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Future Downsview Park aerospace hub gets federal funds Downsview is part of Canada's aviation past, but with federal and provincial funds announced this week, it should also have a place in the future.

Centennial College is getting a new $72.4-million aerospace campus in Downsview Park, on the spot where de Havilland of Canada built bombers and peacetime aircraft.

Recently home to the Canadian Air and Space Museum, Downsview's de Havilland plant was where the first Canadian satellite, Alouette 1, was built, as well as the first Canadarm for the U.S. Space Shuttle.

During the Second World War, workers there turned out 1,000 Tiger Moth biplanes, and more than 1,100 Mosquito bombers.

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A Special Report on Child Poverty Hundreds of thousands of Canadian children are growing up in poverty.

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Poverty often means food insecurity, an inability to fully participate at school and difficulty accessing services. See our story on page 8 to find out how Toronto’s young citizens are faring.

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Earl Bales Park Community Centre will undergo major upgrades in 2017, including the addition of a new gym, storage room, family change room, and window upgrades.

Millions given to upgrade Earl Bales Park centre FaNNIe SUNShINe fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Earl Bales Park Community Centre is getting a makeover.

Calling the major upgrade project "long overdue," York Centre Councillor James Pasternak said work will start on the Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue centre next spring, and completion is expected in early 2018.

The $4.5 million project will include the addition of a 50x80 foot gymnasium with one full basketball court, two half-court basketball courts, three badminton courts, a storage room, a family change room, two universal wash-

rooms, and a public lounge area.

The project will also involve replacing existing windows, installing new barrier-free entrance doors, refinishing existing wood canopy, renovating washrooms, installing new flooring in the main hall and multi-purpose room, installing new energy efficient lighting, and beautifying the area through new landscaping.

Earl Bales Park Community Centre will close April 1, 2017 to allow for renovation work, Pasternak said, adding his office is working with groups who currently use the centre to find alternative locations while reno-

vations are underway.

"We've been advocating for this for some time," he said of the upgrades. "We had no gym, we'd been asking for years for one. We're pretty excited. This will be a new state of the art community centre."

The new gym will bring new opportunities to host sporting events, concerts, and lectures, Pasternak said, noting the renovation project is just one of many upgrades made to the park in recent years, which include putting up public art inside the amphitheatre, planting of new trees, and installing a storm water management system.

"This is part of ongoing attempts to make Earl Bales Park one of the premier parks in the city," he said.

The Earl Bales Seniors Clubhouse, which offers programs for adults aged 60 and older, will not be affected by the renovation work.

Earl Bales Park Community Centre is part of the 127 acre park which also features a dogsoff leash area, playgrounds, a splash pad, walking and cycling trails, and picnic sites.

It's also home to one of two city-run ski and snowboard centres, which offers ski camps and lessons.

The Cultural Hotspot's third edition of its Cultural Loops Guide highlights North York cultural institutions, public art, green and historic spaces, and architecture through a series of self-guided tours.

"These Cultural Loops Guides are an excellent resource for those wanting to explore Toronto beyond the downtown core," Willowdale Councillor John Filion said in a release. "The city offers great events, parks, art and food, and these guides showcase our cultural and culinary diversity."

The guides are a legacy project of Cultural Hotspot. Guides from previous years for Scarborough and Etobicoke are also accessible through the online link.

Back in May, the city's third annual Cultural Hotspot program focused on North York and highlighted arts, culture, and community, in the area bounded

by Finch Avenue, Hwy. 404, Lawrence Avenue, and Jane Street.

The next Cultural Hotspot will take place in East York beginning in May 2017.

The guide is available at http://www.toronto.ca/culturalhotspot/explore

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Mammoliti says megacity turning suburbs into ‘slums’ MIke adler madler@insidetoronto.com

he'll run for council again, urging people to vote only for candidates who support a breakup.

"You support amalgamation, you won't get our vote."

So far McDermott's cause has a Facebook page and an email address - thefreescarboroughcampaign@hotmail.com - but soon it will have T-shirts, website and a steering committee, he said.

