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After struggling with sky-high hydro bills, Ontario residents like Daren Goodchild are going to see some relief with the government’s rate cut this summer. But he’s not celebrating and neither are critics who say the system is still broken /p3

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Caught in a power struggle Residents, critics wary of hydro rate cut that defers costs onto future generations

charges over that time.

Goodchild said the Liberals are just kicking the can down the road.

“Instead of reducing rates, it is going to cost us more in the JUSTIN SKINNER long run,” he said. “This is not JOHN EDWARDS going to help us whatsoever.

SIMON MARTIN They’re doing this for votes.”

The government’s new This summer we’ll see a measures also include helpbreak on hydro bill costs, but ing low-income residents and some residents particularly hard broadening the rural and remote hit by high rates and delivery rate protection program by subfees, aren’t buying it. sidizing rural homeowners who Daren Goodchild, a horse have unusually high distribufarmer from Markham, has felt tion rates. The savings could be the pinch. between $12 and $75 depending The electricity bill for his on consumption and rate plan. small farm from October to Those subsidies will cost the December in 2016 totalled $592, government’s treasury, and taxincluding $130 in delivery fees payers, about $2.5 billion over alone. With an electric wellthe next three years. pump for water and an oilCritics say lowering the cost burning furnace in his 160-yearof hydro artificially without old home, the costs of running addressing broader structural the farm are fast spiralling out issues is a mistake. of control and he feels “Nothing in the govthere’s little hope of ernment’s new plan slowing it. changes the under“It’s gotten to lying costs of the ‘Nothing in the the point where power system,” government’s new we have changed said energy plan changes the our behaviour as consultant Tom best we can but Adams. underlying costs it doesn’t seem He challenged of the power to make a lick the notion that of difference,” he Wynne’s plan was system.” said. like refinancing a Premier Kathleen mortgage.

– Tom Adams, Wynne announced “Not true. Her energy March 2 that the govplan is like refinancing consultant ernment would reduce monthly rental costs. hydro rates by 25 per The monthly rent paycent, which includes the ments will go down, but eight per cent rebate on after the next election the the Ontario portion of the renter will be in much HST. In order to do this, worse trouble.” the plan refinances the Adams says Ontario is payments to private power actually enjoying something providers who signed on for of a “power cost sweet spot” 20-year contracts. at the moment, with relatively Under the new plan, the provaffordable nuclear power. But ince has increased the payment that’s about to change, he said, term from 20 to 30 years, which with some of the province’s will incur $25 billion in interest nuclear generating units up

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The Ontario premier, the PC and NDP energy critics offer their take on making hydro more affordable for consumers

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LIGHTS OUT: ONTARIO’S ELECTRICITY PROBLEM

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Daren Goodchild is one of many Ontarians struggling with surging hydro rates. He lives on a farm in rural Markham and says the electricity costs of running his small farm have become insanely high. for refurbishment in the near future.

“A decline in nuclear production and a sharp increase in cost is about to happen,” Adams said.

Keith Brooks, programs director at Environmental Defence, is pleased the government’s plan includes conservation initiatives like the $200 million Affordability Fund, which helps people make their homes more energy efficient.

But he said the government’s reforms make no changes to the supply mix – the amount of power we get from nuclear versus gas versus wind. “… To keep costs low, we need to see more renewables in Ontario’s future,” he wrote in an opinion piece for Metroland Media.

“Wind and solar power costs are plummeting, while costs for nuclear power are rising. Renewable energy has created a solid foundation for a clean economy – one that Ontario now needs to

build upon.”

Ontario’s PC and NDP energy critics both say halting the sale of public electric companies is priority Number 1. The cost to consumers is being hijacked by the drive for profit. “…Because of the way these new private power contracts are written, we are stuck paying guaranteed profit for power plants whether we need them or not,” said Peter Tabuns, NDP energy critic. “Right now, Ontario generates more power than we can use, about $2 billion a year worth of surplus power that we sell to Quebec and New York at a deep — 75 per cent — discount.

In fact, many times we have to pay them to take our power.”

Transparency on the government’s current energy contracts is also lacking, said Todd Smith, PC energy critic.

“In my own riding of Prince Edward-Hastings, I’ve watched power companies ask for and get

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extensions from the government that drag the project out years beyond what was envisioned by the original deal,” he said.

