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Homes First Scarborough Shelter shelter client Rena Miciek has been at the residence for six months. The shelter is housed in the basement of the Scarborough Church of God.

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Both sides in conflict feel guilt over violence, group says MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Tamil-Canadian business owners from Toronto who visited their Sri Lankan homeland have returned urging fellow community members to invest in the island and support its government. Their appeal - unthinkable during the three decades of Sri Lanka’s civil war - came after March meetings with Sri Lankan leaders who, the investors say, admit the government was partly responsibility for the war and the suffering it caused. "They feel the guilt now. They’ve been contributing, and we’ve been contributing," Kula Sellathurai, co-chairperson of the Canada Sri Lanka Business Convention, told an April 23 news conference in Scarborough. "They don’t want to see a second generation go through a war." The 21 potential investors, on a trade mission with Don Valley East MP Yasmin Ratansi and two other Ontario MPs in the Canada Sri Lanka Parliamentary Friendship Group, met Sri Lanka’s president, Maithripala Sirisena. They left impressed with his candidness, and his willingness to recognize injustices were done to Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority by governments led by the Sinhalese majority. The entrepreneurs were candid themselves about the role Greater Toronto’s Tamil diaspora,

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Canada Sri Lanka Business Convention Chairperson Ganesan Sugumar, at centre, and co-chairpersons Stan Muthulingam and Kula Sellathurai speak to media in Scarborough on April 23 about the group’s recent mission to Sri Lanka. Years after a civil war ended between Sri Lanka’s government and separatist Tamils, Tamil-Canadians are encouraging investment there as a way to rebuild the economy of their homeland. which during the war became the largest outside Sri Lanka, played in donations supporting the violence. "We, the diasporas, were the ones that helped fund the war for 35 years," said Stan Muthulingam, the group’s other co-chairperson, at JC’s Grill House. The war ended in 2009 as the government finally crushed the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. In Toronto, where protesters had blocked the Gardiner Expressway during the conflict’s final days, calls continued for an independent Tamil state, boycotts of Sri Lankan goods and international sanctions to stop what organizations described as

continuing human rights violations and genocide against Tamils. But Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president who oversaw the final military campaign, was defeated by Sirisena in 2015 and relations with the Toronto diaspora improved significantly. By visiting the island now, Muthulingam said, "your perspective on the country will change and you will be a changed person." Tamils were "pulled down" by past Sinhalesemajority governments, but Sirisena needs Tamil support and economic development in the island’s warravaged north and east to remain in power, said Muthulingam, adding, "we have a duty to strengthen this government."

Though postwar reconciliation "has to come from people themselves," Tamils in the north "need our knowledge," learned in Canada, about operating businesses, said Sellathurai. "We can pass it on to these people, and they can improve their life." The regime is also offering tax holidays, and long leases on land for foreign investors. It’s interested, for example, in arranging cold storage facilities for farmers, hospital management programs and toll roads, Sellathurai said. There were decades of mistrust created between Tamils and Sinhalese, but convention chairperson Ganesan Sugumar said he sees the current government as sincere about re-

building the north. "They are not fooling us. They want us to come, they want us to help," he said. "As a business community, we can’t talk about the political side, but we can help the region’s people." Kim Derry, a former Toronto deputy police chief in Toronto, was part of the trade mission and said Sri Lanka is open for business. People the group met, he insisted, "want to be seen as Sri Lankans," not as Tamil or Sinhalese. Though they didn’t meet, the mission’s timing almost matched a March visit to Sri Lanka by Toronto Mayor John Tory, who signed a partnership agreement with Jaffna, the north’s largest city, and visited a memorial at Mul-

