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Hydro One, together with Toronto Hydro, is making significant upgrades to its electricity infrastructure to provide adequate and reliable power to the west end of Toronto. Power West Toronto is required to strengthen the city’s electricity system, accommodate the growing needs of homes and businesses in Toronto, and is critical to electrify the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. The project involves installing new electrical equipment at Hydro One’s existing Runnymede Transformer Station, located at 99 Woolner Avenue, which will require expanding the current station footprint. This is part of a larger effort which also includes upgrading 10 km of the existing overhead transmission line extending from the station.

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City considered the place to start, establish a tech-based business HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Toronto’s technology ecosystem is a breeding ground for the latest startups and innovative technology. Companies like Uber, Google and Twitter have flocked to Toronto to establish Canadian headquarters because it’s seen as the place to foster the next wave of technology to move society forward.

And it’s not on a whim.

There are more than 400,000 people employed in the tech sector in the city and it is still growing. Because of that, the City of Toronto is putting more emphasis on nurturing its tech talent. According to Scarborough Southwest councillor Michelle Holland, the city’s first appointed official as advocate for the innovation economy, it starts by tackling the sector’s branding issue.

"Toronto really punches above its weight when it comes to being a tech city.

It’s the number 1 city for startups and a great place for people to start and grow a business," Holland said.

"But the problem is our own Canadian-ness, we don’t beat the drum enough. These guys are top talent at the forefront of thought leadership and innovation and we need to show that. The tech talent in Toronto is doing phenomenal and we just need to get the word out and not be so shy about it. We need to get over that."

Her role, although still in its

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Rover Parking is in talks to team up with the City of Toronto on a pilot project near Islington station, where parking lots have been removed. infancy, was much needed, said Holland. She aims to create growth in the technology sector in Toronto and the Toronto-Waterloo Corridor, with a focus on attracting and retaining talent with diverse backgrounds. Holland is currently working with a team out of the Civic Innovation Office at city hall to develop "a narrative" for Toronto’s global tech brand.

"We’re trying to retain talent and talent stays because they have opportunities to build their business.

It’s not about the cuisine or the diversity, as amazing as that is. In this ecosystem to retain talent and

draw it from other countries you need opportunities, and we’re always looking at how to do that," Holland explained.

In the last few years, Toronto has continued to push and create these opportunities for startups by offering incubators, accelerators and access to the tech community and it’s beginning to pay off. Toronto has a growing startup ecosystem containing between 2,500 and 4,100 active tech startups, according to a 2016 report released by TechToronto. It also states Toronto is the strongest startup ecosystem in Canada.

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"There are over 60 incubators and accelerators from idea-stage programs like The Founder Institute to early-stage incubators like the DMZ, and bigger organizations

Just the way people are thinking about startups in Toronto will push it to become one of the top leaders for tech," Brigden told Metroland Media.

He launched Rover Parking about two years ago and for eight years, until 2010, he worked in Silicon Valley for the company OpenWaves, which was later sold. He admits that when he decided to try and get funding for the company in the city, it was different from Silicon Valley, Toronto was "super frustrating".

"When we started there wasn’t much help. The problem Toronto had, if I had to simplify it, was they were confused between scale up and startup," he explained.

"When we went looking for money, they asked for things like metrics that startups don’t have yet.

Those numbers come at the stage of a scale up."

But Toronto has improved, he said, mainly due to the rush of companies like Facebook, Autodeck and Slack taking notice of Toronto’s potential.

"We’re starting to see a lot of organizations starting to realize they need to set up in Toronto because the next wave of entrepreneurs and startups will be a lot bigger in Toronto than the wave before that," Brigden said.

Rickett agrees: "The tech landscape in Toronto has kind of blown up. That global recognition of talent and innovative thinking is happening.

We’re just starting to scratch the surface on what Toronto’s tech communities can do."

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The builders of affordable housing in the Toronto area are concerned that the region’s hot real estate market could put their ability to offer homes to lower-income residents at risk.

Options for Homes primarily builds condo apartments within Toronto that it sells below market value, and offers down-payment support to help buyers get into the market. Historically, about five per cent of its units have been sold to families and individuals with annual household incomes below $30,000.

"We were able to sell to people with quite modest incomes. That’s a game changer for them," Options CEO Heather Tremain said.

"That is going to be more difficult for us without some significant other support in place."

The nonprofit organization is currently building two projects, one at Danforth Avenue and Main Street, and another Danforth Road and Eglinton Avenue. It also has plans in Cabbagetown and Weston, the latter of which is generating great interest, Tremain said. While still below market value, those projects are expected to sell at a higher price to individuals with higher incomes than Options’ previous developments, she said.

The cause of this rise in prices is primarily the result of rising land costs.

