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The Learning Enrichment Foundation invites you to an exclusive hockey night event with the Toronto Marlies at Ricoh Coliseum on Sunday.

The Marlies will face off against the St. John’s Ice Caps at 3 p.m.

The LEF has activities planned before and after the game, including a skate and an autograph signing session in the Marlies Alley.

Tickets are $26 and all proceeds go to the Learning Enrichment Foundation. Call Melinda Noble at LEF at 416-769-0830, ext. 2061 or Eric Ebenbauer at 416 263 3925.

n Photo and story exhibit set to come to Jane Street The Jane Street Hub is hosting an art exhibit titled, Working hard, but ending up nowhere: Photos and Stories from Weston-Mt. Dennis.

The exhibit will showcase photos and stories surrounding the impact of unstable employment on residents and members of the Weston-Mt. Dennis community.

Included in the event is a brief presentation by social justice advocate Dr. Grace-Edwards Galabuzi.

The exhibit takes place Wednesday, Feb. 27 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at 1541 Jane St. at The Marketplace inside the Jane Street Hub.

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DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW: Ryan Belo, 10, left, and his sister Jessica, 12, ride down the hill in Cedarvale Park on Family Day Monday. Visit us at bit.ly/york_galleries for more Family Day pictures in the community.

Residents give input on Eglinton transformation Rahul Gupta rgupta@insidetoronto.com

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hen it comes to the future of Eglinton Avenue, Patrick Saavedra tends to see the cup

half-full.

The resident of Greenbrook Drive knows transforming the avenue, considered one the city’s major connectors, into a treelined street-scape accessible to all forms of traffic and housing a

future transit line will mean major upheaval for the area.

But the trained architect, who moved back to Toronto following seven years in Washington, DC, liked what he heard from city and Metrolinx officials at a

design workshop at York Memorial Collegiate Institute seeking feedback from residents on the future of the western portion of the avenue Tuesday evening.

“I’m trying to be positive about things because there’s going to

be short-term pain for long term gain, and I hope most of the people here today recognize that,” said Saavedra.

Saavedra was one of an estimated 100-plus people who >>>’CHANGE’, page 6

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Woolner shooting suspect turns himself into police A young man wanted for attempted murder following the shooting of a teenage boy Sunday, has turned himself into police.

Police said a 17-year-old was shot in the abdomen on Woolner Avenue, near Jane Street, around 12:45 a.m.

The accused chased the victim on foot, firing several shots before fleeing the scene in a vehicle, police allege.

The victim ran to a friend’s apartment for help before he was taken to hospital, where he’s expected to survive.

Jevaun Anthony Beharie, 18, of

Toronto, has been charged.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416−808−1200 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416−222−8477.

n Former Weston Skating Club coach faces additional sexual assault charges Police have laid additional charges against a former Weston Skating Club coach in a historical sexual assault investigation.

A former student of the accused

alleges he was sexually assaulted on several occasions over a period of three to four months when he was 12 or 13 years old.

Kevin Michael Hicks, 53, of Toronto, was charged Tuesday with three counts of indecent assault male.

The accused was previously charged in September involving an alleged sexual assault against a 12-year-old male student between 1983 and 1990.

According to police Hicks is a former national-level figure skater and a former coach with Woodbine

Winter Skating Club, Weston Skating Club, Windsor Skating Club and Burlington Skating Club.

Police believe there may be more victims.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416−808−2305 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.

n Man arrested after taxi cab drivers robbed Police have arrested a man wanted in a series of taxi robberies in the Rogers Road and Dufferin Street area.

Between Feb. 8 and Feb. 12, investigators said three taxi operators came forward saying they had been robbed. In all three robberies, the suspect indicated he was armed with a firearm and a quantity of cash was stolen, police said.

Mario Leclerc, 23, of Toronto, was charged Feb. 12 with three counts of robbery.

Investigators believe there may be other victims.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416-808-1306 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.

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Toronto Police 12 Division: There’s a new commander in town Douglas Quan moves over from 13 Division

St. Paul’s MPP new minister of economic development, trade and employment

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he new unit commander of 12 Division, Acting Supt. Douglas Quan, has an untimely connection to the station.

It was 1994 and Quan was working in the drug squad as an undercover officer in the apartment buildings on Trethewey Drive. That same year, Const.

Todd Baylis of 12 Division was fatally shot after trying to arrest a suspect who was wanted for drug trafficking, and carrying a large amount of cocaine and a 9mm handgun.

The shooting happened in the same building where Quan was stationed.

“In a sad way it’s a tie, for me, to 12 Division,” said Quan.

“And to come back and be unit commander is sort of like a full circle.”

Quan is just over a month into his new role and has already implemented a few changes, which include improving the lines of communication through all chains of command, seeking more accountability toward managers about knowing where their officers are at all times, and looking to give more feedback to the community.

“Policing has traditionally been a culture where we keep our cards close to our chest,” said Quan. “But I’m finding if we put more information out there we get more back.”

