[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Richmond Hill, Kingston, Hamilton, Québec City, Lunenburg

[rfmcdonald]

• I really have to get up to Richmond Hill soon, if only to see the reopened David Dunlap Observatory. The Toronto Star reports.


• The City of Kingston and Queen's University, Global News reports, are going to collaborate to try to prevent street parties. (Student ghetto issues continue, I see.)


• blogTO provides an ambitious, if perhaps expensive, itinerary for a visit 48 hours long to Hamilton, Ontario, here.


• Gentrification is starting to place pressure on residents of some neighbourhoods in Québec City. (I am somewhat surprised by this, given that city's relative insulation from North American trends.) CBC reports.


• National Observer notes how Lunenburg, in Nova Scotia, is taking a stand against unregulated offshore drilling.