[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Don River park, safety, Soroush Mahmudi, TTC and King Street

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• blogTO notes impressive plans for a grand new park at the mouth of the Don River, by Lake Ontario.


• Toronto, happily for its residents, happens to be the fourth-safest major city in the world by one ranking. CTV reports
  
• This account of the life Soroush Mahmudi, one of the victims of the Church-Wellesley serial killer, as told by his wife is heartbreaking. The Toronto Star has it.


• This Katie Daubs account at the Toronto Star of Al Falcone, the King Street restaurateur who is leading protest against the transit project on that corridor, is entertaining reading, at least.


• Edward Keenan makes the suggestion that the street hockey players protesting King Street's transit are missing the point. With the street freed up, what other non-traffic uses could it serve? The Toronto Star has it.