livaikal dedicated to Tamils killed during the final stages of the war. Tory also donated books to the Jaffna Library, burnt by a mob in 1981. In February, the Scarborough-based Canadian Tamil Congress hosted a three-day conference on redeveloping Sri Lanka’s northern and eastern provinces at Scarborough’s Centennial College. That event, concentrating mainly on health care and education, featured several members of the Northern Provincial Council and Sri Lankan MPs. The Congress and other organizations have pushed for an independent international investigation of possible war crimes against Tamils in Sri Lanka, and David Poopalapillai, the group’s national spokesperson, said its views haven’t changed. "We still want the Sri Lankan government to address the genuine grievances of the Tamil people." The new government provides a "ray of hope" that justice will be served, but the pace of reform in Sri Lanka is very slow, Poopalapillai said. The congress, however, supports reconstruction in the island’s north and east. "We want the diaspora to go and invest and lift up the livelihood of the people." Spokespersons for the convention, who say their next move will be to formalize their group and start a counterpart in Sri Lanka, believe the political situation there is improving, but the government fears giving concessions to Tamils before the next election. Their message is, "Be patient, give us time," Muthulingam said.

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The Process The environmental impact of this transit project is being assessed according to the TPAP as prescribed in Ontario Regulation 231/08, Transit Projects and Metrolinx Undertakings. As part of the TPAP, an Environmental Project Report (EPR) is being prepared which documents the planning process involved and the details of the Scarborough Subway Extension, including existing and future environmental conditions, the preferred alignment, station location and bus terminal, construction methods, and impacts, mitigation and monitoring measures.

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MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com The Bridletowne hub is praised by everyone involved with it as "the future," but the North Scarborough project is currently running out of time. Part YMCA and child care, part dialysis unit for the Scarborough and Rouge Hospital, part community and social services space, the building was proposed years ago on part of Agincourt’s former Timothy Eaton Business and Technical Institute property. Its cost, however, has risen from $29 million to more than $80 million in six years. The 2017 provincial budget contains no mention of it, though hospital officials hoped to see one. Toronto city council set a deadline on the hub last October, saying all contributing parties and governments must get necessary funds together by June 30.

Scarborough-Agincourt MPP Soo Wong is still "more than optimistic" things will work out by then, though the city has so far been reluctant to transfer the land, which it owns, to the hub’s proposed leaseholder, YMCA of Greater Toronto. Had Mayor John Tory’s office given the province more information, "the decision would probably be in the budget book," Wong said last week. The building on Bridletowne Circle would be a model for other hubs to come, and a regional draw for patients using one of North America’s largest dialysis programs. But complicated arrangements needed between all three levels of government, plus YMCA and United Way of Toronto and York Region, all contributors to the project, make things difficult. Debbie Sevenpifer, the YMCA’s chief financial officer, said it’s still hopeful

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Ontario one correction away from a debt crisis The Kathleen Wynne government turned the fiscal page Thursday and introduced a balanced budget, and if you listened carefully you could hear the congratulatory backslapping from Toronto all the way to Port Severn. It was 10 years ago when Ontario ran balanced budgets in 2006 and 2007, but that gave way to $20-billion-a-year deficits in 2008 and 2009 when the economy tanked and the Grits had no choice but to hand the auto industry a $3.3 billion lifeline, or face the collapse of auto manufacturing in Ontario. At the time, then premier Dalton McGuinty made a promise to balance the budget by 2017, and while the Liberals should be commended for getting their budget in order, there’s a bogeyman lurking in the province’s balance sheet. The provincial debt for this fiscal year is expected to hit $312 billion, and in a recent meeting with Metroland Media editors, Senior Economist with RBC Robert Hogue said "tough medicine" is needed to tackle the debt. "Debt has increased quite significantly and debt to GDP is running at 40 per cent," he said. In 2016/17, the province expects to spend $11.4 billion on interest payments on that debt. That’s nearly $1 billion a month just to service existing debt, and in case you need to be reminded, that coin comes from your pocket. To put it in terms we can all relate to, every person in Ontario would need to pony up $22,000 to pay off the debt. Hogue said this massive debt leaves the province without a rainy day fund in the event the economy slows to a point requiring stimulus spending, and if interest rates rise, as expected they will, the interest payments on the debt would skyrocket. We agree with Hogue when he says it’s time the province create a plan to tackle the debt by creating a "hard target for debt to GDP ratio" that sits much lower than where we are now. However, we didn’t get that Thursday. What we did get was a desperate Liberal government waving costly carrots in voters’ faces. The Wynne government’s shopping list includes a drug plan for those under 24 costing $465 million a year and $200 million next year to increase affordable licensed child care spaces. Noble programs for sure, but not at a time when the province continues to add about $10 billion a year in new debt as long as they hold power, and if the Wynne government continues to spend like drunken sailors on shore leave - generations of Ontario residents will be buried under a mountain of debt from which they may never escape.

