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LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Four area neighbourhood groups are scrambling to raise as much as $30,000 in preparation for an Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing that will determine the fate of a proposed nine-story condominium at Bloor West and Durie streets. The community associations, including the Bloor West Village Residents Association (BWVRA),
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the Old Mill Community Association, the Swansea Area Ratepayers Association (SARA) and the High Park Residents Association, only found out about the Jan. 6 hearing early this month while the city received its notice in September. “It’s left us behind the eight-ball,” the BWVRA’s Steve Dewdney told The Villager. “We want to make a decent showing. We want to get going as quickly as we can.” The community has retained a lawyer and would like to hire a planner and ideally a traffic expert as well. “The city has agreed with the community: the development >>>condo, page 18
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FACE WORK: Jada has her face painted by Ester at Baby Point Gates Business Improvement Area’s annual Baby It’s Cold Outside open house on Saturday. See more photos on page 3.
Lit up by hundreds of thousands of lights, CP Rail’s 14-car, 1,000foot Holiday Train rolls into the Lambton Yard on Runnymede Road, just south of St. Clair Ave., Saturday, Nov. 29. Since its inception 16 years
ago, the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train has raised almost $9.5 million and collected 3.3 million pounds of food for food banks across North America. “As soon as it wraps up we start preparing for the next year,” said CP spokesperson Salem Woodrow. “It takes many >>>the odds, page 15