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Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews visits Unison Health and Community Services Thursday to announce nearly $10 million in funding for programs across Ontario devoted to the prevention of Type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes prevention gets boost Program in York South-Weston gets support from health ministry CLARK KIM ckim@insidetoronto.com
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Director Ross Manson will be bringing the play A Beautiful View written by acclaimed Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor to the stage later this month. “This was a long time coming,” said the Davenport Road and Symington Avenue area resident, who first met MacIvor about 30 years ago. “We were both performers.” Manson, who is now the artistic director of Torontobased theatre company Volcano, noted he’s been a big fan of MacIvor’s work as a playwright. He first directed A Beautiful View, which explores the friendship between two women spanning a decade of their lives, in November 2012 to Munich audiences. “Very few plays in the history of theatre take friendship as a central theme,” said Manson, adding most often tackle romantic love and conflict. “The thing about this play is it takes something simple, it adds depth and complexity, and it feels more like real life.” As the two women tell the >>>friendship, page 7
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on direction of board symposium Citizenship system focuses on mental health wdiscussion wCatholic New Democrat MPs from Toronto’s west end will host a public meeting to discuss the direction of Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration system Thursday, Feb. 13 at Bishop Marrcco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School at 6 p.m. Service providers will be on hand to identify the needs of residents. Davenport MP Andrew Cash will be joined by Parkdale-High Park MP Peggy Nash and York South-Weston MP Mike Sullivan. For details, contact 416-654-0564 or andrew.cash. c1a@parl.gc.ca
The Toronto Catholic District School Board is shining a light on family mental health concerns at a free symposium. The event is geared to parents, educators, students and staff who have a loved one dealing with mental health issues. It will offer families support and information. There will also be guest speakers. The symposium will take place Feb. 20 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at 80 Sheppard Ave., east of Yonge Street.
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Seeking feedback on electrification of express rail line Feb. 17 deadline for comments ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com About 20 residents from along the rail corridor that runs from Union Station to the Toronto Pearson Airport attended an open house in Liberty Village to hear about future plans to electrify the trains that will run on the Union Pearson (UP) Express, which will run through the former city of York. On Monday, Metrolinx, which initiated an Environmental Assessment (EA), and Hydro One hosted one in a series of public information sessions on the UP Express Electrification Environmental Assessment. This project, though currently unfunded, would involve electrification of about 25 kilometres of track along the Union Station GO rail corridor and the Kitchener Go rail corridor. Metrolinx held a series of public open houses this summer to share project updates and seek feedback on the conceptual design. This second round of joint public open houses involves both Metrolinx and Hydro One project components. The open house featured a series of display boards set up around Locus 144 Restaurant that explained the UP electrification EA. The purpose of these information sessions is to update the public on the EA and seek out their input. “If they have any concerns or comments that they want us to take into consideration as we develop our plans, that is the purpose of these (meetings),” said Karen Pitre, Metrolinx’s executive director of electrification. EAs and the issue of electrification can be complicated, but Pitre said she has seen a well-informed group of people coming out to the sessions. “They are the people who have been following this for
UPCOMING The final public open house on electrification takes place Monday, at Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor St. W., from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
a long time,” Pitre said. “But it is very complicated and we are trying our best to explain in a relatively straightforward way what we are talking about building.” Although electrification is not funded yet, Pitre said it’s part of the next wave of projects in the Metrolinx file. The panels shown at the meetings will be available on the Metrolinx website – www.metrolinx.com/en – by mid-week next week and the public can comment on the EA until Feb. 17. With all these comments under consideration, Pitre said her team will develop the environmental project report, which will be available for public comment. The final report is to be completed by the beginning of April and then there will be a 30-day public review period when people can make comments to the Ministry of Environment. South Parkdale resident Ric Amis was prompted to attend the meeting. He said he feels it is important the trains used on that line are not diesel as is planned when the service begins running in time for the 2015 Pan Am Games. He said he was disappointed to find the meeting was presented as a series of panels as opposed to a presentation by Metrolinx followed by a question-andanswer period. “They gave me a list of terminology,” Amis said, holding up an eight-page glossary of terms. “I could be here all night just reading the acronyms.”
