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A preliminary proposal to create dedicat-ed passenger travel on the GO Transit Milton and Kitchener lines would reroute a significant

number of freight trains through Markham and Vaughan, a York Region official says.

The freight trains would run on the east-west Canadian National Railway (CN) line, crossing the region north of Steeles Avenue, Stephen

Collins, York Regions director of infrastructure management and the project management office, told a committee meeting. Dedicated

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Officers retrieve a handbag encased in ice Saturday morning during a search for a woman who went missing in Markham. The body of

Taneesha Brown, 25, was found in the pond near Hwy. 48 and Edward Jeffreys Crescent. See story, page 2.

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woman, 25Officers (right) take body of Taneesha Brown, discovered in a frozen pond in Markham, from a police tent across the ice to the coroners vehicle.

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York Regional Police confirmed earlier this week that a body found in a frozen pond near Edward Jef-freys Avenue and Markham Road was that of 25-year-old Taneesha Brown, who went missing Jan. 12.

Police discovered the body beneath the ice between 11:30 a.m. and noon Saturday, while conduct-ing an extensive search in the area surrounding Bur Oak Secondary School in Markham, where they had set up a command post.

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Tech-savvy teenager takes to skiesBY AMANDA [email protected]

A tech-savvy Markham teenager is hoping to help emer-gency workers respond more quickly to disasters.

Mohammed Nasir, 16, started Drones for Humanity, a local company re-inventing first responder equip-ment.

As the name suggests, the Grade 12 Markville Secondary School student developed a set of drones that could help in natural disasters.

As recreational drones become more popular and with it the potential for acci-dents Transport Canada is working on new rules to govern the use of unmanned aircraft.

But the sole purpose of Nasirs drones is to help.

The first drone was designed to sur-vey the scene and the second, larger drone, was designed to deliver sup-plies, as well as rescue equipment.

Nasir has been taking apart small household appliances since he was a child, but the idea to build something that could help others didnt strike until Nasir was researching the 2010 earth-quake in Haiti for a school project.

I was always interested in how things worked. How very insignificant things come together to make something with so much impact, Nasir said. Its the same thing with the drone. A lot of small parts can help revolutionize disaster response.

More than 100,000 Haitians died after a 7 magnitude earthquake hit the small nation in January 2010.

A lot of the loss of human life came from an inefficient disaster response, Nasir said. And there was a shortage of volunteers compared to the millions of victims.

In some cases, it took days or weeks to reached earth-quake survivors, he added.

Nasir is currently working with the International Red Cross to develop a drone-testing project in Ghana this year. The aim of which is to test the drones ability to deliver rescue equip-ment and rescue supplies to remote locations.

Both drones are autonomous, meaning they dont require a pilot to fly.

With a set of programmed GPS co-ordinates, the drone will fly, drop its load and return to the base.

In the case of a natural disaster, about 1,000 drones can be controlled by about two dozen people on the ground, Nasir said.

And the drones are fully electric and solar-power recharge-able.

The Thunderbird can fly for up to an hour and more than 30 kilometres away from the controller before it runs out of

battery life.The drone is equipped with a camera

soon to be replaced by a new state-of-the-art ultra high definition camera that sends a live feed to a fully-integrated controller with a built-in computer.

With a pocket-sized Bluetooth keyboard, Nasir can change the destination, flight mode and adjust the camera.

Nasir also equipped the surveyor drone with a radio range of about 400 km.

Thats powerful enough if it passes behind a building, the signal will bounce off surrounding buildings and eventually reach the drone, he explained. Thats just the peace of mind

you have with a high-powered radio.The Thunderbird was designed to survey the scene, while

the Aerofortress was designed to send up to 50 pounds of rescue equipment.

Thats the novelty. Many of the competitors out there can carry about five pounds, he said.

This is a way to leverage manpower, Nasir said, adding the drones can be deployed within a couple of

hours. The eight custom designed rotors, each with

about four horsepower each, make this flying machine about as powerful as a small car, Nasir said.

Its all custom designed, he said. These parts are not found in your corner store.

It has a flight time of about 30 minutes and has a range of up to about 12 kilometres.

It took about two weeks to construct in the family garage, where Nasir welded and bolted the aluminum base.

The design was based on what I can find or build without an engineering degree, he said. I didnt have to make any new parts.

For more information, visit super-novaaerospace.com

Caption: Mohammed Nasir (left), seen here with his father Basheer Ahmed (bottom), started a drones for human-ity company, where drones are used to bring humanitarian aid.

