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Toronto’s York residents urged city councillors to continue supporting and increase funding for social services, the arts, transit and more at a budget consultation Tuesday, Jan. 10.

The consultation took place at the York Civic Centre.

Bill Worrell, a 34-yearresident in the OakwoodVaughan neighbourhood representing the OakwoodVaughan Neighbourhood Action Partnership (OV NAP), urged councillors to support those who need help the most.

"OV NAP urges city council to make budgetary decisions based on equity getting resources from those who can afford it and spending resources on those who can benefit the most," he said.

A homeowner himself, he said, he’s willing to pay more in property taxes and knows others who are as well.

He said his neighbourhood is underserved, has a poor economy, a lack of health-care services, few recreational opportunities, has isolated seniors, housing is becoming unaffordable while young families who struggle to find daycare are moving in.

"We cannot afford any cuts. In fact, we need expansion of city services," he said.

"We urge you to increase resources in these areas for community hubs, expand vital services including parks and rec and other community services," he said.

Wendy Komiotis, executive director of Spadina Road and Dupont Streetbased METRAC, an organization with a mission to prevent gender-based violence, also urged councillors to support funding for social programs.

"Cuts to city services and social programs disproportionately affect women and marginalized groups," she said.

She said the slated closure of 16 Toronto public schools will disproportionately affected disenfranchised groups who rely on these facilities for recreational opportunities. She urged council to support establishing community hubs at these spaces.

She also urged councillors not to end the child care occupancy grant.

Laurie-Shawn Borzovoy, chair of York-based nonprofit arts organization UrbanArts, urged council to continue supporting the arts. He said thanks to city financial support the organization

has directly provided services to 4,000 people and thousands more indirectly.

He urged council to ensure the budget provides $25 per capita towards the arts as set out by the city’s Culture Plan, established in 2003. He said the city is nearly there and should push to reach the goal in 2017.

He said for every dollar the city invests in UrbanArts the organization can leverage an additional $3 to $4. Additionally, for every dollar that the city invests in the arts across the city, $11 to $22 is generated in the community, he said.

"We urge you to help us to continue to meet our strategic financial goals because in doing so you are building not just on the development of our residents and our community, but also in accomplishing the goals in the city’s culture plan and the community arts action plan," Borzovoy said.

"Your support equals enormous social impacts ensuring a lasting legacy for many years to come."

The city’s preliminary budget for 2017 is $12.25 billion, but the city must trim $91 million to balance the books. Council is scheduled to debate the operating and capital budgets Feb. 15 and 16.

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HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com At 101 years old, Bessie Stallworthy has a cell phone, can send emails, use Facebook, blog and search the web from her laptop or iPad. "I have to admit, it’s pretty awesome and I started tinkering with the computer with no purpose at all. I just wanted to learn something different," said the centenarian who has lived in the Upper Beach neighbourhood for 65 years.

She first dabbled in technology at the age of 79 as a New Year’s resolution.

One of her friends gave her an old laptop and printer and she began her foray into technology. She’s never taken a computer course, but instead has either learned on her own or had a little help from her friends.

She uses her computer to send emails and her iPad to go on Facebook and look at pictures from her recliner. She still continues to explore the world through the Internet, when many seniors, 20 years her junior, feel overwhelmed by the concept of technology.

"I have an interesting life thanks to computers and technology because I have so much at my fingertips now," she said.

Stallworthy is one of the many seniors across Canada who are choosing to not be left behind on the "shoulder" of the information highway. According to Statistics Canada, seniors have the fastest growing rate of Internet usage in the country. The number

of Canadians 75 and older who choose to go online spiked from five per cent to 27 per cent from 2000 to 2012.

It’s a trend the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP), a nonprofit organization that advocates for financial security and improved health care for Canadians over 50, is noticing more and more, said chair of the Toronto chapter Adina Lebo.

"Seniors are using technology rather socially for Skyping with grandchildren and keeping in touch with family. It keeps them connected, it keeps them actively engaged rather than looking at four walls," said Lebo.

CARP encourages their membership to keep up with technology as a part of active living after retirement, which is where seniors begin their decline and disinterest in technology; when they leave the workforce.

"We are in an increasingly digital world and if you’re not digitally connected you’re not part of the world. You’re left behind," Lebo added.

