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Chef competes for spot at Milan cooking competition HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Sous Chef Adam Oliveira is one of 200 semifinalists chosen for the S. Pellegrino Young Chef of 2015 competition. Having never gone to culinary school, Oliveira discovered his passion for cooking and learned all his skills on the job.

“I started with pub food as a teen and I just decide to continue down that career path and through that experience I got myself into some good restaurants and went from there,” he said.

The Dovercourt Road and Queen Street resident has been cooking in restaurants since he was a teenager, where he started off as a prep cook.

He admits it was a lot of cooking wings and fries back then.

“My dishes are a lot more advanced now,” Oliveira said. “But just because of that (experience) I know the kitchen culture and got a hang of the pace and kitchen life.”

Now at 26 years old, he’s a sous chef at The Spoke Club, a trendy restaurant on King Street West, for more than a year.

He’s one of 10 Canadian chefs

chosen this year for the new contest that aims to support fine dining culture around the world while finding the best young chefs under 30 years of age and helping them develop their culinary skills.

As part of the contest, participants had to create a dish and submit it to the contest judges. Oliveira chose to create Lake Erie pickerel fish with broth of leek & seaweed. ideas swirling in his head He said he had different ideas for dishes swirling around his head and tried a few before he settled on a winter dish because “nothing brings warmth to you like a very rich broth in the winter months.”

“The basic idea of the dish was to respect where the fish came from.

The broth has seaweed and leeks.

The broth is supposed to be reminiscent of the lake where the fish came from,” the sous chef explained.

“It brings you through layers and takes you on a journey with the flavours of the seaweed with a clear broth, the potatoes and different onions; it all paired off nicely.

It’s very simple, but complex in its

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own way because there are different flavour notes in the consommé itself.”

The 10 Canadian semifinalists will compete on Monday, Feb. 9 to determine this country’s official finalist and move on to become Canada’s official representative at the final competition in Milan, Italy

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helping our Feathered friends: Above far left, Nyella Goodman, left, and her mother Jackie fill an orange peel with seeds to make a natural bird feeder during the seeds and sticks workshop for children held Saturday in McCormick Park. Above left, environmental artist Linda Naccarato, left, Rosalie Bezic and her mother Leslie Garber work on a seeds and sticks mural. At left, Naccarato hangs a bird feeder. At right, Sebastian Pena displays an orange peel bird feeder.

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Leading local chefs Susur Lee, Cory Vitiello and Parkdale’s own Matty Matheson from Parts and Labour will mentor and evaluate the semifinalists at the event at Malaparte in Toronto.

“I’m definitely nervous about it, but at the same time I’m prepar-

ing myself and wrapping my head around it. I put a lot of pressure on myself, but as time goes by I’m becoming more confident in myself and the dish, which is a good thing,” Oliveira said.

“Just like the dish with the layers of flavours, there are layers of excitement before the competition.”

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ith Black History Month starting Sunday, members of Toronto’s black community are looking not only at their history but their future as well.

In today’s edition (see story on page 6), we look at the Black Experience Project that will be seeking input on what it means to be a member of the Greater Toronto Area’s 400,000-strong black community.

Some 1,800 residents will be interviewed as part of the project, and organizers expect the answers to be as diverse as the community itself. A project of such scope has never been undertaken in the local black community before, despite a history that goes back to the 1700s in the Toronto area.

Karen Carter of Heritage Toronto, one of the more than two dozen partners on the project, said the GTA’s black community has layers of identity – some tracing their ancestors to the our view Underground Railroad, others arriving from the Caribbean in the 1970s or more recently from Africa.

Our black How those different ancestries community view themselves as a community, many of differing faiths spread out has layers in neighbourhoods across the GTA, will be one of the key findings the of identity project is aiming to discover.

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We’ll be paying for the fruits of Mayor John Tory’s budget in years to come In 2011, former mayor Rob Ford and Toronto City Council made a very shortsighted move.

Faced with a budget surplus from the previous administration, the council and mayor decided to use it all, offer a property tax freeze that no one asked for and wasn’t sustainable.

