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East Yorkers will be out in full force celebrating Canada’s 149th birthday Friday, July 1.

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Day celebrations kick off with a parade, beginning at Dieppe Park, 455 Cosburn Ave. The parade leaves at 10 a.m., travelling along Cosburn, Coxwell, Sammon and Woodbine avenues, before

finishing at Woodbine and Cosburn at 11:30 a.m. It features bands, floats, antique cars and marchers from various local organizations.

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Downtown lanes a ‘game changer’ as Toronto’s bicycle network expands

weLIKE toBIKE DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com In 1991, 15-year-old Yvonne Bambrick rode the streets of Toronto with brash confidence – making the considerable daily commute from her family home at Victoria Park in East York to Jarvis Collegiate by bicycle, along busy downtown streets that made scant accommodation for bikes.

“Back when I was a naive teenager, I didn’t think twice about it,” recalls Bambrick 25 years later, sitting on a sunny patio in Kensington Market, steps from one of the city’s massive on-street bike racks and just over a block from the busy College Street bike lanes.

“The concept of bike lanes wasn’t on my brain at all. I did know it wasn’t safe – I got

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doored on the Danforth and had a wipeout on bad road conditions. Otherwise I was just a teenager on her bicycle, happy to be free getting where she’s going. It meant I could have all the ice cream I wanted.”

In 2016, the Toronto that Bambrick bikes around is a much safer place. Toronto has a total of 558.4 kilometres of on-street bike lanes, including white bicycle lanes, contra-flow lanes that run against the flow of traffic, so-called “sharrows”, signed routes without pavement markings, and even a few kilometres of cycle tracks that are fully separated from traffic.

A lot of people use those lanes.

According to the 2006 Census, Torontonians bike to and from work like nobody else in the Greater To r o n t o a n d Hamilton Area, with 19,780 commuting by bike compared to 14,925 in 2001.

In 2015, Bambrick published a book for those cyclists: The Urban Cycling Survival Guide: Need To Know Skills and Strategies

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for Biking in the City. It was a book culled from her work advocating for cyclists as the head of the Toronto Cyclist’s Union – now Cycle Toronto – and her years riding Toronto’s sometimes tricky streets.

There’s a lot to know: how to make a safe left turn (there’s more than one way); how to suit up for cycling in bad weather; dealing with potentially hostile interactions; and how to navigate all those different styles of bike road infrastructure.

Currently, most of those routes are in neighbourhoods surrounding the downtown core – including the relatively new cycle tracks on Sherbourne, Adelaide and Richmond streets.

“Richmond-Adelaide were a game changer,” says Bambrick. “I was having to ride there all the time (before), and I’m a confident rider but even for me it was tough. This is amazing.

Transformative.”

Bambrick and other cycling advocates are hoping for more change like that, on roads that extend beyond the downtown.

This summer, the city will be embarking on a pilot project to try a cycle track along Bloor Street through the Annex neighbourhood – a test, to see whether a city-spanning

track could be installed the length of Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue.

And the outcome of that could determine the implementation of parts of the city’s next big plan for cycling expansion: the Cycling Network 10 Year Plan. Under that plan, Toronto’s bikeway and bike trail network would be extended to the ends of the city: north along Yonge Street to Steeles Avenue; on Kingston Road in Scarborough from Eglinton Avenue to the Highland Creek Trail; Kipling Avenue from Bloor Street to the Waterfront Trail; and Midland Avenue, from Steeles to Lawrence avenues.

Toronto’s Chief Planner Jennifer Keesmaat said to provide an effective cycling alternative, the network needs to expand in the same way that transit networks expand – in a continuum. Do that, she says, and it becomes viable to commute, at least to downtown, from nearly anywhere in the city.

“With cycling, distance isn’t that much of a problem,” says Keesmaat.

“The city is really not that big, and 10 kilometres, 20 kilometres isn’t really a big deal.

And from the centre of the city you can get pretty much anywhere on a 10 kilometre

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bikeway. If you’re cycling from Scarborough to Etobicoke, that’s a big trip. But from the centre of the city you can get anywhere – all you need is safe infrastructure.”

The other thing that a cyclist needs, of course, is the will, and a bit of know-how.

