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HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com The King High Line is all about connecting neighbourhoods and in this case it’s looking to bridge the gap between Liberty Village and West Queen West.

Condo developers Urbancorp and First Capital Reality are in the early stages of designing an extended pedestrian bridge that would stretch approximately 400 metres from the rail bridge at King Street and Atlantic Avenue across the rail corridor and finish its connection at the future Sudbury Street area of the West Toronto Railpath.

“The thing that’s really interesting is the most intense part of this neighbourhood which is Liberty Village and West Queen West is the one area where any kind of connectivity is missing,” said urban planner Michel Trocmé of Urban Strategies Inc, who’s helping with the project.

“There’s nothing there.”

If the High Line goes forward it would serve as the ultimate link between the areas of Liberty Village, Parkdale, West Queen West and King Street.

The idea is modelled after the New York City High Line, which serves as an all-season elevated linear park that Trocmé says is even popular in the dead of winter. The Toronto version >>>proposed, page 8

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Craveyard: Julian Trovao, left, sits for a face painting by Tashia Petker during Nestle Canada’s Craveyard Halloween party on Sunday afternoon.

TTC will not ‘tear up Roncesvalles Avenue again’ LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) will have to do some minor tweaking of Roncesvalles Avenue to accommodate its new streetcars, however, the work will be minor and won’t take place until 2016.

“I know there was concern that there was a plan to tear up Roncesvalles Avenue again,” TTC spokesperson Brad Ross told The Villager.

Yet the street will not be torn up, he said. Instead some adjustments will have to be made to the streetcar platforms – or bumpouts as they

are called. There are 12 along Roncesvalles Avenue and they will either have to be lowered or raised, depending on the existing height of them, Ross said. This is because the new streetcars are accessible and contain ramps to accommodate wheelchairs, walkers, strollers and the like.

“If the (bumpout) is too low, it’ll make the ramp too steep. If it’s too high, the streetcar won’t be able to deploy the ramp,” Ross said and confirmed the road will not be torn up, nor will it close. There might be a partial lane closure, however, the TTC will provide ample warning as >>>BATHURST, page 7

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Transit a hot button issue for candidates in Ward 18 HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

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roblematic, inadequate and concerning are how candidates in Ward 18 Davenport describe the state of transit.

“We know that transit and congestion is a problem across the ward and we’re taking it very seriously,” said Ward 18 incumbent Ana Bailão.

Solving transit woes in the ward is a hot button issue in this year’s municipal election. For Ward 18, councillors have a handful of transit issues to address, one of them is the 29 Dufferin bus, arguably the most hated bus route in the city.

It’s in desperate need of improvements, which Bailão has been working on through a pilot project involving line supervisors at Dufferin station.

“Line supervisors are changing a little bit the way lines are run to avoid some of the bunching that happens. On site line supervisors are controlling the buses,” Bailão explained.

“They’re analyzing data and they’re organizing the appropriate time buses arrive so people find reliability with the buses.”

Bailão plans to also send a report about the buses to the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to get express buses on that route to improve the reliability of the bus.

Mazer agrees that the Dufferin route is one of the more problematic areas, but adds that the Queen streetcar is also experiencing similar problems of bunching and can be a tough streetcar to get on. The obvious solution, according to Mazer would be to increase bus route service and increase reliability in order to reduce bunching, which political hopeful Jolene Hunt knows all too well.

“I take the Dufferin bus but it’s so frustrating I often don’t because every time I walk 10 minutes to it and I end up waiting anywhere between 2-30 minutes for that bus and I could

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Southbound Dufferin 29 buses stop just north of Bloor Street Tuesday morning. The 29 Dufferin bus is arguably the most hated bus route in the city.

have walked to work in the time,” Hunt said.

“I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen six buses going in the opposite direction that I’m going, or to finally get on the Dufferin bus to have it short turn at Dundas and I just got on at College. It’s frustrating.”

If elected Hunt would also increase the bus service, not only on the Dufferin route but on Dupont as well, which also experiences a similar issue.

“Something like 40,000 people use that Dufferin bus every day. I would love to see an express bus route from Galleria Mall to Liberty Village because it’s such a long route and it gets bunched up.”

She added that although the route has an articulated bus service, it still has reduced service.

When it comes to moving those people through the ward both Bailão and Mazer agree that better use of the above ground rail is a top priority.

“We could be using that

as a commuter line with more frequent stops, more affordable fare and electrified trains,” Mazer said.

“Having worked on four provincial budgets, we need a little work from the province on this and have them focus on a transit line not just an airport express focus.”

