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City council authorized a 10-year lease for a new men’s shelter at 731 Runnymede Rd. at its meeting last week. Ali Karimian, manager at Village Tire & Auto Centre, located across the street, thinks the shelter location could hurt the business.

City approves homeless shelter lease AARON D’ANDREA adandrea@metroland.com Toronto city council has reached a lease agreement for a controversial emergency men’s shelter in the city’s west end.

Located at a former Goodwill

store at 731 Runnymede Rd. near St. Clair Avenue West, the 50-bed shelter could be open by mid-2018 after renovations are completed.

The 10-year lease, which comes with two options to extend it for an additional five years, was approved at council’s July 4 meet-

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Local Coun. Frances Nunziata (Ward 11 York South-Weston) said her constituents don’t feel the location is suitable for a shelter, and neither does she.

"It’s on Runnymede next to two body shops," she said. "We

don’t have transit on St. Clair, so as far as the location of the shelter, I don’t believe it was the best site for a shelter."

According to a city staff report presented to the executive com-

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GAME CHANGERS

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KIM ZARZOUR kzarzour@yrmg.com Gone are the days of hailing a taxi, phoning in a hotel reservation, lining up for movie tickets and using cash for purchases in a boutique store.

Now you can do it all with the touch of a screen thanks to innovations like Uber, Airbnb, Amazon or Netflix - to name a few.

Call them the game changers; they’re shaking up society, altering our lives at an exponential rate.

"We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another," predicts professor Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairperson of the World Economic Forum.

"The transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before."

Digital technology has already fuelled dramatic changes. Now, Schwab says, the "fourth industrial revolution" is on its way, shaped by a fresh new wave of innovation.

Here’s a look at how these disrupters could impact our everyday life.

How we shop Marc Saltzman’s wife, Kellie, dropped him and his son off at Canada’s Wonderland recently. By the time he realized he’d forgotten his wallet, she was gone.

It could have been a disappointing day, but Saltzman, a technology expert and author, had a smartwatch. He paid for the day with a tap of his wrist.

Mobile payment is just one way game changers are transforming our lives.

Soon, Saltzman says, we

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• don a virtual reality headset or sensor gloves to browse stores and try on clothes at home; or walk through a mall with augmented glasses that overlay digital info about the product and whether it’s cheaper somewhere else.

How we spend our leisure time The travel business has been upended with the influx of online booking sites and rating services like TripAdvisor. Now the sharing economy including Airbnb, VRBO - is chipping away further, leading to disputes over municipal bylaws and local neighbourhoods engulfed by transients and tourists.

At the same time, allyou-can eat, buffet-style services are disrupting the en-

tertainment world with services like Spotify and Google Music, ebooks and video-game streaming.

Next, Saltzman predicts, cars with data plans will link you to the strongest nearby tower, streaming content via an antenna atop your car.

How we get around Speaking of cars, do you really need one anymore?

Uber - connecting drivers and riders - and Zipcars renting cars by the mile or minute - allow us to travel a la carte.

And if you do own a car, you may not need someone behind the wheel in a few years. This leads to new possibilities, says Saltzman.

"We can make money with our car while we’re not using it - letting it drive other people around. Things are going to get pretty exciting."

But not everyone’s excited. The trucking industry is one of many traditional industries sounding alarms over upheaval and job loss.

Where we work A fleet of autonomous trucks, driving across Europe last April, gave a hint of what’s ahead. Andrew McAfee, co-founder of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, warns that trucking could be one of many industries where traditional middle-class jobs are at risk.

In its report Age of Disruption, Deloitte Canada warns the majority of Canadian businesses are not prepared for looming rapid advances in key technologies and will not survive.

Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship reports that nearly 42 per cent of the tasks Canadians are currently paid to do can be automated using existing technology.

But some, like Newmarket business owner Attila Vinczer, are optimistic about our ability to adapt.

Repetitive assembly jobs in his tool-and-die plants are moving toward automation, but he still views himself as a job creator.

"I still hire, but the jobs are different and require different skills like computer expertise and ability to maintain the machines, work websites and social media."

