[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: homelessness, Port Lands, housing, Winter Stations, Cracked Wheat

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• There will be a new shelter for homeless youth in Scarborough soon, capable of housing several dozen people. CBC reports.


• Christopher Hume at the Toronto Star suggests that much of the controversy, at least, over Google's plans in the Port Lands is misjudged.


• Tess Kalinowski at the Toronto Star shares some locally new ideas for increasing housing supply.


• Winter Stations is back this winter at Ashbridge's Bay! Global News reports.


• Sarah Ratzlaff at Spacing interviews sculptor Shary Boyle about her new work, Cracked Wheat, on display in front of the Gardiner Museum.