As unit commander, Quan’s role calls for more administrative duties than he’s used to. Quan grew up exposed to the police force; his father was an auxiliary sergeant and his older sister was a Royal Canadian Mounted Police member.

“I thought I’d give it a try and here I am 29 years later,” he said.

With almost three decades of experience, Quan has worked as a detective and undercover officer for most of his policing career. His first placement was at 51 Division in Regent Park and from there he joined the drug squad for about six years.

“It was great. Fast-paced and exciting,” said Quan. “That was

Hoskins ready for next cabinet challenge

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Acting Supt. Douglas Quan is the new unit commander of 12 Division.

‘Policing has traditionally been a culture where we keep our cards close to our chest. But I’m finding if we put more information out there we get more back.’

– 12 Division Supt. Douglas Quan really in the heydays with the influx of crack cocaine that came in, in the late ’80s, early ’90s. Very, very busy times. You’re dealing with hundreds of arrests a year and hundreds of search warrants.”

He admitted that undercover work was often nerve-wracking, but that was all part of the process. And so is doing your homework.

“Sometimes you get asked, ‘Who do you know, where did you come from?’ and you’ve got to have the right answers,” said Quan. “Sometimes you’ve got luck on your side and sometimes things happen for you. But other times you’ve got to work for it.

That’s the nature of undercover work. You’ve got to think on your feet.”

Quan moved on to the hold up squad, which dealt with retail robberies and armed robberies, for another six years and was then promoted to the rank of sergeant at 31 Division in North York, which includes the Jane Street and Finch Avenue com-

munity. In 2001 he became one of the founding members of the gun and gang unit now officially called the Integrated Gun and Task Force.

“I think having worked in so many divisions gives you a true perspective of the City of Toronto,” said Quan.

“I’ve seen it from a complex investigative role but I’ve also seen it from the frontline position, too. To be a supervisor and a constable on the road in those positions you bump into people in the best and the worst circumstances.”

By 2008, he was promoted to inspector and worked at police headquarters downtown. By 2012, just before Quan became the unit commander at the 12 Division station, at 200 Trethewey Dr., he held the same position at the 13 Division station located at 1435 Eglinton Ave. W. near Allen Road.

According to Quan, there are a variety of overlapping issues in the neighbouring division, such as higher gun violence compared

to other areas of Toronto, a problem he’d “like to see reduced drastically.”

Another quandary is consistency: “In our Toronto Police head office we have a lot of officers that are retiring. So we have a lot of turnover in the upper ranks. I’m sure I’m about the fifth commander here in five years,” said Quan. “There’s been a lot of change. I hope to be here for a few years so I can lay down some roots here so they (the community) don’t feel the turnover, because it does come back and I do hear that quite frequently.”

The reason for the inconsistency, according to Quan, is the various cost-cutting measures the force has implemented over the past few years.

But despite that, Quan hasn’t lost focus of putting his own “personal stamp on things.” This includes keeping an open line of communication with the community about the good and the bad that’s happening in the area.

“We’re going to try to be more communicative about our success and issues of crime, and where we need help,” said Quan.

He’s looking for help from the community, too. “I’m a firm believer in a thousand eyes are better than two,” said Quan.

“Community health in general and open doors of communication is key.”

Eric Hoskins is feeling a little nostalgic about leaving his past cabinet post as minister of children and youth services, but is ready to bring the same passion to his new portfolio.

The St. Paul’s MPP now holds the title of minister of economic development, trade and employment following newly elected Premier Kathleen Wynne’s recent swearing-in ceremony.

“Sure it was hard to give up (children and youth services), I felt very passionate about it,” Hoskins said, adding he’s most proud of his work crafting the Youth Action Plan while minister. “It’s always difficult to move from one ministry to the next.

I’m feeling a little bit of nostalgia but it’s all connected and I’m going to bring the same passion to my new cabinet position. Now employment has been added to the portfolio, which is the heart of what’s really important to the province at this time.”

While Ontario has added some 400,000 jobs since June 2009, more needs to be done for residents to access good, wellpaid employment, he said.

“I want to specifically focus on youth employment and making sure young people have access to jobs that reflect their skills,” Hoskins said.

“Creating jobs for Ontarians is key for this government and we need all partners working together to create a climate for employment.”

Calling Wynne a “very talented leader and politician,” Hoskins said she’s proving her ability to work with opposition parties to do what’s in the best interest of the people.

Hoskins was first elected to the St. Paul’s riding in 2009 in a byelection and appointed minister of citizenship and immigration in January 2010, and later minister of children and youth services in October 2011. He resigned in November to run as a candidate in the Ontario Liberal Party leadership race.

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s Toronto’s Feeling Congested? campaign shifts into its next stage, Torontonians eager to see an improved transit system throughout the city and its surrounding regions must understand the size and comour view plexity of the challenge.

