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CITY HALL
• Looking for the gravy [The Star]
• City Hall Diary: It’s a tweet life at city hall [The Star]
• James: Ford stumbles onto the right path [The Star]
• The quandary facing Rob Ford’s budget chief [Globe & Mail]
• Chris Selley: City right to stop paying $1,300 to solve a $60 problem [National Post]
• City Hall’s Press Gallery warns Rob Ford of “abuse of process” [OpenFile]

TRANSIT
• Pearson-Union link gets $53M worth of diesel trains [The Star]
• Vaughan commuters brace for strike [The Star]
• Ford says full steam ahead for TTC strike ban [The Star]
• Early signs point to Queen’s Park, Metrolinx agreeing to Ford’s new transit plan [Globe & Mail]
• The Fords’ transit plan is no more than a reckless gamble [Globe & Mail]
• York Region transit workers to strike at midnight on Tuesday [Globe & Mail]
• Volunteers want LRT plan back on track [The Sun]
• Fixing overcrowding at St. George Station [OpenFile]

ROADS
• Snow banks crowd vehicles into cycling lanes [The Star]
• Worst intersections: Georgetown rail corridor [Globe & Mail]
• Ford sends out $60 vehicle registration tax refunds two months early [National Post]

BUILDINGS
• Hume: New Ritz-Carlton, five-star architecture [The Star]
• What past piece of Toronto do you miss the most? [OpenFile]

STREETSCAPE
• The little big-box stores that could [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto graffiti documented via Street Art View [BlogTO]
• What we know so far about the Green Room’s green light [OpenFile]
CULTURE & NIEHGBOURHOODS
• First city-wide Family Day celebration set to begin [The Star]
• Queer and far: As many in the community move elsewhere, the Gay Village works to develop a new identity [National Post]
• Pride panel won’t touch QuAIA: Levy [The Sun]

POLICE & CRIME
• ‘No parking’ no problem for cops [The Sun]
• Cop should just say ‘sorry’ [The Sun]

CITY HISTORY
• Historicist: The Collapse of the Union Carbide Building [Torontoist]
• Nostalgia Tripping: Toronto during Prohibition [BlogTO]

OTHER NEWS
• The Fixer: Sorry end to Bluffers feral cats [The Star]
• Five suggestions for Toronto’s own film icon statue [National Post]