[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Yonge and Eglinton, TD Centre, TTC, budget, Cantonese opera

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• Urban Toronto notes that Yonge and Eglinton is now being torn apart, again, for Eglinton Crosstown construction.


• Chris Bateman writes at CityLab about the singular achievement of Mies Van der Rohe in designing the TD Centre.


• blogTO reports that the TTC has abandoned the policy of collecting personal information from passengers accused of misconduct, an echo of police carding.


• John Lorinc writes at Spacing about ways to reframe the language used in debating the budget of the City of Toronto.


• Arlene Chan at Spacing tells the century-long history of Cantonese opera in Toronto.