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Citing unresolved questions surrounding its legal status, the crowdfunded transit enterprise Line Six has cancelled plans to launch a regular chartered bus service for Liberty Village.

The group posted a short statement on its website last Friday to announce it has cancelled its Liberty Village Express (LVE) route, which was supposed to have launched Monday, on the advice of its legal counsel.

“This is a tough decision for us, and we didn’t come to it lightly, but after careful consideration and consultation we think it’s the right one,” the statement authored by Line Six co-founders Brett Chang and Taylor Scollon reads.

“We are committed to being 100 per cent compliant with city regulations and it would be unfair to customers and to the city if we proceeded with service without full clarity on the issue.”

Chang and Scollon go on to say the service will not resume until “we are certain of our legal standing.”

The group did not respond to a request from The Villager for comment.

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RUNNING OF THE MARBLES: Ada Rudnis helps build the track for the Ice Marble Run Saturday at McCormick Park.

Four-storey condo proposed for former sock factory HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Condominium developer Curated Properties has a vision for 35 Wabash Ave. It includes transforming the abandoned industrial lot that was once home to a sock factory into a four-storey condo complete

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But neighbouring residents aren’t sold on the vision.

It’s too big, too high and too dense, according to North Parkdale residents who came out to the pre-application meeting at Greek Cathedral Church, held by Curated Properties and

hosted by Ward 14 councillor (Parkdale-High Park) Gord Perks.

The majority agreed the building simply does not fit the character of the neighbourhood.

However with the proper re-zoning and approval from the city, 35 Wabash Ave. could

become a 70,000 square foot residential property containing 58 units, all of which are a minimum 1,100 square-feet, with 22 one-bedroom units, 28 two-bedroom units and eight three-bedroom units.

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Dr. Zahn receives Order of Canada for work at CAMH HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

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eceiving a call from the office of the Governor General of Canada regarding the Order of Canada is commonplace for Dr. Catherine Zahn, president and CEO of the Centre of Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

So she thought nothing of it when she picked up the phone one day in December to discuss the award.

“I’ve had them call me before to comment on other people. So that’s what I thought the call was.

That’s what I assumed was happening,” she said.

“I thought she was calling me for an opinion on another nominee.”

But not this time; this time the call was to congratulate her on receiving the award and she was stunned.

“It’s not something I expected, so I was quite taken aback,” she said.

“It’s a whole different range of emotions going through you when it happens. You’re excited and happy and at the same time you’re humbled because you know there are so many other people doing fantastic work and you wonder how you got promoted to this honour.”

The Order of Canada,

established in 1967, is one of the country’s highest civilian honours. It aims to recognize worthy individuals for his or her outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation.

Over the last 45 years, more than 6,000 people from all sectors of society have been chosen to receive the honour and now Zahn is one of them.

‘Incredibly lucky’ Originally from a small rural town in central Ohio, Zahn has been in Canada for the past 40 years and currently lives at Davenport Road and Spadina Avenue.

She became a Canadian citizen less than 10 years ago and anticipates the upcoming ceremony for the Order of Canada will stir similar emotions in her.

“You get swept away by this incredible feeling of patriotism.

It even makes me choke up just remembering it,” Zahn said, taking a moment to gather her thoughts.

“You just get this feeling that you’re so incredibly lucky to be in this country and have all the advantages and what a duty that brings on with it that you must give back. I was proud to be a Canada citizen, and this honour just brings it to a whole new

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CEO and President of the Centre of Addiction and Mental Health Dr. Catherine Zahn has received a number of national accolades.

level.”

After six years as president and CEO, Zahn is being recognized for her contributions as a neurologist, health-care administrator and advocate on behalf of those living with mental health and addiction issues.

Zahn came aboard the CAMH team when the organization was taking on its redevelopment project, the expansion of

research and innovation capacity and continuing public education and social advocacy to challenge the stigma attached to mental illness and addictions and the integration and enhancement of clinical programs.

“It feels really good. It also, for me, gives me a feeling that I have to double my efforts to deserve the honour and carry forward the work that was responsible for me to be recognized in the first place,” Zahn said.

Although this is Zahn’s first Order of Canada, she’s no stranger to being recognized for her work on a national level.

