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Province wants strong protections for Rouge Park before land transferred Peace in the valley closer after federal Liberals elected mIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Past inhabitants of Scarborough’s Rouge Valley were said to have buried weapons under a white pine to signal a conflict was over. Around two weeks ago, politicians who supported the federal Conservative position on what the Rouge National Urban Park should be made a gesture of their own. They wrote to Catherine McKenna, the new Liberal government’s environment minister, and Brad Duguid, the Ontario cabinet minister who withheld 9,000 acres of provincial land from the park. They politely asked McKenna and Duguid to meet them, and to transfer those lands to the new national park as soon as possible. ‘peace offering’ The letters were “a peace offering to the new federal government” from people who have worked to protect the Rouge Valley for decades, said Scarborough Centre Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker, adding he and other signers were also “offering their services.” Signers of the letters include Conservative MP Peter Kent, who announced the Rouge NUP as Canada’s environment minister in 2012, Conservative MP Michael Chong, former Scarborough Progressive Conservative MP Pauline Browes, and Scarborough East Councillor Ron Moeser. They, and the Friends of the Rouge National Urban Park (NUP) organization that sent the letter, had vigorously defended plans the Conservatives had for the park – much of it to be declared a “protected agricultural area” where tenant farmers would not be displaced by trees – from Duguid’s
refusal to allow the transfer until the October election. Friends of the Rouge NUP kept urging people to question Duguid and the province’s stance against the land transfer, calling it politically motivated. The group also said the $170 million the Conservatives promised the park was much more than the province ever invested. political catfight But all this was a “relatively small disagreement” that turned into a “political catfight about who thought they knew best for the park,” said De Baeremaeker, a former full-time campaigner for Rouge Valley preservation who now hopes “some of that partisan friction will disappear.” The letter-signers also asked Duguid to submit comments on behalf of Ontario on the Rouge Park management plan drafted by Parks Canada under the Conservative regime. In an interview last week, Duguid said he wants the land transferred “as expeditiously as possible,” but the park legislation, and therefore the plan, must first be rewritten to make environmental protections for the Rouge Valley “as strong as they are today, if not enhanced.” “That was the challenge the (Stephen) Harper government let us down on,” said Duguid, arguing the letter-signers, perhaps “feeling a little sheepish now,” are “the same people who urged me to sell out our commitment” to protection in order to build the park faster. Though Duguid said he welcomes their support, he said he’ll work more closely with environmental groups such as Friends of the Rouge Watershed (FRW), which “stood by our efforts” and made submissions to the previous government that were ignored. Duguid, who was able to stop the provincial land transfer because he was Ontario’s infrastructure minister, said he’ll connect with McKenna when she returns from the Paris climate change conference.
Both governments now share the same perspective on the Rouge, but still have work to do amending the park legislation and management plan, he said. Supporters of the Conservative position have said their plan – which introduced armed park wardens – provided stronger protections. Those on the other side said “existing protections” must include policies that put the watershed’s ecology first and construct a wide corridor of forests through the park in Markham. De Baeremaeker said he still believes the Conservative government’s legislation was better for the park, and the province’s refusal of it “was a bit of a jaw-dropper to me.” Still, he said he hopes “the bickering” is over, and the 9,000 provincial acres can be handed soon to a park getting a federal investment at least as big as the Conservatives promised.
The councillor said he will also press the federal Liberals to dedicate 10,000 more acres of land in Durham Region to the park. “Now is an amazing opportunity,” he said. Jim Robb, general manager of FRW, said he’s looking forward to the two governments fulfilling their agreement the park would “meet or exceed” current protections. “I’m very optimistic now,” Robb added after he and a few other members of non-government groups met Duguid late last month. Though she wasn’t re-elected in Scarborough North, former New Democrat MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan’s private member’s bill for amending the park legislation is a good starting point for the federal Liberals, Robb suggested. “The legislation, if they want to, should be able to go through in a year,” but investigations Parks Canada must do before the land transfers, judging from the past, will take longer, he said.
