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Aboriginal identity remixed and mashed up

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SNOW FUN: Eric Liphardt has fun with his daughters Vivian, 3, and Tarin, 6, tobogganing at Christie Pits Saturday.

Aboriginal heritage and urban youth culture will come together in a new exhibition at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. Titled Beat Nation, the exhibition will see artists remixing and mashing up old and new, juxtaposing traditional pieces of the Aboriginal identity with modern mainstream art in media ranging from painting, sculpture, performance, video and more. Some two dozen artists will participate in the exhibition, which also takes roots from hip hop, which has become a major force in youth activism in Aboriginal communities in recent years. The artists hail from across North America, from the west coast to Labrador and from Nunavut and Alaska to New Mexico. Despite their varying cultures and surroundings, the exhibition will bring the artists together to demonstrate the connections they share. Beat Nation takes place at the Power Plant at Harbourfront Centre and will run through to May 5. n For more information, visit www. thepowerplant.org

Pavement artwork pays tribute to Brick Works’ history JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com

Painting made possible by funding from StreetARToronto

Evergreen Brick Works is paying homage to its history with the addition of a new art installation adorning a portion of its parking lot. Toronto artists Dan Bergeron and Paul Aloisi painted the piece, dubbed Underground Kiln, on the parking lot’s surface, serving as a reminder of

the Brick Works original purpose as a place where some 40 million bricks were produced each year. The piece shows a bird’s-eye view outline of one of the old brick firing kilns that once adorned the site. “There used to be four chimneys (at the Brick Works) and now

there’s only one,” said Evergreen Brick Works spokesperson Anthony Westenberg. “People can now stand right where the chimney was and look straight up to see where it would have been.” A portion of the parking lot was

closed off throughout much of November to allow Bergeron and Aloisi to paint the piece. It fits along with some of the other artwork on display at Evergreen, including images of some of the site’s former brickmakers adorning the walls.

“It’s a way of giving a cultural and industrial nod through an artistic lens,” Westenberg said. “It’s a nice way of reminding people this place was here long before (Evergreen was) here.” The painting was made possible with funding from StreetARToronto (StART), a public/private grant program that aims to support and >>>Brick Works, page 11

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at the Holiday Classic Indoor soccer: the North Toronto Nitros (teal jerseys) took on Scarborough United (blue jerseys) in a game at the Downsview Holiday Classic indoor soccer tournament last Friday. The Nitros lost 3-0. Below, Jasmine Vilgrain of the North Toronto Nitros moves the ball past Cecilia Levy-Bages of Scarborough United. Right, Lauren Murphy moves the ball for the North Toronto Nitros. Below right, Emily Bain of the North Toronto Nitros clears the ball away from Scano Hewa Batuwitage of Scarborough United.

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Public speakers take to stage at unique open mic sessions JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com As a professional public speaker, Michel Neray has had plenty of opportunities over the years to hear some top-notch presentations and performances. What came as a surprise was the amount of demand from others wanting to hear and share stories. Neray, who lives in the Bathurst and Eglinton area, is the driving force behind MoMondays, a monthly storytelling event that allows professionals and newcomers to take the stage to speak of incidents or experiences that stand out. “I started it because I was a

professional speaker and this was just a way for myself and my friends to rehearse bits and practice bits,” he said. Neray was inspired by the open-mic stand-up comedy scene in Toronto, in particular the regular open mic at Spirits Bar and Grill, hosted by comedy stalwart Jo-Anna Downey. “In comedy, there are open mics all over the place, but there’s nothing like this for public speakers,” Neray said. MoMondays started out small, with just a few public speakers gathering at a tea house near Yonge Street and Lawrence Avenue. As word spread, MoMondays quickly outgrew

