[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links, from condo conversions to a cat park to unsafe beaches

[rfmcdonald]

• John Michael McGrath argues at TVO that leaving Toronto for Ontario cities with cheaper housing misses the issue of jobs. For starters.


• Michelle McQuigge looks at how the CNIB is helping make Yonge and St. Clair accessible to the blind.


• In The Globe and Mail, Erik Heinrich looks at how a mid-rise office tower at 1133 Yonge Street is being transformed into condos.


• The Toronto Star reports that the condo/hotel tower at 325 Bay Street no longer bears the name of Trump. Toronto is free!


• The end of the Palace Arms rooming house at King and Strachan, Christian Controneo notes at Torontoist, must be seen as terrible for the people who live there.
  
• blogTO notes that E. Coli levels on mainland Toronto beaches make them unsafe for swimmers. No lake water this year!


• blogTO notes that Montréal architect Claude Cormier, designer of HTO and Berczy, will next do a cat-themed park.