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Thornhill vice-principal arrested

Thornhill’s Lillian Golden celebrated a milestone 100th birthday earlier this month. Here, she enjoys a dance with her son Niel as her granddaughter Lani Billard and daughter Beverley look on. Lil-lian says she still loves to dance. Family and friends honoured her at a big buffet party featuring a photo slide show, dating to the time she was just 2 years old.

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Parents at a Catholic high school in Thornhill have been left stunned after the arrest of a vice-principal under suspicion of sexual assault and exploitation of a

male student.Paul Patterson, from St. Robert

Catholic High School, was taken into custody by York Regional Police Tuesday and was expected to appear before Newmarket court yesterday to be formally charged.

As hundreds of teenagers exited the Leslie Street school Tuesday, parents shared their shock at hear-

ing the news.Fred Tehrani said the news had

left him wondering what sort of steps the school’s administration and the York Catholic board will take in the wake of the investiga-tion.

“I am pretty shocked by this. It’s terrible for the school name, especially a Catholic school,” he

said. “I hope they are taking some serious steps.”

Another parent of a Grade 9 female student said she is just hop-ing it’s not the vice-principal in charge of her program.

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The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is marking its 50th anniversary this year and as

part of the celebration, it’s break-ing out the fine china, so to speak.

The Kleinburg gallery’s new-est exhibition On Paper, which opened last month and runs until May 1, will give visitors a glimpse at a selection of rarely seen works on paper from the McMichael’s permanent collection.

“What’s special or of particular interest with respect to this exhibi-tion… is that these works, because they’re works on paper, are only suitable for temporary exposure,” said Chris Finn, assistant curator at the McMichael. “We need to be able to exhibit them only for short periods of time and then they have to go into dark storage for an extended period of time just to balance out how much light expo-sure they actually get.”

Among the pieces on display, is Emily Carr’s 56-page diary and sketchbook produced in 1903 dur-ing a visit to Europe and England, when she wound up hospitalized for 18-months to treat a persistent illness

An iPad has been installed alongside it allowing visitors to scroll through its entire contents.

The exhibition also boasts stun-ning watercolours by Group of Seven member A.J. Casson.

“You can see different strate-gies that Casson was working with in terms of certain pre-planning,” Finn said. “You can see some of the graphite lines that were laid out in terms of establishing the composition, but he certainly did have the mastery and control of the medium.”

There’s also a series of unique watercolours by David Milne, including Morning Paper, which has never been publicly exhibited and was recently promised as a gift to the McMichael gallery.

“He worked in a wide variety of media — he was doing oil painting as well as drypoint etchings – but this series of watercolours is really quite an interesting handling of the media,” Finn said. “A very atmospheric and very controlled application of the paint and colour.”

Group of Seven fans may also enjoy the series of seldom dis-played, playful drawings by Arthur

Lismer of Tom Thomson and members of the iconic group of Canadian landscape painters.

“Lismer, according to com-ments Lawren Harris made, was always carrying pencils and papers

and was this inveterate sort of draftsman who continued to pro-duce works wherever,” Finn said. “We have do have works in the collection where he’s taken a the-atre program from a performance

at The Arts and Letters Club and started sketching out a caricature of Lawren Harris. So he would draw on anything.”

On Paper also features Clar-ence Gagnon’s original fifty-four artworks for Maria Chapdelaine, a novel written in 1913 by the French writer Louis Hémon based on his experiences in the Lac Saint-Jean district of Québec.

Éditions Mornay, a book pub-lisher in Paris, commissioned Gagnon to create the first colour illustrations for a new edition of the novel.

“He originally resisted agreeing to this commission because of the amount of time required for pro-ducing these kinds of limited edi-tion books because he was active as a painter and as printmaker,” Finn explained. “It took a lot of encouragement and constant pressure from the publisher to get Clarence Gagnon to actually com-mit to doing this series.”

It wound up taking Gagnon five years of intense work to complete the illustrations.

“He would spend months and months and months developing

studies before he reached a final work that would serve as the illus-tration in the book,” Finn said.

The Maria Chapdelaine display also includes copies of the original limited-edition Éditions Mornay novel as well as the 1931 French periodical L’Illustration, which promoted the book.

One of the first Maria Chapde-laine films, produced in France in 1934 and directed by Julien Duvivi-er, and a hand-drawn lithographic poster promoting the film, are part of the exhibition too.

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ONLINE: To find out more about On Paper, visit www.mcmichael.com

McMichael offers glimpse at rare paper piecesClockwise from top: Morn-ing Paper, David Milne. Watercolour on paper 36.8 x 49.5 cm. Promised Gift of Katia and John Bianchini to the McMichael; Pansies No. 1 David Milne. Watercolour over graphite on paper 38.1 x 55.3 cm Gift of Mr. R.A. Laidlaw; Housetops in the Ward, AJ Casson. Water-colour over red conté and graphite on paper sheet: 40.5 x 17.3 cm; image: 37 x 42 cm Repatriated from the United States by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection with the assistance of a grant approved by the Minister of Canadian Heritage under the terms of the Cultural Prop-erty Export and Import Act.

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FORM 6 | Municipal Act, 2001

SALE OF LAND BY PUBLIC TENDERTHE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF MARKHAM

Take Notice that tenders are invited for the purchase ofthe lands described below and will be received until 3:00p.m. local time on April 7, 2016, at the Clerk’s Department,City of MarkhamMunicipal Office, Main Level, 101 TownCentre Blvd., Markham Ontario.

The tenders will then be opened in public on the same dayas soon as possible after 3:00 p.m. at the City of MarkhamMunicipal Office, 101 Town Centre Blvd., Markham.

