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Markham’s Paul Bourbonniere, 59, fin-ished this week’s Boston Marathon in 3:38:58 and was several blocks east of the finish line, in the Boston Common area, when the blasts occurred.

“I was part of the event, but not part of the incident, and I’m thankful for that,” he said.

He had already spoken to his wife, Sue Ann, about his location before they knew

anything was wrong. She was back in their hotel room in the Cambridge area, north across the Charles River from the finish line.

He had been waiting in a subway sta-tion for about 10 minutes when a transit employee told the crowd the train wouldn’t be coming due to police action.

He decided to walk back to the hotel and received a phone call from his daughter, Lisa Derby, checking to make sure he and Mrs. Bourbonniere were safe.

That was when he realized something

happened.People on the street were looking for TV

screens to follow what was happening and he went into a coffee shop, where people were talking about the bombs.

Mr. Bourbonniere initially wondered how bad the incident was, how many people were injured or killed, and if there might be more bombs, he said.

“Everywhere I went, there seemed to be a combination of medical emergency and police presence,” he said.

“With all the sirens on, you sort of figure the city is in lockdown and you have to get your wits about you.”

He tried posting to Facebook to let friends and family know he was safe, but he couldn’t access the Internet. Fortunately, his wife and daughter were online, spreading the mes-sage.

That evening, Mr. and Mrs. Bourbonniere were supposed to meet friends for dinner at Copley Square, near the bomb site.

They instead ate in a restaurant closer to where they were staying, where the bombing was the main point of conversation.

“Obviously, it was the talk of the entire place,” Mr. Bourbonniere said. “Everyone was buzzing about it.”

The bombings won’t deter participation in the marathon in the future, he said, as all the runners he spoke to said they would return.

“The running community will pull together on this,” he said. “Anybody who qualified for Boston 2014 is going to be there.”

Aurora resident Jim Keon finished the race about 20 minutes before the blasts and had been herded farther down the street with other runners for post-race activities.

“I was looking back, probably talking to somebody ... I don’t know what a bomb sounds like, but it sounded like a bomb. I really didn’t know at the time what it was.”

Mr. Keon was among a group of five run-ners from the Running Room in Aurora to attend the event. He reported that all run-ners and their families were safe.

“Whoever did it timed it for the most likely time to hit the most people,” he noted. “Because it is a marathon, police and emer-gency vehicles are lined up right there. They took control immediately, but it obviously ruined the day for everybody.”

This was the second straight year Mr. Keon ran the Boston event. He will think hard about running the race in future.

“We’ll have to talk about that. Some people in my club are already making plans for next year. We’ll have to think about it. For a runner, it is the place to be.”

Mr. Keon was staying at the nearby Wes-tin Copley, overlooking the start and finish line.

— with files from John Cudmore and Torstar News

Markham runner amidst Boston Marathon chaos

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Bradford renter Neil Craig works in York Region, but he and his wife, Val, have given up on living here.

The prices, they agree, are sim-ply too steep for a young family and it has forced them to dream of finding a place of their own to the north, east or west of the region.

When they started looking to buy a home, the search focused on Newmarket and Bradford, but now Innisfil is the most likely destination.

“Buying a half-million dollar house is not do-able on a single income,” Mr. Craig said.

Many of the homes being built in Brad-ford cost about $400,000, Mrs. Craig said, noting prices in the area have risen sharply during the past five to six years.

Unfortunately, the rental market isn’t much better, Mr. Craig said.

He commutes to work in Newmarket every day, but said he can’t justify moving closer, considering monthly rent for a two-bedroom, above-ground unit hovers around $1,300, plus utilities, and basements typically go for $1,000.

Bradford’s rents are typically $50 to $100 a month cheaper, Mrs. Craig said, but it depends on the unit and landlord.

They’re fortunate, she continued, as their landlords are friends, meaning rent isn’t quite as pricey and utilities are included.

With interest rates so low, it’s frustrating many rent prices are almost equal to what a mortgage would carry for, Mr. Craig said, not-ing it’s nearly impossible to save up a suffi-cient down payment when you’re paying rent and other bills each month. The problem is further compounded with home prices as high as they are.

It’s to the point people have just accepted a lengthy commute to work each day will simply be a consequence of their decision to buy a home, Mrs. Craig said, adding she’s eager to get settled by the time their nearly two-year-old daughter, Claira, starts school.

“You almost have to decide, do you want to live close to work or buy a house?” Mr. Craig said.

“Exactly,” Mrs. Craig agreed. York Region has a reputation for affluence

and you only need to peruse the local real estate section to see why.

It’s one of the reasons York Region Media Group decided to delve into the issue of home prices for our wide-ranging housing series, of which this is part one.

In 2011, the average resale price for a single-detached home in York was in excess

Val (from left), Neil and Claira Craig live in Bradford. Although Mr. Craig works in York Region, he says his family can’t afford to live there and is looking north in the search for a home of their own.

of $643,000, according to the region’s 2012 report Taking Stock: An Overview of the Housing System in York Region, while the typical price for a new single-detached house was about $614,000. Between 2007 and 2011, more than 50 per cent of all new houses built were single-detached, as were 60 per cent of resales.

Semi-detached homes and townhouses have proved more affordable, with the majority of resales, 71 per cent and 75 per cent, respectively, landing in the $400,000 to $500,000 price range, on average. In fact, the only type of resale homes averaging less than $400,000 in 2011 were condominiums.

Given all that, it comes as little surprise many families struggle to afford home own-ership, especially when you consider low-to-moderate household income is anything below $109,000 in the region.

“There has been a trend to build a certain type of house in this region, that being a two-bath, four-bedroom detached home,” region community and health services commis-sioner Adelina Urbanski said. “It crowds a lot of people out of the market.

“And, in many cases, we’re talking about people with OK incomes who still can’t afford anything.”

