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Ali Raza araza@insidetoronto.com Community arts initiative, SKETCH, invited guests to its fundraising event to showcase the new Creative-Enterprise Hub. SKETCH (re)Constructed: Finishing Fundraiser featured youth speakers telling their stories of how the arts has had a positive impact on their lives.

Parkdale resident Huda Eldardiry, 26, was one of the youth speakers who led an art-making session as she told her story about how SKETCH changed her life.

The initiative aims to create opportunities for young people between 16 and 29 living homeless and/or marginalized to experience the arts, develop their leadership, self-sufficiency and to cultivate social and environmental change through the arts. Eldardiry said it’s much more than meets the eye.

“It’s not just for streetinvolved and marginalized youth. It’s for the community,” she said. “It’s a space where people who don’t know if they have an art practice, they can come and learn – discover what their art practice is. Because at >>>new, page 7

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Indie Arts Market: Sheryl Kirby, right, and artist Karine Eyamie have fun with her wonder women cuffs at the Toronto Indie Arts Market Saturday at the Gladstone Hotel.

Committee weighs in on illuminated signs DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Toronto could put a cap on flashing, illuminated signs along the Gardiner Expressway as soon as June of this year, but

the city’s planning and growth management committee punted possible changes to the city’s rules for electronic and illuminated signs until 2015.

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meeting after hearing from residents of Liberty Village, complaining about the intrusion of the bright and often animated signs outside the windows of their homes overlooking the expressway.

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De Francesco brings grit, glamour to Arts and Fashion Week LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com

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ashion designer and textile artist Alexandra De Francesco toils all year in preparation for the annual Fashion Art Toronto’s (FAT) Arts and Fashion Week, April 22 to 26.

FAT celebrates inventive and contemporary expression through more than 50 runway shows, live performances, fashion films, photography exhibits and art installations.

De Francesco relishes in taking her time to collect materials from recycled antiques, to lace and beading to create one-of-a-kind wearable art couture – work that has been described as “dark and daring” and “pinup dominatrix chic.”

“It takes a long time to collect and piece together what I have,” the Roncesvalles Village resident said. “Because it’s so old, it’s tough to work with, it disintegrates.”

De Francesco initially

applied to the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) intent on pursuing drawing and painting. What she graduated with was a Bachelor Degree in design.

“I don’t know how that happened,” she said, laughing.

De Francesco said she likes to work with salvaged materials that also include ancient silks and hand-dyed and silk-screened fabrics, recycled furs and hand-spun threads.

“As a kid, I was always making things from everything around me, even in the garden out of leaves. I was always crafting,” she said. “My mom had fabric in the basement. She’d help me sew outfits for my dolls.”

De Francesco honed her sewing skills in high school in home-ec class.

Her latest collection, ‘Grit/Glamour,’ inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald and his writing of the Jazz Age, will make its debut Wednesday, April 23 at 585 Dundas St E. “I was inspired by the

excess of the time period. I started to get dazzled by the light and sequins of the era,” she said.

Her seventh showing at FAT, De Francesco is no stranger to the “craziness” of the event. It’s a blur of coordinating shoes, makeup, models and the like – all while holding down several other jobs at the same time.

“I’m always moving, it’s pretty intense,” said De Francesco. “It’s a hell of a lot of stress. Then, it’s over and I can relax.”

De Francesco, whose company is called Asphyxia, has exhibited her work at the Textile Museum of Canada, The Gladstone Hotel and Gallery X. “I just love creating beautiful things – I don’t want to be mass-produced. Visit asphyxiadesigns.com for details.

Bloor West and Dufferin streets-area Starkers Corsetry, owned by designer Dianna DiNoble, who creates custom, made-to-order corsets, will present her

work during a fashion show on Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22.

DiNoble’s interest in corsets piqued in high school while studying a lot of art history, although, she showed artistic talent as a child when she began sewing and painting. She studied fashion design at Sheridan College before apprenticing with couturiers and learning the same techniques she uses to create her corsets.

“It’s so versatile. It can be so many different styles,” said DiNoble, who will be showing her work for the seventh time at FAT. “I love how it can change people’s shape.”

DiNoble’s 10-piece runway show this year features corsets that incorporate animal skin textures and nature-inspired themes. The annual show is DiNoble’s chance to flex her creative muscle.

