[URBAN NOTE]Seven city links: Ottawa, Montréal, NYC, Calgary and Edmonton, Vancouver, Sao Paulo ...

[rfmcdonald]

• Ottawa mayor Jim Watson vows to vix the LRT Confederation Line. Global News reports.


• Home-buyers in Montréal are having to buy outside of the city, in the West Island and even the mainland. The Montreal Gazette reports.


• VICE looks at the legacy of Michael Stewart, a New York City graffiti artist famously killed in the 1980s, here.


• The LRT projects in Calgary and Edmonton are currently facing terrible uncertainty thanks to new legislation. Global News reports.


• New maps show the great damage that could be caused by sea level rise in Metro Vancouver. Global News reports.


• Spacing reports on an amazing graphic novel biography of Sao Paulo.


• Guardian Cities looks at the problematic gentrification of Soweto, here.

Comments

[dewline]

4. Kenney sees the improvement of public transit in Albertan cities as a threat to his main backers. Therefore, measures like this were in the works from day one of his campaign to become premier. Promises he never intended to admit to until it was too late for Edmonton and Calgary to avoid his keeping them at those cities' expense. The relationship is as toxic as between Ford and Toronto, after its own fashion.

5. I'm mildly surprised that New Westminster isn't in the red along with Delta, Richmond, the main airport, etc..

And managed retreat is going to be a problem of logistics and trauma psychology, isn't it?

What about Vancouver Island? I have friends and relatives there too. I suspect that one of those is going to lose their house if they don't sell it...