‘In comedy, there are open mics all over the place, but there’s nothing like this for public speakers.’ – professional public speaker, Michel Neray that space and moved to the Trane jazz bar before the event became too popular for that venue as well. “It grew so much bigger than I expected,” Neray said. “I asked a lot of people ‘what made you come out here?’ and a lot of people said

they wanted to go on stage and tell their stories but a lot of people just love the atmosphere and get inspired hearing other people’s stories.” Whereas many public speaking engagements have a networking component, MoMondays serves simply as a way for people to share experiences in an informal setting. While many of the stories are funny, they are not as cynical as stand-up comedy routines tend to be. “People have incredible personal stories,” Neray said. “A couple of months ago, we had a French teacher who left Toronto in 2008 to teach in Rwanda who told a beautiful story talking not about what

she taught them but about what they taught her.” While every MoMondays event features professional speakers, they typically break from their usual routines and share more personal stories. Ne r a y r e c a l l e d t h a t Whetstone president and CEO Adrian Davis spoke of his early struggles when he was forced to sleep in a stairwell, while professional speaker Tim Hurson shared some of the difficulties his family faced when trying to split a will. “There are great speakers, but some of the best performers and speakers we have are people who are going up (on stage) for the first time in

their life,” Neray said. “They tell stories that are really from the heart and that are so powerful in their honesty and authenticity.” MoMondays currently take place the last Monday of every month at the Pilot Tavern, and additional events take place in the Oakville/ Burlington area and in Winnipeg. Neray is hoping to expand the events to four more cities over the next two months and is even looking at eventually expanding into the Middle East to help foster a spirit of communication and understanding. For more information on MoMondays, visit www. momondays.com

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ow that we’re already three days into 2013, a number of our readers may already be struggling with the New Year’s resolutions they made Tuesday morning. Don’t fear, however, as the City of Toronto’s Public Health department is available to offer you some help. “If your New Year’s resolution is to be healthier, Toronto Public Health (TPH) is here to support you throughout the year,” said Catherine Clarke, manager of healthy living, in a press release this week. That’s good, because healthy residents benefit the entire community in so many ways. People who feel better have more energy, and are able to be more involved and effective members of their workforce, their families and their communities. A our view healthier population as a whole also eases stresses and costs on Take first our health care system. step to better So often, well-intentioned New Year’s resolutions are health in 2013 quickly tossed aside because they are just too hard to accomplish and those who make them become discouraged. That’s where TPH is offering some specific help to local residents. For those who want to quit smoking, TPH has 1,000 free quit kits available for residents. The kits include sugarless gum, a stress ball, a toothbrush and other items to help those trying to quit smoking deal with their cravings. Those looking for some personal advice, can also call a TPH nurse at 416-338-7974. There’s more specific information on quitting smoking online at www.toronto.ca/health/smokefree/quittingsmoking There’s also help for those looking to get more exercise or improve their eating habits in 2013. TPH advises residents to eat healthy by cutting down on portion sizes, reading labels for calorie and sodium counts, and asking restaurant staff for nutritional information when ordering food. Many city restaurants already offer such information online. There are also TPH registered dieticians available to offer advice by calling 416-338-7600, and more info is online at www.toronto.ca/health/nutrition One of the best ways to start getting healthier is to get more exercise, and TPH says that’s as simple as just getting out into your neighbourhood and taking a walk. For inspiration, there’s a pedometer lending program offered through Toronto Public Libraries. More info at www.toronto.ca/health/walkintohealth Walking is easy and it’s also a great way to get to know your community better. We encourage all our readers to take that first step to better health in 2013. newsroom

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Re: ‘Everyone benefits from unions: reader.’ Letters, Dec. 26 I must disagree with Joy Taylor’s letter in support of unions. And before anyone wonders, yes, I spent several years in a union-based job. Whilst it is true that in the beginning, unions served the just and noble cause of protecting workers’ rights, this purpose has long since degenerated and been replaced by a bunch of greedy, inflexible, living-inthe-past union leaders, who are clinging to antiquated systems no longer viable in current economic realities. We hear countless stories in the media of actual union members who are do not wish to strike and are quite happy, in most cases, with the more than fair salaries and benefits that they receive. Constant strikes disrupt our city and cost millions of dollars in taxpayers’ money. It’s time to try something new, since neither government or union leaders seem capable of bargaining fairly. Regardless, let’s move into the 21st century and find a better way. Neil Folkard

