[PHOTO] Fragment of an early summer evening sky of Derek Jarman blue

Even though summer is not quite here, its perfect blue skies have made it.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Koreans, Italians, Irish, Albino Carreira, #threetorontos

• This 2013 Toronto Guardian article explains how the Korean community in Toronto can trace its origins to early 20th century missionaries from Canada.


• At Spacing, Daniel Panneton writes about the rise of fascism in Italian Toronto and the very different reactions to this ideology's rise.


• CBC Toronto reports on the popular new app Irish App-roved, aimed at helping new immigrants from Ireland get oriented in Toronto.


• Jacob Lorinc at the Toronto Star tells the story of Albino Carreira, a Portuguese-Canadian construction worker disabled by a construction incident in the 1990s who went on to whimsically decorate his Clinton Street home and his bug-covered van.


• The growing racialization of poverty in Toronto is a huge ongoing concern. The Toronto Star reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Winnipeg, Vancouver, Stockholm, Vienna, Mariupol

• The salvaging and restoration of the Fortune Block in downtown Winnipeg is a victory indeed for preservationists. CBC reports.


• One hopes that Vancouver manages to settle on a plan for revitalizing its West End beaches. Global News reports
  
• Guardian Cities suggests that Stockholm has done a good job of keeping a proper work-life balance for its residents.


• Guardian Cities reports on the specific contributions of women to modern Vienna.


• Open Democracy reported before the Ukraine elections from the Donbas front line city of Mariupol, seeing how exhausted the locals were.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Montréal links: Royalmount, flooding, bike paths, schools, Piknic Electronik

• The city of Montréal continues to oppose the controversial Royalmount project. Global News reports?
  
• Will communities in the flood-prone West Island get protective dikes? CBC reports.


• Are the bike paths of Montréal getting sufficient investment? CTV News reports.


• French-language schools in booming north-end Montréal are facing overcrowding. CBC reports.


• CultMTL takes a look at what is up this year for Piknik Electronik on Ile Sainte-Hélène.