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Mark Ansell spots a bird from Rosetta McLean Gardens on Tuesday. A group of birders gather at the gardens every fall to spot hawks and other raptors as they fly south along the lake.

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Looking for the Toronto raptors MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Experienced eyes at Rosetta McClain Gardens spot a dozen turkey vultures, some flying

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group calling itself Rosetta Raptor Watch.

After a warm start to fall, northwest winds are guiding birds of prey over the Scarborough park off Kingston Road, but they’re too light to bring many.

A strong northwest wind and cold front can bring migrating birds by the hundreds, riding thermals around Lake Ontario to Windsor and Detroit.

On days like that, "everybody calls in sick," says Brokelman, who’s seen 40 people waiting for eagles, hawks, falcons and other raptors.

Other days, when the wind blows westerly and hard, raptors fly lower, she says. "We’ve had birds almost hit people’s heads."

It was Big Frank Butson who saw Rosetta McClain was on a migration route.

He founded the watch in 2004. Butson was at the park almost daily, always seeing things. Standing by the chain-link fence along the bluffs, he was often first to spot approaching raptors.

Eight years ago, when Brokelman met Butson, he introduced her to birds flying through Rosetta each fall: bald eagles, osprey, screech owls, red-tailed hawks.

"I was totally hooked."

Ansell, a bird watcher for 20 years, started coming a few years ago, and says on a great day, "you couldn’t keep up, writing them down."

Other days are slow, but Ansell doesn’t mind, because, as the saying goes, "You don’t see them if you’re not there to see them."

The club’s blog, raptorwatch.blogspot.ca, keeps the tally, which this morning includes two more harriers and a sharp-shinned hawk.

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Scarborough park prime spot to view annual migration

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Clockwise from left, a turkey vulture flies through the air above Rosetta McLean Gardens as a group of birders gather at there to spot hawks and other raptors as they fly south along the lake; a painted lady butterfly is one of the species birders gather to watch, including Leon Schlicheter, age 92.

A local red-tailed hawk lands in a nearby pine but doesn’t count. He’s not migrating yet.

Watching hawks, Betty McCulloch and Terry Whitten realized "tonnes" of monarch butterflies were flying past, and decided to

catch, weigh and tag them to help track the insects’ migration to wintering grounds in Mexico.

Last year, a monarch tagged at Rosetta for Monarch Watch on Oct. 5 was found in the Florida Panhandle a month later.

This year, McCulloch and Whitten tagged 1,500 monarchs with help from local people, some making a wish as the butterflies were released.

Next year, the insects’ great-grandchildren might be in the park, starting jour-

neys south. This week, monarchs continued flying by, dozens of painted lady butterflies sat on the selvia bushes, and the appearance of another species, a buckeye, briefly drew several watchers from the bluffs.

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to a shady corner of Rosetta with a bench dedicated to Butson, who died four years ago. "It was pretty hard to lose him," she says.

The inscription on the plate, "Soar on those northwest winds, fly fast, fly free," is one he’d enjoy.

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"There’s a good sense that they will be there for the winter at this point."

Crawford revealed the city’s Municipal Licensing and Standards (MLS) Division had declared part of the motel uninhabitable, and the owners had been issued a court date because of damage to that section’s roof.

This was not confirmed by an MLS spokesperson before press time, despite several requests.

When told a reporter had seen holes in the ceilings, walls and floors of rented and vacant suites outside the unused "uninhabitable" area, Crawford said city staff are unable to go into individual suites unless invited.

"A lot of these people are afraid and don’t call us," acknowledged Crawford, adding if inspectors found a suite to be uninhabitable, tenants there would have to leave immediately.

"It puts the people in there in a difficult position."

He added he welcomed Metroland’s story, saying it brings attention to a "grey area" of housing

MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com The City of Toronto has moved to expropriate Scarborough’s East Side Motel but the lengthy legal process will allow the battered Kingston Road building to stay open through another winter, Gary Crawford said.

"I was a little surprised myself when I heard that it would take that long," the Scarborough Southwest councillor said Oct. 6, when the city published an expropriation notice in a Toronto newspaper.

The city has been trying to buy and demolish the East Side for two years, and councillors in April approved expropriation if an agreement with the owner, Kahlon Family Holdings Ltd., couldn’t be reached.

