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Residents’ association is pay-what-you-can ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com Times are changing for the Roncesvalles-Macdonell Residents’ Association (RMRA), one of the oldest residents associations in the city.

The organization was established in 1973 and has had literally countless members in that time, said Brain Torry, chair of the RMRA, because there has never been a proper master list of current members kept by the association.

People would pay their $10 annual membership fee at whichever meeting they pleased throughout the year, but the RMRA didn’t have a system in place to track when each membership expired.

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keeping track of who was a paid-up member,” Torry said.

When they needed to pass a motion that involved changing the constitution, and in that case only members could vote, the RMRA realized their process >>>membership, page 10

Toronto’s community development and recreation committee has approved a new way to designate priority neighbourhoods — one that will shift resources through communities across the city.

The policy change must still be approved by Toronto Council when it meets in April. But if it goes ahead, it will mean that the total number will increase to 31 from the current 22 – including South Parkdale.

The new neighbourhoods are eligible for additional programs and capital funding based on a new metric, called a ‘Neighbourhood Equity Score’.

It looks at various categories including unemployment levels, education level, voting rates, physical surroundings and health levels.

The revision is the first major one since 2005, when the city instituted the priority neighbourhood system following a rash of shootings.

Don Valley East Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong came to the Monday committee meeting skeptical about the new system.

He pointed out that the designation of at-risk neighbourhoods for additional resources doesn’t have any way to measure the success of investments.

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Brother Kpakafi new head of (St. Francis) Table ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com There is a new face at the helm of St. Francis Table, a long-running, unique restaurant-style meal program serving the poor in Parkdale.

Run by the Capuchins of Central Canada, Brother Germain Kpakafi arrived at St. Francis Table, located at 1322 Queen St. W., in November and took over management Jan. 1.

Patrons are asked to pay $1 for their meal, which consists of three courses: a soup, entree and desert with coffee.

“We serve people here with more dignity,” Kpakafi said.

“I know around the world they help poor people, but often what they do is put it (food) in a box and give it to them to go off and eat, but here we welcome them inside and they are served like in a restaurant.”

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About 250 meals, lunch and supper, are served six days a week. In November 2010, St. Francis Table served its one millionth meal.

The approach to ministry at St. Francis Table is different, Kpakafi said.

“This is a totally different ministry compared to the traditional ministry that a priest would do,” he said. “But for me, it is almost like living the calling of Christ by reaching out to others.”

Here we welcome (the poor) inside and they are served like in a restaurant.

part of the mission But Kpakafi explained it is part of the mission of the friars to reach out to and care for those in need, as Jesus Christ would do.

“We do this after the example of St. Francis of Assisi, our founder,” Kpakafi said. “We call each creature of God as our brothers and sisters, so working here I also fulfill our path as Franciscans to reach

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Fr. Germain Kpakafi is the new manager of Capuchin Outreach to the Poor’s St. Francis Table restaurant-style meal service.

out to others, seeing everyone as my brothers and sisters.”

Kpakafi, 38, is originally from the Democratic Republic

of Congo. At the age of 13 he went to a special high school that orients young people toward the seminary.

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“I wished to,” Kpakafi said of attending the high school.

“It was maybe the influence of the priests who were coming to my village. Priests would come there to preside and give masses and the sacrament and I was impressed by them.”

When he finished high school, he went back to the Congo for a year before joining the Capuchins at the age of 19. In recent years he had been living in South Africa, where he worked as the student director at a seminary where he trained young people who have made vows of religion.

Kpakafi came to Canada at the invitation of the Canadian Capuchins last March. Prior

to coming to Parkdale, he was in Blenheim, Ont., on the shore of Lake Erie, where he lived at the St. Francis Friary and served at two parishes in the area.

Parkdale, he said, is quiet and safe as compared to where he came from in South Africa.

“When I arrived here, I was surprised to see people parking their cars in the road and leaving them there for the night,” Kpakafi said. “In South Africa you can’t just leave them on the street, they would need to be well protected.”

Brother John Frampton with the Capuchin Franciscan Friars of Central Canada, who ran St. Francis Table for the past eight years, is still living in Parkdale, but is now working with a charitable organization in the east end of the Toronto.

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Fundraiser bike ride inspired by mom’s fight against cancer ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com In memory of his mother who lost her battle with breast cancer at age 58, Little Italy resident Ellis Rockburn is participating in The Ride to Conquer Cancer for the first time this year.

