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CITY COUNCIL
• City managers due for a raise [The Star]
• Settlement groups mount campaign to restore funding [The Star]
• Urban Affairs library back on the chopping block [The Star]
• City postpones green rooftop requirement [Globe & Mail]
• Why I won’t buy The Little Book of Rob Ford [BlogTO]

ELECTION AFTER-MATH
• Dining for dollars: ‘Harmony Dinner’ helps retire debts [The Star]
• Mayoral fundraiser ‘right thing to do’: Smitherman [National Post]
• Dinner for mayoral candidates raises $1-million [Globe & Mail]

GTA POLITICS
• City lawyer rips McCallion for ‘unbecoming’ actions [The Star]
• James: Hazel’s legacy on thin ice at inquiry [The Star]

TRANSIT
• TTC driver caught texting while driving [The Star]
• Hume: Toronto, the once and future city [The Star]
• Fiorito: Hiding in the back of the bus [The Star]
• TTC to make route decisions Wednesday [The Sun]
• Texting TTC driver caught in photo [The Sun]
• Video shows terror of texting [The Sun]

HOUSING & NEIGHBOURHOODS
• Go ahead, park as many cars as will fit [The Star]
• ‘Don’t wake up the neighbours:’ Councillor Vaughan to frat [Globe & Mail]
• No restrictions on number of cars in a driveway [Globe & Mail]
• City parking: A primer [National Post]
• Frat parties ‘terrorizing’ the Annex, councillor says [National Post]

ROADS
• Crackdown on cycle-paths: Levy [The Sun]
• Why Toronto scrambles the way we do [OpenFile]

CRIME & POLICE
• SIU reopens third G20 case [The Star]
• Accused in snowplow death of Toronto police officer remanded [Globe & Mail]
• SIU re-opens third case of alleged G20 police brutality [Globe & Mail]
• City assures residents: ‘You can park in your driveway’ [National Post]
• Toronto in brief: From a drug bust to a high-speed chase [National Post]

CITY IDENTITY
• Toronto’s finally a world class city [The Star]
• Give Toronto a new nickname… [Eye Weekly]
• Toronto’s literary history gets a worthy survey [BlogTO]
• How to research the history of your house or apartment [BlogTO]

OTHER NEWS
• Podcast: On budget hell, transit heaven and frat boys [National Post]

2 comments

  1. I first thought that Levy’s column was calling for a crack down on cars in bike lanes! Cracking down on “cycle-paths” is much less surprising from her than a call for clearing motorists from actual bike paths.