To be blunt, the process of enabling critically-needed transit Challenge improvements is going to get is large and harder as the process advances.

Having the public give feedcomplex back and direction – which happened earlier this month – is a critical component to this process. That meaningful methods of paying for transit infrastructure were at the heart of these consultations is important. Community members must understand that we will only get the transit we are willing to pay for.

But ultimately it will be the leaders we elect who will be entrusted with the potentially difficult decisions that will get shovels in the ground. These leaders may be in a position where they have to weigh what’s best for a community versus what’s politically expedient.

But that’s one of the reasons why the public feedback part is so important – that we articulate what it is we want and that we are willing to pay for it.

It is also important to keep that momentum going.

Early next month, the Feeling Congested? campaign is hosting a series of discussion panels. The first features Toronto’s chief planner, Jennifer Keesmaat, former Vancouver co-director of planning Larry Beasley, president and CEO of Toronto Board of Trade Carol Wilding, along with councillors Peter Milczyn (planning and growth committee chair) and Michael Thompson (economic development committee chair).

It takes place Monday, March 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Jane Mallett Theatre at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. We encourage you to attend.

It’s vital to get involved now any way you can. While this focus on transportation is looking not only at the needs of today but those decades from now, some big things are happening in the coming months.

Last week we heard Metrolinx chair Robert Prichard say a special board meeting is being planned for May 27 where the investment strategy to pay for $34 billion worth of projects will be released. These projects include the eastern portion of a downtown relief subway line.

The realization of some of these projects may be decades away, but the potential decisions putting them in motion are fast approaching.

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I would encourage every taxpayer in Toronto to get involved with the Feeling Congested campaign asking for public input on the future of transit in Toronto.

We must speak up to make sure that special interest groups and lobbyists do not deflect the burden entirely on to the lowly citizen taxpayer.

Let’s make sure all those with interests in the city pay their full share.

Torontonians have always been paying for transit. Not only with our property tax increases, but every time we use the transit system.

It is now the turn of the 905 area residents who get to use our public facilities for free to step up and be counted. Currently, the only way this can be achieved is through provincial taxation and adequate funding for the TTC. So go online and make yourself heard.

Chris Belfontaine

The cold weather is always a hot topic I don’t know what it is about winter, but it seems like during the season a comment on the weather first is always mandatory before one is allowed to enter into any conversation. I also get more emails from readers about the climate at this time of year than at any other time for some reason.

Here is just a sample of the kinds of inquiries that have come my way.

Q. Jamie, meteorologists are saying that the snowstorm we had last week was the worst one in Toronto in the last five years? Is that really true? Agnieszka in the Annex.

A. Not according to the kids in my neighbourhood.

Ask any of them and they’ll tell you it was the best snowstorm in the last five years.

Q. I really pulled something last week just after that big blast that blanketed the city. I’m not sure what I’ve

but seriously

jamie wayne

done exactly but as a result I had to give my wife the bad news that I wouldn’t able to do any shovelling for awhile and that she’d have to do it instead. I’m trying to downplay the whole thing but my wife is very concerned. What do you think I pulled? Junior in the Junction.

A. Given the circumstances your wife has every right to be concerned. I’ve heard this tale a few times this winter and I know exactly what you did. The technical term for what you pulled is: a fast one.

Q. When I called and left a message on her voice mail that I wasn’t going to be able to get to work because

of that huge snowfall do you think my boss actually believed me? Nervous Nellie in North York.

A. Not knowing you or your boss I couldn’t say for sure. But I’m guessing she believed you as much as she believed you if you left her a recording that you came down with a serious case of the flu on Tuesday and wouldn’t be able to make it in to work following the long holiday weekend.

Q. Last night, the weather person on the tube said that no two snowflakes are alike.

How the heck could anybody possibly prove that?

Pedro in Parkdale.

A. Ah, don’t take everything they tell you too seriously. Much of what we get from meteorologists doesn’t add up. Or multiply up either for that matter as in what I witnessed last night. The forecaster on the channel I was watching said it was zero today and would

be twice as cold tomorrow and with the wind chill it would feel like it was three times as cold. Now, I’m no math whiz, but even I know two times zero and three times zero are still zero.

Q. I just moved to Toronto last spring and I can already tell that people around here tend to really exaggerate about the weather conditions at this time of year.

This is my first winter ever and I don’t know what all the fuss is about. It’s been great.

I absolutely love it. My only question is how do I know when to wear earmuffs?

Simran in Scarborough.

A. Oh, that’s easy. You put them on the moment people start moaning and groaning that it’s soooo cold. They work like a charm every time. You won’t be able to hear a thing.

