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Thousands Waiting for Social Housing The Pickering Ajax Nissan Kershaw Trojans mighty in INCOME TAX PERSONAL INCOME TAX RETURN Parts/Service on painting taking own tourney All-Canadian Tax Service Monday - Thursday 7:00am - 8:00pm Friday 7:00am - 6:00pm $ 95* Saturday 8:00am - 2:00pm Port Hope artist’s Cory, Devoe Joseph lead only 49. 375 Bayly Street West, Ajax * Most returns *GST extra (Between Westney & Harwood) work in Pickering Pickering High to win 100 Westney Rd S (Ajax Go Station) 1-800-565-6365 (905) 426-4860 905-686-0555 ARTS/16 SPORTS/17 ✦ 40 PAGES ✦ Pressrun 51,400 ✦ Optional delivery $6/Newsstand $1 ✦ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2008 Get local 24/7 newsdurhamregion.com Thousands waiting STORYTIME IS FAMILY TIME for social housing Longest waits in social housing for Durham Region, said long waits often force tough Ajax, Pickering decisions on families. and Uxbridge “For a lot of families, they’re choosing between feeding their children or paying their rent that By Reka Szekely month,” said Ms. Menzies, adding [email protected] that kind of hardship creates a tre- mendous amount of stress on the DURHAM — With an average family. 30-month wait, thousands of ap- At just more than two years, plicants remained on the waiting seniors had the shortest average list for Durham social housing last wait. year. Singles and couples with no chil- Overall, there were 3,650 appli- dren had the longest. cants on the waiting list at the end Part of the problem is there is of 2007. Of those, 237 had special very little turnover in homes for priority, meaning that at least one single people or couples with no member of the household is being children, said Ms. Menzies. Anoth- abused by someone with whom er part is social housing has been they currently live or from whom traditionally geared toward fami- they have recently separated. Non- lies and seniors. priority applicants are placed on “It was only in the late 1980s the list chronologically. singles were even considered eli- The average wait in the Region gible for social housing,” said Ms. was 30 months for those without Menzies. priority and seven months for those Singles and couples represent with it. A total of 454 households 32 per cent of the social housing received rent-geared-to-income waiting list, but they represented housing last year. only 12 per cent of those actually The housing crunch was felt housed in 2007. That’s down two most steeply in the west end of the per cent from last year. region. Families without priority Even for singles with priority, the waited an average of 67 months or average wait was 13 months. five-and-a-half years, for housing in “It’s still a very long time for Ajax. In Pickering and Uxbridge, no someone living in a situation where non-priority families were housed their safety is in jeopardy,” said Ms. in 2007. Menzies, adding that Durham’s About 50 per cent of the Region’s network of shelters do a great deal available housing is in Oshawa, with to help. 15 per cent in Whitby, 10 per cent There was, however, a 39 per Ron Pietroniro/ News Advertiser photo in Ajax, nine per cent in Pickering, cent decline in special priority de- AJAX — The Williams family came from Pickering to sit in on Storytime at the Ajax Public Library’s main eight per cent in Clarington and mand from last year. That was a branch on Thursday. Mom Yasmin and daughters True, who’s 10 months old, and Rayne, who’s two and a half, three per cent or less in each of result of administrative clean up of listened with varying degrees of interest. Scugog, Uxbridge and Brock. Mary Menzies, acting director ✦ See Community, Page 4 2 Large Pizzas SUPER PARTY SPECIALS 2x10 slice ® ® 3 Toppings ONLY Extra Large Bigfoot Bigfoot on each Square ONLY Classic ONLY Giant ONLY $ 99 25 Slice 20 Slice + tax $ 50 28 Slice 23 3 Toppings 3 Toppings $ 99 3 Toppings $ 99 + tax of your choice 20 of your choice 17+ tax of your choice 21 + tax 4 Cans of Pop 0)::!35"37).'3 FREEWE DELIVER 713 Krosno Blvd. Pickering 905-839-4411 A/P PAGE 2 THE NEWS ADVERTISER, February 6, 2008 durhamregion.com GM, UOIT join in unique research facility ‘It will keep industry It feeds the whole suppliers chain. They come in on innovation. They use technolo- here very strong’ gies to make better parts.” Given GM’s dominant position in the By Keith Gilligan field, having ACE will enable the company [email protected] to stay ahead of the competition. “Everyone is trying to cut your grass,” is DURHAM — The General Motors Auto- how she described the situation. motive Centre of Excellence is “one of the The centre, Mr. Elias said during the an- top three or four announcements made in nouncement, “will ensure we have the best Canada.” and brightest engineers. Automotive industry analyst Dennis Des- “The new ACE will be the foundation of Rosiers added the future of car-making in new auto cluster,” he stated, adding that Canada depends on these kinds of ven- the partnership with other universities and tures. companies will “accelerate automotive in- “If we want a Canadian auto industry in novation. 