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Both men served in the same regiment, the 48th Highlanders of Canada, but Brown never said much about the war.

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Santa excited for his 112th parade in Toronto DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus will be riding through downtown Toronto on Sunday, Nov. 20 and they’re excited to spread a bit of holiday cheer.

Approximately one million spectators will see the parade live this year.

Now in its 112th year, the Santa Claus Parade will start at 12:30 p.m. from Bloor and Christie streets, head east along Bloor, turn south onto University Avenue, then east on Front Street, ending at St. Lawrence Market. It’s a 6.5 km route.

The 2016 iteration of the parade offers up plenty of new or improved things to watch for. Here’s a few: HOLLY JOLLY FUN RUN The Holly Jolly Fun Run happens just prior to the parade. This year’s 5 km run starts half an hour before the parade.

“There are literally a million people cheering you on in the race,” said Mike Bartlett, executive director of MLSE Foundation, at a media preview day for the parade at Santa’s Secret Workshop near Weston Road in northwest Toronto Thursday, Nov.

3. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) is a partner in this year’s parade.

There are prizes available for participating. Registration closes Nov. 15. To register, visit www.thehollyjollyfunrun. com C E N T U RY O F M A P L E LEAFS The Toronto Maple Leafs are celebrating their 100th anniversary this year and will be parading at this year’s event. MLSE also has a Toronto Raptors and Toronto FC float.

The Leafs float celebrates some glory days from the team’s storied past and features Johnny Bower who won four Stanley Cups with the Maple Leafs, stopping a shot from Carlton The Bear, with a backdrop of Maple Leaf Gardens.

MOTHER GOOSE FLOAT Mother Goose is perhaps the oldest member of the parade, except for Santa himself, having appeared in the event every year since the 1930s. This year, Mother Goose will be flying over a night-sky and moving side to side in her float. She’s one of 25 floats this year and will be joined by 21 marching bands.

SANTA CLAUS FLOAT “We have built a brand new Santa Claus float this year,” said parade general manager Alf Iannarelli at the media preview event. “It is the biggest, longest float that we’ve ever built.”

The float is 42 feet long and features the different temperate zones of Canada including Christmas trees, arctic zones, animals, and, of course, Santa himself.

“Believe it or not, Santa had to sneak in and knock on the backdoor so I could see the new float and I am most impressed,” Santa Claus said at the media event.

RED NOSE RAFFLE Air Cadets will be selling red noses at a pre-parade festival Nov. 18 and on parade day Nov. 20 at Union Station.

While the red nose is fun to wear, purchasing it also helps keep the parade going year after year.

Red noses cost $2 or three for $5. The parade is a nonprofit operation that gets help from 3,000 volunteers.

It also takes a full 12 months to build the floats at the secret workshop.

For more information, visit www.thesantaclausparade. com

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Above, Santa and Mrs. Claus make their entrance and get a big response from parade participant Stephanie Chirume (right) during the 2016 Santa Claus Parade preview at Santa's Workshop's secret location in North York; Left, it’s hugs all around as a group of child volunteers for this year’s Santa Claus Parade get together with Santa and Mrs. Claus during the 2016 parade preview.

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Teen wins Ontario Science Centre innovation award for tongue-controlled computer mouse An Oakville teen who created a tongue controlled computer mouse was presented with the Ontario Science Centre’s 2016 Weston Youth Innovation Award Wednesday, Nov. 2.

Emma Mogus, 18, was looking for a way to help a friend who suffers from ALS better navigate technology when she came up with the idea for her creation.

The Tongue-InterfaceCommunication (TiC) is a $10 non-invasive, tongueoperated, customized and programmable USB-HID (Human Interface Device) keyboard with interface circuitry. The prototype consists of a mouth guard, similar to an athletic one, with five pressure sensitive switches across the front that correspond to up,

down, left, right, and enter.

So if the user has a keyboard that pops up on the computer screen - Mogus is working on a wireless TiC version - they can easily type and search, she previously told The Mirror.

And Tic isn’t just for people with ALS; it’s also useful for people with MS or spinal cord injuries, she said.

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Weston Youth Innovation Award encourages and recognizes young Canadian innovators.

