CITY HALL
• Trimming ‘300 pounds of fun’ – it’s diet time in the Ford household [The Star]
• Ford brothers hit the scale for weight-loss challenge [The Sun]
• Motion calls for Mayor Rob Ford to testify under oath at appeal audit [Globe & Mail]
• Mike Del Grande? Don’t quote me [The Star]
• Rob Ford ready for a fight [The Sun]
• Rob Ford is right not to rely on unpredictable windfalls [Globe & Mail]
• Mayor’s team scrambles as moment of truth approaches [Globe & Mail]
• Protest pays off on the city budget [The Grid]
• Toronto’s first city-owned rink in 40 years: A Leaside success story [National Post]
LABOUR DISPUTE
• Toronto paramedics fear effects of city lockout [The Star]
• Toronto city workers offer to accept three-year pay freeze [The Star]
• Toronto union’s ‘Dr. No’ says yes to wage freeze for thousands of outside workers [Globe & Mail]
• City union extends olive branch [NOW]
DEVELOPMENT
• Border cities decry proposal to open casino in Toronto [Globe & Mail]
• From garbage to greenery: revitalizing Toronto’s downtown laneways [Globe & Mail]
• Scenes from Melbourne’s inspirational laneways [Globe & Mail]
OTHER NEWS
• Hume: the middle class isn’t disappearing, it’s moving [The Star]
• The most exciting city in Canada? Toronto, of course! [National Post]
• Library aims to attract hip, bookish under-40 set [National Post]
• Toronto’s caring heart defies the cold [The Sun]