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MP Sullivan winter is winding down hosts session on disability tax credit York South-Weston MP Mike Sullivan will host a disability tax credit workshop tomorrow.

The workshop will be held at York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd., at 6:30 p.m.

“This (federal) tax credit puts money back into the pockets of Canadians who are disabled,” Sullivan, who serves as the NDP’s parliamentary critic for persons with disabilities, said in a release.

“Yet, hundreds of thousands of people who qualify for it don’t know that it exists or even how to apply. That’s why I’m hosting this session.”

The tax credit provides up to $1,165 a year in benefits to Canadians with physical or mental disabilities and can be claimed retroactively for up to 10 years. If the person who qualifies for the credit can’t apply it against income tax paid, it can be transferred to a family member.

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A man walks through Cruickshank Park Tuesday morning, where there is a welcome absence of snow on the ground!

Home care heroes sought for CCAC awards The Central Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) is looking for nominations for its inaugural Heroes in the Home Caregiver Recognition Awards.

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Nominations are being accepted until May 1.

Criteria is as follows: • Informal caregivers can be

nominated by anyone.

• Health care professionals must be nominated by a patient or the patient’s family.

• All nominees must provide care to someone living in the

Central CCAC region, which includes the former city of York.

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Spring cleaning for Allen Road DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com

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Allen Road will be closed for spring maintenance the weekend of April 17 to 20 from Eglinton Avenue to Sheppard Avenue.

The southern stretch of the road from Eglinton to Lawrence Avenue will close at 9 p.m. Friday, April 17, while the area north of Lawrence up to Sheppard will be closed at 11 p.m. The road won’t re-open until Monday, April 20 at about 5 a.m.

The work will not affect transit.

Buses will take a slightly different route to get to Downsview/Sheppard West subway station.

Hector Moreno, manager for road operations for the city’s Transportation Services, said people should see an improvement immediately when the work is done.

The top layer of the road will be ground and paved, particularly south of Hwy. 401 where every lane northbound and southbound will be repaved.

Road sweepers will be deployed, the catch basins will CLOSURE be cleaned and repaired, guardrails will be repaired, lines will be repainted, street lighting will be rehabilitated, some bridge and fence repair will occur and dead trees and branches will be removed from the road’s embankments.

“A lot of this stuff is left over from last year’s ice storm,” Moreno said of the dead branches.

“There’s a lot of debris on the banks at the side of the boulevard and on the side of the road. This tends to cause a lot of issues, particularly during spring rain or in the fall, causing flooding.”

He said the maintenance work will involve many departments, including the city’s Transportation Services, Forestry, Pavement Markings and Signs, Solid Waste Management Services, and Toronto Hydro and various contractors.

The city has an alternative date of May 8 to 11, with the same road closure sequence, in case work must be postponed due to weather.

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Singing praises of Reggae Lane Eglinton-Oakwood roadway selected for improvement DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com The recently named Reggae Lane located behind a strip of stores on the south side of Eglinton Avenue West at Oakwood Avenue has been selected for improvement.

The laneway was one of two such public areas chosen by The Laneway Project for improvement. The other is a residential laneway along Queen Street West.

“Our goal is to demonstrate the opportunities that exist in the city when doing laneway improvements,” said Ariana Cancelli, an urban planner and engagement specialist at The Laneway Project.

“We want to show everyone else in Toronto that this is possible.”

The organization received 28 nominations for laneway improvement projects. It chose one commercial and one residential project, each that had a group of people or an organization committed to it.

Reggae Lane had already had progress for improvement. It was named in August by city council, reflecting the rich music history along Eglinton Avenue West.

The York-Eglinton BIA, which has its offices abutting the laneway, nominated it for the project. With the support of The Laneway Project, the BIA will work on an improvement project that will include planning and public engagement to develop a vision, plus a master plan and finally an implementation plan.

BIA chair and local clothing retailer Nick Alampi said submitting Reggae Lane into the contest was a no-brainer after the BIA’s office administrator brought it to the attention of its board of directors.

“This is another way how we can enhance the changes that are happening and bring awareness to what this laneway is going to be,” Alampi said.

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Crosstown LRT, which is scheduled to open in 2020.

“With the coming changes to Eglinton with the LRT, potential buildings, condos, this is a space that should not be neglected, especially because it’s literally no more than a footstep away from a main artery of Oakwood and Eglinton,” Alampi said.

His vision is to see something happen at the laneway, which is now used as a throughway for vehicles into a municipal parking lot and for shops to use as storage.

The eventual usage for the area will be up to the community to decide, Alampi said.

