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HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com The days of attending major concerts and taking a fitness class at 99 Sudbury may become a thing of the past. A proposal was submitted to the City of Toronto to transform the home of the Glass Factory and The Gym into a 26-storey mixed used building that would be home to a boutique hotel, an event space and have retail and residential uses. It will also have a portion of the West Toronto Railpath extension on site, between the rail corridor and the proposed building.

It may sound interesting to some, but the residents attending the second community consultation meeting Tuesday night, hosted by Ward 18 councillor Ana Bailao, weren’t impressed especially with the height. The maximum height allowance for the area is set at 18 metres. This proposed building has a height of 90.5 metres including the mechanical penthouse on the roof. After the first community meeting in May 2014, a working group was established to help the architects address some of the issues, including built >>>PROPOSAL, page 5

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Parkdale community comes together to help Syrian refugees settle HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

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three’s company: Colin Rayside, 5, rides up front along with his parents Stephanie Xie and Dereck Rayside during Cycle Toronto’s five-kilometre ‘Coldest Day of the Year’ ride on Saturday.

Re a d y, w i l l i n g a n d a b l e Parkdalians flooded the basement of the Parkdale Library the afternoon of Wednesday,

Jan. 27 to offer help to welcome Syrian refugees into the neighbourhood. More than 100 local residents joined members of the Parkdale Community Health Centre (PCHC) who called the

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emergency community meeting. PCHC wanted to garner what the neighbourhood can do collectively to help refugees settle besides primary health care. “It not only takes a village

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said Julia Barnett, the director of Population Health and Community Engagement at PCHC. “We know newcomers and refugees need access to so many >>>PCHC, page 2

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Transit Project Assessment Process GO Rail Network Electrification – Public Meetings Metrolinx, an agency of the Province of Ontario, is helping to transform the way the region moves by building a seamless, convenient and integrated transit network across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). As part of this project, we are expanding GO Transit to enable 15-minute service on most corridors with electrified trains, which will enable faster and more frequent service. Together, these infrastructure improvements will change how people move around Toronto and the region with four times the current number of GO train trips, service on evenings and weekends, and twice the number of trips during peak periods. Building on the GO Electrification Study completed in 2010, which looked at the electrification of the GO Transit rail system network, Metrolinx is currently undertaking environmental studies under the Transit Project Assessment Process (TPAP), in accordance with Ontario Regulation 231/08, to examine the conversion of several rail corridors from a diesel to an electric-based system. The project will include design and implementation of a traction power supply system (i.e. traction power substations and high voltage connections to Hydro One’s existing grid), as well as power distribution components (i.e. electrical power distribution facilities) located in the vicinity of the rail corridors. The Study Area (see map) includes six GO rail corridors, including potential locations for the electrical power supply and distribution facilities: • Union Station Rail Corridor • Lakeshore West Corridor – Strachan Avenue to Burlington • Kitchener Corridor – UP Express Spur (at Highway 427) to Bramalea • Lakeshore East Corridor – Don River to Oshawa GO Station • Barrie Corridor – Parkdale Junction to Allandale GO Station • Stouffville Corridor – Scarborough Junction to Lincolnville GO Station A series of public meetings are being held as part of the TPAP process to provide information about the scope of the project, environmental studies, design and engineering components, preliminary locations for traction power supply/distribution facilities, project timelines and next steps. Interested persons are encouraged to attend: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 Jean Vanier Catholic Secondary School 959 Midland Avenue Scarborough, ON M1K 4G4 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 St. Maximillian Kolbe Catholic High School 278 Wellington Street East Aurora, ON L4G 1J5 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Monday, February 22, 2016 Unionville High School 201 Town Centre Blvd. Unionville, ON L3R 8G5 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 Nantyr Shores Secondary School 1146 Anna Maria Avenue Innisfil, ON L9S 4X5 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Building, Room 203 255 Front Street West Toronto, ON M5V 2W6 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 25, 2016 Abilities Centre 55 Gordon Street Whitby, ON L1N 0J2 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Monday, February 29, 2016 Oakville Trafalgar High School 1460 Devon Road Oakville, ON L6J 3L6 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Holy Name of Mary Catholic Secondary School 115 Glenvale Blvd. Brampton, ON L6S 3J7 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 Stouffville District Secondary School 801 Hoover Park Drive Stouffville, ON L4A 0A4 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 3, 2016 Holly Community Centre 171 Mapleton Avenue Barrie, ON L4N 8T6 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 9, 2016 Lakeshore Collegiate Institute 350 Kipling Avenue Etobicoke, ON M8V 3L1 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Monday, March 7, 2016 St. Joan of Arc Catholic High School 1 St. Joan of Arc Avenue Maple, ON L6A 1W9 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 8, 2016 Robert Bateman High School 5151 New Street Burlington, ON L7L 1V3 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 10, 2016 Glengrove Public School 1934 Glengrove Road Pickering, ON L1V 1X2 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 Nelson Mandela Park Public School 440 Shuter Street Toronto, ON M5A 1X6 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

