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Can I get a side of gentrifries with that?

Restaurants aren’t the cause of gentrification, they’re a symptom By Rachel Braeuer Photos by Jonathan Dry Gentrification talk is hard. On one side, the people getting put down are more often than not small business owners. It’s hard for me to want to tell them to take a hike when a Cara-owned big box could just as easily have gone up where their restaurant now resides. It’s not my intention to argue that DTES residents should let their communities go gentle into that good night; I think they should rage against the dying of the light. But protesting small businesses…

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