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Fundraising dinner for Italian earthquake victims Villa Charities is hosting a fundraiser Friday to help raise money for communities affected by the August earthquake in central Italy.

The Artists for Italy fundraiser will begin with dinner at Ristorante Boccaccio inside the Columbus Centre, 901 Lawrence Ave. at Dufferin Street, at 5 p.m., followed by music, poetry, and comedy in the rotunda from 8 to 10 p.m.

“We are excited about the superb lineup of food and entertainment put together for the event,” Mary Pompili, vicepresident of marketing at Villa Charities, said in a release.

“Guests will be treated to special dishes from Amatrice, one of the towns most heavily damaged in the earthquake, and to entertainment by some of our community’s most talented artists.”

The dinner and entertainment costs $25 each, or $50 for both. All net proceeds will go to the Central Italy Earthquake Relief Fund (CIERF).

To reserve a table call 416789-5555 or visit http://www. villacharities.com/food/ristorante-boccaccio/ To donate to the CIERFE visit http://www.villacharities.com/ central-italy-earthquake-relieffund

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Mayor John Tory, Toronto director of transportation Myles Currie (at Tory’s side) and Don Valley East Councillor Shelley Carroll cross the road at Victoria Park and Finch avenues where they announced traffic safety plans for Toronto’s busiest and most dangerous intersections on Monday.

To get to the other side safely (and announce his traffic calming plans) InSIDe: Find out which 10 intersections are considered the most dangerous, and what the city plans to do to make them safer for motorists and pedestrians / 9

The sale of 2.3 acres near Wilson subway station will see 200 affordable housing units coming to the busy North York neighbourhood.

The Tippett Road property, sold to Shiplake Properties by Build Toronto, the city’s real estate and development investment corporation, will include in total 100 affordable rental and 100 affordable ownership homes.

The four-building, 900-unit development will also offer a new 5,000 square-foot daycare, new parkland and a gathering piazza on a site connecting to Wilson subway station through new and improved walkways.

“The objective from the beginning was to protect the character of the neighbourhood but add new assets that all could enjoy,” ward Councillor James Pasternak said in a release.

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What's Your Story, North York?

Literary event Sunday at Fairview library Fannie SunShine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com If you could write a story inspired by your community, what would you say?

From summer to fall, the Ontario Book Publishers Organization (OBPO) held What’s Your Story?, a new series of events funded by Toronto Arts Council focusing on the literacy communities in North York, Etobicoke, East York, and Scarborough.

Both established and unpublished writers were able to submit their work as part of a competition to see who would be selected for the What’s Your Story? series.

Four winners were selected from each neighbourhood – three published and one unpublished writer – with preference given to writers who live in, or have lived in, one of the four communities.

What’s Your Story, North York? will be held Sunday at Fairview Public Library, 35 Fairview Mall Dr., featuring Kenneth Sherman, Richard

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Domenico Capilongo, a high school teacher and karate instructor, is one of four writers taking part in Ontario Book Publishers Organization’s What’s Your Story? literary event Sunday at Fairview library. Similar events have taken place in Etobicoke, East York, and Scarborough.

Rosenbaum, Domenico Capilongo and Sara Y. Cunningham, with host The Real Sun. The pieces will be published on openbooktoronto.com and

performed Sunday.

“We are excited to reach Torontonians outside the downtown core,” Holly Kent, executive director of the OBPO, said in a release.

“The What’s Your Story? events will give us a truly unique opportunity to celebrate Etobicoke, North York, East York, and Scarborough and encourage and promote Ontario stories.”

Capilongo, a former North York resident who teaches karate at the North York YMCA and high school English in Thornhill, said he began to take writing seriously when he was accepted to York University’s creative writing program.

He’s written two poetry books and one book of short stories, noting this is the first time he has written directly about North York - and it wasn’t easy.

“It was very difficult to get started because I really wanted to capture all of North York: its diversity, nature and overall appeal,” he said of his piece, titled in a north york minute.