Jamie Wayne takes writing very seriously. The topics? Not so much. Reach him at email jamie.wayne@sympatico.ca

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n Thursday, Feb. 21

Westminster United Church Celebrates Its Marvellous Stained Glass WHEN: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

WHERE: Westminster United Church, 69 William Street CONTACT: Beth Street, 416-241-3261, office@westminsterunitedchurch. org COST: Free Join in as the church’s marvellous stained glass is celebrated.

n Monday, Feb. 25

Income Taxes for Newcomers WHEN: 6 to 7 p.m. WHERE:

Get Help Filing Your Taxes at Maria A. Shchuka Library WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416394-1000 COST: Free During the month of March, get help filing your taxes at the library for free. Call the branch at 416-394-1000 to learn how to qualify and make an appointment.

n Saturdays in March

Income Tax Clinic WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Learning Enrichment Foundation at Weston Road, 1267 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Danielle, 4167602566, ddiprizio@ lefca.org COST: Free Starting March 2. Free Income Tax Preparation for low income families and newcomers. The clinic will run on Saturdays in March only.

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Diabetes Prevention Talk WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: St. Clair West Services for Seniors, 2652 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Rita Orellana, 416-245-4395 rita@yorkwestactivelivingcentre. ca COST: Free Diabetes prevention talk followed by diabetes screening.

Ongoing Weekly Euchre WHEN: 7:30 to 10 p.m. WHERE: St. John’s Anglican Church Weston, 2125 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Marie, 416-2494690, www.stjohnweston.com, mariegeeves@rogers.com COST: Please inquire.

Ongoing weekly euchre. Every Friday.

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Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 416394-1000 COST: Free Learn about income tax rules and other topics like using tax credits and how to file your taxes. This workshop will take place from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. To register call 416-394-1000.

Roselands Horticultural Society: How to Care for Gardening Tools WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Church of the Good Shepherd, 1149 Weston Road CONTACT: roselandshs@gmail.com COST: Free Carl Mueller will demonstrate how to care for your tools, including how to properly sharpen your

n Monday, March 11

secateurs. Good gardening tools are expensive so it’s important to take care of them to make them last.

n Monday, March 4

Learn English Online part I WHEN: 6 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 416394-1000 COST: Free Learn how to use the Library website to improve English grammar and study for IELTS and the citizenship test. Library card is required. Websites covered include: Road to IELTS and Study Skills for Success (Improve reading, listening, writing, speaking, grammar and others). To register, call 416-394-1000.

Learn English Online Part II WHEN: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Maria A. Shchuka Library COST: Free Learn how to use the Library Website to improve English grammar and study for IELTS and the citizenship test. Library card is required. Websites covered include: Mango Languages (Learn English in your language); My Canada (Prepare for the Canadian Citizenship Test); and Tense Buster (Grammar lessons and practice tests).

n Sunday, March 17

Giant Open Cribbage Tournament WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd CONTACT:

Legion, 416-767-0231, www.facebook.com/mountdennislegion, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: $25 per two person team A giant open cribbage tournament. Entry fee is $25 per team (2 persons). Early registration by March 8. Guarantees “sitting” Team Placement. Registration on tournament day from 11:30 a.m. till 12:15 p.m. Play (10 games) begins at 12:30 p.m.

Lots of cash prizes including: A perfect hand (“28” or “29”) in the tournament will receive a $50 prize. Player with most “24” hands in tournament will receive a prize of $25. Cash prize for high hand in games #6 through #10! Food available, cash bar & parking on site or take the TTC Weston Rd. Route #89. For entry form or more info please email.

n Wed., March 20

Casino Rama Day Trip WHEN: 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd CONTACT: Branch, 416-767-0231, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: $5 Board bus in parking lot at 8:15 a.m. for an 8:30 a.m. departure to the casino. Your $5 ticket includes your transportation and a $15 credit on your Rama Players card. For first timers these cards are issued upon arrival at

the casino. Please purchase your ticket in advance. All 19+ years are welcome.

n Wed., March 27

Thought Exchange: Black Power in Toronto, 1950s-1970s WHEN: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 416-394-1000 COST: Free Funké Aladejebi (Harriet Tubman Institute, York University) relates the compelling story of how black organizations in Toronto used education to combat racism by making connections to Africa and adapting the language of Black Power to a Canadian experience. To register, call 416394-1000.

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At our January 23 public meeting on the Federal budget, we asked:

At our February 3 public forum on health care, we talked about where health care was today, and

What would happen if we developed a budget that met people’s needs?

what health care should be doing tomorrow.

We heard from you, residents of York South-Weston, that the priorities of the Federal Government should meet the needs of ordinary Canadian families— children, working people, seniors—to ensure a growing economy that provides jobs, that helps families and individuals when they need it, and that ensures people can retire with dignity. We in the NDP agree!

We heard from you—families, working people, seniors—about how well our health care system works today, and what it needs to do to better. Our health care system needs to be more effective in meeting our needs—more use of community programming like home care rather than relying on expensive hospitals.

Unfortunately the Harper Government has different priorities—taking more in taxes from individuals and families than from corporations earning profits, and spending more on jets and jails rather than on the services that you need.

