Newsstand: May 14, 2009

12,000 March Through Downtown (National Post): "An estimated 12,000 Tamil protesters peacefully marched through the downtown streets yesterday, growing more comfortable with publicly embracing the Tamil Tigers." [More coverage in the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. Related coverage on Torontoist: Tamil Tiger Trashers Take to the Skies.]

OPP officer, Crown accused of fixing charges, court filings show (Globe and Mail): "What appears to have started out as a simple investigation of a fraud at Bombardier Inc. has broadened to become a sweeping probe with allegations that a senior Ontario Provincial Police officer, a Toronto Crown attorney and accused criminals were in cahoots to fix charges."

Critics slam province for rezoning farmland to save industry (Toronto Star): "The province has caved in to developers—and short-term worries about jobs—and disregarded its long-term war on sprawl, by allowing prime farmland just north of the Greenbelt to be turned over to industry, environmentalists and residents say."

Universities start to feel pinch (Toronto Star): "It seems even the Ivory Tower, hailed as a refuge from the storms of the marketplace, is having to batten the hatches in this economy."

Richard Florida goes to city hall, quotes Karl Marx (National Post): "Quoting Karl Marx, cab drivers and his factory-worker father, celebrity intellectual Richard Florida went to Toronto city hall today to tell councillors that improving the lot of service-sector workers is key to the city’s prosperity."

Councillor drops complaint about TTC chair (Globe and Mail): "The city councillor who complained that TTC chairman Adam Giambrone had sent him a threatening e-mail has asked city hall's ethics watchdog not to investigate the matter." [Previous coverage on Torontoist: A Boner in Need is a Boner, Indeed.]

City's photobloggers put T. O. on the map (National Post): "Toronto's burgeoning photoblogging community has pushed the city onto a list of the world's 10 most photographed cities, nudging out more predictable candidates such as Amsterdam and Rome."