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One of only 50 Canadians to receive coveted scholarship TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com

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TWO POINTS: Seneca College’s Felix Adjei rises for a dunk against Centennial College during Ontario Colleges Athletic Association basketball action Tuesday night at Seneca’s Newnham campus. Centennial went on to win the game 55-53.

More than 50 organizations expected at Willowdale job fair T h e C i t y o f To r o n t o Yo u t h Employment Partnerships along with MPP David Zimmer, MP Chungsen Leung and Trustee Mari Rutka will be co-hosting Help is Here 2013!, A

Family & Youth Support Services & Job Fair Saturday, March 2.

The free community event will have over 50 organizations attending along with representatives from

government services, community agencies and Willowdale public representatives. Also included this year is a youth job fair. The event is designed to support youth and their

families living in the north central part of Toronto.

The event will be at Earl Haig Secondary School from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Dante Mottillo has won the postsecondary lottery, of sorts.

The Father John Redmond Catholic Secondary School and Regional Arts Centre student is one of only 50 Canadians to be awarded the 2013 Queen’s University Chancellor’s Scholarship, one of Queen’s most prestigious major admission awards.

Valued at $36,000, the scholarship is renewable for four years based on continued academic excellence and community service.

More than 900 high school students across Canada were nominated for this year’s Chancellor’s Scholarship by their high schools based on academic excellence, creativity and initiative, demonstrated leadership and school/community involvement.

“I didn’t think I had a chance,” a modest Mottillo, 17, said Tuesday seated in the Etobicoke high school’s conference room. “There were two nominees from our school. Imagine all the nominees from schools all across Canada. That’s a lot of nominees.”

The North York teen began his high school career studying visual arts with advanced placements in French, English, math and science. To date, he has earned greater than 90 per cent in all but one of his classes. >>>NORTH, page 2

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North York student previously accepted to York U. >>>from page 1 Every Saturday, Mottillo is a oneon-one reading tutor at his local library. A goaltender, he coaches other goalies both on and off the ice. He tutors in math and English at school.

Not surprising, considering Mottillo intends to become a high school math and English teacher.

“Him,” Mottillo said, pointing to his English teacher Christopher Stidham, when asked his inspiration for becoming a teacher.

“The first day of Grade 9 I still remember he looked at me, smiled and said: ‘You’re going to be trouble.’ I loved that class. It was a lot of fun,” Mottillo said of Stidham’s Grade 9 English class. “There are great faculty at this school. Every teacher I’ve had, I’ve loved.”

Mottillo ran with his love of reading and writing to join Stidham’s writing club, as well as write for the Diaspora Dialogues’ youth blog, Young Writers from the Edge. He read one of his original poems, “Mint in a Noon Time Alley” at last year’s Word on the Street festival.

“He could submit that as a 40-year-old and someone would say, ‘that’s a damn good poem and want to publish it in a journal,’”

Stidham said of Mottillo’s poem inspired by a Grade 12 writer’s craft class observational field trip to the AGO and to Kensington Market.

‘I honestly have no doubt we’ll see his name not just as a teacher, but on the spine of a book or being advertised as a reader at some festival.’

– Teacher Christopher Stidham “I honestly have no doubt we’ll see his name not just as a teacher, but on the spine of a book or being advertised as a reader at some festival. If he keeps writing, and I hope he does, he has quite the gift.”

Stidham wrote a nomination letter in support of Mottillo’s scholarship application.

“He may well be the brightest.

But he is without a doubt the hardest working student, always trying to do better. Paired with his intelligence, that is what I think sets him apart from probably all the other

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North York’s Dante Mottillo, in Grade 12 at Father John Redmond Catholic Secondary School, has been awarded a Queen’s University Chancellor Award, valued at $36,000 over four years. The stellar student is also a published poet, visual artist, hockey goalie and peer tutor, and intends to become a high school English and math teacher.

applicants out there. He’s also doing dozens of other things on the side whether it’s editing or publishing or drawing or tutoring or playing chess or ping pong, cheering for the Habs,” Stidham said.

Stidham introduced Mottillo to his love of the classics with Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. The teen’s favourite contemporary writer is New York Times’ bestselling author Matthew Pearl, who

spins historical fiction into murder mysteries in his novels The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens and his latest work, The Technologists.

A voracious reader, Mottillo writes the names of authors and books he wants to read on Post-It notes attached to a cork board next to his desk at home.

