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[URBAN NOTE} Seven Toronto links: CNE, 29 Dufferin, Rogers Road, Ontario Line, Green Line, renters

[URBAN NOTE} Seven Toronto links: CNE, 29 Dufferin, Rogers Road, Ontario Line, Green Line, renters

blogTO reports on some new features at this year’s iteration of the CNE.

blogTO notes the terrible overcrowding and other dysfunctions of the 29 Dufferin bus.

Sean Marshall reports on the last runs of the Rogers Road streetcar, ancestor of the 161 Rogers Road bus.

Happily, weird pronunciations of “Avenue” are no longer heard on TTC buses. Global News reports.

Transit Toronto shares the Metrolinx…

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[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links: waterfront, #worldslargestrubberduck, PATH, rent control

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links: waterfront, #worldslargestrubberduck, PATH, rent control

Spacing’s John Lorinc considers confusion over what the idea of “mixed-use” development on the waterfront is.

Dave Leblanc looks at the PATH, the underground tunnels in downtown Toronto making up a huge mall. It counts. The Globe and Mail reports.

It turns out that the #worldslargestrubberduck was actually really good for waterfront businesses. The Toronto Star reports.

Toronto Life interviewsRio…

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[URBAN NOTE] Three notes about real estate in the Greater Toronto Area

[URBAN NOTE] Three notes about real estate in the Greater Toronto Area

Torontoist’s Tamara Yelland reports on the intensification of the rent strike in Parkdale aimed against Metcap.

The Toronto Star‘s Tess Kalinowski notes that the market for detached homes in Toronto is facing unmanageable levels of demand.

Torontoist’s David Stokes makes the case that suburbs should allow homes in residential districts to be converted into businesses.

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[URBAN NOTE] Four articles about the controversy over the gentrifiers of Parkdale

[URBAN NOTE] Four articles about the controversy over the gentrifiers of Parkdale

This is the Toronto Life profile about the gentrifiers who bought a Parkdale rooming house and evicted its residents for their family home.

The Toronto Star looked at the online backlash to the article and the trend of gentrification it depicts.

If this GoFundMe campaign, if it falls short of $730000, will donate the funds raised to renters’ groups.

Edward Keenan writes in the Starabout the nerve…

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[URBAN NOTE] Toronto Life on the Parkdale rent strike

[URBAN NOTE] Toronto Life on the Parkdale rent strike

Toronto Life’s Cody Punter shared brief interviews with a view of the people taking part in this month’s rent strike in Parkdale.

On May 1, hundreds of people took to the streets of Parkdale to protest rent increases at a handful of apartment towers managed by MetCap, a major landlord in the neighbourhood.

Ontario law normally prevents landlords of pre-1991 buildings from raising rents by more…

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[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto's Rent Control Risks Stoking the Red-Hot Housing Market"

[URBAN NOTE] “Toronto’s Rent Control Risks Stoking the Red-Hot Housing Market”

Bloomberg’s Ken Chipman argues that rent control in Toronto risks shifting real estate development from rental units to condos.

Ontario’s government is set to impose the most sweeping rent controls in a quarter century, linking annual increases to inflation, with a cap of 2.5 percent, on all buildings as it tries to keep costs under control. The measure, meant to protect tenants from price…

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[URBAN NOTE] "High rent could make Toronto a 'generational ghost town'"

[URBAN NOTE] “High rent could make Toronto a ‘generational ghost town'”

CBC News’ Kate McGillivray wrote about the risk of high rents driving young pepe out of Toronto.

Young people across the income spectrum who would like to build lives in Toronto are choosing to leave rather than pay the city’s ever-increasing rents.

For 27-year-old Arthur Gallant, that’s meant moving from Etobicoke, to Burlington, to Hamilton in search of an affordable apartment for himself and…

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[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto Housing Market May Need Vancouver-Style Cooling, RBC Says"

[URBAN NOTE] “Toronto Housing Market May Need Vancouver-Style Cooling, RBC Says”

Doug Alexander and Katia Dmitrieva write for Bloomberg about the statement by the Royal Bank of Canada’s chief executive officer that Toronto’s housing market needs to be slowed down like Vancouver’s

Toronto may require measures to cool its red-hot housing market similar to moves taken in Vancouver if interest rates don’t increase, said Royal Bank of Canada Chief Executive Officer David McKay.

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