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What is Refocus Our Kodak Lands? A joint project between the Learning Enrichment Foundation and The York Guardian, it is an opportunity for community members to offer their visions on what the area known as the former Kodak lands should look like once the lands are redeveloped. A website has been set up to accept community submissions. What’s the website? www.refocuskodak.ca How do I get started? Click the Sign Up link on the site to create an account. You can create an account on the site either by using your email address or an existing Facebook, LinkedIn or Google+ account. What can I do on the site once I’m there? You can learn more about the project and its background, submit your own ideas and rate other submissions. You can also download a project flyer to let other people know about this opportunity.

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CLOSE QUARTERS: Eastern Commerce’s Tevin Bailey tries to stop Oakwood’s Russell Baker during Senior Tier 1, AAAA TDSB Boys Basketball Championships at Ryerson University last Wednesday. Eastern went on to win 70-68 in overtime.

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Election: Wards 12, 17 get new candidates Nick Dominelli has joined the municipal election race this past week in hopes of becoming the next city councillor for Ward 12 (York South-Weston). He previously ran in the 2010 election and came in second place by less than 450 votes behind incum-

bent Frank Di Giorgio out of the about 13,500 votes cast. Dominelli also ran against Di Giorgio in the 2006 municipal election, finishing in second place. Also running this year’s city election is For Youth Initiative executive director Lekan Olawoye.

sets sights on Davenport ward wBravo Alejandra Bravo is entering the municipal election race this year to represent Ward 17 (Davenport). She previously ran against the incumbent Cesar Palacio in the 2006 city election, losing nar-

rowly with fewer than 300 votes separating them out of the nearly 11,500 votes cast. Saeed Selvam and George Stevens are the two other candidates who have signed up to date to run in Ward 17. The election is Oct. 27.

Students spreading the word about Refocus Kodak Project seeks input on future of land near Weston Rd. and Eglinton Ave. CLARK KIM ckim@insidetoronto.com The Refocus Kodak project got some help from university students this past week to get more input from the community on what they’d like to see on the former Kodak lands in the former city of York. During what they called Alternative Reading Week from Feb. 18 to 21, about 17 University of Toronto students volunteered for the three-day project to let residents know about www. refocuskodak.ca “We’ve been going around in the community at different locations...so we can talk about the website,” said Mariajose Lopez, one of the project leaders who led a group of post-secondary students on Feb. 20 to talk with members of St. Clair West Services for Seniors. The recently launched website encourages people to submit their suggestions and drawings of what they envision for the former Kodak lands and the surrounding area. The redevelopment of the 23-hectare site near Weston Road and Eglinton Avenue West is part of Metrolinx’s

Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit (LRT) project. Lopez said they went to bus stops and dropped in at local English-as-a-secondlanguage conversation circles as well as a youth basketball program to gather as much information as possible. “A l o t of people know about the Kodak lands. Some of them do know consultations are going on,” she said. Those who are learning about the ongoing project still had opinions to share. “My opinion is a community centre for the youth,” said Yvonne Harvey, a senior dropping in for the community kitchen program hosted by St. Clair West Services for Seniors. “They need something for the youth to do.” Judy Catlyn suggested having a community centre that is accessible for seniors and where they can attend programs closer to home. Refocus our Kodak Lands is a joint project of The Learning Enrichment Foundation and The York Guardian.

