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Actor Zaib Shaikh from Little Mosque on the Prairie, Steve Milanis and Dyan James gathered together at the Archway Outpatient Clinic holiday party last Friday.

There were 110 clients in attendance and all received a Gift of Light.

ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com Everyone deserves a pleasant and welcoming place to go and hang out with friends, Lisa Dooher said.

Dooher, director of resource development at Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre, said it’s largely the people at the centre who make it welcoming, not the space.

PARC has operated a drop-in centre on the first floor of 1499 Queen St. W. for more than 30 years.

But the well-used space was showing its age. The floors were old with mismatched tiles and the walls needed a fresh coat of paint.

Thanks in part to an Ontario Trillium Foundation Community Capital Fund grant and some aggressive fundraising, PARC has recently undergone a revitalization on the first floor of the three-story building.

There is new flooring in the dropin centre and in the offices on the first floor. The lobby of the main entrance was enlarged and reconfigured. The bathrooms were retiled and the drop-in centre reception area was reworked for better accessibility into the building.

The Boulevard Club donated about 400 tennis balls, which will be placed on the feet of the old chairs to make sure they don’t scratch the new floor until they can get new chairs.

The drop-in centre was closed for two weeks for the work to be done, which made for a hectic time, Dooher said.

During the renovations PARC continued to offer meals, but they were bagged lunches. They continued to run as many services as possible, but they couldn’t offer some >>>second, page 6

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Archway ‘family’ gather for holiday party ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com Dyan James’ face lights up as she pushed back the purple tissue paper revealing the gifts she received from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s Gifts of Light campaign.

She pulled out a scarf, hat, gloves as well as some toiletries like shampoo and deodorant.

“It is awesome, nice stuff, good quality stuff,” James said.

James, who lives in Scarborough, is a client at CAMH’s Archway

Outpatient Clinic on Queen Street West in Parkdale. Archway provides a coordinated and comprehensive treatment program for people who have chronic schizophrenia or related disorders and are living in the community.

The clinic held its annual holiday party last Friday. For James and some of her fellow clients at Archway this was the only holiday celebration they will have this year, but James said it’s a wonderful celebration all the same.

“I’m part of the Archway family

and it’s a loving family,” said James, who has been going to Archway since 2007.

Held in the gymnasium of the Masaryk Cowan Community Centre, tables dressed with green and red cloths and seasonal songs on the radio, the party featured a holiday meal with lasagna, quiche, cooked vegetables and turkey, raffle prizes and was capped off with Santa and his helpers distributing CAMH Gifts of Light to the 110 clients in attendance.

There will be 1,700 Gifts of Light

distributed to CAMH clients over the holiday season. Now in its fifth year, the Gifts of Light campaign encourages people to purchase gifts that will help bring hope and comfort to CAMH patients during Christmas.

Steve Milanis, who also lives in Scarborough, dressed in a Santa Claus suit to help hand out gifts to his fellow Archway clients.

“It makes my day happy,” he said.

“It makes me happy to (hand) the gifts to the clients. I like giving >>>little, page 7

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Brockton writer wins award for historical young readers novel ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com

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t was in her tall, narrow Brockton Triangle home, tucked near the train tracks, that Kate Cayley penned much of her award-winning first published novel The Hangman in the Mirror.

Cayley, a playwright and a writer-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre, said she didn’t set out to write a young adult novel, but it was a happy coincidence and one she enjoyed.

“It was lovely writing it as a book for young readers because young adult literature is so narrative driven. It was luxury because you can just expand on the story, pursue the story and focus on telling a good story.”

That focus paid off as The Hangman in the Mirror recently won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, which comes with a $5,000 prize sponsored by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Bilson Endowment Fund.

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Brockton Triangle resident Kate Cayley won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People for her novel The Hangman in the Mirror.

The novel, geared at readers 13 and up, tells the story of a young girl in 18th century Montreal who was sentenced to hang for stealing a pair of gloves.

“At the time there was a law on the books that a woman could be

pardoned if she could persuade a man to become the hangman and to marry her,” Cayley explained.

In the two months the tale’s heroine was in prison, she managed to persuade a young solder she had never seen to do

just that. “I first discovered the story because Margaret Atwood wrote a poem about it in the ’70s called Marrying the Hangman,” Cayley said. “I then went to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and read the entry and was completely floored that no one had written a book about her before... it is an astonishing story.”

