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TTC officials will increase service starting this month to the 501 Queen streetcar after years of customer complaints about short turns and infrequent service. Service over the entire route, from Long Branch to Neville Park, will be operated every 10 minutes, all day, every day, officials said. There is also added service for morning commuters headed downtown. The TTC will add three more through trips at 7:19 a.m., 7:29 a.m. and 7:39 a.m. departing from Long Branch loop to downtown. TTC reported time will be added to the service all days to improve service. Service will be added at busy peak times. Etobicoke-Lakeshore Councillor Mark Grimes announced the changes in a recent e-newsletter. A temporary route split will operate between Long Branch loop and Humber loop, and between Humber loop and Neville Park loop from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. Customers may transfer between the two parts of the loop. Some streetcars will continue from Long Branch to Neville Park, and some will be turned back at Humber loop, from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Queen 301 overnight service from 2 p.m. to 5 a.m. will continue to operate as a through service between Neville Park and Long Branch.

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jazz vespers: Mark Hukezailie plays piano for an audience during a jazz vespers event at St. Philip's Anglican Church on Sunday. Future events: Jan. 17, Nancy Walker Trio; Jan. 31, Bon DeAngelis Band both at 4 p.m. See more photos on page 3.

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LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com It’s only the beginning of the new year and the Weston King Neighbourhood Centre’s dropin meal program is already feel-

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reliant on its drop-in breakfast, lunch, and community dinners are steadily increasing from about 65 to 100 people daily. In a recently released study, the University of Guelph Food >>>hike, page 2

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>>>from page 1 Institute predicted food inflation rates to hit anywhere between two to four per cent across Canada, e xc e e d i n g t h e g e n e ra l inflation rate, after a year in which food prices in grocery stores rose by 4.1 per cent. “In dollar terms, we can anticipate based on historical data, the average Canadian household will spend $8,631 on food, of which $2,416 will be outside the household (restaurants),” stated the study. “This means our forecast predicts the average household could spend up to $345 more on food in 2016.” Fo r m o s t p e o p l e i n Toronto, this expenditure is frustrating, but will likely only take a small bite out of their income. However, those on fixed incomes will feel the brunt of these increases. Weston resident Carl Tebo is one of those people. He was more than happy to chat on a bitter cold early January afternoon at the Weston King Neighbourhood Centre. “The impact is dramatic,” he said. “I’ll eat fewer meals at home, more at places like these.” Drop-in centres, like Weston’s, ensures that Tebo and those like him don’t go hungry – “that’s number o n e,” h e s a i d . “A n d , I shouldn’t have to. I shouldn’t

have to miss meals because I can’t afford them. I shouldn’t have to eat unhealthy food, full of carbs and fats.” Weston King’s menu, Tebo said, is varied. “There are days that are better than others, but the demand is great and their budget is small,” he said. “They do perform miracles with the relatively small budget that they do have. I commend them for that.” Tebo relies on the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP). He said he took his January payment that arrived in December and went to No Frills where he was only able to purchase three days’ worth of meat. “That’s all I’d have for the month if it wasn’t for this place,” he said. Tebo’ monthly ODSP income is $600, an amount he said he could spend in a week at the grocery store when he was working. T h e We s t o n K i n g Neighbourhood Centre has seen the largest increase in the number of seniors who are now feeling the pinch more than ever – because they are on a fixed income, Theobald said. “It’s sad,” he said. Distribution centres, such as the Daily Bread Food Bank, are hit double in situations like these, its executive director Gail Nyberg said. “First, we’ll see an increase

in member agencies because people are being pushed to the edge. As prices increase, we’ll see the need increase,” she said. On top of that, much of Daily Bread’s food is purchased and prices on such items as rice, beans, and lentils will increase, Nyberg pointed out. “O u r b u y e r s’ d o l l a r shrinks as their need grows,” she said. Not only is it crucial to donate to the Daily Bread Food Bank during non-holiday periods, it is important that we look at the way we store food, Nyberg said. For example, vegetables will keep much longer if they are washed and trimmed and wrapped properly. “I read a repor t that people like me throw out in excess of $1,000 worth of food a year. We need to do better as a society,” she said. What the Weston King Neighbourhood Centre is lacking is fruits, vegetables and dairy. Produce can be donated to the centre as well as cash. “In the long run, what’s really needed are policy changes,” Theobald said. “People on fixed incomes have been living at the same levels for years.”

