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Queen West theatre centre clOses capital campaign aFter $500K giFt The Theatre Centre in Queen West announced it received a $500,000 gift from the former lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick Margaret Norrie McCain, which helped close its $6.2-million capital campaign. Metroland file photo Full STOry: insidetoronto.com/parkdale-toronto-on

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Georgia Balogiannis has been named Managing Editor, Metroland Media Toronto announced. Balogiannis is responsible for managing the daily operations of the newsroom, as well as contributing to the editorial strategy of the nine community newspapers and its news website, insidetoronto.com Dan Pearce/Metroland Full STOry: insidetoronto.com/parkdaletoronto-on

Parkdale Project Read has launched a fundraising campaign to raise $20,000 to improve its existing literacy programs.

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ana Bailao holds tough talk aBout revenue tools Ward 18 councillor Ana Bailao hosted a Ward 18 Talks to discuss which revenue tools the city should adopt.

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extra caution in winter, urges long-time toronto cyclist A long-time Toronto cyclist wants his fellow two-wheelers to ride safe and obey the rules of the road. Michael Cranwell also wants more bike lanes built, and for the province to legalize traffic laws which make it efficient for cyclists to ride safely. Staff/Metroland Full STORy: www/insidetoronto.com/toronto-community

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ToronTo ChrisTmas markeT opens for The season A month of holiday magic in the Distillery Historic District kicked off Friday, Nov. 18 as the seventh annual Toronto Christmas Market opened for another season.

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voted not to merge.

A generation has passed since Scarborough’s city hall became the half-empty, mostly irrelevant relic of 1970s architecture it is today.

Independent Scarborough is gone. Its residents have as much chance of escaping Toronto as people in Leaside, Forest Hill or Long Branch.

But an ache remains, not just in Scarborough but everywhere away from the Megacity’s core. At its heart is one conviction: our money flows downtown, and doesn’t return.

“We can only remember how happy we were,” says

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“One day - and then the next - both kids go to school without breakfast.

These are the faces of child poverty in our communities.”

The City Centre Mirror is published every Thursday at 175 Gordon Baker Rd., Toronto, ON, M2H 0A2, by Metroland Media Toronto, a Division of Metroland Media Group Ltd. The Mirror is a member of the Ontario Press Council. Visit ontpress.com Dana Robbins, Publisher | John Willems, General Manager Joanne Burghardt, Regional Editor-in-Chief Grace Peacock, Editor-in-Chief | Georgia Balogiannis, Managing Editor Cheryl Phillips, Regional Director of Advertising | Anne Beswick, Retail Sales Manager Mike Banville, Director of Circulation and Distribution Operations

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Giorgio Mammoliti, a North York councillor. “All we get are scraps to appease us in the suburbs.”

Downtown’s Rail Deck Park, perhaps to cost billions, is far away. In neighbourhoods called Rustic and Oakridge, the city asks residents to show up, vote and then, just maybe, it will put lights in the park or replace cracked sidewalk planters.

Suburban councillors fought to save traditions of their former cities, but these were mostly about leaf collection and parking.

Those former cities are older now, and poorer. An independent Scarborough in 2018 would have responsibilities its leaders couldn’t fathom as its subdivisions were built.

I don’t know what you call your neighbourhood, or why.

Does North York still exist for you? Does East York?

That’s part of this column, finding out.

McDermott still dreams the impossible dream. We’re stuck with each other.

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I have met the Don Quixote of Toronto’s suburbs.

He’s out there, mostly on weekends, trying to free Scarborough from the clutches of Toronto by gathering signatures door to door.

About 400,000 should do it. Then Kathleen Wynne must listen. Ontario’s premier will hold a vote, and return Scarborough, after two decades of abuse, back to its fiscallyresponsible people.

“It’s been an abysmal failure, amalgamation,” says Robert McDermott, leader of the Free Scarborough Campaign.

“It was undemocratic, forcefully and arrogantly put through.”

McDermott is a realtor who tried running for council in Scarborough, and led a Toronto-wide slate of candidates against our municipal land transfer tax.