Cayley said from the few facts of the story, she went on to construct this imaginary tale of the young girl and the hangman.

The Hangman in the Mirror was released in the fall 2011 by Annick Press.

The book looks at the girl’s relationship to the man she persuades to marry her as well as her prior relationship to her female employer whose gloves she stole.

“All those things about power and class and the relationship between women of different classes, mistress and servant relationship is completely fascinating,” she said.

Cayley is the co-founder and artistic director of Stranger Theatre, an artist-run company.

The story the book is based on is also the inspiration for a 2009 show by Stranger Theater called The Hanging of Françoise Laurent.

The play was collectively created with other members of the company, and Cayley said she was simultaneously developing and writing the book.

“People then ask, is the book an adaptation of the play and the answer is, absolutely not,” Cayley said. “The play is not for young audiences at all and the focus is quite different.”

The Canadian Children’s Book Centre announced the winners of its six major Canadian children’s book awards Nov. 21 in Toronto.

The Geoffrey Bilson Award was established in 1988 in memory of the historian and children’s author. The $5,000 prize is awarded annually to a Canadian author of an outstanding work of historical fiction for young people. The Hangman in the Mirror is available at Book City locations, Another Story Bookshop, Type Books on Queen Street West and as an ebook.

FROST FAIR HISTORIC FORT YORK: Left, Alex Sawa uses an antique printing press to make a souvenir holiday card at Fort York during Sunday’s Frost Fair, a throwback to the festive season in Upper Canada 200 years ago when the Christmas Market was one of the social and shopping highlights of the year. During the event, historical re-enactors march as soldiers, while below right, Leva Lucs describes historical cooking practices at Fort York.

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his week, Toronto residents saw students from numerous high schools take to the streets to protest the loss of extra-curricular activities at their high schools as part of the continuing battle between the Ontario government and its public school teachers.

Next week, however, the heat is really going to be turned up as a one-day strike by public elementary school teachers in Toronto is expected at some point before next Friday.

The union representing the elementary school teachers, the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO), has been calling one-day strikes in school boards across the province since Monday.

The ETFO is giving boards and our view parents, 72 hours notice of the impending strikes.

Work together Perhaps by the end of this week or early next week, Toronto to ease pain of residents with children in the public system should know what teachers’ strike day the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) will strike the elementary schools.

The TDSB will close the doors of its schools with students from junior kindergarten to Grade 8. The board has sent home letters to parents encouraging them to start making alternate arrangements for their elementary school children now.

For thousands of parents this is going to be a costly, complicated and stressful day.

But by working together in our neighbourhoods and school communities, we can make it easier for those facing challenges.

Communities in other boards have come up with some good ways of dealing with the strikes beyond taking the day off work or sending the kids to other family members.

For instance, the City of Ottawa announced it would be extending its before and after-school programs on the day of the strike.

We expect to see an announcement from the City of Toronto shortly that it will be doing the same.

Also, other organizations are stepping up.

In the case of Ottawa again, the Ottawa Senators said they’d offer a full-day hockey camp that day for kids aged five to 12.

Hello, Toronto Maple Leafs – there’s a great idea.

There are many other great ideas out there parents can start sharing with each other right now, so that those who are able to help with child care on strike day can do so while those who must go to work can also do so. newsroom

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Re: ‘Opinion divided on influx of Queen Street bars,’ News, Nov. 29.

Councillor Gord Perks and the city planners presented proposals to limit the kind of food-related businesses that operate on Queen in Parkdale.

Their approach uses blunt zoning regulations. All they can do is stop things. But they only think they are stopping negative things. The problem is they inadvertently stop incredibly positive things as well.

By clamping down, they kill creativity and with it they limit the dreams of energized entrepreneurs trying to make new things.

There are many mature neighbourhoods that have survived and flourished through dynamic changes Parkdale is currently experiencing. Little Italy, Trinity Bellwoods, Greektown.

Imagine these areas without backyard patios?

Why not reduce regulation.

Allow more possibilities. More dreams. More creativity.

Neil Spiegel

Budget battle a mere shadow of last year’s fight What a difference a year makes.

Last year, the operating and capital budget was a battleground between left and right, downtown and inner suburbs, Margaret Atwood and Etobicoke North Councillor Doug Ford. The budget committee wrestled with hotbutton issues such as the closure of city zoos and the denuding of public libraries.

