[URBAN NOTE] Four notes from Canadian cities: Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Kingston

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• Global News reports that The Atlantic Trap & Grill, a restaurant in Edmonton that caters to a particularly Atlantic Canadian demographic, is set to close down on account of the slowing provincial economy.


• Old shopping malls and grocery stores, like Calgary Co-op, are seeing the value in taking the vast amounts of real estate locked up in their parking lots and freeing them for denser neighbourhood development. CBC reports.


• Got Bannock?, a Winnipeg group that provides free meals to that city's homeless including supplies of that bread, has celebrated its fifth anniversary. Global News reports.


• The Kent Monkman art exhibition, Shame & Prejudice, is currently taking up residents in the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery in Kingston's Queen University. Kingstonians are lucky--trust me, it's a great exhibit. (I saw it at U of T.) Global News reports.