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Sorauren Farmers’ Market vendors asked to keep tents off the grass HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Patrons perusing farm fresh produce at Sorauren Farmers’ Market will no longer feel the soft grass beneath their feet as they sample strawberries.

Instead, they will experience the hard surface of the town square and the paved pathway.

Beginning this past Monday, the market, which uses a special occasion permit issued by the City of Toronto, is no longer

permitted to use the grassy area of the park due to the extensive damage caused by vendor tents.

“The only issue we have is that this park is very difficult to maintain, with so much use the turf is often not in very good shape and the trees that are growing there are growing in a sub-standard environment,” said director of Parks for the City of Toronto Richard Ubbens.

“The roots are being compacted so we’re not going to

get very good tree growth in there and it’s not going to look very good long term if we don’t look after our trees and turf.

That’s really all its about, trying to achieve a balance.”

By not having the market on the grass once a week for hours at a time throughout the summer, Ubbens said it allows their staff a chance to keep the whole park in a generally healthy condition for other park activities, which is particularly challenging.

“The use just becomes too high for our ability to maintain the park in a good and healthy condition and that’s when we start to curtail the use,” Ubbens explained.

But the market’s coordinator Corry Ouellette believes the city’s reasoning to be unfair to the market and its patrons.

“We acknowledge that as part of the community and use of this space there is some damage that’s done to the land based >>>CITY, page 8

This year’s Just Docs Festival is bittersweet for its founder, Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School teacher Jeana McCabe.

After 11 installments of the documentary film event and 35 years as a teacher, McCabe is retiring.

“It’s my swan song,” McCabe quipped in her classroom – a week before the festival is set to take place at the Revue Cinema.

McCabe’s Grade 10 religion arts students, also budding filmmakers, present documentary short films that tackle social justice topics for a chance to win their own version of an Academy Award.

This year’s submissions includes a film about condominium development in Toronto and addresses the question, ‘Are condos taking over the city?’ Another investigates the change in family structure.

“It’s not just parents and their 2.2 kids anymore,” McCabe said.

Student films are awarded for their direction, camera work, sound track, editing and best overall documentary. >>>BISHOP, page 2

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>>>from page 1 Asked how the Just Docs program has evolved since its inception, McCabe said the technology has improved “100-fold” as has the accessibility.

“Because we started winning some awards, we have more money for software,” she said, citing Final Cut Pro as one example of the programs students are using. “I started with two computers and two cameras. Now, we have 10 Macs and industry standard cameras.”

What’s “really cool,” said McCabe is that former students have returned to their alma matter to become interns.

“One former student went to university to become a sound engineer,” she said.

Many have been inspired by their film experience in high school and have pursued a career in the industry.

“Some students have gone onto other things and didn’t feel the passion they did for film and went back to take film and TV,” McCabe said.

For some students, film has provided a focus and a desire to better their lives, she said.

The religion arts program boasts state-of-the-art equipment, including cameras and editing programs.

With a background in psychology – McCabe is intrigued by what makes people tick.

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“I’d like to be a judge next year,” she said of the Just Docs festival.

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As part of their program, they must produce entirely original music videos, from writing their own lyrics and music to creating the videos.

“I’m really excited about the music videos,” McCabe said.

When she arrived at Bishop Marrocco under principal Russ Coleman, she told him, “You give me two cameras and I won’t spend any money on text books.”

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Suits Me Fine Fashion Show is a ‘celebration’ for patients 11th annual fashion show is hosted

by CAMH at its Queen Street West site HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Nineteen-year-old Cassandra Arthur will, for the first time, strut down the runway at the 11th Annual Suits Me Fine Fashion Show organized by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) this Thursday May 21 at its Queen Street West site.

“I see it as a celebration to be proud of yourself inside and out. It’s a big thing facing stigma and fear, sometimes you don’t really want to talk about some things you’re struggling with or what you’re getting help for,” Cassandra told The Villager.

“This is a way of saying, yes I have some problems and some issues, but I’m not ashamed of that and I’m going to go out there and strut down that runway and say this is me, this is how I look and that’s ok.”

