[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Vaughan, Markham, Hamilton, Vancouver and Seattle, Melbourne

[rfmcdonald]

• The cancellation of some condos being built at the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre has left their buyers unhappy, and justifiably so. The Toronto Star reports.


• The rapid growth of Vaughan and Markham, to the north of Toronto, is of international note. The Conversation has it.


• Kathleen Wynne is promising to protect (what's left of) the Hamilton steel industry. CBC reports.


• A direct air shuttle between Vancouver and Seattle is a good thing, but I think that cross-border area would be even better served by some sort of mass transit link. Global News has it.


• Melbourne, that city of Australia, is facing familiar issue of growth and livability. The Guardian has it.