[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Infinity Mirrors, TTC, tourism, Pete Forde, Shermans

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• blogTO notes that the Art Gallery of Canada has begun crowdfunding to purchase one of the famed Infinity Mirror rooms of Yayoi Kusama.


• Ben Spurr notes at the Toronto Star that the TTC has begun shipping its new streetcars from Bombardier back to Québec for repairs.


• Toronto has lost out significantly, CBC reports, due to the cancellation of a visitor's rebate intended to drive international tourism more than a decade ago.


• Katherine Laidlaw at Toronto Life has an extended feature on Pete Forde, a man who casually violated the privacy of his tenants--even friends--with modern surveillance tech. Why did he do it?


• Matthew Campbell at Bloomberg writes about the strange circumstances surrounding the murder late last year of billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman, a crime that so far is unsolved.