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If you’re planning to buy a house in the Greater Toronto Area, be prepared to go to war.

As demand in the local housing market increases substantially on an almost monthly basis, so, too, does the number of bidding wars.

Graham Jones, a Re/Max Hallmark agent who has worked in the industry for 25 years, just sold a house in a bidding war that netted his clients a substantial profit.

Their Richmond Hill bungalow was listed for $899,000. There were nine bidders and the property sold for $1.43 million.

He compares the sale to “winning the lottery” for his clients.

“It was underpriced a little bit to set up the bid-ding war, but still, it set records all over the place,” Jones said.

“We had three bidders that were just beating the living daylights out of each other. We didn’t know where they were going to stop. It’s a nice home, but it’s a 65-year-old, 900-square-foot bungalow on a 50-foot lot. They (sellers) are so happy. I can’t even

BIDDING ADIEUto the home of your dreams

Graham Jones brokered the deal that made $180,000 extra on this property at Mill Pond Court and Rumble Avenue in Richmond Hill. The property was listed at $899,000 and sold for $1,080,000. STEVE SOMERVILLE PHOTO

Right now, our dollar is trading at about 80 cents against the American greenback. The British pound and the Euro are also highly valued against our money. That allows foreign investment in the GTA market. “They’re purchasing a $300,000 property for $220,000 US,” Royal LePage sales representative Wasim Jarrah said. “To them, that’s a great deal.”

WEAK CANADIAN DOLLARof bidding wars

ROOT CAUSES

We’re not building new homes fast enough to support demand. Also, Baby Boomers are choosing to stay in their homes, rather than downsize.“If you look at the number of housing starts compared to population growth, we’re just not building homes fast enough,” Joe Asensio, of JN Asensio Realty Inc., said.

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They’re helping to stabilize the economy and make home purchases much more appealing, Asensio said.“The real estate market is going to stay nuts for a long time yet,” he said.

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In northern York Region and some areas of southern Simcoe County, for example, Chinese buyers are bidding amounts substantially above asking price. Wasim Jarrah estimates Chinese bidders account for 60 per cent of people placing bids in multiple-offer situations in the area.

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begin to tell you. They’re retir-ing and going to buy a piece of property up north and build a house. They got way more money in their pocket than they expected. They’re abso-lutely thrilled. Every deal I’ve done in the past two years has been multiple offers.”

It seems this story is becoming commonplace.

The Toronto Real Estate Board reported a 12.6-per-cent increase in home sell-ing prices in April, when compared to the same period l a s t y e a r. The average home sold for $766,472 in Toronto in April, compared to $690,658 in April 2015. Throughout the rest of the GTA, average prices also increased from $605,336 in April 2015 to $724,235 this year.

The increase is blamed on several factors. Interests rates

are at or near record lows, the Canadian dollar lags behind other world currencies and, historically, GTA real estate is a relatively safe investment gamble.

“Our real estate, in world dollars, is still much cheaper than in Washington or London,” Mark Weisleder, a partner in Vaughan’s RealEstateLawyers.ca LLP

f i r m , s a i d . “Even if it’s increased, it’s a good invest-ment for for-eigners.”

Immigration does play a role in driving the market upward. The Ontario government estimates about

100,000 immigrants move into the province each year. Many of those people settle in the GTA.

Between Aurora in York Region and Innisfil in Simcoe County, there appears to be an influx of Chinese buyers.

“They can move their family here while still finding

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While a property may be incredibly attractive and well staged, those lovely accents will disappear once the seller packs up. Establish price margins before putting in an offer on a home. “You can’t get emotional. Leave the emotion at home. You need to feel good about this win, not think, ‘I got this house, but at what price?” Joe Asensio, of JN Asensio Realty Inc., says.

DON’T GET EMOTIONAL

‘leave emotion at home’TIPS FOR BUYERS

This will allow you to feel more comfortable with simpli-fied purchase conditions. Mini inspections have become more popular in the GTA as the housing market heats up. An inspector will check mechanical systems, struc-ture, dampness and the “bones” of the house.

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If you like the property, make sure the seller knows you’re serious. “If 10 people show up, one guy has a cheque and nine don’t, he may not have the best offer, but he’s a sure deal,” Asensio says.

CHEQUE IN HAND

Make sure the house doesn’t cost you a social life. It’s important to be able to spend a night on the town every once in awhile. If necessary, look north into smaller markets, such as Simcoe County.