Bambrick is an evangelist for the former and a resource for the latter. When asked what it takes to get on a bike, after dutifully recommending a careful read of her book, she suggests a step-by-step approach. Borrow a bikeshare bike; go riding with a friend on a quiet street. If it’s been awhile, take a BikeShare course.

And remember: roads were originally for bikes.

“We paved our roads because wheelmen’s clubs advocated to get the roads paved. The bicycling movement has been around for a long time,” says Bambrick.

“It’s never gone away.”

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n Friday, July 1, we Canadians pause to celebrate another year as just that: Canadians.

We have been able to do that for 149 years now, and let’s be honest: it feels good.

We’re a good country, after all.

We look after each other, and try to extend that compassion abroad.

We have bad days – who doesn’t? – but on balance we’ve lived our 149 years well, and we look pretty good for our age.

The same can’t be said for the rest of our family of nations, and it’s tempting to feel smug about that.

OuR ViEW The United Kingdom, to whose Queen we still swear Be proud, not allegiance, is not doing well at all. smug, about In an ill-managed referentogetherness dum, its people have voted to take it from the European Union (EU), in the process throwing its economy, and the world’s economy, into turmoil.

The vote to leave was decisive but not universally so, and now the U.K. is on the verge of fragmentation, with Scotland poised to hold another independence referendum, not two years after it narrowly voted to remain in the U.K. This time, with EU membership in the balance, polls indicate the Scots might well succeed.

We in Canada have flirted with this sort of thing in the past, through two nail-biting referendums in Quebec, each of which might have put us in a similar place: a country split at the seam, where nativism and nationalist intransigence make dissolution seem inevitable.

Good for us that we didn’t take the plunge. We’re still here, in one piece, with the capacity to engage ourselves and the world as proud Canadians.

Let’s be proud, then: proud, but not smug.

It is unlikely-to-impossible that separatists in Quebec could marshal support for another referendum any time soon – the Parti Quebecois has yet to find a leader, and in any case will not be in a position to govern until the fall of 2018, when the next provincial election is scheduled.

But it is a point for sober reflection this Canada Day, just how precious is our unity and civility, and how easy it is for a nation – any nation, even our own – to allow that to slip away.

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Mayor Tory’s op-ed column stirs controversy You can get into a lot of trouble, writing a column for a newspaper.

Even if you’re a professional, it can be hazardous: sticky fingers for other people’s ideas and phrases will (or should) sink you; you can get facts wrong, or get caught making it up, which should and does sink you.

Or, like this columnist, you can realize a couple of days after you tried to link Brexit with spurious transit plans and bad public finance, that you may have just overreached – in which case you’ll get called on it, often on Twitter. And that stuff never goes away.

It’s worse when you’re not a professional. Worse still, when you’re not a professional who has skin in the game.

And so we come to Mayor John Tory, who tried his hand writing a column for a newspaper, The Toronto Star, on Tuesday: a column about his besieged $3 billion Scarborough subway plan, on the eve

david nickle the city of its debut on the floor of Tuesday’s Executive Committee.

It was a substantial piece in the Toronto Star, just a hair over 800 words long, and for most of those words it chugs along well, noting that he ran in 2014 promising to build a subway in Scarborough, that we are behind on transit construction, that there’s political consensus between the three levels of government that the subway’s the way to go, and that city staff have said the Scarborough subway could help boost ridership in a part of the city where it’s currently low.

So far, Tory has penned a good and boring op-ed.

It gets troublesome when he goes for what some of us professionals might call “the dig”: that part where you try and nail down just what’s wrong with the thing

we’re critiquing.

Writes Tory (at about the 600 word mark): “But many of the subway’s loudest critics do not live or work in Scarborough, where more than half the population is born outside of Canada. When they say this is too much to spend on a subway, the inference seems to be that it’s too much to spend on this part of the city.”

Oh dear. It’s hard, indeed impossible, to not parse that down to a particularly ugly accusation – that those who fancy a light rail network in Scarborough and not a subway are antiScarborough nativists.

Indeed, at least one of Tory’s colleagues on council, the subway-opposing, lightrail-loving Josh Matlow, parsed things exactly that way.

“Sad, desperate and shameful. I had hoped for much more from a mayor who preached civility,” tweeted Matlow.

