Canada’s Housing Bubble : An Accident Waiting to Happen. Report by the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives. Some interesting data on migration, income, and GDP for Toronto and Vancouver.

How panhandlers use free credit cards – thestar.com. reporter gave people $50 prepaid credit cards to see what happens.

Adoption interrupted – The Star. about “disrupted” adoptions in toronto.

G20 Protests in Toronto – The Big Picture. a random collection.

Canada Agog at Security Price Tag for Summit – NYTimes.com. The Battle of Seattle only caused $3M in property damage. So zero police presence probably would have kept the “anarchists” at bay and even if they caused $30M in damage we could have easily saved several hundred millions in costs.

Oops! Councillor’s mistake derails bike lanes on University Ave. – The Globe and Mail. A councillor accidentally voted ‘yes’ instead of ‘no’ to the opposition bill. I didn’t think my opinion of city councillors could find new lows. I was wrong.

HotDocs Doc Library. the hotdocs film festival has a site where you can watch a ton of documentaries from past festivals including one of my all-time hotdocs faves Lifelike (about competitive taxidermists and highly entertaining).

thestar.com iPhone : Raj Patel coming to Toronto for free talk. looks interesting. author of The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy. via josh.

Duggan’s Brewery. new brew-pub in downtown toronto.

Farmers fleeing Ontarios Greenbelt – The Globe and Mail. animal farmers specifically but issue discusses farmer’s at large in the greenbelt. it’s a shame the GTA doesn’t get more of its produce from the greenbelt.

Not a Tax Grab After All: CCPA report on HST | Canadian Capitalist. nice commentary on the sheer hysteria around the HST and a report for the Center for Policy Alternatives calling it a good policy change.

Urban Tree Salvage. shop in scarborough that makes stuff from reclaimed wood in toronto.

Stopping to Take in Yonge Street – Torontoist. stop motion video of walking the entire length of Yonge street.

Brewer works up a good head of Steam – The Globe and Mail. nice little write-up on steamwhistle’s business philosophy.

Portland’s roadside eats – The Globe and Mail. great write-up about the variety of street food vendors in Portland. Too bad Toronto just has piles of generic hot dogs.

Slim Fit – Homes – Dwell. a gorgeous narrow home in roncesvalles. accompanying slideshow. via wes.

CBC News – Toronto – Maple Leaf Gardens deal means renewal. it’s going to be part athletic center for Ryerson University and part Loblaws grocery store. That’s a good thing since Metro grocery stores are pretty terrible.

Vidque.com – Popular Online Videos. Lukas relaunched nizmlab with a bunch of new stuff and a new name. make sure you watch the intro video.

Euclid Avenue House by Levitt Goodman Architects » CONTEMPORIST. here in toronto. pretty cool roof.

The Lee’s Palace Mural is Dead! Long Live the Lee’s Palace Mural! – Torontoist. i can’t believe they just threw the old one out. via ram