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Crews work on one of three apartment condos being built at a Habitat for Humanity construction site in Scarborough. On front, Daniel Ger, VP of Land at Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area, stands next to one of three apartment condos being built in Scarborough. acquire land," said Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area VP of Land Daniel Ger. "Land values in general are increasing at a similar rate to the housing market."

Habitat GTA is feeling the same pressure as Options. Both organizations have a selection process for their homes so there is no bidding from buyers.

Habitat GTA is currently building or planning to build in 2017 four projects in Brampton, one in Caledon, one in Georgina in northern York Region, and is completing its largest development ever in Scarborough’s Malvern neighbourhood.

The Malvern project, with 50 stacked townhouse units, could be the last of its kind, the organization worries.

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Land values in Toronto have risen so high that a single-family home lot in an inexpensive neighbourhood sells for approximately $500,000, Ger said. A similar lot in Georgina sells between $100,000 and $150,000.

Coupled with land values, development charges (fees developers pay to governments to build) have risen. Toronto’s development charges are fairly low, approximately $25,000 per townhouse unit. Other municipalities charge much higher than Toronto, Ger said. Other costs, such as prices for concrete and labour have risen recently too.

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"Our Weston site is a great site in an up-and-coming area, so the upside of an area like that, people will also, hopefully, experience some good appreciation in those units," Tremain said.

While bidding for land against developers is becoming tougher, those developers are also integral to the nonprofit sector’s ability to offer homes.

Both organizations get support from for-profit builders. Options partners with Tridel, which offers labour at a reduced price, and Habitat GTA gets support from the Daniels Corporation, which has donated land, provided labour atcost and has partnered with Habitat to sell units within a development at below-

market value.

Both organizations say governments play a key role in their ability to offer homes to lower-income individuals.

Ger said Habitat GTA welcomes buying publicly owned land, but without having to bid for it against other developers.

"What would be very helpful for us is if municipalities, or the province or the federal government would be able to provide access to land for not-for-profits who provide affordable home ownership without going through a public bidding process," he said.

Luckily, governments have listened.

The City of Toronto is allocating $100 million worth of city-owned land to be sold to nonprofit developers, said Davenport Councillor Ana Bailão, chair of the City’s Affordable Housing Committee.

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An Options For Homes condominium project is under construction in Toronto’s east end. nonprofit sector," she said.

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Weathered flags should be grounded With Canada Day celebrations, marking the 150th year in our nation’s history, rapidly approaching, flags will be flying from coast to coast.

In many cases, bright, pristine Canadian flags will be front and centre at legions, government offices, businesses, and private residences. They’ll be prominent at countless special events and even attached to cars and trucks. And, unfortunately, there might be a few cases It might surprise where our cherished some to realize symbol looks less than maybe even a that there are some pristine, bit ragged and threadpretty specific rules bare.

It might surprise regarding the some to realize that there are some pretty display of our specific rules regarding the display of our nation emblem, nation emblem, the the Maple Leaf.

Maple Leaf.

Policies are in place to govern how the flag is flown from everything from attaching it to a vehicle or building, to suspending it above a street, or using it on a flagpole.

For example, if a flag is suspended above a street, the rule is: "The upper part of the leaf (the points of the leaf) should face north in an east-west street. The upper part of the leaf should face east in a north-south street."

If you want to hang a flag flat against a surface, here’s the rule you’ll need to follow: "If hung horizontally, the upper part of the leaf (the points of the leaf) should be up and the stem down. If hung vertically, the flag should be placed so that the upper part of the leaf points to the left and the stem to the right from the point of view of the observer facing the flag."

Want to fold your flag? The ceremonial folding of our national flag involves six to eight people following six specific steps.

Has your flag seen better days? "When a flag becomes tattered and is no longer in a suitable condition for use, it should be destroyed in a dignified way."

We’re not quite sure what constitutes a ’dignified’ disposal, but we do concur with the notion that the Maple Leaf should fly only in a pristine condition.

To display Canada’s national flag is to demonstrate one’s patriotism and appreciation for our good fortune in being able to live in the best country on the planet. To display a weathered, shabby version is to do a disservice to this most important symbol of our nation.

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Bringing stories of Toronto’s suburbs downtown I remember being disappointed two years ago when the Toronto Public Library released the Toronto Poetry Map. It’s a great idea: dots on the map, each linked to a snippet of verse describing that place, or this intersection in the city.

Except, some downtown places had overlapping dots, swollen with multiple mentions. All of Scarborough had just four dots.

The Toronto Zoo, Scarborough Bluffs, and the Hav-A-Nap Motel got mentioned, but not much else.

For our other suburbs, things weren’t much better.

Etobicoke, on that map, was a poetry desert. Ditto, East York.

Where were the words describing them? How can this be a city whose stories

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto are all set south of Lawrence, east of the Humber River, or west of Victoria Park?