But it’s all about the right motivation for the majority of seniors to adopt the technology in the first place, according to University of Toronto professor and co-director of the Aging Gracefully Lab Dr. Cosmin Munteanu. Society is pushing more towards intergenerational technology use with generations coming together in digital spaces like Facebook and Skype.

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Bessie Stallworthy, 101, isn’t afraid to embrace technology. She got her first computer at 79 and hasn’t stopped surfing the web since. comes more digital, it forces them to adopt technology," said Munteanu, who also works on creating apps to bridge the digital divide between seniors and youth.

Youth make up a large portion of tech users today having grown up with technology right at their fingertips from infancy.

From using touch screen technology on phones and tablets to using SnapChat, kids are consuming technology faster and earlier than previous generations and have access to the Internet like never before.

According to MediaSmarts, a non-profit organi-

zation focusing on digital and media literacy, 99 per cent of the 5,436 Canadian students they surveyed in 2012 from grades 4 to 11 have access to the Internet outside of school.

"It’s always shocked me at how fast this generation has picked up technology.

It’s just second nature to them," said Penny Staznik, a mother of two boys, who already has one of them asking to create a YouTube channel with friends.

"I think it’s the mentality that they’re not afraid of it. It’s always been there so they just go for it."

Staznik’s oldest son, Goran, is nine years old and

loves computer programming. He’s working on creating his own video game with the help of MakerKids, an after school program in Bloor West Village. It focuses on teaching kids ages eight to 12 about robotics, coding and Minecraft. The company’s lead instructor Graham Steele sees first-hand the amount of technological knowledge kids already have when they walk through the doors of the program.

"They know about the concepts we teach, but they’re missing the application portion, like what can you actually do with that knowledge. Now if

they have ideas, they know the first step in where to go to pursue that idea," Steele said.

Kids are building video games, hot water heater switches and more. That thirst for technology is a gateway to creating a more technologically literate society that will hopefully also include more tech-savvy seniors.

"There’s no dearth of opportunity for you as a new person to tech, young or old," Lebo said.

"The connectedness we have is less of a burden and becomes more like a need for many of us no matter what your age."

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Time to fix Toronto’s too-low property tax problem Toronto’s budget committee has heard from 230 members of the public concerned about the city’s operating and capital budget for 2017.

And if the committee were seriously listening to those deputations, the course forward on the year’s budget would be obvious.

First, preserve services that impact Torontonians: services that include but are not limited to subsidized daycare, shelter services, library hours, public housing, transit, and to at least one Toronto Olympian, swimming pools.

And following from that, finance it all adequately; which is to say, Toronto Council should raise property taxes appropriately for the many tasks at hand.

There were some, such as representatives of the real estate sector, who worried about changes to collect more revenue from the municipal land transfer tax and urged status quo. But there were only a handful if that, who suggested that Toronto’s property tax rates were too high and needed to be reigned in.

That, of course, is because property taxes in Toronto aren’t too high. Indeed, single family homeowners pay lower property rates than anywhere in the Greater Toronto Area, and have since Toronto was amalgamated nearly 20 years ago.

Those single family homeowners are also bearing the burden of infrastructure and service demands that other, smaller municipalities don’t have to contemplate: an aging public transit system and a vast inventory of public housing. It confounds reason to think that the city has managed to give its residents such a deal on their taxes for so long.

And yet this year, Mayor John Tory and budget chief Gary Crawford are sticking to a pledge to raise property taxes only by two per cent. This won’t close a budget gap of $91 million in total, so it is likely in the coming month that Toronto’s budget committee and City Council will have to disappoint some or maybe all of the people who came forward asking that services and subsidies be maintained - and cut. As well, council will have to dig into reserves and defer important investments, to the tune of $100 million.

Politically, it is easy to understand why Mayor Tory doesn’t want to waver on property tax rates. He did promise inflationary tax increases, and might lose support in some quarters if he goes back on that promise.

But what is politically expedient is not financially, or societally sustainable. Council needs to move beyond expedience, and raise taxes to an appropriate level.

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Lawyer’s lonely mission takes him to the streets Mukhtiar (Mark) Dahiya brings free legal help to homeless people in Toronto.

Tall and fierce, Dahiya, a lawyer from Northern India, has made pro bono street law in his adopted city his mission, and works at it despite being unable to do so officially, as a lawyer of record.

