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Just as Toronto existed before Confederation, so did York, but it was much different in 1867 than the city that amalgamated with Toronto in 1998.

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Toronto Pearson: Conversations about our future Toronto Pearson is an important part of the region and your community. Our airport is growing as an employment zone and now as a transit centre. Both increasing demand for air travel and the rising population of the Greater Toronto Area are behind our growth.

This summer, we are launching a series of initiatives to talk about the airport’s plan for long-term growth. Join us for any of our five public workshops taking place across the Greater Toronto Area.

Locations:

North of the airport

East of the airport Tuesday, June 20, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Ismaili Centre 49 Wynford Drive, North York

South of the airport

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Wednesday, June 28, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Assembly Hall 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive, Etobicoke

Thursday, June 22, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Peel Art Gallery Museum & Archives 9 Wellington Street East, Brampton

Central Tuesday, July 4, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Mississauga Living Arts Centre 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga

West of the airport Thursday, July 6, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Harbour Banquet & Conference Centre 2340 Ontario Street, Oakville

Each workshop will include presentations about the airport followed by small group discussions on how to help guide us through the next phase of our growth and ensure that we manage the impact of our operations responsibly. Residents of any neighbourhood are welcome to attend any or all of the workshops.

To learn more about the important region-building conversation, or to fill in our survey on Noise Fairness and Airport Growth, please visit: www.torontopearson.com/conversations

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Canada 150 Memories of York’s past

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has the most rapid steady drop of any river in Ontario, making it a good water power source for mills.

The King`s Mill of 1793 was established on the Etobicoke bank near Bloor, to provide boards for the Dennis Boat Yards on the York bank. Cooper’s Mills, ca. 1806 and later called Lambton Mills, was the third mill site on the river, located at Dundas, producing flour and wood.

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Notice of Commencement and Public Meetings GO Rail Network Electrification Transit Project Assessment Process Metrolinx, an agency of the Province of Ontario, is upgrading its commuter rail system into Regional Express Rail. The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) is now home to nearly 7 million people and heading towards 10 million by 2041. To address the urgent transit needs of the GTHA, the Province of Ontario committed to implement Regional Express Rail and make other improvements to the GO system. By 2025, electrified trains will be running every 15 minutes or better, all day and in both directions, within the most heavily travelled sections of the GO network.

The Process Metrolinx and Hydro One are co-proponents, jointly carrying out the Transit Project Assessment Process (TPAP) in accordance with Ontario Regulation 231/08 - Transit Projects and Metrolinx Undertakings (made under the Environmental Assessment Act) to examine the environmental impacts of converting several GO rail corridors from diesel to electric propulsion.

The Project As part of Regional Express Rail, Metrolinx is proposing to electrify GO-owned corridors. The GO Rail Network Electrification undertaking will entail design and implementation of a traction power supply system and power distribution components located along and within the vicinity of the rail corridors.

The Study Area (see key map) includes six GO rail corridors, as well as proposed locations for the traction power facilities (i.e., Traction Power Substations, Paralleling Stations, Switching Stations) and ancillary components: • • • • • •

Union Station Rail Corridor Lakeshore West Corridor – West of Bathurst St. to Burlington Kitchener Corridor – UP Express Spur (at Highway 427) to Bramalea Barrie Corridor – Parkdale Junction to Allandale GO Station Stouffville Corridor – Scarborough Junction to Lincolnville GO Station Lakeshore East Corridor – Don River Layover to Oshawa GO Station

Traction Power Supply and Distribution System Electrification of the GO Network requires a connection to the provincial electrical system. It is proposed that power be supplied from Hydro One’s existing 230 kilovolt (kV) transmission lines through the installation of five (5) Tap locations which will bring power to the Traction Power Substations (TPS) and then feed into the power distribution system components adjacent to and along the rail corridors to be electrified.