“I wanted to try to capture the feeling of North York as opposed to trying to describe any landmarks. I used the idea of comparing it to a New York minute which is very fast and high-paced. I feel that although North York is constantly going through changes, it still retains a laid-back, overall slower pace than the hustle and bustle of a bigger city.”

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North York author talks about his latest book, ‘Yitzi and the Giant Menorah’ Fannie SunShine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com The mayor of Lublin has gifted the people of Chelm with a giant menorah, and now they must find a way to give thanks.

North York author and illustrator Richard Ungar has released his latest book, Yitzi and the Giant Menorah, which touches on themes of joy, community, and how small acts of gratitude can have big impacts.

In creating the book, Ungar challenged himself with a new illustration method – watercolour monoprinting, a printmaking technique involving painting on glass and then, using a printing press (or back of a wooden spoon), transfer the image onto

paper.

An accomplished children’s book author, Ungar, who studied painting at the Ontario College of Art and Design, wrote his first book, Rachel Captures the Moon, in 2001.

The follow-up, Rachel’s Gift, was published two years later followed by Rachel’s Library in 2004.

Ungar, who fell into storytelling accidently after an art teacher asked the class to come up with a story to accompany a painting, has since published Even Higher and Time Snatchers.

The Mirror caught up with the Bathurst Street and Glencairn Avenue resident, who is a practising corporate lawyer by profession, to find out about his latest work.

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Q: Why did you want

to tell a story about Hanukkah, and why focus on the menorah?

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stories set during Passover (Rachel’s Gift) and Rosh Hashanah (Even Higher), so Hanukkah seemed the next logical progression and being a lawyer, logic is important to me. Also, as an artist, I was excited by the prospect of painting winter scenes. As for the menorah, to me it is the main symbol of Hanukkah so I wanted to find a way

Richard Ungar is a North York author and illustrator.

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to make it central to the story.

Q:

The message I took away was you don’t have to give physical gifts in order to give thanks, that something from the heart like a song - can have more meaning. Do you agree?

A: I totally agree. A simple act of kindness or gratitude can be much more meaningful than giving a material gift. Mind you, I didn’t have this message top of my mind when I wrote the book. I just

wanted to write a good story. But I also believe that good stories have layers and can be read on different levels - a Hanukkah story to one reader may be a story about gratitude to another.

Q:

You not only wrote, but also illustrated, the book. Tell us a little about your process - did you create pictures to go with the story, or create the story to go with the pictures?

A: I always write the story first. To me, the story has to stand by itself before I begin to think about the illustrations. There is a visual aspect to this though, because the idea for a story can be sparked by a visual image. For

example, I wrote Rachel’s Gift after viewing a Roman Vishniac photo of a young girl - on the wall behind her was a flower her father had painted for her.

Q:

Are you working on other writing projects? If so, can you tell us about them?

A: I have a few stories on

the go in various stages – one is a middle grade fantasy (it’s too early to say the word “novel” yet) about twins who stumble into some alternate worlds. Another is about an old man who lives with his pigeons on a rooftop in the Bronx. A third is about a young boy who discovers a gold button. Lately, it seems the stories are pouring out of me.

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he message delivered at an anti-violence seminar for youth held in Toronto last week was “just think first”. Unfortunately, based on the past weekend, the message didn’t get through.

A 15-year-old boy was killed after a stabbing on the bus platform of the Scarborough Centre SRT station Friday, Sept. 23. The stabbing was part of a fight between two groups of about 25 young people on the platform. The night after, a 17-year-old boy was injured in a stabbing at the YMCA located close to the station. Police aren’t saying if the incidents are connected. Either way, the toll Our VieW this violence takes on the families and friends of the victims, and our city as a whole, lasts forever.

Let’s build And it’s all so unnecessary. hope for There is nothing 15-year-old Kareem Derr could have done young people Friday night that should have ended in his murder.

But that’s what happened, and now his family must deal with the loss of a son and brother.

Somebody made a decision to stab him, and when that person is caught their life will also be ruined.

What the Just Think 1st TO summit was trying to achieve last week was making young people understand the consequences of violence.

