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CLARK KIM ckim@insidetoronto.com From selling coffee to providing interpretation services, local social enterprises will now have greater assistance in making their business grow and helping create more jobs for low income and marginalized groups. A new social procurement project was launched last Thursday at The Learning Enrichment Foundation (LEF) with all three levels of government and the United Way Toronto investing $460,000 over the next three years to connect social enterprises with significant government procurement opporunities. “This is such an amazing place,” said Anne Jamieson, senior manager with Toronto Enterprise Fund, noting LEF’s strong support of social enterprises over the years. The project aims to match the growing number of social enterprises, which are businesses with a social or community-based mission, with >>>FUNDS, page 14

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UP THE MIDDLE: Weston Collegiate’s Tyrus McIntosh, centre, tries to break a tackle by Newtonbrook Secondary School’s Daniel Karimi (9) during high school senior boys’ rugby action Monday afternoon at Newtonbrook. The home side won 60-0.

Join a Jane’s Walk this weekend and get to know York Residents can participate in the annual Jane’s Walk with many free, locally organized walking tours throughout the city from May 2 to 4.

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Police called to apartment at Weston and Humber for disturbance A man who allegedly tried to grab an officer’s gun and spat to communicate his disease has been arrested. Police allege a man knocked on a random neighbour’s door in a Weston and Humber roads apartment building last Thursday and threatened the neighbour through the closed door just before midnight. When the neighbour refused to open

the door, the door was attacked with a knife. The neighbour called police but the man was gone by the time officers arrived. Officers were called back to the building just after midnight for reports of a screaming man. Once the man, who is believed to have threatened the neighbour, was located inside a unit, police attempted to arrest him.

>>>from page 1 Horvath and Mary Louise Ashbourne; meeting place is Lion’s Park. w Ward 12 – Still not Boring, one flooded year later, May 3, 1 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2 p.m.; walk leader is Mike Mattos, MDCA; meeting place is Centennial Recreation Centre. w Ward 15 – Explore Eglinton Avenue West, May 3, 2 p.m.;

The man allegedly tried to grab an officer’s gun from the holster and then spat at officers before he was arrested. Police have not said what disease the man has. Courtney Carter, 23, of Toronto, is charged with eight offences, including two counts of threatening death, disarming a police officer, and assault causing bodily harm.

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Eglinton line construction: a first-hand look Eastward tunnel borers nearing Caledonia Road RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Members of the media had the chance on Tuesday to travel far below Eglinton Avenue West to get a first-hand look at tunnel construction for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. The tour was organized by Metrolinx, which is coordinating the building of the $5.3 billion light rail project connecting opposite ends of Eglinton, between Mount Dennis and Kennedy Station. The line includes the construction of two planned west and east tunnels from Black Creek Drive to Yonge Street and then from Yonge Street to Laird Drive. The tunnel machines must also be re-deployed once they reach Allen Road to continue digging east. Work on the underground portion of the Crosstown which makes up 11 kilometres of the LRT’s total route - is virtually identical to subway

tunnel construction, said project engineer Gary Kramer, representing the construction consortium Crosstown Transit Constructors (CTC). “The only thing that’s different is the Crosstown’s tunnel diameter is a little bigger, half a metre, than a subway tunnel,” he said. Since being launched last year from Eglinton Avenue and Black Creek Drive, the two massive tunnel borer machines (TBMs) which are known as “Dennis” and “Lea” have excavated around 10-15 metres of dirt per day some 20 metres below street level. Currently the two TBMs are nearing Caledonia Road. The estimated 80-metre long borer machines run all hours of the day for five days a week. Tunnelling, below Eglinton, between Black Creek and Laird Drive, is expected to be complete in about two and a half years. It’s estimated the total amount of dirt excavated could fill the area of the

Air Canada Centre up to the height of the CN Tower. In addition to tunnelling, special precast concrete segments, approximately 8,400 in all for the west tunnels and weighing around 2.5 tonnes each, are formed into rings and installed onto the tunnel walls as the borer machines push through headwalls – large support structures erected in anticipation of the future construction of 12 underground stations. The liner segments are transported by a special supply train to the TBM’s location, where they are power washed by hand before a lifting machine transports each piece into place via suction. Six segments are then placed on the tunnel walls to eventually form a complete tunnel liner ring. Dirt from the excavation is extracted by a conveyor belt and sent to a central muck pit, where it is picked up by trucks and transported to a