Along with collecting a $2,000 prize, Mogus will work with a multimedia team at the Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue site to create an animation to showcase TiC, which will be displayed in the Weston Family Innovation Centre.

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Emma Mogus shows off the Tongue-Interface-Communication device she created, a tongue-controlled computer mouse, that won her the 2016 Weston Youth Innovation Award.

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t’s possible, even likely, that at some point next year, Ontarians will be able to search store shelves for ‘purple haze’, ‘blue dream’ and ‘kosher kush’ marijuana alongside their VQA merlots, sauvignon blancs and moscatos.

Work is well underway to lay the foundation for marijuana legalization in this country, with legislation expected in the spring.

Pot advocates have long argued legalization could give our economy a lift. A new report suggests that lift could surpass anyone’s wildest prophecy.

A study produced by the Deloitte firm – titled Recreational Marijuana: Insights and Opportunities – suggests a legal marijuana industry in Canada could be worth an incredible $22.6 billion – more than the sales of wine, spirits and beer combined.

Deloitte’s research values the recreational retail market The business for weed at between $5 billion and $8.7 billion annually. of pot could Tack on between $12.7 bilinject billions lion and $22.6 billion for the ancillary market (growers, into Ontario specialty product makers, testing labs and security) and you have what Deloitte calls “a bold new landscape” for businesses and governments.

But that’s not all.

Pot tourism, business taxes, licensing fees and paraphernalia could drive these astronomical projections even higher – high enough to stagger even the most jaded corporate CEO, or perhaps sway those still on the fence over whether or not legal pot is a good idea.

“There hasn’t been anything like this – and granted it wasn’t legislated – but you think of the dot-com … flurry,” Mark Whitmore, vice-chair of Deloitte, told the Toronto Star.

It’s no wonder that some ambitious medical pot entrepreneurs have tried to stake their claims by opening dispensaries long before a bill has been presented to MPs. Legal pot represents an extraordinary opportunity to jump-start our economy, which has been idling for far too long.

Who would have thought that the jolt we needed would emanate from a leafy green herb bearing an unmistakable sweet scent and a sketchy past?

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Toronto budget deliberations kick off with trash talk

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o doubt about it, the big budget fight lies ahead at city

hall.

But for now, the usually unsexy rate-supported budgets – water, solid waste, and the Toronto Parking Authority – are shaping up to be a pretty good opening act for what is sure to be a fraught debate over the operating and capital budgets for Toronto.

The rate budgets were launched a week ago at a Friday morning meeting of Toronto’s budget committee. It was a good-news, bad-news affair.

The good news is that the regular hefty increase to the water rate will be lower in 2017: five per cent, compared to the usual eight to nine per cent.

Those increases had been paying for the upgrading of Toronto’s crumbling underground water infrastructure, and staff feel that Toronto is nearly square.

So toilet flushing will

david nickle the city cost more, but not as much of an increase as last year.

The cost of trash-tossing, however, is a different matter. Staff there are recommending bigger increases than in the past on the garbage bin fees, as well as a host of new ones.

To be honest, the bin fee increases aren’t that big.

The overall increase in the cost is 3.9 per cent, compared to 1.5 per cent each year over the past eight years. The biggest increase, on the extra-large bin as it happens, is $24.34 a year.

The smallest increase is probably the most irksome: $12.73. When the program was introduced and for several years afterward, the city maintained no charge on the wee bins, as a way to reward homeowners who are good at recycling and keeping garbage to a minimum.

And that leads to the really irksome parts of the proposed budget; a host of additional fees, some of which will create more of a disincentive to divert.

Now homeowners who want to try a smaller bin, and recycle more, will be hit with a $25 fee for the bin exchange. The yellowbag system of garbage collection for commercial districts will go up by $1.61 a bag, creating an incentive for businesses to drop the city service and go with a private hauler that won’t necessarily be as concerned about recycling and other diversion.

And there’ll be an $8 per household flat fee for collecting oversized items.

The increases are to pay, in part, for replacement of city-owned garbage trucks – trucks that may, in fact, prove unnecessary if council decides to contract out more or perhaps all of the city’s garbage collection, as it already has in the west end of the city.