A willing sale of the motel, where poor conditions for longterm tenants were detailed in a Metroland Media Toronto story last week, would have saved lots of time, Crawford said.

For now, the city will be doing what it can for the tenants, and has started speaking to them

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"We saw the need and we just couldn’t leave," Smirnis said Tuesday.

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No time for red tape on housing Earlier this year, Statistics Canada released data from the 2016 census that indicated a long predicted, but nonetheless startling change had occurred in our country’s demographics.

"From 2011 to 2016, Canada registered the largest increase in the proportion of seniors since Confederation.

This acceleration of population aging is the result of the first baby boomers reaching the age of 65," StatsCan reported.

"For the first time, the share of seniors (16.9 per cent) the share they represent of the total Canadian population exceeded the share of children (16.6 per cent). The increase in the proportion of seniors from 2011 to 2016 was the largest observed since 1871 - a clear sign that Canada’s population is aging at a faster pace."

In our news feature Senior Tsunami on insidetoronto.com, Metroland Media looked at this change and its implications on housing for the average senior. We defined average as the range from having no additional income from a company pension or RRSPs (surviving solely on CPP and OAS benefits), to having a retirement pension or savings.

In short, we focused on housing solutions for the middle-class senior; the one who can’t afford the average monthly cost of $3,526 for an Ontario retirement home (in the GTA, it is more than $4,700), but does not qualify for government-assisted housing.

We also used a projection by the province’s ministry of finance that shows the senior population in much of central Ontario will more than double in the next 25 years.

The results were frightening.

Although we have watched the baby boomers ascend the population triangle year after year, we are ill-prepared to provide housing alternatives to match their income level. Several in-depth reports by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation have forewarned of the impending crisis, but little in the form of solutions have taken shape.

The province has been silent.

In fact, we believe we are in a too-little, too-late situation for the Ontario government to show leadership on the issue of senior housing. We no longer have the luxury of time to meander the red tape of government.

What we need are community-based, grassroots solutions. Ontario could offer surplus land or closed schools for senior housing developments.

Municipalities, regional councils and provincial programs must collaborate to eliminate barriers, such as zoning and building bylaws, to pave the way for these alternatives.

We need to work together to resolve this crisis.

And with Food Banks Canada saying 45,000 seniors across the country rely on food banks each month, we need to start today.

The Scarborough Mirror, published every Thursday, is a division of the Metroland Media Group Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. The Metroland family of newspapers is comprised of more than 100 community publications across Ontario.

The Scarborough Mirror is a member of the National NewsMedia Council. Complainants are urged to bring their concerns to the attention of the newspaper and, if not satisfied, write The National NewsMedia Council, Suite 200, 890 Yonge St., Toronto, ON M4W 2H2. Phone: 416-340-1981 Web: www.mediacouncil.ca

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It may be a long time before we’re over amalgamation It has been a long time since amalgamated Toronto’s first day - nearly 20 years - and there are no doubts some who think it’s time we got over it.

Pity those poor forward-thinking cynics.

Last week at Toronto council’s October meeting, Janet Davis rose to remind us that ... well ... that perhaps we need reminding.

The Beaches-East York councillor was sponsoring a request from the East York Historical Society and the East York Foundation to please include the East York logo on any street signs that might be replaced.

Of all the former municipalities, Davis reminded her colleagues, East York was "special."

DAVID NICKLE The City There was a lot of heckling from councillors who noted properly that their former municipalities were special too. But Davis has a point.

East York, it could be argued, was at once the least and the greatest of the former Metropolitan Toronto municipalities. It was geographically small; small enough that it couldn’t support even a

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single enclosed shopping mall, small enough that it didn’t even get to be a city it was a borough.

But as signs at its irregular borders indicated, it was "Canada’s Only Borough." Its citizens were fiercely proud of it. When it came time to vote in illegal, Catalan-style referenda about amalgamation, East Yorkers voted ’no’ in greater numbers, and if anyone had been measuring it, surely greater volume.

When it failed, the borough’s mayor, Michael Prue, went on to be a councillor on Mayor Mel Lastman’s first Toronto Council. And he wore East York sweaters, hand-knitted by his wife.

The tradition continues, Davis told her col-

leagues.

Skateboarders come at night to paint the East York logo on local skateboard parks. Teenagers, she insists, have the ’EY’ acronym tattooed on their flesh.