“That’s not something you do if you’re on the side of the people paying hydro bills.”

Mark Rodger, a lawyer with Borden Ladner Gervais and an expert in the utility sector, meanwhile, said delivery charges are a necessary hit. Simply being hooked up to hydro costs money even when energy is not being used.

Those costs could be cut, however, should some of Ontario’s 60-plus utility companies merge.

By having different companies running their own distribution systems, he said, it adds $1 billion in costs.

“Through consolidation, you can remove those costs through efficiency gains,” he said.

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Masking true cost of hydro won’t fix broken system Our hydro bills may be going down this summer, but don’t pop the bubbly just yet.

While Ontario residents will see an average 25 per cent reduction on the bottom line, what they won’t see is what it’s going to cost future generations and the current structural inefficiencies and ongoing bad planning that make electricity expensive for us in the first place.

Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the savings this month saying it was the fair thing to do. She heard from families struggling with their bills and struggling to understand why rates have skyrocketed.

Unfortunately, because the history of hydro and its mismanagement is such a long and complicated one, politicians looking to distract would-be voters benefit from its current complexity. People don’t get it and don’t have the time, the comprehension or the willingness to figure it out. What they do get is how hard it is to pay a huge bill.

So Wynne’s Liberals are waving a shiny 25 per cent hydro cut over here, while over there, our expensive hydro system continues to plod along.

The lower bills come from refinancing the term of payment the province owes to private power providers - from 20 years to 30. So we’re deferring costs to future generations in order to get some immediate relief.

And we’re incurring about $25 billion in extra interest charges over that time.

Additional relief will be coming through low-income and rural subsidy programs, but that too comes at a cost of $2.5 billion over the next three years charged to Ontario’s treasury and taxpayers.

As tempting as it is to celebrate lower bills, with an election year in 2018, we need to hold all parties to account to do more than float distractions.

Ontario generates more power than it knows what to do with and we’re forced to sell it to our neighbours at a discounted rate. Sometimes we have to pay for them to take it.

The sale of Hydro One has locked us into guaranteed contracts with private power providers whether we need that power or not. There’s little transparency as to the details of private contracts and that takes accountability right out of the system.

We need a comprehensive plan and a system overhaul.

Keep that in mind when you’re told to celebrate your June power bill. It’s not nearly enough.

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Finding the fire again in Rustic Rustic is an in-between place.

Luisa Giacometti says it’s part of a neglected Toronto, "caught in the middle" between Mount Dennis and Jane-Finch, neighbourhoods she believes get more attention, and more money.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she says, the area was a haven for drugs and prostitution. "There was violence constantly."

Residents from both the highrises and bungalows between Lawrence Avenue and Hwy. 401, east of Jane Street, turned things around.

"We worked hard at it," says Giacometti. One night, 400 filled a meeting at Nelson A. Boylen Collegiate.

Today, though, Boylen, its pool drained, is entering

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto its third year empty, awaiting a sale.

Active residents got older, moved away. The Jane Falstaff Community Association Giacometti and others created still meets, but the few leading it, she says, "are getting burned out."

Standing up for a neighbourhood is hard when you can’t find free spaces to meet in.

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Centre bursts with youth and kids from nearby highrises. The association met there last week, in one of the only free spaces it can get.

As one man pointed out, though, everyone in the room lives in a house, and is white. Most Rustic residents aren’t.

The community centre will close soon for renovations, but not before September, and the city says it’s looking at "relocation options" for programs.

But relocate where? For many in Rustic, the York Recreation Centre, at Eglinton Avenue and Black Creek Drive, is two long bus rides away.

People voted in the city’s lengthy "participatory budgeting" process for small park improvements - a ga-

zebo in Rustic Park, a white wall for movies at Maple Leaf Park. But sewer work has held those projects up.

New lights installed in Maple Leaf aren’t turned on.

Yet there’s hope. Rustic’s large, affordable house lots are attracting buyers.

People are moving back because they like the area, says Carlo DiBenedetto, one of its few business owners.

DiBenedetto says the residents’ group needs more warriors, more advertising, and events which are more enjoyable, maybe with food.

Giacometti and others approve. "If you’ve got the fire, we need the fire," she says.