Consultation Building on the first and second rounds of public consultation meetings held in February/March 2016 and November 2016, Metrolinx and Hydro One are now formally commencing the TPAP. A third round of public consultation is planned for June/July 2017 (details below) and will present the findings of the technical/environmental studies (posted online at www.gotransit. com/electrification) undertaken for the GO Rail Network Electrification Project. Members of the public, government agencies, Indigenous communities and other interested parties are encouraged to participate in the process and/or contact the project team directly with feedback or questions. A discussion guide will be posted online at www.gotransit.com/electrification prior to the meetings to provide key information.

We invite you to join us in person at the public meeting nearest you to find out more.

Meeting times: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. / Presentation: 7:00 p.m.

Monday, June 26, 2017 Clarke Memorial Hall 161 Lakeshore Road West Mississauga, ON L5H 1G3

Wednesday, June 28, 2017 Ajax Community Centre 75 Centennial Road Ajax, ON L1S 4S4

Thursday, June 29, 2017 Metro Hall 55 John Street Toronto, ON M5V 3C6

Wednesday, July 5, 2017 Newmarket Community Centre 200 Doug Duncan Drive Newmarket, ON L3Y 3Y9

For further information on the project and studies completed to date, please visit www.gotransit.com/electrification.

If you would like to be added to our project mailing list, submit a comment or question, or to receive additional information related to the Project, please send an e-mail to the project team at: electrification@metrolinx.com or contact:

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York South-Weston MPP Laura Albanese (standing at right) speaks during a Green Communities Meeting at Mount Dennis Library last week.

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closed all of Ontario’s coal fired-power plants.

The city released 24 measures to help it achieve its 30 per cent GHG reduction target by 2020, said Jim Baxter, director of Toronto’s environment and energy division, at the meeting.

"The good news is that we probably will meet the 2020 target. The bad news is that we will not be on the trajectory to get to our 2050 target. So we need to be even more aggressive, more innovative, more committed than we were before," he said.

The city plans to release even more measures to reach its 2050 target, but it will take great effort to meet it.

"We can get a 80 per cent reduction, down to the 20 per cent level of 1990, but we need to do everything," Baxter said.

Minister Murray said actions must be taken immediately to address climate change. As an example, he said Ontario farmers faced the worst droughts in history a year ago, and this year they are dealing with the worst flooding in history, and it’s all due to climate change.

To learn more about Ontario’s plan, visit www.ontario.ca/climatechange

Official Plan Amendments for Heritage Views of & to City Hall, Old City Hall & St. James Cathedral Community Consultation Meeting The City is holding a Community Consultation meeting where you can learn more about this proposal, ask questions and share your comments. Details are as follows: Date: July 4, 2017 Time: 7 p.m.

Place: City Hall Committee Room 2

Proposal The City is proposing Official Plan Amendments to modify the existing protected heritage views of and to City Hall, Old City Hall and St. James Cathedral.

You can view a copy of the Preliminary Report providing background information at: http://bit.ly/2s11GPa. To speak to the planner directly, contact David Oikawa, at 416-392-7188 or david.oikawa@toronto.ca. Comments can be mailed to the planner at: City Planning, Toronto and East York District, 100 Queen St. W., East Tower 18th Floor, Toronto ON, M5H 2N2.

Notice to correspondents: Information will be collected in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record.

Our public meeting locations are wheelchair/mobility device accessible.

Other reasonable accommodation or assistive services for persons with disabilities may be provided with adequate notice. Please contact David Oikawa, at 416-392-7188, david.oikawa@toronto.ca with your request.The City of Toronto is committed to taking the necessary steps to insure compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005.

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Just as Bono once said the world needs more Canada, Canada, it would seem, needs more Mount Dennis.

Ontario’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Glen Murray visited the northwest Toronto neighbourhood, which aims to become the country’s first EcoNeighbourhood, to discuss how the community can lower its environmental impact.

"This is only going to work with communities that want to do this and communities that are excited to see a better quality of life and a more affordable quality of life by moving into a low-carbon community," Murray told The York Guardian at the meeting.

He said the province has already allocated money to help communities transform into green neighbourhoods.

"The challenge now is to find communities that have the kind of passion and vision for their future that people in Mount Dennis have."

