[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Toronto Queer Theatre Festival, Junction, Shevchenko, 1926, suicide

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• Drew Rowsome reviews the offerings at the Toronto Queer Theatre Festival, here.


• blogTO notes the displeasure of the Junction at the removal of a wooden train platform, become a community hub, for condo construction.


• Bloor West Village, blogTO notes, hosts a museum--newly reopened in a new location--devoted to the poetry of Taras Shevchenko.


• Jamie Bradburn looks at vintage Toronto ads, these from the parties contending 1926 federal election.


• In this long-form CBC feature, Ioanna Roumeliotis writes about the new things the TTC is doing to try to prevent suicides on the subway tracks.