- 1st
- 09:30 am
[PHOTO] Yonge and Eglinton in the rain, evening of 30 April 2014
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12:49 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- australia,
- blogs,
- clash of ideologies,
- demographics,
- economics,
- facebook,
- former soviet union,
- io,
- islam,
- jupiter,
- links,
- maps,
- military,
- pakistan,
- photos,
- pluto,
- politics,
- russia,
- social networking,
- southeast asia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- toronto,
- twitter,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- war
03:32 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Rob Ford stripped of all power as mayor after taking leave for alcohol addiction"
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03:38 pm[LINK] "Children 404 explores plight of gay kids in Russia"
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03:44 pm[LINK] "The false debate over Trinity Western"
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07:01 pm[LINK] "Jupiter's moon Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice"
09:54 pm[LINK] Two articles comparing the economies of China and the United States
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- 2nd
- 05:41 am
[PHOTO] Full Moon by Wendell Castle, June 2013
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01:04 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- archeology,
- argentina,
- brazil,
- chinese language,
- economics,
- environment,
- europa,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- globalization,
- homo sapiens,
- human beings,
- jupiter,
- links,
- neanderthals,
- neptune,
- nuclear energy,
- ontario,
- popular culture,
- popular literature,
- railroad,
- regionalism,
- russia,
- science fiction,
- south america,
- space science,
- toronto,
- tourism,
- uruguay
03:10 pm[LINK] "Protestants go for Gaelic in Northern Ireland"
03:14 pm[LINK] "Desperate Rohingya kids flee Myanmar alone by boat"
03:18 pm[LINK] "Liz Wahl, Former RT News Anchor, Quits and Prospers"
07:05 pm[LINK] "Ontario heads for June election after NDP rejects budget"
09:59 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Your Guide to Jane’s Walk 2014"
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- 4th
- 09:57 pm
[FORUM] Is fascism rising in Russia? If so, what can we do about it?
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- 5th
- 10:04 am
[PHOTO] Yonge and Gerrard, looking east
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03:35 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Venezuela's 'skyscraper slum' provides haven for poor"
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03:41 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Book City returns to Bloor West Village with new store"
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03:44 pm[LINK] "Russians Blend Loyalty to Nazarbayev with Pro-Kremlin Sentiments"
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07:02 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
09:45 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto plans historic mass gay wedding for World Pride"
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11:00 pm[LINK] "Why LinkedIn is morphing from a social network into an online newspaper"
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11:56 pm[LINK] "Anxiety is toxic and contagious — chill out!"
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- 6th
- 08:13 am
[PHOTO] Aura, looking up from Yonge and Dundas, May 2014
01:16 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogging,
- blogs,
- central asia,
- china,
- clash of civilizations,
- clash of ideologies,
- communism,
- crimean tatars,
- ethnic conflict,
- evolution,
- extraterrestrial life,
- former soviet union,
- geopolitics,
- journalism,
- language,
- links,
- mass media,
- popular literature,
- russia,
- science,
- science fiction,
- separatism,
- space colonies,
- space science,
- space travel,
- telecommunications,
- television,
- tibet,
- ukraine,
- uzbekistan
03:40 pm[LINK] "As EU Reconsiders Russian LNG, Qatar Waits in Wings"
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03:48 pm[LINK] "Tablet Sales Slowdown Comes Sooner Than Expected"
03:52 pm[LINK] "Venezuelans Find Jobs and a Home in Panama"
07:08 pm[LINK] "Soft-Soft Versus Hard-Soft Power"
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- 7th
- 10:15 am
[PHOTO] Blue sky, looking up at Dupont and Dufferin, 6 May 2014