Specifically, it was aimed at residents who “by virtue of lifestyle and or lack of conflict resolution skills have a heightened propensity to resort to gun violence as a solution to a problem or challenge.”

They could have inserted knife for gun in that statement as the end result is the same. One life lost and another ruined. The event was hosted by RISE Edutainment at a Scarborough community centre where young people gather. Randall Adjei, of RISE, said young people need to think more critically about the effects of violence. “It’s a deeply-rooted systemic issue,” he said.

So how do we deal with that? Building hope for young people at risk of turning to violence by providing them with educational and employment opportunities is a start. That will make them more able and willing to stand up to violence, and not use it as a way to solve petty issues. As Adjei said, much of how we deal with violence is our reaction to it after the fact. Ways of preventing violence in the first place are far more valuable solutions. newsroom ph:

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Scuttled licensing plan is a gift for Toronto cyclists People who use their bicycles to commute may not all see it this way, but for many, the end of September means the end of prime bike commuting weather in Toronto. It’s going to get darker and colder and slipperier from here on out.

At City Hall, councillors on the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee celebrated that end this week with two gifts to those cyclists: one, approving a plan to go ahead with separated bike lanes on Woodbine Avenue in the Beach community and, another, to kill a motion by Etobicoke Centre Councillor Stephen Holyday to look at a system for licensing cyclists.

It was a good morning’s work. The separated lanes on Woodbine will be a boon to bike riders in the east end, making, as Jared Kolb of CycleToronto noted, a safe and separated route from near the edge of Scarborough to downtown Toronto.

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david nickle the city ing plan? Holyday’s brainchild was probably never going to go anywhere even if it had made it through the committee.

In 1995, the former city of Toronto studied the idea and rejected it as costly and ineffective, and that rejection has been good enough for subsequent councils, who occasionally see attempts to get a report that says something different. The impetus for bike licensing – an idea that has caught on exactly nowhere – is usually presented as a measure to control joyriding cyclists: if you don’t get off that sidewalk, son, we’re going to take away your license. Blow through that stop sign will you?

Better get a Presto card because that bike’s going nowhere. As Holyday notes, a Forum Research poll found that more than half

of its respondents wanted to see a bicycle licensing fee applied in Toronto.

One would have to speculate as to why all those people wanted the fee in place, but it’s unlikely to be the same reasons that Holyday articulated in his motion and at committee: namely, to be able to gather data for future infrastructure planning, and to encourage more people to make use of a city datamining cycling phone app.

It’s not entirely clear that these form the core of Holyday’s motivations, either. Earlier this year, the scion of former councillor Doug Holyday’s political dynasty named himself as the defender of the rights of the driver, and made certain to insist on a very fine-grained study of the separated bike lane pilot project on Bloor Street.

Young Stephen doesn’t like to bring his father’s fire to the floor of council, but he does bring the old man’s automobile-centric

skepticism of two-wheeled transportation. This time, the committee was having none of it, and Holyday’s motion was deferred indefinitely. The fact is that council has already put its will behind bicycle transportation. It’s approved a 10-year cycling plan that is based on a great deal of study, consultation and data-gathering already conducted. There’s no need for a licensing system to gather more data, it’s unlikely that the licenses would generate enough revenue to pay for even a miniscule portion of the cost of providing bicycle infrastructure on roads, and police can enforce the Highway Traffic Act any time they see fit. Really, it’s just time to get on with planning and building the infrastructure – and accepting that bike riders are a part of the city’s fabric.

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Spirit Cinema WHEN: 6:15 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: St. John’s York Mills Anglican Church, 19 Don Ridge Dr. CONTACT: www. contemplativefire.ca COST: $20 Contemplative Fire’s first Spirit Cinema event of the season and watch Journey of the Heart: The Life of Henri Nouwen.

Square Dancing WHEN: 7:15 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Cummer Valley Middle School, 70 Maxome Ave. CONTACT: Ann & Grant Logan, 905-709-9241 COST: Free The Willow Weavers Square Dance Club hosts an open house and free introduction to square dancing.