For additional information about this project, please visit gotransit.com/electrification. Consultation with the public, review agencies and Aboriginal communities is a key component of the GO Rail Network Electrification Transit Project Assessment Process. Comments and information regarding this study will be collected to assist in meeting the requirements of the Environmental Assessment Act, and may be included in study documentation. With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record. If you have a comment or question, or to receive additional information related to the project, please contact the project team: electrification@metrolinx.com or via telephone 416-869-3200. Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez composer le 416-869-3200 ou le 1 888 GET-ON-GO (438-6646).

PCHC taking lead on offering primary care for Syrian refugees >>>from page 1 things from welcoming all the way up to health. We thought we could take a lead to bring people together who could help in other areas.” Flip chart paper was splashed on the walls as sign-up sheets for volunteers who could offer up any help they could such as providing Arabic language services, driving refugees to appointments, and opening up spaces to host welcome banquets. It will also serve as a database for PCHC to call upon people who has offered up services when needed. “There’s no way a community health centre can do something like this on their own,” said Shirley Roberts, PCHC’s interim executive director. “Our communities are much greater than what we can provide.” PCHC is taking the lead on offering primary care for Syrian refugees as they make their way to the west end. It announced it will be hosting a series of clinics at its 1229 Queen St. location every Thursday, beginning Feb. 4. It will have registered nurses providing vaccinations and blood work to refugees from not just the Howard Johnson, but from across the city as one of the 29 clinics offering primary care services. It will also have an initial assessment clinic and information centre set up in the hotel lobby for the refugees, similar to a triage clinic to determine whether more medical attention is needed. The director of primary healthcare for PCHC, Oxana Latycheva, told the crowd the neighbourhood already has six government sponsored families staying at the Howard Johnson at the corner of Roncesvalles and the Queensway and could get up to 200 staying there as they search for permanent housing. “They won’t stay there

a long time. The site will be used as a transitional site. We don’t know how long they will stay, could be two weeks or more,” she added. “The idea is to transition them to the larger hotels or transition them into the community.” transitional site The Howard Johnson is being used as a temporary transitional site for COSTI Immigrant Services, which is handling the influx of refugees coming to Toronto. Refugees come to COSTI directly from the airport and stay an average of two weeks. During that time they’re set up with initial settlement services and basics needed to start living in Canada, such as an application for OHIP, creating a bank account as well as commence their housing search. Its executive director Mario Calla, told The Villager, housing refugees at that hotel is a precautionary measure. “Initially, the idea was to use it and fill it, but we just feel we could do a better job, it’s not our standard of service we’re just spreading ourselves too thinly,” Calla said. “So we thought let’s just use it as an overflow for now and we’ll see how that goes.” Lately refugees have stayed with COSTI for an average of four weeks because housing is scarce in the city, said Calla. “They’re in competition with each other for housing. That’s what’s happening.” O v e r a l l Ca l l a w a s i m p re s s e d w i t h t h e Parkdale community’s commitment and enthusiasm to help from what he’s seen at the meeting and over the last few months. “I’ve never seen a community so generous and so giving in a real way in my 29 years in this business,” he said.

