MAYORAL RACE
• Boost arts funding, candidates say [The Star]
• Hepburn: How Smitherman can fix his campaign [The Star]
• Eyeing the next poll, Rocco Rossi’s advisers look for an exit [The Star]
• The Smell Test: Rossi’s arts funding plan [The Star]
• Toronto mayoral contenders leave arts debate with new rifts [Globe & Mail]
• Candidates vow to increase arts funding [Globe & Mail]
• George Smitherman promises change with competence [Globe & Mail]
• On the record: George Smitherman [Globe & Mail]
• The secret of Ford’s success [Globe & Mail]
• Chris Selley: 365 candidates for “attrition” [National Post]
• Joe Pantalone releases charming little ads [National Post]
• Joe Pants vows to stay in race [The Sun]
• Ford gets spanked in the burbs [Now Weekly]
• Is Rob Ford the Antichrist? [Eye Weekly]
• Ford Fest was fun [Eye Weekly]
• Frankenmayor! [Eye Weekly]
GTA ELECTIONS
• Mississauga council sets conduct code [The Star]
• Councillors to try to recoup Peter McCallion’s legal funding [National Post]
TTC
• Goar: The curious case of the 21,000 free Metropasses [The Star]
• Giambrone criticized for $15,000 TTC promo video [The Star]
• TTC opens community office near new Sheppard line [The Star]
• TTC wants $2.7M from feds for G20 [The Sun]
NUIT BLANCHE
• Nuit Blanche Guide 2010 [Now Weekly]
• Nuit Blanche preview: the annual artists poll [Eye Weekly]
BED BUGS
• Victims unite to fight war on bed bugs [The Star]
• Fiorito: Bedbugs everyone’s problem, here’s what we know [The Star]
OTHER NEWS
• Community activists to receive awards [The Star]
• Seven Words to Describe Toronto: Now we’re having fun [The Star]
• Toronto unveils Pan Am Games logo [Globe & Mail]
• New Toronto high school a blueprint for future [The Sun]
• Windfest symbolizes the power in thin air – and the controversy in harnessing it [Eye Weekly]
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Re: TTC wants $2.7M from feds for G20
The shutdown of the subway downtown was one of the oddest things about the G20. In the days leading up to the Saturday protest, everyone was encouraging people to take transit downtown instead of drive that day.
Despite that, the subway was shut down south of Bloor around 1PM when people where still gathering for the protest at Queen’s Park and everything seemed to be going as planned. This was done hours before the property destruction began.
It was as if they where trying to prevent regular people from attending the peaceful protest, so only the most determined would show up.
Yup. That G20 sure was a colossal fuckup.
‘Ford Fest Was Fun’ ends with one of the smartest things I have read about N. American politics in a long time:
“The rise of the Ford Nation is as much a communication problem of the progressive side of Toronto as it is Ford’s regular-guy charisma. If his opposition doesn’t understand this crowd, we might have four years of Ford Fests ahead while we figure out how this all happened.”