ELECTION AFTERMATH
• Ford faces stiff fight on council [The Star]
• ‘I voted for somebody – I just don’t know who’ [The Star]
• Campaign to get a South Asian on city council ends in defeat [The Star]
• More voters, more candidates in Catholic trustee elections [The Star]
• Rob Ford: The lone wolf who has to learn to lead a pack [Globe & Mail]
• Rob Ford bounce and ‘elite-phobic’ voters drive Harper surge [Globe & Mail]
• Council’s unofficial opposition starts to mobilize [Globe & Mail]
• Who voted for whom [Globe & Mail]
• After the mayoral election, ‘friends’ no more [Globe & Mail]
• Election Number Analysis: Voting against the grain [National Post]
• Graphic: Toronto mayoral election results by polling station [National Post]
• How Rob Ford won Toronto [Macleans]
• Rob Ford’s team created a fake Twitter account, and this is it [Torontoist]
analysis…
• James: ‘Great divide’ among voters isn’t new [The Star]
• There’s good reason the masses are revolting [Globe & Mail]
• Gee: Don’t count on a Ford revolution [Globe & Mail]
• In defence of downtown latte-sipping elites [Globe & Mail]
• Posted Toronto Political Panel: Can Ford carry out promise of change? [National Post]
TRANSIT
• Who will be the next TTC chair? [The Star]
• Police investigating after pedestrian struck by GO train [The Star]
• Chris Selley: Streetcars aren’t going anywhere [National Post]
• Urban Scrawl: Toronto not so divided after all [National Post]
• The tragedy of the lost rainbow at Yorkdale Station [BlogTO]
TRANSPORTATION
• Cyclist injured in hit and run [The Star]
• The Fixer: Phantom construction slows morning traffic [The Star]
• Parkdale’s rogue two-way bike sharrows get buried [Torontoist]
CITY BUILDING
• Stacked waterfront arena among Ford’s targets [The Star]
• College pals build North America’s “greenest hotel” [The Star]
• The Fixer: Utility cuts are cruel to sidewalks [The Star]
• The city’s most notorious intersections are turning the corner [Globe & Mail]
• City’s Peter St. shelter finally opens [The Sun]
• What’s next for the Danforth Music Hall? [Torontoist]
• What should we do with Toronto’s superfluous churches? [BlogTO]
COMMUNITY
• Community housing CEO, Ford discuss property sale [The Star]
• Porter: How vacant, city-owned houses can become houses [The Star]
• Agency helps immigrants carve new lives in Canada [The Star]
• Regent Park’s FreshCo lives up to its name [The Star]
• Questions & Answers: ‘Cost-effective’ new sell-off plan gets Ford’s attention [National Post]
CITY HISTORY
• The Spadina Museum Gets a Historically Accurate Revamp [Torontoist]
• Historicist: Cooking with Etta and Earl [Torontoist]
• Spooky locations in Toronto [BlogTO]
• Nostalgia Tripping: A ghost at Christie Mansion [BlogTO]
LAW & ORDER
• Grocer not guilty in citizen’s arrest case [The Star]
• DiManno: Just what did that grocer plan to do with his shoplifter? [The Star]
• Shopkeeper learns his lesson in acquittal [Globe & Mail]
• Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Judge finds David Chen not guilty [National Post]
OTHER NEWS
• Women, councillor lend hand in heroic bridge rescue [The Star]
• American expats share ‘Sanity’ laughs from afar [The Star]
• Limo firms still not paid for G20 work [The Star]
• Toronto FC turns to Klinsmann [Globe & Mail]
• Boardwalk Cafe contract open for bids – and then not [The Sun]
• Deal tough to swallow [The Sun]
One comment
re: “Utility cuts are cruel to sidewalks”
We have just had our street and part of the sidewalks cut up for “utility work”. City notices were placed in letterboxes about one day before, and they don’t specify whether the work is being done for the city or a private contractor, just that you can display the notice if your vehicle is displaced (as if residents in our area needed another reason to desire parking pads rather than street parking). Work started just after 7am – good morning to you indeed.
Isn’t it time we came up with a new design for streets, where perhaps sidewalks double as utility vaults, with removable covers to avoid the jackhammering and the “patching”?