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G20
• A glimpse behind the G20 security curtain [ Toronto Star ]
• Via rail to pull out of Union Station for summit [ Toronto Star ]
• Wanted: jailhouse doctors for G20 summit [ Toronto Star ]
• Doctors to be paid $120/hour to treat protesters in makeshift jail [ National Post ]
• G8, G20 summit security a waste of money anarchists say [ National Post ]
• Don’t get your hopes up, Toronto’s G20 simply a pit-stop on the way to Seoul [ Globe & Mail]
• G20 summit forces Bay Street to move house [ Globe & Mail ]
• G20 security: Queen’s Park windows get boarded up [ Toronto Sun ]

City Building
• Homeowners challenge councillor over heritage designation [ Toronto Star ]
• Hume: Revamped hydro building still has power [ Toronto Star ]
• Toronto to designate Don Valley Parkway as ‘Route of Heroes’ [ National Post ]

Other News
• TTC throws more cash at museum plan [ National Post ]
• Bike lanes are not parking for coffee shop [ Toronto Star ]
• Fiorito: Bedbugs and the law [ Toronto Star ]
• Ford wants to swap councillors for cops [ Toronto Sun ]

5 comments

  1. The Americanization of us continues. The ‘route of heroes’…really?

  2. Make sure to pronounce it “hee-roes” while you drive you’re “vee-hicle” down to where all the ‘Jersey Boys’ pennants are flapping in the breeze (down by the world’s largest Sears store).

    “God bless” Toronto, Capital of Canadian Culture..

  4. You know what I hate? When Canadians assume that to be proud of Canadian achievements, to have national heroes, to be proud of an army is to be American. No! It’s just a normal part of nationhood. Our public spaces always have some generic and meaningless name instead taking the opportunity to build an identity based on celebrating achievements, leadership, and heroism.

    The ‘Jersey Boys’ pennants are simply the product of this reality. We’re modest, we don’t go after megaprojects anymore and we don’t properly fund our arts. I don’t know why, maybe we assume that doing stuff like that is for the Americans and French. So enjoy your pennants, unless you’re interested in building something Canadian.