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five, 10 and 30 days at half off the daily rate. Those passes must come with Hospital parking fees “break in-and-out privileges and be the bank” and are a barrier to transferable between patients the care visiting loved ones and caregivers. can provide, a Toronto patient Hospitals are also being told not to raise their daily parking advocate says. Francesca Grosso, whose rates for the next three years, elderly mother has been hosthe province said. pitalized for long periods, said In response, the Ontario the city’s hospitals Hospital Association Be a part of the often charge more said the governfor parking than its ment encouraged discussion. Visit hospitals to genertop hotels. this story on our Hospitals have website and share ate revenue that maximum daily would help cover your thoughts in rates of up to $28, t h e i r o p e ra t i n g the comments but if you leave – expenses, and this section. decision to cut a say, to pick up a child at school – the bit.ly/hospitalparking revenue source clock starts again, could not come at she said. a worse time. “I’ve had times “Revenue genwhen I’ve had to pay 25 bucks erated from parking fees is three times a day,” said Grosso, always used for patient care, a board member of the advotowards the purchase of capicacy group Patients Canada. tal equipment and projects, She called regulations infrastructure, clinical research, announced by Ontario’s Liberal and day-to-day operations such government this week to make as facility maintenance,” OHA hospital parking more affordCEO Anthony Dale added in a able for frequent visitors a great statement Monday. start. Ontario hospitals, Dale said, Starting Oct. 1, hospitals that “are now at a turning point” charge more than $10 a day after four years with no increase will have to provide passes for >>>CARP, page 11

Toronto York Spadina Subway Extension can’t be completed without another $400 million

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The TTC needs an additional $400 million to finish the Toronto York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE). The money, 60 per cent, or $240 million of which needs to come from the City of Toronto, won’t account for extra construction work for the northern extension of the Spadina line, which isn’t projected to open until late 2017 at the earliest. Instead, said TTC CEO Andy Byford, it’s for settling outstanding legal claims made against the project, which now has a budget of $3.2 billion. “That amount of money needs to be put aside for known claims from that we know have merit and do need to be funded, and also potential exposure to claims,” said Byford Friday following a media tour of the York University station site currently under construction. “As with any major project, (TYSSE) has received a number of claims from contractors, and we think there are a number to come. The $400 million represents what we believe >>>TTC, page 16

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helped form the Ontario Cochlear Implantation Program, which today comprises four sites across the province. It provides high quality regionalized care to treat hearing loss. A cochlear implant is an electronic device that does the work of damaged parts of the inner ear to help provide sound signals to the brain. “I don’t think I do anything special, I just put the thing in and the technology takes over, but it is exciting. The people who really get the

greatest emotional lift are the audiologists,” he said. “The patient gets the implant, which I install, then two to three weeks later they get the programming for it and the audiologist, once they turn on the device and they’re sitting there…I mean everybody cries. It’s an emotional lift, for sure.” He began championing for the technology back in the 80s, he said, but it was not an easy road. “It was an interesting time because cochlear implants were viewed as a threat to what they called deaf culture,” he explained. “People who are deaf, born deaf, don’t view it as a handicap they view it as a culture.” Funding was initially given by one of his neighbours who was a Mason, it was that contribution that helped the program get off the ground. Today, the cochlear implant is the standard of care for patients with significant hearing loss. “It’s truly amazing. It’s a life changer for many, many people,” he said.

Order of Ontario recipients Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, also announced the following new appointments from Toronto to the Order of Ontario. The ceremony was held Jan. 20. Richard Gosling, North York Community leader and youth advocate He is the founder and president of the Toronto Children’s Breakfast Club, which serves over 5,000 meals each week to children across the GTA. He is also the founder and president of the Second Chance Scholarship Foundation, which provides financial support for post-secondary education to at-risk youth. Robert Fowler, Toronto Critical care physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre He was a clinical lead for the World Health Organization during the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa and also played a vital role in managing the SARS crisis in Toronto in 2003. Isabel Bassett, East York Former Ontario Cabinet Minister and MPP for St. Paul's She has served the people of Ontario throughout her career, first as a high school teacher, and then as a journalist, writer, broadcaster and member of the Ontario Legislature. Gordon Cressy, Toronto Former politician, public servant, humanitarian, mentor and youth advocate He has orchestrated numerous fundraising and public awareness campaigns for youth, including Canadian Tire's JumpStart program and The Learning Partnership's Take Our Kids to Work Day. Herbert Gaisano, Toronto Professor and researcher at the University of Toronto's faculty of medicine and one of the world's leading gastroenterologists He has dedicated his work to the fight against diabetes by exploring the complexities of this pervasive illness and advancement of new treatment strategies.

