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PROPANE FIRE
• Mayor Miller left for daughter’s birthday [ Toronto Star ]
• Miller defends absence after blast [ National Post ]
• Let city handle it, Miller says [ Toronto Sun ]
• Family birthday came first: Miller [ Toronto Sun ]
• Blowing us off? [ NOW Magazine ]
• City facing $2-million cleanup bill [ Globe and Mail ]
• Lots of talk, but no answers: Why we need a full inquiry [ Globe and Mail ]
• Strategy fuels rush to sue Sunrise [ Toronto Star ]
• Asbestos cleanup nears end [ Toronto Star ]
• McGuinty mulls safety changes after propane blast [ Toronto Star ]
• Premier opts to wait-see [ Toronto Sun ]
• Community united after explosions [ Toronto Star ]
• Safety authority shuts 4 more propane sites during Ont. audit [ CBC.ca ]
• Internal combustion [ NOW Magazine ]

TRANSIT
• Bus firm calls online car pool illegal service [ Toronto Star ]
• Carpooling company offers illegal service, bus firm complains [ Globe and Mail ]
• City gears up for bike rental plan [ Toronto Star ]
• Downtown bike thefts drop 20% [ Toronto Sun ]
• Police give owners more time to reclaim stolen bicycles [ National Post ]
• Police search for suspect linked to at least three TTC sex assaults [ Globe and Mail ]

CITY HALL
• City may ban plastic water bottles as a way to reduce waste and garbage [ National Post ]
• Plastic bottle ban eyed [ Toronto Sun ]
• Councillor’s ‘Dear John’ to criminals [ National Post ]
• Strong letter to follow [ Toronto Sun ]

ART
• Can a mega-studio lure Hollywood back north? [ Globe and Mail ]
• Megastudio waits for its first role [ Toronto Sun ]
• Lofty plot ousts artists [ NOW Magazine ]

NEIGHBOURHOODS
• Scarborough zone happy to use guards [ Toronto Sun ]
• Dirty bum gets tossed [ Toronto Sun ]
• 6 months later, rebuilding Queen St. West still a question mark [ CBC.ca ]

HISTORY
• 1,00 died of cholera in 1800s [ National Post ]
• Dispute broiling over origin of antiques [ Toronto Star ]
• Haunted Hogtown [ Eye Weekly ]

TORONTO
• Secret stroll [ Eye Weekly ]
• Gardens: know ’em [ Eye Weekly ]
• Secret, sunken, shuttered [ Eye Weekly ]
• Flush with success [ Eye Weekly ]
• Extermination music site [ Eye Weekly ]
• Space is the place [ Eye Weekly ]
• Little shop of horrors [ NOW Magazine ]
• Hangin’ at the ER [ NOW Magazine ]
• Park place is no bored walk [ NOW Magazine ]
• Dungeons & dragons [ NOW Magazine ]

One comment

  1. Wow, I had no idea about those carpool restrictions being in the law books. There’s something that has to change, and fast; I’d consider that kind of thing a gentleman’s agreement between private citizens, even if a company helps coordinate.