It was enough of a fight that Toronto council finally took part of it away from the budget committee and Mayor Rob Ford, and set the stage for a dramatic power shift in which council wrestled pretty much everything away from the mayor.

Mayor Ford and his supporters warned that in this year’s budget, council and the city would have to go through the war all over

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again. As it’s turned out, that’s not so much the case.

The 2013 operating and capital budgets are definitely still a thing of the Ford administration.

The budget will see tax dollars invested in road repairs to unprecedented levels – driven even higher by the need to repair and rehabilitate the crumbling Gardiner Expressway – covering roads in cash rather than borrowed money.

To help fund that, there will be some cuts to fire, police and ambulance, and projects near and dear to the hearts of downtowners and the left wing on council

– such as arts funding – aren’t getting the attention they might have under another mayor.

But generally, this is a budget that doesn’t take many risks. There is no attempt to remove the land transfer tax. The budget doesn’t pretend to freeze property taxes. It doesn’t make an attack on downtown services particularly, just as it doesn’t reward suburban communities, especially.

It does make a significant and potentially damaging change to the way the city funds repairs, using cash instead of borrowing – but that is a serious doubleentry accounting problem, and not an especially significant political problem.

It shouldn’t surprise that the Ford administration is taking it easy on this one, or at least playing things a little more slyly. Last year,

Mayor Ford could still point to a strong electoral mandate as a basis to push hard on an agenda that was both aggressive and divisive.

That mandate is still there in theory. But the mayor and the agenda are walking dead in these weeks before Christmas, as the budget committee wraps up its deliberations.

They’ve been a sullen affair; budget committee chair Mike Del Grande presided over public deputations early this week, underneath the projection of a growing spreadsheet on which he costed every single thing Torontonians asked for in their three minutes. But again, that’s nothing compared to the marathon meetings Mayor Ford held last year.

Spreadsheets have nothing on sleep deprivation.

And from the look of things, 2013 has nothing on 2012.

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It’s Happening Ossington Visioning Study final meeting WHEN: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: CAMH cafeteria, 1001 Queen St. W. CONTACT: councillor_layton@toronto. ca City planning is holding the third community consultation meetings where you can learn more about the study, ask questions and share comments.

Supporting Mothers Discussion WHEN: 2 p.m. WHERE: High Park library, 228 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: 416-255-8519 Supporting Mothers Discussion on creative, radical, community-based alternatives to Children’s Aid Society intervention.

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Queen West Gift-A-Rama WHEN: noon to 6 p.m. today and Dec. 22 WHERE: Theatre centre Pop Up Office, 1095 Queen St. W. Queen West Gift-A-Rama jewelry, vegan skin care, paintings, eco yoga wear and more. Visit www.facebook.com/ events/176596655813470

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Peggy Nash Holiday Season Open House WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Peggy Nash’s office, 1596 Bloor St. W. Join in the holiday festivities.

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Concert for Free The Children WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst St. The Lemon Bucket Orkestra and variety show performers will raise money for this performance in support of Free The Children. Visit www.facebook.com/pages/Factory-Theatre/214822535223760

Emmanual Howard Park Christmas Bake Sale WHEN: 10:30 a.m. WHERE: 214 Wright Ave. CONTACT: Cathy Borg, 416-5365601 Pick up your holiday baking, hostess gifts and stocking stuffers at this fun(d) raising. Proceeds to support children’s and outreach programs.

One Less Paper Cup auction and fundraiser WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: The Mascot, 1267 Queen St. Featuring coffee cup designs by a dynamite roster of Toronto-based artists, the event will raise money for Grounds for Health’s cervical cancer screening,

Gangnam-style Flash Mob WHEN: 1 p.m. WHERE: Parkdale Community Food Bank, 1316 King St. W. Flash mob dance to raise money for the Parkdale Community Food Bank. The target fundraising goal is $50,000. Arrive by 1 p.m. with the dance at 2 p.m.

The dance will be put on YouTube.

THINKING OF OTHERS: Left, Phelan Meyer-Odell, foreground, and Emma Philipson carry bags of food from the porch of Renata Mazurkiewicz’s home during a St. Clarens Avenue area food drive Saturday morning.

Above, Carina Dojeen loads up a truck with donated goods during the food drive.

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WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Parkdale library, 1303 Queen St. W. An afternoon of crafts for six to 12 year olds. Drop in.