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York West Active Living Centre aims to answer the question: ‘Where are the guys?’ Programs are designed by men, for men LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com While Vincent Knap never minded being the lone man in classes filled with women at York West Active Living Centre, he admits he often wondered how to get other men to join in. “I’ve been going there a few years now. There’s not enough guys. Where are all the guys?” the 73-year-old retired mediator laughed. Some of the few men who go to the centre have told Knap they are selfconscious about joining activities when 98 per cent of the participants are women. That’s why Knap is applauding an initiative launched by the centre to focus on the programing needs of older men, a population that, unlike, for example, children, new moms and women, traditionally hasn’t enjoyed activities geared specifically to them. It’s important to find ways to get men involved in fitness routines and teach them about healthy lifestyle choices in ways that are relevant to them, said Knap, who lives in the area of Lawrence Avenue and Jane Street. Men’s only classes also provide a social outlet because participants feel more free to talk about topics like last night’s hockey game than if the activity is dominated by women, he said. Providing fitness and social opportunities is especially important for older men, who may have lost those connections when they retired, Knap said.
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Vince Knap takes part in a Nordic pole walking class at York West Active Living Centre Monday afternoon.
“Their jobs defined them. It was their whole life,” he said, adding many retired men end up just “puttering around the house.” Knap is helping to recruit men to the new programming, known as Men: Be Active, Live Healthy. “It’s what is really needed,” he said. “Once it gets off the ground and gets a little success, it breeds success.” The idea of getting older men involved in activities came out of a strategic planning process the centre conducted in 2012, which showed many men aren’t even aware of community programs available for them, said Shannon
Trapman, co-ordinator of Men: Be Active, Live Healthy. York West Active Living worked with St. Clair West Services for Seniors, Syme 55+ Centre, Rexdale Community Health Centre and York Fairbank Centre for Seniors, which each held focus groups asking men what types of programing they want. The centres are also sharing information about research and programming. Once men find out there is programming available, the next steps are getting them to participate and persuading them to encourage other men to get involved, Trapman said.
The centre also wants men to shape future programming, she said. For example, baby boomers entering retirement are looking for more physically challenging programs such as Nordic pole walking as opposed to cards and billiards, which traditionally attract older men, she said. Many men are reluctant to participate in co-ed activities because they are afraid of appearing like failures and even unmanly if they can’t keep up with women in the class, said the centre’s executive director, Suzanne Teixeira. As a result, the centre has begun offering a men’s only exercise class taught by a male instructor, she said. Men are also offered preand post-program physical assessments so they can objectively see the benefits of physical activity. In addition to pole walking, other programs include a cycling repair and safety class, a cooking and nutrition program geared to men, a monthly Brain Cafe to discuss health issues and a men’s club. “I think the key point of this program and initiative is it’s men’s programming designed by men for men,” Teixeira said. “They are directing us on what they want to see at the centre. It’s not us sitting in an office saying, ‘This is what we think you would like to do.’ They come to us and we’re implementing it.” Men: Be Active, Live Healthy, a two-year program, is possible thanks to a $47,000 grant from the provincial government’s Ontario Sports and Recreation Community Fund.