The former borough’s senior citizens long for the sight of the old EY. Spending about $1,000 a year to put EY on street signs as they’re being replaced was the least that council could do.

As it turns out, no.

Council finally settled on something much larger, and overwhelmingly supported a motion from Toronto-Danforth Councillor Mary Fragedakis to blow the bank and stick up signs across all six former municipalities.

Clearly, we are not over it at all.

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Clockwise from left, a model wears third-place winner Charlotte Li, who chose the 63-year-old widow, Annie Edson Taylor, who successfully barrelled over Niagara Falls in 1901 as the muse for her White Cashmere Collection creation at the Royal Ontario Museum; Designer Van Yanez, of Ryerson University, checks over his creation on model Sarah Barnes back stage; A model wears the toilet paper creation of George Brown design student Lesley Hampton ; Model Kristina Koulechova gets her makeup touched up before walking the runway; The 14th annual White Cashmere Collection first place winner Chelsea Cox, who is a third-year fashion design student at Kwantlen Polytech in British Columbia, celebrates her win at the ROM. Her winning design is a winter coat that nods to the iconic Hudson’s Bay four point blanket. It consists of 9,689 tubular beads made out of tiny hand rolled strips of Cashmere bathroom tissue sealed with clear tape.

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The national student design competition and breast cancer fundraiser is the world’s first and only bathroom tissue couture collection.

The special event held Sept. 28 at the Royal Ontario Museum brought together the who’s who of Canada’s fashion scene for an inviteonly runway show that featured intricate ball gowns, sassy cocktail dresses, and other

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Chelsea Cox of B.C.’s Kwantlen Polytechnic University, earned top honours and went home with $4,000, while Adrian Arnieri, a recent Ryerson grad from Mississauga, came in second and received $2,000. Seneca College student Charlotte Li of Markham placed third and was awarded a $1,000 bursary.

More than 150 students from 11 Canadian design schools applied to take part in the #Canada150 theme design competition. Of the Top 16, six were from Toronto.

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A local business owner says Crystal works with him When the owner and operator of RJM Roofing, Shawn McDonald, needed to rent dumping bins, he turned to Kijiji. He was tired of businesses being dishonest and charging him for services he didn’t use and he knew it was time for a change.

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On McDonald’s recommendation, fellow contractors have started working with Crystal, something for which the company has personally thanked him.

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Malvern seed exchange Saturday are encouraged to bring seeds and exchange them.

"Exchanging these seeds in the fall allows them to be planted now for spring germination," says Deborah Dale, a member of Malvern’s Food Security Table, which operates two community gardens offering space to anyone who wants to grow and harvest their own food.

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Malvern’s first Seedy Saturday will "showcase the bounty that can be reaped from a simple seed," and teach environmentally responsible gardening to residents, an organizer says.

Such events are usually held in spring as planting season begins, but Rouge River Seedy Saturday, on Oct. 14 at Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute on Tapscott Road, is at harvest time.

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Dates and Locations Tuesday, October 24, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. (presentation at 6:30 p.m.)

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Canada-themed exhibit next month Month will bring art and interactive activities such as workshops and storytelling to the CCCGT on Progress Avenue.

"Canada’s strength is its inclusiveness and diversity," CCCGT President Dr. Ming-Tat Cheung said in a release from the centre, which is selecting art-

Scarborough’s Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto has recruited artists, both professional and amateur, for an exhibition next month telling the story of Canada.

With support from the federal Canadian Heritage ministry, Canada 150 Art and Heritage Connection

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Seedy Saturday is also supported by Pearson’s EcoClub, said Dale. "The student volunteers are an integral to putting on this annual event and it is my hope that their role will continue to evolve."

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MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Why not Mike?

With the 2018 municipal election season approaching in Toronto, the separatist Free Scarborough movement is trying to draft Mike Myers, star of Austin Powers and Wayne’s World movies, as a mayoral candidate.

"Yeah, it’s on the level," says Robert McDermott, the group’s founder.

Free Scarborough is convinced Scarborough residents didn’t want amalgamation with Toronto two decades ago, and would leave if they could.

As volunteers took their de-amalgamation petition door to door, McDermott said, other issues came up, including which "local people" should run for mayor.

Myers’ name "came up a lot," and was at the top of many people’s lists, McDermott said, adding that’s not surprising, given the Scar-

borough-raised voice of Shrek "projects a positive image" of the former city.

