[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Reese Fallon, guns, Sugar Beach North, Little Ethiopia, Parkdale

[rfmcdonald]

• Reese Fallon, one of the two people killed in the Danforth shooting, was a student hoping to go to the fall to McMaster University to study for a career in nursing. The Toronto Star reports.


• People in some Toronto neighbourhoods with high levels of gun violence welcome an expanded police presence, despite other issues. CBC reports.


• Urban Toronto notes an exciting plan to, among other things, build a Sugar Beach North on the waterfront.


• blogTO talks about Little Ethiopia, on Danforth by Greenwood. Speaking as someone familiar with his Little Ethiopia near Ossington, this area sounds fascinating.


• The Pia Bouman School in Parkdale, a leading dance academy for four decades, is hoping to avoid displacement by new construction. CBC reports.