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JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Newlyweds Tripti Ninan and Ryan Perera are Millennials and purchased their first home in Toronto just under a year ago. Based on their combined income and the down payment they were able to come up with, the couple bought a 700-square-foot, one-bedroom-plusden condo unit in Toronto’s west end near a subway station. “We knew our first step would be a condo. We wanted to start small and we wanted something low maintenance,”

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Plan gets clients ‘house ready’ >>>from page 1 and followed the guidance of their financial advisor, Darlene Wang, “You have to be who advised them about maxirealistic in terms of mizing their investments and the importance of budgeting. what you want and “We don’t go on crazy shopwhat you can get. ping sprees at all and we’re smart with our purchases; no impulse If you have an ego, buying,” Perera said. you can’t play “But we’re still enjoying life. Shortterm sacrifices mean long-term gains,” this game.” added Ninan. In the next four or five years, Darlene Wang the couple said, they’ll likely sell their condo and get a house. Depending on what they want and their needs, they did admit they’d consider moving be near impossible unless you have two steady outside Toronto proper. incomes over $100,000,” Wang explained. “Millennials have to start with a condo to build equity, a townhouse, or a small bungalow, or ••••• (purchase) not in the GTA.” Getting into the Toronto real estate market To help her clients get ready to get into isn’t impossible for Millennials (those ages 18 the Toronto market, Wang, who works for to 35) but it’s no walk in the park. Investors Group, helps future homebuyers Purchasing a property in this city’s hot sort out their priorities and come up with a market requires two things: preparation and plan of action to maximize their finances in a set time frame. the willingness to compromise. For the last 16 years, financial advisor Getting “house ready” as she put it requires Darlene Wang has helped scores of young a change of mindset, a new way of living. adults to get their finances in order so they “You need to sacrifice more than ever and can buy their first home in Toronto. make smart decisions,” said Wang, adding “You have to be realistic in terms of what understanding what’s involved in reaching you want and what you can get. If you have your goals helps avoid disappointment. an ego, you can’t play this game,” said Wang, Wang said Millennials aren’t usually thinking who admitted the likelihood of Millennials about getting their finances in order and saving purchasing a detached home in the city as up for a down payment on a property. “In their their first property is slim. head it’s “pay back me” time,” she said, noting According to a recent report by Altus most Millennials in the 18 to 30 age range are Group for the Building Industry and Land in school or just finishing up their first postDevelopment Association, the average price secondary degree or diploma, for a newer detached home in the GTA was usually carry school debt, $1.05 million, which is more than double what have no kids, and want to it cost a decade ago and 21 per cent higher travel and party. than just over a year ago. Under her guidance, “An actual standalone home in the GTA will Wang has helped her clients to get “house ready” by tracking their spending, “Often, the first property making small adjustments to is a stepping stone that their budget, investing wisely, and being realistic about fits your current vacations and big purneeds and one chases. “Incomes have that will get a nowhere near good return.” increased the way re a l e s t a t e h a s Frank Leo increased. You must learn to do more

with less,” she said. Real estate broker Frank Leo, who has been serving clients in Toronto and the GTA for 28 years, said for Millennials the biggest thing is the pressure of being “squeezed out of the market.” Leo, of RE/MAX West Realty Ltd., advises young buyers to avoid jumping into the market before doing their research, specifically knowing exactly what they want and can afford. “A good representative on your side helps keep your emotions in check,” he said. “If a property isn’t what you need or want then don’t buy it.” He added those between the ages of 18 to 35 who want to purchase a property in Toronto need to take a close look at their needs and based on their budget a good realtor will be able to help find the right home to buy. “If you buy well, that’s a good investment. If you buy poorly then you’re in trouble. You want to make sure you have someone who knows their stuff to give you the best advice,” he said. Leo also said Millennials need to realize it’s not likely they’ll be buying the home of their dreams the first time around. “Often, the first property is a stepping stone that fits your current needs and one that will get a good return,” he said. “Real estate is all about understanding value and getting the best property for your money.” Meray Mansour, real estate agent with Royal LePage Estate Realty, agreed noting getting into a smaller “first-step home” like a condo or a small bungalow for a few years is what will help first-time homeowners build equity for their dream home. With 18 years of experience in Toronto’s real estate market, she said bidding wars for anything in the $550,000 to $700,000 range are to be expected. “There’s so much demand and very low stock. I advise my clients to understand bidding wars are a reality but to not be discouraged,” she said. “And because today’s market is so hot, being too emotional can lead to irrational decisions. You need a realtor that’s going to advocate for you in this type of market.” She encouraged Millennials to go for it if they do have enough money saved up to get into the market. “Don’t wait because the market is so hot,” she said.

