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Mayor John Tory and some members of his Executive Committee bristled at a hard-hitting report by City Manager Peter Wallace arguing that Toronto’s strategy of keeping property taxes low, and services steady, has created a looming financial crisis in the city.

“I would state one fact as to why I am averse to going first to the property tax,” said Tory at the Tuesday meeting of Toronto’s Executive Committee. “Ninety seven per cent of the voters in 2014 voted for a candi-date who supported a property tax increase no greater than the rate of inflation.”

Wallace’s report indicated that in effect, Toronto Council’s budgetary process has resulted in an actual property tax decrease in recent years when adjusted for real inflation. Council has been able to keep the city afloat thanks to the

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Social organizations from Toronto’s west-end got together to share ideas on effecting change in the city and to strengthen their con-nections during the west-end YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) Festival.

The event happened Sunday at the Gladstone Hotel.

Typically a citywide event, this edition of the YIMBY Festival partnered with Gladstone Hotel and Shape My City to create a west-end event.

Held in the hotel’s ballroom, the event included a range of socially engaged, local orga-nizations working together to foster a neighbourhood network that’s committed to affecting positive change while building a community.

Susanna Redekop, com-munications coordinator for Parkdale’s West End Food Co-op (WEFC), said the orga-nization has participated in the YIMBY Festival for at least four years.

“We’re very community involved and we like to see what other community orga-nizations are doing. People don’t always know what’s going on in their own backyards,” she said.

Redekop said she typically leaves a YIMBY event with as many as eight contacts. She said people tend to know that the West End Food Co-op exists, but not necessarily what it’s all about and she uses the YIMBY Festival as an opportunity to promote its work.

For example, in 2012-2013, WEFC launched the Co-op Cred program with the Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (Parc) and Greenest City, which empowers those who are marginalized and

dealing with hunger, poverty, and mental health issues, to gain access to healthy food.

Co-op Cred participants are paid for their labour, work-ing in the WEFC kitchen and store, and in Greenest City’s community gardens, and earn co-op credits that can be used at WEFC to purchase groceries.

Thanks to a recent grant, WEFC is able to revamp its kitchen to make it more acces-sible and install a bake oven.

Cycle Toronto’s Ward 14 and Ward 18 co-captains Mary Jo Pollak and Hyedie Hashimoto were on hand to chat about cycling.

“Biking is the most practical form of transportation and the city should provide more infrastructure so people can get to and from work,” Pollak said.

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Julia Zeeman and Sarah Stadnyk of Sustainability Ontario Community Energy Co-op (SOCEC) said they were more than happy to

participate in such an event that allows the opportunity to share information about their organization.

“We’re passionate about clean energy,” Zeeman said.

Founded in 2012, SOCEC is currently working on a project with the University of Toronto to see the installation of a solar community charging station for small, electrical devices.

It will be an outdoor, inter-active space that’s expected to be complete by August.

For representatives of the Parkdale Community Health Centre, the event was a way to share a message that their organization is here to support everyone.

“We want to create an inclu-sive neighbourhood,” com-munity development worker Nancy Steckley said.

From their booth, staff brought attention to the health centre’s Parkdale Parents’ Primary Prevention Project (5Ps), which provides free pro-grams for parents and young children. It provides prenatal nutrition and support, breast feeding support, and support

as your baby grows, among a whole host of others. There is ample opportunity to meet other mothers to share experi-ences.

Soshauna Simmons is a volunteer for the Toronto Tool Library and The Sharing Depot. They operate like a library, but a membership must be purchased for a year, she explained. There are loca-tions in Parkdale, East York, and Downsview where you can borrow anything from measur-ing tapes to power washers, table saws and generators.

In East York, items such as camping equipment, games, sporting equipment and party supplies can be signed out too.

“Our clients differ location to location,” Simmons said. “High school kids borrow tools for school projects, parents sign out tools for home reno-vations.

Spokespeople for Dames Making Games (DMG), a non-profit feminist organization that supports women who are interested in playing, making and changing games, were on hand at YIMBY. DMG includes dames-only game nights, socials, arcades and showcases, workshops and tutorials, and advocating for inclusion and diversity through public speak-ing and outreach.