Murray said ideally, to start a few communities would take up the challenge in the city, plus a few

more in the suburbs, rural communities and in northern Ontario.

"They all have different situations," he said.

"Mount Dennis is a really strong, urban, diverse community with a very active citizenry, and a very proud community. So, it’s the right kind of community in the city to take on that kind of thing."

The province is making funds available to municipalities, community organizations and citizens through its Climate Change Action Plan, which has revenue generated through the cap-and-trade program. The funding is available to residents for such things as energy-efficiency retrofits of their homes, to purchase electric cars and install charging stations at home, to private apartment towers for such things like energy-efficiency retrofits, and to municipalities for such programs as building cycling infrastructure, improving transit and much more.

By 2050, Ontario and Toronto aim to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80 per cent of their 1990 levels. They exceeded their six per cent reduction targets a few years ago when the province

The City of Toronto holds public consultations as one way to engage residents in the life of their city. Toronto thrives on your great ideas and actions. We invite you to get involved.

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EDITORIAL | OPINION

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Learning from our past helps guide our future Toronto’s come a long way in its relatively short history, with substantial change taking shape in the last 150 years.

Consider, if you lived in Parkdale in the 1800s, you were probably upper-class. It was a community known as a ‘resort village’ due to its proximity to the lake and its large summer homes.

Meantime, Toronto’s downtown core, which is now a bustling area of big business and big banks, was once home to the city’s most notorious slum, The Ward.

While Scarborough evolved into an industrial hub during the Second World War, as the population expanded east with dreams of prosperity.

These are just a few stories of Toronto’s past we bring to light this week to commemorate Canada’s 150th birthday. You can read these features in the editions of the Mirror, Guardian and Villager newspapers as well as online at insidetoronto.com/Canada150 We have a lot to celebrate and be proud of in this city and country of ours, as we prepare to mark our nation’s sesquicentennial.

But we’d do our forebearers a disservice if we didn’t continue to strive for the betterment of this city and its residents.

While it’s not hard to acknowledge where we went right, where we went wrong as a society has had lasting effects on the people of Toronto.

The erection of the Gardiner Expressway dismantled Parkdale as an upper-class enclave, resulting in 60 years of social and economic instability. The area is currently experiencing improvement through gentrification after years of neglect, but the investment is forcing some of its long-time residents to feel squeezed as the cost of living surges.

While an area as blatantly bleak as The Ward may no longer exist in Toronto, poverty does, with many children at the centre of the crisis.

And now there’s hope a subway extension will spur development in Scarborough once again, after the city lost its footing as an industrial centre after amalgamation.

To know where we’re going, we must always remember where we came from.

We must ensure the countless generations of indigenous, including the Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Mississaugas, are continually recognized and honoured for their contributions to this land. For without them, there would be no Canada. There would be no Toronto.

Learning from our past positions us for a brighter future: a future of progress, inclusiveness and reconciliation.

A brighter future that’s another 150 years in the making.

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City plan for legal rooming houses may fail I hoped the crowd in Don Mills would be a little different.

I’d been to other meetings where the city talked about legalizing rooming houses in Toronto’s suburbs, but these people have Shelley Carroll, a reasonable city councillor.

And Carroll has argued for licensing and legalizing rooming houses where they’re illegal - North York, Scarborough, and parts of Etobicoke.

Without a legal alternative to point at, she’s said, the city’s record against illegal rooming houses was miserable.

Shutting them all is impossible. Students and the poor will use them, so licensing is a way to keep tenants safe. Carroll’s said all this.

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto Yet, facing the same homeowners who turned up to discuss this in 2015, plus the city’s plan to license seven-room "multitenant houses" in five areas, she wavered.

If Carroll isn’t on board, the plan’s doomed. An issue that should be settled won’t be.

In 2015, homeowners at such meetings heard other views. This time, housing

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advocates, students and other tenants were closeted in focus groups.