A software engineer/designer making the trade’s average salary of about $71,000 annu-ally, for example, could spend a maximum of $268,764 on a home if he wanted to remain within the affordability guideline that rec-ommends no more than 30 per cent of your income goes toward housing.

You’d be hard-pressed to find even a condo in that price range, with units averag-ing nearly $320,000.

In reality, 27.3 per cent of York Region households spent 30 per cent or more of their incomes on housing in 2006, compared to 22.6 per cent in 2001. At the same time, hous-ing prices have soared, outpacing the con-sumer price index and median hourly wage.

You really need to be a two-income couple to afford to buy something here, Ms Urbanski said, noting families are doubling up to make housing more affordable.

In most urban expanses, a rental house or apartment would be the affordable option for people unable or unwilling to purchase a home. But the supply of rental units in the region is sorely lacking and the vacancy rate typically hovers around the 0.8-per-cent mark.

Of more than 274,000 housing units in the region, just more than 32,000, or 11.7 per

NEXT WEEK: Young people struggle to enter market

PART 3: Short supply leads to affordable housing waiting lists

PART 4: Homelessness and poverty

PART 5: Do we face a senior housing crisis?

PART 6: Crime and public housing

PART 7: What are the solutions?

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cent, are rental accommodations.Toronto, by comparison, boasts more

than 979,000 housing units, of which close to 447,000, or 45.6 per cent, are rentals.

In fact, according to Statistics Canada, single-detached homes are the predomi-nant type of housing in all nine York Region municipalities. Semi-detached and row/townhouses typically make up most of the remaining housing units.

What is available on the rental market is largely priced out of reach, with the region acknowledging average rent rates are sim-ply not affordable for many existing and would-be renters.

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Markham has retained outside legal advice to judge if it is appropriate to release confidential documents related to the pro-posed $325-million GTA Centre.

Alex Cameron of Fasken Martineau was retained by the city to conduct a review of documents and reports and whether or not those documents can be released to the public, the city’s corporate services commis-sioner, Trinela Cane, said during this week’s Markham Sports, Entertainment and Cul-tural Centre committee meeting.

Mr. Cameron, a civil litigator, specializes in corporate and commercial disputes, privacy, freedom of information, access to informa-tion and software and Internet litigation.

He is also a lecturer and author on privacy and access to information and an expert on third party litigation, she added.

“Mr. Cameron will be looking at the indi-vidual documents and will give the city his advice on what can be released and what should be released,” Ms Cane said.

Twelve months after the arena was announced, there is no new information, said Karen Rea, president of the Markham Village City Ratepayers Association. “We’re being told negotiations are ongoing, but why?”

Mayor Frank Scarpitti argued there has been criticism the city has been moving too quickly.

The list of documents and reports includes the Markham Live report from Miller Thom-son Slide Deck, KPMG financial reports, cli-ent-priviledge communications, transaction

structure details, BDR’s project analysis, pro-fessional opinions, economic impact analysis and the Raymond James report.

In February, council voted in favour of get-ting outside legal advice.

The original motion, pushed by regional councillors Jim Jones and Joe Li this past winter, called for all documents related to the arena to be released to the public.

The remainder of the committee meeting was held in camera.

Ms Rea questioned why information about the 20,000-seat arena promoter, Graeme Roustan, was held in camera. “There is nothing to hide. Everything is available on the Internet,” she said.

Mr. Scarpitti noted recent complaints against the city’s in-camera process. An independent investigation said the city had grounds to go behind closed doors.

“I understand your frustration,” he said. “But we only go in camera when our solicitor advises us to. We follow provincial rules.”

“If we don’t go in camera, we can see some lawsuits against the city,” he said. “There will be more problems for the city if we didn’t fol-low provincial rules.”

While the city might be in the right when it comes to in-camera meetings, public sen-timent is still not good, Ward 1 Councillor Valerie Burke said. “We can defend ourselves as much as we want, but the public is not happy,” she said. “I think we’ve dug ourselves in a hole on this one.”

The second legal opinion is expected to be completed in the next couple of weeks and will be followed with a report to council.

City hires lawyer for second opinion

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Re: This kind of sunshine brings disgust, column, April 6.

While I agree with Debora Kelly that the public sector must be accountable and transparent, her rant misses the bigger part of the story: the serious shortcomings of the neo-liberal economic experiment.

In theory, deregulation, globalization, and lower taxes, especially for corporations and the wealthy, would free up capital and grow the economy to benefit us all.

In practice, however, the new economic order has brought us this:

• A race to the bottom, as jurisdictions “compete” to attract capital by offering the lowest taxes, cheapest wages and weakest labour and environmental standards.

• The outsourcing of good jobs (see above), and “precarious employment” as the emerging norm: short-term, part-time and contract work without stability or ben-efits. (No wonder Canadians, especially young Canadians, are anxious, “gloomy,” about their economic prospects.)

• The widening gap between rich and poor, the hollowing out of the middle class, and the growth of a tiny cadre of super-wealthy. (Search: “Income Inequality + Con-ference Board of Canada” and/or “OECD”.)

As one commentator in Canadian Busi-ness put it recently: “The rising economic

tide has floated a small number of luxu-ry yachts, leaving everyone else beached ashore.”

• Reduced taxes, especially for corpora-tions and the elite. Between 2000 and 2012, Canada’s corporate tax rate plummeted from 28 per cent to 15 per cent; since 1981, our top marginal tax rate fell from 43 per cent to 29 per cent.

So much for all that Conservative hand-wringing about the “deficit”.

• The hoarding — rather than reinvest-ment — of corporate cash. Canadian cor-porate cash reserves grew from $187 billion in 2001 to $575 billion in 2011. Still, the right keeps calling for even more corporate tax breaks, without any commitment to domestic employment.

• The squirrelling away by the very rich of between $21 trillion and $32 trillion — yes, trillion with t — in off-shore tax havens.

