TDSB to debate nudity concerns at Pride event
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•Blair asks OPP to take over Mayor Ford case
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•Ford changes the subject on Stephanie Smyth
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•City gets $100 million Cisco innovation centre
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•Toronto has been picked to be home to one of four such centres. The others wil be in South Korea, Brazil and Germany. MarketWatch
Radio Shack in the U.S. to close 1,100 stores
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•Ghost of Moore Ave. tends to watermain break
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•Fibe construction at Bayview and Millwood
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•Hunt for man in indecent act in Yonge bookstore
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•Early morning purse snatch at Yonge-Eglinton
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•Madi’s life-saving drug costs $340,000 a year
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•Premier tells Madi that she will “push” to help her
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•There was a very moving story at Queen’s Park Monday morning where a 12-year-old Beeton, Ontario girl, Madi Vanstone, met Monday morning with Premier Wynne in her campaign to have OHIP cover the high cost of a drug she needs to treat Cystic Fibrosis. The drug is not covered at present. Madi was at a news conference with her mother and her MPP, Jim Wilson (PC Simcoe Grey) before she saw the Premier. The thing about the drug, Kalydeco, is that it really works. After fundraising by friends and citizens to buy the expensive treatment, Madi was actually no longer positive for the disease. She plays and does athletics like a normal kid. As her mother Beth said at the news conference, Kalydeco works at the cellular level, effectively erasing the Cystic Fibrosis. News reports say that the Premier told Madi she will “push” to see that the little girl gets this important medication.