Budget chief Gary Crawford indicated Friday that all this fee-charging business won’t make it to council should he have anything to do with it.

“We need to keep the city affordable,” he said outside the meeting.

Presumably that will mean keeping these double-digit increases in check. And doing so shouldn’t be that difficult, given that those digits are loonies and not percentiles.

The next struggle - with Toronto’s mammoth operating and capital budgets - is going to be a much harder fight.

But it is likely to be the same story: staff bringing forward unpalatable options to cut services and hike fees, budget chiefs dropping gauntlets - and councillors, finally, doing their best to sort it out.

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Mentors Helping Youth in Toronto WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: The Peer Project, 5734 Yonge St. CONTACT: Paula da Rocha, rdarocha@yay. org COST: Free We need volunteers aged 16 to 29 to inspire at-risk or newcomer kids to thrive. As a mentor you will offer support and guidance to a younger youth in your community. It requires three hours a week. Share experiences, skills, and hobbies and inspire a younger youth to stay on the right track.

Blessed Trinity Christmas Bazaar WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Blessed Trinity Catholic Church, 3220 Bayview Ave. CONTACT: Christine Toleck, 416-2269450 COST: Free Christmas crafts, silent auction, knitting, sewing, bake table with homemade pies, sweets, jams and relishes.

Sponsorship for Parents and Grandparents WHEN: 10 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Fairview Library, 35 Fariview Mall Dr. CONTACT: 416-707-8259 COST: Free Learn about the new changes for pa-

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Foot Care Clinic at Mosaic WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Mosaic Home Care and Community Resource Centre, 2900 Steeles Ave. E. CONTACT: 905597-7000 to book an appointment COST: $40 Mosaic’s registered nurse assesses clients’ feet and document progress, cuts and files toe nails, treats calluses, ingrown toe nails and more.

CHECK oUT oUR complete online community calendar by visiting www. insidetoronto.com where you can read listings from your Beach-Riverdale neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto. rental sponsorship reopening Jan. 3.

Free demonstrations and tea room.

Holly Bazaar and Lunch WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church, 1 Greenland Rd. CONTACT: 416-4443471 COST: Free Baking, preserves, book table, attic treasures and collectibles. Bring your shopping bags.

Rescue Me! WHEN: 12:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence Ave. E CONTACT: www. fourpillarsproductions.com COST: $150 at the door Listen to five high-profile speakers address each of their Animal Foundations and how they are making change – some risking their life in the process.Proceeds raised are being donated to our 5 NFP’s Speakers.

Sumi-e Exhibition of Oriental Brush Paintings WHEN: noon to 5 p.m. WHERE: Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond Ct. CONTACT: www. sumieartistsofcanada.org COST: Free Features more than a 100 paintings contributed by dozens of local artists.

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The Gratitude Diaries WHEN: 12:30 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Prosserman Jewish Community

Centre, 4588 Bathurst St. CONTACT: michael@brown-cohen.com COST: $25 The Gratitude Diaries takes readers on a journey to discover how gratitude can transform every aspect of life. Includes a lunch with the author and a book signing to follow. Book included.

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Knitters and Crocheters Needed WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Centennial Library, 578 Finch Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-395-5490 COST: Free Centennial Library Knitters are looking for more knitters and yarn.

Ken Lister’s Ward Forum WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Lescon Public School, 34 Lescon Rd. CONTACT: Ken Lister, ken. lister@tdsb.on.ca COST: Free Join TDSB Trustee Ken Lister to learn how you can engage parents to be involved in your school council.

The eh List Author Teva Harrison WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: North York Central Library Auditorium, 5120 Yonge St. CONTACT: 416-395-5639 COST: Free The eh List Author Series presents artist, writer and cartoonist Teva

Harrison discussing her critically acclaimed graphic memoir, In-Between Days, which documents her personal journey of living with breast cancer.

Book signing to follow.

Donway Badminton Club WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Don Mills Collegiate, 15 The Donway E. CONTACT: donwaybclub6@gmail. com COST: Membership $80; guest $5 Welcoming new members. Age 16 years and older.