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Manuel Rodriguez tells harrowing tale of living through civil war

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He is one of the five guests at the Human Library at Parkdale branch Ali Raza araza@insidetoronto.com Most students count numbers while doing math, but Parkdale resident Manuel Rodriguez had to count bombs in his university calculus exam during the Salvadoran Civil War. Rodriguez, 45, was one of the five guests featured at the ‘Human Library’ at the Parkdale branch of the Toronto Public Library on April 12.

The guests, known as ‘human books’, shared their stories of experiencing life in conflict zones with visitors.

The guests were available to “sign out” for a small discussion.

The Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992) was a decadelong conflict in El Salvador between the United Statesbacked military government and communist guerrilla groups.

Rodriguez recalled his personal story of experiencing the

horrors of war firsthand before coming to Canada in 1989.

“During my exam, I counted seven bombs that I heard outside the university campus,” Rodriguez said.

“I thought to myself, I need to focus on this test, so I stopped counting. But I knew that people were being killed.”

Born in the smaller city of Usulután, Rodriguez and his family moved to the capital, San Salvador when the war intensified. His mother worked as a teacher, but because teachers had a union, they became a target of the military regime as they sympathized with the guerrilla fighters.

“Days before we left the house, they (guerrillas) painted graffiti on our house,” Rodriguez said.

“It said ‘Yankees go home.’

You couldn’t do anything, if you took it off, it meant you were against the guerrillas.

If you kept it on, it meant you were sympathizing with

Tanks came through the city and the military told us to stay at home.

Nobody could leave the house because you’d be killed.

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Manuel Rodriguez speaks as a ‘human book’ at the Parkdale branch of the Toronto Public Library on April 12. People could sign-out and have a discussion with Rodriguez about his experiences during the Salvadoran Civil War.

them.”

After leaving Usulután and restarting life in the capital, life was still very uncertain.

The war had begun in the countryside, but after five years of fighting had leaked into San Salvador.

The Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and with it the last pillars of support for communism. The Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse and the guerril-

las had no choice left but to launch a full-scale assault on the capital.

“They wanted to make one last offensive,” Rodriguez said.

“Tanks came through the city and the military told us to stay at home. Nobody could leave the house because you’d be killed.”

After the military assassinated professors and intellectuals, some of whom

Rodriguez knew, his father decided it was time to leave the country.

“The Canadian embassy called us and said we know your life is in danger, if you want to leave, we can take you,” Rodriguez said.

“They gathered the passports and permits and in a week we left for Canada.”

Rodriguez and his family a r r i v e d i n To r o n t o o n December 21, 1989.

The government provided them with housing at 100 Jameson Ave. in Parkdale.

Rodriguez learned English and got a job with the Ministry of Labour where he worked for 12 years before starting his own company, Unikron.

“I remember getting up

the morning of the 22nd,” Rodriguez said. “The noises I heard most of my life, bullets and bombs, they weren’t there anymore. It was so peaceful and quiet.”

Rodriguez has since been involved with the Hispanic community of Toronto.

In October 2013, he was elected president of the Toronto Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and continues to work for the community.

The ‘Human Library’ also featured retired peacekeeper Captain Percy Purpura, Iraqi journalist Ayub Nuri, Doctors Without Borders’ member Dr. Raghu Venugopal and Pierre Bernard, a retired Canadian Forces member.

The guests spoke of the horrors they witnessed in conflict zones, exploring the theme of the One Book Selection.

The selection is part of the 2014 Keep Toronto Reading festival.

The book selection for this year is Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo.

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ow to pay for transit expansion – it’s the multibillion-dollar question.

Speaking at the Toronto Region Board of Trade Monday, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne pledged that a greater portion of the gas tax (one that’s already collected by the province) would go toward specific transit projects.

Combined with other funds, that reallocation commitment amounts to $29 billion over 10 years. There aren’t many further details, beyond that a little more than half that money would go to projects in the Greater Toronto Area.

Response to Wynne’s pledge from the likes of Metrolinx chair Robert Prichard and representatives from CivicAction Alliance was optimistic but cautious – and for good reason.

Specific details haven’t been announced, for one.

We also know that all the Big Move projects in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area need $2 billion annually over 25 years. our view Monday’s funding commitment amounts to less than a Pledge greeted third of that target. Among the in Toronto waiting for with optimism projects those funds is a relief subway line to take the strain off an and caution overburdened Yonge line.

Finally, Wynne’s minority government is on shaky ground and is hardly in prime position to act on this pledge. Her governing Liberals will need support from either the Progressive Conservatives or the NDP to survive an upcoming budget vote at Queen’s Park and avoid being plunged into a June election.

