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TDSB ratifies agreement with elementary teachers The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has ratified a local agreement with teachers represented by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO). “We are pleased that the board’s 11,000 permanent elementary teachers have ratified their local agreement,” John Malloy, director of the TDSB, said in a statement. “It is an important step in building stability for our students.” Ratified local agreements have also been reached with three other employee groups including secondary occa-

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Ayman Abdalla, left, leads a workshop in the new Flemo City Media Lounge and Recording Studio after the youth space officially opened at the Dennis R. Timbrell Resource Centre.

New place to hang out for Flemingdon Park youth FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Young people in Flemingdon Park now have a place to create, record, and learn. The Flemo City Media Lounge and Recording Studio was officially launched earlier in February inside the Dennis R. Timbrell Resource Centre near Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue, which will house learning opportunities in sound engineering, broadcasting, and photography for youth and young adults aged 13 to 29. The facility, a partnership between the city’s Parks, Forestry and Recreation department and Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office, is funded by donations made by the Jays Care Foundation, the United Way of Toronto, and York Region’s Youth Challenge Fund. “Anytime we can give youth an opportunity to be involved and build that

sense of community is a good thing,” said Don Valley West Councillor Jon Burnside. “A lot of traditional programming is based on sports, but this gives youths with more artistic qualities an opportunity.”

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The idea of a recording studio at the centre was the suggestion of Dr. Hooley McLaughlin, vice-president of science experience and chief science officer at the nearby Ontario Science Centre, though he’s quick to point out it was the youth who should really take credit. After working with youth

at the centre in the late 1990s, McLaughlin had the idea of creating a radio station at the site, he said, adding by 2006 the young people were in complete control of the concept. “The idea was already in the community,” he said. “It wasn’t really my idea. It’s all because of them. It was gratifying seeing the opening of the lounge.” McLaughlin, who has worked at the Ontar io Science Centre for 30 years, said creating the youth space at the resource centre is, so far, his favourite project. “The young people took charge,” he said. “This shows the power in youth themselves. My job has always been to create exhibition programming and I care about the learning of young people. I have a fond connection to the youth in Flemingdon, and I’m there to be supportive, but the leadership comes within their own groups.”

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Seneca College’s Newnham campus is home to Ontario’s first Mechatronics Simulation and Demonstration Centre (MSDC). Officially launched Friday at the Hwy. 404 and Finch Avenue campus, the joint venture by Seneca and Siemens Canada offers students training and certification in the mechatronics field. The college transformed an existing lab facility to serve as the training ground for students to pursue the Siemens Mechatronics Systems certification program, a pillar of the Siemens Canada Engineering and Technology Academy (SCETA) established in 2015. “Siemens is a global leader in advanced manufacturing and industry, and it’s an honour to partner with them to open Seneca’s Mechatronics Simulation and Demonstration Centre,” David Agnew, president of Seneca College, said

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Seneca College computer engineering student Aggie Stopka works in the school’s new Mechatronics Simulation and Demonstration Centre at the Newnham campus on Feb. 5.

in a release. “Our thanks go as well to the government of Ontario for its investment in this sophisticated teaching and learning environment. Together, we are helping provide Ontario with the highly skilled graduates we need to continue to thrive in the complex and sophisticated world of advanced manufac-

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UNITY’s Youth drop-ins re-opening Whether you want to break, tag, beatbox or be an MC, there’s a weekly drop-in program to help you find your voice. You just have to show up, and it won’t cost you anything, says UNITY Charity, which is reopening three hip-hop youth programs in Scarborough and one in North York. “We’re the only spaces that do teach these art forms,” said Catherine Turcotte, an artist also known as Catalyst. “The youth choose what they want to work on. It’s really their space.” The Yorkdale Breaking Drop-In, on Fridays from 4 to 7 p.m. at Art Starts on Dufferin Street, is a dance drop-in “really oriented toward breaking,” Turcotte said, with a one-hour lesson, • 2001 Audio Video • Best Buy Canada Ltd. • Brick Mattress • Bruno’s Valu Mart • Canadian Tire • Career Choices • Coppas Fresh Market • Court Surface Supecialists Flying Flyer • Food Basics • Foodland Ontario • Foody Mart - Promobiz Solutions • Fortino’s • Fresh Value Supermarket • Freshco

