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Hockey players of all skill levels will share ice time with NHL alumni to raise funds to support Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia care for Baycrest Health Sciences.

Now in its 10th year, the Scotiabank Baycrest Pro-Am has raised more than $25 million for Baycrest Foundation for memory loss care, research and education.

This year’s line-up of NHL

alumni will include Mike Modano, Adam Oates, Larry Murphy and Mike Gartner, who will join retired NHL participants Wendel Clark, Curtis Joseph, Darryl Sittler and Darcy Tucker for the tournament.

Though he doesn’t have a personal association to Alzheimer’s disease or Baycrest, York resident Jack Stern has participated for six years in the Pro-Am tournament because of the connection he feels for the Bathurst Street and Hwy. 401 site. >>>‘AN’, page 12

Jane’s Walks in your ‘hood This weekend’s walks listed with titles and starting locations. ◗ May 2, 9 a.m.

Drills, Hills and Thrills: Cedarvale Fitness Walk Circuit Ben Nobleman Park ◗ May 2, 11 a.m.

The Great Lambton Gas Explosion Scarlett Road and Bernice Crescent ◗ May 2, 1 p.m.

Denisons of Mount Dennis Portage Trail School, 100 Sidney Belsey Cr. ◗ May 2, 1 p.m.

Oakwood: The school that built a community Oakwood Parkette

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Weston Village, Past and Future Weston GO Station parking lot ◗ May 2, 2 p.m.

Farms to Record Studios: Explore Eglinton Avenue West on Foot Maria A. Shchuka Library ◗ May 2, 3:30 p.m.

Eglinton: Today and Tomorrow Ben Nobleman Park ◗ May 2 & 3, 1 p.m.

The Beltline and Beyond: The Midtown Trail Loop Ben Nobleman Park

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

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Spring Into Change

Join us at The Spoke Club for an exciting gala featuring live musical performances by the Dave Murphy Band, hors d’oeuvres and a silent auction.

Proceeds will be donated to the Patient Amenities Fund at SickKids with the goal of raising $30,000 to help children and families in need.

To purchase tickets, visit www.springintochange.ca

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Meagan’s Walk

This Mother’s Day weekend, join us for a 5 km walk in support of the Meagan Bebenek Endowment Fund and awareness, research and treatment of paediatric brain tumours at SickKids. The event begins at Fort York and ends with a human “hug” around The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids).

Register at www.meaganswalk.com

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Bar Down by the Lake Ball Hockey Tournament The Faustina Hockey Club is hosting a 3-on-3 co-ed full day ball hockey tournament for ages 5 to adult in support of Juvenile Arthritis Research at SickKids. A surprise Toronto Maple Leafs alumni will be in attendance!

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Francesco Grosso Diabetes Fundraiser

The Francesco’s Fund for the Diabetes Clinic at SickKids will be an evening of live music, celebration, community support and education in support of newly diagnosed Type 1 Diabetes kids at the hospital. All proceeds go directly to provide financial assistance to newly diagnosed families.

To purchase tickets, please contact liagrosso@rogers.com

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Install a backwater valve to prevent water and sewage from backing up.

Divert your downspouts away from the foundation.

For more information on flood-proofing your home, go to toronto.ca/basementflooding

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Our program offers 2 free options (you may take one or both) delivered by our Ontario Safety League certified safe driving instructor to help you be a safer driver: •

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For more information or to register, please call:

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Boy, 3, dies after fall from 17th floor

I said, ‘IT’s MINE!’

Shortly after 2 on Sunday afternoon, police were called to 3 Hickory Tree Rd., near Weston Road and Lawrence Avenue West.

A child had apparently fallen from a window in a 17th floor unit.

The three-year-old boy was rushed to hospital, where he died of his injuries.

Woman dies after car hits building An elderly woman is dead after her car crashed into a building from a parking lot on Church Street.

Police said the driver, 81, was driving a Nissan Altima in the parking lot of 200 Church St. Sunday, when the car struck a curb and then a building.

The woman was pronounced dead in hospital.

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Weston Collegiate’s Alex Gayle, centre, attracts the attention of Martingrove Collegiate defenders during high school senior rugby action at Weston on Friday. Martingrove went on to win the game 27-0.