In 2012, she was recognized by the Women’s Executive Network as one of Canada’s 100 most powerful women in the professional category.

She’s spearheaded a couple of projects with CAMH including the first mental health collaborative between CAMH, SickKids and the University of Toronto (U of T), which aims to help provide improved access to care for youth and children.

She also helped create the Medical Psychiatry Alliance, launched last January, and will continue on for the next five years.

It is a joint partnership between CAMH, SickKids, Trillium Health Partners and U of T that is designed to help address

the challenging integration of mental and physical health.

“People with mental illness have human rights and civil rights and it includes heath care.

And they don’t always have their rights respected,” Zahn said.

“I’d say we’ve done a very good job of increasing awareness around some of the more easily treated mental illnesses that don’t always require hospitalization or lifelong treatment.”

Prior to her time at CAMH, Zahn graduated with honours from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and specialized in neurology.

She was also the executive vice president for clinical programs and practice at the University Health Network for 12 years.

“I’ve had a long career and life and when I think of the build up to this, I’ve worked very, very hard and done some things with positive effects to help the system,” Zahn said.

“But what I deeply understand is the fact that I have the platform of mental health and the platform of a strong organization that’s moving the agenda forward to actually be the voice of that is an overwhelming standard.”

Also a recipient of the Order of Canada is Lisa Brown, the founder and executive artistic director of Workman Arts, a CAMH partner.

Five-year-old boy opens first exhibit ‘Target’ at Gallery 1313 LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Just five years old and already Nolan Georgakopoulos is on his way to becoming a professional artist.

Nolan’s work, a self-portrait of sorts featuring himself as a knight and his parents as king and queen, can be seen in Parkdale’s Gallery 1313’s Windowbox gallery until the end of January.

“My teachers want to see it,” Nolan told his mom Stephanie Martin as he drew pictures with his new Crayola crayons in their kitchen.

Despite the media attention he’s receiving for his first-ever professional exhibition, called ‘Target,’ Nolan, who lives in the Runnymede Road and Annette Street-area, said he isn’t keen on turning his hobby into a career when he’s older.

The senior kindergarten student is too busy playing soccer, ball hockey and tennis – he’s anxious to take up ice hockey soon, too.

It was family friend Lisa Anita Wegner, who has known Nolan since

he was a baby, who sought his talent after she was brought on to curate a series of installations for Gallery 1313’s Windowbox gallery.

The Parkdale-based artist said she’s keen to bring unusual kind of art to the masses.

“I knew he’d make something really great,” Wegner said.

“When he was little, he’d build these buildings with blocks – I thought they were extremely cool buildings.”

Martin said her son never played with anything conventionally.

“He’d take apart toys,” she recalled.

Wegner and Nolan collaborated over a four-hour period to create his windowbox portrait.

The two would work for a bit before taking video game and lightsaber duel breaks.

Wegner, who works frequently with found objects, collected items that she thought Nolan would find interesting and gave him free reign to come up with anything he wanted.

Wegner realized working with

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Lisa Anita Wegner, left, helps Nolan Georgakopoulos, 5, with his first-ever professional piece of art in Parkdale’s Gallery 1313 for the month of January.

Nolan was not so different than collaborating with artists much older than him.

“I realized that when I collaborate with an artist, there are two things

I look for: playfulness and creative vision,” she said.

“I have a belief that all people are artists. It just takes the world to knock it out of them. I want to push the

boundaries of what art is.”

For Wegner, it’s not so much about the final product, but the artistic process.

A filmmaker and actor, Wegner’s experience is vast. She has performed alongside such actors as Ben Kingsley, Aidan Quinn and Geena Davis.

She is a three-time nominee for a best actress Canadian comedy award, and winner of the best director Canadian comedy award for Chasing Aces (2005), among other awards.

Wegner’s career took a turn after she suffered a trauma-related brain injury in 2008.

As part of her trauma therapy at Women’s College Hospital, she began exploring video and post-production photography.

One of her therapy videos was chosen as part of the Phoenix Art Museum’s Selection 2011.

“It’s possible there’s an artist in everyone,” Wegner said.

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e’ve argued in these pages many times before that Torontonians will get the transit they pay for.