That didn’t work, and neither will this. Mike Harris didn’t listen in 1997, when people in each of Toronto’s former cities

found at insidetoronto.com They present research that says more than 370,000 Ontario children (or 13.8 per cent) lived in a low-income household in 2013, only slightly better than the national average of 14.3 per cent. They also found that more than 800,000 students take part in more than 4,000 school meal programs across the province.

Certainly, initiatives such as the recent changes to the Child Tax Benefit program will help address the problem. As well, accurate, detailed information garnered through the recently restored long-form Census will aid in creating a focused poverty plan. But it could be years before such strategies bear fruit.

Other avenues that need to be explored include economic development initiatives that focus on maintaining - and creating - local jobs, investments in training and seeking out ways to help Ontario Works clients secure meaningful employment without worrying about clawbacks to benefits. Most of all, students need to learn life skills and strategies that will help put them on a path to a successful future.

Make no mistake: child poverty is family poverty, and it is a cycle we need to break.

We all have a part to play.

Let’s get to it.

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DREAMING ThE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM OF BREAkING UP TORONTO

This is where it starts: sometime this month - or maybe next - a mid-size company in the Greater Toronto Area is pushed to outsource a department to stay viable. A person loses a job.

At first, he finds freelance work, then temporary manual labour gigs. Then, nothing.

A single parent, he looks at starting his own business, but that would require an infusion of cash. Or retraining, but that, too, would cost money, and leave the household without an income for an extended period of time.

The first things to go are the luxuries - TV packages, smartphones, music lessons. The SUV is traded in for a used compact car. Next come some harder choices - running the washing machine less often to save on hydro and water, fewer trips to the grocery store supplemented with items from the local food bank.

One day - and then the next - both kids go to school without breakfast. These are the faces of child poverty in our communities.

In a Metroland special investigative series, reporters from community papers across southern Ontario examine the issue of child poverty, which may at first blush not be visible some areas of Toronto. One of the stories is online and in print today, the rest can be

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n the past 10 to 12 years, St. Joseph’s Health Centre Toronto has seen the volume of patients in its emergency department double. The increase is caused by the population boom with the rise of condo developments in west-end of Toronto.

In the areas of Liberty Village and King and Queen Street West, population has increased 48 per cent from 2006 to 2015.

“The west side of Toronto is such a rapidly growing community,” said Elizabeth Buller, the president and CEO of St. Joe’s.

“Our catchment area is 500,000 people that’s the size of Hamilton, which has several hospitals - and there’s only one in the west end.”

The hospital serves communities between Etobicoke Creek West and Ossington Avenue to the east, as far north as Eglinton Avenue West and in the south Lakeshore Boulevard.

“For downtown hospitals this pressure is new, but here in community hospitals we’ve been dealing with that pressure for years,”

said Buller.

Dr. Agostino Bellissimo, the hospital’s chief of emergency medicine, has seen first-hand how the population spike has affected St. Joe’s and it’s mainly due to limited bed space.

“There aren’t a lot of beds to keep patients and on top of that one-third of our beds have patients in them who should really be in longterm care, but there isn’t (long-term care) space available,” Bellissimo said.

“Some days we can have 10-20 patients in our emergency department, who should be admitted somewhere in the hospital.”

On average, its emergency department is designed to serve 60,000 patients, but has been steadily serving more than 100,000, said Bellissimo. Since 2008, the number of patients coming to the emergency department has gone up 23 per cent.

“The more patients that need admission and tests done, puts a strain on everything, from CT scans to ultrasounds and lab work; that’s where you start getting delays,” he said.

“That’s where we find it more challenging.”

To stay efficient, it’s implemented Super Track, a model where people with an emer-

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gency can go into a different area and be seen faster. Patients are often seen by a nurse or physician within 30 minutes and if cleared can be sent home within two hours. St. Joe’s is also working on a $70-million capital fundraising campaign, where a large portion of the funds will be used to do an overhaul of the emergency department.

“This is the time to redefine the role of the emergency department and the hospital. We see ourselves as a hub and connector for our community,” said Buller, who added the new portion will connect patients to community resources to help with future care.

“What we’re looking to do is to create better spaces for flow, a new pediatric emergency area, since a third of our patients are children.”

St. Joe’s is only about half way towards its fundraising goal, so in the meantime community members will need to be understanding and patient.

