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CITY COUNCIL
• Building Ford Nation [The Star]
• Provincial politicians skeptical of ‘Ford Nation’ advocacy group [The Star]
• Why Rob Ford might not want to ape Leafs Nation [The Star]
• Britain’s push to privatization [The Star]
• City could be out millions after court kills billboard tax [The Star]
• Posted Toronto Political Panel: Can Ford Nation be Canada’s Tea Party? [National Post]
• Chris Selley: Three months into Rob Ford era there is still reason for optimism [National Post]
• Provincial Liberals may lose grip on Toronto: poll [National Post]
• Liberal downplays Ford Nation threat [The Sun]
• How the Urban Affairs Library Got Shut Down [Torontoist]

TRANSPORTATION
• TTC drivers fired for harmless cellphone use, union says [The Star]
• So what happened to those TTC improvements? [The Star]
• Air Canada to fly out of Toronto Island [The Star]
• Dog electrocuted on Queen St. [The Star]
• TTC cellphone crackdown going too far, union warns [Globe & Mail]
• Bike-riding ‘pinkos,’ this could be your summer [Globe & Mail]
• Air Canada to start flying out of Toronto Island airport [Globe & Mail]
• A Thank You Note to Cyclists [Torontoist]
• Electric vehicle demo centre opens at the Brick Works [BlogTO]
• The top secret sins of TTC users [OpenFile]

HOUSING
• Is Toronto public housing in for a shakeup? [The Star]
• No decision on future of former TCHC leader [The Star]
• Public money, private apartment [The Star]
• Hume: TCHC makes a too-convenient villain [The Star]
• Fiorito: Privatize community housing? A cautionary tale [The Star]
• A leaky roof, a rotten basement and a closet full of skeletons [Globe & Mail]
• Housing board controversy opening doors for Ford [National Post]
• Councillors to deal with social housing scandal [The Sun]
• Levy: Heads are only beginning to roll [The Sun]

STREETS
• The Fixer: Front St. trees chopped for subway platform [The Star]
• The Fixer: City prepares all-out assault on potholes [The Star]

ARCHITECTURE & DEVELOPMENT
• Let cities reach for the sky [Globe & Mail]
• Bremner Boulevard, fertile ground for new castles of glass [National Post]

POLICE & CRIME
• Paid duty policing costs taxpayers millions: audit report [The Star]
• Holyday vows action on police paid duty [The Star]
• Life in prison for ‘Toronto 18’ plotter [The Star]
• The defining case for trying terrorists [National Post]

HISTORY
• Nostalgia Tripping: Toronto’s eminent women [BlogTO]
• Historicist: On the way home to Massey Hall [Torontoist]

OTHER NEWS
• City denies pot festival its patch of grass [The Star]
• Pot festival organizers not high on city decision [Globe & Mail]
• 416 Snack Bar enters the real world [OpenFile]