There's interest from other former cities in de-amalgamating Toronto. McDermott said he'd work with other campaigns, but they'd have to set up on their own.

Giorgio Mammoliti, a York West councillor with happy memories of independent North York, said amalgamation hasn't worked for any of the former suburban cities merged with Toronto.

It "ruined our mood" in North York, said Mammoliti, adding people in Scarborough, Etobicoke, East York and York feel the same, seeing resources going to the former Toronto and nothing coming back.

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Kieran Byrne (left) signs a petition last week for Robert McDermott, a realtor collecting signatures to ‘Free Scarborough’ by de-amalgamating it from the rest of Toronto.

"All we get are scraps to appease us in the suburbs," Mammoliti said. "They're turning us into slums."

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Scarborough wants out of Toronto. Seriously.

The Free Scarborough campaign is out door-knocking for signatures to redraw a municipal boundary along Victoria Park Avenue in 2018.

Leader Robert McDermott isn't trying to de-amalgamate the whole Megacity Ontario's Mike Harris government created. He just wants to give Scarborough back its tax money, autonomy, and city hall.

"We'd manage our own affairs," he told a woman living near Craiglee Nursing Home in Cliffside, a South Scarborough neighbourhood where McDermott signed up several residents near Kingston Road.

He said he may need 400,000, recorded by volunteers in each Scarborough ward, before the province would hold a referendum.

When one man said he didn't know enough about the issue,

McDermott said Scarborough money was being spent downtown, "squandered and wasted."

He didn't sign, but Kieron Byrne did. "It would be a change, and change is always good, right?" Byrne said.

A realtor who twice unsuccessfully ran for councillor in Scarborough, McDermott in 2014 also organized a Toronto-wide slate of candidates against the city's municipal land transfer tax.

He said Scarborough, once run by fiscally responsible politicians, has different values than the former City of Toronto, where money is spent on things suburban voters don't want.

"It's them against us," McDermott added during an interview, unwavering in arguing what the province did to Scarborough by creating the Megacity in 1998 can be undone.

"We're not a suburb of Toronto. We're a viable municipality."

Freeing Scarborough is an uphill battle, and McDermott said if there's no referendum in 2018,

Anything's possible, he added, if there's a groundswell of people who agree the Megacity should break up.

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Centennial College says new aerospace hub opens in fall 2018

● From page 1 The campus, scheduled to open in Fall 2018 within walking distance of the new Downsview Park subway station, will have room for 900 students and about three times the space Centennial's aerospace programs have now at its Ashtonbee Campus in Scarborough.

Those programs at Ashtonbee have been pressed for space since interest in the trades picked up.

"We've outgrown our house," said Josh James, a Centennial aerospace lab technician.

Centennial's transportation school will expand by moving into the Ashtonbee hanger.

In a bar near the site, Canada's Science Minister and Etobicoke North MP Kristy Duncan said the federal government is offering $18.4 million to the new campus. The province will contribute $25.8 million, while $28.2 million

will come from the college and its donors.

The campus will be used not just by Centennial, but by aerospace programs at the universities of Toronto, York and Ryerson - and, it's hoped,

by Bombardier and other companies - for training and research.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne told Buller she recognizes the Centennial president was "dogged" in her determination to create this hub, which Wynne called a "bricks and mortar testament" to the strength of Ontario's economy.

"If we're going to punch above our weight, as we need to do, we have to innovate," she said.

Progress on the vast Downsview lands has come slowly since Canadian Forces Base Downsview closed in 1996 and the federal government declared plans for Canada's "first urban national park" there in 1999.

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Michael Levitt acknowledged it's been a long wait, but said the new Liberal government is committed to "bring about the vision that's been promised for so long."

Longer-serving politicians for the area also sounded optimistic. "We have a dream in Downsview that's partially come true today," said York Centre Councillor Maria Augemeri.

Buller said designs for the building, incorporating its brick facade facing Carl Hall Road, are meant to respect its past, while creating something "that promises to the be jewel of the Downsview community."

