[LINK] Some Saturday lnks

[rfmcdonald]

It's Saturday, yes, but I've been busy and I'm here and you're here, so here we go again.

• blogTO's Christopher Reynolds points to a new Korean neighbourhood in Toronto at Yonge and Finch, apparently known as "North Korea" due to its northerly location as opposed to Koreatown ("South Korea") at Bloor and Christie.


• The Bloor-Lansdowne Blog has a picture of a basketball game in Dufferin Grove park, one of the several Toronto parks with very heavy communtiy involvement.


• Crooked Timber suggests that convergent US and EU unemployment rates show that labour flexibility laws don't really mean that much in regards to unemployment levels generally. Thoughts?.


• The Invisible College's Richard Normam writes about the scale of the economic collapse in Zimbabwe, as witnessed from Harare.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money's Robert Farley blogs about China's apparent willingness to copy, without any credit at all, Russian military technology (here, carrier-based fighters).


• Normblog reacts to the recent conviction in Montréal of Rwandan Désiré Munyaneza for crimes against humanity comitted during the Rwandan genocide, and its relationship to the principle of universal jurisdiction.


• According to Noel Maurer at The Power and the Money, Brazil is considering building a high-speed rail link between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The economics might well work here, at least.


• Spacing Toronto's Jake Schabas blogs about the forgotten hamlet of Elmbank, a Toronto suburban community obliterated by industrial expansion.


• Window on Eurasia reports that some Abkhazians are afraid of being absorbed by their Russian sponsor.