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A proposed five-kilometrepark stretching across the westend is getting closer to reality.

A study for the "Green Line," a

stretch of parks and trails thatwould provide green spacesalong a hydro corridor north ofDupont Street between Lands-downe Avenue and SpadinaRoad, is expected to begin laterthis year.

Jake Tobin Garrett, managerof policy and research at ParkPeople, told Metroland Media To-ronto his organization has beenadvocating for the park since2014.

"Right now, it’s kind of a series

of disconnected spaces that in-cludes some parks, but the visionis really to create a connected lin-ear park and trail that people canmove through," he said. "After

’Green Line’ could run from Earlscourt Park to the AnnexAARON D’ANDREA

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Friday, January 27Boat ShowWHEN: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: Enercare Centre, Exhibition Place, 100 Princes’ Blvd CONTACT: 905-951-0009, www.TorontoBoatShow.com COST: $20: General Admission; $17: SeniorsThe Toronto International Boat Show is the largest one-stop des-tination in Canada to comparison shop. Jan. 20 to 29.

WinterliciousWHEN: 12 p.m. WHERE:Various venues, Various venues CONTACT: http://www.toronto.ca/winterlicious, [email protected] COST: Prix fixe lunch and dinner menus15th annual Winterlicious kicks off this weekend at more than 220 Toronto restaurants. Jan. 27 to Feb. 9.

Saturday, January 28Walk for MemoriesWHEN: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. WHERE: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front St. W. CONTACT: http://www.walk.alz.to, [email protected] COST: FreeAlzheimer Society of Toronto’s

Walk For Memories new indoor 2K walk route will take you from the MTCC, North Building - Hall C, through the Skywalk and returning back to the MTCC.

Monster JamWHEN: 2:30 p.m. WHERE:Rogers Centre, One Blue Jays Way CONTACT: [email protected] COST: Various packagesMonster Jam at the Rogers Cen-tre, Jan. 28, 29 with 14 massive Monster Jam trucks.

Free ConcertWHEN: 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge St. CONTACT: 416-598-0422 ext.2, www.tmchoir.org/201617-season/symposium-concert/COST: FreeToronto Mendelssohn Choir and Elora Singers chamber choir conducted by the five conduc-tors attending the TMC’s Choral Conductors’ Symposium. Live webcast. First come, first seated. Doors open 2:15 p.m.

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5 things to do this weekend Saturday, January 28Creativity UnlockedWHEN: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE:Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: FreeInspired by Julia Cameron’s time-less path to higher creativity, “THE ARTIST’S WAY,” these workshops are led by professional writer and MA student Carolyn Grisold. Please bring personal notepaper and pens.

Monday, January 30Teen GamingWHEN: 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: 416-393-7674 COST: FreeGet your game on @ the library! Test your gaming skills on the con-soles andchallenge your friends!

Wednesday, February 1Fundance for SeniorsWHEN: 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: Swansea Area Seniors Association, 416-392-1953, [email protected] COST: $48 for 13 weeksInstructor-led weekly Wednesday sessions let you learn the salsa, foxtrot, waltz and others. Begin-ners welcome and no partner needed.

Heart HealthWHEN: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Four Villages CHC, 3446 Dundas Street West CONTACT:416-252-1928 Ext.299 COST:FreeEducational Program on Heart Health, presented by West Toronto Diabetes Education Program team. Light snack and tokens provided to those using public transit.

Youth Employment Workshop – Build Your ResumeWHEN: 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: Kara, 416-394-1014 COST: FreeLearn how to customize your resume. Participants can bring a job posting (if they have one) and learn how to create a resume for that specific posting. For youth ages 15-29 years of age.

Swansea Historical SocietyWHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavina Ave CONTACT: 647-859-3901, [email protected] COST: FreeSpeaker Daniel Laxer - “Music

and Dance in the Canadian Fur Trade Era 1760-1840”. Daniel is also an accomplished fiddle player, and will perform some traditional music associated with the time period. Visitors welcome.

Saturday, February 4Axe throwing fundraising eventWHEN: 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. WHERE: Galleria Shopping Cen-tre, 1245 Dupont St. CONTACT:Janice Nyarko, 416-364-1666 Ext.242, www.hospicetoronto.ca, [email protected] COST: $65.00 + $4.57 service feeThis Axe Throwing Event is a fund-raiser for Hospice Toronto and it’s Young Carers Program (YCP).