Domestically, Canadians for Tax Fair-ness have estimated, conservatively, that off-shore havens have cost us $7.8 billion annually in lost revenue.

Ms Kelly points out in today’s economy “workers are grateful to have jobs”. Des-peration, apparently, is the new “reality” — and benchmark.

She should have asked why this is so, rather than simply direct our frustration and outrage at the public sector.

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LETTER OF THE WEEKEDITORIAL

h, springtime in Markham. The birds are chirping. The grass is growing. The smell of dog doodoo is in the

air.Hey, wait a minute! Don’t we

have bylaws that compel dog owners to pick up after their pooches, spring, summer, fall and winter?

Anyone who has walked the streets the past few weeks will know not every dog owner follows those rules.

Including, it would seem, in winter when there is the belief some magical process will turn a dog’s calling card into a harmless, odourless substance after it drops through the snow.

The fact of the matter is, along our boulevards and in our parks and in any number of places where people and their dogs go for exercise, there are plenty of reminders that Fido was Here this winter.

So, yes, to start with, people, please pick up after your dogs, every time, all the time. Just think of it as an act of respect for your neighbours.

We know most of us do pick up after our pets, but when some don’t we all get a bad name.

And keep your dog on a leash at all times. That rule is not really bendable and if you break it, you are asking for trouble should your dog bite someone.

But are dog issues in our com-munity really as simple as use a leash and stoop and scoop?

One challenge is that, as York Region grows is, so grows its dog population.

Ipsos Reid estimates there are 5.9 million dogs in Canada or that 35 per cent of Canadian house-holds have a dog. Apply those numbers to Markham, with a population of more than 300,000 and one can assume we may have as many as 100,000 dogs living within our borders.

That’s a lot of dogs that need to exercise and typically answer

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Let’s make dog parks part of our long-term leisure plan

Do we have enough dog parks for a city of 300,000 people?

BOTTOM LINE: Let’s set a goal of a dog park in every ward.

nature’s call in an outdoor setting.Certain dogs need a lot of

exercise, in that they need to run, daily, to be a healthy and happy companion for their owners.

How many off-leash dog parks do we have to help make this happen?

There is an off-leash park at Roddick Road and Miller Avenue.

There is another fenced area as part of a pilot project in the hydro fields near Leslie Street and Hwy. 407. But that’s about it. Most dog owners must take to the streets and sidewalks to exercise their pooches in a slow walk.

In the same way we spend tens of millions to build any num-ber of arenas and community centres for people to get exercise, perhaps it’s time we started con-sidering more venues for dogs to get exercise.

No, dogs are not taxpaying citi-zens. But their owners are.

According to a 2011 poll by a pet food manufacture, 90 per cent of owners consider their four-legged companions mem-bers of the family. (Nearly 20 per cent celebrate their dog’s birthday and 40 per cent go by “mom” or “dad”.)

Markham’s leisure master plan does give a mention to the desire for more off-leash parks in the city, but the real focus is on library services, sports and cul-tural facilities.

Perhaps man’s best friend and walking companion (the plan notes one of the top physi-cal activities we take part in is going out for a walk) should be factored in with a goal of an off-leash park in each ward.

These parks need planning, consultation and the neighbours onside. They don’t work in every setting, parking and noise can be issues and once an area is built up, it may be too late to easily put in a dog park.

Still, it is worth a harder look, for the sake of pets and their owners, whose lives are enriched by companionship and exercise courtesy of their dogs.

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Celebrate Earth Day with a spring cleaning of your neighbourhood.

The city is hosting an Earth Day celebra-tion Saturday, April 20, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Markville Shopping Centre with booths from local environmental organizations as well members of Markham’s environmental advisory committee, who will talk about the city’s green initiatives.

You can learn about the city’s clear garbage bag program that rolls out at the end of the month.

Learn about how to make your home more energy and water efficient, how to divert less waste to landfill and electronic waste recy-cling.

You can also get in on a community clean-up. The third annual Keep Cornell Beautiful litter cleanup is Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5

p.m. Residents will be given supplies to help pick up garbage on roadsides and in parks.

The Cornell Village cleanup starts at 10 a.m. at Mews Park near Country Glen Road and Cornell Park Avenue. Grand Cornell cleanup starts at 10:30 a.m. at the clock tower near Kenilworth Gate and Stoney Stanton Road. Upper Cornell cleanup starts at 11 a.m. at the splash pad near Bur Oak Avenue and Northvale Road. Cornell Rouge cleanup starts at 2 p.m. near Morning Dove Drive and Cor-nell Rouge Boulevard.

If you don’t live in the Cornell area, you can register your community cleanup with the city and receive supplies, such as garbage bags to help green your neighbourhood.

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There is a lot of Prosciutto in the market presently and whenthe very affable Mariela suggested that we promote thistype, I asked “why would you choose this one?” Her answerwas, “Firstly it’s genuine, it comes from Parma, secondlyit’s always very lean, thirdly, it’s moist and not salty (twothings that go hand in hand) and fourthly, we only slice thatpremium centre part — we cook with the end bits.” I wasconvinced, what about you? Now, if you are a tough sell andyou need further convincing, tastingmight be believing, so we are samplingthis on Friday and Saturday mid-day!Reg. $6.99/100g.

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ave you received any robo calls recently?

Or to put it in more positive terms, have you been invited by an automatic telephone generated message to offer your opinions or participate in a telephone town hall meeting?

While the term robo call took on a negative connotation during and after the last federal elec-tion, more and more politicians, parties and lobby groups are using telephones as a way to reach out to us.

Last week was a busy one for robo calls in my Richmond Hill house-hold.

Monday, we were informed of a telephone town hall meeting of Richmond Hill MPP Reza Moridi with Vaughan MPP Steven Del Duca that would be happening the next evening.

Then Tuesday evening another automated call came in inviting us to participate and offer our opinions to that same Moridi-Del Duca town hall in the lead-up to the provincial budget.

