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TRANSIT
• TTC hopes Yonge line running for morning ride [ Toronto Star ]
• Fallen subway cable forces thousands onto street [ Globe and Mail ]
• Knives, power cut cause delays on TTC [ National Post ]
• Transit closing down to cables [ Toronto Sun ]
• Thousands stranded after signal failure closes Toronto subway [ CBC.ca ]
• Viva strike catches many by surprise [ Toronto Star ]
• Viva drivers, owner can’t agree to talk [ Globe and Mail ]
• Viva tricked us: Strikers [ Toronto Sun ]
• Transit strike catches York Region commuters off guard [ CBC.ca ]
• Conflict escalated by union politics, ownership issues [ Globe and Mail ]
• Union chief convenient target for angry riders [ Toronto Star ]
• Private transit rare in Canada [ Toronto Star ]
• Union station more user-friendly [ Toronto Sun ]

POLITICS
• Councillor threatens to launch lawsuit [ Toronto Star ]
• Battling councillors may meet in lawsuit [ National Post ]
• Vaughan inflamed by Ford’s criticism [ Toronto Sun ]

MISCELLANEOUS
• Kensington braces for arrival of Starbucks [ National Post ]
• Historic home towed toward a new life [ National Post ]

2 comments

  1. Coffee shops with good product and service will survive Starbucks. Can anyone count how many places there are to get coffee in the Annex between Bathurst and Brunswick? Starbucks chooses locations with coffee shops, because that’s where people are who will go to a cafe. It’s parasitical in a sense, but every successful business is opportunistic.

    Rumour has it in Cabbagetown that Starbucks is going in across from Jet Fuel. Very good product (if you don’t order something at all challenging), but no menu, little food and hipster ‘service’ doesn’t win you as many customers as it could. I don’t go, because I don’t even get a proper listen when I try to explain what a dry macchiato is (which I have to do, because the last three were, in fact, cappuccinos). Parliament does not have the foot traffic of the Annex, so Jet Fuel is going down, unless they try something like service. A shame… maybe not.

  2. Adam’s stance seems a little interventionist. That being said, there is a better location available………..

    In the Robertson building.