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02:28 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- alpha centauri,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- ceres,
- crimean tatars,
- democracy,
- earth,
- economics,
- environment,
- european union,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- imperialism,
- links,
- maps,
- moon,
- popular culture,
- regionalism,
- religion,
- russia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- ukraine,
- united kingdom,
- united states,
- wikipedia
05:23 pm[LINK] "Greenland's Prime Minister Looks on Global Warming's Bright Side"
05:31 pm[LINK] On an promised economic boom in Inuvik
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08:19 pm[LINK] Two Wired links about retro achievements in space
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09:59 pm[LINK] "Ukraine crisis: Why Turkey is silent as NATO operations ramp up"
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10:28 pm[LINK] Two links on the transnational far right in the European Union
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- 8th
- 10:16 am
[PHOTO] Evening, Galleria Shopping Centre, Dupont and Dufferin
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12:53 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- blogs,
- borders,
- canadian literature,
- crimean tatars,
- economics,
- europa,
- former soviet union,
- france,
- ganymede,
- glbt issues,
- imperialism,
- in memoriam,
- jupiter,
- language,
- latin america,
- links,
- moldova,
- national identity,
- new york city,
- panama,
- photos,
- popular literature,
- romania,
- russia,
- second world war,
- space science,
- space travel,
- toronto,
- transnistria,
- ukraine,
- venezuela,
- vietnam,
- war
04:00 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Poll: Majority of Torontonians Want to See Cyclists Licensed"
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04:07 pm[LINK] "The slow, tragic death of the LGBT publishing industry"
04:13 pm[LINK] "New Evidence Sexuality Is Innate: Study Finds Gay Men Respond to Male Pheromones"
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10:59 pm[LINK] "Alison Smith and Linden MacIntyre leaving CBC"
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11:14 pm[LINK] "French jihadists in Syria and cyber-indoctrination"
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11:29 pm[LINK] "Apples of Eden: Saving the Wild Ancestor of Modern Apples"
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- 9th
- 11:32 am
[VIDEO] Looking south on the St. Clair streetcar line, St. Clair to St. Clair West
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01:42 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- azerbaijan,
- blogs,
- caucasus,
- china,
- clash of ideologies,
- earth,
- economics,
- environment,
- espionage,
- former soviet union,
- gender,
- greenland,
- in memoriam,
- israel,
- links,
- maps,
- marriage rights,
- photography,
- regionalism,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- southeast asia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- thailand,
- united states,
- uzbekistan,
- writing
08:41 pm[LINK] "More Hopeful Evidence That the World Is Getting Richer"
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09:50 pm[LINK] "How Angolans get by in expensive Luanda"
10:00 pm[LINK] "The Caucasus Network: in blogs, Russian is the common language"
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10:04 pm[LINK] "Armenian genocide: Turkey has lost the battle of truth"
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10:31 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Rob Ford: One wild night in March"
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- 10th
- 09:51 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, engaging the camera, May 2014
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02:28 pm[BLOG] Some Saturday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- biology,
- blogs,
- clash of ideologies,
- economics,
- fascism,
- glbt issues,
- india,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- medicine,
- military,
- mongolia,
- nato,
- philosophy,
- politics,
- russia,
- science fiction,
- shopping,
- siberia,
- south asia,
- space science,
- streetcars,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- urban note,
- war
04:48 pm[FORUM] What do you think about bringing extinct species back from the dead?
