[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Brampton, Kitchener, Waterloo, Montréal, Sainte-Marte, Detroit ...

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• Sean Marshall considers how recent changes in provincial policy are affecting the Ontario city of Brampton.


• There is some interest in the city of Kitchener in deeper integration of the Kitchener-Waterloo region, though not necessarily amalgamation. Global News reports.


• The Waterloo Record notes that Waterloo city council has voted unanimously against amalgamation.


• Taylor Noakes at CBC Montreal notes that a revived Expos baseball team, whartever its other merits, would not be an economic asset for the city.


• Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, unaccountably, was built on a lakebed regardless of the flooding risks. CBC Montreal reports.


• The Detroit Free Press looks at the impressive former home of Patti Smith in suburban St. Clair Shores.


• Guardian Cities reports on the upset of residents in Newcastle at a recent claim that their city's high street is the worst one in the United Kingdom.