Residents living in the Oak Ridges-Markham riding of MPP Helena Jac-zek were similarly invited to participate in her tele-phone town hall.

A rather irate man from Oak Ridges called me to complain he had picked up his home phone Tuesday evening to make an outgoing call, and was unwittingly involved in the electronic town hall.

Another caller from Richmond Hill was even angrier about the Moridi town hall invitation.

He was so upset he told me he called the Liberal Party of Ontario to insist they delete his phone number from their calling lists and added his number to the Do Not Call registry.

I heard strong com-plaints from another Oak Ridges gentleman on a phone survey concerning amalgamating fire servic-es across York Region.

While I believe it is mostly an issue driven by

proponents in our north-ern municipalities, espe-cially in Aurora and New-market, the Oak Ridges man said he answered the survey questions because he thought he was doing his duty as a citizen.

He said the questions seemed to favour amal-gamated fire depart-ments.

He was “shocked” that the final two questions on this supposed fire safe-ty survey asked him to rate his satisfaction with his ward councillor and one of Richmond Hill’s regional councillors, call-ing this “inappropriate”.

I understand a similar fire amalgamation phone survey was done in Vaughan and that survey respondents were simi-larly asked to rate their satisfaction with munici-pal politicians in that city.

Finally last week, an Aurora resident told me her home message service received an invitation to participate in a Canadian Automobile Association telephone town hall on York Region traffic grid-lock. She was forced to listen to a portion of the actual meeting before she was able to delete it.

Negative reactions to automated surveys and opinion events should serve as a warning to political leaders, cam-paign teams and lobby groups seeking our opin-ions and eager for our input.

There can be a back-lash from residents who feel their personal time and space is invaded.

If this is the new fron-tier — the modern way groups, organizations and political parties will be engaging our opin-ions — then sensitivity and common sense must prevail.

Marney Beck is editor of the Richmond Hill Liberal.

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Markham’s message on garbage is clear


Markham wants you to trash the tradi-tional green and black garbage bags in favour of clear bags by the end of the month.

The switch is part of the city’s 10-point plan dubbed Best of the Best, designed to increase our 74 per cent diversion rate to 80 per cent by 2014.

“Nothing about what you put in the gar-bage bag has changed,” said the city’s waste and environmental senior manager, Claudia Marsales. “The only thing that has changed is the colour.”

“Clear plastic bags never really went off the shelves,” she said. “Clear bags used to be used for leaf collection. There’s no dye used in

clear plastic bags, so there shouldn’t be a price issue.”

Currently, about 90 per cent of resi-dents separate waste into compost, recy-cling and refuse — green, blue and now clear containers.

That leaves about 8,000 homes where waste is going directly to landfill, Ms Marsales said.

“The blue box is a visible reminder to separate waste,” she

said. “The clear bag will do the same thing; act as a reminder to further separate waste.”

The plan also has provisions for privacy.Items can be placed in an opaque bag

inside the larger clear bag. Shredded documents can be tossed in

your greenbin. So can feminine hygiene products and diapers.

Recognizing many residents use grocery bags in the bathroom or bedroom, clear bags

would encourage residents to further sepa-rate items.

“This is about helping people sort cor-rectly,” Regional Councillor Jack Heath said.

“It might take a little more time to sort everything. But that is better for the environ-ment. Clear bags are a way for every one of us to do a better job.”

Switching to clear bags is also a health and safety issue, Ms Marsales said. There have been instances where waste collectors were injured after handling garbage bags contain-ing broken glass.

“People don’t think about the waste col-lectors. Not being able to see what you’re handling is dangerous,” she added.

Residents using clear bags will no longer be limited to three bags, collected every other week.

Residents who do not use clear plastic bags will be given a pass during the first few garbage collection cycles. After several warn-ings, your garbage may not be collected.

Guelph, Dufferin County and Grand Val-ley regions also use clear bags.

Meanwhile, your unused green or black garbage bags can be used to line your green bin or can be donated to local organizations or churches that can use the bags for storage or clothing donations.

The city is also no longer accepting batter-ies or electronic waste at the curbside.

Instead, e-waste can be dropped off at the city’s Household Hazardous Waste and Electronic Recycling Depot. The depot is on Rodick Road just south of Miller Avenue.

The zero waste school program is another component of the 80-per-cent diversion rate

plan. Markham schools can apply for fund-ing to have green bin and blue box containers in each classroom.

“Right now, every child knows how to recycle at home,” Ms Marsales said. “We want every child to follow the same rules at school.”

There are no additional costs as classroom greenbins and blue boxes would be included with regular curbside collection, she added.

So far, about 10 schools are participating in the program. Markham expects to have green bins and blue boxes in every classroom over the next few years.

The next major waste issue will be ensur-ing a three-bin system for waste in condo-minium and apartment buildings, along with small businesses, Ms Marsales said.

Making the system as convenient in a condominium as in a single family home will be a challenge regionwide, she said. “Now, you recycle at home, at school and when you go to a community facility. It should be the same at work or at a business.”

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Markham is switching to clear bags for curbside garbage collection by the end of April. Res-idents using clear bags will no longer be limited to three bags, collected every other week.

JACK HEATH: Clear bags require more sorting, but environment will benefit, regional councillor says.

4 Celebrate Earth Day Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Markville Shopping Centre. Learn more about waste collection, energy reduction and conservation, water efficiency and the city’s clear bag program.

4Clear Bag Days April 27 and 28 at various grocery stores throughout the city with clear bag giveaways and coupons.

4Check your mail for the city’s Mission Green newsletter with coupons on your next purchase of clear garbage bags.

