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- A historic bridge over the Credit River in Mississauga, happily, will not be demolished but instead will be repaired. CBC reports.
- Now that automobile production has stopped at the Oshawa General Motors plant, what will become of that city? CBC reports.
- The auditor-general of Ontario will investigate the claimed costs that led to the cancellation of the Hamilton LRT. Global News reports.
- A new bus route now connects London, Ontario, to Sarnia. Global News reports.
- Kingstonist reports that filming for the season finale of Star Trek: Discovery has just finished up in Kingston, at the pen.
- Joe Buongiorno writes at CBC Montreal at his, specifically Italian Canadian, experiences with the Jean Talon Market in Montréal.
- Le Devoir notes that many radio stations in Québec City are leading opposition to the proposed streetcar system.
- Hamilton, Ontario, now has a wall open to public street art. Global News reports.
- An early immigrant to Kingston, Ontario, explains what it was like to move to this eastern Ontario hub. Global News reports.
- MTL Blog notes that Montréal mayor has cancelled the construction of a condo tower because it was not including social housing.
- A museum exhibit in Saskatoon is offering free HIV testing and blood donation services in the fight against stigma. Global News reports.
- Ellen Mauro at CBC explains to readers the movement to make Washington D.C. into the 51st American state.
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- MacLean's reports from the GTA suburban city of Milton, a key battleground in the federal election.
- Hamilton police continues to be caught up in controversy over its handling of Pride. Global News reports.
- CityLab profiles new murals being created in New York City's Harlem, on 125th street, here.
- Guardian Cities considers some ambitious plans for remodeling Mexico City, with vast new neighbourhoods and airports, which never came off.
- Atlas Obscura looks at a notable library of books and other documents in the Yiddish language, housed out of a decrepit bus terminal in Tel Aviv.
- Hamilton, Ontario, leads the country in reports of hate crimes. The National Post reports.
- Cyclists are 42 times as likely to be ticketed for traffic violations in Montréal than in Toronto. CTV News reports.
- CBC considers if the city of Ottawa loosened unduly its requirements for its new light rail networks.
- A new report suggests that economics of a central Canadian high-frequency rail route would work better if Québec City was not included. CTV reports.
- CityLab looks at nostalgia in Los Angeles for that city's old comprehensive paper map, the Thomas Guide.
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- Tensions between the LGBTQ communities of Hamilton and the police remain high. Global News reports.
- The federal government will be providing funding for the new Great West Park of Montréal. CTV News reports.
- CityLab looks at the hometown of Toni Morrison, the Ohio community of Lorain, here.
- Guardian Cities looks at the question of how, or whether, a Buenos Aires slum should become an official neighbourhood, here.
- Guardian Cities reports on a small neighbourhood, Cosmo Park, built on top of a shopping mall in Jakarta, here.
- Real estate in Hamilton, Ontario, is quite affordable by GTA standards. Global News reports.
- Québec City has a new farmer's market to replace an old. CBC reports.
- San Jose, California, is set to embark on a grand experiment in cohousing, CityLab reports.
- These vast abandoned apartment blocks in the desert outside of Tehran speak of economic underperformance, to say the least. Messynessychic has it.
- Now that Hong Kong has not just competition from other cities in China but is finding itself outmatched by the likes of Shenzhen and Shanghai, the city-state's bargaining power is accordingly limited. The SCMP reports.
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- CBC Hamilton reports on the options of the City of Hamilton faced with its having hired a prominent former white supremacist.
- CBC Ottawa reports that flood levels on the Ottawa River have reached record highs.
- The Montreal Gazette considers possible solutions to crowding on the Montréal subway, including new cars and special buses.
- Kingston is preparing for flooding, the city seeing a threat only in certain waterfront districts. Global News reports.
- Vancouver is applying a zoning freeze in a future mass transit corridor. Global News reports.
