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Help shape the future of Toronto Social Planning Toronto (SPT) is set to host a series of community meetings this month to discuss its future direction and priorities. “We all know that social planning is important to the future of the city and the wellbeing of its residents. We also know that the city is changing,” organizers from SPT said in a statement. The organization’s mission includes a commitment to “building a civic society in which diversity, equity, social and economic justice, interdependence and active civic participation are central to all aspects of life.” The meetings will be at: n Etobicoke/North York Thursday, Jan. 21 at 5:30 p.m. Thistletown Multi-Service Centre, 925 Albion Road (one block east of Islington Avenue), Ted Hodgson Room, 3rd Floor Register at http://sptconsultationetobicoke-northyork. eventbrite.ca n York Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 10 a.m. Social Planning Toronto Office, 1652 Keele St. Register at http://sptcommunityconsultationyork.eventbrite.ca For questions about the meetings, contact Caryl Arundel at carundel@sympatico.ca Visit www.socialplanningtoronto.org/about-us to learn more about the organization.

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Fear of rent hikes unfounded, EYCC hears Community council rejects development proposal, despite tenants’ support TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com Etobicoke York Community Council unanimously rejected a developer’s proposal to replace five existing 3.5 storey rental

buildings in the Kingsway. The developer is seeking to replace them with six new apartment and condominium buildings, reaching six to 16 storeys. At its regular monthly meet-

ing Tuesday, Jan. 19, community council voted to send city planners and city lawyers to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) to defend city planners’ opinion that the proposal is “inappropriate and represents over-

development of the site.” “The proposed height, density and scale is not compatible with the existing context of the local apartment neighbourhood,” a Dec. 16 city planning >>>twenty, page 2

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attend meeting about large-scale proposal >>>from page 1 report stated of The Elia Corporation’s proposal for 289 and 291 The Kingsway and 1, 3, 5 and 7 St. Stephens Court. L a s t J u l y, T h e E l i a Corporation appealed to the OMB citing Toronto City Council’s failure to deal with its application in the time prescribed by the Planning Act. An OMB hearing date for the appeal has not been scheduled. A pre-hearing conference is scheduled for Feb. 17. In a rare circumstance, only six of the 11 Etobicoke York Community Council councillors participated in Monday night’s meeting, the number required to make a quorum. Similarly, few area residents attended the meeting. Approximately 20 Humber Valley Village residents listened, seven of whom shared their opinions with councillors. Five of Elia’s existing tenants spoke in favour of the developer’s proposal. They expressed fears their rents will spike if the city denies Elia’s proposal. Two-year tenant Shawn Coston presented councillors with 90 tenant signatures on 76 letters in support of Elia’s development plans. “We love this neighbourhood,” Coston said of he and his wife. “The rent is reasonable. It allows us the opportunity to save to become homeowners in the future. The vast majority of tenants believe this (proposal) is a good thing for them and the neighbourhood.” Coston said if the city denied Elia’s proposal, it would renovate and increase rents. “The new apartments will have protected rents for 10 years. If this is refused, the landlord will have to renovate and increase our rents. As Ta tenant, I will have to pay dramatically more rent, an increase of 15.5 per cent at a maximum. People living there will be the ones most affected.”

Ward 3 Councillor Stephen Holyday asked Coston where he got the information the buildings would be renovated if Elia’s plans weren’t approved. “In speaking with the landlord,” Coston replied. “Did the landlord present it as an either/or situation?” Holyday asked, meaning either its proposal is approved, or it would renovate and hike rents. “I was under that impression, yes,” Coston said. Holyday asked Patrick Devine, Elia’s lawyer, who specializes in municipal law and land-use planning, directly whether tenants face renovation and rent hikes. “My client has done the minimal to upkeep the standards because it does not make sense to make any substantial investment,” Devine said. “(Tenants) need not be concerned about rising rents.” Holyday continued: “So someone fed them a line then?” Devine did not respond. Sean Allman, Elia’s property assessor, cited a litany of issues with the decades-old buildings, from heat-stealing single-pane windows to sagging floors and a lack of air exhaust systems that can lead to mold and stale air. “Demolition and replacement (of the buildings) is, by far, the best option,” Allman said. Devine launched a charge of his own, contending city planners offered the Elia team no specifics as to what heights and densities would be acceptable. “With due respect, after doing this for 37 years, I expected to hear, ‘this density is unacceptable, but this density is acceptable.’ During three meetings (with the city), we asked, ‘please be very specific’ and we were not given any direction.” Claudia Owusu-Gyimah, one of two city planners on the file, recalled she had met with Elia’s representatives twice,