This year’s theme is Watch Me Bloom, which features floral prints and plays with the fact the event is happening in the spring. The show allows CAMH patients to choose their own outfits to walk down the

runway from its clothing boutique Suits Me Fine.

The boutique offers a variety of gently-used clothing donated by businesses and community members that are available free of charge to CAMH clients. It offers a range of wardrobe choices from essentials such as undergarments to formal wear for job interviews to accessories.

According to John Vespa, the director of human and volunteer resources at CAMH, Suits Me Fine boutique is a “mini department store.”

“It replicates a shopping experience for our patients, who can also get fashion advice on style, what’s appropriate for them as well as minor alterations,” he said.

“We help them out like a retail store would, by giving them customer support. And they get to keep it all.”

Cassandra’s participation in this year’s show will be special since it gives her a shot at having a small prom experience since she was unable to attend her own.

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Cassandra Arthur will be taking part in the Suits Me Fine Fashion Show at CAMH today.

“During my Grade 12 year is when I was hospitalized twice and I was really sick and had a hard time with school and wasn’t really up for dealing with prom,” she explained.

“So I went to Suits Me Fine and I

found the most stereotypical prom dress. It’s like the blue teal with black lace over top. Half the people at my school wore this exact dress.

And it was just my size. It was meant to be.”

She also plans on adding a few touches to the dress to make it her own for the show.

Cassandra first heard about the Suits Me Fine boutique when she was a patient at CAMH and was in desperate need of winter gloves. She hadn’t heard about the store located in CAMH’s community mall until it was suggested to her.

“So I went out searching for it and found it and got a pair of gloves.

They said take it. If you need it take it,” she said.

She was treated at the mental health facility earlier this year for generalized anxiety and a major depression disorder; because of this disorder she suffers from episodes of very low depression where she exhibits self-harming tendencies that can reach a suicidal point.

She’s had multiple visits to emergency in the past, but Cassandra realized being hospitalized was only a “band-aid treatment.”

“The problem with emergency is you’re in there for 5 to 10 days and then it’s time to skedaddle and there’s no real treatment after-

wards,” Cassandra said.

“A lot of people don’t realize there’s a middle ground… there’s purgatory, middle gray zone that sometimes you need a little bit of help, but you don’t quite need to be in emergency so it’s like what do I do in this in-between state?”

She was able to be a part of CAMH’s out-patient program and currently visits the Queen Street West site four times a week to help her ease back into daily life, which includes attending York University to finish her business administration degree.

According to Cassandra, this fashion show is just another reason why CAMH is such a great place for people with mental illnesses and addiction. “It’s a place to grow,” she said.

“The thing I love most about this kind of thing is the community building. I really love being in such an open environment, you get to be yourself – there’s no hiding. There’s no need to be afraid or ashamed.”

“It’s such an empowering experience to be around a group of people who are so accepting and openminded.”

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The Suits Me Fine Fashion will take place at the Bell Gateway Building, 100 Stokes St., in the Sandi and Jim Treliving Gymnasium at 1:30 p.m.

CAMH is included in Doors Open Toronto for the first time HILaRY CATON hcaton@insidetronto.com For the first time the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is opening its buildings on its Queen Street West site for this year’s Doors Open Toronto.

“We’re so excited about bringing the public into CAMH,” said Bharati Singh, the supervisor of the First Impressions program and the organizer of the tour.

“It’s great that as Canada’s leading mental health hospital we’ll be able to bring the people of Toronto an inside look at some of the things we’re trying to do to strengthen our community.”

For more than 160 years, the Queen Street West site has been home to a mental health facility.

It’s now Canada’s largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, combining clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help those affected by mental illness and addiction.

In 2005 CAMH began a multiphase development project that focused on creating a community

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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s Bell Gateway Building is one of the buildings open to the public during Doors Open Toronto 2015.

hub for patients and the surrounding neighbourhood by creating residences, businesses, parks and through-streets.

Two phases have already been completed. The third phase will be completed by late-2019/early2020.

According to Singh, the trio of

buildings that will open up to the public Saturday include the Bell Gateway Building, the Doctors Association building and the Intergenerational Wellness Centre.

