[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Markham, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Bay View, Ushuaia

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• blogTO reports on the efforts of York University to try to salvage the Markham campus cancelled by the Ontario provincial government.


• CTV News reports on the Bear Clan Patrol, a First Nations group that has taken to patrolling the streets of Winnipeg to watch out for the ongoing meth crisis.


• The Discourse wonders whether the new city council of Vancouver will be as committed to reconciliation with First Nations as the old one.


• Vice reports on the latest from the Michigan town of Bay View, where there is an almost incomprehensible reluctance among many in that Christian-founded town to allow non-Christians to own property there.


• Matthew Teller at Adventure writes about Ushuaia, the Argentine community that is the southernmost town in the world, and looks at this isolated community's difficulties.