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CITY HALL<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Ford scores early victories on TTC, vehicle tax, council budgets [The Star<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Free cookies, pizza for councillors \u2014 courtesy of Ford [The Star<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Fiorito: How the Ford brothers run this town [The Star<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Ford basks in a day of triumph [Globe & Mail<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Say cheese! Toronto council plays nice at class photo shoot [Globe & Mail<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Chris Selley: Mayor Ford\u2019s late-year birthday tax [National Post<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Council\u2019s new video mostly pays tribute to the \u2018burbs [National Post<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Podcast: City council gets down to business [National Post<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Sandwich debate ‘ridiculous’: Councillor [The Sun<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Ford plays Santa to taxpayers [The Sun<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Council gives up Rogers Centre private box [The Sun<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Levy: Ford unravels Miller’s tax-spend legacy [The Sun<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Rob Ford feels the love and hate in snoetry [BlogTO<\/a>]<\/p>\n

TRANSIT<\/strong>
\n\u2022 17 sent to hospital after bus, streetcar collide [The Star<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Streetcar and bus collide in city’s east end, as many as 18 injured [Globe & Mail<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Ford\u2019s council votes TTC essential [National Post<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Greyhound bus and streetcar collide, sending several passengers to hospital [National Post<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Council votes to make TTC essential service [The Sun<\/a>]
\n\u2022 The TTC font gets the poster treatment [BlogTO<\/a>]<\/p>\n

DRIVING<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Toronto\u2019s traffic as bad as ours, says Tehran delegation [The Star<\/a>]
\n\u2022 James: Hated car tax is desperately needed [The Star<\/a>]
\n\u2022 He killed the car tax and he liked it [Globe & Mail<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Council votes to cancel car registration tax on Jan. 1 [National Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\u2022 Chris Selley: An obnoxiously unfair end to the vehicle registration tax [National Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\u2022 Levy: Decision day for the city’s vehicle tax [The Sun<\/a>]<\/p>\n

CITY BUILDING<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Sports executives repair Trinity-Bellwoods rink [The Star<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Inside Salad King’s New, Under-Construction Home\u00a0[Torontoist]<\/a><\/p>\n

OTHER NEWS<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Who is the mysterious Andrew pasted around Toronto? [BlogTO<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Heroes and Villains 2010: Villains: Thought Crimes [Torontoist]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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