Description of Lands:Roll No. 19 36 020 136 60640 0000; PIN 03047-0723(LT);Block 70, Plan 65M3459; Markham; File No. 14-32

Minimum Tender Amount: $8,162.96Roll No. 19 36 020 111 24000 0000; Steelcase Rd W,Markham; PIN 03004-0024(LT); Parcel S-1 Section M1707;Block S Plan M1707; S/T MA90250; S/T LA603664 Markham;File No. 14-70

Minimum Tender Amount: $8,430.34Roll No. 19 36 020 126 65046 0000; Birchmount Rd,Markham; PIN 02988-0448(LT); Part Lot 7, Plan 65M2616designated Part 1 Plan 65R17201 except Parts 20 & 22 PlanD1004, Markham. T/W Parts 1 & 2 Plan 65R17201 as inLT990752. S/T easement Part 21 Plan D1004; File No. 14-74

Minimum Tender Amount: $132,522.63Tenders must be submitted in the prescribed form andmust be accompanied by a deposit in the form of a moneyorder or of a bank draft or cheque certified by a bankor trust corporation payable to the municipality andrepresenting at least 20 per cent of the tender amount.

Except as follows, themunicipality makes norepresentation regarding the title to or anyother matters relating to the lands to be sold.Responsibility for ascertaining thesematters restswith the potential purchasers.This sale is governed by the Municipal Act, 2001 andthe Municipal Tax Sales Rules made under that Act. Thesuccessful purchaser will be required to pay the amounttendered plus accumulated taxes, HST if applicable and therelevant land transfer tax.

The municipality has no obligation to provide vacantpossession to the successful purchaser.

For further information regarding this sale and how toobtain a prescribed form of tender, visit:markham.ca orif no internet access available, contactMirandaMiluzzi,Managerof TaxandCashManagementThe Corporation of the City of Markham101 Town Centre Blvd., MarkhamON L3R 9W3905-477-7000 Ext. 4726 |mmiluzzi@markham.ca

PLEASE NOTE:Tax Sales are not typical real estate transactions. If youare considering participating in a tax sale, it is highlyrecommended that you seek independent legal advicefrom a lawyer licensed to practice in Ontario and in goodstanding with the Law Society of Upper Canada.

In addition, it is not permitted to enter upon a propertythat is advertised for tax sale. These are not typical realestate transactions. Entering upon a property advertisedfor tax sale proceedings is considered to be trespassing.

You are invitedPUBLIC INFORMATIONMEETINGManaging Growth inMarkham to 2041This public information meeting is your opportunity to learnabout the growthmanagement exercise being undertaken bythe Region of York, and to share your views on how the City ofMarkham should grow.

Monday, April 11, 2016 • 7 p.m. (Presentation)MarkhamCivic Centre – Council Chamber

101 Town Centre BoulevardMarkham Council recently adopted a new Official Plan which willaccommodate expected population and employment growthto 2031. The Region of York is now planning for growth to 2041.Population and employment growth to 2041 has been assigned tothe Region through the Provincial Growth Plan for the Greater GoldenHorseshoe. The Region must amend its Official Plan with a strategy foraccommodating this growth by 2018.

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When your child plays hockey and how much ice time is given to that particular hockey club is about to change.

Markham recently adopted a new ice allo-cation policy, in which ice time in Markham will be allocated based on residency.

That means the more Markham residents a hockey or skating club has, the more ice time it will get under the city’s new policy.

All 670 hours of available ice time are up for grabs.

The new formula divides ice users into categories, house league youth hockey, com-petitive youth hockey, adult hockey, commu-nity skating groups and competitive hockey.

Youth house league hockey or commu-nity hockey gets the bulk, about 30 per cent, of the city’s ice time or about 200 hours.

Each category is then further subdivided by residency – the more Markham players; the more ice time a group gets within that category.

Previously, ice times were distributed by historical need, “no questions asked,” said the city’s recreation director Mary Creighton.

And this limited the ability for groups to grow and get more ice time, she added.

Along with ensuring Markham residents are using Markham ice pads, the new policy

puts house league and youth recreation pro-gramsat the top of the priority list.

“There will be winners and losers,” Creigh-ton said.

Since ice allocation has been an ongoing issue, pitting user groups against each other for ice time, setting up a formula based on residency is only fair, said Councillor Don Hamilton said.

“The city has been trying to get something more equitable than just higgledy-piggledy handing hours out,” he said. “This is really good, totally transparent.”

THORNHILL HOCKEY AMONG LOSERS

But the new formula leaves the Thorn-hill Community Hockey League (TCHL) on the losing side of ice time, losing upward of about 30 hours, which almost cuts the amount of ice time in half.

“No club wants to see another club shut down,” Crieghton said.

And other clubs agreed to give special consideration to the long-standing hockey club, she added.

As a way to help soften the blow, Markham council agreed to include the Vaughan side of Thornhill, those with an L4J postal code, into the ice allocation formula for all user groups.

That means, the TCHL would only see a loss of about 13 hours instead of 30 hours.

TCHL could not be reached for comment.Ice time for the Markham Islanders club

will also be impacted. The club’s current 64.5 hours would drop to 56 hours.

“We don’t know what effect this will have,” said Randy Jacobs, a general manager with the Islanders club.

The new policy also includes division of the city’s shoulder ice time – Monday to Friday, 4 to 5 p.m. and 10 to 11 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 7 to 8 a.m. and 10 to 11 p.m. – where shoulder time was divvied up based on need with no formal policy or precedents in place.

“We are spoiled,” Creighton said. “We don’t have groups that start at 6 a.m. on a Saturday or Sunday. If you go to any other municipality that’s very common practise.”