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Cedarvale students perform Earth Day eco-extravaganza CLARK KIM ckim@insidetoronto.com Celebrating Earth Day through song and dance, Cedarvale Community School students performed a onehour musical extravaganza at the nearby Vaughan Road Academy auditorium on April 22.

With teacher Dara Baek at the helm, more than 50 students in grades 4 to 8 practised almost every day for the past couple of months memorizing the script and song lyrics, which highlighted a number of environmental issues like climate change, deforestation and endangered animals.

“The most important thing is to take action,” said Amanda Douglas, who was one of the main actors in the musical.

“We also learned that everything is connected,” added fellow Grade 7 student Stevey Goldschleger.

Both agreed they had a lot of fun

putting on the play, which consisted of singing and dancing tigers, polar bears and leatherback turtles performed by students wearing costumes and face paint.

Certified as a Platinum Eco School for the past two years, Cedarvale has taken on a number of environmental initiatives including litterless lunches and tree planting.

“On a daily basis, we send out the message that caring for our environment begins with the individual,” said Carmelo Nanfara, principal of Cedarvale Community School.

He noted last year, Cedarvale staff and students hosted the EcoOlympics to mark Earth Day. This year, they wanted to perform an original musical as a creative way to celebrate the occasion.

“It also showcases the students’ talents,” Nanfara said. “People can clearly see the amount of effort that’s come out.”

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Students from Cedarvale Community School perform a musical at Vaughan Road Academy auditorium last week on Wednesday in celebration of Earth Day.

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he city’s going to start tracking our movements and before people begin crying foul over privacy rights, we’d like to suggest a few reasons why this is a good thing.

The so-called Big Data project – the subject of our exclusive report Big Data – aims to take GPS probe data from our smartphones and other electronic devices to analyze traffic patterns. That information will give city planners a much more accurate picture of how people get around, where they’re coming from, where they’re going, at what time and – hopefully – help solve the city’s gridlock problem.

It could also monitor commuter times and help tackle commuter roadblocks. If anomalies show up on a particular road during rush hour, it may indicate a problem and the city could be quicker to respond.

That said, it’s not a sure thing. our view Without having seen the data yet (it needs to be purchased City must take from private sector navigation city staff are reluctant advantage of firms), to make promises about what be able to do with it. this information they’ll But if there’s any hope it can fix or improve traffic in this city – it’s worth a shot.

Annually we waste about $11 billion in lost productivity due to traffic congestion. And according to a traffic index compiled by navigation firm TomTom, the average Toronto commuter loses about 84 hours each year while delayed in traffic.

We can’t afford not to try.

We’re being tracked already via GPS in dozens of apps we activate on our smartphones. Our movements and locations are already being charted – whether we know it or not. With that information readily available the city needs to step into the 21st century and take advantage of that data, particularly if it’s got the potential to help improve our lives and the functioning of our city.

Transparency will be key in alleviating privacy concerns. We probably won’t see much of the data released to the public after the city’s purchased it, since private companies are charging for it. But at the least, the city should keep the public informed of its intention and its results, in a broad sense, as the experiment moves forward.

Our traffic problems need a solution, and this is the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that may just get us there.

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Cup fever from coast to coast On the coldest day in December, or the hottest day in July, there’s always one thing, guaranteed to bring a little twinkle to my eye.

Just need a stick, a puck, a pair of skates and a sweater with my name.

Then point me toward the nearest rink.

Gotta love our game.

Could be a backyard in Prince Albert, a street in Waterloo.

A frozen pond in Kirkland Lake or a driveway in the Soo. It doesn’t matter where you play, the feeling’s still the same.

The chills run up and down the spine.

Gotta love our game.

I love our game, there ain’t no doubt about it.

I love our game. Don’t know where I’d be without it.

It warms my heart, it soothes my brain.

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY Bet it’s even in my DNA. Gotta love our game.

The speed, the moves, the hits, the saves, the breakaways, the fights.

The Rocket, Bobby, 99 and Grapes on Saturday nights.

It’s in my thoughts each waking hour and the stuff of which my dreams are made.

I just can’t get it out of my head.

Gotta love our game.