- CityLab looks at how the post-war dream of mass transit and densification for the Ohio city of Toledo never came about, and how it might now.
- Guardian Cities looks at construction proposals for New York City that never were.
- CityLab looks at how the California ghost town of Bodie is kept in good shape for tourists.
- Vox notes that just over one in ten thousand people in San Francisco is a billionaire.
- Leonid Bershidsky at Bloomberg considers why productivity in Berlin lags behind that in other European capital cities. Could it be that the young workers of Berlin are not devoted to earning income?
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- If you are a subscribing reader to the New York Review of Books, read this Sue Halpern review essay on the public library.
- CBC Hamilton reports on how Ontario provincial cuts will hurt many libraries around Hamilton, especially rural ones.
- Many libraries, in the area of eastern Ontario Kingston and Perth, will also suffer from the cuts. Global News reports.
- This CBC As It Happens interview with Dayna DeBenedet, CEO of the Dryden Public Library, looks at how the cuts will hurt already underserved communities hardest.
- Jane Gerster at Global News notes how the library funding cuts will have a much larger negative economic effect than many might think.
- Police in Hamilton explain why unauthorized marijuana shops are not easy to shut down. Theirs is a city of laws. Global News reports.
- The small Nova Scotia community of Blacks Harbour has lost its only grocery store, presaging perhaps a future of decline. Global News reports.
- New York City is getting congestions pricing for traffic setting a precedent for other cities. VICE reports.
- Roads and Kingdoms is providing some tips to the Australian surfing resort of Byron Bay.
- Bloomberg notes the plight of British immigrant workers in Luxembourg faced with Brexit.
- Rick Zamperin at Global News makes the case for Hamilton to at least investigate the idea of bidding for the 2030 Commonwealth Games.
- HuffPostQuébec hosts the argument for bringing back to the surface, in Montréal on the McGill campus, a stream running down Mount Royal that has been canalized for nearly two centuries.
- Wired highlights the photos of Atlantic City taken by photographer Brian Rose, a city that stands as testimony to the failed promises of Trump.
- DW notes how the French port of Dieppe stands unprepared and vulnerable in the face of Brexit.
- Guardian Cities notes how activists and historians in the Indian city of Bangalore, or Bengaluru, are trying to preserve the ancient stone markets from development.
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- Sean Marshall at TVO notes the limited, if real, potential of a new ride-sharing app to bridge the transit gap between Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, and Hamilton in the west of the Golden Horseshoe.
- CBC Montreal notes delays in the renovation of the Biodôme.
- CityLab notes that in Portland, Maine, volunteering can help one get access to affordable housing, literally.
- CityLab notes how the government of Berlin is set to intervene directly in the housing market to ensure affordability.
- Guardian Cities looks at how Seoul is set to redevelop the districts once at the heart of the South Korean economic miracle.
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- CBC Hamilton profiles an interesting local project, recycling the reclaimed wood from a late 19th century building at 99 James Street North into guitars.
- CBC Kitchener-Waterloo notes that municipal politicians in that conurbation do not want their cities merged into a single unitary Region of Waterloo megacity.
- The popular destination of Prince Edward County, a destination for many from Toronto, is starting to face a shortage of affordable housing. Global News reports.
- CBC Montreal notes a proposal to build a baseball stadium in the underused lands of the Peel Basin. Might the Expos yet return?
- La Presse notes that the bill for Sherbrooke hosting the 2021 Jeux de la Francophonie is estimated to be $C 84 million.
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- CBC Hamilton recently reported on a new Facebook group intended to help Torontonians find their footing in neighbouring Hamilton.
- Will the new designs of the Montreal Alouettes be enough to reverse the CFL team's dwindling fanbase? Global News considers.
- CityLab points to the overlooked architectural heritage of Queens, in New York City.
- Guardian Cities reports on plans to rehabilitate roadside grandstands in Berlin abandoned for nearly a century.