Students from Ashtonbee Campus, who sat in their coveralls behind the politicians Monday, said they were also excited.

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Another fare increase will come as a disappointment to riders, the chair of the TTC concedes. But Josh Colle insists it's necessary to fund major transformative changes to the transit commission next year.

Colle and a majority of the TTC's board of commissioners voted Monday for a ten-cent increase in 2017. To soften the blow, the board also endorsed a freeze for 2018, with the rationale of keeping transit prices at the rate of inflation. A modest increase, the sixth consecutive year one has been imposed, was necessary to provide a balance between offering more service and dealing with economic realities, he said.

"We're doing our best to find that sweet spot in challenging economic times to continue to deliver better service without letting fares rise too much," said Colle following Monday's

marathon meeting at city hall which saw dozens of public debutantes plead unsuccessfully with the transit commission's board to not impose another TTC fare hike. "With some of the immense pressures that are unique to 2017, we just have to be upfront about that source of revenue."

Next year will be a pivotal one for the TTC, with the PRESTO fare card system set to be fully integrated, plus the opening of the Spadina Subway extension.

Hundreds of millions in federal funding is also set to flow for badly-needed repair projects that don't receive the fanfare of a ribbon cutting but are no less important in making the TTC more reliable, said Colle.

But that comes as small relief to transit riders who at the start of January will see ticket/token prices jump up to an even $3, monthly Metropasses go up by nearly $5, as well as reduced discounts on student and seniors fares.

Adult cash fares are exempt from the fare hike and will stay at $3.25.

Of equal concern is the $61-million gap the TTC is facing for this year's operating budget - what's currently unfunded even with projected revenue from the fare increase plus over $14.4-million from the TTC's reserves taken into account.

TTC staff had prepared an "Armageddon list" of potential service cuts and fare discounts for the board to consider implementing. But in the end, the board opted to approve an unbalanced budget and force Toronto Council to come up with the money, or make the decision to cut service.

Colle defended the move, saying the TTC had already slashed its costs and met a mandate from Mayor John Tory to reduce expenditures by 2.6 per cent, representing $16-million toward the TTC's 2017 operating budget. It identified a total of $75-million in cost savings, from reduced administra-

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Angela, who agreed to speak to us anonymously, said she never expected to wind up with “three kids on the street, basically looking for the kindness of strangers to help me out.”

The local women’s shelter would not admit boys older than 12 and Angela’s oldest was 15. That night in the emergency room, a nurse offered her a basement apartment.

Since then, Angela and her three children, who live in Owen Sound, have come face-toface with poverty and learned first-hand how it undermines opportunities to rebuild.

In addition to lacking money for a car, telephone or food, Angela worries about her children’s mental and physical health. Stress, anger, anxiety and a sense of isolation, coupled with the poor-quality, processed, high-carbohydrate diet provided by food banks have led to asthma, stomach problems and poor immunity.

“I couldn’t figure out why they were sick all the time,” she said, adding she would be called away from work frequently to tend to ill children, which made it hard to hold down a job.

Angela’s three children struggled with school and missed out on school trips and extracurricular activities because even $5 for pizza day was out of reach.

Housing was also a problem and the family has moved frequently.

In one instance, Angela asked her landlord if he could supply her with a letter of residence so that she could apply for social assistance - instead he gave her an eviction notice because he didn’t want “that type of people living there.”

While 13.9 per cent of children across Ontario live in poverty, a staggering 25 per cent of those living in Toronto are below Statistics Canada’s Low Income Measure, as are 19 per cent of adults, the City of Toronto reported.

Toronto also has the highest rates of poverty and child poverty among Canada’s 20 largest

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Sarah Shaikh, 13, (right) and Helen Liu, 12, make their meal selections during the July summerlunch+ program in East York.

With school lunch initiatives closed for the summer break, summerlunch+ aimed to fill the nutrition gap for local area children. cities, indicated a 2014 report, Colour of Poverty, by Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Social Planning Toronto and Family Service Toronto.

