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The Local: where ’taste is king’

Centennial College restaurant is staffed by students, open to the public MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com

There are no chicken burgers under heat lamps here, no trays of mac and cheese.

The Local, below the new residence for Centennial College’s school of hospitality, tourism and culinary arts in Scarborough, is the place for students seeking lunch and dinner, and it’s a real restaurant, open to the public.

Some people come with lower expectations, but the quality and talent at the Local surprises them, says Amanda Tarrant, the school’s general manager of restaurants and events.

"Taste is king. We are blowing their expectations away."

Entirely run by hospi-

tality students either in class or industry placement, the Local serves "nothing made from a box," said Tarrant. It uses fresh ingredients, local where possible.

For its popular signature burger with a caramelized fried onion ring sitting on top, not just the burger and bun are homemade, but also the ketchup and pickle.

The Local’s lunch menu changes every three weeks, and choices are influenced

by Scarborough and the school’s multicultural environment. "We like to keep it globally inspired and locally made," said Alison Iannarelli, the executive chef.

Iannarelli, who came to Centennial this past spring from private clubs, is responsible for overall food operations and said the Local "really has its own flair."

Supervising the kitchen, she said, are talented chefs from hotels, clubs and downtown restaurants who know what the industry’s looking for now.

The students learn cooking skills - such as making stocks and sauces and work in all parts of the restaurant, getting "experiential learning" other colleges don’t provide, Iannarelli said.

The school at 937 Progress Ave. opened the restaurant and attached café on Oct. 12, later increasing operating hours, adding dinner and weekend brunch service.

In January, the Local started staying open seven days a week. It’s licensed and serving local wines and beers.

Most customers are students, "but we want to welcome the community too," said Tarrant, adding the restaurant keeps prices "approachable" not just for students but Scarborough residents.

To sweeten that deal, Centennial offers complimentary parking, through vouchers, to community members who come for lunch or dinner.

Also, there’s no tipping.

"We just let guests know

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First year culinary stuent Si Dinh serves lunch to customers at the Centennial College’s school of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts restaurant. that’s not necessary," Tarrant said.

Dinner at the Local is plated, but lunch is "market style" instead of a traditional buffet. Customers get passports stamped as they are served.

There’s always a vegetarian option. On one February day it was red curry with broccoli, green beans, and cauliflower, a good por-

tion on a lemon-scented rice pilaf.

With many students in lime green T-shirts available, service is abundant.

"The thing that you get from the people here is warmth," said Srilalitha Kalidindi, a server who’s in the school’s two-year hospitality and tourism program because "I love travelling and I love to cook."

The café, next door to baking and culinary labs, features grab-and-go foods, plus a state-of-the-art espresso machine in Centennial’s distinctive shade of green.

On top of the eight-storey residence, an event centre can handle 400 people in areas with seasonal views, and has an "intimate" private dining room.

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Merged Scarborough hospital faces some ’hard decisions’ Merged hospitals still unsuccessful in getting province to pay $28-million bill MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com

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Scarborough and Rouge Hospital made "very good progress" in the first months since it was created through the merger of Scarborough’s two hospitals, says Andree Robichaud, interim CEO. Acknowledging some employees of what used to be The Scarborough Hospital and Rouge Val-

ley Health System’s Centenary campus remain nervous, Robichaud said many "are cautiously optimistic".

The hospital has posted results of a work plan covering the first 100 days since the Dec. 1 merger.

It’s been unsuccessful in getting Ontario’s Health Ministry to pay $28 million in outstanding merger costs, though, Robichaud is hopeful it will allow costs to be

phased in over several years.

The report says hospital officials asked the ministry for a "three-year relief program to address the projected working capital deficit".

"There’s no question the budget’s tight, and we’ll have to make some hard decisions," Robichaud said on Feb. 23.

The merger came with support for long-awaited hospital projects in Scarborough, operat-

ing rooms at the General campus, emergency rooms at Birchmount and Centenary, and eventually a comprehensive new hospital campus.