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6th Toronto Scout Group Community Euchre WHEN: 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 11, 9 Dawes Road, Toronto CONTACT: David Bawcutt COST: $6 Community Euchre with prizes, draw and refreshments. Start time is 7:15 p.m. l Saturday, March 11 March Mania at Todmorden Mills WHEN: 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. WHERE: Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, 67 Pottery Road, Toronto CONTACT: 416-396-2819, todmorden@toronto.ca COST: $7.08/$4.42/ $3.76 Drop in for March Break fun and games. Visit historic homes to sample a tasty treat, and discover toys and games popular in

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Mondays to April 17. l Wednesday, March 15 Men’s Bridge WHEN: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

WHERE: Leaside United Church, 822 Millwood Rd., Toronto CONTACT: Jim Krafchik, 416-4887720 COST: $3 Possibly the only male-only Bridge Club in Toronto where older guys value camaraderie over skill - Every Wednesday. l Thursday, March 16 Fun Community Dart League WHEN: 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 22, 1240 Woodbine Avenue,

Toronto CONTACT: Jim, 416-4251714, jimb.farrell@yahoo.ca COST: $7 A fun evening of darts.

Join a team or just drop in to spare. All skill levels are welcome. l Monday, March 20 Chase the Blues Away WHEN: 4 p.m. - 11 p.m.

WHERE: East End Community Health Centre, 1619 Queen Street East, Toronto CONTACT: Zari, 416-778-5805, http://eastendchc.on.ca/ COST: Celebrate your strengths in this free depression support group.

This is not a therapy group.Mondays to April 17. l Wednesday, March 22 Men’s Bridge WHEN: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

WHERE: Leaside United Church, 822 Millwood Rd., Toronto CONTACT: Jim Krafchik, 416-4887720 COST: $3 Possibly the only male-only Bridge Club in Toronto where older guys value camaraderie over skill - Every Wednesday.

5 things to do this weekend l Friday, March 10 National Home Show WHEN: 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. WHERE: Enercare Centre, Exhibition Place, 100 Princes’ Blvd, Toronto CONTACT: brittany@punchcanada.com,COST: $13-20 Discover everything connected to your home at North America’s largest home and garden event.

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Canada Blooms WHEN: 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. WHERE: Enercare Centre, Exhibition Place, 100 Princes’ Blvd, Toronto CONTACT: 416-447-8655 COST: $0-20 The largest flower and garden festival in the country, Canada Blooms celebrates the very best in Canadian gardening and floral design. March 10-19. l Saturday, March 11 Unearthing Toronto’s Oldest Marketplace WHEN: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. WHERE: Market Gallery, 95 Front St E, Toronto, ON M5E 1C3, Toronto CONTACT: 416-392-7604 COST: The Archeology of the North St. Lawrence Market explores the

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WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Ave., Toronto CONTACT: tara stadius, tstadius@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Motivation and inspiration to propel you to your business and career goals. Drop in.

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ROM’s Big Blue March Break WHEN: 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. WHERE: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto CONTACT: 416-586-5797 COST: Free with Museum admission March 11-19, drop-in activities run from 10:30 a.m. to 30 minutes

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Filmmaker offers close-up look at losing her sight JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The best films capture their creators’ vision perfectly. Longtime filmmaker and Little India resident Maria Terese Larrain’s latest work manages to do that even though the Larrain herself has vision that is severely limited.

Shadow Girl, Larrain’s most recent documentary, originally aimed to depict the lives of blind Chilean street vendors. It morphed into something far more personal - at the street vendors’ insistence - delving into the filmmaker’s own battle with blindness.

"When I was about seven years old, I was diagnosed with something called progressive myopia and the doctor told my mother, not me," Larrain said. "When I asked my mother when we were go-

Toronto filmmaker Maria Terese Larrain is chronicling her journey into blindness in her latest film, Shadow Girl. ing to be blind, she said, ’Never.’"

Larrain continued to live a normal life even as her vision deteriorated.

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Province unveils three-year plan to combat racism JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Ontario is taking a bold step in combating systemic racism, with the provincial government releasing a three-year strategic plan designed to root out causes, collect data and bring about much-needed change.