- Georgia Straight reports on a proposal for supposedly affordable rental housing in Vancouver that is no such thing. Below-market rates are not enough when prices are so high already.
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- Ridership on the Hamilton Street Railway is growing but still below projected numbers. Global News reports.
- Residents of the Lincolnshire city of Boston, one of the most pro-Brexit in the United Kingdom, fear Brexit might not happen. Global News reports.
- CityLab notes how the Spanish city of Valencia is doing its best to keep local bee populations thriving.
- Deutsche Welle takes a look at how residents of one village once on the fringes of Moscow have found their environment transformed by massive urbanization.
- Guardian Cities takes a look at the central position played by "Tollywood", the Telugu-speaking film industry's hub, in the fate of a globalizing Hyderabad.
- CBC Hamilton reports on an exciting experiment: For one year, as part of a test holders of Hamilton library cards will enjoy free access to the city's museums.
- The City of Kingston is apparently seeking to rebrand itself. (How, I wonder, is it currently perceived?) Global News reports.
- The National Observer reports on the effect that an influx of tech companies has had on the residents of the Garment District of Montréal.
- Is there a pedestrian safety issue emerging in Halifax? CBC reports.
- Laura Bliss at CityLab reports on why a new tax in Los Angeles aiming to encourage mass transit use has not had that effect.
- Mark Clapham at CityMetric takes an insightful look at the terrifying, dehumanizing, ways in which the fictional Raccoon City was designed.
- Alex Bozikovic writes in The Globe and Mail about the goals of the new chief planner of Hamilton, Jason Thorne, to help grow a dynamic and livable city.
- Guardian Cities looks at how many of the major streets of Chicago trace their ancestry to the trails of indigenous peoples.
- WUWM notes how Milwaukee has the largest concentration of Rohingya refugees in the United States.
- Mira Kamdar at the NYR Daily looks at the agricultural past--and potential future--of the Paris periphery, particularly but not only Seine-Saint-Denis.
- The Hamilton Spectator reports that landlord applications for above-guideline increases in rent have been growing sharply in number, driven by growing demand and by the aging of the housing stock.
- CBC Ottawa shares seven maps of Ottawa and its area which trace the city's development over the previous century and a half and look towards the future.
- The Sun Life Building of Montréal recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. Global News reports.
- VICE shares photos taken by Jacob Fuglsang MIkkelsen in the early 1990s of the contemporary New York City nightclub scene.
- Guardian Cities reports on how the Greek capital of Athens is conducting a survey of its populations of ring-necked parakeets, to see how many of this newly-arrived species are present.
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- Curbed takes a look at the innovative ways in which the city government of Hamilton has helped boost the city's strengths.
- Commonwealth Magazine shares a revived plan from the 1980s to protect Boston from sea level rise by building a great crescent-shaped dike in Boston Harbor.
- CityLab takes a look at New York City's seemingly-inexplicable decision to back down on a years-long closure of the L Train subway line for repair work.
- Guardian Cities notes the controversy in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, about the construction of a Turkish-funded mosque there. Is this but an element of a new Turkish sphere of influence in the western Balkans?
- This fascinating CNN report takes a look at the sheer scale of Chinese influence in Addis Ababa, the booming capital of Ethiopia, on its own terms and as an example of Chinese influence in Africa at large. (The locals, incidentally, find its models quite relevant and wanted.)
- The mayors of Hamilton and Burlington have announced their opposition to any changes to the Ontario Greenbelt legislation, the Toronto Star reports.
- CBC Hamilton reports that units in a prominent downtown apartment building has been converted to condos.
- National Observer looks at the threat that a new Université de Montréal campus in Montréal poses to the Park Extension neighbourhood.
- CityLab takes a look at how the construction of Interstate 95, in Miami, destroyed the black neighbourhood of Overtown.
- The Chinese city of Shenzhen has converted its bus fleet entirely over to electric units, Guardian Cities reports.
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