[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Hamilton, Montréal, Lorain, Buenos Aires, Jakarta

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• Tensions between the LGBTQ communities of Hamilton and the police remain high. Global News reports.


• The federal government will be providing funding for the new Great West Park of Montréal. CTV News reports.


• CityLab looks at the hometown of Toni Morrison, the Ohio community of Lorain, here.


• Guardian Cities looks at the question of how, or whether, a Buenos Aires slum should become an official neighbourhood, here.


• Guardian Cities reports on a small neighbourhood, Cosmo Park, built on top of a shopping mall in Jakarta, here.