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Albanese: minority parliament ‘needs to work together for the people’ York South-Weston MPP reacts to news NDP will support Liberal budget FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com News of Ontario’s NDP supporting the budget of the minority Liberals, thus

avoiding a June election, was met with a positive reaction from York South-Weston MPP Laura Albanese.

“We’ve presented a budget that’s fair, that takes into consideration most of the (NDP) demands,” she said.

“We are a minority parliament and need to work together for the people.”

Albanese’s comments came shortly after NDP Leader Andrea Horwath

announced Tuesday her party will join the Liberals to pass the budget.

The NDP was pleased the Liberals addressed a list of demands in the May 2 budget, Horwath said, adding although not every demand was met, the Liberals had made enough commitments for the NDP’s support.

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The Weston Village Residents’ Association is holding its annual general meeting Monday.

The meeting will take place at Weston Memorial Jr. Public School’s auditorium, 200 John St., and will include a conversation with Toronto’s new chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat.

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man hit by two cars on Eglinton A young man suffered lifethreatening injuries after he was struck by two cars in the Oakwood and Eglinton avenues area Saturday.

Police said a 25-year-old man was crossing Eglinton Avenue, east of Oakwood Avenue, mid-block when he was hit by an eastbound Chevrolet Uplander around 10:40 p.m.

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Syme hosts plant sale and barbecue The third annual Syme 55+ barbecue and plant sale is arriving just in time as the weather begins to warm up.

And as you start planning where to arrange your roses, why not grab a bite to eat at the barbecue and bake sale.

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And for those lacking a green thumb, there will be a craft and garden décor sale as well as live steel drum music.

The plant sale and barbecue run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, May 24.

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days in community wEnvironment York residents can do their part in creating a cleaner, greener and more liveable Toronto.

Bring your unused and unwanted household items to a Community Environment Day and you can: • Extend the life of a product by offering it to someone for reuse.

• Reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and ensure that it is properly recycled.

• Ensure hazardous waste materials are disposed of safely.

Events in or close to York are: w Sunday, May 26, Glen Long Community Centre along Glen Long Ave., just west of Dufferin Street w Thursday, May 30, North Toronto Memorial Arena, 174 Orchard View Blvd. off Yonge St., north of Eglinton Avenue w Saturday, July 6, Dufferin Mall, 900 Dufferin St., south of Bloor Street Drop off between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on these dates.

All-Canadian cast of ‘Cats’ adds York resident to the mix HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com

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lthough he’s trained in classical ballet, Phillip Payne is diving into the world of musical theatre with his involvement in the stage production of the allCanadian cast of Cats.

“It’s amazing, I got to say,” said Payne on a lunch break from rehearsals at the Panasonic Theatre.

“Everyone is so unique, they’re really good performers. I’m learning a lot myself from just being around them.”

This is Payne’s first musical, but he is no stranger to performing.

Prior to his gig with Cats he toured with Ballet Jorgen Canada and then with the Alberta Ballet. He began practicing ballet at the age of 20 in his home town of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The now Oakwood and Vaughan resident plays the character Plato, a teen cat that has his sights set on a female feline by the name of Victoria. He also plays the part of Macavity, the villain in the play, who kidnaps Old Deuteronomy, the Cats’ leader.

“It’s a lot of fun,” said Payne. “Plato is a nicer cat and is one of the gang so it’s nice to go from that into Macavity, who is, for a lack of a better descrip-

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Phillip Payne plays the roles of Plato and Macavity in the Toronto cast of ‘Cats’.

tion, a s--- disturber.”

Payne first heard of the musical’s Toronto run when his dance teacher, Gino Berti at the National Ballet of Canada, suggested he audition for Cats in January. Payne admitted that he wasn’t well versed in the musical, he had heard his sister singing a few numbers growing up and knew of the play, but that’s about it.

“I kind of went in blind not knowing how musical auditions were,” said Payne. “In any case, I didn’t make it. They cut me on the first day.”

But later that week Payne received a call from the casting crew asking him to come back in.

