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MAYORAL RACE
• Smitherman fends off attacks in CP24 debate [The Star]
• YWCA launches assault on Rob Ford’s mayoral bid [The Star]
• Tenants’ group likes Pantalone [The Star]
• Hume: Go west young voter [The Star]
• Mayoral hopefuls drop the gloves [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto mayoral debate: The last three main candidates [Globe & Mail]
• Get-out-the-vote machines fire up [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto mayoral race ‘down to the wire,’ pollster says after neck-and-neck survey [Globe & Mail]
• YWCA issues anti-Ford statement [Globe & Mail]
• Sparks fly in final television debate [National Post]
• New poll gives slight edge to Ford [National Post]
• Posted Political Panel: Golsbie will hate himself no matter how he votes [National Post]
• Final mayoral debate gets heated [The Sun]
• Parsing the Mayoral Platforms: Transportation [Torontoist]

GTA ELECTION
• Veteran Halton Hills mayor ‘humbled’ by acclamation [The Star]
• Election Ephemera: The laughs Cumming fast and furious [The Star]
• Races to watch: Mississauga’s myth-busters [The Star]
• The Smell Test: The real cost of a steel palm tree [The Star]
• Kuitenbrouwer: The fiscal and green conservative [National Post]
• Levy makes her selections [The Sun]

CITY BUILDING
• The Maple Leaf Gardens makeover [BlogTO]
• The Fixer: Dripping water tap is slow torture [The Star]

G20 AFTERMATH
• Government officials defend summit spending as efficient and necessary [The Star]
• Federal government says G20 ‘fake lake’ was wildly successful [National Post]

TECHNOLOGY
• Google breached Canada’s privacy laws [CBC]
• Bing offers some pretty darn impressive aerial views of Toronto [BlogTO]

OTHER NEWS
• Police to end TTC ‘special constable’ program [The Star]
• Air ambulance base to move to Hamilton [Globe & Mail]
• Graffiti war in east-end parkette [The Sun]