[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links

• blogTO shares photos from Yorkdale Mall during its power outage Saturday.
• blogTO reports that Toronto hosts, by one measurement, one of the biggest housing bubbles in the world.
• The story of how a neighbourhood project painted over the Ossington Laneway, vandalizing the graffiti there, is a sad one. blogTO has it.
• Judging by his filmed confession, the only chance Alek Minassian has to avoid a very lengthy prison sentence is a perhaps-unlikely insanity plea. CBC reports.
• NOW Toronto reports on the climate strike protests held Friday in Toronto.
• The Toronto Star reports on the mass protests held on Sunday to keep homophobic Christians from marching into Church and Wellesley.
• Steve Munro reports on the statistical sleight of hand apparently used to make the TTC Bombardier streetcars of the TTC look better.

[PHOTO] Looking northwest, Yonge and King

[PHOTO] Looking north, Yonge at Front

[PHOTO] Yonge above Eglinton at a time of construction

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Zanzibar, Chinatown, Golden Mile, beer, ravines

• The story of Toronto nightclub Zanzibar is, indeed, a fascinating one. (Soon to go, with the rest of Yonge Street.) The Toronto Star has it.
• Will gentrification undermine Chinatown, downtown on Spadina Avenue? Global News reports.
• The Golden Mile of Scarborough, along Eglinton Avenue, is set to be radically transformed by development. blogTO reports.
• Oh, why not allow for the sale of beer at some convenience stores in TTC stops? blogTO has it.
• Alireza Nareghi looks in MacLean’s at the threat posed to the ravine environments of Toronto by invasive species, and at what is being done to save them.

[PHOTO] Looking southwest, Yonge and Bloor

[PHOTO] Looking northeast, Yonge at Eglinton