Sunday, February 5Naked Trees of WinterWHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor Street West CONTACT: [email protected] COST: FreeA Toronto Urban Forester shows how trees survive winter and how to identify them. Meet at the benches across from the Grena-dier Restaurant.

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Steve Russell/Toronto StarThe Toronto Mendelssohn Choir are giving a free concert in which they’ll be testing out five conductors.

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Residents will have towait until the weather im-proves before a "translu-cent white residue" is re-moved from the train noisewalls along the rail tracksnear Dundas West GO Sta-tion, says Metrolinx.

The opaque substancewhich resembles ice frost-ing, appeared late last yearfollowing the most recentscrubbing of the noisewalls to remove graffititags, the responsibility ofMetrolinx which operatesthe UP Express rail service.

A spokesperson for theprovincial transit planningagency said there is no per-manent damage to thetransparent panels makingup the walls located ap-proximately north of Rus-kin Avenue, but they willrequire buffing and polish-ing to remove the lingeringstains.

"The damage isn’t per-manent, fortunately," said

Anne Marie Aikins in astatement last week. "Theetching and the remainingdiluted paint can be re-moved by mechanical buff-ing using a light polishingcompound, however, it canonly be performed in warmweather. It will be done inthe next few months oncethe warmer weather ar-rives."

Aikins said the residueis made up of left-over paintfrom tagging "and the re-sulting removal processdamaging the surface, aswell as diluted paint re-maining".

The situation repre-sents the latest black markin the eyes of residents liv-ing along the West TorontoRailpath against Metro-linx, which has yet to re-lease details about a long-term graffiti removal strat-egy for the noise walls,which have proven a fre-quent target of taggingsince they were completedback in 2015.

Kevin Putnam of the

Junction Triangle RailCommittee who first alert-ed Metroland Media Toron-to to stains, said Metrolinxhas failed to live up to itscommitment to properlymaintain the noise walls,despite personal assuranc-es from the likes of CEOBruce McCuaig.

Putnam said recentemails sent to McCuaig in

the new year about thenoise wall cleaning have sofar gone unanswered de-spite past promises to ad-dress the issue.

"(Bruce) came out hereand personally assured us(the noise walls) would betaken care of," said Put-nam, a Junction resident. "Ithink the buck stops withhim, this is not a mid-man-

agement decision."Aikins said Metrolinx

currently spends $250,000on graffiti removalthroughout its network,which includes GO Transit,but was unable to disclosehow much is spent specifi-cally on maintaining theWest Toronto noise walls.She said offensive and rac-ist graffiti found on buses

and trains get top priority,forwarding an image of aheavily vandalized GOtrain compartment as anexample of what gets re-moved.

"Any graffiti on ourtrains and buses must beremoved before they canreturn to service," said Ai-kins.

But Davenport citycouncillor Ana Bailao saidthe agency must live up tothe commitment it madefor regular cleaning of thewalls.

"We were guaranteedthere would be a plan forgraffiti, but clearly it’s notworking," said Bailao onFriday. "Not even the clean-ing is working."

Bailao, who said she’sspoken with Metrolinx offi-cials numerous timesabout tagging, could onlylaugh when asked if she ex-pects a long-term solutionto emerge.

"What we were prom-ised hasn’t come to frui-tion," she said.

Cleaners leave stain on UP Express noise wallsRAHUL GUPTA

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A train passes noise walls installed by Metrolinx along the Union PearsonExpress tracks by the West Toronto Rail path, which remains tagged withgraffiti.

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Ricardo Leca, 16, ispledging to help people inneed to do the best theycan in making a differencein the world.

"It’s the way I wasraised," the Grade 11 stu-dent at Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton CatholicSecondary School(BMTM) told MetrolandMedia Toronto. "I try tohelp as many people as Ican."

Leca’s pledge is part ofthe WE organization’s "Weare Canada" campaign forCanada’s 150th birthday.

WE co-founder Craig

Kielburger, Olympic goldmedallist Penny Oleksiakand several other WEmembers joined hundredsof Toronto students atBMTM on Jan. 23 for ayouth rally ahead of theprogram’s launch on Feb.1.

The initiative aims toprovide Canadians with adeeper understanding ofCanadian issues, andhopes to inspire the publicto make a difference intheir communities andacross the country, WEsaid in a news release.

