[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: office budgets, St. James Town, 1887, Christmas Market, Kringlewood

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• Toronto city council has boosted office budgets to try to compensate for the increased workloads that have come about as a result of the expanded wards. The Toronto Star reports.


• Many people in high-rise St. James Town are concerned by the possibility of a new high-rise condo tower, 50 stories high, in their neighbourhood. The Toronto Star reports.


• Jamie Bradburn takes a look at how, in the run-up to Christmas in 1887, the Toronto press was covering the holiday season.


• VICE sent one of its journalists out for an entire day to the Christmas Market in the Distillery District. What effect did it have on them?


• Inglewood Drive, in midtown Moore Park, has embarked again on its street-long Christmas decoration. blogTO reports.