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he city kicked off Bike Month, which runs from May 30 to June 30, with a blitz by Toronto police writing tickets to drivers parking in bike lanes. The heightened enforcement campaign called “Right 2 Bike” ran for one week until June 5 and saw parking enforcement officers working with traffic services and divisional units hand out 273 tickets at $150 a piece, totalling $40,950 in fines. That sounds like a lot, but the campaign to target drivers with total disregard for cyclists should continue in some shape or form. Bad habits are hard to break, especially this one. Since a bylaw change in 2014, which increased the fine for blocking a bike lane from $60 to $150, about 17,000 tickets have been issued to date. For more recent empirical evidence, just check Twitter where cyclists regularly tweet pictures of cars, taxis and delivery trucks our view blocking bike lanes. While parking enforcement officer Brian Moniz noted most Cars parked of the enforcement in the blitz in bike lanes took place in the downtown core, this could be a growing and more a real danger prevalent issue across the city. With the city discussing how to expand cycling infrastructure in Toronto to the tune of $16 million per year for 10 years, any increase in bike lanes would only exacerbate the problem of cyclists being put in danger by drivers blocking their right-of-way. Perhaps having additional blitzes and an increased awareness campaign, combined with even higher fines for offenders are potential solutions to curbing bad driver behaviour. The alternative of not having some kind of sustained campaign to ensure the safety of cyclists will have an adverse impact on what the city seemingly wants to achieve through holding Bike Month each year. That is to encourage people to get out of their cars and ride their bikes more. Bike to Work days? Good luck finding more people to participate if it means navigating Toronto streets with the added challenge of swerving around parked cars.

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Karygiannis plays role of council’s angry man Ah, Scarborough-Agincourt Councillor Jim Karygiannis. We have not seen his like since… well really, since the last time the voters of Ward 39-Scarborough Agincourt sent a councillor to City Hall. Karygiannis is the firstterm successor to Toronto’s former budget chief, Mike Del Grande, who kept Ward 39 strange for a decade before that, often with the help of Karygiannis himself, who had been a Liberal MP for even longer in the area. In 2004, the two of them made headlines, personally helping to bust up marijuana grow ops in their communities, while Del Grande also kept an inventory of constituents whose homes violated city bylaws. Del Grande had a brief tenure as former mayor Rob Ford’s first budget chief, but consistently bemoaned the failings of his colleagues on council and delinquent constituents alike, maintaining a consistent and in retrospect magnificent rage.

david nickle the city When Del Grande decided he’d had enough in 2014, Karygiannis happily assumed his angry role at, if anything, a greater volume. He took on the Uber ride-sharing industry in the rhetorical equivalent of a berserk rampage, behaving so badly during Licensing and Standards Committee hearings that Mayor John Tory called him on the carpet. More than a decade after he and Del Grande waged their own local War on Drugs, he came to the defence of illegal storefront marijuana shops. And this week, two reports from the city’s integrity commissioner calling him out for behaviour not too dissimilar to those pot-busting days with Del Grande. In one instance in 2015, Karygiannis scared the

bejeezers out of a family guilty of parking on the “skirt” of their home’s driveway. In another, he scared the bejeezers out of an Uber driver who he’d spotted going to pick up a ride in a house in his ward. The integrity commissioner found Karygiannis had run afoul of the councillors’ code of conduct, which incredibly requires that councillors not intimidate people in the course of going about their business. On Tuesday, Karygiannis mumbled an apology on the floor of council. But he wasn’t sorry, not really. In an interview, Karygiannis maintained he should be able to tell constituents to obey the law if he wants to, particularly if the city is slow to enforce. And if he’s intimidating in the course of doing that? “Maybe the method, she (the integrity commissioner) doesn’t agree with it. Maybe my method is a little rough,” he said. “I’m a big guy. What can I tell you? I’m six feet

and 260 pounds. When you see me walking up to you, you feel intimidated.” Maybe there always has to be a Jim Karygiannis at City Hall: someone who ignores decorum and puts on a show, a John Belushi character turning civilized discourse into a proper Animal House. When he was a councillor, Rob Ford fulfilled that role, spewing rhetoric across the city while digging down on the little things in neighbourhoods and dissing his colleagues for their cityfunded office budgets. Doug Ford played that role a bit when Rob became mayor and Giorgio Mammoliti still dips toe in that pool from time to time, but clearly he’s getting tired. So maybe it’s good, that Karygiannis is here to keep an old Toronto tradition alive.

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Leaside Garden Society Meeting WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Library, 165 McRae Dr. CONTACT: Donald Beard, 416-488-6194, donald5llir@hotmail.com COST: Free Curtis Evoy will speak about vertical gardening.

