POLICE BUDGET
• Mayor confident chief will make requested cuts to Toronto police services [Globe & Mail]
• Chief Bill Blair tries to strike a budget deal with Rob Ford [The Star]
• Ford gives Chief Blair vote of confidence [The Sun]
MAYOR McCALLION
• McCallion: I won’t step down [The Sun]
• Being mayor means never having to say you’re sorry [Globe & Mail]
• Mississauga mayor McCallion had ‘real and apparent’ conflict of interest in land deal, inquiry finds [Globe & Mail]
• Updated: ‘I compiled with the Conflict of Interest Act,’ McCallion says [National Post]
• James: Mississauga must admit its mayor’s failure [The Star]
• Council should have been told of veto [The Star]
• Inquiry mars Hazel’s Teflon reputation [The Star]
• Overhaul municipal conflict rules, inquiry head urges [The Star]
• Parrish laments late inquiry report [The Sun]
PROVINCIAL ELECTION
• Party leaders forced to talk auto insurance rates in Brampton [Globe & Mail]
• Graphic: voters care little about platforms, controversies in Ontario election, Twitter shows [National Post]
• Ontario election: here’s what the parties are promising [National Post]
• Narrow poll margins suggest unpredictable outcomes on election day [Globe & Mail]
OTHER NEWS
• Extra, extra: the future of Union station and the fate of a Banksy [Torontoist]
• Barricades on Bay street? [NOW]
• Corporate greed protests headed for T.O. [The Sun]
• Information booth: the Kensington fire tower’s slow clock [National Post]
• Spotted: official notice [Torontoist]
2 comments
I know this list covers city-related stories, but if a debate in Brampton about auto insurance makes the cut, why is there nothing about the Tories’ misleading and homophobic flyer, which was distributed in Willowdale?
John: spacing is about urban issues, not just any news that happens in the city.