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Enjoy a ‘winter wonderland’
in spring-like conditions
JENNIFER WALKER
jwalker@durhamregion.com
DURHAM -- January usually comes with bliz-
zards, freezing temperatures and hibernation
but 2012 has other plans and many people took
advantage of the strange, warm weather in early
January and hit the slopes.
According to Christine Lum, administrator for
Dagmar Ski Resort, 1220 Lakeridge Rd., Ash-
burn, business is significantly down this year
but the hills were hustling and bustling on the
spring-like winter weekend.
“We have made lots of snow and we were able
to be the first ones to open for the season in this
area,” said Lisa LaRocca, Dagmar advertising
and promotions.
“We have hard working staff who have done so
well to provide us with this winter wonderland.”
Adam and Julie Atkinson of Stouffville took
their little ones, Cooper and Avery, out for their
first experience on a set of skis. “It is a perfect day
to be outside, more snow would be good but the
warm weather is nice,” said Mr. Atkinson.
Avery and Cooper, 3 and 4, wobbled down a
tiny hill as they enjoyed their very first lesson,
consistently waving while yelling ‘hi mom and
dad’ as Ms. Atkinson proudly held on to a video
camera.
“We learned when we were kids, it is good to
teach them while they’re young,” said Mr. Atkin-
son. “If they like it, we will go more and more.”
While many may be thrilled with the shin-
ing sun and high temperatures, Derek Elieff
of Oshawa is disappointed. “I hate the warm
weather, it needs to be cold. If there was snow,
I’d be snowmobiling somewhere,” he said.
Out for the first time this season, Mr. Elieff
stood on the Dagmar balcony, suited up in his
winter gear, watching his children, ages 9 and 7,
gliding down the hills.
While the snow at the Lakeridge and Dagmar
Ski resorts is man-made, there was plenty to go
around with about 15 runs open at each loca-
tion.
According to Jennifer Storin, director of oper-
ations at Lakeridge Ski Resort, 790 Chalk Lake
Rd., Uxbridge, 45 centimetres of base snow has
been produced to cover 15 runs since the sea-
son began on Dec. 22.
Kevin Marrin of Toronto snuggled up by a
cozy fireplace at the Lakeridge chalet while his
wife Karen and two kids, Myles and Heidi, took
full advantage of the snow-covered slopes.
This is the second season for the Marrin fam-
ily to jump onto their skis and they hope to be
more challenged in February when they visit
Blue Mountain or Holiday Valley in Ellicottville,
New York. “
We had a good experience here last year,”
said Mr. Marrin. “It is a good family place, good
instructors and friendly folks.”
RECREATION
Slopes of Durham prove to be a
popular choice in warm weather
SABRINA BYRNES / METROLAND
UXBRIDGE -- Skiers and snowboarders took to the slopes at Dagmar Ski Resort Jan. 7 on a
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DURHAM -- Shortly after Durham
undergrads learned tuition bills
could drop by 30 per cent, graduate
students discovered a large chunk
of funding for research projects has
been axed.
Premier Dalton McGuinty
launched the new 30-per cent off
Ontario tuition grant at Wilfrid Lau-
rier University Jan. 5 and students
can apply now.
“This is a huge commitment that
we made during the campaign that
we’re following up on to make edu-
cation more accessible and afford-
able,” said Pickering-Scarborough
East MPP Tracy MacCharles.
“This is definitely part of our big-
ger strategy to keep Ontario on the
right track.”
The chatter among students at
Trent University in Oshawa was
equally positive.
“I think it’s really exciting that stu-
dents have this opportunity,” said
Kelly Vanleyden, president of the
Trent in Oshawa Student Associa-
tion. “A lot of them are in finan-
cial need and this is just what they
need.”
More than 300,000 students are
eligible for the tuition grant this
year. Those who already receive
the Ontario Student Assistance
Program don’t need to apply; their
applications will be submitted
automatically.
Eligible university or college stu-
dents in a degree program will
receive $800 this semester, and col-
lege diploma and certificate stu-
dents will get $365.
In September, the permanent
grant will apply to the full school
year. Students in a university or
college degree program will save
$1,600 for the whole school year,
while students in college diploma
and certificate programs will save
$730.
But shortly after this good news,
the Province cut $42 million out of
the Ontario Research Fund.