Next month, Mottillo will make a return visit to Queen’s open house over March Break to get a feel for the campus and the course offerings before he makes his decision on his application to Queen’s concurrent education program.

He has been accepted into the Dean’s Circle at York University, where he has also applied to the concurrent education program, which grants an undergraduate, as well as an education degree. His older sister, Amanda, is enrolled in York’s concurrent education program. She intends to become a dance teacher.

Stidham foresees a successful future teaching career for his young charge.

“He’ll be a tough teacher, funny.

He’ll be excellent. He’s a very, very hard worker. He gives 110 per cent to everything he does.”

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Hospital initiates review after ‘dead’ baby found to be alive Humber River to look at ‘all aspects of care provided in this case’

Humber River Regional Hospital is conducting an internal review of its procedures after a newborn baby declared dead on Sunday morning was later found to be alive.

“The review is looking at all aspects of care provided in this case, including the extensive resuscitation efforts by hospital physicians and staff beginning in the ambulance itself when it arrived at the hospital,” Humber River said in a statement.

“The review will be conducted in consultation with all appropriate agencies, including Toronto police and EMS. The Ministry of Health has been informed as well.”

The review will be led by chief of emergency medicine, Dr. Nalin Ahluwalia, and chief of pediatrics, Dr. Narendra Singh.

The baby’s 20-year-old mother gave birth outside on a sidewalk with the temperature about minus-17 Celcius, which some experts suggest resulted in slowing the infant’s metabolism so the heart rate was undetectable.

The baby was rushed by ambulance to Humber River’s Finch site just east of Hwy. 400, where the infant was declared dead.

About 90 minutes later, police officers waiting for a coroner noticed the baby was moving under a sheet.

The baby has since been transferred to the Hospital for Sick Children for medical treatment.

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Perruzza wants inspections posted for medical clinics Reassurance for potential clients important, says York West councillor LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com York West Councillor Anthony Perruzza wants to do for medical patients what the city’s DineSafe program did for restaurant patrons.

DineSafe requires Toronto eateries to prominently post a notice indicating whether they have passed, conditionally passed or failed city health inspections.

Perruzza is expected to ask city councillors Thursday to request the College of Physicians and Surgeons

of Ontario to adopt a similar program for out-of-hospital medical clinics.

It would give patients “some reassurance they won’t walk into a place where they are going to come out sicker than when they went in,” he told The Mirror.

“All my motion does is ask the college to post something on the door that is something similar to DineSafe so when you reach for the door handle, you know it’s passed inspection.”

The posted notice could reassure patients that medical staff are

properly trained, equipment is in proper working order, the premises are sanitary and other guidelines are met, Perruzza said.

On Jan. 31, the college agreed to post the results of clinic inspections on its website, along with reasons for clinics that fail and conditions imposed on clinics that pass conditionally.

But not everyone owns or has access to a computer or is comfortable navigating technology, said Perruzza, adding the elderly, new immigrants and others may have trouble getting the information they need on the college’s website.

College spokesperson Prithi Yelaja said the college has no comment on Perruzza’s proposal.

“However, it should be noted that individual premises are free to post inspection results and many are already doing so,” she said in an email.

The college has different ways for the public to access information, Yelaja said.

For example, it has just reviewed the issue of making inspections public and will post results online at www.cpso.on.ca/publicregister/ default.aspx?id=7376 “The college website lists the most current outcomes of premises inspections, including information for a pass with conditions or a fail. In addition to the up-to-date information about each premises, there is also information online to answer

any questions patients might have about the program, what it means if there are conditions, detailed information about what the conditions are, etc.,” Yelaja said.

“This information changes quite frequently, particularly for premises that have conditions. We know that the college’s website is an important, reliable source of information and it gets three million hits per month.”

Those who don’t have access to the Internet can call the college’s public advisory service to find out about inspection results and other questions, Yelaja said.

Public advisors respond to almost 50,000 calls a year, she said. Call 416967-2603 for general inquires.

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s Toronto’s Feeling Congested? campaign shifts into its next stage, Torontonians eager to see an improved transit system throughout the city and its surrounding regions must understand the size and comour view plexity of the challenge.

To be blunt, the process of enabling critically-needed transit Challenge improvements is going to get is large and harder as the process advances.

Having the public give feedcomplex back and direction – which happened earlier this month – is a critical component to this process. That meaningful methods of paying for transit infrastructure were at the heart of these consultations is important. Community members must understand that we will only get the transit we are willing to pay for.