4Keeping Markham Beautiful program, where residents participating in a community or neigh-bourhood cleanup of roadsides and parks will receive supplies, such as garbage bags, from the city until April 19. To register your com-munity cleanup event, e-mail [email protected]

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Helping homeless pets (HHP) is closing its adoption resource centre in Markham. Everything must go by the end of April, including a mini fridge, a Tasimo, a popcorn maker, shelves, desks, chairs, toys, books, and much more. HHP volunteers will contin-ue to help residents re-home their pets and fundraise even though there is no longer an office base. The centre is located at 2A Wignall Cres. in Markham. For more info, e-mail [email protected]

April 19ANNUAL MUSIC NIGHT AT

EBENEZER UNITED CHURCH

Relax this Friday evening at Ebenezer United Church’s annual music night, starting at 7 p.m. Talented members of all ages will be performing, and a free-will offering will be accepted in support of the Heritage Hall restoration fund. The church is at 5000 Steeles Ave. E. For more info, call 905-477-4365.

April 19 to 21UNIONVILLE’S ICE FANTASIA

Unionville Skating Club hosts Ice Fantasia 2013 Under the Big Top at Crosby Arena

April 19 at 7 p.m., April 20 at 1 and 7 p.m. and April 21 at 1 p.m. Show features 2013 Canadian pairs silver medalists Dylan Mos-covitch and Kirsten Moore-Towers. Tickets ($20) can be bought at Crosby Arena right up until the show. For more info, visit union-villeskatingclub.com

April 20BACH CHILDREN’S CHORUS

Enjoy an evening of music by the Bach Children’s Chorus, a group of youth, 9 to 16 years old, at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church (143 Main St. N., Markham) at 7:30 p.m. For tickets ($10, $15), call 905-294-4736 or e-mail [email protected]

HEALTH & WELLNESS FAIRYou’re invited to Seniors Social Club’s free health and wellness fair, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Markham’s Welcome Centre. Information booths about physical and mental health, launch of a healthy cookbook for the South

Asian community, yoga and meditation demonstrations, diabetes and hearing screenings. Guests encouraged to donate non-perishable food items for the food drive. The centre is at 7220 Kennedy Rd. For more info, call 416-579-4829.

April 22MADE IN THE SHADE GARDENS

Markham Horticultural Society’s meeting and Spring Flower Show will be held April 22 at 8 p.m. at the Markham Village Com-munity Centre on Hwy. 7 and Markham Road. New members welcome. Speaker will be Frank Kershaw on shade gardening. Remember to lug a mug for tea.

April 27GALA FOR PULMONARY FIBROSIS

Support Canadian Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation’s 4th Spring Gala at LeParc

(8432 Leslie St.). Dinner, dancing, door prizes, silent auction and raffle. For tickets ($95 with a tax receipt of $30 provided), visit www.cpff.ca or call 905-294-7645.

April 28BEST OF BROADWAY

Sing along to great Broadway classics such as The Sound of Music, Mamma Mia, and Jersey boys at Markham Concert Band’s The Best of Broadway at 2 p.m. at Flato Markham Theatre, featuring Tracy Michailidis and conductor Doug Manning. For tickets ($17/student or senior and $22/adult), call 905-305-7469.

April 30 to May 5LUMINOSITY ART SHOW

The Bayview Watercolour Society hosts the Luminosity art exhibition and sale at the McKay Art Centre (197 Main St., Unionville)

April 30 to May 5. Admission is free from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m on Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 8 pm. from Thursday to Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. The exhibition features displays of watercolour, acrylic, and mixed media paint-ings. Visit bayviewwatercoloursociety.com

May 2DINNER IN THE DARK

A York Region Visions dinner fundraiser will be held at the Delta Markham hotel to benefit CNIB’s vital rehabilitation services. Three-course meal in the dark, silent auc-tion, lively cocktail reception and enter-tainment by Adrien Breda and Markham-Unionville Rotary Club Choir. For more info or tickets ($100), call 416-486-2500 ext. 3868 or e-mail [email protected]

May 4MAYS AT THE MOVIES

Markham Jazz Festival presents Mays at the Movies at Varley Art Gallery, an evening of jazz by New York pianist Bill Mays, drummer Terry Clarke and bassist Pat Collins. Concert starts at 7:30 p.m. and features interpreta-tions of the movies’ hit songs. Gallery is at 216 Main St, Unionville. For tickets ($20), call 905-471-5299 (note corrected phone number). Tickets at the door subject to availability.

CONNECTedBach’s Children’s Chorus performs Saturday

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Jully Black in line for third Juno By DAVID LI

Jully Black earned a 2013 Juno Award nomination for her single Fugitive and hopes to capture her third career Juno Award this weekend.

The singer-songwriter is a former Rich-mond Hill resident, now living in Markham, who won her first Juno in 1997 at the age of 19 in the Best Rap Recording category for her single Whatever It Takes.

Ms Black, 35, who is this year nominated in the R&B/Soul Recording Of The Year cat-egory, says living in York Region has had a significant artistic influence on her music.

“There’s been a level of calm and peace,” she said at the 2012 Juno Awards welcome reception last year. “It’s just home.”

Having captured her second Juno in 2007 for her R&B single Revival, she is perhaps best known for her song Seven Day Fool which was released later that same summer, becoming a top 10 hit in Canada.

Her talent combined with her longevity and success has given her the opportunity to work with the music industry’s biggest names including Jay Z, Kanye West and Celine Dion; and has many music insiders referring to her as Canada’s Queen of R&B.

One of those insiders is Aurora musician Spiros “Spee” Chalkiotis, lead singer for the rising Canadian pop band, Neverest.

“Her music is so soulful and it’s so raw,” said the front man for Neverest, a band best

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known for their single, About Us which topped the MuchMusic charts in 2010. “She brought back that pop blues sound; her music is so exciting and she’s just amazing.”

He adds that the R&B/Soul Recording of The Year category should prove to be highly competitive, as Vaughan’s Melanie Fiona and Shawn Desmond have also been nominated.

The 2013 Juno Awards will be handed out at the Brant Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan this Sunday.

For more information, visit junoawards.ca

— David Li is a Thornhill freelance writer.