In subsequent years, it made Toronto’s financial system more precarious, because by using one-time funding (in that case a surplus), city services were instantly outsized as compared to reliable revenue.

It develops that in 2015, Mayor John Tory and the new council are doing something similar.

In order to provide a budget that improves city services on a number of fronts, Toronto will be borrowing $86 million from the provincial government, to be repaid with interest.

david nickle the city That loan will pay for services the city has now and for improvements too, reversing many of the cuts made during the Ford years and adding some more.

Life will be easier in Toronto in 2015 on a number of fronts. questioning 2016 But because the marginal service improvements rest on a marginal revenue source, 2016 will be another matter.

Whether children can continue to ride free on the Toronto Transit Commission and catch their buses more quickly will depend on whether council can bear to cut services somewhere else.

The Ford administration brain trust was well aware that the 2011 tax freeze meant that city council would have no choice but to impose austerity measures in 2012.

One might expect that the Tory administration’s brain trust is similarly farsighted.

Tory has, indeed, made promises to that effect: that he would find efficiencies in subsequent years, once he’d had a chance to settle into the job.

It’s a nice promise to make, but more difficult to achieve.

Last year, City Manager Joe Pennachetti, thinking to retire, told council very seriously that Toronto’s public service is running lean now, and that the city’s service levels cannot sustain more trimming.

Taxes, indeed, would have to rise in the future if

council is to afford the services it had in 2014.

Putting children on the subway for free, adding subway cars and buses to make rush-hour more bearable, sheltering the homeless adequately…

Pennachetti had not even contemplated such wonders last fall.

So what is to become of us next year?

It is difficult to say.

Over the course of the campaign, Tory displayed his conservative bona fides; in the months following, he reached out to a more broadly based constituency.

And with this budget, he will have settled us into a corner.

How we get out of it is anybody’s guess.

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“There are some things some people see as limiting and others see as beneficial – it’s just about who you’re talking to. I just think some call into question the luxuries the Toy Factory has afforded them over the last few years. Some of the folks who have rooftop patios feel that the shadow effect may impede on those suites,” he said during the Thursday, Jan. 22 meeting.

“Then there’s the corner lot (at Hanna Avenue and Liberty Street).

Nobody wants to walk into a potential raging patio scene. Some folks have kids, a lot have dogs and it’s just going to add to the confusion.”

Originally the meeting aimed to discuss with residents the settlement that could be reached between the City of Toronto and the developer ahead of the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) pre-hearing meeting on Feb. 10, however, as advised by their respective legal councils, neither party could actually discuss the details of the settlement for confidentiality reasons.

Instead residents were given the opportunity to voice any new concerns they had about the proposal and ask questions, without the developer present.

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Liberty Village residents were given one last shot to tell developers of Kevric Real Estate Corporation how they really feel about the new office and commercial buildings they’re proposing for 99 Atlantic and 38-40 Hanna avenues.

Design District Properties Inc., a company under Kevric Real Estate Corporation, is looking to renovate the five-storey office building at 99 Atlantic Ave. and build an eightstorey building with commercial and retail space on the ground floor and build a two-storey building that would be strictly retail and commercial use at the corner of Hanna Avenue and Liberty Street.

The developer is also proposing to renovate the existing office building at 1 Snooker St. and the boiler house for office space and create four levels of underground parking amounting to 212 spaces.

According to Chris Bodnar, the vice-president on the tenants’ board at Toy Factory Lofts, located directly across from the proposed build site and the most effected building, most of the residents are split on their feelings toward the project.

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“From a planning perspective, I don’t feel that what we (the city) are asking for is out of left field,” Pelt said, adding the one “positive benefit” thing from the proposal is the fact that it’s becoming employment land as opposed to residential.

Ward 19 ( Trinity-Spadina) Councillor Mike Layton agreed employment land is scarce in the city.

“This is actually really serious,” Layton said. “We’re running out of places for people to work in the city. Not businesses, but physical space because a lot of the massive employment lands that used to be down here are all condos.”

