- 1st
- 01:38 pm
[PHOTO] Global Village Backpackers in the afternoon sun, King and Spadina
06:12 pm[BLOG] Some Sunday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- borders,
- democracy,
- economics,
- environment,
- ethnic conflict,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- global warming,
- hiv/aids,
- links,
- louisiana,
- mars,
- migration,
- ontario,
- philosophy,
- politics,
- popular culture,
- public art,
- religion,
- russia,
- sociology,
- space science,
- space travel,
- ukraine,
- united states
11:58 pm[FORUM] What do you think of the 2014 Ontario election?
- 2nd
- 10:16 am
[PHOTO] "Cardboard Only" elevator on Spadina Avenue
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01:00 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- armenia,
- australia,
- azerbaijan,
- belarus,
- blogs,
- book reviews,
- borders,
- california,
- economics,
- education,
- former soviet union,
- history,
- imperialism,
- kazakhstan,
- lcbo,
- links,
- migration,
- oceans,
- russia,
- san francisco,
- science fiction,
- scotland,
- separatism,
- south caucasus,
- titan,
- toronto,
- united kingdom,
- urban note
03:46 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Someone paid $2.9 million for the Metro Theatre"
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03:54 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Mississauga’s last family farm hangs on"
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03:58 pm[LINK] "This Is How You Stream Netflix to the Moon"
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04:01 pm[LINK] "Translating “Frozen” Into Arabic"
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07:03 pm[LINK] "Trial begins for lone junior Tory charged in robocall election scandal"
09:59 pm[LINK] "The Online Life of Elliot Rodger"
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11:58 pm[NEWS] Some Monday links
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- 3rd
- 10:17 am
[PHOTO] Blooms outside of the University of Toronto Bookstore
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01:55 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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04:42 pm[LINK] "An Afterlife for Europe’s Disused Places of Worship"
04:47 pm[LINK] "Would You Pay $1,000 Once to Get Free Beer for Life?"
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04:52 pm[LINK] "Liberal-NDP coalition isn’t cheating, it’s democracy"
07:09 pm[URBAN NOTE] "What a Green Win Would Mean for Toronto"
11:55 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the birth of the state of Telangana
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- 4th
- 12:31 pm
[PHOTO] The mural on the north side of the 519 Community Centre takes shape
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04:09 pm[LINK] "The quest to fix Quebec’s wines"
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04:17 pm[LINK] "To be gay, Christian and black in Harlem"
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04:21 pm[LINK] "Tiananmen: How Wrong We Were"
- 5th
- 03:51 pm
[PHOTO] House on the hill, Bathurst above Davenport
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11:58 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- abkhazia,
- australia,
- blogs,
- book reviews,
- crimean tatars,
- demographics,
- european union,
- facebook,
- french language,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- languages,
- links,
- mars,
- mass transit,
- middle east,
- migration,
- photos,
- poland,
- politics,
- reviews,
- russia,
- science fiction,
- social networking,
- space science,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- war
- 6th
- 08:15 am
[PHOTO] Front yard irises on Ossington above the rail line
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01:09 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
03:14 pm[LINK] "Prostitution bill would make it illegal to buy, sell sex in public"
03:18 pm[LINK] "Canada’s young men joining foreign jihad: Are we doing enough to stop it?"
