CITY COUNCIL
• Team Ford set to give go-ahead to gravy-sniffing consultants [The Star]
• Father and son maintain Old City Hall clock and bells — but for how long? [The Star]
• City Hall Diary: While parties are banned, partisan politics thrive [The Star]
• James: Time for checks and balances — and parties? [The Star]
• Toronto on track to use all of 2011 snow budget [Globe & Mail]
• Posted Toronto Political Panel: Office expenses and mock outrage [National Post]
• Councillor to reimburse city for office blessing [The Sun]
TRANSIT
• Fiorito: Does the TTC really need more transit enforcement? [The Star]
• Chris Selley: Fare evasion crackdown won’t solve all of TTC’s problems [National Post]
ROADS
• The Fixer: Deadly pothole flattens tires, loosens hubcaps [The Star]
• Highway 401 reopened after four-alarm fire [Globe & Mail]
• Road construction season ready to roll [The Sun]
• City slow to fill potholes [The Sun]
• City lays out road plan for repairs [The Sun]
NEIGHBOURHOODS & STREETSCAPE
• Shoes dangle from wires overhead all over Toronto. What does it mean? [The Star]
• Priority area Thorncliffe Park to get fresh hope in form of cricket field [Globe & Mail]
• Is Greektown Toronto becoming less Greek? [BlogTO]
GRAFFITI
• Spray Up: Meeting Mayor Rob Ford [National Post]
• Spray Up: A look at global graffiti styles [National Post]
• Spray up: Inside Toronto’s graffiti scene [National Post]
POLICE & G20 AFTERMATH
• Business owners insulted by G20 compensation offers [The Star]
• Downtown Toronto businesses decry G20 compensation as paltry [Globe & Mail]
• G20 business owners complain of being shortchanged by government [National Post]
TCHC
• Auditor’s probe of TCHC ‘put a little box around’ subsidiary firm [Globe & Mail]
• TCHC fixes boy’s window [The Sun]
CULTURAL EVENTS
• Afrofest, Freedom Fest thrown a lifeline [The Star]
• Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Rob Ford smiles in his theatre bow [National Post]
• Paying price for Pride: Levy [The Sun]
HISTORY
• Remembering Yonge Street’s musical roots [National Post]
• Nostalgia Tripping: Canada’s first subway system [BlogTO]
• When the subway system was shiny and new [BlogTO]
• The story of the first Yonge Street pedestrian mall [BlogTO]
• Historicist: The Conservative Empire [Torontoist]
• The Strange Appeal of Yonge Street’s Scuzzy Past [Torontoist]
OTHER NEWS
• List week: 5 places I’d like to live [The Star]
• A revolution, stalled, at Westin Harbour Castle Hotel [OpenFile]
• Toronto Humane Society turmoil continues [The Sun]
One comment
Re Chris Selley:
So instead of going after the real fare cheats, they instead go after someone who is new to Toronto and didn’t get around to reading the fine print on his Student Metropass. In most systems, a standard student ID card is enough, so I can understand the guy’s misunderstanding. Meanwhile the TTC wonders why it has a negative image when it comes to customer service…
The fare cop could have given him a suspended ticket, giving him a period of time to get a student ID card or else the fine stands. Here’s hoping that the judge has some common sense and knocks his $200+ ticket down to $7, or whatever the cost of a student ID card is.
This is beside the fact that under the current fare structure, passes SHOULD only cost about $100!