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ext week Toronto marks its 180th year since a government was formed with our first mayor William Lyon Mackenzie at the helm. We’ve come a long way since the days of provincially appointed magistrates and the city’s transformation has seen its share of growing pains, while spawning new townships, building tiered governing structures, and juggling the challenges of a developing metropolis. We offer the highlights of that journey on page 11 in a special feature on the city’s milestone anniversary. As detailed by two of the city’s top historians, sorting out jurisdictional responsibilities and forging co-operative relationships with townour view ships were major challenges prior to amalgamation. City has It’s remarkable, however, that over time certain governachieved much ing issues persist. Dr. Gary Miedema, chief historian at in 180 years Heritage Toronto, describes Toronto’s municipal landscape of the mid-20th century as this: “You’ve got a number of different municipalities in the same region who share the same concerns, but it’s difficult for them to all work together.” Things improved with the formation of a regional governing body in the 1950s (Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto) and then the eventual amalgamation of 1998. Our politicians were able to finally engage in “healthy debates” about the city’s future according to Wayne Reeves, chief curator for the city, and that helped propel the municipality forward. The history of our city is still being written and we have to wonder what will be said, 100 years from now, about this era of government at Toronto City Hall? There’s much to celebrate, but there’s still room for improvement – particularly where working collectively is concerned. On a macro-level our three tiers of government, as well as our neighbouring municipalities, need to improve upon areas of shared concern, like mass transit, for instance. And on a micro-level, members of city council struggle daily to work productively as a collective. Divisiveness only serves to hold us back. To mark how far the city’s come, it’s time our politicians took a page from history and learn that the only way forward is on a road travelled together.

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Winter Olympics a tough act to follow

sure hope we’re not going to be immediately subjected to an onslaught of bickering about the future of NHLers participating in the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Sadly, it is inevitable. I get that. Just not right now. Please? Pretty please? Pretty please with an Official Olympic cherry on top? I still need a little more time to reflect on the performance of the Canadian men’s hockey team in Sochi. It was something else. I’m also not ready for the expected outpouring of squabbling over who’s going where that always comes with the NHL’s trade deadline looming. Any way of holding off on that, too? I’m sorry, but I just can’t get that captivating ladies’ hockey final out of my head. I’m going to need to ruminate on that a bit longer before paying attention to the unavoidable, interminable trade rumour mongering.

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY Nor am I primed to take part in the certain heated kerfuffle over the Raptors playoff chances in the NBA, for that matter. Or the anticipated brouhaha over the likelihood of the TFC living up to its MLS pre-season hype, either. I just don’t have it in me right now. I’m still way too preoccupied with the Jennifer Jones rink going undefeated in ladies’ curling. It was truly a thing to behold. And I’m definitely not prepared for the anticipated furor over what the Toronto Blue Jays did or didn’t do during the offseason, either. No way, Jose Bautista. There’s going to be some real heavy duty commotion over that and it’s going to seem even heavier to me considering I barely noticed the arrival of spring training

for major league baseball. Small wonder. I was too wrapped up with the Brad Jacobs rink mowing down the men’s curling field. I still am. Who wasn’t? That whole team’s got game. No. I’m clearly not ready for the perpetual cranky hysteria that seems to permeate pro sportsworld. It could be awhile before I will be ready because I’ve got too much on my mind. I’m still too busy replaying that final run of ladies bobsleigh champions Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse over and over. It was a real thing of beauty. Same goes for the routines of men’s free-style skiing moguls gold and silver medalists, Alexandre Bilodeau and Mikaël Kingsbury and ladies freestyle mogul gold and silver medalists, sisters Justine and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe. All of the above were magical moments and I have plenty other memories of Sochi and not all involved Canadian medalists.

The record-breaking medal haul of the Netherlands in speedskating, the dominance of Norway in cross-country skiing, Russia fittingly winning the overall title. Those were all big. Then there’s the slew of new Olympic events such a slopestyle, halfpipe and female ski jumping. And who will ever forget the opening and closing ceremonies? So, with the usual grumpy chatter on the sports menu this week, I’ll pass. It’s not my cup of tea at the best of times, but right after the Winter Olympics? Fuhgedddaboutit. The Games are always a tough act to follow. And the reason it’s so tough? The answer is in the eyes of all the Olympians. One look at them and it’s plain to see, it’s no act at all. 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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Award-winning student dedicated to community activism Worked on York’s FYI group to help young women LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com Before one of her best friends was killed, Talisha Ramsaroop admits she was a mediocre student, a teenager from the Jane and Finch community who wasn’t encouraged to pursue post-secondary education. It was only when 19-yearold Brandon Paltooram died after being stabbed on a Mississauga street on Oct. 12, 2008 that she began to fully realize her life was full of possibilities. “Brandon was kind of the only person who was like, ‘You have so much potential, you need to do something with your life,’” Ramsaroop said. “When I went through that, I realized losing someone so young is something nobody should go through.” In the wake of her friend’s death, she started a Facebook page dealing with youth violence issues. But it wasn’t until she began studying at York University that Ramsaroop transformed into a community activist in North York and York. Soon after she started school, she overheard one student giving another

