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FORD
• Toronto Mayor Rob Ford wants to scrap 5-cent plastic bag fee [The Star]
• I’m a ‘true believer’ in PanAm Games, Ford says [National Post]

TRANSIT
• Past pieces of Toronto: Subway interlining [OpenFile]
• How the Eglinton LRT will transform neighbourhoods [The Star]
• Strobel: For whom the road tolls [The Sun]

REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT
• House price war: Toronto vs. Vancouver [The Star]
• Demand for new housing set to pump market bubble bigger [Globe & Mail]
• Caviar condos set to flood Toronto market [Reuters]
• Gee: The unexpected merits of Toronto’s condo boom [Globe & Mail]
• 5 building blocks of a Toronto casino [National Post]
• As condos rise, pressure on urban parks grow [Globe & Mail]
• With Walnut Studios, condo developers and artists have found a way to live in productive harmony [National Post]

OTHER NEWS
• Narrowing Toronto’s Yonge St. to just two lanes is worth a try [The Star]
• Toronto’s Don River goes wild when flooded for Paddle the Don [The Star]
• Levy: Community support key to park projects [The Sun]