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Kid’s Club WHEN: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Presbyterian Church, 670 Eglinton Ave. E. CONTACT: Rev. Angela J Cluney, 416-422-0510, admin@leasidepresbyterianchurch.ca COST: $30/child or $50/family Join us for fun, faith and fellowship at Kid’s Club, open to children in JK to Grade 7 with youth in Grade 8 and up welcome as helpers. Community service opportunities are available to high school students. Entertainment at the Legion WHEN: 8 p.m. to midnight WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-4253070 COST: Free

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Library Book Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Ave. CONTACT: 416-396-

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Volunteer Info Night WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: Woodgreen Community Services Danforth, 815 Danforth Ave., Suite 100 CONTACT: Sabrina Marra, 416-645-6000, ext. 1164, smarra@woodgreen.org COST: Free WoodGreen Community Services urgently needs volunteers for Meals On Wheels, and to help local seniors as friendly visitors and medical escorts. Come learn about the services and meet staff.

Family Storytime WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7720 COST: Free Stories, songs and rhymes for children from birth to age six and their

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Tips for Dealing with Stress WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, jimb.farrell@ yahoo.ca COST: Free Joanne Gallagher from the East End Community Health Centre offers tips on how to manage stress in a healthy way. Everyone welcome.

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Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www. insidetoronto.com where you can read listings from your East York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto. 3975 Proceeds support the Youth Advisory Group’s new garden at S. Walter Stewart. Hard coversm, graphic novel and large paperbacks: $1 each or three for $2. Paperbacks, magazines, children’s books, comics: 50¢ each or three for $1. Videos, DVDs and CDs: $2 each or three for $5. Buy a library bag and fill it for $10.

Spring Concert WHEN: 2 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 345, 81 Peard Rd CONTACT: 416-759-5291 COST: $10; children 12 and under $5 East York Concert Band’s annual Spring Concert. Includes a light snack.

Len Boreham Dart Tournament WHEN: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, jimb.farrell@ yahoo.ca COST: $10 per player Blind draw doubles darts. All money returned in prizes. Euchre WHEN: 12:30 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714, jimb.farrell@ yahoo.ca COST: $6

East York Farmers’ Market WHEN: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Ave. CONTACT: Ruth Abbott, 416429-9684, rabbott@sympatico.ca COST: Free Mixed Snooker League WHEN: 6 p.m. to WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-425-3070 COST: Free

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WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: East York Memorial Arena, 888 Cosburn Ave. CONTACT: www. janetdavis.ca, email councillor_davis@toronto.ca COST: Free Ward 31 Beaches-East York residents are invited to drop off items for recycling and reuse. There will be music, face painting, crafts, free compost and information about local environment and community groups. For details on what you can bring, call 311 or visit www.toronto.ca/ environment_days Fab ‘40s Day WHEN: Noon to 4 p.m. WHERE: Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, 67 Pottery Rd. CONTACT: 416-3962819, todmorden@toronto.ca COST: $10 plus HST Wear your best 1940s attire and join our costume contest. Live music with Bertie & The Gents. Learn the dance moves of the wartime era with a demo and lesson by Lindy Hop Revolution. Tour the cottage, sample wartime recipes, vintage vendors.

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Blake-Boultbee talks safety after boy, 10, hurt in shooting JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com

Reward offered for info in death of Joseph Petit ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com

Residents of the BlakeBoultbee area are understandably shaken up by the recent shooting of a 10-year-old boy in their neighbourhood. They’re also determined to work together to ensure their community remains a safe one. More than 70 area residents gathered Tuesday evening at the Eastview Neighbourhood Community Centre on Blake Street to talk about community safety. To r o n t o Co m m u n i t y Housing and 55 Division hosted the meeting, which was off-limits to members of the media. The gathering was held just four days after a local boy was shot in the shoulder while sleeping in his bed. The incident, which police continue to investigate, happened around 11:30 p.m. on June 3. The boy was rushed to hospital in serious but nonlife-threatening condition but now home with his family. As of Tuesday evening, no suspect information has been released. Const. Jon Morrice of 55 Division’s Crime Prevention Unit said Tuesday evening’s meeting “stressed the importance sharing information about crime” and the different methods to do so. “Crime Stoppers was emphasized. They also did a presentation showing how it works,” he told The Mirror, adding the use of CCTVs like the ones used in The Entertainment District was mentioned. Morrice also said police will be working on preventative measures, enforcement, and community engagement. Susan Godin, who has lived in the community housing complex for 20 years and has no plans to go anywhere, attended the

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A police officer stands outside a townhouse where a 10-yearold boy was shot in the shoulder on Blake Street and Boultbee Avenue on Friday night.

safety meeting. “This was a one-off thing. I feel safe in my community. I really do,” said the mother of a 23-yearold daughter with special needs. Like many, Godin she said more police patrols on foot of the area would help neighbours feel safer. She also said she is one of many in the complex who would like to see the return of on-site Toronto Community Housing security guards. Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher was also in attendance and said residents had a lot to say about how to make the community stronger. “This is one tight community. Blake-Boultbee has been a strong, stable community for decades and they’re very upset this has happened,” she told a group of reporters stationed outside the Eastview Community Centre following the meeting. Fletcher said those at the meeting talked about improving lighting and changing fencing, having more meetings, and other practical safety tips.