This is the kind of trouble

that isn’t really very much trouble at all for professionals. We’re used to people crossing the street to avoid us after a particularly vigorous application of fair comment on their dealings. It goes with the territory.

For a mayor, who’s built his brand on civility and team-work as Tory has?

Both Tory and his office tried to make it clear that the column wasn’t intended to be divisive, but to point out that Scarborough’s poorly served by transit. They weren’t out of line: Josh Matlow was out of line.

It was too late by then.

It is one thing that those of us writing columns for the newspapers learn early: there are no take-backs when you write something, however unintentionally it may have been, that makes you look a bit of a jerk.

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Canada Day in East York WHEN: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch # 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714 COST: Free Watch the parade, enjoy a barbecue and Bill Craig from 1 to 5 p.m. and harvest from 7 to 11 p.m. This is an all ages event until 6 p.m.

Canada Day WHEN: 11 a.m. WHERE: RCL 345, 81 Peard Rd. CONTACT: 416-7595291 COST: Free Raffles, games, prizes, yard sale, live music, barbecue, and beverage tent.

Neighbours Together On Canada Day WHEN: Noon to 4 p.m.

WHERE: Riverdale Park East, 550 Broadview Ave. CONTACT: Susy Glass, susyg@ ralphthornton.org COST: Free Community event with performances, bouncy castle and cake.

Canada Day Celebration WHEN: 1 to 6 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 10, 1083

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The Danny Loves Music Series: Canada Day Special WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. WHERE: East Lynn Park, 1949 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: danforthmosaicbia@ gmail.com COST: Free Each day features a different artist. July 1st: Julian Taylor Band with opening act Simone Denny; July 6: Paul Reddick;July 13: Stephen Stanley;July 20: Byrds! Byrds! Byrds!July 27: Ted Peters & Gumbo Ya-Ya with opening act Dirty Dishes.This is a family friendly event which has many vendors and a beer and wine tent. Brought to you by the Danforth Mosaic BIA. 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.

Pape Ave. CONTACT: M. P. harvey, 416-425-3070, www.rcl10.ca, rclbr10@zoho.com COST: Free DJ Rob Martine. Live performance

by Black Watch Pipes & Drums. Free lunch to all. Wheelchair accessible.

Entertainment at the Legion WHEN: Fridays 8 p.m. to midnight WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave. CONTACT: 416-4253070 COST: Free

w Saturday, July 2 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 newborn to age 6.

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Dylan Ellis Gallery, 1840 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: Foxtail and Fawn, 647-209-2370, www.foxtailandfawn.com, info@foxtailandfawn. com COST: $10 Performances from a variety of different artists, dancers, poets and more. Cash bar, complimentary horsd’oeuvres and raffle prizes to ticket holders.

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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 A wide range of fresh ontario products from fruits and vegetabels to honey and preserves, smoked meats and cheeses, fresh baking, home made soaps and lotions and freshly made smoothies as well as a barbecue and more.

Sunday Afternoon Euchre WHEN: 12:30 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714 COST: $6 Come out and have a fun afternoon playing. Everyone welcome.

Art Bar Poetry Series WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Black Swan Tavern, 154 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: artbarpoerty@gmail.com, artbar.org COST: PWYC Featured readers plus an open mic.

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Catalyst 2016 Exhibition WHEN: 6 to 11 p.m. WHERE: The

Holodeck Follies Fundraiser WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Social

Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: The Dandies, http://improvdandies.wordpress.com, torontodandies@gmaill.com COST: $15 The Dandies are raising funds to get to Winnipeg to perform their improvised Star Trek show for William Shatner.

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Pole Walking Club (Toronto) WHEN: Thursdays 9:30 a.m. WHERE: Mosaic home Care Services and Community Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave., Suite 215h CONTACT: 416-322-7002 COST: Free Summer Walking Club starts today.

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Garage Sale WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion, 9 Dawes Rd. CONTACT: Nancy Mcknight, 647-223-9646, timms1979@yahoo. ca COST: Free Barbecue, hamburgers, hot dogs, cold drinks, coffee, tea and muffins available.

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Ribfest among East York Canada Day celebrations >>>from page 1 lots of people will line the route.

After the parade, the rest of the event gets underway at Stan Wadlow Park, 888 Cosburn Ave. Admission is free. The official opening ceremony takes place at noon, with the singing of O Canada.