No one aims for a hollowed-out plant that runs itself, he adds. "There’s a responsibility among business owners to ensure the workforce is prepared and adaptable, because if no one’s able to make a living in this brave new world, if everything’s automated, who will buy the products?"

How we adapt How does one cope, then, in a world where everything is changing?

Experts say the "soft skills" will be essential, but Steve Joordens, psychology professor at the University of Toronto, warns those are the skills we are most in danger of losing, as we isolate in our silos of convenience, plugged into smartphones, live-streaming individual movie choices, interacting in superficial ways on social media, no longer chatting with cashiers or strangers in bank-teller queues.

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turn-taking, he says.

Older generations may worry about how they’ll keep up, while younger ones struggle with expectations.

Professors lament that students expect them to be available 24-7; employers say young new hires expect to be promoted to management in two years because that’s how quickly the rest of the world works.

From smarthomes to smartphones, we are eager to trade off privacy and security in exchange for convenience - but is that really so smart?

Joordens suggests we should prepare ourselves for this fast-changing world by forcing ourselves to slow down and carving out regular digital-free times for "mindfulness."

Sheila Embleton, a professor and former provost at York University, agrees.

"Those things that have always stood people in good stead will continue to: critical thinking, being adaptable to change, able to have good relationships.

"One can decry the loss of the old world, but we’re all having to adapt. When we link the best of the old with the new, we will end up with something that’s altogether better."

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HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Known as the Airbnb of parking, the Toronto-based firm Rover Parking is changing the way people think about where they park their car.

The cellphone program has a similar concept to Airbnb.

It pairs drivers looking to park in the city with an unused parking space in a nearby driveway for a fee that’s 20 to 30 per cent less than a nearby lot.

The app is the brain child of Torontonians Grant Brigden and Tom Wootton. The duo has been running the company for just over a year and a half.

Although the model is still in its infancy, it’s already had more than 50,000 downloads and roughly 2,000 driveways on board and offering up parking in Toronto.

"We’re really focused on driving supply. The key is

to get people to understand that there’s not an easier way out there to make some extra money without doing much," said Brigden.

"Some of our top spots are making enough money to even pay for their car lease.

"They’re making $400500 a month, which is more than their vehicle (payments). The driveway you have could essentially pay for the car you drive."

The app builds on the popular notion of the sharing economy, which has people finding new ways to profit from things they aren’t using on a regular basis by renting it out or sharing with others.

Those interested in posting their driveway or spot simply have to sign up, either on the website or through a downloadable app, list their spot, provide a picture of the space and a detailed description. Then those looking for parking can open up the map pro-

vided on the app and head over to the desired space.

As a user offering the space, you also have complete flexibility about when the parking is available and for how long.

There’s even the option to check out on average how much income space in your neighbourhood can make in a month.

The app has expanded to Montreal and parts of the United States.

The company is working with the mayor of Barrie, Jeff Lehan, on a pilot program to help find a technical solution to the city’s parking problem by listing residential and commercial parking spaces that sit empty. The program could stop the city from building costly parking garages with taxpayer money "We’re looking to change the style structure of mobility parking that people are so accustomed to," he said.

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A rendering shows the Lawrence Avenue perspective of the redevelopment of the Columbus Centre and Dante Alighieri Academy into a mixed-use centre. when it goes before the OMB. The advisory panel will assist in the planning and provide recommendations to meet the needs of all potential users while preserving and celebrating Italian heritage and culture, Villa said on a post on its website.

"We seek a broad crosssection of volunteer community representatives in-

cluding current users and potential future users spanning different age groups, genders and ethnicities," the post added.

Villa aims to begin community advisory panel meetings on Aug. 1.

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Applications to join a community advisory panel for the Columbus Centre redevelopment at Lawrence and Dufferin are now open.

Villa Charities and the Toronto Catholic District School Board are proposing to replace the current centre with a four-storey joint-use building that would house a new Columbus Centre and high school.

Plans for the 400,000square foot building include a three-storey glass facade along Lawrence Avenue where the Columbus Centre is currently located.