Friends of High Park Zoo unveil future improvements HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com From facing closure to getting a facelift, High Park Zoo not only continues to bring people closer to nature, it now has improvements in its future. Plans for the zoo’s future improvements were unveiled to a room of eager volunteers and nearby residents last Thursday, receiving a positive reception. Friends of High Park Zoo (FHPZ) chair John Formosa, along with landscape architect Brent Raymond of the firm DTAH, unveiled the design of the High Park Zoo Master Plan, to a small audience and everyone seemed pleased. “It is a wonderful improvement. It doesn’t take much to see that the zoo as it stands is in bad shape,” said Grace Petrucci, a volunteer at the zoo. “These enhancements are fabulous, and absolutely exciting.” With the construction of the new Deer Pen Road slated for 2017, which will have more curves and less curbs, the zoo looks to receive a slew of enhancements. Following the meeting, Raymond told The Villager that once the city announced the roads construction, it “unlocked all of its potential,” and called it a “real catalyst for everything.” The zoo enhancements range from the large, such as increasing the size of the bison pen by seven-

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Plans for future improvements at the High Park Zoo were released on Thursday.

metres and creating a new administrative building; to the small, such as improving lighting, installing flags and signs so the zoo is more noticeable, and improving the overall plant quality. The master plan also looks to improve the zoo experience for the animals as well with new creative furnishings for them to enjoy such as ponds and interactive feeders. “It was a pretty easy project to do, we actually set the vision pretty early on and we knew what the opportunities were and we worked within the constraints,” Raymond said. Although the master plan isn’t a formal city project, the FHPZ, a community and volunteer driven organization that’s launched this initiative, is working with the city’s Parks, Forestry and Recreation

department, to enhance and sustain the zoo. For the chair of the FHPZ, this master plan shows true growth and the neighbourhood’s love for the zoo. “It’s a huge testament to the community here because this has been a total grassroots initiative,” Formosa said. “It’s a great example of what communities can do.” The zoo will have to tackle some major improvements such as creating a colourful main pathway that is accessible, improve stormwater management and enhance the gateway to the zoo all while maintaining its park feel, Raymond said. Keeping the zoo’s profile fairly demure is something Andrew Kohan of India Road and Garden Avenue

believes the landscape architects did well. “It looks like a great way to make things more attractive without going overboard in spending. It doesn’t mess too much with the low-key nature of the zoo. It’s a pretty chill space that people can walk through,” he said. “I love it. I love that it expands space for the animals and makes the space for the people better. It’s a much more humane space in many ways for both visitors and residents of the zoo.” The next step in the master plan process is to take feedback and comments from residents and make any necessary changes. Following that, the group will determine overall costs and determine which projects have the highest priority and when they should happen. The plan will set out improvement projects in phases. Formosa said the FHPZ will also be lobbying all levels of government, foundations and corporations for funding in the near future. “This is one of the jewels of Toronto,” Formosa said. “As the awareness (of the zoo) grows, people are showing that it’s a worthwhile investment and a worthwhile asset for Toronto to keep and really improve and bring up to date.” There is no set date for when improvements in the zoo will start.

High Park Zoo changes Visitors • Potentially create glass viewing portions of the zoo • Naturalized play/adventure area for children • Mark pavement with colourful symbols and markings • Erect a donor wall • Create a meeting area within zoo • Increase seating • Place flags or banners near the gateway and improve upon the gateway entrance with possible design competition

Animals • Ponds from stormwater within enclosures • Create interactive animal feeders • Upgrading enclosures • Create boulder mounds for sheep and yak • Install a coyote-proof fence • Aviary will be relocated closer to Deer Pen Road

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Condo development proposal would replace Gladstone Cafe HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com The home of the Gladstone Cafe at 1181 Queen St. W. is subject again to a new condominium development. This time a 16-storey condo is proposed and the residents next to the potential development said they are not pleased. “I don’t like the look of it and I don’t like the (design of the) structure itself,” said Ross Nulhearon, the director of the Bohemian Embassy 2210 condo board at 1171 Queen St. W, after the second community consultation meeting for the proposal last Tuesday night. The meeting, hosted by Ward 18 Councillor Ana Bailao, was the second proposal discussed as part of a double-header community consultation for developments proposed for the West Queen West Triangle area. The first was 99 Sudbury St. The condo proposed at 1181 Queen St. W., at the corner of Queen and Sudbury Street, will have 146 units – 119 one-bedroom units and