Catherine Hernandez, the author of Scarborough, a novel published this month, is one of the first to take this challenge head on.

Her book crams in so much Scarborough: women working at a nail salon and a massage parlour,

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men going to East Point Park for sex, the Scarborough East Pow Wow, a school literacy centre, a Caribbean restaurant, fights at a dollar store, fantasies of orangutans escaping the zoo.

The best-known Toronto novels and poetry are about the old Toronto, partly because many are set in Toronto of the past.

So, I’m grateful for the "What’s Your Story?" contest from which the Ontario Book Publishers Organization started to draw out diverse, but unpublished, writers from Scarborough, North York, Etobicoke and East York.

"Diverse people produce diverse stories," says Holly Kent, executive director, but it’s hard to get suburban writers to literary

events happening downtown. "It can seem very insular to an outsider."

This is the second year the group has received stories and poems inspired by these four former suburban cities. Once again, Kent says, the contest jury was "floored" by their quality.

You’ll be able to see this year’s winners reading their work this fall.

Now that the city’s major art groups and festivals are finally discovering the suburbs, the literary scene is making it out there too.

Through fiction, we’ll find more of the truth about this city. We might finally understand each other.

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York Artists Guild holds show The York Artists Guild (YAG) is set to host its spring art show, which will be held in Etobicoke’s Assembly Hall right by Lake Ontario.

The show runs from May 28 to June 28.

An opening reception on Sunday, May 28 will feature musicians Naomi

Higgins and Doug Banwell, performing duets on flute and clarinet. The reception runs from 2 to 4 p.m.

YAG is a memberbased arts group that meets at the Fairbank Memorial Community Centre. It is open to artists of all skill level who

meet regularly to create art. The group puts on shows, such as this upcoming one, and holds workshops.

The Assembly Hall is at 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Dr. For more information, visit www.yorkartistsguild.weebly.com

York West Active Living Centre seeking summer students Application deadline is June 9 The York West Active Living Centre (YWALC) is hiring.

The organization is seeking two "energetic, hardworking" students for a seven-week summer position.

The summer program as-

sistants would assist activity conveners with programming, do gardening and maintenance work and more.

Applicants must be between 15 and 30 years old and had to be full-time students in the preceding year and are intending to return to school in the coming academic year.

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30-hour workweek that pays $11.40 per hour. The application deadline is June 9.

Start day is July 4.

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Films on Shortt Street WHEN: 8:30 p.m - 10:30 p.m WHERE: Shortt Street, Shortt Street and Eglinton Avenue West, York, Toronto CONTACT: info@fairbankvillagebia.ca COST: Fairbank Village BIA screens children’s films outdoors monthly.

Bring your own chair. Free popcorn. Rain day is Saturday. l Saturday, May 27 Weston Farmers’ Market WHEN: 7:00 a.m - 2:00 p.m WHERE: Weston GO Station, 1865 Weston Rd., Toronto CONTACT: Weston Village BIA, admin@westonvillagebia.com COST: Weston Farmers’ Market happens every Saturday until Oct. 28.

Charity Darts Shoot WHEN: 10:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd, Toronto CONTACT: 416-268-0409, le-

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Doors open at 10 a.m.Registration from 10 to 10:45 am.Play to start at 11:00 am. sharp!

Electronic waste collection Toronto Public Library WHEN: 1:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m WHERE: Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane St., Toronto CONTACT: l.ho@adlprocess.com COST: Drop-off your used electronics at Jane/Dundas Library. Help divert e-waste from landfills, and raise awareness around the challenges posed by electronic waste. l Sunday, May 28 Gluten Free Garage WHEN: 10:30 a.m - 4:30 p.m WHERE: Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St, Toronto CONTACT: Glutenfreefind.com COST: $10 Toronto’s original pop-up, glutenfree marketplace. Discover delicious gluten-free eats, drinks and more. Free admission to children

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Drawing Native Plants WHEN: 1:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m WHERE: Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St, Toronto CONTACT: Tooba Shakeel, 416413-9244 COST: 50+HST A delightful afternoon of sketching native plants. Artist Alan Li will be your guide as you explore and record the diversity of spring flora growing in the LEAF Learning Garden. All skill levels welcome.

Registration required. l Monday, May 29 Author Talk - Canadian Women in the Sky: 100 years of flight by Elizabeth Gillian Muir WHEN: 1:30 p.m - 2:30 p.m WHERE: Mount Dennis Branch, Toronto Public Library, 1123 Weston Road, Toronto CONTACT: 416-394-1008 COST: Elizabeth Gillian Muir tells the story of how women in Canada first boarded planes, then became pilots, and eventually astronauts - as women broke through the sky blue ceiling in spite of many challenges.

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