It has cost him.

The Beach resident has seen people decline into drugs and mental illness, and knows many who died. He’s attracted unwanted attention from police. He contracted tuberculosis.

Dahiya’s now 65, but won’t give up his dream: to open the City Law Centre, an office where people without homes or money can get a will, or deal with

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto tickets police hand them for throwing cigarettes in the street.

It’s unacceptable, "unCanadian," for the homeless to lack legal representation, says Dahiya, who believes just talking to a lawyer lessons their isolation, improves chances for survival.

"They don’t need a Bay Street lawyer. They need a guy like me," he says.

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"I kept many people from suicide."

But since he became a lawyer here in 2006, Dahiya says the Law Society of Upper Canada has held him back from doing what other lawyers won’t.

As a street lawyer, he couldn’t afford licence and insurance fees for a practice, so he’s appeared in summary trials for the homeless as an agent, rather than lawyer.

Short of funds, he was told last October he’s now exempt from the lawyer’s annual fee but, as he’s considered retired, he can’t provide legal services. If he returns to practice law, he’d have to pay insurance.

Last week, the city announced it will finally begin recording and assess-

ing all the deaths of its homeless, hoping this can lead to their better health.

But who will see to their legal rights?

Dahiya argues the homeless don’t stand in lines for legal aid.

He refuses, after all he’s tried, to join any charity or church who can fund his dream. "That is beneath my dignity," he says, waving his hand.

A storefront clinic may not be something Dahiya, for all his passion, can achieve. But that doesn’t mean he’s wrong. The City Law Centre must exist.

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DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com Cassandra Nicolaou sees a bright future for her Mount Dennis community where she runs a coffee shop at Weston Road and Eglinton Avenue West.

The supercoffee owner’s hopes for the neighbourhood rest on the future Mount Dennis Mobility Hub, and the economic benefits the transit station could bring to the retail strip around the intersection that currently sees many boarded up windows.

The future mobility hub will be a transit hub for the Crosstown LRT line, expected to open in 2021, plus a GO Transit/UPX station, and the TTC’s 15-bay bus terminal.

While people transferring at this busy transit hub are unlikely to hop out to shop in Mount Dennis, Nicolaou anticipates the station will drive new development in the area, in-

crease density and bring in new shoppers to the neighbourhood. And the more stores that open the better, she says.

"I always thought the more the better," she said, not worried about competition from chain shops.

"This street right now struggles with empty storefronts. As businesses come in and open up, whether they’re competing coffee shops or other types of businesses I think it’ll be good for us."

Robert Caplan, of Caplan’s Appliances and chair of the Mount Dennis BIA, agrees.

"It’s still a long way off, but we’re hoping for a transformation of the retail strip," he said.

"Right now, it’s not the type of retail strip people want to walk down. It’s lacking a lot of retail outlets. Let’s face it, a lot of them are boarded up, a lot of them are not being used as retail."

He anticipates the retail

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Mount Dennis businesses are looking for a bright future once Metrolinx opens the LRT, GO and UPX station. strip along Weston and the surrounding area will become more vibrant.

"We’re hoping to see a revitalization of a derelict for the most part - retail strip. There’s not a lot of pedestrian traffic that’s going

shopping. We want to see people coming to the area to use the neighbourhood shops and services and if the LRT can bring in a new group of people and revitalize the neighbourhood, that’s what we’re hoping

for," Caplan said.

He said Mount Dennis is very well positioned for the future. It’s one of the few remaining communities in Toronto where housing is relatively affordable, it’s close to major highways,

and close to downtown.

Mike Mattos, president of the Mount Dennis Community Association, sees many positives, but worries about the residents who live in the area for its low price, if rents go up steeply.

"The gentrification is going to have a good effect for the homeowners and a lot of the towers because it’s going to improve the main street, it’s going to bring resources to the area," he said.

"There is, however, a population that lives currently in the lowest-priced buildings, people who are making their first home, and I think the prices are going to price them out."

Despite those fears, he anticipates many benefits, including improved transit.

"The Weston bus is a great disincentive to working," he said, adding that commuters spend an hour on the Weston or Eglinton buses to get to work.

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City will work with outreach organizations to get hard data JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com According to City of Toronto numbers, there were 30 homeless deaths in 2016, though the city itself acknowledges that figure vastly understates the prevalence of such fatalities.