It will also open its Out of This World Café, a social purpose enterprise operated by Working for Change that employs people with

lived experience in the mental health system, for a barbecue.

Tours will take place every 30 minutes starting at 10:15 a.m. until 4:15 p.m. and visitors will have the chance to explore CAMH’s history and learn about what CAMH is currently offering patients.

“As part of the guided tour in one of the older buildings we’ll actually go through what is called the community mall and in that space there’s a spiral staircase that was part of the original asylum from the 1800s,” Singh added.

“That’s a highlight for us.”

The Doctors Association building will also have an archival wall consisting of visual images of CAMH’s history from the 1850s to today.

In previous years CAMH only conducted a walking tour of the historical wall along the perimeter of the building that was part of the original buildings, which was originally named the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, however this year interested participants have the option of doing a self-guided tour of the wall.

“It has nine plaques around the property that speak to the history of the wall,” said Singh.

“It’s interesting because there are etchings in those bricks. People are usually drawn to it and they’re amazed by the etchings and the things that have been scratched into the brick by former patients.”

According to Singh, participating in Doors Open this year is a chance for CAMH to breakdown any remaining barriers between itself and the community.

“There was a time when there was so much stigma around this site. We want to just have them take an inside look at what we’ve been doing and how we help people with mental illnesses and addiction,” Singh said.

“We want you to feel welcome on our grounds even if it’s just to walk your dog.”

Tour registration will be at the Bell Gateway Building, 100 Stokes St. The last admittance for the tour is 4:30 p.m.

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Presented by Saint Elizabeth Health Care, which offers at-home services for family caregivers, the free show is a chance for caregivers to discover that they’re not alone. There’s a wealth of resources available to help make what can be a difficult job that much easier to undertake.

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Gardiner debate must address costs The debate over the future of the Gardiner Expressway could turn out to be a very interesting discussion about the future of Toronto.

It is odd that it should be: after all, we’re just talking about 1.7 kilometres or so of concrete, and the bit of roadway that is currently suffocating underneath.

Toronto is so much more than the connection of two highways, and really, whether the city spends $900 million to rebuild the thing on a new configuration or about $400 million to rip it all down doesn’t make for a hill of beans in Scarborough or Etobicoke or North York.

It is not a big part of the city. But it has become a big part of the debate about the city all the same, and when Toronto politicians start to talk about it… it gets emotional.

Indeed, it got so emotional last week that when Toronto’s public works and infrastructure committee was faced with making a

david nickle the city proper recommendation on the matter, it threw up its hands and left it all to council.

Mayor John Tory is going into that council meeting intending to support the ‘hybrid’ option of essentially shifting and rebuilding the ramps between the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway. It is costly, and doesn’t confer as many city-building advantages, but it appeals to many of the voters who might leave their mark next to pro-car Rob Ford’s name next election. And there are enough of those voters across the city that it’s likely a majority of councillors will lean toward the more expensive project.

But the matter of the cost is the thing, and it might be quite the thing.

York Centre Councillor James Pasternak, who sits

on the city’s budget committee, is a supporter of the hybrid option, but at the May 19 meeting of that committee, he made it clear he wasn’t about to support it without a way to pay.

And the best way to pay?

Road tolls, he said, preferably collected in such a way that it gave Toronto taxpayers a break.

Well. If there is any issue more historically emotional than the question of the continued elevation of the Gardiner Expressway, it is the terrifying prospect of Hwy. 407-style road tolls on highways running through the heart of the city.

Even when they haven’t been an issue – as in the 2003 mayoral race when John Tory (then a candidate) accused David Miller (soon to be the mayor) of favouring tolls on city highways – they’ve been a preoccupying issue. Miller spent a great deal of energy then and in the months and years afterward distancing himself from the

road-toll option for paying for city infrastructure.

The city considered imposing tolls in 2008, and eventually rejected the idea because a full, regional-tolling system that included the 401, DVP and 427 would have been prohibitively expensive to set up.

And indeed, this would likely remain the case.

But Pasternak raises an interesting issue, as council moves to consider yet another billion-dollar-orso infrastructure project resting on the same old revenue streams as before: namely, if Torontonians want to start living larger, or simply according to their needs, then money is going to have to come from somewhere beyond simple savings.

