[URBAN NOTE] Five cities links: Peel Region, Montréal, Ontario Cannabis Store, Homewood, London

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• Chris Rattan argues at NOW Toronto that Peel Region should stop its school resource officer program, embedding cops in schools.


• Montréal mayor Valérie Plante wants to make homebuying more affordable for locals in her city. The Montreal Gazette reports.


• The first four outposts of the Ontario Cannabis Store chain will be in Toronto, Kingston, Guelph, and Thunder Bay. The Toronto Star reports.


• CityLab reports on how the Chicagoland community of Homewood is using comics to market itself to millennial homeseekers, here.


• Why is the homicide rate in London so high? Problems in crime-fighting, including policing and crime prevention both, need to be dealt with. Bloomberg View reports.