CITY HALL – CUTS & AUDITS
• Hume: Ford ally loses major battle [The Star]
• City committee unlikely to make painful cuts [Globe & Mail]
• The alarming truth about waste at City Hall [Globe & Mail]
• Radical thinking as city set to tackle $742M in savings [The Sun]
• T.O. on ($742M) cutting edge [The Sun]
• Doug Ford and 3 other councillors won’t be audited: ruling [Globe & Mail]
• Campaign expense audit waived for Ford allies [National Post]
• Audit ordered of Li Preti’s campaign finances [The Star]
• Peter Kuitenbrouwer: City orders compliance audits [National Post]
• Public will have say on recreation cuts [The Star]
• Doughnuts vs books? In Etobicoke, it’s 3-1 [The Star]
• Time to close book on city’s libraries [The Sun]
• City rejects firefighter recruit class [The Star]
• Toronto cuts money for fire service recruiting classes [Globe & Mail]
• City douses training for new firefighters [The Sun]
• City streetscapes latest target for Toronto’s cuts [The Star]
• Arts initiatives, heritage properties next on KPMG hitlist [National Post]
• Privatize zoo, councillors urged [The Sun]
• Cops could walk a lonely beat [The Sun]
• Putting a Bull’s-Eye on Toronto City Hall’s sacred cows [The Sun – Sue-Ann Levy]
TTC
• Road to privatized TTC would be bumpy [The Star]
• City will consider privatizing TTC routes [National Post]
• TTC’s Wheel-Trans, Blue Night on hit list [The Sun]
• Toronto bus driver pepper-sprayed by disgruntled passenger [Globe & Mail]
• TTC passengers help arrest suspect after driver pepper-sprayed [The Star]
BIKES AND CARS
• Cyclists take over Jarvis to protest bike lane removal [The Star]
• More than 15,000 charges laid during car-safety week blitz [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto police nab 15,500 drivers in car safety week blitz [The Star]
HEAT
• How to cope with the extreme heat throughout the GTA [The Star]
• Eight reasons not to buy into the heat hype [National Post]
• How hot is it? Extreme, says Toronto Public Health [National Post]