[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links, from Ken Pagan to Stepgate to House of Lords to the TTC to rent

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• Torontoist takes issue with the positive take CBC provided of Blue Jays beer-thrower Ken Pagan, softpeddling racism.


• Councillor Shelley Carroll does a great job deconstructing "Stepgate". (You get what you pay for, to start.)


• House of Lords, a hairdressing shop a half-century old on Yonge below Bloor, is set to close. The Toronto Star's Jaren Kerr reports.


• Mayor John Tory would like to freeze TTC fare increases for 2018. Can his government pull it off? The Toronto Star's Ben Spurr reports.


• Rents in Toronto are near the level of Brooklyn, two thousand per one bedroom, and tenants are desperate.