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Police launch safety on Danforth campaignJOANNA LAVOIE [email protected]

Toronto police officers from 54 and 55 Divisions have recently launched a project aimed at maintaining safety along Danforth Avenue.

Dubbed Project Annapolis, the initiative is an extension of Project Borderline, which wrapped up in December 2015.

The project will include enforcement to the bars to ensure compliance with various legislations, mostly the Liquor License Act to address the crime and disorder that accompanies overserving, permitting drunk-enness, and serving minors among other things.

Issues have occurred both in and out of local bars.

T h e C i t y ’s Mu n i c i p a l Licensing and Standards Division is also involved in Project Annapolis helping ensure each business has an actual license to operate safely for themselves, their staff and customers.

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Events listings / 5

It’s Canada Day tomorrow and there’s lots of ways to celebrate our country’s 149th birthday on July 1 in the Beach and Riverdale.

Along with daytime parties in local parks, there’s also the

traditional Canada Day fire-works set for Friday night at Ashbridges Bay.

Some of the planned cel-ebrations include radio sta-tion Q107’s annual Canada Day Picnic at Woodbine Park

1. The day-long event, which will include music, food and fun, starts at noon.

There’s also an Olympic Team Beach Party, presented by Hilton, in celebration of the Rio 2016 Team Canada Athletes.

It gets underway at 4 p.m. at Boardwalk Place, at the foot of Woodbine Avenue at Lake Shore Boulevard. The event will feature musical performances, autograph signings by Olympic

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Work is now underway to construct a new accessible pathway and ramp, a new section of sidewalk around the shed, and install some new benches and bike racks at East Lynn Park.

The work, which began on Monday of this week is set to run until Monday, July 11, weather per-mitting.

About a month ago, a construc-tion crew descended on the local green space, which is near Woodbine and Danforth avenues, and without notice starting doing excavation work.

Area residents were surprised and shocked to see portions of the well-used park off-limits during the warmest two months of the year. Many wondered how the many events already scheduled for East Lynn would move forward.

Ward 32 Beaches-East York C o u n c i l l o r M a r y- M a r g a re t McMahon was just as surprised as the neighbours were to learn about workers at the park. Within minutes of finding out about it via social media, her staff was in touch with the Parks, Forestry and Recreation Department to see what was going

on.A short time later, the work was

put on hold so more feedback from the community could be garnered. “We are putting (the project) on pause right now. It will remain an active construction site but we want the kids to be able to play,” McMahon said the afternoon of June 6.

McMahon said she agrees with neighbours who feel that the timing for the work isn’t ideal with so many

community events planned for the local park this summer, notably the popular farmers’ market every Thursday evening.

Later on that day, she invited area residents to make their way to the June 9 edition of the East Lynn Farmers’ Market to check out the plans and share their thoughts.

Feedback from that informal info session (along with calls to McMahon’s office and emails) was taken into account and together

with the city a better timeline for the project was established.

Residents chose Option #2, McMahon explained in a June 23 note to her constituents.

“This involves installing an acces-sible pathway from West Lynn to the sandbox area in the playground. We will not be installing the second shed but will be fixing up the sur-face around the existing shed. New benches and bike racks will also be installed,” she wrote, adding this work should take about a week to complete followed by a week needed for the sod to set.

“We are extremely mindful of all the great summertime events taking place in the park in addi-tion to regular usage so are taking that into consideration with the scheduling of the work. City staff and I have worked hard to ensure the contractor maintains full access to the playground for the duration of the project.”

Areas that were excavated weeks ago will be filled in with topsoil and resodded. The second shed consid-ered for the park will be installed in another green space.

McMahon thanked the Danforth East Community Association for its leadership in helping find a resolu-

tion.She specifically credited area

resident Alison McMurray, whom she called a “die-hard Crusader who led the charge back in the day to transform East Lynn Park into the gem it is today.”

McMurray, who has lived in the neighbourhood for 19 years, was one of a number of local parents who started a petition 15 years ago to improve the local green space.

Eight years later, shovels went into the ground and new playground equipment, a better sandbox, and more trees were installed at East Lynn Park.

The second phase of the project was centered on improving acces-sibility by providing a path from the sidewalk to the playground but a timeline was never determined. And because the plans for this phase were drawn up a decade ago, there were a number of factors that had changed in the design to comply with laws pertaining to accessibility and trees.

McMurray said she’s glad the work was halted so that the community can have a voice in the plans.