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Members of the media took part in a tour Tuesday organized by Metrolinx of the finished stretch of tunnel for the Eglinton Avenue Crosstown light rail line. For more photos visit our story online at yorkguardian.com

storage facility in Newmarket and later will be used as infill at various sites. Most of the tunnel construction is expected to be

completed by the summer of 2016, with final work scheduled to be done by December of that year. Following tunnelling, work will commence on

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York dancer has two productions on stage this month Luke Garwood stars in SoloDuet; performs in Elvis and The Man in Black FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com

aving been a ballerina herself, Luke Garwood’s mother was eager to put her 11-year-old son in classes after he saw a ballet production on television and decided he wanted to be a dancer. The York resident, who grew up in Montreal, started out at a local dance studio before moving to Toronto at age 16 to attend Canada’s National Ballet School. Three years later he joined Toronto Dance Theatre and officially hung

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Luke Garwood will perfrom with Mairéad Filgat in the tiger princess dance projects’ show SoloDuet May 6 to 10.

up his tights to focus on modern dance, Garwood said. “It’s cliché to say dance is a way of expressing yourself, and it totally is,

but it goes beyond that,” said the 29-year-old. “It’s about abstract, interpretation, the physicality of it. I’m constantly investigating and exploring.”

Garwood had the chance to investigate and explore when putting together his piece for his show SoloDuet, set to hit the stage May 6 to 10 at Theatre Centre downtown. Choreographed by tiger princess dance projects artistic director Yvonne Ng, SoloDuet is made up of two pieces: a solo by Linnea Wong, and a duet by Garwood and Mairéad Filgate. SoloDuet focuses on the territory of roles and relationships and explores how dualities shape both people and perception. Garwood and Filgate’s piece, Magnetic Fields, looks into the complex patterns of relationships. Both dancers had input and worked in collaboration with Ng over the past year to create the piece, Garwood said. “There were parts that were up to us for what movements we do,” he said. “We started exploring

the music first. Usually (pieces) are pretty strict (choreography wise) but this is a very different experience for the audience and for the performers.” Ng called Garwood a true artist. “He is a terrific instinctive listener as well as intelligent, expressive, focused, dedicated and committed,” she said. “And with all of that talent you would think he was a pretty serious guy – but with all of that talent, he is a humorous guy with a serious streak. He is amazing to work with.” Along with Toronto Dance Theatre, Garwood has performed with Banff Festival Ballet, ProArteDanza, Typecast Dance Company, Signal Theatre and Coleman Lemieux and Compagnie, and has trained at l’Ecole Superieure de Danse du Quebec and The Hamburg Ballet School.

details SoloDuet will be performed at Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen St. W. Show times are 8 p.m. Tuesday to Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday. General admission tickets are $28, and $20 for students, seniors and arts workers. For tickets visit http:// theatrecentre.org or call 416-538-0988. Elvis and The Man in Black will be staged at The Citadel, 304 Parliament St., at 8 p.m. nightly. Tickets cost $20 and the gala May 22 costs $100. For tickets, visit http:// colemanlemieux.com or call 416-364-8011. Just after SoloDuet wraps up, Garwood can be seen in Elvis and The Man in Black, presented by Coleman Lemieux and Compagnie May 21 to 31 in Toronto.

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emembering last year’s floods and ice storm may not be on the top of Torontonians’ list of fun activities this month, but the city wants to hear from you about what it should be doing to help residents in future weather emergencies. The ice storm of late December and the flooding after a massive rain storm in July, saw our city hit with two unprecedented weather incidents which knocked out power, caused environmental damage, and millions of dollars in property damage. The massive thunderstorm of July 8 hit Toronto hard and fast. Rain hammered down in a line across much of the west and central parts of the city, causing power stations to flood and shut down, the subway line to close, roads to turn into small rivers, and basements to flood. In the Don Valley, stranded GO train passengers had to be rescued by boats as water seeped into the train cars. The ice storm wreaked similar our view havoc, knocking out power for (in some cases weeks) as Have your say days tree branches toppled under the on emergency weight of the ice and brought down power lines across Toronto. preparedness Hydro crews from across the province worked for days straight to restore power, and the city estimated some 20 per cent of Toronto’s tree canopy was destroyed. In some parts of the city, is was estimated as much as 50 per cent of the tree canopy was lost. They were both huge incidents impacting hundreds of thousands of people and highlighting the need for all residents to take some basic emergency preparedness steps including stocking of food, candles and cash in case of similar incidents. It also showed how important it is for residents to keep an eye out for neighbours in need and offer help. This month, residents can weigh in on how the city did in responding to these weather emergencies and what it might do better in the future. Meetings are set for May 12 at the Scarborough Civic Centre, May 13 at Toronto City Hall, May 14 at the North York Civic Centre, and May 15 at the Etobicoke Civic Centre. All meetings go from 6 to 9 p.m. Residents who can’t attend the meetings can share their input by going to the city’s website at www. toronto.ca/weatherprooftoronto A report on how the city dealt with the storms will go to the city’s executive committee on July 2.