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he Olympic Winter Games kick off tomorrow and we’ve got 221 athletes vying for gold in Sochi, Russia – our largest team to ever represent Canada at the winter event. Ontario is well represented with 64 athletes, the most of any province. Toronto has eight Olympians that we’re particularly keeping an eye on: Patrick Chan (figure skating), Dylan Moscovitch (figure skating), P.K. Subban (hockey), Natalie Spooner (hockey), Michael Lambert (snowboarding), Katie Tsuyuki (snowboarding), Lenny Valjas (cross country skiing) and Phil Brown (alpine skiing). If you weren’t already planning on it, there are a few good reasons to get on the Winter Games bandwagon for the next our view two and a half weeks. The Olympics truly are a unifyGames ing event. No matter your cultural your political views the ultimate background, or whether you actually know unifying event the difference between luge and skeleton, there’s nothing like a podium win to ignite the national pride in all of us. The Games strengthen our communities here at home. While our athletes are a world away, we can invite our neighbours, friends and family together to cheer them on. It’s a great excuse to reach out, or strike up a conversation with a stranger, to talk about the standings and how Canada’s team is faring. It serves as a great inspiration for our children. At a time when childhood obesity rates are critically high, introducing kids to the exciting world of the Winter Games is the perfect way to get them more active. It’s an especially welcome inspiration at this time, to be reminded that winter in Canada can be enjoyable if we embrace it and play in it. And children can always use more positive role models. Why not introduce them to our roster of Olympians and Paralympians who serve as examples of determination, focus, great teamwork and even how get back up after a failure. The Olympic Winter Games start with Friday’s opening ceremonies and continue until Feb. 23, with the Paralympic Games beginning March 7. Tune in, host a Winter Game-watching party, get the kids involved by having them cheer for their favourite athlete and then do something really Canadian – go play in the snow.
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I never miss the opening ceremonies. The trouble is they begin Friday at 11 a.m., EDT, when I’ll be stuck at work. The festivities last five hours. There’s no way I can spend that much time hunched over my phablet without drawing attention or throwing out my back. Any suggestions? A. I’m no doctor and I certainly don’t play one in a community newspaper, but it sure sounds like you’ve got a nasty bout of the flu coming on. Oh, say, around Thursday evening? Keep me posted. Q. I know all the official Olympic sponsors, except for one that just slips my mind for some reason. What is the Official Turkey of the Sochi Games again? A. Turks and Caicos vs. Trinidad and Tobago in men’s ice hockey. Q. Speaking of ice hockey, because CBC is the rights holder, Don Cherry is going to be one of the analysts in Russia. Does this mean
jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY Grapes is actually going to be calling hockey “ice hockey” just like everybody else? A. I wouldn’t count on it. Q. When the downhill is on and I ask my boyfriend what a particular move the skier is doing is called he’ll say, “Shush.” He says it over and over, too. I hate when he does that. It’s very irritating. Do you think I have a right to be upset? A. Absolutely. He should know better. What he should be saying is “Schuss.” Q. In figure skating, how long is the long program and how long is the short program? A. Uh, you mean how long is the long and how short is the short, right? Q. During the ice dancing if one of the couples accidentally slips into a samba during the mambo, what do the judges do?
A. Honestly, I’ve never paid attention to their reaction, because whenever I see it happen, I immediately leap up on the couch and break into the lambada. Q, My son, who’s in university, lives with me. He hates sports and knows nothing about any Winter Olympic events but says he wants to see the skeleton. His eyes light up when he says it, too. He assumes he’s going to be looking at skeletons all day. I’m in a real bind here. We only have one TV set. How on earth am I going to watch what I want to watch - curling? A. Easy peasy, mom. Since he’s never seen skeleton before, tell him you’re putting it on, but flip on curling instead. Just make sure to turn it on right before the last rock of the 10th end, just as the announcer is about say, “There are two lying in the house, one is buried, the other, lying next to it, is shot and the skip is holding the hammer coming home.”
Trust me, his eyes will really light up. Q. We’ve got Winter and Summer. How come no Fall or Spring Olympics? A. The way things are going with global warming, we could soon be down to just the Summer Games. Q. Lastly Jamie, I really hate to mix politics with sports, but what are the chances we see a Cuban Olympian defect right after Sochi? A. I’d say somewhere between slim and none, considering Cuba is not represented in Sochi and has yet to send a team to any Winter Games. However, now that you’ve brought it up, if the weather doesn’t get any milder soon, I wouldn’t be surprised if a few of my co-workers end up defecting TO Cuba DURING the Games. 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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Kenny Robinson in Concert WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Canada’s Nubian godfather of comedy will be on hand with a madeto-order family show for Toronto Public Library’s Black History Month celebration. For ages 13 and older.