A year-long planning exercise was recommended before these could proceed.

Robichaud said the merged hospital could hire a CEO as soon as April, but the planning exercise might begin before a CEO is in place.

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Let’s not shoot the messengers There’s a troubling trend taking place in the political discourse of late.

The news media is in the crosshairs and coming under increasing fire by those who would prefer to be the subject of propaganda instead of public scrutiny.

The latest salvo came Friday when U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a double whammy, with White House press secretary Sean Spicer barring a number of news agencies, including the New York Times and CNN, from the daily briefing and the commander-inchief himself again referring to the media as "the enemy of the American people" in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

It’s an escalation of a campaign intended to sow distrust in the media that’s been ongoing since Trump’s election campaign, with Orwellian terms such as "alternative facts" and "fake news" now entering the lexicon.

A free press is an institution so integral to a functioning democracy that Thomas Jefferson is famously quoted as having said: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." That’s among the reasons why many academics and experts have expressed concern with the Trump administration’s repeatedly adversarial stance toward the media with retired Navy Admiral William McRaven, leader of the 2011 operation that killed Osama bin Laden, calling it "the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime" and Republican Senator John McCain cautioning that suppressing the press is "how dictators get started."

While the hostility toward the media is not as prevalent here in Canada, it’s becoming more common to see eerily similar rhetoric dotting the comments sections of news websites and social media feeds.

A big part of the news media’s role is holding elected officials, at all levels of government, to account for their actions and the decisions they make and to protect your right to know.

At the same time, we’re accountable for our coverage to you, the public.

It’s OK for politicians and the public to disagree with the manner in which a story is covered or offer additional information that can make the narrative more clear but there’s a massive difference between that and allegations of fabrication and deliberate falsehood.

By all means, don’t hesitate to critique and question news stories, we welcome it but let’s also be careful not to shoot the messenger.

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Serving universities, living in poverty They serve meals on Toronto campuses, but can they afford meat for their families?

They deal with hundreds of customers a day, and are expected to smile.

Until now. Food servers at York University and University of Toronto Scarborough are on strike.

Keisha Latty, on the job at York for 11 years, says the pay is insulting.

She needs $1,200 for rent, plus babysitting money and food for her three kids. Last week, she hadn’t paid her February rent, and March was just days away.

"You can’t afford to buy food in the city anymore.

There’s no affordable rent in the city anymore," Latty says. And TTC fares go

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto up, "so when you go home, you go home with nothing."

Latty actually has one of the highest salaries in her unit, $15.41 an hour.

Most of the 220 people represented by UNITE Here, Local 75 on York’s Downsview campus, and 60 at UTSC, get $11.50 to $12.21.

After 10 years, Maddelena Funarolo’s pay is

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$12.21, not up even by $2.

"How do you feed a family?" she asks. "How?" Their contracts are not with the universities but Aramark, a U.S. company.

Meanwhile, servers at U of T’s St. George campus, working for U of T directly, get $18 or $20 an hour.

Servers at the suburban campuses deserve those same wages, wages they can live on.

Darrell and Maureen Jansen have served UTSC students and staff for 10 years.

Maureen gets $11.50, Darrell $12.66; he was promoted recently but Aramark didn’t increase his pay.

Their two children are in college. The Jansens rent a north Scarborough house for $1,000 a month, have no savings, and while

on strike, no income.

Like other servers, they say their fight isn’t just for money but the next generation. They also want more respect from an employer constantly pushing more work on them.

"We are strong. We will fight to our last," Maureen says.

Growing fast and planning big things, York and UTSC say they’re "anchor institutions" committed to raising up the communities around them. That’s a lie if full-time employees on those campuses don’t make a living wage.

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and up to Toronto Council to approve and determine its location. He pointed to a third party review of construction estimates attached to the report - which estimates a price of $2.7-billion in 2021dollars for building a new station, bus terminal plus a subway tunnel leading from Kennedy Station representing 64 per cent of construction- as evidence significant cost-savings are possible. "(The report) does show substantial savings can be achieved depending on choices made in construction of the subway extension," said Tory during a media appearance Tuesday morning on the Scarborough RT platform at Kennedy station. "We know there is at least a few hundred million dollars in potential savings that can be found over the life of this project to help keep costs as low as possible."