At Don Mills, as in Highland Creek days earlier, homeowners were angry and incredulous. The city says every house in the pilot areas could become a rooming house, but after three years all licensing could vanish. It also expects illegal rooming house owners to embrace licensing.

Homeowner stories at both meetings were the same as ever. They came to live in a "unique" new community, built for families.

Decades later, everything’s changed. Rooming houses are everywhere.

Homeowners are right to blame universities and colleges for this, specifically York University, Seneca, University of Toronto Scar-

borough and Humber College.

They’ve become the largest industries in their suburban neighbourhoods. They’ve lagged behind on building student residences, content to see rooming houses spread.

Rooming houses became a secondary business near campuses, an investment or way to pay a mortgage.

If these neighbourhoods had more basement apartments and legal rooms for rent (two per home is legal) near campuses, there might not be such an evident need for affordable, convenient housing, but there is.

There’s no going back to the 1970s. Many in these subdivisions saw this coming, and sold. Over time, others will too.

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Ontario Place officially opens new park and trail Torontonians will have a new park and trail to explore this summer at Ontario Place.

The Trillium Park and William G. Davis Trail officially opened to the public Monday, June 19 with the help of Premier Kathleen Wynne and Eleanor McMahon, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport.

The unveiling marks the first milestone in the province’s plan to revitalize Ontario Place into a vibrant year-round destination.

"What better time than 2017, as we mark our 150th anniversary, to open the Trillium Park and William G. Davis trail and celebrate the incredible province we live in," said McMahon in a press release.

"This new public park and trail brings the beauty of Ontario’s natural landscapes to the heart of downtown Toronto. In a city this size, it’s important to have resources like this one for people to enjoy.

The seven-and-a-half-acres park, which was once a parking lot, used ideas from people across Ontario to create features like an open-air pavilion and open spaces to host fairs, festivals and food vendors. The trail, named after a former premier who served while Ontario Place was being built, is 1.3kilometres long and connects to the Trans Canada Trail, the Martin Goodman Trail and the Pan Am Path.

"I am pleased to see a new era begin for Ontario Place and I am honoured by the beautiful trail that now bears my name," said former premier Davis, in a press release.

"When Ontario Place opened in 1971, it was designed to be a place that everyone in the province could enjoy ? a place that would show Ontario’s potential. Fortysix years later, that potential is our reality."

The park has design elements that reflect the Indigenous heritage of the site which is located on the traditional territory of the Mis-

sissaugas of the New Credit First Nation.

Some highlights of the park include: The Ravine with Moccasin Identifier: Developed in collaboration with the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation, there’s a moccasin etching in the gateway to

the park to provide a visual reminder to celebrate and honour the history and culture of Indigenous peoples.

The Bluff: Stacked boulders and rocks from a Muskoka quarry are located along the trail, symbolizing the prehistoric Lake Iroquois shoreline.

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Recording artist Amanda Martinez will take a leading role in the Sept. 28 Sunday morning worship service at St. John’s United Church.

These buttons will always remind John’s family of him.

How will you care for your loved ones when you’re gone?

Prospect Cemetery is a business name of Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries.

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Every year, John would go to the fair and get a photo button of his family. This collection of them will help them remember the fun they had growing up. What personal items will you leave behind? Visit mountpleasantgroup.com to pre-plan with us and start your Memory Box.

Prospect Cemetery 1450 St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto 416-651-4040

Amanda Martinez at Hugh’s Room Live York Latin jazz singer-songwriter is set to perform at the revived Hugh’s Room, now called Hugh’s Room Live.

The performer will appear in a duo concert with longtime collaborator, guitarist Kevin Laliberté on Thursday, July 6. The concert starts at 8:30 p.m.

The pair will perform songs from the last 10 years and debut some new music.

Martinez’s third album, Mañana, was produced by Grammy Award winner Javier Limón. Her work has led her to be a TV personality, radio host, actor and even ambassador for SOS Children’s Villages. In 2014, she was named one of the Top 10 Most Influential Hispanic Canadians by the Minister of National Revenue.

Tickets to the Hugh’s Room Live concert cost $35 to $40.