“Sure, why not,” Payne said. “Where I was green, (was) I didn’t know any of the songs coming in.

Other people come in with a character they’re looking to play.”

A week later he was offered the roles of Plato and Macavity.

“I’m still excited – I haven’t lost any of that,” said Payne. “I’m still working on the singing part. It’s not my first time singing in front of a group of people, but it is my first time singing something so classical with this much control.”

The choreography is also rigorous, Payne said, but credits the dance teachers for their ability to walk the dancers through each step if they haven’t quite gotten the hang of it.

The singing along with the intense choreography was a bit of a challenge at first. Rehearsals run Monday to Saturday from

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10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to make sure the choreography is second nature to the cast.

The third hurdle for Payne is the getting the cat make-up done right and done fast.

Payne explained that it can take up to two hours to put on his face for the

show.

“The makeup is elaborate,” Payne said. “We have professional makeup artists that come in and show us and walk us through what brushes to use.”

Payne will have to put on his cat makeup three times per show because of his character change from Plato to Macavity and back to Plato.

“This certainly has been a whole different makeup experience for sure,” said Payne, who is accustomed to putting on light makeup for the stage.

“My hands will be well practiced in makeup after this,” he said.

Cats has its first show Tuesday, May 28 and will run six days a week, Tuesday to Sunday, until July 11 with the possible extension until November.

Payne has faith this is entirely possible with the Cats cast.

“In theatre whenever you have a good group of people together, there’s an energy that’s shown on stage that you can’t fake,” said Payne.

“There’s a real sense of familial camaraderie and this group has it in spades.

I think that little fact alone will really help this show a lot.”

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Splash’N Boots in running for best song Children’s duo from York in Top 4 of CBC Viewer Voted Song Search

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t. Clair West husband and wife duo Taes Leavitt and Nick Adams, co-hosts of Treehouse’s Splash’N Boots, are among four finalists for the Great Kids’ CBC Viewer Voted Song Search.

“We can’t thank our fans enough for putting us in the Top 4 of the Kids’ CBC contest,” said Adams – who is the group’s ‘Splash’

– in a press release.

“This contest is such an amazing opportunity and we are so grateful to everyone who have supported us over all these years.”

If Splash’N Boots win the contest, the duo wixll have a music video produced by the CBC that will air nationally on the television station. They will also headline CBC Kids’ Days in Toronto this July.

The winner is based on the public voting, which closes Wednesday, May 29. voting ends Wednesday The contest received 90 entries from across Canada and 10,000 voting entries. Voters will also have a chance to win weekly prizes and the opportunity to win a trip for four to Toronto to CBC

Kids’ Days July 17 and 18.

Splash’N Boots have six CDs and two full-length DVDs and won Canadian Children’s Group of The Year in 2012 SiriusXM Indie Awards. They performed in 11 cities last fall with Treehouse Live for its Roll Play Live Animal Party Tour.

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hey’re big, they’re cute and they could be two of the greatest things to happen to our city in decades.

They are Da Mao and Er Shun, the two giant pandas on loan from China that are now on display at the Toronto Zoo in northeast Scarborough for the next five years.

In a word, they are ambassadors. Ambassadors from China. They can serve as ambassadors to bring your family and friends from afar to Toronto.

Beyond the economic benefits of increased tourism that the pandas will bring, we can also use them as a chance to start feeling good about our view ourselves and our city.

We certainly could use that opportunity given the devastating Zoo exhibit first-round NHL playoff loss the Toronto Maple Leafs suffered at a welcome the hands of the other bears – the opportunity Boston Bruins.

Local residents and tourists alike will have lots of opportunities to see Da Mao and Er Shun in the special Giant Panda Experience exhibit built just for them. It officially opened to the public on Saturday.

The first time the Toronto Zoo hosted a panda exhibit was back in 1985 when our panda guests were Qing Qing and Quan Quan. They only stayed three months that time and the zoo broke all previous attendance records during their visit.

The world is a different place now, and so is Canada’s relationship with China, but what hasn’t changed in 25 years is the fact that our city and our zoo are now the focal point of national and international attention when it comes to giant pandas.