While the project which would replace the obsolete

RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Toronto’s mayor defended another cost hike to the one-stop Scarborough subway extension, claiming hundreds of millions in savings is possible for the project.

John Tory and several staunch allies of the controversial transit plan reiterated their support for the Toronto Council-endorsed plan, which according to a new staff report which projects costs for building a single subway station at Scarborough Centre at $3.34 billion - an additional $187-million over the most recent estimate. The additional cost stems from construction of a new underground bus terminal at the new subway station, which is recommended by city staff over a street-level design.

Tory said a decision on the bus terminal is separate from the subway extension

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Ward 35 Scarborough Southwest Councillor Michelle Holland (right) greets Mayor John Tory, TTC chair Josh Colle and Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker (Ward 38, Scarborough Centre) as they step off the Scarborough RT at Kennedy station. plan which also includes a 17-stop eastern extension of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT between Kennedy and

SRT, it has engendered controversy and fierce council debate, morphing from a three-stop extension down to two-stop and finally the latest proposed routing along the McCowan Road transit corridor. Last year Council approved by majority a $3.5-billion network

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University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), projected to cost $1.6-billion.

With the additional cost for the subway project eating further into the overall budget, Tory conceded the light rail plan will require a funding commitment from the federal government if it’s ever to be constructed.

Newly elected Scarborough-Rouge River city councillor Neethan Shan blamed the spiraling cost for the subway extension on decades of inaction on local transit improvement, dating before amalgamation when the borough was an independent municipality.

Shan said the one-stop plan would especially benefit marginalized persons of colour pushed out to areas under-serviced by transit.

"Whether you look at it

economically or environmentally, this is an investment for Scarborough," said Shan who was joined at the press conference by fellow Scarborough councillors Glenn De Baeremaeker and Michelle Holland along with TTC chair Josh Colle.

But transit activist Brenda Thompson described the the Scarborough subway extension as a "house of cards" lacking strong evidence of its benefit for local residents.

"If we’re going to go ahead with this project we need the evidence that shows it’s a good value for money," said Thompson, a member of Scarborough Transit Action.

The mayor’s executive committee will debate the report at its Marc h 7 meeting.

the Feb. 23 edition of The Scarborough Mirror contained incorrect information. Ted and John Foster

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MONEY MATTERS

Middle class Torontonians feeling the squeeze Residents struggle to stay afloat as income disparity in Toronto grows

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JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com North York resident Cathleen Trinh, mom to three-year-old Charlie, keeps a fairly tight rein on her finances.

Trinh, who works in Richmond Hill, directs a notable portion of her earnings to child care.

"It is manageable with my income. I’m pretty lucky, but it could be better," said Trinh, who is on a waiting list for a child care subsidy. "The Canada Child Tax Benefit helps me a lot."

Since becoming a single mom a year ago, Trinh said she’s learned a lot more about how to access government resources and tax breaks. She’s currently working to save up enough money to purchase a property in the city.

"One of the major financial challenges is trying to own something. It’s basically impossible," admitted Trinh, who came to Canada from Germany 14 years ago. "I have not given up hope on home ownership, but I’m not ready for it yet.

Maybe in the next year if the prices aren’t crazy."

Trinh’s situation is a common one for people in Toronto who earn between $40,000 and $90,000 annually.

Danielle C., a mother of young two sons from East York, would love to own her own home in the city but realizes it’s just not possible with her family’s $80,000 annual income and their current monthly expenditures, which includes $2,000 for daycare.

"We could afford the mortgage payment but the challenge is to pay down our consumer debt and save for the down payment," said Danielle, who asked to not use her full name for privacy reasons.

"Five years would be the

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Cathleen Trinh and her son Charlie, 3, are feeling the financial pressures of living in Toronto. earliest my partner and I could consider a house, if all things fall into place."