“I have never taken part in anything like this before,” Rockburn admitted, but added he felt compelled to join the thousands of riders raising money for cancer research after a friend who had signed up got him thinking.

“Having been recently affected I donated to her,” Rockburn said. “About 20 minutes later I found myself sitting in my room thinking, ‘I could do that’, so I signed up.”

Originally from Ottawa, Rockburn, 23, came to Toronto to attend Ryerson

University where he studied acting.

When Ellis was 20 he found out, through a passing comment by his sister, his mother had and survived breast cancer in 1988, when she was just 33 years old.

“She had known and had been told by my mother because of the potentially hereditary nature of the disease,” he said. “But I had no idea.”

His mother, Sheila Bird, was a high-ranking bureaucrat and charitable person, but very private, Rockburn said. Which is why he didn’t learn about her breast cancer until 20 years after.

Only a year after discovering his mother’s cancer survival, Rockburn learned the aggressive disease had come back. His mother lost her battle exactly two months after the second diagnosis.

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raise $4,000 for the Ride to Conquer Cancer benefiting the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and he is just a few hundred dollars short of his goal.

Rockburn does like to bike, but has never made a trek of this length, he said.

“It is something to work towards that has personal meaning to it,” Rockburn said. “It is absolute motivation.”

Training has been difficult because of the particularly difficult winter in Toronto this year.

“I go to the gym quite often and I bike, weather permitting,” Rockburn said. “But, I have a good bike and I want to do well.”

The Ride to Conquer Cancer takes place on June 7 and 8.

There are a number of routes riders can sign up for and Rockburn will be participating in the 200 km ride beginning in Niagara and ending in Toronto.

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Ellis Rockburn, from the Bathurst and Dundas area, is participating in The Ride to Conquer Cancer for first time this year in memory of his mother who lost her battle with breast cancer at age 58.

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n hour of darkness. That’s what the annual Earth Hour event calls for, this year on Saturday, March 29 between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m.

Organized by the World Wildlife Fund, the event encourages residents and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour as a symbol of support for the planet. It is a worldwide event, which, according to organizers, has participation from more than 7,000 cities and towns in 154 countries worldwide.

But the concept isn’t front of mind for all Torontonians. In the city last year, according to Toronto Hydro, there was a seven per cent reduction in energy use. In 2009, the city experienced a 15 per cent reduction in energy use. So what’s happening?

For symbolism to have strength, there needs to be measurable momentum. There has to be growth.

If there isn’t, the impact of the overall message – however powerful it may be – is our view blunted.

One way of ensuring that momentum takes place is seeing Bring Earth new and interesting ways of Hour to your integrating the event into community life. community We’re encouraged, for example, that some pockets of the city build a neighbourhood gathering around Earth Hour.

Last year, there was an outdoor concert in Roncesvalles Village. This year, in Etobicoke, there’s a concert at Islington United Church celebrating the 20th anniversary of the church’s organ. In North York, the Yonge-Sheppard neighbourhood will once again have its annual Earth Hour community walk.

It’s a fine idea to consider joining a local Earth Hour event. So, too, is using our creativity to come up with our own localized Earth Hour events. Either way, you have people getting together, united in a common cause.

Everyone can appreciate the environmental and cost benefits of saving energy. It’s great that Earth Hour can help bring that message to the forefront.

Ideally, respect for the environment and energy conservation is a constant, front-of-mind proposition – not just for one hour in a year.

For some, Earth Hour is a place to start. For others it’s one simple activity in an ever-mindful drive to preserve the environment.

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Fringe candidate raises question about taxes Mayoral races are a long haul in Toronto – and that leaves plenty of room for little epiphanies.

On Monday, one of those showed up to file papers at city hall – Ari Goldkind, a 40-year-old criminal defence lawyer.

He made some headlines saying that he has a nose for B.S. and referring to the current mayor as Sideshow Rob. If past experience is any indication, an ambitious but untested outsider such as Goldkind will go exactly nowhere in this race.

Goldkind is a fringe candidate. But it’s rude not to ask what ideas he brings to the table, and so that’s what I did.

He started out sounding a bit like David Soknacki and Olivia Chow, advocating a return to the LRT in Scarborough over the council-approved subway.

And then he kind of sounded like Soknacki on the land transfer tax, but it turned out I’d misunder-

david nickle the city stood when I thought he said that exemptions to the tax should go to more lower-priced houses and purchasers of homes worth more than $1.1 million should pay more.