DON’T LIVE FOR YOUR MORTGAGE

‘We’re just not building enough homes’

Poker face — While you may be excited or overwhelmed when bids come in, it’s important to keep emotions in check. “The bidding process can be fun to watch,” Asensio says. “Even if you love the offer, stay calm. Nobody’s supposed to know your reaction.”

POKER FACE

‘stay calm’TIPS FOR SELLERS

This will cover you in case the proposed buyer has to back away. Deposits don’t necessarily end up in the hands of the sellers. In many cases, that money actually ends up in trust accounts held within the real estate industry. “Those cheques don’t go anywhere; they’re just lost,” Asensio says.

CLOSING INSURANCE

Consider purchasing the next property before placing your current home on the market. This lessens the risk of market fluctuations and ensures there’s a place for you to go after you sell. “You’ve got to do it within the same time (period),” Weisleder says. “Otherwise, you’re speculating whether the market will go down or up and you could be without a place to live.”

ANOTHER HOME LINED UP

affordable housing,” Royal LePage sales representative Wasim Jarrah, who works out of an office in Aurora, said. “Chinese buyers are savvy. They like to negotiate and feel like they’ve got a good deal. It’s the same thing that happened to Markham, and for the Italians in Vaughan. It’s a very healthy real estate market. Even when people are purchasing in multiple offers, they’ll realize a profit if they stay in their properties for up to three years. The (current) sellers are making a sizable profit as well.”

There’s also a significant lack of inventory — a combi-nation of slowly progressing new construction sites and an apparent unwillingness by aging Baby Boomers to sell their homes and downsize.

“If you look at the number of housing starts compared to population growth, we’re just not building homes fast enough,” Joe Asensio, of the Brampton-based JN Asensio Realty, said.

“You see homes going up everywhere, but they’re all sold before they even build them. I’m on the tail end of the Baby Boomers; this will sound terrible, but we’re just not dying fast enough. People need somewhere to live; there just isn’t enough affordable housing available. This trend will continue for a long while. The real estate market is going to stay nuts for a long time yet. I don’t know whether there’s a need to slow it down.”

Asensio is involved in multiple-offer scenarios daily. He watched 51 offers roll in for a property in Brampton recently and admits the number of bids on homes in the area will often enter double digits.

Jones agrees with these assessments that Asian buyers, low interest rates and short supply have driven the housing market. However, some sectors are in higher demand than others. For example, townhouses and condominiums are not gen-erally seeing the same per-centage increases in value as freehold homes.

“People don’t have a lot of options,” Jones said. “It’s impossible to tell whether it’s foreign or domestic money, but there’s certainly a lot of Asian buyers who are des-

perately trying to get free-hold properties in the GTA. Condos and townhouses still sell, and you might even get the occasional bidding war, but it’s two offers or three. Condos have gone up, but it’s not what’s driving the market.”

Prime market conditions are leading to high demand for houses.

Jarrah says any York Region property, for example, cur-rently listed at an appropriate market value, will likely fetch $50,000 to $100,000 more than asking price, if there’s an offer presentation date attached. That date is key because it forces all potential buyers to make blind bids on the property.

“It creates an atmosphere of competitiveness,” Jarrah said.

“No one really knows what that offer price is or what the conditions are. I don’t know what the offer is, but if I want that house, I’m going to put in a lot more money and take out conditions for inspection and financing and everything else. Given there’s a shortage of housing on the market, people want to get into the market and they have to compete.”

Of the more than 120 houses that were listed in Newmarket in early May, for example, nearly 110 had offer dates attached, Jarrah said.

However, the hot market is creating some unintended consequences. With prices jumping so quickly, banks are having difficulty accurately gauging property values. So lenders are starting to ask pur-chasers to come up with larger down payments, to make up for the significant difference between the assessed value of the home and its purchase price.

“Every home has a reason-able limit to what it’s worth,” Asensio said. “We’ve had a couple of scenarios where we’ve actually turned down offers because they were so high you can’t finance to these levels. We’ve turned offers away that were astro-nomical for the value of the area. That’s a hard decision. The need and the greed of the seller factors in.”

Bidders also often exclude some standard conditions from their offers, including

home inspections. The deci-sion is putting purchasers at risk.

“It’s a scar y thing,” Weisleder said. “The pres-sure is high to put in an offer without conditions, in order to win the bidding war. When you put in an offer without conditions, you could have all kinds of serious problems with the property condition after closing, which could c o s t w h o knows how much money to fix.”

