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Toronto’s Kristina Valjas hopes to follow in her brother’s footsteps – right to the Olympic Games.

The 28-year-old University of Toronto grad, who grew up in Willowdale, has a good shot at representing Canada in Rio this summer in women’s beach volleyball, along with her 30-yearold partner Jamie Broder.

Last April when the pair won the gold medal at the Fuzhou Open in China, it marked Canada’s first women’s FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour medal.

“It was so exciting to be part of something that was historic because it was the first medal ever earned by Canadian women in beach volleyball,” said Valjas.

“Not only that, it was gold. To stand on top of the podium on international soil and to work hard towards something for so long and actually seize it for a moment – because definitely I want more where that came from – is very exciting and it’s just a testament to our hard work, and proving that we’re doing the right thing and heading in the right direction.”

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t’s the eve of 2016. We’re all a year older and hopefully a little wiser.

From the moment we’re born we begin to age.

We’re cradled, we crawl, we stand, we walk, we run; always driven by our curiosity to know more, do more and be more.

But how much is too much? Are we experiencing real value in our lives living in this fast-paced culture of technology and responsibility?

We resolve to make changes, but most times these changes don’t stick.

New year’s resolutions seem to be destined to fail.

Maybe it’s because vowing to lose weight isn’t the real goal. But rather to be healthy and more energy to take care of our view have your family.

Instead of saying you’re going Aim for a to go on a financial diet, how reframing the thought. life of value about Resolve to spend money only on and balance the things that bring you the most joy. You’ll soon realize you’ll save more money and accumulate fewer things.

No one is asking you to come up with a grandiose plan for your future. But, of course, you could if you like.

But how about simply resolving to slow down your busy life a bit and reflect on what’s important to you.

Live a life of value and balance. Unplug. Increase face time with your favourite people. Find time to exercise.

Take in what you’ve learned in the last 12 months and build on the good and be grateful for the bad, because the adversarial experiences no doubt taught you the most.

We’re wired, tired and on the go non-stop. At least that’s how it must have seemed for many in 2015.

Let’s not say the same next New Year’s Eve. If there’s something you want to do in 2016, don’t think, just do. Push through toward your goals, one foot in front of the other, because baby steps count too.

There’s lots of great things that can be done in the coming year, including becoming more involved in your community or volunteering to help others.

The best way to make change is to be the change and that’s the best new year’s resolution you could ever make.

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Tory must address SmartTrack concerns If 2015 was simply about righting the ship of state in Toronto and restoring civility to civic life – and for many it was, as I argued in this space last week – the coming year is going to be a challenge for our new and agreeable city council.

Indeed, looking at the new calendar, everything contained in the promise (and promises) of Mayor John Tory and his new council is going to be put to the test.

There was a certain luxury to be had in the first year of this mandate, being able to set up not just the tone for a debate, but the factual basis for it.

So two of Tory’s signature issues – the SmartTrack heavy rail transit system linking Markham to Scarborough and the downtown, and then Liberty Village and Etobicoke and eventually Markham, and the continued construction of the Scarborough Subway – could move slowly and

david nickle the city inconclusively through committee and council, blessed by open questions for another day.

The day to answer those questions will come in 2016, probably sooner than later. Media reports have indicated there are problems with the implementation of SmartTrack, particularly in the west end where considerable tunnelling might be necessary. The question, until now avoided, of whether it makes sense to have SmartTrack run so near the Scarborough Subway extension will need to be addressed, definitively.

Thanks to the new budget process, in which city finance staff don’t do the work of budget balancing but leave that to politicians, councillors will have to find ways to pay for $67 million worth of

programs that they cheerfully approved in 2015. The continuation of enhanced transit service, investment in poverty reduction strategies… something as simple as setting up safe ice-skating on Grenadier Pond… will all depend on the ability of councillors to make hard choices and take responsibility for their decisions.

The city is going to need more money in any case, and councillors are going to have to have another look at that list of possible revenue tools they so neatly rejected during the Rob Ford mayoralty.

In year-end interviews, Tory has made much of his indifference to ideology in his approach to governing the city and corralling council. It has served him well so far, and could serve him well this coming year.

But it might be a terrifying time. Ideology, for good and for ill, can work as a kind of road map for a politician faced with making a

firm decision to deal with a complex problem.