The program is alsoproviding schools acrossCanada with a service-learning program that of-fers curriculum to teach-ers and students with re-sources and activities tolearn more about Canada,the release added.

"We’re asking schools,individual schools, in es-sence to replicate what wejust did (youth rally),"Kielburger said. "We’reasking every student to

take their pledge, taketheir action and celebratethat."

Kielburger added $10will be donated to supportWE’s local and global pro-

grams with every pledgethat is made.

The school component

will focus on four themes:youth empowerment, theenvironment, reconcilia-tion and diversity and in-clusion. Kielburger esti-mates 4,000 schools havesigned up to be a part ofWE are Canada.

"We created 100 lessonplans, in English and inFrench, that teach fromsocial studies, art, history,geography, to world af-fairs, and all of thesecourses infuse a lessonand an action required tobetter the country," hesaid. "We also include ac-tions students can take to-day."

Oleksiak is the ambas-sador for WE are Canadaproject, and said she is ex-cited to be able to help in-spire people.

"My pledge would be tostill inspire kids to betterthemselves and betterCanada as a whole," sheadded.

For more informationabout the WE are Canadaprogram, visit we.ca.

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WE movement co-founder Craig Keilburger (left) talks with Olympian PennyOleksiak during the launch Monday, Jan. 23 of the nation-wide WE are Canadasesquicentennial program at Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton CatholicSecondary School.

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Rail carriers are working under a shroud of secrecy, put-ting Ontarians at risk every day.

Information regarding what hazardous materials areshipped through our communities remains elusive. At anygiven moment, emergency responders and local governmentshave no idea what, exactly, is being transported through mu-nicipalities across the province. Yet they are the ones taskedwith keeping the populace safe in the event of a disaster.

The continued secrecy is putting the public at unneces-sary risk and it is not a theoretical risk. The danger is veryreal.

In 2015, 144 rail-related accidents occurred involving dan-gerous goods in Canada. The five-year-average is 140.

One need only look to the disaster at Lac-Megantic to seehow very real and devastating such disasters can be. Whenthe unattended freight train derailed, it left 47 people deadand half of the community’s downtown destroyed.

That train had previously passed through the denselypopulated GTA.

The disaster prompted renewed calls from municipalitiesand the province for increased transparency on the shipmentof dangerous goods.

There have since been improvements to information-sharing, but has it gone far enough?

Emergency responders in municipalities have access tohistoric data of what has come through their community.From that they can undertake disaster planning.

The burden - and cost - of preparing for these potentialdisasters falls squarely on the shoulders of municipalities.Not only must our towns and cities prepare without knowingwhen, how often and what materials companies are trans-porting, they must also find a way to pay for managing thedangers these private rail carriers pose.

For security reasons, real-time information is not avail-able. And what information is shared with select municipalofficials is not intended to be shared with the public. No onewants to tip off a potential terrorist about the exact location ofspecific chemicals. And the rail carriers don’t want to panicthe public.

Not only are emergency responders faced with a lack ofinformation, the public remains largely in the dark aboutwhat dangerous goods are rolling through their communities.This culture of secrecy does not allow residents to make in-formed decisions or adequately prepare for possible disasterscenarios.

More information is needed. The public needs to havegeneral data regarding what is regularly transported throughtheir backyards. Municipalities need more up-to-date in-formation about what dangers their first responders mighthave to battle. And those first responders need adequatefunding to defend against the worst case scenarios.

Rail lines are an important part of this country’s economy,but the dangers they pose need to be better managed. Itshouldn’t take another Lac-Megantic to bring about thesemuch-needed reforms.

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Information,funding neededfor rail safety

What’s happening inThorncliffe Park is what’shappening in Toronto’s otherhighrise neighbourhoods,only more so.

Its problems can’t besolved, only patched.

The elevators grind, fail,sit waiting for repair. Bugscrawl. Kitchen cabinets fallapart.

Thorncliffe’s aging: 43apartment buildings in ahorseshoe of land on the DonRiver. They were built longago, like St. James Town, Fle-mingdon Park, and Scarbor-ough’s Markham Road high-rises, when Toronto apart-ment towers rose at the ratecondos are popping up today.

