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12 Division meeting Attend the next 12 Division Community Police Liaison Committee (CPLC), scheduled for tonight from 7 to 9 p.m.

The CPLC consists of community volunteers and police representatives who come together the third Thursday of each month at 12 Division, 200 Trethewey Dr., to identify, prioritize and problem-solve local policing issues.

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Wychwood Barns gallery being renamed Celebrate the renaming of the community gallery at Wychwood Barns in memory of Peter MacKendrick, “one of the neighbourhood’s most engaged citizens.”

T h e Wy c h w o o d Ba r n s Community Association will be holding the Peter MacKendrick Community Gallery reception on Thursday, Jan. 23 from 6 to 9 p.m. in Barn 2, 76 Wychwood Ave. at Benson Avenue.

All are welcome to attend.

MacKendrick’s Winter Gardens exhibit, which contains his works from 2009 to 2012, will also be on display from Jan. 24 to Feb. 2, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

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Ervin Bembong, left, talks with COSTI Immigrant Services’ Marie Odette-Ferreira during the Community Connections Café held Friday at UrbanArts.

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Brookhaven kids told to stand up to bullying Toronto Argos bring personal message to young students CLARK KIM ckim@insidetoronto.com Brookhaven Public School students got a special lesson this week from two guests from the Toronto Argonauts about what to do when they see bullying happening.

Defensive back Matt Black and director of education and community programs Jason Colero paid a visit to the Black Creek Drive and Lawrence Avenue-area school where kids from kindergarten to Grade 5 eagerly awaited their arrival.

“Every year, it grows more and more,” said Colero, who started the Huddle Up bullying prevention program for the Argonauts 13 years ago.

“The tools people use for bullying change, but the message stays the same. Bystanders have a big role in this. Don’t stand by, stand up.”

Colero shared his personal story about how he was bullied when he joined his high school football team. Teammates made

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Toronto Argos’ Matt Black talks with students at Brookhaven Public School Tuesday about bullying at the Argos’ launch of their bullying prevention program (now in its 13th year) at the school.

fun of his size, stole his equipment and clothes, pushed him down and locked him in his locker.

“I thought, this is not fair. I didn’t know who to talk to,” he recalled. “I was hoping someone

would speak up but nobody said a word.”

But one day as he was being

chased by a couple of student bullies, one senior teammate “Mark” stood up to them. That’s why Colero kept playing football and soon after got hired by the Argos where he’s been working for 30 years.

“Mark helped me get here,” Colero said.

Black encouraged students with his own story of determination, perseverance and self-confidence.

“Growing up, there were a lot of obstacles,” he shared.

He was diagnosed in Grade 2 with dyslexia and got teased because he was in special education class. And despite always being one of the smaller players on the team, Black said he didn’t quit.

He has now played for the Argos for the past five seasons and won a Grey Cup for his hometown in 2012.

The veteran football player hoped the students would take his message to heart.

“The earlier you get to talk to the kids about it, the more impact it’ll have,” he said.

Both Rakeem Clarke and Sierra Davis enjoyed the special assembly that afternoon.

“It’s awesome,” said Rakeem, who was able to get a photo with Black.

“It was very exciting,” agreed Sierra, who learned what she’d do if she saw someone being bullied.

“I would tell them to stop.”

Food banks get timely boost from Insurance Bureau of Canada CLARK KIM ckim@insidetoronto.com With food donations normally down in the first two months following the Christmas holidays, a $5,000 donation to a couple of local food banks this week came as a welcome surprise to start off the new year.

Doug DeRabbie, government relations director from the Insurance Bureau of Canada, presented a $2,500 cheque each to the Syme Woolner Neighbourhood and Family Centre and the Weston Area Emergency Support (WAES) food banks on Friday.

“It’s encouraging to hear that especially this particular time of year, it’s going to help,” DeRabbie said.

He heard about the local food banks after a conversation with York South-Weston MPP Laura Albanese who gave the descrip-

tion of her riding as one with many needs.

She suggested that Syme Woolner Neighbourhood & Family Centre and WAES receive the monetary donation after volunteering at both food banks over the holidays.

“This is like Christmas in January,” Albanese said. ice storm impact Mark Neysmith, executive director of the Syme Woolner Neighbourhood & Family Centre, also thanked the Insurance Bureau of Canada for the timely donation, especially after the ice storm that left the agency without power for a few days.

“We serve on average 150 to 160 families through this location,” said Neysmith, noting the food bank at its 2468 Eglinton Ave. W. location is by appoint-

ment only, while the 190 Woolner Ave. location is a dropin service.