and spoke once by phone. Ward 4 Councillor John Campbell, who represents the area, asked Owusu-Gyimah if Elia’s representatives contacted her after approximately 130 residents attended a community consultation meeting on the proposed project last March. “We heard from them in May or June. Then the (OMB) appeal came in July,” she said. Campbell expressed regret Elia has chosen to appeal to the OMB. He opposes the proposal’s density. “The application does provide too-much density for this particular area,” Campbell said. “Residents in Humber Valley, and I am one of them, welcome some kind of redevelopment. The buildings have been let go and need redevelopment. That seems strategic. “The question is what kind of redevelopment and what scope of redevelopment.” Humber Valley Village Residents’ Association board members Joanne Pickard and Anne Anderson agreed: “The proposal is excessive in the extreme,” said Pickard, HVVRA’s vice-president. “It is not contextual: the height, density or lot coverage. It is incompatible with the character of the neighbourhood. Elia’s site is designated Apartment Neighbourhood’s in the city’s Official Plan. Apartment Neighbourhoods are not considered by the city areas of intensification. “This designation does not anticipate significant growth within these areas, however compatible infill development may be permitted on a site containing an existing apartment building that has sufficient under utilized space to accommodate one or more new buildings...” the city staff report indicated of the designation in the Official Plan. The matter will come before Toronto City Council next month.

ESA student in the running to win $100K prize Loran Scholars Foundation will fund four years of post-secondary RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com An Etobicoke high school student is in the running for a prestigious scholarship, which could earn her $100,000 toward her postsecondary education. Kaylee O’Meara, 17, who attends the Etobicoke School of the Arts, is one of 80 finalists nationwide for a Loran Award, which would provide the cash prize over four years for her undergraduate studies. Even if she doesn’t end up winning, the Grade 12 student said she still feels honoured to be in the running. “It’s really exciting, really humbling,” she said during a recent interview with The Guardian. “I’ve met so many amazing students during the competition, and I know everyone was really qualified so I’m honoured to have just made finalist.” O’Meara will find out the weekend of Feb. 5 if her name is announced as one of 30 winners for

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It’s really exciting, really humbling. I’ve met so many amazing students during the competition, and I know everyone was really qualified so I’m honoured to have just made finalist. –Kaylee O’Meara, Loran prize finalist

this year’s awards, which are presented by the Loran Scholars Foundation, a national charity. To get to this stage, she had to be nominated by her school and then engaged in a series of in-person interviews to make her case. Backing up her candidacy was her extensive volunteer work, including canvassing on behalf of climate change advocacy organization Our Horizon. O’Meara, who has a strong interest in environmental issues, campaigned

to get warning labels added at gas pumps, recruiting fellow students to join the cause. She also organized a reception in May associated with her work on climate change, which was attended by Toronto councillors, and was responsible for decorating, organizing refreshments, handing out brochures and greeting guests. O’Meara also acted as stage manager for a musical at her school and helped raise awareness for Syrian refugees. In between volunteering, extracurricular activities, homework and a part-time job at a coffee shop, she has also managed to maintain a social life. “It’s definitely important to have a personal life,” she said. “You don’t want to isolate yourself with just academic or extracurricular stuff. I think it makes for a well-rounded person just by keeping up with aspects of my life I find important, and a social life is one of them.” She first heard about the

awards when she was in Grade 11. She prepared by taking on extracurriculars over the summer and spending a lot of time honing her application. For the competition semifinals, she traveled to the University of Toronto in November to take part in a full-day of interviews, which would determine if she would move on to the finals. “I just tried really hard to be open and be myself and answer the questions as best as I could,” she said. “Some of the questions were scary, but I just tried to keep in mind everyone who was interviewing wanted me to succeed and make it through.” Now with the finals fast a p p r o a c h i n g , O ’ Me a ra said she is hopeful she’ll be named for the ultimate honour of Loran scholar. But even if she isn’t, she’s grateful for the experience. “The way I see it, I’ve already won something,” she said. “I already feel part of the Loran community.”

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Ravi Naimpally and the World Jazz Ensemble are set perform at the Humber World Jazz Night concert on Friday.

