By Hamutal Dotan

Police likely to confirm remains are Victoria Stafford’s (CBC): “Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino was expected to reveal at a news conference in Woodstock Tuesday morning whether a child’s body found on the weekend is that of Victoria Stafford.”
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair on gangs and guns (Globe and Mail): “Toronto’s top cop, Chief Bill Blair, has declared a new front this summer in his force’s war on gangs in the city. In what’s otherwise been a year of record lows in Toronto crime rates, the new epicentre of gang activity is 12 Division, the region bordered roughly by Lawrence Avenue, Caledonia Road, Dundas Street West and the Humber River.”
Toronto on strike: David Miller warns of possible layoffs if union doesn’t bend (National Post): “Mayor David Miller warned yesterday that possible layoffs and service cuts would be the price of yielding to demands by striking Toronto workers… Pay raises for 30,000 indoor and outdoor civic employees on par with those doled out in arbitrated settlements to police and transit unions ‘would cost the city tens of millions of dollars in 2010 that we simply don’t have,’ Mr. Miller told the National Post yesterday.”
Yorkville rallies against condo tower (National Post): “Yorkville residents are rallying against a developer’s plan to turn a historic Hazelton Avenue schoolhouse into a seven-storey condominium tower… The proposal would demolish about two-thirds of St. Basil’s Catholic School, but leave the Gothic facade intact, and put a glass addition on the building that would bring it to nearly seven storeys.”
Scaled-back plan could save Yonge-Bloor tower (Toronto Star): “A Kazakhstan-backed developer has staved off receivership proceedings with a last-minute deal to pay off a defaulted $46 million loan on land at Toronto’s Yonge-Bloor intersection.”
Moses Znaimer’s vintage TV sets find new home on Queen Street (National Post): “Hundreds of beautiful vintage television sets dating from the 1920s to the 1970s line the walls of the new MZTV Museum of Television and Archive space at 550 Queen St. E.”