[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Little Tibet, #650Parliament, Downsview Park, #topoli

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO took a look at the history of Little Tibet, the stretch of Parkdale home to one of the biggest Tibetan communities outside of Asia.


• Extensive electrical issues with 650 Parliament, the property manager claims, will keep that huge tower's inhabitants from their homes for months. Global News reports.


• Urban Toronto notes how the new Downsview Park will make its densifying neighbourhood that much more attractive.


• John Lorinc at Spacing considers the contributions, and possible threats, posed by fringe candidates in this year's mayoral election in Toronto.


• Samantha Beattie at the Toronto Star reports on what some of the candidates who have dropped out of the race following the halving in the number of Toronto's wards are doing now.