CITY COUNCIL
• Deciphering Toronto’s municipal budget [The Star]
• Ford brothers, council allies talk of privatization [The Star]
• Want to reach the mayor’s office? Call 397-FORD [The Star]
• James: The more things change … [The Star]
• Rob Ford, you’ll never out-weird your predecessors [Globe & Mail]
• McGuinty faces tough choices in bid to keep Rob Ford happy [Globe & Mail]
• Life is not a gravy train for ‘elitists’ of downtown Toronto who shovel their own snow [Globe & Mail]
• Councillors spar in committee meeting [National Post]
• The week at City Hall: Budget babble [National Post]
• Posted Toronto Political Panel: Solving Rob Ford’s budget dilemma [National Post]
• Chris Selley: Ombudsman Fiona Crean is no ‘little old lady’ [National Post]
• City still looking for $16M, councillors told [The Sun]
• Councillor to deal with Pan Am ‘time bomb’ [The Sun]
• Doug Ford targets downtown grants [The Sun]
• Doug Ford loses cool over budget ‘grandstanding’ [The Sun]
• Ford gets kudos for disciplined campaign [The Sun]
CITY BUILDING
• Ontario speaker loses fight to protect Queen’s Park vista [Globe & Mail]
• Goodbye Harvey’s, Hello Union Station Revitalization [Urban Toronto]
TRANSPORTATION & ROADS
• The Fixer: Eglinton TTC station a no-go zone [The Star]
• Beer tank convoy finally arrives at brewery [The Star]
• The Fixer: Icy puddle a slog for pedestrians, drivers [The Star]
• Tunnelling beneath Avenue Road never a bore [The Star]
SPRAWL
• Hume: Resisting the Call of Sprawl [The Star]
• The region’s rise and sprawl [The Star]
• Paradise saved? GTA growth plans aim to rein in sprawl [The Star]
CRIME & POLICE
• DiManno: When a police pursuit turns deadly [The Star]
• DiManno: Cop’s death a thoroughly unpredictable horror [The Star]
• Hundreds turn out to mourn slain officer [The Star]
• SIU reopens G20 case after photos surface [The Star]
• Hundreds gather to pay respects to family of killed police officer [Globe & Mail]
• Man accused of killing officer was a trained snowplow operator [Globe & Mail]
• SIU reopens probe of alleged G20 police beating [Globe & Mail]
• Two lives lost on T.O.’s mean streets [The Sun]
• Cops turn to social media [The Sun]
• Cop union holds all the cards, councillor says [The Sun]
HERITAGE
• Family’s dream dies with Empress Hotel [The Star]
• Owners of Yonge fire site in legal battle with contractor [Globe & Mail]
• Historicist: Sewing the Seeds of Discontent [Torontoist]
• Nostalgia Tripping: Alexandra Park [Blog TO]
• Toronto of the 1990s [Blog TO]
STREETSCAPE
• Queen West gets the Mario Bros. treatment [National Post]
• Toronto poster art a cool way to show hometown pride [Globe & Mail]
• The Great Torontoist Pun Hunt: Downtown South [Torontoist]
OTHER NEWS
• Analysis: McCallion’s attempt to bring back the past falls flat [National Post]
• City turns garbage into fuel [The Sun]