To help get a more accurate count of deaths and collect data that can be used to create a more comprehensive plan for combatting homelessness, Toronto has announced a new plan to track homeless deaths in Toronto.

The city will work with roughly 200 shelters, community outreach programs, hospitals and other service agencies to collect

data, including the names, ages, possible cause of death and other key details about those who die on Toronto’s streets.

"When you can’t measure a problem, it makes it very difficult to address it," said Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Toronto’s acting Medical Officer of Health at the Church of the Holy Trinity, on Tuesday, Jan. 10.

Up until this year, Toronto has only collected data on homeless deaths of those living in city shelters. That leaves a large number of deaths unreported, with police and the coroner’s office not always conducting full investigations into other deaths or passing information on homeless deaths along to the city.

Calling homeless deaths a "very significant public health issue," Yaffe noted the initiative "aims to address the limited data that’s been collected on individuals who died while

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Michael Mallard pays respects at a memorial ceremony for homeless people who have died in Toronto at Holy Trinity Church last week. homeless and were not living in city shelters."

Street nurse Cathy Crowe, who has worked with Toronto’s homeless population for many years, said the new initiative is more than welcome, adding that the information will be eye-opening to many.

"The deaths we know of are traumatic and they’re

violent and they’re never natural," she said. "After all these years, we’re finally going to get hard data on these atrocities."

Crowe is hopeful the data collected through the new initiative will spark action in bringing about positive change in affordable housing policies in Toronto.

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"It’s the tool we need to begin influencing decisionmaking at all levels of government to bring purposeful policies and legislation together to help the homeless and sick who live here on the streets of Toronto," he said.

Donna Oakes, who was homeless for more than a decade, saw many friends die as they struggled on Toronto’s streets. She said the new initiative was long overdue.

"It will help people realize just how much need there really is out there," she said. "Instead of just saying ’that’s so sad,’ people will actually step forward and put together a plan."

Michael Mallard, who lost a friend who was living on the streets recently, concurred.

"It’s about time people knew the names of the ones who we lose," he said.

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Sixteen Humberlea homeowners will get to keep their extra wide driveways after Etobicoke York Community Council unanimously approved to amend several bylaws on Jan. 17.

The item must still be approved by city council on Jan. 31.

In June 2015, 35 homeowners who live on Weston Road between Wilson Avenue and Bradstock Road were given violation notices for driveways that were widened beyond zoning by-

whereas the bylaw allows for a maximum width of six to nine metres, a staff report said. Front yard landscaping on these properties vary from 25 to 45 per cent, but the bylaws require a minimum of 50 or 60 per cent.

The remaining 18 homeowners will be required to reconfigure their front yards to comply with the bylaws, or submit an application to the Committee of Adjustment for Minor Variance(s).

Councillors refuse demolition of 8 Oak St. Etobicoke York Community Council voted Tuesday to refuse a developer’s application to demolish a two-storey York office building.

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laws without approval, a city staff report said.

One homeowner made changes to the property as required by the violation notice, which left 34 homes outstanding, the report said.

Staff were directed by council to amend the bylaws to recognize the current driveway and landscaping configurations for 16 of the 34 properties.

Driveway widths on these properties range from nine to 16 metres,

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North York Community House is hosting a new parenting program that aims to help people understand the importance of caring for themselves as much as for their children.

The Super 6 program will be held at the community space at 5 Bellevue Cres., at Lawrence Avenue West and Weston Road.

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Toronto’s budget chief Gary Crawford updates the media last week, as the 2017 operating and capital budget heads toward a conclusion.

School pool issue no done deal says budget chief Perks and Davis both said Toronto Council needs to raise property taxes higher than the rate-of-inflation cap that Mayor Tory has suggested, in order to adequately fund services.

As well, they were highly critical of the budget’s use of $100 million in reserve funds to help balance the 2017 budget - which currently has a $91 million gap that council will have to fill.

Davis called the budget "dishonest."

"There’s $100 million in one-time funding - a $41 million increase in user fees. And we have an average increase of $96 in property taxes. And yet we’re prepared to say to families paying $2,000 a month for child care, oh you can afford to pay another $350 a year."

Crawford said that he wasn’t happy the budget required a one-time raid on reserves.

