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This Sunday: Bike with Mike
This Sunday, May 29, you are invited to join me for my 6th annual kick off of Toronto Bike Month, Bike with Mike, a celebration of community and cycling at Christie Pits Park.
When: Sunday, May 29, 2016
Time: 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Where: Christie Pits Park (Bloor St & Christie St)
Featuring members of the local cycling community, I am excited to host an afternoon of free family events including:
- Free BBQ
- Free children’s activities: kids’ bike swap, bike “blinging”, bike themed storytelling, bike photo booth
- Bike clinics, demonstrations, workshops, and bike art
- Community and Cycling advocacy info
- The North American Native Plant Society will once again have native wildflowers, plants and shrubs available for your garden or balcony. www.nanps.org
- Friends of Christie Pits Arts Crawl will be happening at the same time with over 60 vendors!
Children’s Bike Swap
Has your child (4-12 years old) outgrown his or her bike? If so, you are invited to participate in this year’s Children’s Bike Swap taking place during Bike with Mike. Get all of the details on the bike swap here: mikelayton.to/bike-with-mike-2016.
Help us out and volunteer! Contact Angela Surdi in my office asu...@toronto.ca or call 416-392-4009
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Provincial Government Votes NO to Giving Permanent Residents the Right to Vote in Municipal Elections
Unfortunately, on Thursday May 19, some of our local Toronto Liberal MPPs put a stop to a motion put forward by NDP MPP Percy Hatfield, that would have given Permanent Residents the right to vote in Municipal Elections. You can see how MPPs voted below.
This happened at the Provincial Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs, where they have been debating changes to the Municipal Elections Act.
The City of Toronto and other municipalities across Ontario have formally requested that Permanent Residents be allowed to vote in Municipal Elections. The Toronto Star Editorial Board also called for this last year. You can read their piece here: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2015/05/19/let-non-citizens-vote-in-municipal-elections-editorial.html.
Close to 250,000 newcomers live, work, and send their kids to school in Toronto. They pay taxes, they use our City services, they support our economy, and yet they have no input, no vote, in how any of these services are provided to them.
Over 40 countries around the world allow non-citizens to vote at the city level of government. What we have been asking for at the City of Toronto is not unique, it is only fair and democratic. You can read even more about this at the Maytree Foundation’s website here.
Bill 181 to amend the Municipal Elections Act is still moving through Queen’s Park and there may be another opportunity to have this included. Let me know your thoughts at councill...@toronto.ca and hopefully, together, we can extend the right to vote in our city elections to a quarter million people who pay taxes and depend on our schools and services in Toronto.
Here is how the vote went:
Voted Yes to Permanent Residents Voting in Municipal Elections:
NDP MPP Percy Hatfield
Voted No to Permanent Residents Voting in Municipal Elections:
Liberal MPP Han Dong, Trinity-Spadina
Liberal MPP Yvan Baker, Etobicoke Centre
Liberal MPP Lou Rinaldi, Northumberland—Quinte West
Liberal MPP Glenn Thibeault, Sudbury
Liberal MPP Daiene Vernile, Kitchener Centre
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Public Meeting: Senhor Santo Cristo Community Hub Initiative
You are invited to attend a public meeting to learn more about a community hub initiative for Senhor Santo Cristo Catholic Elementary School.
When: Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Where: 30 Humbert Street – Senhor Santo Cristo Catholic Elementary School, Library (map)
The TCDSB has been active in its support of the development of community hubs on its sites. Community hubs provide a central access point for a range of potential education, health and other social services, along with cultural, recreational, and green spaces to nourish community life.
Download the full public notice here.
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Public Meeting: Project Under Gardiner
You are invited to attend the second public meeting for Project: Under Gardiner and the related Environmental Assessment.
When: Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Time: 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. (presentation at 6:30 p.m. followed by an Open House at 8:00 p.m.)
Where: 627 Queens Quay West, Waterfront Neighbourhood Centre – gymansium (map)
The Project
Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto are developing 4 hectares (10 acres) of new public space on underused land under the Gardiner Expressway. The space will connect seven neighbourhoods with a new 1.75-kilometre multi-use trail and spaces for cultural programming between west of Strachan Avenue and Spadina Avenue.
At this meeting, staff will provide updates on the design, public consultation to date, proposed air quality assessment, and the Environmental Assessment.
Download the public notice here.