27 two-bedroom units. It will have 89 parking spaces and 110 bike parking spaces. If approved, Bohemian Embassy residents say this condo would block the view of the south facing condo units and cast significant shadow into the apartment and the shared courtyard. One frustrated resident, who bought her condo at 1171 Queen St., said she paid a hefty amount for a south facing corner unit, which is now going to decrease in value. But shadowing isn’t the only issue many of the Bohemian Embassy residents have with the proposal. Nulhearon also mentioned wind tunnel effects and the obvious height of the building, which will dwarf surrounding two- to eight-storey buildings. “If this gets passed it’ll set a precedent for new buildings being able to come in just as tall or taller,” Nulhearon told The Villager. City planners also have their own issues with the proposal, some of which include height, massing,

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The corner of Sudbury Street and Queen Street West is the site of a proposed development of a 16-storey condominium.

parking and loading access, the unit mix, wind effects on Sudbury Street, and the relationship to the heritage designated Gladstone Hotel across the street. The corner of Queen and Sudbury combined with the Gladstone across the street has created a “gateway,” said Bailao, to the West Queen West

neighbourhood and the new proposal must be mindful of that. “When you come from under the Dufferin bridge you come up to it and it has some visibility,” she said. “It is important that there is good design and it respects the character of the Gladstone, which is a heritage milestone in our community, so those are important things that need to be taken into consideration.” The site at a tip of the West Queen West Triangle is no stranger to development proposals. Two years ago Kirkor Architect Inc. came in with a towering 26-storey, 239-unit, wedgestyle development proposal that shocked and appalled some in the community. But the fact that a new owner has come along to take a stab at the property isn’t surprising to the councillor. “We knew that this corner was going to come sooner or later. It came a while ago and it was 26 (storeys) and it was totally unacceptable and we refused the application,” Bailao said. Their outright refusal took the pro-

posal to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) where the appeal stayed until it was bought and absorbed by the new owner roughly a year ago. The matter is still under appeal at the OMB. Although this new proposal isn’t 26 storeys, Bailao still questions the appropriateness of the condo’s height, which is above the maximum 16-metre height for the area. “I think it’s still an issue. I mean we heard it tonight (from residents),” Bailao said. Bailao said she remains optimistic about the feedback and collaboration with the new owner on the somewhat smaller proposal as she feels it “addressed more of the character of the neighbourhood.” “We feel like now there’s an opportunity to have a conversation because when it was at 26 storeys there was no conversation,” Bailao explained. As for the Bohemian Embassy condo board, the executive director said it strongly believes the developer will have to go back to the drawing board and if not they plan to fight.

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othing makes Toronto angrier than a transit strike. Well, almost nothing: transit strikes made Torontonians angry enough that in 2011 Toronto council asked the provincial government to declare the Toronto Transit Commission an essential service – same as police and firefighters – so we would never be troubled by wholesale transit service denial again. In response to the 2009, 40-day garbage strike, Torontonians did something that was arguably even more radical, and elected Rob Ford mayor. The lack of garbage collection for more than a month that summer infuriated residents. Parks were filled with stinking bags of garbage that only got stinkier in the heat, and the only thing worse than hauling garbage there was keepour view ing it festering in the yard. Toronto may well be heading for another garbage strike in just Less impactful a few weeks. But the city’s strategy job action if in dealing with its two unions has that eventuality less likely. unions strike made It was a strategy developed under former deputy mayor Doug Holyday during Rob Ford’s otherwise tumultuous term of office. Rather than let negotiations poke along until the warm weather, Holyday and the city’s negotiating team set the strike deadline clock ticking in December and pushed hard until the end. The result? No strike, but a negotiated settlement. The only workers who walked off the job were from the library, and that strike was over in the blink of an eye. Will it be the same in 2016? In some ways, the city is in an even stronger position this time than last because, since then, Toronto successfully expanded its contracted out garbage collection to about half the city. So if garbage workers do walk off the job, only Torontonians east of Yonge Street will be impacted. And unless the last half of the winter is truly balmy, the smell won’t be that bad either. That’s a real incentive to CUPE Local 416 and Local 79 to make a deal, and probably offer up concessions to the city negotiators, to avoid a long and possibly not impactful job action. With all that said, the city could well be shut down later in the winter, with not just outside garbage collectors, but also unionized inside workers. And even without the stink... that eventuality will make everybody more than a little twitchy. Let’s hope that nobody does anything rash.