"Is that something I would prefer not to do? Absolutely," he said. "One of my goals is looking at how we can reduce that and not rely on it."

Budget deliberations continue. Toronto Council will finalize the budget Feb. 15.

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Learn about different parenting styles in Weston Parents and caregivers of children aged 0 to 6 have an opportunity to learn about different parenting styles and the benefits of each.

North York Community House is hosting the Parenting Styles program in the community space at

5 Bellevue Cres., in the area of Lawrence Avenue West and Weston Road.

It runs every Friday from Feb. 3 to March 10 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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Oleksiak’s "gold medal message" came as citywide public hearings on East-end Olympian PenToronto’s 2017 operating ny Oleksiak’s persuasive "gold medal" tweeting and capital budget were wrapping up at Toronto might not be enough to City Hall. According to save city programs at city Crawford, 230 people lined east-end pools after all. up to talk to members of But it’s unlikely that the the budget committee pools would be closed in about a wide range of isany event said budget chief sues: proposed cuts to dayGary Crawford, who said care subsidies and school Jan. 12 that he’d take Maynutrition programs, shelor Tory’s twitter request ter subsidies and even itself spurred by a tweet funding of swimming pool from the gold-medalist programs in TDSB schools.

Monarch Park Collegiate Critics on council sugstudent - to spare the pools gested the mayor listen to under advisement. those deputations with as "The mayor sent that much enthusiasm. tweet out to have me look at "You know there were that, and I will look at that," dozens of people who came said Crawford. He said that down here yesterday to the pools would likely stay talk about shelters - there open, but programs there were people who came to may be moved to different talk to us about child care facilities. and yeah, I wish that the He was responding to a mayor would pay attention tweet from 16-year-old to those people too," said Oleksiak that read, "It’s imBeaches-East York Counportant to teach kids how cillor Janet Davis. to swim. It saves lives and is Parkdale-High Park a good physical activity Councillor Gord Perks @TOpoli #saveSHpool." joked, "I’m going to run out Tory amplified Okekand try to find me some siak’s tweet almost immeOlympians to tweet that we diately Wednesday mornhave to fund an equitable ing: "Gold medal message city where services are received @OleksiakPenny. available to all - and hey, I’ve asked Budget Chief maybe we’ll get there."

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It’s winter, no doubt about it, which means some parents may be struggling even harder to get their children to go outside and play.

But children need outdoor play, stresses Toronto-based, national nonprofit ParticipACTION, which says only 9 per cent of Canadian kids get the one hour of required physical activity per day, which the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guideline suggests children aged 5 to 17 should get. And winter should not be a reason for not being active, ParticipACTION says.

"It’s about embracing winter rather than enduring winter. If kids learn how to skate and how to toboggan and have exposure to those at a young age, they realize how much fun it is and they have a certain level of competence to be able to enjoy it," said Katherine Janson, director of communication at ParticipACTION. "I think it’s our responsibility as parents that our kids get access to the basic

skills on the snow, on the ice, to be able to learn the basics so that they can go to the skating party and have fun."

Janson admits it’s tough to get your kids outside.

Putting on winter wear is sometimes a workout in itself, but it’s worth it.

"The magic of the outdoors is that once you get the kids outdoors, they naturally move more," she said.

Technology such as TV, families not making active choices together such as choosing to drive rather than walk to school, or parental behaviour such as texting at the dinner table, are some of the barriers to kids wanting to go outside.

Janson suggests parents start early in their kids’ lives in creating active choices for their families as healthy habits start forming at a younger age than most parents realize.

Parents should limit TV time, walk to places when possible, and do active things together. This will make it easier for parents to get their kids to go out and play.

Play doesn’t need to be structured, either. Kids

can go out and play in the snow, doing such things as tobogganing, making snowmen and forts, throwing snowballs and more.

There’s also free outdoor skating around Toronto.

If you live in an urban area such as downtown Toronto where there are few open park spaces, go out and explore your city, Janson said.

"Kids don’t always need a structured activity or plan in order to have a good time. If you were to go walk down by the waterfront with your kids on a beautiful day, I guarantee they would find something to play with," Janson said.

"If you are weaving physical activities and opportunities for play and exploration into your family activities, that will become part of what your children come to expect when they’re with their family," she said.

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