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Ella Jonas Farlinger, 14, joins new Family Channel show CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com Ella Jonas Farlinger may play a struggling singer-songwriter on the upcoming Family Channel show Lost & Found Music Studios, but in real life the Etobicoke School of the Arts student has, at just 14, already established an enviable singing and acting resume for herself. Born and raised in the Annex to writer/director/producer parents, Ella got a taste for showbiz early and grew to love it from a young age. “I’ve been on sets since I was in the womb, and I started acting because of my parents,” she said, noting that her parents own a production company called New Real Films. “Seeing the work they put into it was just so inspiring to me, so I knew early on that I wanted to get into it, too.” In fact, it was while accompanying her parents on a film shoot that Ella was inspired to apply to Etobicoke School of the Arts (ESA). “Funnily enough, my parents actually shot a film at ESA a couple of years ago, and I remember walking around the set and just kind of exploring and having one of those cheesy moments where I realized ‘I want to go here.’” she said with a laugh. “After that, I was just really driven to get in and to attend school there.” Now in Grade 9 and majoring in

Music Theatre – which she described as ESA’s “triple-threat program” for singing, dancing and acting – Ella said the short time she’s been at ESA has already paid dividends. “It’s a great program. It’s really interesting to study musical theatre and to learn each of the components separately. I think it really builds you as a performer, so it’s been really eyeopening,” she said, noting that she draws inspiration from her fellow arts-minded classmates. “To finally be in an environment where everyone values art as much as you do... it’s unreal.” It should have come as no surprise, however, that Ella was accepted into the prestigious arts school. In addition to joining the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus – “a huge choir of insanely talented kids” where she still sings today – at age seven, Ella also had a starring role in the award-winning Disney Channel series My Babysitter’s a Vampire at age eight, and has also scored parts in movies such as I’m Yours and What We Have, and on TV shows including Rookie Blue and Saving Hope. In her latest gig as Eva on the Family Channel’s Lost & Found Music Studios, Ella gets to combine her love of singing with her passion for acting all in one role, she explained. “Basically, Lost & Found follows this elite music program run by a musician-turned-producer,” she

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Etobicoke School of the Arts student Ella Jonas Farlinger, 14, portrays sheltered singer-songwriter Eva on the Family Channel’s, ‘Lost & Found Music Studios’, which premieres on the network Jan. 8.

said. “It’s kind of like an after-school program where young musicians come in, they write music and collaborate with each other, they critique each other’s work, and

also they really do find themselves – hence the name Lost & Found.” In the first episode of the show – which premieres on Family Channel tomorrow at 6 p.m. – Ella’s charac-

ter Eva struggles to find her place amongst Lost & Found’s talented crop of musicians, she explained. “It’s Eva’s second year at Lost & Found and she’s having a lot of trouble fitting in, and it’s mainly because she comes from a very sheltered home life. She really wants to branch out and make friends and stuff, but it’s really difficult for her,” Ella said. “She’s trying to differentiate her home life from her newer, bolder studio self – so the whole season is just her really branching out. I’m really excited to see what people think of her whole process of finding her voice.” For Ella, the experience of shooting the first season of Lost & Found, which wrapped up this summer, was an “incredible experience.” “All the cast members, we’re all young musicians that really want to get our music out in the world, get our message out, so we all just bonded so quickly,” she said. “We’re a huge family – I know everyone says that, but it’s true. We all felt big love being there together and experiencing that together...Now we’re keeping our fingers crossed for a second season.” You can follow Ella on Instagram @ella_farlinger

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Etobicoke Centennial Choir (ECC) invites music lovers to “Come Sing With Us” at its upcoming open rehearsal. The open event takes place Tuesday from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at Humber Valley United Church, 76 Anglesey Blvd., and will allow interested singers to participate in a typical rehearsal, meet the conductor and choristers and find out what ECC has to offer. ECC always welcomes new singers in all sections, although tenors are currently in particular demand. Now in its 49th season, ECC is a community choir that performs a diverse repertoire of both sacred and secular music, ranging from classical to contemporary. For more information, call 416-622-6923 or 416-433-5495, email info@etobicokecentennialchoir.ca or follow the choir on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ EtobicokeCentennialChoir or on Twitter @EtobicokeChoir

