Over a century after the first underground pedestrian paths were built in the city, Toronto is debating plans to expand the world’s longest underground shopping complex south, towards the waterfront.
[Globe and Mail]

City politics isn’t the only tricky field for Rob Ford to maneuver. For the third week in a row, the football fanatic mayor has lost the weekly city hall football pool to a political foe.
[Toronto Star]

Construction on the long-awaited rail link between Pearson Airport and Union Station will begin in the spring.
[CBC]

It appears as though the 2012 budget is taking its toll on city councillor and budget chief Mike Del Grande. But budget burnout is nothing new, the National Post reports.
[National Post]

The Republican mayor of a Mississippi city has been forced to admit he is gay after submitting a receipt, from a purchase made in a Toronto sex store, to state auditors amid a spending scandal.
[Toronto Sun]