[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Gatineau, Montréal, Halifax, wild turkey and parakeets, Venice, Kamza

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• The city of Gatineau is going to take land with constructions devastated by flooding and make it into a buffer zone. CBC reports.


• There is controversy around the idea of naming a REM station in Montréal's Griffintown neighbourhood after Bernard Landry. Global News reports.


• Halifax has a third heritage district. Global News reports.


• The wild turkey is now thriving in many American cities, in New Jersey's Toms River and even in Washington D.C. CityLab reports.


• The monk parakeet is thriving in European cities like Madrid and London. CityLab reports.


• The Conversation suggests that Venice may yet benefit from the attention brought to its problems by the recent flooding.


• Guardian Cities looks at the remarkably rapid construction of the city in Albania of Kamza, driven by (among other factors) remittances from emigrants.