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oronto might be a city on the move, but a casual observer might wonder whether that movement would be outpaced by a glacier. When we build something – whether a subway, a highway or a waterfront – we are not inclined much to hurry. Of all the slow-burn builds, few are slower than the revitalization of Union Station. The grand old station officially opened in 1927 and was built during the First World War. It was then and remains a vital transportation hub for the largest city in Canada. It was in 2000 – 16 years ago – that Toronto purchased the station and looked for a private-sector partner to redevelop and renovate the station. Nearly a decade ago, Toronto and the federal and provincial governments launched a $640-million plan to expand, repair and revitalize the station. It went over budget, and now our view is going to cost in the neighbourhood of $800 million. It was supposed to be finished New deal in 2015. brings life to Now, it is expected to be done in 2017. To say the project’s progUnion Station ress has been painful is an understatement. It was hopeful news, then, when at the Jan. 4 Government Management Committee, councillors considered altering the lease with Osmington, the company that manages the leases in the public space of Union Station. The lease will see Osmington put another $37 million into the project to enhance the leasable public space, to turn the station into more of a destination. The deal seems like a good one: Toronto will pay for its portion of the redevelopment by forgoing the incremental revenue it would receive from the new spaces. In the end, the city projects it will still get more revenue than if the spaces were maintained as-is. The only money that the city would put up front is $500,000 for lawyers, to make sure the deal is, and stays, as good as it seems. We sincerely hope that it is. While it’s difficult to fault the city for the escalating costs of a project that is at once essential and a profound engineering challenge, it would be nice to cap this very tough job with a flourish to make it all look easy.

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Budget chief Crawford not interested in tax increases It didn’t take long for the fundamental direction of Toronto’s budget to emerge this week. The Jan. 5 meeting of the budget committee had broken for lunch, after its first foray into the $11-billion worth of unfinished business that is the 2016 operating and capital budget. The budget, as has been noted, is unfinished by design. City finance staff made it clear in late 2015 that it is unable on its own to square maintaining existing services and adding the services that council approved last year, and also keeping the property tax increase below the rate of inflation. Staff, in fact, couldn’t even figure out how to balance the budget without the $67-million worth of enhancements approved by council and its agencies. The budget will require $23 million of, well, something to balance it without adding a lick of service.

david nickle the city Council has to figure its own way out of this. There are not really very many routes. Council could raise property taxes higher than inflation, or find some similar way to bring in extra cash. Or it could dig into other parts of the budget, either cutting services or trimming staff and resources, expecting more out of what remains. Or, it could simply refuse to fund some or all of the enhancements it supported through 2015. At least as far as the budget committee goes, it looks as though this last option is the one that we’re going to be looking at. Budget chair Gary Crawford spoke with reporters after a morning going over those options with staff, and immediately after council progressives

Joe Mihevc and Joe Cressey had made their pitches for versions of the first option. And he made it clear over the next month of budget hearings, he’s not going to have much time for tax increases and revenue tools. It’s going to all be about setting priorities, among those $67-million in enhancements, or as Crawford referred to them in scrums, the “wish list.” We’ll see how all that goes. I don’t recall any of the motions and reports approved at council last year including the term “wish list.” Council debated the poverty reduction strategy last year, for instance, and approved it in principle then sent it along to be funded. When council partially funded service enhancements at the Toronto Transit Commission in 2015, it didn’t represent the full roll-out of those increases as a “wish” for 2016. To be fair, it is always the

case that a government has to balance its aspirations with its means, and nothing is guaranteed. But council and Mayor John Tory ought to have considered affordability in the long term when they approved and promoted those things, during what may well be remembered as the feel-good honeymoon year after the 2014 election. That was the year when council supported a hugely expensive rebuild of the Gardiner Expressway, and when it approved paying premiums to have city road work finished early, and when it put its stamp of approval on all sorts of enhancements. This year is shaping up to be a little more sobering. To paraphrase Mick Jagger: you can’t always get what you thought you voted for.