Humber River Hospital president and CEO hit the slopes Dr. Rueben Devlin announces retirement Dr. Rueben Devlin announced his retirement as president and CEO of Humber River Hospital after roughly 17 years of service. A statement was released Friday by Paul D. Allison, chair of the hospital board of directors. In his retirement announcement, Devlin thanked the Humber team for its support over the years, stating, “When I first came to Humber River Hospital, I never thought that my time here would stretch to

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Hon. Stephen Goudge, Toronto Former judge in the Court of Appeal for Ontario He served as Commissioner for the Public Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology. This led to a fundamental restructuring of the delivery of forensic pathology services in Ontario. Anton Kuerti, Toronto World-renowned concert pianist and composer who has been called one of the greatest pianists of the 20th Century He has performed for audiences and recorded with conductors in nearly 50 countries around the world and over 150 locales in Canada. Rita Letendre, Toronto Painter, muralist and printmaker The National Gallery of Canada named her one of the most important abstract painters in the country. Her work has been extensively exhibited in galleries across Canada and around the world. Stanley Zlotkin, Toronto A respected leader in the medical and research community, improving the lives of millions of children who live in economically disadvantaged parts of the world and suffer from serious nutritional deficiencies A nutrition specialist and researcher at the Hospital for Sick Children, Zlotkin is an advisor to UNICEF, other United Nations agencies, civil society organizations and the Canadian government.

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Budget balancing continues along in haphazard way If all goes through as planned, it looks as though Mayor John Tory will have passed two out of two unsustainable annual city budgets by February. In 2015, you may recall, Toronto’s budget committee found itself in a panic over the end to pooling grants from the province, that had helped Toronto deal with the cost of social housing that is much higher here than in other GTA municipalities. City officials thrashed about trying to find a way to fill the $86-million hole and eventually approved a complex plan to loan itself money from its capital reserves – a move that might, absent another robust year of land transfer tax-collection, have squeezed the city for years to come. As it was, surpluses and reserves helped minimize the debt that Toronto will eventually have to repay to itself. That was a lucky break. And maybe there will be another lucky break, after Toronto Council gets through

david nickle the city with this year’s budget. This time, there’s no unexpected trouble that’s shown up to mess up a perfectly balanced budget. Rather, the city administration has made it clear that Mayor Tory and Toronto Council have created pressures that a simple balancesheet budgeting exercise can’t resolve. To whit: an inflationary property tax increase as Mayor Tory has insisted on can’t deal with either the growing cost of simply standing still, or the many enhancements and improvements that council and the mayor approved and announced this year. Politicians, the city manager said, would have to come up with solutions. So on Monday, budget chief Gary Crawford brought forward a solution. It involves an old-fashioned raid on

reserves, recalibrating various revenue projections to more optimistic numbers, and demands on big-ticket agencies like the Toronto Transit Commission and the Toronto Police Service to simply do more with less. It is not exactly what happened in 2015, but it is in the spirit of it. Toronto will dig into its rainy-day reserves and ask for an arbitrarily large amount of economizing from its management staff, and keep the city lurching along for another year. It’s easy to shrug when you look at this, because so many Toronto budgets have been balanced in exactly this haphazard way – hoping that a booming economy will keep the land transfer tax revenue high, dipping into savings, stretching staffing resources – and things always seem to have turned out OK. Roads are more or less fixed, programs in one form or another are delivered, and life in Toronto’s many neighbourhoods goes on.

So why not simply continue along this route? When erosion is this slow in its effect, is it erosion at all? The short answer is yes. The long answer is that with the declining dollar and sluggish economy, at some point the land transfer tax – which has above all else kept the city afloat – is going to plateau and decline along with real estate sales. If Toronto isn’t prepared for that with a reasonable attitude toward taxes and revenues, that erosion will quickly turn into a collapse. That may happen by Mayor Tory’s third budget given the indicators. And that will mean that this one will be the last time that councillors can avoid making the difficult choices they should have made long ago. When that time comes, they’d better have a plan B.

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The University of Akron’s Richie Laryea, right, faces a Southern Methodist University defender during NCAA tournament action last November in Akron. The Dante Alighieri Academy alumnus capped two stellar years with the Zips by being taken seventh in the MLS draft by Orlando City SC.