Anyone who is interested is welcome to get involved, DMG member Izzie Colpitts-Campbell said.

The YIMBY Festival provides a social space for people and groups to gather, to exchange ideas, and establish connec-tions in an effort to effect change while strengthening their networks.

YIMBY festival helps west-end groups forge stronger connections

Staff photo/LISA RAINFORDDames Making Games members Mic Foh, left, Jennie Robinson Faber, Alex Bull and Izzie Colpitts-Campbell staff their table during the YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) Festival at Gladstone Hotel on Sunday. Dames Making Games is a non-profit feminist organization that supports women who are inter-ested in playing, making, and changing games.

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Toronto Council is being asked to approve a system to licence the city’s landlords, and we believe it’s an idea whose time has come.

At a committee meeting last week discussing the issue, Parkdale-High Park Councillor Gord Perks came out strongly in favour of the proposal.

“We have a duty to make sure that no one in the City of Toronto lives in squalor,” he said. “That’s an absolute minimum requirement that we have to meet and if we don’t meet it, we’re failing in our responsibilities as councillors.”

We couldn’t have said it better if we’d written the motion ourselves. It is without question the responsi-bility of our elected officials to make sure we have rules and regulations in place that guarantee basic human dignity. The thought of people living in “squalor,” as Perks described it, is something that belongs in the

pages of history.Of course such conditions are

unacceptable, and our city must have the legal means to enforce laws preventing such a thing.

To that end, councillors will be voting on a bylaw at their meet-ing on June 7 that will allow the city to directly fine landlords who

are not meeting minimum standards. As it stands now, fines against landlords are levied by the province.

The new bylaw would see the city impose the fines as part of administrative fees and it would also make sure buildings are regularly inspected, rather than when complaints are made, which is how the current system works.

Councillors are also being asked to improve the inspection system for rental apartments and to set minimum standards for when the city itself will come in and do the work and bill the landlord.

Also, councillors are being asked to approve the city collecting more detailed information about landlords who constantly violate the rules and to set up a rating system.

Those are two more good ideas councillors should be acting on.

It should be noted the biggest landlord in Toronto is actually the city itself through Toronto Community Housing (TCH). And as of last week, TCH was at the top of the list of complaints at LandLordWatch.com, which advocates for tenant rights in the city,

One hopes that along with getting tough on land-lords in the private sector, these new city standards and rules will also improve the quality of publicly owned housing as well.

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Expo 2025, here in Toronto, with a major build in the city’s port

lands, the eyes of the world on us, fancy pavilions from around the world, visitors from everywhere...

How’s that sound? Tough to say no.

Actually, it looks as though it will be pretty easy for Toronto to say no.

On Monday, Mayor John Tory offered as tepid a response as he could to a letter from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau indicating the federal government would be interested in exploring a bid.

He was even more tepid Tuesday, after a group of business and political lead-ers came to Toronto City Hall to offer up a private-sector funded business case for hosting the exposi-tion.

A study advocating a business case – that, he was fine with. But a com-

mitment to hosting the event that involved either significant city expenditure or funding from other levels of government that might cut into money that would otherwise go to the city? Not likely.

It would, in fact, have been very difficult for the mayor to say anything else this week, as his Executive Committee was grappling with a bombshell report from City Manager Peter Wallace talking about Toronto’s long-term fiscal forecast.

The report has been floating around for more than a week, and its find-ings are stark: Toronto is headed for a fiscal cliff, and soon.

Council’s two contradic-tory imperatives – to pro-

vide fulsome services and infrastructure, and to mini-mize the tax burden on property owners – means that very soon, Toronto Council will no longer be able to balance its annual budget.

How, under those cir-cumstances, do you say yes to a plan to host a world’s fair 25 years into the 21st century, of the sort that was really only a big deal in the middle of the 20th century?

It’s not to say that an old-fashioned Expo wouldn’t bring some benefit to the city and the country. It would show-case the city to interested, forward-looking visitors. And it would maintain that interest over the better part of a year.