There is “stark inequality” in children’s lives across Toronto neighbourhoods, stated a 2014 Social Planning Toronto report, The Hidden Epidemic: A Report on Child and Family Poverty in Toronto.

Low-income rates among children ranged from five per cent in Lawrence Park North and South, Leaside-Bennington and Kingsway South, to 10 times higher - more than 50 per cent in Regent Park, Moss Park, Thorncliffe Park and Oakridge.

The report findings echoed others that found poverty varies greatly in Toronto by race and ethnicity, with people of African and Middle Eastern backgrounds three times more

likely to live on low incomes than those of European backgrounds.

In April 2014, Toronto City Council voted unanimously to develop a poverty reduction strategy. Its target: to end child poverty within a generation by 2035.

Toronto’s strategy contains 17 recommendations and 71 actions to respond to the immediate needs of low-income Torontonians, to create pathways out of poverty, and to address the systemic causes of equality, the city stated.

The Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy focuses on housing stability; service equity; transit equity; food access; quality jobs and livable wages, and systemic change.

This month, a new children’s charity launched with a mandate to be a strong, independent

voice for Canada’s children.

Children First Canada stated while Canada is the fifth mostprosperous nation in the world, the country is falling behind in its protection and care of its children.

“There is a big disconnect between what we perceive to be the case when it comes to the wellbeing of kids in Canada and what’s actually going on,” the charity’s founder Sara Austin, an international children’s rights advocate and former leader with World Vision Canada, said in a statement.

“While we assume Canadian children are well cared and provided for, child poverty and suffering has reached epidemic levels in cities and towns across the country.”

The charity is calling on Ottawa to appoint an independent children’s commissioner

to advocate for children, and to publish an annual children’s budget to track federal funding.

The Liberals promised a children’s commissioner during the 2015 election campaign, Austin noted in a speech Nov. 16 to a Toronto meeting of the Empire Club of Canada.

The government is “still studying the idea,” said a spokesperson for Jean-Yves, Duclos, minister of families, children and social development, last week when asked about the pledge.

The charity also wants Canadians to volunteer with children’s organizations, talk about the issue of child poverty with friends, neighbours and family, and donate to children’s charities.

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In these uncertain times, few things are inevitable. One notable exception, is the 2017 contracting out of curbside garbage collection.

On Monday, Mayor John Tory made that very clear. Without even a staff report recommending the move - indeed, with a notvery-old report from former city staff, arguing that private garbage collection city-wide is a bad idea Tory rose with the sun for a dawn news conference saying he intends to put out calls to private-sector haulers early in the new year, to see what kind of garbage collection the city can get for its buck.

“I think there will be savings. It’s difficult for me to quantify them,” said Tory.

Those savings may well be quantified in a new staff report by the new staff - mixing in some new factors, such as a recent

DAVID NICKLE The City review of the state of the city’s fleet of garbage trucks and the reality of a new collective agreement with CUPE Local 416 that makes it easier to get out of the business.

That is, of course, uncertain. But what’s certain is Tory’s - and therefore a likely voting majority of Toronto Council’s resolve. Many councillors have wanted to pull the plug on city-run garbage collection for decades. Tory noted that he promised to contract out garbage during the election.

It is a remarkably sim-

ilar argument to the one that Tory made about his continued support of the Scarborough subway in the face of growing evidence that building it was a bad use of scarce funds. Promises made, promises kept.

City planning staff had to do some backflips to come up with a working plan for the subway, and so they will to come up with a safe way to contract out. A good start would be to make sure that the contractor taking care of the city’s west end and the one looking after the east aren’t the same outfit - and making sure that it stays that way.

And a larger exit strategy, that lets the city do the job itself if the price for the private sector gets too high, wouldn’t hurt either.

David Nickle is Metroland Media Toronto’s city hall reporter. Contact him at dnickle@insidetoronto. com

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Skip the big box store this Black Friday: Toronto BIAs Dominik kurek dkurek@thetopic.ca You can expect a busy shopping day Friday, Nov. 25, otherwise known as Black Friday, but it doesn’t have to be a stressful one.