Simply put, she has the best platform right now to make those kinds of big pledges. Somewhere along the line – maybe soon, maybe later – the voter will decide.

So the premier has sent a message clear in financial support if nothing else. The big number will resonate.

The Tories’ focus on building subways may resonate with voters. The NDP hasn’t set out exactly what they’d do for transit and how they’d pay for it.

And it’s the NDP that matters most here.

Presuming there’s a provincial budget soon, it’ll come down to whether the NDP supports that budget that determines how much cautiously optimistic transit planners can count on the Liberal-promised provincial funds.

Turning down the budget sends us to an election and all bets are off.

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Pre-election transit promises from Kathleen Wynne Liberals sweet, but prospects bleak

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n the politics of commuting in Toronto, there is nothing quite as heartbreaking as a transit plan near the eve of an election.

The promise is as sweet as the prospects are bleak. But the stakes are high enough that you cannot look away.

Rob Ford played with the hearts of Scarborough residents when he promised to stop the Sheppard LRT and turn it into a subway just a few years ago.

And a few more years prior to that, Ontario premier Bob Rae and his successor Mike Harris broke the hearts of City of York residents, when Rae actually funded and then Harris cancelled a subway along Eglinton Avenue.

Construction was already underway by the time that happened, proving that even a sure thing

david nickle the city can become dubious in the hands of shifting governments.

Promises Now Premier Kathleen Wynne has stepped up, making what sounds like a dubious promise from the get-go: $15 billion flowing to transit and transportation improvements in the Greater Toronto Area (from $29 billion, provincewide), from... somewhere.

Gas tax revenue will have something to do with it, as will a portion of the HST derived from fuel tax.

And there will be added debt.

Further details of how this money is to be raised will be revealed in the

sure-to-be-defeated 2014 provincial budget coming a few weeks from now.

The money, if it ever comes, would sure be nice.

More than nice, in fact: funding on that scale is essential if Toronto and the region is to remain livable and economically viable.

It might even be worth a bigger deficit to see it go ahead.

There is a more immediate and less costly plan at work with the April 14 announcement: embarrassing the provincial Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats, as they get set to presumably defeat the government and force a spring election.

Wynne made that clear at the announcement, when she pointed out that the plan will require allies – and if those allies aren’t in the Legislature, they could well be voters.

If Wynne can successfully portray a vote against the government as a vote against transit funding, then she’ll have a shot at the ear of every commuter struggling for breath and dignity on the YongeUniversity-Spadina subway line.

It won’t hurt her a bit that the mayor’s race in Toronto is also shaping itself into a marathon meditation on public transit.

Unfortunately for Wynne and for Toronto, the Ontario Liberals are entering this race with many other well-documented disadvantages.

If transit expansion is truly to be tied to a Liberal victory in 2014... well, that would be yet another heartbreak.

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The High Park Nature Centre is hosting its annual ‘Cherry Blossom Watch’ to help predict the date the blossoms will bloom.

The majority of cherry blossoms are in the area called Hillside, along the west area of the park adjacent to Grenadier Pond. Visit bit.ly/1eBfbKJ

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Lunch n’ Learn about LinkedIn April 30 Learn more about LinkedIn at a Liberty Village BIA Lunch ‘n Learn event Wednesday, April 30, noon to 1 p.m., at Toronto Carpet Factory (in the boardroom), 67 Mowat Ave., Suite 101.

Susan Kates, a marketing consultant and a professor at Centennial College, will inspire, motivate and educate on the virtues and benefits of using the LinkedIn platform, the most powerful business networking tool available today.

Space is limited.

RSVP by Tuesday, April 29, noon, to rebecca@lvbia.com

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Participants will make yogurt and granola using local milk and organic grains and nuts.

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Canadian-Ukraine friendship group Parkdale-High Park MP Peggy

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Nash was elected vice-chair of the Canadian-Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group by her MP peers at its annual general meeting earlier this month.

“I look forward to working with fellow parliamentarians to strengthen the ties between Canada and Ukraine and I thank the Ukrainian-Canadian community at home in Toronto for their tireless efforts to foster this important relationship,” Nash said in a statement.

Milkweed plant sale takes place in april A new plan could see a butterfly corridor set up along the Garrison Creek corridor.

As part of the Homegrown National Park initiative, the David Suzuki Foundation is selling milkweed plants throughout the month of April.

Milkweed gives Monarch butterflies a place to lay their eggs and provides food for Monarch caterpillars.