“We want to make sure it’s done right,” she told The Beach-Riverdale Mirror..

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Work begins again in East Lynn Park with input from residents

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Construction work started in East Lynn Park earlier this month surprised and alarmed residents who were not aware it had been planned or what work was going to be done. The work resumed this week after consulta-tions with residents.

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DAVID NICKLE [email protected]

In 1991, 15-year-old Yvonne Bambrick rode the streets of Toronto with brash confi-dence – making the consid-erable daily commute from her family home at Victoria Park in East York to Jarvis Collegiate by bicycle, along busy downtown streets that made scant accom-modation for bikes.

“Back when I was a naive teenager, I didn’t think twice about it,” recalls Bambrick 25 years later, sitting on a sunny patio in Kensington Market, steps from one of the city’s massive on-street bike racks and just over a block from the busy College Street bike lanes.

“The concept of bike lanes wasn’t on my brain at all. I

did know it wasn’t safe – I got

doored on the Danforth and had a wipeout on bad road conditions. Otherwise I was just a teenager on her bicy-cle, happy to be free getting where she’s going. It meant I could have all the ice cream I wanted.”

In 2016, the Toronto that Bambrick bikes around is a much safer place. Toronto has a total of 558.4 kilome-tres of on-street bike lanes, including white bicycle lanes, contra-flow lanes that run against the flow of traffic, so-called “sharrows”, signed routes without pavement

markings, and even a few kilometres of cycle tracks

that are fully separated from traffic.

A lot of people use those lanes. According to the 2 0 0 6 C e n s u s , Torontonians bike to and from work like nobody else in the Greater To r o n t o a n d Hamilton Area, with 19,780 com-muting by bike

compared to 14,925 in 2001.

In 2015, Bambrick published a book for

those cyclists: The Urban Cycling Survival Guide: Need

To Know Skills and Strategies

for Biking in the City. It was a book culled from her work advocating for cyclists as the head of the Toronto Cyclist’s Union – now Cycle Toronto – and her years riding Toronto’s sometimes tricky streets.

There’s a lot to know: how to make a safe left turn (there’s more than one way); how to suit up for cycling in bad weather; dealing with potentially hostile interac-tions; and how to navigate all those different styles of bike road infrastructure.

Currently, most of those routes are in neighbourhoods surrounding the downtown core – including the rela-tively new cycle tracks on Sherbourne, Adelaide and Richmond streets.

“Richmond-Adelaide were a game changer,” says Bambrick. “I was having to ride there all the time (before), and I’m a confi-dent rider but even for me it was tough. This is amazing. Transformative.”

Bambrick and other cycling advocates are hoping for more change like that, on roads that extend beyond the downtown. This summer, the city will be embarking on a pilot project to try a cycle track along Bloor Street through the Annex neighbourhood – a test, to see whether a city-spanning

track could be installed the length of Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue.

And the outcome of that could determine the implementation of parts of the city’s next big plan for cycling expansion: the Cycling Network 10 Year Plan. Under that plan, Toronto’s bikeway and bike trail network would be extended to the ends of the city: north along Yonge Street to Steeles Avenue; on Kingston Road in Scarborough from Eglinton Avenue to the Highland Creek Trail; Kipling Avenue from Bloor Street to the Waterfront Trail; and Midland Avenue, from Steeles to Lawrence avenues.

Toronto’s Chief Planner Jennifer Keesmaat said to provide an effective cycling alternative, the network needs to expand in the same way that transit networks expand – in a continuum.

Do that, she says, and it becomes viable to commute, at least to downtown, from nearly anywhere in the city.

“With cycling, distance isn’t that much of a problem,” says Keesmaat.

“The city is really not that big, and 10 kilometres, 20 kilo-metres isn’t really a big deal. And from the centre of the city you can get pretty much anywhere on a 10 kilometre

bikeway. If you’re cycling from Scarborough to Etobicoke, that’s a big trip. But from the centre of the city you can get anywhere – all you need is safe infrastructure.”

The other thing that a cyclist needs, of course, is the will, and a bit of know-how. Bambrick is an evangelist for the former and a resource for the latter. When asked what it takes to get on a bike, after dutifully recommending a careful read of her book, she suggests a step-by-step approach. Borrow a bike-share bike; go riding with a friend on a quiet street. If it’s been awhile, take a BikeShare course.

And remember: roads were originally for bikes.