But ultimately it will be the leaders we elect who will be entrusted with the potentially difficult decisions that will get shovels in the ground. These leaders may be in a position where they have to weigh what’s best for a community versus what’s politically expedient.

But that’s one of the reasons why the public feedback part is so important – that we articulate what it is we want and that we are willing to pay for it.

It is also important to keep that momentum going.

Early next month, the Feeling Congested? campaign is hosting a series of discussion panels. The first features Toronto’s chief planner, Jennifer Keesmaat, former Vancouver co-director of planning Larry Beasley, president and CEO of Toronto Board of Trade Carol Wilding, along with councillors Peter Milczyn (planning and growth committee chair) and Michael Thompson (economic development committee chair).

It takes place Monday, March 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Jane Mallett Theatre at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. We encourage you to attend.

It’s vital to get involved now any way you can. While this focus on transportation is looking not only at the needs of today but those decades from now, some big things are happening in the coming months.

Last week we heard Metrolinx chair Robert Prichard say a special board meeting is being planned for May 27 where the investment strategy to pay for $34 billion worth of projects will be released. These projects include the eastern portion of a downtown relief subway line.

The realization of some of these projects may be decades away, but the potential decisions putting them in motion are fast approaching.

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To the editor: We entrust our children to Canada’s public school system for their most crucial years, and rightly expect our school system will help them grow up to become good law-abiding productive citizens of Canada.

Our children are, still at least in pre-high school grades, taught Canadian history and geography, but when it comes to cultural identity, our education system is and always has been a complete failure.

Our school system teaches our Canadian children to grow up performing and admiring mostly American culture and, disdaining Canadian culture by the complete absence and avoidance thereof.

Well, our school system’s cultural education departments are the main root cause of the total absence of Canadian culture education.

I, as at least one proud Canadian, want to know why this happens?

Steve Hartwell

The cold weather is always a hot topic I don’t know what it is about winter, but it seems like during the season a comment on the weather first is always mandatory before one is allowed to enter into any conversation. I also get more emails from readers about the climate at this time of year than at any other time for some reason.

Here is just a sample of the kinds of inquiries that have come my way.

Q. Jamie, meteorologists are saying that the snowstorm we had last week was the worst one in Toronto in the last five years? Is that really true? Agnieszka in the Annex.

A. Not according to the kids in my neighbourhood.

Ask any of them and they’ll tell you it was the best snowstorm in the last five years.

Q. I really pulled something last week just after that big blast that blanketed the city. I’m not sure what I’ve

but seriously

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done exactly but as a result I had to give my wife the bad news that I wouldn’t able to do any shovelling for awhile and that she’d have to do it instead. I’m trying to downplay the whole thing but my wife is very concerned. What do you think I pulled? Junior in the Junction.

A. Given the circumstances your wife has every right to be concerned. I’ve heard this tale a few times this winter and I know exactly what you did. The technical term for what you pulled is: a fast one.

Q. When I called and left a message on her voice mail that I wasn’t going to be able to get to work because

of that huge snowfall do you think my boss actually believed me? Nervous Nellie in North York.

A. Not knowing you or your boss I couldn’t say for sure. But I’m guessing she believed you as much as she believed you if you left her a recording that you came down with a serious case of the flu on Tuesday and wouldn’t be able to make it in to work following the long holiday weekend.

Q. Last night, the weather person on the tube said that no two snowflakes are alike.

How the heck could anybody possibly prove that?

Pedro in Parkdale.

A. Ah, don’t take everything they tell you too seriously. Much of what we get from meteorologists doesn’t add up. Or multiply up either for that matter as in what I witnessed last night. The forecaster on the channel I was watching said it was zero today and would

be twice as cold tomorrow and with the wind chill it would feel like it was three times as cold. Now, I’m no math whiz, but even I know two times zero and three times zero are still zero.

Q. I just moved to Toronto last spring and I can already tell that people around here tend to really exaggerate about the weather conditions at this time of year.

This is my first winter ever and I don’t what all the fuss is about. It’s been great. I absolutely love it. My only question is how do I know when to wear earmuffs?

Simran in Scarborough.

A. Oh, that’s easy. You put them on the moment people start moaning and groaning that it’s soooo cold. They work like a charm every time. You won’t be able to hear a thing.

Jamie Wayne takes writing very seriously. The topics? Not so much. Reach him at email jamie.wayne@sympatico.ca

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FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Richard Kennard isn’t one to bask in the spotlight.

