[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Niagara Falls, Brantford, Regina, Tofino, Port Moody

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• Why are the falls at Niagara Falls so famously compelling, even lethally seductive for some? Some human brains might be confused by the immensity. The National Post reports.


• The extent of the flooding in Brantford, inland from Hamilton on the Grand River, is shocking. The Toronto Star reports.


• The Saskatchewan capital city of Regina turns out to be the McDonald's breakfast capital of Canada. Global News reports.


• This essay in The Globe and Mail by Greg Blanchette looking at the rental housing crunch in the small Vancouver Island town of Tofino describes what's frankly a terrifying situation.


• If not for the fact that the CP Railway owned no property locally, the Vancouver suburb of Port Moody could well have become Canada's biggest west coast metropolis. Global News reports.