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By AmAndA [email protected]

On the eve of a trade mission to India, Markham councilors found them-selves debating the value of the trips and the costs.

Mayor Frank Scarpitti, Councillor Alex Chiu and two economic develop-ment city staffers were initially set to travel to India for a 10-day mission, organized in collaboration with Markham businesses and educational institu-tions. The group leaves tomorrow.

Approved last fall, the mission will include visits to New Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad and Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).

The trip was organized in collaboration with local businesses such as LEA Consultants, NOVO Plas-tics, Seneca College, York University and Quanser.

Regional councillors Joe Li and Nirmala Arm-strong later joined the trade mission, but are contributing to their costs out of pocket.

This week, council approved local council-lor Amanda Colluccis last minute addition to the trade mission.

With five of 13 council members away in India, several upcoming council and committee meetings are cancelled.

With the addition of an extra council mem-ber, Scarpitti requested a bump in the initial $47,600 budget.

In a recorded vote, council voted 9-3 in favour of adding $8,900 to the trips budget. Local councillors Valerie Burke, Don Hamilton and Karen Rea voted against.

Both Hamilton and Rea argued costs for addi-tional councillors should not be passed on to the taxpayer.

I dont support trade missions, Rea said. Never have and nothing has changed.

Councillor Alan Ho countered that those who oppose trade missions talk from ignorance. Ho participated in the citys trade mission to China in the fall and in 2012.

There is a saying, Ho said, frogs from the bot-tom of the well only see

a sky as big as the well opening.

The frogs dont see how big the sky actually is, he said.

Councillor Armstrong also defended the impor-tance of trade missions. She decided to join the citys China trade mission last fall and paid her own way.

I sat here and said, Why cant we do this through Skype, she said. Phone or Skype doesnt work. The face-to-face part is so important.

She also noted, going on a trade mission is not a vacation. The itinerary is packed with meetings.

Its not like I like to travel there for a holiday, agreed Li, who was born in India. If I dont feel like I can contribute, I dont want to go.

Going on a trade mis-sion is something each councillor should experi-ence at some point, Arm-strong argued.

Hamilton also ques-tioned why the request for an additional member on the trade mission was coming at the 11th hour instead of being part of the initial discussion last fall.

The province is hosting a business trade mission to India during the same time.

Markham will partici-pate in a sustainable tech-nologies summit in New Delhi. The 17-member delegation will focus on four sectors: infrastruc-ture, engineering and transportation; informa-tion and technology; life sciences and health care; and education.

A delegation from Markham took part in trade missions to India in 2013 and 2012.

City OKs funds for India trade mission

COUNCILLOR AMANDA COLLUCI: Will join mayor, two councillors, staff on trip.

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Another shelter helps cats in ThornhillRe: Cat adoption centre gets set to purr, Jan. 14.

Your article about the new cat adoption shelter in the Thornhill Community Center is not accurate when it states currently, the clos-est adoption facility is the Newmarket branch of the OSPCA.

The North Toronto Cat Rescue has had a shelter about 3 kms from the com-

munity centre and has been operating there for 10 years.

It is run as a charitable institution and had 175 cats adopted out in 2015 (north-torontocatrescue.com).

There are also other charitable institutions in the Thornhill area taking in stray cats and adopting them out via a foster sys-tem.

It would be appreciated if the Economist & Sun could give these charitable institutions some exposure, so that people are aware of alternatives for the adop-tion of both cats and dogs.

Sharon hibbitSThORNhILL

Next parking spot to tackle? Airport

Re: Break on hospital parking called right medi-cine for families, poor, Jan. 21.

Kudos to the advocacy group for finally throwing a spanner into the well oiled daylight robbery machines

that operate all over the GTA.

Hospital parking should just be a beginning, but it should not end there.

May I suggest that they now take the good work a step further and apply pres-sure on the Pearson Inter-national Airport parking as well.

The Pearson Interna-tional Airport parking authorities add insult to the injury of high parking rates by stipulating a nominal sum of a couple of dollars for the first half an hour followed by a steep hike, knowing full well that it would be impossible even for an Olympic athlete to park the car, sprint out of the parking maze and sprint back and drive off to meet the half-hour deadline.

The end result of high parking rates at Pearson is chaos at the actual termi-nals and the approaches to them as drivers try avoiding parking.

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Bernie, for presidentre you following the U.S. presidential race, and unlikely hopeful Bernie Sanders, with whom I

share a first name?While I wish him all the best,

I wonder if you can win with a name like Bernie. Bernie? A name I never liked. Or should I say, oth-ers never seemed to like.

