnY nEW CAR PuRChASE in novEMbER!

West Toronto KIA

East of Jane on St. Clair Ave W

2445 ST CLAIR AVE WEST TORONTO (East of Jane St. on St. Clair Ave.) | 416-762-2277 |Sales@westtorontokia.ca | www.westtorontokia.ca

Offer(s) available on select new 2015/2016 models through participating dealers to qualified retail customers who take delivery from November 3 to November 30, 2015. Dealers may sell or lease for less. Some conditions apply. See 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 up to $1,715, $5 OMVIC fee, $29 tire fee, and $100 A/C charge (where applicable). Excludes other taxes, licensing, PPSA, registration, insurance, variable dealer administration fees, fuel-fill charges up to $100, and down payment (if applicable and unless otherwise specified). Other lease and financing options also available. 0% financing for up to 84 months or up to $7,000 discount available on other select 2015 models. Discount is deducted from the negotiated purchase/lease price before taxes. Maximum $7,000 discount ($6,000 cash discounts and $1,000 ECO-credit) is offered on 2015 Optima Hybrid LX (OP74AF) only. $1,000 ECO credit is offered on all 2016 Optima Hybrid models. Certain conditions apply. See your dealer for complete details. Representative Financing Example: Financing offer available on approved credit (OAC), on a new 2016 Rio LX MT (RO541G) with a selling price of $15,864 is based on monthly payments of $177 for 84 months at 0% with a $0 down payment and first monthly payment due at finance inception. Offer also includes $1,000 discount (loan credit). Other taxes, registration, insurance and licensing fees are excluded. . Dealer may sell for less. Other taxes, registration, insurance and licensing fees are excluded. Cash discounts vary by model and trim and are deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes. ≠Representative Leasing Example: Lease offer available on approved credit (OAC), on the 2016 Forte Sedan LX MT (FO541G)/2016 Soul LX MT (SO551G) with a selling price of $17,564/$18,944 is based on monthly payments of $148/$218 for 60/36 months at 0%/2.9%, with $0 security deposit, $1,300/$0 discounts (lease credit), $750/$1,000 down payment and first monthly payment due at lease inception. Total lease obligation $8,853/$7,865 with the option to purchase at the end of the term for $6,661/$11,346. Lease has 16,000 km/yr allowance (other packages available and $0.12/km for excess kilometres). §Open to Canadian residents who have reached the age of majority in their province or territory of residence who take a test drive at a Canadian Kia dealership between November 3, 2015 and January 4, 2016. 10 weekly prizes of a $3,000 itravel2000 voucher available. Plus one $100 travel voucher per eligible test drive. Limit of one entry/test drive voucher per person. Skill testing question required. Some conditions apply. Go to kia.ca for complete details. ΩLease payments must be made on a monthly or bi-weekly basis but cannot be made on a weekly basis. Weekly lease payments are for advertising purposes only. ‡Model shown Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price for 2016 Forte SX (FO748G)/2016 Soul SX Luxury (SO758G)/2015 Optima SX Turbo AT (OP748F) is $26,695/$27,495/$34,895. The 2015 Optima was awarded the 2015 Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) for model year 2015. U.S. models tested. Visit www.iihs.org for full details. The Kia Soul received the lowest number of problems per 100 vehicles among compact multi-purpose vehicles in the proprietary J.D. Power 2015 U.S. Initial Quality StudySM. Study based on responses from 84,367 U.S. new-vehicle owners, measuring 244 models and measures opinions after 90 days of ownership. Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of U.S. owners surveyed from February to May 2015. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com. 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. Free Winter Tires value $600 with any 2016 Kia Forte5 5dr in inventory. While supplies last, customers must take deliver of in-stock selection by November 30, 2015.