"They’re looking for people that will represent Scarborough well. I know Mike would," said McDermott, adding he doesn’t think incumbent John Tory or likely challenger Doug Ford would be as good for Scarborough.

Myers, 54, was lately in Toronto as an ambassador for the Invictus Games. He lives in New York City and hasn’t responded to Free Scarborough’s attempts to contact him.

Other possible candidates that residents mentioned as mayoral material, McDermott said, were former Scarborough councillors Brian Ashton and David Soknacki, who ran for the job in 2014 but hasn’t said anything about trying again.

A Realtor who for the 2014 election recruited candidates to stand against the city’s municipal land trans-

fer tax, McDermott started the de-amalgamation campaign hoping to oppose any incumbent in 2018 who supports the "amalgamation" agenda he believes favours Toronto’s downtown.

In an interview, though, he admitted Free Scarborough has signed only 22,000 up for the cause, and is "not doing as well as we thought we’d do."

Notably, the movement has come out against the socalled Scarborough Subway, supported by Tory and Ford and nearly every other Scarborough politician in office.

McDermott declared the current one-stop extension to Scarborough Town Centre will serve only "corporate interests" and the separatists are instead backing the Scarborough light rail transit line proposal Toronto Council abandoned in 2013.

"People want access" and the LRT will give them more, McDermott said.

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EGLINTON CROSSTOWN UPDATE: OPEN HOUSE MEETING KENNEDY STATION & EAST AT-GRADE Metrolinx is building the Eglinton Crosstown, Toronto’s new 19-kilometre light rail transit (LRT) line that will run along Eglinton Avenue with a central 10 km underground section. The Crosstown will connect Mount Dennis in the west to Kennedy Road in the east, and the new service will be up to 60% faster than the bus service today. With 25 stations and stops and connections to 3 TTC subway stations, 54 local bus routes, 3 GO Transit lines and the UP Express, the Crosstown will improve travel times and change the way we move through the heart of the city.

Join Metrolinx and its constructor, Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS) at the upcoming open house and learn about the progress at the future Kennedy Station and East At-Grade (surface stops) from Pharmacy Stop to Ionview Stop.

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Refreshments will be served. l Tuesday, October 17 Seniors’ Gathering WHEN: 11:00 a.m - 1:00 p.m WHERE: Harvest Time Revival Church, 445 Midwest Rd., Toronto CONTACT: Pastor Marlon or Kema Dwarka, 416-298-3516, sfga@Rogers.com COST: Call 416-298-3516 A time of fellowship, inspiration and food l Friday, October 20 Diwali Celebration WHEN: 7:00 p.m - 8:30 p.m WHERE: Senior Persons Living Connected, 3333 Finch Ave. E.,

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Taste of Canada Garden WHEN: 1:00 p.m - 3:00 p.m WHERE: Neilson Park Community Garden, 1575 Neilson Rd., Toronto CONTACT: Deborah Dale, info@verdigrow.com Join Verdigrow and the Malvern Food Security Table in bringing a Taste of Canada to the Community Garden in Neilson Park.

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First Annual Harvest Season Seedy Saturday WHEN: 11:00 a.m - 3:00 p.m WHERE: Lester B. Pearson C.I., 150 Tapscott Road, Toronto CONTACT: Deborah Dale, SeedRougeRiver@gmail.com COST: Join Pearson CI and the Malvern Food Security Table and share or trade non-GMO seeds to try out in 2018 or sign up for your own plot

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Sundial Homes releases final phase of Mulberry Meadows in Ajax S u n d i a l Homes is releasing the final phase of their Mulberry M e a d o w s community in Ajax this October. The final release will include single detached homes, ranging in size from 1,328 square feet up to 2,052 square feet.

This is your final opportunity to be a part of Ajax’s last master-planned community. There are a variety of home designs to choose from, and there is sure to be one that is perfect for you and your family.

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No matter what home design you choose, you can customize it to make it the home of your dreams. Sundial Homes wants their purchasers to have the broadest variety of options at their disposal to make their new home a reflection of their own unique tastes. At Sundial’s state of the art Design Centre, all purchasers meet with an experienced design consultant to assist them with choosing the finishes that will personalize their home. You can pick and choose among the wide variety of flooring options, where rich, cherry hardwood blends with the opulence of granite countertops. From the subtle to the sublime, Sundial’s Design Centre offers the right accents to make the ordinary extraordinary.