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oronto has been in fiscal denial, off and on, since it was amalgamated in 1998. That was when Mel Lastman was elected mayor, promising to freeze property taxes for the first three years of the new mega-city. He pulled it off, but not in a fiscally responsible way. Rather than finding internal efficiencies and cutting services, most of the city’s financial problems were deferred down the line in the service of a tax freeze. When David Miller took over two terms later, the city and council did better, but it was a tooth-andnail fight to implement the land transfer tax and vehicle registration tax, which let council get away with more minor efficiencies and modest property tax increases thanks to a booming real estate market. Those taxes and a municipal workers strike sent Rob Ford our view into the mayor’s office and while that regime made some Proposal is mostly unpalatable cuts, once ambitious spending and good first step again timid revenue-seeking put in responsiblity Toronto back in the hole. The early months of John Tory’s time in the mayor’s office seemed to continue this unrealistic mash-up of promises of frugality with big-ticket commitments. For a time, it looked as though the reconstruction of the Gardiner Expressway, SmartTrack, the Scarborough subway and countless other enhancements were going to bankrupt us all. That’s why we’re happy to see that Tory has effectively abandoned his promise to keep property tax increases at or below the rate of inflation. It’s not that we think higher taxes are a good idea. But the alternative – planning to build a city the size of Toronto on an unsustainable fiscal plan – is folly. Tory’s plan to charge a 0.5 per cent a year levy to build transit and housing is at least a step toward erasing that folly. The tax increase is relatively small: $13 a year for the average homeowner, for five years, on top of whatever inflationary increase they see on their tax bill. By itself, it is neither a great burden, nor the complete solution to Toronto’s needs. There will have to be more revenue grabs. But that’s for another day. For now, we can at least applaud that the days of denial seem to be done.
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Mayor John Tory has defied early expectations when it comes to governing a complex Toronto John Tory can be a tough mayor to interview. That’s not to say that our mayor is evasive, or dishonest, or, like the last one to hold the job, openly hostile to journalistic prying. Tory is none of those things. The problem, rather, is the opposite: Tory thinks aloud, considering all points of view and in the end, states nearly all of them – in addition to agreeing with the premise of the question in case that hadn’t come up in one of the other answers. It can be frustrating work, trying to parse the mayor’s views from all that. A lead becomes a multiple choice question. From that, one might conclude that the mayor is simply unprincipled – and by a narrowly political definition of the word, that might be so. Tory does not hold fast with the principles of one
david nickle the city faction or another of our political spectrum. He might have done so in the past. But now, Tory seems content to take his pick. This he has demonstrated ably over his first year in office. For a time, it seemed as though Tory might be of a piece with council’s right-wing intelligentsia: he championed a costly rebuild of the Gardiner Expressway favoured by Conservative members of council, and held fast on the costly Scarborough subway for which former mayor Rob Ford took credit. He has sung the praises of the private sector and made jokes about the folly of big government as well as any right-wing pol might be expected to.
But as the year has gone on, he’s defied those expectations. After talking with business leaders and sport boosters, he backed the city away from another Olympic bid. He used another meeting with the blue-blooded business crowd at the Economic Club of Canada to unveil plans for an annual tax hike to pay for a major round of construction and repair of public affordable housing and transit infrastructure. He flew to Paris right after that, to huddle with world leaders trying to find ways to battle, halt and possibly reverse climate change and when he came back, he announced plans to help Toronto recycle more garbage, consume less energy and get around on foot and on bicycles. This is not the sort of thing you’d have expected
from a guy named Tory. Now some of this might be written off as evidence of a shifting of the political winds. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals came to power on a wave of progressive policies and right-wing repudiation. I would buy that more easily if I hadn’t been exposed so early and often to the push-me-pull-you dynamic of Tory’s psyche. And while it’s a frustrating psyche to try and codify, it might actually turn out to be a healthy one when it comes to governing a big, complex place like Toronto, where public mood and social reality can shift in a heartbeat. Vision, clear and consistent and predictable, might well have had its day.
