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OCCUPY TORONTO
• Occupy Toronto goes underground on Queen West [The Star]
• Occupy’s alternative social, political model ‘not self-sustainable’ [National Post]
• Occupiers leave their trash behind [The Sun]
• Councillor wants to lure people back to St. James park area [The Sun]
• A look back at the Occupy Toronto movement [NOW]

CITY HALL
• Make Ottawa pay for Toronto community housing repairs, councillor says [Globe & Mail]
• 2012 the doomsday budget? Not so much [The Star]
• Our budgets tell us who we are [Torontoist]
• Newsmaker: it’s almost 2012 budget time! [National Post]
• City to unveil ‘strong medicine’ budget Monday [The Sun]
• Ford ready for a fight [The Sun]
• Company grown with public money sold without tender [The Star]
• Fiorito: Kafka parks in North York [The Star]
• Triple gravy for trash collectors [The Sun]
• Poor rally to stop city budget cuts [The Sun]
• Side guards to city hall [NOW]

TRANSIT
• YRT strike turns to war [Torontoist]
• Prepare for fare hike, TTC chair says [The Star]
• TTC users need a crusader to battle cuts [The Star]
• Mayor Ford has simply missed the bus on Toronto transit [Globe & Mail]
• Torontonians commuting to Waterloo frustrated by GO transit’s new rail link [Globe & Mail]
• Six dream improvements to the TTC [National Post]
• TTC chair holds firm on fare hike, service cuts [National Post]
• No way around TTC fare hike and service cuts: Stintz [The Sun]
• How did Toronto lose so much transit service? [Torontoist]
• Anger at the TTC’s first town hall [Torontoist]
• Four things we learned at the TTC town hall [The Grid]

DEVELOPMENT
• Waterfront Toronto open to fast-tracking Port Lands development [Globe & Mail]
• Taking a fresh look at Toronto’s Port Lands [National Post]
• Waterfront Toronto launches a public review of Port Lands plans [Torontoist]
• Hume: towers and the space in between [The Star]
• Knelman: how not to fix St. Lawrence centre [The Star]
• Vertical Toronto: the high life [The Star]

OTHER NEWS                           
• Did Jane Jacobs’ critics have a point after all? [The Star]
• Affordable rent in Toronto: not a myth yet, but it’s not looking good [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto has grown into a new label: the compassionate city [Globe & Mail]
• Theft charge for Markham councillor [The Star]
• Elephant keepers at Toronto zoo respond to city council’s decision to send beast to PAWS in California [The Star]