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advice about grocery stores in the area. “He said, ‘There is one on Keele and one at Jane and Finch but you don’t want to go to there because that’s where everyone gets shot.’ I was like, I live there. I don’t get shot. I go to the mall every single day,” the Emery Collegiate Institute graduate said. “At that point, I was thinking, Why would people from my community want to come to university with that attitude? But at the same time, I was thinking there are so many people in my commu-

nity with so much potential if they were encouraged to do that.” Ramsaroop, who lives in the area of Jane and Sheppard Avenue but considers herself from the broader Jane and Finch neighbourhood, is now a fourth-year sociology student also earning a certificate in anti-racist research and policy. She has thrown herself into projects at school that link her department with the Jane and Finch community, including organizing a neighbourhood walk so people realize the area is not a place to fear. Ramsaroop has worked on Assets Coming Together (ACT) for Youth, a five-year research alliance between the university and the community, and for the last year has been a research intern with York’s New Opportunities for Innovative Student Engagement (NOISE) for Social Change mentoring program. Last month, she was recognized for her work with a $5,000 Lincoln M. Alexander community award from the Ministry for Citizenship and Immigration. Jennifer Ryan, ACT’s man-

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ager of research, nominated Ramsaroop for the award and said she is very deserving of the honour. “She brings the most incredible energy to all that she does and she works very hard to create opportunities, not just for herself but for those around her as well,” she said. “It is this generosity of spirit and a very honest

desire for social change that makes her a natural leader in her community and at York University.” Ramsaroop’s community work extends beyond the university campus to other organizations including the For Youth Initiative (FYI) in York. While Ramsaroop devotes countless hours to her community, she said she gets tre-

mendous satisfaction from her work. “I think I get a lot of knowledge out of it. Every time I take part in a new program, I learn something new, about new issues, about new experiences,” said Ramsaroop, who envisions herself continuing her community work, obtaining a Ph.D and possibly entering politics.

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Some of the risk factors we may be able to influence or control to some extent include: • Unhealthy eating habits • Diabetes • High blood pressure • High cholesterol levels • Obesity • Stress with dementia can exhibit varied mood swings, from calm to tears to anger, for no apparent reason. A person with dementia may experience more striking personality changes and can become confused, suspicious or withdrawn. Changes may also include apathy, fearfulness or acting out of character. It’s also important to recognize some of the risk factors involved, even though factors such as age and genetics are not ones we can change. While we’re not always able to control all of the risk factors, many can be managed more effectively. Who can help? Toronto Central CCAC is part of an Ontariowide initiative designed to help clients, their families and caregivers living and coping with high-risk and challenging behaviours related to dementia. Our team of experts works with clients, families and community partners to deliver integrated care, caregiver support, and skills training.

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goods created by the youth. Free Income Tax Clinic WHEN: 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre, 341 Oakwood Ave. CONTACT: 416-394-1041COST: Free Free tax return preparation if your total household income is $20,000 without depandants or less than $30,000 with dependants. Tuesday and Thursday evenings in March. Registration required.

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Brownlee served Silverthorn community for more than 30 years >>>from page 1 community for more than 30 years and is remembered as a “distinguished educator.” In a report to EYCC, city staff noted the proposed name of George Brownlee Court was circulated for comment and found acceptable to Toronto Police Services, Toronto EMS and Toronto Fire Services. Brownlee’s son, Glen, also provided family consent for the naming of the road.

