[URBAN NOTE] Five notes: Saint John, Vancouver, Peterborough, Halifax, Point Hope

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• The mayor of Saint John, in New Brunswick, wants to attract migrants from Canada's richer but more expensive cities. Global News reports.


• Vancouver wants to keep old businesses in its Chinatown going, so as to keep as much of the old community as active as possible. Global News reports.


• Peterborough's low-income community now has a periodical, The River Magazine, to represent their issues. Global News reports.


• Assembly of the first Arctic patrol ship in a planned program has been completed in the Halifax Shipyard. CBC reports.


• The Alaskan community of Point Hope now finds itself, at least partly because of global warming and the interests of financiers, with all of the Internet bandwidth it could ever want. The New York Times reports.