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JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Family members, friends, and the community are grieving the loss of a 15-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed Saturday night at East York’s Stan Wadlow Park.

Isaiah Witt, a Grade 10 student at Scarborough’s Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts, died following a reported confrontation between two groups of males in the playground of the local park near Woodbine and Cosburn avenues.

A second person was also stabbed during the incident, but sustained nonlife-threatening injuries.

Toronto police arrested and investigated four individuals. As a result, an 18year-old man and a 19-

‘Today has been a sombre day for all of us as we mourn this tragic loss of life.’

-Wexford Collegiate principal Tom Lazarou year-old man have been charged with second degree murder. Toronto police have not released the names of the accused.

Investigators are asking anyone with information, especially those who were at Stan Wadlow Park that night, to contact them.

Isaiah, who enjoyed bodybuilding and playing the guitar, lived in East York until recently when his family moved eastward to Scarborough.

Several posts on social media by those who knew and loved the teen remem-

bered him as a kind-hearted and genuine person who was taken too soon by a "senseless act of violence."

The Toronto District School Board also offered its condolences in an Oct. 10 note sent home to parents.

"Today has been a sombre day for all of us as we mourn this tragic loss of life," the letter from Principal Tom Lazarou stated.

"Isaiah was very wellliked and will be sorely missed by our students and staff ... Isaiah will be

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Scarborough teen Isaiah Witt was fatally stabbed Saturday at East York’s Stan Wadlow Park. remembered fondly by his friends and teachers. Our deepest condolences are extended to his family members."

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that students most closely associated with Isaiah have been encouraged to meet directly with specially trained support staff, who will remain at the school for as long as needed. Families are also being encouraged to talk with their children about what happened in "whatever way is appropriate."

A book of condolences is also available at the school for students to sign.

Earlier this week, friends of Isaiah Witt gathered to remember him and share stories at Bethany Baptist Church at the corner of Pape and Cosburn avenues.

A Go Fund Me campaign, https://www.gofundme.com/isaiah-progress, has also been set up to help Witt’s family through

this difficult time. The campaign, which was created on Sunday, Oct. 8, is aiming to raise $25,000.

Further, a Facebook group called Community Angels Toronto is raising funds and looking for volunteers to prepare meals for the teen’s family.

A Change.org petition has also been created that calls on Toronto police to keep the teen’s accused killers in custody. The petition, which has more than 8,500 signatures, can be found online at bit.ly/ justiceforisaiah Anyone with information should contact police at 416-808-7400, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637).

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The new stop is part of the SmartTrack plan to add more GO Transit rail stations in Toronto and better integrate the provincially operated transit service with the TTC. Six new GO stations are planned as part of the SmartTrack concept, including two for Scarborough: Finch-Kennedy and Lawrence-Kennedy. Both will service the Stouffville GO rail corridor.

At a public meeting Tuesday evening at the Scarborough Civic Centre, attendees had a chance to see firsthand planning designs for the new stations, which are at the preliminary stage. But Raymond Chen was alarmed to see the Lawrence plan currently has a design situating the station platforms below Lawrence Avenue East, requiring riders to make use of stairs or elevators. That’s in contrast to Finch-Kennedy, where planners envision a "high quality" station entrance right on Finch Avenue directly connecting with local buses.

"If it’s good enough for Finch, it should be good enough for Lawrence," said Chen, who warned riders could be in danger, particularly during winter time, of slipping and falling if they have to rely on stairs or escalators to descend to the station.

Transit activist Brenda Thompson also expressed concerns about the Lawrence design, as well as concerns that the proposed GO SmartTrack, with far fewer stops, wouldn’t be as convenient to local riders as the existing service. She is also worried fares will not be affordable since GO charges a fareby-distance scheme compared to the current flat rate assessed by the TTC. "I really don’t have a lot of confidence SmartTrack will replace what we have now," said Thompson.

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That’s best achieved by designing the station to straddle the Lawrence Bridge and placing the train platforms below the street, he said. "(The design) is also the best for people taking the Lawrence East bus who are not choosing to transfer to SmartTrack. And so, rather than have the buses as they do today loop around to stop at the SRT station.the buses will stop (on Lawrence) and then continue on its way," said Logan.

