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G8/G20
• G20 fence nears completion [ Toronto Star ]
• Million-dollar-a-minute summit worth every penny, insists Harper aide [ Toronto star ]
• Fortress Toronto: secrets of the fence [ Toronto Star ]
• G20 protesters: A guide to who you’ll find on the barricades [ Toronto Star ]
• G8 nations give themselves a passing grade [ Toronto Star ]
• Most Canadians say G8/G20 summits important: poll [ Toronto Star ]
• Olive: For G20 leaders, fiscal austerity is the new normal [ Toronto Star ]
• A whole new dimension of gridlock [ Globe & Mail ]
• Graphic: Twelve (undeniably accurate) predictions for the G20 weekend [ National Post ]
• When fear comes to town [ National Post ]
• Walking the great wall [ National Post ]

Mayoral Race
• ‘The other Rocco’ was ready to quit mayoral race [ Toronto Star ]
• Mayoral candidates talk ‘priority neighbourhoods’ [ Toronto Star ]
• Your buddy, Rob Ford [ Globe & Mail ]
• Cleaner beaches and swimming lessons: Smitherman [ Toronto Sun ]
• Million-dollar mayoral candidates [ Toronto Sun ]
• Smitherman whacks weeds on St. Clair [ Toronto Sun ]
• Ford vows to crush development plan [ Toronto Sun ]
• Website urges Tory to run [ Toronto Sun ]

Other News
• Equipment blamed in downtown power outage [ Toronto Star ]
• Man hit by possible stray bullet in Scarborough Park [ Toronto Star ]
• The battle for Flemingdon Park [ Globe & Mail ]
• Report calls for ‘housing equity’ office [ Globe & Mail ]

4 comments

  1. It was a good gesture on Smitherman’s behalf to cut those weeds (“Smitherman whacks weeds on St. Clair”). The city is sloppy when it comes to maintaining public spaces. Improvements are necessary.

    It doesn’t matter if it’s a prominent park like Queen’s Park or High Park, a high level of attention to detail simply doesn’t exist. The monument at Queen’s Park North, for instance, is a beautiful centrepiece on a mound that’s eroding around the plaque. There are generic benches with badly deteriorated paint around it. The attitude towards this space must be “who cares?” It comes right down to the garbage bin design in our parks, the ugly garbage bag in metal cage form, which spills the trash on windy days.

  2. I definitely agree that the city should be clean and needs proper attention.

    Jane