CITY HALL
- Budget chief vows to quit if councillors seek more spending [The Globe and Mail]
- Toronto budget calls for 2 per cent tax hike [Toronto Star]
- Mayor Rob Ford to be back from mysterious vacation, aide says [Toronto Star]
- Councillor Ana Bailao’s impaired driving case put over until Dec. 31 [National Post]
- Byeelection talk on menu at councillor breakfast meeting [Toronto Sun]
GARDINER EXPRESSWAY
- Councillors warm up to private-sector fix for Gardiner [The Globe and Mail]
- Gardiner Expressway: Chief planner wants to resurrect cost/benefit study Ford killed [Toronto Star]
- City to examine selling Gardiner [Toronto Sun]
OTHER NEWS
- Hiring freeze puts diversity efforts at risk, police chief says [The Globe and Mail]
- Teacher protest: ‘Super Tuesday’ strike to hit almost half the province’s students [Toronto Star]
- The Fixer: Reader ignores pylon, ends up wading in wet cement [Toronto Star]
- Turn Casa Loma into museum: Poll [Toronto Sun]
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The LIberals must stand their ground and not let the Teachers obfuscation intimidate them. The Teachers are branding this as an issue of Constitutional rights when the rights they claim do not exist and the Supreme Court made this very clear last year in SCC Fraser v Ontario 2011. In 30 years of Charter litigation Organized Labour has tried to claim that the Charter protects the right to strike, to union dues, to Labour Board mediation, to compulsory arbitration and to majority representation and they have always lost. The Teachers Challenge must go to Court where it will be squashed long before it gets to the SCC so the public understands that the unions are crying wolf. Otherwise every government in Canada will be stuck with endless frivolous labour litigation whenever any government is faced with fiscal challenges and tries to reign in the public sector.