City staff are gathering current enrolment numbers from local hockey and skating clubs and checking residency of each player in order to set a new ice time schedule for the 2016/2017.

Winners, losers expected with Markham’s new ice allocation rules

Markham tennis clubhouse to be rebuilt

at cost of $150,000When the Markham Tennis Club serves up

its 2017 season, it will be sporting a new look.The organization’s clubhouse is set to

undergo a total reconstruction after the city approved a plan Monday.

Located in Reesor Park and originally con-structed in the late 1960s, the club’s 500-sq.-ft. city-owned facility is to be demolished this year and replaced with a prefabricated build-ing.

The cost of the new structure is $150,000.Those costs will be split between the city

and the club, while the maximum contribu-tion to be made by the club will be $75,000.

The city will provide an interest-free loan to the tennis club equivalent to 50 per cent of the reconstruction cost to a maximum amount of $75,000 to be paid back over 20 years.

Repayment starts once the new clubhouse is completed, which is expected May 1, 2017.

The city will provide the club, at no cost, temporary restroom facilities and a trailer during construction.

Club officials are considering a price increase to members, a volume increase and or implementing a special levy.

Lynn Byrd, Markham Tennis Club director of memberships is optimistic the project will attract new members and enhance their cur-rent programs being offered to the nearly 300 members.

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Radio? I like the sound of thatbought a radio this week.

For our kitchen and those who spend time there.

It’s a wooden box, really, smaller than a shoebox, with a very good speaker.

Simple, with a couple of dials. Just as the online reviews

promised, the sound is amazing, with rich bass and a sort of texture I had not heard in years.

It almost made me sad to think we’d gone without these kinds of sounds in our kitchen for so long.

Our old kitchen radio was made of plastic, which I guess was strike one.

Before it died last year, a speak-er had fried, so it played one side of songs recorded in stereo.

You heard parts and instru-ments you’d never really heard before. Which is kind of fascinat-ing at first. Later on it’s just weird.

And, of course, move around a bit in the kitchen and your body interfered with the signal and then some oldies station turned into “alternative pop” or a fact shared on a newscast was drowned out by static.

Enjoying this song? Don’t move! “This just in to the news

desk....”? Everyone freeze!The new radio tunes precisely.

In the last couple of days I’ve tried a jazz station, a classical station, classic rock, an all-news station, CBC, an AM talk radio show.

All sound great, even if the golden age of radio is long past. Don’t tell them that.

When you’re an iffy cook, like myself, and it’s your turn to whip up some grub, you spend a lot of time in the kitchen getting your masterpieces sauteed and fried and boiled and whipped and strained and mashed — and the dishes cleaned.

You start cooking at 5 and din-ner is ready at 7:20 and you’re not sure where the time went and how everything turned out just sort of “OK” rather than wunderbar the way it does when your wife or just about anyone else you know cooks. And how did I dirty so many pots and pans?

So it’s good to have a good radio there with you, to listen to music, the news, baseball games. Then your time in the kitchen was

not spent in vain.Until last year when the Jays

had their run, I kind of forgot how great it is to listen to a baseball game on a radio broadcast, as you let your mind fill in the blanks, draw the pictures, of your hero at bat with two men on and down two strikes and he belts one into the left field seats.

Or the pleasant surprises of just listening to what someone else has chosen to play, rather than what you’ve chosen thanks to “bluetooth options and wireless streaming of your favourite music” — offered on another radio I didn’t buy.

People say they don’t like listen-ing to the ads, but I don’t mind. Ads are the price you pay for lis-tening to a lively radio broadcast for free, the same way ads pay for what we read in a newspaper or see on TV (after the cable charge) or our computer screens (after paying for Internet).

I write about this, I guess, because I surprised myself. People still buy radios? It wasn’t some-body’s birthday. Christmas is long past. I just wanted it, for my family. For myself.

There are a lot of ugly things going on in the world right now and it’s nice to have something you can just turn on that’s beauti-ful and listen in for free. And listen with someone else, share the expe-rience, instead of standing there alone with headphones or earbuds and “your” songs.

The radio actually looks like a larger radio we had when I was a kid. Maybe it’s designed to look that way — old school, with new technology inside, playing the sounds of more carefree times.

You kind of wish you could tune in and hear times are good, and there is peace and prosperity in the world. But then it’s a radio, not a time machine.

LStop busway and war on vehicles

We need to stop the Viva Busway on Bathurst from Hwy. 7 to Centre Street.

During and after its con-struction, it would result in total gridlock for north-south traffic in York Region. Already, it is excrutiatingly slow to travel from southern York to northern York, due to the paucity of north-south roads. Digging up Bathurst would degrade an already unbear-able traffic situation into a nightmare gridlock.

Good transit is appreci-ated, but not at expense of making it impossible to drive. There are hundreds of thou-sands of drivers of cars, trucks, school buses and emergency vehicles, who simply cannot use public transit, even if they want to.

For example, medical or industrial enterprise staff, who need to be at work at 7 a.m. or at midnight, for example, including Sundays and statutory holidays, work-ing at facilities in York Region that are many kilometres from any bus stop.

And, even if workplaces are on a bus line, there are almost always no bus depar-tures and connections that would allow arrival at work locations when work starts at 7 a.m. or at midnight.

Putting Viva on Bathurst would not only constitute an assault on drivers, it would actually be a diversion that slows public transit.

The fast way for Viva — supposed be “rapid transit” — is to use Hwy. 7 to go from the Richmond Hill terminal to York University, without detouring onto Bathurst and Centre. Destroying the ability to drive in York Region while digging up Bathurst and Cen-tre to “un-rapidify” Viva is insane.