Oh sure, it gets rough at times. And a body often has to pay a pretty stiff price.

But you can’t feel joy if you’ve never felt pain so I suck it up with a smile and stick my nose in again.

And again. And again and again and again.

Whether you grew up here, or just arrived it becomes a part of you.

Young and old, rich or poor, we all breathe hockey through and through.

It’s a way of life from coast to coast and our nation’s claim to fame.

So when we raise the Cup, it’s to propose a toast: Gotta love our game.

I love our game. There ain’t no doubt about it.

I love our game. Can’t imagine life without it.

It warms my heart, it soothes my brain. Bet it’s even in my DNA. Gotta love our game.

Gotta love our game. Gotta love our game.

Gotta love our game.

Jamie Wayne is a lifelong columnist, who takes writing very seriously. The topics?

Not so much. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at jamie.wayne@sympatico.ca

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Convenience, choice behind beer decision To the editor: The government of Ontario has listened to consumers and is delivering more convenience and expanded choice when it comes to where people can buy beer.

Beer will be sold in up to 450 grocery store outlets. That’s in addition to the roughly 450 existing Beer Store outlets and more than 600 LCBO stores province-wide.

As a whole, these changes represent the largest shakeup to the way beer is sold in Ontario in nearly 90 years.

The benefits to people across Ontario will be many.

These reforms will bring added competition to beer sales, provide retail growth opportunities for Ontario craft brewers, create jobs, grow the economy, and generate an anticipated $100 million in revenue each year, phased in over four years.

Hon. Charles Sousa, Minister of Finance

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Fairbank Afterschool Homework and Social Club WHEN: 4 to 6 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Join City of Toronto recreation staff after school on Fridays for homework support, work space, and social and recreational activities for youth 10 to 14. Drop in; no registration required.

Basics of Vegetable Gardening WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Courtney or Craig, 416-394-1000, www.torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Discover the joy of growing your own food. Learn about soil, crop rotation, companion planting, feeding/fertilizing, starting with seeds and more.

Presented by trained horticulturalists from Toronto Master Gardeners. Call to register.

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Spring Bazaar WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

WHERE: Central King Seniors Residence, 15 King St. CONTACT: Florida, 416-614-1053, ccoordinatorcksr@bellnet.ca COST: Free

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Balcony and Terrace Gardening WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Courtney or Craig, 416-394-1000, www.torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Fun and practical ideas to expand your garden space, presented by trained horticulturalists from Toronto Master Gardeners. Learn step-by-step planning for starting a small garden and creative ways to use containers for growing.

Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting us at www. yorkguardian.com. Read weeks of listings from your York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto.

Cyber Seniors WHEN: 11 a.m. to noon WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416394-1000 COST: Free One-on-one help from youth for those aged 55 and older. Topics include social media (Facebook and YouTube), digital devices and downloading eBooks from the library. Call to register.

Jane’s Walk in Mount Dennis WHEN: 1 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Portage Trail School, 100 Sidney Belsey Cr. CONTACT: Mount Dennis Community Association, 416-550-2683, http://janeswalk.org/canada/toronto/ denisons-mount-dennis, mike@

mountdennis.ca COST: Free We will explore the history of the area including the historic St. John’s Cemetery on the Humber, consider the Temperance movement, the canal and other projects in the Humber.

Walking on natural trails is an option.

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Explore Eglinton West by Foot WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-3941000 COST: Free As part of Jane’s Walk, join us at the library for a walking tour of the International Market on Eglinton Avenue West, covering the past, present and future of the neighbourhood. Learn about the history of the belt line and development of the neighbourhood from farm land, and about the more recent musical history of the area by visiting landmark storefronts and the proposed Reggae Lane project. Call to register.

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Healthy Eating on a Budget WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-394-1008 COST: Free Presented by Toronto Public Health.

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Senior Group Meetup: Looking at Memory WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Learn to use visualization to help you remember. Call to register.

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Federal budget disappoints hard-working middle class families, says MP Mike Sullivan No new job creation in Federal budget:

Unemployment in Canada is now 6.8% - it is 8.1% in Toronto and 15.1% for youth (age 15 to 24) in Toronto, yet this Harper budget contains no new job creation measures. The NDP has a plan to help grow our economy, create good jobs and support working families.