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Young at Heart Club WHEN: Noon to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Parkwoods United Church, 85 Parkwoods Village Dr. CONTACT: 416-447-2928 COST: Free Bridge and euchre games for those aged 50 years old and over.

Bolly Hop Dance WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: York Woods Library, 1785 Finch Ave. W., CONTACT: 416-395-5980 COST: Free

Church of the Incarnation, 15 Clairtrell Rd. CONTACT: 416-221-7516 COST: $5 Sergeant Bob presents The Acid Test: When should a senior driver hang up the keys? Lunch included.

Indie Author Book Fair and Speakers WHEN: 1 to 4 p.m. WHERE: North York Central Library Auditorium, 5120 Yonge St. CONTACT: Paula, 416-395-5672, COST: Free Participate in author panels, book readings and signings, workshops, presentations and more. Local book fair and author signings: 1 p.m.

Fuses the styles of Bollywood and hip hop dance. Registration required.

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Brain Injury Society of Toronto WHEN: 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Wilket Creek Park, 1121 Leslie St. CONTACT: 416-830-1485 COST: $30 and $40 after Sept. 8 The Brain Injury Society of Toronto hosts its annual 5K run, walk and roll.

Come out to the event on your own or form your own team.

Steelband Workshop WHEN: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. WHERE: Downsview Library, 2793 Keele St. CONTACT: 416-395-5720 COST: Free Learn the basics of steelpan in a group hands on workshop. RSVP. Multiple Myeloma Support Group WHEN: 2 to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Jubilee United Church, 40 Underhill Dr. CONTACT: Dave, www.myelomatoronto.ca COST: Free

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World Music Series: Huun Huur Tu WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Aga Khan Museum, 77 Wynford Dr. CONTACT: 416-646-4677 COST: $40 + Throat-singer Radik Tyulyush – and an original blend of electronica, funk and the ancient songs of south central Siberia.

Scottish Country Dancing WHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Leonard’s Church, 25 Wanless Ave. CONTACT: www.dancescottish.ca COST: $100 Beginner lessons. No partner or experience needed.

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Yonge at Heart Club WHEN: 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE:

The Youth Arts Pitch Contest WHEN: 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. CONTACT: toronto.ca/ culturalhotspotCOST: Free Participants apply for a chance to pitch their idea in front of an audience and panel of Toronto arts community judges.

Donway Badminton Club WHEN: Tuesdays from 8 to 10 p.m.

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Speaker: Dr. Robert Wood, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Topic: Dental needs and concerns for MM patients.

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Watercolour Art Classes WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon . WHERE: Parkwoods United Church, 85 Parkwoods Village Dr. CONTACT: 416-447-5519 COST: $60/ person for each session of five classes Professional art instructor, Melinda Calway. Registration required.

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Kim Echlin: The Writing Life WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St. CONTACT: 416-395-5639, ArtsProgramsatNYCL@torontopubliclibrary. ca COST: Free Meet the new writer in residence, Kim Echlin, as she talks about the writing life, how she gets ideas and researches her fiction, the stories that inspire her, and the writer as witness.

Cafe 65 WHEN: noon to 2 p.m. WHERE: Church of the Ascension, 33 Overland Dr. CONTACT: evelynhullah@gmail. com COST: $7 Barbecue style lunch and entertainment. Steve Vaughn sings country and western.

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After officers attempted to make an arrest, the man fought back and pulled a firearm out of a satchel, police said, adding the firearm was knocked from his hand and he was placed under arrest.

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A search of the building and surrounding area by officers allegedly turned up a loaded Mossberg 715T .22 calibre rifle unconnected to the incident.

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t’s the small things – buying underwear, for instance.

There’s the boys department, and the girls. Which one do you pick when your child isn’t sure which gender fits?

Mandy Klein made a big mistake when she picked a pack of undies for her teenager Micah from the girls’ section. Turns out, one pair was pink.

Micah was so upset thinking about the girly pink pair donned that morning, her parents say, that by the end of day she’d cut the underwear into tiny pieces and tossed them in the trash.