For the past 19 years, the Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue resident has volunteered with North York Harvest Food Bank (NYHFB) four times a week, which started as a way to pass time after his retirement in 1994.

“It was close to where I live,” the 75-year-old senior said of the Bathurst Street and Lawrence Avenue food bank.

Kennard, who spent 44 years working at Eaton’s warehouse at Hwy. 400 and Sheppard, was now working inside NYHFB’s warehouse, sorting good, making up orders, and helping with whatever else was needed.

“I enjoy the work and the people I work with,” said Kennard, who now has the title of sorting supervisor.

Kennard’s dedication to his volunteer work will be

recognized Tuesday, Feb. 26 when he will receive a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal during a ceremony at Barbara Frum Library, 20

‘I think it’s a good thing to acknowledge people but I don’t come here to get awarded for what I do.’

– Richard Kennard Covington Rd. “I felt quite thrilled about it,” he said of the award.

“When I was told of the nomination it was really appreciated. I think it’s a good thing to acknowledge people but I don’t come here to get awarded for what I do.”

The Diamond Jubilee Medal is awarded to outstanding citizens who have

achieved excellence and demonstrated a commitment to the growth and prosperity of the province. “(Kennard’s) commitment and dedication is exemplary,” said Lisa Anderson, manager of volunteer services, who nominated Kennard for the medal. “He volunteers with us Monday to Thursday every week except for a vacation week in August. He supervises our food sorting area as well as teaches other volunteers to sort food. He is always ready to lend a helping hand during our special events and weekend food drive activities. He is a quiet man who focuses his energy on completing his volunteer tasks. Richard’s reliability, diligence and honesty make him well respected and liked by North York Harvest staff and volunteers.”

The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal will be presented to Kennard by NYHFB, Ontario Association of Food Banks and Food Banks Canada.

Unfortunately for the York Lions university football team, the winner of their top award – the Frank Cosentino Team MVP Trophy – won’t be returning this fall.

Instead, running back Kyle Exume, who played his fifth and final year with the York Lions after four years at Bishop’s University in Quebec’s eastern townships, will be lining up this summer with the Edmonton Eskimos in the Canadian Football League, having been just signed as a free agent earlier this month.

Exume closed out his Canadian university in fine fashion finishing fifth in Ontario University Athletics (OUA) with 691 rushing yards – an average of 86.4 per game – and was tied for third among running backs with nine rushing touchdowns.

He also produced the highest single-game rushing total across the country, accounting for 180 rushing yards and three touchdowns in the Lions’ victory over the Ottawa Gee-Gees.

And that’s not even the full extent of his contributions:

Kyle Exume of the York Lions, seen in action against U of T, has been signed by the Edmonton Eskimos.

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he also appeared on special teams (earning the Andre Durie Special Teams MVP Award) and even occasionally on defence.

And he did it all in a program that has struggled over the last half decade; last season’s 2-6 record was actually York’s first multi-win season since 2005.

Here are the other winners from the awards banquet, which was held Feb. 13: * Offensive MVP Award: starting quarterback Myles Gibbon * Defensive MVP Trophy: linebacker James Tuck. * Rookie of the Year Award:

defensive back Josh Small. * Lineman of the Year Award: left tackle Max Sullivan. * Gridiron Scholar Award for Academic Excellence: d e f e n s i ve b a c k Jo rd a n Nugent * Yeoman of the Year Award for Hard Work and Character: linebacker Emerson Morassutti.

One of the highlights of the night was the appearance of the Grey Cup at the banquet, courtesy of Toronto Argonauts and York alumni Andre Durie and Jeff Johnson, who were both in attendance on the night.

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Championship Tuesday for Blessed John XXIII

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From left, Blessed John XXIII Catholic School’s Bryan Pamintuan, left, drives past St. Paul Catholic School’s Dontay Nicely during Catholic elementary schools south region boys’ basketball championship game action at St. Patrick Catholic Secondary School on Tuesday. St. Paul went on to take the title by a 48-28 score. Centre: St. Paul’s Dan Kazumba (7) rises for a shot over Blessed John XXIII’s Kevin Baulan. Right: St. Paul’s Nivesh Ranjith drives past Blessed John XXIII’s Theodore Guvara.

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Police arrest three people York U researchers confirm ice thinning in the Arctic in break and enter ring Two men and one woman have been charged with 121 offences in a break and enter ring investigation.