Many clients struggled to replace what they’d lost due to the prolonged power outage.

The $2,500 will help them rebuild by providing food supplies as well as other much needed items, including laundry detergent, paper towels and pet food.

“Those are often overlooked,” Neysmith said.

WAES treasurer Margaret Roberts was also on hand to receive the cheque, which will help the more than 100 families who come Tuesday and Friday mornings to receive food supplies.

“I can’t tell you how much it means to us,” Roberts said.

To donate to Syme Woolner Neighbourhood & Family Centre, call Neysmith at 416-766-4634, ext. 222.

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York South Weston MPP Laura Albanese, right, joins representatives of the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) and the Syme Woolner Neighbourhood Centre last Friday for an announcement that the centre’s food bank would be sharing in a $5,000 donation from the IBC.

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he ice storm that hit Toronto at the end of last month imposed severe hardship, physically, emotionally and financially, upon hundreds of thousands of residents.

Which makes the behaviour of councillors and the mayor at the special meeting held last Friday and this Monday to approve a call to seek financial help from the provincial and federal governments to help cover ice storm costs so disappointing.

There are many issues surrounding the storm’s impact, costs associated with it and how the city’s leadership dealt with the crisis. The meeting was held to deal with those important items, yet it turned into a forum for petty politics and blatant electioneering.

We deserve better from our our view elected officials. And they need to know most voters can see through what they were up to at the meetWarning: ing, and it will only reflect badly on themselves. After unanimously Voters are approving Monday morning what watching was a no-brainer of a decision to ask for federal and provincial disaster relief funding to cover two-thirds of the estimated of $171-million cost to the city for the ice storm and the flooding in July, the silliness started.

Councillor Karen Stintz, who has said she intends to run for mayor in this year’s election, said Mayor Rob Ford should have handed over authority to Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly during the ice storm instead of taking the limelight for himself.

Ford fired back at her and then went on to take shots at Kelly, accusing him of not being a leader during the crisis. Kelly accurately said the meeting was “degenerating into an embarrassing melee.”

To wrap it up, Councillor Doug Ford, Mayor Ford’s brother, called Councillor John Parker “pathetic.”

That came about after Parker made a remark about Mayor Ford thanking city staff for their work during the ice storm.

Pathetic is what we would call the entire meeting.

The request for funding could have been quickly dealt with Friday. Of course it was going to be a unanimous vote. The only reason the meeting continued was because too many councillors were using it for selfish motives. With this being a municipal election year, voters in this city need to take a hard look at our representatives. The behaviour of many of them Monday and Friday should not have improved their re-election chances.

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Is it cold enough for ya this winter?

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prefer summer weather forecasts over winter ones.

In the summer they’re short and sweet. They tell us that the temperature is going to be such and such and that’s it. One number.

Period.

In the winter? No such luck.

We get a long, confusing list with each temperature lower than the one before.

What’s even more baffling is that the list always ends with the effect of wind chill on thermometer readings for some reason.

Wind chill barely scratches the surface of what’s going on this time of year.

If they’re going to lengthen the winter forecasts they should at least give us the complete picture. It should sound like this: The current temperature is -1.

Downtown it’s -2.

At the airport it’s -4.

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY Near the lake it’s -7 .

With the wind chill, it feels like -13.

If you forgot to wear mittens, it feels like it’s -14.

If you don’t have your ears covered, it feels like it’s -16.

If you don’t have thermal underwear on, it feels like it’s -20.

If your significant other is complaining of a bad back and you’re the one stuck outside shoveling the snow before you both go to work, it feels like it’s -22.

If you did the driveway but forgot to do the sidewalk and are ordered to get your butt back out there and finish the job, it feels like it’s -24.

If you don’t have a garage and have to park your car on the street at

night and you’re having one heckuva time trying to get it started this morning, it feels like it’s -27.

If you can’t get it to turn over and you have to sit in it until the motor league arrives to boost your battery, it feels like it’s -29.

If you’re not lucky enough to own a car and you have to slog your way through the snow and ice for 10 minutes to the nearest bus stop, it feels like it’s -32.

If you’re standing on a subway platform at an outdoor station, it feels like it’s -34.

If after the next subway arrives and you hear the driver deliver the bad news that everybody on it has to get off and nobody can get on because the train is going to be turned back, it feels like it’s -36.

If you’re outside waiting for a streetcar it feels like it’s -41.