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Scarborough native The Weeknd continues to dominate the international music scene, scoring seven Grammy Awards nominations for his album Beauty Behind the Madness. The nominations were announced early Monday, Dec. 7. The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, is up for some of The Grammys’ biggest honours, including album of the year and record of the year. The former West Hill Collegiate Institute student will face off against Alabama Shakes, Chris Stapleton, Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift for album of the year. Can’t Feel My Face, the third single from Beauty Behind the Madness, will take on tracks from D’Angelo, Ed Sheeran, Mark Ronson and Taylor Swift for record of the year. The single is also up for
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T h e A f r i c a n Ca n a d i a n Heritage Association hosts its annual Kwanzza celebration this Saturday at Alexander Sterling Public School in Scarborough. The free community event goes from 1;30 to 5:30 p.m. and features cultural entertainment and an African market place. The ACHA will also provide a free communal feast. Everyone is welcome to attend, and the doors open at 1 p.m. Donations of canned or dried food items for local food banks, and donations of gently used shoes for the Kenya Project will be accepted. Alexander Stirling P.S. is located at 70 Fawcett Trail. Kwanzaa is a week long celebration honouring African
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MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Strip malls. Back yard fences along wide streets. Apartment towers ringed by parking lots and lawns. It’s not so bad, right? And we can work with it, says New Suburbanism, a Scarboroughborn movement to study the history of our suburbs and plan their future. New Suburbanists must do this in front of experts who blame suburban plans and lifestyles for contributing to obesity, climate change and certain Arcade Fire songs, but that doesn’t bother Morgen Peers. “These are really satisfying places to live,” said Peers, a planner and founder of the Institute for New Suburbanism. “They need to be engaged on their own terms.” The institute is organizing a 2017 conference at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and will host a lecture Jan. 19 on what New Suburbanism is about. Peers said a popular design
movement, New Urbanism, says our suburbs are problematic, improper forms of community. He’s trying to steer that conversation using positive language, so we look at a suburb such as Scarborough as “not something that needs to be corrected, but something that needs to be worked with and matured.” Suburban planning “is about things being more spread out,” and suburbs are a necessary broker between urban and rural landscapes, Peers said. These aren’t easy times for defenders of the suburban dream in Scarborough and other spread-out parts of greater Toronto. After its city council voted to refuse a $1.6-billion light rail line last month, one Toronto newspaper’s architecture critic wrote Brampton had been turned “into little more than an arrangement of highways and parking lots interrupted by malls and subdivisions.” The writer, Christopher Hume, said rejecting the transit line was in character. “The sub-
Defenders of suburban dream see the burbs as attractive places urban ethos, after all, is one of disconnection and separation. It rejects the urban ideal for something that, though it adds up to less, demands less.” Another critic, John Bentley Mays, earlier this month declared Scarborough – a target for downtown urban-affairs writers these days because of the perceived wasteful nature of its proposed Bloor-Danforth subway extension – to be “littered with bad building art of recent vintage: bleak concrete apartment slabs, and sentimental, pseudo-historical new homes and townhouses.”
Still, Peers maintains he sees the public “shifting from talking about the suburbs as a problem to them being a naturally occurring part of an urban region.” His conference organizing group met for the first time in October, and Peers said it will be open to opinions from residents and professionals alike as the three-day event comes together. The third day of the conference will be tours or moving workshops using the buildings and vistas of Scarborough as a laboratory for problem-solving or ideas, he said. Peers wrote research papers for the Scarborough Community Renewal Campaign, which was sponsored by local Rotary clubs. The campaign’s final report last January called, among other things, for a Scarborough Business Association, formed since, a re-branding campaign to “shift external perceptions” of Scarborough, a tourism board to spotlight the area’s “hidden gems,” and a new hub in Scarborough for music, arts and culture.