03:21 pm[LINK] "The Russian-Chinese geopolitical game"
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07:07 pm[ISL] "Mike Duffy's P.E.I. hotel bills sought in RCMP probe"
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- 7th
- 05:41 pm
[PHOTO] Three pictures of a couple by Grenadier Pond, High Park, May 2014
- 8th
- 10:16 am
[PHOTO] Four photos from the Queensway and Queen Street West, May 2014
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06:02 pm[BLOG] Some Sunday links
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08:13 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Yorkdale an unexpected font of Toronto history"
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- 9th
- 08:19 am
[PHOTO] Playing street chess during the Annex Festival on Bloor
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01:04 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- alaska,
- astronomy,
- borders,
- chinese language,
- crime,
- crimean tatars,
- democracy,
- economics,
- eurasia,
- european union,
- federalism,
- glbt issues,
- identity,
- imperialism,
- language,
- links,
- mexico,
- nato,
- non blog,
- pet shop boys,
- politics,
- regionalism,
- russia,
- space science,
- switzerland,
- ukraine,
- united kingdom,
- united states
03:24 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Buffalo in the rear-view"
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03:30 pm[LINK] "Marvel, Fox and the fantastic fracas"
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03:35 pm[LINK] "Grant Morrison’s 9/11: New X-Men’s 'Ambient Magnetic Fields'"
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07:01 pm[LINK] "Three regimes of extrasolar planet radius inferred from host star metallicities"
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- 10th
- 10:11 am
[PHOTO] Book City in the Annex, closed
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12:42 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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03:43 pm[LINK] "In Russian protege Abkhazia, a cautionary tale for Crimea"
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03:47 pm[LINK] "Ancient Europe Colonized by Island Hoppers?"
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03:51 pm[LINK] "F-35’s single-engine design too dangerous for Canadian air force, report says"
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07:08 pm[ISL] Peter Rukavina on chance and blogging the remarkable
10:08 pm[DM] "Secular Stagnation Part 1 - Paul Krugman's Bicycling Problem"
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11:59 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the Conservative influence in Decline Your Vote
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- 11th
- 10:20 am
[PHOTO] Inside the atrium of the MaRS Discovery Centre
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12:55 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- arab language,
- archeology,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- china,
- chinese language,
- citizenship,
- crime,
- economics,
- faroes,
- fisheries,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- hong kong,
- language,
- language conflict,
- libraries,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- mexico,
- migration,
- new zealand,
- norden,
- oil,
- polynesia,
- popular culture,
- roman catholic church,
- russia,
- space science,
- thailand,
- tourism,
- west norden
02:57 pm[LINK] "South Ossetia’s unwanted independence"
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03:04 pm[LINK] "Portugal indebted to Angola after economic reversal of fortune"
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03:09 pm[LINK] "Endangered Bonobos Reveal Evolution of Human Kindness"
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07:04 pm[LINK] What it actually means for Eugene to have passed the Turing test
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11:14 pm[LINK] "Defying Russian warnings, Moldova and Georgia head for EU pact"
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11:30 pm[DM] On the demographic background behind the Ontario election tomorrow
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11:59 pm[LINK] "Globe Editorial Board endorsed Wynne Liberals, was overruled"
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- 12th
- 12:59 pm
[PHOTO] Don't boycott the 2014 Ontario elections
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03:22 pm[LINK] "Final Ontario projection: Likely Liberal, possible PC victory"
03:28 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto Library offers store-quality book printing to customers"
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03:32 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Stuck in Condoland"
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07:03 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
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11:00 pm[LINK] Four links on the new Liberal majority government in Ontario
11:33 pm[LINK] "Blame the nerds for low voter turnout"
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11:59 pm[MUSIC] Röyksopp and Robyn, "Sayit"
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- 13th
- 10:10 am
[PHOTO] Queen's Park on Doors Open
01:00 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- democracy,
- economics,
- evolution,
- geopolitics,
- germany,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- human beings,
- india,
- language conflict,
- lcbo,
- links,
- mass media,
- newspapers,
- non blog,
- ontario,
- politics,
- primates,
- psychology,
- racism,
- scotland,
- separatism,
- sexuality,
- soccer,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- sports,
- united kingdom
02:58 pm[URBAN NOTE] "NDP dumped in Davenport"
03:05 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Liberal wave sweeps GTA in Ontario election, leaving Tories in the cold"
03:10 pm[LINK] Two notes on the leaderships of the Ontario PC and NDP after the election