If the streetcar is running a little late, it feels

like it’s -43.

If the streetcar is running a lot late, it feels like it’s -45.

If you get a message that the streetcars on your route are all out of service and there will be shuttle buses instead, it feels like it’s -47.

If there’s no room on the first two shuttle buses and you have to wait even longer for your ride, it feels like it’s -49.

And if you haven’t got your morning double double with you while any and/or all of stuff is going on?

Brrrrr. I don’t even want to think about it. No way you can put a number on that. We’re talking serious cold.

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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Children’s Karate Workshop WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

WHERE: The York Academy of Martial Arts, 2081 Dufferin St. CONTACT: Richard Verlaan, 416-2567463, info@yorkama.com COST: Free January is open house month and kids are invited to an introductory karate workshop every Saturday morning this month. Call to reserve your place. Parents need to sign a waiver. Wear comfortable clothes.

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Giant Open Cribbage Tournament WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-0231, www. facebook.com/mountdennislegion, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: $25 per two person team Registration on tournament day from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Play begins at 12:30 p.m. Email for entry form or more information.

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Free Anti-Bullying Workshop WHEN: 1 to 2 p.m. WHERE: The York Academy of Martial Arts, 2081 Dufferin St. CONTACT: Richard Verlaan, 416-256-7463, info@yorkama.com COST: Free The presentation will target children aged 6 to 12. Parents need to sign up in advance as space is limited.

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York Academy of Martial Arts, 2081 Dufferin St. CONTACT: Richard Verlaan, 416-256-7463, info@yorkama. com COST: Free Every Monday evening in January instructors welcome anyone who wishes to try out an introductory workshop. Call to reserve your place. Wear comfortable clothing and bring non-marking indoor shoes if you are uncomfortable in your bare feet.

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Building Connections: Friendship, Fun and Learning WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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Adult Beginners Karate Workshop WHEN: 7:45 to 9 p.m. WHERE: The York Academy of Martial Arts, 2081 Dufferin St. CONTACT: Richard Verlaan, 416-256-7463, info@yorkama. com COST: Free Every Wednesday evening in January there is a free introductory workshop on karate. Call to reserve your place. Wear comfortable clothing.

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Digitization Workshop WHEN: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Weston Library, 2 King St. CONTACT: 416-394-1016, westaff@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free

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Presented by the Weston Historical Society. Call to register.

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.

Enjoy food at reasonable prices.

Meet some new friends. Find out what Legion membership is all about. All 19 and older are welcome.

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Women’s Empowerment: Discovering our Power WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. or 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. 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.

Make connections with other women in a supportive environment.

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York West Active Living Centre WHEN: 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Joselen, 416-245-4395, ext. 233, joselen@ ywalc.ca Help older adults to improve their lives. No need to sign up for longterm commitments. Positions include driver, reception, kitchen server, special events, gardening and more.

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An Introduction to Consumer and Debtor Rights WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free Lawyer Victor Kasowski will make a presentation about several of the most common and basic legal rights of consumers and debtors. The emphasis will be on providing useful information that can be applied to everyday life. Call to register.

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13 Division searching for fraud suspect Toronto police are asking for the public’s help to find a woman wanted in connection with a number of offences involving bank fraud.

The alleged offences date back to February 2013 and resulted in the loss of more than $100,000, according to 13 Division.

The suspect is wanted for a long list of charges including eight counts of uttering a forged document, two counts of possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, five counts of fraud over $5,000, fraud under $5,000, laundering the proceeds of crime and five counts of possession of an identity document.

Police are searching for Jessica

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She is described as white, 5’5” tall, 150 pounds, with long, straight, black hair and blue/ green eyes.

She has a cross tattoo with a snake on her right Jessica Morrison upper arm and Chinese symbols on her left inner forearm.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416-808-1300 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222TIPS (8477).

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Goal: enhance resident engagement >>>from page 1 Engagement Workgroup, the committee that hosted the event with a mandate to enhance resident engagement.

While the workgroup is still compiling the information that was gathered at the event, Wilson noted a couple of main issues seem to come up including what community space is available for residents and accessibility to healthy food.

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‘Visionaries’ needed to promote better transit, TTC boss Byford says RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com It’s time to push elected officials for better transit funding, the CEO of the TTC told members of the Toronto Region Board of Trade last Thursday.

Andy Byford called on politicians seeking re-election in potentially two separate elections this year to support better funding of the TTC, which remains one of the least-subsidized transit agencies in the world.