For tickets, visit www.hughsroomlive.com/event/amandamartinez/

Organization gets families to volunteer abroad organizes volunteer opportunities for people across the world, particularly in Asian, South American and African countries.

Started by a university professor to offer students a chance to teach English in post-USSR Roma-

nia, the organization has grown dramatically. Projects Abroad is now offering volunteering trips to families who want to do something meaningful on their vacation.

With summer approaching, Projects Abroad is asking families

to combine their vacation with service work to help in areas of need such as health care, education, and conservation.

For more details, visit www.projects-abroad.ca

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Projects Abroad, which is part of Projects Abroad Global that operates in more than 30 countries,

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EVENTS l Friday, June 23 Neighbours Night Out WHEN: 5:30 p.m WHERE: Church and Elm, Church Street and Elm Street, Toronto CONTACT: contact@welcometoweston.ca COST: The Weston Village Residents Association hosts its Neighbours Night Out with activities, food, and entertainment.

Films on Shortt Street WHEN: 9:00 p.m - 11:00 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, June 24 High Tea WHEN: 2:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m WHERE: Anglican Church of St. Mary & St. Martha, 1149 Weston Rd., Toronto CONTACT: Dianne, 416-766-8412, office@stmaryandstmartha.org, http:// www.stmaryandstmartha.org COST: Enjoy High Tea celebrating Canada’s 150th. Prizes for the best hats. Door prizes and more!

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Day Trip to Carmen’s Dinner Theatre 55+ WHEN: 9:00 a.m - 3:30 p.m WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Road, Toronto CONTACT: Danna McBride, 416-245-4395, danna@ywalc.ca COST: $89 members; $99 non-members On our way to the theatre we will stop at Bennett’s Farm Market.

Ride in deluxe motor coach.

Register by June 16.

Seniors’ Month Celebration WHEN: 11:00 a.m - 4:00 p.m WHERE: Learning Enrichment Foundation, 116 Industry St., Toronto CONTACT: Nico, 416787-2114 COST: Reconnect Community Health Services’ ninth annual Seniors’ Month Celebration includes dazzling performances, lunch, a craft and bake sale, prizes, dancing, and lots of fun.

l Thursday, June 29 Yarn Lovers Wanted WHEN: 6:00 p.m - 8:00 p.m WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W.,

Toronto CONTACT: Arlene, quanah1@gmail.com COST: Join on Thursday evenings for knitting, crocheting, and company. Share or learn. Bring your project or supplies. They do not provide yarn or needles.

5 things to do this weekend l Friday, June 23 Luminato WHEN: 10:00 a.m WHERE: Various venues, Various venues, Toronto CONTACT: interactive@luminato.com COST: Various International multi-arts festival continues at venues across the city through to June 25.

l Saturday, July 1 Canada ’150’ Party WHEN: 2:00 p.m - 8:00 p.m WHERE: RCL Mount Dennis Branch 31, 1050 Weston Road , Toronto CONTACT: 416-7670231, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: Cost for food and drinks Canadian trivia quiz, a door prize every half hour and more fun and games, DJ Tom O’Rourke, barbecue, dessert, cash bar.

Weston Canada Day Fireworks WHEN: 5:00 p.m - 10:30 p.m WHERE: Weston Lions Park, 2125 Lawrence Ave. W., Toronto CONTACT: 416-392-4092, jennifer.cicchelli@toronto.ca COST: Live entertainment, free activities for kids including bouncy castles and slides, Canada Day cake, and food vendors. Fireworks at 10 p.m.

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TD Toronto Jazz Festival WHEN: 12:00 p.m WHERE: Various venues, Various venues, Toronto CONTACT: 416-9282033 COST: Most ticketed events For 10 consecutive days, June 23 to July 2, more than 1,500 musicians - including some of the biggest names in jazz - will make Toronto their stage.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes his way down Yonge Street during the Toronto 2016 Pride Parade.

to Yonge-Dundas Square.