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Transit funding in Federal budget too little, too late:

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After 6 consecutive deficits, this Federal budget claims to be balanced in 2015, only after raiding the Contingency Fund for $2 billion and cutting $900 million in federal employee benefits. And now the Harper Government wants to introduce balanced budget legislation? #fail

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hat if you could take a huge amount of traffic data and use it to accurately pinpoint which portions of a busy road will experience congestion before it actually happens? Or effectively determine what the traffic impact will be if a large infrastructure project does, or does not, get built?

In a city as gridlock-choked as Toronto, drastic steps are needed to address congestion, and the idea of making use of so-called Big Data is gaining traction among an enthusiastic collection of city officials, including Mayor John Tory, who are convinced the answer to alleviating Toronto’s often nightmarish traffic lies in making use of trillions of bytes of data to analyze traffic patterns on a massive scale never seen before locally.

“This will be a game changer and will establish Toronto as a leader in running a truly smart city,” said Tory this month of a plan to establish a specialized team of city traffic planners dedicated to the task of analyzing large amounts of vehicle – cars, public transit, bicycles – as well as pedestrian data in order to provide an accurate indicator of how the city moves around.

While planning is still in the early stages, the team’s official role will be to analyze the movements of tens of thousands of daily road users whose activities are captured via GPS probe data – tracked GPS signatures pulled directly from smartphones and other electronic devices – to determine how best to improve traffic conditions, influence public policy and evaluate the benefits or drawbacks of traffic regulations.

But really, it’s about making sure commute times stay consistent.

“People care about and get accustomed to their commute times and what really bothers them, I believe, is reliability,” said Toronto’s transportation services director Steve Buckley during a recent interview.

“What we really care about, for example, is if at 5:30 in the afternoon traffic on say Bayview Avenue is performing any different than usual.

Using data may tell us if it is and why.

It may be able to provide us with evidence something occurred there and we can intervene and help.”

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because we have to sort through hard questions on what it is that exists out there,” he said. “We need to understand how useful it will be to us, how much it will cost to procure, manage and maintain the data.”

The new team will partner with McMaster University as well as the TTC to analyze vehicle movements.

It’s also tasked with reporting on the impacts of newly installed bike lanes, whose use is determined through GPS data provided voluntarily by the users of a mobile application for cyclists developed by the city.

Unlike open data (compiled figures released by the city for unlimited public use) Big Data will rely on proprietary information provided by private sector navigation firms that will sell the data to the city for

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its intended use.

Currently, the city is preparing a short list of companies it will contract for the initiative.

As long as the city entrusts the private sector with coming up with the necessary data, don’t expect to see a lot of compiled information released publicly for free since there is a significant commercial incentive to charge for such information. uckley believes the cost to the city is worth it if it makes it possible to better understand traffic patterns that five or 10 years ago would have been impossible to identify without requiring millions of dollars in expenses.

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as TomTom and Inrix reaching ascendancy, private data collection has become so sophisticated it’s now possible to determine with pinpoint accuracy what is happening on roads on a minute-by-minute basis.

Once city staff become accustomed to playing with data sets, Buckley said he envisions more specialized groupings of data classified by factors such as speed of movement, which could provide a more accurate picture of citywide movement.

“You can envision a day where they can develop algorithms which are sophisticated to separate all those GPS signals and almost have a dynamic model for the city,” he said.

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While there’s a wealth of information for vehicles, there’s just not as much emphasis when it comes to the cheapest and easiest form of transportation: walking.

Dylan Reid, the founder of Walk Toronto, is skeptical considerations are being paid to pedestrians, noting the complete lack of mention of walking in a recent press release for the Big Data plans.

And, he said, there’s readily available data that is not being applied for improving conditions or making the case for more pedestrian spaces.

Reid points to a recent decision by city council, reinforced by city staff, to eliminate a pedestrian scramble, allowing unimpeded access from all corners of the street, at the intersection of Bay Street and Bloor Street after local complaints the practice was impeding traffic.

Reid believes existing data could have been used to find other intersections where a pedestrian scramble would help, rather than eliminate one entirely on the rationale it was underused and negatively affecting car traffic at the Bay-Bloor intersection.