“We paved our roads because wheelmen’s clubs advocated to get the roads paved. The bicycling move-ment has been around for a long time,” says Bambrick. “It’s never gone away.”

Staff/MetrolandCyclists make their way in traffic along the Sherbourne Street bike lane at Carlton Street on a recent Thursday afternoon.

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there are 558.4 total lane kilometres of on-street cycling infrastructure. here is the breakdown:

15.1 km – cycle tracks

209 km – white bicycle lanes

6.1 km – Yellow ‘contra-flow’ bicycle lanes

26.2 km – lanes with shared lane pavement markings

302 km – signed routes (no pavement markings)

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On Friday, July 1, we Canadians pause to cel-ebrate another year as just that: Canadians.

We have been able to do that for 149 years now, and let’s be honest: it feels good.

We’re a good country, after all. We look after each other, and try to extend that

compassion abroad. We have bad days – who doesn’t? – but on balance

we’ve lived our 149 years well, and we look pretty good for our age.

The same can’t be said for the rest of our family of nations, and it’s tempting to feel smug about that.

The United Kingdom, to whose Queen we still swear allegiance, is not doing well at all.

In an ill-managed referen-dum, its people have voted to take it from the European Union (EU), in the process

throwing its economy, and the world’s economy, into turmoil.

The vote to leave was decisive but not universally so, and now the U.K. is on the verge of fragmenta-tion, with Scotland poised to hold another indepen-dence referendum, not two years after it narrowly voted to remain in the U.K.

This time, with EU membership in the balance, polls indicate the Scots might well succeed.

We in Canada have flirted with this sort of thing in the past, through two nail-biting referendums in Quebec, each of which might have put us in a similar place: a country split at the seam, where nativism and nationalist intransigence make dissolution seem inevitable.

Good for us that we didn’t take the plunge. We’re still here, in one piece, with the capacity to engage ourselves and the world as proud Canadians.

Let’s be proud, then: proud, but not smug. It is unlikely-to-impossible that separatists in

Quebec could marshal support for another referen-dum any time soon – the Parti Quebecois has yet to find a leader, and in any case will not be in a position to govern until the fall of 2018, when the next provin-cial election is scheduled.

But it is a point for sober reflection this Canada Day, just how precious is our unity and civility, and how easy it is for a nation – any nation, even our own – to allow that to slip away.

Unity and civility to be celebrated this Canada Day

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Be proud, not smug, about togetherness You can get into a lot of

trouble, writing a column for a newspaper.

Even if you’re a profes-sional, it can be hazardous: sticky fingers for other peo-ple’s ideas and phrases will (or should) sink you; you can get facts wrong, or get caught making it up, which should and does sink you.

Or, like this columnist, you can realize a couple of days after you tried to link Brexit with spurious transit plans and bad public finance, that you may have just overreached – in which case you’ll get called on it, often on Twitter. And that stuff never goes away.

It’s worse when you’re not a professional. Worse still, when you’re not a pro-fessional who has skin in the game.

And so we come to Mayor John Tory, who tried his hand writing a column for a newspaper, The Toronto Star, on Tuesday: a column about his besieged $3 billion Scarborough subway plan, on the eve

of its debut on the floor of Tuesday’s Executive Committee.

It was a substantial piece in the Toronto Star, just a hair over 800 words long, and for most of those words it chugs along well, noting that he ran in 2014 promis-ing to build a subway in Scarborough, that we are behind on transit construc-tion, that there’s political consensus between the three levels of government that the subway’s the way to go, and that city staff have said the Scarborough subway could help boost ridership in a part of the city where it’s currently low.

So far, Tory has penned a good and boring op-ed. It gets troublesome when he goes for what some of us professionals might call “the dig”: that part where you try and nail down just what’s wrong with the thing

we’re critiquing.Writes Tory (at about

the 600 word mark): “But many of the subway’s loudest critics do not live or work in Scarborough, where more than half the population is born outside of Canada. When they say this is too much to spend on a subway, the inference seems to be that it’s too much to spend on this part of the city.”

Oh dear. It’s hard, indeed impossible, to not parse that down to a particularly ugly accusation – that those who fancy a light rail network in Scarborough and not a subway are anti-Scarborough nativists. Indeed, at least one of Tory’s colleagues on council, the subway-opposing, light-rail-loving Josh Matlow, parsed things exactly that way.

“Sad, desperate and shameful. I had hoped for much more from a mayor who preached civility,” tweeted Matlow.

