[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Bruce McArthur, global warming, homelessness, Dufferin Street, TTC

[rfmcdonald]

• CBC reports on what is going on one year after the arrest of Bruce McArthur.


• r/Toronto shares this image showing how recorded temperatures in the Toronto area have been rising for well over a decade. This is surely not only the heat island effect, here.


• Tanya Mok at blogTO notes how an abandoned food court on Queen West has been taken over by homeless people seeking shelter.


• Donovan Vincent at the Toronto Star does a good job exploring how Dufferin Street, from the waterfront to points far north, is becoming a hub for densification. Is infrastructure--like transit--ready?


• Steve Munro takes a detailed look at the $C 33 billion the Toronto Transit Commission will need over the next 15 years. What will it need to do? Where will the money come from?