With that in mind, he said he’s skeptical new data will be acted upon unless there’s the political will to do so.

“I am a little skeptical from a pedestrian point of view because the data is there and they’re choosing not to use it,” Reid said.

Toronto’s transportation services director Steve Buckley concedes there are issues with using Big Data to track pedestrian movements.

For one, GPS probe data is accurate to about a metre of space, which might result in inaccurate readings of pedestrian use. Another consideration, he said, is the reality that GPS data companies make their revenue through tracking vehicle movements and not pedestrians.

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Metrolinx unveiled its renovated and expanded York GO Transit concourse at Union Station this week.

At 62,000 square feet the new-look concourse for GO has double the waiting space of its previous iteration as well as new staircases, elevators, trip information boards and bright lighting. It also features a covered walkway running below Front Street that joins a new connection for the PATH underground network.

Meanwhile, Union’s Bay GO concourse will begin its own substantial face-lift following the conclusion of this summer’s Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games.

TO in TRANSIT lessons can be learned from the region’s recent transit planning, from the introduction of dedicated bus rapid transit lanes in the 905 to the establishment of multi-modal communities along the revitalizing waterfront.

Author Dario Hidalgo also highlights Spadina Avenue as a “remarkable example of a complete street” accommodating walking, cycling, transit and driving.

Read the full article here: www.bit.ly/1EAv7aD SLOWDOWNS TO AFFECT GO RIDERS wWEEKEND GO Lakeshore rail riders are going to have to wait longer than usual over two weekends in May. Construction of a pair of twin pedestrian tunnels at Eglinton GO station means anyone taking the Lakeshore East service during the weekends of May 8 to 10 and May 29 to 31 will have to wait an hour

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Games Organizing Committee held a 100-day countdown celebration to the Parapan Am Games Wednesday.

The event featured a wheelchair rugby demonstration and eight Team Canada wheelchair rugby hopefuls.

Wheelchair rugby will make its Parapan Am Games debut this summer.

Canada wPanSynchro hosts competition Am Games medal hope-

fuls will be at the Shiseido Canadian Open until Saturday at the new Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre.

Canadian duet swimmers Karine Thomas and Jacqueline Simoneau, who are favoured to win gold at the 2015 Pan Am Games, as well as GTA-based athletes Rebecca Maule, Lisa Sanders and team captain Marie-Lou Morin will be competing.

The Pan Am Sports Centre is at 875 Morningside Ave. Tickets are available at the door. For more info, visit http://2015shiseidoopen. com

michele mclean pan am/parapan am schedule wTheBaseball announced Pan Am/Parapan Am

Games released the men’s and women’s baseball schedule.

On the men’s side, teams competing include Canada, Cuba, the U.S., Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

Canadian men’s opening game is July 11 against Dominican Republic.

T h e w o m e n’s t e a m s competing include Canada, the U.S., Venezuela, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Canada’s women’s team opening game is July 20 against Cuba. The games will be played at the President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark.

Fo r t i c k e t s o r m o re information, visit www. toronto2015.org Live soccer draw wToronto held 2015 Pan Am Games

held a live soccer draw last Friday.

The draw confirmed the

eight nations on the men’s side – Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, Peru, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago and Paraguay – will compete in the Games.

The draw was co-hosted at Corus Quay by Saäd Rafi, chief executive officer of TO2015, and Toronto-based singer/songwriter Amanda Martinez.

Launch of Pan Am wFriends Path Art Relay of the Pan Am Path

will announce the Pan Am Path Art Relay tomorrow.

The relay will travel across Toronto and aims to engage community groups to celebrate diversity, nature and arts. Events are planned along the route.

The Pan Am Path is an 84-kilometre trail connecting the city. The art relay will showcase Toronto’s neighbourhoods along the path and serve as a legacy of the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games.

