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Friday’s headlines

August 24, 2012 | By Amber Daugherty

DEVELOPMENT
• The Fixer: Dundas St. turn lane to remain closed, likely until next year [Toronto Star]
• You vote: What should we rename Yonge-Dundas Square? [National Post]
• Hume: George Brown waterfront campus brings new life to the Toronto waterfront [Toronto Star]

CITY HALL
• CNE masterpiece: A well-buttered Ford reading Atwood, leaning on a steering wheel [Toronto Star]
• Fiorito: Toronto budget cuts, remembered [Toronto Star]
• Mayor Rob Ford meets with U.S. casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson [Toronto Star]
• Rob Ford meets with billionaire casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson [National Post]
• Las Vegas gambling mogul visits Rob Ford to lobby for casino [Globe and Mail]
• Toronto gets a new chief planner in September & there’s lots of work (and not enough planners) [Open File]

TORONTO POLICE
• Chief Bill Blair wants to end hiring freeze, recruit about 200 officers [Toronto Star]
• Toronto Police can ‘absorb’ cost of salary hike: councillor [National Post]

OTHER NEWS
• New Toronto fire chief won’t rule out EMS merger [National Post]
• Let the Internet Teach You How to Read TTC Signals [Torontoist]
• How do cities control ticket-scalpers? [Open File]

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