But really, Toronto can do all of that on its own, and is doing that on its own. The port lands are already undergoing a

major redevelopment and regeneration, meticulously planned and with great private-sector interest. Those precincts don’t need pavilions – they need parkland and housing and office/industrial space.

We are already undergo-ing a massive and at-least partially funded public transit expansion. Would a successful Expo bid accelerate that? Or would it simply shift funding to other transit projects that might benefit visitors better than Torontonians?

Last year, Tory did something that few other mayors have done, and said no to a potential Olympic bid.

It’s not hard to see a repeat performance when it comes to Expo.

It’s easy for mayor to say no to Expo 2025

David Nickle is Metroland Media Toronto’s city hall reporter. His column runs

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Gretel is Ruth and Joseph Schembri’s latest puppy they’re raising that is on her way to becoming a dog guide for the Lions Foundation of Canada.

The almost five-month-old pup is a wee bit of a departure for the Bloor Street West and Royal York Road-area couple. She’s their eighth charge, but first-ever poodle. They’ve only ever raised Labrador retriev-ers.

“We’re quite enjoying it,” Joseph Schembri said sitting at a local coffee shop.

Wearing her dog-guide-in-training vest, Gretel content-edly kept busy with a chew toy lying under the table as her foster parents chatted.

“She’s smart. We call her our joy incarnate,” Ruth said. “She’s very calm – she’s not that interested in food like labs are.”

Gretel has lived with the Shembris since she was seven weeks old. Their black lab, Irma, a “disqualified” dog guide – that’s the term for animals who end up not suit-able for the job – has been “great” with the puppies, Ruth said.

“She’s the foster mother and we’re the foster family,” she said.

The couple was inspired to become puppy raisers for the Lions Foundation of Canada by their niece. At 15, she was the youngest person to receive a Hearing Ear Dog.

“Her dog’s name is Swiss. We were invited to go to her gradu-ation – Caroline and Swiss graduated together,” Ruth

said.

That’s where the couple met Swiss’ foster family, which included two children, ages seven and nine.

“We thought, ‘These chil-dren are giving back their dogs (around a year old, dogs begin their formal training with handlers). If they can do it, we could do it,’” Ruth recalled.

Ruth calls Swiss a “riot.” If the microwave beeps or the smoke detector goes off, she’ll alert Caroline.

At the end of this month, Ruth, Joseph, Gretel and Irma, will participate in the Lions Foundation of Canada Purina Walk for Dog Guides. There are three walks taking place in Toronto, including High Park, the Beach and at Purina PawsWay on Queen’s Quay.

It costs about $25,000 to raise and train each dog guide

that could go on to become a canine vision dog, a hear-ing ear dog, a service dog, a seizure response dog, an Autism assistance dog or a diabetic alert dog. The Lions’ Dog Guides does not receive any government funding and relies solely on donations and fundraisers. The dog guides are provided to Canadians with disabilities at no cost.

That’s what makes it easier for Ruth and Joseph to give up their young dogs. They know they’re raising animals on behalf of those who will really benefit from a dog guide.

The Purina Walk for Dog Guides takes place in High Park Friday.

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As part of the Canadian Cinema Editors Annual Awards, next Thursday, Canadian Cinema Editors will pay tribute to the work and career of film, documentary and television editor Roushell Goldstein.

Goldstein, a St. Clair Avenue West and Oakwood Avenue-area resident, began her career in Jerusalem at the newly established Israel Television Network in the late 1960s. She returned to Canada in 1973 where she worked with Hobel-Leiterman Productions creating weekly documenta-ries in a series called ‘Here Comes the ’70s’ and ‘Target the Impossible.’

Goldstein has freelanced for CTV, CBC, the National Film Board of Canada and many privately funded pro-ductions, creating documen-taries, television one-offs and series, as well as feature films. Career highlights include, the film Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive, which won the Genie for best documentary feature, and was short-listed for the Oscars; starting as an original team member on the set of the TV show Degrassi Junior High; and co-directing and editing the documentary Half the Kingdom, and others.

The award ceremony takes place at The Hotel Delta, downtown. Goldstein took time to respond to our ques-tions.

