[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: opioids, trees, Pioneer Village, language, 20 Jerome Street

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• The chief medical officer of Toronto, Eileen de Villa, has called for the decriminalization of drugs to help deal with the opioid crisis. The Guardian reports.


• Christopher Hume makes the case for Toronto to keep, and enhance, its dense tree coverage, over at the Toronto Star.


• Edward Keenan notes that the failure to find some way to comfortably use the interactive art display at Pioneer Village station is more than unfortunate. The Toronto Star has it.


• Roughly 5% of the population of Toronto lacks fluency in either English or French, making their effective participation in Toronto at large that much more difficult. Global News reports.


• The terracotta-tiled house at 20 Jerome Street may end up being torn down, but people want to preserve the tiles. I'll have to head over myself. Richard Longley at NOW Toronto reports.