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Residents weigh in on future of Allen Road LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com In an ideal world, Vito Valela would like to see Allen Road buried underground and extended downtown.

That way, the expressway could still serve the needs of motorists – and even fulfill its original purpose, before the provincial government killed the idea in 1971 in the face of opposition, of carrying drivers downtown – while above ground it could be turned into land that better caters to the needs of cyclists, pedestrians and neighbourhoods cut in half by the road.

“Allen Road is the dividing line between the haves and the have nots. It (tunnelling Allen) would probably rejoin the communities.

Everyone gets what they need,” Valela told The Mirror at a city public consultation meeting Monday night at the Ancaster Park Community Centre.

Tunnelling Allen underground is one of the options the city is consid>>>allen, page 5

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J.K. Choi, right, and his bride Anna Chekhman are joined in holy matrimony yesterday by Rev. Leonard A. Tarnowski at the North York Civic Centre wedding chapel. The wedding, taking place on the 12th day of the 12th month of 2012, began at 12:12 p.m.

Five times 12 reasons for wedded bliss LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com

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Allen Road looking southbound.

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t exactly 12 minutes after 12 p.m. on the 12th day of the 12th month of 2012, Anna Chekhman and J.K. Choi walked down the aisle of the wedding chapel at the North York Civic Centre.

It was 26-year-old Chekhman who picked the 12-12-12 date for the nuptials and then, for added luck, waited until 12:12

before she let the ceremony begin.

A more go-with-the-flow guy, 25-yearold Choi was content to agree with whatever made his bride happy.

“He asked, ‘When do you want to get married?’ and I said ‘Dec. 12 on 2012.’ It was my little joke,” said the new Mrs. Choi, who grew up in the area of Yonge Street and Finch Avenue.

“It’s just because it’s kind of like a comfort thing. It can’t be bad. It’s a little bit

more special. It’s the last chance (to have a wedding on a day with repeating numbers).

There’s no 13th month.”

Choi, from Korea, said his new wife can be superstitious, something that doesn’t bother him in the least.

“I’m not at all,” he added.

The couple, who live in Downsview, met at a bar about two years ago.

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Mirror’s Santa the nutcracker: seasonal celebration Fund collecting new toys for needy families North York Mirror readers can help their community newspaper make this Christmas brighter for a number of local families.

The Mirror’s Santa Fund is collecting new, unwrapped toy donations at its office this month. Donations will be distributed to families in need by Mirror staff in partnership with the Toronto charity Holiday Helpers.

Families being helped this holiday season are in need of warm clothing along with toys and electronic items from their wish lists. Donated items of toys, clothing and electronic items must be new and unwrapped.

They can be dropped off at The Mirror’s office, 175 Gordon Baker Rd., in the McNicoll and Victoria Park avenues area. For details, call managing editor Paul Futhey at 416-774-2256 or email pfuthey@ insidetoronto.com

dress rehearsal: Top row: Jasmine Thomas, centre, and the rest of the Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts corps de ballet perform during dress rehearsal Tuesday for the school’s production of ‘The Nutcracker’; a dancer performs with the Nutcracker. At left: Alex Servoz and Zenon Zubyk perform.

Bottom row: Alexandra Berry, centre, tightens her ballet shoes before heading on stage; dancers warm up; dancers wait in the wings for their cue to perform.

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Getting married by the numbers >>>from page 1 She is talkative, always smiling and bright, qualities that appealed immediately to Choi. He is tall, skinny and a good listener. That combination was so attractive to Chekhman she dumped her thenboyfriend and began dating Choi.

“I just imagined the man in my life exactly like him,” she said.

About a dozen friends and family gathered in the chapel to witness the wedding and clapped when Rev. Leonard A. Tarnowski declared the couple husband and wife.

“I think this is a very unique day, a very beautiful day,” Tarnowski told The Mirror following the service. “The couple is absolutely lovely. It’s an honour to do the service for them.”

Chekhman is taking the last name of her husband, who is a personal trainer.

“Mr. and Mrs. Choi, I like that,” said the graphic designer.

The couple is planning to honeymoon sometime in the future in Korea.

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his week, Toronto residents saw students from numerous high schools take to the streets to protest the loss of extra-curricular activities at their high schools as part of the continuing battle between the Ontario governour view ment and its public school teachers.

Next week, however, the heat Sharing of is really going to be turned up effective ideas as a one-day strike by public elementary school teachers in encouraged Toronto is expected at some point before next Friday, Dec. 21.

The union representing the elementary school teachers, the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO), has been calling one-day strikes in school boards across the province since Monday of this week. The ETFO is giving boards, and parents, 72 hours notice of the impending strikes. Perhaps by the end of this week or early next week, Toronto residents with children in the public system should know what day the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) will strike the elementary schools.

The TDSB will close the doors of its schools with students from junior kindergarten to Grade 8. The board has sent home letters to parents encouraging them to start making alternate arrangements for their elementary school children now.

For thousands of parents this is going to be a costly, complicated and stressful day.

But by working together in our neighbourhoods and school communities we can make it easier for those facing challenges.

