[LINK] Some Friday news links

[rfmcdonald]

I've almost cleared out my backlog.

• AFP reports that the Inuit are upset that they've not been included as participants in an upcoming conference of Arctic foreign ministers.


• The Toronto Star announces that despite recent regulations limiting the number of bars in the neighbourhood, Ossington Avenue's art scene is still going.


• Wired speculates on Google's future in China, everything from full collaboration to exiting the country altogether.


• This Associated Press article distinguishes between Eurozone countries (like France and Germany) with dynamic and diversified economies, and the PIGS which remain depressed and--at least in Spain's case--might face a lost decade.


• Europeans are, indeed, starting to wonder how a country could leave the Eurozone (answer: not without financial collapse). The threat may be used to justify a closer fiscal union of the currency bloc.


• The Turkish president threatened to expel the hundred thousand Armenian migrants estimated to be in Turkey if Armenians continue to push for recognition of the Armenian genocide.


• Britain, it appears, is being pointed to Canada as an example of what might happen if the country gets a hung parliament (presumably with the Liberal Democrats increasing their share.)


• Diplomats suggest that Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich might have the pull and credibility with Russia and Ukraine's Russophones necessary to move towards the European Union and consolidate the nation-state.


• Great. Apparently there are entire lakes of methane-producing bacteria) beneath the Antarctic ice, jsut waiting to surface.


• In Gatineau, the Francophone suburb of ottawa on the Québec side of the Ottawa River, a growing number of immigrants is starting to settle in.


• Jeff Rubin makes the point that the Canadian dollar is now a petrocurrency, and that this petrocurrency is seriously hurting manufacturing in central Canada and, indeed, most of the rest of the country save Alberta.


• A Canadian astronomer took a picture of the Soviet Lunokhod-2 unmanned moon rover, on the Moon.


• Privatize the TTC, one Toronto Life writer asks? Why not?


• The Pacific Mall, an Asian-themed mall located just north of Toronto, hopes to double its size.