For all wishing to help stop this disaster-in-the-making of bus lanes construction on Bathurst and on Centre, please email me at goodus-er@sympatico.ca or call 647-882-7236.

HowarD DavyThORNhILL

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Impose levy on house sales

Canada is poised at the edge of a massive financial precipice. A recent TD Bank forecast of a $150 billion defi-cit in five years stands in stark contrast to a predicted bal-anced budget in four years Justin Trudeau’s Liberals anticipated just months ago.

Canada is in serious finan-cial trouble.

Many worthy causes are anticipating promised infra-structure funding: roads, bridges, sewers, all forms of transit, Aboriginal housing and education, social hous-ing, etc. Any one of these could absorb the $10 billion or so that Trudeau can safely commit this year.

Drastic problems demand drastic solutions. Consider this idea.

Canada should tap into the greatest source of wholly unearned, often unexpected, wealth we’ve ever experi-enced. The inexorable rise in home prices in many regions has created virtual fortunes for many homeowners.

Two examples: my fam-ily purchased a home in the far north end of Toronto in 1968. We were stunned at the price — $40,000 — exactly double what we received for our Winnipeg residence. This despite being in a thinly pop-ulated area with gravel roads

and barns and livestock still evident in nearby fields.

This home recently sold in one day for $900,000.

Friends made an early purchase in Don Mills for about $15,000. Lesser homes on their street are now selling for just over $1 million!

My suggestion — an assessment of perhaps 10 per cent on such gains made on homes sold in designated regions of Canada.

There were four different owners of our North York home after we sold it — an average gain of $200,000. A special levy of $20,000 should still leave them smiling and would — cumulatively and progressively — provide the funds all levels of govern-ment so desperately need.

Toronto reported about 100,000 homes sold in 2015. Just do the math.

Of course, there will be market changes over the coming years, but as long as Canada remains such a desirable country of destina-tion, major immigration will continue and as will rising home prices in most areas.

Harvey rempel RIChmOND hILL

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1,800 or so,” she said. “This is really shocking to hear this.”

The parent of a 15-year-old Grade 10 male student said the news is very bad, but added that it can happen anywhere and this news will not cause him to lose faith in the school.

“Nobody likes this, that’s for sure,” he said. “But it doesn’t change the school, this kind of

thing can happen anywhere ... in any com-munity.”

Patterson is one of three vice-principals at the school, which is located near Leslie Street and Hwy. 7.

York Regional Police said they will release a statement about the arrest only after Patterson appears in court.

The York Catholic District School Board has not yet responded to a request for comment.

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York Region man charged with impaired driving after ATV collision injures son

York Regional Police charged a man with impaired driving follow-ing an all-terrain vehicle collision that injured his five-year-old son.

Police were called to the scene of the collision in a parking lot near Pasadena Drive and Lake Drive in Keswick just before 3 p.m. March 19.

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Markham man charged after 843 lbs of marijuana found in truck

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York Regional Police and Markham Fire and Emergency Ser-vices responded to reports of an explosion and a fire at a residence at 45 Douglas Haig Dr. in the area of Steeles Avenue and McCowan Road.

A 30-year-old man at the scene was transported to hospital with serious injuries.

A 26-year-old woman and three children, a three-year-old boy, a two-year-old girl and a three-month old girl, were taken to hospital for minor injuries.

One YRP officer, who was among the first on scene, was also taken to hospital for minor injuries related to smoke inhalation.

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A finding of not guilty in a criminal court does not automatically mean a sexual assault did not happen.

This has been repeated often by advocates for sexual assault survivors over the month since fired CBC personality Jian Ghomeshi’s trial on four counts of sexual assault and one count of choking to overcome resistance ended.

“People believe that if it goes to this uni-versal system such as the law, the truth will prevail. That is not necessarily the case with sexual violence,” says Nicole Pietsch, coor-dinator of the Ontario Rape Crisis Centres. Parts of the story may be missing, there may not be enough evidence to proceed with charges, or, at trial, to reach the standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

“Just because there was no charge, or the charge didn’t stick, it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen,” Pietsch said.

In the Ghomeshi case, during which he did not testify, the judge’s decision rests almost entirely on the testimony of the three complainants, which the defence argued cannot be trusted because they each demon-strably lied under oath about their contact with Ghomeshi following the alleged sexual assaults.

Ontario Court Justice William Horkins will deliver his ruling today (Thursday) on five charges related to incidents that allegedly occurred between 2002 and 2003.

Although they were part of the same trial,

the judge must consider the charges sepa-rately — a similar-fact application was not made by the Crown, likely due to evidence of communication about the allegations between two of the complainants.

After entering his pleas of not guilty before an in-camera third-party records applica-tion, Thornhill native Ghomeshi did not say a word in court except in whispers to his defence team, and to his mother and sister who sat behind him in the public gallery.

Defence lawyer Marie Henein dramati-cally produced correspondence between two complainants and Ghomeshi, that she argued contradicted their testimony — that the first complainant never contacted Gho-meshi again after the second alleged sexual assault, and that another complainant never sought a romantic relationship with him.

The third complainant only admitted to police shortly before her testimony in court that she had had a sexual encounter with Ghomeshi on a night following the alleged sexual assault, Henein said.

The defence also argued during closing submissions that the Crown failed to prove absence of consent beyond a reasonable doubt in one complainant’s case, based on the content of emails and a handwritten let-ter she sent Ghomeshi in the days after the alleged sexual assault.

