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TORONTO’S COMPOST
City dumps green bin operator [ Toronto Star ]
• City fires contractor for dumping green bin compost in landfill [ National Post ]
Toronto fires contractor for dumping organics [ National Post ]
City ends waste-disposal deal over tossed organics [ Globe & Mail ]
• City dumps trucking firm [ Toronto Sun ]

CITY HALL
Councillor Sandra Bussin outed as mystery phone-in caller bashing John Tory, lauding David Miller [ National Post ]
Councillor admits radio show deception [ Toronto Star ]
Toronto council speaker admits she posed as caller to radio show [ Globe & Mail ]
Bussin stirs up hot air [ Toronto Sun ]
• A $33 million question [ Toronto Star ]

DAVID MILLER
Reason to believe [ Now Magazine ]
• Remaking Miller [ Now Magazine ]
Mayor David Miller live and unplugged [ Now Magazine ]

NEW DEVELOPMENT
Thornhill project will dominate Yonge St. [ National Post ]
• Rye highs and lows [ Now Magazine ]
Creep in the Gay Village [ Now Magazine ]
• Sheppard West test [ Now Magazine ]

OAKVILLE POWER PLANT
• Oakville residents vow power plant fight [ Toronto Star ]
‘Not a winning situation’ [ Toronto Star ]
Oakville residents fuming over proposed natural gas powerplant [ National Post ]

CYCLING/DRIVING/TRANSIT
Talk ‘n’ drive fines coming in 4 months [ Toronto Star ]
• Ban on drivers’ cellphone use starts Oct. 26 [ National Post ]
City slow to install bike lane network [ Toronto Star ]
Leave coffee stop off TTC route [ National Post ]

NUIT BLANCHE GUIDES
• Make it a nuit to remember [ Toronto Star ]
Through the fog: A structuralist tour of Nuit Blanche [ Eye Weekly ]
New at Nuit Blanche [ Now Magazine ]
Work out [ Eye Weekly ]

OTHER NEWS
Glen Murray’s uphill run to be Toronto’s mayor [ Toronto Star ]
Psychogeography: Our great underbelly [ Eye Weekly ]
• Know your zoning [ Eye Weekly ]