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Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: North York Central Library Auditorium, 5120 Yonge St. CONTACT: 416-395-5660 COST: Free Join Barbara Dickinson as she discusses Canada’s biggest Second World War munitions plant General Engineering Company Canada Ltd. and how it employed predominantly women to make explosives. Drop-in.

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Author to speak about Battle of Vimy Ridge Author Ted Barris will give a free talk on the Battle of Vimy Ridge Thursday, Nov. 10 at St. John’s York Mills Anglican Church, 19 Don Ridge Dr. The award-winning author has penned military historical books about Canada’s connection to Juno Beach and the Canadian presence in Korea, along with The Great Escape: A Canadian Story.

“St. John’s has personal connections to the Battle of Vimy Ridge,” Rev. Drew MacDonald, who has both studied and taught history, said in a release.

MacDonald’s grandfather fought at Vimy, as did several St. John’s parishioners of the time.

“It’s the eve of Vimy’s 100th anniversary, and we thought it appropriate to honour that

during our own anniversary year,” MacDonald said.

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“I know the first time I ever came home in my uniform, he cried. I’ll never forget that.”

Holmes’ memories of the military are different.

He enjoyed the training he received so much, he said, he wishes it was mandatory.

“It teaches you discipline, it teaches you the social graces, camaraderie, and responsibility.”

It was also a paying job.

When Holmes was 17, he had a little experience working in a grocery market, and didn’t want to end up “a punk on the street.”

A lot of his friends had relatives in the army or navy, some of the them in the Highlanders, where Brown said he’d served.

Holmes signed up in 1953.

Once he got a taste of military life in camps around Ontario - firing all sorts of weapons, riding in a Sherman tank, blowing things up - he enjoyed it all.

There were still a lot of Second World War vets in the regiment, “a really rowdy crew.” People called him Horizontal Holmes because he could sleep anywhere.

Hurricane Hazel devastated Toronto in 1954, and Holmes was in a photo on the front of the Toronto Star with two other young soldiers.

They were wearing their Glengarries (woolen cap) and rubber boots, clearing debris from the Humber River Valley.

Holmes and his comrades sifted deep mud with long steel poles, looking for bodies.

“We didn’t find a lot of human remains, but we found a lot of livestock - cows, horses, pigs.”

Twice, he trooped the regimental colours for Queen Elizabeth II himself, once to open what is now Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

He became the sergeant of a mortar platoon. You could get hurt; Holmes remembers a soldier whose face was blasted by a training grenade.

They didn’t wear ear protection; firing those mortars and

guns damaged his hearing, but Canada’s Veterans Affairs supplies hearing aids and batteries for life. “Sure enough, they looked after me.”

He never saw his stepfather in uniform. Brown had said he was in the Highlanders, but what he wears in the only picture Holmes has from that time suggests Brown was in another unit, the 70th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

That infantry battalion was used to reinforce others in Europe during 1916, so it’s possible Brown was assigned to the Highlanders later on.

At the Beach, though, there was no mistaking the damage bullets had done to Brown’s head and shoulder. He said he’d been at the

Battle of the Somme and Vimy Ridge, costly battles in which the 48th Highlanders took part. He also told Holmes he had survived a mustard gas attack.

Like his stepson, Brown was tall. He never went near a Royal Canadian Legion branch. He was a good man, said Holmes.

His father, Norman Holmes, was also a Canadian veteran, and served during the Second World War, but Holmes knows even less about that.

“I was only three years old when he left,” he explained, adding by the time his father returned, Holmes’ mother had met someone else, his stepdad. “So I didn’t have much to do with him.”

Holmes believes he was

Above: Snapshots arranged on Gord Holmes’ kitchen table show his days training and marching with Toronto’s 48th Highlanders at various camps in Ontario. Holmes, who joined up in 1953, says he enjoyed every minute serving with Canada’s army; Left: Holmes displays a photograph Monday of himself (at left) and other soldiers from the 48th Highlanders regiment, clearing debris from the Humber River Valley after Hurricane Hazel struck Toronto in 1954.

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a private in the RCEME, the Royal Canadian Electrical Mechanical Engineers, and may have worked to ready vehicles to go overseas during the war. What’s certain is he’s buried in the military section of Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

After he got out of the army in 1962, Holmes went into sales and worked his way

up to be general manager of Harold Schafer, the company that brought Mr. Bubble to Canada.