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Jully Black’s single Fugitive earned her a Juno nomination.

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Famed Canadian comedian and impres-sionist André-Philippe Gagnon will bring his one-man musical to the Markham stage.

The man of 400 voices will perform at the Flato Markham Theatre this Saturday, April 20 with shows at 2 and 8 p.m.

Mr. Gagnon reproduces the musical sounds and songs of some of the world’s more recog-nizable musicians, note for note.

“Many comedians do talking impressions of presidents or other famous people,” Mr. Gagnon said. “But I sing the song and become the character for 40 or 50 seconds. I play the character. I’m not just that funny guy from Quebec. I become Michael Jackson or Barry White or Johnny Cash on stage.”

He always gets a laugh when he breaks out the sensual sounds of the soul and funk through his impression of Barry White.

“His songs just grove, his voice is so low,” he said. “I sure don’t look like Barry White. So, it is always a surprise when I get my voice real low like that.”

The audience always gets a rise out of his impressions of Jon Bon Jovi, Lionel Richie, Phil Collins, former president Bill Clinton playing the saxophone and a feast of one-hit wonders. He is currently adding pop stars such as Bruno Mars to his repertoire.

His show, the One-Man Hit Parade, blends comedy and music.

The production features Mr. Gagnon inter-acting with the audience where they can mix and match a musician or song with a particular dance move, he said.

“I could be Guns N’ Roses moving like Michael Jackson,” he said. “This part of the show is random. I can’t be on cruise control.”

There is a fast-paced rhythm to his show, giving the audience a taste of more than 100 voices.

Mr. Gagnon started doing impressions as a kid as a way to make friends.

“I was shy and wanted the other kids to like me,” he said. “I remember one of my first impressions was Tweety Bird. It was in English and I didn’t know what I was saying. I just learned to sound like Tweety by ear. I overcame my shyness and now I am making a living out of it.”

He went on to perform at festivals and radio stations around Quebec before getting his big break at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal. After that, Mr. Gagnon performed on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and had several shows in Las Vagas.

Currently, he is working on a new French production of the One-Man Hit Parade.

For tickets to Saturday’s show, visit markhamtheatre.ca

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By Sean [email protected]

GO launched a six-month pilot project that provides free Wi-Fi Internet to customers at its Picker-ing and Clarkson stations.

The study was initiated in response to user feedback, GO Transit customer service vice-pres-ident Mary Proc said, adding the company hopes to offer Wi-Fi at all stations within a year, should this trial prove successful.

The pilot will expand to include eight GO stations and three bus terminals.

“Our intention is to always stay close to what our passengers are requesting,” she said.

Wi-Fi access will be provided by IMA Outdoor at no charge to GO users, Ms Proc said, adding IMA will also be responsible for installing and maintaining the equipment, at no cost to GO.

To access the system, you will need to select the network named

“IMA Wifi at GO” and agree to the terms and conditions.

You will also be presented with a short advertisement from a spon-soring partner, which makes the free Internet access possible.

While GO plans to implement Wi-Fi in the near future, it is too early to say when and where the system will come online, Ms Proc said.

“We want to make sure our cov-erage is even and reliable for our customers,” she said.

Beyond stations and terminals, GO Transit is also exploring offering Wi-Fi on trains and buses, although doing so presents its own issues, Ms Proc said.

A GO train at capacity could carry up to 1,800 passengers, she said, and if all of them were con-nected to Wi-Fi, it would consume immense bandwidth.

Those types of technical con-cerns would need to be addressed, she said.

The study is one of several cus-

tomer service enhancements GO Transit has introduced, Ms

Proc said, pointing to its on-time promise, the quiet zone on the Bar-rie rail line and the GO Mobile app developed with Ryerson University.

GO is also going to add vending machines in another study that was requested by customers.

While you may one day be able to surf the Internet from the com-fort of your GO train or bus seat, York Region Transit/Viva has given up on offering Wi-Fi.

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A new tool in the police arsenal helped save a woman suffering from mental impair-ment from meeting an untimely fate this week.

York Regional Police used Project Lifesav-er, a device that can locate vulnerable people fitted with an electronic bracelet, to find the 77-year-old woman Tuesday, just 60 minutes after she was reported missing.

At about 5:30 p.m., the woman was reported missing and was last seen on foot at Coledale Road and Hollingham Road, in Markham.

As part of the program, the woman had been fitted with a radio transmitter that emits a unique radio signal, meaning officers were able to locate her with the help of antennas.

The wristband is a 1-ounce, battery-oper-ated wrist transmitter emitting an FM radio frequency signal every second, 24 hours a day.

The woman was discovered at the corner of Warden Avenue and Gibson Drive, about six kilometres from where she was reported missing.

Project Lifesaver is a rapid-response sys-tem that assists people who are vulnerable as a result of a brain injury, Alzheimer’s disease, Autism or other similar challenges.

Police offer prom night tips

With prom season just around the corner for many students in Markham, York Region-al Police are offering parents and students tips to ensure everyone has a safe and enjoy-able graduation:

• If you are under 19, do not drink alcohol• Do not drink or use drugs and drive• Do not enter a vehicle with a driver who

is under the influence of alcohol or drugs• If possible, use alternative modes of

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• Inform a parent or guardian of your itinerary for the evening and provide contact information

• Make sure a trusted adult is available should you require assistance for any reason

• Make sure you have a cell phone with a fully-charged battery and extra cash.

York Regional Police say they are aware of school board policies prohibiting students who have consumed alcohol or drugs from entering prom night festivities.

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If you think most distracted drivers are young and inexperienced behind the wheel, you are dead wrong, according to the OPP.

In reality everyone’s doing it, sometimes with fatal results.

On the first day of a week-long OPP blitz, Sgt. Dave Woodford stopped two people himself, one he described as a “middle manager” and family man engaging in a

conference call while zipping down the highway.

