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Alleged TTC napper under investigation [ National Post ]
Nice work if you can get it [ Globe & Mail ]
40 winks in the wrong spot? [ Toronto Star ]
The Sleepy Way [ Toronto Sun ]
How to make every subway ride feel like an Air Canada flight [ Globe & Mail ]
Text from TTC customer service memo [ Globe & Mail ]
Online help on track for TTC lines [ Toronto Sun ]]

MAYORAL RACE
Carpenters back Smitherman [ Globe & Mail ]
• Smitherman nails down union’s support [ National Post ]
• Rossi woos right-centre by targeting Transit City [ Globe & Mail ]
• Mayoral hopeful Rocco Rossi targets TTC, unions [ Toronto Star ]
Rocco Rossi is ready to rock your world [ Toronto Sun ]

CITY HALL
City fails to call people who complain: ombudsman [ National Post ]
Ombudsman asks for more cash [ Globe & Mail ]
Fixer gets results; Joe Public, not so much [ Toronto Star ]
City gets a kick to do better with complaints system [ Toronto Star ]
• Hall of complaints [ Toronto Sun ]
Councillor hires a lawyer to quash payments to colleagues [ Toronto Star ]
Councillor calls for council pay freeze [ Toronto Sun ]
City Hall to review Heaps payout [ Toronto Sun ]

OTHER NEWS
Jarvis-Sherbourne area is city’s roughest: study [ National Post ]
Echoes of 1975 inquiry in Mississauga [ National Post ]
United Way raises record amount [ Toronto Sun ]
United Way Toronto tops in North America [ Toronto Star ]
Toronto Zoo closes in on new keeper [ Toronto Sun ]
Denver Boot no shoe-in [ Toronto Sun ]
False alarms costly [ Toronto Sun ]
Police Board nixes corporate handout for trip [ Toronto Sun ]
Fiorito: Answer the buzzer, city housing (first fix it)[ Toronto Star ]

2 comments

  1. If Jarvis-Sherbourne is really as bad as it gets, it confirms my assertion that it is possible to have both no police and no crime.