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Toronto’s half-imagined transit future is not all bad Whatever you may think of the details, you’ve got to hand it to Toronto’s planning department and chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat for this achievement: the most completely imagined transit plan in recent memory. There was one other: the OneCity Plan that former TTC chair Karen Stintz stitched together with the help of Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker that, in 2013, simply stitched together every dream project that caught their attention and put it on a map. But that one, delivered to council in 2013, could barely stand up to a stiff breeze. The plan that Keesmaat has put together and is completing is made of sterner stuff. The plan to make a one-stop subway crossing the gulf between Kennedy station and the Scarborough Town Centre is justified using economic development metrics rather than on a measure of local transit. The extended

david nickle the city Eglinton RT deals with the local transit needs along with a multi-station SmartTrack line running parallel. There will be more light rail in the west end, planners decreed, having looked with some rigour at Mayor John Tory’s SmartTrack plan through Etobicoke and pronounced heavy rail there to be impractical. The light rail would provide more stops and therefore more localized service as it makes its way to Mississauga and the airport. As was reported last week, meanwhile, a downtown relief line coursing south from Pape station at Danforth and along Queen Street East past Toronto City Hall would deal handily with the growing congestion at the Bloor/ Yonge subway interchange. The detailed justification of that plan will have to

wait until Toronto planners actually release the leaked report later in the spring, but the plan has a sense to it: Queen Street is already a busy streetcar route and Nathan Phillips Square is a focal point for the city. So: a downtown relief line, a SmartTrack only slightly truncated, more light rail and a nominal subway in Scarborough. If all that could somehow be built, to the specifications of the planners...well, Toronto would be in pretty fine shape. That might be a trick. There are engineering problems to overcome, financial hurdles to beat and the raw uncertainty of fickle Toronto politics. Odds are good that some or all of this well-imagined future will not manifest. More likely, it will be some of it. Two elements of this plan are particularly vulnerable: the one-stop subway to the Scarborough Town Centre and SmartTrack itself. In the

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Proposal includes 157 hotel rooms with spa, pool and rooftop terrace >>>from page 1 form, neighbourhood fit and transportation. However, as one member of the working group in attendance pointed out, one major concession was not made: the height. “I still think it’s a big issue that we’re having difficulty reaching an agreement on,” Bailao admitted. “I think they’ve listened to us on a lot of different issues, such as incorporating the West Toronto Railpath, having the pickup and drop off zones in the site and not on the street, making the restaurant towards the back and having bigger units. They’ve addressed a lot of these issues, but the key issue is the height. And we’re still very much apart on that.” The majority of the more than 60 people in attendance agree that although the building is appealing design-wise it does not fit in with the neighbourhood

and is higher than the surrounding buildings with a two-storey office building, and four-storey townhouses to the east and the set of condos directly across from the site. There is also the issue of increased traffic on an already narrow street, according to residents. The proposal sites the first six storeys of the building will contain the hotel and event space with restaurant uses. It will have 157 hotel rooms with a spa, amenity space, pool and rooftop terrace. The next 20 storeys will have 190 residential units with 11 per cent of the units being three-bedrooms. Three levels of underground parking will be made, accessible form the east side of the building. There will also be outdoor and indoor amenity spaces for those living in the building. One resident voiced that she was disappointed that there was no park space worked into

the proposal, asking what community benefits is the area getting from this development. The answer to that question, Bailao said, will come later on in the process. The city’s main priority is to get the building right first. “Community benefits never influence our approval process. We’re always looking for good planning principles no matter what,” she said. “After that we negotiate the community benefits, but first the most important thing to ask is, is this building ok? Does it fit with the neighbourhood? Can the neighbourhood sustain this kind of growth? Those are the questions we need to answer. And as a community we’re not there yet (to discuss community benefits).”

