[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: Port Lands, Ontario Place, churches, mass transit, Scarborough

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• Guardian Cities takes a look from afar at the controversy over Google in the Port Lands of Toronto.


• CityLab looks at the debate over the future of Ontario Place in the Doug Ford era.


• Richard Longley at NOW Toronto looks at how six churches in downtown Toronto have survived the condo boom.


• The City of Toronto has blamed the Ontario government for the delayed transition to Presto. The Toronto Star reports.


• Matt Gurney writes at TVO about how Toronto, having coasted by on surplus capacity, is now facing a transit crisis.


• Osobe Waberi writes at The Discourse about the transit desert that dominates much of Scarborough.


• A fourth subway stop has been proposed for the already expensive Scarborough subway extension. The Toronto Star reports.