Robin Hood and the Dragon Puppet Show WHEN: 2 to 2:45 p.m. WHERE: Parkdale library, 1303 Queen St. W. Applefun Puppetry has been performing interactive puppet shows for libraries throughout Ontario for more than 12 years.

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West Toronto Stamp Club The West Toronto Stamp Club meets Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. at Fairfield Seniors Centre, 80 Lothian Ave. Membership is $20. Call Don Hedger at 416-621-9982.

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Ram Ramchaitar (second from left) with volunteers and patrons of the Parkdale Breakfast Club. The meal program has been feeding people in need of a warm meal three days a week for more than 20 years.

Breakfast Club celebrates its volunteers Since 1989 Ram Ramchaitar, his wife, children, grandchildren and a team of volunteers have run the Parkdale Breakfast Club.

Three days a week, they assemble at the Masaryk Cowan Community Centre to prepare a warm breakfast, handed out to anyone who might need it.

“For 20 something years I have been doing this and a lot of people have recognized me with trophies and metals,” Ramchaitar said.

On Monday, Ram will bring out all those old accolades and photos from years past and display them at the breakfast as a way to recognize the hard work of the

volunteers and revel in the history of this long-standing service.

“It is something simple, but I think it will be nice,” said Ramchaitar.

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>>>from page 1 things, including the art program. The drop-in was moved to a smaller room upstairs, which offered clients coffee and conversation.

“It has been a little tight,” Dooher said. “Some people would just get their lunch and

leave, but at least they were still getting a lunch and some coffee.”

Dooher said they hope to host an open house for the public to see the space in the New Year. The centre reopened and was back serving hot meals to the people who

dropped in as of Monday.

The renovations have now moved to the second floor of the building which houses offices for PARC staff, St. Christopher’s House, Working for Change and Community Resources Connections of Toronto (CRCT).

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Celebrate the solstice Christmas Music gala Meet in High Park for a winter solstice Labyrinth Walk Friday, Dec. 21 starting at sunset.

Celebrate High Park’s “magical winter wonderland,” says facilitator Anny Fyreagle.

The event starts at 4:44 p.m. with a meditation walk at 6:30 p.m. Bring a lantern. The labyrinth can be found inside the Bloor Street West entrance near the Grenadier Cafe.

Visit www.facebook.com/HighParkLabyrinth for more details.

Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School hosts a Christmas Music Gala, this Friday at 7 p.m.

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Little Mosque star special guest at party >>>from page 1 presents to other people.

“Sometimes it is a hard time of year for people,” Milanis said. “It is good to open your heart for the people at Archway.”

Aiding him in handing out the gifts was Zaib Shaikh from the television show Little Mosque on the Prairie and the movie Midnight’s Children. The actor also played the role of the event’s celebrity emcee.

Shaikh said he was welcomed into the party by the staff and clients of Archway as though he had known them for years.

“It’s nice, if people don’t have a chance to be with their family or

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~ Little Mosque star Zaib Shaikh their own loved ones, that they get to share it with their community and friends because at the end of the day family can sometimes be who you choose,” Shaikh said.

Shaikh said his parents left their home in Pakistan to come to Canada and make a better life for him.

“It is important to me to pass that tradition and hope along,” he

Anonymous donation The meal served was made possible by a mother of one of the clients.

She wanted the Archway clients and staff to have a great party and anonymously donated the money needed for the catering.

Also on hand to help with the event were staff from Price Waterhouse Coopers and Donna Slaight, CAMH Foundation Chair of the Gifts of Light committee.

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West End Food Co-op given $10,000 grant

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A total of $220,000 in prize money was handed out to 12 Canadian co-ops — three co-operatives in each of four regions that garnered the most votes from the public over the past month earned the funding to support their development.

“We are going to use it to develop our educational programming,” said Melissa Benner, WEFC board member.

“One thing we have always had in mind was not only provide fresh local food, but to also orient people to learn to cook healthy, get a sense of their local food system and get hands-on in the kitchen.”

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“The grant will work on what we are already developing, but stepping it up a notch,” she said. “The challenge and the vision going forward will be to ensure that this food education is accessible for diverse populations in Parkdale.”

The National Co-operators Challenge was created by The Co-operators as part of its celebration of the International Year of Co-operatives.

