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ELECTION AFTER-MATH
• Levy: Cuts come slowly at City Hall [The Sun]

TRANSIT
• Ford urged to keep light-rail plan [The Star]
• No time to convert air-rail train to electric by 2015 [The Star]
• Rail link to Pearson won’t be electric by Pan Am Games [Globe & Mail]
• Metrolinx defends decision to buy diesel trains for rail link to Pearson [Globe & Mail]
• Electrifying Pearson rail link by 2015 ‘can’t be done’: Metrolinx [National Post]
• How to build a rail link to Pearson [National Post]
• Urban Scrawl: How Ford can get TTC back on track [National Post]

AIRPORTS
• The ‘Israelification’ of Airports: High security, little bother [The Star]
• Environmental assessment okays airport tunnel [The Star]
• Proposed island airport tunnel clears a hurdle [Globe & Mail]
• Island airport tunnel fight heats up [The Sun]

NEIGHBOURHOODS
• Critics: Fix retirement home mess [The Star]
• Is Regent Park revitalization crumbling? [Globe & Mail]
• New doc looks at life from Parkdale to Sao Paulo [BlogTO]
• Toronto neighbourhoods mapped via word clouds [BlogTO]

CULTURE
• Showering a swan in glitter crystals a painstaking job [The Star]
• Bowling 2.0: gastropub, microbrews and a hip, downtown location [The Star]
• Toronto gets its very own Twitter trending topics [The Star]
• The Fixer: Storm drain a grease pit for restaurant waste [The Star]
• O Canada, Lake Shore is the vilest form of flattery [Globe & Mail]
• Nathan Phillips skating rink set for late-November opening: city [National Post]
• My Toronto: Ron James [National Post]
• 65 characters from Toronto graffiti artists [BlogTO]

OTHER NEWS
• Local motion charges forward [Torontoist]
• So how did Seoul’s G20 go? [Torontoist]

8 comments

  1. Re: Is Regent Park revitalization crumbling? [Globe & Mail]

    This article is surprisingly poor. It does not seem to acknowledge that the “new” Regent Park neighbourhood will be mixed income, or that it’s being redeveloped in stages.

  2. Re: Bowling 2.0: gastropub, microbrews and a hip, downtown location [The Star]

    Glad to see Toronto’s getting a hip bowling alley! There are 2 really well done retro alleys in London UK (c.f. one in the Truman Brewery off Brick lane). They’re great venues for parties and bear little resemblance to the dilapitated, suburban/exurban bowling alley relics in Toronto now. Similar concept maybe, but far superior vibe. Caveat: they’re not cheap, but it pricing keeps out the riff-raff.

  3. Just read Sue-Anne Levy’s column. 

    My mind explodes.

  4. The Fixer’s story reminds me of this profile of London sewer’s ‘Flushers’: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1560485.ece

    **Once flushers had to clear a 150ft (45m) slug of hardened fat from under Leicester Square, using pickaxes. It took them eight weeks. “It has a smell all its own, this wall of rotting fat, generating heat and midge flies. Then mix it up with sewage, contraceptives, nappies, it turns your stomach.” **

  5. @ OT

    “Just read Sue-Anne Levy’s column…”

    There’s your first problem. As I said the other day, would it hurt Spacing to mention articles but remove the link to them if they don’t even meet internet troll levels of intelligence?

  6. Ironically, I can’t find out how dumb Sue-Ann Levy’s column is without giving her the webpage hits that raise her standing at the Sun. Margaret Wente presents the same dilemma.

  7. Best part about the Levy article:

    “Fiefdoms in the public health department to plan for a pandemic, mop their brows about bed bugs and put out ridiculous studies about how smog will kill you.”