Humber Music’s world jazz night kicks off with a jazz lab Friday night Humber Music hosts Humber World Jazz Night, the first evening concert of 2016 on Friday at 8 p.m. This year’s world jazz night will open with Waleed Abdulhamid’s World Jazz Lab, and closes with the World Jazz Ensemble, led by Ravi

Naimaplly. The Humber World Drum Ensemble, led by Stefano Mancuso, will also perform. All three ensembles are allstudent bands that change members and song lists every year. Tickets cost $10 or $5 for

students and seniors. The concert takes place at Humber’s Lakeshore Campus, 3199 Lake Shore Blvd. W. in the auditorium (A128). For more information, contact Sanja Antic at sanja. antic@humber.ca or 416-6756622 ext. 3427.

Learn ways to live a healthy life with chronic health conditions. Etobicoke Services for Seniors offers a free, sixweek chronic disease selfmanagement program from Jan. 25 through March 7. Strategies for individuals living with or caring for someone with chronic conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, asthma, and depression will be explored. Stanford University facilitators will lead the program. Classes will be held Mondays from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Etobicoke Medical Centre, 16 Four Seasons Place, on the northwest corner of Burnhamthorpe Road and The East Mall. Registration is required; call 416-243-0127, ext. 237. Etobicoke Services for Seniors is a non-profit agency

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Calling all seniors with green thumbs: Islington Seniors’ Centre is launching a series of new Gardening Workshops. Organized by Parks Forestry & Recreation Community Development, the free workshops will take place at 4968 Dundas St. W. beginning on Tuesday, Jan. 26 from 10 a.m. to noon and continue until March 15. Learn about indoor and outdoor planting, soil quality, how you can choose the best seasonal plants, pest control, plant propagation methods, and much more. No experience is necessary. At the end of the workshop, all participants will receive a certificate of participation.

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Budget balancing continues along in haphazard way If all goes through as planned, it looks as though Mayor John Tory will have passed two out of two unsustainable annual city budgets by February. In 2015, you may recall, Toronto’s budget committee found itself in a panic over the end to pooling grants from the province, that had helped Toronto deal with the cost of social housing that is much higher here than in other GTA municipalities. City officials thrashed about trying to find a way to fill the $86-million hole and eventually approved a complex plan to loan itself money from its capital reserves – a move that might, absent another robust year of land transfer tax-collection, have squeezed the city for years to come. As it was, surpluses and reserves helped minimize the debt that Toronto will eventually have to repay to itself. That was a lucky break. And maybe there will be another lucky break, after Toronto Council gets through

david nickle the city with this year’s budget. This time, there’s no unexpected trouble that’s shown up to mess up a perfectly balanced budget. Rather, the city administration has made it clear that Mayor Tory and Toronto Council have created pressures that a simple balance-sheet budgeting exercise can’t resolve. To whit: an inflationary property tax increase as Mayor Tory has insisted on can’t deal with either the growing cost of simply standing still, or the many enhancements and improvements that council and the mayor approved and announced this year. Politicians, the city manager said, would have to come up with solutions. So this past Monday, budget chief Gary Crawford brought forward a solution. It involves an old-fashioned raid on reserves, recalibrating

various revenue projections to more optimistic numbers, and demands on big-ticket agencies like the Toronto Transit Commission and the Toronto Police Service to simply do more with less. It is not exactly what happened in 2015, but it is in the spirit of it. Toronto will dig into its rainy-day reserves and ask for an arbitrarily large amount of economizing from its management staff, and keep the city lurching along for another year. It’s easy to shrug when you look at this, because so many Toronto budgets have been balanced in exactly this haphazard way – hoping that a booming economy will keep the land transfer tax revenue high, dipping into savings, stretching staffing resources – and things always seem to have turned out OK. Roads are more or less fixed, programs in one form or another are delivered, and life in Toronto’s many neighbourhoods goes on.

So why not simply continue along this route? When erosion is this slow in its effect, is it erosion at all? The short answer is yes. The long answer is that with the declining dollar and sluggish economy, at some point the land transfer tax – which has above all else kept the city afloat – is going to plateau and decline along with real estate sales. If Toronto isn’t prepared for that with a reasonable attitude toward taxes and revenues, that erosion will quickly turn into a collapse. That may happen by Mayor Tory’s third budget given the indicators. And that will mean that this one will be the last time that councillors can avoid making the difficult choices they should have made long ago. When that time comes, they’d better have a plan B.

