[URBANNOTE] Five Toronto links, from the $15 wage to parking lots, cow statues, and Jamaican patois

[rfmcdonald]

• Torontoist takes on Galen Weston and the $15 minimum wage and poverty in Toronto (and Loblaw's contribution to said).


• At the Toronto Star, Shawn Micallef describes how high property values in Toronto discourage open-air parking lots.


• Noor Javed looks, in Toronto Star, at the question of who authorized the cathedral elevated cow statue in Cathedraltown, in Markham.


• The Star's Fatima Syed shares some old memories of Torontonians of the Centreville carousel, soon to be sold off.


• At The Globe and Mail, Dakshana Bascaramurty takes a look at Jamaican patois, Toronto black English, and the many complex ways in which this language is received.