Crown prosecutor Mike Callaghan urged the judge not to rely on stereotypes about the way sexual assault victims should behave

or how they interact with their attackers. He added that the woman’s correspondence with Ghomeshi after the assault does not mean she consented to being slapped or choked.

“Notwithstanding vigorous cross-ex-amination, all three Crown witnesses were unshaken in their allegations that they were sexually assaulted by Mr. Ghomeshi,” Cal-laghan said. “The evidence on these key points, the very offences being alleged, was steadfast.”

Ghomeshi faces another trial in June on

another charge of sexual assault that alleg-edly happened in the workplace. Two sexual assault charges concerning two women were withdrawn prior to the current trial because the Crown found no reasonable prospect of conviction.

But many of the allegations against him of violence and harassment have been made through the media, beginning with a Toronto Star investigation, and have not been report-ed to the police.

— Alyshah Hasham/Torstar

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While the federal Liberals are trumpeting their first budget as an investment in Cana-dians’ futures, critics complain the financial document, at best, fails to deliver on key promises and, at worst, leads the country down the road to ruin.

In his budget, called Growing the Middle Class, Finance Minister Bill Morneau laid out a spending spree that will see the government spend $11.9 billion on infrastructure, bring in a child benefit that will lift thousands of chil-dren out of poverty and help middle-income families, and kick-start the economy.

But the budget also made a laughing stock of an election promise to keep the deficit at less than $10 billion.

This year’s deficit will hit almost three times that benchmark at $29.4 billion. And while Morneau hopes to balance the books in five years, he didn’t put that in writing.

The budget reflects the message Cana-dians have given the government to help families and make investments in the future, he said.

“What we’re also going to do is be prudent along the way,” he said.

Investments in infrastructure include $3.2 billion for public transit, with $2.41 billion of that coming to Ontario and Quebec, $2 billion for clean water and wastewater and $3.4 bil-lion for social infrastructure, such as housing, child care and recreation facilities.

But although $1.48 billion is earmarked for affordable housing, Richard Lyall, president of Vaughan-based Residential Construction-Council of Ontario or RESCON, doesn’t think the funding will make much of a dent in the lack of affordable housing in York Region.

“This budget on housing is a real mess. I like the parts on seniors’ renos, homelessness and shelter. Other than that, it lays a massive bill in the hands of millennials without deal-ing with the real problems,” the Newmarket resident said.

Housing affordability is a huge problem, particularly in York Region, and is having a sig-nificant impact on economic development as young people struggle to afford places to live.

That dynamic is stopping businesses, look-ing for a ready workforce, from setting up in the region, Lyall said.

Fewer than 50 rental units have been built in York in each of the last three years, he said.

The federal budget will merely put a Band-Aid of “drop in the bucket” limited funding on a housing market bogged down in systemic challenges, including new housing taking about 10 years to get through the development approvals pro-cess and construction.

York Region chair Wayne Emmerson con-gratulated the govern-ment on its budget, pointing out Ottawa has committed more than $120 billion over the next 10 years to improve and expand

public transit, increase affordable housing, modernize water and wastewater infrastruc-ture and enhance broadband service in rural and remote communities.

Emmerson and several mayors and region-al councillors met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and federal officials on a bus trip to Ottawa last month to lobby for a number of York priorities, including the extension of the Yonge subway to Richmond Hill, advancing all-day, two-way GO service serving Markham, Stouffville, Vaughan, King, Aurora and New-market, completing the final four Viva rapid-way segments, addressing affordable housing needs and the Upper York Sewage System.

“Clearly, our federal partners listened, as our priorities align very closely with the priori-ties of the government of Canada,” Emmer-son said.

But unlike Conservative infrastructure pro-grams of the past, the Liberal budget doesn’t appear to invest in big-ticket, job-creating initiatives, such as subways, roads and bridges this time around, Thornhill Conservative MP Peter Kent said.

Instead, funding appears to be going toward supporting existing transit stock, he said.

‘NIGHTMARE BUDGET,’ SAYS KENT

The Liberals’ decision to break its promise to keep the deficit below $10 billion will kill jobs and plague future generations with mas-sive debt, Kent said.

“We’re characterizing the budget as a night-mare budget. It has more than $100 billion in undisciplined spending projected and there’s no plan to balance the books,” he said.

While he praised the government for spending money on affordable housing and affordable rental housing, which will benefit York Region, he said it will take a long time to actually get the units built.

The Canadian Taxpayers’ panned the bud-get as a reckless dive into unnecessary deficits and increased public debt.

“If this government held a contest to pick a title for this budget, the winner would prob-ably be Spendy McDebtface,” director Aaron Wudrick said in a statement.

“The Liberals campaigned on real change, but this plan bears a striking resemblance to the last government’s ill-advised choice to plunge the country into a long string of deficits. The biggest change on offer here is absolutely no plan to get back to a balanced budget.”

Meanwhile, the taxpayers’ federation did welcome several measures in the budget,

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Families with incomes of $30,000

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Peizheng Qiu, 28, of Toronto has been charged with first-degree murder and indecent interference with a dead body after police discovered a grisly crime scene at a Thornhill home late Sunday.

The investigation began after two men walked into a Scarborough division of Toronto police at 6:30 p.m. Sunday to report a body at Laureleaf Road, in the Bay-view and Steeles area.

One of those two men was charged, while the other was interviewed.

Early Monday morning, York police pulled five body bags from the home, explaining to reporters that reports of a dismembered body are accurate and con-sistent with the charges the man faces.

The victim will not be identified until next of kin is notified, police said.

YRP Const. Andy Pattenden said the scene was “grisly and challenging” for all officers, including vet-eran homicide investigators.

