[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Mississauga, Buffalo, Surrey, Helsinki

[rfmcdonald]

• CBC reports on a terrible hate crime committed against a Mississauga man.


• The second Jollibee in the GTA, this one in Mississauga, is slated to open tomorrow. blogTO reports.


• Making an old elementary school in Buffalo into a platform for solar panels and community activities is ingenious. Curbed reports.


• MacLean's reports on how a growing community of feral peacocks is complicating life for people in the British Columbia city of Surrey, here.


• This description in Guardian Cities of the new central library in Helsinki makes this place, and Finland's thriving library culture, sound very attractive.