[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Moss Park, The Junction, McArthur, TTC future, homelessness

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• Tanya Mok writes at blogTO about the evolution of the Moss Park neighbourhood.


• Emily Mathieu at the Toronto Star notes that some tenants in a fire-damaged home in the Junction have returned, despite terrible living conditions, for fear of being priced out of the Toronto rental market.


• The family of McArthur victim Selim Esen has called for an inquiry into police conduct in this case. The Toronto Star reports.


• Francine Kopun and Ben Spurr at the Toronto Star note that the recent breakdown of the Scarborough RT line during last week's storm might hint at worse to come for transit users.


• Justin Haynes at NOW Toronto writes about the horrors of three nights spent in Toronto's Seaton House shelter. What of the people who, unlike him, could not escape?