[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto notes: elections, Parkdale, poverty, and three Torontos

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• John Lorinc at Spacing takes a look at how demographic change, including economic polarization, may influence the 2018 municipal elections in Toronto.


• Laurie Monsebraaten reports on the growing income polarization of different neighbourhoods and communities in Toronto, over at the Toronto Star.


• Liam Barrington-Bush discusses, at NOW Toronto, the possibility of a massive new development at King and Dufferin being the tipping point for the gentrification of wider Parkdale.


• Joe Mihevc shares with NOW Toronto some of his strategies for fighting poverty in Toronto.