The Ontario Graduate Caucus
of the Canadian Federation of Stu-
dents is calling this cut as well as the
lack of financial support for gradu-
ate students a double blow.
“The loss of this research fund-
ing is devastating for the academ-
ic community, especially for those
who conduct research in the social
sciences, arts and humanities,”
said Desiree Lamoureux, federa-
tion chairwoman in a press release.
“At a time where innovation can
help improve Ontario’s economy,
government is cutting programs
that are meant to boost economic
growth.”
Ms. MacCharles said the Province
values research and innovation, but
with the slow economy, the gov-
ernment had to make some tough
choices.
“We are paying for the tuition
reduction by adjusting funds from
a number of places, not just the
Ontario Research Fund,” she said.
There is still at least $200 mil-
lion remaining in research funding
opportunities for colleges and uni-
versities available in Ontario, she
said. “We’re coming down to what’s
most affordable,” said Ms. MacCha-
rles. “Right now economy, jobs,
those are our No. 1 priorities.”
Associate provost of research at
the University of Ontario Institute
of Technology, Michael Owen, said
while the school regrets hearing
about the cuts, he understands the
government has budgetary con-
straints.
The university has two grants
from the fund in the works for a
project on thermal mechanical
design of nuclear-based hydrogen
production. Luckily, the funding for
the project has already been com-
mitted so it won’t be affected.
“In a way it doesn’t have direct
impact on us but what it could do
in the future is limit the vision that
some of the faculty members might
have of types of projects they could
undertake,” he said.
Mr. Owen said UOIT plans to take
advantage of other funding, such as
the Southwestern Ontario Devel-
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Not all undergraduate students
are eligible for the tuition grant,
including Durham College student
Dana DaSilva, a mother of three
young children.
She had received an e-mail from
the college explaining the new grant
the morning of Jan. 6 and was very
excited. “And then I scrolled
down,” she said.
Ms. DaSilva quickly learned only
students who graduated from high
school less than four years ago can
apply.
“I don’t find it fair,” she said.
The practical nursing student said
around half of the students in her
program have graduated from high
school more than four years ago.
Students with parents who make
a combined income of $160,000 or
more are not eligible.
Durham College student Julia
Thompson may be in luck this
semester since she’s in her fourth
year of studies. She said the grant
would definitely have helped her in
previous years. She used OSAP and
worked to get through college.
“OSAP has such a big interest
rate,” she said.
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DURHAM -- John O’Toole offers a blunt
assessment when it comes to describing how
the Province funds its communities.
Durham Region, says the veteran Conser-
vative MPP, is treated like “a poor cousin” by
Ontario’s legislative leaders in Toronto, leav-
ing the GTA’s most eastern region with crum-
bling infrastructure, decaying power plants
and in transit limbo.
Does Durham get its fair share from Ontar-
io?
“Certainly not in terms of infrastructure,”
the long-time Durham MPP replies quickly.
The Province has made many promises in
the past for Durham, but few have been kept,
says Mr. O’Toole.
Pledges to expand Hwy. 407 eastward
to the other side of Durham’s border have
been made three times, he says. Connect-
ing GO trains to Durham’s eastern bound-
ary have been promised twice and much-
need improvements to Darlington’s decay-
ing nuclear plants are long overdue, says the
Durham MPP. “Why are they promising it if
they don’t plan on delivering it?”
But as the provincial pledges drop from
the headlines and much-needed infrastruc-
ture in the region continues to crumble, the
results of such neglect are starting to show,
says Mr. O’Toole.
Delays in expanding Hwy. 407 eastward are
costing municipalities and the Region mil-
lions of dollars as local roadways continue to
handle overflowing traffic on a daily basis.
A pledge by the Province to shutter power
plants fuelled by coal, in conjunction with
Ontario’s feet-dragging on renewing Dur-
ham’s nuclear plants, will no doubt result in
a significant generation gap that could have a
dreadful impact on businesses and the econ-
omy, he adds. “Infrastructure in Ontario is
being compromised by the
on-again, off-again prom-
ises,” says Mr. O’Toole.
Durham’s certainly not
alone when it comes to
crying poor. In 2007, the
Federation of Canadian
Municipalities estimated
the nationwide munici-
pal infrastructure deficit at
about $123 billion -- a figure
that has no doubt shrunk in
the four years since it was
released.
The numbers at the local
level are staggering. For
2012, Ajax estimates it’ll
take nearly $32 million
to cover its infrastructure
needs; in 2011, by its own
estimate, Pickering figured
it would require almost $25 million.
