[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: TTC, Port Lands, homelessness, Wilfrid Laurier, affordable housing

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• The upload of the TTC from Toronto to Ontario may well prove which level of government can do a better job of building transit, the city or the province, Ben Spurr notes at the Toronto Star.


• Businesses in Toronto's Port Lands welcome increased development, for understandable reasons. The Toronto Star reports.


• NOW Toronto notes that John Tory neglects mental health as not a cause but a consequence of homelessness, given the extraordinary stresses that imposes on people.


• Jamie Bradburn looks at how Toronto responded to the death of former prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier back in 1919.


• Cheryll Case at the Broadbent Blog notes the negative effect that the Finch and Eglinton LRTs can have on affordable housing in northwestern Toronto, where Toronto's black populations are most concentrated.