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TTC urged to look at innovative fare options Time-based transfers would allow busy transit users to multi-task on the same fare RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Having the ability to travel on the entire TTC system without limit on the same fare within a fixed time-frame would greatly benefit women who disproportionately rely on public transit, a York University professor told the city’s budget committee this week.

Appearing before the city’s budget committee on Monday, Tricia Wood encouraged the TTC to follow the example of other cities and adopt time-based transfers as a way to prevent the penalization of riders, like women, who use the transit service in a “chain fashion” several times in a given day.

While the TTC issues time-based transfers on the 512 St. Clair West streetcar service for trips made within a two-hour window, Wood wants to see the practice exported to the entire system which would come as a welcome relief for women who must juggle work and family responsibilities, she said.

“You can go very short distances to pick up or drop off kids or grab milk, or anything like that, and you

have to pay a fare every single time,” said Wood following her deputation on behalf of the advocacy group Women in Toronto Politics, which seeks to get women more involved in city issues.

“It adds up really quickly.”

Wood acknowledged the “tight corner” the TTC is in having to deliver service on a limited budget with the lowest level of government subsidy in North America.

But, she said her research on the usage of time-based transfers has shown the long term benefits to the city as a whole justifies a potential hit to the TTC’s revenue take, which she estimated to be $15 million.

“Even if it’s true the TTC will suffer a hit to its bottom line experiences in other cities suggest in the long run you come out ahead,” said Wood, who is an associate professor in York’s geography department.

“The loss in individual fares is offset by increased ridership and in the long run leads to increased economic participation which benefits the city as a whole.”

TTC spokesperson Brad Ross declined to comment in-depth

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Should the TTC adopt time-based fares which would allow transit users unlimited access for a set timeframe?

about expanding the usage of timebased transfers, but in a tweet he did say the TTC was considering its options as it prepares to adopt the Presto fare system as of 2016.

“Presto will allow us to look at this and other fare options. Too soon, though, to get into any

details,” tweeted Ross, who is the TTC’s executive communications director.

Ross also said he was certain the TTC would eventually look into the findings from the St. Clair pilot, which was first introduced in 2005 and continues today.

On Twitter, there was strong support for increased adoption of time-based transfers.

“It should not cost me $12 to use the TTC to run errands,” tweeted Emma Woolley, a frequent online commenter.

“I would use the TTC more if time-based transfer were introduced. Which means you guys could serve me more ads. That’s how it works, right?” tweeted Matthew Braga.

“Time-based transfers actually help suburban riders more as it is harder to connect rides on infrequent routes,” tweeted Alan Smithee, who addressed his comment to city council.

Other transit agencies in Canada have long adopted time-based transfers.

The Edmonton Transit System allows for unlimited use for up to 90 minutes on one fare for all buses and its light rail transit line, as do Calgary and Montreal.

Vancouver’s TransLink also issues timed transfers for buses, passenger ferries and the SkyTrain, but not for its regional West Coast Express train service.

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DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com The Toronto Police Services Board has turned in a balanced budget to the city — but according to Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, the numbers approved by his board add up to a reduction of more than 300 police officers by the end of the year.

The board voted to meet the city’s demand of $927.8 million, cutting $21 million from the chief’s original request.

It did so by freezing hiring and promotions, and cutting the police service’s contribution to vehicle reserves.

It also asked Chief Blair to find $6.7 million in other efficiencies — something Blair, who listened quietly to the evening debate on Monday, Dec. 10, later said he wasn’t sure he could do without having an impact on front-line service.

“Ninety per cent of my budget is salary, and we’ve already made substantial cuts to our non-salaried accounts,” he said, adding he thought he might actually have to find more than $6.7 million because he didn’t think the hiring freeze would save as much as the police board said it would.

“It’s an unallocated cut,” he said. “I think the board recognized that there was no other place to take it from and the decision was to say go look at it.”

But Blair said the budget

instructions will mean a reduced complement of officers. By not approving new hiring, he said the service will be down 326 officers by the end of the year.

And he said the requirement to find the additional money means a graduating class of 80 recruits might not be able to be placed.

“The board did approve hiring 80 additional officers at the earlier budget meeting, but that recruit class is actually scheduled to start Dec. 18. By taking $10 million out of our budget I don’t think it’ll be possible to pay their salaries ... I know politically they would very much like to see that, but financially if we can’t afford it we’ll have to find another way.”

