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TORONTO ZOO
Toronto Zoo elephants’ move south delayed yet again [Toronto Star]
• Toronto Zoo’s elephants may move to California sanctuary by end of summer [National Post]
• Toronto Zoo’s elephants set for late-summer move to California [Globe and Mail]
• Toronto Zoo’s elephants could be gone by August [The Sun]

TRANSIT
• Presto card roll-out in Ottawa hits bumpy road [Toronto Star]
• What’s it like to apply for a TTC Commissioner job? Fine, unless you want a chair [Open File]
• Google Maps for planning nerds: online zoning map of Toronto coming this week [Open File]

CITY HALL
• Toronto city hall meeting scrapped due to absent councillors [Toronto Star]
• Parks chairman says city should relax quorum rules after cancelled meeting [National Post]
• Parks committee meeting missing members [The Sun]

BIKES
• Cycle Toronto wants province to review Toronto bike plans [Toronto Star]
• Ontario Coroner: 100 Per Cent of Cycling Deaths Were Preventable [Open File]
• Is bike sharing a bad break for bike shops? [Open File]

IN THE CITY
• Schoolyard sale? Toronto board looks to sell parts of playgrounds to raise cash [Toronto Star]
• Livestock! Island concert will raise funds for Far Enough Farm [Toronto Star]
• The Fixer: Answers to your concerns about new water meters [Toronto Star]
• Expat in Toronto? It’s gonna cost you [Toronto Star]
• Pride has proven they don’t deserve public funding [The Sun]
• At College and Spadina, student housing sparks a neighbourhood standoff [Open File]
• In the soldiers’ tower, the bells of UofT [Open File]