Let’s bask in that.

It opens doors for everyone in the city to welcome family and friends, be they from Oakville or the other side of the world, to come and see the pandas. And once our guests have arrived, we can also show them some of the other great things Toronto has to offer.

In the case of a trip to the zoo, a suggestion for another special place to visit in Toronto is the Rouge Park – literally right beside the Toronto Zoo. To learn more about the giant pandas and their stay at our zoo, visit www.torontozoo.com/pandas For more on the journey of getting the pandas to Toronto, go to our website at www.insidetoronto.com and visit the Hot Topics section.

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A letter to our two giant panda guests Dear Er Shun and Da Mao, A belated welcome to Toronto. I hope you’ll both forgive me for not being on hand to deliver the greeting in person at the official opening of your Toronto Zoo exhibit on Saturday, but I’ve been a tad preoccupied of late. I’ve been spending all my time trying to cheer up scads of forlorn Toronto Maple Leaf fans.

But I’ll be up soon. Count on it. In the meantime, I’ve seen a ton of your pictures online and you both look fantastic. What’s your secret? How can you be none the worse for wear after a long journey from China. I’m worn out after just a jaunt to Buffalo, for crying out loud.

And it’s also very apparent that the quarantine has agreed with you. You must be a couple of real smooth talkers. Quarantines never agree with anybody.

You should also know that the culinary crowd is licking it lips over your mouth-watering all-you-can-eat bamboo, seven-days-a-week, 24-hoursa-day diet just as much as

jamie wayne BUT SERIOUSLY you. Since it was made public, it has become the envy of restaurants all over town. I’m told the Mandarin is hearing footsteps.

A word of warning on that stockpile of yummy bamboo, though. Your parrot neighbour Polly Wannacracker is said to be jealous. You might want to save a doggy bag or two for her to keep that busybody quiet. Know what I’m saying?

You also might want to pass over a few bucks of that $1 million a year you’re picking up for coming here to Edgar the Elephant who lives down the road. That news can’t be making him happy. It’s no secret he’s working for peanuts.

Anyhow, I have no doubt the zoo is going to be a real habitat away from habitat for both of you and you’re going to love it here. Just as importantly, we’re going to

love having you here. Which brings me to the real purpose of this letter.

They say timing is everything in life, and the timing for your arrival couldn’t have been better. You see, the local citizenry is in rough shape at the moment. The Raptors had another so-so campaign, TFC is struggling once again and after so much was expected, the Blue Jays got out of the gate sluggishly.

And the biggest downer of all? The Leafs, who finally made the playoffs after a nineyear drought, ended their season with a heart-breaking OT loss in Game 7 to the big, bad, Bruins. I’m guessing you witnessed that sad tale given that Lazlo the Lion nearby has TV in his den and the rumour going around was that everybody who is anybody at the zoo was invited over to see the game.

Anyhow, Er Shun and Da Mao, more than a week has transpired since that fateful night and we’re still hearing about how difficult it is going to be for everyone to

recover. Enough already, I say.

It’s time for the city to get its smile back.

And you’re just the pair to make it happen. But how you might ask? Elementary my dear pandas, elementary.

No, you don’t have to dance around together in a couple of Phil Kessel and James van Riemsdyk jerseys. Or give a big group hug to Dion Phaneuf and James Reimer.

No choreographed silliness like that is necessary.

All you gotta do, is do what you were brought here to the big leagues to do in the first place: just be you. Period.

I ask you, who can look a couple of giant pandas in their giant eyes without breaking into a huge grin? Nobody, that’s who. It just isn’t possible.

Trust me, even the most distraught Leaf fan will be putty in your paws.

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The TTC should provide bike racks To the editor: Re: ‘TTC bike racks a waste of money,’ Letters, May 9.

Reader Kenneth Singh thinks the installation of bicycle racks at the front of TTC buses is a waste of taxpayers’ money.