Q What does this lifetime achievement award

mean to you?

A Recognition from my peers means a great deal

to me for the 35 years in the film industry, especially since it has been quite a while since I retired from it.

Q When did you realize that you wanted to

make film a career?

A As a teenager, excited by the “New Wave” cinema

from Europe and the con-troversial and

powerful documentaries from This Hour Has Seven Days on CBC TV.

Q In your opinion, what attributes/skills must a

person have to be successful in a film career, such as the one you’ve had?

A The ability to listen and empathize.

Q What has been your philosophy/approach

to your work throughout your career?

A Work unstintingly, try to get into the minds and

hearts of the people in the film, present your points-of-view vigorously where there are differences of opinion with the filmmakers. Then concede to their wishes with the best of my abilities, because, after all, I am there to serve their vision in the long, complicated process of making a film.

Q Do you have a stand out career moment

or project you’ve worked on?

A There have been many. Half the Kingdom –

because I helped conceive it as a co-director, as well as an editor. My daughter Sarah’s baby naming opens the film. As a Jewish feminist, there was much to identify with.

Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive, because, as a person who lost family members in the Holocaust, I deeply appreciate the courage of people who defied the Nazi regime and fought the pre-vailing Anti-Semitism run-ning rampant throughout Europe at that time.

Hurt Penguins, because it is one of the funniest and best written comedies to come out of Canada. I lived with this project long before the editing: My husband, Robert Bergman, was the co-producer and co-direc-tor.

Paris, France, because it was a challenge to get into the hearts and minds of the characters, but working with the consummate director, Jerry Ciccoritti, was sheer pleasure.

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In addition to increased pro-duction and distribution capa-bilities, the brewery will offer tours, act as an event space and include an expanded tap room and retail bottle shop.

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connected when Paterson was the owner of The Paddock Tavern on Bathurst Street, a space he restored to its original 1940s jazz cocktail glory days. Its menu was comprised of imported and Ontario craft beers, one of which was Saint Andrew’s Vienna Lager, brewed by Pengelly, who delivered it himself. Paterson vowed then to go into business with Pengelly.

Brewery takes up space on Symes

Courtesy photoJunction Craft Brewing brewmaster Doug Pengelly, left, and Tom Paterson sit on the steps to their future, larger space at 150 Symes Rd.

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For Gauravi Shah, cooking was just a hobby,something to do in the evenings to distractherself from the daily grind of working as anuclear engineer in Pickering. That is, until shediscovered she had a genuine knack for it.

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Above, Blayne Lastman, centre, owner of Lastman's Bad Boy, poses with Ted Garrard, left, president of SickKids Foundation, and Dr. Glen Van Arsdell, during a cheque presentation at the Hospital for Sick Children. After raising money during F e b r u a r y a n d M a r c h , Lastman's Bad Boy is donat-ing $208,000 to the Sick Kids Hospital's Labatt Family Heart Centre, to be used to improve the quality of life and treat-ments for patients. Right, Lastman with patient ambas-sador Jonathan Richardson, who has been a patient at the hospital since he was three days old.

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Lastman, the well-known owner of the Lastman’s Bad Boy furniture chain, dropped by the hospital Friday to deliver a $208,000 cheque in support of SickKids’ Labatt Family Heart Centre. The funds were raised through customer and staff dona-tions, supplier support and through the chain itself. He was greeted by SickKids Foundation president Ted

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The $208,000 brought the total amount donated by Lastman’s Bad Boy to more than $400,000 over the years.

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unprecedentedly strong real estate market, which has led to a nearly 150 per cent increase in the land transfer tax since it was approved in 2006 – and on one-time uploads from the provincial government.

To a lesser degree, the city has also benefited from higher-than-inflation TTC fare increases.

“The total incremental increase

with property taxes is smaller than fees paid by TTC riders over the last six years,” Wallace said.

He said that it is unrealistic to expect that the land transfer tax will keep increasing and that the prov-ince will continue with uploading of services.

“We’re going to regress to the mean at some point,” he said.