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MPP Peter Milczyn holds new year’s levee Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP Peter Milczyn hosts his second annual new year’s levee on Sunday, Jan. 10. The event will run from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 210, 110

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Toronto’s Union Station could become a “unique destination” with improved spaces for retail, dining and cultural experiences as soon as 2018 if Toronto Council agrees to open its lease with Osmington Inc., the station’s main lessee. Osmington proposed the change to the city’s Government Management Committee on Monday. It would see Osmington put an additional $37 million into enhancing the public spaces in the renovation of the venerable train station. The city would, on paper, be responsible for 40 per cent of those costs, but the proposed lease would see Osmington front the entire amount and recover the city’s share by withholding leasing fees on the new spaces. That would still leave the city

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It started off as a mess and I’m not going to be hypocritical and jump in and say it’s a good deal. – Councillor Rob Ford

Rob Ford, back after enduring his third round of chemotherapy, voted against the plan. He said that he did so to be consistent, insisting that he had opposed the Union Station redevelopment every step of the way and wouldn’t change his position even faced with an enhancement that seemed to cost Torontonians nothing. “I never voted for it,” he said. “It started off as a mess and I’m not going to be hypocritical and jump in and say it’s a good deal.” The lease renegotiation will be decided by Toronto Council at its meeting on Feb. 4.

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oronto police officer Clive Richards was at the right place at the right time 31 years ago, and that place was Scarborough’s Golden Mile. That March day, the 41 Division constable would step into the annals of true crime history: he would capture North America’s most wanted fugitive, a killer so diabolical he might have inspired parts of Thomas Harris’ The Silence of The Lambs. Richards was getting ready for his afternoon shift March 2, 1985 when a clerk passed on a last-minute message: be on the lookout for a white Toyota Tercel with New York plates. The car was registered to computer programmer Beverly Capone but was being driven by Alex J. Mengel. Days earlier, he had murdered her and police officer Gary Stymiloski – and in a horrific twist, removed Capone’s scalp and wore the grisly wig as a disguise to get across the border. A sadistic killer, Mengel was referenced in Harris’ novel Silence of the Lambs, which went on to become an Academy Award-winning movie. Richards and his fellow officers had jotted down the vehicle description and licence plate before heading out for their shift on that cold, snowy Saturday in March. “You get inundated with looking for people, cars and licence plates,” Richards recalled in a recent interview from his Etobicoke home. “You can’t remember everything, so it was just another thing you write in your memo book.” Richards was on his own, assigned to patrol the Golden Mile area along Eglinton Avenue near Pharmacy Avenue. “I was driving along and I see this car parked right outside a store,” he said. “As I go past it, I thought, ‘Wait a minute, that was a Toyota Tercel with New York plates.’” A man was sitting in the Tercel; Richards had his memo book in his pocket. “I can’t stop and take my book out because if this is the guy, he’s just killed two people and we knew he was armed with at least two guns.,” Richards said. “I thought, ‘What am I going to do? I don’t

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want to drive too far, I don’t want to reverse, I don’t want to get out of the car and get shot.’” Richards decided to take a quick spin around the block. “After I passed him, I quickly got my memo book. I was ready with the licence plate and the description,” he said. “Then I came back around where this car was parked and it wasn’t there.” After a quick search of the area though, Richards spotted the vehicle again and came face to face with Mengel. “I saw the licence plate, and it is the car, and your pulse goes up,” said Richards. “The guy was looking at me, and I was looking at him, so I think he knew what I knew.” Richards didn’t get out of his car. Instead, he backed up a bit and called for assistance. “At that point, he (Mengel) put it in gear and just went off up onto Eglinton,” Richards said. “I just pulled in right behind him.” As the chase headed west on Eglinton, Mengel was seen rolling down his car window. “I put over the radio, ‘Don’t

overtake this guy because he’s getting ready to shoot. Stay behind me and let’s see what happens,’” Richards recalled. The Tercel, with its driver’s door partially open, hit a snowbank near a car dealership on Eglinton. On impact, the door flew open and the gun Mengel was holding slid out. “He was so scared. I didn’t see anyone with their hands so high,” Richards said of Mengel’s surrender. “We knew he didn’t have a gun on him at that point and then we arrested him.” Police found Capone’s scalp in the Tercel and two guns in and around the car. One gun had been used to kill Stymiloski, the other had been stolen from the slain officer. Richards disarmed himself before getting in the back seat of a cruiser with Mengel, and another officer drove them to the 41 Division station at Eglinton and Birchmount Road for processing. News of the arrest made Richards an instant celebrity in the United States.

