[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Halifax, Edmonton, Vancouver, Singapore

[rfmcdonald]

• CBC notes the perplexing case of Matt Whitman, a Halifax city councilor who has the astonishingly bad luck to keep accidentally retweeting racists and white nationalists.


• Global News reports on the redevelopment of land of an Edmonton church into affordable housing for immigrants.


• Global News reports on some Vancouverites who believe new city housing policies are discriminating against those with second homes in the city.


• The redevelopment of Vancouver's Oakridge Mall into a modern new high-density district sounds amazing. The Globe and Mail has it.


• Apparently it actually is possible to pull off a rave in Singapore. One mastermind reports on how it happened, from VICE.