According to Bailão she’s been working on motion for the past two years regarding “unlocking the potential of the Georgetown corridor.”

“It would be a relief line, you would have less congestion on the TTC and it’d be another way to get people in and out of the ward,” Bailão explained.

“If we could add stops to make it more accessible that would actually be huge, it could be a way to use that line in a faster and more efficient way of ... because the tracks are there

already.”

Candidate Bobby Beckett also believes light rail is the way to go when it comes to “moving the masses” but it also has to be paired with improved and frequent service in order to fight the congestion issue now and in the future in the ward.

“If we’re not looking at increased service we’re not going to battle most of the congestion issues we’re having with the ridership we currently have and that doesn’t even discuss density, which is coming, regardless, specifically to Ward 18,” Beckett said.

“We have density coming and building projects coming, which could end up moving thousands if not tens of thousands into this neighbourhood. If we don’t deal with these issues now with the current service it will be a problem

and I think it’s our best bet moving forward.”

With regards to congestion Beckett suggested mirroring a pilot project on King Street that has extended the parking restrictions during morning and evening rush hour.

“It’s something I’d work on right off the bat (if elected) and see if that would work. I’d like to see it happen on all street car lines. In Ward 18 it’d be Queen, College and Dundas,” Beckett said.

“If you increase it (rush hour parking restrictions) by a half hour or even an hour on either end, you’re removing parked cars on specific routes with streetcars that have one lane of traffic with parked cars and cyclists. It creates incredible amounts of congestion and it’s unsafe and completely unnecessary.

It seems like a simple fix, I think it would make a dramatic difference for cyclists and cars.”

Beckett would also push for a 24-hour Dundas Street streetcar to help out

the many shift workers in Toronto with “nontraditional business hours,” Beckett said.

One of the biggest hurdles facing the winning candidate will undoubtedly be funding.

Beckett, Hunt, Mazer and Bailão all agree that transit funding will be a tough subject at council and that honesty is the best policy when it comes to facing transit problems.

“Very few councillors have been honest that these things cost money. A big part of my platform is reforming the budget and fiscal honesty,” Mazer said.

“If people want transit they’re going to have to pay for it.” He also added that when talks of transit solutions are brought up, the ones chosen should be evidence-based that show the potential transit improvements.

Hunt agrees and in her platform she’s introduced a concept called a fair tax shift, which would be a property tax rebate based on income, which will only affect higher-income homeowners. She also suggested reinstating the vehicle registration tax to fund transit.

According to Bailão people need to see continuous work on the transit system, so that the public can see where their tax dollars are being spent. She also supports that funding for those transit projects and solutions should come from revenue tools.

“It could be mixture of them. I’m all for the sales tax, I think that could probably be a good way to use it, the fuel tax, new development charges,” Bailão said.

“We’re losing way too much money in the Greater Toronto Area because of congestion and the lack of investment in transit and I think the money we as a society would invest with the new revenue tools would be a huge investment and we’d have a huge return on that investment as a region and as a city.”

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Civic leadership is a critical issue Toronto remains a city with strengths and advantages that others around the world can only emulate. However, the lack of true political vision has disrupted serious progress on key issues such as economic and transit development.

Political culture has been fractious and detrimental to building trust in leadership for the city moving forward.

All of this means civic leadership has become a key issue in Monday’s municipal election.

We had a record number of advance poll votes cast this year. The 161,147 votes cast is far more than ever before at advace polls. We hope that means residents take this election seriously and have taken the time to seriously question candidate platforms.

Here are key issues a voter needs to consider: Leadership: Thankfully, there has been no major pre-election alignment between mayoral and council candidates.

We need council members who openly fight for the needs and desires of their individual ward – and are not expected to blindly fall into line with mayoral direction.

This city needs a leader who can work with council members from the most liberal to the most conservative. We need a mayor who can lead a council that works together – and leaves the cheap shots and uncalled-for language and accusations behind.

We need a mayor who speaks in facts – and can competently back up their view. That mayor must expect the same from council members.

A mayor must work aggressively and respectfully with provincial and federal governments. A mayor must build a profile on an international level and be respected as an ambassador on behalf of every resident.

Transit: It would be hard to find two Torontonians who believe there is a focused plan for our transit future.

Confusion, hostility and easily debunked transit plans have ruled four years of discussion. Yet, congestion increases.

Transit builds take decades to complete. Meanwhile, the quality of life in Toronto erodes with no clear direction.

Economic development: As do most major cities, Toronto suffers from unacceptable unemployment rates and is lacking in opportunity for the socially disadvantaged. We face stiff competition all the time from other lesser communities who woo industrial and retailer developers. If asked what issues were priorities of this past council, would economic development even rise to the surface?