The market is also forcing first-time homebuy-ers to look for cheaper properties farther north, in munici-palities such as Barrie, Essa Township, Georgina and Innisfil.

“Newmarket is not a first-time homebuyer community anymore,” Jarrah said, noting the market should stay hot for another 12 to 18 months.

Others aren’t sure the market will slow down by then.

“Are we overpriced?” Asensio said “Realistically… not really. We’re still one of the most affordable areas in the country. I don’t believe we’re in a bubble and I don’t foresee that prices are going to drop anytime soon.”

While rising home values may excite potential sellers, they need to remember that other houses are also jump-

ing in price. So, the hike may negate some of their gains when they try to purchase another property.

Sellers should con-sider buying t h e n e x t

house first, before listing their current property — a decision that will ensure a smoother transition between homes.

Buyers, meanwhile, are advised to stay within their means, even if that forces them to walk away from a bidding war.

“Don’t sacrifice everything to make that mortgage pay-ment,” Weisleder said.

“We’ve turned offers away that were astronomical for the value of the area. That’s a hard decision. The need and the greed of the seller factors in.”

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A bright flash of reason emerged in the haze of Toronto’s new war on drugs this week, when the Toronto Board of Health supported a Joe Cressy motion to essen-tially ask the federal govern-ment what ought to be done about marijuana over the next year or so.

That’s how long Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have given them-selves to come up with legislation governing soon-to-be-legalized marijuana use. New MP and former Toronto police chief Bill Blair is taking the lead on crafting the legislation, and taking appropriate time doing it, so when it finally shows up in the spring of 2017, expect premium law.

Until then?Well legally it’s pretty

straightforward. Trafficking marijuana remains illegal. It is a criminal offence to do so. It is legal to dispense marijuana for medical purposes, but the law as written is restrictive enough that the Supreme Court

has ordered the federal government to make up a new one.

Looked at through that lens, the raids police and bylaw officials conducted last week on storefront medical marijuana dis-pensaries are entirely appropriate, and the 90 individuals, many of them hourly employees, will deserve what they get.

It doesn’t matter if the law will be changed to something excellent for pot smokers a year or so from now: right now the law is the law and that is that.

Trouble is that the legal lens is not the only lens through which we view this.

Marijuana was, is, and will be a widely used drug. It has harmful effects, but those effects exist within a range that most reasonable people find tolerable, the same as they tolerate alco-

hol and tobacco. The major harm mari-

juana does has to do with its illegality: it funds crimi-nal organizations and puts otherwise innocent people in jail. The reason we are on the road to legalizing mari-juana stems in part from those views.

So, what’s wrong really with the proliferation of storefront operations in flagrant violation of the soon-to-be laws?

The answer is that there is plenty wrong, when you look at it through a third lens: that of public health.

According to the report before the board of health this week, there are significant health risks associated with the heavy consumption of the drug, particularly for those who begin their use of it in ado-lescence. It impacts brain development, and it may trigger psychotic disorders in people genetically prone to them.

It’s not nearly the gateway drug some argue

it is, but limited studies indicate it can, in some, increase the risk of going on to more dangerous drugs. And there is a small risk of dependence, and respiratory effects. There is a small amount of evidence that cannabis can cause developmental issues in pregnancy, and dangerous impairment while driving an automobile.

There is something of a haze over all this, because marijuana’s illegality has limited the amount of research on its impacts.

That haze is unavoidable, and will only be cleared in time. But in setting the long timetable for legislative clarity, the federal govern-ment does owe Toronto and the rest of the country some guidance on how to deal with this substance that until then is neither here nor there.

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

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the city

Earlier this year, Mayor John Tory impressed with his evidence-based approach to leader-ship.

Remember that? How faced with evidence that his SmartTrack heavy rail plan couldn’t work as planned, and a three-stop Scarborough subway would be unaffordable, Tory listened to expert advice and admitted he’d been wrong?

Tory displayed brave and refreshingly flexible leadership, and it promised great things for the remainder of the term. It’s a shame to think that the virtues of 2016 might be a short-lived blip.

Last week, Tory and his Executive Committee received more expert advice – this time from city manager Peter Wallace – about the sorry state of the

city’s finances.Wallace made it clear the city

is headed for a financial wall, possibly as early as 2017 and certainly soon after.

It has been a long time coming.

Toronto council has managed to increase services the same

time as it’s kept property tax increases low for about a decade, thanks to circumstances beyond council’s control and that cannot continue. The city’s red hot real estate market has meant that the land transfer tax has increased by about 150 per cent, and the province has been steadily uploading welfare costs.