Blair said laying off police officers is something he can’t do without board approval.

But he made it clear the cuts would have an impact.

“My responsibility is to give the board and the city the most accurate numbers that we’re able to do and we’ve done that — it’s also to make a recommendation to them,” he said.

“When the board and the city make a decision my responsibility is to then go and implement that decision and do the best to keep my city safe with the resources that are available, and that’s what I’ll do.”

The board voted unanimously on the package after

hearing about a dozen deputations from community members, begging them to keep police strength up in order to maintain valuable community policing programs.

The board members, led by board chair Alok Mukherjee, maintained the budget would effectively maintain that.

“It is my belief, quite strong belief, that it is possible to maintain the communitybased model of policing that we have heard so much about from deputations this evening, and that it is possible to do so at a cost that is also affordable,” he said.

Vice-chair Michael Thompson said the chief could find the money out of this year’s projected surplus, which as it has in other years is anticipated to come in at $8 million.

“We’ve learned over the last six years or so the average surplus is $8 million and we’ve learned from the chief through questioning that that surplus will likely be the same this year,” he said. “That means that there’s $8 million that’s available. From the $8 million we simply want to hold back $6.7 million.”

The budget proposal will also cut $1.4 million from premium pay, and save $6 million through a freeze in hiring and promotions.

In all, the motion flatlines the police budget. Blair’s earlier proposal had called for a two per cent increase.

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Canada is throwing down the gauntlet when it comes to the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games.

The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) is devoting $2.6 million of an earlier four-year, $100 million commitment to high-performance sport in the country to ensuring Canada gets to send its top athletes to the Games.

For many of the country’s amateur athletes, funding is often lacking, meaning any time spent competing can leave them in the lurch financially.

The funding announcement, which was made Wednesday, Dec. 5 at the University of Toronto’s Varsity Stadium, will allow athletes to focus more on competition and less on worrying whether they can afford to travel or take the time off work to take part in the Games.

“Canada will truly be able to put our best team forward on the field of play,” said COC President Marcel Aubut. “Every athlete who can compete, will compete.”

That, Aubut said, will lead to a contingent of more than 1,000 Canadian athletes in the various Pan Am and Para Pan games.

TO2015 CEO Ian Troop noted the overall funding commitment will have an impact that will last long after the Pan Am Games have

ended, as high-performance sporting facilities being built will ensure athletes have outstanding training spaces for generations to come.

Troop said the $2.6 million commitment made Wednesday will make a huge difference in Canada’s showing at the 2015 Pan Am Games.

Olympians Donna Vakalis and Jason Burnett – both from Toronto – also spoke of the importance of funding.

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Burnett, an Olympic silver medalwinning trampolinist, said it’s an enormous boost to Canadian athletes. “High-level competition is incredibly stressful just on its own without having to worry about the financial complications that come along with it,” he said.

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Byelection could run as much Would-be candidates should resign from council: Del Grande as $14-million: Del Grande Vaughan considering running for mayor DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com

wide byelection to replace Mayor Rob Ford if his court appeal is unsuccessful.

Watkiss pointed out the city would also be on the hook for campaign donation rebates, to the tune of an estimated $2 million.

If the courts declare the mayor’s office vacant next year, Toronto Council could be faced with a very expensive choice in considering a byelection.

According to the city’s budget chief Mike Del Grande, the cost of such a byelection could be as much as $14 million after events play out.

“My responsibility is going to be to point out the realities of the budget.

Everybody should factor in that concept,” said Del Grande. “There’s a cost of doing things.”

The cost Del Grande floated following city clerk Uli Watkiss’ budget presentation was considerably higher than initial estimates that taxpayers would pay out $7 million for a city-

Costly And Del Grande said if it’s a city councillor that’s elected mayor, there could be an additional byelection the city will have to cover, prior to the regularly scheduled 2014 municipal election.

Del Grande didn’t say whether he would support a byelection.

“I’m just saying that when people talk it costs money. The talk is expensive. People better think and if that’s where we’re going you would have to make up that money.”

DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com

‘What I find interesting about the Ford team is every time they come up to a problem they don’t understand, they try to change the rules or break the rules.’

