[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Quayside, St. James Town, condo safety, Coal Bin, homelessness

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• Marco Chown Oved reports at the Toronto Star on how Sidewalk Labs wants to expand its vision for Quayside, taking over not only the entire Port Lands but taxation power, too.


• St. James Town has been having a terrible string of failures recently. CTV News reports on one of these.


• The recent "chair girl" episode, CBC Toronto notes, has highlighted again issues with Airbnb and with condo living.


• Chris Bateman at CityLab explores the history of the Coal Bin, an early 1970s "fern bar" in the Financial District that was the first singles bar open to women in Toronto.


• Peter Biesterfield writes at NOW Toronto about the scope of the Toronto homelessness crisis, and the lack of meaningful public action to deal with it.