By Hamutal Dotan

Won’t ask for back-to-work legislation, Miller states (Globe and Mail): “Mayor David Miller has dealt a blow to the possibility of a legislated end to Toronto’s [15]-day-old municipal workers’ strike, leaving only two options for a city stuck without garbage collection, pools or city-run childcare: a quick, negotiated settlement or a long, smelly summer. ‘We’re not going to ask for back-to-work legislation,’ the mayor told reporters Friday, the most explicit he’s been to date on the subject.” [More coverage in the National Post.]
Court orders spray at garbage site (Globe and Mail): “It was an unusual Sunday morning scene at a park, but just the latest twist in Toronto’s bitter civic workers’ strike when a police officer showed up at Christie Pits yesterday and read out from a court injunction to a handful of union pickets, ordering them not to impede passage of pest-control trucks.”
BIAs step in to keep things clean (Toronto Sun): “Local BIAs are chipping in to help their neighbourhoods during the ongoing civic workers strike.”
Federal regulators ready to click on the Web (National Post): “Federal regulators are preparing to investigate how the country’s largest cable and telecom companies control the flow of Web traffic on their networks in a series of landmark hearings that are expected to have lasting implications for how millions of Canadians use the Internet.” [Previous coverage on Torontoist: Oh! What a Throttled Web We Weave and Canada’s ISPs Need a Good Throttling.]
Stop meddling, students tell Tories (Toronto Star): “York University, still recovering from a bitter 12-week strike, cannot seem to escape political fireworks, even during the summer. In this latest fracas, the York Federation of Students is accusing two Conservative politicians—federal MP Peter Kent and provincial MPP Peter Shurman—of interfering with York’s turbulent student politics.”
Police make arson arrest (Globe and Mail): “Two days after a blaze tore through a Mississauga townhouse development last Monday, leaving ashes and $10-million in damage in its smoky wake…Peel Regional Police arrested Adam Zyskowski at his parents’ home in Etobicoke Saturday morning and charged him with two counts of arson and one count of wearing a disguise.”