- Utterly changing the boundaries of Toronto's wards through an unwanted amalgamation just before an election will create chaos. The Toronto Star reports.
- Jennifer Pagliaro notes how the City of Toronto is considering changing its definition of "affordable housing" into something more realistic, over at the Toronto Star.
- Urban Toronto contrasts two photos recently taken on Bremner Boulevard, in the heart of the South Core.
- Steve Maich writes in MacLean's about what tragedies, like the Danforth shooting, do and do not say about cities.
- Enzo Dimatteo at NOW Toronto notes how the alt-right has been making use of the Danforth shooting.
Jul. 27th, 2018
- Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps takes a look at the regularity, and otherwise, of different cities' street grids.
- CityLab notes how the city of Baltimore is suing Big Oil over the effects of climate change, including flooding.
- The Lake Huron resort community of Wasaga Beach turns out to have strong connections with the Lithuanian-Canadian community.
- CityLab takes a look at the love food critic Jonathan Gold expressed for the city of Los Angeles in his writing.
- Guardian Cities reports on how prices for land in Ontario are propelling a Mennonite migration to Prince Edward Island.
- Peter Rukavina takes a look at the regularity, or not, of the street grids of major Island communities.
- Civil wedding ceremonies on PEI are starting to outnumber religious ones. CBC reports.
- A heritage log cabin in Charlottetown, dating back to the mid-19th century, is being torn down by its owner for wanting of funding to help preserve it. CBC reports.
- Construction of the Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society's headquarters, in the eastern PEI community of Heatherdale, is being slowed down by construction and other issues. CBC reports.
- At the CLGA, Craig Jennex writes about the early activism of Canadian LGBT activist Jim Egan, writing letters to defend gay people in post-war homophobic times.
- Them profiles the Queer Appalachia Instagram account and its creators.
- Them reports on a survey suggesting that one-fifth of young Latinx people in the US identify as queer.
- JSTOR Daily reports on a lesbian sex scandal at a Renaissance Italy convent.
- The Nib shares a delightful, and historically accurate, cartoon describing how out German aristocrat Baron von Steuben played a critical role in the success of the Americans in their war of independence.