Also on the list was a planning conference on “neo-suburban” ideas, including some that could improve future development in Scarborough. New Suburbanism doesn’t really have anything to do with New Urbanism, said Andre Sorensen, chair of the department of Human Geography a t U TS C , a r g u i n g Pe e r s wants to change the image of the suburbs, trying to get people to think of them – and Scarborough in particular – as attractive places that aren’t in decline. Many people in Canada have stereotypical ideas about the suburbs, but they are much different places now then when first built, with more workplaces and complexities, Sorensen added. Before you make changes to a place or policies, you have to understand it; that will be a focus of the conference on suburbs, he predicted. “Just understanding how they’re changing is a good first step.” Staff photo/DAN PEARCE
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A 32-year-old man is dead after the SUV he was driving slammed into a parked truck in Scarborough last Thursday, evening. The crash happened on Kingston Road east of McCowan Road at 8:38 p.m. Police reports said a westbound Saturn Vue hit the back of a parked Hino delivery truck “for reasons not yet determined.” The driver of the Saturn was pronounced dead at the scene. This is the city’s 61st fatal collision of the year. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416808-1900. Industrial accident injures man A 48-year-old man suffered serious injuries in an industrial accident at a Scarborough lumberyard Monday. Police said the incident happened at Home Lumber
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Inc. on Birchmount Road south of Comstock Road, at 7:17 a.m. “There was a forklift that was moving some of the lumber around and the lumber fell off and fell onto the victim,” Const. Craig Brister said. “He’s suffered from several broken bones. We turned the scene over to the Ministry of Labour and they are currently conducting their investigation.” The victim was taken to a trauma centre for treatment. His injuries are not life-threatening. made in distraction theft wArrest
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Calgary, led by seasoned veteran Hayley Wickenheiser, dropped to 10-2 in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL) while Toronto improved their totals to five points in 12 games (two wins and a shootout loss). It halted a 10-game losing streak for Toronto after opening their season with a win against the last place Boston Blades. The teams were tied 2-2 midway through the game when Toronto went on a fourgoal flurry in a space of just under five minutes (including three more by Spooner and the final Furies’ tally by Japanese national team
player Sena Suzuki – her first goal of the season – for which Spooner drew an assist). A furious third period comeback was then held off by the Furies and their goalie Christina Kessler who faced 45 shots. A tweet from the Toronto club after the game said: “@ ckessler35 is your 3rd star of the game and to the surprise of absolutely no one in the world @natspooner5 is your 1st star (5G, 1A).” The six-point game vaulted Spooner, a Cedarbrae Collegiate grad, into a thirdplace tie in CWHL scoring with 15 points in 10 games
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Duwayne Ewart has been nominated for a Canada Soccer award.
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Holy Spir it Catholic Elementary School will host a Live Nativity Scene this evening. It starts at 5 p.m. with food sales, and the nativity scene will be re-enacted by students starting at 5:45 p.m. The school has set up an outdoor stable with straw, several live animals and singing while Mary and Joseph make their way along the procession path – surrounded by students holding battery operated candles. There will also be musical performances, food sales, a silent auction and a food drive collection as part of the celebration. The school is located at 3530 Sheppard Ave. E., just west of Birchmount Road.
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standing in this show, both individually and in scenes together. Thompson gives a moving performance as Hammerschmidt, a man who carries a lot of burden, but still has the courage to fight for happiness, and Hardess is a comedic delight as Sipos, the voice of reason and fatherfigure to everyone. Nathan Costa as the delivery boy, Arpad, is a talented actor who brings much needed levity to the show, and Powers, as Kadar, oozes suave and is a pleasure to watch. amazing Bennett is amazing as George, showing a full range of emotions from pleasant and happy to stern and mean. The scenes between Bennett and O’Neal, who gives a fantastic performance as Amalia, are some of the most poignant in the show. This show is full of charm and talent, and proves that while time may change how we can interact, it can never alter the way we feel joy and pain, and that we need each other to navigate the highs and lows of life. Parfumerie runs until Dec. 19, 8 p.m., and a 2 p.m. matinee on Dec. 13, at the Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston Rd. Tickets are $20, and can be purchased by calling 416-267-9292. Also, for more information, visit www.theatrescarborough.com
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and refuses to accept it as the price of being part of the competitive global economy. The province is “in a lively conversation with doctors,” and has told them they will get no raise in fees, said Wynne, suggesting that’s due partly to her decision to raise salaries for Ontario’s lowest-paid workers, including early childhood educators and personal support workers (PSW). Wynne said she’s also working with PSWs, often hired on a temporary basis, to create “more rational” work schedules for them. “It’s not just about the money, it’s about piecing together a full-time job,” she said. The premier acknowledged Ontario needs legislated changes to protect workers, but said new criteria for legal aid means one million more Ontarians can use legal clinic services. Ontario’s labour ministry now does some pro-active workplace inspections to enforce employment standards, but still warns employers they are coming. Another woman who shook Wynne’s hand said that until recently she was an assistant teacher on contract at a private school in Scarborough. Her employer, she said, withheld her pay and made her work when she was ill.