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rime Minister Justin Trudeau marked his milestone of 100 days in office by marking what he hopes will be a new milestone for Canadian youth. Trudeau wants to get close to 70,000 youth working this summer, and the federal Liberals are committing massive amounts of money over the next three years to make that a reality. On Friday, he made a surprise visit to Toronto’s Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club where he announced the government would be injecting $113 million each year for the next three years to get young people in the workforce. The Canada Summer Jobs program provides funding to not-for-profit organizations, public-sector employers, and small businesses with 50 or fewer employees in an effort to help create summer job opportunities for students. The Trudeau government is on the right track to setting up students for success. When people are offered our view help, there tends to be a ripple effect. Support gives rise to Jobs today more support, and a spirit of and receiving is created. make engaged giving At the centre of this decision youth of future is not political popularity, but an understanding that empowering youth today will make them the engaged adults of tomorrow. They will learn life skills by doing them. They will learn co-operation and interpersonal skills by dealing with employers, customers and coworkers. They may develop meaningful friendships, build savings and start dreaming of a future of possibilities, that may have been clouded with fears and uncertainties. A job today equals an education tomorrow. A job today allows one to support her family in tough economic times. A job today helps a young person have hope for the future. The federal funding will be distributed to Canada’s 338 ridings. Areas that have higher levels of unemployed youth will get more funds. The program funds job opportunities for young people aged 15 to 30 years who are full-time students intending to return to their studies in the next school year. Employers and students interested in the program, should visit servicecanada.gc.ca/csj for more information. The application period for Canada Summer Jobs 2016 has been extended until March 11, so there is still time to get involved.

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Sadness is at the heart of the Uber-taxi battle There have been few issues at Toronto City Hall so consistently suffused with sadness as the Uber-X ride sharing fight with taxi drivers has been this past 18 months or so. From the outside, it’s been easy to confuse that sadness with rage. At the early February meeting of Toronto council, taxi drivers’ rage was certainly on display: several had to be removed from the council chamber as they watched councillors step away from seeking an immediate court injunction to stop Uber-X from operating in the city. Last week, Paul Sekston, one of those taxi drivers, took that anger to the airwaves and announced the new United Taxi Workers’ Association would be staging a protest to disrupt the NBA All-Star Game and run-up to it. It would have been a bad scene had it happened, but it didn’t. The same day, Feb. 11, he and other members of the taxi industry had a

david nickle the city sit-down with three city councillors – Janet Davis, Glenn De Baeremaeker and Kristyn Wong-Tam – after which, they decided to call it off. What clinched it? They simply needed to hear city councillors say aloud the thing that is undeniably true. Uber-X, as it’s currently operating in the city, is illegal. And there it was: the heart of the sadness beating beneath the crumbling front of rage. Taxi drivers, or at least Sekston, need if not a hug, then at least some clear allies in what they perceive, correctly, as the fight for their vocational lives. Mayor John Tory has tried to provide some assurance after he mused about the inevitability of disruptive technologies in a way that seemed to be giving Uber-X a moral if not entirely legal break.