He said restaurants could put their patios in the laneway instead of their storefronts, or garages along the laneway could be converted into

artists spaces.

Cancelli added that the laneway could be used to create greenspace, which is lacking in the area, or to create a community space for public gatherings.

Cancelli said Reggae Lane is unique and the area has a rich cultural diversity creating an opportunity for the community, but the laneway also “needs a lot of love.”

“This is an opportunity to engage the community and bring people together around a project and public space,” she said.

The BIA will host an inauguration celebration of the naming of Reggae Lane on July 11.

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For more information on the project or to get involved, contact the BIA at 416-789-1835 or visit www.reggaelaneproject.com

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Diversity Our Strength Diversity Our Strength – it’s Toronto’s motto. It’s also the name of the newest Metroland Media Toronto online portal.

Launched this week, www. insidetoronto.com/diversity is a growing compilation of news, events and resources dedicated to reaching Toronto’s diverse communities. The city is home to people who speak more than 140 languages, half of Toronto’s population was born outside of Canada and the city is a place where nearly half of residents’ first language is something other than English.

“Toronto is one of the most multicultural cities in the world,” said Paul Futhey, project lead and editor with Metroland Media Toronto. “It’s important that we find new ways to present our content to our readers.”

Included in the website: w NEWS: Metroland Media Toronto’s news coverage of Toronto’s diverse communities: available in a general feed and also accessible in sections based on world geography. A world news feed is also available. w EVENTS: an events section with photo galleries of recent cultural celebrations as well as links to upcoming multicultural events. w RESOURCES: a section that includes some helpful tips for newcomers to the city, key statistics and a call for directory submissions.

As the site grows, we’re looking for significant community involvement, whether it’s news tips, event submissions, or community organizations and cultural centres creating online profiles to be part of a directory.

“Our goal is always to find ways to better connect people to their communities,” Futhey said. “We want the community to be a part of this.”

Questions? Contributions? Email pfuthey@insidetoronto.com

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or coverage of one of North America’s most multicultural cities, our newest online project is a great fit.

This week marks the launch of the latest web project on insidetoronto.com: Diversity Our Strength. It can be accessed at www.insidetoronto.com/diversity Borrowing its name from the City of Toronto’s motto, this project is an online source of news, events and information about Toronto’s diverse communities. And there’s plenty to cover.

A city of nearly 2.8 million people, Toronto is home to more than 140 spoken languages. Nearly half of Toronto’s residents learned a first language other than English. Seemingly every corner of the city hosts vibrant cultural festivals whose roots come from other lands.

In Diversity Our Strength, you can: • Visit the news section for Metroland Media Toronto’s coverage of Toronto’s our view multicultural communities and view stories organized by world geography. There is a feed of world Share your news coverage as well.

• On our events page, see photo perspectives galleries of recent festivals and with us preview upcoming events in the community.

• Find helpful tips in our resources section to acclimating to life in Toronto. Find out more about the services available to newcomers in the city. Check out a linguistic breakdown of Toronto’s population by neighbourhood.

As the site prepares to grow further, the community and the organizations that serve it have roles to play, too.

Are you a non-profit agency that serves Toronto’s immigrant population or a cultural centre? We want to list your profile.

Do you have a story idea? We’d like to see it.

Do you have an event to share with the community?

You have a platform to do so.

Toronto is a city that prides itself on its citizens being able to celebrate and respect their differences.

Anything that enables citizens from diverse backgrounds to gather together can help forge lasting connections at the community level. Communities benefit greatly when a wide variety of perspectives and experiences are at the table.

If you are interested in contributing, have some questions or anything else to share on the project, email project manager Paul Futhey at pfuthey@ insidetoronto.com

The York Guardian welcomes letters of 400 words or less. All submissions must include name, address and a daytime telephone number for verification purposes. We reserve the right to edit, condense or reject letters. Copyright in letters remains with the author but the publisher and affiliates may freely reproduce them in print, electronic or other forms. Letters can be sent to letters@insidetoronto.com, or mailed to The York Guardian, 175 Gordon Baker Rd., Toronto, ON, M2H 0A2.

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Breaking into song on March Break Questions I was at a loss for words heading into March Break, but as luck would have it, not at loss for song.

My name is Jamie and I’m here to say, I almost didn’t get this column in the paper today.

I mean it, folks. I’m not making this up.

It’s not my usual silly poetic license stuff.

I can send you a selfie with me crossing my heart.

I was getting nowhere fast, right from the start.

I was at my wit’s end, I tell ya. Didn’t know what to do.

Not having a topic by now was something new.

