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CITY HALL
• Toronto councillor slams mayor’s unilateral decision on Olympic bid [Globe & Mail]
• Wong-Tam open letter blasts Doug Ford’s ‘special privileges’ [National Post]
• Ford blasted for shelving Olympics bid [The Sun]
• $83-million in cuts means 1,000 fewer police officers: Blair [The Star]
• Ford cuts will cost 1000 officers their jobs, police chief says [Globe & Mail]

TRANSIT
• Hudak open to Sheppard line [The Sun]
• Sheppard subway line faces big gap, Ford says [The Sun]
• Ford asks Horwath if NDP would plug Sheppard funding gap [The Star]
• NDP will discuss funding ‘gap’ for Sheppard subway, but not until after election [National Post]
• Police sift through evidence in fatal TTC bus crash [Globe & Mail]
• Replace highway car-pool lanes with road tolls, report urges [National Post]

CYCLING
• Road wrong [NOW]
• Glenn Sumi on breaking his Bixi cherry [NOW]
• Cycling for dollars [NOW]
• Family of man hit by cyclist pleads for bike lanes [The Star]

WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT
• The not so funny truth about Toronto’s Ferris wheel idea [Globe & Mail]
• From great glass pyramids to gigantic Ferris wheels; a history of Toronto waterfront development [The Star]
• That’s right. Monorail. [NOW]
• All aboard the monorail to waterfront ruin [The Star]
• Doug Ford’s blurry backroom vision [The Star]

OTHER NEWS
• Toronto public art, explained [The Grid]
• City starting to scrub away Layton tributes [The Star]
• A dream bigger than a lifetime [NOW]
• Jack put the self in social democracy [NOW]
• Does ‘livable’ mean ‘unaffordable’? [Globe & Mail]
• Vancouver party hires firm credited with Toronto mayor’s election [Globe & Mail]
• New site shares what Toronto said to Rob Ford [Torontoist]