[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Canada humour, Guelph, Batawa, Laval, McAdam

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• The Beaverton gets it right, I think, with this fictional sketch of a man from Smiths Falls who is seen as becoming a big-city type by moving to Brockville.


• That Guelph now has a space for the sacred fires of Indigenous peoples is surely a good thing. Global News reports.


• Urban Toronto reports on the unexpected modernist homes in the cottage country community of Batawa.


• La Presse reports that, to cope with winter snow, the city of Laval had to order salt from Morocco.


• This Global News article looks at how residents of the New Brunswick community of McAdam are trying to save it from decline.