Regardless, she said the benefits of city life, notably its diversity, walkability, and access to public transit, outweigh the dream of home ownership.

A decade ago, University of Toronto professor David Hulchanski published a groundbreaking report, Three Cities Within Toronto, which looked at income polarization in Toronto by neighbourhood from 1970 to 2005.

In early 2015, Hulchanski and his team of researchers provided an update to that initial report.

They found that the city’s wealth is becoming even more concentrated in the central part of the city with less affluent areas growing

in Toronto’s outer limits.

The findings, which still ring true today, also show that the average income is

rising significantly in downtown and the north end, essentially pushing out those who earn less.

Sean Meagher, executive director of Social Planning Toronto, spends his days advocating for affordability for Toronto’s roughly one million households.

Together with his team, he works to build a Toronto where everyone has the "means to participate" in society.

"We don’t want people pushed into pockets. We want people to be able to live everywhere in the city and afford to do so," he said. "I think it’s valuable (to the city) and an investment we have to make."

Recently, the council has been pushing Toronto to do better in a campaign of the same name. Part of "Toronto Can Do Better" includes lobbying the city to look at the bigger picture and invest in transit, good jobs, and affordable housing in its 2017 budget.

"Our view is, let’s budget smart. We want a plan that makes sense. It’s about making choices that meet our needs versus the numbers we like," he said, pointing to the importance of considering interconnections like the health benefits of providing people with affordable, quality housing when it comes to city budgeting.

Social Planning Toronto has also been working to help politicians better understand how budget cuts directly impact real people’s lives and how adding to the city’s coffers through a small property

tax increase can be beneficial for all.

WoodGreen Community Services, a long-standing social service agency in east Toronto, is one of many organizations across the city helping Torontonians find ways to afford their lives and thrive.

"Income stress affects all income levels. You don’t have to be in the lowest income bracket to feel the stress of affordability," said Diane Dyson, director of research and public policy.

"We help people who are trying to find resources."

Dyson and her colleagues work to better understand how decisions made by the government directly affect people’s lives, and identify and improve the "missing pieces" in the system. A major part of their work is addressing the lack of affordable housing in Toronto.

For Steven Vanderherberg, the agency’s director of strategic initiatives, it’s all about helping people living with less find the right balance of income and expenses, and to help them be autonomous and better "afford their lives."

WoodGreen runs yearlong income tax clinics as well as a host of Financial Empowerment Services to help people increase their financial literacy, manage their debt, create a budget, access government income sources.

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MIDDLE CLASS CHALLENGES ANDREA GASCA A Beach resident for 16 years, Andreea Gasca is prepared to make sacrifices so that her 12-year-old daughter Nikita can reap the benefits of growing up in a diverse, multicultural city.

"I’m staying in Toronto because of what it can teach my child. I want my daughter to have an open mind. From an arts and culture standpoint, Toronto offers so much," shared Gasca, who works for the Attorney General’s office.

Originally from Montreal, Gasca said to stay afloat she’s had to find creative ways to stretch a dollar.

"We’ve developed an addiction to Value Village and the Facebook (buy and sell) groups. You have to find ways to make it work," said Gasca, who has only taken one vacation in 12 years. "It’s tough to get ahead, to make ends meet."

Gasca said inflation is a key reason why she struggles to get ahead even if her income has increased in recent years.

ALICIA PENNY Scarborough resident Alicia Penny, her partner, and their two-year-old son, Elijah, are also working hard to stay afloat. Toronto is home and she feels her family has the right to live here.

"Our roots are here. It’s just too much to up and move somewhere else where you don’t know anybody," she told Metroland Media Toronto.

Penny, who has lived in the city for the majority of her life, said one of the challenges her young family faces is the cost of housing.

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Both Penny, who works in landscaping, and her partner, a mechanic by trade, are both currently receiving disability benefits. She said the challenge is that any extra income earned or any savings or assets they had are counted against them.

