CITY HALL
• New user fees will take a bite out of Toronto wallets [The Star]
• Toronto’s year-end surplus surges to $154 million [The Star]
• Battle looms over city budget surplus [The Sun]
• Property-tax windfall may stave off cuts [Globe & Mail]
• Ford applauds saved nutrition programs [The Sun]
• Hello, 911? Help! Rob Ford is still our mayor [NOW]
• Adam Giambrone on putting a stop to Rob Ford’s policy fiascos [NOW]
• Jarvis “gravy lane” [NOW]
LABOUR DISPUTE
• City negotiators get their directions for talks with workers [The Star]
• Mayor’s bargaining position challenges security of unionized workers [Globe & Mail]
• Labour mandate may be too ‘extreme’: councillor [National Post]
TRANSIT
• Transit offer going to a vote in York region [The Star]
• Transit city code red [NOW]
• Fighting for the TTC: meet CodeRedTO [Torontoist]
• Who designs the TTC’s fantastical metropass? [The Grid]
• Tougher Toronto traffic policies useless without enforcement [National Post]
• Urban Scrawl: confessions of a sidewalk cyclist [National Post]
OTHER NEWS
• Vaughan mayor’s dream inspires unofficial slogan [The Star]
• How the 905 stole our urbanist mojo [The Grid]
• A bolder and more balanced Toronto [The Star]
• Energy board denies Toronto Hydro rate hike for system upgrade [Globe & Mail]
• What the Ed Mirvish theatre’s new sign will look like [The Grid]