“It is inconceivable that the land

transfer tax will continue to grow. So expense is likely to rise and on the revenue side, revenue is likely to decline. Council has enjoyed a relatively free ride. Clearly we need to change that. The process of kicking the can down the road will inevitably come to an end. The shortcuts, the tricks we’ve relied on are not realisti-cally available.”

Some councillors on the com-

mittee expressed frustration with Wallace’s conclusions.

Willowdale Councillor David Shiner suggested that Wallace’s report effectively let other levels of government off the hook for larger downloads, particularly involving transit and housing.

For his part, Tory suggested that the city needs to look at the sale of assets, the contracting out of some

services and the cancellations of others.

But he noted that there is resistance to those measures at city hall.

“If you suggested we might back out of something we aren’t doing very well, people would light their hair on fire,” Tory said. “I am not an ideologue. What we have is an obliga-tion to find the money to get the job done for people.”

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The City of Toronto, TTC, Waterfront Toronto togetherwith Metrolinx are working to bring more transitto communities across the city with connectionsthroughout the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

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Mirvish Village BIA Street FestivalWHEN: Noon to 8 p.m. WHERE: Markham House: City Building Lab,

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w Sunday, May 29Native Plant SaleWHEN: noon to 4 p.m. WHERE: Christie Pits Park, 750 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: 416-631-4438, www.nanps.org, [email protected] COST: FreeNorth American Native Plant Society hosts sale of wildflowers, ferns, grasses and shrubs, with information about attracting birds, butterflies and other pollinators.

w Monday, May 30Memory Lane: The Gift of our StoriesWHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: FreeOver five weeks, seniors will hear and share stories about important life experiences and memories.

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Green 13 Monthly MeetingWHEN: 6:15 to 8:15 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: www.green13toronto.org COST: FreeGreen 13 is a group of Ward 13 resi-dents concerned about the impact humans are having on our climate and environment.

West Coast Swing LessonsWHEN: 7:30 to 9:45 p.m. WHERE: Lithuanian Hall, 1573 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Jay or Sylvia, [email protected] COST: Full series: members $50, non-members $70.Joanna Swanson will teach Toronto Swing Dance Society’s next series of West Coast Swing Lessons. Register online.

w Tuesday, May 31Teen TriviaWHEN: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Elaine Grisola, 416-393-7697 COST: FreeTest your knowledge and win prizes. For youth ages 13 and up.

w Wednesday, June 1Tea and BooksWHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: High Park Library, 228 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: Brian Bertrand, 416-393-7671, bbertrand@torontopublicli-

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Shout Sister Choir FundraiserWHEN: 7:30 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Roncesvalles United Church, 240 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: [email protected] COST: $10Toronto South West’s Shout Sister choir is making a “joyful noise” for Roncesvalles United Church Meal Program.

w Thursday, June 2West Toronto Junction Historical Society MeetingWHEN: 6:45 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: FreeLocal history enthusiast John Beram takes a close look at the Toronto Stockyards and how they fit into the industrial development of the West Toronto Junction.

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Bombardier promises it can meet new streetcar deadlineRAHUL GUPTA [email protected]

Bombardier is confident it can ramp up production of streetcars for the TTC and ensure all committed vehicles are delivered on time.

A spokesperson for the Canadian transportation giant confirmed a new deliv-ery schedule was presented to the TTC this week. Marc-André Lefebvre said com-pany and TTC officials met on Wednesday, May 18 to hammer out the revised sched-ule for delivering all of the new streetcars by 2019 as originally promised by Bombardier.

“These are bold and decisive actions that clearly indicate Bombardier’s manifest resolve to meet its commitment, from the start, of delivering 204 streetcars by the end of 2019,” said Lefebvre in an email to Metroland Media Toronto on Friday.

Under the terms of the new deal, Bombardier is promising 40 new streetcars next year, which ramps up to 76 in 2018, and then another 57 in 2019.

The company will not increase its current commitment of 16 more streetcars by the end of 2016, which would bring the annual total to 31.

Bombardier believes it can speed up production by shifting other light rail proj-ects away from its Thunder Bay factory, and allowing that facility to concentrate fully on the streetcars. Bombardier also plans to launch two more production assembly lines at undisclosed locations.