- 11th
- 10:56 am
[PHOTO] Yonge and Wellesley, looking west, at evening
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09:23 pm[PHOTO] Yonge and Wellesley, looking west, at evening (2)
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- 12th
- 10:19 am
[PHOTO] Looking south at Aura, on Yonge Street at Wellesley
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01:18 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
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04:34 pm[LINK] "The pdf graveyards can only expect an increase in their undead populations"
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04:37 pm[LINK] "The Antarctic Ice Sheet Has Started to Collapse and Nothing Can Stop It"
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07:06 pm[LINK] "Fish Learn To Use Tools, So Let's Rethink the Definition of Tool Use"
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10:02 pm[LINK] "Why Wal-Mart Hasn't Conquered Brazil"
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- 13th
- 01:15 pm
[PHOTO] Fire at Aura, 11 May 2014
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03:30 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Be cool, Toronto"
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03:34 pm[LINK] "Iran's Brain Drain Is the West's Gain"
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03:38 pm[LINK] "Pride in language, culture comes into full flower in Cape Breton"
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07:03 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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08:51 pm[LINK] More on GU Piscium b
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08:58 pm[LINK] More on Beta Pictoris b
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- 14th
- 10:12 am
[PHOTO] Approaching storm in the Annex, looking east
01:50 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- agriculture,
- antarctica,
- architecture,
- asteroids,
- astronomy,
- biology,
- blogs,
- cats,
- central asia,
- china,
- communism,
- cuba,
- disasters,
- ethnic conflict,
- finland,
- former soviet union,
- futurology,
- history,
- imperialism,
- japan,
- karelia,
- kazakhstan,
- links,
- maps,
- oceans,
- racism,
- russia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- sports,
- united states,
- writing
05:19 pm[LINK] "Sears Canada may be sold by U.S. parent"
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05:22 pm[LINK] "Now Putin Has to Figure Out What to Do With the Separatists"
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05:25 pm[LINK] "Legal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels"
07:11 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the upcoming changes at Queen and Broadview
09:13 pm[LINK] "The CBC Wants to Cancel Your Favourite Shows"
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- 15th
- 10:15 am
[PHOTO] Articulated bus on the 7 Bathurst route
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02:27 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- anthropology,
- australia,
- blogs,
- education,
- european union,
- hiv/aids,
- india,
- links,
- maps,
- marriage rights,
- papua new guinea,
- politics,
- popular culture,
- regionalism,
- russia,
- scotland,
- second world war,
- separatism,
- sexuality,
- social networking,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- south asia,
- ukraine,
- united kingdom,
- war
05:32 pm[LINK] "PM Orban calls for autonomy for ethnic Hungarians beyond borders"
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05:35 pm[LINK] "The Pennsylvania Dutch Search for Greener Pastures"
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05:38 pm[LINK] "Breaking bad in Tehran: how Iran got a taste for crystal meth"
07:05 pm[URBAN NOTE] "City Manager Sounds Alarm on Toronto’s Future"
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09:26 pm[MUSIC] Janelle Monáe, ""Heroes""
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- 16th
- 01:56 pm
[PHOTO] Greenery behind the towers, Hayden near Church
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04:21 pm[LINK] "The Near-Impossible Challenge of Designing the 9/11 Museum"
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04:24 pm[LINK] "The Library of Congress Wants to Destroy Your Old CDs (For Science)"
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04:27 pm[LINK] "Vietnam Will Be the Loser in the Anti-China Riots"
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07:04 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
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- 17th
- 06:55 pm
[PHOTO] Looking northwest at Yonge and Wellesley, May 2014
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11:58 pm[FORUM] Is mass war in the 21st century likely?
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- 18th
- 01:17 pm
[PHOTO] Rainy evenings on Bathurst and at Dupont
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02:33 pm[BLOG] Some Sunday links
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10:22 pm[FORUM] What do you do for the holidays?
- 19th
- 03:28 pm
[PHOTO] Condo construction on Hayden Street
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03:50 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- anthropology,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- bosnia,
- central asia,
- computers,
- crimean tatars,
- croatia,
- disasters,
- former yugoslavia,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- internet,
- islam,
- links,
- popular culture,
- religion,
- russia,
- serbia,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- statistics,
- toronto,
- toronto islands,
- ukraine,
- uzbekistan
08:45 pm[VIDEO] 501 Queen, from Colborne Lodge Drive to Dufferin Street
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09:24 pm[LINK] Three notes on the 50th anniversary of Tim Hortons
09:39 pm[LINK] "Syria war death toll tops 160,000"
Tags:- links,
- middle east,
- syria,
- war
09:49 pm[LINK] "Life and death in Chernobyl’s ghost forest"
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09:59 pm[LINK] "Parched: A New Dust Bowl Forms in the Heartland"
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10:59 pm[DM] On how gutting national statistics bureaus harms countries, e.g. Canada 2014
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- 20th
- 08:34 am
[PHOTO] Photographing photographers at High Park on Victoria Day
01:10 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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04:44 pm[LINK] "Advocating Pill, U.S. Signals Shift to Prevent AIDS"
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04:46 pm[LINK] "Egypt and the Gulf: When a Free Lunch Is Not Free"
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04:48 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Fair Play for Sikh Pioneers?"
