STREETCARS
• Bombardier announces world’s biggest streetcar sale [AFP]
• TTC, Bombardier seal streetcar deal [Globe & Mail]
• Ding! Ding! Toronto orders its Bombardier streetcars [National Post]
STRIKE
• Waves of staff walk across picket lines [Globe & Mail]
• City adjusts as strike grinds into sixth day [Globe & Mail]
• City to look at lists of dumps after Canada Day [National Post]
• Toronto on strike: Farmers markets to return to city squares [National Post]
• In patriotic Toronto, Pride goes ahead; Canada Day gets the axe [National Post]
• Number of dump sites might increase [Toronto Sun]
• No strike end in sight, City says [Toronto Star]
• Will 19 existing drop-off spots be enough? [Toronto Star]
FIRE
• Fire razes townhouse construction site [Globe & Mail]
• Homes razed…again [Toronto Star]
• Buyers wait for cause of fire [Toronto Sun]
• Blaze ravages 57 homes [Toronto Sun]
OTHER NEWS
• Retailers to open doors [Toronto Sun]
• 6 favourite things about Toronto [Toronto Star]
• Farmers ‘thrilled’ after city relents on markets [Toronto Star]
3 comments
That Notional Pest piece re: Pride/Canada Day is really annoying, in that it is intentional playing to the SoCons base. Perhaps the City could have declared one Canada Day celebration would proceed with whatever manpower they had and sacrificed the rest, but Pride has a dedicated organising committee which likely meant less organisation required from the city than an equivalent size City of Toronto event.
It is interesting that at Miller’s press conference he omitted the CHIN Picnic at City-owned Exhibition Place as an event going ahead (it has outsourced, not City of Toronto pickup)
I thought that the National Post story had an anti-Gay, anti-Toronto vibe that reminded me of Sarah Palin’s talk of “real Americans”. Some of the comments too I thought were offensive in a manner that was beyond healthy debate.
That’s the last time I read a National Post commentary. Yikes! It reads like a forum post where people vent about hating Toronto and how the “Gay Right’s Organizations” (sic) are taking over the world. I expect newspapers to have content of a higher quality than an internet message board. What purpose do they serve if this is what they publish? Goodbye newspaper media, and good riddance.