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WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT
• Ford forfeits goal to control port lands property [Globe & Mail]
• Councillors sink Ford’s port lands plan [National Post]
• Ford gives up goal of seizing port lands [The Star]
• James: waterfront 101: clean, green, people place [The Star]
• Port lands sports complex hits a hurdle as lease extends to 2041 [The Star]
• ‘Consensus’ reached on port lands revitalization [The Sun]
• Waterfront petition urges council to stick to original plan [The Sun]
• First salvo in battle for waterfront launched in February: documents [Globe & Mail]

BUDGET CUTBACKS
• Ford backs down from cuts for now [The Star]
• Moderate voices won in the vote over cuts [The Star]
• Ford backs away from controversial cuts, but warns budget crisis remains [National Post]
• What exactly is the deal with Rob Ford’s budget? [National Post]
• Councillors eye helping you pay more taxes [The Sun]
• Library workers union has doubt in Ford’s promise [The Sun]

URBAN DESIGN
• Sugar beach among 23 Toronto urban design winners [The Star]
• Design lauded months after city kills costly Fort York bridge [The Star]
• Department of Ironies: Toronto kills Fort York bridge then awards it Toronto design award [Torontoist] 

OTHER NEWS
• Doug Ford and Margaret Atwood meet at party for former arts adviser [The Star]
• Ex-MP and new Mississauga councillor Bonnie Crombie reflects on election win [The Star]
• NDP transit pledge might help but won’t cure TTC [The Star]
• Plans afoot for Toronto’s first flash-mob picnic [The Star]
• Urban orca’s platonic ideal [The Grid]
• Canadian air and space museum evicted possibly to be replace by ice rink [National Post]
• Steeper hills, new momentum [Torontoist]