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MAYORAL RACE
• Smitherman pledges TTC overhaul [ Globe & Mail ]
• Hip hop and squeals greet Adam Giambrone [ Toronto Star ]
• Rob Ford commissions own mayoral poll: He’s third [ Toronto Star ]
• Pantalone dismisses rival’s video [ National Post ]
• Who Can Unite The Right? [ National Post ]
• It’ll be a race to the wire [ Toronto Sun ]
• Mayoral dog fight begins [ Toronto Sun ]
• James: Adam Giambrone faces tough balancing act [ Toronto Star ]

DRIVERS
• Slow down to increase your life expectancy [ Toronto Star ]
• Menon: Honk if you obey these road rules [ Toronto Star ]
• Drivers get the message … [ Toronto Sun ]
• Let the ticketing begin [ Toronto Star ]

YORK UNIVERSITY
• A new plan for York University [ Toronto Star ]
• Subway key to building community around York University [ Toronto Star ]

OTHER NEWS
• Police layoffs? Not in this town [ Toronto Star ]
• Fixer: Glorious railway relic sits on track to nowhere in Ajax [ Toronto Star ]
• Grace Health Centre ‘confident’ of a deal [ Toronto Star ]
• Railway spur line links annoyed drivers with glorious past [ Toronto Star ]
• City, board in talks to bring all-day kindergarten to neediest families [ Globe & Mail ]

7 comments

  2. Vote for Giambrone, if you want to send the message that your public representatives need not hold managers accountable for poor performance.

  3. Andrew, wouldn’t that sentiment apply equally to George ‘eHealth’ Smitherman?

  4. Have to agree with Paul regarding Slitherman’s potshot against Councillor Giambrone as a ‘pot calling the kettle black’ moment. Of course, that’s not saying anything positive about either of these two guys… both are responsible for significant failure to provide appropriate oversight (of the TTC and e-Health respectively).

    Two stories missed in today’s lineup:

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/dogged-by-anger-over-ttc-giambrone-will-have-to-move-quickly/article1452592/

    http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/sueann_levy/2010/02/01/12701096.html

  5. The historic railcars mentioned in the Star piece can be seen in Bing Maps. Hopefully they are still in fixable shape to be used on an operational historic railway such as the Credit Valley Explorer or the York-Durham Heritage Railway rather than static display in Halton or at the downtown Roundhouse.

  6. I couldn’t find the poll company Ford used online. Isn’t he a little too cheap to pay $5k for 500 phone calls to be told what you want to hear?

  7. I know that a lot of people are flabbergasted that there’s a poll out there showing Ford in 3rd place in the race for mayor… but the truly amazing part is that the polling sample apparently consisted of members of his own family.