Communities in other boards have come up with some good ways of dealing with the strikes beyond taking the day off work or sending the kids to other family members.

For instance, the City of Ottawa announced it would be extending its before and after school programs on the day of the strike. We expect to see an announcement from the City of Toronto shortly that it will be doing the same.

Also, other organizations are stepping up. In the case of Ottawa again, the Ottawa Senators said they’d offer a full-day hockey camp that day for kids aged five to 12. Hello, Toronto Maple Leafs – there’s a great idea.

There are many other great ideas out there parents can start sharing with each other right now, so that those who are able to help with child care on strike day can do so while those who must go to work can also do so. newsroom

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To the editor: I think it is time those who want Olivia Chow to run for mayor of Toronto to get a grip on reality.

This is nothing more than a cynical and opportunistic attempt to grab power by the left. This will only help return the left to the good old days of the David Miller administration when the wards of the inner city tail were able to wag the dog. It was good times for those who were able to feed at the public trough, but not so good for the rest of us in Toronto.

The last person we need for mayor is this ex-crusader for the downtrodden masses.

By running amok with their leftist agenda, she and others on the left have eroded the ability of our police service to do its job.

If she should return to Toronto politics, I would encourage her to move her home to one of our risky areas in the city so she can reap the full benefit of our eroded police service.

Isn’t it also a basic human right to be able to live safely and in peace?

Chris Belfontaine

Shaping up to be a truly forgettable NHL season

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ess up, all you NHL fans out there pining over missing your beloved hockey. Even if this lockout drags on until January and the league ends up with just a 48-game or 60-game season and the New York Islanders end up playing the Florida Panthers two or three fewer times than they the normally do, are you really going to lose any sleep over it?

As much as you love the game of hockey, don’t you think an 82-game schedule, is a tad long?

Come on now. Be honest.

You know it. I know it.

The owners and players know it.

Heck, deep down even Don Cherry knows it.

The fact is, the wear and tear is way too much on us all. The movers and shakers behind the scenes are doing everybody – and the game – a humongous favour by

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shortening the season.

Too bad they’re only going to be shortening one season.

At least that’s how we all feel today, with autumn still in the air.

The moment the temperature drops that same endless NHL season doesn’t seem so long after all.

In fact, everything about the league suddenly makes sense. Even the Islanders and the Panthers facing off two or three too few or too many times.

For some reason amnesia automatically sets in when winter arrives. Old Jack Frost takes his first nip out

of your schnozz and presto, you immediately forget everything about the NHL that drives you up the wall.

You forget that outside of emotional rivalries such as the Leafs/Canadiens, Oilers/Flames and Penguins/Flyers, for example, regular season games have about as much hitting as a pairs figure-skating ice dance samba.

You forget about how you’re constantly lulled to sleep by the neutral zone trap and the left wing lock and are so thankful that they just don’t cut it during the playoffs, even though you have no idea what the heck either one of them is, let alone which is which.

You forget that every team – except your favourite one, of course – seems to qualify for the postseason. You forget that the team that finishes first overall often gets bounced

in the first round.

In short, you forget that no matter how good you thought the regular season game was that you saw last night, it will not even closely resemble the worst playoff game of the year.

And you forget that ticket prices will likely go up for the playoffs, and we’re talking waaaaay up. Yes, even if half the season is cancelled.

Yeah, you forget all that when those first snowflakes fall. Which means only one thing: the owners and players must be praying for the nastiest winter ever.

Because fans are going to have a heck of a lot more to forget about this year than ever before. n Jamie Wayne is a lifelong columnist, who takes writing very seriously. The topics? Not so much. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at jamie.wayne@sympatico. ca

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Allen poses several challenges >>>from page 1 ering for the road’s future.

Other options include doing nothing; making minimal modifications; making significant improvements to traffic operations, the public realm, streetscaping, landscaping and integration with the surrounding neighbourhood; turning Allen into an arterial road with lower speed limits; closing part or all of the road.

The Allen poses several challenges, according to a city report.

For example, drivers experience some of the longest traffic line ups in the city; intersections, especially at Lawrence and Eglinton avenues, are considered among the most challenging in the city; retaining walls and bridges will soon require reconstruction; there is poor access to TTC stations; the road is not well integrated with the surrounding neighbourhood; the interchange of Allen and Hwy. 401 is a major obstacle for local traffic,

cycling and pedestrians.

Whatever the future holds for Allen, Valela stressed the road is a necessary expressway for cars.

“I don’t think we can live without Allen Road, realistically,” said the resident of the Wilson Heights Boulevard and Sheppard Avenue area.

“I think they (city officials) have to be vehicle-sensitive as much as they have to be pedestrian and alternative(users other than vehicles) sensitive, so put it underground.”

Overhearing Valela’s support for burying Allen, Paul Greenwood said tunnelling the road would be extremely expensive and take years.

Valela agreed.

“I agree. I’m just talking about in my ideal world,” he said.

Greenwood, who lives in the area of Lawrence Avenue and Allen, is worried the city may put too much emphasis on the needs of cyclists at the

expense of motorists.

