By Karen Aagaard

Space city designed as an idealized Toronto (Toronto Star): “A democratic colony far above Earth that looks like a giant cylinder, has no violence and whose residents eat meat grown in a lab. This is Asten, a utopia designed by Toronto student Eric Yam, and it has won a NASA grand prize.” [More coverage in the Sun, and the Globe.]
Crooks hack accounts by recording PINs in downtown Toronto (CBC): “Toronto police say they know the downtown location of a series of bank frauds over the past few days—but they don’t want to make that information public.”
Charting a route to discovery (Toronto Star ): “Be bold. Dream big. Cut red tape. Work together. That was the message from participants at the Greater Toronto Region Economic Summit, convened to come up with a plan to steer the region’s economic engine out of the recession and back to prosperity.” [More coverage in the Globe.]
CAW, GM told to go back to bargaining table: union (CBC): “The president of the Canadian Auto Workers said the union and General Motors Canada are being ordered back to the negotiating table by the Canadian and Ontario governments.” [More coverage in the Post.]
Nurses, people who got SARS, can’t sue Ont. government, court rules (CP24): “Nurses, people who contracted SARS and their families cannot sue the Ontario government over the deadly 2003 outbreak that claimed 44 lives, Ontario’s top court ruled Thursday.”
Appel trust’s gift kicks off reference library reno (Globe and Mail): “Cultural philanthropists Bram and Bluma Appel, who both died in 2007, were book lovers who read and told stories and listened to stories told by others, according to those who knew them.”
Spirit is blown out of Dundas Square (Toronto Sun): “What do the dodos at City Hall have against didgeridoos? Shibaten Spirits, 29, wants to know. So do his fans. Me, too.”