Betting on council peace not a good bet for 2013 Amid all the hand-wringing about vacant mayor’s offices and crumbling highways, one might be forgiven for missing one of the most reliable news stories of the winter months. Toronto is making a budget, and over the next few weeks, will be performing the final pieces of the ritual to make it complete. Late last year, the city’s budget committee finished their tinkering with the $9.4 billion budget. It was (and remains) a plan designed to attract a minimum of tinkering at council. Budget Chief Mike Del Grande moved at the end of the process to increase property taxes a sliver more than the original proposal had intended — they’re going up 2 per cent rather than 1.95 per cent — and allocated the $1.15 million to restore services in areas where citizens had made

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what he considered a good case. That didn’t happen last year, and when the budget proceeded to council, councillors tore it to pieces and rebuilt it – $15 million fatter – pulling money from reserves to do so. Del Grande doesn’t want to see that happen again this year; so much so that he’s vowed to quit if council does anything else with the plan he’s presented. Some of his colleagues have snickeringly suggested this might be an excellent way to find themselves a new budget chief. But really, the budget

going forward will be difficult to make changes on. The budget cuts firefighter positions, and as a policy move council might reverse that. Similarly, the trimmed police service budget approved by the Toronto Police Services Board and scorned by Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair might get another look. Council could look at restoring money to child care, homeless shelters and other pieces of social infrastructure. And there are some on council, like Parkdale-High Park Councillor Gord Perks, who are concerned the city is paying too much cash for capital projects such as road work, comparing the move to buying a house with all the money up front. The mayor (because he’s the kind of mayor he is) might, if still in office by the time the budget’s debated mid-January, take issue

with that property tax hike. And on the matter of the Gardiner Expressway, the budget debate could take an off-ramp into a long discussion over whether it’s worth the $500 million the capital budget’s allocated over the next decade to repairs to the elevated highway, or to just go down the road the last council started on, to tear a large portion of it down. Nobody ever made any money betting on peace at Toronto Council, and I won’t now. But it’s going to take a pretty significant effort by Ford opponents to get under the hood of the 2013 budget and make serious changes. David Nickle is Toronto Community News’ city hall columnist. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at dnickle@insidetoronto.com

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Host Ryerson wins tourney, defeats U19 Chinese team Undefeated in their Ontario University Athletics east division at 8-0, the Ryerson Rams men’s basketball team showed no signs of cooling off over the holiday break, winning their own tournament for the second straight year. Their three wins included an opening win on Friday, Dec. 28 over China’s U19 youth team 79-65. Ryerson then went on to beat the University of Guelph 84-67 and, in the championship game, McMaster University 71-66. Both Guelph and McMaster were 2-5 heading into the holiday break. The eight-team tourney also included the University of Prince Edward Island ( U PE I ) a n d Mo n t re a l’s McGill University as well as two Toronto colleges – Scarborough-based Centennial and Etobicokebased Humber. The way the schedule worked out both Toronto colleges got to play the Chinese teenagers. Centennial, which took a

9-1 record into the holiday break in their Ontario colleges league, lost their opener 85-74 to Guelph, lost 84-71 to China and then beat UPEI 96-91 in overtime. Humber lost their opener 76-66 to McMaster, won their second game 80-62 over UPEI and then tied China 78-78 (with the overtime cancelled due to injuries on the Chinese team). A couple of Scarborough high schools also played exhibition games: Blessed Mother Teresa defeating St. John’s-Kilmarnock from Breslau 75-66; while Blessed Pope John Paul II lost to St. Marguerite d’Youville from Brampton 54-51. Regular league basketball schedules resume Jan. 3 for Ontario universities and Jan. 8 for colleges. VARSITY BLUES VOLLEYBALL The Toronto Varsity Blues women’s volleyball team enjoyed a productive holiday break winning all three games in the tournament they hosted Dec. 28 to 30.