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To the editor; length of Lake Shore Re: ‘Queen 501 split to Long Branch Loop, 416-259-5197 ‘brutal’ in evening which would take rush: rider’, News, almost two hours Jan. 14 to walk rather than I was disappointed a short 12-minute to see the front page walk. headline on the Jan. The communi14 edition of your ties of Mimico, New paper and also that Toronto and Long To no one else was Branch depend on Queen 501 split ‘brutal’ in evening rush: rider interviewed with an timely service of the opposing view of this streetcar in order to change. make connections Perhaps the for the multiple bus woman in the article routes serviced by is not aware of the the this line. ADULT & YOUTH SESSIONS AVAILABLE NOW! history of this route I commend the YOUTH HOCKEY ACADEMY • SKATING ACADEMY • ADULT HOCKEY ACADEMY and the fact that the TTC for committing entire community car because there was an to a 10-minute service west of the Humber Loop issue on Queen Street. for all their riders. While it received ‘the short end of The TTC is not obliged to may seem inconvenient for the stick’ many years ago cater to a small geographic a some to have to transfer, I when the TTC originally area between the Humber think it’s important to realstopped the route split. Loop and Parklawn ize how this will far better The inconvenience to all Avenue, any further than service all riders, not just those who ride the streetcar the premium service they a few. who had to wait 20, 30 or initiated at Parklawn. more minutes for a streetThey service the entire T. Stewart “Service is our Motto”

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To the editor; Re: ‘Queen 501 split ‘brutal’ in evening rush: rider’, News, Jan. 14 I am writing to you regarding the article last week on the 501 Route Split. I agree with the points made in that article and would like to offer my “two cents”. I moved to New Toronto eight years ago and have been taking the 501 ever since to go to work downtown. Part of the reason I moved to this area is the fact that there was a dedicated route that would take me downtown and suspect that I am not alone. A lot of people factor in transit accessibility when deciding on where to live. My observation is that the

vast majority of the commuters that make it to the Humber loop go beyond, continuing along Lake Shore towards Long Branch with few transferring to buses to go elsewhere. What is happening now that the route has been split, is there are often three or more streetcars sitting for several minutes each before they head back towards Neville Park. This time lost for all the streetcars that sit idle at Humber would quickly add up to days and weeks of lost service time annually. I am not a logistics engineer but it makes no sense to me to have cars sitting idle when they should be redirected immediately to

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maximize the amount of time the streetcars are in service. There is no question that not all 501 passengers come all the way out to the Humber and that there are crowds of people standing at the various stops along the 501 in the downtown core during rush hour. My opinion is, instead of having the route split at Humber, the TTC should have dedicated streetcars that run between Parliament and Roncesvalles to take care of this high-passenger volume and allow the remaining available cars that go past Roncesvalles to go straight through to Long Branch. K. Vibert

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The TTC increased service daily on Toronto’s iconic 501 Queen streetcar line to every 10 minutes or less all day effective this month, welcome news to some south Etobicoke riders who reported wait times of up to 45 minutes in the past. But the TTC’s decision to split the 501 route at the

Humber Loop from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily has left one south Etobicoke rider wanting. Among the 501 route changes, the TTC recently announced a “temporary” route split at Humber Loop on the line, which runs west from Neville Park in the Beach to the Long Branch Loop. That means riders headed either west or east of Humber Loop would get off their street-

car, which would turn around, to board another to continue on their route. The wait time for the next streetcar is now 10 minutes or less. Jennifer Mozetic has lived in Humber Bay Shores for 10 years. She takes the 501 daily to commute back and forth to work downtown. Mozetic expressed confusion about the temporary nature of the TTC’s route split. She

reported four TTC 501 streetcar operators have told her the change will be permanent. That concerns Mozetic, who like much of the 501 streetcar’s ridership west of the Humber Loop, is travelling only a few more stops to home and would prefer not to switch streetcars. “It’s just brutal on the way home,” Mozetic said. “They make all the people get off a full streetcar. I’m faster walking home the 12 minutes than waiting for another streetcar.