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Toronto Tamils ready to rebuild their homeland In a Scarborough banquet hall, I realized the civil war in Sri Lanka is truly over. Greater Toronto’s Tamil people came here because of that war. They’re the largest Tamil diaspora outside Sri Lanka, and helped make Scarborough, Markham and Richmond Hill what they are today. They came from a country where they felt the majority hated them, discriminated against them, and in many cases tried to kill them. The war ended in 2009 with scenes of horror, as trapped civilians and fighters died by the thousands. Twenty business owners from our Tamil community returned to Sri Lanka in March. They came back calling on others to rebuild

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto the island’s north and east, and to support the island’s government. During the war, people here would have called them traitors. Shaking hands with a Sri Lankan president, or with a Sri Lankan military commander as they did - was unthinkable. For many years, until the RCMP shut them down, the World Tamil Movement col-

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lected in Scarborough and Markham for the Tamil Tigers and their breakaway state. Local businesses gave willingly, or unwillingly. The war was merciless. Here, thousands waved the Tiger flag at rallies or carried banners demanding a Tiger-led Tamil Eelam. No compromise seemed possible. In 2009, bombs were falling on aunts and cousins back home. Protesters in Toronto blocked the Gardiner Expressway. Afterwards, Tamils here elected a "transnational government" to keep the fight going. But Sri Lanka’s government changed in 2015. Separatist voices died away. Compromise, that most Canadian of values, has taken hold.

At their press conference, the business owners were candid. Both sides, they say, feel guilty about the war. They know it was a terrible mistake. "We, the diasporas, were the ones that helped fund the war for 35 years," adds Stan Muthulingam, the group’s co-chairperson. Certainly, justice must be done for any atrocities suffered by Tamils in Sri Lanka. But those who made the trip say reconstruction and development are needed now, and the island’s government needs investors. Eventually, war ends. Desire for revenge starts to end. People want to go home, to visit and to do business there again Reach Mike Adler at madler@insidetoronto.com

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Const. Neil Pickrell, an elementary school education officer, delivers a safety presentation to a Grade 6 class at Broadlands P.S . elementary school education officer, suggested children age 10 and up who seek independence and walk to places by themselves "are the most vulnerable." "I stress to them: walk in high visibility areas, stick to sidewalks, don’t take shortcuts through parks (or) through vacant lots because if you can’t be seen, then no one can see you to help you," said the constable, who has been delivering safety presentations to children for the past 16 years. And the presentations have paid off. About five of his students have been victims of luring-type inci-

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Pickrell said. "Yell, scream. You have to get attention so people look at you." The well-known terms "street proofing" and "stranger danger" are controversial and no longer used by most in the child protection community because most children aren’t typically harmed while out on the street or by strangers. "We call it personal safety," said Pearl Rimer, director of research, training and internet child exploitation program at Boost Child and Youth Advocacy Centre. "(Street proofing) gives an incorrect message that you need to be aware and afraid of who’s out

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BASEMENT FLOODS ARE ON THE RISE. DON’T LET YOUR BASEMENT BE NEXT. Together we can stop heavy rainfall, melting snow and runoff from ending up in your basement. At the City, we’re doing our part by continually updating and maintaining Toronto’s complex underground pipes, sewers and catch basins. Now it’s your turn. Here are some tips to help you ﬂood-proof your home.

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Scarborough MPPs react to questions from Steven Lam, Toronto Mayoral Candidate, at the annual provincial budget breakfast on Friday, April. 28, at J.C.’s Grill House.

