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OCCUPY TORONTO
• Poll: City wants Occupy Toronto out as soon as next week [The Star]
• Man assaulted with hot soup at Occupy Toronto protest [The Star]
• Man arrested at Occupy Toronto site [Globe & Mail]
• City says days are numbered for Occupy Toronto [The Star]
• So many tickets to write, so little time [The Sun]

CITY HALL
• Layoffs coming, city manager confirms [The Star]
• Toronto city manager confirms layoffs are coming [Globe & Mail]
• Understatement of the week: rocky start to Toronto labour negotiations [National Post]
• City files complaint against CUPE local 79 [The Sun]
• Fiorito: we all bleed when the mayor cuts books [The Star]
• Cuts to blue box program urged over environmentalists’ objections [Globe & Mail]
• City should ease pollution-control safeguards on businesses: Toronto Water [National Post]
• Panhandling tickets skyrocket in Toronto since Safe Street Act [Globe & Mail]
• Levy: press freedom for all at city hall [The Sun]

TRANSIT
• Is it time to mobilize the masses for mobility? [The Star]
• Toronto talks mobility infrastructure [Torontoist]
• Touring the new addition to the TTC’s fleet [National Post]
• A sneak peak at the city’s new streetcars [NOW]
• Six cool things about the city’s new streetcars [The Grid]
• Government rejects calls for law ending York transit strike [The Star]
• York transit strike: Tory MPPs call for back-to-work legislation [National Post]
• TTC death threats get Toronto man 45 days in jail [The Star]

TRAFFIC
• Solving Toronto’s traffic woes [National Post]
• Man charged in violent driver cyclist incident [The Star]
• Road salting done too late, negligence appeal told [The Star]

OTHER NEWS
• The Toronto highrise-construction map [The Grid]
• Four reasons why we wouldn’t miss the OMB [The Grid]
• Westerners give Toronto a big thumbs down [The Star]
• Air and Space museum prepares for final ‘Last Post’ [Globe & Mail]