What Goldkind actually wanted to see was the land transfer tax increased on million-dollar homes, and everybody else pay the same. That, along with higher property taxes, would pay for repairs and improvements to Toronto’s public housing.

Goldkind may throw around words like B.S. pretty freely, but for him, taxes are not a dirty word.

After we spoke, it struck me: higher taxes shouldn’t be a de facto taboo, as they’ve become.

Because while Goldkind might not have a hope at winning the election, if he actually pulled it off, his

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But maybe it’s time that we shook our heads and stopped believing that we can have a great or even decent future, paying only a little more than we did in the past.

program of tax-and-spend government would probably make life a lot better here and drive almost no one from their homes.

Taxes are low in Toronto and yet services are slipping.

Subways are crowded and buildings are crumbling and according to this year’s Ombudsman’s Annual Report, even basic customer service isn’t sustainable.

As this year’s budget debate wrapped up, City Manager Joe Pennachetti laid it bare, that property taxes will practically have

to rise more dramatically in coming years than they have in the past, just to maintain status quo.

Toronto is circling the drain.

And yet, the collection of miserly landholders that make up Toronto will almost certainly shuffle out and cast their vote for one of five or so A-list mayoralty candidates with well-known resumes and no stomach for pitching the larger-scale tax hikes the city needs to pull out of its spin.

Now, I can’t say that anybody should go to vote for the unknown criminal defence lawyer who just joined the long list of fringe mayoralty candidates.

But maybe it’s time that we shook our heads, and stopped believing that we can have a great or even decent future, paying only a little more than we did in the past.

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place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and entrance is pay what you can.

Eleven Division police host an event in celebration of International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination Friday, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Hallelujah Fellowship Baptist Church, 425 Pacific Ave. Officers will be joined by Pastor Junn Lagud. Light refreshments will be served.

Contact Staff Sgt. Phil Van Andel at phillip.vanandel@ torontopolice.on.ca or call 416808-1100.

Parkdale Seedy Sunday set for March 30 Parkdale Seedy Sunday, hosted by the Toronto Community Garden Network, is on March 30 at the Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre, 220 Cowan Ave. Swap seeds with other gardeners or learn how to do it for next year. Learn new gardening tips, taste local treats and get inspired by the work happening in the neighbourhood.

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Play outside during ParticipACTION ParticipACTION is asking families to unplug and play for at least 60 minutes a day March 24 to 30.

The organization’s ‘Bring Back Play’ national campaign is encouraging parents to get their kids involved in physical activity, which is important to improve their physical and mental health.

According to ParticipACTION, the average Canadian child gets nearly eight hours of screentime – including TV, computers, cellphones and video games – every 24 hours, despite a majority saying that they would rather play with friends. The same goes for parents; 43 per cent choose to watch television or surf the Internet in their spare time.

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Tim Hortons meeting March 27 wSecond A Tim Hortons franchise opened on Roncesvalles Avenue last December and on March 27, the community is invited to a meeting about the establishment.

Many residents opposed the coffee shop at a meeting last November and at that time the owners agreed to meeting with the community after it opened to follow-up on their concerns around things such as signage and parking.

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On March 30, the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W., becomes a storytellers’ house, with two rooms full of family and adult storytelling from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. for the Toronto Storytelling Festival.

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And conflicts remain with nearby schools, residential communities, parks and other amenities.

“This review has concluded that the expansion of an airport in a downtown area and on an active waterfront must consider, firstly, the fit of that airport within its surroundings,” the report reads.

“Staff believe it is essential to understand the airport’s existing and planned size, volume of passengers, number of flights, and its role within the Southern Ontario regional system of airports, in order to complete this evaluation.”

In an interview March 14, Porter CEO Robert Deluce was optimistic that by the end of the week there would be an updated report.

He said the aircraft would either come in under the guidelines in the tripartite agreement, or Porter wouldn’t take the order.

“I think there are some real solutions on the table now between the two parties, to ensure that the airport goes ahead with the process of being modernized on a basis that’s respectful of the waterfront revitalization plan,” he

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Deluce said there was a great deal of support for jets at the airport across the city.

“We find that there is considerable support across the city across every ward for the Porter plan, and for jets, and even for a modest extension of 200 metres of the runway into the water as long as there’s no material impact on the location of marine exclusion zone buoys.