For Bodnar, the development isn’t a bad thing and added the developer has been listening to residents’ concerns.

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oronto’s black community is not unified, not one. It’s many.

Organizers of the Black Experience Project know this: 400,000 people in Greater Toronto say they’re black, but each of their lives is different.

Finding out how different is a monumental job, but next month – Black History Month – the project’s interviewers will start asking around 1,800 residents what it’s like to be black in the GTA. They’ll be asked about the strength of their identities – black, ethnic, and otherwise – their goals, religious beliefs, and where they feel they belong.

Nothing like it has been done with Toronto’s black community, or communities, before.

“It’s going to answer some questions we’ve all asked,” as well as shed some light on misconceptions, North York filmmaker Ryan Singh said last week.

“More people will say, ‘The black community is a viable community, and we want to know more about it.’”

Its supporters, including members of more than two dozen non-profit groups, say the project, when completed and released later this year, won’t simply sit on a shelf.

“We’re going to get a really complete picture of people’s lives,” added Keith Neuman, executive director of the nonprofit Environics Institute, one of the project’s partners.

The study is an important exercise, said Karen Carter,

executive director of Heritage Toronto and one of hundreds of “trailblazers” who volunteered time to shape it during 2012 and 2013.

Black people in Toronto have layers of identity – whether they’re from families whose ancestors arrived on the Underground Railroad, or who came from the Caribbean in the Trudeau era, or from Africa more recently – complicated by the spaces in Greater Toronto they live in, Carter said.

After its findings are known, Carter hopes the community, or communities, can “look within ourselves at these complications, as we grapple with them.”

As chairperson of Black Artists’ Network in Dialogue, which uses culture “as a way to educate the average Canadian and average fellow citizen about who we are,” she said she avoids featuring just works from artists of Caribbean background, though artistic excellence must be shown by all.

Carter also hopes the project demonstrates the usuallyoverlooked economic power of Toronto’s black people, and that the results make their leaders more confident, able to go “walking in the door (of institutions) and saying, ‘Hey, I’m here,’ even if you weren’t invited.”

Michael Hall, a vice president of YMCA of Greater Toronto, said his organization, a project partner whose black staff examined the proposal and got involved in designing the research, is committed to use the project afterwards to serve the community better.

The YMCA supports any chance to “understand who (the black) community is,”

call to action A video on the project can be found at http://youtu.be/JKezwsr7N10 A question is asked: What does it mean to be black?

People’s answers included the following powerful words: identity • judgement • freedom • rhythm • connection inclusion • strengths • endangered species • strength empowerment • cultural values • trendsetter

what’s on in Parkdale w saturday, Feb. 7 AfroFest at the Gladstone This year’s free Black History Month Concert series features artists with Music Africa every Saturday this February.

Attendees will have the chance to dance and interact with artists. Each concert begins at 9 p.m. The concert series kicks off Feb. 7 with Young Stars de Montreal from the Congo perform; Feb. 14, Yiinka Farinde from Nigeria; Feb. 21, Katenen Cheka from Mali; and Feb. 28, Afrafranto from Ghana will take the stage. For more information, visit www. afrofest.ca

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Keynote speaker and former Scarborough East MPP Mary Anne Chambers addresses the Ontario Black History Society’s Black History Month kick-off brunch this past Sunday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

share your view What are your thoughts on the successes and challenges of the black community? Email us at press@insidetoronto.com including its needs and aspirations, Hall said.

Though a report on the project’s “trailblazing” first phase concludes “there is no single ‘black experience,’ but rather ‘black experiences,’” and “the diversity with the community needs to be emphasized,” it also finds Toronto’s black people, as a whole, face challenges “not similarly experienced by most other immigrant or ethnic communities in the GTA.” Singh said he sees the project as a way to unite the black community’s factions and fragments.

“There’s power in unity,” said Singh, adding his work within the community has reflected a “love-hate relationship” for years.

“I love because I love my people, but I challenge because I find we’re so fragmented,” said Singh, who directed a call-to-action video (http:// youtu.be/JKezwsr7N10) for the project.

