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MAYORAL RACE
• Ford sued for $6 million by Boardwalk Pub owner [The Star]
• Rossi’s ex-campaign manager defects to Smitherman [The Star]
• Smitherman avoids attacks in ad campaign [The Star]
• Rob Ford’s war on waste [The Star]
• Smell Test: Rossi’s e-voting promise [The Star]
• The Daily Plank: Fund community councils, says Pantalone [The Star]
• Toronto mayoral candidates condemn offensive signs [Globe & Mail]
• Rob Ford sued by Beaches pub owner [Globe & Mail]
• Smitherman’s new ads avoid attacks on Ford [Globe & Mail]
• Six former Rossi organizers join Smitherman campaign [Globe & Mail
• Pantalone would hand some spending control to community councils [Globe & Mail]
• Boardwalk Pub owner suing Rob Ford for libel [National Post]
• Smitherman unveils new ad campaign with ‘progressive’ pitch [National Post]
• Rossi backers defect to Smitherman [National Post]
• Pantalone promises more spending power at local level [National Post]
• Boardwalk Pub suit haunts Ford [The Sun]
• Joe Pants still in the dark: Levy [The Sun]

GTA ELECTIONS
• Brampton councillors call on mayor for disclosure [The Star]
• Election Ephemera: Candidate attacks himself [The Star]
• Ontario official backs council candidate [The Star]

TRANSPORTATION
• TTC and Google show the way [The Star]
• Bike boxes a mystery to Toronto cyclists, drivers [The Star]
• The Fixer: Metropass machines a never-ending headache [The Star]
• The Fixer: Crumbling asphalt near hospital is rehabilitated [The Star]
• Chris Selley: Google Transit is going places [National Post]

TORONTO POLICE
• Human rights tribunal slams Toronto police [The Star]
• Julian Fantino: A politician in police uniform [Globe & Mail]

OTHER NEWS
• Fiorito: Why Hazel Evoy hopes for sunshine [The Star]
• Media treat trivial issues same as relevant news, Miller says [National Post]
• Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens to square off in Toronto next month [National Post]

2 comments

  1. Oh god not e-voting again. How many of these have to happen before people like Rocco get it:

    Researchers Break DC Voting System and Leave School Fight Song Behind [Campus Technology]

    I think there is something laudable about a community coming together to vote. We have culturally diverse and mostly mobile communities so we don’t necessarily share where we work or worship (if at all) or shop – the least we can bloody do is turn up at the local school and vote together.

  2. Hear Hear I agree with Mark.
    Voting is the least we can do to contribute to better government. I favour mandatory voting with a ‘None of the Above’ option, term limits and ranked ballots so when someone is elected it is by more that 20% of those 35% that bothered to show up to vote.