[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: incubators, Bloordale, real estate, migration, Rosedale

[rfmcdonald]

• The universities of Toronto--U of T, Ryerson, York--turn out to provide some of the best university-based incubators of high-tech business in the world. CBC reports.


• blogTO notes that a new condo development at Bloor and Dufferin, in Bloordale just where it meets Bloorcourt, is being criticized for excessive density and a lack of community facilities.


• Edward Keenan notes that Patrick Brown was right in talking about real estate affordability in Toronto as a problem. Why aren't other people following him (in this, at least)? The Toronto Star has it.


• Royson James reports on how a Seventh-Day Adventist church in western Toronto not only helped integrate immigrants from the Caribbean, but set a model for others. The Toronto Star has it.


• Dave Leblanc writes about how Rosedale was introduced to the International Style by the 1944 Hobbs Sun House, over at The Globe and Mail.