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Mayoral Race
• John Tory is officially out of the mayoral race – again [ Toronto Star ]
• At home with Toronto’s would-be mayors [ Toronto Star ]
• Sarah Thompson’s green plan includes all-hybrid taxi fleet [ Toronto Star ]
• Tory makes it official: He’s not running [ Globe & Mail ]
•  Smitherman takes a page from Obama’s book [ Globe & Mail ]
• Sarah Thompson praises Miller, Lastman in green plan [ National Post ]
• Politics, not religion, unite Ford, Brereton [ Toronto Sun ]

City Building
• Hume: Car dealerships could drive design [ Toronto Star ]
• Cullen: New crop of landscapers gives us peek into the future [ Toronto Star ]
• Nathan Philips Square redesign to cost $5-million more [ Globe & Mail ]

Council Race
• Council candidate wants to ban sales of cats and dogs in pet stores [ Toronto Star ]
• Rob Ford’s brother joins race [ Toronto Sun ]

City Homes
• Bronfman fence not coming down soon [ Toronto Star ]
• Semi stories: What life is like when you share a wall [ Toronto Star ]

Other News
• Growing food helps connect urban and rural neighbours [ Toronto Star ]
• Sunrise Propane blast report to be made public [ Toronto Star ]
• By-law would limit location of propane facilities [ Globe & Mail ]
• Woman held during G20 protest to launch class-action lawsuit [ Globe & Mail ]
• Students in year-round schools do better, study shows [ Globe & Mail ]

One comment

  1. Thomson also proposes giving taxi owners an undetermined rebate on their $1,113 registration fee to get the city an all-hybrid fleet within five years.

    I’m pretty sure that the price difference between a full sized conventional cab and a suitable hybrid version of the same thing is greater than $1113.

    What next, we each get our own subway station in our basement, paid for by, I dunno, doubling the skate rental fee at Nathan Phillips Square?