“We’re a very busy hospital, and we don’t mind, but it’s good that people realize its challenging because there are a lot of people we serve,” Bellissimo said.

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Helen Liu, 12, make her meal selection during the July summerlunch+ program in East York. With school lunch initiatives closed for the summer break, summerlunch+ aimed to fill the nutrition gap for local area children.

ngela grew up poor and was determined to make a better life for herself.

She owned a construction business with her husband, but in 2009, after he beat her during a night of drinking, she left with her three children.

Angela, who agreed to speak to us anonymously, said she never expected to wind up with “three kids on the street, basically looking for the kindness of strangers to help me out.”

The local women’s shelter would not admit boys older than 12 and Angela’s oldest was 15. That night in the emergency room, a nurse offered her a basement apartment.

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“I couldn’t figure out why they were sick all the time,” she said, adding she would be called away from work frequently to tend to ill children, which made it hard to hold down a job.

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Hundreds of thousands of Canadian children are growing up in poverty.

In Ontario, more than 370,000 children (or 13.8 per cent) lived in a low-income household in 2013, only slightly better than the national average of 14.3 per cent. Poverty often means food insecurity, an inability to fully participate at school and difficulty accessing services.

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“There is a big disconnect between what we perceive to be the case when it comes to the wellbeing of kids in Canada and what’s actually going on. While we assume Canadian children are well cared and provided for, child poverty and suffering has reached epidemic levels in cities and towns across the country.”

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Toronto has highest rates of poverty in the country ● From page 9 landlord if he could supply her with a letter of residence so that she could apply for social assistance - instead he gave her an eviction notice because he didn’t want “that type of people living there.”

While 13.9 per cent of children across Ontario live in poverty, a staggering 25 per cent of those living in Toronto are below Statistics Canada’s Low Income Measure, as are 19 per cent of adults, the City of Toronto reported.

Toronto also has the highest rates of poverty and child poverty among Canada’s 20 largest cities, indicated a 2014 report, Colour of Poverty, by Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Social Planning Toronto and Family Service Toronto.

There is “stark inequality” in children’s lives across Toronto neighbourhoods, stated a 2014 Social Planning Toronto report, The Hidden Epidemic: A Report on Child and Family Poverty in Toronto.

Low-income rates among children ranged from five per cent in Lawrence Park North and South, Leaside-Bennington and Kingsway South, to 10 times higher - more than 50 per cent in Regent Park, Moss Park, Thorncliffe Park and Oakridge.

The report findings echoed others that found poverty varies greatly in Toronto by race and ethnicity, with people of African and Middle Eastern backgrounds three times more likely to live on low incomes than those of European backgrounds.

In April 2014, Toronto City Council voted unanimously to develop a poverty reduction strategy. Its target: to end child poverty within a generation by 2035.

Toronto’s strategy contains 17 recommendations and 71 actions to respond to the immediate needs of low-income Torontonians, to create pathways out of poverty, and to address the systemic causes of equality, the city stated.

The Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy focuses on housing stability; service equity; transit equity; food access; quality jobs and livable wages, and systemic change.

This month, a new children’s charity launched with a mandate to be a strong, independent voice for Canada’s children.

Children First Canada stated while Canada is the fifth most-prosperous nation in the world, the country is falling behind in its protection and care of its children.

“There is a big disconnect between what we perceive to be the case when it comes to the wellbeing of kids in Canada and what’s actually going on,” the charity’s founder Sara Austin, an international children’s rights advocate and former leader with World Vision Canada, said in a statement.

“While we assume Canadian children are well cared and provided for, child poverty and suffering has reached epidemic levels in cities and towns across the country.”

The charity is calling on Ottawa to appoint an independent children’s commissioner to advocate for children, and to publish an annual children’s budget to track federal funding.

The Liberals promised a children’s commissioner during the 2015 election campaign, Austin noted in a speech Nov. 16 to a Toronto meeting of the Empire Club of Canada.

The government is “still studying the idea,” said a spokesperson for Jean-Yves, Duclos, minister of families, children and social development, last week when asked about the pledge.

The charity also wants Canadians to volunteer with children’s organizations, talk about the issue of child poverty with friends, neighbours and family, and donate to children’s charities.

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3700 Sq FT ETOBICOkE 2 STOREY!