Meanwhile, production of light rail vehicles (LRVs) for Metrolinx, including those to be used for the Eglinton Crosstown and Finch West LRT lines and for Kitchener-Waterloo’s ION plan, will be shifted to the company’s Kingston plant as well as La Pocatière in Quebec.

The company also prom-ised to improve production in its Sahagún and Hidalgo plants in Mexico, which have historically experienced quality issues, as well as the Thunder Bay site.

TTC spokesperson Brad Ross said the commission

would take a wait-and-see approach before it could express confidence in the new schedule. But he said TTC CEO Andy Byford and Bombardier Transportation president Benoit Brossoit had a “good discussion”.

The multiple delays in deliv-ery of the new streetcars have forced the TTC to refurbish its existing fleet of streetcars well past its natural operating life. Seventy-three of the new low-floor vehicles were supposed to have entered service by the end of last year, but currently there are only 18.

The TTC has also initiated a legal claim against Bombardier seeking much as much as $51 million in compensation. The vehicles were ordered back in 2009 at a cost of $1.2 billion.

In April, TTC chair Josh Colle demanded the company make an apology to the city for the late delivery of the streetcars. Lefebvre said the company has held continuous, near daily conversations with TTC brass about the streetcars, in addi-tion to regular face-to-face meetings.

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Cycle Toronto says it found from 5 to 6 p.m., 46 per cent of road users at the intersection of College and Spadina Avenue were cyclists, compared to 54 per cent cars, according to a traffic count completed last September.

According to the group, the result is particularly impressive since just 19 per cent of the road is dedicated for cyclists in the form of bike lanes.

Toronto Council is expected to debate a 10-year cycling plan for bike lane expansion at its June monthly meeting.

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Just a few days after Bombardier announced a plan to deliver all of Toronto’s new streetcars on schedule comes word another prominent transit

project is postponed.Production issues

are affecting Kitchener-Waterloo’s ION light rail cars, which are under construction by the trans-portation giant, meaning the light rail project is now scheduled to open in early 2018.

Late last week, Bombardier announced it was shifting production from its Thunder Bay plant to dedicate the facility’s operations full-time to the TTC streetcars.

Bombardier is still opti-mistic it can fill the full order of 204 new streetcars, of which it has delivered 18 so far, by 2019.

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The city’s most prominent transit advocacy group is looking to drum up sup-port ahead of a critical TTC

board meeting. In an attempt to ratchet

the pressure up on the board, TTCriders is circu-lating a petition calling for more considerations for low-income transit users.

With the TTC board expected to debate forth-coming recommendations at the May 31 meeting on providing fare relief, TTCriders is making its own demands. It wants:

• fares reduced to zero for riders on social assis-tance;

• Metropass and token prices frozen for anyone earning under $22,000 a year;

• and discounts for social service agencies making fare purchases.

View the Change.org petition here: www.change.org/p/we-need-low-fares-for-low-income-riders-on-may-31

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In a statement, the provin-cial transit planning agency said in the last 12 months alone, 500,000 transit riders in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and Ottawa began making use of Presto.

Metrolinx has already determined more than 80 per cent of GO Transit users

pay fares via Presto, and there are likely thousands of more users coming online in Toronto with the TTC switch-ing to the new fare card.

Currently you can tap your Presto card to access half of the subway stations in the TTC network, all streetcars and some buses.

The TTC has pledged to have its entire network converted to Presto by early 2017.

To celebrate the milestone, Presto is launching an aware-ness campaign this week. As part of the initiative, 40 existing customers will also have $150 loaded onto their cards.

To be eligible, you can post your love for the fare card by tweeting to @prestocard using the hashtag #TapHappy or commenting on Facebook.