And our health care system should include pharmacare (for prescription drugs) and dental care. These are parts of Tommy Douglas’ original plan when his CCF/ NDP government introduced publicly-funded health care in Saskatchewan 60 years ago. The NDP believe these should be part of our health care plan today.

We in the NDP are pushing for your priorities.

For more information about this, please go to www.ndp.ca/health.

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‘Change is not going to happen overnight’: planning manager >>>from page 1 turned up at the high school for the first of three Eglinton Connects design workshops.

The consultations are part of a city avenue study proceeding in conjunction with Metrolinx’s work on the 19-kilometre EglintonScarborough Crosstown Light Rail Transit line (LRT), which is to travel from Black Creek Drive in the west to Kennedy Station in the east along Eglinton Avenue.

After hearing a short presentation, residents were invited to take part in breakout sessions dealing with various elements of re-developing Eglinton, from making it more accessible to allowing for more high-density construction.

Also at the workshop, Metrolinx shared early station designs for the Crosstown LRT slated to begin operating in 2020.

The preliminary station designs covered stations located along the Crosstown’s westerly portion, from Black Creek to Eglinton West station, which will be located under Eglinton.

The design concepts for Keele, Dufferin, Caledonia and Oakwood were limited to structural details such as the placement of entrances, exits and elevators rather than more ornate elements which Metrolinx spokesperson Jamie Robinson said would be completed by a private sector design firm following a public tendering process expected to kick off at the end of June.

Once the winning bidder is awarded a contract, it will flesh out the designs, currently 30 per cent complete, based on work done by Metrolinx and the TTC before the transit agency handed off all Crosstown planning to Metrolinx. The TTC has agreed to run the line and other LRT lines Metrolinx will build on behalf of the province.

Robinson said all the designs shown at the workshop, including a stop at Oakwood Avenue, will remain on the station’s final map.

Oakwood station had been in doubt until late last year when then-provincial transportation minister Bob Chiarelli confirmed its inclusion.

“This is the final list and

Staff file photo/Nick Perry

Oakwood Avenue looking north to Eglinton. Officials at Tuesday’s meeting reiterated there will be an Oakwood stop along the line.

nothing will be taken away,” said Robinson during the workshop.

In addition to the station plans, residents had a chance to provide feedback for the city’s ongoing study on Eglinton. The city is looking into the feasibility of amending local bylaws to allow for development of mid-level residences at specific intersections as well as making Eglinton more accessible to all modes of transportation including walking and

cycling.

City planning manager Lorna Day said feedback from the workshop series would be followed by two more rounds of consultations to inform a report to city council due next year. Should city council give the okay, applications for new development could come as early as 2014.

Day called the consultation process unprecedented for the city and said the plan was to proceed cautiously and in an incremental fashion.

“The plan is start with the vision for Eglinton and turn the screws a little bit at a time and see how it goes,” said Day. “Change is not going to happen overnight.”

Complicating the process is Metrolinx’s work on the Crosstown, which Day said was a challenge necessary for a city starved for transit expansion.

“It’s bit of a risk because we’re making some decisions without knowing the full vision,” she said. “We’re working collaboratively with Metrolinx and city is grateful for that process.”

Nick Alampi said he was encouraged by the ideas for Eglinton, but the president of the York-Eglinton BIA said he would wait to see the final recommendations before throwing his full support behind the plans for transforming the avenue.

“I think at this present time the right people are at the helm,” said Alampi who pointed out the Oakwood station designs as a welcoming development. “It’s exciting that there’s a plan to bring in new development into an area

where there’s never been.”

While development could convince local business owners to redevelop their properties to encourage a new breed of customer less reliant on the automobile, Alampi said remaining issues like the removal of street parking along the avenue remained a concern to Eglinton West business owners.

“There’s a balance, we understand that,” he said.

“The most important thing for us is finding a harmony that doesn’t injure the current establishments. We don’t want to see one group overpower another.”

Representatives for York South-Weston including city councillors Frances Nunziata and Frank DiGiorgio attended the workshop along with local MPP Laura Albanese and a staffer for federal MP Mike Sullivan.

Two more workshops are planned for Feb. 26 and 28.

For more information on the consultations visit www. toronto.ca/eglinton. To view the Crosstown station designs online visit www.thecrosstown.ca

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Improve transit experience for commuters by making it a priority, Feeling Congested? meeting told rahul gupta rgupta@insidetoronto.com At the final public session of a transportation consultation organized by the City of Toronto, residents made clear improving travel experiences for commuters should be an official priority for improving transit.

The group of approximately 50 individuals participating in the city’s Feeling Congested? public consultations, which were organized by the city and chief planner, Jennifer Keesmaat, were asked to give their opinions on what Toronto’s transportation priorities should be and what revenue funding tools will be needed to pay for future expansion.

Divided into mini-groups, many of the participants felt the key issue for the city was addressing overcrowding on the TTC, which is at record capacity.

Rishi Lukka said his greatest issue with TTC service was the tendency for “bunching” of vehicles on busy routes, which result in service gaps.

