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Wednesday’s headlines

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CITY HALL
• Bag fee could be kept alive by council [The Sun]
• Councillors moving into their new office “palaces” [The Sun]
• Councillor wants update on city’s ice time policy [The Sun]

TRANSIT
• The downtown relief line already exists: Markham councillor [Globe & Mail]

REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT
• Toronto office market poised for new boom [National Post]
• Toronto lifts Canadian homes sales, Vancouver drags [Reuters]
• Dozens of Beach-area residents rally against planned condo [National Post]

CASINO
• Toronto casino debate to resume in the fall [CBC]
• Tanenbaum to make bid for Toronto casino [Globe & Mail]

G20
• Byron Sonne walks free, but the G20 forever changed his life [The Star]
• Judge acquits G20 activist Byron Sonne of bomb-making charges [Globe & Mail]
• Sonnce case another black eye for G20 [The Sun]
• Byron Sonne not guilty on charges he plotted to attack 2010 G20 summit in Toronto [National Post]

OTHER NEWS
• Jewish restaurant United Bakers celebrates 100 years; still family-run [National Post]
• Charities, non-profits protest Toronto’s new garbage pickup fees [The Star]

One comment

  1. The beach condo saga is a vivid example of why OMB is a necessary evil. Without it do you think the local politicians can stand up to the NIMBYs?