[PHOTO] Dominion Building, Charlottetown

The Dominion Building, located on the southwest corner of Queen and Richmond in downtown Charlottetown, was built in the 1950s to serve as a headquarters for federal government work on Prince Edward Island. This brutalist building never fit in well with the more small-scale and traditional downtown of Charlottetown, and when the federal government moved its offices out a few years ago I expected the building might be torn down. Instead, in 2007 the building was transferred to the Canada Lands Company, which in 2010 sold the building to condo developers.

The Charlottetown Guardian's Dave Stewart reported in March of 2012 that tenants were starting to move in then. A quick search suggests that there have been some complaints, discussion forums about high prices (high for Charlottetown, maybe) and comments in least one blog post complaining about building issues.

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• The Big Picture shares pictures of Muslims around the world celebrating the beginning of Ramadan.


• BlogTO notes that RuPaul recently visited Toronto.


• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait explores the star SBW1, a star about to go supernova.


• D-Brief and io9 both report on the recent successful womb transplants in Sweden.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that, on re-analysis, the very old star HIP13044 does not have a hot Jupiter.


• Geocurrents' Asya Pereltsvaig notes the prominence of Ukrainian ultranationalists--the Svoboda party--in the ongoing protests in Ukraine.


• Joe. My. God., Towleroad, and the Volokh Conspiracy all note the recent passage of very strongly anti-gay laws in Nigeria, laws which prohibit even social gatherings. David Mixner's analysis at Towleroad should be read.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money is skeptical about the excessive hyping of masculinity by authors claiming to be very masculine.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer takes a look at how Syrian refugees are doing. (Surprising fact: apparently one-third of people living in Lebanon are Syrian refugees.>


• Towleroad notes that Luxembourg is likely to get married equality by the end of the year and links to a Vice documentary on hidden gay life in Russia.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes the recent conviction of a Mauritanian on charges of apostasy. He now faces the death penalty.


• Window on Eurasia links to a Russian magazine article summarizing the many failed opportunities of Russia to be an enthusiastic colonial power, from Tobago to Thailand to Tabriz and even off-world.

[NEWS] Some Tuesday links

• MacLean's has a pleasantly thoughtful front-page article describing transgenderism among teenagers and even younger children.


• CBC notes that Toronto is experiencing record numbers of potholes owing to extreme temperatures.


• The comments in Al Jazeera's article on Nigeria's anti-gay legislation are as interesting as the article itself.


• Open Democracy notes Papua's skepticism of Indonesia's latest offer of autonomy.


• Shared on Facebook, this 2008 chart illustrating graphically the lexical distance between Europe's major languages is insightful and fun to look at.


• NPR notes a study suggesting that American viewings of the MTV show 16 and Pregnant actually lower the teen birth rate in that country.


• The Atlantic notes that one sign of China's real estate boom-turned-bubble is the number of European-themed towns and neighbourhoods built by realtors.