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Community Consultation: Traffic Safety on Dovercourt Road
Want to make Dovercourt one-way between Dundas & Queen?
You are invited to attend an upcoming community consultation session with Transportation Services to discussing making Dovercourt one way between Dundas and Queen. Come out and let us know your thoughts.
When: Wednesday June 1, 2016
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Where: 30 Humbert St, Senhor Santo Christo Catholic School – Multi Purpose Room (map)
If you have any questions, please speak with Ashley Da Silva in Councillor Layton’s office adas...@toronto.ca, or by phone 416 392-4010.
Download the notice here.
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Public Meeting: TransformTO - Brainstorming for a Sustainable City
You are invited to come out and join me at a Let’s TransformTO – Brainstorming for a Sustainable City event, which will be held at the Harbord Collegiate Institute (286 Harbord Street), on Monday, June 6 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
This event will allow you to gain more information, brainstorm, and share your ideas on how the City could reach its carbon emissions reduction goals, which is set to 80% by 2050.
For more details and to RSVP (it's free of course) please visit the event website here.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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This Weekend: Doors Open Toronto
Doors Open Toronto features access to more than 130 buildings this weekend
The 17th annual Doors Open Toronto, presented by Great Gulf, returns this weekend, May 28 and 29, offering free and rare access to more than 130 architecturally, historically, culturally and socially significant buildings across the city. The event includes 40 new participants this year, walking tours, talks and other special programming.
Detailed locations and hours are available at www.toronto.ca/doorsopen
Event updates will also be available through social media at Facebook.com/DoorsOpenTO and Twitter at @doors_openTO throughout the weekend. The event’s hashtag is #DOT16.
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Artillery Day at Fort York National Historic Site
Please be advised that as part of Doors Open Toronto, Fort York National Historic Site will be firing a line of field guns and cannons on Saturday, May 28.
Saturday, May 28, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm: Artillery firings (5 minutes each)
2:00PM: 125th Anniversary Tattoo – 48th Highlanders of Canada
Nearby residents and businesses can expect to hear several loud booms at each demonstration, each lasting about 5 minutes.
In addition to the Artillery Day programming, enjoy special tours of some of Toronto’s oldest and original War of 1812 buildings as part of Doors Open Toronto, the City’s annual celebration of history and architecture. Admission is FREE.
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Partial Closure of Queen Street
From May 9 to October 8, Queen Street between Bathurst Street and Spadina Avenue will be reduced to one lane in each direction for watermain replacement and road reconstruction work.
When the work is completed on the north side of Queen Street, the work will move to the south side of the street. One lane of traffic in each direction will be maintained.
Get the details here.
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Pre-construction Notice: Streetcar Track Reconstruction College/Bathurst
This summer, the City of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission will replace the streetcar tracks at the intersection of College and Bathurst.
To accommodate this work, the intersection will be completely closed from Monday, June 20 to Monday, July 11. For more information visit my website here.
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Registration opens June 4 for summer swim and skate programs and afterschool recreation care
Registration for summer City of Toronto community recreation programs including summer swim and skate programs, and afterschool recreation care (ARC) for the coming school year (starting in September), will begin at 7 a.m. on June 4 across the city – the Etobicoke/York, Scarborough, North York and Toronto/East York recreation districts.
These high-quality, affordable recreation programs fill up quickly, so the public is advised to register starting at 7 a.m. to avoid disappointment.
For more information visit my website here.
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Toronto residential property owners to receive updated property values
Beginning today, every residential property owner in Toronto will be mailed a 2016 Property Assessment Notice from the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC).
The property assessment notice provides the current value assessment of a property as of January 1, 2016. The updated assessment values will be used by the City of Toronto to calculate municipal property taxes for the 2017-2020 tax years.
Any increases in assessment value are phased in gradually over four years. A decrease in assessed value is introduced to taxpayers immediately.
Property Assessment Notices for all City of Toronto non-residential properties will be mailed in October.
More information on Property Assessment Notices is available on my website here.
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Toronto selected to join 100 Resilient Cities
On Wednesday, May 25 the City of Toronto announced that 100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) has selected Toronto to join the 100RC Network, a global community of cities working to build urban resilience.
Through the Network, Toronto will gain access to tools, funding, resources and technical expertise that will help the city build resilience to physical, social and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century.
Toronto is one of 37 cities selected in this final round, from more than 325 applicants, to join the 100 Resilient Cities global network of cities. More information is available here.
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