In the north, Scugog’s civic leaders have
repeatedly stressed the municipality would
need more than $100 million to get its hun-
dreds of kilometres of roadways in tip-top
shape.
The Durham MPP has no quick
and easy answer for helping
municipalities dig out of
the financial potholes
they now find themselves
in.
But tweaking how gas
tax funds can be spent may
help, says Mr. O’Toole. Cur-
rently, the federal portion of
those funds can be spent on any
infrastructure project a municipality
wants. The provincial portion, however, must
be spent on transit.
Instead, suggests Mr. O’Toole, perhaps the
Province should let municipalities make their
own decisions: buses or bridges?
Ontario “should expand the eligibility cri-
teria to address infrastructure deficiencies,”
says the veteran MPP.
But when it comes to Durham being
short-changed by the Province, by
his own admission, Mr. O’Toole
refuses to blame old-fash-
ioned politicking. Just
because Durham is rep-
resented mostly by Tories,
that doesn’t mean the gov-
erning McGuinty Liberals are
thumbing their nose at the
region, he says.
“We have to pay for equal
treatment whether we live in
Thunder Bay or Clarington. If we have to
play politics to get our fair share, that’s wrong
and unacceptable. That’s not how the game
should be played,” says Mr. O’Toole sternly.
But given a minute to think about it, the
Durham MPP changes his tune slightly: “I
think rural Ontario, which is pretty well Con-
servative, is not being treated fairly.”
Large urban areas, where the Liberals have
garnered the bulk of their support, are more
likely to get the premier’s ear when it comes
to their needs and wants, muses Mr. O’Toole.
“If (Mississauga Mayor) Hazel McCal-
lion was jumping up and down on Dalton
McGuinty’s table, she’d get her way,” he says.
Repeated requests for an interview with
Mayor McCallion for this Deal For Durham
series went unanswered.
And some have a different opinion than
that of Mr. O’Toole.
The idea that Durham is some poor, for-
gotten cousin of the larger, more populated
regions that form the GTA is hogwash, says
Marilyn Pearce, Scugog’s former mayor.
“There are a lot of things that happen that
make the naysayers say Durham doesn’t get
its fair share, but there’s a lot of hospitals in
Durham Region and a university and a col-
lege,” she says. “I think we’ve done OK by the
Province.”
In fact, stresses Ms. Pearce, the former
chairwoman of Durham’s finance committee,
there are plenty of examples. There’s a new
regional cancer centre, the ever-expanding
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
and Durham College campuses and the new
Durham courthouse that’s helping to revital-
ize Oshawa’s downtown core. On top of that,
she continues, construction crews have final-
ly begun work on widening Hwy. 7 through
Durham, the Region’s smaller municipalities
are pocketing thousands -- sometimes more
than $1 million -- from provincial partnership
funds and Ontario has started the process of
uploading a series of social services.
“It’s an easy out to say Durham’s not get-
ting its fair share,” says Ms. Pearce, who was
never shy about her Liberal leanings during
her days around the council table. “You can’t
just pick one piece, like the 407, and say we’re
not getting our fair share. You have to look at
the whole bundle of funds and when it comes
to Durham Region, I don’t think we’re doing
too bad.”
Fair share or not, how does Durham get
more from the Province then? “All of the
municipalities need to come together,” said
Mr. O’Toole. “We need to act and perform like
a region ... not going to the Province with 19
different projects, asking for $50,000 here and
there.”
Following his fifth straight election victory in
October, Mr. O’Toole sat down with civic offi-
cials from across the region that resulted in
a we-want list only three items
long. Topping the list were:
Expanding Hwy. 407 eastward,
which will make it easier for
supplies and workers to get to
Courtice to refurbish the aging
Darlington nuclear plant. Con-
necting GO trains to Durham’s
eastern boundary rounded out
the wish list.
Going forward, continues
Mr. O’Toole, “Leadership has
to define the priorities and
then approach the Province.
We should all be on the same
page.”
Part 2 Thursday: Durham gets the
short end of funding: Fact or fiction?
Part 3 Wednesday: Durham poli-
ticians say stable funding key to
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speCial report: a fair deal for durham
Is Durham getting its
Fair share?
