CITY COUNCIL
• User fee hikes could raise cost of fun and fidelity [The Star]
• Toronto poised to hike recreation fees to find $23-million [Globe & Mail]
• City may eliminate pet licensing program [National Post]
• City announces proposed user fee increases [National Post]
• City considers partners in ice arenas [The Sun]
• How’s Rob Ford doing on Twitter (and does it matter)? [BlogTO]
GTA POLITICS
• Councillor calls leaked memo ‘frightening’ [The Star]
• Matt Gurney: Mississauga’s embarrassment not meddling media’s fault [National Post]
TRANSIT
• Hume: The sudden importance of language in city politics [The Star]
• Adam Giambrone’s Gravy Plane: Levy [The Sun]
POLICE & CRIME
• SIU clears officers in fatal takedown of 18-year-old [The Star]
• Funeral for slain officer to be held Tuesday [Globe & Mail]
• Amid graduation celebration, a sobering reminder for new police officers [Globe & Mail]
• Owner of stolen snowplow haunted by officer’s death [Globe & Mail]
TARGET
• Target to open more than 100 Canadian stores [The Star]
• The cachet of Tar-zhay [The Star]
• Zellers deal all about real estate [The Star]
• Target in Canada… finally [National Post]
• What Target can do with Zellers [National Post]
• Vote for a Target in your neighbourhood [National Post]
• Zellers era drawing to a close [Globe & Mail]
• With Target, Canada’s retail landscape set for massive makeover [Globe & Mail]
• ‘Target knows what they are’ [Globe & Mail]
• Introducing Zellers [Torontoist]
STREETSCAPE
• Erasing graffiti [The Sun]
• Sizing up Toronto’s ethnic enclaves [OpenFile]
• The Great Torontoist Pun Hunt: Downtown North [Torontoist]
BUILDING
• New Brampton temple first for Kerala Hindus [The Star]
• Pan Am games may need $47M more [The Sun]
• An update on the Maple Leaf Gardens construction [BlogTO]
OTHER NEWS
• Tougher condo mortgage laws may be on the way [National Post]
• Flu hitting GTA hardest; province urges people to get vaccinated [Globe & Mail]
• Power outage affects 1,000 in central Toronto [National Post]
• ROM Secrets Revealed [Torontoist]
• Which Toronto taxi company has the best service? [BlogTO]
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In this Toronto Sun article “Homicide cops can’t figure out motive
“: http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2011/01/13/16878111.html , the accused is described this way:
“The separated father of two charged in the murder of a Toronto Police sergeant remains an enigma for homicide investigators.
The bicycle-riding Richard Esber Kachkar, 44, formerly of St. Catharines, was a tool and die maker.
“
Peanut: I noticed that “bicycle-riding” comment in today’s 24h too. Absolutely no relevence, except maybe trying to hint that he’s a weirdo for riding a bike?
I wonder if we’ll ever see anything like this in newspaper articles: “The car-driving Colonel Russel Williams…..”
Star had an editorial regarding regional cooperation, something desperately needed across the GTA and the lack of which is the root cause of much of what ails us. Here’s the link
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/921639–regional-co-operation-set-aside-toxic-local-rivalries
Does he do anything else? I mean could they replace “bicycle riding’ with ‘the cupcake enjoying’
Love this from the Sun:
New TTC Chairman Karen Stintz said she has already indicated to Chief General Manager Gary Webster that she has no intention of travelling to two transit conferences coming up in San Francisco and Dubai in the next few months — and he should remove any kind of travel stipend for her from the TTC budget.
That’s right, Karen. Be totally proud of the fact that you have no interest in learning about your job from other experts around the world, or sharing your knowledge with them. I mean, we already have all the answers already, right?