This is the kind of trouble

that isn’t really very much trouble at all for profession-als. We’re used to people crossing the street to avoid us after a particularly vigor-ous application of fair com-ment on their dealings. It goes with the territory.

For a mayor, who’s built his brand on civility and team-work as Tory has?

Both Tory and his office tried to make it clear that the column wasn’t intended to be divisive, but to point out that Scarborough’s poorly served by transit. They weren’t out of line: Josh Matlow was out of line.

It was too late by then. It is one thing that those of us writing columns for the newspapers learn early: there are no take-backs when you write something, however unintentionally it may have been, that makes you look a bit of a jerk.

Mayor Tory’s op-ed column stirs controversy

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it’s happeningw Friday, June 30 Love & FriendshipWHEN: 9:15 p.m. WHERE: Ashbridges Bay Park & Woodbine Beach Park, 1561 Lake Shore Blvd. E CONTACT: 311 COST: Free

w Friday, July 1Ashbridges Bay FireworksWHEN: 10 p.m. WHERE: Fox The-atre, 2236 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 416-691-7335 COST: $11 to $8Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Chloe Sevi-gny, Stephen Fry. Director: Whit Still-man. Tickets go on sale 30 minutes before the movie at the box-office.

w Tuesday, July 5Elephant and Piggy Ice Cream PartyWHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715, [email protected] COST: FreeJoin us to make ice cream and a pup-pet show.

w Wednesday, July 6Flow in the ParkWHEN: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Kew Gardens, 2075 Queen St. E. CON-TACT: Elizabeth, 647-748-4569, www.afterglowstu-dio.ca, liz@afterglowstudio.

ca COST: FreeYoga all summer long in the heart of the Beaches at Kew Gardens Park. Classes are suitable for students of all levels. Drop in. Donations to Friends of the Beach Parks welcome.

Civil WrayWHEN: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. WHERE: Castro’s Lounge, 2116 Queen St. E. CON-TACT: Andrea de Boer, , ,

[email protected] COST: Free

Civil Wray is the latest project by Andrea de Boer

formerly of blueVenus. As Civil Wray, she continues to

explore new sounds that highlight her memorable vocals.

w Saturday, July 9Annual Rugby Football Tourna-mentWHEN: 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. WHERE: Balmy Beach Club, 360 Lake Front, Foot of Beech Avenue CONTACT: 416-691-9962, [email protected] COST: FreeThis is the largest fundraiser for our senior rugby players and has been a club tradition for more than 45 years.

AfroFest 2016WHEN: today and tomorrow; various times WHERE: Woodbine Park,

1681 Lakeshore Blvd. E. CONTACT: 416-469-5336, www.afrofest.ca/ COST: FreeCelebrating African music and culture.

Roast of PJ PhilWHEN: 8 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Underground Cafe, 670 Queen St. E. CONTACT: Derryck Birch, 416-450-9125, [email protected] COST: $20Hosted by Big Norm.

w Tuesday, July 12Face Painting PartyWHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715 COST: FreeJoin us for face painting.

w Thursday, July 14Pyjama TimeWHEN: 6:30 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: COST: FreeBedtime stories, songs, rhymes and activities for children age 5 and un-der with their parents and caregivers. Bring your teddy bear.

w Sunday, July 17The Leslieville FleaWHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Ashbridges Estate, 1444 Queen St. E. CONTACT: 647-267-8538, www.

leslievilleflea.com, [email protected] COST: FreeA curated monthly market with more than 60 vendors selling vintage, sal-vaged, furniture, antiques and more.

w Tuesday, July 19Make your own Wild Lego MovieWHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. CONTACT: Cathy, 416-393-7715, cmoran@

torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free

Make a Lego movie. Bring your own device. App

required before the program. Call to register.

w Monday, Aug. 8Family TimeWHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. WHERE: Jones Library, 118 Jones Ave. COST: FreeStories, songs, rhymes and activities for children aged 5 and under.

featuredw Volunteers Needed

Dusk DancesWHEN: Aug. 1 to 7 from 4:45 to 10:30 p.m. WHERE: Withrow

Park, 725 Logan Ave. CONTACT: www.kindnessconnect.com/dusk-dances/toronto-2016-withrow COST: Free Dusk Dances Withrow Park is looking for at least 12 volunteers

for 7 evening performances (Aug. 1 to 7) and for 2 matinée performances (Aug. 4 and 7). We also require 5 volunteers

for dress rehearsal on July 31. Plus, on-call volunteers are needed for rain dates.