Visit www.panampath.org Michele McLean’s column on the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games appears every second week. Reach her at mmclean@insidetoronto.com

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Albion Sanitary Trunk Sewer Study Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) Study Notice of Study Commencement and Public Information Centre Please join us at the Public Information Centre to learn about the options considered and recommended solutions for the long-term management of the Albion SanitaryTrunk Sewer (STS) in the Humber River Valley (from north of Highway 401 to south of Lawrence Avenue).You will have an opportunity to view the display boards, speak one-on-one with project staff, and provide feedback. Details are as follows: Date: Monday, May 4, 2015 Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Location: C.R. Marchant School (Gym)1 Ralph St. (Lawrence Avenue at Weston Road) Background The Albion STS is a 3 kilometre long, 750mm diameter, trunk sewer that was constructed in 1960s. It runs adjacent to the Humber STS through the Humber River Valley and the two sewers cross one another at a number of locations (see study area map).The purpose of this EA study is to identify long-term solutions to address corrosion problems and low flow conditions in the Albion STS and to provide for long-term sanitary servicing needs within the study area.

The Process The study is being conducted under Schedule B of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) Study.

The Class EA study process will provide the public and interest groups with opportunities for input to this study.

The study defines the problem, considers and evaluates alternative solutions, assesses impacts of the proposed solutions, and identifies measures to lessen any adverse impacts.

We would like to hear from you Public consultation is an important part of this study. Visit the project website for more information or contact us if you would like to be placed on our mailing list for updates.

Mae Lee, Public Consultation Unit, City of Toronto Metro Hall, 19th Fl., 55 John St. Toronto, ON M5V 3C6 Tel.: 416-392-8210, Fax: 416-392-2974, TTY: 416-338-0889 E-mail: rigmea_lee@toronto.ca Visit: toronto.ca/involved/albionsewer

Issue Date: April 23, 2015

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UP Express: launch date to be June 6 No date specified for electrification Rahul Gupta rgupta@insidetoronto.com The Union Pearson (UP) Express air rail link has an official launch date, but it could be years before the line is electrified.

The four-stop line directly connecting Union Station with Pearson International Airport will open for service on Saturday, June 6, said Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne last Wednesday, following a ride along the line.

Along with several of her provincial Liberal colleagues including Ontario Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca, Wynne and members of the media boarded a UP train at Union and took the 25-minute trip to the airport.

After arriving at Pearson, Wynne said she took per-

sonal satisfaction in knowing will – as part of the $13.5-bilthe line will soon be open to lion Regional Express Rail the public.

(RER) plan to expand and “It’s not very often a polielectrify large swathes of tician gets to see the complethe GO Transit rail nettion of a project they were work within 10 years. Lines a part of initiating,” said planned for electrification Wynne who was Ontario’s include Lakeshore East and transportation minister West along with Stouffville, when construction of UP Barrie and Kitchener. began in 2012.

“Metrolinx is working very “There were all sorts of hard on a plan for all GO corchallenges along the way, ridors that will see (electribut we got here. fication) over the Be a part of the It is a terrific, ternext number of discussion. Visit rific success.” years,” said Del this story on our The premier Duca.

Plans to electrify also touted website and share U P ’s J a p a n your thoughts in UP as a pilot projmanufactured ect ahead of the the comments trains, which GO network have section. now been modified will r un ever y so it takes place 15 minutes for  bit.ly/1bbdSRk 19.5 hours a day, at the same time seven days a week. She said as the Kitchener corridor they are the “cleanest” diesel on which it partially runs, trains available and can also said Metrolinx CEO Bruce be converted to run on elecMcCuaig. tricity.

A 3.3-kilometre elevated But neither Wynne nor rail “spur” was built to the airport but most of the Del Duca could confirm service travels along the when UP’s electrification will take place – only that it Kitchener line into Union.

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“It doesn’t make a lot of sense to only electrify UP on the same corridor where there’s GO service,” said McCuaig. “Electrifying Kitchener gives us an opportunity to do the work more efficiently and will give us a much better result in the end.”

Electrification of most of the GO network is not expected to be completed until at least year eight of the 10-year RER deployment plan, said McCuaig.

Then there are “practical matters” such as building a maintenance facility in Whitby to house electrified GO trains.

But McCuaig maintained electrifying Kitchener and UP remains a key priority.

McCuaig also confirmed costs for electrification of UP are now fully accounted for within RER’s funding envelope.

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‘Ecstasy’ over Sheppard LRT delay Jim Karygiannis, the new councillor for ScarboroughAgincourt Ward 39, had what to outsiders might seem a novel reaction to word that a major infrastructure improvement touching his ward was to be postponed, possibly indefinitely.