It was nice while it lasted, and it let councillors and the single-family homeowners they were elected by off the hook.

Well, no more. Wallace made it clear that Toronto politicians need to impose new and reliable revenue tools, and also take better advantage of the major revenue tool they have: property taxes. If they don’t, then service cuts, possibly unpalatable ones, are inevitable.

Tory and his Executive Committee didn’t buy it. Our mayor, in particular, advanced the non sequitur argument that because nearly all voters supported mayoral candidates who wanted taxes kept at the rate of inflation, Wallace’s analysis didn’t fly. Or to put it another way: uninformed opinion ought to trump irrefutable fact.

We understand at some point, a mayor has to dig in on an election promise, and this mayor has let a number of his promises slide already. But with the future of the city clearly at stake, surely the mayor can bow to reality...just this once more.

Toronto council must heed evidence on city’s finances

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it’s happeningw Friday, June 3St. Brigid School Community Fun FairWHEN: 5 to 8 p.m. WHERE: St. Brigid, 50 Woodmount Ave. CON-TACT: [email protected] COST: FreeInflatable rides and obstacle course, face painting, live music, meet and greet with Reptilia Zoo and visits from the Toronto Police canine divi-sion and the local fire station.

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w Saturday, June 4Earl Beatty Fun FairWHEN: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Earl Beatty Public School, 55 Wood-ington Ave. CONTACT: Zenobia, 416-393-9070, [email protected] COST: Prices vary depending on activityGames, bouncy castles and slides, kids spa, bake sale and other food. Live dance and martial arts demon-strations, live music from Trainwreck.

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A small group of parents gathered recently at Kimbourne United Church on Wolverleigh Boulevard to discuss ways to improve child care in east Toronto.

Thirty parents and child care pro-viders came together at a meeting hosted by councillors Janet Davis and Paula Fletcher, and Toronto District School Board Trustee Jennifer Story, to brainstorm ways to push the Province of Ontario to address the lack of available and affordable child care in the area. Carolyn Ferns, public policy and government relations co-ordinator for the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, spoke at the meeting, eager to help push the issue as well.

“I think that child care is one of the most essential social policy issues in Canada right now,” said Ferns. “We need to convince Ontario that they can be a leader again on this.”

The meeting was originally planned to discuss the Ontario government’s proposed changes to child care age groups, staff ratios, and group sizes. Those proposals were since withdrawn by the prov-ince after a landslide of negative feedback from parents and child experts. Instead, the meeting was used to consult with parents about child care issues on which they want Ontario to take action.

Lack of access and affordability were top of the list for parents at the meeting.

Jamie Jennings and his wife have been on several child care waiting lists since she became pregnant. Their child is now eight months old, and they still haven’t found a space.

“We really don’t know what to

do,” said Jennings. “She’s going to have to go back to work, and I work, and we might have to bring in someone to the home and we cannot afford to do that.”

The situation is scary, he added, and keeping him up at night.

Jennings and his wife are just two of many Toronto parents faced with the prospect of not being able to work due to a lack of available and affordable child care, an issue Fletcher pointed out affects more than individual families.

“It’s a problem, a systemic prob-lem, for the economy,” she said.

“This city, t h i s c o u n t r y, cannot run without child care. It’s not just a family issue, it’s not just a

women’s issue, it’s not just look-ing after our kids. It’s about an economy that allows everybody to work in it.”

Wait-list fees is another issue brought up at the meeting, with parents lamenting having to pay to be on wait-lists that might never yield them a child care spot.

Davis noted Toronto has banned child care centres from charging wait-list fees, effective Jan. 1, 2017. Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts introduced a bill May 16 that pro-posed banning the practice through-out Ontario.

The bill also called for more transparency, to let parents know where they are on wait-lists and how admission is offered,

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meeting.On May 17, the Ministry of

Education announced a proposal to do both effective Sept. 1. Visit www.bit.ly/1rX2C46 to get more informa-tion or submit comments about the ministry’s proposal. Feedback will be accepted until July 4.

During the meeting, Sharon Smith, who has a five-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son, said location can be a problem as well.

“My issues were finding a space that was close to where they were going to school,” she said.

“That’s difficult when you have two of two different ages, and you’ve got to get them both close by or to the school, because there’s no point in having care that’s subsidized that’s nowhere near the school that your child’s going to go to, because how do you get them there? Now you’ve got to pay somebody else to take your child from the daycare to the school. That’s, I found, even worse.”

