[URBAN NOTE] William's Harbour, Kingston (Ontario and New York), Halifax, New York City

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• Lindsay Jones and Darren Calabrese explore the last days of Williams Harbour, a now-abandoned Labrador outpost, over at MacLean's.


• The massive success of mass transit in Kingston, Ontario, pleases me. Global News reports.


• This VICE feature shows how the people of Kingston, New York, celebrate their town's destruction by the British in the War of American Independence, here.


• Brett Bundale explores how Haligonians only began engaging with the painful memories of the Halifax Explosion a half-century after its occurrence, over</> at Global News.


• The case that New York City's subway should not be a 24-hour service, to allow for basic maintenance (among other things), seems a strong one. VICE reports.