He then spent 23 years as a Toronto police court officer, and is still president of the Scarborough Seniors SloPitch League.

Many army friends have passed away, but at age 79, Holmes continues to help

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with the 48th Highlanders’ Continuing Sergeants Association and its Old Comrades Association.

And on every Nov. 5, Holmes joins a ceremonial parade at Mount Pleasant that ends with a moment of silence in the cemetery.

“There’s an old saying, ‘Once a Highlander, always a Highlander.’”

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An intergenerational mural was officially unveiled at Baycrest Friday, Nov. 4.

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“I’m thrilled,” Kezwer said of the mural, which was officially unveiled Friday, Nov. 4 at the Bathurst Street and Hwy. 401 area site. “It looks beautiful.”

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The mural is permanently located along a wall in the north parking lot facing the Kimel Family Building.

Lead by artist Bareket Kezwer, some 60 Baycrest clients, residents and patients up to age 88, along with teens as young as 14, came

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“We’re doing more than just creating a mural, we’re building a community through art,” she said.

Esther Samuel loves to paint so when she heard about the intergenerational mural through Baycrest’s Wagman Centre, she quickly signed up.

“Most of us have arthritis in our hands but we still put in effort,” she said. “Our minds are still vibrant and we came up with lots of ideas.”

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when I went in, I couldn’t tell her,” Wijeratne, 23, said in an interview. “Finally the doctors said ‘We’ll tell her if you’re present’ and I went and held her hand and I told the doctor to tell her and we just cried.”

Antonette spent more than three months in hospital and has permanent injuries.

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The three departments the Toronto Parking Authority, Toronto Water and Wastewater, and Solid Waste Management are the only three city budgets that aren’t funded by property taxes. Instead, users are billed directly based on the extent to which they take advantage of the services.

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The village will be lit with candles and historic lamps Saturday, Dec. 3, 10,

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As Americans headed to the polls and the world watched, engrossed as the results trickled in, U.S. ex-pats living in Canada were split over what the election of Donald Trump would mean for the future.

Mark Feigenbaum, chair of Republicans Overseas Canada and Democrats Abroad board member Ed Ungar had decidedly - and unsurprisingly - differing views on the outcome of the election, which saw Trump defy most polls and predictions to become the president-elect.

The surprises started coming in early, and Feigenbaum said he saw a path for the Republicans to take control of the White House early on as key battlegrounds swung red - something many pundits felt was unlikely heading into the election.

“I was telling everybody, once (Trump) got Florida, North Carolina and one other state, that was the end,” he said. “It came down to him winning those two states and one more. You knew he wasn’t going to win New York or California, you knew she wasn’t going to win Texas.”

Feigenbaum noted that Trump’s victory was both an endorsement of his policies and a repudiation of Hillary Clinton.

“A lot of it came down to people finding her disfavourable - people disliked her,” he said, noting that.

He said the Democrats would be left to wonder whether another challenger - say, Bernie Sanders or Joe

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CNN declares Hillary Clinton the winner of the state of Illinois garnering cheers from the crowd during a U.S. presidential election watching party hosted by the Toronto-Danforth NDP at the Fox and Fiddle Tuesday night. By the end of the evening, things took a turn for Clinton with Republican candidate Donald Trump voted president-elect of the United States.

Biden - would have resonated more with voters.

Ungar was concerned heading into the election, with trends heading Trump’s way, particularly in light of a renewed FBI investigation into Clinton’s emails in which she was cleared a mere couple of days before the election.

Looking ahead, Feigenbaum said it’s now time to parse the rhetoric on both sides.

He noted Trump’s declarations that he will renegotiate NAFTA may have an impact on Canada, but he said time will offer more perspective.

“Right now, there needs to be a lot of reassurance because

a lot of people seem to think the world is ending,” he said.

“Clinton said she had some problems with some agreements, so he’s not alone there (in talking about renegotiating trade deals). I think it’s going to be a lot less dramatic than people are gearing up for.”

Ungar was more concerned, pointing to economic predictions from sources such as Moody’s Analytics and the Wharton School of Business.