The project, which would house the Columbus Centre and Dante Alighieri Academy under one roof, was appealed to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) in May. At its meeting on June 13, North York Community Council directed city staff to oppose the application

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EDITORIAL | OPINION

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We must learn to adapt to game-changers It’s long been said the only constant is change. All one needs to do is examine the pace at which new technologies are altering our daily lives to recognize that the age-old phrase is truer now, perhaps, than it has ever been.

Consider that in a relatively brief span of time, hailing a taxi, booking a hotel reservation over the phone, and renting a movie at the video store have all become things of the past.

Instead, more and more people get a lift via Uber, secure a place to stay through any number of hotel booking websites or Airbnb, and rely on internetbased video streaming services, such as Netflix, to watch films or catch up with their favourite television shows.

If you think those innovations are something, buckle up, because many more are on the way. These socalled game-changers are heralds of what professor Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairperson of the World Economic Forum, calls "the fourth Industrial Revolution".

What will the next wave of innovations look like?

Well, experts envision being able to receive your online purchases via drone delivery, having the power to buy plans for an item and 3D-printing it at home, and even visiting a store from the comfort of your home thanks to virtual reality. You can also expect the "sharing economy" to not only persevere, but increase in the future.

As much as many of those developments sound exciting, they, and others, possess the potential to cause substantial disruptions for existing industries.

For example, the trend toward increased automation will directly impact many of us, with the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship estimating nearly 42 per cent of the tasks Canadians are currently paid to do could be at risk of being replaced by technology.

As with any seismic shift, one can view what’s coming as a crisis or an opportunity. And, while it won’t always be easy, it’s likely best to take the latter view as resisting change of this magnitude is most likely futile anyway.

"One can decry the loss of the old world, but we’re all having to adapt," professor and former provost at York University Sheila Embleton says. "When we link the best of the old with the new, we will end up with something that’s altogether better."

She’s right. We can’t always control what changes and challenges will be thrown at us, but we can control how we react.

Like the dinosaurs, our choices will essentially boil down to evolve or else.

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Doomed strip plaza is part of a big change Toronto’s suburbs were built around strip plazas, and those plazas, practical though they are, have begun to die.

In Northwest Scarborough’s Bridletowne area, a developer is knocking down a nine-unit commercial building and building a stack of 60 townhomes where it stood.

"The strip mall is a vision that needs to be replaced," says Marco VanderMaas, the project’s Dutch-born architect.

VanderMaas sees BT Towns as part of a wave of intensification that must come.

With many city neighbourhoods priced out of reach, there’s a "missing middle" for housing, a gap between detached houses and "boxes in the sky," he

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto says.

Meanwhile, land costs for strip malls are up, and many see less business.

People drive farther to get their bag of milk.

Suburban councillors are often hostile to townhouse developments, because older constituents usually are. Sometimes, clumps of towns bordering single-family subdivisions are accepted grudgingly,

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since mid-rise condos seem more threatening.

The now-doomed plaza on Bridletowne Circle seems normal enough, with a variety store, cleaners, other useful shops.

Unsurprisingly, residents wrote to oppose the project.

Wouldn’t this worsen traffic, some asked.

A decade ago, longtime Bridletowne homeowners hit the roof when condo towers were proposed nearby at the listless Bridlewood Mall. But it was clear the area, greying and suddenly classified as a "priority" neighbourhood, needed new blood.

VanderMaas knows people used to Bridletowne’s layout - single-family homes and towers - will think BT Towns too crowded. He argues the units,

with one to three bedrooms, will bring in more families, and there’s room.

Also, neighbourhoods change, and mindsets do too.

"I always think more neighbours means a more vital community," says VanderMaas, a devotee of the urbanist writer Jane Jacobs. "Is everybody gonna love it? No." VanderMaas argues citizens are obliged to say what they do want, not just what they don’t. Otherwise, he says, they’re hurting their neighbourhood’s evolution.

BT Towns got their zoning amendment. Many like it may follow.

