[PHOTO] Two Anne of Green Gables stores at Queen and Richmond, Charlottetown

The Anne of Green Gables Store at 110 Queen Street, on the corner with Richmond Street/Victoria Row, is wonderfully well located for the Anne shopper. The Confederation Centre of the Arts, which has hosted the musical Anne of Green Gables for decades, is just north, while the Art Guild, which hosts the newer Anne and Gilbert, is to the northwest across the intersection.



Just south of the Anne of Green Gables Store on Queen Street is the Anne of Green Gables Chocolates shop, at 100 Queen Street.

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• BlogTO and Torontoist both note the impending closure of the Annex location of Book City, a local independently-owned mini-chain. Rising rents, falling sales, alas.


• The Dragon's Tales notes research suggesting that one-fifth of Sun-like stars have a roughly Earth-mass planet in their habitable zones.


• Eastern Approaches touches upon drunk driving in Poland.


• Joe. My. God. observes that, already, gay men in Nigeria are facing trial and execution for their sexual orientation.


• Laywers, Guns and Money notes that WalMart's anti-unionization propaganda isn't very convincing.


• Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog notes her new article exploring the Kuiper belt, an area of the solar system that has become much more complicated since the discovery of other Pluto-like bodies.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer is unconvinced that teaching of Russian as a second language in Syrian schools and use of a marginal naval outpost is recompense for Russia's support for the Syrian regime.


• Peter Rukavina doesn't like the quick daytrips of cruise ship visitors to Prince Edward Island.


• Steve Munro wants all levels of government to move from talk of funding new mass transit projects to actually building something.


• Towleroad notes that virulently homophobic Russian actor Ivan Okhlobystin wants to forcibly convert his gay stylist.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Russia wants to more strictly control human rights groups.

[NEWS] Some Saturday links

• First off, congratulations to friend of the blog Jonathan Edelstein for his role in setting an unjustly imprisoned man free in New York State.


• The National Post repots on calls to send a mission to Europa.


• Der Spiegel's English-language edition reports on the continuing ethnic divisions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, specifically in relationship to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand by Serb nationalists in 1914 that started the First World War.


• Business Week notes that the ongoing crisis in Thailand is hampering the country's economy, observes the ongoing issues with accumulating space junk, documents a Russian HIV/AIDS pandemic made worse by Russia's non-constructive dealings with the causes of HIV's spread, and notes that mass immigration from the European Union--especially Germany--is a major political concern in Switzerland.


• CBC notes that the recent ice storm hurting spending at growing Canadian chain Dollarama, reports that an immunity deal has been struck with an ex-Tory worker charged with involvement in the robocalls scandal, and observes that the so-called IKEA monkey man has been ordered to pay 83 thousand dollars in legal costs to the sanctuary that took in her pet monkey Darwin.


• National Geographic explores the question of whether or not there might be planets better-suited to life than the Earth, and whether these planets should be the subject of searchers.


• The Advocate reports on the case of a transgendered woman in Louisiana, Pamela Raintree, who helped save a local anti-discrimination ordinance by offering the ordinance's opponent the first stone to throw at her, in keeping with the Bible's mandating of death.


• MacLean's argues that Turkey is set for an inevitable crash as its economic and political and social contradictions come to a knot.


• Universe Today notes that, after the success of the Chang'e 3 moon rover, China now wants to land astronauts on the moon and set up a crewed facility.