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Explore all facets of love at Gladstone Hotel on Valentine’s It’s almost Valentine’s Day, so why not shake it up at the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W., which hosts different events inspired by all facets of love. * Lego & Lagers 4 Lovers Let your imagination run wild and free with your partner at the special edition of Lego & Lagers. So grab your partner, a pint and a box of Lego and get building. This event is free and takes place Feb. 9 at 5 p.m. at the Melody Bar. * Sexy Story Telling For the second anniversary of February’s Tell Me Something Good, it promises to be extra special. Bring your steamiest stories for the crowd that are a

maximum five minutes each and must be a true story. A panel of judges will start things off and then rank each entry and the top storytellers get prizes from Come As You Are. The event takes over the Gladstone on Tuesday, Feb. 9 from 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. * 36 Qs Over Fondue Inspired by the 1970s game show 36 Questions to Find Love, the Gladstone is hosting its own version called 36 Qs Over Fondue. All participants have to grab a numbered key on their way in and they’ll be mixed and mingled in ways that are anything but conventional. The event, which takes place Friday, Feb. 12 from 7:30 to 10 p.m., is hosted by a comedian. There will be groovy ‘70s tunes and fondue props. Fondue is optional. Stick around with your new friends after the

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The Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen St. W., is hosting a series of events for Black History Month. To kick things off the library will have special guest speaker Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik’s chief artistic advisor, who will introduce a film about the life of Joseph Boulogne (Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges), a black musician in 18th century France known as “le Mozart noir.” The evening will take place in the library’s auditorium Monday, Feb. 8 from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

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Parkdale library could soon be lending instruments HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com The Parkdale library plans to announce new programming that will be music to the community’s ears. In partnership with Sun Life Financial, the Parkdale branch will be the first library in the city to have an instrument lending program. The branch will be the

site of the two-year pilot program for both adults and children. In a December 2015 Toronto Public Library board report, it names the Parkdale branch as the initial home of the collection as it is “an easily accessible branch with suitable space and located in one of the City’s identified Neighbourhood Improvement Areas.”

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The report goes on to state that the Toronto Public Library Foundation is involved as there is a corporate donor and “the possibility of a partnership for instrument evaluation,

refurbishment, and on-going maintenance and repair.” In s t r u m e n t s w i l l b e acquired through donation. Inspired by Joe Chithalen Memorial Musical Instrument Lending Library in Kingston, which consists of more than 750 instruments it lends out to the community, the Parkdale branch hopes to implement something similar. Chithalen was a wellrounded Kingston musician who acquired many instruments during his music career and loved trying new instruments. He died in 1999 at the age of 32. In his memory, those closest to him

catalogued his instruments and soon began lending them out to those who wished to learn the art of music. The Toronto Public Library remains tight lipped about the programing, which is in the final negotiation process with stakeholders. “All we can say right now is we’re working on the program details and are very much looking forward to launching it,” Michelle Leung, a spokeswoman for The Toronto Public Library told The Villager in an email. Details about when the program will officially launch have not been released.

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TTC gets $50 million to improve service City staff’s recommended relief route It’s not new money, but the TTC will receive $50 million from the city this year toward improving transit service. Alongside TTC chair Josh Colle, Mayor John Tory announced this week the extra funding, which is part of a commitment of $95 million made to the transit commission in 2015. For this year’s budget, the TTC has had to trim $5 million from its operating expenses and suspend planned service expansions such as the Cherry Street streetcar. Tory also promised to cut subway delays by half within three years. Last year, according to the TTC, delays across the network were down 13 per cent because of additional service, while customer satisfaction was at a historic high of 81 per cent. GO UP, SERVICE DELAYED wPRICES

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rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT year’s went into effect Monday, Feb. 1 – has become an annual phenomenon for users of the regional service, a necessary cost, says Metrolinx, for improving bus and train operations. But that didn’t stop many on social media from using pithy hashtags and sharing screenshots of delayed GO schedules to vent their frustrations. REPORT TO BE RELEASED wEQUITY

Yo r k Un i v e r s i t y ’s C i t y Institute is about to release a new report, detailing the socio-economic barriers to transit access in the Toronto region. Prepared by Sean Hertel, Roger Keil and Michael Collens, Next Stop: Equity seeks to determine just how easy it is to make use of transit, particularly in lowincome neighbourhoods. For the report, the authors spoke