2020, we have to do this,” he said. “The new centre will focus on innovation Announced last week, the centre is a col- and excellence. It’s a great step forward. It’s laborative effort among the automaker, the a critical step forward,” he stated. University of Ontario Institute of Technolo- Doug Lindeblom, the director of eco- gy, the provincial and federal governments, nomic development for Durham Region, and others in the industry. Costing more said the future is “all about clustering.” than $120 million, construction is under Durham will be “identified as (an auto- way and should be completed by late 2009. motive) cluster. It has huge attraction to the “We have to have this collaborative inter- rest of the auto industry worldwide.” est between industry and academia,” Mr. Having the centre “positions us in a DesRosiers said. unique way, from a provincial perspective, The centre is the second largest such national perspective and even and inter- venture in Canada in terms of dollar value, national perspective. It’s really what we he says. The top was an $800-million deal look for in economic development is that between Chrysler and the University of unique position,” Mr. Lindeblom said. Windsor. Walter Passarella/ News Advertiser photo “It reinforces many of our strengths. Au- “It’s very significant. We have the oppor- UOIT president Ronald Bordessa and Sandra Pupatello, Ontario Minister of Economic Develop- tomotive, manufacturing, energy and the ment and Trade, share a laugh prior to the announcement of the new GMLC Automotive Centre of tunity in Canada for every single blue-col- Excellence to be built on the university’s campus by 2009. environment. All these strengths we see lar job to be replaced by high-quality jobs,” in Durham Region today are embodied he noted. in this facility, this centre of excellence,” The number of jobs created by the centre all of us. It’s important for General Motors, cided “‘we won’t downsize’. They’ll buy fuel he noted. “There’s recognition in Durham will be minimal, but the research potential it’s important for the university, it’s impor- efficient, but they won’t compromise size. Region we are the centre of excellence for is huge, he stated. tant for Ontario and Canada.” Those are two irresistible forces. The only automotive manufacturing. We are the cen- “It helps secure jobs at the GM design He concurred with Mr. DesRosiers’s as- way to deal with it, technology is the only tre. It’s something we can market out to the centre,” he said. “This fits in quite nicely. sessment of the importance of having the way.” world.” It’s very significant, very significant.” centre. GM is contributing $60 million to ACE, Last week, Mr. Lindeblom led a contin- Greg Rohrauer, an associate professor at “It’s a very big step, in my mind, towards while the provincial government is giv- gent from a Japanese manufacturer looking UOIT and the academic director for ACE, developing a research environment,” Mr. ing $58 million. The federal government is for a facility in Durham Region. The manu- said about “20 full-time equivalent employ- Arturo stated. “We can have our best minds contributing towards the $1-million annual facturer wasn’t in the automotive industry. ees” will be created. here in Canada educated and working to- cost of creating a Chair of Innovative De- “During the tour, they asked about GM What the centre will do is provide stu- wards commercial automotive technolo- sign Engineering. Dr. Remon Pop-Iliev, an and they’re comment was GM was in trou- dents with the chance to do hands-on re- gies. It’s the key associate pro- ble,” he said. search. to the future. fessor at UOIT, “What we know going on with the Bea- “There’s a very strong practical angle to “In the next ‘If we want a Canadian auto industry in 2020, will serve as the con Project, with the Automotive Centre of it,” Mr. Rohrauer said. “It will improve prod- several years, we have to do this.’ chairman. Excellence. Me and our staff with economic uct development. It will keep industry here we have to make Sandra development, with real estate brokers. GM very strong.” cars that are -- DENNIS DESROSIERS, AUTO INDUSTRY ANALYST Pupatello, the and the provincial and federal governments Once completed, the centre will have more fuel effi- provincial eco- are investing here.
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