Parkdale Village BIA executive director Anna Bartula said Black Friday is the kick off holiday shopping season for many people, a day filled with retail deals, and one that is also full of lineups, parking headaches and jostling in shops.

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That sentiment is echoed by the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas, which encourages shoppers to visit their local market.

When Black Friday retail deals arrived in Canada a few years ago, it was the Canadian retailers’ response to the deals shoppers were increasingly finding online and south of the border as a way to re-capture those shoppers.

Now, it has fully blown into a Canadian shopping day.

Toronto’s BIAs launched their Shop Local campaign a few years ago on Black Friday weekend, trying to capture those same shoppers with their own deals.

For some retailers, particularly the larger chain stores, the day has even surpassed Boxing Day, Bartula said.

That’s even evident at Metroland Media Toronto, which last year delivered 20 million flyers the week of Black Friday, while delivering 15.6 million flyers leading up to Boxing Day. Black Friday flyer deliver had surpassed Boxing Day some years before.

While Black Friday may have surpassed Boxing Day, Bartula said the two days offer different opportunities for shoppers.

“Boxing Day is the day I go out and

get a mattress,” she said. “On Black Friday or Shop Local weekend, it’s giftgiving, that’s certainly on the majority of people’s minds.”

Black Friday began in the United States as the shopping day after Thanksgiving, much like Canada’s Boxing Day, according to Schulich School of Business marketing professor Detlev Zwick.

Thanksgiving is often a bigger holiday than Christmas in the U.S. because it is a four-day holiday and Boxing Day is not a statutory holiday like it is in Canada.

“Black Friday has become a globalized phenomenon,” he said. “For example, I was watching Russian television and they have ads for Black Friday there.

There is no Thanksgiving in Russia.”

While one may think a sale event like Black Friday would increase the number of dollars spent on holiday gifts as people prepare for December, that’s not necessarily the case, Zwick added.

Essentially, having such a large event means holiday shopping dollars is concentrated on one day rather than spread out over a longer period of time.

Many shoppers set finite holiday shopping budgets, meaning the amount of money spent on Black Friday merchandise will determine how much retailers spend throughout December leading up to Christmas.

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Balogiannis is responsible for managing the daily operations of the Toronto newsroom, as well as contributing to the editorial strategy of the nine community newspapers and its news website, insidetoronto.com “In the time Georgia and I have worked together she has demonstrated her passion and commitment to her team and community news,” Grace Peacock, Metroland Media Toronto Editor-in-Chief, said in a statement. “I have no doubt her enthusiasm for journalism and this city will serve our readers well.”

Balogiannis had been an acting managing editor with Metroland Media Toronto for the past year and prior to that served as news editor for seven years.

“This appointment has honoured and humbled me,” Balogiannis said in a statement, noting while she’s from the city’s eastend, she has always considered the entire City of Toronto her home. “While each community is unique, what binds us is our collective desire to affect change in the areas we live.”

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Balogiannis began her career at Metroland as a 21-year-old, but a passion for all kinds of journalism led Balogiannis to pursue a career in television. She worked at CKVR as a writer and assignment editor, and then went on to work at 680 News as an anchor and producer before returning to her roots in print journalism.

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Except the newborn is not their child.

Launched Thursday, Nov. 17 at North York General Hospital (NYGH), the new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Volunteer Cuddler Program offers specialized trained volunteers to cuddle, read, sing and help soothe babies who are too sick to go home when their parents can't be at the Leslie Street and Hwy. 401 hospital.

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seven days to three months, and there are roughly 14 babies in the unit at any given time, said Dianne Rice, clinical team manager for NYGH's NICU. "They really are here to cuddle babies because parents cannot always be present in the NICU," she said.

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"This gives moms and dads the opportunity to know their babies are being cuddled," she said.

"Ideally we would have volunteer cuddlers available seven days a week. Babies need cuddling 24-7."

