[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Hillsborough, Derry, Paris, Mecca

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• La Presse looks at the challenges facing changing Lachine-Est, here.


• The small New Brunswick town of Hillsborough may lose its only grocery store. Global News reports.


• Guardian Cities looks at the vexed question of how, or if, the Northern Ireland city of Derry should celebrate its political murals.


• Guardian Cities notes that Paris will soon host a substantial rooftop farm.


• Tom van Laer and Elif Izberk-Bilgin at The Conversation explain why reviews of facilities in holy cities, like Mecca, tend to be so inflated.