Randy and Mandy Klein are doing their best to treat their child’s gender identity with respect, but sometimes, the Newmarket family struggles with the day-to-day details.

Micah, 16, came out as gay last year and several months ago, said they are gender fluid. Micah prefers “they and them,” dresses generically and considers themself male or female depending on the day, and sometimes the time of day.

It’s all new territory for the Kleins as they navigate a minefield of language and lifestyle for their only child, who is also autistic.

“I avoid using pronouns when I can,” Randy says. He uses Micah’s first name when he thinks of it, but it can get confusing and sometimes, emotional.

“I tell her – them – ‘when you correct me…don’t yell. I understand you’re passionate about it, but I forget. It doesn’t mean I’m being disrespectful.’”

The Kleins say they will stand by their child, wherever this journey takes them.

“If it’s important to Micah, it’s important we fight for them,” Randy says. Micah is a smart kid, he adds, a member of the school’s LGBTQ club, not troubled with bullying. “They’re doing well. They’ll figure it out.”

In the meantime, Mandy says gender-neutral departments in stores would make life easier.

It could happen. Our changing approach to gender impacts more than just the English language.

Other parts of society that have

something that fits.

“Maybe it’s time for fashion to play a role in stripping away the divisions and offer us different ways to express gender.”

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been traditionally segregated are undergoing a rapid re-think.

Anthems are being rewritten (goodbye to “all our sons command”), Facebook invites you to customize your gender profile, the Oxford Dictionaries website added Mx as an alternative to Mr. or Mrs., and everywhere, lines are blurring between male and female.

Some are calling it the new postgender era. Here are some of the shifts we’ve noticed:

PUBLIC WASHROOMS All-access washrooms are popping up everywhere and this summer, Toronto’s CNE garnered accolades for its cheeky take on the topic.

Instead of the traditional portaprivy signs showing a man in pants or woman in skirt, the Ex cubicles displayed icons of someone wearing half dress/half pants, along with the words “We Don’t Care.”

General manager Virginia Ludy told the Toronto Star the CNE approach diverts the debate to focus on what matters.

“Who cares who uses them, right? Men, women, doesn’t matter. You go in, you use it, you do your business, you leave.”

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Gender neutral bathrooms at this summer’s CNE in Toronto showed our changing attitudes towards gender. They displayed a half woman-half man graphic with the wording ‘we don’t care’.

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Hockey in Ontario now has new trans-inclusive rules, unveiled earlier this month thanks to Oshawa teenager Jesse Thompson.

Thompson, born a girl, challenged the Ontario minor hockey league’s dressing room policies that prevented him from using the boys change room.

His complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal led Ontario branches of Hockey Canada to post new policies allowing players to choose their dressing room based on whether they see themselves as male or female.

Thompson and Ontario Human Rights chief commissioner Renu Mandhane hope it paves the way for other sports to follow suit.

CONSUMER PRODUCTS From Entrepreneur Barbie to gender-free nursery decor, marketers are responding to the genderbending trend.

International Spa Association Foundation has recognized men are visiting spas more than ever and shopping for cosmetics (although skin care for men still comes in mostly “manly” packaging).

Target is phasing out genderbased signage and colours – the company’s website still directs buyers to gendered clothing sections, however – and Amazon.com removed its boy and girl options from their toy department search page. (On the Canadian site, the gender division remains.)

This summer, following a petition by DadDoes.com, the Toy Industry Association announced it would drop its gender-based Toy of the Year awards.

Gender is one of the Top 4 trends to impact the marketplace, research group Mintel says.

“People are questioning traditional notions of gender, rejecting the restraints of stereotypes and embracing the freedom to be themselves.”

A Massachusetts mom was accosted by a stranger last month who said allowing her three-yearold son nicknamed “Roo” to wear a tutu was child abuse. Her impassioned Facebook response went viral: “Roo may not always want to dress this way, but we hope that he’ll remember that, when he did, he was loved,” she wrote.

Despite controversy over Ontario’s new sex-ed guidelines, school boards across the GTA, Simcoe County and Muskoka are addressing gender in a variety of ways such as teacher liaisons, professional development, symposiums or gender-neutral washrooms.