Sensational Home Facing Ravine on a Huge 50x160 lot. Custom Built for over 1M. Rare Master Bdrm Retreat with Livingroom + 5pc Ensuite. 2nd Master Bdrm on Main. Potential 2 Bdrm Bsmt Apt. Chef’s Kitchen. 11 ft Sunken Family Room. 8 Car Parking.

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Situated on a 165 Ft Deep lot, High Demand Neighbourhood, Open Concept Layout, 5 Bathrooms, 4 Bedrooms, 2 Fireplaces, 4 Walkouts, Quality Finishes, Gleaming Hardwood Floors, Crown Mouldings, Coffered Ceilings, Recess Lighting, Formal Dining Room, Family Rm with Built-Ins + Gas Fireplace, Gourmet Kitchen, Granite Countertop, S/S Appliances, Master Bdrm Retreat, W/I Closet, Dream Ensuite, Walkout Finished Bsmt, High Ceilings Plus Much More! $1,880,000!!

GUILDWOOD CUSTOM HOME Situated on 60 x 175 Ft lot in Prestigious Hill Cres, One of a kind 4 Bdrm Bungalow, Massive Open Concept Family Room, Bright Sunlit, Skylights, Gleaming Jatoba Hardwood Floors, Gourmet Dream Kitchen with Centre Island, Granite Countertop, S/S Appliances, 5 Full Bathrooms, Finished Basement with Sep Entrance Ideal for Entertaining or Possible In-Law Suite, Steel Roof, Quality Throughout! Simply Must be Seen! $1,388,000!

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Located In A Sought After Location. Very Clean And Well Kept. Good Access To Public Transit And The 400 Series Hwys. Over 5000 Sq Ft Of Warehousing/Manufacturing Area And Aprox 3000 Sq Ft Of Office Space. Lots Of Potential. Brand New Rooftop Hvac System, Truck Level Door Can Accommodate A 53 Ft Trailer. Variety Of Uses Allowed. Only $1,341,288!

RENOVATED 6 BEDROOM 2 STOREY Quiet High Demand Neighbourhood, Situated on 390 ft Deep Lot, Stunning Open Concept Layout, Gleaming Hardwood Floors, Gourmet Family Size Kitchen, S/S Appliances, Formal Dining Room, Spacious Bright Large Living Rm, Massive Family Room, Walkout to Deck Overlooking Large Backyard, Finished Basement, Enclosed Sunroom, Double Garage Plus Much More! Only $1,299,900!

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Rare Renovated Five Unit Investment Property with 2 Car Garage and Triple Private Drive.

Newer Kitchens, Baths, Floors, Doors. Great $60K income. Fully Tenanted. Large Private Lot. Only $1,199,000!

Stunning Approx 3000 Sq Ft 4 Bdrm on a Huge Lot Backing and Siding onto Forest in Old Meadowvale. Features Gourmet Kitchen, Main Floor Library, Professionally Finished Basement, 9ft Ceilings, Huge Master with 5pc. Steps to Great Schools, Hwy 401 & 407.

Stunning 5 Bdrm Original 3 Storey Farmhouse Rebuilt from the Ground up with over 400K of Jaw Dropping Upgrades.

Glass Balcony overlooks Park. Granite Chef’s Kitchen. 9Ft Ceilings. Full bsmt In-Law Suite. New 2 Car Garage. 50 Ft Lot. 12 Car Parking. Steps to GO. An Absolute Must See Only $1,099,000!

Sold in 1 WK For 106% oF aSKinG!

WOODBRIDGE RANCH BUNGALOW

Stunning 3+2 Bdrm home with over $250K in Upgrades in Coveted Area, Steps to Kortright Conservation + Humber river Trails, 4,000 Sq Ft of living space, Gourmet Chef’s Kitchen with Quartz Island, Large Master with 5pc Ensuite, Huge Entertainer’s Rec Room, Landscaped Grounds, 2 Car Garage, 9 Ft Ceilings.

Sold For toP dollar!

RENOVATED DETACHED!!