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athletes, including Neil McNeil Catholic High School’s own Javier Acevedo (who will be competing in swimming in Rio) a beer garden, and giveaways.

Also, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce (East Toronto) host its 23rd annual celebration at Riverdale Park East, north of Gerrard Street East and west of Broadview Avenue, from noon to 6 p.m., with fun for the whole family.

The Naval Club of Toronto, 1910 Gerrard St. E., hosts a barbecue and open house starting at 11 a.m.

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The Friends of Stephenson Park hosts its third annual Canada Day Celebration at 3:30 p.m. The festivi-ties include live music, and be held at Stephenson Park, 61 Stephenson Ave.

Beach historian Gene Domagala

will be giving a historical tour of the community starting at 1 p.m. Participants should meet at Kew Gardens Park, near Queen Street and Lee Avenue by the Beaches Library.

And, of course, to wrap it all up there’s fireworks at Ashbridges Bay Park.

The display begins shortly after 9:30 p.m., at the park at the foot of Coxwell Avenue at Lake Shore Boulevard.

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Ashbridges Bay Park hosts annual Canada Day fireworks

Canada celebrates its 149th birthday on July 1.

It was back in 1867 Canada became a new federation with its own constitution by the signing of the Constitution Act – formerly

known as the British North America Act.

Canada Day is a national statutory holiday celebrated in all provinces and territories.

On Jan. 1 this year, the country kicked off more than a new year – it began a 366-day countdown to a year-long celebration of its 150th

birthday and anniversary of Confederation. To fi nd out more, visit canadaday.gc.ca

Residents of Toronto can take in festivities on Canada Day at Nathan Phillips Square, which includes an evening of live music and dance performances, family activities and a fi reworks show

choreographed to music.Other fi rework displays taking place on July 1 include:

• Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge St., at 10:15 p.m. • Amesbury Park, 1507 Lawrence Ave. W., at 9:45 p.m.

• Milliken Park, at Steeles and McCowan roads, 4325 McCowan Rd., Scarborough, at dusk: 10 p.m. Call 416-396-7757 for details.

• Ashbridges Bay Park, Lake Shore Boulevard East at the foot of Coxwell Avenue – view from the beach – 1675 Lake Shore Blvd E.

• Centennial Park, Etobicoke, as part of Ribfest, at 10 p.m.

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Art in Phin Park drop-inreturns for the summerArt in Phin Park, a fun, free sum-mertime community art program in The Pocket neighbourhood, is back for the season starting on Monday, July 4.

Featuring artist-in-residence Jerry Silverberg, the drop-in pro-gram for kids, teens, caregivers, and adults will feature a number disciplines including collage, puppet making, printmaking, book making, and mural painting to name a few.

Presented by The Pocket Community Association with the support of the Toronto Arts Council, Art in Phin Park will run Monday to Thursday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. until Aug. 31. The program will also include workshops (music, stories, origami, and drum circle) on Wednesday evenings in August featuring special guest artists.

All are welcome and supplies are provided. Phin Park is at 115 Condor Ave. Visit www.thepocket.ca/events/art-in-phin-park for more.

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The Beach Village Business Improvement Area will kick off its annual Movies Nights in the Park series on Wednesday, July 6, at Kew Gardens Park, 2075 Queen St . E. at

Lee Avenue.The first film to be screened

is ET. All movies, which will run Wednesday evenings until Aug. 31, start at dusk.

Admission is free.Screening will rotate between

Kew Gardens Park and Ivan Forrest Gardens, 131 Glen Manor Rd. at Queen Street East.

For more information, visit www.thebeachvillage.com/event/movie-nights-in-the-park-3/ or call 416 693 2242.

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The Danforth East Community Association (DECA) is inviting the community to celebrate Pride today.

The event, which will include crafts for the kids, courtesy of Silly Goose Kids, among other things, will take place during the East Lynn Farmers’ Market at East Lynn Park, 1949 Danforth Ave., just west of Woodbine Avenue, from 3 to 7 p.m.

All are welcome.Anyone interested in joining the

email list for the east-end com-munity association’s new LGBTQ group, DECA Pride, should email [email protected]

Eglinton Crosstown Update:Station Open House

The Eglinton Crosstown Project is building the future Eglinton line, a 19-kilometre lightrail transit (LRT) line that will run along Eglinton Avenue through the heart of Toronto,with a 10-kilometre underground tunnel in its central section. When complete, the linewill connect Mount Dennis in the west to Kennedy Road in the east, and will movepassengers up to 60 per cent faster than bus service along Eglinton Avenue today.