Toronto needs a new, unified vision for the future and fast.

We believe John Tory is the only candidate who can deliver the unity, the vision and the results the city needs.

That said, it’s you who does the voting. Please take the time to study the platform of your mayoral and council candidates. Consider the past four years simply lessons learned, and choose wisely on Monday.

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Chow the choice for this columnist Immigrant It is something of a cliché to say a municipal election marks a cross-roads for a city. But after four years of the Ford family’s wild reign at Toronto City Hall, any kind of road seems a relief.

Based on the polls, a small majority of voters believes themselves to have found that road in the form of John Tory. Fiscally conservative, gracious of manner and civically engaged, the former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader, business executive and talk radio show host has presented himself as an agreeable antidote to the melodrama at City Hall.

Tory would follow the rules. He would maintain cordial relationships on council and with other levels of government. His history of volunteer work on matters of social inclusion make it clear he could be expected to govern from a fiscally conservative centre.

Elements of his platform, however, make him maddeningly difficult to endorse.

david nickle the city Key among these is the $8-billion (or so) SmartTrack surface rail plan that has been criticized for its vague and risky tax increment financing plan.

With that said, SmartTrack is an improvement on the plan put forward first by Mayor Rob Ford and then his brother Doug, to pursue an unsupportable plan to build 32 kilometres of subway and kill the remaining planned light rail lines.

Which brings us to Olivia Chow. For those voting strategically, third-place Chow seems a terrible bet. Yet she offers the most fiscally conservative and civically constructive platform in the race. Chow is promising tax increases marginally higher than Tory’s, and a land transfer tax premium for $2-million-plus real estate transactions. But she would

push to return the costly Scarborough subway to its provincially funded light rail predecessor, and put the billion dollars in tax revenue slated for the subway toward a necessary but unfunded downtown relief line.

Some aspects of Chow’s platform might not come off as planned – notably, her plans to increase bus service and build affordable housing. But these failures would leave Toronto in a status quo, not in ruinous debt.

Chow may have proven to be an inexpert campaigner and an often tenuous debater. But on Oct. 27, the debating and campaigning is over for nearly four years.

And Chow’s work as a city councillor and Member of Parliament has demonstrated an ability to lead allies and parlay with opponents that Toronto’s next mayor will need in spades.

By those measures, Chow is the best choice on Oct. 27.

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Parkdale animator debuts film at imagineNATIVE festival HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Born half Metis and half Caucasian, Parkdale visual artist and animator Terril Calder’s first feature film, The Lodge, helped her find her voice as a bi-racial woman living in Canada.

“I think it’s a great time for a lot of stories to be told and I was trying to find one that was mine,” Calder said.

“And so it (the film) is kind of a place in between a white world and an indigenous world and what that looks like...and how that has greater implications on how it defines Canada. The Lodge is trying to find that particular story.”

Calder’s animated film also touches on the treatment of Aboriginals in Canada and their connection to their spirit animal and how it differs from being labelled a savage, which is a term often used to dehumanize an entire civilization.

“It’s time to get away from anthropological use of indigenous people and actually have the people themselves tell the story,” Calder said.

Her film will be shown at the 15th

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annual imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival at the Tiff Bell Lightbox and will be narrated by author Joseph Boyden.

“This will be its world premiere and I am over the moon that it will be shown at imagineNATIVE first,” the Parkdale resident said.

This year’s festival runs from Oct. 22 to 26 and offers more than 130 films and videos; nine radio works; seven multi-platform new media

works; four art exhibitions featuring 19 media artists; 11 industry panels and public workshops; and 17 commissions. The four-day festival has 175 artists representing more than 70 distinct indigenous nations from 12 countries.

“The indigenous filmmaking community is a very tight knit family and imagineNATIVE is more than a festival to us,” Calder said.

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Calder has been in the festival five times and has shown six films, all shorts, ranging from one minute to 20 minutes long.

The Lodge runs 73 minutes and Calder admits it was a challenge.

She called it a labour of love that took her four years to complete.

She created the eight puppets, three sets plus props and, of course, did the filming, editing, special effects and animating.

“It was painful at times, but any animator will tell you it’s terribly ambitious to make your own animated feature film,” Calder, 47, told The Villager.

“You have to be a bit insane and a lot of people do quit half way through because it feels unimaginably unattainable...To get half a minute done is a really, really, really good day.”

The film is a stop-frame animated fairy tale set in the Canadian wilderness that follows the main character, Pearl Simpson, and her desire to reign as queen in her new world, but the Native spirit world has something else in mind.