Richie Laryea, a graduate of North York’s Dante Alighieri Academy, was the highest Canadian selected in Major League Soccer’s (MLS) Super Draft last week, selected seventh overall by Orlando City SC. And while local soccer fans were hoping he might be available for Toronto FC’s ninth pick, Laryea was not disappointed to be heading south. “Wow I can’t believe this,” he tweeted upon his selection. “So happy to be joining @OrlandoCitySC, can’t wait to get started!” At least one Orlando player was more than pleased to hear of his imminent arrival. “Boom!! Congrats ...see you in Orlando soon,” tweeted Cyle Larin, a Brampton native who was drafted first overall last year and then proceeded to have one of the best rookie seasons ever in the MLS, set-

ting the rookie record for MLS goals in a single season with 17 tallies. The two are best friends, having suited up together for Canadian youth national teams and also club soccer in Toronto for Sigma FC. “This is amazing. Orlando’s the team that I really wanted to go to, so I’m very happy that I get to go there,” said Laryea, in a news release on the team’s website. “Cyle (Larin) has been my best friend ever since I’ve been nine years old so it’s going to be great. I know Orlando has a great fan base and it’s a great city to live in so I can’t wait to get started.” After graduating Dante Alighieri, Laryea played two years of U.S. college soccer with the University of Akron, closing out his career by playing a crucial role in the team’s 18-3-3 regular season record as they advanced to the semifinals of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament, finish-

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I had a hockey stage ... I was pretty good at skating, but the whole contact and all, I wasn’t too good at that.

ing just shy of a College Cup appearance. In 22 starts this past season, the speedy and skillful midfielder recorded 11 goals and logged seven assists to finish second on the team in points (29). While Laryea maybe happy to be joining his good friend in Orlando, you can bet Toronto will remain close to his heart. In a ‘10 things to know about Richie Laryea’ pre-draft feature posted on the MLS website (bit.ly/1PDeo7U), Laryea shared that Drake was far from the only Toronto artist regularly pulsing through his earphones. “I’ve also been listening to Bryson Tiller, the Weeknd, and other people like that.

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Basically anything Torontorelated,” he said. Born and raised in Toronto, he is of Ghanaian heritage and can speak Ga, the native language of Ghana. He said his grandfather (on his mom’s side) was a good soccer player, playing professionally in Ghana “and then came to the (United) States and played semi-pro.” Laryea also laced up the skates growing up, he said. “They always try to put everyone through hockey, so I had a hockey stage. It wasn’t too bad, because I think there was a rule across some of the schools that we had to go skating every Friday. I was pretty good at skating, but the whole contact and all, I wasn’t too good at that.”

A tale of two tourneys North York played host to a couple of minor hockey tournaments last weekend, including the Amesbury-Bert Robinson Winter Classic tournament for select teams (left and centre photos) and the Toronto Aeros Winter Challenge tournament for ‘A’ and ‘AA’ rep teams (right photo).

Above, in the minor novice select division, the Xavier Sayiner of the Don Mills Mustangs fights for puck control against Aaron James from the Humber Valley Mustangs. Don Mills lost 2-0. Centre photo, in the minor bantam select division, the Amesbury Avalanche’s Anthony Rossi, centre, gets tied up in a goalmouth scramble against the Brampton Bulldogs. Amesbury won 1-0. Staff photos

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Above, in the minor bantam ‘A’ division, this unidentified player from York Mills Rangers fights for possession of the puck with North Toronto’s Justin Ovenell. York Mills lost 4-1.

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Scaled back SmartTrack plan include light rail along Eglinton DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Mayor John Tory’s city-spanning SmartTrack transit plan will be scaled back, with light rail replacing heavy rail at the western end of it, according to a set of reports released by Toronto staff and the University of Toronto. But even in its scaled-back form, the viability of the massive transit project relies on conditions that may not be possible: a five-minute headway between trains, and the ability to ride the trains running on GO lines at Toronto Transit Commission fares. The two reports were released Tuesday, Jan. 19, and Tory was quick to modify what had begun as an ironclad election promise: to run heavy rail lines from Markham through Scarborough and downtown Toronto, and west through Etobicoke. “Now that these expert studies are available you will not find me digging in my heels on projects that don’t make sense, cost too much or don’t provide the most efficient service to our residents,” he said. “When it comes to projects like this we ultimately have to rely on the expertise of our planning team.” Toronto’s planning team unveiled its qualified support of the plan at a technical briefing after Tory’s statement.

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First among the recommendations were a major change to the plan: to abandon plans to build a new heavy rail corridor west of Mount Dennis. The corridor would need to be tunneled for “significant stretches” which would raise construction costs – ranging from $3.6 billion to $4.8 billion for a northeastern corridor, and between $3.7 billion to $7.7 billion for the Eglinton corridor. Extending the Eglinton LRT along Eglinton would, in contrast, cost $1.3 billion. And projected boardings on the LRT by 2031 would be three times higher than the Eglinton heavy rail