Del Grande said theoretiCity councillors thinking cally a byelection could push about running for mayor up the property tax increase in a byelection next year to 2.3 per cent from the proshould be made to resign jected 1.75 per cent. their seats on council first, However, the pressure says Toronto’s budget chief Mike Del Grande. could be felt instead in the 2014 budget, if the city “I will put a motion saying simply allocated money morally, that people should currently being squirrelled step aside from their seats away for the 2014 general and put skin into the game,” election. said Del Grande.

“That’s the honourable Trinity-Spadina Councillor Adam Vaughan, thing to do.” who is considering a run Del Grande told reporters he would bring the motion to for mayor, said a byelection could cost taxpayers a council in the event Mayor great deal.

Rob Ford is removed from “It’s why the reckless office by the courts and behaviour of asking lobbycouncil decides to fill the ists for money while they vacant seat by holding a have business in front of byelection. council is such a poor, poor and terrible thing to do,” Several councillors said Vaughan.

“If the mayor had just Several city councillors are simply followed the rules weB:10”considering making a run in wouldn’t have to have this that byelection, including T:10” debate about the rules.”

Don Valley East Councillor

~ councillor Adam Vaughan Shelley Carroll, EglintonLawrence Councillor Karen Stintz, and Trinity-Spadina Councillor Adam Vaughan.

Under current legislation, councillors seeking another seat in a byelection can continue serving in their current capacity throughout the campaign. It’s only once elected they must vacate their seat on council.

Del Grande said councillors who are serious about being mayor should be pre-

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“Other wise it’s open season – you just come back (if you lose),” said Del Grande.

‘Resign and run’ “If any member of council wants to run and they’re serious about running, then they should display it by saying what they’re prepared to do.

They resign and run. That’s a serious proposition.”

Adam Vaughan said he would abide by whatever the rules are at the time of any election.

“I will abide by the rules,” he said. “What I find interesting about the Ford team is every time they come up to a problem they don’t understand, they try to change the rules or break the rules.

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tions.

Faye Lyons of the Canadian Automobile Association supported the plan to ramp up repairs on the Gardiner E x p re s s w a y a n d o t h e r roads.

“We are now seeing the results from years of delay and neglect on the Gardiner Expressway,” she said. “The CAA believes that this committee needs to remain committed to staff recommendations.”

Not everyone agreed.

Perks argued the city shouldn’t be funding major road repairs and reconstructions through direct taxation.

“We are having across-theboard cuts in every operating department in Toronto so that we can pay cash to do road repairs that we have never been told are necessary,” he said.

Meanwhile, the committee heard from members of the arts community, urging council to put the $29 million a year in billboard revenue back into arts, recreation and public health funding.

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Toronto’s 2013 budget’s marathon public hearings started off Monday morning with kudos from some members of the city’s business community, renewed calls for an end to the Land Transfer Tax from realtors, and calls to maintain and enhance funding for the arts, preserve firefighter and EMS strength and various other areas.

The $9.4 billion operating and capital budgets are up for debate in January.

The two days of public hearings Monday and Tuesday are the public’s only opportunity to have input into the proposed budget.

On the table is a budget that sees a 1.95 per cent property tax increase to homeowners, with reductions to police, firefighting and EMS, and a massive expenditure on transportation — including a $636 million budget to repair and rehabilitate the crumbling Gardiner Expressway.

This year, budget chair Mike Del Grande kicked off the public hearings by maintaining a rolling tally of the

budget impact of implementing various requests from members of the public and lobby groups.

By the lunch break, Del Grande had identified spending increases he said would lead to a total 35 per cent tax increase.

Other councillors pointed out that Del Grande’s argument was flawed, in that he tallied all the requests for the budget — including a request from the Toronto Real Estate Board, to get rid of the land transfer tax.

That alone would mean a 13.7 per cent property tax increase according to Del Grande’s figures.

“Nobody’s saying keep services at the rate of inflation and cutting the land transfer tax,” said Parkdale-High Park Councillor Gord Perks.

“And if you’re advocating for restoring services, that’s about $300 million. That works out to be not much more than what we find in surplus almost every year. Toronto is in a position where we could maintain services without blended property tax rates.”

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Your actual fuel consumption will vary based on driving habits and other factors. Information in this advertisement is believed to be accurate at the time of printing. For more information on our 5-year warranty coverage, visit kia.ca or call us at 1-877-542-2886. Kia Canada is the official automotive sponsor of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD Canada). KIA is a trademark of Kia Motors Corporation. *SEE DEALER FOR DETAILS

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