[NEWS] Some (more) Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

And here's some news links.

• What would the 2010 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics have looked like, the Canadian Press' Stephanie Levitz wonders?


• The Times of London's writes about the struggles facing the rapidly growing Latvian immigrant community of the United Kingdom throw a series of interviews with members of the community in the city of Peterborough.


• The Globe and Mail's Patrick White writes about Winnipeg's ugly, badly-designed and unhealthy Public Safety Building, an artifact of mid-20th century North American architectural brutalism that (I hope) will get torn down for everyone's good.


• The New York Times covers the reaction to new legislation in Catalonia mandating the dubbing of at least half the copies of all film imported from outside of the European Union in the Catalan language. No one really knows the consequences of this; the subject of Catalan in film really hasn't been prominent before now.


• The National Post's Peter Kuitenbrouwer writes about how Toronto's growing language diversity is complicating the interactions of city government with an increasingly multilingual citizenry.


• CBC reports on how the sight of an Acadian tricolour flag at the Olympics gold medal final hockey game led to a successful online search for the anonymous flagwaver.