[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Changing neighbourhoods, King West, Parkdale/Vegandale, Faith Goldy

• Contrary to some stereotypes, the downtown is becoming less diverse in population while the inner suburbs are becoming more so. The Torotno Star reports.


• blogTO shares some pictures of what King West, now a glittering condo district, looked like back in the 1980s.


• Parkdale now has a new, if unsanctioned, safe injection site. CBC reports.


• The people behind the controversial Vegandale branding are now offering a hundred thousand dollars in funding to the community of Parkdale. The Toronto Star reports.


• Justin Ling warns at The Walrus that Torontonians should be prepared for a strong showing by alt-right propagandist Faith Goldy in the upcoming mayoral race.

[NEWS] Five science links: global warming, sociology, basic income

• The National Observer notes how, with global warming, summer conditions are being "stuck", that we are getting extended heat waves and bigger floods.


• Justin Fox at Bloomberg View calls for more sociologists to make more contributions to a field of economics that, really, needs their input.


• James Mulvale at The Conversation explains why the cancellation in Ontario of the basic income project was not just a tragedy for human but for science.


• The smoke for massive wildfires in western Canada has at least kept temperatures cooler for farmers in Alberta. The Toronto Star reports.


• This Jacobin Magazine article, arguing self-employment under neoliberalism encourages people to be tough to themselves, feels uncomfortably right. Thoughts?