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"Since I was five, I have been fascinated by the human body," said Burhan Butt, who recently received the Dean’s Scholar Award and Opportunity Scholarship to begin his medical education at Ross University School of Medicine.

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Burhan Butt received the Dean’s Scholar Award to begin his medical education at Ross University School of Medicine. fluence in my decision to pursue medicine as a child."

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A street in a new midScarborough subdivision will bear the name of a black "pioneer" in Canadian broadcasting, the City of Toronto has announced.

Jolly Way, near the intersection of Midland and Ellesmere avenues, will honour the many contributions of Brandeis Denham Jolly, the city said in a release on Feb. 28.

Born in 1935 in Jamaica, Jolly is a past owner and publisher of the newspaper Contrast, and has been outspoken on social justice issues as a member of Toronto’s Black Action Defence Committee.

He founded and led the city’s Black Business and Professional Association and launched Canada’s first black-owned radio station, FLOW 93.5.

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Jolly was "instrumental in giving voice to the culture, achievements, challenges and aspirations of Toronto’s black and Caribbean communities when few channels for such messages were available," Scarborough Centre Coun.

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"It is most appropriate that approval to name a street after Mr. Jolly has come through today, the last day of Black History Month 2017."

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Through this conversation our journalists will investigate if students currently enrolled in post-secondary education in Ontario are being adequately prepared for the constantly changing workforce.

We ask students in colleges and universities to answer the question:, "Why are I here?" And their answers, on video, are as unique as should be expected from a demographic that won’t be pigeonholed.

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for many individuals in their 20s and early 30s, a job just won’t cut it. Entrepreneurship is as likely a path to a successful future as a job or handful of degrees and Millennials are creating their own future through creativity, daring, hard work and sheer will.

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The City of Toronto is considering a stormwater charge

Tell us what you think Visit toronto.ca/stormwatercharge to: • Learn more about the proposed stormwater charge • Get a complete list of the public consultation dates and locations • Complete the survey What is stormwater?

Stormwater is rain and melted snow.

When not absorbed into the ground, it runs off properties onto streets, down storm drains and through a complex network of pipes that carry it into local waterways or, in some cases, wastewater treatment facilities. Generally, the more hard surfaces a property has the more stormwater it adds to the stormwater system.

RESIDENTIAL Assumes annual water use of 265 cubic metres and a lot size of 0.037 ha (approx. 4,000 sq ft)

An increase in extreme storms, combined with more hard surfaces in the city is resulting in more water making its way into the stormwater system. Too much water can overwhelm the system leading to flooded basements and poor water quality in local waterways, including Lake Ontario.

How is stormwater managed?

Making infrastructure improvements is necessary to manage the impacts of stormwater. To help manage stormwater, the City is creating new holding ponds, tanks and tunnels, and overhauling some sewer infrastructure that is more than 100 years old.

The proposal is to remove the portion paid for stormwater – currently embedded in the water rate – and show it as a separate charge on the bill. The water rate will decrease and a stormwater charge will be added. The amount paid for stormwater will be based on property size and the average amount of hard surfaces on properties of a similar size. Some bills will go up and some will go down.

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PROPOSAL: LOWER WATER RATE + STORMWATER CHARGE Water rate charge: Water rate charge: $805 $1,038 Stormwater charge: $225 Total annual bill: $1,038 Total annual bill: $1,030 Per day: $2.84 Per day: $2.82 Annual difference: -$8 -0.8% CURRENT

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Each of the 2,500 boxes will contain most of the essentials needed for two meals for up to three Greater Toronto Area (GTA) residents who may be living in poverty, are recent immigrants, have disabilities or are in financial dire straits.

The Passover Food Drive, organized by the National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, Toronto Section (NCJWC-TS), will run Sunday, March 19 to Wednesday, March 29, with delivery day set for Sunday, April 2.