Babies suited for the program are identified based on conversations with the parents, Rice said, adding the cuddler can choose to also read or sing to the young patient.

And the parents of each baby in the program will get a journal entry from the cuddler, noting how their time was spent with their little one, she said.

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Will the outdoor ice season arrive on time?

The temperature is about to begin dropping which is music to these hopefully soon to be frost-bitten ears.

The question is, will the numbers drop low enough for the outdoor ice season in Toronto to begin on time?

Though half of the rinks are supposed to open on Saturday and the other half on Dec. 3, if you call the hotline, the only thing it can guarantee regarding the schedule is that it is "weather permitting."

But then, what would you expect a hotline say about ice, right?

So, I called the coldline to see if it could nail down the timeline.

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JAmIE WAYnE But Seriously shells. To add insult to injury? Before hanging up it snarled, "And next time don't call me Shirley."

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What's really disturbing about the uncertainty surrounding the opening of the season is that when I was a kid we had outdoor ice by this time already. Not on a measly 50 rinks like we have now, either. All over.

At every public school and high school.

It was natural ice back then, too. The real deal,

baby.

Not this technologically enhanced artificial stuff that today's outdoor rinks use.

I'm going to pull out all the stops to see if I can help the season start on time.

That means, remaining positive, keeping my fingers crossed, getting on Old Man Winter's good side by following him on Twitter, and making darn sure I don't accidentally call Shirley, Shirley.

Oh, and one last thing.

If there is anybody out there planning a snow dance, you know where to find me.

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● Saturday, November 26 Resident Christmas Bazaar WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Gibson Long Term Care, 1925 Steeles Ave East CONTACT: Rebecca Larter, 416-493-4666 Ext.212, rlarter@chartwell.com COST: Free Crafts, baking, variety of vendors and resident tables. Table rental: $20 per table; Parking available but limited, so please use Bluffwood Street for more parking.

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York Railway Modellers Fall Open House WHEN: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: York Railway Modellers, 5 Oakland Ave. CONTACT: Andy Orr, andyorr@ bell.net COST: Adults $5 Children $1 The York Railway Modellers own

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The eh List Author Tim Falconer WHEN: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: North York Central Library Auditorium, 5120 Yonge St. CONTACT: North York Central Library Staff, 416-395-5639, , ArtsProgramsatNYCL@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Author, journalist, and self-confessed “bad singer” Tim Falconer discusses his journey in trying to understand the science behind tone-deafness and his goal of singing in public.

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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Zion Cultural Centre, 1650 Finch Avenue E. CONTACT: , 416-755-1717, http://www.civiclightoperacompany.com/, COST: $28 ($2 fee per ticket on phone orders) The Civic Light-Opera Company presents Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, playing from Nov. 30- Dec. 11.

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104th Grey Cup festivities WHEN: 11:30 a.m.

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The big game is Sunday, at newly renovated BMO Field but before then there’s plenty going on including the Grey Cup Festival. See website.

The Toronto Christmas Market WHEN: 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Distillery District, 55 Mill St. CONTACT: torontochristmasmarket. com COST: Free Admission is free Tuesday to Friday.

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The robbery happened in the Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue area Oct. 11.

Based on some of his actions after the holdup, police believe the bandit is "probably a local boy or at least has some ties to that neighbourhood," Scherk said.

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ANIL CHOPRA GENERAL MANAGER

ANIL SAYS… OUR PRICES MAY NEVER BE BETTER DURING OUR BLACK FRIDAY EVENT. AT YONGE STEELES FORD LINCOLN THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS #1.

COME IN TODAY & EXPERIENCE THE YONGE STEELES DIFFERENCE.

NO PROBLEM

Sales Event!

