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WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT
• Ford’s waterfront vision sinking quickly [Globe & Mail]
• Two more Ford allies reject his port lands vision [The Star]
• Hume: Fords on the way to becoming another waterfront wreck [The Star]
• Fords may slow port lands push as opposition mounts [National Post]
• Podcast: on port lands and wheel trans [National Post]
• Ford ally rejects port lands plan [The Sun]
• Urban thinkers line up against Ford’s waterfront plan [Torontoist]

CITY HALL
• Massive poll shows Toronto is united against Ford’s proposed cuts [The Star]
• Arts community unites to fight Ford [The Grid]
• Voter rebellion? A snapshot of Toronto opinion [The Star]
• Ford calls on Queen’s Park to pay for daycare [Globe & Mail]
• Ford says city employees are the ‘gravy’ [The Star]
• Ford’s ex-chief of staff now working with ‘not gravy’ campaign [National Post]

DEVELOPMENT
• Councillor decries move to stop new housing [The Star]
• Fiorito: howl subsidies in parkdale [The Star]
• Residents rally against Mississauga power plant [The Star]
• Condo fraud claims mount [The Star]

TTC & TRANSIT
• Get ready for weekend without DVP, Yonge subway [The Star]
• Wheel-Trans cuts threaten dialysis patients’ lives [The Star]
• Traffic officer punched in the face [The Star]
• Brampton facing union discontent on two fronts [The Star]

LIBRARY NEWS
• Forty-four winners to lunch with celebrity authors [The Star]
• Why my library matters to me [Globe & Mail]
• Tears flow as urban library closes [The Star]
• A sign of things to come? [Torontoist]

OTHER NEWS
• Low tax advocate wins lunch with Doug Ford [The Star]
• Recession-spooked Toronto is a city of savers [The Star]
• Mayor Ford’s antics breathes new life into Deadboy’s graffiti art [The Star]

One comment

  1. It would be nice if Toronto Council did not just reject the Ford’s attempt at vision substitution but found a way to put manners on TPLC/TEDCO too.