TRANSIT
• Six ways to improve the Allen [The Grid]
• James Pasternak’s musing on TTC citizen members is alienating one of the better candidates [Open File]
• Exec committee asks staff to work with Metrolinx and other GTA cities on transit funding [Open File]
• Two pedestrians in hospital after being hit by TTC buses in separate crashes [Globe & Mail]
• All options open on funding transit [National Post]
• TTC joins with Ryerson to study customer complaints [Toronto Sun]
• Removal of Jarvis St. bike lanes still on track [Toronto Sun]
• Road tolls possibility still on the table [Toronto Sun]
TCHC
• Our fickle overlords: Queen’s Park changes mind on TCHC sales [Open File]
• Toronto gets green light to sell public housing [Globe & Mail]
• Minister gives green light to sell 65 TCHC-owned houses [National Post]
• Ford gets Wynne’s approval for TCHC homes sale [Toronto Sun]
PLASTIC BAGS
• The (somewhat) great plastic-bag debate of 2012 [The Grid]
• City wastes breath on bags and Olympic bids [NOW]
• The plastic bag ban: petulance, or democracy, in action? [Open File]
• More than half of Canadians think banning sale of plastic bags a good idea: poll [National Post]
• Taxpayers left holding the plastic bag [Toronto Sun]
GUNS AND AMMO BAN
• Chris Selley: A full-on Toronto gun ban is a lazy, symbolic fix [National Post]
• Solution to gun violence not found in a ban [Toronto Sun]
• Guns and ammo ban a ‘knee-jerk’ reaction [Toronto Sun]
• Vaughan doesn’t back down from guns and ammo ban [Toronto Sun]
• Push to ban bullets in Toronto ‘misdirected’: Toews [Toronto Sun]
SCHOOLS
• Toronto school trustees struggle with budget cuts [Toronto Star]
• Toronto’s school roofs are about to get greener [Open File]
OTHER NEWS
• Rent-free store gives entrepreneurs-in-the-making a boost [Toronto Star]
• Super Mario 8-bit video game meets TTC subway map [Toronto Star]
• Glass falls from 25th floor of Simcoe Street condo building [Toronto Star]
• The Fixer: An ill wind blows through Earl Bales Park [Toronto Star]
• Steal This Idea: Desire Lines [The Grid]
• Take on tagging [NOW]
• Sizing up Rob Ford’s land grab [NOW]
• How clean are Toronto’s outdoor pools? [Open File]
• Blaze breaks out on Toronto hospital roof [Globe & Mail]
• Mississauga councillors call for leak investigation after National Post story on $200M lawsuit [National Post]
• Mississauga staff fails to notify city of $200-million suit [National Post]