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GARBAGE

• Union sets up complaint hotline for privatized garbage collection service [National Post]
• Private trash collectors off to a slow start in Toronto, leave recycling behind at 500 homes [National Post]
• Private contractor misses garbage pickup deadline [Globe & Mail]
• Private garbage collection begins west of Yonge [Toronto Star]

CONDO BOOM
• Has Toronto’s condo roller coaster peaked? [National Post]
• Despite signs of cooling housing market, Toronto developers keep building [Globe & Mail]

FORD
• Ford to meet his match in Chicago [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto should contract out building services, says Councillor Doug Ford [Toronto Star]

CYCLING
• Toronto cyclist dies after wheel gets trapped in unused streetcar track [Globe & Mail]
• Cyclists call for more safety education after fatal crash [Toronto Star]

OTHER NEWS
• Toronto Animal Services offers 2-for-1 cat sale [Toronto Star]
• Hurontario Street: multiple personalities [Toronto Star]
• OLG softens pitch for new casino on Toronto waterfront [Toronto Star]
• Toronto police TAVIS stop of four teens ends in arrests, captured on video [Toronto Star]
• Clean Train Coalition asks court to apply the brakes to Metrolinx diesels [Toronto Star]
• The Fixer: Contrary parking signs give drivers a bum steer [Toronto Star]
• Sikh massacre: Gurdwaras in GTA ponder higher security in wake of mass shooting [Toronto Star]
• Community health centres help more than target audience [Openfile]
• TTC’s Poetry on The Way (and its founder) throw a mystery disappearance [Openfile]
• The future of play? [The Grid]