The Blues defeated: • Queen’s University 3-1 (25-12, 25-17, 22-25, 25-6) • Universite de Sherbrooke 3-0 (25-17, 25-21, 25-23) • and the University of New Brunswick 3-0 (25-19, 25-16, 25-15) Ryerson also dropped in for a game, defeating Sherbrooke 3-1 (26-24, 25-16, 24-26, 25-21). Regular league women’s volleyball action resumes Jan. 4. YORK LIONS T h e Yo r k m e n’s v o l leyball team will host the 34th Annual York Excalibur Volleyball Classic Jan. 2 to 4 with teams from Quebec (Universite de Sherbrooke) and Newfoundland (Memorial University), as well as Budo University from Japan. Rounding out the eightteam tournament are fellow Ontario teams from Ryerson, University of Windsor, Queen’s University and Western University. Regular league men’s volleyball action resumes Jan. 11.

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Six issues that defined the year at City Hall DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.co

n THE 2012 BUDGET

Mayor Rob Ford’s second budget started 2012 in crisis. In 2011, budget chief Mike Del Grande and his budget committee delivered a budget that had communities across the city up in arms. There were cuts to libraries, arts grants, sidewalk snow-clearing in the suburbs, child care, and homeless shelters. It was clear to the mayor’s supporters early on that there wasn’t going to be support for what opponents called a “radical conservative” budget. So at the executive committee, Ford’s allies attempted to strike a compromise deal, reversing some of the more controversial cuts by dipping into $8 million in unanticipated revenue. It wasn’t enough. Mayor Ford made a personal plea to councillors to leave the budget as it was recommended – putting $154 million in surplus all into capital debt reduction. Council didn’t listen. In late January, council supported a motion by rookie councillor Josh Colle, that restored nearly all the cuts that the mayor’s budget had proposed, digging into reserves to the tune of $20 million.

funding, council rejected both it and the plan. Over Ford’s objection, council convened its own expert panel on what to do about the Sheppard corridor. Ford’s team was furious, and at the next meeting of the Toronto Transit Commission, gathered the votes to fire Gary Webster, the TTC’s Chief General Manager who had advised council that light rail made more sense along the relatively lightly-populated suburban routes. Council was equally

and one day soon, it would begin to fall down. Miller’s successors opted not to tear the highway down – and in 2012, as predicted, the Gardiner began to, if not fall down, then fall apart. This spring and summer, motorists began complaining of falling concrete as they drove beneath the elevated section on Lake Shore Boulevard. Subsequent examination by city engineers revealed the structure,

and said he’d like to end that once and for all. In July, the matter came before council, in the form of a report suggesting the bag fee be targeted toward protecting Toronto’s tree canopy. Ford brought forward an amendment, to simply end the bag fee altogether. That amendment succeeded. But it was not the only one to do so. Willowdale Councillor David Shiner moved an amendment

n SUBWAYS

In 2010, Mayor Rob Ford campaigned on a plan to scrap his predecessor David Miller’s light rail Transit City plan, and instead extend the Sheppard subway into Scarborough. Shortly after he was elected, he declared Transit City to be “dead” and began a process to find private sector investors as well as provincial and federal funding to make the subway a reality. Former city councillor Gordon Chong was charged with providing a strategy for doing so, and for a time a majority of councillors went along with the subway plan. But following the mayor’s budget defeat, councillors who opposed the costly subway plan saw what proved to be a fatal opening. The mayor and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty had drafted a memorandum of understanding between the city and the provincial government, that the $8.4 billion in funding that was to have gone to build Transit City light rail lines on Eglinton, Sheppard and Finch Avenues would be diverted to building the Eglinton light rail line all underground. But the memorandum of understanding needed to be ratified by Toronto Council. And when that finally came forward, along with Chong’s report on