The research won’t answer every question, but it will start

conversations to help heal the community, and will change the way advertisers and governments look at black people, he predicted.

“It’s the beginning of understanding a people.”

Singh joins a five-person panel discussing black experiences, moderated by author and broadcaster Dalton Higgins, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5 in the Maria A, Shchuka Toronto Public Library branch at 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. Each person speaking at the free event is a black storyteller or educator.

The city’s other scheduled Black History Month events are, unsurprisingly, quite diverse, presenting everything from personal histories and spoken word poetry to culinary delights.

For the Ontario Black History Society kick-off brunch this past Sunday, Mary Anne Chambers, a former Scarborough MPP, said she planned to speak about “selfempowerment,” her call to people in black communities “to see themselves as part of the solution.”

“We are capable of, and we have made, these huge contributions to the world, and we need to continue to take our responsibility to define who we are and write our own history,” she declared last week.

Chambers said she’d reflect on achievements of black inventors, “people whose names we don’t hear as much as maybe we should,” but whose brilliance improved lives around the world.

“Notwithstanding challenges too many people still experience as a result of poverty or not-too-subtle racism, we’ve come a long way,” added Chambers.

Drop-out rates for black high school students are unacceptably high, relations with police are strained, and the community is over-represented in Ontario’s child welfare system, said Chambers, a former provincial minister for children and youth.

Expressing sympathy for young people in these situations – “They need the village to support them today” – she also said she’d encourage youth to seek careers in law enforcement or justice system, to make changes from inside.

When black youth and police meet under positive circumstances, stereotypes diminish and respect increases, said Chambers. “I hear this from the kids and I hear this from the police.”

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w Wednesday, Feb. 11 Anansi the Spider, Anansi the Survivor - Stories for Everyone Join Phyllis Broom-Walker, storyteller and keeper of the Anansi Flame, as she tells the story of Anansi the Spider, Survivor not Trickster. A story about Africans who were turned into slaves learning to survive any way they could. In the puppet room, Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen St. W., 1:30 to 3 p.m. w thursday, Feb. 12 Nubains/The Nubain Series Toronto-based artist TALWST comes to the Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen St. W. at 6 p.m. The series aims to spread knowledge of black history and a Trinidadian-Canadian identity through visual art in a Western context. The collection of 15 hand-held dioramas, housed in reclaimed ring boxes, work their way through what it has meant to be ‘Black’ throughout history.

The series is on until March 6.

Admission is free. w sunday, Feb. 15 The Underground Comedy Railroad Show February marks the 4th annual Underground Comedy Railroad show. The tour’s lineup is stacked with accomplished Canadian comedians including Rodney Ramsey, Andrew Searles, Daniel Woodrow and Keesha Brownie. The Underground Comedy Railroad tour introduced the voice of black Canadians, who have limited access to the mainstream media. The tours objective is to give centre-stage to one of the country’s smallest visible minorities. Tickets are $20 advance, $25 at the door. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Show starts at 8:30 p.m. at The Great Hall Sunday.

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community Councillors host wParkdale-High budget meeting Park councillors Sarah Doucette and Gord Perks are hosting a community budget meeting today 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.

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and Castle at King and Simcoe Streets.

To RSVP to the event, visit the Facebook Page http:// goo.gl/z8ZmMW For tips for winter riding and proper gear visit http:// cycleto.ca/winter-ridingand-gear-tips construction starts wStarting on sidewalk tomorrow until the end of February, Metrolinx will be reconstructing the sidewalk at the northwest corner of Strachan Avenue

and East Liberty Street.

As a result, the northwest sidewalk will be closed temporarily. A pedestrian detour will be in place.

The right turn lane on Strachan Avenue will also be temporarily closed; the southbound bike lane will be maintained.

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A paid on duty officer will be on site to assist with traffic flow during construction hours.

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Existing play structure below city standards >>>from page 1 Sometimes the best ideas come out of smaller budget parks.”