The De Havilland Mosquito WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416394-1008 COST: Free Keith Hyde, aviation historian, will explain its origins and where parts were built across Canada. Call to register.
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Small Business Workshop WHEN: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre, 341 Oakwood Ave. CONTACT: Maria A Shchuka Library, 416-394-1040 COST: Free A workshop on how to start a small business and what small business owners need to know from a banker’s perspective. Presented by JVS Toronto Employment Services. Call to register.
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Shrove Tuesday Pancake Lunch WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-2454395, ext. 223 COST: $6.50
course is organized by University of California, San Francisco. Call to register. Course can be found at www.coursera.org/#course/nutrition
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Karaoke WHEN: 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-0231, www.facebook.com/mountdennislegion, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: food available at reasonable prices Join us for our weekly barbecue starting at 6 p.m. Karaoke begins at 9 p.m. Cash bar. All 19 and older are welcome.
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Financial Advice for the Cohabiting, Married and Soon to be married.
WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Julie Cazzin from Moneysense Magazine will answer your questions about money and relationships. Call to register.
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Take a Free Health Course Online with Coursera WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Library staff will discuss this trend in independent learning and demonstrate how to search and sign up for courses and actively participate once you’re registered. This six-week
Mount Dennis Local History WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-394-1008 COST: Free The History of Mount Dennis through Pictures – continued, presented by John Maniezzo, creator of the Facebook page Toronto Old Districts. Call to register.
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Resume Workshop WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Learn resume essentials before launching your job search. Open to all ages. Call to register.
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Women’s Empowerment: Discovering our Power WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. or 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays WHERE: North York
Women’s Centre, 2446 Dufferin St. CONTACT: 416-781-0479, info@ nywc.org COST: Free Gain an understanding of difficult emotions and the effect they have on mental and physical well-being. Building Connections: Friendship, Fun and Learning WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesdays WHERE: North York Women’s Centre, 2446 Dufferin St. CONTACT: 416-781-0479, info@ nywc.org COST: Free Meet other women in a relaxed, welcoming environment, get information and learn about available resources. Weekly Barbecue WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. Fridays WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-0231, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: Food for reasonable prices. All 19 and older are welcome.
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Dear Friends, Last week, Toronto City Council approved the 2014 Budget and 10-Year Capital Budget and Plan. The budget maintains current programs and services and provides funding for new and enhanced services. As your Councillor I: • Secured $3.9 million in funding for a daycare centre at St. John the Evangelist Catholic School • Ensured all programming at the new York Community Centre will be free • Supported an expansion of the Student Nutrition Program • Supported increased funding for: community grants; the arts; the Toronto Public Library; and the TTC, to name a few • Supported nearly $1 million worth of cost-cutting measures to operations at City Hall A total property tax increase of 2.71 per cent was approved, keeping our property taxes among the lowest in the GTA. As residents of Ward 11 incurred unanticipated expenses from flooding and the ice storm, I could not support the greater increase requested by staff. If your property became damaged due to flooding and left substantially unusable, or if the repairs or renovations to the property prevented the normal
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Union proposal: reaction mixed Details on time-based transfers still to be worked out: Byford J
udging from the feedback on Twitter, the response to the idea of Union Station getting a name change is decidedly mixed. Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong issued a proposal this week to rename Union after Sir John A. Macdonald, who, in addition to being Canada’s first prime minister, was also instrumental in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Got your own naming suggestion for Union Station? Tweet your ideas to @TOinTransit. Meanwhile, staff is expected to report back to the city’s executive committee on the Sir John A. Macdonald name change proposal by July. Carpool Week wCelebrating
Metrolinx is celebrating Carpool Week by adding to the number of designated areas available at 31 GO
Transit stations in the GTA. The initiative seeks to create more awareness for carpooling to work and school as an alternative to single-car travel. Through its Smart Commute program, Metrolinx is also encouraging commuters to find potential carpooling partners via Carpool Zone, a free online ride-matching service. As part of the campaign, Carpool Zone account holders can enter a contest to win two business class VIA rail train tickets to Quebec City. For information about the contest visit www.carpoolzone.ca Carpool Week runs until Monday
features stark images of Toronto transit as captured by Ryerson University students. Moving On: Ryerson Photography Students Explore Urban Transport Around the GTA runs until April at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre. Featuring the work of 80 second-year students, the collection includes monochromatic impressions of cityside rail tracks and seemingly calm subway platforms disrupted by an oncoming train. The free exhibit, co-sponsored by Metrolinx, can be found within the theatre’s second-floor lounge Thursdays to Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. until April 3. For more information, contact the Elgin at 416-314-2901 or visit the theatre’s web page at www.heritagetrust.on.ca/ EWG
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FEBRUARY 8-9: THE TORONTO CHARITY BRIDAL SHOW
4th Annual Toronto Charity Bridal Show, previously known as The Perfect You Charity Bridal Show. All proceeds from ticket sales will benefit SickKids Foundation, Lakeridge Health Foundation, and Canadian Mental Health Association - Durham Region. An exclusive show brought to you by David Rabinovitch and his team will feature our guest speaker Jane Dayus-Hinch, unique giveaways from our vendors, a Groom's Lounge, and much more.