My daughter and her family live in east Mississauga, but she works in west Toronto. When they were first trying to manage with only one vehicle, she would cycle to the first Mississauga bus stop near her home. She then would secure her bike onto the bike rack at the front of the bus and travel on the bus to its furthest eastern destination in Toronto, disembark the bus and retrieve her bike and cycle the rest of the way to work into Toronto.

Meanwhile, my son chooses cycling as his principle means of transportation. But he chose to take his bike on public transit one time in order to

accompany me part of the way home.

I know there are other times he combines the two modes of transportation. So it is incorrect to suggest, as this reader does, that “buses are for carrying passengers and bicycles are for people to ride.”

In this “new” economy, people are looking for alternate and cheaper ways of getting around.

So whether it is a couple with young children trying to manage with only one car or a single male choosing to have no car at all, availability of different transit options can only enhance their quality of life.

The bike racks are not ornaments. They are a necessary addition to accessing public transportation and I am happy to have my tax dollars go to support this relatively inexpensive installation.

Myrna Markovich

Bike racks serve important function To the editor: Re: ‘TTC bike racks a waste of money,’ Letters, May 9.

Do the people who complain about bicycle racks on buses have the same sentiments about elevators in the subway station, ramps and automatic doors at barrierfree entrances or sidewalks in suburbia?

Do these people choose not to purchase the spare tire to save a few dollars on a new car?

There are many occasions when the bicycle racks are needed – when one doesn’t have the nerve to cross the DVP along Lawrence Avenue East by bicycle; when one is too far away from home to get back before sunset; when one is caught in a rain; when the bicycle is damaged or when one is suffering with a leg cramp.

The next time you see a

bicycle rack on a bus that is not being used, be glad the cyclist who would be using it is safely riding on the road, which is what he wants to do.

I certainly hope those who complain about bicycle racks are not the same people who complain about strollers on the bus.

If the racks are removed and a cyclist needs to take the bus home, guess where the bicycle will be?

David Louie

School boards need to be run more efficiently To the editor: Ontario’s education system is experiencing some challenges. It seems that a few education boards in this province are having difficulty in balancing their books in spite of our present government’s mandate.

I believe they can do this by cutting the fat in their school boards, which they don’t want to do. They have highly paid, large bureaucracies, which do not want to do this as it cuts their own jobs.

Look at the recently released Sunshine List that shows people making $100,000 or more and you will see many names belonging to various school boards. I think it is time our government takes bold action and creates some kind of competition for these education boards.

I recommend: a) The government should allow charter

schools to be operated here. The charter school concept has been successful south of the border.

Results show they are getting amazing results operating in tough inner-city neighbourhoods. b) Parents should be able to send their children to private school with the province putting into place a system where parents get a voucher to be used at their school, with extra costs being the responsibility of the parents. c) The last solution would be to force these school boards to balance their books and send in independent forensic auditors if they don’t.

It is our money and it should be spent on highquality education for our children. Our children must have high standards of education so they can compete in today’s global world. They are our future.

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There was a certain amount of baggage that you were willing to forgive, because you are a forgiving bunch.

Some commentators say, in fact, that Rob Ford’s foibles have been a part of his charm to Ford Nation: that it shows him to be a regular guy, a guy that sometimes screws up, and not one of the elites.

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You are stand-up people, and you don’t need to stand up for this.

In giving up on forgiving our mayor, you need not give up on the agenda he ran on.

There are other good fiscally-conservative politicians in the wings – many of whom have assisted in our mayor’s fulfillment of his agenda this term.

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The trouble with writing a weekly column that appears on Thursday, is that when a mayor finds himself in allegedly hideous and frankly filthy trouble on the previous Friday, it’s tough to find something new to say.

So it is with Mayor Rob Ford, and revelation last Friday of the cell phone video that according to two respected journalists at the Toronto Star alleges to show our mayor smoking crack cocaine.

Earlier in the cycle, I might have joined the chorus of every other columnist working in Toronto media, and said it was time for the mayor to resign.

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system lags in service coverage wTransit A recent study comparing Toronto and Chicago’s transit systems finds the American city is far superior when it comes to service coverage.

