[URBAN NOTE] Five links on a changing Toronto: the Ward, Yorkville development, school crowding

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• Torontoist introduces its readers to the now-vanished neighbourhood of The Ward.


• The heated discussion of condo development in Yorkville has been taken to the level of community mediation.


• Yorkville is an ever-changing neighbourhood, evolving far past its low-rent hippie days of the 1960s. The Globe and Mail explores.


• NOW Toronto notes how the York Square development in Yorkville is set to be leveled, past value notwithstanding.


• Global News reports on how in some booming neighbourhoods, like Leslieville, local parents cannot find places for kids in local schools.