Pride Toronto WHEN: 12:00 p.m WHERE: Various venues, Various venues, Toronto CONTACT: office@pridetoronto.com COST: Free and ticketed events Pride Toronto’s month-long celebration concludes with its signature final festival weekend, June 23-25, including final Sunday Pride Parade, beginning 2 p.m. at Bloor and Church streets, heading

NXNE Festival WHEN: 12:00 p.m WHERE: Various venues, Various venues, Toronto CONTACT: info@nxne.com COST: Various packages This annual music and arts festival features live music, but it also includes a film festival, a comedy festival, art components, video game activities, and a digital interactive media conference.

Toronto Craft Beer Festival WHEN: 3:30 p.m - 10:00 p.m WHERE: Ontario Place, 955 Lakeshore Blvd. West, Toronto CONTACT: andrew@jkproductions.ca COST: Start at $27.50 The second annual Toronto Craft Beer Festival will feature a wide variety of over 20 craft beers and select craft ciders, delicious food, fun activities and live entertainment. Please note, this is a 19+ event.

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A child participates in a Woven event as part of Arts in the Park. Another Woven event is happening at Water Saunders Memorial Park Saturday, June 24.

Arts in the Parks returns The Steps Initiative is an organization known for turning urban spaces in to beautiful artistic experiences. They seek to inspire cities across Canada and around the world to create welcoming public spaces that reflect and celebrate local community through artistic excellence.

Their performances are part of Arts in the Parks, a Toronto Arts Foundation initiative that brings arts events to communities

across the Greater Toronto Area. The program, now in its second year, features free music, theatre and dance performances in parks throughout the city all summer long.

This year’s Steps initiative, "Woven," will engage the surrounding communities of the York Beltline.

They will be performing from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 24 at Walter Saunders Memorial Park where they will be weav-

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They will also be performing "Woven" again on July 29 and Aug. 26, also at Walter Saunders Memorial Park.

More information about the Steps Initiative and other Arts in the Parks events can be found at https://artsintheparksto.org.

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He was at Toronto city hall Monday to speak to Mayor John Tory’s executive committee about proposed regulations for short-term rental accommodation.

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hosts for his guests as well.

"I do live in a condo, and I do feel as an owner I have some right to control the guests who go through," he said.

James Miller, who lives in Carleton Village, offers up his spare bedrooms to guests ranging from students to tourists, and some of them stay more than 30 days.

"We love to describe the wonderful local businesses," he said. "Being an Airbnb host makes me an ambassador for our city and our country."

Barb Disman, who hosts in Seaton Village, said that without the added income from Airbnb she wouldn’t be able to afford her home.

"I’m just a person - I’m not a hotel," she said. "I pay my taxes, and I’m happy to do so."

The regulations, if approved following further consultation, would limit short-term rentals to a host’s primary residence. It would also require hosts and the service to register with the city. And hosts could pay a significant tax on their earnings - as high as 10 per cent as opposed to the four per cent paid by hotels.

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The committee voted June 19 to go ahead with the plan after hearing from numerous deputations - most of them favouring the regulation of the relatively new mode of hospitality.

Among those was Airbnb itself, as represented by Chris Lehane.

"We do believe that we need to be regulated," said Lehane, who later added that it was appropriate that the organization pay adequate taxes and work with the city. He noted that Airbnb, which uses an online platform to pair travellers with accommodation, often in people’s homes, has already forged co-operative agreements with municipal governments around the world.

He said that the service is a way of "democratizing capitalism," allowing peo-

ple who might not be able to afford their mortgages and rents otherwise to supplement their income, and allowing others who might not be able to afford the cost of a hotel in a city like Toronto to travel nonetheless.

"Here in Toronto, middle-class families are able to visit the city because of inexpensive Airbnb," he said. "We’re democratizing capitalism. A typical home is available 53 times a year."

Terry Mundell of the Greater Toronto Hotel Association also told the committee there needed to be proper regulation, and urged the study of perhaps tougher regulations than proposed, including reviewing whether certain zones should be barred from hosting Airbnb based on population density, plus higher registration fees.

