LOCAL
• Canadian politicians gathered in Vancouver to talk about both the serious stuff (solid waste, housing) and the not-so-serious (Rob Ford! The video!) [State of Vancouver]
• Unhappy B.C. residents fire off questions over coal shipments [Globe and Mail]
• How councillors’ budgets stack up in the wake of the Conflab controversy [Globe and Mail]
• The Latest Urban Development Trend: Less Elbow Room [Wall Street Journal]
• What to do about the Patullo Bridge [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
• Aging fire halls eyed for new rental housing [Vancouver Courier]
CANADA
• ‘A really, really big building’: Calgary heralds opening of The Bow, tallest tower west of Toronto [National Post]
• City Shaping VI: In 21st Century Toronto, There is Momentum [Huffington Post]
INTERNATIONAL
• Do bike helmet laws really save people? [Washington Post]
• A Self-Driving Future [Sightline Daily]
• The New Global Start-Up Cities [The Atlantic Cities]
• That Instrument Known as the Eiffel Tower [New York Times]
• Why the Wall Street Journal Hates Bikes So Much [The Atlantic Wire]