Of the estimated 200,000 Jewish people living in Toronto, some 26,000 live below the poverty line, according to NCJWC-TS. The boxes, filled with traditional Passover food, will be packed and delivered to those in need in Toronto and the GTA. Volunteer drivers are needed April 2 to deliver boxes between 8:30 and 11:30 a.m. starting from 4700 Bathurst St. Along with volunteers, the food drive is also

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Passover, which celebrates the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt, begins the evening of Monday, April 10 and ends the evening of Tuesday, April 18.

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DAVID NICKLE The City were popular in Scarborough, and part of that popularity was a stoked sense of grievance among a significant number of Scarborough voters. Supporting it was a good strategy.

Good strategy, but bad policy. After the election, Tory dealt with ballooning costs by supporting a stripped-down version: just a single stop at the Scarborough Town Centre, with other light rail improvements along Eglinton East to be paid for from the savings of eliminating those other two stations.

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should start planning their light rail commute to east Scarborough any time soon. The costs are up by another $197 million, to a total of $3.346 billion.

Tory’s executive committee will have an opportunity to take another look at the plan, as the new report comes before it on March 7. Don’t expect big changes, though. On Feb. 27, Tory told reporters he thought the city could find savings in construction costs, and suggested that other orders of government might pay for the Eglinton light rail.

As for the original plan?

It seems as though a plan is still a plan. Same as it ever was.

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The trouble is that genuinely big, bad decisions have a tendency to get bigger, and also worse. So it is with the Scarborough subway plan, which was a bad idea from the get-go: the moment in 2013 that Toronto council trashed a fullyfunded light rail plan to replace the Scarborough RT, with a three-stop subway that served fewer communities and cost more.

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Real cost of infrastructure is always high I have a humble request for Toronto’s elected officials, planners and transportation watchers, if only in the interests of my continued mental health: please, please, please don’t assume cost estimates for expensive and long-off infrastructure plans are a realistic gauge of the final price tag.

Take the Scarborough subway extension, which could be in operation before the end of the 2020s. Its cost has steadily risen from $2 billion to a current total of $3.34-billion for the plan.

Design work for the extension is barely at five per cent and the environmental assessment required for provincial approval hasn’t even started. In fact, this week’s announced price escalation only takes into account the cost of constructing an underground bus terminal at the new station, which is separate from construction for the actual subway extension.

RAHUL GUPTA TO in Transit In other words, the price is sure to rise. Probably by a lot. It’s entirely conceivable the next time the city delivers a substantive project update, the Scarborough extension could exceed $4 billion for the one solitary station.

The issue isn’t limited to controversial subway plans. Light rail supporters like to compare the Scarborough subway with the Crosstown East LRT plan between Kennedy Station and the University of Toronto Scarborough, and how it will offer better local service and cost significantly less than a pricey

subway stop. All well and good, but don’t buy for one moment the cost of the 17stop LRT will stay at its current price point of $1.6billion. If I were the betting type, I’d put the final price tag north of $2 billion, not including operation and maintenance costs.

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But, if you don’t have dental coverage, an appointment to see the dentist can get pretty expensive.

So, Ontario has made it easier for families to send their children to the dentist.

The Healthy Smiles Ontario program now has about 85,000 Toronto children and youth enrolled, and approximately 320,000 across the province, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care said. It is available to children aged 17 and under in Ontario from low-income families or those receiving social assistance.

Ontario Dental Association (ODA) past president Dr. Jerry Smith, who leads the ODA’s advocacy to the province for the creation of such programs, said Healthy Smiles Ontario is important and he continues to push the province for more.

"Dentists are very socially responsible and we understand the needs of this population, and we want to provide the service necessary for these kids. We believe that no child should go to bed in pain," he said.

Prior to 1998, no such provincial program existed and ODA member dentists provided the work to their clients free, he said. In 1998, the province stepped up and created six dental programs; they were amalgamated into one Health Smiles Ontario program in Jan. 1, 2016. Member dentists continue to subsidize the work, as the provincial program does not cover the full cost of treatment, Smith said.

Smith asks families to take advantage of the program. The ODA estimates there are around 500,000 children and youth across Ontario who are eligible.

