[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Ottawa, Moncton, New York City, Calgary, Richmond

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• The Ottawa Citizen reports on the first week of the Confederation Line LRT.


• The New Brunswick city of Moncton now has new affordable housing--20 units--for vulnerable people. Global News reports.


• CityLab looks at one photographer's perspective of the New York City skyline, changed by the 9/11 attacks.


• An alleyway in Calgary is being transformed by art. Global News reports.


• Birth tourism might become an election issue in the British Columbia city of Richmond. Global News reports.