Local musicians take the stage following the ceremony, providing live entertainment until 10 p.m.

The night ends with a bang, with fireworks at approximately 10:15 p.m.

Midway at Stan wadlow park As well as live entertainment, there will be a midway, along with community displays, vendor booths and lots more. Revellers can even play a game of bingo.

The park’s pool and splash pad will be open from noon to 8 p.m.

There will also be face-painting, crafts and other activities for kids.

At least 2,000 people are expected to attend the event.

“Come out and be part of our national holiday and enjoy the parade,” invited Shamsh Kara, East York Canada Day ambassador. “Be part of that joyous occasion.”

Visit www.eycdc.ca for more information about the East York Canada Day celebrations, organized by the East York Toronto Canada Day Corporation volunteer group. rotary ribfeSt West of the celebrations at Stan Wadlow Park, the Toronto East Rotary Club Annual Canada Day

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Are we using Canada’s full potential?

This year’s Canada day marks the country’s 149th year as a sovereign country.

While it is definitely a time for celebration, we should also take a moment to reflect on where we are today as a nation and where we are going.

I have to admit that in my lifetime I have seen the country go through many changes, some of which I’ve approved and some which I have not. After all, it’s only human nature to want to have things remain the same when events and institutions appear to be supporting your own vested interests.

The fact is, however, that Canada is a dynamic and growing country where we have to accommodate many different people with a wide variety of interests that might be different than our own.

I can remember a time not that long ago when the law, social customs and the major institutions of this country favoured one particular gender, race and cultural background over others.

The truth is that while it

joe cooper watchdog was very comfortable for that group to have the status quo treat them so favourably, it was far too limiting for the country to be able to truly achieve its potential.

During my lifetime I’ve seen all of our major institutions of business, professions, politics, and even religion, go from being “old boy clubs” to re-vitalized, active and dynamic organizations.

The reason for this change is simple; the more people you let in with diverse backgrounds and experiences, the greater the number of ideas and skills that you can bring to problem solving and planning.

Still, is the country perfect as a result of all of this change and diversity? Of course not, and it probably never will be, thanks to our many human limitations and imperfections.

We still have a way to go before the full potential of

Canada, as a nation, can be achieved, and most of the change that is required is more one of attitude rather than institutional.

The reality of living in the 21st Century is that we as Canadians can no longer simply rely on natural resources or manufacturing to build our wealth.

Every single day we are now competing with the entire world in a knowledge-based economy.

The question then, at the community level, is; are we building a society where our next generation of Canadians can be properly prepared to live and earn a living.

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School board to close Eastern Commerce, Greenwood TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com It was a packed agenda for the Toronto District School Board’s last regular meeting of the school year, with several decisions made to close, sell or keep schools.

The most discussed items on the agenda were whether to declare three schools surplus — Thistletown Middle School, and Buttonwood Hill and Silver Creek public schools.

The TDSB has been pressed by the Province to sell properties to help fill the board’s $3.3-billion maintenance backlog.

“We are taking action to reduce excess space in a thoughtful way, while ensuring dollars are invested where they are most needed — our operating schools,” said TDSB chair Robin Pilkey.

Silver Creek in Etobicoke hasn’t been used by the TDSB since 1982, but is currently leased by two orga-

nizations providing services to children with special needs. McNicoll PS in North York hasn’t been used as a TDSB school since 2000, but is leased by a daycare centre for kids with special needs.

The rules for how the TDSB can lease buildings changed recently, removing the board’s ability to automatically renew leases. So if trustees voted to keep the schools, there was no guarantee the current tenants would be able to stay. When

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Eglinton Crosstown Update: Station Open House The Eglinton Crosstown Project is building the future Eglinton line, a 19-kilometre light rail transit (LRT) line that will run along Eglinton Avenue through the heart of Toronto, with a 10-kilometre underground tunnel in its central section. When complete, the line will connect Mount Dennis in the west to Kennedy Road in the east, and will move passengers up to 60 per cent faster than bus service along Eglinton Avenue today.

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Starting in summer 2016, the next phase of construction begins at Science Centre Station, and many other Crosstown stations will be under construction before the end of 2016.