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weaves together the original English fairy tale of The Three Bears and the Ojibway legend of the Dandelion.

In the end, The Lodge is mostly about self-exploration, she said.

“I struggled with the ending for that very reason of self-exploration because there has been an injustice (in the film) and without giving away the ending, is there redemption for that injustice?” Calder asked.

“To me it’s a pretty loaded question and I don’t know if it’s for me to answer necessarily. But just to draw the issue to light.”

Calder said that what audiences take away from the film will depend on their cultural experience.

“A white audience will look at this differently than an indigenous audience, than a mixed one, too, actually,” she said.

“I feel really lucky that I get to tell my story and there are new stories coming to light that need to be told.

I can’t wait to see the future of indigenous film in Canada. I can’t wait to see what happens.”

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Bathurst St. Major reconstruction in 2009 We’d been hearing roadwork rumours that Another major roadwork project is tieing up traffic along a busy downtown street.

A joint month-long construction undertaking between the TTC and the city has begun on Bathurst Street.

The work to replace aged sewer watermain and repair streetcar tracks and wiring begins first at the intersection of Wolseley Street and then at Dundas Street West, which is expected to last until the latter-half of November.

During this time parts of Bathurst, from north of Queen Street West to south of Dundas, will be closed to traffic, although local access to homes businesses and Toronto Western Hospital will be maintained, says the TTC. The project will require replacement buses to service the 511 Bathurst streetcar route until Nov. 22.

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>>>from page 1 to when this would take place.

“The 504 King streetcar is slated to begin service in late 2016 or early 2017,” Ross said.

In June of 2009, Roncesvalles Avenue underwent a major reconstruction project that included the restoration of sewers, water mains, streetcar tracks and sidewalks. A network of volunteers comprised of neighbours, business owners and organizations, under the moniker ‘Roncy Works’, seized the opportunity to make further streetscape improvements, such as creating a healthy tree canopy, better sidewalks and attractive public spaces – as well as undertaking a ‘Buy Local’ campaign in support of businesses as they endured the major reconstruction of the street.

Roncesvalles Avenue officially re-opened to streetcars in July 2011. The original plans for the neighbourhood were modified and finalized in 2013 before the TTC had purchased its new streetcars.

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“ We’d b e e n h e a r i n g rumours that Roncesvalles was going to be ripped up again,” said Veronica Feihl, a Roncy Works spokesperson.

“We got wind that a (Ward 14 councillor) candidate was saying this. I thought, ‘This is completely wrong.’ I wanted to find out the truth for myself and got in touch with the TTC.” Feihl confirmed what Ross told The Villager – that only some minor alterations will be done of the platforms or bumpouts. And the work will take a matter of days, not months.

Ross said the TTC is sensitive to further disruption to the Roncesvalles Village community and will keep any disruption to a minimum.

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Proposed bridge would help alleviate congestion problems: BIA >>>from page 1 will have a wider than normal bridge that can fit pedestrians and cyclists comfortably with benches and landscaped greenery as well. There’s also a planned elevator tower, with the option of stairs, near Abell Street so people with disabilities, the elderly and people looking to get on the bridge can do so near the middle.

“It allows continuity but it also allows for pedestrian connectivity north and south of West Queen West to Liberty Village,” Trocmé explained.

Although there are plans underway in the area for the King Liberty pedestrian/cycling bridge and the Dufferin bridge on either side of it, this bridge’s reach would dwarf those already planned by the city and would serve as a direct dual connection to one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in the area.

The concept has already garnered a few supporters with its “Friends of the King High Line” signatures on

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If someone comes and visits Parkdale or Ossington, they’re going to come to West Queen West, so easier access to all those helps businesses out..

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Condo developers Urbancorp and First Capital Reality are in the early stages of designing an extended pedestrian bridge – the King High Line – that would connect Parkdale, Liberty Village, King and Queen streets west.

its official website. One of them is the West Queen West Business Improvement Area (BIA).

“Sometimes it’s hard to get

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It’s so close on a map but to walk it, takes time,” said Robert Sysak, the executive

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Sysak is hoping the proposal will help alleviate congestion problems in the area, boost business in all neighbouring business improvement areas as well as eliminate the physical barrier, the train tracks, between the communities.

“Obviously we want people to come to West Queen West first but when we talk about Parkdale and Queen Street, there’s no border,” Sysak said.

“If someone comes and visits Parkdale or Ossington, they’re going to come to West Queen West, so easier access to all those helps businesses

out.”