On the affordability issue, one parent noted she has to pay $21,000 yearly for child care. Ontario is said to have the most expensive child care costs in Canada. Before- and after-school care for kindergarten kids is another issue mentioned at the meeting, along with a need for more support for children with special needs.

The meeting finished with brain-storming about how to rally commu-nity support to press the province to address the issues.

“It got my brain working,” said Davis. “We’ve always looked at approaches that are city-wide. I’ve been involved in city-wide, or province-wide, but maybe we just need a local campaign, and to put our voices together locally. These are the priorities of our parents,

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Carolyn Ferns, coordinator of public policy and government rela-tions for the Ontario Coalition for Better Care, addresses parents and child care providers gathered at Kimbourne Park United Church to discuss child care issues.

Four Toronto teens are among a group of 20 students headed to Ottawa to compete in the 2016 Canadian Geographic Challenge finals.

The challenge is one of Canada’s largest student competitions. It started in September, with more than 20,000 students at more than 600 Canadian schools participat-ing.

School champions competed in provincial and territorial finals in February, with 20 students advanc-ing to the national finals in Ottawa Saturday and Sunday. The top stu-dent from each province and terri-tory advanced, with the remaining seven competitors chosen by high-est score. The finalists range from Grade 7 through Grade 10.

When the teens get to Ottawa, they will complete a written test and field work to assess their geographi-cal prowess and whittle down the contestants. Five finalists with the highest scores will face off in a game show-style showdown Sunday at the Canadian War Museum.

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One of the defining features of East York is True Davidson Meals on Wheels, which for over 30 years has been serving the community.

Based at offices at 25 Waterman Ave., the non-profit volunteer service provides roughly 30,000 meals to more than 300 clients each year.

The service is offered at cost to housebound adults, which includes seniors, new mothers, and disabled individuals, six days a week and on holidays throughout the year.

Hot or frozen meals are delivered by a team of two volunteers (one driver and one carrier) to the door of the person requiring it between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Sunday through Friday.

The nutritious meals are paid for within the means of the recipient and can be chosen from a menu that reflects the ethnic diversity of the East York community.

I have spoken about one of the beneficiaries of the

program, Mary Haines, who turned 102 years young this year. She is still totally inde-pendent thanks to the meals on wheels program, which she calls “a blessing.”

Mary, who is of Ojibwa heri-tage with a mixture of German, French and Scottish thrown in for good measure, began her life in Muskoka.

Back in 1914 it was still being forested and her father was a lead lumberman in the area, with her mother coming from Scotland.

When she grew up she came to Toronto looking for work and found it running a punch-press at Honeywell.

There she worked for 34 years and unfortunately due to the noise of the heavy machinery she lost most of her hearing.

Despite that handicap she

remains cheerful and opti-mistic, enjoying each day to its fullest.

She still gets around using the bus and walking, saying her health came from the years of walking long distances when she was young.

She was “prescribed” the True Davidson meals on wheels program by a doctor at Toronto East General Hospital in order to ensure that she had a good diet.

At first she was hesitant, but she decided to follow the doc-tor’s orders and now finds the program to be invaluable.

It’s not just the food that’s important, but also the visit from the volunteer as Mary loves to have visitors.

Take some time to learn more about the organization at www.tdmow.ca or call Hasina at 416-752-9667.

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The Danforth East Community Association is hosting a Table Tennis for Tuition tournament June 14, 16, and 23.

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a Danforth East high-school gradu-ate who demonstrates community leadership.

“Through this scholarship, we want to recognize and support young leaders in our community,” said Elizabeth Dove from DECA. “The Ping-Pong tournament is a really fun way the community can come together to support the development of our local future leaders.”

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finals, happening Thursday, June 23 from 6 to 8 p.m. at East Lynn Park. This year’s Danforth East Scholarship recipient, Chantelle Johnson from Danforth Collegiate, will award prizes to the recreational and competitive champions, and the team with the most spirit, following the finals.

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KEEPING COOL: Youngsters join Beaches-East York Councillor Janet Davis, centre, as they celebrate the opening of the splash pad at George Webster Park Saturday. The splash pad, open daily from 9 a.m. to dusk, has a variety of spray features. The park’s wading pool, which got some minor upgrades, officially opens for the season June 30. George Webster Park is at 30 Chapman Ave.