BEST PRICE NO PROBLEM – BEST SERVICE NO PROBLEM

LEAF LEGEND, DARCY TUCKER

22,888 + HST

$

WITH 302 A PACKAGE, 5.0L V8, NAVIGATION, XLT SPECIAL EDITION, TAILGATE STEP, XLT SPORTS PACKAGE & WHEEL WELL LINER

EQUIPPED WITH 5.0L V8, 6 SPEED AUTOMATIC, TRAILER TOW PACKAGE, AIR CONDITIONING, POWER WINDOWS, POWER DOOR LOCKS, POWER DRIVER & PASSENGER SEAT, AM/FM CD, SYNC, LEATHER WRAPPED STEERING WHEEL, HEATED FRONT SEATS, REAR UNDERSEAT STORAGE, 110V/400 W OUTLET, LED BOX LIGHTING, REAR DEFROSTER, FOG LIGHTS, NO CHARGE 6 MONTH SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO, POWER TAILGATE LOCK, POWER ADJUSTABLE PEDALS, PLUS MUCH MORE

CASH PRICE

CASH PRICE

LEASE IT FOR 36 MONTHS FOR ONLY

OR

43 4.99% $

+ HST

WEEKLY

APR

WITH $2,388 DOWNPLUS FREIGHT $1,690 · NO ADMIN · NO GIMMICKS · NO CATCH

XLT SPECIAL EDITION PACKAGE: -20” DARK PAINTED WHEELS -LED HEADLAMPS WITH DARK HOUSING -UNIQUE CONSOLE TOP -UNIQUE FENDER & TAILGATE BADGING -SPECIAL SEAT WITH READ ACCENT -ALL TERRAIN TIRES

CASH PRICE

CASH PRICE

302 A PACKAGE INCLUDES:

-POWER HEATED SIGNAL MIRRORS -POWER ADJUSTABLE PEDALS -REAR VIEW CAMERA -TRAILER TOW PACKAGE -POWER SLIDING REAR WINDOW WITH DEFROSTER -BACK-UP SENSORS -POWER DRIVER & PASSENGER HEATED SEATS -REMOTE START

LEASE IT FOR 36 MONTHS FOR ONLY WEEKLY

WITH NAVIGATION, LEATHER SEATS, PANORAMIC ROOF, UTILITY PACKAGE & COLD WEATHER PACKAGE 3.5L TIVCT ENGINE, 6 SPEED AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION, POWER DRIVER & PASSENGER SEATS, HEATED FRONT SEATS, HEATED STEERING, REARVIEW CAMERA, BACK UP SENSORS, DUAL AUTOMATIC TEMPERATURE CONTROL, REMOTE KEYLESS ENTRY, SYNC, HEATED STEERING WHEEL, RUBBER FLOOR MATS, ALUMINUM WHEELS, FOG LAMPS, SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO, POWER LIFTGATE, PERIMETER ALARM, UNIVERSAL GARAGE DOOR OPENER, AND MUCH MORE.

CASH PRICE

35,288 + HST

$

- $1250 WINTER TIRE CREDIT

CASH PRICE

34,188 + HST

$

APR

-$1,250 ACCESSORY/ WINTER TIRE CREDIT

LEASE IT FOR 24 MONTHS FOR ONLY

OR

82 + HST 0%

$

WITH $2,388 DOWNPLUS FREIGHT $1,690 · NO ADMIN · NO GIMMICKS · NO CATCH

WITH 2,388 DOWNPLUS FREIGHT $1,700 · NO ADMIN · NO GIMMICKS · NO CATCH

2016 FOCUS SE SEDAN

BRAND NEW 2017 FUSION SE AUTOMATIC

2.0L GTI ENGINE, AIR CONDITIONING, AM/FM CD, SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO 6 MONTH NO CHARGE, FOG LIGHTS, CRUISE, TILT, REMOTE KEYLESS ENTRY, AMBIENT LIGHTING, LEAD SIGNATURE LIGHTING, REAR VIEW CAMERA, BACK UP SENSORS, ALUMINUM WHEELS, 5 SPEED MANUAL, 280 KMS, PLUS MUCH MORE.

