[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: ward boundaries, affordable housing, Bremner, #TorontoStrong

[rfmcdonald]

• Utterly changing the boundaries of Toronto's wards through an unwanted amalgamation just before an election will create chaos. The Toronto Star reports.


• Jennifer Pagliaro notes how the City of Toronto is considering changing its definition of "affordable housing" into something more realistic, over at the Toronto Star.


• Urban Toronto contrasts two photos recently taken on Bremner Boulevard, in the heart of the South Core.


• Steve Maich writes in MacLean's about what tragedies, like the Danforth shooting, do and do not say about cities.


• Enzo Dimatteo at NOW Toronto notes how the alt-right has been making use of the Danforth shooting.

Comments

[dewline]

1. The chaos is itself the goal. Again: an investigation of how Doug Ford became leader of his party is in order. If it's already happening, and the investigators don't want to tip their hand, that's one thing. But if it isn't happening at all...? Not good.

5. This bugs me:

"In any other country, we might call what’s happening fascism. The vitriol certainly resembles the xenophobic hysteria in many countries in Europe. Maybe we’re too polite to come right out and say the f-word, but it’s happening alright. The Brown shirts in training are already confronting people of colour in public.

How did we get so stoopid?"

These would-be brownshirts of the new fascist international have always been among us. Waiting for first their indoctrination, and then their chances to act. Once upon a time, they got away with working the residential school circuit, right?