Although better as a short form. Better than Bernard.

Maybe you dont like your first name. So this column is for you.

It was my moms dads middle name. Which is how I ended up with it. A grandpas name.

His first name being, of course, Patrick, Pat, or Paddy, the melodic way they said it back in his day.

Pat was also my dads name. Although his first name was John.

Ive lost you? Im at a loss, too.When my dad was just a boy,

he was sent to live with his Aunt Kathleen and Uncle John because his baby brother, just born, was not expected to live. He did live, in the end, but had a rough start.

Yes, it was a different era (send a child away to his aunts because youve got too many kids as it is, and one is sick?).

Kathleen (they called her Loolie, a nickname) decided she wasnt going to keep track of two fellows in the same house with the same name: John. So one day she started calling my dad Pat.

He would be J. Patrick ONeill for the rest of his days in official terms, on diplomas, his passport, at the bank, in the phone book, but just Pat to my mom and all who knew him. And Dad to me.

By the time I came into the world, Patrick was taken.Theyd given the name to my older broth-er as his middle name, in honour of Dad and Grandpa.

I got Bernie as a first name, John as a second.

Or Bernard, being from the Latin for brave as a bear. An obvious choice, for any of you who have met me. The same way Leonard (brave as a lion) might make people take notice. Or not.

Around Grade 2 another Ber-nard arrived in my class. What? Two sets of parents in the same area taking part in odd baby nam-ing rituals not in step with the times?

The teacher, along the lines

of Aunt Loolie, stated shed like to call one of us Bernie, the other Bernard. And I thought, Oh no.

Suddenly, the other Bernards hand shot up. Ill be Bernard!

Phew! Bullet dodged.In TV sitcoms over the years,

if the writers needed an oddball character, an uncle perhaps who had some strange ways, theyd name him Bernie. Or Bernard.

He was always single and could use wardrobe assistance.

Or Bernie might be a good old persons name in a story. Papas name. Grandpa Bernie Sanders.

There was the funny movie Weekend at Bernies (which I actu-ally did not see until a year or so ago) where Bernie doesnt have any lines... because hes dead.

Although there were a few cool Bernies out there: Bernie Boom Boom Geoffrion, the hockey player; Bernie Williams of the New York Yankees; Bernie Taupin, writer of hit songs with Elton John; comedian Bernie Mac.

Still, Bernie will never be in the Top Baby Names book, or the name of a character in an action-adventure movie: Bernie Bond.

Which is why I am cheering, all the way, for U.S. Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders.

His policies? Who cares!He could well beat Hillary Clin-

ton for the nomination and The Donald, Trump, for president.

Which would be a boon for all of us Bernies out there, in terms of our cool quotient and level of acceptedness by society.

Years of injustice corrected.Kennedy was the first Catholic

president. Obama the first black president. Hillary would be the first woman president.

But more importantly, Sanders would be the first Bernie presi-dent. I like the sound of that.

And if hes a disaster for the U.S.? You can call me John.

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A letter in our Jan. 21 edi-tion titled, Tax hike needed to pay salaries, makes a ref-erence to a previous letter but does not spell out that letter writers full name.

The Jan. 14 letter was submitted by Mohsin Ladha.

The Economist & Sun regrets any confusion that may have been caused by abbreviating the name.

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The York Regional Police Hold-Up Unit is seeking public assistance identifying two suspects follow-ing a robbery at a gas station in Markham.

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freight trains running through Markham and Vaughan if the pro-posal is approved, said Collins, adding a number of other infra-structure improvements would be needed to accommodate the pro-posal.

While separation of through freight traffic from GO Transit ser-vices is positive, it would move more freight traffic through the cit-ies of Markham and Vaughan, a report to the committee stated.

Local communities would be impacted by additional rail traffic through nuisance impacts, in par-ticular, noise and dust. The volume of dangerous and/or hazardous goods moving through York Region would also increase.

Regional council was expect-ed to approve a resolution asking Metrolinx to consult with the region, Markham, Vaughan and Richmond Hill before proceeding with addi-tional detailed studies relating to the re-routing of freight rail.

This could be an impact to the three municipalities to the south. A lot more freight going through than what it is now, regional chairperson Wayne Emmerson said.

I know theres lots of freight (already) going through, but this will take it off the south end of Toronto

and put it all on ours, up near us. Now, it is right at the border, but it will have an impact to our residents, so, hopefully, the consultation will give us an idea what they are going to do. You know, (it would mean) a lot more train whistling, which everybody likes. So, we just have to make sure were at the table when they start the consultations.

