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CITY HALL
• Why did the city spend $5 million to upgrade garbage yard to let it sit unused? [The Star]
• City hall mulls $129 driveway-paving permits [National Post]
• Toronto residents will need a permit to repave driveway [The Sun]
• Toronto daycares on the brink [The Star]
• City moves to move homeless [The Sun]
• Is the city about to crack down on homelessness? [Torontoist]

FORT YORK BRIDGE
• Fort York bridge rises from the dead [The Star]
• Rival councillors united on Fort York bridge plan [Globe & Mail]
• ‘Compromise’ Fort York bridge gets a green light [National Post]
• New bridge has many founders [The Sun]
• The return of the Fort York pedestrian cycling bridge [Torontoist]

BIKE LANES
• City hall inches closer to permanent bike lanes along Adelaide and Richmond [Globe & Mail]
• City goes separate way on Richmond-Adelaide bike lanes [NOW]

OCCUPY TORONTO
• City still trying to deal with Occupy Toronto protesters living in park [The Sun]
• A note to Occupy: act local [The Star]
• There are people in the park, then there are people behind them [The Star]
• The revolution will be golden brown [The Grid]
• Occupy Toronto gets into the Sukkot spirit [The Grid]

OTHER NEWS
• Rogue zoo keepers fight move of Toronto’s elephants to California sanctuary [The Star]
• Neighbourhood where teens shot needs makeover, not more police [National Post]

One comment

  1. Can someone please clarify which of the five bridges (http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2011/pw/bgrd/backgroundfile-42137.pdf) was approved?  Speaking as a trained structural engineer, it is high holy hogwash to call most of these “similarly shaped” and some of them are downright craptastic.  The loss of the original remains a shame, but I guess at this point everyone is resigned to some sort of bridge is better than no bridge at all.  Typical Toronto.