He also re-stated his intention to take a delegation of transit advocates to Queen’s Park and Ottawa to lobby for more money.

“Politicians need to listen to what people are saying,” said Byford, speaking over the lunch hour at an event organized by the Toronto Region Board of Trade.

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municipal election coming, and provincial election potentially, I think we’ll have really missed a golden opportunity.”

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Byford, who first spoke of his intention to lobby the province and the federal governments for better financial support last year, said “visionaries” were required to convince government of the need for better transit funding.

“We need political leaders to understand the value of transit, as well as its cost,” he said.

During his 30-minute, state-of-the-union-style speech, Byford outlined the transit commission’s plans for 2014, which include debuting the first of a new fleet of streetcars, the start of implementation for the Presto electronic fare card system, plus station i m p r ov e m e n t s i n c l u d ing an additional subway platform at Union Station, scheduled for completion in the summer.

But he said the challenges facing the TTC this year, which kicked off with a fare hike, remained immense and plans for modernization and expansion as part of its five-year corporate vision could not be achieved without better funding from all levels of government.

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Mayor at odds with councillors over ice storm reaction DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Toronto Council rushed to unanimously support a request to the provincial and federal governments to help deal with the costs of the December ice storm and summer flood Monday morning. But any hopes of continued solidarity were soon dashed, as Mayor Rob Ford faced hard questions about his decision not to declare a state of emergency last month.

“Mr. Mayor, you could have put the deputy mayor in charge but you didn’t, because you wanted to keep the power for yourself,” said EglintonLawrence Councillor Karen Stintz, who has announced her intention to run against Ford for mayor this year.

Stintz levelled the accusation in an attempt to grill Ford during the second day of the council meeting, that was cut short Friday because of a requirement to end the meeting at 3:30 p.m. in deference to the Jewish Sabbath.

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Mayor Rob Ford speaks at Monday’s meeting of Toronto Council, which was marked by heated exchanges between the mayor and some councillors.

On Monday, Toronto Council faced another religious deadline, having to stop the meeting by 4:30 p.m. in deference to the Islamic festival of Mawlid al-Nably .

Ford had called the special council meeting then to meet a deadline of Tuesday at midnight, to request disaster relief funding from the provincial

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Because of the early finish, councillors had not yet finished questioning staff on the ice storm, which hit the city on the weekend before Christmas and left nearly a million people in the dark, many for days.

Ford refused to call a state of emergency in Toronto, because, he said, doing so was unnecessary.

Critics, however, said the real reason for not declaring an emergency was because under new rules imposed by Toronto Council last year, doing so would mean that Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly would take charge of the city.

Council did unanimously support Kelly’s motion to ask for at least $114 million to cover costs of both the ice storm and the summer storm from the federal and provincial governments. Toronto is facing a total of $171 million for the costs of both storms.

With that out of the way, councillors settled in to an at-times angry exchange with

Ford, after he rose to thank staff for effectively handling the ice storm and pointed out that few councillors had extended that thanks.

Stintz suggested the ice storm recovery might have gone better if one person had been in charge, and that Ford could have facilitated that by handing the reigns of power over to Kelly.

Ford maintained there was always one person in charge: “Me, I was in charge,” he said.

Ford went on to suggest that Stintz, who chairs the TTC, was not present dealing with the problems in the wake of the storm.

“I still don’t know where you were, but you still took credit for getting the TTC up and running. You must have had a magic wand because you were nowhere to be found,” he said.

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Kelly rose to point out he had been involved through the city’s committee dealing with disaster preparedness.

“This is degenerating into an embarrassing melee and part of that melee was a misstatement by the mayor, who said I was nowhere to be found,” said Kelly, asking that Ford withdraw his statement.

Ford simply piled on more criticism: “The deputy mayor

was the only one who said, ‘We don’t meet Christmas Day,’” he said. “That’s not right. I’m sorry. When the power’s out you work day in and day out for the taxpayer.”

Finally, Don Valley West Councillor John Parker rose to ask Ford whether, when thanking staff with a round of applause, councillors ought to have stood up.

At that point, Ford’s brother Councillor Doug Ford shouted, “You’re pathetic, John. You’re pathetic. Sit down. You’re pathetic. You’re a joke.”

Council finally voted to approve a range of motions, most of them seeking to improve the way Toronto responds to disasters such as the ice storm in the future.

Council agreed to waive the fee for turning water service off and on for homeowners and businesses, and give permit credits for groups that had been scheduled to use city facilities during the ice storm.