And from the perspective of taxi drivers seeing their livelihoods dry up, Uber-X has gotten an easy ride from almost everyone else on the legal front. Yes, it’s complicated. When cab drivers came to the Toronto Police Services Board demanding more drivers be charged, Chief Mark Saunders explained doing so en masse is legally and operationally challenging. And when cab drivers demanded Toronto enforce its own bylaw – passed just last fall – setting up requirements for UberX’s continued operation that the ride-sharing app and the drivers who use it couldn’t and wouldn’t meet, council demurred. Again, it was for strategic reasons: if an injunction can’t be heard for three months, and the city’s new regulations governing ridesharing apps will be before council in two, the entire matter may become moot. Meanwhile, Uber Canada continues its charm offen-

sive, delivering kittens to stressed-out office workers and experimenting with shuttle services to underserved communities near the downtown – and, of course, by undercutting taxi fares for customers who are becoming used to trading fare savings for the invisible risks of riding an unregulated service. And to add to the sting: the Toronto licenced taxi model isn’t a sterling alternative. While taxis are regulated, the vehicles more rigorously inspected and drivers more comprehensively insured, Toronto’s system of commodified plates and absentee owners still makes for an ugly feudalism under which drivers work now. It’s been awful to watch, no doubt awful to live, and it’s hard to see anything near a happy ending to it all.

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A Happily Ever After Pizza Lunch WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. WHERE: Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto, 210 Wilson Ave. CONTACT: education@templesinai.net to register COST: $9, $6 for children Two to six year can join a pizza party with singing performance and interactive story time with a princess.

Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence Ave. E. CONTACT: torontobotanicalgarden.ca/jump COST: Free Thirty-plus horticultural/environmental exhibitors and vendors, demonstrations and presentations, floral design competition, Master Gardeners, garden tour, farmer’s market, TBG Garden Shop specials and more.

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North York student nabs coveted $100,000 Loran Award fannie sunshine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com For Aditi Sriram, the realization she is a Loran Scholar hasn’t quite sunk in. “It all feels like a dream,”

s a i d t h e Wi l l i a m Lyo n Mackenzie Collegiate Institute student. “I never once imagined, submitting my application, that I would even get an interview.” Sriram was recently named

Big changes include new exterior canopy near entrance >>>from page 1 patient and family experience through a number of design features. “The first one and most noticeable is the addition of the exterior canopy for weather protection for those using the emergency department, as well as entering the hospital through this north entrance,” Harvey said. “This renovated entrance will make wayfinding clearer for patients and visitors as well as staff, physicians and volunteers. Another design feature is the addition of a clerestory windows over the Yellow Zone waiting area which will bring natural sunlight into the waiting and treatment area. This feature will enhance the care environments for a better patient and family experience. “Other design features include new wayfinding in the department. There will also be a renovation to enhance the area for mental health patients and their families, increasing the safety for those patients, while reducing the noise and traffic.” The cost of the redevelopment is fully funded by the North York General Foundation.

one of 30 Loran Award winners for 2016, which comes with a $100,000 prize for postsecondary education over four years for undergraduate studies in Canada. The Jane Street and Finch

Avenue area resident was one of 80 finalists from 4,200 applicants battling for 30 Loran Awards. Sriram took part in the national selections Feb. 5 and 6 in Toronto after moving on from initial interviews in

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Steep fares to be part of Union Pearson Express review RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Metrolinx will conduct a review of the Union Pearson (UP) Express’ operations, including fare pricing, following the release of disappointing ridership numbers. Since the four-stop train

route launched to great fanfare in June, ridership numbers have consistently dropped, to the point in which some trips have reportedly had more UP staff on board than actual customers. Me t ro l i n x c h a i r Ro b Prichard acknowledged UP’s pricing has played a role in

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Prichard last week. “We’re actively doing that and the really great thing is we have an excellent service which works very well, with high reliability and performance.” The review will track factors that may have hampered UP’s ability to attract new ridership since its debut as a premium

rail transportation option for travel between Pearson airport and Union Station: building brand awareness, improving wayfinding, and convincing people to change their longstanding travel habits to give the service a try. While a review won’t be completed until June, any

decision to alter UP’s fare structure would require a special board meeting before then held in public, said Metrolinx CEO Bruce McCuaig. UP’s current pricing model is practically 10 times that of the TTC’s Airport Rocket bus: $27.50 for a one-way trip without a Presto card.

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