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Notice of CompletionDavenport Diamond Grade Separation - Environmental Project Report

The Project

Metrolinx, an agency of the Province of Ontario, has completed an Environmental Project Report (EPR) in accordance with Ontario Regulation 231/08 for the Davenport Diamond GradeSeparation project. Metrolinx intends to proceed with the project in accordance with the EPR. Metrolinx, is working to transform the way the region moves by building a seamless,convenient and integrated transit network across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. As announced in 2014, the Government of Ontario is committed to bringing more GO serviceto the GO rail network over the next ten years. The service increase will be phased in while Metrolinx builds additional infrastructure. To support this service increase, Metrolinx isplanning to build an elevated rail corridor that follows the current GO Transit route between Bloor Street West and Davenport Road. The Davenport Diamond Grade Separation project isintended to eliminate the ‘Davenport Diamond’, one of the busiest train intersections in North America, where CP Rail freight trains and GO Transit passenger trains cross at a ground-level rail crossing.

The Process

The environmental effects of this transit project were assessed and an EPR prepared according to the Transit Project Assessment Process asprescribed in Ontario Regulation 231/08, Transit Projects and Metrolinx Undertakings. The EPR for the Davenport Diamond Grade Separation isnow available for a 30-day review period starting May 27, 2016 on the project website (www.metrolinx.com/RERDavenport) and at thefollowing locations:

Ministry of Environment and Climate ChangeEnvironmental Approvals Branch135 St. Clair Ave W., 1st FloorToronto, ON M4V 1P4tel: 416-314-8001 / toll-free: 1-800-461-6290Monday – Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Ministry of Environment and Climate ChangeToronto District OfficePlace Nouveau - 9th Floor5775 Yonge St., Toronto, ON M2M 4J1tel: 416-326-6700Monday – Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

MetrolinxHead Office97 Front Street – ReceptionToronto, ON M5J 1E6tel: 416-874-5900Monday – Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Perth/Dupont Public Library1589 Dupont StreetToronto, ON M6P 3S5tel: 416-393-7677Wednesday & Friday: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.Tuesday & Thursday: 12:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Bloor/Gladstone Public Library1101 Bloor Street WestToronto, ON M6H 1M7tel: 416-393-7674Monday – Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.Saturday: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Sunday: 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Interested persons are encouraged to review this document and provide comments by June 27, 2016, to:

Davenport Diamond Grade Separation ProjectGeorgina CollymoreSenior Advisor – Environmental Assessment Communications and Community Relations20 Bay Street, Suite 600, Toronto, ON M5J 2W3tel: 416-202-4921 / e-mail: [email protected]

There are circumstances where the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change has the authority to require further consideration of thetransit project or impose conditions on it. These include if the Minister is of the opinion that:

• The transit project may have a negative impact on a matter of provincial importance that relates to the natural environment or hascultural heritage value or interest, or

• The transit project may have a negative impact on a constitutionally protected Aboriginal or treaty right.

Before exercising the authority referred to above, the Minister is required to consider any written objections to the transit project that he mayreceive within 30 days after the Notice of Completion of the Environmental Project Report is first published.

30-day Public Consultation Period ends June 27

If you have discussed your issues with Metrolinx and you object to this transit project you can provide a written submission to the Minister ofthe Environment and Climate Change no later than June 27, 2016 to the address provided below. All submissions must clearly indicate thatan objection is being submitted and describe any negative impacts to matters of provincial importance (natural/cultural environment) orAboriginal rights. Objections must be received within 30 days after the Notice of Completion of the EPR is first published.

Ministry of the Environment and Climate ChangeEnvironmental Approvals BranchAttention: Adam Sanzo, Project Officer135 St. Clair Ave. W., 1st Floor, Toronto, ON M4V 1P4tel: 416-314-8001 / toll-free: 1-800-461-6290 / fax: 416-314-8452e-mail: [email protected]

If not already provided, a copy of the objection will be forwarded to the proponent by the Ministry.

All personal information included in a submission such as name, address, telephone number and property location is collected, maintainedand disclosed by the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change for the purpose of transparency and consultation. The information iscollected under the authority of the Environmental Assessment Act or is collected and maintained for the purpose of creating a record that isavailable to the general public as described in s. 37 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Personal information yousubmit will become part of a public record that is available to the general public unless you request that your personal information remainconfidential. For more information, please contact the Project Officer or the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change Freedom ofInformation and Privacy Coordinator at 416-314-4075.

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