The city’s transit woes are many; the solutions will need to be multi-pronged and include the input (and funds) of all three levels of government. So Mayor John Tory’s recent transit announcement – basically a fare increase, children 12 and under ride for free, and the promise of service improvements – must be lauded as at least an attempt to come up with some solutions.

Despite campaigning on the promise to not raise transit fares, the user-pay approach to keeping transit moving versus a property tax increase is a safe option, but not necessarily a courageous one.

As the cost of running Toronto’s transit system rises, fares will have to increase, but property taxes may need to rise as well and alternative funding addressed.

Transit Bonds are just one idea. And with that inevitable increase, it’s not a stretch our view to demand more bang for our transit buck.

Demand more Tory’s Monday announcement offered some of this added value: value for our 50 new buses; restoring all-day, increasing buck everyday bus services that were cut in 2011; 10-minute or better bus and streetcar service. But there needs to be more in order to make the current and future increases at the fare box less frustrating.

For instance, a monthly Metropass will now cost $141.50 – it’s getting quite expensive to travel the TTC. For weekday cash commuters who drop $6 a day on transit, it works out to roughly $120 in a four-week month. Unfortunately there are few options for those without a car.

Last week’s GO Transit and TTC announcement that an extra $60 GO transit sticker can be purchased so transit users can ride GO when the TTC is busy is not the way to sweeten the transit pie. Soon it won’t be enough to merely add two subway trains on lines 1 and 2 during morning and afternoon rush hours, all-door boarding, or 12 extra routes to the Express Bus network.

Riders deserve more: a properly integrated GO and TTC pass, perhaps a two-hour ride-anywhere ticket so people heading out for quick grocery shopping can do so.

Torontonians have to get used to the fact that transit will cost everyone more money.

And politicians need to understand that any extra increases at the fare box or on our property taxes must be accompanied by something tangible to offset asking more money from residents.

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Tory’s progressive budget likely to pass easily

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he first budget of a term of council is often an easy one to swallow.

In 2011, it was such an easy budget that Rob Ford could get away with freezing property taxes, eliminating the vehicle registration fee and demanding that TTC fares be frozen, all thanks to a reserve squirrelled away from the previous administration.

In 2015, Mayor Tory is faced with a similar gift set. There is no surplus – the last time Toronto used a prior year surplus to balance the budget was 2012.

The land transfer tax – which former Mayor Ford generously failed to eliminate — has come in at a staggering $425 million, $50 million more than finance staff anticipated.

Ontario Premier Wynne and Mayor Tory are welldisposed to one another — something that could not be said for former Mayor

david nickle the city Ford and former Premier Dalton McGuinty — so odds are good the city will receive $85 million in help from Ontario.

And unlike former Mayor Ford, Mayor Tory has felt no need to deliver a property tax freeze.

Instead, Tory has done the opposite — and increased service levels to what seems like a luxurious degree, and charged Toronto residents appropriately.

Buses will run more regularly and subway trains more frequently and children under 12 will ride the TTC for free; there will be more resources to save the homeless from freezing cold nights and more shelter beds available all the time; traffic-clogging road work will finish up more quickly.

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Tory wants to be seen as fiscally prudent, but what he is selling along with that is the good life - or at least a better life - for constiuents.

And Torontonians will pay more.

There’s an inflationary tax increase of 2.25 per cent that goes up slightly above Toronto’s rate of inflation when the 0.5 per cent Scarborough subway levy is added in (which it is).

Non-children will be paying another 10 cents to ride the TTC. User fees are on the rise, as the city charges more for household garbage collection and hikes fees for renting ice by 7.25 per cent and premium sports field fees by 12.5 per cent.

Pushing increases like that would have been bad

medicine indeed for most mayors in Toronto’s recent history — and this may turn out to be the case for Tory but I suspect it won’t.

Tory made the point at a lunch-hour speech that his predecessor – that being Rob Ford, now Councillor for Etobicoke North – raised fees and taxes more marginally while at the same time reducing service. And that is not what’s going on here.

Tory wants to be seen as fiscally prudent, but what he is selling along with that is the good life — or at least a better life — for constituents. It is at least in the short term a very progressive budget coming from a darling of council conservatives.

It will likely pass as easily as it was, say, for Richard Nixon to visit China.