“I see more of this bicyclists’ push. It doesn’t make sense to me to put weight on the environmental push and get rid of (Allen),” he told The Mirror.

“To get rid of it, you lose the connection from north to south (for vehicles) and what are you left with?”

Joe Genua, who lives in the area of Keele and Wilson, said Allen is serving its function well as it is now.

“Ideally, if they stuck with the initial plan, it would have gone all the way downtown.

That would have worked best for me but it works for me as it is. It works for what it is, it’s a short hop (on a north-south expressway).”

He would like to see a large parking lot built at the bottom of Allen to accommodate drivers who want transfer to the future Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown LRT line when it is completed.

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Malibu LTZ gets a Turbo boost The Turbo Malibu has 259 hp and, more importantly, 260 lb/ft of torque that sees it sprint from 0-60 mph in 6.3 seconds, which is equal to a lot of sporty cars on the road. Top speed is 248 km/h .And it does this with a fuel consumption rating of 10.1 L/100km city and 6.6 L/100km highway.

The turbo is standard on the topline LTZ model (as tested) with a list price of $30,650 and optional ($1,620) on the 2LT model one

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The current 2.0-litre uses direct injection, variable valve timing and a twin-scroll turbo pumping at 20-psi. But there is more to it than that.

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The special aluminum pistons have oil spray cooling. There is a two-stage thermostat and twostage variable-displacement oil pump that enhance efficiency.

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With its sportier engine, the Malibu LTZ Turbo is also tuned for improved handling. The MacPherson strut front end features dual-

path mountings which separate the transfer of spring damper loads to the body for a smootherfeeling ride overall and enhanced stability when cornering.

New for the turbo model are internal rebound springs for the front struts that give the Malibu improved body motion control and roll damping in handling manoeuvres.

A direct-acting front stabilizer bar gives a sharper and more immediate feeling to steering inputs. It is mounted to the rear portion of the engine cradle with

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But the Touring was actually ahead of Hyundai’s new Fluidic Sculpture design language. The GT remedies that with several cues such as a large, hexagonal grille and double upwardly flowing character lines.

In this class, utility is very important, with Hyundai claiming more interior volume and maximum cargo capacity than the competition with 531 litres behind the second row split/fold seats and a total cargo volume of 1,444 litres.

The GT is positively festooned with storage areas such as front and rear bottle holders, front and rear cupholders, a front console/ bin with auxiliary audio ports, a nifty extra power point in the front passenger’s footwell area for a laptop/etc and, on some models, a cleanable storage tray under the rear cargo floor.

Power comes from Hyundai’s “Nu� series 1.8-litre, four-cylinder engine with twin cams and variable valve timing producing 148 hp and 131 lb/ft of torque. It is equipped with a standard six-speed manual or optional six-speed automatic

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The GT is actually a five-door hatchback with 551 litres of cargo volume behind the rear folding seats or 1,444 litres with the seats folded.

A premium touch on the 2013 Elantra is a repeater turn signal integrated into the outside mirrors.

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both driving the front wheels.

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Where the GT differs significantly from the Sedan and Coupe is in the chassis. It is based on the i30 model that Hyundai sells primarily in Europe and is thus dialed more towards the handling response side than the comfort side. The coil spring over MacPherson struts suspension at the front is modified for a more sporty feel and uses outside-supplier gas shocks from Sachs for improved body roll response.

Pricing for the base GL with sixspeed manual starts at $19,149 and tops out at $26,349 for the automatic SE that has all the bells and whistles.

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But generally, this is a budget that doesn’t take many risks. There is no attempt to remove the land transfer tax. The budget doesn’t pretend to freeze property taxes. It doesn’t make an attack on downtown services particularly, just as it doesn’t reward suburban communities, especially.

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That mandate is still there in theory. But the mayor and the agenda are walking dead in these weeks before Christmas, as the budget committee wraps up its deliberations.

They’ve been a sullen affair; budget committee chair Mike Del Grande presided over public deputations early this week, underneath the projection of a growing spreadsheet on which he costed every single thing Torontonians asked for in their three minutes. But again, that’s nothing compared to the marathon meetings Mayor Ford held last year.

Spreadsheets have nothing on sleep deprivation. And from the look of things, 2013 has nothing on 2012.

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hat a difference a year makes.

Last year, the operating and capital budget was a battleground between left and right, downtown and inner suburbs, Margaret Atwood and Etobicoke North Councillor Doug Ford. The budget committee wrestled with hot-button issues such as the closure of city zoos and the denuding of public libraries.

It was enough of a fight that Toronto Council finally took part of it away from the budget committee and Mayor Rob Ford, and set the stage for a dramatic power shift in which council wrestled pretty much everything away from the mayor.

Mayor Ford and his supporters warned that in this year’s budget, council and the city would have to go through the war all over again.

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Trinity-Spadina Councillor Adam Vaughan, who is considering a run for mayor, said a byelection could cost taxpayers a great deal.

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And Del Grande said if it’s a city councillor that’s elected mayor, there could be an additional byelection the city will have to cover, prior to the regularly scheduled 2014 municipal election.

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