“They went crazy in the States,” he said, noting he was flooded with interview requests from media outlets, including the New York Times. “My name was right across all the papers down there.” Richards was flown to New York City three times to receive awards, meet the relatives of Mengel’s victims, and testify at grand jury hearings. He was even given the key to Westchester County. “I was treated like royalty,” said Richards. “There was a lineup of people wanting to drive us around.” Richards rose up the ranks to detective sergeant and retired from the service in November 2014. Mengel, 30, was shot dead while trying to escape from custody in a New York State police car on the Taconic State Parkway April 26, 1985. Unearthing a Serial Killer, a recently released book by David Paul and Kevin McMurray, has also linked Mengel to the July 1984 abduction and murder of 12-year-old Antonella Mattina in New York City.

Antonella’s skull was found in November 1987 off the same parkway where Mengel tried to make his escape and was killed by police. In a phone interview, Paul described the moments before and after Mengel murdered officer Stymiloski, 27, during a routine traffic stop in Yonkers, New York. “He calmly states to the front passenger in his car, ‘Michael, when you hear the gunshot, drive the car home.’ There is a calmness in Mengel that only comes from experience,” said Paul, who himself is a retired police officer. “After he shoots Gary Stymiloski in the head, he hijacks his police car while Stymiloski is dying in the police car. I cannot find another record of such an incident in American police history... We’ve found a lot where the police officer has

been shot, and he’s on the road and the guy steals his car, but never when he’s still in the car. Then he has the wherewithal to rob Gary Stymiloski of his service revolver. This all demonstrates a high level of criminal sophistication.” Pa u l s a i d Me n g e l , a Guyanese-born tool and die maker, would’ve surely tried to kill Richards had he not fumbled his gun. “I guarantee you,” said Paul, “if he got a grip on that gun, he’s going to shoot him.” What was on Richards’ mind during the dramatic arrest? “I was just making sure no one would get shot...I guess you do what you have to do at the time,” he said. “Afterwards, when you start thinking about it, you realize what could’ve happened. A lot of ‘what ifs’ go through your mind.”

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Former Toronto police 41 Division constable Clive Richards, here in his Etobicoke home, was recognized with many citations after his 1985 arrest of cop killer and North America’s most wanted man at the time, Alex Mengel.

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Hours after the start of the New Year when I received an offer on a listing. 6: Hard working staff on Team Gludish! Myself, David, Lee-Anne, Gita and our two co-op students! 3rd: Birthday when my Granddaughter received her first electric red Mercedes convertible! 1: Baby orphaned elephant “Rapa” sponsored at Christmas for my Granddaughter through The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. 120: Hours spent emptying out my garage just enough to park a car inside on snowy days. 3,775: KMS travelled to Costa Rica for the annual Chairman’s Club Retreat. 1: Burned out Blackberry in Costa Rica. 23: Minutes spent on the phone to arrange for a replacement to be shipped. 3,775: KMS travelled to Costa Rica by my new Blackberry in 48 hours. 12: Trips to Brampton; 9: To Hamilton; 10: To Burlington; 11: To Vaughan; 6: Very long drives to Tiny Township. Many: Neighbourhoods we cover for my diverse clients. 2: New fabulous and helpful co-op students. 6: Years of missing my dear Mum, each and every day. 57: Sighs of relief by Lee-Anne when I added Gita as a part-time admin assistant to the Team. 24: Scratches on my new hardwood floors due to Wilson the famous (and still quite active) Beagle. 2: More dogs! Winny the Wonder Dog has been joined by Ginger who loves naps, apples and belly rubs. 60: Dollars spent on a parking ticket I received when “just running in” to buy a $6 salad. 66: Net cost of a great salad; 1: Tough lesson (re)learned about Bloor West Village. 17: Smiles across faces at the St. John The Compassionate Mission donor dinner which I am proud to support. 18: Times someone commented to me this year about how much they enjoy this list! Countless: Times our fantastic brokerage front desk team has helped us throughout the year! 56: Charities I am proud to assist all year long…. and still counting! 4: Suggestions that I be put in a dark closet with food and water in order to slow me down! 23: Number of days in July that Lee-Anne spent in Greece in the middle of their financial crisis and referendum. 9: People who expressed how much they love the watercolour of my sponsored elephant named “Kihari”. 5: Times per week that David refers to a Seinfeld episode. 9: Hours for the quickest listing sale this year. 0: Number of clients that aren’t offered my full attention. 29: Number of years I have been selling great West Toronto Real Estate. $155,000: Value of my smallest sale of the year.