Between November 2012 and January 2013, numerous break and enters were committed in the area bounded

by Lawrence Avenue, Yonge Street, Eglinton Avenue and Caledonia Road, police said.

Apartments were primarily targeted and entrance was gained by prying open doors.

Jewelry, electronics and cash were stolen.

Anatoli Boudianu, 20, of Brampton, was arrested Jan. 30 and charged with 16 counts.

Daniel Sholman, 22, of Toronto, was arrested Jan. 31 and charged with 60 counts.

Yuliya Bulychova, 24, of Toronto, was arrested Monday, Feb. 11 and charged with 45 counts.

Following the third arrest, a series of search warrants was executed in Brampton and Toronto and more than 200 stolen items were allegedly seized, police said.

Victims are asked to call police at 416-808-1306 to claim their property.

n Third man charged in 2009 shooting death A third suspect has been arrested in the shooting death of a man in 2009.

Ali Raza, 24, was arrested without incident at Toronto Pe a r s o n In t e r n a t i o n a l Airport Tuesday, Feb. 19 and is charged with first-degree

murder in the death of Johnny Gewarges Youkhana, 36.

Youkhana was found shot Jan. 3, 2009, at 9 Milvan Rd. Anderson Nop and Augusto Charlery were arrested in January and February 2009, respectively, and also charged with first-degree murder.

n Man arrested in sex assault on TTC bus Police have arrested a man wanted in a sexual assault on board a TTC bus last Friday.

Police said a 25-year-old woman was sexually assaulted on the 108 Downsview bus around 6:35 p.m.

Naphthali Ken Edwards, 24, of Toronto, was arrested Tuesday and charged with sexual assault.

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The study, titled “CryoSat-2 estimates of Arctic sea ice thickness and volume”, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, examined data gathered by the European Space Agency’s CryoSat-2 satellite from 2010 to 2012, comparing it to data taken from NASA’s ICESat satellite from 2003 to 2008.

Results show an extensive sea ice thinning in the Arctic between 2003 and 2012, with 36 per cent loss of ice volume in autumn and nine per cent loss in winter.

“Data are urgently required to better understand the causes of Arctic Ocean change and to better predict the ice’s future fate,” York professor and study co-author Christian Haas, Canada Research Chair for Arctic Sea Ice Geophysics

EAB has been detected in southern Ontario. The following counties are in the regulated area: Essex (1), Chatham-Kent (2), Lambton (3), Middlesex (4), Elgin (5), Huron (6), Perth (7), Oxford (8), Norfolk (9), Wellington (10), Waterloo (11), Brant (12), Haldimand (13), Hamilton (14), Niagara (15), Halton (16), Peel (17), Toronto (18), York (19), and Durham (20).

and co-ordinator of international CryoSat sea ice validation activities, said in a release. “ W h i l e t w o ye a r s o f CryoSat-2 data aren’t indicative of a long-term change, they are to be seen in the context of ongoing international efforts to observe sea ice thickness and volume from space.”

The study reveals thick sea ice has disappeared from a region to the north of Greenland, the Canadian Archipelago and to the northeast of Svalbard. It confirms the continuing decline in Arctic sea-ice volume simulated by the PanArctic Ice-Ocean Modelling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS), which estimates the volume of Arctic sea ice and has been checked using earlier submarine, mooring and satellite observations.

The CryoSat-2 satellite measures ice volume using a high-resolution synthetic aperture radar altimeter, which fires pulses of micro-

wave energy down towards the ice. The energy bounces off both the top of sections of ice and the water in the cracks in between. The difference in height between these two surfaces lets scientists calculate the volume of the ice cover. These measurements need to be carefully validated to remove any potential biases.

The team confirmed the accuracy of CryoSat-2 estimates using measurements from three independent sources – moored upwardlooking sonar, airborne laser altimetry and airborne electromagnetic thickness sounding.

Haas’s Sea Ice Geophysics Team at York University is one of only a few groups worldwide capable of performing airborne electromagnetic ice thickness surveys. In April 2011 and 2012, his group provided data from the region between Canada and the North Pole during two dedicated airborne surveying campaigns.

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Toronto universities kick off post-season play York volleyball squads in Ontario semi-final matches Friday The regular seasons have now ended for Ontario university teams with the post season either underway or about to. Here’s a recap and, in some cases, a look ahead for the three Toronto universities (University of Toronto, Ryerson and York): n MEN’S BASKETBALL Regular season: Ryerson (15-5) finished third. York grabbed the last playoff spot at 8-12.