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“We’re fortunate to have a journalist of Grace’s calibre leading our Toronto news team,” Metroland Media vice-president Dana Robbins, Metroland Central region group publisher, said in a statement.“She’s a passionate, innovative journalist who cares about the communities we serve. I know our readers will be well served by her leadership.”

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Time to start acknowledging role that speed plays on pedestrian deaths This week marks the start of yet another public awareness campaign by Toronto police for road safety.

This time around, police are pointing out that out of the 37 pedestrians or cyclists struck and killed this year, the vast majority are seniors.

Until Sunday, Nov. 13, police promise a greater presence in the vicinity of “pedestrian crossovers, crosswalks, intersection...and crossing areas frequented by seniors.”

The police insist they’re not blaming any one group for the deaths of dozens of the city’s most vulnerable population, that every road user, whether behind a wheel or on foot, needs to be vigilant for their own safety. Not picking sides may seem like an improvement to past attitudes - see past comments from police slamming pedestrians for not wearing bright enough clothing or carrying distract-

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT ing mobile devices while crossing the street - but perhaps there needs to be at least some admonishment coming from official sources. Anyone suggesting pedestrians should be seen as equals to motorists is overlooking one fact: speed, as has been shown by study after study, kills. As the 2012 Chief Coroner’s review of pedestrian deaths in Ontario found, speed - and not the colour of one’s clothes - was by far the main determinant in whether one survived being struck. On roads with a posted speed limit higher than 50 kilometres per hour, 67 per cent died; the number dropped to 5 per cent where posted speed limits were less than 50 km/h.

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pedestrians are absolved of all personal responsibility. But to apportion an equal amount of blame on pedestrians without calling to attention the role speed plays in causing fatalities is an argument growing increasingly ludicrous given the realities of our city.

Take a burgeoning population of elderly pedestrians, combine with roads geared to ease of access for automobiles and increasingly ill-equipped to deal with a growing percentage of nonmotorists, and it’s a recipe for death.

No amount of road safety campaigns no matter how well-intentioned will have any impact on the fatality rate without acknowledging the role speed plays. It’s long past time to start playing the blame game.

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NEW PAY RATES!!!

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Kitchen Staff Frozen Food English Required.

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Call 905-836-7368 and leave Contact Name & Number.

ROYALCREST PAVING & CONTRACTING has immediate openings for

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Supervisor /Cosmetician

Part time positions, weekend/evenings for Shoppers Drug Mart located Younge/Cummer Experience required.

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Kinark Child and Family Services is recruiting for two (2) Lead Managers for our Peterborough and Durham/ Northumberland Programs.

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by November 25, 2016

ANTIQUES WANTED

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Call 416-288-0313

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AFFORDABLE CONTRACTOR Handyman - Carpentry, Electrical, Plumbing, Tiling, Drywall, Painting, Bathrooms, Kitchens, Basements, Counters, Closets, Flooring, Windows/Doors, Roofing, Fences, Decks, Additions Licensed & Insured Lester - 416-223-0226 BATH & KITCHEN RENOVATIONS Flooring, Ceramic, Marble, Granite, Porcelain, Hardwood, Laminate, Carpet, Professional Painting.

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We fix them all! www.mrstucco.ca • 416-242-8863 BUILDER/ GENERAL

SNOW BROKERS required with 2008 Truck or newer for SNOW ROUTES in Scarborough & North York

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS All claims against the estate of SIDNEY BREGMAN late of Toronto who died on or about the 9th day of February, 2014, must be filed with the undersigned personal representative on or before the 12th day of December, 2016 after which date the estate will be distributed having regard only to the claims of which the executors then shall have notice.

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WANTED. CLEANING LADY FOR 2017 - BATHURST & SHEPPARD AREA. Looking for an experienced cleaning lady 2-3 times a month. Position Overview: Candidate must be willing to do laundry, ironing, floors, washrooms, windows, dust, and multitude of other household chores.

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garage sales

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Soltanian Real Estate Inc., Brokerage Experience The Difference 175 Willowdale Ave., Unit 100

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WE ARE NOW HIRING REALTORS! “IF YOU WANT TO BE THE BEST, LEARN FROM THE BEST!”

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