The comparison study by the Martin Prosperity Institute, part of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, found the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) was far more likely than the TTC to have a transit connection within 500 metres – the equivalent of a 10-minute walk – of a regular city block.

The comparison between the sister cities also found Chicago, which operates eight rapid transit lines, has far better downtown coverage enabling commuters from the outer suburbs to travel long distances without having to switch vehicles.

Conversely, Toronto riders often require multiple transfers to get downtown.

While the study, which was posted on the Martin Prosperity Institute’s blog, finds both cities’ transit systems under-delivering on transit accessibility, it

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT argues Toronto, though larger in population than Chicago, fails to connect the city as well as it should and needs urgent expansion.

Park tunnelling update wKeelesdale

A bridge providing alternate access to Keelesdale Park during tunneling construction for the Eglinton-Scarbrough Crosstown light rail transit line is scheduled to be finished by June.

When it is complete, the bridge will be the only public entry point into the park, located at 2801 Eglinton Ave. W., which Metrolinx is using as a construction staging area for the tunnel excavation of the Crosstown’s underground portion.

Three more public meetings are also planned to discuss future planning priorities for Eglinton when the Crosstown opens in 2020.

For more information, check out www.toronto.ca/ eglinton

Wrap party for Big GTHA wRace The Centennial College students who produced an eight-part web series about commuting tribulations in the Toronto region, are set to commemorate the project’s conclusion.

The Big Race GTHA was conceived and produced by the students, all of whom are enrolled at Centennial’s East York campus. The series features three contestants vying to traverse the transit system in the least amount of time.

The competition, conceived and filmed entirely by the students, depicts contestants Dave Meslin, Kendall Duthie and Mitzie Hunter racing between distant transit checkpoints in a manner similar to the popular reality television series The Amazing Race.

The students have scheduled a wrap party for the series in early June. To see the posted videos, visit www. bigraceblog.com Rahul Gupta is The Guardian’s transit reporter.

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One in three Canadian kids are left on the side of the rink In Canada, one in three families cannot afford to enrol their children in organized sport or recreation activities because of financial barriers (Vision Critical 2011).

Six years ago, Marlee Stein wanted to learn to skate, but she didn’t think it would be possible coming from a family of four kids and facing the struggles of a parent battling illness.

Through a family support service in her community, Marlee and her family were introduced to Canadian Tire Jumpstart. The Jumpstart program supported Marlee’s skating lessons and skate Canada membership through financial assistance.

A year after lacing up her skates for the first time, Marlee decided to turn her desire to skate into a goal – to one-day join the Canadian Olympic Figure Skating team. Through Jumpstart, Marlee is able to continue her skating lessons and is working to achieve this dream.

“Jumpstart helped me get the lessons I needed to enter some very challenging provincial and national figure skating competitions in Canada,” says Marlee Stein.

“With all the lessons I have taken, I hope it opens up opportunities to eventually become a part of the Canadian Olympic team.”

“The benefits of kids participating in sports affects their entire lives,” says Johnny Misley, President, Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities. “Jumpstart is dedicated to removing barriers so financially disadvantaged children can simply participate, and ultimately pusue their dreams.”

Kids who are able to participate in organized sport and recreation,

outside school hours, gain many short and long term benefits including increased self esteem, greater self confidence, leadership skills, and better grades.

Despite the financial hardships many Canadian families face, there is a way to get kids into the game, no matter what barrier. By covering the cost of registration, equipment and/or transportation, Canadian Tire Jumpstart has helped 570,000 (and counting) children like Marlee participate in the sport of their choice.

Help kids from your community by visiting Canadian Tire, Sport Chek, Atmosphere, Mark’s and Canadian Tire Gas+ stores as well as Pita Pit locations throughout the month of May to donate $2 in exchange for a red ball, with 100 per cent of all donations going to help kids play. The May campaign will be celebrated on Jumpstart Day on Saturday, May 25, with fun activities taking place at participating Canadian Tire Retail stores across the country, including charity barbeque’s or GoClean waterless car washes.

