[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Videoflicks, ghost service, Rob Ford football, parks, real estate

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that video rental store Videoflicks, on Avenue Road, is set to close down.


• The TTC, blogTO notes, has begun "ghost service" on its half-dozen new subway stations.


• Edward Keenan thinks that we may as well name a football stadium after Rob Ford. Why not? If it makes Ford Nation feel better ...


• Spacing Toronto features John Lorinc looking at how community parks organizations, like at Ramsden, can exclude outsiders.


• VICE notes on recent study suggesting the real estate market of Toronto is the most overvalued of world cities.