[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links

[rfmcdonald]

• I do hope Toronto does something with the abandoned foot court on Queen West and John. blogTO reports.


• blogTO looks at the new Villiers Island set to occupy the mouth of the Don River in the Port Lands.


• An Ossington laneway is going to be repainted after a botched improvement project destroyed its public art. The Toronto Star reports.


• Steve Munro fisks a defense by the Toronto Board of Trade of the proposed Ontario Line, here.


• Andrew Cash, sadly not elected in my riding of Davenport, writes in the Toronto Star about the importance of Toronto having active local MPs.


• National Observer looks at how the City of Toronto is encouraging residents grow gardens for pollinators.


• Samantha Edwards writes at NOW Toronto about how the long-closed Paradise on Bloor theatre is set to reopen in December.