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Students of Greenwood Collegiate School protest the recommended closure of their current building, and the merging of the ESL program with Danforth Collegiate School back in April. The Toronto District School Board has since decided to close the school.

a lease expires, the board now has to offer it for bidding.

Trustees decided to declare the schools surplus, but not transfer them to the TDSB’s real estate branch — Toronto Lands Corporation (TLC).

The decision was made in the hopes the Province will take over the sites and allow the current tenants to stay.

The outcome of the negotiations with the Province will be presented this fall by TDSB Director of Education John Malloy.

Trustees also voted to declare Thistletown Middle School surplus, but not transfer it to TLC, in the hopes the City of Toronto will buy the site in Etobicoke and preserve its current services. The City has operated Thistletown Multi Service Centre there for three decades, after Thistletown Middle School closed in 1985. Thistletown Multi Service Centre offers recreational programs and houses a daycare, as well as the Rexdale Women’s Centre, Thistletown Seniors’ Centre and other organizations. The City is interested in buying the site, and the TDSB has offered a flexible arrangement to let it buy it gradually. The outcome of those negotiations will also be presented this fall.

There was lots of debate about what to do with Buttonwood Hill Public School in Etobicoke, which closed as a TDSB school in 1983.

The site is currently leased by a daycare and Italian immersion school.

Many trustees expressed concern the school could be needed in the future, eventually voting to hold on to it.

Trustees declared two other schools surplus as well, opting to sell those sites. The schools, Sir Robert L. Borden Business and Technical Institute in Scarborough and Nelson A. Boylen Collegiate Institute in North York, will officially close June 30. Nelson A. Boylen has no cur-

rent students, and non-graduating students from Sir Robert L. Borden are being relocated.

Decisions were also made to close Greenwood Secondar y School and Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute, the result of a pupil accommodation review of 10 schools in the Toronto-Danforth area. The Greenwood program, which prepares new Canadians for high school, will relocate to nearby Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute. Students from the School of Life Experience, which shared the Greenwood site, will move to Monarch Park Collegiate Institute.

No students were enrolled at Eastern Commerce, which will be home to the new JK-Grade 12 First Nations school in 2017. Subway Academy One, an alternative school operating at the Eastern Commerce site, will continue to do so.

Several trustees expressed frustration with the provincially mandated sell-offs, noting Toronto’s population shifts and schools that sit unused for years, even decades, are often needed again.

“We can’t predict where people will move,” said Willowdale Trustee Alexander Brown. “One of the concerns I have is that this is more about dollars and deficits than the kids and their communities.”

Beaches-East York Trustee Sheila Cary-Meagher voiced concern as well.

“We use our land as banks for the future,” she said. “Now our bank accounts are being closed.”

Trustees also approved a threeyear capital budget that will reopen four closed TDSB properties for future use — Bannockburn Public School, Castlebar Public School, Sir Sandford Fleming Academy and Boyne River Outdoor Education Centre.

Police change shifts to increase uniformed presence on Danforth >>>from page 1 The enforcement will be mostly by uniformed officers and is overt not covert.

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One bar in the area was also found to be operating with an expired license and one staff member did not have a Smart Serve certificate.

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The agency first announced in April it was purchasing the new infrastructure from Montreal-based PBSC Solutions, which ran the bike share originally called Bixi. This boost to its offerings effectively doubles the amount of bikes available for short-term rentals.

The purchase comes from a near $5-million funding arrangement with Metrolinx announced in 2015.

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A group cheerleading for the SmartTrack transit project has now released a report claiming the city can raise billions towards its cost.

Friends and Allies of SmartTrack or FAST hasn’t done much since it came together in the New Year. But now it claims Tax Increment Financing (TIF), a funding plan pushed by John Tory

during the 2014 mayoral campaign, can raise $2.3 billion over 30 years for the project.

In a nutshell, TIF would allow the city to leverage anticipated property tax revenues from new development and put it towards financing SmartTrack.

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Metrolinx may have to postpone commencement of an Environmental Assessment (EA) for electrifying much of GO Transit’s rail operations.

The 120-day Transit Project Assessment Process (TPAP) was supposed to begin in July.

But prior to that, a draft of the project report was to be completed by the end of June, which is now delayed to later in the summer.

It’s doubtful this delay will much impact the timeline since electrification won’t likely be done until 2024.

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