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If you’ve got an opinion on the city’s transit priorities – and judging from the reader comments I get many of you definitely do – you’ll have a chance to sound off during a series of public meetings scheduled for this month and the next. The city’s planning department, along with the TTC and Metrolinx, wants feedback on a host of transit plans. The meetings begin the week of Feb. 16 and continue through to March 22. You can find out more by visiting www. toronto.ca/transitTO Rahul Gupta is Metroland Media Toronto’s transit reporter. His column appears every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Advocates for a relief line to ease pressure off the subway network are optimistic about news that city staff has chosen a preferred corridor will mean the long-hoped for project will at last move forward. Last Friday it was reported that Toronto councillors were briefed by the city planning staff on a preferred routing for the relief line, which would travel from Pape Station to Nathan Phillips Square, with stations planned for Queen Street and Sherbourne Street. The recommendation news was confirmed by Toronto Chief City Planner Jennifer Keesmaat late Friday afternoon. Public consultations for the plan are scheduled for February and March. St. Paul’s Councillor and relief-line advocate Josh Matlow wasn’t able to confirm whether he was briefed by city staff, but he said running a relief line to Queen Street

makes a lot of sense due to subway overcrowding and the inability of the streetcar network to handle congestion, particularly in rush hour. “The area is one of the densest parts of our city, and the overcrowding is to an extreme,” said Matlow in a phone interview Friday afternoon.

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non-partisan transit advocacy group, said the possible plan was a good initial step. “This is the first step in getting the relief line (completed), dealing with the highest need area,” she said. Thomson added while the plan would add more subway stations to the core, riders coming in from the suburbs would benefit from the line. “It’s going to give them options,” she said. “When you take people off the roads to get into the city, it clears off the roads, helps with the gridlock and it provides another way to get into the core.” Louis Mark, from the Toronto Relief Line Alliance, said he would trust the expertise of city planners and added he wanted to see the line eventually travel north. “Now that we’re getting the ball rolling in downtown and the Danforth, city planners and politicians must begin looking at relieving pressure on the northern section of Yonge line and the northern parts of Toronto,” he said.

The area is one of the densest parts of our city, and the overcrowding is to an extreme. – Councillor Josh Matlow

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During February and March we have organized several meetings for you to learn more about integrated transit planning and provide your feedback on key projects and studies underway.

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Saturday, February 20 Richview Collegiate 1738 Islington Ave 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Saturday, February 27 Scarborough Civic Centre 150 Borough Dr. 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Wednesday, February 24 Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Building Room 203 255 Front St. West 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 9 Lakeshore Collegiate Institute 350 Kipling Ave. 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Connect with Metrolinx by: • Visiting metrolinx.com/RER • Emailing: theplan@metrolinx.com or by calling 416-202-5589 • Meetings are wheelchair accessible

Thursday, February 25 Riverdale Collegiate 1094 Gerrard St. East 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 22 Nelson Mandela Park Public School 440 Shuter St. 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Connect with the City of Toronto by: • Visiting toronto.ca/TransitTO • Emailing: TransitTO@toronto.ca or by calling 416-338-2848

• Contact us if you require other accessibility accommodations

Metrolinx, an agency of the Province of Ontario, is working to transform the way the region moves by building a seamless, convenient and integrated transit network across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).

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Parkdale-based film set to make Toronto debut

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‘Portrait of a Serial Monogamist’ opens at Carlton Cinema Friday, Feb. 12 HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com It all began with a drink between friends. It’s how the idea for the Toronto-based film Portrait of a Serial Monogamist was brought to life with first-time directors Christina Zeidler and John Mitchell. “We were talking about the movies we love like Manhattan and High Fidelity and how there’s always the lead character that’s a lovable screw-up. They kind of do bad things but you like them as a character because they’re funny and charming,” said Zeidler. Both said they’d never seen a women play such a role. Mitchell thought it was a great idea and offered to help her write the screenplay. “We made a pinkie swear that we would do it and now

it lives and breathes,” Zeidler added. The two have been friends since the 1980s. Mitchell has a background in performance theatre, while Zeidler has curated shows for the Gladstone Hotel as its president. The film has been shown in festivals in the Unites States and has been well received by audiences and critics alike. “With it being such a Toronto film, we weren’t sure how that would translate, but it translates very well and it makes people want to visit the city. It’s not a barrier,” explained Mitchell. The romantic comedy, Zeidler and Mitchell cocreated is set in Toronto and is mostly shot in Parkdale. It follows the charming and smart Elsie Neufeld, played by Diane Flacks, who is also a serial monogamist with a reputation for being a heart-

