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OCCUPY TORONTO
• ‘Occupy’: peaceful, and puzzling [The Star]
• Activist scene in St. James park both infuriating and refreshing [The Star]
• One rule for us, another for Occupy Toronto [The Sun]
• Protest peaceful in Toronto financial district [Globe & Mail]
• Bay Street blues [NOW]
• Rogue Senate page Brigette DePape addresses Occupy Toronto protesters [National Post]

CITY HALL
• Lawyers argue, councillors are exposed, citizens pay [The Star]
• City orders audit of Di Ciano’s campaign finances [The Sun]
• Libraries win reprieve from cut on operating hours [Globe & Mail]
• 59 branches may have hours chopped [The Star]
• Cities pitch commuter aid for new round of federal stimulus [Globe & Mail]
• Ford versus Nenshi: Calgary easy winner in battle of the rookie mayors [National Post]
• Kristyn Wong-Tam and Stephen James Kerr: Toronto should start a bank [National Post]

POLICE
• SIU clears police officers in fatal Carnival shooting [National Post]
• Officers who shot gun-toting man at Caribbean carnival won’t face charges, SIU says [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto police cleared in Carnival shootings [The Star]
• Police deny wrongdoing in arrests for alleged cash-for-gold murder plot [National Post]

TTC & TRANSIT
• TTC wants random drug screening for workers [The Star]
• The case for random testing of TTC drivers [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto transit agency urged to start random drug, alcohol tests for staff [Globe & Mail]
• TTC substance testing voted down in 2008 [The Sun]
• York and GO drivers’ strike looms [The Star]

OTHER NEWS
• Fighting the mega-quarry at Foodstock [NOW]
• Demise of the art bike [NOW]
• Snapshot: Tweed ride Toronto [The Grid]