Newsstand: June 15, 2009

Ignatieff to announce Liberals election intentions (Globe and Mail): "Michael Ignatieff faces the latest test of his leadership mettle Monday when he'll announce the Liberal party response to the current Conservative economic report card."

Full-day learning starts next year (Toronto Star): "Premier Dalton McGuinty today will announce full-day learning for 4- and 5-year-olds starting next year, based on a provincial adviser's $1 billion plan that would see elementary schools become year-round hubs for children from birth to age 12."

More lawyers join boycott of legal aid (Globe and Mail): "A powerful voice for the legal establishment—The Advocates' Society—and a former director of Ontario's legal aid program have thrown their support behind a massive boycott of the financially strapped program."

Protest held in T.O. to condemn election in Iran (CTV): "The political tension in Iran brought nearly 1,000 people to the streets of Toronto on Sunday as Iranian-Canadians gathered to protest a rumoured rigged election in their homeland."

Saving Sunnyside (Toronto Sun): "[O]ver the next 20-plus years, and with $262 million, the City of Toronto is looking to right...past wrongs, and completely change the face of the city's western shores with the Western Waterfront Master Plan, what will be a vision to guide council's hand if and when they approve it in two weeks."

City Hall's car guy learns to ride (Toronto Star): "Denzil Minnan-Wong looks kind of sheepish. He has a confession to make. The 45-year-old Toronto councillor, and perhaps the most ardent defender of the car at city hall, doesn't know how to ride a bicycle."

Tessa, 40: Metro Zoo's gentlest giant (Toronto Star): "All through the night, Thika, Toka, Iringa and Tara made their way across the Toronto Zoo enclosure to stand by their fallen sister, a 40-year-old elephant who died Saturday after a shove from a dominant member of the group."