[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Iqaluit, Boston and Halifax, Orange County, Rome

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• Some tour guides in Montréal think they should receive more training about their city's indigenous history. CBC reports.


• After an arson that destroyed their warehouse, the Northmart grocery store in Iqaluit has reopened. CBC reports.


• Nova Scotia is preparing to send a Christmas tree to Boston, a seasonal tradition that started as a thank-you to New England for help to Halifax after the Halifax Explosion. Global News reports.


• Orange County, the Los Angeles Times has noted, has ended its history as a Republican stronghold. Demographic change has resulted in irreversible political change.


• Guardian Cities reports on the catastrophic state of public transit in Rome. Perhaps privatization might be a solution for this system.