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Parkdale actor in play about famous poetry couple HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com The first time seasoned actor David Schurmann dabbled in the theatre world he was living in England and was just 16 years old.

“I was doing a school production of (Shakespeare’s) Henry the IV, Part II and I was playing Prince Hal,” Schurmann recalled.

“We did four performances and at the last performance I came off stage and little voice in my head said, ‘this is what you’re going to have to do.’ And that was it. The bug bit me, I was bitten.”

He made up his mind to attend Central School of Speech and Drama and pursue acting full time.

Since then Schurmann immigrated to Ontario from England and landed in Stratford, before laying down roots in Parkdale on Cowan Avenue where he’s spent the past 20 years.

His roster includes 30 seasons of leading roles at the Shaw Festival including On The Rocks, The Admirable Crichton as well as John Osborne’s The Entertainer and four seasons at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

This month, 72-year-old Schurmann joins the production How Do I Love Thee? by Canadian Rep Theatre, which explores the darker side of the marriage of popular Victorian-era poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning.

The play revolves around the couple’s year-long courtship that consisted only of a series of love letters to one another, despite having never met. It’s not until they were married that Robert discovers his wife has been suffering from a drug addiction since the age of 12 following an “illness.”

Written by award-winning playwright, Florence Gibson MacDonald, who was inspired to write the play after reading the British Medical Journal, which discussed Elizabeth’s non-existent ‘illness’ and the more she found out the more she was drawn to her famous courtship.

“It’s a beautiful play, very literary play, but also very theatrical,” Schurmann said.

“Florence MacDonald who wrote the play, says it’s a play about words of love and the love of words. Essentially it’s a love story

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The Parkdale resident had little time to prepare for the role as it was given to him a day before rehearsals began two weeks ago.

Although he admits there’s “a lot of work to be done” to prepare, he’s up for the challenge, after all this isn’t his first rodeo. He plans to try his best to bring the character of John Kenyon to life.

“You can put on all the external things like the different voices and clothes or move differently,” Schurmann said.

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Thanks to the Scadding Court Community Centre (SCCC), however, there is still a way for parents of young children to ensure their kids do not have to spend the entire winter cooped up in their homes.

The community centre offers its own indoor park, with everything from buildings blocks and play mats for very young children to rideable toy cars, bikes and bouncy balls for pre-school children.

There is little question the indoor play area is a welcome feature in the densely populated downtown community.

“It’s a Godsend during the winter because kids can basically be housebound when

the weather gets too cold,” said local resident Heidi Mamaril, whose young daughter Eva loves playing at the park. “Living downtown in an apartment, she wouldn’t get a chance to play like this without (the indoor park.)”

While the park itself is hardly new, its offerings have recently been expanded with Healthy Foundations family fitness classes now on tap.

“It’s a parent-child participation program and it’s got activities people can do here at our indoor park or at home because it doesn’t require any special equipment,” said Brenda Morse, SCCC coordinator of childcare and family resource programs.

The free program teaches skills that improve gross motor skills, balance and general health and wellness.

Sandy Wright, an early childhood educator at Scadding, said the goal is to introduce the concept of holistic, healthy living to children and parents alike.

“We decided that since obesity rates are rising within little ones, it was important to educate parents about a healthier style of living, teach them some simple exercises they can do with their kids and introduce them to the Canada Food Guide,” she said.

The exercises are simple and cater to youngsters, with one branch of programming for one- and two-year-olds and another for three- tofive-year-olds.

“It’s just about encouraging a healthy style of play with exercises that help with agility, balance and coordination,” Wright said.

The program’s benefits will be manifold.

In addition to fostering healthier kids, by becoming more physically active and being able to take on the gentle challenges posed by the exercise routine, it will help youngsters build confidence and self-esteem.

Improved health has also been shown to increase kids’ performance in school.

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Eva Mamaril takes a ride at the Scadding Court Community Centre indoor park.

Best of all, the program is completely free.

“We want to make sure it’s available to everyone, so they have to register but they don’t have to pay,” Morse said.

Currently, the program overlaps with Scadding’s weekly indoor park program, which runs from 10 a.m. to noon on Thursdays.

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Frustrated commuters will soon have the option to bypass overcrowded and delayed TTC vehicles and instead get on a speedier GO Transit train – provided they’re willing to pay more.