“You get four or five buses in a

row which screws up the gaps,” said Lukka. “That’s the biggest problem today with managing the system.”

An engineer by training, he said he preferred a regional sales tax to pay for new transit.

“I feel that a sales tax would allow for the greatest choice of how you spend your money,” he said, following the session. “I feel that it allows for the greatest fairness of choice on how you fund transit.”

Lukka said he commutes from downtown to Milton every day and given the opportunity would take transit.

“I have no option but to drive out because there is no train service that goes out to Milton in the morning and comes back in the evening,” he said.

“I park my car on Thursday nights and take transit three days straight for the rest of the week.”

Erika Ivanic, who also took part in a similar transit consulting session hosted by Metrolinx, said she preferred the city’s approach because of its specific mandate.

“Metrolinx did well in generally getting the conversation going,”

said Ivanic, an urban planner. “The city was more concerned in getting us to make decisions based on what we value.”

Ivanic, who also volunteers for the TTCriders advocacy group, said Toronto’s size should be considered by Metrolinx when it makes its final recommendations to the premier on funding this June.

“The population and transit system Toronto has should mean it has more of an influence than some of the other jurisdictions,” she said. “Obviously, I’m biased being a Toronto resident.”

Greg Spence, a sometime transit advocate, said the TTC could improve existing service by adding more buses to its routes rather than commit to more expensive and lengthier measures.

“Hard fixed rail lines are years in the distance,” said Spence. “Buses are flexible and you can have as many on the road as you need.”

But Brad Ross from the TTC disagreed, saying more buses on the street would mean increased costs.

Ross also said that smaller buses would not be an advantage.

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benefit,” said Ross in a tweet. “No savings to be had – in fact maintenance costs would rise.”

Ross, the TTC’s executive director of communications, said larger buses such as the articulated or “bendy” buses the TTC plans to introduce in the fall, would be better off improving service reliability.

Keesmaat said the findings of the participants reflected a common theme for all of the sessions, which also took place in York, North York and Scarborough, that it was imperative for the city to address capacity issues now and find a way to pay for new transit in an equitable manner.

The city must report its findings from the commission to Metrolinx in time for the transit planning agency’s report to the premier on an investment strategy to pay for its long-term Big Move transportation plan.

Keesmaat also announced the city will hold a special experts panel in March as part of the first phase of its transit consultations.

The entire consultation process will last for nine months.

They said it A selection of quotes from last week’s final public session for the Feeling Congested? initiative ‘I feel that a sales tax would allow for the greatest choice of how you spend your money. I feel that it allows for the greatest fairness of choice on how you fund transit’ – Rishi Lukka ‘Metrolinx did well in generally getting the conversation going. The city was more concerned in getting us to make decisions based on what we value.’

– Erika Ivanic, commenting on the city’s approach to transit consultation ‘Hard fixed rail lines are years in the distance. Buses are flexible and you can have as many on the road as you need.’

–Greg Spence on improving existing service quickly

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Funnyman Don Harron opens up in new book Vaughan Road Collegiate alumnus looks back on 77-year career HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

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estled inside Don Harron’s East York apartment, between his bedroom and the kitchen, is what his wife Claudette Gareau affectionately calls the “Don Harron Room.”

Pieces of history and symbols of admiration adorn the walls. They show the journey of his 77-year career that started in 1935.

From corner to corner, pictures, sketches and drawings of Harron as his character Charlie Farquharson cloak the wall, including a few sketches from close friend and fellow Canadian Lynn Johnston, who created the comic-strip For Better or Worse.

Other mementos include a oneof-a-kind sketch by the legendary Katherine Hepburn of herself; a promotional poster that shows a young Harron during his days as the host of the CBC radio show Morningside; and a bristol board of all the programs from the plays he’s been a part of.

Near the entrance is an old photograph of Harron’s mother; a striking woman with dark hair, porcelain skin and according to Harron a great sense of humor. “I get it from her,” he says.

Harron has been making people laugh since he was 10 years old and never stopped. He appeared on the hit TV show Hee Haw for 17 years, where he got to open with musical great Ray Charles, whom he was “thrilled” to work with.

He spent years doing Shakespeare plays and acted on Broadway. He was also on The Red Green Show and wrote the script for the musical of Anne of Green Gables.

He goes into detail about his run in showbiz in his latest book,

My Double Life: Sexty Yeers of Farquharson Around with Don Harn. It’s the first book he’s written as himself, his other 16 books have been as Farquharson with one as Farquharson’s cousin Valerie Rosedale.

Harron holds nothing back in this 440-page memoir. He admits that the idea to write one wasn’t his, but a friend of the family and that recalling every detail of a 77-year long career isn’t as hard as it seems.

“You can’t remember where you put your pants last night, but you can remember what happened in 1934,” jokes Harron.

“Somehow it just comes back as clear.”

