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RIVERDALE FARM
• Riverdale Farm handed funding lifeline from executive committee [Toronto Star]
• Riverdale Farm won’t be put out to pasture [Toronto Sun]
• Riverdale Farm Reprieve [Torontoist]
• Ford loses a battle for budget cuts at his own Executive Committee; Riverdale Farm saved [Open File]
• Committee backs plan to keep funding Toronto’s Riverdale Farm [Globe & Mail]
• Riverdale Farm one step closer to securing public funds to stay open, despite budget chief’s protestations [National Post]

TRANSIT
• TTC: Woman, 82, gravely injured after being struck by bus on Ossington [Toronto Star]
• TTC seeks a few good directors [Toronto Star]
• The Fixer: Drivers, pedestrians can’t see eye to eye at Jarvis and Gerrard [Toronto Star]
• VIA Rail to begin charging for parking [Toronto Star]
• Streetcars service interrupted by falling concrete [Toronto Sun]
• VIA introduces pay parking; customers “threaten” to do exactly what VIA wants [Open File]

TCHC
• Housing Minister Kathleen Wynne defers sale of 65 Toronto Community Housing homes [Toronto Star]
• Rob Ford finds the province isn’t out to do him any favours: TCHC edition [Open File]
• Ford invites McGuinty to inspect city-owned housing [Globe & Mail]

CITY HALL
Ford proposes ‘summit’ on city’s fishing rules [Toronto Sun]
• Councillors’ office budget rules changing [Toronto Sun]
• Ford goes over Wynne’s head on TCHC sale [Toronto Sun]
• Vaughan proposes guns and ammo ban for Toronto [Toronto Sun]
• Spotted: Doug Ford’s Website Hacked [Torontoist]
• Adam Vaughan calls for Toronto bullet ban [National Post]

EURO 2012
• Toronto’s Greek fans stand by their team [Toronto Sun]
• Polish eateries in Toronto go nuts for Euro 2012 [National Post]

BUILD TORONTO
• Silly Build Toronto bonuses [Toronto Sun]
• Build Toronto execs under fire [Toronto Sun]
 ‘Generous’ bonuses for Build Toronto executives under scrutiny [National Post]

OTHER NEWS
• Holiday shopping in Toronto: City wants to hear your opinions [Toronto Star]
• City wants to talk about extending holiday shopping, now that nobody’s running for anything [Open File]
• Rich-poor divide in Toronto’s hospitals [Toronto Star]
• Bay, Adelaide office tower brings work space to condo-heavy downtown [Toronto Star]
• Jewish group asks Pride to ban Queers Against Israeli Apartheid [Toronto Star]
• U of T food service workers seeking better wages and benefits [Toronto Star]
• Joe Fiorito: Cover-less canopy at 200 Wellesley is accident waiting to happen [Toronto Star]
• Kensington’s “chains-last” policy continues: Sanagan’s to move into European Meats space [Open File]
• City planners now love plan for 47 storey building they rejected at 39 storeys [National Post]
• Is Toronto’s housing market cooling, bubbling, bursting or booming? [National Post]