Wednesday (after our deadline) opening round quarter-final game: Ryerson hosts York: n WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Regular season: city teams finished third, fourth and sixth: Toronto, Ryerson and York.

Wednesday (after our deadline) opening round quarter-final games: Ryerson (8-12) hosts Queen’s (7-13); Toronto (10-10) hosts York (6-14).

n WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Regular season: First, York (17 wins, 1 loss); Third, Ryerson (14-4); Fifth, Toronto (11-7).

Feb. 16 quarter-final results: York 3, Lakehead (9-9) 0; Ryerson 3, McMaster (9-9) 2; Toronto 3, Queen’s (12-6) 1.

Friday, Feb. 22: York hosts final-four with the following schedule: 5 p.m., York (17-1) vs. Toronto (11-7); Ryerson (14-4) vs. Ottawa (16-2). n MEN’S VOLLEYBALL Regular season: Fifth York (10 wins, 8 losses); Sixth (tie), Ryerson (7-11) and Toronto (7-11).

Feb. 16 quarter-final results: York (10-8) 3, Queen’s (11-7) 2; Western (13-5) 3, Ryerson (7-11) 1; Waterloo (14-4) 3, Toronto (7-11) 1.

Friday, Feb. 22, 8 p.m.: semifinal York vs. McMaster (at McMaster)

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York Lions’ Michael Santini tries to tip the puck past Guelph Gryphons’ goalie Andrew Loverock during regular season action. Santini and his teammates were knocked out of the best-of-three playoffs in two straight by Windsor.

n MEN’S HOCKEY Regular season: Fifth (in west division) Toronto, 13 wins, 9 losses, 6 overtime losses for 32 points; Eighth (west) Ryerson 12-16-0-24; Seventh (in east division), York 14-14-0-28.

Playoffs: York swept in two by Windsor (18-9-1-37).

n WOMEN’S HOCKEY Regular season summary: 5th, Toronto (15 wins, 8 losses, 3 overtime losses for 33 points); 9th, York (8-15-3-19); 11th, Ryerson (2-23-1-5).

Playoffs: Toronto is out; York and Ryerson did not qualify for post season.

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York Lions’ Michelle Pierce, centre, spikes the ball past Ryerson Rams’ Chelsea Jensen (9) and Veronica Livingston during regular season action in January.

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The group of approximately 50 individuals participating in the city’s Feeling Congested? public consultations, which were organized by the city and chief planner, Jennifer Keesmaat, were asked to give their opinions on what Toronto’s transportations priorities should be and what revenue funding tools will be needed to pay for future expansion.

Divided into mini-groups, many of the participants felt the key issue for the city was addressing overcrowding on the TTC, which is at record capacity.

Rishi Lukka said his greatest issue with TTC service was the tendency for “bunching” of vehicles on busy routes, which result in service gaps.

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Lukka, an engineer by training, said he preferred a regional sales tax to pay for new transit. “I feel that a sales tax would allow for the greatest choice of how you spend your money,” said Lukka following the session. “I feel that it allows for the greatest fairness of choice on how you fund transit.”

Lukka said he commutes from downtown to Milton every day and given the opportunity would take transit.

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Keesmaat said the findings of the participants reflected a common theme for all of the sessions, which also took place in York, North York and Scarborough, that it was imperative for the city to address capacity issues now and find a way to pay for new transit in an equitable manner.

The city must report its findings from the commission to Metrolinx in time for the transit planning agency’s report to the premier on an investment strategy to pay for its long-term Big Move transportation plan.

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he first of its kind in the province, The Beer Store officially opened its ‘Recycling Plus’ depot that provides a one-stop drop-off spot for empty alcohol containers, paint cans and household electronics last Friday.

Located in the Dupont Street and Symington Avenue area, on Campbell Avenue across from The Beer Store, the depot – a pilot project – was initiated in cooperation with Stewardship Ontario and Sims Recycling Solutions.

An idea that arose from Beer Store employees, Recycling Plus is an evolution of the beverage distributor’s deposit-return programs.

“Ninety one per cent of all beer and 80 per cent of all wine, spirit and cooler containers are brought back,” said Ted Moroz, president, of The Beer Store, during a grand-opening media event, Friday morning, at the depot, 299 Campbell Ave. “We’re able to divert half a million metric tones of packaging from landfill.”

Now, in addition to beer and wine bottles, Torontonians can get rid of a wide range of electronics, batteries and paint cans.