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gestion on the Yonge line – assuming that certain conditions applied. First, riders would have to pay a TTC fare – the more expensive GO Transit fare would be a disincentive. Second, trains would have to operate frequently, about five minutes apart. Both of those are challenges, in that the trains would be operating on GO lines and any fare integration would likely amount to some amount between the lower TTC fares and the higher GO Transit fares. As well, running more frequent service along lines currently used by less-frequent GO trains would mean that there would need to be

Budget dips into reserve funds to keep increase at rate of inflation DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com The route to the balancing of Toronto’s 2016 budget became a little clearer Monday as budget chief Gary Crawford put forward a plan to keep taxes low and fund some but not all of the enhancements approved by Toronto council last year. But critics say the plan put forward at the Monday budget committee meeting, and endorsed by Mayor John Tory, will simply end up digging Toronto into a deeper financial hole in years to come because the budget would make up the $51-million gap by using one-time sources of funding and reserve funds. But Crawford said the plan would allow council to invest in at least some of the areas that council approved in 2015, and would maintain property tax increases at 1.3 per cent – the rate of inflation, as promised by Tory. “The focus has an affordable budget at 1.3 per cent, and we have achieved that,” Crawford said. “But we’ve included the good majority of investments that people want.”

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In fact, the budget, as proposed by Crawford, funds about 40 per cent of the wishlist that council approved. Axed from the budget’s $57 million in enhanced services are student nutrition inflationary enhancements, daily grooming of Toronto beaches, enhanced winter maintenance for parks paths and new and enhanced express bus services, among other things. But Crawford said various

enhancements are included. The city’s arts funding remains intact, and the budget proposal puts $5.3 million into poverty reduction – most of the $5.7 million council requested. It also provides for earlier TTC services Sundays, more TTC fare inspectors and measures to make streetcar service more reliable. “There were a number of things that we looked at and they were important, but we thought they were nice to have,” said Crawford of those areas that didn’t make the cut. “We’re not saying no. It’s probably not this year but we’ll look at them for next year.” The plan also finds money by asking various departments find more efficiencies. The Toronto Police Services budget would be reduced by $3 million gross and net, and asks police to find savings by freezing discretionary expenditures, and asks the TTC to find $5 million. The budget also demands that the Toronto Parking Authority surrender a one-time dividend of $5 million and demands another $5 million from the Toronto Port Lands Corporation, and an increased $5.5 million from pay-

ments in lieu of taxes, based mainly on revised estimates. More money will come from the city’s shelter, support and housing administration’s Social Housing Stabilization Reserve, and from holding back the city’s contribution to the National Child Benefits Supplement Reserve. Critics on council say all of that will only make things worse in 2017. “There’s $51 million that the budget chief is proposing we loot out of various reserve funds,” said Councillor Gord Perks. “That means next year we have to find $100 million because we have to pay back what we looted and we still have to set our base budget to pay for what we’re doing. The gap remains. It stays there.” Perks said that the budget might be supportable if council and the mayor is willing to look at adding new revenue tools in future years, to make up the difference. “The only way a budget like this can be healthy for Toronto is if there’s a clear commitment to bring in the long-term revenue so we can backfill,” he said.

significant new track construction so that trains from one service didn’t run up against those of the other. Staff told reporters that absent a fare integration and decent headway, it was unlikely that the SmartTrack plan would be recommended at all. Councillor Gord Perks, a frequent critic of Tory’s transit plans, suggested those conditions and others were impossible to meet. “The other thing that makes it impossible is the physical configuration of the track and the capacity at Union Station,” he said. “They’ve got four problems that can’t be solved in order to get the optimum outcome.” Perks suggested the city would be better served by simply buying more buses. TTC Chair Josh Colle, meanwhile, offered a more optimistic reaction, calling SmartTrack “a positive development for Toronto’s transit and transportation network.” He wrote in a prepared statement: “The SmartTrack ridership projections released today suggest that local commutes on our regional rail system could significantly decrease the pressure on the overburdened Yonge subway by as much as 17 per cent,” he said. “SmartTrack will also integrate with existing busy TTC bus routes and help transit riders travel quickly and seamlessly across our city.”

Give input for future priorities Social Planning Toronto (SPT) is set to host a series of community meetings this month to discuss its future direction and priorities. “We all know that social planning is important to the future of the city and Thurs. the well-being of its residents,” organizers from SPT said in a statement. The organization’s mission includes a commitment to “building a civic society in which diversity, equity, social and economic justice, interdependence and active civic participation are central to all aspects of life.” “What does this mean for SPT? What do we want to change? What should we focus on in the next five years? How should we do our work?” the organization asked. North York residents are invited to attend a meeting Jan. 21 at 5:30 p.m. at Thistletown Multi-Service Centre, 925 Albion Rd., Ted Hodgson Room, Third Floor. Register at http:// sptconsultationetobicoke-northyork. eventbrite.ca

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