Liberty Village Residents Association president Todd Hofley is also on board for the concept. He told The Villager he thinks it’s a great idea and so do Liberty Village residents.

“What’s not to like? It connects three great communities to each other, gives better pedestrian and cycling connections…” said Hofley.

“It also gives us some green space and perhaps even some cool multi-use space that we can get creative with - pop-up music performances, town criers, who the heck knows - but it’s something the community can participate in and get creative with.”

One concern, he said, is the fact the cost of the bridge is undetermined. He also doesn’t want to help sell the community on a “Trojan horse” and that community consultation is extremely important.

“This design needs to be something that’s nailed down.

What you see is what you get.

If the plans or design change, then I think it’s only fair to go back to the community and ask again,” Hofley said.

“It’s got to deliver on all the promises it’s making, otherwise it should be scrapped.

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Hofley and Sysak aren’t the only ones to get wind of the idea. Both First Capital a n d Ur b a n c o r p h a v e already approached Gord Perks, councillor for Ward 14 Parkdale-High Park, who had some initial reservations of his own.

“My first thought was to make sure it wasn’t tied to some density bonus scheme and they said no, so to me that was the most important thing to clear up,” explained Perks.

The idea is still in its infancy stage, there’s no timeline on when construction would begin, the cost is still undetermined and there’s been no formal proposal to the city.

According to Trocmé they’re looking to get help from all levels of government to help fund the project, an option that is entirely possible, said Perks, if the concept is developed further.

Business case “They need to bring forward a decent business case and then you can evaluate what’s the benefit, what’s the cost,” the councillor said.

“This looks interesting enough that it’s worth taking the next step, doing the business case and then we can put it in front of Toronto and in front of council and decide what to do. I won’t know if I’ll support it until I see it. I’m just excited to see if the work is technically possible and can be put together.”

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Haunted High Park wvisit Colbor ne Lodge, in the south end of High Park, hosts a Haunted High Park for families, Saturday, Oct. 25 at 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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Monster Mash at Liberty Grand Halloween at the Liberty G ra n d t h i s year is all about the music.

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The pumpkins will be collected the following morning for composting by the city.

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Voters flock to city’s advance polling stations Early-bird voters flocked to the polls last week, setting a record for advance poll turnout in Toronto municipal elections.

A total of 161,147 people turned out to vote over the past week – more than double the 77,391 people who cast an early vote in 2010.

In addition to a robust getout-the-vote effort by mayoral campaign teams and greater voter interest sparked by a range of controversy stemming from the mayor’s office, the high turnout might be explained by a larger number of polling stations.

This year, the city operated

a polling station in each ward, allowing voters to easily cast a ballot in advance of the Oct. 27 election day.

According to city statistics, the highest level of voter turnout was in Ward 22 (St. Paul’s), where 6,037 attended to cast their ballot.

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tinues into election day, and encourage all eligible electors to come out and vote on October 27,” said City Clerk Ulli Watkiss in a news release. encourages voters wMyFirstTimeTO

Some people aren’t so young when they do it for the first

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MyFirstTimeTO, which launched this week, encourages people to post videos to Facebook telling the story of the first time they voted.

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Police investigations show that many intruders actually have a key. Always assume that several other people probably have a key to your new home, therefore replacing the entry locks as soon as possible is as important as hanging the drapes, placing the furniture in your rooms, and purchasing decor enhancements.

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6. Sensor lights or dusk-to-dawn lighting deters criminals while you’re sleeping.

7. Trim back bushes and trees to prevent thieves from hiding. Store ladders in a locked garage immediately.

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Parkdale group forms to fight possible merger of legal clinics HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com They’ve called themselves “The Keepers.”

It’s a group of nine individuals who make up the coordinating committee formed Oct. 15 at Scadding Court Community Centre to fight against the potential consolidation of 14 neighbourhood legal clinics across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) into three larger ones.

The working meeting was organized by the Keep Neighbourhood Legal Clinics community group, with the help of Kensington-Bellwoods Community Legal Services (KBCLS) staff Tim Maxwell and chair Gary Newhouse.

The group is fighting the GTA Legal Clinics Transformation Project Vision Report, which is suggesting the consolidation.

After a three-hour meeting that remained open only to those against the report – those who were in favour were asked politely to leave – the committee members were chosen and strategies were devised.

Marjorie Hiley, the executive director at Flemingdon Community Legal Service and a member of the steering committee who put together

the report, was initially at the meeting but was one of the ones asked to leave by Maxwell because she agrees with the report.

“That’s not the way to handle a sort of adversarial situation. It was unfortunate and I wasn’t going to make a big fuss,” Hiley told The Villager in an interview on Friday, two days after the Wednesday meeting.