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How ’bout that first round of NHL playoffs?

unday afternoon I was lucky enough to cross paths with a couple of long-time NHL hockey scouts, Hank Statten and Scooter Davies. The chance meeting took place in the Chicago airport right after they’d witnessed the Blackhawks eliminate the St. Louis Blues from the playoffs. They were waiting to catch a flight to Dallas for what would turn out to be their second firstround finale of the day as the Stars ended up getting knocked out by the Anaheim Ducks. The legendary duo was kind of enough invite me to listen in while they compared notes on the players thus far. Statten: “So Scooter, how ’bout that Jonathan Toews?” Davies: “No kidding, Hank. How ’bout that Duncan Keith?” Statten: “You’ve got that

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY right, partner. How ’bout that Ryan Getzlaf?” Davies: “I guess so, eh. How ’bout that Jamie Benn?” Statten: “I’ll say. How ’bout that Corey Perry?” Davies: “I hear that. How ’bout that Trevor Daley?” Statten: “Tell me about it. How ’bout that Nathan MacKinnon?” Davies: “Took the words right out of my mouth. How ’bout that Zach Parise?” Statten: “How ’bout that Martin St. Louis?” Davies: “How ’bout that Jakub Voracek?” Statten: “How ’bout that P.K. Subban?” Davies: “How ’bout that Rene Bourque?” Statten: “How ’bout that Patrick Marleau?” Davies: “How ’bout that

Anze Kopitar?” Statten: “How ’bout that Joe Pavelski?” Davies: “How ’bout that Drew Doughty?” Statten: “How ’bout that Jarome Iginla and Tuukka Rask? Davies: “How ’bout that Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg?” Statten: “How ’bout that Zdeno Chara? Davies: “You can say that again.” Statten: “If you insist. How ’bout that Zdeno Chara? Davies: “How ’bout you get back to the matter at hand? A comic you’re not.” Statten: “So how ’bout that Paul Martin? That better?” Davies: “Much. How ’bout that Boone Jenner?” Statten: “Now you’re talking my kind of language. Now how ’bout that Canadiens’ sweep?” Davies: “How ’bout that Blackhawks’ comeback?” Statten: “How ’bout all

those first-round overtime games?” Davies: “How ’bout that triple overtime?” Statten: “How ’bout that crazy octuple overtime?” Davies: “There was no octuple overtime.” Statten: “I was just testing you. So, how ’bout we get a move on? That was the announcement for our flight.” Davies: “Race you to the plane?” Statten: “Huh? Aren’t you forgetting something?” Davies: “Oops. How ’bout race you to the plane? You happy now?” Statten: “Ecstatic. How ’bout last one in is a rotten egg?” Davies: “Last is not in my vocabulary. How ’bout first one in gets the aisle seat?” Jamie Wayne is a lifelong columnist, who takes writing very seriously. The topics? Not so much. His column appears every Tuesday. Contact him at jamie.wayne@sympatico.ca

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Central King Seniors Residence Spring Bazaar WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: 15 King St. CONTACT: 416-614-1053, cksr@on.aibn.com COST: Free Loads of bargains to be had and treasures to be found at this sale and raffle. Come out and support local seniors.

From Sheep to Shawl WHEN: 2 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-394-1008 COST: Free Black Creek Pioneer Village staff will show children (ages six to 10) how to tease, card and spin wool. Take home your own woollen bracelet. Call to register. Check out our complete online community calendar by visiting us at www. yorkguardian.com. Read weeks of listings from your York neighbourhoods as well as events from across Toronto.