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Play based on critically-acclaimed memoir >>>from page 1 Uppal booked a flight to the South American country and was initially met by her mother with open arms. But things quickly changed. A movie reviewer, her mother would watch up to eight films in the theatre a day. By day three of Uppal’s visit, her mother talked non-stop about herself, never asking a single question about her daughter. “If I answered, it meant I was real and it meant she didn’t know anything about me,” Uppal said. “In order to deal with the trauma of losing her family, she lived in a world of fantasy. She watches movies because she doesn’t need to face reality. I’m fascinated with how people mourn for people who aren’t dead, how they mourn dreams, things that aren’t tangible, what happens when you come face to face.” Uppal wrote about the experience of meeting her estranged mother in

her memoir Projections: Encounters with My Runaway Mother, which was published in the fall and nominated for last year’s Governor General’s Literary Award and Hilary Weston Prize for Non-Fiction. While working on the memoir, which took 10 years to write, Uppal was simultaneously writing a play about the same subject, at the suggestion of Factory Theatre’s dramaturge Iris Turcott, who happened to be reading a book of Uppal’s poems at the time. “The difference between the two is the memoir is an accurate reflection (of the reunion), and the play is a representation of how I felt,” she said. “With the memoir I was constrained by facts. With the play, I was able to indulge and exaggerate some of the characteristics I hold back in the memoir.” Asked how she was able to deal emotionally with a less-than-idyllic reunion, Uppal said she was at a place in her life where she

was stable, didn’t necessarily need her mother, and, most importantly, came for the story. “I am a writer and I wanted the story,” she said. “I was 27 years old, a professor, in a stable relationship, stable in my life. If there was no real hope in having a healthy relationship, there is no basis for having one. It was too painful for (mother) to deal with me as a real person. My presence was damaging her.” The two have not been in touch since Uppal’s visit, she said. Uppal’s play, 6 Essential Qu e s t i o n s , w i l l d e b u t at Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst St., March 1 to 30. “The play explores what it means to be a mother or daughter,” Uppal said. “What happens when we lose part of our memories and family?” A writer, Uppal has published eight collections of poetry, two novels, an academic monograph, and

numerous anthologies. Her works have been published internationally and translated into Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Korean, Latvian and Serbo-Croatian. She created and held the positions of poet-inresidence for Canadian Athletes Now for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games, the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the 2011 Rogers Cup tennis tournament. Previews for 6 Essential Questions will run March 1 to 5, with opening night Thursday, March 6 at 8 p.m. Show times will run Tuesdays to Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m., except for the March 2 show at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $23 to $45 with pay-what-you-can Sunday matinees.

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Marking Toronto’s 180th birthday The city found its stride with amalgamation

A police officer at the corner of King and Yonge streets, 1912: This photo captures much of the commotion and excitement of, historically, one of Toronto’s busiest intersections.

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n March 5, 1834, a growing community known as the Town of York went to sleep as a British colonial outpost, and awoke as the newly incorporated City of Toronto. “It’s really only significant because of that shift in government...where we suddenly took on this mantle of becoming something different than what we were (the day before),” explained Wayne Reeves, chief curator for the City of Toronto. “It wasn’t really cataclysmic but it did show a little bit of growing autonomy, at least in nomenclature.” The system of governance of York, with its provincially appointed magistrates, was proving inadequate to meet the needs of the community. A new government was formed and took effect on March 6, with elected officials and Toronto’s first mayor, William Lyon Mackenzie. Mackenzie’s reign was short lived; he declined a second term in office and went on to cause what Reeves describes as “huge turmoil” for the city in leading the Upper Canada rebellion of 1837. Despite this, the city grew incrementally into the early 1900s, mostly through the annexation of surrounding villages. Eventually neighboring communities broke off with their own governments, forming townships such as Etobicoke, Scarborough, North York, and eventually Weston and Leaside. POPULATION JUMP As Toronto grew, so did its challenges. The city was experiencing an unprecedented jump in population after the Second World War, and the province again needed a way to meet rising regional demands, especially as it looked to replace farmlands with industrialization and housing. In April 1953, the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was created to address those issues shared by the city and the surrounding communities of Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, and York, as well as the smaller East York, Forest Hill, Leaside, Long Branch, Mimico, New Toronto, Swansea and Weston. “The big picture is you’ve got a number of different municipalities in the same region who share the same concerns, but it’s difficult for them