To learn more about the project, visit www.davidsuzuki.org/ gotmilkweed

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Bring your fiddle and wHoward practise at Church Park Emmanuel United Church, at the corner of Wright and Roncesvalles avenues, hosts practice sessions for World Fiddle Day most Sundays until May 17 from 1:30 to 3 p.m.

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The local movement of free.Locally led walking tours, inspired by iconic writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs, takes place May 2, 3 and 4.

Anyone can lead a walk in his or her neighbourhood. Register it online at hjaneswalk.org/ toronto Visit bit.ly/1mxUwGO to nominate a friend to be a walk leader.

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New Creative-Enterprise Hub located at Artscape Youngplace on Shaw Street >>>from page 1 the end of the day, we’re all artists, and it’s just a matter of finding what art form you’re comfortable with.”

Eldardiry led the visual arts workshop at the event. It involved guests drawing several different models posing in front of them on canvas, but with only five seconds per model.

“People think ‘I can’t do this, I’m not an artist,’” Eldardiry said. “But really, when you’re doing this activity the hope is to realize that you are an artist. You have a mind, and there’s some creativity going in there constantly. There’s a beauty in how our minds work, and that, in itself, is an art form.”

Eldardiry is a textile artist. She creates floral designs and prints them on fabric using a method called screen printing, which involves burning a screen and running paint through it to transfer the image onto fabric.

In addition to textiles, Eldardiry writes, paints and abstract art.

She recalled her first painting and the lengths she went through to do it.

Her father declined her initial request to buy paint, so she settled with white paint and a paintbrush.

“I remembered somewhere, people used to make their own paste, so I thought I’d do that,” Eldardiry said.

“I raided my mom’s spice cupboard and found food colouring, and I made my own paste and my own paint. It’s things like that I love about art, no one can really tell you no.”

despite hardships And no one could tell her no as she maintained her interest in art despite her hardships.

Eldardiry heard of SKETCH three years ago from a flyer, but was initially discouraged to joining.

“An acquaintance told me I’m not welcome there because they thought SKETCH only engages homeless youth, but I wasn’t homeless at the time,” Eldardiry said.

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“SKETCH has helped me I thought, now is the save myself, by embracing time to get away from my who I was at that moment anxiety and overcome it and giving me the tools that I and start to heal. needed at that moment and even now, continuously so – Huda Eldardiry that I could feel confident again, love myself again and homelessness. The first time be happy.”

I was homeless, I was five SKETCH was founded in years old with my mother, 1996 by artist Phyllis Novak and the second time when as a storefront studio on I got kicked out at 16, and Queen Street West and after then again, and again, and 17 years has expanded to the again. From 16 until now, new Creative-Enterprise Hub at the Artscape Youngplace I’ve moved over 30 times.

I’ve lost homes, I’ve gained on Shaw Street. In 2001, homes, I’ve couch-surfed.

SKETCH was incorporated But I thought, I just won’t as a non-profit organization. bother going.”

Thursday’s fundraiser celeAfter experiencing sexual brated the hub and while furassault and being terminated ther collecting funds for the from her job, Eldardiry initiative. The total amount reached a point of mental left to raise is $300,000. exhaustion and despair.

“Infrastructure is neces“I became terrified of sary,” Novak said. “Spaces working, I was terrified of and mentorship are critical working with anyone who for young people to work is male, or even female,” together with the broader enterprise and creative comEldardiry said. “I was just stuck at home, broken, with munity, to exercise their gifts a lot of anxiety. I’ve gone and participate in creating through a lot of trials and a the kind of inclusive and lot of hardships in my life, vibrant world we all want but this was the first time to live in together.” that I was broken.”

The spaces in the new Determined to bounce Creative-Enterprise Hub back, Eldardiry thought of have separate studio areas her son and decided she dedicated to specific arts disciplines including: visual needed to be happy and confident, not only for her arts, crafts, ceramics, textiles, sake, but for his. After getting music, recording, creative support from a close group writing, woodworking, sculpof people, she applied for the ture, digital media, dance community artist job posting and theatre. at SKETCH a year ago.

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Easter Egg Hunt WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: High Park Library, 228 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: Ted Karkut, 416-393-7671 COST: Free Get a clue and try to find the hidden paper egg.

Meagan’s Walk: Creating a Circle of Hope WHEN: 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

WHERE: Fort York National Historic Site, 250 Fort York Blvd. CONTACT: www.meaganswalk.com Creating a Circle of Hope to raise awareness, and generate support, for children and families affected by pediatric brain tumours.