“We know the aircraft can be deployed and handle those guidelines. With respect to councillors, there is very strong support for what we’re talking about doing... and there’s a small group who are opposed and who have been opposed to any development on the waterfront.”

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It’s a debate that has been deferred twice in the past three months by Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly, a supporter of the airport expansion, who faced opposition to the plan from city staff who have been engaged in a $1.2 million investigation of the possibility.

The Toronto Port Authority and Porter Airlines have been asking the city to open a tripartite agreement that doesn’t permit jets to land at the airport on the Toronto Islands.

Doing so would allow Porter to accept an order of new, so-called “whisper-jet” CS-100 aircraft, and expand the number of destinations it can offer passengers.

City staff have been studying the proposal since last spring, when Porter came forward with the idea – and late last year recommended against going ahead with the plan, because too many questions remained unanswered.

Kelly has postponed debate on the matter twice, to allow staff to answer those questions.

But in the latest report, there are still many unanswered questions.

For one, staff say preliminary test flight data for the CS-100 aircraft isn’t sufficient to determine whether the jets would conform to the tripartite agreement between the city, the provincial and federal governments.

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Creba shooting sparked designations >>>from page 1 there haven’t been any measurements and you can’t improve what you can’t measure,” he said.

“We started this out on assumptions that weren’t incredibly clear at the time.

This all started with the Jane Creba shooting. There was some hope that with this crime would go down. Well there’s no evidence that any of these investments have done anything to reduce crime.”

Minnan-Wong, who is not a member of the committee, said he intended to make motions when the matter comes before council.

Other councillors on the committee were more supportive of moving forward.

“How can we fully track how many lives we saved?” said St. Paul’s Councillor Josh Matlow. “How many people can we put on paper saying how we’ve set them back on track? What we do know is that there are a number of different investments that need to be made. We know we need to respect opportuni-

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Committee chair Anthony Perruzza, who represents the Jane Finch community, took issue with the fact the neighbourhood had scored so low, and was tarred with headlines labelling it the least liveable neighbourhood in Toronto.

“Why some editor in some dark room somewhere would concoct such a headline based on this kind of a study, and say to everybody this is the worst place in the city (I don’t know),” said Perruzza.

Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher, however, pointed out that many of the neighbourhoods — Jane-Finch included — were places with high concentration of public housing the province downloaded to the city.

“It’s a no-brainer that

People are still ignoring the science.

That’s what I’ll be thinking about.

many of the communities we’re talking about today are social housing communities,” said Fletcher. “We get pushback from people saying ‘we don’t want our communities labelled.’ Well the province did a really good job in making our communities label-able. If that’s a word.”

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Movement Workshop Week-End WHEN: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. today and tomorrow WHERE: Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw St. CONTACT: Angela Blumberg, 416-4204345, intergalacticartscoop@gmail. c o m COST: $10 to $15 sliding scale The Intergalactic Arts Collective is excited to present their first Movement Workshop Week-End. Moving Forward WHEN: 7 to 10:30 p.m. WHERE: The IndustReal Arts Room, 688 Richmond St. W. CONTACT: http:// cmc-centre.com COST: $10 The Centre for Media and Celebrity

March for Music Therapy WHEN: 1 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Music Therapy Canada (1175 Bloor St. W.) CONTACT: Chrissy Pearson, 416-5350200, www.musictherapytrust.ca COST: $20 minimum pledge per adult - kids pledge what you can March with the funky beats of Maracatu Mar Alberto from Musica Therapy Canada two kilometres to the Lula Lounge (1585 Dundas St. W.) for a party with the Samba Elegua Band, family fun and cupcakes!

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Survivors of Conflict WHEN: 1 to 2 p.m. WHERE: Parkdale Public Library, 1303 Queen St. W. CONTACT: 416-3937686 COST: Free Join journalist Suhana Meharchand for a discussion of how people can survive conflict with their humanity intact. Stay after the panel for a Human Library event from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Email whatson@torontopubliclibrary.ca for details.

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Thought For Food Presents Canadian Premiere of Vaclav Havel’s ‘The Memo’ WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin St. CONTACT: Tyler Seguin, 416-731-1698, COST: $25 tickets A workplace comedy that proves just how inefficient “efficiency� can be. When Andrew Gross receives a company memo written in ‘Ptydepe’, a new artificial language adopted by his organization to streamline communications, Andrew sets off on an epic quest to find someone to translate. A satire about administrative bumblings in business. Bring non-perishable food donations to the show to go to a Parkdale area food bank.