Titled "A Better Way Forward," the plan relied on information gleaned from meetings with residents and organizations across the province over the past year. "First, we’re going to strengthen policy, research and evaluation, and we’re going to do this by collecting better racebased disaggregated data data that be broken down and better access the intersections of identity and the far-reaching impacts of racism," said Michael Coteau, minister responsible for anti-racism initiatives, at the plan’s launch in Thorncliffe Park on Tuesday, March 7.

That means data on child welfare, education, health and mental health, and justice will include race data to show where inequities exist and allow the province to formulate a response to address systemic issues.

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Michael Coteau, Minister Responsible for Anti-Racism, makes an announcement on Tuesday, Mar. 7, at the Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office about a new three-year strategic plan to fight racism. assessment is slated to start this spring, which is when the government is expected to introduce the province’s first-ever antiracism legislation.

While the three-year plan will take time to implement, Coteau also announced a more immediate measure in the form of the Ontario Black Youth Action Plan. That plan will see $47 million spent over four years to provide support for black children, youth and families, who are overrepresented in the justice and child welfare systems.

"From birth to adolescence and from adolescence to adulthood, black

people in Ontario face uphill battles and the glaring symptoms of symptoms and institutional racism," Coteau said. "Black youth are overrepresented in homeless youth populations (and) four times more likely than white youth to be stopped by police for suspicious activity."

"The collection of disaggregated data is foundational to the success of any anti-racism strategy," said Avvy Go, chair of the steering committee for Colour of Poverty-Colour of Change. "The data will . help governments more appropriately target the goals and objectives as well as identify gaps."

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Homophobia once again strikes Danforth East couple JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com An openly-gay couple from Toronto’s east end is once again dealing with an upsetting homophobic act.

BJ Barone and Frankie Nelson, who were devastated when a moving photo from the birth of their son Milo was used in antigay propaganda in Ireland and Italy one year ago, recently experience a hateful act in their own backyard.

On Friday, Feb. 10 around 7:30 p.m., the couple and their young son were at home when five teenage boys knocked on their front door and told Nelson that they were doing a school project. The teens then proceeded to sing an inappropriate song, and asked him what he thought of the LGBT community before running off laughing.

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Needless to say, the couple, who are both high school teachers, were jarred by the experience.

A short time later, Barone stepped out to grab some food for dinner when he noticed the slur F*CK LGBT was written on the windshield of their snow-covered vehicle.

He immediately called 911.

"We felt targeted," Barone said.

Const. Curtis Celestine of 55 Division said three of the boys, who were about 15 or 16 years old, were located a short time later.

"They were going around the neighbourhood causing mischief," he said, adding the teens had some "prior knowledge the couple was in a same-sex relationship."

Constables Shawn Chow and Jordan Wang then brought the three boys, who all attend local high schools, back to Barone and Nelson’s home to apologize for their behaviour before dropping

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"I also let their principals know what happened," said Celestine, who is a school resources officer.

"I am aware that one teen got suspended and the others got some disciplinary action."

Police have not laid any charges.

Barone posted about the incident on social media.

Dozens of supporters expressed outrage at the hateful act.

"While we’re not convinced the teens learned their lesson, we feel it is a great teaching opportunity," he said.

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An hour long educational show that features eagles, hawks, owls and native birds of prey from The Canadian Raptor Conservancy.

A one hour presentation that provides handson education about reptiles and amphibians for the young and the young at heart!

See the amazing falcon fold its wings as it accelerates into a vertical dive reaching speeds of up to 200km/hr as it flies over the crowd plus meet the bird with the best vision in nature and one of the world’s most nocturnal animal.

All participants are given the opportunity to touch and hold several different animals.

JOHNNY TORONTO

“LET’S GET MOVIN’”

A hilarious 30 minute, one-person variety act that will delight a crowd of all ages.

A high energy, nonstop dance part y to keep you on your feet and grooving to the latest hits!

MONDAY • 12PM

TUESDAY • 12PM & 2PM

THURSDAY • 12PM

FRIDAY • 12PM & 2PM

One of Canada’s leading entertainers for the past 20 years. His comic juggling and unicycling will keep you laughing the entire show!

• A 30 minute show that will introduce you to a whole new world of Magic. The magic happens in an instant but the wonderment lasts a lifetime!

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