By Hamutal Dotan

Tamils urged to step back public protests (CTV): “Public officials have asked Tamil supporters to dial down their demonstrations amid growing impatience over a string of protests, which culminated Sunday evening in the shutdown of a major Toronto freeway.” [More coverage in the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. Previous coverage on Torontoist: Tamils Take to the Gardiner and Torontoist vs. Torontoist in… Tamil Protests.]
Ontario seeks expanded role for many health-care providers (Globe and Mail): “Ontario wants to broaden the scope of practice for many health-care professionals as part of a strategy to address the chronic shortage of doctors, proposing new rules that would allow nurse practitioners to set broken bones and give dental hygienists the power to write prescriptions and sell medicine.”
Four health workers carrying H1N1 flu virus (National Post): “As Canada’s public health agency confirmed 46 new cases across the country yesterday, Toronto’s University Health Network said four of its employees have tested positive for the H1N1 flu virus, including one who has had contact with patients.”
TSX takes a tumble over financials, energy (CTV): “Stock markets tumbled by triple-digits on Monday as investors mixed profit taking with some concern over tightened financial stocks and weaker commodity prices.”
The state of Toronto’s condo market: Lots of cranes, few sales (National Post): “Despite a record number of construction cranes gracing the horizon, Toronto’s once thriving new condo market hit a dismal sales low in the first quarter of 2009, according to an industry analysis revealed today.” [Previous coverage on Torontoist: Desperate House-Owners.]
Fighting for, and against, the wind (Toronto Star): “Wind energy, according to flyers handed out by some anti-wind activists, is a sham designed to exploit society’s inclination to go green.” [Previous coverage on Torontoist: Wind Farm Pitch Brings Bluff Bluster.]
Council urged to block demolition of O’Connor house (Globe and Mail): “The Toronto Catholic District School Board is trying to tear down the historic Don Mills mansion of Senator Frank O’Connor, the founder of Laura Secord Chocolates and the philanthropist who donated the surrounding land where a high school that bears his name now stands.”
Susur Lee headed to D.C. (NOW): “Not content with the Big Apple at his feet, local celebu-chef Susur Lee has set his culinary sights on Washington, DC.” [Previous coverage on Torontoist: Shang to Shang in Thirty-Six Hours.]
Horse goes from troublemaker to moneymaker (Toronto Star): “Gemini and Paul Caine have no trouble recalling the seven months Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird spent at their Pine Valley Training Centre in Maple, just north of Toronto. How could they forget it? It started as a kicking, leaping, biting nightmare.”