“It wasn’t going to serve a purpose it would only cement the hostilities. I took the high road.”

Hiley said she came to the meeting to listen to the other side’s point of view and establish some sort of common ground.

“I wanted to know what is the alternative (they had in mind), what are we missing here? What do you feel needs to be done in order for there to be more understanding of the situation,” explained Hiley.

“It is a process and it’s an evolving process. Nothing is set in concrete.”

Collectively, the group of 20 or so concerned community members from Parkdale and the Trinity-Bellwoods area agreed that pressuring local politicians, alerting the media and arguing the report is in violation of human rights

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That’s not the way to handle a sort of adversarial situation.

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would be the best way to get the word out about the closures.

Newhouse said clinics were duped from the get-go when representatives were asked at a series of meetings to vote on certain improvements and principles clinics could get behind, such as expanding areas of law and having multiple gateways to improve client access.

“We got sucked in because we were stupid,” Newhouse said bluntly.

“The final model just appeared more or less at the end and you could see how we got sucked in because we voted on parts of the model, not knowing the end result would be to close our clinics if we wanted all of those principles.”

Steve Donahgue, one of the handful of Parkdale residents at the meeting, was also at the meeting two weeks ago and said he felt compelled to do his part even though he’s never used the clinic.

“I might need to use it one day,” he said.

“I know the clinics are imperative for our neighbours, everybody needs it. And the clinic has to be local, people need to be able to get to it. To me this (Vision Report) is just a disaster and I’m going to fight it tooth and nail.”

According to Newhouse, legal clinics across the GTA have until December to decide whether they’re for or against the clinic mergers. He added that

Brampton, Neighbourhood Legal Services on Queen Street East and most recently Flemingdon have all agreed to the merger.

“Brampton has endorsed it because it’s poorly underserved for such a vast geographical area. From their point of view, it’s a big improvement,” Newhouse said.

“A 33-person clinic, which is the number of staff the

report suggests, is better than what they have now. It’s clear why they would endorse it.”

The same goes for York Region’s legal ser vices, Newhouse said.

“Getting bigger (staff ) is still better than getting wiped out. So of course they’d say yes, they’d be idiots not to,” he said.

“But for clinics in Toronto, it clearly doesn’t benefit any of them.”

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Streetcars return to Queens Quay Tips For Avoiding the Flu This Season RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com After two years of construction, temporary bus stops and delays, the streetcars are finally back to service along the waterfront’s main road.

As of Sunday, Oct. 12 the 509 Harbourfront and 510 Spadina streetcars returned to Queens Quay following the completion of a newly-rebuilt rail corridor between Union Station and Exhibition Place.

The work is part of an ongoing extensive renovation of the street by Waterfront Toronto from Bay Street to Lower Spadina Avenue.

In addition to new tracks and overhead wiring, the relocated corridor runs in the median lane of the street. All 11 of the corridor’s signalized streetcar platforms were widened to accommodate the TTC’s new streetcar fleet.

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nal platform inside Waterpark Place, located at 10 Bay. The return of the streetcars to Queens Quay was expected to be completed by July, but was further delayed when Waterfront Toronto experienced snags in its construction schedule due to last year’s harsh winter.

For local businesses, the return of the streetcars – which was replaced by temporary buses starting in 2012 – also means the return of more customers who ended up avoiding the street after construction began two years ago.

“How we survived God only knows. A lot of businesses closed down here,” said Sayed Raza, manager of Shwarma Guys, located at 218 Queens Quay West, on Sunday.

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In addition to the new tracks, the revitalization will also see the creation of a new pedestrian promenade, improvements to the Martin Goodman Trail, more trees and green space as well as infrastructure improvements below ground.

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Waterfront Toronto, which is co-ordinating a wholesale renovation of Queen’s Quay including the installation of a modern set of transit-priority signals, promised to tweak the system by the end of the week to help the streetcars run smoother.

LEAVES SUSPEND STREETCAR SERVICE wLOOSE In the wake of flooding last week, the city is urging residents to do a better job ensuring loose piles of leaves don’t get onto the streets.

Improper disposal of leave and debris was identified as a key culprit for flooding on St. Clair Avenue West after a freak thunderstorm last Thursday evening that temporarily suspended

streetcar service.

In a statement, the city’s head of transportation services Stephen Buckley said loose leaves and other yard waste can create dangerous conditions and urged residents to dispose of them properly so they don’t get onto sidewalks and roads.