Beautiful 4 Bedroom Home Located In “The Heart Of Woodbridge”!! Over 3,000 Sqft Of Luxury Featuring Amazing Open Concept Living/Dining Rooms, Separate Family Room, Main Floor Library, Modern Kitchen And Much More! Plus Professionally Finished Basement. Amazing Opportunity – Must Be Seen Only $1,050,000!!!

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3 Bedroom, 3 Bathrooms Townhouse, Open Concept Main Floor Features 9 Foot Ceilings and Gas Fire Place With Mosaic Detail. Main Floor Balcony With Gas BBQ and a Gourmet Kitchen that Features Gas Stove & Breakfast 569 Sq ft Rooftop Patio W/Unobstructed City Views, A Must See! $899,000!

Gorgeous 3+1 Bdrm 2 Storey, Open Concept Living Rm, Bright Filled Charm + Character, Gleaming Hardwood Floor, Fireplace, Crown Mouldings, Formal Dining, New Modern Kitchen, Built- in Stainless Steel Appliances, Breakfast Bar, Walkout to Large Deck, Gas BBQ Hookup, Separate Side Entrance to Professionally, Finished Basement Ideal for Entertaining, Great Schools, Steps to Park, Transit + Lake!

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Exquisite 1,020 Sq Ft, 2 Bdrm at Marina Del Ray, Renovated Top to Bottom with the Finest Materials overlooking Lake and Marina, Quartz Kitchen, Spalike Baths, Coffered Ceilings, Niches, Built-ins, Sensational Crown Jewel! Truly must be seen!

Only $719,000!

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THE ICONIC IMPERIAL PLAzA LOFTS!

Luxurious 2 BR, 2 Bath soft loft with 17 ft. Ceilings located in most desirable neighbourhood. 2nd Storey master retreat with 4 pc ensuite and walk-in closet.

Open concept living with large kitchen with island and s/s appliances. Too many amenities to list and only steps to Yonge st subway. Only $649,999!

NEW “CLOUD 9” CONDO!!”

Fabulous, Newly-Built 2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom Corner Unit!!

Spacious Split Bedroom Layout, Modern Kitchen W/ Granite Counters And Stainless Steel Appliances, Master With W/I Closet And Ensuite Bath, Huge Wrap-Around Terrace W/ Bright WestFacing Exposure. Includes Parking Spot & Locker. Building Amenities Include Indoor Pool, Gym & 24Hr Security. Must Be Seen, Only $385,000!

DANFORTH AREA CONDO!!

Bright & Spacious 2 Bedrm, 2 Bathrm Suite Located In High Demand Area Close To Vibrant Danforth Ave!! Amazing Open Concept Layout, Eat-In Kitchen, Master W/ Ensuite, Large Balcony. Recently updated and move-in ready. Must be seen only $549,900!!

Beautiful & Spacious 4 Bedroom Home Located In High Demand Neighbourhood!! Well Maintained And Move-In Ready, Includes A Large Eat-In Kitchen, Open Concept Living/Dining, Large Master W/ Ensuite, Close To New Hospital, Canada’s Wonderland & Vaughan Mills. Amazing Value - Must Be Seen!

Sold For toP dollar!

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One of the Most Sought After Neighbourhoods! Detached 4+1 Bedroom 2 Storey, Oversized Garage, Walkout to Balcony on 1st + 2nd Floor, Separate Entrance to Finished Basement, Ideal for In-Law Suite, Solarium, Landscaped, Interlock, Perennials, Walk out to Patio, Close to Amenities, University, Hospital + Transit, Amazing Opportunity!

Sold in 1 WK For 145% oF aSKinG!

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OSSINGTON DETACHED!

Incredible Rebuilt 2 Storey Approx 90% Finished With Over 300K in High End Materials.

New Everything! Gourmet Kitchen, Heated Floors, 9 Foot Ceilings, Oversized Garage. Just South of Bloor. Investor’s Dream!

Sold in 1 WK For 106% oF aSKinG!

½ ACRE LOT!

BLOOR WEST OPPORTUNITY!

Large Character Filled Home with Thousands in Upgrades. Fabulous Location. Lovely Gumwood Trim.

Bamboo Floors, Fireplace. Rare Lowered Basement.

Spa-Like Bath with Jacuzzi. Newer oversized Garage, Super Value, Absolutely Must Be Seen!

