[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: buses, 592 Sherbourne, Parkdale, planning, Doug Ford

[rfmcdonald]

• Transit Toronto reports on the first electric bus in the TTC, now running the 35 Jane route.


• Toronto Life takes a look at the history of 592 Sherbourne Street, now the restaurant Maison Selby.


• NOW Toronto interviews people in Parkdale protesting against the cuts of Doug Ford.


• John Lorinc at Spacing looks at the many problems with the Doug Ford alteration of city and provincial planning.


• blogTO observes that this year's iteration of Ford Fest is going, inevitably, to be very political.