He added that the accused was to appear in a New-market court Monday and again on Friday, April 8.

One neighbour said the home has switched hands a number of times over the last few years.

Since the last time, he said he has seen suspicious activity in the home, including people coming and going at all hours of the night.

There were a number of high-end cars at the site the previous night.

The home has been under construction for signifi-cant period of time, he added.

Another resident, who did not want to be identified, has lived in the community 50 years, confirmed his neighbour’s statement saying he witnessed a number of “weird” people in the house.

“We’re so shocked,” she said. “We’ve seen all kinds of things going on in there of late.”

She said a number of the homes in the area are under construction lately because of the large lot sizes in the area.

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This home, on Laureleaf Road, in the Bayview and Steeles area is the scene of a murder investigation after police discovered a body earlier this week.

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Police seek help in Vaughan theft

Crime Stoppers has issued an appeal for help in a Vaughan theft investigation.

According to police, on Nov. 11, 2015 at 5:59 p.m., an unknown male suspect entered the Canada Computers at Rutherford Road in Vaughan. The male suspect selected a MyGica ATV380 Android media player.

The suspect removed the security fea-ture and concealed the player inside his pocket, police said. The suspect then left the store without making any attempt to pay for the item.

The suspect is described as: a white male in his late 20s. He is about 5’8”, 180 lbs, with dark hair and a beard. He was wearing a black North Face brand jacket

and black pants.If you know the suspect responsible for

this crime or have any knowledge of this or any other crime, but wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS, leave an anonymous tip online at www.1800222tips.com or text message your tip to CRIMES (274637) starting with the word YORK.

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York police are searching for a masked man who robbed a Thornhill bank last Fri-day.

The robbery took place at 2:30 p.m., in the Rutherford Road and Bathurst Street area. A lone male suspect entered the bank, began to yell “give me the money,” before jumping over the counter into the tellers’ area. He took money from an open till, jumped back over the counter and fled on foot.

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Operators of Vaughan daycare where child died get 30 days, fineBy Jeremy Grimaldijgrimaldi@yrmg.com

The operator of an unlicensed daycare in Vaughan begged for mercy last week before being sen-tenced for breaking provincial law by running a crowded and unsani-tary daycare at which a two-year-old child died from unconfirmed causes.

Olena Panfilova was also charged by York Regional Police with man-slaughter March 17 in connection with the 2013 death of Eva Rak-ovich, 2, at Newmarket court.

In relation to the provincial charges at the Tannery court in Newmarket, she received a jail term and fine along with her co-accused.

Panfilova, her husband, Rus-lan Panfilova, and her daughter, Karyna Rabadanova, each received a 30-day sentence, which they are able to serve on weekends, along with three $15,000 fines.

“I was trying to help the parents, people who were not able to pay large amounts of money,” she said through an interpreter while fight-ing back tears. “It was my beloved work. I was involved in that for 27 years. All the money I made I was

putting it into my business and not in order to become rich. Because of everything that occurred, I am in a very poor situation and my daughter is under stress. I have lost my health. I am in a very bad place and I really didn’t want it to happen. I beg you to understand me.”

She said this despite Justice of the Peace Marie-Christine Smythe noting during her sentencing that the three were making between $700 and $850 a month for each of the 28 children split between two houses.

This was not the only damming evidence, Smythe told the court, explaining that, at one point, a wit-ness saw Panfilova unable to walk straight and smelling of alcohol while at the daycare.

Another witness said Panfilova showed her documents alleging that they were a licensed facility and yet another claimed Panfilova told them to be careful as they were “being watched”, as authorities began looking into the conditions during an initial investigation at the two houses on Yellowood Circle in Vaughan.

No action was taken as a result of that investigation.

However, her lawyer said the daycare was little more than good intentions, gone awry.

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” paralegal Phil Bouranov said, after the hearing.

He said the houses acted as more of a cultural centre, where the kids could be around their Russian culture, insisting the money they made was ploughed back into the business, including buying Russian books for the children.

Panfilova started taking care of five children, but the number grew and grew before she eventually had almost 30 staying in two houses, he added.

Officials said they found deplor-able conditions in the houses.

Some 28 children, all under the age of 10, were being kept at two separate houses, located at 343 and 345 Yellowood, along with some 14 dogs and only three adults supervis-ing the situation, the court heard.

The houses were said to have smelled of urine, in a report drawn up by inspectors, and had filthy cribs, crammed conditions and fer-menting food in the fridge.

There were rooms with seven cribs and six playpens, including one in a closet with a child’s scribble on the wall.

There was also listeria found in the home, in chicken stew, cooked grains and deli meats, according to the report.

“We would like to stress that it’s very traumatic for them and they are very remorseful,” Panfilova’s lawyer, J. Richard Forget, said. “The death of a little child is a tragedy. I am sure they will never make a similar offence, I am sure they have learned their lesson.”

A completed coroner’s report into the cause of Eva’s death has not been released because of the ongo-ing investigation.

The Day Nurseries Act allows home daycares to operate with-out a licence only if they look after no more than five children with uncommon parentage.

Patrick Brown, the lawyer repre-senting Eva’s parents in their multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the province and daycare operators, said the prosecution came a step too late.

“Although the operators were found guilty, this type of prosecu-tion should have been brought by the Ministry of Education well before Eva died,” he said.

New legislation passed in the wake of Eva’s death stiffened penal-ties and regulations for unlicensed daycares.

The Yellowood daycare opera-tors were charged under the old rules.

Although the Crown asked for the trio to be banned from run-ning or working as child-carers, the defence said they should be allowed to work around children under supervised conditions.

There has been no ruling on that as of yet.