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Sweatshirt could be key to year-old homicide case ANDREW PALAMARCHUK

“Delano was ambushed while in his vehicle, and then shot to death,” Bui told reporters during a Friday afternoon news conference at police headquarters. “We know that multiple offenders were involved and that multiple different firearms were used. This was a dangerous daytime shooting on a sunny Friday afternoon at the end of the school day.”

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Police believe a sweatshirt may be the key to solving the year-old shooting murder of 27-year-old Delano Coombs.

The STG Entertainment sweater, which police say was worn by a gunman, was recovered in the days following the May 10, 2012 homicide.

A DNA profile was obtained from the clothing.

Det. Tam Bui said Coombs was lured to 4020 Dundas St. W., the townhouse complex where he grew up.

Toronto-based urban music production and promotion company.

“We do not know the offender’s relationship to the company,” Bui said.

“However, there’s nothing to suggest that that production company had anything to do with this murder...It’s promotional material that I understand from the Internet is sold at various venues. It could’ve come into the possession of the offender in a number of different ways.”

Bui, of the homicide squad, said Coombs was “extremely” ill at the time of his murder.

“He was with his family the week leading up to his murder, and he was with his family the day of the murder.”

Coombs’ sister Tricia Rodney said his brother was very much loved. “He was a brother, an uncle, a son, a nephew, a cousin,” she said.

“For whoever did this to him: if they could turn themselves in. Our family, we’re getting by daily, but it’s very hard. I still can’t believe my brother is dead.”

Bui said that though Coombs once lived at 4020

Dundas he wouldn’t go there on his own accord.

“There were just some disagreements that he had dealt with with individuals in that community that would’ve never allowed him to go back there by himself.”

The detective wouldn’t disclose a possible motive in the case.

Anyone with information on the murder should call police at 416-808-7400.

Anyone with information on these or other crimes can report them to Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-8477 (TIPS) or https://222tips.com

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Carrying Place Trail Plaque Dedication and Jane’s Walk WHEN: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Little Avenue Memorial Park, 22 Little Ave. CONTACT: Suri Weinberg, 416-241-5801, squibbs@on.aibn. com COST: Free Weston Historical Society invites the community to the dedication of a plaque noting Weston’s place on the trail. Ceremony kicks off with Aboriginal guests, drumming and then a walk by the Humber River to talk about life along the trail.

Yoga for Older Adults and Seniors WHEN: 1 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. CONTACT: Nerissa Craigg, 416-394-1000, ncraigg@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Urban Roots Yoga instructor Melanie Woolsey will teach participants modified options for poses to keep bones strong and muscles and joints healthy.

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Bala Avenue Community School 100th Anniversary WHEN: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: 6 Bala Av. CONTACT: Sofia Argiropulos, sofia.argiropulos@tdsb.on.ca COST: Free Weston Farmers’ Market WHEN: 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Weston GO station parking lot, 14

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Weston Historical Society to unveil plaque Saturday >>>from page 1 Road, which runs right through the heart of our community, was part of the Carrying Place Trail,” said Mary Louise Ashborne, WHS president.

The Carrying Place Trail, also know as the Humber Portage or Toronto Passage, was used by Aboriginals to travel inland from Lake Ontario and to transport goods, including furs, dried fish, copper, and tobacco.

French explorers and fur traders also used the trail from 1611 to 1793 to gain access to Lake Simcoe and the Great Lakes, according to the WHS. “It (the plaque) will recognize Weston’s place on the trail and the earliest inhabitants of our community,” said Suri Weinberg-Linsky, WHS secretary.

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The ceremony will have Aboriginal representative, Elder Garry Sault of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nations will lead a traditional Aboriginal blessing with smudging and drumming. Carolyn King, cochair of the New Credit First

Nations Cultural Committee, will also be a special guest.

Afterwards there will be a Jane’s Walk along the Humber River and a reading

by Madeleine McDowell, a guardian of the river and an advocate for recognizing and celebrating the Aboriginal contributions in the Greater Toronto Area.

The WHS received a community grant of $1,000 from Metrolinx to help pay for the cost of the plaque itself and to mount it, which was done with the help of the Toronto Conservation Authority.