Farms to Record Studios: Explore Eglinton Avenue West WHEN: 2 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free A walking tour of the International Market, covering the past, present and future of the neighbourhood. Call to register.

WHERE: York Weston Tennis Club, 2125 Lawrence Ave. W. CONTACT: Bob McDonald, 416-245-4069, bob_ mcdonald@sympatico.ca COST: Free Round robins, prizes and a barbecue at noon.

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Passage Canada: What Are You? WHEN: 6 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Melissa, 416-3941001, msookram@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Part of the library’s Asian Heritage Month series.

Babysitting Course WHEN: 9:30 a.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-394-1008 COST: Free Call St. John’s Ambulance to register: 416-967-4244. For ages 11 to 14.

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Learn to Knit WHEN: 10 a.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Library, 1123 Weston Rd. CONTACT: 416-394-1008 COST: Free For ages 14 and older.

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Learn about Child and Spousal Support WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: 416-394-1000 COST: Free METRAC will discuss types of support and how to access. Call to register.

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Employment Opportunities Information Session WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Melissa Sookram, 416-394-1001, msookram@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Hear about employment services available to help you find work. Call to register.

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Casino Rama Day Trip WHEN: 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Mount Dennis Legion, 1050 Weston Rd. CONTACT: www. facebook.com/ mountdennislegion, legionbr31@yahoo. com, 416-767-0231

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its Emerging Entrepreneurs program. Youth up to the age of 29 looking to start their own business can take part in the program with practical and hands-on sessions that is focused on connecting entrepreneurs with general business information. Deepak Soni, executive director of Corbrook Awakening Abilities, said the funding will help develop a new program called Let’s Make It Work, allowing youth with disabilities to gain job experience in either general labour warehouse, retail, or banquet and customer service. “It’s unique in that we’re involving the private sector to work with us,” said Soni, noting companies such as Home Depot, Value Village

and Sherwood Packaging are on board. He said Corbrook has also partnered with Centennial College to provide a certificate for those completing the banquet and customer service program. With unemployment rates higher for youth dealing with a physical or developmental disability, Soni welcomed the funding to expand programming to help equip their clients with the skills necessary to find work. York South-Weston MPP Laura Albanese said the funding is part of the provincial government’s Youth Jobs Strategy. “We know that youth unemployment rates are still too high and we need to do something about it,” she said.

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very year in Toronto, thousands of people fall victim to a growing number of frauds. This result is significant financial loss and hours of work to try to repair the damage done. Frauds are perpetrated against businesses and private citizens of all ages. 12 Division offers this evening workshop to provide our community with a few tools to help prevent you from becoming a victim of fraud.

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Share your rain and ice storm experiences with the city Share your opinions with city officials on last July’s flood and last December’s ice storm. City officials are inviting residents to tell them from May 9 to 30 what worked well in their neighbourhoods, what needs improving, and how the city can support its residents in future weather emergencies. Visit www.toronto.ca/ weatherprooftoronto for the city’s consultation website. It includes background reports, emergency preparedness resources and further information on how to provide input. Public input must be received by May 30. Four public information and consultation sessions

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City officials are seeking feedback on residents’ experiences during last July’s rain storm as well as December’s ice storm.

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w T h u r s d a y, Ma y 1 5 : Etobicoke Civic Centre, 399 The West Mall. The city manager will report back to the city’s executive committee on July 2 on the outcomes of storm-related reviews undertaken by the city and Toronto Hydro, and this public consultation. Public input will be posted on the consultation website and on the city’s website.

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The City ofToronto invites you to provide feedback on our response to the July 2013 flood and December 2013 ice storm. The City is asking for your ideas on how the City can support its residents in future weather emergencies. Attend one of the public information and consultation sessions. All sessions are from 6-9 p.m. Monday, May 12