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Join the discussion about Toronto’s 2016 Budget The preliminary 2016 tax supported budgets are being considered by the Budget Committee for recommendation to the Executive Committee and City Council. Review the preliminary 2016 Budget at: toronto.ca/council or toronto.ca/budget2016. User Fee Town Hall Meeting City Hall, Committee Room 2, January 11, 6 p.m.

Information session on the user fee policy and any proposed fee increases above inflation. No deputations. To participate in the 2016 Budget discussion: 1. Make a public presentation at one of the Budget Subcommittee meetings on January 12, 13 or 14, 2016. Register by email to buc@toronto.ca or call 416-392-4666 before 12 p.m. on Monday January 11. Indicate your choice of location, date and session number. Individuals may make only one presentation at any one of the sessions. City Hall Committee Room 1 100 Queen St. West January 12 Session 1: 9:30 a.m. Session 2: 6 p.m.

Etobicoke Civic Centre Council Chamber 399 The West Mall January 12 Session 1: 3 p.m. Session 2: 6 p.m.

Scarborough Civic Centre Council Chamber 150 Borough Drive January 13 Session 1: 3 p.m. Session 2: 6 p.m.

North York Civic Centre Council Chamber 5100 Yonge Street January 13 Session 1: 3 p.m. Session 2: 6 p.m.

East York Civic Centre Council Chamber 850 Coxwell Ave. January 14 Session 1: 3 p.m. Session 2: 6 p.m.

York Civic Centre Council Chamber 2700 Eglinton Avenue West January 14 Session 1: 3 p.m. Session 2: 6 p.m.

2. Send your written comments to the Budget Committee. Email: buc@toronto.ca. Fax: 416-392-1879, or Mail:Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St. W., 10 West,Toronto, ON M5H 2N2. Send to - Attention: Budget Committee 3. Send a letter or email to your local City Councillor. For contact information, please call 311,TTY: 416-338-0TTY (0889), email 311@toronto.ca or visit toronto.ca. Notice: If you write or make a presentation to the Budget Committee, the City will collect and use your personal information in accordance with applicable laws. We also videotape meetings and make recordings publicly available on request. More information about the collection and use of your personal information is available at: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/privacy.htm.

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Police seek two men after a shooting on New Year’s Eve Police have released security camera footage of two men wanted in connection with a New Year’s Eve shooting in north Etobicoke. Officers received a call for a shooting in the Westmore Drive and Finch Avenue West area Thursday, Dec. 31 at 4:44 p.m. It was reported that two men – one armed with a firearm – attended a business in the area. Several shots were then allegedly fired into the

business through a window, before the suspects fled the scene toward Finch Avenue West. Video of the alleged suspects can be seen at http:// bit.ly/1OA1zPe Police are now looking for witnesses and requesting the public’s assistance identifying the male suspects involved in the shooting. The first suspect is described as wearing a black jacket with hood up with a

white logo in the middle of the upper back, black pants, black shoes, a balaclava and carrying a firearm. The second suspect is described as wearing a grey hooded jacket, dark-blue jeans, black shoes and a balaclava. Call police at 416-808-2300, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637).

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Police are looking for two men involved in New Year's Eve shooting at a Westmore and Finch business.