That’s the premise of a new fare integration scheme announced Friday by transit officials and intended to ease crippling congestion on the TTC by pushing some of its ridership to the less-burdened GO network.

Starting Feb. 1 – the same day a GO fare hike is scheduled to go into effect – and continuing on a pilot basis for one year, monthly TTC Metropass holders will be able to hop on to GO’s regional rail service at Danforth, Exhibition and Union stations with the purchase of a $60 sticker to apply to their monthly Metropass.

The extra fee, said Ontario Minister of Transportation Steven Del Duca, will allow for unlimited travel on GO

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A Go Train on the Lakeshore Line leaves Union Station heading west.

for commuters who normally make use of the TTC. “Customers can save between 10 to 15 minutes, or more, per trip to-and-from the downtown core during rush hour when compared to travel on the TTC subway,” said Del Duca during a press announcement at Danforth GO station last Friday. “This pilot will help commuters get to where they need to go sooner and allow all of us to spend more time with the people who matter most.”

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a 65 per cent discount compared to regular GO Transit service from the three stations part of the pilot, said Metrolinx CEO Bruce McCuaig.

He said the project would give Metrolinx, which is mandated by the province to run GO’s operations, a better sense of how to better integrate the regional transit system with the TTC’s in the long term.

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said McCuaig who was on hand for Friday’s announcement along with TTC chair Josh Colle, CEO Andy Byford plus Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts.

As part of the pilot McCuaig said nine more GO trains serving the Lakeshore East and Stouffville lines will enter into service during peak weekday periods to relieve GO’s own congestion issues.

“What we learn from this year-long pilot project will help us better understand why and how customers access transit,” McCuaig said.

B e a c h e s - E a s t Yo r k Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon, along with council colleague Mike Layton, has called for better local integration of TTC and GO services.

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Munro said he didn’t understand why the pilot didn’t include more suburban areas like Scarborough’s Kennedy hub, where the TTC station and GO stop are closely connected and where ridership could stand to grow.

“Why isn’t it being made available to people in areas where we say we want to encourage more ridership from Scarborough to downtown?” Munro said. “Why isn’t this option being made today to people who come into Kennedy on bus or the RT to make a direct connection that already exists using this kind of fare structure?”

TTC chair Josh Colle agreed harmonizing GO and TTC service into Scarborough would be the most logical step following the conclusion of the pilot, which he said would also assist the ongoing integration of the transit commission within Metrolinx’s Presto fare system.

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Neighbours unhappy with proposal Join the discussion about Toronto’s 2015 Budget The City of Toronto delivers over 150 different services. The Operating Budget determines which programs and services the City will offer and how much the City will raise and spend within a year. The Capital Budget & Plan provides funding for the facilities and infrastructure required to deliver those services.

Staff-recommended budgets are now being considered by the Budget Committee for recommendation to the Executive Committee and City Council.

Review the proposed 2015 Budget by visiting toronto.ca/council or toronto.ca/budget2015. To participate in the 2015 Budget discussion: 1. Make a public presentation at one of the Budget Subcommittee meetings on February 2 or 3, 2015.

Register by email to buc@toronto.ca or by calling 416-392-4666 before 4 p.m. on January 30. Indicate your choice of location, date and session number. Individuals may make only one presentation at any one of the consultation sessions.

City Hall Committee Room 1 100 Queen St. West February 2 Session 1 – 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Etobicoke Civic Centre Council Chamber 399 The West Mall February 2 Session 1 – 3 to 5 p.m.

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Scarborough Civic Centre Council Chamber 150 Borough Drive February 3 Session 1 – 3 to 5 p.m.

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North York Civic Centre Council Chamber 5100 Yonge Street February 3 Session 1 – 3 to 5 p.m.

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2. Send your written comments about the 2015 Budget to the Budget Committee.

Email: buc@toronto.ca. Fax: 416-392-1879, Attention: Budget Committee. Mail: Attention: Budget Committee,Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St. W., 10th floor, WestTower,Toronto, ON M5H 2N2.

3. Send a letter or email concerning the 2015 Budget to your local City Councillor.

For information on how to contact your City Councillor, please call 311, TTY: 416-338-0TTY (0889), email 311@toronto.ca or visit toronto.ca.