Sold in 6 dayS For 111% oF aSKinG!

1/2 ACRE STOUFFVILLE LOT!

Private 100x210 ft Lot backing onto open farmland 2 minutes from downtown Stouffville.

2 Bdrm Ranch Bungalow with Garage Perfect for Renovators or Builders. 8 Car Parking.

Amazing Value!

Sold in 5 dayS For 112% oF aSKinG!

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Extremely Private 100 x 210 Ft Lot Backing and Siding onto Open Farmland with Large 4 Bdrm Bungalow + Addition, 2 Minutes from Downtown Stouffville, Many Updates, Detached 2 Car Garage/Workshop, 10 Car Parking, Amazing Value!

Sold For 109% oF aSKinG!

DETACHED 2 STOREY $699,900

Gleaming Hardwood Floor, Picture Window, Open Concept Living Room, Family Size Kitchen, Walkout Deck Overlooking Landscaped Lot, 3+1 Bedroom, Finished Basement with Separate Entrance, Parking for 5 Cars, Steps to Transit, Amenities, Park + Fabulous Schools!

UNOBSTRUCTED SE VIEWS! Stunning Corner Unit With 2 Bdrm Split Layout And 2 Baths Built in 2011. Granite Counters, S/S Appliances, Laminate Throughout.

Steps to Subway, Lake & 401. Super Value, Must Be Seen, Only $349,000!

RENOVATED ETOBICOkE DETACHED

Beautiful 1 ½ Storey Home Situated On A Huge Lot!!

Updated From Top To Bottom With Stylish New Kitchen, Large Living/Family Room, Formal Dining Room, Hardwood Floors, Amazing Backyard Retreat W/ Huge Deck, Brand New Garage, Plus Much More! Quiet, Family Friendly Neighbourhood Close To All Amenities. Incredible Opportunity.

Sold FaSt For 104% oF aSKinG!

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WILLOWDALE OPPORTUNITY!

Executive Condo Suite! Modern kitchen with Granite Counter tops and Stainless Steel Appliances, gleaming laminate floors. Huge balcony with beautiful North Exposure. Parking and Large locker included. Amazing location and opportunity. Must be seen, only $329,900!

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Rare South Etobicoke end-unit! Spacious and bright with open concept layout, double garage, balcony, steps to the lake, transit, shops and all conveniences! Shows 10+!

Sold FaSt For 106% oF aSKinG!

Large 3 Br, 2 Bath suite, Renovated Kitchen with Granite Counters and S/S Appliances. Large Master With Walk-In Closet And Ensuite. Open Balcony With Unobstructed Views. Close To All Amenities: Shopping, Transit, Schools, Easy Highway Access, All Inclusive Maintenance Fees.

Only $249,900!!

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Gorgeous unit! Unique open concept layout with kitchen overlooking living/dining room, large bedroom, ensuite laundry, parking and locker.

Minutes to Hwy 401/400/427. Transit, GO, shopping and amenities within walking distance.

Amazing Value! $247,000!!

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Fabulous Opportunity, 3 Bedrooms With Thousands Spent On Improvements, Open Concept Living & Dining Room, Granite Countertop, Porcelain Tile, Walkout to 2 Tier Deck, Finished Basement With Kitchenette & Full Bath Ideal For Entertaining or In-Law Suite Close To Schools & Shops. Super Value!!

Sold FaSt For 103% oF aSKinG!

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BaBy Point

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Humber Valley Masterpiece

272 Indian Road. Built in 1915 by renowned architect Eden Smith the current owners transformed the well built but neglected and unappreciated home into a work of art. As great admirers of the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his Prairie School or Architecture, they incorporated his style in meticulous fashion throughout the home as well as adding contemporary elements for easier living. It is situated on a 50 x 113 Ft. lot offering 3+1 bed rooms, a fully finished basement, 3 bathrooms, 3 car parking, 2 a/c units, radiant heat, 3 decked areas and 2 wood burning fireplaces. The natural light in the home is wonderful. Both the front and back has gorgeous landscaping, perimeter exterior lighting, and an irrigation system with rain sensor. For those that love architecture and attention to detail this is one home you do not want to miss.

Offered at $1,999,000.