Join us at our upcoming open house and learn about the future station on thefuture Eglinton line in your neighbourhood.

Starting in summer 2016, the next phase of construction begins at Science Centre Station,and many other Crosstown stations will be under construction before the end of 2016.

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Science Centre Station Open House

Monday, July 11, 20166:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.Ontario Science Centre770 Don Mills Road

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The 28th annual edition of the Beaches International Jazz Festival officially launches this weekend with two days of spicy salsa in the Beach.

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The fun continues on Thursday, July 7 with the band playing at the East Lynn Park Farmers Market, 1949 Danforth Ave., just west of Woodbine Avenue, from 2 to 6 p.m.

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Through the Arts music school are slated to perform at the Leslieville Farmers Market, 20 Woodward Ave., just west of Coxwell Avenue, on Sunday, July 10 and Sunday, July 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. both days.

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Bike Share Toronto has begun a promised expansion of its operations, adding 120 new stations and 1,000 more bikes.

The agency first announced in April it was purchas-ing the new infrastructure from Montreal-based PBSC Solutions, which ran the bike share originally called Bixi. This boost to its offer-ings effectively doubles the amount of bikes available for short-term rentals.

The purchase comes from a near $5-million funding arrangement with Metrolinx announced in 2015.

The new rides are expected to be available by July 11.

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A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about the lack of TTC outlets for adding a conces-sion onto your Presto card in order to be eligible for a student or senior discount.

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regardless of transit agency. While that’s the case, spokes-person Chris Upfold said the TTC is hesitant to make this information widely known lest a large mass of transit riders “overwhelms” partner agencies like GO and YRT with demands for concessions. So there you have it: you don’t have to go to Davisville to get the discount added- but you didn’t hear it from me.

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A group cheerleading for the SmartTrack transit project has now released a report claim-ing the city can raise billions towards its cost.

Friends and Allies of SmartTrack or FAST hasn’t done much since it came together in the New Year. But now it claims Tax Increment Financing (TIF), a funding plan pushed by John Tory

during the 2014 mayoral cam-paign, can raise $2.3 billion over 30 years for the project. In a nutshell, TIF would allow the city to leverage antici-pated property tax revenues from new development and put it towards financing SmartTrack.

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It’s doubtful this delay will much impact the timeline since electrification won’t likely be done until 2024.

Bike Share adds 120 new stations

Rahul Gupta is Metroland Media Toronto’s transportation and infrastructure reporter. His

column runs every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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Well-loved east-end crossing guard Dorothy Meawasige has had a bit of a tough go as of late.

Just over a month ago, the Scarborough resident had her bag stolen as she was man-ning the corner of Eastwood and Highcroft roads, which is just east of the Little India neighbourhood.

The theft occurred at the start of Meawasige’s morning shift around 11:20 a.m.

“That day I was carrying lots of stuff. I normally don’t do that, so it was not good,” she shared during a recent interview.

Some of the missing items include her wallet, two cell phones, TTC tickets, a ring and a necklace that were to be repaired, her social insurance card and birth certificate, and other personal identification, a spring jacket, a novel, a

police-issued rain coat and whistle, blood pressure medi-cation, cash, and all of her income tax papers.

“It wasn’t a good time,” said Meawasige, who has filed a police report. “I’ve put my bag there for 13 years and nobody touched it until that day. It’s upsetting because it’s like an invasion of your privacy.”

Meawasige’s belong-ings have not been found although someone seems to be using one of the missing cell phones, she said.

Shortly after the incident, a number of area residents took up a collection and presented Meawasige with about $300 as well as a $25 gift card from the nearby Lazy Daisy’s Café.

“(Dorothy) is a pillar of the community. She’s just amazing.” said long-time area resident Deborah Bies, who was the point person for the collection. “(Dorothy) has watched my kids grow up. She remembers everyone’s

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“It’s nice to be reminded of how nice the east side is,” she said.

Meawasige said she was touched by the community’s kindness. “It was very, very kind of them to do this and the feeling mutual, I care about (the neighbours) too,” she said. “They’re all good people here. They’re all really nice.”

In recent weeks, Meawasige has replaced some of her identification and has been working to sort out her taxes. “I’ve been so stressed about this. Forget about the money and jewelry, I just want my tax papers back, that’s it. No questions asked,” she said.

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