[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Pickering, Durham, Delta, Cairo, Yarmouk

[rfmcdonald]

• Angela Bischoff at NOW Toronto is right to make the point/u> that the disposal of the nuclear waste from the Pickering plant is a major issue, though I do not think this waste disproves the case for the plant.


• Durham Region is set to experience something of a marijuana boom when cannabis production becomes legalized. The Toronto Star reports.


• The mayor of the British Columbian community of Delta is concerned marijuana might displace food production on scarce, and wants regulation to prevent this. Global News reports.


• Mother Jones notes the terrible damage that Ben Carson has inflicted, as housing secretary, on low-income residents of a development in embattled Cairo, Illinois.


• Open Democracy's Budour Hassan pays tribute to Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria recently destroyed by the civil war that once was a capital of the diaspora.