CITY HALL
• Mayor Rob Ford says developers want subways. But who will pay? [The Star]
• After meeting developers, Ford claims unanimous support for subways [Globe & Mail]
• Developers ‘on board’ with subway expansion, Rob Ford says after meeting [National Post]
• Mayor Rob Ford fumbles as city staff deem subway funding risky and unworkable [The Star]
• All systems go to save Sheppard subway [The Sun]
• Ford’s secret subway deal [NOW]
• CUPE leader Ferguson threatens to quit [Globe & Mail]
• Calls to Toronto’s fraud and waste hotline surge; do Rob Ford and foes agree on its merits? [National Post]
• The Rob and Doug show [NOW]
• Selling a sales tax in Toronto [The Grid]
TRANSIT
• Councillors will continue to dominate revamped Toronto transit board [The Star]
• Councillors to keep control of TTC board under compromise deal [National Post]
• Kristyn Wong-Tam: Transit equity is about customer service [National Post]
• Has Ford really declared war on the car? [The Sun]
• Adam Giambrone: Licence for abuse [NOW]
• Benjamin Boles on why the underground is overrated [NOW]
• …meanwhile, at transit town hall bumper-sticker slogans are easier to sell [NOW]
OTHER NEWS
• Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport offers fix for taxi gridlock [The Star]
• Regent Park Sister 2 Sister teen leadership conference helps build a better neighbourhood [The Star]
• Pressure ‘dents’ or ‘collapses’ Avenue Road pipes – depending on who you talk to [Globe & Mail]
• Hot Docs launches crowd-funding initiative [Globe & Mail]
• A hot time in the Old Town hall meeting last night [Torontoist]
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And of course all those “leading developers” that had lunch with his Fordness were registered as lobbyists with the city..Correct? Can this mayor not leave it alone and go and do what he should be doing instead of micro-managing the TTC.
In case you haven’t been thanked lately, Thank you Rob Ford voters for this cluster F%@* of a Mayor.