Without a notion of where one wants to be, it can be easy to confuse pragmatism with populism, to make a call that panders to a base rather than provides a solution.

That’s not to say Tory should return to his Conservative roots or sign a New Democratic Party membership card – pick shirts or skins in an oldfashioned Toronto council mud fight. But he and the rest of council should remember that over the next year and the ones that follow, there are going to be debates and decisions that together will shape both the city and the legacy.

Doing it right is going to require flexibility, and thoughtfulness – and in the end, a crystalline clarity of vision.

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Mayor’s 2016 priority: making Toronto run better DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com It’s the day after the launch of the 2016 budget process – really, the first full budget of Mayor John Tory’s term – and it’s fair to say the mayor is feeling the sting of his critics.

The budget is not quite balanced – councillors will have to find $23 million in savings to just hold the line at inflation for property taxes, and find another $67 million if they want to keep the promises of service enhancements that council and the mayor have made through 2015.

As Tory sits down for his end-of-year interview with Metroland Media Toronto, the bristling is barely noticeable.

“It is the beginning – I have been working on it for months and this is the beginning of the process that is continuing,” says Tory. “We have eight weeks of hard work ahead.”

Indeed, as 2016 unfolds, fixing the city’s budget and dealing with the city’s finances will be the first of a series of big

most grateful for the simple stability of a mayor that if anything tacks to the dull side.

“The number one thing they raise with me every day is how happy they are that I’m conducting the job in a responsible and balanced way,” says Tory. “It’s not just about not engaging in bad behaviour – but they also see that my comments on television are balanced. They see that I’m prepared to take into account the other side.”

Tory would like to be understood in this way: as a balanced, evidence-based politician who steps outside of the world of partisan politics that he himself once inhabited. He offers up evidence to that, in talking about one of the major debates at Toronto Council in 2015, over what to do with the eastern portion of the Gardiner Expressway.

Tory advocated strongly against tearing that section of the highway down and instead building a ‘hybrid’ elevated highway – and in the end, he prevailed.

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Mayor John Tory’s priorities for 2016 are transit, traffic, housing and jobs.

jobs that Tory hopes to complete, to eventually make more sense of the mayoralty that Tory began just over a year ago on the heels of the tumultuous Rob Ford mayoralty.

In many ways, Tory’s year in 2015 was about restoring calm to an office that had seen a bit too much tumult.

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No I can’t. But I put forward a proposal and it’s going to be a transformative transit project.”

On the Scarborough Subway, Tory is anxious to take the discussion away from the one that his predecessor Rob Ford framed it as justice for Scarborough. He also refutes critics in the development industry who maintain the ridership simply won’t be there to support a subway.

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Chief weighs in on challenges facing police in 2016 ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com

D

espite a rise in global terrorism, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders says there’s no credible threat against the city.

But the chief stresses that doesn’t mean all is well.

“It’s a different world right now,” he said in a year-end interview in December.

“We need to be more alert. We need to be more vigilant in our dayto-day processes if we want to keep the city safe.”

According to the 2015 Global Terrorism Index, there has been a dramatic rise in terrorism over the last 15 years with nine times more people being killed in terrorist attacks today than in 2000. The report, released last month by the Institute for Economics and Peace, found that terrorism spread significantly in the past year, with attacks and fatalities in more countries than ever.

“We work on a provincial, national and international level. We’re in constant communication with law enforcement agencies around the

Staff photo/ANDREW PALAMARCHUK

Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders reflects on 2015, and looks ahead to challenges facing the Toronto Police Service in the coming year.

world and we are kept up to speed with information in real time,” Saunders said.

“We’ve got a very good machine when it comes to national security. ... I feel comfortable in knowing that if we do have to turn it on that we do have a good plan in place that will be effective.”

According to a CNN report earlier this month, ISIS has conducted or inspired at least 50 terrorist attacks in 18 countries that have killed 1,100

people and injured more than 1,700 others since June 2014.

“It’s always on the back of my mind,” Saunders said of a terrorist threat. “It’s not like we sit and wait for something to happen. There are things that are in the works on a dayto-day basis, 24 hours a day when it comes to national security.”

Saunders, a married father of four, was appointed chief in April, making history as the city’s first black top cop.

“If it serves as a role model for any member of the community, then it’s a good thing,” he said.