And sooner or later, Toronto Council is going to have to start talking about what that might look like.

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After intense deliberation in the library of Alexander Muir/Gladstone Ave. Junior and Senior Public School, two student juries in grades 3 and 4 and 7 and 8 chose the winners of the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards.

With no help from teachers or parents, nine children chose The Boundless

by Kenneth Oppel in the middle reader category and The Magician of Auschwitz

by Kathy Kacer for children’s picture book as the ultimate winners.

For Oppel, a High Park resident, this is the sixth time he’s won the award, but he admits it doesn’t get old.

“These are the best ones to win because it’s chosen by kids,” said Oppel, a father of three.

“That’s great as a writer because you feel like you’re connecting with your audience.”

The Boundless follows the adventures of a young boy on an 11-kilometre long train driven by his father. He begins his journey in the first car, but after witnessing a murder ends up in the last car and he must find his way back to his dad.

“You’re working your way from the back of the train to the front and making your way through all these little worlds and zones,” Oppel explained.

“It’s like a moving theme park ride.”

The book was a big hit with the five students who chose The Boundless as their top pick.

Grade 7 student Jakob Dewar, 12, said he liked the book because “it worked his imagination.”

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Alexander Muir/Gladstone Ave Public School was the location of the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards. Students at the school read the books then voted their favourite book.

Winners, joined by judging students, were The Magician of Auschwitz by Kathy Kacer (left front) and illustrated by Gillian Newland (centre), and Kenneth Oppel’s The Boundless.

“The characters were amazing, they were so imaginative.

It was just a fun time to read really fun,” said Dewar.

“A lot of us really enjoyed this book. It was one of our top books. This is definitely the right winner.”

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It was very exciting to see these children suddenly become serious and mature and adult in their decision making – Eva Wills

Students had six weeks to read each book and take notes on what they liked about the book. They then rated the short-listed books from one to five and had to give a compelling argument as to why the book they chose deserved to win, according to teacher librarian Eva Wills, who sat in on the debates to observe.

“It was very exciting to see these children suddenly become serious and mature and adult in their decision making,” said Wills.

“For the final decision I would say they had no doubt in the end.”

The short-listed books for the award are nominated by a three-person committee comprised of a bookseller, a librarian and a children’s

book reviewer. The winners are selected by juries of young readers from an Ontario public school. This year Parkdale’s Alexander Muir/ Gladstone P.S. was selected.

“I’m kind of overwhelmed,” Kacer told The Villager after her acceptance speech.

“It’s very real and kind of gritty (the story), so for young people to have picked this book for this prize is really quite phenomenal. I think they’ve really appreciated its message.”

The Magician of Auschwitz tells the real life story of Werner, a Jewish magician who was imprisoned in a concentration camp during the Second World War, and his bunk mate Herr Levin.

This is the first time Kacer has won the award. The Magician of Auschwitz is her 29th book – all focusing on stories of the Holocaust for children.

“I’m always looking for some way into this history that will help connect kids in a meaningful way,” said Kacer, a Yonge and York Mills resident. “When this story came to me I thought that was something really unique that hadn’t been done before.”

Both Kacer and Oppel were awarded $6,000 each for winning.

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Second phase of Sunnyside Bike Park will be finished in June Bike park, part of Doors Open, is set for this weekend Construction on phase two of the first-ever destination bike park in Toronto is currently underway, according to the city’s Natural Environment Trails Program.

The second phase of the Sunnyside Bike Park will include such amenities as picnic tables, a “kiss-and ride” drop-off loop, bike racks, water bottle filling stations, tree planting and a loop trail around the perimeter of the riding features.

The park, situated at Lake Shore Boulevard and Ellis Avenue, was set to officially open by mid-May following the completion of the loop trail and some spring maintenance on the riding features.

The Natural Environment Trails Program is planning on organizing a volunteer team to assist with the ongoing maintenance of the riding

Staff photo/IAN KELSO

features in the park. More details about the volunteer schedule will be announced at a later date.

Sunnyside Bike Park, which officially opened in July of last year, is the first official outdoor off-road

cycling facility of its size in Toronto.

