By Karen Aagaard (Guest Contributor)

Peace ends, 15 arrested at Tamil protest (Toronto Star): “Fifteen Tamil demonstrators were arrested yesterday evening after a group of protesters spilled over into a busy downtown intersection. Police moved in as the crowd pushed forward on University Ave. to the north side of Dundas St. around 4:30 p.m.” [More coverage in the Sun, and the Post; previous coverage on Torontoist: Despite 'scuffles,' Tamil protest continues.]

“All humanity” urged to fight imminent swine flu pandemic (Globe and Mail): “Global health authorities raised the alert level for a virulent new strain of swine flu Wednesday, saying a pandemic is now imminent and ‘all of humanity’ must join in an urgent battle against the infection.” [More coverage in CP24.]
Canada to backstop Chrysler during bankruptcy filing (Globe and Mail): “Chrysler LLC is expected to file for bankruptcy protection in the United States by the end of the week and the Canadian and Ontario governments will jump in to help backstop the company with financing that will enable it to keep making and selling cars while it restructures, sources said.”
City votes to freeze non-union workers’ salaries (Toronto Star): “Toronto City Council has passed a wage freeze that cancels cost-of-living increases and performance bonuses for non-union employees this year, a decision criticized by some councillors as ‘embarrassing,’ ‘hypocritical’ and ‘unfair.’”
Can 56 angry Tamils save one girl’s sight? (Toronto Star): “The deadline to get the 11-year-old into a program that could save her sight was looming. So the team from the Hospital for Sick Children, carrying dishes to collect saliva and stacks of consent forms, raced outside to the protest.”
Bad vibes compel GO to replace piledriver (Toronto Star): “After months of agitation by residents and elected officials, GO Transit is finally testing quieter equipment at its West Toronto Diamond rail expansion. And the commuter service has agreed to allow the Canadian Transportation Agency to mediate its dispute with the community, which has complained about the noise and vibrations during construction.” [More coverage in the Sun.]
Architecture of the inner suburbs to get Pug Awards scrutiny this year (National Post): “Confident they have improved design in the city core, the people behind Toronto’s popular-vote architecture awards are expanding the competition to include the inner suburbs. The fifth annual Pug Awards launch tomorrow (at pugawards.com), and for the first time they include buildings beyond the borders of the old city of Toronto—in North York, Etobicoke and the other former municipalities amalgamated into Toronto.”