With this memoir, as much as Farquharson is a part of Harron, he tries to give the readers a better sense of who he is away from his counterpart and what he’s been through.

“It’s all about me, which I’m not used to in a way. I always disguise myself, I’m a character actor,” says Harron.

Through the 156 chapters, Harron recalls his days of being the youngest student at Vaughan Road Collegiate to his short-lived stint at the University of Toronto before enlisting in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943 during the Second World War. There are his run-ins with a few famous faces, including Oscar winner Christopher Plummer, and Hepburn.

But it’s not all good choices and accomplishments. In the book are details of his personal life, including his list of affairs and his three failed marriages.

The freshest wound is his divorce from Canadian singer/actress Catherine McKinnon in 2003 – a chapter that he admits was the

Staff photo/DAN PEARCE

Don Harron, shown here in his East York home, has written a new book My Double Life, Sexty Yeers of Farquharson Around with Don Harn.

hardest one to write.

“No question, because it was so recent,” says Harron. “I knew I had to face it…”

He spent an evening with McKinnon and their youngest daughter Kelley not too long ago. “…Things are getting better,” says Harron. “We’re civil.”

He currently lives with his fourth wife, fellow comedienne Claudette Gareau, a quick-witted French-Canadian with a sassy, silver pixie-cut. Gareau did Shh! It’s the News with Harron in 1973 where she played a separatist weather girl.

They reunited in 2000 at the Royal Bank Seniors Jubilee, where he recognized Gareau backstage.

His marriage to McKinnon was reaching its end and Harron found himself drawn to Gareau.

“She’s forgiving and loving and the greatest cook I’ve ever known,”

says Harron. “And I adore her. So if she accepts me I’m home free. I don’t know why she does…”

“Stupidity,” says Claudette with a giggle.

Harron has had a lustrous career that took him around the world performing in six Broadway stage shows and three others in London, England. He’s won an ACTRA Award and a Gemini Award for Lifetime Achievement and became a member of the Order of Canada.

In 2011, he officially hung up Farquharson’s frayed cap and put away the hole-ridden grey cardigan after more than 57 years as the outspoken man from Parry Sound.

He still has the outfit. It hangs in the closet in the Don Harron Room. Claudette brings it out to show every fraying thread and patched up hole and asks how

he ever put the darn thing on.

Harron wants to donate it all to the Theatre Museum Canada in Toronto when it’s his turn to “kick the bucket” according to Claudette.

Now, 89 years old and retired from the entertainment industry, Harron had to reflect on his choices when it came to opening up in his new book.

When asked if he would do anything differently or be different he mentioned arrogance.

“I’m not very often arrogant, but I have been in my time and I’ve been sorry about that,” said Harron, in reference to the choices of acting roles he’s chased after or flat-out demanded that turned out not to be the right fit for him.

“Hindsight is always 20/20,” he adds. “I’m lucky, I had a good time...77 years as a professional in this business...that’s enough.”

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The mayor has made it clear he would like very much to shave 10 per cent off the tax on real estate transactions. The plan is a dilution of his 2010 election promise to scrap the tax entirely – something even the tax-cutting Ford soon realized would be financially impossible. The tax brings in the neighbourhood of $350 million a year, and since Ford’s predecessor David Miller introduced it, has become a crucial element in balancing the budget.

The 10 per cent cut, on the other hand, is a battle the mayor might conceivably win. Held against budgets that run in the neighbourhood of $10 billion, $35 million can exist in a margin of error – and such a cut would just be added into the other pressures the city’s budget committee and council have to deal with each

year.

The real battle will be convincing council to support adding that $35 million to the tally.

Ford’s former budget chief Mike Del Grande, as staunch a fiscal conservative as the mayor in most respects, was deeply skeptical about the plan. His replacement, Frank Di Giorgio, is comparatively cheerful at the prospect of at least looking. But he’s unwilling to make any cut to the tax without finding some offsetting revenue.

And the rest of council? Over the past three budgets, council as a whole has been unwilling to follow the mayor and his agenda too far down the road to privation. With an election coming up, will 23 councillors jump onto the land transfer tax bandwagon as readily as they did in 2010, when they supported the freshly-elected mayor’s plan to scrap the vehicle registration tax?

There’s very little percentage that they will do so. Unlike the vehicle registration tax, which all

car-driving voters had to pay every year they continued to own a car, the land transfer tax is relatively invisible. Propertyholding Torontonians pay it every time they move house. But that tax is rolled into other costs of buying and selling and moving – and once the move is done, the tax doesn’t rear its head again until the next move.

Which means for most Torontonians in the 2014 election, it won’t be top of mind.

Given that, shaving 10 per cent off in the 2014 budget will take an enormous amount of political capital from the mayor’s office – more than David Miller used to get it installed in the first place.

It may take all that Ford has at this point in his mandate. It will likely take even more. n David Nickle is the Guardian’s City Hall columnist. His column appears every Thursday.