For the parkette, located off of Fuller Avenue south of Queen Street, Perks and the city are considering a handful of upgrades, which include replacing the playground, improving the current surfacing of the swing set to make it accessible, removing and replacing uneven concrete, which includes improving the pathway from Saunders Avenue, new benches, a fountain to include a water bottle refilling station and an upgrade to the basketball court.

The driving force behind the project, Presutti said, is the playground. The existing play structure is below the city’s park and safety standards and needs to be completely replaced; retrofitting isn’t an option.

He brought to the meeting two “very different” options the community could choose from. The first is a spider-like playground that would be

shaped like a dome and have a more skeletal structure that encourages climbing.

“It would appeal to the young demographic, with social interaction, but still be challenging enough for the older kids to feel engaged,” Presutti said.

The second option is more of a playground with about

16 different functions within the one structure, from a slide to a sitting area.

“It’s really a step up from the current structure. It would modernize it to a whole different level and would extend the age function because of the different elements to keep kids from five to six years old engaged,” the architect

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Residents were split on the two ideas and suggested combining elements from both structures in order to offer more play options for the children.

A variety of ideas were tossed around, including adding features that make the parkette enjoyable not just for children but adults, too.

The major concern parents at the meeting had with the park is the amount of time it will be out of commission.

The community is looking at 12 to 14 weeks without the parkette in the fall, with construction projected to begin after Labour Day. According to Presutti, the feedback was helpful. His next step is to come back to Perks in a few weeks with a new concept based on Tuesday’s suggestions from residents, with the goal to ensure the park will be finished as soon as possible.

“I’m going to try and maximize the play value with the money we have,” he said.

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Community skate: Bob Garden, Virginia Garden and Kara Bowerman, top, Natalie Blake, 4, above left, and Fabien and Emiliano Charbonnier, above right, take to the ice at TrinityBellwoods Park Sunday afternoon during a community skating party hosted by City Councillor Mike Layton.

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“Developers are not giving back,” Wylie said, pointing out that provincial regulations stipulate any under-utilized school immediately disqualifies the board from receiving any development benefits. But even with schools hovering below the 50 per cent capacity range, Wylie said there is a perceived amount of excess space as utilization does not account for schools being used as community hubs, such as hosting literacy programs and running child-care programs.With applications for more than 275,000 new residential units in the city, including many clustered in urban areas, Wylie said the province needs to reevaluate funding options immediately.

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MPP Cheri DiNovo, who hosted the event, told The Villager the night was just the beginning for parents to organize and discuss possible changes.

“Unless we get more money into our schools, we really need to get creative in ways to responding,” she said. There will be another forum in Ward 13 before DiNovo will bring forward petitions to Queen’s Park once it resumes midFebruary.

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The 12 areas targetted for “tailored” consultations early this spring match the largest clusters of complaints about rooming houses – legal or illegal – over a two-year period.

Opinions from these places, including some districts downtown where rooming houses are legal and others along the city’s northern edge where they are not, will shape a June report to Toronto council’s executive committee. Recommendations in that report could lead to legal rooming houses in Scarborough and North York, something many councillors from those areas have feared for years.

Movements toward a report and consultations on the issue, promised during the last term of council, were buried. But the latest attempt, approved

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When councillors asked for a report on the consultation at Scarborough Community Council in January, they were shown a memo from Municipal Licensing and Standards explaining how the first-stage of the consultation will work.

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Other clusters are in areas such as Parkdale, Cabbagetown and South Riverdale where rooming houses, if licensed and inspected by the city, are legal.

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A final report for the executive is expected by December after a second round of consultation.

Chin Lee, Scarborough’s community council chairperson, said there are other ways councillors can get involved, such as hosting their own meetings.

Lee said he believes the consultation is needed, but added many communities in Scarborough were designed for “single-family” homes.