“I’d get it if the TTC did this 10 years ago. But it’s crazy with all the condos here now. It will be crazier in two years (once all the approved Humber Bay condos are built).” The TTC added three 501 transfer-free 501 streetcars in the morning rush leaving Long Branch Loop at 7:19, 7:29 and 7:39, which Mozetic takes and confirmed travel through Humber Loop direct to downtown. TTC spokesperson Brad Ross >>>route, page 24

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vintage clock, watch collectors wmeet Are you keen on vintage clocks and watches? Then you may want to attend the Toronto chapter of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors’ market and group meeting on Sunday, Jan. 24. The buy and sell market operates from 9 to 10:30 a.m., followed by a seminar from 10:30 a.m. to noon at Travelodge Airport Hotel, 925 Dixon Rd. You can hear members share information and their experiences with vintage clocks and watches. Introductory admission is free. The group meets Sunday mornings six times a year at the hotel. For more information, visit www.torontochapter33.ca Learn to use iPad at Albion library Want to learn how to use the iPad? Learn the basics of the popular Apple tablet Monday, Jan. 25

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Experience adult colouring, the latest relaxation trend, Wednesday, Jan. 27 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at Richview library, 1806 Islington Ave. Studies show colouring can relieve stress and promote wellness. Colouring pages, coloured pencils and markers are provided or you can bring your own. This is a free drop-in program. Richview Library’s adult colouring program meets monthly. grab a winterlicious bite close to home T h i s y e a r ’s l i n e - u p o f Winterlicious restaurants includes six eateries in Etobicoke. From Jan. 29 until Feb. 11, foodies from across the city are encouraged to purchase tickets

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Hospital parking fees “break the bank” and are a barrier to the care visiting loved ones can provide, a Toronto patient advocate says. Francesca Grosso, whose elderly mother has been hospitalized for long periods, said the city’s hospitals often charge more for parking than its top hotels. Hospitals have maximum daily rates of up to $28, but if you leave – say, to pick up a child at school – the clock starts again, she said. “I’ve had times when I’ve had to pay 25 bucks three times a day,” said Grosso, a board member of the advocacy group Patients Canada. She called regulations announced by Ontario’s Liberal government this week to make hospital parking more affordable for frequent visitors a great start. Starting Oct. 1, hospitals that charge more than $10 a day will have to provide passes for five, 10 and 30 days at half off the daily rate. Those passes must come with in-and-out privileges and be transferable between patients and caregivers. Hospitals are also being told not to raise their daily parking rates for the next three years, the province said. In response, the Ontario Hospital Association said the government encouraged hospitals to generate revenue that would help cover their operating expenses, and this decision to cut a revenue source could not come at a worse time. “Revenue generated from parking fees is always used for patient care, towards the purchase of capital equipment and projects, infrastructure, clinical research, and dayto-day operations such as facility maintenance,” OHA CEO Anthony Dale added in a statement Monday, Jan. 18. Ontario hospitals, Dale said, “are now at a turning point” after four years with no increase in their base operating funding, and it’s harder for them to improve their buildings, equipment, or commu-

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Visitors to hospitals such as Etobicoke General Hospital can expect parking rates to drop across Ontario this October.

nications technologies. New Democrats said residents, together, paid nearly $500,000 every day last year to park at Ontario hospitals, and the Liberals were too slow in bringing them relief. “Those hospital parking fees make life harder for families and seniors, but for years the Liberals have refused to take action,” said a statement from France Gelinas, the party’s health critic. Gary Hepworth, chair of the Etobicoke chapter of Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP), said his group welcomes the changes, “as hospital parking fees are an unwelcome burden for families already undergoing a lot of stress due to the hospitalization of a loved one.” Hepworth said CARP members would like to see the changes earlier than October, and their one concern is whether hospitals will try to recover the lost revenue with “some other fee or charge.” Grosso, who lives in midtown Toronto, said she knows hospitals are strapped for money and parking is lucra-

tive, but “you’ve got people at their most vulnerable point” paying too much. The problem is so large, the city has had to restrict parking on streets around hospitals, she said. Caregivers sitting with patients aren’t playing Candy Crush or reading books, Grosso added, but are providing care hospital staff are often too busy to give, helping patients to washrooms, feeding them, or lending emotional support. It’s important for hospitals to advertise the new policy on parking passes to patients and loved ones, she said. Robert Biron, CEO of The Scarborough Hospital, said his institution has maintained the lowest parking rates among comparable Greater Toronto hospitals since 2009. TSH already has multi-use passes, but they are structured differently, said Biron. Parking does pay some hospital costs, and it’s too early to tell whether the new regulations will affect the finances of TSH, he said, adding if they do, a new revenue source must be found.