control of the city, negotiators for the city and the unions that represent most of its workers were fighting toe to toe over their collective agreements – all of which came up in late 2011. At issue were clauses in the contracts with inside and outside workers providing job security in the event the city decided to contract out their services. These clauses were negotiated under former Mayor Mel Lastman and persisted under Mayor David Miller. The Ford administration was the first to be able to weaken job protection on those grounds – and with one brief exception, did so without job disruptions. In each case, city negotiators did so by playing tough. The city moved to go into conciliation with its outside workers, CUPE Local 416, in 2011 before the collective agreement had even expired. And in January, the city asked for a ‘no board’ report, starting the countdown for a strike or lockout. The tactic had its effect. CUPE negotiators countered by offering a wage freeze. The city held its ground. Eventually, a tentative deal was struck. The city’s inside workers followed suit a month later. In the end, only library workers went on strike – a walkout that lasted nearly two weeks. In the end, they settled on a contract that was marginally better for the union than the one signed by CUPE, with higher wages and better job security language.

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infuriated by the move, and at a special meeting voted to fire the TTC members who’d voted to fire Webster. When the expert panel finally returned, it advised, as expected, to go ahead with LRT on Sheppard and abandon the subway plan. The mayor voted against the plan, and vowed to continue to campaign for re-election in 2014 on a promise to build subways and kill light rail once and for all.

n THE GARDINER

During Mayor David Miller’s tenure, the elevated highway named after the late Metro Chairman Fred Gardiner was slated to be torn down, and replaced with a widened Lake Shore Boulevard. One of the reasons given for removing the highway was that it was very old,

which was not designed to last through repeated exposure to Canadian winters, was crumbling. In May, city crews began to tear off the most precarious slabs of concrete, and the city developed a plan to deal with the problem. By the end of the year, it had become clear the problems with the Gardiner were much more serious than initially thought. The city’s 2013 operating budget contains more than half a billion dollars to do major repairs on not only the underside, but also the surface of the highway.

n PLASTIC BAGS

In late 2011, Mayor Rob Ford told a radio station interviewer that he had been hearing from members of the public upset that the city was still forcing retailers to charge five cents a bag for plastic shopping bags. Ford agreed,

that would ban all plastic shopping bags from Toronto retailers by Jan. 1, 2013, and council approved it as well. An attempt by Ford supporters to reopen the matter and overturn the amendment failed in the fall, because it requires a 2/3 vote to reopen a matter already decided within a calendar year. But before the bylaw came forward, council did vote to hold public consultations on its implementation. In the course of that consultation, several industry associations brought forward legal challenges to the bylaw. And in the late fall, when council was finally faced with the bylaw, they voted in a simple majority to kill it.

n LABOUR

As Toronto Council was battling it out with the mayor over

Arguably the biggest story in Toronto was the story of the mayor himself. The mayor was photographed reading while driving; he called TTC chief executive officer Andy Byford to complain about a streetcar driver, who’d chided the mayor for driving past the open door of his streetcar. And then there was football. Ford started the year with what turned out to be a major blunder, when he spoke and voted on an integrity commissioner report asking council compel him to return $3,150 in money donated by lobbyists to his private football charity while he was a councillor. Prominent lawyer Clayton Ruby and client Paul Magder took Ford to court, charging that he’d breached the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act and ought to be removed from office. Supreme Court Justice Charles Hackland agreed, and Ford’s future now rests in the hands of a Divisional Court of Appeal, set to convene Jan. 7.

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GO Transit fee hike Feb. 1 RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com As expected, a GO Transit fare hike was approved by the Metrolinx board at its meeting last month which will see fares rise by an average of 31 cents per ride. The fare hike is scheduled to take effect Feb. 1. The increase approved by the board will result in fares rising by approximately five per cent with longer trips costing more. The increase comes in three tiers: • fares under $5.80 will cost 35 cents more; • there will be a 45 cent rise for rides costing between $5.81 and $7.35; • trips currently costing more than $7.35 will receive an increase of 55 cents. Metrolinx chief executive officer Bruce McCuaig said fare increases are necessary for improving service and recommended similar increases every year. “By doing it on an annual basis you can avoid building up to a larger fare increase,” McCuaig told reporters following the two hour meet-