He was, to use his own words, “ecstatic.”

Karygiannis’ delight in failure is not so mysterious when you look at the particulars: the infrastructure being a light-rail line along Sheppard Avenue East, and Ward 39 being located on the bleeding edge of Scarborough.

Karygiannis won the seat in 2014, campaigning heavily against the Sheppard LRT and promising to fight for what was long ago promised to Scarborough residents: a subway, connecting the foreshortened Sheppard subway to the Scarborough Town Centre.

Mel Lastman first promised it when he was mayor of North York in the early 1990s; Rob Ford promised it in 2010 when he ran for his single term as

david nickle the city mayor.

The LRT, delivered it seemed by former mayor David Miller and former premier Dalton McGuinty, never stood a chance, at least in public opinion, and as it turns out politically.

Former deputy mayor and Ward 40 councillor Norm Kelly told The York Guardian’s Mike Adler during the October election that he was talking with Scarborough MPPs about delaying the funding for the Sheppard LRT. On Monday, that is precisely what happened.

The province announced that the Sheppard line will go ahead after another light rail line on Finch is up and running, which is scheduled to happen in 2021.

The question now is, will the prospect of a Sheppard subway line become a real question? Karygiannis says he’d like to make it so, but

he has a great deal stacked against him.

The least of his problems is the money: Toronto council and Mayor John Tory are heavily committed to a long list of very expensive transit projects, including another costly subway venture in Scarborough, the extension from Kennedy north-eastward, and Tory’s own SmartTrack plan.

Of course, financial impossibility has never stopped bigdreaming politicians before.

But there is also a more daunting barrier: political fatigue.

There is little appetite among the powerful in Toronto for more public transit debate, and for most on council, little to be gained fighting this fight.

In the end, Scarborough transit grouses will likely have to confine their celebrations to a wake for the infrastructure that Karygiannis seems so happy to lose. Small victories are still sweet.

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Homecare and Ontario Doctors – Working together Whether they’re a family doctor, someone providing specialized care or emergency medicine, doctors play a valuable role in caring for those most important to us. At the Community Care Access Centre (CCAC), a provincially-funded home and community care organization, we know access to health care is vitally important, particularly for seniors and the elderly. On May 1, the Toronto Central CCAC will celebrate Doctor’s Day and say thanks to the physicians who help us make a difference in the lives of over 73,000 Torontonians each year. On this annual day of recognition, we are honoured to celebrate the importance of our doctor partners.

Doctors who work in partnership with the CCAC’s home-care and hospital teams help people in neighbourhoods across Toronto. With our doctor partners, we create a team of people to care for those in their homes, making things smoother and easier for home-care patients. For example, this could include a nurse or nurse practitioner, a family doctor, multiple doctor specialists, a personal support worker, a pharmacist, a physiotherapist, and all together, this group makes up one team.

The doctor is connected to everyone through the care coordinator’s quarterback role and the patient has a team of people to care for him or her.

This is pretty new and somewhat revolutionary.

Imagine if a loved one had a team caring for him

or her at home after returning from the hospital, as an example, and everyone who came into the home was on the same page. No one would have to repeat a description of how they are feeling or what was happening with the illness. Imagine if everyone worked together to make sure that your loved one was cared for by a team of people working with your trusted family doctor, involved and in the know, every step of the way. By working together, doctors and their partners, such as CCAC Care Coordinators, are able to do just this.

And our partnership with doctors goes beyond just the family doctor. CCAC partners with doctors who specialize in disease management (COPD, diabetes etc.), emergency room doctors or doctors who help discharge you home after surgery or a hospital stay. Doctor partnerships are central to the success of getting people home and keeping them out of hospital. Without our fabulous doctor partners, patients wouldn’t be as healthy and happy at home. Happy Doctor’s Day! For more information about how doctors and the Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) can provide you with health care support, contact the CCAC at (416) 506-9888 or visit www.healthcareathome.ca

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CUTS TO HEALTH CARE MEAN CUTS TO YOUR FAMILY’S CARE. If your mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she might also experience issues related to depression or diabetes and require multiple physicians to provide care.

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