SIU investigates after man, 32, found dead in Scarlett Road home The province’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has assigned five investigators to probe the New Year’s Day death of a 32-year-old man at a home in Etobicoke. Preliminary information gathered by the SIU indicates Toronto police started receiving phone calls from the home – located on Scarlett Road, just south of Lawrence Avenue – at around 2 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 1. Those calls, the SIU reported in a release issued later that same day, were for a possible intruder in the home. “Officers attended and determined that no one had broken into the residence,” the SIU release reads. “Over the course of the morning, officers attended the scene more than once for similar reports.” The 32-year-old male victim was found inside the home at around 11 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The SIU has assigned three investigators and two forensic investigators to investigate the incident. Anyone who may have information regarding the case is asked to contact the SIU at 1-800-7878529, ext. 2150. campaign nabs 211 drivers wride

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Nine fire trucks and 35 firefighters responded to the scene of a twoalarm blaze at a north Etobicoke coffee roasting facility early Sunday, Jan. 3. Toronto Fire Capt. Adrian Ratushniak said the fire call came in at 4:31 a.m. from 65 Carrier Dr. – an address listed to Coffee Club LP. “(Firefighters) went i n t o t h e w a re h o u s e area to find several large bags of coffee husks on fire,” he said, noting it appeared the fire was largely contained to those bags. “There also ended up being smoke within the unit, in the office area, so we cleared smoke f r o m t h a t a re a ,” h e added. No i n j u r i e s we re reported at the scene. “The fire was contained to a small area and it was a small dollar loss,” Ratushniak said of the fire, which is estimated to have caused about $5,000 worth of damage.

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Finch West Light Rail Transit Update Open House Meetings

Please join us for an update on the Finch West Light Rail Transit (LRT) project, including the reference concept design for the stops, information on the maintenance and storage facility, and detail on public realm elements. At any of the following meetings, you can find out more about what is happening and how it may affect you and your neighbourhood. The Finch West LRT will bring a new rapid transit experience to your community, with 18 stops through northwest Toronto, including an underground interface station at Keele Street. Running along the surface of Finch Avenue between Humber College and Keele Street, this reliable and comfortable transit line is approximately 11-kilometres long and will connect to the new Finch West subway station on the TorontoYork Spadina subway extension. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2017.

Open House Dates and Locations: Monday January 11, 2016 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. St. Wilfrid Catholic School (Gym) 1685 Finch Ave W.

Tuesday January 12, 2016 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Julius Banquet Centre 2201 Finch Ave W.

Wednesday January 13, 2016 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Father Henry Carr (Cafeteria) 1760 Martin Grove Rd.

For more Finch West LRT information: Visit www.metrolinx.com/finchwest finchwest@metrolinx.com Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez visiter www.metrolinx.com/finchwest ou envoyer un courriel à finchwest@metrolinx.com.

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Weekly Grocery Shopping Trips WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. WHERE: Stonegate Community Health Centre, 150 Berry Rd. CONTACT: Sonia De Martinez, 416-2317070, ext. 239 COST: Free Stonegate CHC has partnered with ESS Support Services to run a shuttle bus, for seniors and those with disability and mobility issues for grocery shopping. The bus takes participants to No Frills at Queensway and Royal York. Call to register. Civic Centre, 399 The West Mall CONTACT: Paulina Sbrocchi, vppr.phoenixtm@outlook. com COST: Free We meet weekly. Scottish Country Dancing WHEN: 7 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Franklin Horner Community Centre, 432 Horner Ave. CONTACT: Arlene Koteff, 416-620-9628, amkoteff@yahoo.ca COST: $5 Join the Bloorlea Scottish Dance Group for a friendly evening of dancing. Newcomers are welcome. Soft shoes are recommended.

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Crafting WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Franklin Horner Community Centre, 432 Horner Ave. CONTACT: Navina, 416 252-6822, franklinhorner.navina@gmail.com COST: FHCC membership required Drop in and join the crafters every Thursday as they knit, crochet, and create in a relaxed environment. Make something for FHCC fundraising or work on your own project. Moms and Tots Program WHEN: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: St. Philip’s Lutheran Church, 61 West Deane Park Dr. CONTACT: Marisa, 647-523-5540 COST: Free The program is free to all mothers/caregivers and tots every Thursday.