ing at Metrolinx’s downtown offices. “We think it’s the best practice to improve services and identify costs.” He said Metrolinx will net around $18-million from the revenue raise this year if the level of subsidy the transit planning agency receives from the provincial government remains the same. Future fare hikes would be determined by existing levels of service, fare revenue, government subsidy and monies generated independent of the fare box. re-fillable card The price difference between paper tickets and fares paid via Presto will also increase, said Metrolinx chief financial officer Robert Siddall, to encourage more migration to the re-fillable card that approximately 400,000 riders and the majority of GO customers have already adopted. Siddall said the cost for using Presto will also rise, although cash fares will still be higher due to loyalty discounts provided by GO.

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Downtown relief line new priority: Metrolinx CEO RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Metrolinx CEO Bruce McCuaig announced an updated list of regional transit priorities, which include two new subway lines for Toronto. Addressing a recent packed lunch-hour audience of business professionals at the Toronto Board of Trade, McCuaig listed an estimated $34-billion worth of new transit fast-tracked for completion within 15 years. The change in priorities for the provincial agency’s four-year-old Big Move plan was required to make sure it was up to date, he said. “We needed to define some projects in greater detail,” said McCuaig. “We also needed to reflect all the relevant studies that have been completed since 2008.” While federal, provincial and municipal governments

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will be expected to kick in a portion of the funding for the projects, the lion’s share of the money – more than $20-billion according to numbers provided by Metrolinx – will need to come from residents in the GTHA, said McCuaig. “We still have to pay for these services, whoever builds them,” said McCuaig. “We can’t expect the money to come from anybody but ourselves.” One of the new priorities is a downtown relief subway, which the TTC has long considered essential for easing overcrowding on the existing Yonge line. Should funding be allocated for an east-west downtown relief line, to travel between Pape station and St. Andrew according to one plan proposed by the TTC, the subway could commence running within 15 years – 10 years quicker than originally proposed. The accelerated timeline is necessary, he said, due to a projected 25 per cent increase in subway ridership by 2031. “We are re-prioritizing this project because of a simple and stark fact,” he said. “Our subway system just cannot manage the volumes of people trying to enter or exit the downtown core.” Other projects announced in Thursday’s update, which

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Metrolinx CEO and president Bruce McCuaig recently spoke to the Toronto Board of Trade.

would benefit the city include a bus rapid transit (BRT) lane connecting Kipling Station to Burlington; a BRT between Scarborough Town Centre and downtown Oshawa; and a six kilometre extension of the Yonge subway line travelling north from Finch Station into Richmond Hill. The Yonge subway extension will not be completed before the downtown relief line as the existing line would not be able to handle a projected increase by 2031 of 50 million rides, said McCuaig. Also included as priorities are electrification of the Georgetown South and Lakeshore rail corridors, as well as the air rail link between Pearson International Airport and Union Station, which McCuaig said will now be

known as the Union-Pearson Express. It was a busy week for Metrolinx as it announced a master agreement with the TTC regarding operation of four light rail transit lines for the city had been completed, as well as confirming integration of the Presto fare system on all TTC vehicles will be completed by 2016. In June of 2013, Metrolinx must present the province with an investment strategy to pay for the rest of the $50-billion Big Move. It would then be up to the sitting government to ratify it, said McCuaig to reporters following his presentation. “We’re hopeful that as we release our plan in June, there will be some quick decisions made,” he said.

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“We still need to put up interpretive signs so people know what they’re looking at,” Westenberg said. “It’s a great addition, but we want people to appreciate it for what it is.”