Membership fees pays for association’s activities >>>from page 1 needed to be changed. “We couldn’t say, sitting in that meeting, who was a member paid up and who wasn’t,� Torry said. “So we decided we had better do something to change it.�

Now the RMRA intends to change their constitution so residents no longer have to pay $10, but instead must only show intent to be a member by signing up for the RMRA email list. “So if you are on our email list we will consider you a member,�

Torry said. “Membership fees will be pay-what you-can.�

Membership fees are the only means the RMRA collects to support its activities, so Torry said they hope people will still contribute by donation in some way.

The move requires a change in the RMRA constitution, which will require at least 15 voting members to participate in, so the board is asking members to come out to the annual general meeting in May when they will vote on the change. “We are at a point where we have to do something because as it stands

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we probably have 20 or 30 paid up members, but we are getting a lot of people to meetings that have an opinion and want to be part of the organization,� Torry said.

The benefit of the membership change to the RMRA is largely administrative, but the benefit to the members is receiving the information the RMRA offers up to the community about issues of development, transportation, municipal politics and planning.

The RMRA encompasses the area bounded by Dundas Street to Queen Street, between Roncesvalles and Lansdowne Avenue; and the Golden/ Ritchie triangle north of Dundas and south of Bloor Street east to the railway tracks. They host meetings on the last Tuesday of the month. “We see most of our mandate as being part of the process of keeping the community informed,� Torry said. “At our monthly public meetings, we try to make them informative on what is going on in the community.�

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Toronto Maple Leaf legend Darryl Sittler takes a turn around the Trinity Bellwoods Park rink with Alexandra Reed, 8, Saturday. Scotiabank and Canadian Tire partnered with the City of Toronto to keep 11 municipal outdoor skating rinks open during March Break.

Parkdale Olympian to compete at next week’s world championships Hot off their first Olympic appearance, Parkdale’s Dylan Moscovitch, 29, and his partner from St. Catharines, Kirsten Moore-Towers, 21, are now setting their sites on the world championships.

The 2014 ISU World Figure Skating Championships take place in Saitama, Japan, from March 24 to 30.

The Canadian pairs partners helped Canada to a silver medal in the inaugural team figure skating competition (with a second place finish) in Sochi, Russia, and then

they went on to finish fifth in the actual Olympic pairs competition.

The duo, who train out of RIM Park in KitchenerWaterloo, qualified for the Olympic Games and the world championships with their second straight national silver medal in January.

Breakthrough At last year’s world’s, they achieved a breakthrough finishing just off the podium in fourth place.

In 2012, the partners had a setback finishing fourth at nationals. In 2011, they won nationals and finished eighth at the world’s.

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Spadina Museum is hosting the Canadian premiere of the Dressing for Downton: Costumes from Downton Abbey exhibit running through to April 13, featuring 20 costumes worn by the characters from the critically acclaimed period drama.

“The costumes trace the huge changes that happened in the world because of the impact of World War One,” said Karen Black, the manager of the city’s 10 historic site museums.

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and accessories from our own artifact collection that were worn in this city during that Downton Abbey period,” Black said.

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Three generations of Toronto’s Austin family lived in the home that is now the Spadina Museum from 1866 until the house became a museum in the 1980s.

“The Austins were not as aristocratic as the Crawly family of Downton Abbey, but they did face many of the same challenges including a shell shocked son returning from the First World War, the changing role of women, the new technology: everything from radio to the automobile and the telephone,” Black said.

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“It’s a concept we came up with many months ago,” said David Gerofsky, First Gulf Corporation’s CEO, during a recent interview.

What First Gulf wants to do is move the section of the Gardiner Expressway at Cherry Street north to just below the railway line.

“That long off-ramp from The Gardiner creates a wall of steel and concrete between the port lands and the rest of the city,” said Gerofsky, who retained Toronto-based BA Group traffic consultants more than a year ago to explore other options for the eastern Gardiner Expressway, which abuts his property at 21 The Don Roadway.

“This Gardiner plan also opens up access to our site.”

Gerofsky also spoke about public transit benefits including the cre-

ation of a new GO station, an extension of the Broadview streetcar line through the First Gulf property and even a stop on the future downtown relief line.

“The concept is one that’s garnering lots of interest from Metrolinx and the TTC,” he said.

In terms of funding this option, Gerofsky pointed to the possibility of $100 million in revenue generated from property taxes as well as the sale and/or lease of prime waterfront land along the Keating Channel.

