{"id":28972,"date":"2012-04-27T07:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T11:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=28972"},"modified":"2012-04-27T01:09:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T05:09:55","slug":"fridays-headlines-244","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/04\/27\/fridays-headlines-244\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday&#8217;s headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CITY HALL<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Councillor rallies support for double-edged subway relief plan [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/cityhallpolitics\/article\/1168829--councillor-rallies-support-for-double-edged-subway-relief-plan\">The Star<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Rookie councillor to put road tolls, regional sales tax before council [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/toronto\/rookie-councillor-to-put-road-tolls-regional-sales-tax-before-council\/article2414189\/\">Globe &amp; Mail<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Toronto council centrists not ready to pitch agenda to Mayor Rob Ford [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/article\/1169050--toronto-council-mighty-middle-centrists-not-ready-to-pitch-agenda-to-mayor-rob-ford\">The Star<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 \u2018Mighty Middle\u2019 take first step to organize [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/toronto\/mighty-middle-take-first-step-to-organize\/article2415545\/\">Globe &amp; Mail<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Nine councillors explore &#8216;middle&#8217; ground [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2012\/04\/26\/nine-councillors-explore-middle-ground\">The Sun<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Hume: We don\u2019t need Danielle Smith in Toronto; we already have Ford [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/article\/1168832--hume-good-thing-danielle-smith-wasn-t-running-in-toronto-we-already-have-rob-ford\">The Star<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Budget battle on the horizon\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2012\/04\/26\/budget-battle-on-the-horizon\">The Sun<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Del Grande to propose wage freeze for city workers making more than\u00a0$200K [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/04\/26\/mike-del-grande-to-propose-wage-freeze-for-city-workers-making-more-than-200k\/\">National Post<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Budget chief wants to freeze pay of city\u2019s top earners [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/toronto\/budget-chief-wants-to-freeze-pay-of-citys-top-earners\/article2415285\/\">Globe &amp; Mail<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Spare cash enough to keep pools open in Toronto [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/toronto\/spare-cash-enough-to-keep-pools-open-in-toronto\/article2414434\/\">Globe &amp; Mail<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRANSIT<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 No more backtracking on LRT [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowtoronto.com\/news\/story.cfm?content=186390\">NOW<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 TTC union worried by errant members [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2012\/04\/26\/ttc-union-worried-by-errant-members\">The Sun<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 How T.O. make the news as a TTC\u00a0driver [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/04\/26\/how-t-o-make-the-news-as-a-ttc-driver\/\">National Post<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Number of transit delays in Toronto out of context:\u00a0TTC [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/04\/26\/number-of-transit-delays-in-toronto-out-of-context-ttc\/\">National Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>MARKHAM ARENA<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Markham council approves massive arena [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/article\/1169089--markham-council-approves-massive-arena\">The Star<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Markham mega-arena inching closer [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2012\/04\/26\/markham-mega-arena-inching-closer\">The Sun<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>OTHER NEWS<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Advocates get good news on new Rouge national park [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/toronto\/advocates-get-good-news-on-new-rouge-national-park\/article2415527\/\">Globe &amp; Mail<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Toronto\u2019s tree canopy could use your\u00a0help [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/04\/26\/torontos-tree-canopy-could-use-your-help\/\">National Post<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Keenan: Toronto\u2019s trendy new shopping district [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegridto.com\/city\/politics\/torontos-trendy-new-shopping-district\/\">The Grid<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Toronto trash mashup [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowtoronto.com\/news\/story.cfm?content=186397\">NOW<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CITY HALL \u2022 Councillor rallies support for double-edged subway relief plan [The Star] \u2022 Rookie councillor to put road tolls, regional sales tax before council [Globe &amp; Mail] \u2022 Toronto council centrists not ready to pitch agenda to Mayor Rob Ford [The Star] \u2022 \u2018Mighty Middle\u2019 take first step to organize [Globe &amp; Mail] \u2022<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/04\/27\/fridays-headlines-244\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Friday&#8217;s headlines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4109,"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":[408,19926,1174,2922,1827,19927,15038,426,641,227,16546,405,15979,19,3214,2378,391],"class_list":["post-28972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-councillor","tag-danielle-smith","tag-ford","tag-grande","tag-markham","tag-markham-arena","tag-markham-council","tag-mayor","tag-national-post","tag-rob-ford","tag-rookie-councillor","tag-the-star","tag-the-sun-other-news","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-council","tag-ttc-driver","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Friday&#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\/04\/27\/fridays-headlines-244\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Friday&#039;s headlines - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CITY HALL \u2022 Councillor rallies support for double-edged subway relief plan [The Star] \u2022 Rookie councillor to put road tolls, regional sales tax before council [Globe &amp; 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