He had his phone up to his ear, saying his hands-free unit was broken, he said.

That doesn’t make it right, according to the officer, who promptly issued him a $155 ticket.

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For the first time, distracted driving on Ontario’s highways has killed more people than drunk driving by a rate of 15 to 13 this

No age barrier to distracted driving, police sayyear. That is on top of the 83 killed last year as a result of the rising trend.

In the past few years, there have been countless tragic stories, including that of Emy Brochu, the 20-year-old who died moments after sharing romantic texts with her boy-friend, Mathieu Fortin.

The final message before the crash said: “I love you too and I’ll try to make you happy Mr. Fortin.”

In 2011, a 17-year-old Barrie driver was allegedly texting and trying to pick up her cat when she lost control and hit a parked car in a driveway.

The crash created a domino effect, during which a boat and a neighbouring home were

also hit, causing more than $100,000 in dam-age as well as injuries.

Distracted driving takes many forms, Sgt. Woodford said. It can be calling, texting or even caused by kids in the car, he said.

“It’s a growing concern (and) it’s becom-ing as serious as drunk driving. For many, it’s like a habit. It’s about trying to break that habit.”

Last year, 16,000 distracted driving charg-es were laid by OPP and, so far this year, officers have laid 2,900.

All of the OPP’s 6,000 officers will be focused on catching offenders for the rest of the week.

— with files from Torstar News Service

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Two young ladies from Markham are showing off both their beauty and brains in a national pageant.

Eastern thinkers and philoso-phers have clearly had an impact on 22-year-old Tanya Virk.

A finalist in the Miss World Canada Pageant, Ms Virk has been reading books by the Dalai Lama and says she has been influenced by how much he encourages peo-ple to be compassionate and live in a simple way.

Ms Virk was born in India and came to Canada seven years ago.

In 2011, she finished in the top 16 in Miss India Canada.

“You learn so many things at a pageant,” she said. “It is beauty with a purpose. You have to give back to the community.”

You also have to be persistent and believe in yourself, added Ms Virk, a graduate of Seneca College’s biotechnology program.

Ms Virk liked how disciplined she has to be to train for the con-test.

She is developing a following on her Facebook page, where she includes a quote from Indian polit-ical and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi, “You must be the change

you want to see in the world”.Meanwhile, she is working out

six times a week to be ready for the contest’s bikini competition.

She has been practising what she calls her “pageant walk” and knows she must smile and be engaging.

She is also working on her pub-lic speaking skills.

“You have to be social, speak with judges, be calm and confi-dent. You have to practise over and over again. When you do it for a while, it changes your lifestyle, your outlook on life and it makes you a better person,” she said.

“You have to engage the audi-ence when you are smiling. They have to see your personality come out,” she said.

She said she likes the pageant’s emphasis on helping others.

She has selected her charity — Because I Am A Girl, a global initia-tive to end gender inequality, pro-mote girls’ rights and lift millions of girls and those around them out of poverty. She is planning a fund-raiser to benefit the charity.

Also planning a fundraiser this weekend is Miss World Canada Pageant contestant Neha Karam-chandani.

Holding a BA in criminology/

human rights and equity studies from York University and pursuing a master’s degree in journalism, Ms Karamchandani is turning heads with more than just her appear-ance.

Ms Karamchandani says she has devoted her life to inspiring and motivating young women and empowering underprivileged citi-zens around the world.

She is an actress, model, dance choreographer, founder of dance company Dance Expression and a

rights activist, fusing her passion for human rights, her interest in public service and her professional talents to become a voice in the community.

“I’ve had the opportunity to travel extensively across the world including Canada, India, Ecua-dor, Sri Lanka and Mexico where I worked with many children,” Ms Karamchandani said.

In 2006, she was one of 20 stu-dents from the York Region District School Board to take part in the

International Cooperative Educa-tion program in Ecuador, where she volunteered as an English teacher at an elementary school while living with an Ecuadorian host family.

In 2011, she organized an event, “Do you want to be the next Bol-lywood Idol?” under the Social Ser-vices Network of York Region to showcase local youth talent.

She later dedicated her time to a high school in Mumbai to work with children who suffer from hear-ing impairment. She’s been a part of the Big Brothers/ Big Sisters of Toronto and is involved with Lions Club International.

“If selected to represent Canada at Miss World, I believe I can make a powerful impact on the lives of people in the hope of building a stronger future for our leaders of tomorrow.”

Ms Karamchandani hosts a fundraising dinner in support of Variety-The Children’s Charity April 21 at the J&J Swagat Convention Centre in Markham.

The Miss World Canada Pageant takes place May 8 and 9 in Van-couver.

Learn more about the contestants at www.missworldcanada.com

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TANYA VIRK: Contestant supporting Because I Am A Girl, initiative to end gender inequality.

NEHA KARAMCHANDANI: York U. grad hosting event to help Variety Village children’s charity.

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They host high school tournaments in the Great-er Toronto Area for sports such as basketball, volley-ball, hockey and track and field.

So why not cricket, rea-soned Ranil Mendes.

With cricket played in high schools but with far less fanfare, Mendes feels the time is right to fur-ther heighten the sport’s profile.

Noting cricket played in Toronto area high schools has been growing in pop-ularity due largely to shift-ing demographics, Men-des will introduce a series of regional high school cricket tournaments.

Fairtree grounds

Included in that is one in York Region at Markham’s Fairtree Grounds May 8 starting at 11 a.m.

Expecting anywhere from eight to 10 teams from the York Region Ath-letic Association taking to the Fairtree Grounds pitch on that day, the winner will represent the YRAA in a bigger tournament to be held at Sunnybrook Park in Toronto starting at 9 a.m. June 1.

On that day, the YRAA representative will play against champions repre-senting Toronto, Bramp-ton and Mississauga.

Announcing the tour-nament in what appears to be on short notice, Mendes said one sticking point was the public high

school teachers’ stance on extracurriculars dur-ing the winter sports sea-son, which has since been rescinded.