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l Tuesday, July 18 Canada 150 Activity Hour WHEN: 2:00 p.m - 3:00 p.m WHERE: Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell Ave., Toronto CONTACT: Richard, 416-394-1006 Summer fun in the library. Different games and activities each week as we celebrate our country’s 150th birthday! l Thursday, July Yarn Lovers Wanted

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Bring your own chair. Free popcorn. Rain day is Saturday. l Saturday, July 22 Volunteers Needed WHEN: 10:00 a.m - 11:00 a.m WHERE: Humber Community Seniors’ Services, 1167 Weston Rd, Toronto CONTACT: 416-2497946, info@humberseniors.org, humberseniors.org COST: Humber Community Seniors’

Services is looking for volunteers to help with the Meals on Wheels program in the Weston-Mount Dennis Community. l Saturday, July 29 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.

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A very enlightening and moving event in York South-Weston, organized by the Muslim community, was held in Masjid Noor to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan.

Masjid Noor is the main mosque in the community.

It was established more than 30 years ago and is located near at the Keele Street and Eglinton Avenue West intersection.

This special gathering was held Friday, June 23, during the month of Ramadan, also known in the Islamic world as "Jummat’ al-Wida." Muslims around the world offer special prayers, give charity, help the needy and recite the Quran on this last Friday of Ramadan.

There were more than 200 men, women and children attending this event, which also included area social agencies, religious groups and prominent local community members.

Also in attendance was MPP Laura Albanese, Minster of Immigration and Citizenship of Ontario, her husband Germinio Politi; all of Laura Albanese’s local constituency office and Queen’s Park office staff.

Mufti Ibrahim Kureshi, who is the main Imam of Masjid Noor, gave a brief sermon and led the people into prayer. In his sermon, he emphasized the importance of the month of Ramada and fasting. Also, for Muslims to look after their neighbours, the rich to help the poor, be kind and re-

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Prominent members of the York South-Weston community, including MPP Laura Albanese (front) attend Masjid Noor on Friday, June 23 to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan. spectable to each other and help the needy/sick etc.

After the prayer, everyone joined together for a meal and conversation.

The event ended with goodwill greetings to all, with Imam Ibrahim Kureshi telling the guests they are welcome at the Mosque any time, as it is an inclusive and open community. * What is uReport? uReport enables our readers to submit photographs and videos from local events, written reports on things happening around Toronto, letters to the editor and event listings.

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The men’s shelter set to open next year will operate 24-7 and also offer employment and health services. The shelter will have flexibility to add more beds.

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mittee in June, the property was identified and assessed as a potential site for a shelter based on its suitability.

The shelter, which staff said would be required for the George Street Revitalization (GSR) project, would be operated 24-7 and offer services such as employment and health services.

GSR, which was approved by council in 2013, would see the reinvention of the northernmost block of George Street, and Seaton House, a 543-bed shelter would be shut down due to the job.

Neighbouring Coun. Sarah Doucette (Ward 13 Parkdale-High Park) said the shelter will be more than just a resting place for the men.

"There will also be a TV

room, some computers there . but most importantly, we want some community space - somewhere where we can have some community engagement," she said. "We have learned from councillors in other areas that having the community engaged, either as volunteers or by using the space, integrates the men into our community rather than just shutting them in a building and not ac-

knowledging they are there."

According to the Daily Shelter Census on the city’s website, Toronto’s shelters operated at 94 per cent capacity in June and 93 per cent in May. The shelter will have flexibility to add beds in response to extreme weather conditions, and to increase the occupancy rate over time to better support individuals who require access

to shelters.

Ali Karimian, manager at Village Tire & Auto Centre which is located across the street from the site, thinks having the shelter there will hurt the business.

"I hope it will be good for everybody," he said. "But what I see in downtown and other places, basically there’s going to be a lot of problems for the other people."

Shanti, a nearby resident who didn’t want her last name published, said she welcomes the shelter to the neighbourhood.

"I think that we need more homeless shelters in the city," she said. "And of course people sometimes have concerns about where they’re located in proximity to their houses, but people need places to live and need places to sleep."

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