step closer to amalgamation as the 13 municipalities were merged to produce seven governments: the City of Toronto, Metro Council and the five boroughs of Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, York and East York. Finally, in 1998 the conservative provincial government amalgamated the buroughs into a mega city with Toronto. According to Reeves, this got people talking in all the right ways. “Healthy debates about how we want to run our city, and what we should invest in, came to the forefront,” said Reeves, who believes these discussions help push our city forward. He points to the addition of new city hall and the Toronto-Dominion Centre in the 1960s, which attracted global attention but also caused many to question what to do with old city hall. The end result was a city that began to embrace preservation as a key element to future growth. “We are continually re-imagining the city and I think that’s really what makes it one of the most interesting places in North America,” said Reeves. “The city continues to change dramatically. Not a lot of population growth but a lot of population change and increasing diversity in terms of our ethnic makeup.”

Yonge Street Slip, looking north, 1926: William James’ photograph reminds us of how industrial Toronto’s lake shore used to be in the early 20th century.

King Street East, south side looking west, 1856: One of the earliest photographs taken of Toronto, this image shows Toronto’s main commercial thoroughfare at that time.

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The intersection of Dundas Street and Roncesvalles Avenue, looking south-east, 1912: What was the Merchant’s Bank of Canada is now a Starbucks. Photos courtesy/CITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES

to all work together,” said Dr. Gary Miedema, associate director and chief historian at Heritage Toronto. The two-tiered system of government did not replace Toronto’s own government, which still looked after aspects of city life such as public health, but Metro did take lead on issues such as arterial roads, sewer, and protection of parks and valley lands. “I think it was hugely successful and really was the recipe for growth in what we now call the City of Toronto,” said Reeves. “As a result we’ve got one of the greatest park systems in the world... a very durable legacy.” Still, the new system was not with-

out controversy. Despite success with the Gardiner Expressway, plans for the Spadina Expressway stopped short due to opposition, leaving the Allen Expressway with an endpoint at Eglinton Avenue West. There was also a lost battle with the City of Toronto to turn Toronto Island into parklands. The year 1967 brought the city one

The city may be constantly changing, but Reeves also points to our general upward momentum since 1834, unlike other North American cities, such as Detroit, that have had “huge downturns.” “We’ve sustained prosperity and as a result we’ve been able to grow in many different ways,” Reeves said. Both historians agree that the diversity of the city’s population is a unique aspect of Toronto’s history and current culture. There have been times when discrimination reared its ugly head, and the community has faced the consequences. The riot at Christie Pits in 1933, given as example, which was incited by Pit Gang members who hung a large sheet with a swastika on it during a local baseball game. “It’s been a long struggle that continues today, although we’ve made great strides in diversity in our city,” Miedema said. “Our ability to develop in a way that has created a relatively open and accepting environment for people to settle, and build families, and contribute to the city – I think that’s something that’s remarkable.”

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History of York Before York became incorporated as a city in 1983, its history can be traced back to when it began as a township in the late 1790s along with the townships of Etobicoke and Scarborough. According to the Toronto Branch of the Ontario Geneological Society, many of the former municipalities, villages and towns once belonged to York Township, which was once bounded by the Humber River to the west, what would become Victoria Park Avenue to the east, Steeles Avenue to the north, and the lake to the south. The Town of York was founded within York Township in 1793 and when the population reached about 9,000 in 1834 it became incorporated as the City of Toronto. As the general population grew in other parts of the township over the years, more villages and towns became independent from York Township including the Village of Weston (1881), towns of East and North Toronto (1889), Township of North York (1922) and Township of East York (1923), to name a few. In 1967, York Township amalgamated with Weston to become the Borough of York led by Mayor Jack Mould. By then, a secondtier municipality called Metropolitan Toronto that had formed to govern some aspects of life in 1953 now included Toronto as well as the boroughs of York, East York, North York, Etobicoke and Scarborough. Then in 1983, the Borough of York became the City of York with Alan Tonks serving as mayor. That same year, the boroughs of Etobicoke and Scarborough also became incorporated as cities. York, along with Toronto, Etobicoke, Scarborough, East York and North York, amalgamated as the City of Toronto in 1998.

