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CITY COUNCIL
• Does Rob Ford have stomach for budget cuts? [The Star]
• Ford’s office holds meeting to ‘clarify’ incident with Nick Kouvalis [National Post]
• The Torontonians: Michael Thompson has big plans for his new role on council [National Post]
• Posted Toronto Political Panel: Is privatization sneaking in? [National Post]
• The enigma that is Rob Ford’s new chief of staff [Globe & Mail]
• What’s up with Toronto’s official plan? [Globe & Mail]
• City’s ombudsman needs the resources to do her job [Globe & Mail]
• Council pay freeze pushed [The Sun]
• Mayor’s inner sanctum off limits to the public [The Sun]
• Parking Adam Giambrone’s legacy: Levy [The Sun]

TRANSIT
• TTC stalls 103 new hires to cut costs [The Star]
• Chris Selley: It is ‘fair’ to judge malfunctioning TTC employees [National Post]
• TTC eyes ridership boost to cover shortfall [Globe & Mail]
• Former Ford staffer sparks subway questions [The Sun]
• Taking politics out of TTC [The Sun]

CITY BUILDING
• Demolition permit issued for Hearn [The Star]
• Hearn could be waterfront arena site [The Star]
• Mallick: Our new aquarium looks like a grey suede loafer [The Star]
• Dorm in the sky [The Star]

ROADS
• San Francisco agency eager to adopt road tolls [The Star]
• The Fixer: Yonge St. a dead end for wheelchair users [The Star]

CULTURE & RECREATION ATTRACTIONS
• Snow way! Toboggans barred from popular hill [The Star]
• Toronto’s Soulpepper theatre embraces new business model [Globe & Mail]
• Winterlicious: making fine food accessible or making good food bad? [Globe & Mail]
• Heritage site graffiti will be reviewed for cultural merit [Globe & Mail]
• Commercial dog walkers fight for turf at Toronto parks [Globe & Mail]
• Move zoo’s elephants to sanctuary: Councillor [The Sun]

ELECTION AFTER-MATH
• Harmony Dinner has sour dessert [The Star]
• Rocco Rossi: Proudly a Progressive Conservative [National Post]
• Do you speak Rossi? [Globe & Mail]

CITY IDENTITY
• A visual history of Queen, King and Roncesvalles [BlogTO]
• Nostalgia Tripping: Toronto’s Chinatowns [BlogTO]
• Historicist: The Toronto Patty Wars [Torontoist]
• Seeing the City in The Toronto Show [Torontoist]
• Toronto plays itself at the Stephen Bulger Gallery [OpenFile]

PROTESTS
• Protesters call for Mubarak to step down [The Star]
• Usage-based billing rally smaller than expected, taken over by NDP [National Post]

POLICE & CRIME
• The day Sgt. Ryan Russell died [The Star]
• G20 abuse: What about the others? [The Star]
• Thirty years after the bathhouse raids [The Star]
• Porter: A loud and clear lesson in police power [The Star]
• The Fixer: A lot of our cops are still tops [The Star]
• Up to our ears in new police tech [OpenFile]

3 comments

  1. Re:Transit City
    I’m so disgusted in Ford’s first few months, specifically his attack on Transit City. Since single handedly declaring transit city dead he has failed to offer any alternative other then propose an extension of the stubway.. People of Shepperd…you are losing almost 15 stops all for the benefit of riding underground and not messing up traffic. Don’t let him do it.. Have any of the detractors of the transit city plan and specifically LRTs ever looked at the cities that are moving ahead with LRT transit plans? Do you know that Edmonton and Calgary have systems that are expanding using LRT technology? So sad..we are falling behind not just on the world stage but even here in Canada…

    2 months down three years 10 months to go…

  2. Ronny, I think parts of Transit City make sense (Eglinton) and parts of it don’t. As your post suggests most of the support for Transit City seems to come from the downtown area. You seem to be concerned that the people of Shepperd haven’t fully considered the benefits of the Transit City plan. Maybe they have and maybe they have found it wanting — and just maybe they are more than a little irritated about how the TC proponents (invariably from downtown) keep telling them how good it is for them. LRT has been a success in many cities — but especially in North America, those plans were introduced with a degree of public consultation/education that simply did not happen in Toronto. Also, many TC detractors see a difference in context between where LRT has been successful and some areas where it is being proposed for TO. At the very least, the pro LRT crowd should address how the differentials in LRT speeds between what was projected in Toronto vs. what is happening in Calgary (significantly faster LRT than most proposed TO lines) has had a huge impact on the public’s acceptance of this mode of transportation.