FEBRUARY 10-14: FOLDED WITH LOVE, BECRAFTED YORK
Folded With Love, Becrafted York Club is holding a Valentine's Day event selling bouquets of handmade roses at the Keele Campus at York University.
FEBRUARY 17: THE SEARS GREAT CANADIAN CHILL
Take the plunge and help #EndKidsCancer! The Coolest Event On Earth comes to Yonge-Dundas Square on Family Day. The Sears Great Canadian Chill is bringing the traditional polar bear dip to the heart of the city once again. Participants will be taking the plunge into a custom built pool filled with icy cold water. In addition to the traditional dip, the Chill includes family fun activities, entertainment, crazy costumes and prizes for top fundraisers. Register online at www.TheChill.ca and join the fight to #EndKidsCancer!
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Carnevale di Venezia 2nd Annual Masquerade Gala. The event is a black-tie, masquerade gala mirroring the grand Venetian Ballo del Doge on the same day in Venice. The event will feature Venetian inspired cuisine as well as acrobats, singers, musicians, etc.
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Carmen’s Unisex Hairstyling and Creative Concepts in Hair Design invite you to come to Eglinton Square Shopping Centre from 12pm to 5pm to have your haircut and help raise money for SickKids Hospital. Visit the cutting stations in front of Coles Book Store to have a basic haircut. Only basic cuts will be done, no wash. Prices are: $15 for children, 20$ for men, and 25$ for women. 100% of proceeds will be given to SickKids Foundation. For a complete list of all events and to register your own event, visit www.sickkidsfoundation.com/events @sickkids
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n balance and considering their limitations, Toronto council put together a proper so-so budget for 2014. It’s too bad that in the midst of all that mediocrity, the most vital debate in the 2014 budget deliberations didn’t quite happen. That’s not to say that there wasn’t a lot of talk about the wisdom of slathering a 0.5 per cent property tax premium to pay for a portion of a multibillion dollar subway going into Scarborough, because there was. St. Paul’s Councillor Josh Matlow provoked a couple of high-octane discussions about the property tax hike. On the first day of the budget deliberations, he tried to have the property tax hike itself voted on separately. He was thwarted then by Speaker Frances Nunziata and council’s procedural rules, and then council supported her ruling on a razor-thin margin. And once that vote happened – it was done. When Matlow, an admitted nay-sayer on the Scarborough subway, moved a motion to put off spending any of the
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proceeds of that tax until 2015, Nunziata ruled that out of order on the legal advice that such a decision might open up the city to a legal challenge. To whit: you can’t say you’re levying a tax for a specific purpose then not spend it there. And so council, in their last budget debate before the election, went ahead and charged taxpayers for work on a subway that still may never be built. Now, it’s true that council has supported the subway to replace the Scarborough RT, and when it voted to do so last year, Metrolinx agreed to build it. But there are still impediments. For one thing, there are elections coming up: likely a provincial election, and a municipal election Oct. 27. And while there is a large contingent of voters in Scarborough who believe a shorter subway line is a better fit than a longer light rail line, there’s every indication they’re not a majority. A poll released Monday
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by Leger shows 61 per cent of Toronto voters would prefer a light rail line and 56 per cent of Scarborough voters would like light rail over a subway. In Toronto, at least one serious mayoralty candidate, David Soknacki, has indicated that if elected in October will steer the course back to light rail. Others may or may not follow suit, depending on how public opinion goes across the city over the coming months. Mayor Rob Ford will almost certainly continue to support subways, on the likely correct assumption that the minority of subway supporters will intersect almost perfectly with his own base. A smart opponent would leave that base to Ford, and go after a portion of the streetcar-loving majority. As to the province? Who knows what a fresh legislature will bring to the question of subways in Toronto. All in all, it seems an unwarranted risk, betting a 0.5 per cent 2014 property tax hike on the vagaries of election-year politicking.
