[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: crime, politics, mass transit, Old City Hall, renters

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• Florin from G+ was the first person to share the news that someone has been arrested for first-degree murder in the case of the disappearances of two queer men. This is shocking news; I am so sorry for the people affected by these losses. CBC reports.


• Doug Ford is continuing to campaign for the mayoralty, despite an official warning that he should not start campaigning before the campaign legally starts. Ford Nation lives yet. The Toronto Star has the news.


• Global News reports on a new tactic by pro-transit groups to try to get people behind the Downtown Relief Line. Good; we need it.


• Controversy over a bike lane on Yonge Street in North York continues. The Toronto Star reports.


• blogTO reports on the appealing suggestion that Old City Hall might be turned into a library and a museum. I would quite like this, actually.


• Tess Kalinowski reports on how rising rents in Toronto are pushing more people to the 905 region, to Toronto suburbs like Mississauga and Vaughan, over at the Toronto Star.


• John Lorinc at Spacing is harshly critical of an Ontario affordable housing policy that actually does little to ensure affordable rent, giving developers and municipalities effective vetoes over development.