By Hamutal Dotan

Liberals split on election question (Globe and Mail): “Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has emerged from this weekend’s convention with a ringing endorsement of his leadership and some money in the party’s coffers, but he also leaves Vancouver with a caucus split on one crucial question: when to call an election.” [More coverage in the National Post and the Toronto Star.]
Ontario to provide major new research funding (Globe and Mail): “As Ottawa faces fire for cutting spending on science, Ontario will today announce $100-million in new research funding in a move to keep top talent from fleeing to U.S. laboratories that will soon be awash in stimulus money from the Obama administration.”
Province aids summer-job blues (Toronto Star): “Anticipating a poor summer job market for students, the province yesterday announced it will boost its youth employment funding to $90 million by offering more government jobs and wage subsidies to employers who hire young people.”
Shaken residents give GO ultimatum (Toronto Star): “GO Transit’s promise that it will test less nerve-jangling construction techniques on the Georgetown rail line hasn’t quieted the concerns of residents living near the West Toronto Diamond rail expansion. They have issued a deadline of Friday for GO to cease the ear-splitting, ground-shaking diesel piledriver operation that has been a daily feature of life in the Junction since January… If GO doesn’t offer a firm commitment, the residents say they will ask the Canadian Transportation Agency for mediation in the dispute, something GO maintains isn’t necessary.”
Leaf blowers hot and cold (Globe and Mail): “As the roar of leaf blowers and other two-stroke engines revs up for the summer, listen for the whir of the noisy politics about them at Toronto Mayor David Miller’s executive-committee meeting today. When council unanimously adopted the mayor’s 2007 plan to fight climate change, officials were sent off to look at a possible ban in 2010 on gasoline-powered leaf blowers, lawn mowers and chainsaws that contribute to pollution.”
Tamil community gears up for protest (Toronto Star): “Toronto’s Tamil community says ‘tens of thousands’ of Tamil Canadians will form a human chain tomorrow in downtown Toronto—the third so far this year—to protest the ongoing civil war in Sri Lanka.” [Previous coverage on Torontoist: "Canada, Help Us." and Despite "Scuffles," Tamil Protest Continues.]
High times at Queen’s Park (Toronto Sun): “The Queen’s Park lawn north of the legislature went to pot [Saturday] as the site for the third-annual Toronto Freedom Festival and its flagship event, the Global Marijuana March.”