Panfilova and her daughter also face obstructing justice charges.

JUSTICE

Olena Panfilova at Newmarket court, September 14, 2015

ANDREW FRANCIS WALLACE/ TORONTO STAR

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worship service is held at 7 a.m., followed by light breakfast. Join in family worship at 10:30 a.m., to celebrate Easter Sunday in a traditional family service. All warmly welcome. Call church office at 905-884-3606 for details.

TuESday, March 29On March 29 at Temple Har Zion, 7360

Bayview Avenue, Thornhill, Daytime Speaker Series presents Ian Leventhal on Jewish migra-tion in exciting new program called Suitcases. Bring your lunch for 12 noon; program starts at 12:30 p.m. Members $3; community guests $6. For more, visit templeharzion.com

Markham at the Movies screens My Intern-ship in Canada March 29 at 7 p.m. at Flato Markham Theatre, 171 Town Centre Blvd. Directed by Philippe Falardeau, this satirical film focuses an on independent MP, a back-bencher and former hockey player, who finds himself in an uncomfortable spotlight. His young Haitian intern, has a keen interest in the Canadian system. Film delivers laughs and civic pride. Subtitled. For info: 905-415-7500 or markham.ca

First Link Memory café presented by Mosa-ic Home Care Services & Community Resource Centre, at Shops on Steeles and 404, 2900 Steeles Ave. E., Suite 218 March 29 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Free for those concerned about memory related issues; individuals diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s or related dementias, and their care partners. Share stories, socialize with others. To register, call 905-597-7000. For more, visit mosaichomecare.com

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green Hospice at Angus Glen Golf Club, 10080 Kennedy Rd., Markham March 31 at 6 p.m. for cocktails, dinner at 7 p.m. Attire black tie optional. Enjoy casino games (for fun), live and silent auctions, door prizes and dancing. Jazz singer June Garber and friends will play selections from Bond films and jazz classics. Evergreen aids people of all ages in Markham, Thornhill and Stouffville touched by a life threatening illness or grief. Tickets $175 each; contact Evergreen at 416-499-2185 or hmak@evgcares.org or go to evgcares.org.

Enjoy free French language conversation group in Richmond Hill, Mar. 31 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Covernotes Tea and Coffee House, 10268 Yonge St., beside Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. Adults from York Region welcome to put French conversation skills into action (from francophones to beginners). For details, go online to http://bit.ly/partagez_con-versation or email Partagez.York@yahoo.ca

Dr. Habib, naturopathic doctor, offers free seminar at Four Seasons Naturopathic Well-ness, 305 Carrville Rd., Richmond Hill March 31 at 6:30 p.m. Learn about causes and natur-opathic methods to help children and adults with ADHD and learning disorders. Donations accepted for local food bank. RSVP at 905-597-7201 or familynaturopath.ca.

Friday, apriL 1Open doors, Open Minds, a lecture and

community dinner, is April 1 at Temple Kol Ami, 36 Atkinson Ave, Thornhill. Speaker is Samira Kanji, president of the Noor Cultural Centre, a centre of Islamic learning and culture. Event begin with potluck Shabbat dinner at 6:30 p.m. (vegetarian/dairy and nut free) with members of Noor Cultural Centre, followed by Friday Shabbat service at 7:30 p.m. RSVP to jaykowal@gmail.com for dinner only; for more, visit kolami.ca

participate with your baby in sensory activi-ties and exploration of books, music and games at Markham Wesley Community Services Centre, 22 Esna Park Dr., Markham, Fridays from April 1 to June 3, 11 a.m. to noon. Stimulate your baby’s brain development and motor skills; for ages 3 to 13 months; children must be accompanied by adult at all times. For info/registration call 905-940-3688 ext. 254 or 905-940-5234 ext. 226.

SaTurday, apriL 2The York Region branch of the Ontario Sec-

ondary School Teachers’ Federation has booked all lanes at World Bowl richmond hill April 2 at noon and invites members of the community

to donate $20 to the fundraiser to help bring a Syrian refugee family to York Region. For details, go to www.d16.osstf.ca/refugeesponsorship.

MOnday, apriL 4Ladies 16+

are invited to Chabad F l a m i n g o at 8001 Bathurst St., Thornhill April 4 at 7:30 p.m. for Zumba for dani (Developing And Nur-turing Independence of adults with disabilities). Three teachers help participants move to Latin, hip hop, oldies and more; have fun while raising funds for good cause. Register online at dani-toronto.com or call Susie at 905-889-3264 ext. 226.

Parya Resources for Immigrant Media Educa-tion (PRIME) presents Social Media Training Workshops, a joint program with Markham Public Library, Mondays from April 4 to May 30 at Thornhill Community Centre Library, Bayview and John streets. For newcomer seniors to learn to use of social media tools such as Facebook, YouTube and Google. Class runs 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for 8 weeks. Free; open to all seniors with basic knowledge of PC and keyboarding skills and English language proficiency. To register, call Neda at 647-864-4337 or email Neda.azarmipour@parya.org. Also offered at Milliken Mills Community Centre Wednesdays starting April 6.