The city enlisted the talents of internationally acclaimed Jay Hoots of Hoots Inc., a world leader in the design of community-based bike skill parks and trail systems.

Hoots has built more than 50 projects in large city and small town environments and boasts experience developing facilities internationally.

The 5,000 square-metre park can accommodate as many as 100 riders at one time and was built to accommodate riders of all skill levels and abilities.

If you would like further details, visit www.toronto. ca/trails or email trails@ toronto.ca Sunnyside Bike Park will be a part of Doors Open Toronto, Saturday, May 23 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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City will only permit vendors to set up on paved areas >>>from page 1 on our use of it,” Ouellette told The Villager.

“But at the same time it’s a community project; there’s damage done by soccer and dog runs. That’s what we pay for.”

The weekly market, which mainly services the areas of Roncesvalles, High Park and Parkdale and is run by the West End Food Co-op, has been outdoors during the summer since 2008 and has used the fieldhouse at 50 Wabash Ave. during the fall and winter months.

It offers a range of seasonal vegetables, freshly baked bread, pasture-raised meats and eggs, even locally produced chocolate.

It also has musicians and children activities.

Although the town square “is fantastic in many ways,” said Ouellete, it’s still not an ideal situation for the community and vendors.

“It does change what we’ve did for years and we’re not sure why that change is nec-

Photos/ALESSANDRO SHINODA

Left: Wheelbarrow Farms’ Tony, left, Preeti and Jason display their offerings during the Sorauren Farmers’ Market Monday afternoon. Jackie and her son Rafa, 2, enjoy the music of The Horables during the market.

essary,” she said. “It worked so well last year and to move entirely does provide some challenges.”

When confined to the square, Ouellette sites issues with spacing between vendors will be limited thus potentially limiting the amount of products shown per vendor; the heat from the concrete can be excessive in the summer due to the lack of shade and the

overall flow of the market will be changed with less surface area to fit the vendors.

She added the market was permitted to use both the grass and the town square last year and wants to continue to do so.

However, according to local councillor Gord Perks this was a transitional arrangement the organization agreed to and both parties knew it was

“This spring they applied for their permit and we told them that they’d be on the square. And for reasons I don’t completely understand they were upset that they couldn’t get both the town square and the grassy area.”

Perks said the city denied its request to have both because when designing the park in 2011 they incorporated the market’s needs into the town

only temporary.

“The rule has always been that for special occasion permits, we try to put any infrastructure on hard surfaces.

That’s been the case since the dawn of time.

“The only time we vary from that is if there’s no other option. And there are a couple here and there where that can’t safely work,” Perks said.

square with the understanding that it would be its permanent home upon completion.

Ouellette disagrees, stating the market wasn’t under that impression.

Both the councillor’s office and the Sorauren Farmers’ Market coordinators are in negotiations to make things work by requesting that children’s activities and programs run by the market still be allowed to take place on the grass. Patrons are still permitted to use the grass while the market is in operation to eat their purchases. shaaring space “It’s about sharing the space, but also being a good part of the community,” said Perks.

“The co-op worked with a lot of people to build the town square with the understanding that they’d be going there... let’s stick to that.”

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Rainbow flag raised over City Hall DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Mayor John Tory joined Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and supporters of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) to raise the Rainbow Flag over Toronto City Hall May 15.

The PFLAG ceremony was the first of this term of office – and the first in years where the support of the sitting mayor was not in question as it was with former Mayor Rob Ford.

Tory, wearing a rainbow-themed striped tie, read the proclamation marking May 15 as International D a y A g a i n s t Ho m o p h o b i a , Transphobia and Biphobia.

Anne Creighton, president of PFLAG, was also marking a first: her first PFLAG flag raising ceremony since taking office. She took the opportunity to welcome Tory and express gratitude for his support.

“We are very thankful to have an ally in our new Mayor, who has already shown to be a strong advocate for a more inclusive and safer city,” she said.

Tory made it clear Toronto is a city of allies.

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Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam makes her address during the Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) flag raising ceremony held Friday at City Hall.

“We all know and love someone who is a member of the LGBTQ community and our role as allies is important,” he said. “I know I speak for my colleagues when I say you have allies in the mayor,

in the members of this council, and I believe in the good people of Toronto as well.”