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Scarborough MPPs have called on Raymond Cho, the area’s only elected Progressive Conservative, to support a provincial bill allowing photo radar in school zones. The Safer School Zones Act, which could also be used to lower speed limits around schools, would "have changed the situation" the day a six-year-old boy was struck and killed by a car outside East Scarborough’s Morrish Public School, says Parthi Kandavel, a public school trustee. The senior kindergartener’s death a week earlier "devastated all of us," Kandavel told a told breakfast event on the Ontario

budget organized by Scarborough Rotary clubs on Friday, April 28. Kandavel then said Cho and fellow PC MPPs should reconsider their position against the bill. The bill includes both "school zones" and "community safety zones" as places where cameras could be installed. Both opposition parties have said they support photo radar around schools, but PCs want the bill amended to keep photo radar off highways and other roads. At the event, Scarborough-Agincourt MPP Soo Wong suggested a community safety zone could be an area with a large number of seniors or retirement homes. "If you don’t speed, you don’t have to worry about photo radar. Let’s call it like it is," Wong said at JC’s Grill House. "This young boy (at Morrish) didn’t come back home." Scarborough-Guild-

wood MPP Mitzie Hunter also mentioned the boy’s death. "He was hit right in front of his mother and died," she said, and asked Cho to tell the PC caucus "to do the right thing" on the Safer Schools Act. Cho, who recently won a Scarborough-Rouge River byelection, didn’t argue the point but did accuse Liberals of balancing the budget "only on the surface" and implied the party is responsible for Ontario’s "just enormous" debt. PC leader Patrick Brown, Cho said, has called for a moratorium school closures, including two in his riding, he said result from irresponsible Liberal spending. "There are 300 schools on the chopping block," said Cho. Hunter, who is also Ontario’s education minister, said when the status of schools is reviewed, it’s for a number of reasons, including their age.

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DAVID NICKLE The City ry moseyed on over to Etobicoke North, to give Liberal MPP Shafiq Qaadri something to worry about besides a possible 2018 challenge from former local councillor and mayoral candidate Doug Ford. He knocked on doors, shook his head at the state of disrepair of public housing, and handed out flyers that, coincidentally I am sure, had the same red, white and blue colour scheme of the traditional Ford family election material. The next day, he had Progressive Conservative lead-

er Patrick Brown over to City Hall for a chat, and a duet heaping more shame on the Wynne government for such an egregious snub of Toronto’s infrastructure needs. Steven Del Duca, Ontario’s Transportation Minister, was literally waiting for reporters in the hall - to tell us that Tory had crossed a sort of line, going to Etobicoke North and campaigning against a Liberal as he did. Liberal Peter Milzcyn, a former city councillor now representing Etobicoke Lakeshore, reminded us that Progressive Conservatives don’t have a great record on funding transit and housing in Toronto. Best to settle in for the long haul: another year at least, and who knows how much longer if they both get re-elected. Reach David Nickle at dnickle@insidetoronto.com

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Don Valley Art Club WHEN: 12:00 p.m WHERE: Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, 67 Pottery Road, Toronto CONTACT: Don Valley Art Club, In celebration of Canada 150, more than 100 members of the Don Valley Art Club will illustrate how Canada has inspired their work, May 3-14. Special arts day for kids May 7. For details, visit https://donvalleyartclub.com/

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l Friday, May 5 Wildwind Flute Choir Concert WHEN: 7:30 p.m WHERE: St. Paul’s United Church, 200 McIntosh St., Toronto CONTACT: St. Paul’s United Church, 416-2614222, stpauls.scarb@bellnet.ca COST: Tickets $15, children under are free 12 flutists from Durham playing a variety of flutes and an inspiring selection of music.Tickets $15, children under are free (tickets available at the door)

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This interactive drop-in session will ask for your input and provide details on the transportation network alternatives being considered, the evaluation undertaken to date, and the preliminary preferred transportation network. Initial recommendations include: â&#x20AC;˘ Developing a simplified street network and a summary of key moves, including establishing a signalized at-grade intersection at McCowan Road and Progress Avenue â&#x20AC;˘ Improving pedestrian and cycling infrastructure throughout the Centre â&#x20AC;˘ Supporting future transit improvements This Transportation Master Plan study will follow Phases 1 and 2 of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) process, providing opportunities for public consultation at key stages. This studyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s findings may result in amendments to the City of Toronto Official Plan.

