By Hamutal Dotan

Showdown over Jarvis lane change (Globe and Mail): “In what is shaping up as the tightest vote at city council so far this year, a proposal to narrow Jarvis Street by one lane has taken on added life as a wedge issue for those eager to topple Mayor David Miller in next year’s municipal election.” [Previous coverage on Torontoist: Four Wheels Good, Two Wheels Bad.]
Toronto Police Chief Blair to stay on to 2015 (Globe and Mail): “At the beginning of a police services board meeting Thursday, chairman Alok Mukerjee announced that the board had reached an agreement with Chief Blair to renew his contract for another five years, a year before his current contract expires.” [More coverage in the National Post and the Toronto Star.]
Three-year plan sought for security camera use (Globe and Mail): “The Toronto Police Services Board yesterday asked Police Chief Bill Blair to lay out a three-year plan for the force’s use of closed-circuit security cameras, after hearing privacy concerns from activists.” [More coverage in the Toronto Star.]
30 arrested for using fake Metropasses (CBC): “An enforcement blitz in Scarborough has resulted in 30 transit riders being caught with fake TTC Metropasses… The commission says it loses millions of dollars every year from these types of counterfeit schemes.”
Ticket sales up, Stratford reinstates summer performances (CBC): “The Stratford Shakespeare Festival has reinstated eight summer performances that had been put on hold because of poor ticket sales, the theatre festival announced Thursday.”
Shaw Festival receives big donation for training (Globe and Mail): “The family of broadcast mogul Allan Slaight has given the Shaw Festival $5-million to the theatre’s training academy, organizers said yesterday.”
Arthur Erickson, 84: Local architect left a global legacy (Toronto Star): “Though he lived and died a Canadian, architect Arthur Erickson was at home in every corner of the planet… His death this week at the age of 84 is the end of a unique career. The heroic age of modern Canadian architecture, of which Erickson was both a product and proponent, is now over.”