“I just think we (Weston) have a wonderful history,” said Asborne. “And it goes way way back linking to an important piece of Aboriginal history.”

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Transportation minister weighs in on plans prior to Metrolinx funding meeting RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com

some very good ideas put forit wants to pay for, it is quite ward by most municipalities capable of making those deciand there’s been some, as we sions.”

As Metrolinx gets set to expected, who haven’t agreed, Murray also said the Ontario and we respect that.”

Liberals would continue to release recommendations for new taxes and fees at its During a marathon Toronto support electrifying the Union meeting on Monday, Ontario City Council meeting during Pearson Express (UP) air rail Minister of Transportation and the second week of May, link, but insisted it wouldn’t Infrastructure Glen Murray happen until after the 2015 councillors voted to reject said he was not surprised staff recommendations on the Toronto Pan American Games municipalities such as Toronto Metrolinx revenue tools and to at the earliest. opted not to endorse a single support a Scarborough subway While mentioning 2017 as a line to replace a fully-funded potential target date for comrevenue tool.

In an interview Tuesday, light rail transit line already pletion, he said “clean” diesel Murray said he and Premier agreed to by the province and trains ordered by Metrolinx Kathleen Wynne had expected Metrolinx. will run along what will be dissent from some politicians, Murray said the City of the city’s first express rapid regarding their opinions of the transit connection between Toronto has the authority 11 proposed taxes and fees to build new transit projects Pearson airport and Union Metrolinx sought feedback separate from the Master Station when UP starts operon. Those revenue tools would Agreement, and the City of ating in time for the Pan Am raise $2 billion annually to pay Toronto Act allows them to Games. for the completion of the $50 enact new revenue tools to “We have to have the UP billion Big Move transit plan pay for whatever projects they service in place for the Pan for the Greater Toronto and desire.

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Council rejects proposal for Toronto casino Proposal to expand gaming at Woodbine also shot down DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com An expansion of casino gambling anywhere in Toronto is no longer in the cards, after council voted to reject both a downtown casino and expansion of the Woodbine Racetrack into a full-blown casino in north Etobicoke.

Council made the decision after a relatively swift debate at a special meeting Tuesday.

Mayor Rob Ford had attempted to cancel the meeting late last week,

declaring a downtown casino dead, but 24 councillors pushed to hold the meeting anyway, to settle the matter.

At issue for both Ford and opponents of the casino was the amount of the provincial hosting fee.

Ford and casino supporters had said that Toronto needed a minimum of $100 million annually in hosting fees to host a major casino.

But the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation only offered a total of $65-70 million for a downtown casino.

Ford moved a motion that would cancel the downtown casino, but keep the ball rolling on letting the province establish a second casino at the Woodbine Racetrack.

He rested the blame for the failure of the downtown casino on the shoulders of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne.

“One year ago the government of Ontario asked Toronto to host a new casino in this great city,” he said. “Since then Toronto has spent a year grappling with the issues. We carried the load and did a lot of the hard work. It now appears that Premier Wynne has chosen a different direction.”

He continued, “I will not

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Hosting a casino in Toronto that does little to address Toronto’s needs and makes the provincial government richer is not in the interests of Torontonians.”

Council rejected Ford’s motion, with a vote of 31-13, instead supporting Trinity-Spadina Councillor Mike Layton’s motions that would reject a new casino downtown, and oppose gaming expansion in the C2 zone where the Woodbine Racetrack is located.

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Layton, however, pointed out that council’s rejection of gambling was a matter of principle, and noted that Woodbine would be able to maintain its existing operations.

“The motion put forward reflects that this wasn’t just about a hosting fee, this was about the impact on the citizens of Toronto,” he said. “We don’t want the province to put forward a policy that encourages more people to become addicted to gambling.”

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Nick Eaves, president and CEO of Woodbine Entertainment, said the vote was disappointing.

Woodbine faces a tough time, he said, if the province locates its casino outside Toronto in Markham or Vaughan. That would create a competition that the racetrack couldn’t necessarily meet without its own tables and slot machines.

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