CITY COUNCIL
• Council asked to give up cost of living increase [The Star]
• Some Toronto bureaucrats selfish, ombudsman says [The Star]
• Defiant library board votes to save Urban Affairs branch [The Star]
• Toronto councillors should reject raise, budget chief says [Globe & Mail]
• Watchdog knocks Toronto for keeping customer-service policy under wraps [Globe & Mail]
• Snow Day for councillors? [The Sun]
• Waste not [Now Weekly]
TRANSIT
• TTC moves ahead on east-end streetcar garage [The Star]
• James: TTC brass pushed-pulled by political masters [The Star]
• Porter: Two subway stop battles, two different strategies [The Star]
• TTC going ahead with bus-service cuts [Globe & Mail]
• TTC votes in Ashbridge Bay facility, votes out ‘under-performing’ routes [National Post]
• TTC working to “unravel” deal for new headquarters: Stintz [National Post]
• TTC moving ahead with new facility in Leslieville [National Post]
• TTC old guard wins fight over streetcar garage [The Sun]
• Our Fare Lady: Q&A with Karen Stinz, the newly appointed TTC chair [Toronto Life]
• Giambrone: TTC takeover a no go [Now Weekly]
SNOW STORM
• Inside the storm: The city’s snow man [The Star]
• For kids and those light of heart, a gift of a day [The Star]
• What happened to Toronto’s ‘Snow-mageddon’? [The Star]
• Fiorito: You call that a storm? [The Star]
• Off-piste in Hogtown: a ski commute without snow [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto school boards accused of overreacting to snowpocalypse [Globe & Mail]
• Chris Selley: Snow day a once in 12 years occurrence [National Post]
• Storm challenges commuters [The Sun]
BUILDING
• Sally Ann has other plans for building city rejected [The Sun]
• City boosts development fees [The Sun]
• A history of fire at 200 Wellesley [OpenFile]
• In the stacks: Revitalizing the Toronto Reference Library [Eye Weekly]
HOUSING & NEIGHBOURHOODS
• New Data Bank is a fascinating portrait of GTA housing [BlogTO]
• What ails Little India? [BlogTO]
• The coolest graves in Mount Pleasant Cemetery [Eye Weekly]
CITY ATTRACTIONS
• City aquarium project nears final approval [The Star]
• Skate Across Toronto: The best $9.99 the National Post ever spent [National Post]
• The Loners Guide to Toronto [Eye Weekly]
CITY IDENTITY
• The unaffordable city: how did Toronto get so !@#$%&* expensive [Toronto Life]
• Retail politics: Branding Toronto [Eye Weekly]
CYCLING
• A winter-cycling primer [Eye Weekly]
• The Fixer: Broken-down bikes hinder access for disabled [The Star]
POLICE & CRIME
• DiManno: Charged G20 officer stands alone [The Star]
• Police officer charged with second assault at G20 [The Star]
2 comments
Sue-Anny Levy’s anti-transit (read: anti-Toronto) rants, and the comments her idiot supporters leave on the Sun’s website, make me so mad that I have to talk weather as a distraction….
So, re: snow hysteria: Anyone who things that was an overreaction should check out the images from Chicago. Had the winds gone a different way, you could have had 900 cars stuck on Lake Shore Blvd instead of Lake Shore Drive. Seriously, look at these photos:
http://bit.ly/iazbLH
Re:TTC going ahead with bus-service cuts [Globe & Mail]
Anyone else amused by Miller gadfly Minnan-Wong’s terseness? What goes around comes around, Denzil.