“Labels and identities should only be self-selected by individuals, not assumed by others,” Toronto public school board’s 29-page guideline advises. “Biology does not imply identity. Nor do behaviour and expression alone.”

Greater changes are seen in places like Sweden, where preschools specialize in gender-equal teaching, avoiding pronouns him and her altogether.

Paul Woods, principal of inclusive school and community services with the York Region District School Board, believes the mental health strategy is clear.

“We need to reduce the stigma and emphasize safety and accessibility for all.”

FASHION Welcome to the age of “nonbinary refinery.”

Fashion runways have become gender-fluid with androgynouslooking models in heels and skirts, trousers and tweed.

Fashion designers are promoting gender-free clothing, U.K. department store Selfridges has introduced a pop-up store, Agender, and Women’s Wear Daily calls “Going Gender-Neutral” one its top stories of the year.

Ben Barry, professor at Ryerson’s school of fashion, applauds the trend.

“Everyone has a masculine and feminine side ... Why should clothing fail to reflect that part of who we are?”

In researching his book, Refashioning Masculinity, he discovered many men shop in the women’s section because they’re looking for a more playful esthetic or because they’re looking for

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Easing congestion at 10 ‘hotspot’ intersections Fannie SunShine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Mayor John Tory launched the second phase of his congestion management plan Monday to improve traffic headaches in the city.

To help get traffic moving at the 10 most congested intersections, or “hotspots”, the city is making a number of changes at these locations, some of which have already been implemented and some of which are to come.

Tory, who made the announcement at the corner of Victoria Park and Finch avenues – one of the hotspots due

to the proximity to the Don Valley Parkway and potential for traffic overflow – said constituents have made it clear the city “has to do everything we can to try to eliminate” traffic backlog during peak morning and afternoon periods.

The city has come up with a number of ways to reduce congestion at these intersections, including traffic signal retiming for peak periods; turn restrictions; left-turn advance green; increasing length of green time; and installing a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera.

The total cost of the congestion management plan is $1

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Tory said testing is underway for a type of smart technology that will automatically sense when traffic is heavy and would need to adjust signals, instead of relying on underground sensors, but it’s now in the “procurement” phase and will likely be implemented late this year or early 2017.

“We’re not going to eliminate traffic in the city but we’re going to make it flow better,” he said, adding many of the initiatives will be completed at the end of 2017.

The city’s congestion management plan was launched in January.

And the hotspots are: • Eglinton Avenue West and Martin Grove Road • Lawrence Avenue West and Black Creek Drive • St. Clair Avenue East and Mount Pleasant Road • Finch Avenue and Yonge Street • Sheppard Avenue and Yonge Street

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The Toronto Police Service regularly tweets collision information via @ TPSOperations, but according to urban planner Kyle Miller it’s only reporting 37 per cent of all incidents involving a pedestrian or a cyclist.

He forecasts the real number of collisions to stand at a staggering 3,500 by year’s end.

While it could be the unreported collisions aren’t of a serious nature, thus not meriting reporting, the numbers reaffirm there’s something seriously flawed with road safety in this city. Hopefully they offer some sobering food for thought for our elected officials.

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Uber Canada says it’s introduced new safety initiatives for its Toronto drivers.

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Uber Canada is expected to roll out the changes nationwide in the coming weeks.

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The city finally appears to be getting serious on adding more charging stations for electric vehicles.

The Public Works and Infrastructure Committee at Tuesday’s meeting voted to refer a report to city staff to seek immediate solutions for expanding the limited amount of charging stations in the city. Toronto, as motion mover Mary-Margaret McMahon observed, has the

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Got an opinion on transportation? You might be getting a call from the Ontario government one of these days.

Every five years, the Ministry of Transportation conducts a survey collecting information about a household’s travel habits. The data is used, says the government, in future transportation planning.

For 2016, invitations were randomly mailed out to participate in the survey either over the phone or online. Cold calls are also planned between September and December, specifically to households with no landlines listed as primary phone numbers.

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