Wong-Tam, who represents Toronto Centre-Rosedale and has been a longtime advocate of

the LGBTQ community, offered sobering statistics.

“We have so much work to do,” she said. “International Day Against Homophobia , Transphobia and Biphobia has meaning when 33 per cent of youth suicides are committed by GLBTQ youth, when we have about 50 per cent of the young people on streets are LGBTQ identified. What it says is we’re not there yet. It is still unsafe to come out to your family, to your place of worship, and your school.”

Referring to her lesbian daughter, Creighton used part of her address to come out in favour of the new provincial sex education curriculum.

“I am not one of the parents upset with the new sex-ed curriculum,” said Creighton.

“For kids who are different, it legitimizes the difference and declares it to be natural. What a gift to the children. How great for that child to know they are not alone.

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TTC chair promises to address Dufferin bus congestion LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Davenport Councillor Ana Bailão’s transit town hall provided much information about travel across the Greater Toronto Area and the Regional Express Rail (RER) in particular.

Yet those who attended wanted specifics about their own neighbourhood.

Davenport-area resident and shift worker Dan MilfordWarren, who relies on the TTC at all hours of the day, wanted to know just what is being done to alleviate congestion on local routes.

“What are we doing to improve local service,” he asked.

T TC c h a i r Eg l i n t o n Lawrence Councillor Josh Colle told the audience of a couple dozen people who had gathered at New Horizons Tower at Bloor Street West and Dufferin Street, that significant re-investment is being made to the city’s transit system.

“We’re restoring all routes that were cut, augmenting off-peak service and we’ve got 50 buses on order – you’ll see this all this year,” Colle said at the Wednesday, May 13 meeting.

As many as a half-billion riders use the TTC, which boasts 2,000 vehicles and 13,000 employees.

“Our ridership numbers are through the roof,” Colle said. “As ridership grows, it’s a cost to the system that’s been neglected for 50 to 60 years.”

The TTC is in the midst of repairing its subway tracks on the north and south line after 50 years, as well as its signals.

“This is the core of what makes the system successful,” Colle said.

The city has allocated $500 million to the TTC; $100 million of which will go to new service and restoring all routes that were cut in 2011-2012. It is establishing express routes and service beyond peak hours.

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The bus has been an issue for residents.

“There is a demand for service beyond when the subway closes,” Colle said. “These are some of the things that are coming. We’ll see tangible service improvements.”

City council decided children 12 and under would ride the subway for free, in part because many families can’t afford to send their children to extra-curricular programming on transit without this rebate.

The hugely congested Dufferin bus was a big topic of concern for residents, who wondered just what is being done to mitigate the problems.

“What about managing the services that we already have,” asked one resident pointing to the specific issue of “bunching” along the Dufferin Street route.

Colle said a new person has been hired at the TTC to spe-

cifically deal with the task of ‘anti-bunching.’ The Dufferin bus is a priority, he stressed.

More buses have been added as have more route supervisors “on the ground” and a high level of data collection to combat the problem.

“Ana and I have always agreed on the challenges of the Dufferin bus,” he said motioning to his colleague.

“We’ve added articulated buses – ‘bendy’ buses.”

The city has invested more than $1 billion to make its streetcars and buses accessible.

“This will be all for naught if our subway stations are not accessible,” Colle said.

Station by station, this is being done.

“It’s a big job that we need help financing,” he said. “We need help from the province.

We rely on fares to fund our system, the day-to-day operations. We need to ensure we have partners at the provincial and federal level.”

The city, TTC and Metrolinx are working together on

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These include Mayor John Tory’s SmartTrack plan, the relief line and the Regional Express Rail (RER), according to Tim Laspa, the city’s director of transportation planning.

“All these projects are connected,” he said.

The RER will provide an electrified service on the GO line, frequent 15-minute service with limited stops to reduce travel time, and minimize congestion in the region.

The RER will be seven corridors starting out of Union Station.

Public meetings to discuss the RER and SmartTrack begin in June.

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After nearly 13 hours and more than 30 public deputations, the city’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee (PWIC) opted to defer responsibility for choosing a final option for the Gardiner Expressway to Toronto City Council.

