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Ravine love

Friends of the Greenbelt, Environmental Defence and Toronto Environmental Alliance launch the Love The Ravines campaign aimed at getting Torontonians into our river valleys. Look for special coverage in next week’s print edition of NOW.

Linda McQuaig

Much has been made of her star power, but can the lefty author who preaches income equality win a seat for the federal NDP on the home turf of the Liberal elite in Rosedale? We’re about to find out. McQuaig won theNDP nomination in a three-way race September 15.

City-building

The University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design officially launches the Global Cities Institute, which promises to be “a fair broker of information and creative, evidence-based solutions and a catalyst between industry [and] government.”

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Pro-subway forces

PC leader Tim Hudak issues a statement calling the Liberals’ Scarborough subway plan a “train wreck” hours after a VIA train crash near Ottawa kills six people.

Port lands politics

The Toronto Port Authority is blaming a financial squabble with the city for delays to repairs to the ship channel bridge on Cherry. The bridge, closed since last November, reopened to a single lane of traffic this week, some three months later than scheduled.

Voodoo economics

Rob Ford takes credit for an uptick in Toronto’s economy, calling a press conference to crow about turning around the city’s fortunes all by himself. But nobody believes him.

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