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CITY COUNCIL
• Ford vetoes a veto [The Star]
• ‘I was always happy with the power I have’: Rob Ford [National Post]
• Budget chief to ‘widows and orphans’: Get lost [National Post]
• Podcast: On subways, statues and super-power mayors [National Post]
• Province open to discussing mayoral veto, if anyone ever asks [Globe & Mail]
• Miller’s cronies, CUPE fire up the rhetoric: Levy [The Sun]
• The Brothers Ford Are Concerned About Democracy [Torontoist]

TRANSIT
• Province seeks clarity on TTC strike ban [The Star]
• Hume: Transit too important to be left to politicians [The Star]
• Doubt cast on Ford’s hopes for subway partner [The Star]
• Weekend subway closure cancelled [The Star]
• What it will take to make subway plan a reality [Globe & Mail]
• City unwavering on TTC strike ban [Globe & Mail]
• Ford stays on track [The Sun]
• One year later, St. Clair tries to get by [OpenFile]

POLICE & CRIME
• Cop apologizes for ‘sluts’ remark at law school [The Star]
• DiManno: Welcome to The Slut Monologues [The Star]
• Toronto police officer’s sex-assault remarks prompt reprimand [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto shopkeeper welcomes changes to citizen’s-arrest laws [Globe & Mail]
• What a difference a couple of years make [The Sun]

OTHER NEWS
• Pride keen to move beyond scandals [The Star]
• Toronto flushes its downspout program [The Star]
• Alarming TB death rate among Toronto homeless [The Sun]
• A Brief History of Heritage Up In Flames [Torontoist]