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NOTICE OF MEETING To: All Members of Italian Canadian Savings & Credit Union Limited Please note that the Annual General Meeting of Italian Canadian Savings & Credit Union Limited will take place at 6:30 P.M. on Thursday, May 15th, 2014 at the Famèe Furlane Toronto located on 7065 Islington Avenue, Woodbridge, Ontario. The purpose of the meeting is: 1. To receive the Report of Directors, the Financial Statements, the Auditor’s Report and the Audit Committee Report 2. To appoint the auditor 3. To elect two [2] directors 4. To transact any other business as may properly come before the meeting Registration at 6:30PM; Meeting at 7:00PM ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Robert J. Gray, Corporate Secretary May 1, 2014

he TTC is adding blue seat inserts to its vehicles to clearly denote priority seating for the disabled, seniors and expectant mothers. Designated seating areas are already in place throughout the TTC, but they’re often taken up by able-bodied riders who are either unaware or uncaring the seats are not for them. In response to provincial accessibility requirements, the TTC is also introducing a $235 fine to be levied on anyone who refuses to give up a priority seat when requested to do so by a TTC staff member. to start service to Niagara Falls wGO

GO Transit will resume weekend bus and rail trips to Niagara Falls beginning Victoria Day weekend. From May 16 to 19, the regional transit provider will run trains along the Lakeshore West line from Union Station to Niagara Falls. The service will then run every weekend from June 27 to Sept. 1 and also on Thanksgiving weekend,

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT Oct. 10 to 13. A shuttle bus service is also planned between Niagara-on-the-Lake and St. Catharines to connect with local GO Train service. A similar weekend service is also planned for the Barrie Line. For more information, visit www.gotransit.com Travel time info on roadways wmajor

The city has introduced anticipated travel time information on overhead electronic road signs at various locations. Similar to the TTC’s Next Bus transit updates system, the information gives motorists a chance to gauge how long it will take them to traverse major roadways such as the Gardiner Expressway, the Don Valley Parkway and Lake Shore Boulevard based on current traffic conditions. So far, 11 electronic

signs are in place with plans to add seven more sometime this year. exhibit focused on flooding wphoto

A new subway art exhibition features powerful images depicting the effects of climate change in nine different countries. Drowning World, featuring the work of South African photographer Gideon Mendel, portrays people from countries like India, Nigeria, Thailand and the United Kingdom as they deal with heavy flooding caused by extreme weather patterns. The exhibit is part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival running May 1 to 31 and will be displayed on the Pattison Onestop video screens on TTC subway platforms. For more information, visit www.contactingtoronto.ca

Rahul Gupta is The Guardian’s transit reporter. His column appears every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

BASEMENT FLOODS ARE ON THE RISE. DON’T LET YOUR BASEMENT BE NEXT. Together we can stop heavy rainfall, melting snow and runoff from ending up in your basement. At the City, we’re doing our part by continually updating and maintaining Toronto’s complex underground pipes, sewers p and catch basins. Now it’s your turn. Here are ar some tips to help you flood-proof your home.

Fix cracks in your foundation.

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Funds directed to social procurement project >>>from page 1 opportunities to bid on prominent goods and services contracts such as the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games. “This is a partnership b e t w e e n t h e To r o n t o Enterprise Fund and Social Enterprise Toronto,” said Jamieson, adding she hoped to see the social enterprise sector will become bigger

and stronger at the end of the project’s term. Additional staff members were hired to help build those bridges including Jon Harstone, the project’s program manager. “We have connections with businesses and we have connections with government,” he said. “And we’re helping to make

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Both York South-Weston MP Mike Sullivan and York South-Weston MPP Laura Albanese were in attendance to applaud the initiative with the governments of Canada and Ontario both contributing $180,000 each. United Way Toronto will be investing $100,000 with the City of Toronto providing in-kind support such as expertise, contracts, services and meeting space. Peter Frampton, executive director of LEF, also thanked supporters to make the proj-

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Ann Jamieson speaks during an announcement launching a social procurement pilot project for at the Learning Enrichment Foundation last Thursday afternoon.

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Toronto street signs up for sale in online auction RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Following heavy public demand, the City of Toronto is offering up for purchase 1,750 iconic street signs no longer in use. The city began to auction off the decommissioned street signs this week, starting with an initial allotment of 100 signs. Bidding is taking place via online auction house Platinum Liquidations Inc., starting at $30 per sign and increasing in $5 increments until the sale is completed. “Over the past few years, the public has shown great interest in owning a piece of the city’s history and we are

very pleased to be providing this opportunity,” said North York councillor and public works chair Denzil MinnanWong in a press release. Each auction will last 60 days with 20 signs added to the bidding list every week. It is expected it will take more than year to sell off the entire stock of street signs, which includes the iconic white bladed versions with black text as well as those with simple blue backgrounds and white lettering often found on suburban residential streets. Oversized signs normally displayed at intersections will not be included. The decision to sell the signs stems from a 2007 city council decision mandating

uniform design standards for city street signs, which were of various sizes, shapes and colours following the amalgamation of the seven former municipalities of Metropolitan Toronto in 1998. The decision initially recommended a price of $10 for each sign taken out of circulation. But after the city received some 3,500 requests from the public eager to purchase a piece of local history plans were put on hold to determine the best way to conduct the sale. In late 2013, city council opted to up the minimum price per sign and to auction them off starting this year.