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Snow storm: Minnan-Wong Second Toronto health report seeking a detailed post-mortem still thumbs-down on casino

Blast dropped 30 cm of snow on Toronto DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com

Toronto’s public works and infrastructure committee chair Denzil Minnan-Wong is asking for a detailed post-mortem report on how the city fared dealing with the Feb. 8 snow storm, including an answer as to why the city didn’t declare the 30-centimetre snowfall a snow emergency.

If it had, Minnan-Wong said, the city could have more aggressively towed the numerous cars that were parked so as to block streetcars moving through the downtown.

“The thing I’m concerned about the most is those stoppages on our streetcar routes,” Minnan-Wong said last week.

“That’s not acceptable to

me and those individuals who were selfish and did that – they should be punished and fined.”

Minnan-Wong suggested the snowfall, which dropped 30 centimetres of snow on Toronto over the course of a single day, might have been enough to warrant invoking Toronto’s snow emergency bylaw.

Part of the report he’s asking for will be looking into ways to beef up the bylaw, which allows the city to declare a snow emergency if more than five centimetres of snow falls and the city’s chief transportation official deems it necessary.

The bylaw was last invoked in 1999, when Mayor Mel Lastman famously called in the army to help the city dig out from under the combined accumulation of a series of walloping winter storms.

This time, city officials didn’t invoke the bylaw because the forecast indicated there would be only one storm, and

it would be followed by a thaw.

It allows the city to tow cars that are parked in such a way that they block snow removal efforts, and prohibit parking along streetcar routes.

Minnan-Wong said the city’s decision not to declare a snow emergency had nothing to do with the possible embarrassment of reminding the rest of the country of the time Lastman called in the army.

But he did say that using the term “emergency” in the bylaw’s name did make it more provocative than it had to be.

“I think there’s some value in calling it something less than snow emergency,” he said.

“Emergency is a pretty strong word. If we could find some language that conveys the importance of keeping the streets clear without thinking we’re going to have tanks rolling through the city... I think there’s a middle ground there.”

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‘Greater adverse impacts than beneficial impacts’ DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com A casino would be bad for Toronto’s health.

That was the blunt assessment by Toronto’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David McKeown, as he delivered the second of two reports on the health impacts of casino gambling to the Toronto Board of Health last week.

“Overall, I would suggest we can conclude that a new casino will have greater adverse impacts than beneficial impacts,” said McKeown. “From a public health point of view, a casino is not good for your health.”

Problem gambling McKeown’s report followed up on a November report, detailing the health risks associated with problem gambling. That report found that problem gambling presented a significant public health concern.

The second report looked at the community health impacts of a casino – the potential positives of creating employment and economic development, as well as the impacts on crime, neighbourhoods

and the social safety net.

The report brought together studies from various jurisdictions and found that while there could be small benefits in terms of job creation, a casino would encourage problem gambling and possibly increase crime and traffic.

‘From a public health point of view, a casino is not good for your health.’

–Dr. David McKeown “The evidence is inconclusive concerning the potential impact of a new casino on crime and local economic development,” wrote McKeown.

“As concluded in the previous report, increases in problem gambling are the most important health impact of a new casino in Toronto.”

McKeown’s findings were refuted by the Canadian Gaming Association.

In a news release, the association said the report is “fundamentally flawed” because it doesn’t deal with the fact casino-style gaming has been easy for Torontonians to access for

the past decade.

McKeown responded to the criticism by pointing out Toronto has some of the lowest levels of access to gaming than any other jurisdiction across the country.

“We have a few slot machines. But our nearest casino is 80 kilometers away,” he said. “When you increase the levels of access there’s more problem gambling that happens.”

Parkdale-High Park Councillor Gord Perks, a vocal casino opponent, said McKeown’s report should help solidify opposition when the question of whether to allow a casino in downtown Toronto comes to council later this winter.

“I think over the last two or three weeks it’s been clear that a casino would be bad for the economy of Toronto,” he said.

“It looks like the only reason to support a casino is to bring in money, and there are ways to bring in money that don’t make people sicker.

“I can’t see a casino ever being put in the City of Toronto and I think having a respected professional like Dr. McKeown come out is really the finishing touch.”

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“It’s always fun to see them,” he said, adding he recently opened an entry to find glitter spill out on his desk.

The contest is open to teams of children and youth aged 16 and younger. Teams, made up of two to six members, can be budding artists, storytellers, mascot researchers and colouring experts.

The mascot could be an animal, inanimate object or even a space oddity. Whatever captures the excitement of the Games and the imagination of the public through fun, colourful and community spirit.

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“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of history,” Wallace said. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for kids to work together and be a part of history.”

Entries have been submitted by the Girl Guides of Canada Chill Fest Camp, Mme. Walsh’s Grade 4 class at Glen Park Public School in Stouffville and an entry from First Nations School of Toronto.

Creating a mascot for a sporting event isn’t new, he said, adding the Olympics creates mascots for its games.

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