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Ford showed the world this week what a political pit-fighter can do in a forum where all his opponents still feel they ought to constrain themselves by civility.

Ford properly entered Monday’s forum, the second day of the two-day meeting, after council had dispensed with the crucial non-question of whether the city should ask for provincial and federal aid to deal with the cost of the December ice storm. After a speech in which he praised city and Hydro staff and chided his colleagues for not doing so themselves, the fight was on.

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She didn’t stand a chance.

When Stintz tried to set things up and ask the mayor if he agreed the city would have been better served by having one mayor in charge, Ford shot back that he was in charge and did just fine – and went on to assert that Stintz herself had done nothing to help get the TTC up and running.

By the time Stintz was able to counter that attack and push her core argument to the fore, she was reduced to trying to shout over the mayor, who wondered, “What are you so angry for?”

If Stintz goes ahead and files her papers for the mayor’s race, that’s what she’ll be facing, debate after debate: a taunting, confident incumbent who

in spite of any evidence you might care to throw at him won’t back down.

Stintz wasn’t the only one to buckle. When Councillor Joe Mihevc went after Ford’s voting record, Ford turned it around and went after Mihevc’s travel record.

When Kelly tried to correct Ford’s mischaracterization of his own work ethic, Ford went on the attack.

Scarborough-Rouge River Councillor Raymond Cho’s almost plaintive questioning of the mayor’s aggressive tactics was met with more mockery, as the mayor bobbed and weaved and laughed off attacks from all corners.

In the end, it wasn’t so much that Ford left the room looking particularly good, as that he’d left everyone around him looking foolish and flustered. As this election year progresses, any candidate hoping to deny Ford a second term is going to have to find a way to fortify their inner calm.

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But now that the year for his re-election has arrived, the municipal land transfer tax (MLTT) is still fully intact, and the embattled mayor will have his work cut out to convince Toronto City Council to trim it even by five per cent in 2014.

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who had supported it vote for its banishment early in his term.

But the MLTT brings so much money to city coffers – a projected $350 million this year – that even Ford’s current budget chief admits it’s now a “lifeline” for the city, one too valuable to lose.

“I don’t believe we can ever eliminate it,” Frank Di Giorgio said last Wednesday as his committee wrapped up work on the city’s operating and capital budgets.

Committee members faced the wrath of Ford and his brother, Etobicoke North Councillor Doug

Ford, but did not cut the MLTT at all.

The mayor told them the tax should be cut by 10 per cent or more.

“It’s not a tough decision. You think about what your constituents want and you do it,” he said, adding other municipalities are doing fine without it.

At one point, Ford – a councillor for 10 years before becoming mayor – rhetorically asked what the city had done before it had the “$330-million cushion” of the MLTT to fall back on.

“We ran a good city,” he said.

Some councillors said the tax is reasonable and hasn’t affected Toronto’s strong real estate market at all.

North York Councillor Shelley Carroll suggested

it’s been good for seniors because it helps stabilize property tax rates.

“Don’t mess with the formula now,” she said.

Other councillors, including some who thought even a small cut might bring the city an economic stimulus, said cutting 10 per cent, or about $35 million in revenue, meant cuts to programs residents wanted.

Ron Moeser from Scarborough said he would support a 10 per cent cut if the mayor’s office came forward with a corresponding list of programs to trim.

Doug Ford argued the tax raised $15 million more than expected in 2013, just $2 million short of the amount needed for a five per cent cut.

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mittee members, who opted to put the $15 million towards their goal of passing a budget later this month that hikes the city’s residential property tax rate by 2.25 per cent, including .5 per cent for a Scarborough subway extension.

Bringing down the property tax hike from the 2.5 per cent proposed by staff is a chance to give taxpayers across the city a break, said Scarborough Southwest Councillor Gary Crawford.

As for the MLTT, which Crawford said he personally thinks is an unfair tax, “it’s here, it’s a reality.”

Last July, the mayor – before he was replaced as the head of council’s executive committee – asked staff to research several options for cutting the MLTT.

Their advice for reducing the revenue it brings in by five per cent was to adjust MLTT rebates for first-time homebuyers so that many would actually pay up to $417 more, while other buyers could save $1,309.

Doug Ford later criticized the “sense of entitlement” he said many his colleagues have for money the MLTT brings, but said he and the mayor will bring motions to a council meeting beginning Jan. 29 to cut the tax just before the budget passes.

“We’re not going to look at 10 per cent. We’re going to look at five per cent.

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