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Executive committee rejects proposed Taxes and services should be councillor pay hike for next year defining issues of mayor’s race There will be no big payday for Toronto councillors settling in for the next term of council, after Toronto’s executive committee rejected a proposal that would have raised their salaries by almost 13 per cent in 2015. The recommendations came from a survey conducted by OCG Strategy and Organization Consulting, that looked at compensation for politicians in surrounding municipalities. The survey comes forward as a result of a 2006 decision of council to consider adjusting salaries each term based on the results of the survey. This year, the survey found that councillors’ $105,397 paycheque should be increased to $119,025, and the mayor’s compensation of $177,499 should be hiked to $200,013. The executive committee rejected the recommendation, instead electing to con-

council notes news from city hall tinue with the annual cost of living increase. Mayor Rob Ford set the tone of the debate, arguing that councillors should be happy with the small annual increase. “Nobody gets a 13 per cent pay increase – we get paid very, very well,” said Ford after the meeting, and suggested in debate that councillors and mayors should know what they’re getting into. “If you want more money you’re going to have to go to another level of government,” he said. – David Nickle legislation item deferred wrecall

Bad – or just unpopular – municipal politicians will be able to breathe more easily between elections, after

Toronto’s executive committee deferred indefinitely a motion to ask for recall legislation. The notice of motion was brought forward last month by Scarborough councillors Chin Lee and Mike Del Grande. Had it been approved, dissatisfied electors could pull a councillor or mayor out of office if they met fairly stringent criteria. The plan would have required at least 25 per cent of total eligible voters, or 50 per cent of those who’d voted, to sign a petition asking for an election and submit it within 99 days. Proponents would have to cover three-quarters of the costs of the resulting byelection. The provincial government is currently considering a private member’s bill looking at recall legislation for MPPs. – David Nickle

One thing that everyone seems to agree on in this mayoral election: transportation is a defining issue. Well, let me be the heretic in the room, and suggest that may not, in fact, be the case. I come by my heresy honestly, after having heard two candidates – front-runner Olivia Chow and trailing hopeful Karen Stintz – articulate as clearly as anyone yet has, how they’ll pay for the multibillion-dollar downtown relief subway line. Now, the downtown relief line has come up more than a couple of times in mayoral debates and announcements. No one is opposed to it (although Rob Ford puts it at the bottom of his list of priorities). Also, nobody quite knows how to pay for it. Stintz got things rolling early on Tuesday morning, outlining a 15-year plan to raise $1.6 billion. She’d do that for the most part by diverting revenue from parking tickets

david nickle the city and parking lots into a special transportation fund, and also charging an extra $3 levy on certain downtown Green P parking garages. In the afternoon, Chow had a simpler plan. She’d cancel the Scarborough subway and the tax levy council approved to fund it, and having secured financing from the federal and provincial governments, institute a tax levy to pay for TTC repairs and upgrades, and the relief line – or rather, to pay for the $1 billion the city would borrow to fund the city’s share of those things. Both plans are forward looking, and could probably work. One raises taxes more than some would like, one cuts services and sells off assets more than some would like. Neither can really deliver the transit Toronto needs.

The reality is that Torontonians could fund rather more of the things that are needed, through the relatively low property taxes we pay, and through additional taxes that might be imposed by future governments. We’ve been taught to avoid drawing a connection between those things – taxes and services – to the point we’ll send our elected leadership to work with an impossible task, and elect the ones who’ll most gleefully lie about their ability to complete it. And that is the defining question in the 2014 election: will voters finally show the maturity and intelligence it takes to pay for the things we need, and turn away from comfortable lies and half-measures? Will we collectively find the credibility we need to ask our fellow Canadians to do the same?

David Nickle is The Guardian’s city hall reporter. His column appears every Thursday.

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