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CITY COUNCIL
• Centrist councillors wary of trash proposal [National Post]
• Council’s ‘mushy middle’ the focus of garbage debate [The Sun]
• Levy: Trashing union’s ‘facts’ [The Sun]

CANADIAN POLITICS
• Anyone-but-Harper crowd goes after GTA votes [The Star]
• Exclusive: Province to scrap secret G20 law [The Star]

ARCHITECTURE & DEVELOPMENT
• $23 million Fort York bridge rejected in council surprise [The Star]
• The Fixer: Moss could cause bandshell roof rot [The Star]
• City halts work on foot bridge to Fort York [Globe & Mail]
• University of Toronto gives eviction notice to school for the gifted [Globe & Mail]
• They dig, then they dig again, then… [Globe & Mail]
• ‘Epic’ $22M pedestrian bridge sent back for review over cost [National Post]
• Echo Beach: Toronto’s new outdoor concert venue [Eye Weekly]

TRANSIT
• Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Riding with the Barrie GO gang [National Post]
• The rail world [Eye Weekly]

CULTURE
• Ontario Place offers free admission for summer [The Star]
• Ontario Place to offer free admission this summer [Globe & Mail]

OTHER NEWS
• How does Toronto’s skyline stack up? [BlogTO]

One comment

  1. Out of curiosity, what happened to Spacing Elections? Right now, the only party that has clearly supported a national transit strategy is surging. There are candidates in Toronto seeking election like Mike Sullivan, co-founder of the Clean Train Coalition and fighting for clean and modern transit and good manufacturing jobs in working class neighbourhoods. There are many meaningful races for Toronto.