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Lost Waterways WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: highparkwalkingtours@ yahoo.ca COST: Free City planner Leo deSorcy explains the presence of invisible waters in High Park and around Toronto - flowing waterways, which have been suppressed for urban development. Meet at the Grenadier benches.

w Friday, April 25

Wine and Cheese Gala WHEN: 8 to 11:59 p.m.

WHERE: Emmanuel-Howard Park United Church, 214 Wright Ave. CONTACT: Lisa Forestell, 416-536-1755, emmanuelhowardparkuc@ gmail.com COST: $30

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The gala features live jazz, live and silent auctions, door prizes and a selection of wines and cheeses.

Smoke Free Heroes (SFH) “Youth’s Got Talent” Show WHEN: 5 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre, 220 Cowan Ave. CONTACT: Kalsang Dolma, 416-393-7689 COST: Free Program includes: skid, dance, songs and dramatic readings by 28 youth aged 13 to 24, presentation on alcohol and substance abuse by Toronto Public

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Toronto Central CCAC celebrates 50 years of compassionate home care

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Launch of Heroes in the Home Caregiver Recognition Awards To mark the 50th anniversary of delivering home care in Toronto, Toronto Central CCAC has launched the Heroes in the Home Caregiver Recognition Awards.

The awards will honour both paid and unpaid caregivers in the Toronto Central community — the unsung heroes who give of themselves to help others live with comfort, dignity and independence.

The awards will recognize all types of caregivers, whether a family member, neighbour, friend or health care worker who selflessly provide skilled and compassionate care. The awards will be presented on May 27, 2014. Nominations can be made until April 25. Toronto Central CCAC also launched a Facebook page -- www.facebook.com/torontocentralCCAC -- to promote the awards and share stories of dedicated caregivers.

Every day, caregivers in our community help others, whether is it through warm smiles, gentle hands, shared laughter or caring expertise. Caregivers are people like Paul, a superintendent in a Toronto apartment building who works to ensure those in his building are well taken care of whether it’s arranging for a ride

to and from hospital or making sure the refrigerator is stocked with healthy food to aid in recovery time. Paul is an informal caregiver for many, who acts out of selflessness and genuine commitment to making things better for those in his community.

Caregivers are people like Creselda, a personal support worker, who provides care for stroke victim John. In addition to helping him bathe and dress, Creselda was taught how to help John perform exercises to regain his strength. Because of her relentless belief in John, he is now able to get himself in and out of bed with little help from his wife – who otherwise does everything – and he can even walk a little.

John and his wife, Shirley, are very grateful for the creative solutions and support of the care team.

It is stories like these that show how caregivers are the everyday heroes in our midst. Caregivers

are compassionate, respectful and empathetic. They have a tremendous impact on the lives of others by helping enhance their quality of life and connecting them with the care they need.

Heroes in the Home is an opportunity to recognize caregivers, our everyday heroes like Creselda and Paul, for the exceptional role they play in our community.

You can nominate as many individuals as you like by completing the nomination form on our website, healthcareathome.ca/ torontocentral.

Please notify your nominee in advance that you have nominated them. As well, all nominees will receive an invitation to attend the ceremony. All nominees will receive a certificate of appreciation at the ceremony.

For more information please call 416-217-3820 ext.

2476 or email heroesinthehome @toronto.ccac-ont.ca.

Easter Egg Hunt

Looking for treats: Top photo: Alexa Meldazy, left, and her cousin Sapora Mercieca hunt for Easter eggs at the annual egg hunt at Colborne Lodge in High Park Sunday. Sierra Farlinger, below left, samples one of the chocolate eggs while other children, below right, hunt for their own chocolate eggs at the annual Easter egg hunt.

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“This is a residential neighbourhood, and not a neighbourhood any different than the Annex.”

Resident Alison Gorbould said proposed amendments to the rules for animated signs needed to clamp down on sign companies’ placing and configuring of signs.

“This is not an industry that has a history of respecting council’s decisions,” Gorbould said.

“And we’re talking about giving them more leeway?

Is this the lesson you want to teach? That’s not how you deal with a three year old and that’s not how you should deal with a lobby.”

The committee also heard from members of the sign industry, who worried the city’s planned restrictions, which would restrict levels of brightness and create a special category for electronic

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Trinity-Spadina Councillor Mike Layton, who represents Liberty Village, said the fastgrowing neighbourhood is not the right place for signs that were originally approved for an industrial area.