07:08 pm[LINK] "Ontario’s rising voter turnout bucks 24-year trend"
11:59 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the sorts of reactions that are unhelpful for struggling political parties
- 15th
- 04:11 pm
[PHOTO] Tableau Condominiums under construction, 117 Peter Street
- 16th
- 10:17 am
[PHOTO] Blue sky over Toronto
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01:00 pm[DM] "The "Hot Labour" Phenomenon"
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03:45 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Giorgio Mammoliti calls Parkdale Toronto’s ‘pedophile district’"
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03:50 pm[LINK] "How to Quit Amazon and Shop in an Actual Bookstore"
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03:56 pm[LINK] "Clever crows beaten by babies in causality test"
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07:03 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- artificial intelligence,
- australia,
- blogging,
- blogs,
- borders,
- china,
- crime,
- crimean tatars,
- demographics,
- european union,
- feminism,
- former soviet union,
- futurology,
- gender,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- human beings,
- intelligence,
- links,
- moldova,
- music videos,
- naziism,
- oceans,
- papua new guinea,
- photography,
- popular music,
- russia,
- russian language,
- sexuality,
- southeast asia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- telecommunications,
- transnistria,
- united kingdom,
- vietnam,
- writing
10:59 pm[LINK] "What’s Next for Ontario Politics (We Hope)"
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- 17th
- 07:07 am
[PHOTO] Hudson Condos, 438 King Street West
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11:00 am[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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04:04 pm[LINK] "MPeople from Mexico show stunning amount of genetic diversity"
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04:11 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Ghost bikes move us all"
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04:17 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the proposed new location of the Sam the Record Man sign
09:57 pm[LINK] Three links on the newly approved Northern Gateway pipeline
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11:09 pm[LINK] "Can Fast-Food Chains Get Americans to Try Middle Eastern?"
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11:59 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Community activists concerned about TAVIS policing"
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- 18th
- 11:00 am
[PHOTO] Looking south from Queen's Park at the Ontario Power Building
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01:00 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- anthropology,
- argentina,
- blogs,
- borders,
- central asia,
- christianity,
- clash of ideologies,
- crime,
- economics,
- iraq,
- islam,
- israel,
- king street,
- king street west,
- links,
- neighbourhoods,
- pakistan,
- palestinians,
- parkdale,
- pluto,
- politics,
- religion,
- russia,
- separatism,
- social sciences,
- south asia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- spadina avenue,
- syria,
- terrorism,
- toronto,
- twitter,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- urban note,
- uzbekistan,
- war
10:23 pm[LINK] "Putinization of not only Balkans, but Europe as well"
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10:48 pm[LINK] "The Man Who Was Immune to AIDS"
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11:15 pm[LINK] David Kopel on Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
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11:32 pm[LINK] "‘I never took anything for granted.’ Kathleen Wynne in conversation"
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11:58 pm[URBAN NOTE] On Nuit Rose at World Pride, 21 and 22 June 2014
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- 19th
- 10:11 am
[PHOTO] A rainy evening waiting for the bus at at St. George
01:26 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- abkhazia,
- blogs,
- borders,
- brazil,
- clash of ideologies,
- crime,
- economics,
- former soviet union,
- georgia,
- glbt issues,
- language,
- libraries,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- neptune,
- photos,
- politics,
- public art,
- russia,
- soccer,
- south ossetia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- sports,
- streetcars,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- united states,
- uranus,
- weather
03:12 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto cop committed to stand trial in TTC shooting"
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03:15 pm[LINK] "An Ocean On Pluto’s Moon? Hopeful Scientists Will Keep An Eye Out For Cracks"
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03:18 pm[LINK] "Will the Visegrad Four Survive Ukraine?"
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- 20th
- 09:59 am
[PHOTO] Waiting for the streetcars at St. Clair station
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01:22 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
03:12 pm[URBAN NOTE] Why I Love Toronto on World Pride
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03:17 pm[LINK] Tyler Cowen on respect for the transgendered
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03:21 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Landed: Together in Canada tells stories of same-sex couples who found refuge here"
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03:32 pm[LINK] "Ugandan gay activists denied visas to World Pride conference"
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- 22nd
- 05:19 pm
[PHOTO] Me in Elizabeth Sweeney's Unlimited Edition
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- 23rd
- 12:00 am
[FORUM] What do you think of online rating systems?