He also pointed to the revenue that could come from three large parcels of land adjacent to the First Gulf site, which Gerofsky estimates could also be valued at $100 million.

Further, he proposes redirecting $200 million already earmarked for Gardiner Expressway maintenance to help pay for his maintain/replace concept.

“There’s a way to pay for it,” said Gerofsky, adding First Gulf’s proposal addresses concerns about increased travel times and traffic congestion, while also being smart city building as it makes the waterfront more accessible and proposes

create this motion.

“A number of us were uncomfortable with the removal option and the ‘keep-it-up-forever’ option seems easy, but it’s not ideal, either,” she said earlier this week.

“This whole thing is about unlocking some waterfront lands.

It’s a Toronto solution that seems really worth pursuing.”

Fletcher also said what to do about the Gardiner Expressway is a complex process as the outcome of any decision would have impacts for motorists, cyclists, pedestrians even film crews throughout the downtown east area. Any decisions on the future of the elevated eastern portion of the Gardiner Expressway won’t happen until February 2015.

“This is going to give us enough time to look at what’s possible,” she said, adding removing and relocating the east end of the Gardiner Expressway would also allow for new and improved northern access routes into her ward.

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Left, the existing road network around First Gulf property, while right, the proposed post-Gardiner Expressway road network.

extending Broadview Avenue south into the port lands.

“It seems quite clear to us that our proposal answers most, if not all, of the concerns of all parties. ...It’s one of those nice situations where everyone can benefit. It’s a common sense kind of solution,” said Gerofsky, one of several stakeholders who took part in a Feb. 28 roundtable discussion on the future of the Gardiner Expressway hosted

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options for the Gardiner east as part of a provincial environmental assessment (EA) study – determined four options: remove it, replace it, maintain it or improve it.

Late last month, Waterfront Toronto’s board of directors voted to recommend tearing down a 2.4-km stretch of Gardiner Expressway from Jarvis Street to Logan Avenue.

However, the city’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee has since voted to send the project’s EA back to staff for more work, specifically to include First Gulf’s proposal as an option for consideration.

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YWS taps into street culture for latest fundraiser CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com Youth Without Shelter’s (YWS) new Cover Me Urban fundraising event is all about tapping into Toronto’s street culture – merging fashion, hip hop, art, dance, music, street food and drink under one roof.

The “unique and intera c t i v e” f u n d r a i s e r o n Wednesday, April 2 will see The Glass Factory – located at 99 Sudbury St. in the Liberty Village area – divided up and transformed into four different neighbourhoods: Rexdale, Yonge/Dundas, Queen West and the Beach.

“In each area there will be a vibe and decor that reflects each of those neighbourhoods.

And in each neighbourhood there will be food stations and different activities that range from a live graffiti canvas being painted, to fantasy tattoos, to a photo booth, to a performance by the UNITY break dancers, and a fashion component with live models

in each neighbourhood,” said Judy Leroux, YWS’s development manager.

“Everything will have a street vibe to it – showcasing all the positives of the street and the creative energy cities provide.”

All proceeds from the street-inspired event, which will be emceed by Ennis Esmer of CTV’s The Listener, will be invested back in the more than 1,000 homeless youth who will seek refuge this year at YWS – Etobicoke’s singular emergency residence and referral agency serving youth between the ages of 16 and 24, Leroux added.

This year’s Cover Me Urban event is a newly revamped and rebranded version of an annual YWS fundraiser hosted for the last four years

by Stratafly – a local marketing analytics and print media agency and longtime YWS supporter.

Dave Mathews, Stratafly’s managing director, said the agency and its parent company, Prospect Media, began

focusing it on the neighbourhoods around our city,” Mathews said. “We really want to show what the city has to offer, which incorporates everything from fashion, to art, to dance, to food, to you name it.”

Tickets to Cover Me Urban are $75, and include all food and drink.

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Youth Without Shelter (YWS) Master Chef Art Tsang, left, with Maleek Smith will be serving up dishes at the YWS Cover Me Urban fundraising event April 2.

supporting YWS about seven years ago through internal company fundraising efforts, and has since grown that support exponentially.

“Then we took it to the next level, deciding to host an event to support YWS,” he said, referring to Stratafly’s annual fundraiser at the Gladstone Hotel. “It was really an opportunity to get our network of friends, family,

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This year, however, YWS and Stratafly decided to join forces in hosting the event – changing venues and rebranding the event as Cover Me Urban.