With continued growth projected over the
coming years, municipal officials across
Durham are struggling to deal with increas-
ing demands on the region’s roads, bridges,
buildings and services. With a municipal
infrastructure deficit of $123 billion estimat-
ed across Canada, Durham communities
are banding together to demand their fair
share of funding to deal with infrastructure
needs such as more and improved road net-
works and new servicing for planned devel-
opments. In this first part of a three-part
series, Durham Conservative MPP John
O’Toole asserts that Durham is the ‘poor
cousin’ in Ontario when it comes to infra-
structure spending.
Celia klemenz / metroland
PORT PERRY -- Durham’s municipal leaders need to unanimously agree on a hand-
ful of priorities, such as the Hwy. 407 extension, to ensure the region gets its fair share
of funding, says Durham MPP John O’Toole.
Municipality: Project Stimulus $ Total
Pickering GO Pedestrian Bridge $5M/Ont. $5M/Fed $12.5M/GO $22.5 million
Pickering Don Beer Memorial Park $840g/Ont. $840/Fed $840/City $2.52 million
Ajax St. Francis Centre $850g/Ont. $850/Fed $1.7M/Ajax $3.4 million
Ajax Ajax Memorial Outdoor Pool $660g/Ont. 660/Fed $1.88M/Ajax $3.2 million
Oshawa UOIT - Energy Systems and
Nuclear Science Research Centre $22.7M/Ont. $22.7M/ Fed $45.4 million
Oshawa Civic Recreation Complex renewal $6.37M/Ont. $6.37M/ Fed $6.37M/City $19.1 million
Whitby Durham College Whitby expansion $12M/Ont. $12M/Fed $24 million
Whitby Brooklin Community Centre, Library $4.85M/Ont. $4.85M/Fed $4.85M/Town $14.6 million
Durham Municipal Infrastructure Projects
Sources: Municipal, provincial and federal governments
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6478.
TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS).
an inexpensive, non-profit weight-loss sup-
port group, meets Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. at
the Rundle Park Clubhouse, 241 Park Rd. S.,
Oshawa. Women, men and teens welcome. 905-
728-3907 (Judy).
HERITAGE OLDE TYME FIDDLE AND
DANCE SOCIETY OF OSHAWA. meets
and plays on the second Wednesday of each
month at Ukranian Lviv Hall, 38 Lviv Blvd.,
Oshawa. Music starts at 6:30 p.m. Guest singers,
players and dancers welcome. The cost is $3 at
the door. 905-666-1449.
JANUARY 13
EUCHRE AT THE AJAX LIBRARY. on the
second Friday of the month, from 2:30 to 4:30.
p.m., starting today. Come on your own or bring a
partner. Cards supplied if you do not have them.
Refreshments served. Donation requested. Reg-
ister by calling 905-683-4000, ext. 8813 or by
e-mailing libraryinfo@townofajax.com.
JANUARY 18
LAPBAND COFFEE GROUP -- DUR-
HAM. meets at 7 p.m. at Williams Coffee Pub,
1650 Victoria St. E., Whitby. Open to everyone
who has had Lapband Surgery or is looking into
the lapband process, recently banded, or a long-
time ‘Bandster’. tomander@rogers.com (Tom).
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BR. 606.
Ladies Auxiliary holds a euchre at 8 p.m. at 1555
Bayly St., Pickering. Prizes and refreshments.
Seniors $2, all others $4. Everyone welcome.
FREE HEART HEALTH SEMINAR. Treating
risk factors such as high blood pressure and cho-
lesterol with nutrition. Features naturopathic doc-
tor Elie Klein. At 7 p.m. at Natural Wellness Solu-
tions, 604 Brock St. S., Whitby. Register at Feel
Good Natural Health store, 905-665-9800.
Send your upcoming events to newsroom@
durhamregion.com. At least 14 days notice is required
for consideration of their inclusion.
120 Centre St. S., Oshawa
ALL COURSES RUN6:00 pm -9:15 pm TWICEAWEEK FOR 28 CLASSES
REGISTRAT ION FEE ANDREFUNDABLE TEXTBOOKDEPOSIT REQUIRED
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Office hours extended to 8:00 pm on January 12, 18, 24 and 27
Grades 11 and 12 high school credit courses taught by qualified
teachers who care about student success.
Our guidance counsellors can help you plan for your future.
Call Durham Continuing Education today to get started.
CLASSES AVA ILABLE AT 2 LOCATIONS
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Whitby
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