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“This is not fair to me or the children that I work with,” said the woman, who is now unemployed. “We work hard and we pay tax.” She added when she asked for her vacation pay after two years at the school, her employer threatened her with dismissal. “I am going to put it (on record) that you quit,” she said he told her. The school’s owners, she said, “wanted maximum profit.” Besides Flemingdon, clinics involved in TEELS are East Toronto Community
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Scarborough Arts presents Holiday Dreams WHEN: 4 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: The Bluffs Gallery, 1859 Kingston Rd. CONTACT: Marianne Rellin, 416-698-7322, http:// scarborougharts.com/hd-2015, info@scarborougharts.com COST: Free A merry evening for the entire family. From 4 to 5:30 p.m. bring the kids for a photo opportunity with Santa Claus, holiday treats, and familyfriendly activities. From 6 to 8:30 p.m. the gallery will host a holiday mixer, featuring musical performances, contests, and games. A holidaythemed visual arts exhibition will also be on display through the night. Call or email to RSVP. Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting www.scarboroughmirror.com. Read weeks of listings from your Scarborough neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto. Rangeelay Bhangara Team and performance by Sunny the Rockstar Charlie Brown Christmas Musical WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Parkway Bible Church, 77 Ivordale Cr. CONTACT: Janet Grishaber, 416445-2820, www.parkwaybiblechurch. ca, janet@parkwaybiblechurch.ca COST: Free Also on Sunday, Dec. 13. Christmas Concert with Encore Band WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Wilmar Heights Event Centre, 963 Pharmacy Ave. CONTACT: Jamie or Kim, 416346-3910, http://encoreband.ca/
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Karaoke Dance Party WHEN: 2 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 614, 100 Salome Dr. CONTACT: 416-2930872 COST: Free Couples and singles welcome. BBQ food available for purchase. Community Carol Sing WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: St. Dunstan of Canterbury Anglican Church, 56 Lawson Rd. CONTACT: Kim Brown, 416-283-1844, parishadmin@stdunstan.ca COST: Free
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w Monday, Dec. 14
Agincourt Garden Club WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Knox United Christian Education Centre, 2575 Midland Ave. CONTACT: Cheryl Penner, 416-414-7704 COST: Free Pot luck supper and entertainment. Everyone welcome.
w Tuesday, Dec. 15
Sales and Marketing Program Information session WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: ACCES Employment - Scarborough, 2100 Ellesmere Rd., Unit 250 CONTACT: Robert Tortian, 905-361-2522, ext. 3348, rtortian@accesemployment.ca COST: Free
w Wednesday, Dec. 16
Wednesday Knit Night WHEN: 5 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Albert Campbell District Library, 496 Birchmount Rd. CONTACT: Kate, 416-396-8890 COST: Free
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Business Association
S H A R E B R E A K FA S T W I T H A T R U E SCARBOROUGH SUCCESS STORY! President of Pizza Nova, Domenic Primucci, shares his immigrant family’s success story. In 1963, the Primucci family opened Pizza Nova – one small pizzeria in Scarborough. Today, this small business phenomenon is still a Scarborough-based family owned and operated company with 140 locations throughout Southern Ontario.
The holiday season is fast approaching and this year, make it about giving back to those less fortunate.
Enter for your chance to WIN a
JANUARY 13, 2016
$250 President’s Choice® gift card
JC’s Banquet Hall (free underground parking) 1686 Ellesmere Road, Scarborough.
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Members $25.00 | Non-Members $35.00 | Registration and Breakfast 7:15am-8:00am Speaker Presentation 8:00am-8:30am | Networking 8:30am-9:00am To Register: www.scarboroughbusinessassociation.com
Prizes very generously donated by: Joe’s
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JOIN US AND DISCOVER WHAT THE SCARBOROUGH BUSINESS ASSOCIATION CAN DO FOR YOU.
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Special Thanks to Our Founding Members
To enter, visit insidetoronto.com/contests No purchase necessary. Contest open to Toronto residents 18 years of age or older. Odds of winning depend on number of eligible entries received. One (1) prize will be awarded. Retail value of prize is approximately $250. Contest closes Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 11:59pm. To enter and for complete contest rules visit insidetoronto.com/contests
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Bank of Montreal
2013 F-150 XTR CREW 4X4 P4711
34,950
$
OR
2015 F-150 PLATINUM 4X4 P4751
2012 EQUINOX LS AWD P4686
56,950
$
$
$144/WEEK
2013 ESCAPE SE 4X4 P4675 CLIMATE CONTROL, AUTOMATIC, A/C.
18,950
$
OR
$77/WEEK
A/C, POWER WINDOWS, ENgINE IMMOBILIzER
DRIvER AIR BAg, ABS.
