[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links: signs, real estate and bigotry, live music venues, saunas

[rfmcdonald]

• Gilbert Ngabo makes the case for 2017 being the year of the sign--or rather, years of signs--for Toronto, over at the Toronto Star.


• Bigoted restrictive contracts for real estate were a real thing in mid-20th century Toronto. The Toronto Star reports.


• At least some live music venues in Toronto are doing OK. The Toronto Star reports.


• Zosia Bielski reports on, and reviews, some of the Russian-style saunas brought to the GTA by immigrants from the former Soviet Union, over at The Globe and Mail.