CITY HALL
• Councillor on mayor’s executive asks for cuts to police budget [Globe & Mail]
• City identifies zoos, pools slated for closure, rinks that face reduced ice time [Globe & Mail]
• Proposed 10-per-cent cut would cost Toronto Arts Council $1-million [Globe & Mail]
• Councillor leads charge to save home for at-risk women [The Star]
• Doug Ford suggests schools explore UFC-linked program [The Star]
• Should libraries be in the video business? [The Star]
• The rookie councillors: a year later, the lessons learned [Globe & Mail]
• Grading Rob Ford [National Post]
• Mayor ready to talk to unions about park cleanup [The Sun]
• Is city council learning to play nice? [Torontoist]
TRANSIT & TRAFFIC
• Pan Am-only lanes will slow your commute [The Star]
• York region won’t intervene in YRT strike [National Post]
HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT
• Fiorito: they dream of ordinary lives [The Star]
• Mississauga to draft waterfront development plan [Globe & Mail]
• Developer, Nestlé at odds over west end industrial land [Globe & Mail]
• Danforth music hall back from the dead [The Grid]
FORD VS. THE STAR
• Mayor Ford’s freeze-out of Toronto Star has little precedent [Globe & Mail]
• Mayor Rob Ford versus the Star [The Star]
• Toronto Star vs. Rob Ford: top 10 reader comments [The Star]
• It’s time for Mayor Ford to disseminate information without discrimination even to the Toronto Star [National Post]
OTHER NEWS
• Blaming city hall for parks problems is barking up the wrong tree [Globe & Mail]
• Hume: urban pioneers and city settlers [The Star]
• Disabled community left in the cold [The Star]
• Battle on the boardwalk [The Sun]
• Occupy Toronto myths [NOW]
• Spice City Toronto: the city’s most diverse food court [Torontoist]