She also said neighbours aren’t fearful. Toronto-Danforth MPP Peter Tabuns said he saw a community that is united and also upset by the recent shooting of an innocent 10-year-old boy. “There wasn’t a panic. People know this community is very united and safe,” he said after the meeting. “I have no sense that people feel unsafe in their community.” Tabuns also said he believes the shooter wasn’t someone from the neighbourhood. “I think it’s reasonable to say someone came from the outside,” he said. In the days since the shooting, a number of area residents have reached out on social media to discuss putting together a care package for the injured boy and his family. The Mirror contacted Toronto Community Housing for comment but did not hear back by press time.

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Police hope a $50,000 reward will help them solve the murder of 17-year-old Joseph Petit. The teen was shot in the neck during a struggle with two males outside his home on Dentonia Park Avenue in East York around 6:05 p.m. Jan. 4. He died in hospital three days later after being taken off life support. Police said Joseph had taken his family dog for a walk in the area. After he returned home, he went out again to speak to two males. The two-minute conversation escalated to a fight, and one male shot Joseph before fleeing towards the Victoria Park subway station with his accomplice. Joseph’s mom Ana Pavao found his son lying on the street and called 911. “Imagine leaving work and finding your son shot and dying in your very neighbourhood. He would’ve died alone

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Joseph Petit, 17, was shot and killed outside his house on Dentonia Park Avenue on Jan. 4.

had I not arrived at that time,” Pavao told reporters during a news conference at police headquarters Wednesday. “Joey was a great son, brother, family member and friend.” Det. Sgt. Gary Giroux, the lead investigator in the case,

said Joseph knew his attackers. Pavao said the murderers “do not understand the gravity of what they’ve done to our family.” “They don’t care. We’re hoping that other people do care and we need their help,” she said. “Our lives are forever changed. Our child was murdered and there’s no closure for that. We are incomplete. We live in constant sadness and no amount of time will change that.” Joseph, a high school student, is the city’s first murder victim of 2016. “In the fall, his high school gave him an award for kindness,” Pavao noted. “We loved him. He comes from a good home.” The cash reward, announced by Giroux at the news conference, is for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer or murderers. Anyone with information is asked to call the homicide squad at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).

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East York celebrates diversity As I bicycled around East York this past week, enjoying warmth of June, I had to reflect on just how lucky we are. While we have had great disturbances in the city over the past few weeks, the true state of our community and society is one of peace. Certainly within our individual circumstances difficulties and hard times are never far away. That’s simply a fact of life. However, much of the world today lives in a daily state of turmoil and war which we are spared from experiencing except through the news. While we may think that we are deep in trouble with crime and other problems, the reality is that we are at peace. Take a walk around the streets of East York at any time during the day and you will see that reality. Frankly the worst experience most of us will have is a blaring car horn or a random

Today, however, it seems that the aim is push us apart, rather than move us forward as a country. Political polarization, rather than consensus building, seems to be part of far too many people’s agendas. Despite these trials and tribulations, there is still a strong sense of patriotism being shown in East York. It is heartening to see the many Canadian flags displayed on the streets. However, patriotism is not simply a matter of prominently showing our flag. We really do need to work harder on ensuring that no one in this community, this province and particularly the nation should ever feel less of a neighbour simply due to whom he or she is. Our community lives the city’s motto of “diversity is our strength” every day.

joe cooper watchdog act of stupidity. I believe that the discontent that so many people are expressing today is not about a lack of law and order in our society but a weakened sense of unity within the community and the country as a whole. The sense of unity that we once had as a nation seems to be at a low point with so many regional disputes and disagreements. It appears we have lost the understanding that we live in a country that extends “from sea to shining sea”. Rather than being a nation w o rk i n g c o o p e ra t i v e l y together towards a common goal, we’re spending more time arguing about petty differences. Frankly, since the beginning of Confederation there has always been a great deal of push and shove in our nation’s daily life.

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Former Leaside baseball coach arrested on child porn charges The Leaside Baseball Association has sent a note to parents notifying them a man who worked as a part-time coach has been arrested on child pornography charges. The note encourages parents to talk with their kids about their interaction with the accused. The association said the coach spent six months working with children playing minor peewee AA from November 2015 to April 2016. Minor peewee baseball players are typically 12 years old or younger. The association said the coach left the team in early May due to unrelated logistical issues. The coach was charged weeks later. Timothy Kendall, 29, has been charged with possessing and accessing child pornography. sought in sex assault wSuspect

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