{"id":30111,"date":"2012-05-18T07:30:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T11:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=30111"},"modified":"2013-03-14T13:43:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:43:41","slug":"fridays-headlines-247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/05\/18\/fridays-headlines-247\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday&#8217;s headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FORD and PFLAG<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Levy: Proud that Mayor Ford was at flag-raising ceremony [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2012\/05\/17\/proud-that-mayor-ford-was-at-flag-raising\">The Sun<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 The faces of the PFLAG ceremony [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openfile.ca\/toronto\/story\/faces-pflag-ceremony\">OpenFile<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Surprise! Mayor Rob Ford appears at gay event [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/article\/1179884--surprise-mayor-rob-ford-appears-at-gay-event\">The Star<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Rob Ford cheered as he makes surprise appearance at LGBT event [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/05\/17\/rob-ford-cheered-as-he-makes-surprise-appearance-at-lgbt-event\/\">National Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>CITY HALL<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Environmental advocate chastises council\u2019s record [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2012\/05\/17\/environmental-advocate-chastise-councils-record\">The Sun<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Toronto gets good credit report from Moody\u2019s [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2012\/05\/17\/toronto-gets-good-credit-report-from-moodys\">The Sun<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRANSIT<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Is the TTC\u2019s expansion plan absurdly expensive? Depends on who you ask [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openfile.ca\/toronto\/blog\/2012\/ttcs-expansion-plan-absurdly-expensive-depends-who-you-ask\">Open File<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 TTC driver faces careless driving charges after nine passengers sent to hospital [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/05\/17\/ttc-driver-faces-careless-driving-charges-after-nine-passengers-sent-to-hospital\/\">National Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>G20<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair must own up to G20 mistakes or step down [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article\/1180203--toronto-police-chief-bill-blair-must-own-up-to-g20-mistakes-or-step-down\">The Star<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Toronto police officers face charges over G20 misconduct [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/05\/17\/toronto-police-officers-face-charges-over-g20-misconduct\/\">National Post<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 High-ranking and frontline Toronto police officers face charges [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/article\/1180052--g20-aftermath-high-ranking-and-frontline-toronto-police-officers-face-charges?bn=1\">The Star<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>CASINO<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 OLG takes first step in major gambling expansion [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/windsor\/story\/2012\/05\/17\/toronto-ontario-gaming.html\">CBC<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 OLG eyes 29 &#8220;gaming zones&#8221; across Ontario [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2012\/05\/17\/olg-eyes-29-gaming-zones-across-ontario\">The Sun<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Vaughan accuses OLG of \u201cthrowing darts at a map\u201d [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2012\/05\/17\/vaughan-accuses-olg-of-throwing-darts-at-a-map\">The Sun<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>OTHER NEWS<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 This canary sings a pretty tune for Toronto [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/home-and-garden\/architecture\/john-bentley-mays\/this-canary-sings-a-pretty-tune-for-toronto\/article2435745\/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&amp;utm_source=Home&amp;utm_content=2435745\">Globe &amp; Mail<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Lastman Square: A campus quad in the making? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/cityhallpolitics\/article\/1180266--lastman-square-a-campus-quad-in-the-making\">The Star<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORD and PFLAG \u2022 Levy: Proud that Mayor Ford was at flag-raising ceremony [The Sun] \u2022 The faces of the PFLAG ceremony [OpenFile] \u2022 Surprise! Mayor Rob Ford appears at gay event [The Star] \u2022 Rob Ford cheered as he makes surprise appearance at LGBT event [National Post] CITY HALL \u2022 Environmental advocate chastises council\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/05\/18\/fridays-headlines-247\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Friday&#8217;s headlines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4116,"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":[7801,307,2211,20082,1174,7408,6311,20083,426,641,636,227,405,15979,19,1643,22090,2378],"class_list":["post-30111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-bill-blair","tag-cbc","tag-chief","tag-environmental-advocate","tag-ford","tag-g20","tag-is","tag-lastman-square","tag-mayor","tag-national-post","tag-ontario","tag-rob-ford","tag-the-star","tag-the-sun-other-news","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-police","tag-transit","tag-ttc-driver"],"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\/05\/18\/fridays-headlines-247\/\" \/>\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=\"FORD and PFLAG \u2022 Levy: Proud that Mayor Ford was at flag-raising ceremony [The Sun] \u2022 The faces of the PFLAG ceremony [OpenFile] \u2022 Surprise! 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