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SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER: Every Thursday, yorkguardian.com introduces an image or group of images of historical significance to the York community. This photo is of the address known as No. 1245-1251 St. Clair Avenue West. Today, this address is located west of the intersection of Dufferin Street. Photo taken Sept. 1, 1911.

Spadina Museum exhibit gets a British flavour Fans of the hit BBC series Downton Abbey can take in costumes worn in the show alongside actual items of clothing worn in Toronto

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n the space of a few hours Monday morning, the Toronto’s mayor’s race went from a bare cupboard to an embarrassment of riches, as first John Tory and then Karen Stintz joined Rob Ford and David Soknacki to fill out the rightward side of the ballot. Each of these identifies themselves as “fiscal conservatives.” And as it is early in the race, it is difficult – with the notable exception of Ford – to tell them apart. This is problematic for voters who also identify themselves as “fiscal conservatives,” and very problematic for the growing army of campaign strategists. If everybody is calling for controls on spending, and also feeling ambitious about transit construction, where does the like-minded vote go? Soknacki’s pitch is a fiscally sensible but politically dubious one: just forget about that subway council decided to build – and tax for – in Scarborough and build light rail there instead, concentrating subway dollars on the downtown relief line. That

david nickle the city has the advantage of reining in spending and improving transit, along with the disadvantage of re-opening a debate that Torontonians are sick of. The other three all want to build more subways – Ford, on Sheppard and downtown, and Tory and Stintz, downtown. How will they pay for those subways? Ford will use public private partnerships. Stintz will go to the federal and provincial government. Tory has a plan but isn’t saying yet. The only information rightof-centre voters know for sure is that with drug abuse and truancy and – whatever he might claim to the contrary – legislative failure, the incumbent mayor’s been a disaster. Otherwise, those voters will have to pick. If they’re not careful, it’ll be their poison. That’s because one other likely candidate of note is still on the horizon: Olivia Chow. If she runs, she is surely the

only major candidate from left of centre, and if polls over the past year are any indication, she is well-positioned to take the election against even a single candidate from the right. Now, a strong right-of-centre candidate could certainly erode that advantage, and the crew that’s here now can do that too. If Soknacki continues to play it as he has, supporting Miller-era light rail and tweaking Miller-era tax policy, he can probably siphon off a considerable amount of support that Chow could otherwise take for granted. Tory and Stintz can similarly appeal to elements of soft Chow support. And while Ford’s own victory might seem unlikely, by remaining in the race he’ll keep a significant chunk of the conservative vote from anyone but himself. So as matters stand today, it looks as though Chow will have to fall a long way before she’s lost the lead in this very crowded race.

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ith TTC congestion worsening, transit riders might be forgiven if they’re feeling like a bunch of sardines these days as they attempt to squeeze onto already-packed subway trains, streetcars and buses. Now the advocacy group TTCriders is giving fed-up commuters a chance to share their frustration. The group has created the TTC Sardine Award, which will be bestowed next month upon an as-yet unrevealed “key decision maker” who, according to the group, has failed to come through when it comes to pushing for better funding for the cash-strapped transit commission. From now until March 5, TTCriders is calling for riders to post pictures of their congested commutes and post it on social media under the hashtag #TTCsardines. Later on in the month, the group will announce the official “winner” of the inaugural award. Visit www.ttcriders.ca

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