[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Ottawa, Montréal, Halifax, Peripignan, Helsinki

• The Confederation LRT line, happily, has opened in Ottawa. Global News reports.
• Dorchester Square in Montréal will feature an open-air gallery for emerging artists. CTV reports.
• How, exactly, will the crane that collapsed in Halifax in Dorian be removed? CBC reports.
• Guardian Cities tells the story of how Gypsies in Perpignan resisted gentrification, here.
• Atlas Obscura reports on the summer custom, in Helsinki, of families cleaning their carpets with salt water on piers.