Big projects like Sidewalk Labs’s Quayside in Toronto are challenges worth accepting; Councillor calls on city to mull vacancy tax after man does own study of empty condos; Former Toronto Hydro building becomes refugee shelter, thanks to Iranian-Canadian immigrants; and more news:

Big projects like Sidewalk Labs’s Quayside in Toronto are challenges worth accepting (Globe and Mail)

Councillor calls on city to mull vacancy tax after man does own study of empty condos (CBC News)

Former Toronto Hydro building becomes refugee shelter, thanks to Iranian-Canadian immigrants (Global News)

East Toronto's Thorncliffe Park is getting a new health and wellness hub (Toronto.com)

Mississauga council to reconsider retail pot after mayor ‘startled’ by illegal cannabis outlets in city (Toronto Star)

Riots, raids and rounding up ‘enemy aliens’: how soldiers back from the front rocked Toronto’s Chinatown (Toronto Star)

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