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07:24 am[PHOTO] A street in Seaton Village, late May
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01:03 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
03:41 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto Pride 2014: A Look Back At Pride Before WorldPride"
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03:43 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The March to Pride"
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03:47 pm[URBAN NOTE] "They’re queer. They’re here."
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09:12 pm[NEWS] Some Monday links
Tags:- archeology,
- books,
- borders,
- brazil,
- demographics,
- economics,
- environment,
- ethnic conflict,
- european union,
- fisheries,
- flags,
- former soviet union,
- former yugoslavia,
- iraq,
- japan,
- kazakhstan,
- links,
- medicine,
- migration,
- military,
- news,
- oil,
- politics,
- primates,
- quebec,
- russia,
- scotland,
- separatism,
- serbia,
- social networking,
- ukraine,
- united kingdom,
- united states,
- venezuela,
- west africa,
- yukon
- 24th
- 12:17 am
[VIDEO] "Toronto World Pride: A video look back at the 1989 Pride celebration"
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12:36 pm[PHOTO] "Daddy?"
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03:23 pm[ISL] "China Builds Artificial Islands in South China Sea"
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03:26 pm[LINK] "Argentina Once More on the Map, Invited by BRICS"
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03:29 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Spacing to open retail store in the fall!"
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03:34 pm[BRIEF NOTE] "PBO says Ottawa is shortchanging Ontario"
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07:05 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
11:43 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Proclaiming Our Pride"
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11:56 pm[URBAN NOTE] "TTC's special pass, rainbow bus help celebrate WorldPride, June 28, 29"
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- 25th
- 10:14 am
[PHOTO] Stairwell peonies, 2014
03:27 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Taking It to the Streets"
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03:34 pm[LINK] "Colonies Turned Creditors"
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03:37 pm[LINK] "A New Mantra: Follow the Methane — May Advance Search for Extraterrestrial Life"
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03:40 pm[LINK] "Titan’s Atmosphere May be Older than Saturn, a New Study Suggests"
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09:27 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
10:59 pm[LINK] "The Coldest White Dwarf Ever Discovered Is An Earth-Sized Diamond"
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11:29 pm[DM] "Secular Stagnation Part II - On Bubble Business Bound"
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11:58 pm[DM] "On the longevity and extended health of Icarians, among others"
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- 26th
- 10:03 am
[PHOTO] Rain-soaked alley off Dupont
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- 27th
- 10:11 am
[PHOTO] Six pictures from World Pride, Church and Wellesley
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12:50 pm[PHOTO] Cover of Eurythmics' 1983 album Touch, recreated by Michael Venus for Nuit Rose
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03:05 pm[LINK] "Expat voting: Court denies Ottawa's fight for 5-year rule for voters abroad"
03:08 pm[ISL] "Puerto Rico: Tropical Tax Haven for America's Super-Rich"
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03:10 pm[LINK] "Newspapers That Aren't Dying"
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07:09 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- artificial intelligence,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- christianity,
- democracy,
- demographics,
- don river,
- elections,
- federalism,
- finland,
- former soviet union,
- futurology,
- glbt issues,
- human beings,
- law,
- libraries,
- links,
- maps,
- marriage rights,
- migration,
- norden,
- ontario,
- photography,
- public art,
- russia,
- scotland,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- space travel,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united kingdom
- 29th
- 10:20 pm
[PHOTO] Four photos of Cawthra Park over June 2014
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- 30th
- 10:06 am
[PHOTO] Three rainbows in Church and Wellesley during WorldPride
01:35 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
04:12 pm[LINK] "How “Frozen” Took Over the World"
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04:15 pm[LINK] "Right-Wing Provocation: Russian and German Populists Meet"
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04:17 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Grand Pride Wedding sees 110 couples wed"
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04:20 pm[LINK] "Grindr Pride Survey Reveals How Many of Its Users Aren't Proud Enough to Be Out"
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11:19 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the import of the Trinity-Spadina byelection for Canada
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11:38 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the attempted return of Rob Ford to Toronto
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11:59 pm[LINK] "Guaranteed $20K income for all Canadians endorsed by academics"
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