Other concerns raised during the meeting - the first of three this week organized by the city, Metrolinx and the TTC to discuss updates to the SmartTrack station planning - included compensation for local business during construction, safety and reduced commuter parking options.

Toronto transit planning representative James Perttula said feedback from the three meetings will go into a project update due in late November ahead of a crucial executive committee debate set for December on the latest phase of SmartTrack planning. A second plan update is due in the spring of 2018.

The new stations are expected to cost around $1.1 billion and are included in the province’s regionwide plan to expand and electrify GO’s rail operations. The Regional Express Rail (RER) expansion would see current rush hour service doubled and trains running on most GO lines outside of the commuting period.

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Notice of Completion GO Rail Network Electrification Transit Project Assessment Process Metrolinx and Hydro One, as co-proponents, have completed an Environmental Project Report (EPR) in accordance with Ontario Regulation 231/08 for the GO Rail Network Electrification Project.

The Project As part of Regional Express Rail, Metrolinx is proposing to electrify GO-owned corridors. The GO Rail Network Electrification undertaking will entail design and implementation of a traction power supply system and power distribution components including: an Overhead Contact System (OCS) along the rail corridors, electrical feeder routes, and a number of traction power facilities located within the vicinity of the rail corridors.

The Study Area (see key map) includes six GO rail corridors, as well as proposed locations for the traction power facilities (i.e., Traction Power Substations, Paralleling Stations, Switching Stations) and ancillary components: • Union Station Rail Corridor – UP Express Union Station to Don Yard Layover - No Traction Power Facilities • Lakeshore West Corridor – West of Bathurst St. (Mile 1.20) to Burlington - Including two (2) Tap locations, four (4) Traction Power Facilities, one (1) feeder route • Kitchener Corridor – UP Express Spur (at Highway 427) to Bramalea - Including one (1) Traction Power Facility, one (1) feeder route • Barrie Corridor – Parkdale Junction to Allandale GO Station - Including one (1) Tap location, four (4) Traction Power Facilities, one (1) feeder route • Stouffville Corridor – Scarborough Junction to Lincolnville GO Station - Including one (1) Tap location, three (3) Traction Power Facilities, one (1) feeder route • Lakeshore East Corridor – Don River Layover to Oshawa GO Station - Including one (1) Tap location, four (4) Traction Power Facilities, one (1) feeder route 30-Day Public Review – October 11 to November 9

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The environmental impact of this transit project was assessed and an EPR prepared in accordance with the Transit Project Assessment Process (TPAP) as prescribed in Ontario Regulation 231/08 - Transit Projects and Metrolinx Undertakings (made under the Environmental Assessment Act).

The EPR for the GO Rail Network Electrification is now available for a 30-day public review period starting October 11, 2017 on the project website (www.gotransit.com/electrification) and at the following locations: Metrolinx Head Office 97 Front Street – 2nd Floor Reception Toronto, ON M5J 1E6 tel: 416-874-5900 Monday to Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change Central Region Office Metro Toronto District Office 5775 Yonge Street, 8th Floor North York, ON M2M 4J1 tel: 416-326-6700 Monday to Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change Environmental Approvals, Access and Service Integration Branch 135 St. Clair Avenue West, 1st Floor Toronto, ON M4V 1P5 tel: 416-314-8001 / toll-free: 1-800-461-6290 Monday to Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Newmarket Public Library 438 Park Avenue Newmarket, ON L3Y 1W1 tel: 905-953-5110 Tuesday to Thursday: 9:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Friday & Saturday: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Downtown Barrie Public Library 60 Worsley Street Barrie, ON L4M 1L6 tel: 705-728-1010 Monday to Thursday: 9:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Friday & Saturday: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday: 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Pickering Library Central Branch 1 The Esplanade S. Pickering, ON L1V 6K7 tel: 905-831-6265 Monday to Friday: 9:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

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Scarborough Civic Centre Library 156 Borough Drive Scarborough, ON M1P 4N7 tel: 416-396-3599 Monday to Thursday: 9:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Friday & Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday: 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Mimico Centennial Library 47 Station Road Etobicoke, ON M8V 2R1 tel: 416-394-5330 Tuesday & Wednesday: 12:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Thursday & Friday: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Oakville Public Library – Central Branch 120 Navy Street Oakville, ON L6J 2Z4 tel: 905-815-2042 Monday to Thursday: 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Friday & Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Markham Public Library 3990 Major Mackenzie Drive East Markham, ON L6C 1P8 tel: 905-513-7977 Monday to Thursday: 9:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Friday: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Whitchurch-Stouffville Public Library 175 Mostar Street Whitchurch-Stouffville, ON L4A 0Y2 tel: 905-642-7323 Monday to Thursday: 10:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Friday: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday: 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