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would need to be tunneled for “significant stretches” which would raise construction costs — ranging from $3.6 billion to $4.8 billion for a northeastern corridor, and between $3.7 billion to $7.7 billion for the Eglinton corridor. Extending the Eglinton LRT along Eglinton would, in contrast, cost $1.3 billion. And projected boardings on the LRT by 2031 would be three times higher than the Eglinton heavy rail alignment, and twice as high as a northern alignment. The city also commissioned a ridership forecast for the entire route, prepared by U of T professor Eric Miller. He looked at a number of different variables, and found that SmartTrack would be an effective release for congestion on the Yonge line — assuming that certain conditions applied. First, riders would have to pay a TTC fare — the more expensive GO Transit fare would be a disincentive. Second, trains would have to operate frequently, about five minutes apart. Both of those are challenges, in that the trains would be operating on GO Transit lines and any fare integration would likely amount to some amount between the lower TTC fares and the higher GO Transit fares. As well, running more frequent service along lines currently used by less-frequent GO trains would mean that there would need to be significant new track construction so that trains from one

service didn’t run up against those of the other. Staff told reporters that absent a fare integration and decent headway, it was unlikely that the SmartTrack plan would be recommended at all. Pa r k d a l e - H i g h Pa r k Councillor Gord Perks, a frequent critic of Mayor Tory’s transit plans, suggested those conditions and others were impossible to meet. “The other thing that makes it impossible is the physical configuration of the track and the capacity at Union Station,” he said. “They’ve got four problems that can’t be solved in order to get the optimum outcome.” Perks suggested that the city would be better served by simply buying more buses. TTC Chair Josh Colle, meanwhile, offered a more optimistic reaction, calling SmartTrack “a positive development for Toronto’s transit and transportation network.” He wrote in a prepared statement: “The SmartTrack ridership projections released today suggest that local commutes on our regional rail system could significantly decrease the pressure on the overburdened Yonge subway by as much as 17 per cent,” he said. “SmartTrack will also integrate with existing busy TTC bus routes and help transit riders travel quickly and seamlessly across our city.”

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Mary Michiluk August 28, 1930 - December 23, 2015 Mary passed away peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday, December 23, 2015. Mary was born in Garson (Greater Sudbury), Ontario and grew up in New Toronto (Etobicoke), Ontario, Canada. At 25 she travelled to Los Angeles, and quickly adapted to the ‘Californian’ lifestyle of sun and fun. At various times she lived in the communities of Venice Beach and Santa Monica. Early in her new life she underwent extensive evening classes training to become an Escrow Officer a career that she enjoyed and continued to practice for her entire work life. Mary’s first love was tennis. She played regularly and worked very hard to maintain her trim figure. Mary played for both the Stoner Tennis Club and the Santa Monica Tennis Club (SMTC). She continued to play right up to three years ago when her declining health forced her to retire her racket. Mary was a regular parishioner at St. Monica’s and St. John’s Catholic Churches in Santa Monica. Frequently, she would travel back to visit her parents Dmytro (Mike) & Paraska (Polly) in Toronto. She would entertain us with her stories of life in Los Angeles. Mary returned to Toronto permanently in 2012 when her health began to fail. For her remaining years she lived with her sister Anne at Sunrise Oakville Senior Living care facility. Mary is survived by her sister Anne Leggett (Ron - deceased), nieces and nephews Cathy, Brad (Gail), Stephen (Joanne) and Maureen Clarke (Bob). She is also survived by her great nieces Sarah and Jessica Leggett and great nephews Alexander and Stephen Clarke. Also remembered by cousins Peter (Leda) and Boris Wolchuk and dear friend Louise Houle. The family extends their heartfelt thanks to Dr. Hamboyan and the staff at Sunrise of Oakville Senior Care (Reminiscence Care) for their genuine care and love. Mass will be offered for Mary on Monday, January 25th, 8:15 a.m., at St. Clements Catholic Church, 409 Markland Drive, Etobicoke. Donations to the Heart & Stroke Foundation in Mary’s name will be greatly appreciated. Messages of Condolence may be placed at RidleyFuneralHome.com

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