Continuing to develop transit is a council priority in Vaughan and the city is actively involved and provid-ing input on numerous transporta-tion studies, including the provin-cial regional express rail initiative, Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua said.

While passenger and freight rail is not under the citys jurisdic-tion, we will continue to work with our government partners and the rail industry as part of our regular dialogue with CN Rail and CP Rail to ensure residents concerns are addressed, he said in an email.

The city will participate in con-sultations being led by Metrolinx to protect the safety of our resi-dents and to advance the Metrolinx regional transportation plan so that our residents can receive better transit services.

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As if anyone had to tell you, your com-mute times are getting longer, according to the latest Ministry of Transportation travel time study.

In particular, youre spending more time in your car during the afternoon rush hour trying to get where youre going, the study said.

Focusing on the a.m. peak period, its no wonder our corridors down in the southern municipalities are congested. We know that theyre congested and that is reflected in the incremental travel time its taking to go through these areas, Stephen Collins, York Regions director of infrastructure manage-ment and the project management office, told a committee meeting.

The p.m. period is actually worse than the a.m. period. The (road) network is more congested and there is more delay during that p.m. peak period.

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Yorks slowest roads during the morning com-mute include: Yonge Street south-bound from Hwy. 7 to Steeles Avenue Hwy. 7 westbound from Woodbine Avenue to Leslie Street Donald Cousens Park-way southbound from Hwy. 7 to Steeles Hwy. 7 eastbound from Leslie to Woodbine 16th Avenue from

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In the afternoon peak period, travel speed was reduced by almost 70 per cent, with many commuters inching homewards at about 20 km/h.

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LAST WEEK: Friday: Markham Royals 3 vs. Lindsay Muskies 1. Saturday: Markham 5 vs. Stouffville Spirit 4 (double overtime). Royals record: 25-13-2-2-54. First place in North Division.COMING UP: Today at Kingston Voyageurs, 7:30 p.m. Friday vs. Trenton Golden Hawks at Markham Centennial Arena, 7:30 p.m. Sunday vs. Wellington Dukes at Markham Centennial Arena, 1:30 p.m. Mon-day at Cobourg Cougars, 7 p.m.Two wins in two games and four points. Thats about as good as you can get as the Markham Royals accomplished that feat in Ontario Junior Hockey League regular season contests last weekend that included road triumphs over the Lindsay Muskies 3-1 Friday and Stouffville Spirit 5-4 in double over-time Saturday. The Royals maintain their hold of first place in the North Division standings by four points over the second-place Aurora Tigers, who have one game in hand.In Saturdays win over the Spirit, Lucas Condotta notched the game-winning marker at 1:56 of the sec-ond overtime.

This came just moments after Roy-als goalkeeper Marcus Semiao made a big save at the other end of the ice. Also playing an integral role for the Royals was forward Marco Azzano, who scored two power play goals that included a game-tying marker in the third. Rylee St. Onge and Brendan Valko added single tallies during regula-tion that saw both clubs battle to a 1-1 tie after the opening 20 but take a 4-3 lead after two periods. For the Royals, who outshot Stouffville 46-36, it was their third straight win. In Fridays game against Lindsay, Azzano ignited the offence with a pair of goals while Valko had one. Markham outshot Lindsay, who lost their third straight and occupy the cellar in the North Division, 41-21.

INSIDER: Royals head coach Mike Galati will be absent from his posi-tion behind the bench for the clubs next game tonight in Kingston. Galati received an abuse of officials infraction during the third period of their road game against Stouffville and was issued a one-game sus-pension. Assistant coach Spencer Hyman will fill the head coaching role. On the injury front, the Royals received a lift when forward Hudson Michaelis and defenceman Matt Dunlop returned to active duty for Fridays game in Lindsay. Injured goalkeeper Nathan Colitto is expect-ed to resume skating next week after incurring a lower body injury during a practice in November. On the down side, forward Nick Thoma-kos may be out for the remainder of the season, Galati cited. Incur-ring an upper body injury the week before, Thomaskos will be going for further x-rays to determine if surgery will be required. GENERALLY SPEAKING: Said Gala-ti: We play well when we have a lot of games, hopefully we can carry our play from last weekend.As for possibly missing the services of Thomakos for the rest of the sea-son, Galati said: Hes a good player who has plenty of experience in this league. We will miss him.

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