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G8/G20
• Hume: Fences of steel and walls of irony abound at G20 [ Toronto Star ]
• Gorrie: Team Green isn’t looking too strong on the G20 soccer pitch [ Toronto Star ]
• Four key issues that will make the G20 summit crucial [ Toronto Star ]
• G20 survival guide: What’s open and closed [ Toronto Star ]
• Leaders begin arriving for G8, G20 [ Toronto Star ]
• Global voices at G20: A better way to meet? [ Toronto Star ]
• Hume: Seeing the world through dark-coloured classes [ Toronto Star ]
• Lockdown empties heart of Toronto [ National Post ]
• Businesses suffer as Huntsville braces for G8 [ National Post ]
• Police using Twitter, Facebook to patrol summits [ Globe & Mail ]
• Sharpshooters take up position [ Toronto Sun ]

Protesting the G8/G20
• Violent protests at summits tend to backfire on protesters [ Toronto Star ]
• Four canoes, 12 protesters and polite cops equal classic Canadian showdown [ Toronto Star ]
• Canada flunks on indigenous rights, protesters say [ Toronto Star ]
• Huntsville canoe protest delivers anti-G8 message [ National Post ]
• Why I will protest at the G20 [ Globe & Mail ]
• Monk takes message of peace to G8 [ Toronto Sun ]

G20 arrest cases
• Man arrested and left in wire cage under new G20 law [ Toronto Star ]
• G20 law gives police sweeping powers to arrest people [ Toronto Star ]
• Man, 53, arrested in G20 traffic zone with chainsaw, crossbow [ Toronto Star ]
• Computer specialist’s wife arrested in G20 case [ Toronto Star ]
• The strange case of the artists and the hacker [ Globe & Mail ]

Other News

• Couple wins battle to demolish Beach house [ Toronto Star ]
• TTC gets first bike shelter at St. Clair West [ Toronto Star ]
• Rocco Rossi’s ‘army’ is online [ Toronto Star ]
• Contract changes pushed homeless shelter cost to $11.5 M [ Toronto Star ]
• Auditor questions value of controversial shelter [ Globe & Mail ]
• Fiorito: Something stinks in public housing [ Toronto Star ]
• Port Authority, city back a square one [ Toronto Sun ]