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More shelter beds urgently needed, advocates say JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The closure of the city’s emergency warming shelters and 15 of 16 Out of the Cold shelters on Saturday, April 15, is only exacerbating Toronto’s housing problems, and agencies serving the city’s homeless population are calling on all levels of government to address the problem. Leaders and volunteers from several of those agencies gathered at Street Health on Tuesday, April 18, to discuss the critical need for more shelter spaces to combat the ongoing problem of homelessness. According to city statistics, Toronto’s shelter system was at 97 per cent capacity in March, well above the 90 per cent target the city has set. That number was even higher - 99 per cent - for homeless women. For many, emergency shelters are a lifeline throughout the winter months, but they are forced

to sleep on the streets once the weather warms up. "On an average night this winter, 194 people slept at a warming centre or a 24hour drop-in, and approximately 100 people slept at an Out of the Cold," said Street Health executive director Capri Rabin. "That’s an average of nearly 300 people a night who slept on floors, mats and in chairs, and in facilities that don’t even have proper showers or enough bathrooms." Rabin called on the city to open 300 emergency spaces on a permanent basis to meet the needs of Toronto’s homeless population. She added that keeping warming centres open longer was hardly an adequate solution given the lack of beds and amenities on offer in such spaces. Facilities such as public gymnasiums or the city’s armouries could, by contrast, provide space for beds and shower facilities. Patricia O’Connell, ex-

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meet demand. "Last night, Sistering had 57 women staying in our facility overnight, as they have done for the last year," she said. "We have 12 reclining chairs. That

means . 45 people sleeping on the floor in a facility that is not designed for that. It’s not a shelter, but it is better than a woman sleeping on a grate or sleeping in a park."

Out of the Cold was created as a temporary fix to the city’s homeless crisis, but after more than 20 years, the problem persists. Beyond simply giving people a place to stay, many drop-ins offer meals, health care and other lifesaving services. For Brian Riccardi, who has benefited from dropins, the cutting of emergency shelters puts people at risk. "For four months, people had a safe, warm place to go and a lot of times got help for the various things they need help with, including housing, clothing, food, abuse of substances," he said. "After those four months, they’re told in no uncertain terms, ’for the next eight months, you’re on your own - pray for the best and hope you’re back next December.’" The speakers called on Torontonians to urge councillors to vote in favour of opening more shelter beds immediately.

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13,988

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81 4.99%

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19,988

85 4.99%

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24,988 $106 4.99%

68 4.99%

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2012 FORD E-350 DRW CUBE VAN AUTOMATIC AIR CONDITIONING POWER DOOR LOCKS POWER MIRRORS ABS BRAKES ALUM WHEELS EX RENTAL 65,000 KMS STK#A3709

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55 4.99%

2013 FORD ESCAPE SE AUTOMATIC 2.0L ENGINE AIR CONDITIONING POWER WINDOWS POWER DOOR LOCKS POWER MIRRORS HEATED SEATS ABS BRAKES ALUM WHEELS FOG LAMPS KEYLESS ENTRY

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HEATED MIRRORS HEATED SEATS

2014 FORD FUSION SE

2015 TOYOTA CAMRY LE AUTOMATIC AIR CONDITIONING POWER WINDOWS POWER DOOR LOCKS POWER MIRRORS ABS BRAKES ALUM WHEELS KEYLESS ENTRY HEATED MIRRORS REARVIEW CAMERA 44,300 KMS STK#A3622

47 4.99%

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2013 HONDA CIVIC LX AUTOMATIC AIR CONDITIONING POWER WINDOWS POWER DOOR LOCKS POWER MIRRORS HEATED SEATS ALUM WHEELS KEYLESS ENTRY HEATED MIRRORS 33,820 KMS STK#A3689

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