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CITY HALL
• Hey City Hall, Jack is watching [Globe & Mail]
• Under his thumb [The Grid]

REMEMBERING LAYTON
• Kuitenbrouwer: Layton’s legacy will withstand a little rain [National Post]
• CN Tower will glow NDP orange for Layton’s funeral in Toronto [Globe & Mail]
• In tribute to Jack Layton, CN Tower to go orange [The Star]
• The country grieves a hero [NOW]
• Jack grew into himself [NOW]
• Jack’s spirit is still hard at work [NOW]
• Timeline of a political genius [NOW]
• He’d already made the revolution [NOW]
• Rural folks trusted this city pol [NOW]
• Toronto lent Jack to Canada [NOW]

TRANSIT, COMMUTING, AND TTC WOES
• The route to commuter happiness? Two wheels [The Star]
• Canada’s slowest rush hour [The Star]
• Toronto still Canada’s longest commute: StatsCan [The Sun]
• Testing the reverse commute: downtown to Markham, and back [The Star]
• Matt Gurney: Transit, what a waste of time [National Post]
• Keeping the peace in Toronto’s subways [National Post]
• TTC seeks to ban abusive riders [The Star]
• TTC may start banning abusive riders [National Post]
• TTC ridership is up, up, up! [The Sun]

OTHER NEWS
• Google gets behind the wheel [Globe & Mail]
• Speed bumps costly and unneeded? [The Star]
• Good Bike art project under attack [The Star]
• Hero racehorse rests among the weeds [The Star]