43 Hilldowntree Rd. Exquisite designer home in coveted Humber Valley! A statement in luxurious elegance coupled w/ modern functionality created through outstanding craftsmanship. This 4 bdrm home features a heated driveway, 9’ ceilings, designer finishes, custom gourmet kitchen w/ lg island & wet bar, Spacious master with spa-like ensuite.

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100 Coe Hill Drive. Spacious two bedroom unit in a quiet co-ownership building. Located in the prime Swansea-High Park area. Best value in west end. Close to High Park, Catfish Pond, Bloor West village shops, TTC, bus stop, subway, walking distance to Lake Ontario. Underground parking and exterior locker (exclusive use). $285,000 FOR ALL LISTINGS SIGNED THIS MONTH I DONATE 5% OF NET EARNINGS TO BREAST CANCER CAUSES.

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This year’s Kidzfest at Yonge-Dundas Square runs Nov. 26.

LOCAL EVENTS ● Saturday, Nov. 26

Christmas Collectible Market WHEN: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: St. Vincent de Paul Church, 263 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: lurkerm1e@lycos.com COST: Free Vintage gifts: records, toys, teacups, China, jewels and much more.

Christmas candy, Christmas cards, crafts, handmade knitwear and vintage Christmas ornaments.

Adopt-a-Street-Tree Information Session WHEN: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Gladstone Public Library, 1101 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: yourleaf.org COST: Free LEAF and the City of Toronto release the Adopt-a-Street-Tree Manual, a guide for Torontonians on how to care for commercial street trees in their communities. Come learn about existing pilot projects and find out what resources are available to help you start your own.

● Sunday, Nov. 27

Liberty Village Farmers’ Market WHEN: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Green-P parking lot, Liberty Street and Atlantic Ave. CONTACT: 647898-1492 COST: Free Farm fresh organic and conventional fruits and vegetables, cheese,

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Buckthorn Busting and Potluck WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

WHERE: Grenadier Restaurant, 200 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: stewards@ highparknature.org COST: Free Help remove the invasive Buckthorn and restore the park’s ecology. This session will be followed by a potluck lunch. Meet in front of the Grenadier Restaurant at 10:30 a.m.

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Youth Resume Workshop WHEN: 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

WHERE: Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: 416393-7674, , COST: Free A workshop for youth, focusing on those who haven’t worked before.

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Shelter Movers of Toronto Volunteer Orientation WHEN: 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

WHERE: Toronto City Hall, Committee Room 3, 100 Queen St. W. CONTACT: executiveassistant@

sheltermovers.com COST: Free The Shelter Movers of Toronto collaborates with local shelters, victim service agencies and law enforcement to provide safe, respectful moving services at no cost to persons fleeing abusive households in Toronto.You are invited to attend the next Volunteer Orientation Session.

For more information, visit website.

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High Park through the Ages WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor Street West CONTACT: highparkwalkingtours@yahoo.ca COST: Free Local history buff Dave Berndorff traces the evolution of well-known spots in the park from original settlement to the present. Meet at the benches across the road from the Grenadier Restaurant.

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One of a Kind Show and Sale WHEN: 10 a.m.

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toronto/index.php COST: Various Connecting makers and buyers who have an appreciation of boundless creativity, local production, and exquisite craftsmanship.

104th Grey Cup festivities WHEN: 11:30 a.m.

WHERE: BMO Field, 170 Princes Blvd. CONTACT: greycupfestival.ca COST: Various The Grey Cup is coming to Toronto. The big game is Sunday, at newly renovated BMO Field but before then there’s plenty going on including the Grey Cup Festival. See website.

The Toronto Christmas Market WHEN: 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.

WHERE: Distillery District, 55 Mill St. CONTACT: torontochristmasmarket.com COST: Free Admission is free Tuesday to Friday. Closed Mondays. Runs until Dec. 22.

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Kidzfest WHEN: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Patrol’s Chase & Little Charmer’s Hazel, ride the Ferris wheel and much more!

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WHERE: Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. CONTACT: toronto.ca/cavalcade COST: Free Will mark the official start of the holiday season in Toronto. It features the first lighting of Toronto’s official Christmas tree and an evening of live performances, a skating party and fireworks display.

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Scarborough Model Railroaders Train Show WHEN: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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