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The Rainbow flag flew over Toronto City Hall a few weeks early this week, as Mayor John Tory proclaimed the first-ever Pride Month in the city.

“Today we are here to cel-ebrate the launch of Pride Month,” said Tory in front of the rooftop flagpole.

“For the first time we will hold 33 days of LGBTQ2S pro-gramming meant to celebrate the diversity of this dynamic community.”

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Canadian Martyrs Catholic School, 520 Plains Rd. in East York, hosts its Fun Fair this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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The City of Toronto’s City Planning Division, together with the TTC, is planning a new rapid transit line to connect the Yonge-University-Spadina Subway downtown to theBloor-Danforth Subway east of the Don River. This line will relieve crowding on Line 1 (Yonge-University-Spadina Subway), at Yonge-Bloor Subway Station, and on the surface transitroutes coming in and out of downtown. Toronto City Planning and TTC will present the results of the evaluation of alignment options and proposed location for station entrances.

The City of Toronto and TTC, together with Metrolinx, are working to bring more transit tocommunities across the city with connections throughout the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.In addition to the meeting on the Relief Line, additional public meetings are being held to helpyou learn more about integrated transit planning and provide your feedback on key studiesunderway, including SmartTrack, Scarborough Transit Planning and Waterfront Transit “Reset”.

H E L P P L A N T R A N S I T I N T O R O N T OWe invite you to attend a public meeting to learn more about the Relief Line Project Assessment.

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Thursday, June 2Riverdale Collegiate1094 Gerrard St East6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Presentation begins at 7:00 pm.

SMARTTRACK (WEST)Saturday, June 4York Humber High School, 100 Emmett Ave9:30 am – 11:30 amPresentation at 10:00 am

City of Toronto [email protected] tel: 416-338-2848 fax: 416-392-1591 www.toronto.ca/TransitTO

For more information, meeting materialsand to submit online comments, pleasevisit reliefline.ca.

Meetings are wheelchair accessible,contact us if you require otheraccessibility accommodations.

TRANSIT NETWORK PLANNINGTuesday, June 21City Hall Members’ Lounge, 100 Queen St West3:30 pm – 6:30 pmPresentation at 5:00 pm

Wednesday, June 15Matty Eckler Community Centre

953 Gerrard St East6:30 pm – 8:30 pm


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The Toronto Licensing Tribunal ( TLT), a seven-member panel that hears matters relating to a wide variety of licenses issued by the City’s Municipal Licensing and Standards Division, has

permanently revoked the eating establishment license of a hookah lounge at 1530 Danforth Ave., just west of Coxwell Avenue.

The establishment in ques-tion, which was previously

known as Rotana Café and more recently Cloud 9 Café, has been the scene of three murders in three years.

The latest incident, which is Toronto’s 26th homicide of 2016, happened early Sunday,

April 16, when 20-year-old Abdullah Farah of Toronto was killed in a drive-by shoot-ing. Following this murder, the TLT immediately sus-pended Cloud 9 Café’s busi-ness license and requested an expedited hearing at the tribunal regarding revoca-tion of the establishment’s license.

On Wednesday, May 18, the city’s licensing tribunal

reached its decision and ordered its managing director, Hussein Souddo, to immedi-ately surrender his business license.

Long-time area resident Jan Breuls-Dorang was “ecstatic” to hear this news.

“This has taken over my life for at least a year,” she said during a recent interview.

Breuls-Dorang, along with several of her neighbours,

attended the TLT heating last month and said she couldn’t believe what she learned was going on at 1530 Danforth Ave.

“We were shocked by the number of police calls to that address,” she said.

The address was linked to two murders.

The Mirror made a number of attempts to reach Souddo but didn’t hear back.

Danforth Avenue hookah lounge’s licence is revoked by city

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Metroland Media Toronto is accepting tenders to deliver our weekly product door-to- door within the downtown Toronto area once per week. This entails bulk product pick up from our North York location on Wednes- day’s, and have deliveries completed on Thursday’s by 7:00pm to all door-to-door locations.All applicants must be a registered

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Metroland Media Toronto is accepting tenders to deliver our weekly product to drop locations within the downtown Toronto area 1-2 times per week. This entails picking up product from our North York location on Wednesday’s, deliveries completed by Thursday’s at 12:00noon to all drop locations.All applicants must be a registered

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The Neighbourhood Centre invites you to our Annual General Meeting

Friday, June 3, 2016 - 6:30-8pm91 Barrington Avenue

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