[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Bombardier, Quayside, intersections, Scarborough, raccoons

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• In the wake of the systematic welding faults in Bombardier's streetcars delivered to the TTC, what can be said but that Bombardier is a terrible vendor? Ben Spurr reports for the Toronto Star.


• This extended article by Nancy Scola at Politico of the immense Google operation at Quayside, its problems and its goals, is worth reading.


• Many Toronto intersections, I can personally testify, are frightening. (The junction of Annette and Dupont with Dundas West comes to my mind.) The Toronto Star reports.


• This Scarborough name sign does seem like it'd be fun to visit. NMOW Toronto reports.


• Poor Toronto raccoons: Our food, scavenged by them, is making them ill. The National Post reports.