[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Wayne, Sydney, Istanbul, Irkutsk

[rfmcdonald]

• Controversy continues over the construction of a commuter rail link in Montréal's West Island. Global News reports.


• The New Jersey town of Wayne is going to have to adjust to an economy without Toys R Us, based there. Bloomberg reports.


• Property prices have fallen in Sydney for the seventh month in a row, those prices outside Sydney are rising. Bloomberg reports.


• Plans to construct a new shipping canal through the Bosphorus, at Istanbul, may have negative effects for the strait and the city. National Geographic reports.


• The Guardian takes a look at the Siberian city of Irkutsk, a metropolis that apparently can lay claim to a long tradition of cultural and other dissent, here.