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Minister of Environment Jim Bradley helps launch ‘Recycling Plus,’ a one-stop drop-off depot for not only empty alcohol bottles, but paint cans and household electronics, located in the Dupont Street and Symington Avenue area.

environmentally concerned people can bring back their waste” keeping potentially hazardous waste from landfill.

“People of Ontario are thirsty for practical ways to keep waste out of landfill,” said Minister of Environment Jim Bradley. “I hope this program will pave the way for more initiatives like this.”

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collection and safe processing of batteries, paints, stains and coatings while Sims Recycling Solutions will process the returned electronic waste.

Since its inception in 2008, the Orange Drop Program has kept more than 72,000 tones of household hazardous waste from landfills and waterways in Ontario, said Lyle Clarke, executive vice-president of Stewardship Ontario. Clarke said customer convenience is key to the success of the project.

Wine, beer and spirit containers purchased in Ontario can be returned to the Beer Store and designated locations, such as Recycling Plus, for a full deposit refund. These include: glass bottles, bag-in-box, Tetra Pack containers, plastic bottles and aluminum and steel containers on which deposits have been charged.

Recycling Plus will also receive (in containers 20 litres or smaller): interior and exterior house paints, such as latex, alkyd and enamel; undercoaters, primers, metal and rust paints; stains, urethane, polyurethane, varnish; sealers for wood and concrete; roof and driveway sealers. It will not accept automotive or marine paint or aerosols.

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arring anymore runins with the law, it looks as though Mayor Rob Ford has at least one serious fight ahead of him as he attends to the last two years of his term: the land transfer tax.

The mayor has made it clear he would like very much to shave 10 per cent off the tax on real estate transactions. The plan is a dilution of his 2010 election promise to scrap the tax entirely – something even the tax-cutting Ford soon realized would be financially impossible. The tax brings in in the neighbourhood of $350 million a year, and since Ford’s predecessor David Miller introduced it, has become a crucial element in balancing the budget.

The 10 per cent cut, on the other hand, is a battle the mayor might conceivably win. Held against budgets that run in the neighbourhood of $10 billion, $35 million can exist in a margin of error – and such a cut would just be added into the other pressures the city’s budget committee and council have to deal with each year.

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convincing council to support adding that $35 million to the tally. Ford’s former budget chief Mike Del Grande, as staunch a fiscal conservative as the mayor in most respects, was deeply skeptical about the plan. His replacement, Frank Di Giorgio, is comparatively cheerful at the prospect of at least looking. But he’s unwilling to make any cut to the tax without finding some offsetting revenue.

And the rest of council?

Over the past three budgets, council as a whole has been unwilling to follow the mayor and his agenda too far down the road to privation. With an election coming up, will 23 councillors jump onto the land transfer tax bandwagon as readily as they did in 2010, when they supported the freshlyelected mayor’s plan to scrap the vehicle registra-

tion tax?

There’s very little percentage that they will do so. Unlike the vehicle registration tax, which all cardriving voters had to pay every year they continued to own a car, the land transfer tax is relatively invisible. Property-holding Torontonians pay it every time they move house. But that tax is rolled into other costs of buying and selling and moving – and once the move is done, the tax doesn’t rear its head again until the next move.

Which means for most Torontonians in the 2014 election, it won’t be top of mind.

Given that, shaving 10 per cent off in the 2014 budget will take an enormous amount of political capital from the mayor’s office – more than David Miller used to get it installed in the first place.

It may take all that Ford has at this point in his mandate. It will likely take even more.

■ David Nickle is the Mirror’s City Hall columnist.

His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at dnickle@insidetoronto.com

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Get drawing and storytelling to create Pan Am mascot Deadline to enter the Mascot Challenge is March 8 There’s still time to create a mascot for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games.

Steve Wallace, vice president of brand activation for the TO2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, said his office receives about 10 entries a day. So far, more than 100 entries have been received.

“It’s always fun to see them,” he said, adding he recently opened an entry to find glitter spill out on his desk.

The contest is open to teams of children and youth aged 16 and younger. Teams, made up of two to six members, can be budding artists, storytellers, mascot researchers and colouring experts.

The mascot could be an animal, inanimate object or even a space oddity. Whatever captures the excitement of the Games and the imagination of the public through fun, colourful and community spirit.

Wallace’s office has received entries from as far away as Gatineau, Quebec, and even Tiny,

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He said youth get excited when they hear the idea of creating a mascot. It just takes some pencil crayons and paper and they will get to work, he added.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of history,” Wallace said. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for kids to work together and be a part of history.”