“I threw my hat in the ring because I was hoping to move the Toronto Police Service to the next level, the next generation of policing, and I have a particular vision in which I would like us to move in, so that’s the first and foremost reason why I was interested, and the history piece, I kind of stuck that more or less behind me, but I’m grateful that that’s how it has been considered.”

At his swearing-in ceremony, Saunders called the cost of policing an “urgent” issue and vowed to “examine everything we do” in an effort to find efficiencies.

A recently formed task force,

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chaired by Saunders and Toronto Police Services Board chair Andy Pringle, will study ways to modernize the force, which has an annual budget of $1 billion.

“This task force is going to look at what we can do to transform the existing model, what we can do to modernize the model of policing to make sure that we can be even more effective and efficient,” Saunders said.

“Whether it’s looking at technology and using it to help us keep the city safe or it’s looking at the shift model in policing, how we can modify that to get the most out of the assets that we have, I think are some critical components.”

A 2011 efficiency report found that $35 million could be saved with a schedule change. There are currently as many officers on duty in the early morning hours as there are during the busy evening hours.

“It’s going to take a tremendous amount of research. It’s not a matter of making change for the sake of making change,” Saunders said of the task force. “We really have to be careful in the approach that we take to make sure that what we do is the right thing to keep Toronto safe.”

In May, Toronto police unveiled a body-worn camera pilot project involving nearly 100 officers.

Saunders said the project, which ends in March, is “going well” but wouldn’t reveal whether he thinks it should be expanded.

“I don’t want to promote too much of what my feelings are,” he said. “I’m going to look at the research and see what the research tells me.”

As of Dec. 21, there were 243 shootings involving 381 victims in the city in 2015, compared to 174 shootings and 231 victims at this time last year.

“We have to be careful because the connotation is that this is now a pattern and it’s on the rise. It’s only compared to one year, which is last year. Last year is a bit of an anomaly year,” Saunders said.

“Does it concern me that people are using firearms as a decision maker? You bet it does. It concerns me tremendously. And then the question is: What do we need to do to deploy our officers in the right areas at the right times so we can reduce that from happening? And that’s the process that we’re moving towards right now.”

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www.plumbersdirect.ca

BaySprings Plumbing

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SALE!

Plumbing

heating & cooling

SALE!

Plumbing

Travel & Vacations

416-639-2288

(Met Lic #P20579)

SALE!

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Rooms for Rent and Wanted

Burton Electric Inc.

Cash 4 Cars

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SALE!

F/T CAREGIVER to care for elderly person with a spine condition, private home (Thornhill). 40hrs/wk.

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Legal Services

FINCH/ NEILSON. Large room for rent.

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Parking. Immediately. Rent negotiable.

905-294-2494

Travel & Vacations

$100-$10,000

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Company vehicle provided.

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plumbing

(DAVID) M.J. Yelavich & Sons, Etobicoke, Ontario

SALE!

29 DRIVERS needed ASAP

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metro lic. #H16265

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Mortgages/Loans

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MONEY

Astrology/Psychics

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SALE!

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Real Estate Misc./Services

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home renovations

electrical

SALE!

Obtain and follow up utility locates, safety and equipment record keeping.

Need Excel skills. Own car.

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SALE!

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Waste Removal

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Eli Bakhtiari Sales Representative Interior Designer

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Direct: 647.296.6945 we speak:

English

Group at Remax Hallmark Bayview Village

Thanks to All of Our Customers, Friends, & Family for your Trust & Business Throughout the Year.

French

ca.linkedin.com/in/elibakhtiari

Korean

Farsi

Bella Lee Broker Developer/Builder

Direct: 416.939.3003

Cantonese

Visit www.EliBellaSold .com

/elibellasold www.facebook.com/elibellasold

Mandarin

ca.linkedin.com/in/bellalee www.twitter.com/elibellasold .t

Happy New Year 2016!

Amir Eshtiaghi

Ken Chen

Amir Hakemi

Manda Lakdashti

Ben Xia

Maya Mohammadi

Cameron Abbasi

Melissa Perry

Da Zhang

Michael Li

Vida Hooman

T. 416.494.7653 F. 416.494.0016 685 Sheppard Avenue East, Suite 401, Toronto, ON M2K 1B6

Not Intended to solicit properties currently under contract