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SPACING BUTTONS
• Stores carrying our Pinko buttons (and a little donation) [Spacing]

CITY HALL
• Rob Ford gracious to critics at inaugural meeting [The Star]
• Ford’s executive votes to abolish car tax [National Post]
• Podcast: Of pinkos, politics and police [National Post]
• Ford turns down $15G raise [The Sun]
• Cherry cools down City Hall rhetoric [The Sun]
• Council’s lefties beg for bucks: Levy [The Sun]

TRANSPORTATION
• Customer service at TTC to be priority [The Star]
• Airport limo drivers locked out since Dec. 1 [The Star]
• Hume: Car dealerships with a touch of class [The Star]
• Toronto vehicle-registration tax closer to chopping block [Globe & Mail]
• Car tax one vote closer to scrapyard [The Sun]
• No refunds for vehicle tax [The Star]

CITY BUILDING
• Hume: Toronto’s Chief Planner “not afraid of heights” [The Star]
• City group led by John Tory announces name change to redefine focus [National Post]

G20 AFTER-MATH
• Liberals kept G20 law secret for weeks before summit [The Star]
• 14 officers identified in G20 takedown [The Star]
• DiManno: More needed than ‘glib’ answer on G20 [The Star]
• Blair’s conduct during G20 not sinister, just inept [Globe & Mail]
• Police chief one of The Untouchables [The Sun]

CRIME
• Police charge 29 people in alleged drug smuggling ring [Globe & Mail]
• New website allows users to rate Toronto cops [National Post]

CULTURE
• Queen Street diversity celebrated in new Theatre Passe Muraille project [Globe & Mail]
• The Tranzac Transcripts: Sandro Perri [Torontoist]

OTHER NEWS
• Fiorito: Raising the tension at 200 Wellesley [The Star]
• Is Parkdale about to get its own brewery? [BlogTO]