CITY COUNCIL
• Ford defends meeting with impresario involved in ‘fraud’ at SARS event [The Star]
• James: Holyday deserves cash for taking on city council, but not from taxpayers [The Star]
• Porter: Thank you, Giorgio Mammoliti, for livening up city hall [The Star]
• In Ford Nation, everything’s a state secret [Globe & Mail]
• Rob Ford took donations, had dinner with businessman linked to corruption probe [Globe & Mail]
• Matt Gurney: Optics lousy in Holyday lawsuit [National Post]
• Naked ambition [Now Weekly]
• Ford nets Followers one fish at a time [Now Weekly]
• Operation Ford [Now Weekly]
• Ford’s orbit [Now Weekly]
TRANSIT
• Ontario bans strikes by the TTC [The Star]
• Losers in the new transit plan: Finch bus riders [The Star]
• Queen’s Park and city have a $12.4B TTC deal [The Star]
• Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s transit plan wins provincial approval [Globe & Mail]
• TTC declared essential service, union chief says won’t be ‘bullied’ by Toronto [Globe & Mail]
• City and province set to announce replacement to Transit City [National Post]
• TTC union talks tough [The Sun]
• TTC Contemplating Selling Station, Subway-Line Naming Rights [Torontoist]
STREETSCAPE
• Rob Ford remakes the Makeover [National Post]
• Graffiti wipeout announced by Ford [The Sun]
• What would Jane Jacobs do? [Eye Weekly]
GTA POLITICS
• Brock council has 2 months to decide how to replace mayor [The Star]
• Law expert slams ‘vague’ conduct code for Brampton councillors [The Star]
OTHER NEWS
• The Fixer: Improper parking in free lot upsets park user [The Star]
• TDSB withdraws plans for Africentric high school [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto ranked 88th best city to live in Canada (WTF?) [BlogTO]
• Benjamin Boles on walking with the sluts [Now Weekly]
4 comments
Do we know if the eglinton line will continue west of black creek on the surface to the airport as previously planned?
re: What would Jane Jacobs do?
This one is right on. Miller’s term would have been much more successful had he understood that often government can achieve more by doing less, by getting out of the way. Unfortunately we have to discover this quality on somebody who has little interest and understanding in urban agenda.
What a horrible outcome. Yes, the Eglinton and Scarborough lines will be built (bravo), but Sheppard will not (I can not imagine THIS mayor willing to fund over $4 billion in transit expansion). Before the Mayor’s office messed this up, the province was paying for the Eglinton line, a Sheppard line, a Finch line, and a Scarborough line. We are now getting half the transit and the province is off the hook for the rest. Never could I ever imagined such Incompetence from a Toronto mayor!
Maybe Mayor Ford can get his new “Clean Toronto Together” decals for Toronto’s garbage trucks printed at his father’s company for a deal!