It’s similar for the city of Toronto, it’s moving forward without knowing where it’s going. It was a great metaphor. – Christina Zeidler

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Diane Flacks appears in a scene from the film, ‘Portrait of a Serial Monogamist’.

breaker. In the film Elsie decides to break up with her longstanding girlfriend to pursue another woman. Her life slowly unravels as she travels through the city and doubt begins to creep in about whether or not she made the right decision. The film will make its Toronto debut at the Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton St, Friday,

Feb. 12. Parkdalians will recognize familiar sights throughout the film like the iconic Queen Street West, Designer Fabrics at Brock Avenue and Queen Street West; the Gladstone Hotel, and the Dundas Street West and Sorauren bridge, which gives passersby a clear view of the city skyline. “We came up with the idea that the city is a reflection of

the main character. Our main character is a person who’s moving forward in relationships without knowing where she’s going. She just knows she has to move forward,” Zeidler explained “It’s similar for the city of Toronto, it’s moving forward without knowing where it’s going. It was a great metaphor.” Shooting scenes in Parkdale was a no-brainer, Mitchell said, because it’s so diverse and represents Toronto so well. “It has a little bit of everybody and we try to show that in the film for sure,” Mitchell said.

“Parkdale is a very diverse neighbourhood, from backgrounds to socio-economics and so on, so it was a great place to shoot and show the many faces of Toronto.” The film has a few scenes with the main character, Elsie, riding her bike along Queen Street West, giving the audience the chance to see the city through her eyes. This is the pair’s first foray into feature filmmaking. “There was a lot that we didn’t know going in. It’s a massive undertaking and time management is really the main thing. It’s about getting everything you want shot under a very tight time frame,” he explained. “It was a learning experience and it was very instructive.” Both would like to continue making films in the future now that they’ve gathered enough experience. “It was so much fun. It’s really has been great,” Mitchell said.

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w Friday, Feb. 5

Toronto Tool Library WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Toronto Tool Library, 1499 Queen St. W. CONTACT: 647-498-1258 COST: Free Learn how to access a workshop of tools to help make your creations come to life. Visit http://torontotoollibrary.com

w Saturday, Feb. 6

Salvation Army Thrift Store WHEN: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Salvation Army Parkdale, 1447 Queen St. W. CONTACT: www.thriftstore. ca/central-ontario/location/toronto-

w Tuesday, Feb. 9

parkdale COST: Free Visit for hours. Totsapalooza WHEN: 1 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Revival Bar, 783 College St. CONTACT: 416535-7888 COST: $20 adults; $15 children Small Print Toronto presents Totsapoalooza, a festival of renowned picture book authors, leading indie-rock bands and inventive D.I.Y. crafts for book-lovers aged two to eight. Join them as they explore the theme of “Draw Me A Story” on all three floors of Toronto’s historic Revival Nightclub.

MPAC Property Assessment Information Session WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Runnymede library, 2178 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: cheridinovo.ca/events/mpac-information-session to register A MPAC representative will be on hand for this event.

w Thursday, Feb. 11

Winter Stations 2016 at the Gladstone WHEN: 6 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W. CONTACT: Vakis Boutsalis, 416-537-0954,

Vakis@kimgraham.ca COST: Free These presentations will explore this year’s visionary winning designers and their installations. Each presenter will have 20 slides which they may use to aid in their presentation. Each of the 20 slides may be shown for only 20 seconds.Visit https://www.facebook. com/events/1735291353353037/ New Beginnings at Northern Contemporary WHEN: 7 to 11 p.m. WHERE: Northern Contemporary, 1266 Queen St. W. CONTACT: Emily May Rose, 416-6683824, emily@northerncontemporary-

gallery.com COST: Free New Beginnings will highlight the works of Toronto-based artists working in a range of mediums.

w Saturday, Feb. 13

Art & Chocolate WHEN: 6 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw St. CONTACT: http://artandchocolate.wix. com/toronto COST: $25 This event will display a beautiful collection of art, showcasing an array of style, mediums and moods from piece to piece. Live musicians will play sets throughout the night.

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