Thorncliffe’s overcrowd-ed: grandparents and cousinsare shoehorned in. Familiesrent rooms in other people’sapartments. Designed for12,000 residents, the neigh-bourhood has 30,000, possibly

45,000.Ontario Premier Kath-

leen Wynne, the area’s MPP,pronounced the overcrowd-ing unsolvable, exceptthrough "community conver-sation," last week whenThorncliffe tenants and land-lords met.

"We don’t even know ex-actly how many people are inthese communities," she said.

So much of Toronto liveslike this, and will continuebecause, while the gap be-

tween renters and homeownership widens, few apart-ment towers are built.

Daryl Chong of the Great-er Toronto Apartment Asso-ciation told Thorncliffe ten-ants most of them are inThorncliffe "because wehaven’t built any new (apart-ment) buildings in 40 years."

"If you had more choice,you would vote with yourfeet."

Apartments pay threetimes the property taxeshouses do, Chong and politi-cal representatives added, sopeople in the city’s poorest ar-eas are subsidizing Rosedale.

"One of the reasons it’s along road (to changing that)is that homeowners vote,"said Jon Burnside, Thorn-cliffe’s councillor.

Landlords want propertytax breaks, or big cuts in de-velopment charges beforethey build apartments.

Tenants who live inThorncliffe, or anywherethere are roaches or the hotwater cuts out when peopleare showering, can mostlylook forward to more of thesame.

But they’re tired of land-lords being awarded renthikes above inflation whilerenters get no raises at work,work orders that see monthsgo by without results, and atenant board seeminglyweighted toward landlords.

If they’re lucky, they’ll gettougher city enforcement –thanks to a new landlord by-law – and rebuilt elevatorsthat beep angrily when over-crowded, until enough peoplestep off.

Edges of Toronto is a col-umn about how people see lifein Toronto differently, de-pending on where they live.Reach Mike Adler at [email protected]

Thorncliffe Park, a place of unsolvable problems

MIKE ADLEREdges of Toronto

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Toronto’s bureaucracycould see a cut of 10 per centto its management ranks,and the city’s Auditor Gen-eral office will see a $1 mil-lion boost to root out waste,under a going-forwardplan announced by Toron-to’s budget committeechair Gary Crawford Jan.23.

"This is continuing the

work that’s already beenhappening," said Crawfordin a Jan. 23 interview. "Thisyear we’ve already saved$170 million through attri-tion and modernizationand we’re asking the citymanager to come back witha report on a way to look atreducing management by10 per cent."

Crawford made the an-nouncement as his com-mittee prepares to finalizeits recommendations on

Toronto’s 2017 operatingand capital budgets, beforethe executive committeeand Toronto Council dealwith it over the nextmonth.

Through that budget,Toronto departments wereasked to look at 2.6 per centcuts to help deal with abudget gap of more than$700 million.

The new plans arelooking forward, to 2018and beyond. At this point,

Crawford said that councilis looking at a gap of $400million. The instruction tolook at a 10 per cent man-agement cut - mostly mid-dle management - is oneway that he hopes to dealwith that.

"Good work’s been donebut more has to happen,"he said.

As well, he said that thecity will be looking atstrengthening the AuditorGeneral’s office - an inde-

pendent oversight officethat investigates city prac-tises to look for ways to bemore efficient and effec-tive. The boost would see $1million added to the budgetover three years.

"Hopefully that millionwill bring back tens of mil-lions of dollars in savings,"said Crawford.

Mayor John Tory, trav-elling out of country,weighed in with his sup-port of the plan. "We need

to look every day for oppor-tunities to modernize citygovernment so we can useavailable funds on the ser-vices and projects that re-ally count," said Tory in anews release. "That’s whatthe accountability and af-fordability plan put for-ward by the budget com-mittee is really all about.Making sure we streamlinemanagement and servicedelivery in every way pos-sible ."

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Revue Cinema in Ron-cesvalles has started a newmonthly program to bringToronto’s refugees togeth-er.

Eric Veillette, Revue’sprogramming director,said the theatre partneredwith the Roncesvalles Ref-ugee Relief organization tolaunch its new series called"Newcomers Family Cine-ma."

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Runnymede Library onBloor Street West in BloorWest Village will be clos-ing on Jan. 30 for renova-tions.

