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WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT
• Waterfront Toronto keen to collaborate on port lands [The Star]
• Ferris wheel pitchman says ‘only Rob Ford’ listened [Globe & Mail]

FUNDING CUTBACKS
• Arts groups relieved by plan to divert funding cuts to Toronto arts council [Globe & Mail]
• Arts groups meet to counter proposed city funding cuts [The Star]
• Cuts could return arts to 1950’s [The Star]             
• 500 gather to stop across the board city cuts [The Star]
• Residents and councillors await details on proposed cuts [The Star]
• City searching for ways to avoid arts cuts [National Post]
• Rally demands end to Ford’s budget cutting [The Sun]
• Report on city savings ‘anticlimactic,’ source says [The Sun]
• What other cuts could be served up? [The Sun]          
• City zoos could be cut [The Sun]                           

CITY HALL POLITICS
• Use attrition to balance police books, board urges [National Post]
• Privatization fears: much ado about nothing? [Globe & Mail]
• War of words erupts between firefighters, councillor [The Sun]
• James: Rise up against city hall bullies [The Star]   

TRANSIT
• Chris Selley: reassessing the pedestrian scramble [National Post]
• New air rail chief puts customer service on track [The Star]
• A road closes in Mississauga and pedestrians rejoice [The Star]

OTHER NEWS
• The little village no one wants [The Star]                                 
• Army of skateboarders takes over downtown streets [The Star]
• Yorkville, bow down to the new TIFF King [Globe & Mail]
• The party winds down for the entertainment district [National Post]
• Subdivision spurs clash over observatory’s fate [National Post]
• Shining the spotlight on people who shape the world’s cities [Globe & Mail]
• Affordable housing advocates say Toronto is trying to ban homelessness [Torontoist]

2 comments

  1. Hmm, Glen, kind of remind me of Beijing 20-30 years ago, when a red light at a main intersection would stop hundreds of bikes…