“Planning for the tour-nament took a long time because we ran into delays because of the teachers’ job action,” he said. “But everything is back on track.”

To create a tourna-ment of this nature, Men-des said it wouldn’t have been possible were it not for some co-operation received from their major sponsor, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) who have noticed the game’s popularity begin to take off.

“It is the revelation of the success that we expe-rienced in Toronto last year that convinced CIMA of the need to have a GTA-wide tournament. Success breeds success,” he said.

Steve Shantz, YRAA ath-letic co-ordinator, praised Mendes’ efforts along with CIMA, especially since it provides another avenue for students to get involved in a sport they might excel in.

“We think it’s a great opportunity for the kids. There’s no provincial championship for cricket. It seems to be a GTA thing right now. Hopefully it will expand.

“You have to give CIMA credit as they want to grow the game of cricket by rais-ing the profile of it,” said Shantz.

High school cricket tourney comes to Markham in May

Andrew Lue, a third-year defensive back with the Queen’s University Gaels and a St. Brother Andre Catho-lic High School graduate, was chosen to play in the 11th annual East-West Bowl, presented by Under Armour, at the University of Western Ontario May 11.

A first team Ontario University Athletics all-star on defence, the six-foot, two-inch, 205-pound Lue was one of four Gaels chosen to play in the game.

The players taking part in the contest are Canadian Interuniversity Sport players who are eligible for the fol-lowing year’s Canadian Football League draft.

St. Brother Andre grad to play in East-West Bowl

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EVERYONE WANTS TO BE HAPPYIn the “Peanuts” comic

strip, Linus frequentlydefined happiness forCharlie Brown. One time hisdefinition was, “Happiness isa warm puppy.” In anotherstrip he said, “Happiness isknowing somebody cares.”Medical missionary Dr.Albert Schweitzer advised

“Happiness is related goodhealth.” President FranklinD. Roosevelt noted that,

“Happiness is not found inthe possession of things butin the joy of achievement.”King George V observed that,“Happiness is not in doingwhat one likes, but in likingwhat one has to do.” MarkTwain wrote that, “Happinessis a sunset - but most peopleare looking the other way andmiss it.”

Good thoughts, becausebasically everyonewants to be happy.G.H. Morrisonmade the astuterecognition that,“Nine-tenths ofunhappiness results

fromselfishness.”BillGrahamput it this way: “Happinessthat brings enduring worthto life is not dependent onhappenings; it is rather thejoy and contentment that fillsthe soul even in the midst ofdistressing circumstanceswhen we have good friendsand God.”

The Psalmist probably saidit best: “In God’s presenceis fullness of joy and at Hisright hand are pleasuresforevermore” (16:11). Itwas the French philosopherBlaise Pascal (1623-62) whoidentified the fact that “thereis a God-shaped vacuum

in the heart of every manwhich cannot be filled by anycreated thing, only by Godthe Creator made knownthrough Jesus Christ.” It isa meaningful relationshipwith God that is the source oflasting joy.

Jesus indicated that hismission was to make possibleour reconciliation with theholy God (John 14:6). Thenwe can sing Ira Stanphil’ssong: “Happiness is to knowthe Saviour, living a life withinHis favour, having a changein our behaviour, happinessis the Lord.”

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What a difference a year makes.Last year at this time, golfers

were on the fairways in full force after Mother Nature brought an early end to winter, producing some unseasonably mild tempera-tures in March.

This year, some courses remain in a holding pattern while others have just opened.

For that, you can thank Old Man Winter, who decided to remain around a little longer than the norm after dumping snow and ice pellets last week followed by rainfall.

That’s left a bit of a soggy mess on some golf courses.

Originally scheduled to open Monday, Angus Glen Golf Club elected to wait until Saturday.

The April 20 opener represents one of the latest starts in the club’s history, said Terry Kim, Angus Glen Golf Club head pro.

“With the weather the way it was last week with the snow and rain, the maintenance guys couldn’t do anything to the course,” Kim said. “But what can you do?”

Revealing the 18-hole north course will open first, Kim said the south course, site of the 2001 BMO Canadian Women’s Open, 2001 Telus Skins Game and 2002 Bell Canadian Open, is expected to remain closed a few extra days.

Remington Parkview Golf Club allowed golfers to play their 18-hole upper course April 6.

It’s a far cry from last year when the course opened March 14 and the temperature hovered near 23 Celsius, cited Rob McGarrigle, Remington event co-ordinator,

“It was cold over the last few days and the weather fizzled a bit last week but today (Monday) we’re busy.”

McGarrigle said the 18-hole val-ley course is tentatively set to open Saturday, providing we do not get deluged with rain.

Having opened its nine-hole course Sunday, Markham Green Golf Club remains wet, but play-

able, said Scott Haynes, head pro. Last year they opened March 17.

“If this was the end of March or first of April we would have waited another week,” said Haynes. “Right now we’re down around 3,000 rounds from a year ago.”

Haynes said they’ve had about 30 to 40 golfers a day compared to 80 to 100 the same time last year.

“It’s been a struggle,” he said. “As much as people are anxious to get out, they won’t in 8 degree (Celcius) weather. The average temperature around this time should be around 12 to 13 and we haven’t had too many days above that so far.”

Noting they experienced their earliest opening last year on March

21, Bushwood Golf Club began the season Tuesday. Mary Evelyn, club president, said their latest ever opening was April 22 in 2004.

While it would have been nice to open earlier, Evelyn said the long winter with extended snow cov-erage combined with additional drainage work has their 18-hole championship course and nine-hole executive in great shape.

“We are excited to be open and have many new events scheduled throughout the year for customers to enjoy,” she said.

In addition, Evelyn said for the first time in 20 years Bushwood is offering memberships and have just a few remaining.

Local golf courses finally getting into swing of spring

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