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CITY HALL
• Waterfront Toronto’s work so far: a critic’s report card [Globe & Mail]
• The plot thickens as Toronto city council seeks to unload theatres [Globe & Mail]
• Cash-strapped cities face funding breaking point [Globe & Mail]
• Price to pay for cuts to police, fire department [National Post]
• Duking it out: City Hall vs. Queen’s Park [National Post]
• Rob Ford’s CBC interview [NOW]

PROVINCIAL ELECTION
• Ford’s chipper election reaction based on fantasy [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto voters deliver string of election surprises [Globe & Mail]
• Hume: Hudak’s loss is cities’ gain [The Star]
• Ford nation’s very silent majority [National Post]
• Liberal minority government ‘excellent’ for Toronto: Rob Ford [National Post]
• Not even the journalists could get excited about Ontario’s election [National Post]
• Blame Hudak – not Ford – for Tory loss [The Sun]

PROTESTS
• Outlining an occupation [NOW]
• Occupy Toronto activists choose not to talk to police for now [Globe & Mail]
• Planning to occupy Toronto [Torontoist]
• Snapshot: #OccupyToronto general assembly [The Grid]

TRANSIT & TRAFFIC
• Second accident in two days brings traffic to a standstill on QEW with fatal results [Globe & Mail]
• Ford plans to push for more TTC cash [The Star]
• ‘Marathon wars’ flare up over spring races [The Star]
• Hume: evidence is clear – we need better transit [The Star]
• Street racing blamed as man dies in Scarborough crash [The Star]

OTHER NEWS
• Volunteers at the Good Shepherd dish up more than turkey for Thanksgiving meal [The Star]
• Labour of love keeps heritage railway on track [The Star]
• Senior in need must wait three years for subsidized housing [The Star]
• Young urbanites reach for the crops [National Post]
• Inquiry verdict no match for McCallion the ‘benevolent matriarch’ [National Post]
• Historicist: on the waterfront [Torontoist]

2 comments

  1. Perhaps of interest to Spacing folk: “When New York authorities used to hire only the lowest bidders for projects, good architects didn’t bother to compete. There was no one in government who would watch their backs. That proved costlier for the public in the long run.

    “All the money the city thought it saved, it lost,” Mr. Burney told me, “because projects were often left unfinished or in disrepair. People tend to think design means more money. But the truth is that the tighter the budget, the more expertise you need to squeeze something good out of the process.” ”

    From: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/arts/design/new-yorks-public-architecture-gets-a-facelift.html