The committee also heard from Airbnb hosts who argued that the business helps them survive in an expensive city and also showcases that city to visitors in a way that a hotel could not.

Alyas Ali, who works precariously in tech startups, said he regularly hosts visitors in his condominium, and acts as a personal

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Etobicoke York Community Council approved a subdivision application for the West Park Healthcare Centre site at its June 13 meeting.

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West-end councillors approve subdivision application CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com Frances Nunziata is hopeful construction at the West Park Healthcare Centre will begin "very shortly" following approval of the site’s subdivision application.

During this week’s Etobicoke York community council (EYCC) meeting, the York South-Weston councillor told her west-end colleagues that redevelopment plans for the site at 82 Buttonwood Ave. have been in the works for going on five or six years now.

"I’m very pleased to move the recommendation, and hopefully they can start the construction on the site very shortly," Nunziata said of the subdivision application on June 13.

According to the city planning report, what that subdivision plan essentially does is create the necessary blocks and public road networks required to facilitate the redevelopment of West Park Health Care Centre on the western portion of the site - including construction of a new six-storey, 460-bed hospital building - and the future creation of a new mixed-use, senior-focused residential developments on the east portion of the site.

"The two new blocks would accommodate a new residential seniors’ village incorporating a range of seniors’ accommodations,

potentially including long-term care facilities, assisted-living units and residential units, together with ancillary office, retail and personal service uses," the report, authored by senior planner Gregory Byrne, states.

A new public road system is also proposed within the site, which would extend westerly into the site from Charlton Settlement Avenue, then loop south to connect to Buttonwood Avenue.

Speaking on behalf of the applicant, Bousfields Inc.’s Emma West said she believed the application represents "good planning" that is in keeping with both provincial and municipal policies and objectives.

She also noted that both EYCC and Toronto city council previously approved the necessary rezoning and official plan amendments for the hospital redevelopment earlier this year, and before that added permissions for nonhospital uses at the site in 2010.

"As such, this draft plan further implements the vision for the redevelopment of the site, and in summary, it is my opinion that the application represents good planning," she said.

West-end councillors agreed, approving the subdivision application unanimously.

The matter will now proceed to Toronto city council for a final decision.

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Dragons Abreast Toronto celebrate 20th birthday, Canada’s 150th AARON D’ANDREA adandrea@metroland.com Members of Dragons Abreast Toronto, a dragon boat team made up of female breast cancer survivors, are preparing themselves for a memorable voyage.

They will paddle the last 100 kilometres of the Rideau Canal with plans to arrive in Ottawa for Canada’s 150th birthday on July 1.

Paddling for Canada 150 was a perfect event to celebrate another milestone Dragons Abreast’s 20th birthday, said Eleanor Nielsen, the team’s founder.

"It just seemed like a natural idea," she told Metroland Media Toronto.

Nielsen, a breast cancer survivor, was inspired to start the team after meeting women from Vancouver in 1997 who were raving about their own

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Dragons Abreast Toronto, a dragon boat team made up of women who’ve had breast cancer, are celebrating 20 years together. To mark the occasion, they will be paddling the last 100 km of the Rideau Canal to arrive in Ottawa on July 1. dragon boat experiences.

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In the sport, 20 paddlers power the boat, one person steers it and another bangs on a set of drums, which is considered to be the heartbeat of

events.

But for members like Florianne Yeung, of Riverdale, it’s more than the competition that keeps them going, she said, pointing to the health benefits that participating in the sport brings.

"It helps to prevent the development of lymphedema (swelling in the soft tissue of a limb where cancer treatment was performed)," she said. "We just exercise the upper body and stretch our arms and that’s what brought me to dragon boating."

Yeung added she was also attracted to the team after learning it was made up of fellow breast cancer survivors.

Looking ahead to the Ottawa trek, member Yasmin Alladin, of Scarborough, said it will be a "great" adventure.

"Before cancer, I didn’t think I could do these things," she said. "I became a new person, I’m stronger and it comes from being with a team of women who are so strong."

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