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Toronto budget passed after two days of debate Property tax hike of 2.71 per cent set DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com There’s a little more money for firefighting, student nutrition and public transit in the 2014 budget. But after two days of debate this week, Toronto Council said no to all but a couple of ideas that Mayor Rob Ford brought forward to bring the 2.23 per cent property tax increase down to 1.75 per cent. And despite the efforts of councillors opposed to the Scarborough subway extension, it managed to avoid a vote that might have put the brakes on spending the bounty of a 0.5 per cent dedicated tax increase. In the end, Toronto homeowners will be paying a total property tax increase of 2.71 per cent, due to shifts in assessment of properties, which amounts to $68.59 on the average Toronto household for the year. If Ford had had his way, that tax increase would have been $12 lower. On Thursday, Ford unveiled 18 amendments to the budget that he claimed would save $60 million from the $9.6-billion budget. Ford’s amendments were a combination of outright budget cuts and requests for reports on ways to reduce certain budgets. In the end, only a couple were approved. Council voted in favour of asking city staff to look at ways to bring in corporate sponsorship for $19.1 million in programs the city will be creating as showcases for the Pan Am Games in 2015, the cancellation of Toronto’s Employment Engagement Survey for $250,000, the end to two city-produced magazines,
saving $475,000, and a report on ways to speed up the implementation of a shared service plan that Ford guesses could save between $10 million and $15 million. Councillors rejected a raft of other motions, including one to remove security guards from public libraries, one to collect overdue library fines on the property tax bill, cuts to councillors’ travel, staff and operating budgets and a plan to charge a minimum of $14 to underprivileged children accessing programs. Trinity-Spadina Councillor Adam Vaughan called that last motion “immoral,” pointing out that the $14 was just $2 more than the amount of money Ford was trying to save property taxpayers. “He’s a hypocrite and that attack on children will not go unchallenged by me,” said Vaughan. Ford, however, pointed out after the meeting that he was the only member of council attempting to save money in the budget. “How many of the other people saved money? I’m the only member of council – not one other councillor put a motion forward to save money,” he said. “All they want to do is spend, spend, spend.” There was at least one other major attempt to save money during the debate. St. Paul’s Councillor Josh Matlow attempted repeatedly to first eliminate the 0.5 per cent levy to raise money for the Scarborough subway extension – then to defer spending any of that money until 2015. On Wednesday, he attempted to have the vote on the 0.5 per cent tax levy voted on separately from the rest of the levy. He had a narrow majority of council support for that, but not the two-thirds he would have needed to have that vote taken. And on Thursday, he moved the motion to delay spending the money,
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BREAKDOWN By the numbers • Total budget: $9.6 billion • Residential property tax hike: 2.71 per cent • Impact on average Toronto home (assessed at $499,521): $68.59 (which includes $12.70 for subway and $1.63 to start fixing city’s tree canopy damaged by ice storm)
a motion that speaker Frances Nunziata finally ruled out of order. But the motion’s presence during debate on the budget led to some heated exchanges. Matlow maintained at first that the motion wasn’t an attempt to kill the megaproject, saying, “What I’m asking is that there be a pause on spending the money...We still don’t know what the operating costs will be. We still don’t know what it will cost to cancel the contracts (for the LRT line)...If we move ahead and sink this money into the project...it will throw the money out the window, it will be a billiondollar boondoggle.” But under questioning from councillors – particularly those from Scarborough – Matlow admitted he would like to see the $3-billion line scrapped and council vote to return to a light rail line to replace the aging Scarborough RT. “I think the decision itself was just the worst decision we could make,” he said. In the end, however, speaker Nunziata said all the motions on the Scarborough subway were out of order – including one by Scarborough East Councillor Paul Ainslie – because city legal staff suggested the city could be open to a court challenge, if it were to collect tax for a specific purpose and then fail to spend it on that purpose.
