CITY COUNCIL
• Citizens give Ford an earful at consultation meetings [The Star]
• Holyday envisions gradual garbage privatization [The Star]
• A litany of beefs and pleas [The Star]
• Divide-and-conquer? Citizens know better [The Star]
• More private trash collection — coalition [The Sun]
• Balancing Act: The Tenant Defence Fund [Torontoist]
GTA POLITICS
• Oshawa council rejects byelection to fill vacant seat [The Star]
• ‘Open the books’ Brampton councillor tells mayor [The Star]
• Leak probe sparks new debate [The Star]
• Mississauga councillors safe from IT investigation into source of leaked memos [National Post]
TRANSIT
TTC…
• TTC to hold meetings on bus cuts [The Star]
• TTC to consult with public over proposed bus route cutbacks [National Post]
• TTC workers told to be on alert [The Sun]
• TTC holds public hearings on cuts [The Sun]
• Malvern keeps waiting for transit [OpenFile]
Metrolinx report…
• Electrify Georgetown and Lakeshore GO line, says report [The Star]
• Electrify GO Transit’s busiest corridors, Metrolinx report urges [Globe & Mail]
• Another transit fantasy – and this one is electric [Globe & Mail]
• Metrolinx recommends electrifying GO trains [National Post]
• Full electric GO Train system costly: Metrolinx [The Sun]
SIDEWALKS
• The Fixer: Sidewalk snowed under near Scarborough Town Centre [The Star]
• Stintz looking to halt sidewalk cyclers [The Sun]
CITY SITES
• Toronto eyes partnering with private firms to build public rinks [Globe & Mail]
• A winning street design that won’t be built [National Post]
• What It Is And What It Should Be: Exhibition Grounds [Torontoist]
• Show’s over for the Westwood Theatre [OpenFile]
POLICE
• Why millions of dollars in rewards go unclaimed [The Star]
• Having rights not the same as being right [The Sun]
• First tragedy, then spectacle [Now Weekly]
OTHER NEWS
• Steering young women away from lure of gang lifestyle [The Star]
• Reel Toronto: Music Videos of the 1980s [Torontoist]
• Groupon: worth the indignity? [Now Weekly]
• Gone to pot: the story behind Toronto’s $100-million marijuana economy [Toronto Life]
One comment
In Citizens give Ford an earful at consultation meetings, it says, “Ford sat silently without looking at the speakers.”
This sounds similar to what he did when he was being criticized during debates: “In a reflexive move I would see Ford repeat countless times, he stiffened, leaned his shoulders and head back and effected what I can only call a 100-yard stare. It was like he was steeling himself to the attack, and it worked.”
That sounds like the kind of thing he would learn in anger management class to keep his temper in check. That all well and good, but as a politician he needs to be able to deal with criticism is a rational way, not be skilled at ignoring it.