[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Toronto Maple Leafs, 1904 fire, Sidewalk Labs, SmartTrack

[rfmcdonald]

• Edward Keenan is quite right to note that the very high prices of Toronto Maple Leafs tickets would be easier to deal with if the games were better. The Toronto Star has it.


• Toronto Guardian shares some archival photos of the great fire that destroyed large swathes of downtown in 1904, here.


• Torontoist notes the surprising and perhaps worrying failure of its reporters to gain access to the City of Toronto's agreement with Sidewalk Labs.


• John Lorinc at Spacing notes how Sidewalk Labs hired fixer John Brodhead, apparently to handle problems with implementation and PR.


• The question asked last week by Steve Munro, asking how SmartTrack will actually be paid for, remains very relevant today.