{"id":25614,"date":"2012-01-31T07:11:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T12:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=25614"},"modified":"2012-01-31T03:18:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T08:18:07","slug":"tuesdays-headlines-236","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/01\/31\/tuesdays-headlines-236\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday&#8217;s headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CITY HALL<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u2022 Toronto mayor Rob Ford hires George Christopoulos as new press secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/cityhallpolitics\/article\/1123976--toronto-mayor-rob-ford-hires-george-christopoulos-as-new-press-secretary\">[The Star]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Mayor&#8217;s new press secretary direct from Toronto police <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/toronto\/mayors-new-press-secretary-direct-from-toronto-police\/article2319874\/\">[Globe &amp; Mail]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Del Grande says he made a &#8216;mischievous&#8217; proposal to rile Toronto council&#8217;s left wing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/cityhallpolitics\/article\/1123549--mayor-rob-ford-s-budget-chief-makes-fake-housing-proposal-to-anger-left-wingers-on-toronto-council\">[The Star]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Ford brothers continue shedding weight in public bid to slim down <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/01\/30\/graphic-ford-brothers-continue-shedding-weight-in-public-bid-to-slim-down\/\">[National Post]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Facebook ban for city workers stays <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2012\/01\/30\/facebook-ban-for-city-workers-stays\">[The Sun]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 No outside workers lockout this weekend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/toronto\/no-outside-workers-lockout-this-weekend\/article2320482\/\">[Globe &amp; Mail]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>TRANSIT<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u2022 Transit City flap raises prickly question: what power does Toronto&#8217;s mayor have? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/cityhallpolitics\/article\/1123814--transit-city-flap-raises-prickly-question-what-power-does-toronto-s-mayor-have\">[The Star]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 James: Transit circus never leaves town <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/article\/1123898--james-transit-circus-never-leaves-town\">[The Star]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Karen Stintz&#8217;s bold moves on transit draw admirers &#8211; and critics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/cityhallpolitics\/article\/1123855--karen-stintz-s-bold-moves-on-transit-draw-admirers-and-critics\">[The Star]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Rob Ford: &#8216;I did what the taxpayers want&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/cityhallpolitics\/article\/1123676--rob-ford-i-did-what-the-taxpayers-want\">[The Star]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Mayor Ford to rebel councillors: voters gave me transit mandate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/toronto\/mayor-ford-to-rebel-councillors-voters-gave-me-transit-mandate\/article2319445\/\">[Globe &amp; Mail]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Transit woes reveal the limits of mayoral power <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/toronto\/marcus-gee\/transit-woes-reveal-the-limits-of-mayoral-power\/article2320475\/\">[Globe &amp; Mail]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Toronto&#8217;s transit battle: compromise possible, Stintz argues, as mayor pushes for underground and opponents push for LRT <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/01\/30\/torontos-transit-battle-compromise-possible-stintz-argues-as-mayor-pushes-for-undergroun-and-opponents-for-lrt\/\">[National Post]<br \/>\n<\/a>\u2022 Transit City is not dead, lawyers argue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowtoronto.com\/daily\/news\/story.cfm?content=184979\">[NOW]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t make sense&#8221; &#8211; a poem by Rob Ford <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegridto.com\/city\/politics\/it-doesnt-make-sense-a-found-poem\/\">[The Grid]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>OTHER NEWS<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u2022 Roof topping: the guerrilla art of photographing cities from atop skyscrapers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/article\/1123965--roof-topping-the-guerrilla-art-of-photographing-cities-from-atop-skyscrapers\">[The Star]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 New Regent Park building brings sunshine into lives of residents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/article\/1123792--new-regent-park-building-brings-sunshine-into-lives-of-residents\">[The Star]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Mississauga councillors vote themselves a 2% raise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/cityhallpolitics\/article\/1123884--mississauga-councillors-vote-themselves-a-2-raise\">[The Star]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Paint recycler threatens to stop collections at Ontario municipalities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/toronto\/paint-recycler-threatens-to-stop-collections-at-ontario-municipalities\/article2320384\/\">[Globe &amp; Mail]<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Citizen group seeks input on a new business model for Riverdale farm <a href=\"http:\/\/torontoist.com\/2012\/01\/citizen-group-seeks-input-on-a-new-business-model-for-riverdale-farm\/\">[Torontoist]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CITY HALL \u2022 Toronto mayor Rob Ford hires George Christopoulos as new press secretary [The Star] \u2022 Mayor&#8217;s new press secretary direct from Toronto police [Globe &amp; Mail] \u2022 Del Grande says he made a &#8216;mischievous&#8217; proposal to rile Toronto council&#8217;s left wing [The Star] \u2022 Ford brothers continue shedding weight in public bid to<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/01\/31\/tuesdays-headlines-236\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Tuesday&#8217;s headlines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[4657,1174,19271,2922,1969,426,79,641,19270,636,17085,227,17639,405,19,3214,1643,22090],"class_list":["post-25614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-facebook","tag-ford","tag-george-christopoulos","tag-grande","tag-karen-stintz","tag-mayor","tag-mississauga","tag-national-post","tag-new-regent-park-building","tag-ontario","tag-press-secretary","tag-rob-ford","tag-the-grid-other-news","tag-the-star","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-council","tag-toronto-police","tag-transit"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tuesday&#039;s headlines - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/01\/31\/tuesdays-headlines-236\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tuesday&#039;s headlines - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CITY HALL \u2022 Toronto mayor Rob Ford hires George Christopoulos as new press secretary [The Star] \u2022 Mayor&#8217;s new press secretary direct from Toronto police [Globe &amp; 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