[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO shares photos from Yorkdale Mall during its power outage Saturday.


• blogTO reports that Toronto hosts, by one measurement, one of the biggest housing bubbles in the world.


• The story of how a neighbourhood project painted over the Ossington Laneway, vandalizing the graffiti there, is a sad one. blogTO has it.


• Judging by his filmed confession, the only chance Alek Minassian has to avoid a very lengthy prison sentence is a perhaps-unlikely insanity plea. CBC reports.


• NOW Toronto reports on the climate strike protests held Friday in Toronto.


• The Toronto Star reports on the mass protests held on Sunday to keep homophobic Christians from marching into Church and Wellesley.


• Steve Munro reports on the statistical sleight of hand apparently used to make the TTC Bombardier streetcars of the TTC look better.