Wednesday’s Headlines

CITY COUNCIL
• A new budget day: fare hike off, police force to shrink [The Star]
• City ombudsman seeks 10% budget hike [The Star]
• Fiorito: The casualties of Rob Ford’s war [The Star]
• Funding crunch threatens childcare [National Post]
• Ford lays down the law [The Sun]

GTA POLITICS
• City pulls $10,000 offer for Hazel 90th bash [The Star]
• Vaughan councillors sign pledge of civility [The Star]
• Mississauga withdraws offer to send councillors to McCallion gala [National Post]
• Vaughan council aims to rebuild image with Vaughan Accord [National Post]

TRANSIT
• Snowplow chase [The Star]
• Riders dismayed at bus route cuts [The Star]
• Pedestrian killed by streetcar [The Star]
• City scraps proposed TTC fare hike [Globe & Mail]
• No TTC fare hike this year, chair says [National Post]
• Budget document: #TTC fare hike scratched out in blue pen [National Post]
• TTC fare hike scrapped [The Sun]
• Levy: Time to change TTC thinking [The Sun]

POLICE & EMS
• Ambulances slower responding to emergencies [The Star]
• ‘A very tragic day’: Toronto police officer killed by stolen snowplow [Globe & Mail]
• Man arrested after bomb scare near CSIS, Toronto Police say [Globe & Mail]
• Officer injured, protesters arrested over meeting at Zionist Centre [Globe & Mail]
• Chris Selley: New police budget proves Ford’s mettle [The Sun]
• Toronto EMS needs cash [The Sun]

G20 AFTERMATH
• New photos surface after G20 case closed [The Star]
• DiManno: As new allegations of G20 brutality surface, police raise their shields [The Star]

HIGHRISE REPORT
• Toronto’s poor concentrated in aging highrises [The Star]
• Laundry list of complaints dogs west-end highrises [The Star]
• Turning a rundown highrise into a community hub [The Star]
• Toronto increasingly becoming a city of vertical poverty [Globe & Mail]
• Portrait of a beleaguered tenant [Globe & Mail]
• Vermin, vandalism and the vertical slum [Globe & Mail]

HOUSING & NEIGHBOURHOODS
• Hume: How can we make a ‘Cultural Corridor’ even better? [The Star]
• The Fixer: Sidewalk plows peel away grass [The Star]
• Toronto housing starts up for 2010 [The Star]
• City’s downspout program disconnected [The Sun]
• Anonyomous donor gives $100K Wellesley fire victims [The Sun]

OTHER NEWS
• Solving the dropout mystery of Toronto’s Spanish-speaking students [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto of the 1880s [BlogTO]
• The Great Torontoist Pun Hunt: West [Torontoist]
• At Idomo Furniture, a pitchman’s final sale [OpenFile]