Notice: If you write or make a presentation to the Budget Committee, the City will collect and use your personal information in accordance with applicable laws. We also videotape meetings and make recordings publicly available on request. More information about the collection and use of your personal information is available at: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/privacy.htm.

>>>from page 1 will face Wabash Avenue with ground floor units equipped with separate entrances.

The overall concept, however, is still preliminary, according to the developer and its architect Roland Colthoff from RAW Design, who presented the concepts to about 30 residents.

But preliminary design or not, the residents along the east side of the proposed building are not happy with the idea that people in the new condos will be able to see into their backyards.

“That, to me, is a problem,” said Julie Pigozzo, a homeowner on Lukow Terrace who “spent a fortune” on her home last January and has a long list of concerns regarding the development.

“My main concern is privacy,” she told The Villager, visibly upset during last Thursday’s meeting.

“This potentially has 14 to 20 units staring into our backyards and a fifth story staring down on us too.

“My second concern is if I

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This potentially has 14 to 20 units staring into our backyards and a fifth storey staring down on us too.

– homeowner Julie Pigozzo

did turn around and try and sell this house, who wants 20 people looking into your backyard?”

She suggested the idea of a fence for the rooftop portion, but according to Curated Properties’s president Adam Ochshorn that would only create “a jail-like” atmosphere. Instead, he said the best option is four-foot planters will be used as a buffer.

He also added this building would not have balconies to encourage the overlook.

Attendees also brought up the issue of density. The building, if approved, would have a density of 2.7 in an area that allows 0.6. With such an increase it could put a strain on the community in a variety of ways, including parking

and traffic issues.

“It’s additional traffic and it’s additional pressures on the community infrastructure which is very old as it is,” said Brian Torry, co-chair of the Roncesvalles-Macdonnell Residents’ Association (RMRA) “Parking and traffic is a huge issue in that section of the community, especially because everything around it is small. Sorauren is very small, the streets aren’t built to accommodate that kind of increased density they’re thinking about putting in there. They’re just not.”

Councillor Perks plans to ensure all the necessary studies are done through the city to ensure the impact the building will have on the area is minimal.

“The things we look at will be shadows, pressure on existing community services like daycare, parks, recreation facilities, libraries. We look at traffic, look at whether or not it creates problems and if the overall design is nice,” Perks said.

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Sourdough Workshop at West End Food Co-op The popular sourdough breadmaking class is back at the West End Food Co-op.

Join sourdough aficionados Sonya Gammal and Rachelle Wilson as they lead you through a tested recipe and an in-depth discussion about sourdough on Tuesday, Jan. 27 from 6 to 9 p.m. at 1229 Queen St. W. Throughout the course of the evening, participants will learn about the history, theory, and practice of sourdough baking, gain hands-on experience working with the starter and breadmaking, and leave with a sourdough starter as well as the dough to rise and bake at home, and a baked sourdough loaf.

There’s also the option to purchase a $15 Boule basket (banneton) traditionally used to make a Boule loaf.

Registration is 5:45 p.m. The total cost for the workshop is $55 for West End Food Co-op members or $60 for non-members (which includes the cost of a lifetime membership).

To register visit, http://goo.gl/ X58yjJ Cancellations with less than 48 hours’ notice will be charged a $25 cancellation fee to cover ingredient, material and labour costs.

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Councillors Doucette and Perks host budget meeting Parkdale-High Park councillors Sarah Doucette and Gord Perks are hosting a community budget meeting Thursday, Jan. 29 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

The meeting takes place in a roundtable format at Bishop Marrocco/ Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School, 1515 Bloor St. W., in the third floor staff room.

This is an opportunity to examine the city budget with your neighbours and begin a conversation about delivering and funding services with the 2015 city budget.

For further details, contact councillor_doucette@toronto.ca or councillor_perks@toronto.ca

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Money problems?

The library can help From programs and seminars, to books and magazines, and expert staff support, we have what you need to help you manage your money. Check out these upcoming programs in your neighbourhood.

The Accidental Inheritance: It’s Not About the Money A short and entertaining play that highlights what can go wrong when estate planning is not carefully considered. Performed by Act II Studio, a theatre program for ages 50 and up.

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