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2.5L IVCT ENGINE, 6 SPEED AUTOMATIC, POWER WINDOWS, POWER LOCKS, CRUSIE, TILT, REAR VIEW CAMERA, SYNC, 17” WHEELS, SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO NO CHARGE FOR 6 MONTHS, COMPASS, HALOGEN HEADLAMPS WITH LED ACCENT, AM/FM CD, REMOTE KEYLESS ENTRY, PLUS MUCH MORE

SE BLACK PLUS PACKAGE INCLUDES: 17” BLACK GLOSS WHEELS, BLACK GLOSS UPPER GRILLE, BLACK HEADLAMPS BEZEL, BLACK EXT. SIDE MIRROR, REAR SPOILER

CASH PRICE

16,388

$

+ HST

WE WILL NEVER LOSE A CUSTOMER OVER PRICE

+ HST

CASH PRICE

CASH PRICE

21,888 $21,188

$

CASH PRICE

WEEKLY

APR

WITH AIR CONDITIONING, SE PLUS BLACK FOG LAMP PACKAGE

WITH AIR CONDITIONING

14,888

XLT SPORT PACKAGE INCLUDES: -BUCKET SEATS -FLOOR SHIFTER -COLOUR KEYED BUMPERS -BLACK SIDE STEP BARS -UNIQUE INTERIOR FINISH -CHROME EXHAUST

$ $ + HST % OR 0 42,388 99 43,488 + HST + HST

$

2015 FOCUS SE

$

BRAND NEW 2016 EDGE SEL FWD 3.5L V6

DAILY DRAW

WIN A 39” HD LED TV

BRAND NEW 2016 F150 SUPERCREW 4X4 XLT

1.5L GTDI ENGINE, 6 SPEED AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION, POWER WINDOWS, POWER LOCKS, DUAL AUTO TEMP CONTROL, ALUMINUM WHEELS, AUTO STOP/START TECHNOLOGY, FOG LAMPS, SYNC, HEATED FRONT SEATS, POWER HEATED MIRRORS, SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO 6 MONTH NO CHARGE, ENGINE BLOCK HEATER, REAR CENTRE ARMREST DUAL ILLUMINATED VANITY MIRRORS, DUAL CHROME EXHAUST, PLUS MUCH MORE.

- $800 WINTER TIRE CREDIT

“IF YOU HAVE NOT VISITED YONGE STEELES FORD LINCOLN, YOU PROBABLY PAID TOO MUCH”

CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS #1 NO PROBLEM

WITH 1.5L ECOBOOST AND REAR VIEW CAMERA

23,588 + HST

AT YONGE STEELES FORD

LARGEST SELECTION NO PROBLEM – LOW LOW FINANCING NO PROBLEM

BRAND NEW 2017 ESCAPE SE FWD

$

BLACK FRIDAY MAGICAL DEALS

| NORTH YORK MIRROR | Thursday, November 24, 2016

CANADA’S LARGEST FORD LINCOLN DEALER

†

- $800 WINTER TIRE CREDIT

+ HST

LEASE IT FOR 36 MONTHS FOR ONLY

OR

+ HST

45 5.99%

$

+ HST WEEKLY

APR

WITH $2,388 DOWNPLUS FREIGHT $1,650 · NO ADMIN · NO GIMMICKS · NO CATCH

NO ONE WALKS AWAY FROM A YONGE STEELES DEAL

NO EXTRA CHARGE LIFETIME YONGE STEELES MAINTENANCE PACKAGE WITH EVERY VEHICLE PURCHASED OR LEASED

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

Office Cell

416-901-8881

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

*

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Sales Representative 230 prinCess Ave

183 bestview Ave

206 mAplehurst Ave

220 ruth Ave

257 OtOnAbee Ave

152 dundAs st. eAst

$2,600,000

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38 hOlmes Ave

362 prinCess Ave

37 viAmede Cres

250 betty Ann dr

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194 burbAnk dr

279 dunfOrest Ave

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178 wilfred Ave

19 sutCliffe dr

15 mAureen dr

72 Centre Ave

390 Cummer Ave

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Call us to find out what your home is worth to local and foreign buyers and investors. * Based on the written dollar volume and units of transactions sold each year as recorded in the TREB MLS