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Brampton Library Chinguacousy Branch 150 Central Park Drive Brampton, ON L6T 2T9 tel: 905-793-4636 Monday to Thursday: 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Friday: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Interested persons are encouraged to review this document and provide comments by November 9, 2017 to: James Hartley Manager, Environmental Programs and Assessment Metrolinx – GO Transit 20 Bay Street, Suite 600, Toronto, ON M5J 2W3 tel: 1-888-438-6646 e-mail: electrification@metrolinx.com www.gotransit.com/electrification

Patricia Staite Environmental Planner Hydro One Networks Inc. 483 Bay Street TCT12, Toronto, ON M5G 2P5 tel: 416-345-6799 e-mail: Community.Relations@HydroOne.com www.HydroOne.com/GORailElectrification

There are circumstances where the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change has the authority to require further consideration of the transit project or impose conditions on it. These include if the Minister is of the opinion that: • The transit project may have a negative impact on a matter of provincial importance that relates to the natural environment or has cultural heritage value or interest; or • The transit project may have a negative impact on a constitutionally protected Aboriginal or treaty right.

Before exercising the authority referred to above, the Minister is required to consider any written objections to the transit project that he or she may receive within 30 days after the Notice of Completion of the EPR is first published. If you have discussed your issues with the proponent(s) and you object to the project, you can provide a written submission to the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change by no later than November 9, 2017 to the address provided below. All submissions must clearly indicate that an objection is being submitted and describe any negative impacts to matters of provincial importance (natural/cultural environment) or Aboriginal rights.

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n unstoppable flood is headed our way.

Ontario’s senior population is rising as baby boomers turn 65. Within 25 years, the number of seniors is projected to double to 4.6 million. At that time, one in every four people in this province will be a senior.

While this massive wave of seniors has long been predicted, we are still ill prepared to provide housing to meet their needs.

Muskoka resident Shelley Raymond encountered this problem 10 years ago while exploring options for her parents.

"I found pretty much nothing outside of a retirement home, or long-term care, which are all booked to the nines.

And hugely expensive," she said.

The average monthly cost in an Ontario retirement home is $3,526, but you can pay more than $6,000 depending on where you live, states a 2017 seniors’ housing report by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. As your health declines, you’ll fork over more money for added care.

"Retirement homes, in most cases, are profit-based and when you run out of money they will kick you out," Raymond said. "It’s already happening over and over again."

Raymond was determined to find an alternative.

Due to declining health, her mom moved into long-term care. Her dad couldn’t afford to stay in the family home, but refused to give up his independence. And Raymond worried he would outlive his money in a retirement home.

Because Raymond’s grandfather died at an early age, his son chose living life to the fullest over saving for retirement.

The responsibility to find an answer for her dad fell at Raymond’s feet because her two siblings lived far away.

Raymond was crying about her plight to a friend in a Muskoka restaurant when a solution was born. The pair was talking about shared home ownership. The idea came to Raymond after she looked worldwide for an option that could give her dad independence, affordability, and social interaction.

"A man sitting in the restaurant overheard me and he walked over and said ‘You can use my house because I have the same problem,’" Raymond said.

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Shelley Raymond fought to create this shared ownership home in Bracebridge for her dad and other seniors. She owns a company called Solterra Co-housing and plans to open more shared ownership homes to meet the needs of a growing number of seniors.

Seniors housing crisis looms Municipalities and community residents shouldn’t wait for the province to take a lead. Solutions will be found in grassroots initiatives: urban planner SARA CARSON scarson@simcoe.com was born. Raymond has a background in real estate, her husband is a talented carpenter, and her dad was a top planner in Canada. They renovated the Bracebridge home and four seniors moved in, splitting ownership between them.

But it wasn’t over. The plan sparked an uphill battle with the municipality, planners, lawyers and retirement homes.

"I was pretty sure when I

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announced what we were doing I could do it legally, all I had to do was convince others. That was problematic," Raymond said.

She won the legal challenges at a huge cost, but her goal was never just one house.