The library was sched-uled to close in November,but after delays, the li-brary will close at the endof the month for approxi-mately four months of ren-ovations, Parkdale-HighPark Councillor SarahDoucette said in her news-

letter.Several renovations

will be made including thereplacement of the servicedesk, relocation of the self-service checkout, a newautomated self-servicecheck in, reconfiguredspace for public worksta-tions, additional seating, astudy space and new floor-ing and finishes and more.

Doucette added therewill be alternate service

during the closure period.Those services include:• Hours of operation at

Annette Branch will be ex-panded from 50.5 hours to63.5 hours, and will in-clude service on Sundays.Hours of operation atSwansea MemorialBranch will be expandedfrom 28 hours to 57.5hours.

• Ready for Reading sto-ry-time programs to be de-

livered at Swansea Memo-rial and Annette branches

• Youth Advisory Group(YAG) program to be deliv-ered at Annette Branch.

• Adult book club pro-gram to be delivered atSwansea MemorialBranch.

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two years of advocacy andworking with the commu-nity, the City of Torontohas initiated an implemen-tation study."

The implementationgroup consists of land-scape architects DTAH,Workshop Architecture,Dillon Consulting, ToniPaolasini, ASI Heritageand A.W. Hooker, a post onPark People’s website said.

"It’s really exciting.We’ve seen small steps to-wards this in the last cou-ple of years," he said. "Butthe initiation of this studyis a big step forward in thatin lays out a path for howthis project can get builtover time."

Davenport CouncillorAna Bailao said the parkwill create new green spac-es and help connect com-munities.

"The Green Line is vital

to the west end and the cityas a whole," she said. "Thecreation of more cycling in-frastructure and new com-munity green spaces arecritical pieces to building aconnected, inclusive andvibrant Toronto."

She added in her news-letter the city’s proposed10-year capital plan hasfunds available to conducta study of the proposal andhelp to construct some ofthe elements included inthe plan. The idea for theGreen Line originated outof a design competition cre-ated by Helena Grdadolnikof Workshop Architecturein 2012.

She previously told Met-roland Media Toronto shewanted to get the commu-nity at large excited aboutthe prospect of linking thescattered green spaces inthe area.

"I live in the area and myoffice is in the area, so I waspersonally really interest-ed in seeing the spaces im-proved and linked," shesaid. More informationabout the project can befound on parkpeople.ca.

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The High Park Stewardshave been working with theCity of Toronto since 1996to protect and restore theremaining native areas ofthe park, including largeareas of savannah withblack oak trees and more,the group said on its web-site.

During the spring, sum-mer and fall, the groupplants and collects seeds,and removes invasive spe-cies from the park.

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"There’s very little of itleft (High Park’s habitats),"Lovett said. "It’s importantto protect those."

On Sunday, Jan. 22, thegroup celebrated its 20thbirthday with a party atHoward Park Tennis Club,where dozens of city staffand current and formervolunteers discussed thegroup’s work over theyears. Parkdale residentBill Montague, 60, told TheVillager he joined the Stew-ards five years ago becausehe wanted to find a "posi-

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Lovett said the Stewardshave had over 11,000 partic-ipants working over 30,000hours throughout its histo-ry.

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"We’ve been wantingthis for quite a long time,"said Jamie Isbister, chair ofthe Bloor West Village Res-

idents Association. "It’s fi-nally happening."

On July 8, 2014, citycouncil approved a motionto request the chief plan-ner and executive directorof city planning review thearea.

The study has fourphases, and is currently in

phase one: existing condi-tions assessment.

Isbister told The BloorWest Villager the results ofthe study will help "pre-serve and enhance thecharacter" of the area.

"Any new buildingscoming should sort of rec-ognize that there’s a char-acter to the village, and tryto fit it rather than be total-ly different," he said. "Werecognize that develop-ment is going to happen,but we just want the bestpossible (outcome) to actu-ally happen."

The first communityconsultation meeting andpublic open house will beheld from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30p.m. on Monday, Feb. 27, inthe gymnasium at St. PiusX Catholic School, which islocated at 71 Jane St.

The city has also creat-ed a website where thestudy’s progress can bemonitored.

For more information,visit: http://bit.ly/2j4YPBI

COMMUNITY

Bloor West Village Avenue Study beginsCommunityconsultation

meeting, open house on Feb. 27


The boundary of the Bloor West Village Avenue Study. The study area will be focused on Bloor Street Westbetween Keele Street and the Humber River.

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