The committee supported committee chair Jaye Robinson’s amendments seeking further investigation by city staff of the two main options for the elevated eastern portion of the Gardiner – removing it completely and expanding Lake Shore Boulevard or opting for a costlier “hybrid” plan to preserve the connection with the Don Valley Parkway and build new on-ramps to facilitate planned waterfront development east of Cherry Street.

However, city council as a whole will ultimately decide on what to do with the expressway, most likely at its June 10 convening.

“This is a complex issue and we’re not experts,” said Robinson on the committee’s decision to pass on a final recommendation. “The key is to make a decision June 10 and that’s what I’m pressing for.”

From 9:30 a.m. into early evening Wednesday, May 13 the PWIC heard deputations from 32 scheduled speakers who had five minutes each to make their case for either Gardiner option, and then take questions from the committee members as well as visiting city councillors. favour hybrid option

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Deputants from the To r o n t o Re g i o n B o a rd of Trade, the Canadian Automobile Association, the Toronto Financial District and other entities all spoke out in favour of the hybrid option, as well as David Turnbull from the Courier and Logistics Association.

He claimed the hybrid option was better for reducing greenhouse gases since

removing 1.7 kilometres of the elevated section east of Jarvis Street and expanding Lake Shore below to an eight lane boulevard would mean more congestion in the form of idling vehicles.

Speaking in favour of the removal option, renowned architect Michael Kirkland pointed out how cities like New York and San Francisco benefitted from removing their own aging expressways and, contrary to Turnbull’s argument, didn’t see a marked increase in congestion.

“Those cities’ experiences show after (the expressway) was torn down everyone suffered from collective amnesia and forgot it was ever there,” Kirkland said.

Former Toronto chief city planner and Metrolinx board member Paul Bedford also spoke strongly in favour of the removal option.

He warned Toronto risked becoming a laughingstock in the eyes of the international community if it ignored current trends and kept the elevated Gardiner.

Bedford also dismissed the argument the hybrid option for the Gardiner would cut down congestion, as Mayor John Tory suggested earlier in the day, pointing to cities like Los Angeles which has a 16 lane expressway – and worse gridlock than Toronto.

“Building the Gardiner hybrid won’t do anything to improve congestion, it’s a myth,” said Bedford.

Jane Pepino, representing waterfront developer 3C Lakeshore, said the hybrid option would drive a wedge through the company’s 14 acres of land within the Keating Channel precinct.

Pepino said she couldn’t understand why there wasn’t more public consultation for the hybrid option, which was first presented publicly last month.

“If you’re surprised, we’re gobsmacked,” Pepino said.

Alfredo Romano of Castlepont Nuna said the developer only became aware of the hybrid option – which was first proposed by developer First Gulf and

then modified by city and WaterfrontTO planners – last month.

Romano also noted one of Castlepoint’s clients, courier giant FedEx Canada which is planning a facility on the waterfront, did its own study of the Gardiner plans and opted to support the removal option.

Despite the fact it was his company which first put forward the initial hybrid proposal, First Gulf CEO David Gerofsky said the company had no preference since both that and the remove option present an equal amount of development potential.

First Gulf wants to create new employment areas in the former Unilever lands located near the east Don River and either option can make that possible, said Gerofsky. But he warned failing to improve transit could result in the scuttling of that plan. increase travel time He said the company first proposed the hybrid option last year because it was convinced the removal option, which was recommended by city staff as the best outcome for the Gardiner, would lose a vote, with a majority of city council preoccupied with projected increases to travel times for drivers.

Ultimately the PWIC opted to defer the decision on the Gardiner to allow for better study of the hybrid option.

Of particular concern to Gerofsky, he said, was the option to maintain the Gardiner which would have also entailed adding a new on-ramp from the DVP at Logan Avenue, which would have blocked access to the Unilever site.

“It was an honest proposal,” he said of First Gulf’s initial hybrid proposal. “Since then it’s been taken by city staff and they’ve studied it and come up with a new alignment.”

“Our advice to council is, please make a decision and don’t delay any longer. The time has come to make a decision.”

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