Community CalendarAn interactive workshop on How to Combat

Anti-Semitism on University Campuses will be offered April 4 at 7:10 p.m. at Temple Har Zion, 7360 Bayview Ave., Thornhill. Universities are increasingly becoming places of unrest and fear for Jewish students; workshop open to students as young as Grade 7 and their parents. For more, go to templeharzion.com or cjce.ca

WEdnESday, apriL 6Pathways to Success, Series 1: Volunteerism

and Future career choices, a joint program of Markham Public Library and CICS Immigrant Youth Centre, runs Wednesdays, April 6 to June 8 from 4 to 6 p.m. (10 sessions plus one-day event) at Thornhill Community Centre Library, Bayview and John streets. Aim is to support immigrant youth, 15 to 21, to create better opportunities through volunteer and job oppor-tunities. Free; to register call Ophelia Xavier at 905-294-8868 ext. 203 or email Ophelia.xavier@cicscanada.com

Brain power Enrichment presents a special evening with CBC Radio host Terry O’Reilly, April 6 at 7:15 p.m. at 9600 Bathurst St., Suite #313, Thornhill Vaughan (Schwartz Reisman Centre, 3rd floor, Joseph and Wolf Community Campus). O’Reilly will share his personal story to success and the ultimate secrets of persua-sion. Event is free and open to all; seating limited; for more, visit brainpower.ca

The Liberal welcomes submissions of upcoming events from non-profit commu-nity organizations. Every effort is made to include all submissions; there is no guaran-tee of publication. E-mail items to mbeck@yrmg.com

Did you know you can add your own items to our online calendar? Visit: www.yorkre-gion.com/yorkregion-events/

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Your community newspaper is celebrating the achievements and contributions of everyday, ordinary people, who have affected the lives of others in extraordinary ways. Leaving a lasting impression on the community, our award-winning journalists will write a fitting tribute in memory of those who have a special story to share. Through your community newspaper and LifeNews.ca, we celebrate those no longer with us and remember the memories we share.

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By Chris simoncsimon@yrmg.com

ate Coen was a cancer warrior.

The Newmarket woman founded KC’s Cancer Cushion Fund

in an effort to help other people battling the disease pay for treat-ment or living expenses.

While Kate succumbed to cancer in June 2008, her legacy thrives and the fund has raised almost $500,000. To this date, the fund is largely run by her family and friends.

Coen was a stay-at-home mother of three, who experi-enced first-hand the financial hardships brought on by cancer.

Her husband took a good amount of time off work while she was sick, to take her for treat-ment.

“We all tried to pitch in, but we all had jobs too; most of the time, it was left up to (him) to take her and it was really hard on them, financially,” KC’s vice president and Kate’s niece, Jen Haines-Brett said.

“But when she started to meet people she was going through chemotherapy with, she’d hear how horrible it was for them. She met a woman who was a hair-dresser and a single mother. She used to take the bus or subway for chemotherapy and would go to work right after.

“Time she should have spent

Kate Coen helps people battle cancer

Kwith her son was spent at work trying to pay bills. That was sick-ening to my aunt.”

Haines-Brett says Coen’s death still stings. She kept many of Coen’s emails and goes through them every once in awhile. Coen referred to Haines-Brett as her ‘little sis’, ‘friend’ and ‘daughter’.

‘Time she should have spent with her son was

spent at work trying to pay bills. That was sickening to

my aunt.’

“She was a very special per-son,” Haines-Brett said. “She was kind of my hero. She was only 12 years older than me and she lived with my parents for quite some time. She was more like a sister and became my best friend. She talked to everyone; whether you wanted to or not, you made a friend by the time you left. She would try to make a party out of everything. Nothing really sums her up.”

Kelly Pickard-Lefterys, a long-time friend and current president of the fund, also taught Coen’s oldest child at school.

“The people she really con-nected with were these other women, like herself, who were going through chemo,” she said. “She was someone who didn’t leave it to someone else to step

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in. She was very action oriented. She tried to take a very difficult experience and create some meaning out of it.”

Coen was also quite positive, even as her health declined.

“She firmly found her faith later in life,” Haines-Brett said.

“I could never understand how she could be so positive about her prognosis. It made me sick. She wanted to help

every person she could. Se was a people person and involved in everyone’s life.”

The fund will host its 10th annual pub night May 14 at New-market Community Centre and Lions Hall, at 200 Doug Duncan Dr. Pogo Rodeo, featuring Bare-naked Ladies drummer Tyler Stewart and Newmarket High School graduates Tom Gibson and Derek and Duncan Swain,

will perform. Several sponsorship opportu-

nities are available and organiz-ers hope to raise $50,000.

Admission is $30 per person and tickets can be purchased at cushionfund.com.

For more information, visit the cushion fund website or Facebook page or follow the organization’s Twitter handle, @cushionfund.

Kate Coen (right), and her niece, Jen Haines-Brett enjoy a holiday hug.

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JORDAN, Norma Jean (nee Woodworth)

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At Mackenzie Health, Richmond Hill on Monday, March 21st, 2016 at the age of 84 years. Beloved wife of the late Robert (Bob) Jordan. Dear mother of Douglas (Cathy) and Scott. Loving grandmother of Victoria (Brodie), Christopher (Carleigh) and Taylor-Rae and great-grandson Benjamin. Predeceased by her brother Ray Woodworth. She will be remembered by many nieces and nephews. Friends may call at MARSHALL FUNERAL HOME, 10366 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill on Saturday, March 26th from 12 noon until time of service at 1:30 p.m. Interment Elgin Mills Cemetery. Donations to the Lung Association or a charity of your choice would be appreciated.

NASH, LeonardJuly 8, 1946-March 14, 2016

After a courageous battle with cancer, Len passed away quietly in the arms of his beloved wife Heather.

Len was a loving father to Stacey and Shaun. He was a devoted grandfather to Kaiden, Liam and Heaven.

He will be missed by his pets, Maxx and Rylee. He had a quick wit and a great smile. He will be remembered by many friends and family.

His family would like to thank Dr. K. Russell and his team at R.V.H. Barrie and Hospice Simcoe for their warm and loving care.

Cremation has taken place.

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