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CITY HALL
• Council approves bike friendly measures [The Sun]
• Side guards get nod from city council [NOW]
• Fairhaven, Stanley Park pools among those going dry [The Star]
• City budget moves: foes occupy Ford [NOW]
• Devil in budget details [NOW]
• Budget 2012: Rob Ford’s sleight of hand [The Grid]
• City laying off almost 1,200 workers [The Star]
• City to issue up to 1,190 pink slips, most of them to unionized staff [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto planning to shed 600 unionized jobs; TTC, library, fire and police among cuts [National Post]
• City layoffs deal with economic reality [The Sun]
• Library chair demands Del Grande apologize for ‘program creep’ comments [Globe & Mail]
• Del Grande won’t apologize for ‘Blockbuster’ comment [The Sun]

ROB FORD
• Why we plan to fight Ford’s Star boycott [The Star]
• Ford asks court to set aside decision to audit his election expenses [Globe & Mail]

TRANSIT
Riders fear public-private Eglinton line could cost more [The Star]
• Making the TTC a better way, maybe [The Grid]
• Chris Upfold: the TTC’s top gripe-taker [The Grid]

OTHER NEWS
• Wildly inaccurate budgets a staple in Brampton [The Star]
• Hume: new Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens offers food for thought [The Star]
• Brilliant new life for the Gardens [Globe & Mail]
• Ontario pension fund plans $300 million Toronto complex [Globe & Mail]
• Kensington market debates street closures [Torontoist]