And taunting me was the blank screen on my Mac. There was nary a word on it – that’s a fact, Jack.

To be honest, I couldn’t even remember my name.

I had no idea how to get in the game.

Most perplexing of all, is this is the ideal week, and I’m not saying that tongue in cheek.

March Break is a treasure

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY trove of topics aplenty.

No way I was expecting to come up empty.

Why would I, with so many great festivals in store?

And bustling malls filled with entertainment galore.

Then there’s the Ontario Science Centre and the zoos.

Ripley’s Aquarium, the ROM, how could I lose?

So I sought inspiration in the neighbourhood.

Visited every rink, field and park I possibly could.

Hopped on the subways, buses and streetcars.

Even headed to Yorkville to reach for the stars.

Checked out YouTube.

Called my nephew on Skype.

Googled and Twittered away long into the night.

But after looking hither, thither and yon and back again,

I still couldn’t put pen to paper or paper to pen.

I had a mental block bigger than the CN Tower.

And the seconds were ticking down to the very last hour.

Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five ... ah what’s the use?

No way to make it in time, I needed an excuse, Like my dog ate the column. They’ll swallow that line.

Or the server was down.

That works every time.

Then a light bulb went off inside my head.

Why agonize over this?

Why not sing about it instead?

So, I put two and two together and just like that, Came up with the I Barely Beat My March Break Deadline Rap. Oh yeahhhhh.

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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remain on sex ed course

To the editor: As a retired teacher I have been most interested to hear about the new course for sex education.

However, there has been no mention how this will be implemented with the present financial shortfall.

Will teachers be taken out of their classes to attend courses for teaching these new aspects or will they merely be confronted with the new syllabus with instructions to “teach this”?

Also, who will be responsible for the teaching in high schools: The home room teacher? The phys-ed teacher?

Will the students in elective programs be covered?

There are still many questions to be answered and explained.

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Parapan Am Games wTickets tickets on sale for the Toronto 2015

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Parapan Am Games will go sale starting March 23.

Pan Am tickets will be back on sale by mid-April.

For more ticket information, visit www.toronto2015.org/ tickets

Aggreko will supply wAggreko generators has been named

the Official Temporary Energy Services Supplier for the TORONTO 2015 Pan American/Parapan American Games.

Aggreko will supply more than 100 generators totalling more than 50 MW of temporary power that will provide primary and back-up power systems for the Games.

Aggreko will also provide temperature control systems for the Athletes’ Village dining facility and more than 30 surrounding venues.

This is Aggreko’s third time supporting the Games.

Swim meets wTwoTwo scheduled key national meets are coming up to determine

pan am/parapan am the makeup of Canada’s national swimming teams set to compete in the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games.

The Can Am Paraswimming Championships from March 20 to 22 and the Team Canada Trials from April 1 to 4 will be held in the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre in Scarborough.

The Can Am Paraswimming Championships event is free. Tickets are available at the door for the Team Canada Trials.

wTopWheelchair Basketball Challenge wheelchair basketball athletes in the western hemisphere arrive for the 2015 Americas Wheelchair Basketball Challenge March 22 to 26 at the Mattamy Athletic Centre.

Defending Paralympic gold medal winning Canadian Men’s National Team will host Americas zone rivals Argentina, Brazil

and the U.S. in the friendly warm-up tournament that offers a sneak peak at the top competitors gearing up for the Toronto 2015 Parapan Am Games.

Toronto players Adam Lancia and Abdi Dini are part of the team.

Admission is free. For more info, visit www.wheelchairbasketball.ca/2015_Americas_ Challenge_Advisory.aspx ETR supports wThe407 the Games 407 ETR will supports

the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games by providing usage of the highway for official Games vehicles.

The partnership enables Games-time fleet vehicles and buses carrying athletes, officials and Games family members to get to their destinations. The 407 is proud to play a role in the event and to lend its support to the Games, said Jose Tamariz, president and CEO of 407 ETR. Michele McLean’s column on the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games appears every second week. Reach her at mmclean@insidetoronto.com

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Public school board cuts hundreds of teaching jobs to balance budget CLARK KIM ckim@insidetoronto.com Hundreds of teaching jobs at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) will be cut after trustees approved the staffing allocations and passed a balanced operating budget for the next school year.

But TDSB chair Shaun Chen said the board is confident that most of the cuts will be made through attrition or by not replacing teachers who plan to retire this year.

“Getting here has been no easy task,” said Chen, after trustees passed the budget at the regular board meeting last Wednesday. “It’s been a tough conversation tonight.”

