CITY COUNCIL
• Council’s bid for peek at secret data: $250,000 and counting [The Star]
• James: Does Ford have secret plan to sell social housing? [The Star]
• Why Toronto should welcome an organized voice for the right [Globe & Mail]
• Against lawyer’s advice, city council spent over $250,000 on legal fees [Globe & Mail]
TRANSIT
• Ford’s transit plan shortchanges suburbs, critics charge [The Star]
• Ford transit plan would serve less than half as many commuters as old plan: report [Globe & Mail]
• Ford’s office denies mayor ordered cellphone crackdown on TTC drivers [Globe & Mail]
• Kinnear accuses officials of overreacting on TTC cellphone use [National Post]
• Stintz defends TTC cellphone rules [National Post]
• Chris Selley: The next train to the airport? That could take a while [National Post]
• Firing TTC driver just plain mean [The Sun]
• TTC to make GPS data on buses available in April [BlogTO]
STREETS
• The Fixer: Signs overhead dangling by a thread [The Star]
• Targets balk at graffiti cleanup costs [National Post]
• Photos: Toronto graffiti crackdown [National Post]
• Rob Ford’s graffiti crackdown doesn’t end with Queen West [OpenFile]
• Toronto’s empty storefronts a tough sell [OpenFile]
HOUSING
• Mammoliti: I was a ‘responsible’ TCHC board member [The Star]
• Tenants launch campaign to ‘save social housing’ [The Star]
• Ootes recommended as interim TCHC leader [The Star]
• James: Mayor’s musings muddy clear-cut housing issue [The Star]
• Tenants angered by Ford’s comments on privatizing social housing [Globe & Mail]
• Ford seeks to replace TCHC board with Case Ootes [Globe & Mail]
• Some TCHC board members refuse to quit [The Sun]
• Levy: TCHC questioned about investment losses in 2009 [The Sun]
OTHER NEWS
• Striding in style [The Star]
• Ontario francophone board says it is being blocked from buying school [Globe & Mail]
•Peter Kuitenbrouwer: City’s Francophony flexing muscles over schools [National Post]
• Prisoners’ Portraits Show Another Side of the G20 [Torontoist]
4 comments
I’ve been really impressed by OpenFile. Unlike the mainstream media which relies on other people’s reports and anecdotes they do a modest amount to research.
Like for the TCHC spending they actually investigated if their Christmas parties where extravagant (they weren’t) and the looked into if there really was an increase in graffiti enforcement (there is).
Open file missed the impact of property taxes in the increasing amount of empty store fronts.
Re: “Why Toronto should welcome an organized voice for the right” — that link should be attributed to the Globe and Mail.
Re: “Chris Selley: The next train to the airport? That could take a while” — that link should be attributed to the National Post.
Apologies for the mixup, and thanks, Alasdair – fixed.