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Campaign seeks to change the municipal voting system MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com If a mayoral byelection looms in Toronto, people may warm up to a different – and some say, less divisive – way to vote for city officials, called ranked balloting. And last month, supporters of the concept were claiming they could swing Toronto Council to their cause, making city elections “way more interesting and fair” a few years from now. “This is winnable. We’ve actually got a majority of councillors supporting this,” Dave Meslin said during a presentation of his civic engagement campaign, The Fourth Wall, at the East Scarborough Boys and Girls Club. “I think we’ll get it.” On its website, the Ranked

Ballot Initiative of Toronto (RaBIT) claims 19 sitting councillors plus Mayor Rob Ford as supporters, not enough to carry the 45-member council. But Meslin and Scarborough East Councillor Paul Ainslie both say they have found enough “soft” support in the rest of the ranks. Interestingly, TrinitySpadina MP Olivia Chow, touted by many to run against the mayor, is in the RaBIT camp. According to the site (www.123toronto.ca), so are Karen Stintz and Adam Vaughan, other councillors spoken of as contenders for Ford’s chair. Meslin said fear of votesplitting often pushes challengers off the ballot, particularly first-time candidates who are women or

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The Fourth Wall creator Dave Meslin, left, and Toronto councillor Paul Ainslie explain proposals for boosting public participation in the city’s governance to local residents.

visible minorities. “I want to see them all run. I want to have choice,”

he said. Though Queen’s Park must first approve them, a switch to ranked ballots would give voters the option of naming second and third choices. If no candidate gets 50 per cent of the votes, candidates with the least votes drop off and their second-place support is transferred to others. These “instant runoffs” continue until one candidate is shown to have majority support, though some comes from being a second- or third-best choice. Meslin argues this encourages candidates to be nicer as they hope to pick up secondplace votes. The idea was well-received by some of Ainslie’s constituents at a town hall meeting. “I’ve always thought that the way elections are run is kind of stupid,” said Vince Puhakka, who declared he likes the ranked ballot after seeing Meslin and Ainslie explain it. “I think it means you get less polarization.”

Dennis Reinsborough, another resident, said he’d be against having a separate run-off election, but noted Ireland has instant run-offs, and “if you don’t get a majority, you go to the second round.” A Fo r d s u p p o r t e r, Reinsborough admitted to thinking the mayor would probably benefit from votesplitting if he ran again. “I think he would lose, but then the majority of the voting clientele have truly chosen what they want.” Ainslie, who has caused many Fourth Wall proposals to be studied through the city hall committee he chairs, said he likes RaBIT because “one of my colleagues in the last election won with 18 per cent of the vote,” meaning James Pasternak of York Centre, adding Pasternak “often gets heckled” when he claims at council meetings to speak for people in his ward. ‘QUITE RELUCTANT’ Pasternak, who in 2010 scored the most votes of 12 contenders after the ward’s longtime incumbent Mike Feldman retired, said he’s “quite reluctant” to support ranked ballots. “It would create enormous confusion among candidates and the voting public at a time when we’re trying to increase voter participation, not decrease it,” Pasternak said, adding once ranked balloting starts, Toronto will have “de facto political parties” muscling into municipal politics. In an interview, Willowdale Councillor John Filion, who isn’t counted among ranked ballot supporters, said he would be “leaning that way” if it came to a vote.

Filion said he would prefer to stage separate run-off elections, but that may not be practical because of the cost. It’s “pretty absurd” that some councillors have been elected with around 20 per cent support, and most people would support changing how our mayors, and possibly our councillors, are selected, said Filion, adding if someone wins a byelection for mayor with a low percentage of votes, “there’ll be a lot more of a clamour for some kind of reform.” On the other hand, if you have many names on the ballot, “I think a lot of people have a tough enough choice deciding who their first pick is,” let alone a second or third, Filion said, suggesting voters may just pick a name they recognize as second choice. “It would be a big name recognition factor.” In 2010, during the last days of the previous city council, Case Ootes, another retiring councillor, called for a report “on alternative methods on the election of the mayor for the City of Toronto for 2014” so that councillors could discuss options before going to the province for approval. Ootes, now listed as a RaBIT supporter, proposed the race for mayor “should be decided by a form of voting that represents a result of 50 per cent plus one,” ensuring the new head of council “has a mandate and the support of a majority of those who voted.” Toronto’s voting machines, however, are not set up for ranked ballots and would cost the city millions to replace before 2015, Ainslie said.

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