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    577 Yonge Street

    Possible land assembly taking place per this story. That building is listed.
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    Paul Reichmann: A real estate ‘genius’ who became a global player

    "Paul Reichmann, the contrarian Toronto developer who made and lost a family fortune building office towers on unwanted spaces, has died at the age of 83. A spokeswoman for the family said Mr. Reichmann died Friday morning – the cause of his death was not disclosed. Mr. Reichmann was one...
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    The Glory of the Rails

    Among the last published pieces by the brilliant British historian Tony Judt (who died in August) are an essay in two parts in the New York Review of Books on his love of trains and the implications of modern rail travel: Part 1...
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    Unbuilt highways

    From Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2278883/entry/2278875/ The Spadina Expressway gets a mention.
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    TTC to retain and refurbish two 1983 Fishbowls for charters

    http://www3.ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Commission_reports_and_information/Commission_meetings/2010/Aug_23_2010/Reports/Retention_of_2_GMC_B.pdf It's too bad they were among the first of the new-livery deliveries, and not maroon and cream. Still, good to see two of them hanging in there.
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    Star: 50 Years of the Fishbowl

    http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/304112 A thought: is it all possible to lobby the TTC to retain two, perhaps three fishbowls, restore and re-paint them maroon and cream with metal bumpers and canvas roll-signs, and operate them as historic vehicles after they're all retired?
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    Wayne and Shuster: City Golf, 1971

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ph6PyGZnkOo
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    TTC from 25 years ago

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTkkV25HR1Y Highlights: CLRV linked train, TC's on Bay, and I believe a shot of a yellow Metro Police car on Bathurst.
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    City finances and public services

    Recently posted on the city website; provides background material to the current financial situation the city is in (PDF, 15 pages): http://www.toronto.ca/mayor_miller/pdf/goodpublicservicesaug2007.pdf
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    PCCs on 509 this Monday

    http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=757380 TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 2, 2007) - This holiday Monday, Simcoe Day, the TTC will bring back a little bit of its past. A PCC streetcar, common on the streets of Toronto from 1938 to 1995, will operate on the 509 Harbourfront route...
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    TTC video

    http://www.toronto.ca/ttc/lifeline_of_toronto_video.html Pretty sure this is for the APTA conference coming up. A bit on the PR side, but it has a few good vintage clips of PCC and Witt cars in service. Looks like the new subway cars will have the same material on the poles as are on the seats.
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    Wages behind crane strike

    From the Star: http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/216852 May 23, 2007 01:06 PM Canadian Press Large-scale building projects across Ontario moved slower Wednesday as almost 3,000 crane and other heavy-equipment operators walked off the job to push for more money and other...

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