The Ford administration’s budget plan calls for up to 1,190 pink slips to be handed out as part of cost-cutting measures. Around 643 vacant jobs are also on the chopping block.
[Globe and Mail]
The Toronto Star is planning on filing a formal complaint with the city’s integrity commissioner about the “Ford Freeze.” Since he was elected, Rob Ford has ordered that official notices and announcements from his office not be provided to the paper.
[Toronto Star]
Forbes magazine lists the Toronto Maple Leafs as the highest valued NHL franchise, at $521 million. Following the Leafs are two other original six teams: New York and Montreal.
[CBC]
The library chair is demanding that Budget Chief Mike Del Grande apologize for comments made regarding the amount of ethnic and non-english materials in Toronto libraries.
[Globe and Mail]
Should the feds do away with the gun registry, don’t look for the province to fill the void.
[Toronto Sun]