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OFFER ENDS FEBRUARY 2ND Offer(s) available on select new 2015 models through participating dealers to qualified retail customers who take delivery from January 3rd to February 2nd, 2015. Dealers may sell or lease for less. Some conditions apply. See dealer for complete details. Vehicles shown may include optional accessories and upgrades available at extra cost. All offers are subject to change without notice. All pricing includes delivery and destination fees up to $1,665, $5 OMVIC fee, $29 tire tax, other taxes, environmental fee, and $100 A/C charge (where applicable). Excludes licensing, registration, insurance, variable dealer administration fees (up to $399), fuel-fill charges up to $100, and down payment (if applicable and unless otherwise specified). Other lease and financing options also available. §Up to “Half Price Payments” for up to one year (“Offer”) is only applicable on financing offers on 2015 Rio/Forte/Optima/ Sorento/Rondo models. On approved credit, from a participating dealer in Canada between January 3rd to February 2nd, 2015. The Offer consists of a loan credit (up to“Half Price Payments Credit”) that will range from $500 to $3,250 depending on model/trim. Customers can choose to take the full amount of the applicable up to Half Price Payments Credit as a one (1) time incentive that will be deducted from the negotiated price of the vehicle before taxes.

Alternatively, customers can choose the up to “Half Price Payments” option and have their financing payments reduced (before taxes) by 50% until such time as the entire amount of the applicable up to Half Price Payments Credit has been exhausted. This may take between 10 weeks and 69 weeks depending on model/trim and the amount of the applicable up to Half Price Payments Credit. After the entire amount of the applicable up to Half Price Payments Credit has been exhausted, the customer will be required to pay the full amount of all regularly scheduled finance payments over the remaining term of the contract. Vehicle trade-in amounts and down payments are not calculated in the advertised up to “Half Price Payments”. See dealer for complete details. ΔRepresentative financing example: 0% financing offer for up to 84 months available to qualified retail customers on approved credit for the new 2015 Rio LX MT (RO541F)/2015 Forte LX MT (FO541F)/2015 Optima LX AT (OP742F)/2015 Sorento LX AT (SR75BF)/2015 Rondo LX MT (RN551F) with a purchase price of $15,614/$17,514/$26,414/$28,794/$23,094 financed at 0% for 84-month period with $0 down payment equals 69/62/28/50/46 reduced weekly payments of $21/$24/$36/$39/$31 followed by weekly payments of $43/$48/$73/$79/$63. Cost includes delivery and destination fees of up to $1,665, $5 OMVIC fee, tire tax of $29, $100 A/C charge (where applicable). Includes $1,500/ $1,500/$1,000/$2,000/$1,500 up to “Half Price Payments” credit. Cost of borrowing is $0 and total obligation is $14,114/$16,014/$25,377/$26,794/$21,594. “Half Price Payment” Incentive varies by model and trim level and may be taken as a lump sum or to reduce the financed amount. Offer ends February 2nd, 2015. ‡Model shown Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price for 2015 Forte SX (FO748F)/2015 Rio4 SX with Navigation (RO749F)/2015 Sorento EX AT AWD (SR75HF)/2015 Optima SX Turbo AT (OP748F)/2015 Rondo EX Luxury (RN756F) is $26,814/$22,514/$38,894/$33,514/$30,594. Highway/city fuel consumption is based on the 2015 Rio LX+ ECO AT/2015 Forte 1.8L MPI 4-cyl MT/2015 Sorento LX 2.4L GDI 4-cyl AT/2015 Rondo 2.0L GDI 4-cyl AT/2015 Optima 2.4L GDI AT. These updated estimates are based on the Government of Canada’s approved criteria and testing methods. Refer to the EnerGuide Fuel Consumption Guide. Your actual fuel consumption will vary based on driving habits and other factors. $1,000 New Year Bonus amounts are offered on select 2015 Winter Edition models and are deducted from the negotiated purchase price before taxes. Available on financing offers only. Certain conditions apply. $1,000 New Year Bonus amount available on the 2015 Rondo LX AT (5-seat) Winter SE (RN75SF), 2015 Rondo LX AT (7-seat) Winter SE (RN75TF) and 2015 Optima LX AT Winter SE (OP74SF). 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 is a trademark of Kia Motors Corporation.