Entries have been submitted by the Girl Guides of Canada Chill Fest Camp, Mme. Walsh’s Grade 4 class at Glen Park Public School in Stoufville and an entry from First Nations School of Toronto.

Creating a mascot for a sporting event isn’t new, he said, adding the Olympics creates mascots for its games.

“It was a natural choice to have the contest,” Wallace said. “We are the people’s games. It was only appropriate for the people to create the mascot.”

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Students at All Saints Catholic School took part in the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Mascot Challenge on earlier this month. Julia, Isabella, and Penelope took part in the challenge.

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Teamwork is also appropriate since some youth are good at drawing, while others might be great storytellers, he said.

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Canada to welcome athletes and visitors from 41 countries in 2015 and appear on signage and merchandise including collectible pins and plush toys.

The top six designs will be chosen from a TO2015 panel and the young nominees will have a chance to work with a professional illustrator to bring their creations to life.

The designs will then compete in a nationwide online voting contest in the spring.

Entries must be hand-drawn with a 250-word mascot life story and be mailed by March 8. The winner will be announced Aug. 7.

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Ahtletes and artists who are participating in the workshops include: trampolinist Jason Burnett, Olympic silver medallist; author and illustrator Patricia Storms, creator of The Pirate and the Penguin; swimmer Summer Mortimer, four-time Paralympic medallist and world record holder; author and illustrator Kevin Sylvester, creator of the Neil Flambé series; athlete Zsofia Balazs, Olympic and Pan Am marathon swimmer; author and illustrator Sean Cassidy, creator of Kazaak!; high jumper Nicole Forrester, Olympian and 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist; artist Eric Kim, creator of the comic strip series Battle Academy.

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Priorities for Metrolinx laid out at board meeting Board approves updated list of priority projects, including portion of Downtown Relief Line, Yonge subway extension RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Metrolinx said Thursday the transit planning agency is monitoring the possibility of one day heading an integrated transit system for the entire Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).

But despite politicians like Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak’s willingness to see Metrolinx lead a regional transit body, chair Robert Prichard stopped well short of saying Metrolinx was interested in the task of integrating service of local transit agencies such as the TTC. “That’s not really our job,” said Prichard. “Our job is to make work what the province and the municipalities decide on structure.”

Wants to meet with Murray Prichard made his comments following Metrolinx’s first board meeting of 2013, where it was announced an invitation had been extended to new provincial transportation minister Glen Murray for a meeting with the agency’s top brass at his soonest convenience.

“We’ve assured previous ministers and we’ll assure this minister that we will make work whatever structure is put into place rather than being advocates of a particular structure,”

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– Metrolinx CEO Bruce McCuaig said Prichard during a media scrum.

At the meeting, the board approved an updated list of priority projects Metrolinx would like to see built as part of its Big Move transportation plan for the GTHA. The projects, estimated to cost $34-billion, also include the completion of the eastern portion of a downtown relief subway line (DRL) which the TTC says is necessary to address overcapacity issues.

Also included in the list is a northern expansion of the Yonge subway line from Finch Station into Richmond Hill, which would be completed following the DRL. Air-Rail Link update At the Feb. 14 board meeting, the board was told the agency is working to complete agreements regarding the fare structure of the Union-Pearson Express air rail link (ARL), which will travel along the Georgetown GO rail corridor between Union Station and Pearson International Airport when it is complete by 2015.

Metrolinx CEO Bruce McCuaig said a “simplified” fare structure would make it easier for visitors to bundle their rail fare with their plane ticket.

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At the public portion of the hour-plus meeting, the board heard regular updates from the heads of GO and Presto as well as a presentation on the results so far of its transit roundtable discussions taking place across the GTHA. Metrolinx vice-president Judy Pfeifer said feedback from online as well public feedback indicated residents are eager to see more transit built and prefer the implementation of a dedicated gas tax to pay for it.

Investment strategy Prichard said Metrolinx is planning a special board meeting on May 27 where it will publicly unveil its investment strategy to pay for the Big Move, which will take 25 years and annual funding of two billion dollars to complete.

The strategy is scheduled to be presented to the premier on June 1.

Also announced at the meeting was the appointment of Stephen Smith to vicechair of the board as well as the introduction of new board member Frances Lankin, the former Beaches-East York MPP who also headed the United Way in addition to board seats at various organizations.

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