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07:02 pm[LINK] Open Democracy on Armenia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan on Eurasia
08:37 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Public Works: Maximizing the Potential of Your Local Library"
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- 21st
- 09:55 am
[PHOTO] Towers over Grenadier Pond, High Park
01:10 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- borders,
- caucasus,
- china,
- church and wellesley,
- church street,
- condos,
- former soviet union,
- geopolitics,
- georgia,
- glbt issues,
- links,
- morocco,
- neighbourhoods,
- ossetia,
- popular culture,
- russia,
- science fiction,
- space science,
- space travel,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- wellesley street,
- yonge street
04:08 pm[LINK] "Anna Politkovskaya killing: five men convicted of murder"
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04:10 pm[LINK] "For Atom-Friendly Asia, a Nuclear Power Boom—in the West, Stagnation"
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04:14 pm[LINK] Two links on the problems of American retail chains in Canada
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07:04 pm[LINK] "“The Big Bang Theory” and Our Future with China"
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10:06 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Woman reportedly arrested in Rob Ford’s SUV says mayor doing “top notch” in rehab"
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11:59 pm[URBAN NOTE] On what Coffee Time can mean in Toronto
- 22nd
- 10:09 am
[PHOTO] On the shore of Grenadier Pond, High Park
01:21 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- bathurst street,
- blogs,
- borders,
- charlottetown,
- crime,
- democracy,
- demographics,
- disasters,
- economics,
- environment,
- ethics,
- european union,
- eurozone,
- former soviet union,
- former yugoslavia,
- global warming,
- greenland,
- history,
- india,
- japan,
- links,
- maps,
- migration,
- photos,
- politics,
- regionalism,
- russia,
- second world war,
- singapore,
- space science,
- tatarstan,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- united kingdom,
- war
04:15 pm[LINK] "U.S. immigration crackdown brings gangs, California cuisine to Yucatan"
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04:15 pm[LINK] "U.S. immigration crackdown brings gangs, California cuisine to Yucatan"
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04:20 pm[LINK] "Being gay in Pakistan: Where anti-gay serial killers are applauded"
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04:23 pm[LINK] "Visa, MasterCard Weigh Russia Exit as Ukraine Vote Looms"
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- 23rd
- 10:04 am
[PHOTO] "The green trees of High Park"
12:58 pm[PHOTO] "Shipwrecked camera found underwater after 2 years with photos intact"
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03:58 pm[LINK] "The secret short list that provoked the rift between Chief Justice and PMO"
04:02 pm[LINK] "Mortality Risk and Survival in the Aftermath of the Medieval Black Death"
04:06 pm[LINK] Two links on the decline of the homepage
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07:08 pm[LINK] "HBO Teaches the Streaming Wannabes How to Make Big Money on Original Shows"
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11:56 pm[LINK] "Life in space is impossible"
- 24th
- 01:27 pm
[PHOTO] Seen around High Park, May 2014
01:48 pm[BLOG] Some Saturday links
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- 25th
- 07:54 pm
[PHOTO] A swan and some Canada geese in High Park, and a tree on the Queensway
- 26th
- 10:11 am
[PHOTO] The Cut The Waist Challenge Scale of Rob Ford, Toronto City Hall
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01:11 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- borders,
- central europe,
- chinese language,
- clash of ideologies,
- democracy,
- economics,
- ethnic conflict,
- european union,
- facebook,
- feminism,
- former soviet union,
- france,
- gender,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- military,
- national identity,
- police,
- racism,
- russia,
- russian language,
- slavery,
- slovakia,
- social networking,
- space science,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states
04:14 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the Museum of Television in Toronto
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07:09 pm[ISL] "Turks and Caicos premier 'not closing the door' on Canadians' Caribbean dreams"