The budget presented to trustees included cutting 88 elementary full-time equivalent (FTE) teaching positions down to 10,719, and 168.5 secondary FTE teaching positions down to 4,896.5.

Board staff noted the allocation of jobs are primarily driven by enrolment numbers,

which the Ontario Ministry of Education uses to determine how much funding to give to each school board in the province.

In Toronto, enrolment of high school students is expected to decline by 2,000 in 2015, but increase by about 200 elementary students.

While trustees approved the staffing allocations for all positions, they voted against cutting 33.5 FTE special education support staff positions that include noon-hour assistants and special needs educational assistants.

Beaches-East York Trustee Sheila Cary-Meagher expressed concern about losing congregated classes, where special needs students receive more specialized support, and integrating those students into regular classrooms with less individual attention from teachers as a result of cutting special education support staff.

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The Ministry of Education also announced a reduction in special education funding over a four-year phase-in period with $7.3 million cut last year. The school board estimated another $5-million cut for each of the next three years totalling $22.3 million over four years.

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columns safety blitz for March Break wPolice Toronto Police Service has launched a safety blitz for pedestrians through March Break until Sunday.

As part of the March Safe campaign, police are pledging to pay special attention not only to jaywalkers, but also vehicles making conditions unsafe for lawabiding pedestrians.

According to a news release for the campaign, at least half of all fatal collisions involve pedestrians, of which there were 31 in 2014.

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ing to Dufferin station where a concourse elevator leading to the subway platform was recently installed.

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Tory finds leverage in Mulcair It is a good thing former Ontario Progressive Conservative party leader John Tory is taking the non-partisan part of his job so seriously.

Otherwise, his meeting with federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair would have been very awkward indeed.

Mulcair came to Toronto early this week bearing gifts – or at least the promise of gifts.

The leader of Canada’s Official Opposition told a crowd at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre that Toronto was his and his party’s favourite: that the city and the region were the most important in Canada, and that money and attention would flow here from a federal NDP government.

To specifics: the NDP would create 164,000 affordable daycare spots in the Greater Toronto Area over the next eight years; the minimum wage would be set federally at $15 an hour; and the GTA would receive $90 million a year more in funding from an increased share of the gas tax.

This is powerful stuff.

enshrined by the Conservative government. It was more, and that was good.

And it was hard not to like that notion that Toronto was the most important place in Canada.

Still, Tory wouldn’t endorse – and he would likely be foolish to do so. Mulcair and the NDP are the Official Opposition in only the most tenuous sense; the party gained its unprecedented influence under the irreplaceable leadership of the late Jack Layton.

The promises Mulcair made are more powerful as ideas right now than they are as likely outcomes.

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Mulcair has put forward the best and most reasonable federal agenda for cities since another unlikely prime minister, Paul Martin, almost a decade ago.

And that gives Tory some leverage in an arena where until recently it seemed as though he had very little.

david nickle the city Affordable daycare and a higher minimum wage would mitigate the income inequality that is degrading the city. The $90 million in gas tax money would go a long way to improving and just maintaining the sputtering Toronto Transit Commission system.

Poverty and transportation have been widely identified as pressing issues for Torontonians, and Tory has put both of those things at the top of his to-do list.

Tory and Mulcair met Monday at Toronto City Hall, the day following Mulcair’s speech. The two faced TV cameras and reporters immediately afterward, comfortably side-by-side and clearly on the same page.

Our mayor was generous in his praise for the policy, but careful. He noted the gas tax promise was one that built on transit funding that had been initiated by the Liberals and

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March Break Movie: ‘The Book of Life’ WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free All ages are welcome.

Friday Night Film: ‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’ WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free All ages welcome. Drop-in.

Karaoke WHEN: 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-767-0231, www. facebook.com/mountdennislegion, legionbr31@yahoo.com COST: Barbecue food available at reasonable prices

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Scrabble Program WHEN: 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-2454395 COST: Free Join in every Saturday for some fun games of Scrabble. Have fun and make some new friends.

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Gallery City WHERE: Eglinton Avenue West from Marlee Avenue to Dufferin Street COST: Free Gallery City is a collaboration between the York-Eglinton Business Improvement Area and Hogtown Mascots. This is an opportunity to showcase the work of local artists as a unique walking tour attraction in the York-Eglinton neighbourhood and to attract potential tenants and prospective businesses. Saturday is the final day of the exhibit; Visit www.gallerycity.ca/location for a map.