“We’re really focused this year on making the theme more in line with what YWS is all about – so taking it to the streets, basically, and

Introducing attendees to their version of “wrapped” street foods will be Chef Mick Elliot of Liaison College of Culinary Arts (with support from Medium Rare), Chef Tony Fernandes of the Crown Plaza Toronto Airport, as well as representatives from Aura by Cashew and Clive, El Cantrin, Yorkshire Pudding, and sweet treats from Gelato Fresco and More Than Pies.

Beverages will be supplied by AROMA Coffee, Mill St. Brewery and Oyster Bay Wine.

Also getting in on the culinary action will be a team of

youth from YWS, who will be helping staff one of the food stations alongside Art Tsang, YWS’s planning and evaluation manager, Leroux said.

Sharing stories Having the youth themselves involved in the fundraiser for the last four years has proven a moving experience for all involved, Mathews said.

“Each year we’ve had one or two youth come and share with us what circumstances they’ve faced and how YWS has been there to support them and help keep them on the right track – and that’s really what spoke to us,” he said. “Hearing those stories, let me tell you, always has the crowd choked up. When you see these young people who have really turned it around for themselves after coming from very difficult circumstances, it’s amazing.”

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Premier axes possibility of tax increases to fund transit expansion Budget will include a ‘robust’ alternative funding plan

Premier Kathleen Wynne has gone against recommendations from her own appointed transit panel and publicly rejected the possibility of raising either the HST or gas tax as a way to fund future transit expansion.

Late last week, Wynne confirmed her minority government had ruled out raising the HST and gas tax, in addition to personal income taxes, instead promising a “robust” plan to deal with traffic gridlock currently costing the province billions of dollars per year in lost productivity.

“We will establish dedicated additional and ongoing funding to build more transit, highways, roads and bridges in our next budget,” she said through her Twitter account.

It is unknown how the province will come up with the $2 billion in revenue needed annually to fund Metrolinx’s ambitious Big

Move plan, which would see over 100 kilometres of new transit built over the next quarter-century including improvements for the Toronto area such as new subways, LRTs and busways.

Last spring, Metrolinx introduced its own investment strategy to pay for the bulk of the estimated $50 billion required for the 25-year Big Move plan, which included 24 recommendations, including a percentage increase of the regional HST rate to bring in $1.3 billion in annual revenue, along with a five cent increase to the provincial gas tax rate which the provincial transit planning agency forecasted would generate $330 million per year in new revenue.

In late 2013, a special advisory panel appointed

by Wynne to examine the Metrolinx proposal recommended instead to raise the gas tax by three cents initially, followed by additional

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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has said her Liberal minority government will not support raising the gas tax or the HST as a way to fund transit expansion.

increases to be capped at five or 10 per cent within eight years. Depending on the tax increase, the panel also suggested raising the regional HST rate by a half-per cent to make up the difference.

The panel also noted raising the gas tax would be

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comparable to what is being done in cities like Montreal and Vancouver, and would represent a total tax increase per household of $260, to be phased in fully over a decade.

“Compare that to the $700 per year inaction will cost

the average driver in wasted gas, and another $1,000 in lost wages sitting in traffic,” said transit panel member Cherise Burda in an email Thursday.

Speaking as a panelist though not on behalf of the panel itself, Burda, who is the Ontario director for the environmental think tank the Pembina Institute, said she was not surprised with the decision by Wynne because of low public support for tax increases. She said she would wait to see the details of Wynne’s transit funding plan before passing judgement.

Wynne is telling us she is developing one and we will see it in the budget – which is a good thing. We will be watching closely,” she said.

Wynne’s decision not to proceed with dedicated tax increases comes after Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath announced last month her party would not support any

tax increases on residents to build transit. The support of the NDP is required, say political commentators, for the Liberals to successfully pass this year’s provincial budget.

The budget is scheduled to be released in April. If it doesn’t pass, a provincial election will be called. Metrolinx issued a statement in response to the premier’s announcement. In, it Metrolinx credited the provincial government for recent “steady and strong investments” in transit, but added the investments need to continue to take place.

“It is critical that these investments continue on a sustained and substantial basis to fund the implementation of The Big Move. This infrastructure is needed to provide a high quality of life, address the lengthy commute times families already face and improve our economic competitiveness and productivity,” it said, also calling on all three levels of government to “work together to ensure this funding is available.”

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