When patients don’t access care at the dental office, they end up in a hospital

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l Friday, March 3 Scarborough Poetry Club WHEN: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. WHERE: Agincourt Public Library, 155 Bonis Ave., Toronto CONTACT: 416-396-8951 COST: The group invites poetry enthusiasts and anyone curious about poetry to our monthly meetings. l Saturday, March 4 Saturday Night Entertainment & Dancing WHEN: 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 614, 100 Salome Dr., Toronto CONTACT: 416-293-0872 COST: Join Jeff & Gary, Karaoke Masters, for an exciting evening of dancing to your favourite songs. Couples and singles welcome. Lots of free parking. l Sunday, March 5 Scarborough Model Railroaders Train Show WHEN: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. WHERE: Scarborough Model Railroaders Club House, 17 Jeavons Ave, Toronto CONTACT: 416-262-9971 COST: Adults $5, Children $2, Seniors $3, Family $12 Two floors of Model Railroads with more than 28 scale miles of double-tracked mainline.

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Knox United Church, 2569 Midland Ave., Toronto CONTACT: 416-293-4424 COST: $25 Sixth Season continues with the Wychwood Clarinet Choir "Mid Winter Sweets". l Monday, March 6 Beyond Resume WHEN: 6 a.m. - 8 a.m. WHERE: Steeles Public Library, 375 Bamburgh Circle, Toronto CONTACT: rjeyanayagam@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Practical step-by-step guide to answering an interview’s toughest questions and tips on how to control your nerves and maintain positive body language. Call to register. l Tuesday, March 7 Volunteers Needed WHEN: 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. WHERE: Knox Presbyterian Church, 4156 Sheppard Ave., Toronto CONTACT: Betsy Prucha, 416-7500404 COST: Teachers needed for ESL School teaching conversational English on Tuesdays. No experience necessary. Call for more in-

formation. l Saturday, March 11 Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra presents Mozart Requiem and Faure Requiem WHEN: 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. WHERE: P.C.Ho Theatre, 5183 Sheppard Ave. East, Toronto CONTACT: 416-879-5566, www.cathedralbluffs.com COST: Tickets starting at $35 ($30 Students/Seniors) The Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra program includes Mozart’s Requiem in D minor and Faure’s Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 with combined choir of over 100 singers. l Monday, March 13 Newcomer & Settlement Service Drop In WHEN: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. WHERE: Malvern Family Resource Centre Youth Centre, 1321 Neilson Road, Toronto CONTACT: Cathy Mwanza, 416 281 1376, cmwanza@mfrc.org, www.mfrc.org COST: Providing a monthly Saturday walk-in service to assist newcomers ad immigrants who live in the community.

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5 things to do this weekend l Friday, March 3 Curious Minds Weekend WHEN: 12 p.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, 506 Bloor St W., Toronto CONTACT: 416-637-3123 COST: Various packages In-depth on-stage discussions, meet innovative thinkers and explore the most urgent and exciting issues of our time.

Toronto Light Festival WHEN: 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. WHERE: The Historic Distillery District, 55 Mill St., Toronto CONTACT: Kathleen Stelmach, kathleen@torchiacom.com, http://www.torontolightfest.com/ The Toronto Light Festival is on until March 12. Hours: Sunday to Wednesday, sundown to 10 p.m.

Thursday to Saturday, sundown to 11 p.m. l Saturday, March 4 TMC hymn sing WHEN: 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. WHERE: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge St., Toronto CONTACT: 416-598-0422 COST: $35 (general seating); VOXTIX (30 & under) $20

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Join in a stirring hymn sing with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, all accompanied by the great Yorkminster Park organ. l Sunday, March 5 SingONtario!

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ORIANA Women’s Choir Concert WHEN: 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. WHERE: Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Rd., Toronto CONTACT: Laura Inostroza, 416-526-6257, info@orianachoir.com, http:// orianachoir.com/ COST: Adults $25. Seniors $20. FT Student $10 Two major works for women’s voices, from the 20th and 18th centuries.

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