[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Niagara Falls, Montréal, Vancouver, Lisbon, Naples

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• Gilbert Ngabo writes about how Niagara Falls, New York, would love the GO Train to cross the border into his city, his article featuring in the Niagara Falls Review.


• Michelle Da Silva writes at NOW Toronto about how the Montréal Igloofest is such a great idea.


• The tax on empty homes in Vancouver may yet be increased, to discourage speculation. Global News reports.


• Guardian Cities notes how tensions between police and locals in the Bairro do Jamaico in Lisbon reveal problems of integration for African immigrants and their descendants.


• CityLab notes how the popular novels of Elena Ferrante may drive gentrification in the Naples neighbourhood of Rione Luzzatti.