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Etobicoke native Erica Voss (back row, third from left) celebrates a gold medal win alongside her Team Canada U21 teammates at the 2016 World Ringette Championships in Helsinki, Finland on Sunday.

“It feels freaking amazing,” Ottawa’s Sarah-Lynne Begin, who scored the overtime winner and was named Canada’s player of the game, said in a statement. “I was a

bit nervous going into the second game, but looking around at the girls in the dressing room, I knew we were ready and I knew we could do it.”

Voss, who was a new addition to the team this year, took home three points on the tournament. “To be on the ice as Team Canada with the anthem playing and all

that: that’s the most exciting part for me,” Voss told The Guardian in an interview shortly before departing for Helsinki to compete in the worlds – by far the largest competition of her ringette career to date. Voss first started playing “the fastest game on ice” with Etobicoke Ringette when she was six, and continued with the club until she turned 13 and began playing AA competitive ringette for Mississauga. She now plays for Richmond Hill in the National Ringette League. She was named to Team Canada U21 this past May after being scouted at the 2015 Canada Winter Games in February and attending the team’s spring training camp. “It’s hard to describe (how I feel),” Voss said in December of her experience as a member of the junior national team. “Growing up, I went to a lot of ringette camps, and at those camps my instructors were all national team players. So, to now be on a national team myself, it kind of feels like I’m becoming one of those players that I looked up to for so long.” For full stats from the 2016 World Ringette Championships, go to www. wrc2015.fi/en/Results.html

Etobicoke pair make national U-18 women’s hockey squad NORM NELSON nnelson@insidetoronto.com Two Etobicoke hockey players who helped Ontario to a national U-18 women’s title will now try and help Canada regain world championship honours from the United States. Forward Daryl Watts and goaltender Stephanie Neatby were both named to Canada’s national team which will host the U-18 world championships in St. Catharines Jan. 8 to 15. The U.S. won last season after Canada had won the three previous years. Overall, since the tournament started in 2008, Canada and the U.S. have each won four. Neatby, a student at Etobicoke’s Father Redmond Catholic Secondary School, said it was “very much” an honour to be selected to the national team. Watts, a student at Bishop Strachan School in mid-town Toronto, agreed: “It’s kind of surreal just thinking that we’ll be representing Canada at home. I can’t even process it, I’m so excited.” The only representatives on the team from Toronto, both are

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Team Ontario Red’s Daryl Watts, centre, attempts to score in the Team Quebec crease during 2015 National Women’s Under-18 Championship action in Huntsville, Ontario this past November.

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You can choose to pay month-to-month instead of paying up-front for the whole year. The business can charge up to 25 per cent more for monthly payments than the total cost of the annual, upfront fee. However, monthly payments provide flexibility and convenience. n All contracts must end after a year: Ask about the club’s renewal policy and how you will be contacted to renew. The gym or fitness club must send you a renewal notice between 30 and 90 days before your contract expires, listing any changes to your new contract. If you received a renewal notice and do not respond to it, the club has the right to renew and bill you under the renewed contract. “Making the decision to join a gym or fitness club

can be challenging when you feel pressured to sign up before a promotion ends,” David Orazietti, minister of government and consumer services, said in a release. “Co n s u m e r Pro t e c t i o n Ontario offers resources to help you ensure you’re asking the right questions and keep you informed about your consumer rights.” Contracts for a gym or sports club membership or for classes such as martial arts or dance are called personal development services under the Consumer Protection Act. The rules apply where prepayment for more than $50 is required. The Ministry of Government and Consumer Services dealt with more than 710 gym and fitness club-related complaints and inquiries in 2015.

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With 2016 just days old, many people will use this time to make resolutions for the new year, which might include joining a gym or signing up for fitness classes. But before contracts are signed, the provincial government is reminding consumers about rights protecting them under Ontario’s Consumer Protection Act. n You have a 10-day cooling-off period: You have the right to cancel a membership within 10 days of receiving a written copy of your contract. You don’t need a reason to cancel. All you need to do is give notice to the business, preferably in writing. Use this 10-day cooling-off period to test out the facility to see if it’s right for you. n You have the option to pay monthly:

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