[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: High Park, rent, Sri Lanka, vertical farm, Zizek vs Peterson

[rfmcdonald]

• The cherry blossoms of High Park are expected to start blooming earlier than expected, perhaps reaching peak bloom in a week's time. blogTO reports.


• blogTO notes that someone was trying to rent out a bed in an occupied apartment for a rent of $C 600 a month.


• A Toronto Star investigation reveals the prominence of ghost hotels, enabled by Airbnb, in making the rental housing market that much more difficult.


• At NOW Toronto, Liam Barrington-Bush considers what renters in Toronto can learn from their activist counterparts in Berlin and Barcelona.


• Aparita Bhandari wrote at The Discourse about how Sri Lankans living in Scarborough responded to the recent terrible bombings.


• blogTO writes about the new vertical farm set to be built at University of Toronto's Scarborough campus.


• The VICE account of the debate between Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson reveals much.