[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: real estate, Public Space Incubator, Miniso, transparency

[rfmcdonald]

• Joe Castaldo at MacLean's considers if, with more stringent rules on development and mortgages and foreign ownership, the real estate boom in the Greater Toronto Area might be ending.


• Apparently instances of owners evicting tenants on the grounds that they would like to use these spaces for themselves are on the rise. blogTO reports.


• blogTO notes a new institution in Toronto, the Public Space Incubator, that will provide funding to individuals and groups with innovative ideas as to what can be done with public spaces in the city.


• Japanese-themed Chinese discount store chain Miniso will be opening a new location in the Eaton Centre. blogTO reports.


• Edward Keenan makes the argument that more transparency is needed in Toronto politics, the better to ensure a better understanding by the public as to how the political process works, over at the Toronto Star.