“When this district first was thought up it wasn’t a residential neighbourhood – Liberty Village was very much an industrial neighbourhood – a dying industrial neighbourhood,” he said.

“It’s made a lot of changes since then... These are property taxpaying, transit riding families that are moving in there.

“When they have to put in extra blinders – blackout panels in their windows, just to get a good night’s sleep...

It’s important for us to rethink whether the sign district is appropriate given that we have 10,000 people living next to it.”

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The staff report noted from a safety perspective the signs do distract drivers on the Gardiner, but found the distraction had no safety implications.

Councillors finally supported a motion that would see the decision as to whether to end the practise of allowing illuminated signs specifically along the Gardiner put off until the committee’s June meeting.

And it put off dealing with the regulation of illuminated signs until 2015 – after the municipal election.

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Cycling improvement projects get boost Cycling improvement projects in Toronto and across the province will receive a boost of $25 million over three years, it was announced this week.

The announcement, made by provincial Transportation Minister Glen Murray to kick off the 2014 Ontario Bike Summit, will see $10 million invested in municipal bike infrastructure projects like separated lanes.

A further $15 million will go towards constructing paved shoulders for cycling on provincial highways and bridges.

FEELING CONGESTED? ◗Open OPEN HOUSES PLANNED houses are planned for late April as part of the next phase for the Feeling Congested? city planning initiative.

The brainchild of chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat, Feeling Congested? has gauged feedback from residents since 2013 on what priorities should be considered when it comes to improving transit congestion.

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The first open house is Tuesday, April 29 at North York Civic Centre with various consults planned until May 5. For a full list of meeting dates, go to www.feelingcongested.ca TTCRIDERS ACCEPTING BOARD NOMINATIONS There’s still time to apply to be a board member for the city’s largest transit advocacy group.

TTCriders is accepting online nominations until Saturday for transit enthusiasts seeking to join its board of directors.

Elections will take place at the group’s annual general meeting May 10.

Email info@ttcriders.ca or visit www.ttcriders.ca Applicants must be at least 18 years old and are expected to devote 10 to 12 hours monthly to the group’s operations.

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JANE-FINCH TRANSIT ◗A public MEETING meeting will discuss planned transit improvements in the JaneFinch area.

TTC chair Maria Augimeri and Metrolinx community relations director Jamie Robinson will take part in a panel organized by the Community Action Planning Group of York West (CAPG-YW ) to discuss transit plans for the area, such as the $1.2 billion Finch West LRT scheduled to commence construction in 2015.

A presentation is also planned on current transit service in the neighbourhood, which is served by some of the city’s most crowded bus routes.

The meeting is May 1 at York Woods Library, 1785 Finch Ave. W. For more information, contact Michelle Francis at 416-418-0635 or email mf20703@gmail.com Rahul Gupta is The Villager’s transit reporter. His column runs every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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Province to dedicate more gas tax money to transit RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com The Ontario government has pledged $15 billion to Greater Toronto transportation improvements over the next 10 years.

The announcement Monday by Premier Kathleen Wynne promises $29 billion in overall funding province-wide, with the bulk of the money coming from redirected HST revenues collected from provincial gas taxes as well as the introduction of a new set of revenue tools, the details of which will not be known until the release of the provincial budget in a few weeks.

Wynne also promised full accountability and transparency when it comes to allocating the money.

But given the precarious status of the minority Liberals, she admitted for the plan to ever become reality it will require support from either the provincial PCs or NDPs, or a clear victory at the polls should an election be called as early as late spring.

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Premier Kathleen Wynne addresses the Toronto Region Board of Trade during a luncheon at the Royal York Hotel Monday.

“We need a partner to put our plan in place,” said Wynne to reporters following the noon-hour announcement at the Royal York Hotel as part of an event organized by the Toronto Region Board of Trade.

“That partner could be the Tories, the NDP or, if necessary, the voting public.”

According to the proposed plan, $1.2 billion would be available every year by allocating an additional 7.5 cents of revenue from HST on gasoline

towards transit infrastructure funding. Currently two cents of the gas tax rate goes into transportation and infrastructure spending.

Wynne said the newlycollected revenue would be funneled across a decade into Metrolinx priority projects such as the introduction of frequent GO Transit rail service beyond the Lakeshore lines and the Downtown Relief Line plan to alleviate current subway congestion in Toronto.

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