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Day Trip to Casino Rama WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-2454395 COST: Members $15, nonmembers $20

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Aging Well with Naturopathic Medicine WHEN: 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. WHERE: York West Active Living Centre, 1901 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-2454395 COST: Free Topics to be covered: Demystifying truths about aging, ways to increase vitality at any age, coommon complaints with aging, what can

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Friday Night Film: ‘Fed Up’ WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free March is National Nutrition Month, and ‘Fed Up’ is a documentary about the causes of obesity in the United States. Rated PG. Drop in.

Charity Darts Shoot WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: Claudia LaTouche, 416-268-0409, legionbr31@yahoo.com Entry Fee: Four-person team $60; doubles $30. $20 from each team and $10 from each doubles will go to Ride for the Cure.

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Toronto’s integrity commissioner and ombudsman will get a small increase in their % $ per household* investigative staff, more libraries will be protected by secuBudgetary Levy Increase 2.25 $58.66 rity guards and Toronto Public Scarborough Subway 0.5 $13.04 Health will have more to spend on climate change.

Total (budget and 2.75 $71.70 These are some of the outsubway tax impact) comes from Toronto council’s CVA and Policy Shift 0.45 $11.49 2015 budget debate. Council between Property Classes** approved its budget of nearly $10 billion, financed by a 2.25 Average Net Impact on 3.2 $83.19 per cent property tax increase, Homeowner* a bevy of increases in fees and * Average house assessed at $524,833 charges and a $60-million “loan” taken from Toronto’s ** No additional revenue to the city capital investment fund, to – City of Toronto budget document be repaid over the coming years.

The tax rate amounts to the library budget to fund removed in the recommended 3.2 per cent on homeowners staff-recommended levels of budget. when the Scarborough subway security at library branches.

Toronto council spent levy, current value assessment Etobicoke North Councillor Tuesday afternoon and and tax shifts are taken into and former mayor Rob Ford Wednesday morning last week account. returned to his city councillor poring over the city’s two rateBut it pays for service roots and brought forward a supported budgets: the water enhancements – notably, in stack of motions for cuts, all and wastewater budget and public transit, with bus routes but one of which were ignored the solid waste budget. and subway trains by council.

The former debate focussed Be a part of the brought into service The one was a on an in-camera discussion and free rides for motion by Ford to over how the city will repay discussion. Visit children – but also impose penalties $96 million in sewer and this story on our in poverty reduction other infrastructure improvewebsite and share on contractors who strategies. ments and repairs Metrolinx your thoughts in failed to deliver Mayor John Tory their goods on time completed during the conthe comments praised the budget. and to specificastruction of the Kitchener section.

“I think we’ve tion. But council (formerly Georgetown) GO line and Union Pearson (UP) found a budget ignored motions bit.ly/1HCMJBX which hits that sweet to cut TTC station Express. spot between excessive tax managers, trim parks services Council supported a motion increases, which it does not, and cut Tory’s office budget.

by Tory to spread the payand the gutting of public serIn a brief exchange, the ments over five years and vices, which it does not,” Tory former mayor took the current negotiate future cost-sharing said. “It’s not too hot, it’s not mayor to task for requesting agreements. too cold, it’s just right.” a $2.2 million office budget In solid waste, Toronto Council made only minor when Ford had made do on council approved a 58 per cent tweaks to the budget. Tory $1.8 million. increase in the rate in which himself moved a motion to Ford, speaking to his Toronto homeowners will pay add one more staff member for their garbage bins, a move motions, suggested library to each the ombudsman and security guards were unnecthat will raise $18 million. the integrity commissioner’s essary as he could not imagine The increase will cost a office. The number was far less his children getting into a fight homeowner with an extrathan the two had requested to over “a little book.” large bin $126.39; a large bin cover additional workloads: Augimeri, meanwhile, read will cost $91 a year. the ombudsman had asked an email from a patron at the for six staff members and the Downsview branch begging for Follow City Hall reporter integrity commissioner had security guards to be returned David Nickle on Twitter asked for two. there as the library had become @DavidNickle Council also approved overrun with unruly young people. motions by Parkdale-High FUTURE SHOP CORRECTION NOTICE Park Councillor Gord Perks to Augimeri said “people NEWSPAPER RETRACTION FOR THE FUTURE SHOP fund a climate change position belonging to gangs of MARCH 13 CORPORATE FLYER On the March 13 flyer, with Toronto Public Health both colours can con- page 1, please be advised that this product: LG 47” LB5830 and for Parkdale-High Park gregate in our libraries” Series Smart LED TV (WebCode: 10322868) is limited in Councillor Sarah Doucette thanks to on-site secu- quantity or may no longer be available in stores due to low inventory. to pump $200,000 back into rity guards that had been We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our valued customers.

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