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CITY HALL
• City campaign hopes to end defacement of public property [ Toronto Star ]
• City immigration policy proposed [ Toronto Star ]

CYCLING
• Bike month [ Globe and Mail ]
• Drivers warned after car door kills cyclist [ Toronto Star ]
• Cyclist hits car door, is killed by passing truck [ Globe and Mail ]
• Call to charge driver over bicycle death [ National Post ]
• Cyclist dies from injuries [ CBC.ca ]

ENVIRONMENT
• Bird cull not in the cards for Leslie Spit [ Globe and Mail ]
• Putting the breaks on wildlife deaths [ Toronto Star ]
• Peel to test recycling box covers [ Toronto Star ]
• T.O’s anti-idling force is exhausted [ Globe and Mail ]

TTC
• Subway station washrooms take your breath away [ Toronto Star ]
• Safety shields eyed after TTC scares [ National Post ]

DEVELOPMENT
• Opposition to retail development ‘pure snobbery,’ says developer [ CBC.ca ]
• Heritage status to raise station costs, police say [ Globe and Mail ]
• Bleakness at the heart of car-borough [ Toronto Star ]
• From an amateur, a bold vision for a forgotten corner of east Toronto [ National Post ]

MISCELLANEOUS
• Alarms ring in tale of three cities [ Toronto Star ]
• Wanted: Organic farmers to fill Toronto’s markets [ Globe and Mail ]
• From zero to $22.5-million in 2 years [ Globe and Mail ]
• From dusk to dawn: One night in Toronto [ National Post ]

3 comments

  1. Its outrageous that the cops won’t charge the guy who doored the cyclist. What the heck do we have the police for? I was taught in basic driver ed that if you open your door on someone you are liable.

  2. On Wed., a cabbie at Bloor/Spadina getting coffee missed me by a fraction of a second and a little bit, and he seemed so uncaring I called the cops. Well, no one hurt, no blood, “we can’t file a report on that” click. Sure the cops are busy, sometimes, but they also are “carist” and their motto could well be “to swerve and project” as Lind/Weltschmerz put it.

  3. “Its outrageous that the cops won’t charge the guy who doored the cyclist. What the heck do we have the police for? I was taught in basic driver ed that if you open your door on someone you are liable.”

    Certainly, if a motorist sideswipes another car by making a lane change without checking for oncoming traffic, they would be charged.

    I don’t see the fundamental difference; this motorist didn’t check for oncoming traffic and threw their door into it.

    The difference is that they killed someone.