AUTOMATIC, A/C , ABS.
OR
18,950
$212/WEEK
OR
$87/WEEK
2015 ESCAPE TITANIUM P4728
2011 vW PASSAT CC EM392A
28,850
$
LOADED, LEATHER, AUTOMATIC.
AUTOMATIC, SECURITY SYSTEM, A/C.
$
OR
17,850
$105/WEEK
OR
$95/WEEK
2013 FOCUS SE HATCH EB146A
2013 FOCUS SPORT HATCH P4508
2013 FIESTA SE HATCH P4627
POWER MOONROOF, AUTOMATIC, POWER gROUP.
LOADED, AUTOMATIC, POWER WINDOWS.
A/C, AUTOMATIC, POWER WINDOWS.
14,950 OR $61/WEEK
$
2014 FUSION HYBRID EU126A
2015 MUSTANg gT COUPE P4757
12,950
$
OR
$53/WEEK
2014 FUSION SE AWD P4671
AUTOMATIC, CLIMATE CONTROL, KEYLESS ENTRY.
OR
$53/WEEK
LOADED, DRIvER AIR BAg, ABS.
LOADED, POWER gROUP, NAvIgATION
44,950 AT 72 MONTHS OAC $93/WEEK IT’S WORTH THE DRIVE DOWN KINGSTON ROAD
21,950 OR $89/WEEK
$
12,950
$
22,950
$
$
OR
WITH 0% FINANCING
* PRE-OWNED VEHICLES ARE FINANCED AT 7.49% OAC, OVER THE FOLLOWING TERMS, 2013-2014 84 MONTHS BI-WEEKLY, 2012 72 MONTHS BI-WEEKLY, 2010-2011 60 MONTHS BI-WEEKLY. 2015 MODELS FINANCED @ 96 MONTHS. EXAMPLE $10,000 FINANCED OVER 84 MONTHS @ 7.49% = $84.09 BI WEEKLY DIVIDED BY 2 = $41.04 WEEKLY. CASH PRICES ARE PLUS TAX. DEALER NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY/ALL ERRORS OR OMISSIONS
**“This vehicle is being sold, unfit, not e-tested and is not represented as being in road worthy condition, mechanically sound or maintained at any guaranteed level of quality. The vehicle may not be fit for use as a means of transportation and may require substantial repairs at the purchaser’s expense. It may not be possible to register the vehicle to be driven in its current condition.”
Heritage Ford
DIRECT LINE:
416-261-3311
USED CAR:
46 years of quality, trust & value
416-264-2537
thurs 9-8 fri 9-6 sat 9-5
OUT OF TOWN:
1-800-267-3673
shop online @
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YEAR END SALE ON NOW!
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ROADSPORT CHRYSLER
FAMILY OWNED • OVER 30 YEARS AT THE SAME LOCATION SAVINGS SO GOOD THEY TOP THE
NICE LIST $ 1,000
NOw THROUGHOUT DECEMBER 31 HOLIDAY BONUS CASH*
GET AN ADDITIONAL
2,500
In Discounts on select 2015 models
for ontario medical Association members†
2016 DoDge
2016 DoDge
18,888
$
+HST +LIC
Journey CvP
CASH pRICe
17,888
$
+HST +LIC
Brand new
Brand new
2016 Jeep
2016 Jeep
41,999
$
+HST +LIC
Cherokee SPort 4x2 CASH pRICe
25,999
$
+HST +LIC
Brand new
Brand new
2016 DoDge
2015 pRomASTeR
ram 1500 St Quad Cab CASH pRICe
on select models
Brand new
WranGler 4dr Sahara CASH pRICe
FrEiGhT
Brand new Grand Caravan CvP CASH pRICe
No chArGE
EmployEE pricE
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months on select models oAC
2015’s AT
35,808
$
City WaGon
+HST +LIC
CASH pRICe
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$
11,000
Up $ to
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ExclusivE to our Existing financE and lEasE customErs
ON SELECT MODELS
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$
+HST +LIC
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2851 Eglinton Ave. E., Toronto
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