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Doctor house call service launched in Toronto Service focuses in area bounded by Dufferin, Eglinton and Bayview ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com The concept isn’t new – a doctor making house calls is as old as the profession itself, but it isn’t a prevalent practice in Toronto. Now a group of GTA residents have launched a service that will once again give people living downtown the option of seeing a doctor in their own homes. Reuven Dichter from Thornhill, Oren Lapsker from Richmond Hill and Dr. Roman Elinson from the Annex area are the men behind the new organization called Toronto House Calls. “The point is to give people who want to see a
doctor the option to see them in their house rather than going to the ER (emergency room) or their local walk-in clinic or to their family doctor,” Lapsker said. “Our aim is to connect the community with local doctors who will see them in their home on the same day.” Dichter and Lapsker are from Israel and worked together there with emergency medical services (EMS). Elinson, originally from Kiev in Ukraine, and Lapsker are second cousins. All three men work in the health care industry; Elinson is a family doctor in the Yonge and Davisville area, Lapsker works for a company that produces prescription pads and markets prescriptions, and Dichter works at Sunnybrook Hospital for the division that oversees the medical performance of the emergency medical
services. The men started discussing Toronto House Calls when Dichter brought the idea up about a year ago. “In my last position in Israel I worked for a private company, which one of their activities was providing this kind of service,” Dichter said. “When I came here and read about the Ontario Health Care system, I thought, why not try it here.” The men said they quickly started planning it out and launched Toronto House Calls about seven weeks ago. The visit is free to the patient, and covered by OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Plan). The service is currently focused on downtown Toronto between Dufferin Street and Bayview Avenue, to just north of Eglinton Avenue, but that is a soft boundary, the men said.
When they can accommodate calls from just outside those boundaries they can, particularly if there is a cluster of calls coming from one area.
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Our aim is to connect the community with local doctors who will see them in their home on the same day. – Oren Lapsker
The call centre to request a visit is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and physician home visits take place between 6 and 10 p.m. on weekdays and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekends and holidays. You can also request a visit online. The earlier you request the visit in the day, the better the chance that you would be seen that evening, the men said. “For a lot of people
access is a challenge,” Elinson said. “Specifically we are finding the elderly who have mobility issues, parents with young children or people who don’t have a family doctor.” Elinson said they are seeing calls from people with respiratory illnesses, gastrointestinal illnesses and minor injuries. They get a significant number of calls from elderly and for pediatrics. “There are certain limitations as to what one can do during a house call,” Elinson said. “You can’t draw blood, you can’t do imaging. We don’t want to be perceived as a substitute to a clinic or family doctor or the emergency room. We are a complement to those.” One of the services they provide is a triage of sorts, where doctors can assess the case and determine if the patient should be going to the emergency room for
treatment. A significant number of emergency room visits have a low enough acuity that they could, and arguably should, be handled by a family doctor, Elinson said. “It is a misallocation of resources and can be a waste of people’s time, that is well known,” Elinson said. The routes are planned for the doctors in advance and distributed to the doctors through a secure application on their smart phones. The number of doctors making house calls on any given day fluctuates, but they currently have a roster of about seven doctors who work with Toronto House Calls. They will expand the number of doctors as the number of calls coming in increases.
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