"I knew we could do it across Canada. If I was having those problems 10 years ago, I knew the numbers would increase substantially as we moved

forward," Raymond said.

Demand for shared home ownership is picking up substantially. Raymond helped create co-housing projects in Brechin, Port Perry, and Guelph. Solterra Co-housing Ltd. just put an offer on a house in Barrie.

Shared home ownership is one solution. We need a variety of housing options and models to ensure baby boomers can

fund their own retirement.

This will require innovation, planning, and bylaw and zoning changes.

In this series, Metroland examines four options: cohousing with a stranger, cohousing with family, retiring up north in Elliot Lake and renovating your home to add accessible features with help from government grants.

The Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) released a policy discussion paper in 2016 to recognize that the municipal sector is at the forefront of developing age-friendly communities, including affordable housing.

Michael Jacek, a senior policy adviser, said AMO hasn’t come up with specific recommendations like shared home ownership, or co-housing. And they haven’t discussed bylaw and policy changes that may be required.

"We’ve been operating more at a high-level to encourage people to do the age-friendly community planning. Creative solutions like that may be the result of some of these community plans," Jacek said.

Urban planner John Lewis, an associate professor with the University of Waterloo’s school of planning, said there are municipalities, developers, and community groups facing the wave head on. He helped develop the province’s age-friendly planning guide.

Lewis said top developers are leading the way with innovative housing solutions.

"Once they have proven the market potential for that kind of housing stock, then generally the rest of the developers will follow suit," he said.

Lewis said municipalities and community residents shouldn’t wait for the province to take a lead. Solutions will be found in grassroots initiatives, like Solterra Co-housing Ltd. "The feet on the ground literally consists of people who are residents of the communities driving these initiatives forward," Lewis said. l See page 34 for four housing solutions

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Four alternative housing options for Ontario seniors Metroland Media explored four housing options for seniors: co-housing with a stranger, cohousing with family, retiring in Elliot Lake and renovating to add accessible features with help from government grants.

1. GO NORTH When Barrie’s Annamarie Sugar and her husband, Don Ough, began searching for a place to enjoy retirement, they wanted a small, quiet community with affordable housing costs.

The hunt took them to Elliot Lake between Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie "Barrie was a nice small town when we moved there," Sugar said. "Now, it’s just too big, too noisy, too many people."

Sugar and her husband aren’t alone in choosing the community, thanks to a marketing campaign aimed at attracting retirees.

Read more at tinyurl.com/seniorstsunaminorth.

2. FULL HOUSE For 25 years, as he and his wife, Donna, were raising their three children, Matthew Penstone’s widowed mother-in-law, Alice, lived with the family.

And then Penstone’s father, George, also moved into the family’s Aurora home.

Six years ago, Penstone’s daughter, Corrine, asked if she and her partner, Steven Gagnon, could move in to save money for a home. They also revealed they were expecting twins.

The boys grew up in their grandparents’ house before the family moved to their own home.

While there are challenges to having a multigenerational household, Penstone said the benefits have far outweighed the adjustments for his family.

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3. OPEN YOUR DOORS Halton is taking an innovative approach to helping their aging population stay in their homes while also avoiding the social isolation that can come with growing old.

Halton Region, in partnership with Halton Housing Help and the Burlington Age-Friendly Council, offers the Halton HomeShare program matches people who have a place to live, mostly seniors, with those looking for housing.

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George Penstone, 96, sits beside his son, Matthew, who holds an image of his daughter Corrine, her husband, Steven Gagnon, and their twin boys, Phaydon and Maximus, who used to live with them.

At one time four generations of the family shared the Penstone home in Aurora.

Discussions around housing and how it relates to seniors tended to focus on how a number of their aging residents wished to stay in their homes but

were finding it difficult to maintain them without help.

Read more at tinyurl.com/seniorstsunamihomeshare.

4. FUTURE RENOVATIONS Sandra and Dan Sexton are doing the kind of work on their North York home that usually comes much later in life.

In their 40s, the couple is working with Ronny Wiskin, a specialist in home renovation for accessibility, through the Toronto-based Med+ Home Healthcare company.

The company assists homeowners to modify environments using universal design principles - a seven-point checklist that balances esthetics and comfort with accessibility for people who might be confined to a wheelchair, or have other mobility issues.

"It’s the design of products and environments that are usable by people of all abilities," Wiskin said.

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