• Mayor fires back at critics [ Toronto Star ] • Shuffle leaves 2 councillors fuming [ Toronto Star ] • Wanted: one integrity commissioner [ Globe and Mail ] • Subway station architects intend to cheer you up [ Toronto Star ] • Riders need shelters from winter storms [ Toronto Star ] • Bus company no friend to PickupPal [ Globe and Mail ] • City selling itself as full package for gay travellers [ Globe and Mail ] • Benefit for ...

• Is Mayor Miller getting things done? [ Toronto Star ] • After 5 years, Miller has failed to seal the big deals [ Toronto Star ] • City wieners a la cart [ Toronto Sun ] • Layton devises a plan to win over the GTA [ Toronto Star ]

AGO • In broad strokes, public loves AGO [ Toronto Star ] • The Art Gallery of Ontario's backyard is getting its groove back [ Globe and Mail ] • Transformation AGO [ Globe and Mail ] POLITICS • A city adrift in recycling hell [ National Post ] • Retailer, can you spare a dime? [ Globe and Mail ] • Return of the rink finks [ Toronto Sun ] • City staff cut out of Family Day [ Toronto Sun ] • Have we got a real estate deal for you [ Toronto Star ]...

• We see ourselves in AGO - and we like it [ Toronto Star ] • Finished AGO puts Gehry's fears to rest [ Globe and Mail ] • Welcome home, Frank [ National Post ] • Art Gallery of Ontario reopens with Gehry's stamp [ CBC.ca ] • Road tolls for whom, Transport Canada asks [ Globe and Mail ] • Peel defers decision on provincial cash [ Toronto Star ] • How to compel what isn't compellable [ Globe and Mail ] • GTA's disappearing Bond with ...

• Coffee cups get recycling reprieve [ Toronto Star ] • Tim Hortons gets a reprieve on new waste rules [ Globe and Mail ] • Committee compromise on coffee cup ban [ National Post ] • Coffee-lid ban tossed [ Toronto Sun ] • Poly folly [ NOW Magazine ] • Planifesto for a packaging-free world [ NOW Magazine ] • Testing our recycling IQ, and patience [ Toronto Star ] • West-side worry [ NOW Magazine ] • Gehry's revamped AGO a modest masterpiece [ Toronto Star ] • Goodbye greasy ...

• TTC riding made easy with iPhone application [ Toronto Star ] • A cleaner way to work: City launches clean commute plan [ Toronto Star ] • Leave it to civic whiners to ruin wieners [ National Post ] • Plastic proposal costly [ Toronto Sun ] • Students call for ban on plastic bags [ Globe and Mail ] • Landlords OK with inspections [ Toronto Sun ] • Plan would give rinks more ice time [ Toronto Star ] • A tour of Parkdale's trees, in Tibetan [ National Post ...

In the district of Greenwich in London, England, a lot of the speed limit signs in residential areas have pictures beneath them drawn by children. Turtles were a common theme, but I liked this one in particular. Too bad the signs near nursing homes weren't as creative:

POLITICS • City seeks new integrity boss [ Toronto Star ] • T.O. forced to look again for integrity poobah [ Toronto Sun ] • City watchdog set to probe coffee giant over lobbying [ Globe and Mail ] • Will Miller's legacy be rubbish? [ Toronto Star ] • City Hall supports Pan-Am bid [ Toronto Sun ] • Oakville loses bid to limit billboards [ Toronto Star ] HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT • Developers win deferral of debate on increasing development charges [ National Post ] • Councillors march to condo king's tune [ ...

• In this game of musical chairs, Miller wants his friends close [ Globe and Mail ] • So much for spicing it up [ Toronto Sun ] • Activists slam plan to curb slum landlords [ Toronto Star ] • After 5-year wait, bridge is finally fixed [ Toronto Star ] • A dino-mite sleepover at the ROM [ Toronto Star ] • Prized collection unveiled after AGO privately canvassed donors [ Globe and Mail ] • Giant leap for T.O. [ Toronto Sun ]

TRANSIT • You're being watched, TTC warns passengers [ Toronto Star ] • Cameras fail to protect TTC drivers [ Toronto Sun ] • GO pushes to improve its service in winter [ Toronto Star ] • GO warms up to winter [ Toronto Sun ] CITY HALL • Tempest over a Tim's cup heads to city committee [ Globe and Mail ] • Lid lifted on coffee-cup recycling tiff [ Toronto Sun ] • Does anybody really know what garbage is? [ Globe and Mail ] • Confusing first week under new garbage system [ National ...