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Thursday’s headlines

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CITY HALL
• Mayor Rob Ford celebrates deal with outdoor workers [The Star]
• Toronto council approves agreement with garbage workers, paramedics [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto city council approves new CUPE contract [National Post]
• Mammoliti wants CUPE 416 to apologize to mothers [The Sun]
• We’ve got a deal [NOW]
• Stop contracting out Toronto cleaning jobs, academics say [The Star]
• Casino would kill what’s left of Toronto the Good [Globe & Mail]
• Joker’s wild on casinos [NOW]
• Doug Ford fails to post out-of-pocket expenses [Globe & Mail]
• Rob Ford’s approval rating on the rise, but voters would still pick Karen Stintz over incumbent: new poll [National Post]
• An atypically uncontroversial day at city hall [Torontoist]
• Etobicoke York councillors to Dalton McGuinty: actually, we are irrelevant [Torontoist]

TRANSIT
• Karen Stintz goes undercover on the TTC [The Star]
• Stripped down shelters provide scant cover for TTC riders [The Star]
• Mayor Rob Ford silent on buried Sheppard subway report [The Star]
• Rob Ford’s subway fairy tale [NOW]
• LRTs: better than subways by miles [NOW]

OTHER NEWS
• Mississauga residents sing happy birthday to Hazel McCallion [The Star]
• The greening of Toronto’s winter [National Post]
• The Bloor is back [NOW]
• What Bixi Toronto could be [The Grid]
• Toronto’s 20 greatest sports bars [The Grid]