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GO says it surveys its customers every two years and uses the feedback to carry out service improvements. It’s giving survey takers a chance to win one of 10 travel passes worth $250. Take the survey at www.gobussurvey.com Rahul Gupta is The Villager’s transit reporter. He can be reached via Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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Brockton Village playwright Kate Cayley premieres new play hILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

Sh e i s c u r re n t l y t h e Tarragon Theatre’s playwright-in-residence and has been since 2009.

She says two elements attracted her to this story, the first was the idea of forgery in general and the second was how van Meegeren’s country embraced him.

“The way he became a folk hero in Holland following that was interesting,” Cayley said.

“Of course that would be so attractive to a country that had been starved and brutalized. You want to know not only that your enemy has lost, but that they’ve been fooled. It is deeply satisfying.”

The play took Cayley two and a half years to perfect and admits the version she started out with is completely different to the one that will appear on stage Oct. 29 to Nov. 30.

The play is set in the Netherlands in the aftermath of the Second World War and tells the tale of van Meegeren who is awaiting trial for being accused of selling a painting by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer to the Nazis. If convicted he’ll be executed, but in his defence he said he purposely forged a copy to sell to the Nazis and, now, in order to save his life must paint another flawless replica.

The play is directed by Richard Rose, who is also the artistic director for the

Tarragon Theatre, and stars Geordie Johnson and Irene Poole. This is Cayley’s second play at the Tarragon Theatre; her first, After Akhmatova, was produced in 2011 and it earned her a nomination for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

According to Cayley, this play is very different from After Akhmatova because it’s more story-driven and the main character is more of an anti-hero. She also added this play touches on not only forgery, art and war crimes but it also dabbles in religion and totalitarianism.

“I think the audience should come with an open mind about who they think the hero is and why because it keeps shifting.” Cayley said.

“I’d like people to leave gently arguing which character is right because it comes down to an argument between two people, it’s about art, it’s about corroborations, it’s about a country coming together after a terrible event.... I hope they (the audience) come see it because it’s going to be compelling as an argument and moving as a story.”

Bakelite Masterpiece is being performed at Tarragon Theatre’s Extraspace, 30 Bridgman Ave. Tickets are $27 to $53.

Inspired by an article in The New Yorker, Brockton Village playwright Kate Cayley plans to bring deception and intrigue to the Tarragon Theatre with her latest play, Bakelite Masterpiece.

The idea for the play came about when Cayley was flipping through an old edition of the magazine she found by accident. She read the article and was immediately drawn to the story’s main focus – Han van Meegeren, a man accused of selling a painting to the Nazis during the Second World War, who argued that the painting sold was actually a forgery he created himself.

“My jaw dropped at the idea of this deception and just forgery in general, which I’ve been thinking about a lot because it cuts so close to the question of what art is,” Cayley explained “I just saw him leaping off the page and talking, he was such a theatrical figure.

I thought initially this ought to be a novel and then realized he had such a strong voice that you had to hear him speak because part of his deception wasn’t just hearing him speak, it was his personality.”

She’s no stranger to creating plays and finding For a full list of show times inspiration for them; she’s and dates, visit www.tarrabeen doing it for 13 years. gontheatre.com After graduating from King’s College in Halifax from the contemporary studies program with a double major in theatre studies, she created Stranger Theatre.

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Road Sweeping Operation Toronto & East York District Transportation Services is getting ready to perform sweeping operations on the streets of Toronto & East York this fall.The purpose of the sweeping is to collect leaves that fall, naturally, onto the street.

All streets will be swept on two occasions.The operation will continue until November 28, 2014.The map shows the area where the sweeping operation will take place.

Please do not rake leaves onto the roadway or sidewalks from your property. City by-law officers will be enforcing the City of Toronto by-law that relates to the use of streets and sidewalks. Raking leaves onto the roadway is a by-law offence and could result in charges being laid. It is an offence to store, place or dispose of material, including fallen leaves in such a way that it may enter onto a street by any means, including wind or water. In addition, raking, blowing, placing or dumping leaves onto City property (sidewalk, roadway, catch basins, etc.,) can create dangerous conditions, cause flooding on the roadways or on property or cause accidents.

Here’s how to put leaves out for collection: Use reusable containers (any rigid open-top container such as a garbage can, bushel basket, green plastic yard waste bin– no lids) or kraft paper yard waste bags.

Put leaves at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on your scheduled yard waste collection day. Check your collection calendar for your yard waste collection schedule and more helpful hints.

Sorry, no plastic bags: The City does not collect leaves and yard waste in clear plastic bags or Halloween-themed plastic bags. (If you use these decorative bags, please empty the contents into one of the approved containers listed above before placing out for collection.

