By Hamutal Dotan

Head of eHealth Ontario fired amid contract controversy (National Post): “Ontario Health Minister David Caplan said [yesterday] he was firing of the head of eHealth Ontario amid a growing contract controversy at the provincial agency tasked with creating electronic health files.” [More coverage in the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star.]
Province pushes secret deal for Simcoe (Toronto Star): “Without waiting for a Simcoe County growth plan to be completed, the province is appearing before the Ontario Municipal Board today to finalize a secret deal with developers and municipal officials for a massive employment zone along Highway 400.”
Funding lag keeps some hospital beds empty (National Post): “While patients at nearby hospitals lament overcrowding and lengthy wait times, visitors to Mississauga’s Trillium Hospital may be surprised to see roughly 80 empty beds scattered across the facility and another 20 in the hospital’s new $100-million wing.”
Free my WiFi (Globe and Mail): “Perhaps best known for his campaigns to stamp out squeegee kids and panhandling in Toronto…[City Councillor Denzil] Minnan-Wong is championing a plan to deliver wireless access to public-housing communities, and maybe the rest of Toronto, using a network of mini satellite-like dishes—an idea that would join it with San Francisco in the cause of democratizing WiFi.”
Queen Street’s devastating fire was only the beginning (Globe and Mail): “The only sign there was a bike shop here for almost 100 years is a few black scraps of what used to be bicycle tires lying in the dirt. The store, along with several other businesses in a dilapidated but historic strip near Bathurst Street, was destroyed in a massive fire in February of 2008… [W]hat has happened since—at the hands of city officials and the province’s property tax assessment corporation—has compounded the devastation wrought by the flames of last year.” [Previous coverage on Torontoist: Queen Street Fire's Second Spring.]
Google says Street View project on schedule (National Post): “Google says its Toronto Street View feature is on track, despite delays and a string of legal problems across the world.” [Previous coverage on Torontoist: Map Quest and Red Light Cameras.]
Regulators nix Luminato installation (Globe and Mail): “Binary Waves, an interactive art installation by Belgian group Lab[au] scheduled to appear this week at the Luminato Festival…was shut down Friday by Ontario’s Electrical Safety Authority, which said its European wiring did not meet Ontario’s standards.”