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09:29 pm[LINK] "New research can help predict autism at earlier age: SickKids scientists"
09:59 pm[LINK] "The Story of One Whale Who Tried to Bridge the Linguistic Divide Between Animals and Humans"
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- 27th
- 09:03 am
[PHOTO] Wayne Gretzky by Andy Warhol, 1983, at Queen's Park
12:36 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- beaches,
- blogs,
- borders,
- communism,
- democracy,
- english language,
- ethics,
- european union,
- extraterrestrial life,
- former soviet union,
- in memoriam,
- language conflict,
- links,
- maps,
- migration,
- new york city,
- oceans,
- ontario,
- photos,
- pluto,
- poland,
- politics,
- russia,
- social networking,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- toronto,
- tourism,
- ukraine
03:02 pm[LINK] "The Odd Couple: Japan & Taiwan’s Unlikely Friendship"
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03:06 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Buildings and Books"
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03:08 pm[LINK] On a Beijing to Vancouver rail link
06:02 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Mirvish's new condo plan will keep Princess of Wales intact"
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08:22 pm[LINK] "Vancouver, the New Tech Hub"
10:20 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the John Tory transit plan for Toronto
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- 28th
- 08:56 am
[PHOTO] Looking south at Spadina and King
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12:05 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- anti-semitism,
- asteroids,
- blogs,
- cephalopods,
- crime,
- earth,
- economics,
- evolution,
- feminism,
- former soviet union,
- gender,
- ghana,
- glbt issues,
- hiv/aids,
- human beings,
- iraq,
- language,
- links,
- medicine,
- moon,
- nigeria,
- oceans,
- russia,
- saudi arabia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- streetcars,
- toronto,
- tourism,
- ttc,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- vancouver
03:51 pm[LINK] "25 years on, the fate of Tiananmen’s ‘Tank Man’ is still a mystery"
03:53 pm[LINK] "Playing with Fire"
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03:56 pm[LINK] "Ukraine: A military-industrial complex to die for"
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06:03 pm[LINK] Three notes on the problems of the Ontario NDP under Horwath
09:00 pm[LINK] "Andrea Horwath's 'sophomore jinx' has NDP worried"
- 29th
- 10:17 am
[PHOTO] Backyard blossoms
01:02 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
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03:55 pm[LINK] Bruce Carson on the rage of Stephen Harper
04:03 pm[LINK] On the math and jobs issues of Tim Hudak and the Ontario PCs
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04:13 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the condo country Fort York library
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07:06 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the move of Sonic Boom to Spadina
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11:35 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On Livejournal being made into Medium, or Tumblr with text
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- 30th
- 09:08 am
[PHOTO] The Ryerson Student Learning Centre rising, May 2014
12:46 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- bathurst street,
- blogs,
- borders,
- california,
- clash of ideologies,
- crimean tatars,
- democracy,
- economics,
- feminism,
- former soviet union,
- fort york,
- glbt issues,
- google,
- india,
- italy,
- journalism,
- kerala,
- language,
- libraries,
- links,
- politics,
- popular literature,
- racism,
- regionalism,
- russia,
- sexuality,
- space science,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- war,
- writing
04:28 pm[LINK] "The 1970s Spacecraft is Ours Again!"
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04:32 pm[LINK] "The Woman Who Saved Syria’s Jews"
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04:36 pm[LINK] "What War Might Be Like"
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06:07 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the import of Davenport riding in Ontario and Canada, even
11:59 pm[PHOTO] Comic Sans for the Lieutenant Governor, Ontario Legislative Building
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