Ways to reduce the amount of leaves you put at the curb for collection: Feed leaves to your backyard composter now, plus stockpile leaves to add as dry material during the winter.

Here’s what the City collects as yard waste: Leaves, plant/tree trimmings, weeds and brush. Branches measuring less than three inches or 7.5 cm in diameter should be tied in bundles no longer than 4 feet or 1.2 min length and 2 feet or 0.6 m in diameter. Pumpkins and waste fruit from trees in your yard are also accepted.

Sorry, we can’t accept: Soil, sod, grass clippings, logs or tree stumps.

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Toronto’s next mayor will inherit public housing issues DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Toronto Community Housing has been a conundrum for Toronto mayors and councils since shortly after the Mike Harris government amalgamated the Metropolitan Toronto municipalities into one back in 1997.

In the course of bringing the six cities and one regional government together, the provincial Tories divested what generally crumbling public housing the province funded, onto the backs of Toronto property taxpayers, who were already dealing with municipally managed and funded housing companies.

In 2002, Toronto Council rolled it onto the Toronto Community Housing Corporation.

And 12 years later, Toronto taxpayers still haven’t crawled out from the burden of being one of the biggest landlords in North America: with 58,000 units of housing, about 164,000 tenants ranging from

toddlers to seniors, and a repair backlog of more than $700 million.

And to make matters worse, 132,000 names are on the waiting list to find a subsidized home.

The organization has been problematic. While there have been notable success stories – such as the revitalization of TCHC’s oldest neighbourhood, Regent Park, with the co-operation of the Daniels Group, into a beautiful mixedincome neighbourhood between Parliament and River streets – the corporation itself has had a rough few years. housing advocate “It seems to me that we may be farther behind than we were four years ago,” said Susan Gapka, a TCHC tenant and vocal housing advocate.

Mayor candidate Olivia Chow was the first of the major candidates to come out with a housing policy, the centrepiece of which is to create 15,000 affordable rental units

over four years.

Chow is aiming to introduce a mandate to encourage developers to set aside 20 per cent of new residential buildings as affordable rental housing, which she said will lead to that many new units.

The carrot is to be a deferral of development charges for those units for a decade – a deferral that could be renewed if the unit stays affordable.

As well, Chow is hoping to accelerate the approval process for affordable housing proposals.

Chow would also change zoning rules to allow businesses and community spaces around private rental towers, and would increase enforcement of housing standards for tenants in private buildings.

At TCHC, Chow is promising to decentralize management of seniors’ housing within the TCHC portfolio to give residents a say in how the building is governed. If successful, she’d spread the system across Toronto.

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Tory, in a platform released relatively late in the campaign, said he intends to use $864 million the city has on hand for TCHC repairs to immediately begin work without waiting for the federal and provincial governments to agree to pay their share. Chow’s campaign pointed out that the money is, in fact, being spent year to year, with $128 million being spent this year.

Affordable housing Tory also wants to intensify affordable housing on Toronto Parking Authority and TCHC land in possible partnership with the private sector, under agreements similar to the one in place between the Daniels Group and TCHC over the redevelopment of Regent Park.

At a debate there Oct. 8, Tory held that redevelopment up as a model.

“I’ll make a bet that if you asked if any developer would have the courage and foresight and interest in city building

to come into this neighbourhood and be a pioneer in the redevelopment in Regent Park you would say no one would do that and someone did,” said Tory.

“Yes. I’m optimistic that there will be developers that if we say there are pieces of land adjacent to TCHC that presently exist, there will be somebody.”

Tory has also promised to expand the rent supplement program – although he did not state by how much – and provide more Section 37 funds for affordable housing.

He wants to re-invigorate the city’s tower renewal program begun under former mayor David Miller, to improve existing private buildings and promote affordable infill housing. He is also looking at exploring tax incentives for affordable private sector housing.

And on TCHC, Tory said he would create a task force to review and recommend changes to the structure of the housing company, involv-

ing politicians, tenants and experts. It would report quickly, by July 1.

Mayoral hopeful Doug Ford has not yet released a platform on housing, and did not attend the Oct. 8 debate in Regent Park.

Like his brother, Mayor Rob Ford, he has said he would like to see former corporation CEO Gene Jones, who abruptly resigned earlier this year following a scathing ombudsman’s report, returned to his old job.

Ford has promised a 15 per cent cut to the land transfer tax that he said would improve affordability for home buyers.

As of deadline, Ford had not released a plan for dealing with public housing or affordability beyond that.

Gapka said of the three major candidates, she finds Chow’s housing platform to be the most achievable.

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