[PHOTO] Looking south at Yonge and Bloor, January 2009

I found this photograph while I was deep in my Flickr archives, taken on a wet cool day in January of 2009 as I was looking south at Yonge Street. What surprised me, when I found the image, in that so little has changed: the Basis condo on the southeast corner of Yonge and Bloor remains unstarted, the Stollery's on the southwest corner remains, and so on. The only change is that the condo on the left side has been completed.

[DM] "On potentially unsustainable immigration in Singapore"

I've a post up at Demography Matters taking a look at the very unpopular plans of the Singaporean government to counter population aging and eventual decrease with massive immigration. Singaporean demographic policy generally--at least the desire to maintain higher levels of fertility--is compromised by its economic policies which make family life difficult. Singapore's government needs to adopt smarter policies than unlimited replacement migration to compensate for the problems it imposes on its citizenry.