[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Google and the Portlands, TTC, Westside Mall, Sahil Jagil

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• Steve Munro examines the complexity of the issues raised by Google's leaked plans for the Port Lands, and the possibility that it overplayed its hand.


• The Toronto Star, incidentally, notes that the Ontario government has reacted strongly and negatively to the Google proposal re: the Port Lands.


• Urban Toronto considers the language of "terms of reference" used in the discussion of uploading the TTC from Toronto to Ontario. What does it all mean?


• Urban Toronto reports on plans to redevelop the Westside Mall driven by the nearby Caledonia Station on the Eglinton Crosstown line.


• Toronto Life tells the story of Sahil Jagil, a man who came to Ontario as a student at Wilfrid Laurier University at 18 and in the next decade and a half managed to create a small property empire in Toronto.