[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Beechwood, Saint John, Moncton, Niagara Falls, Baltimore

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• The Nova Scotia community of Beechwood has been recognized as being of historical significant for its African-Canadian links. Global News reports.


• This Sunday saw the final Masses delivered at three churches in Saint John, new Brunswick, closed down due to rising costs and falling attendance. CBC reports.


• The leaders of New Brunswick's major political parties appeared in Moncton for that city's bilingual Pride festivities. Ici Radio-Canada reports.


• An Ontario NDP MPP has been the latest to complain about the sewage being injected by Niagara Falls, NY, into the Niagara River. CBC reports.


• Guardian Cities reports on how what can only be interpreted as paranoid, even racist, hysteria against outsiders in greater Baltimore's Anne Arundel county is driving a push to reduce service on its light rail system.