[PHOTO] Condo construction, southeast corner of St. Clair and Bathurst

[PHOTO] A Robert Harris painting of a road in what is now suburban Charlottetown

This painting by Robert Harris, one of several at the Confederation Centre art gallery in Charlottetown, depicts a country road a century ago in what is now suburban Charlottetown.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• blogTO notes an interesting play being put on at Buddies in Bad Times about a same-sex couple's divorce.


• Centauri Dreams features a guest post from Andrew Lepage examining habitable exomoons.


• Crooked Timber notes the exceptionally high voter turn-out in Scotland.


• The Dragon's Tales notes China's attempts to construct a new security architecture in Asia.


• Eastern Approaches notes that Poland's Radek Sikorski is now foreign minister.


• A Fistful of Euros' Edward Hugh notes that the Eurozone is set to become Japan-like economically.


• Far Outliers has a whole slew of posts on Romanian history, noting early Romanian history, the autonomy of the Danubian principalities from Ottoman rule, and the complex relationships in Transylvania and with central Europe.


• Geocurrents notes that one Islamic State map was made from a computer game.


• Joe. My. God. notes that the final segment of New York City's High Line park is complete.


• Language Hat notes the Scots dialect of Yiddish.


• Marginal Revolution looks forward to the complexities of Catalonian separatism.


• Registan notes Kazakhstan's concerns with Russia.


• The Search examines methodologies for preserving E-mails.


• Towleroad notes that a Grindr poll in Scotland accurately predicted the outcome of the Scottish referendum and also notes Grindr's concern with Egyptian police use of the app.


• Understanding Society considers the idea of turning points in history. Do they exist, or not?


• The Volokh Conspiracy's Ilya Somin comes out in favour of allowing informed teenagers--16 years and older--to vote.


• Window on Eurasia notes Russification in the Gagauz leadership and observes Russophilia among Ukrainian evangelical Protestants.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell imagines likely issues with devolution in the near future in the United Kingdom.

[NEWS] Some Sunday links

• Al Jazeera notes the quilombos of Brazil founded by escaped slaves and looks at the strength of the separatist vote in Scotland's largest city of Glasgow.


• Bloomberg notes continuing tensions between North Korea and Japan over Japanese abductees, looks at Russian state subsidies to sanctions-hit companies, suggests a softening of Polish foreign policy versus Russia, and notes how Johannesburg is flourishing as gateway to Africa despite high crime and inequality.


• The Bloomberg View notes separatist concerns depressing yields of Catalonian and Spanish bonds, and wonders if Gujarat's industrial economy might serve as an example for all India.


• CBC notes that national newspapers are no longer being sold in Yellowknife, looks at the case of an Iroquois girl refusing chemotherapy, and notes that the Angelina Jolie effect boosting breast cancer screening endures.


• Open Democracy examines Catalonian separatism, looks at India's changing Palestinian policy, considers trends in ideology in Hungary, wonders if Jordan will be next to succumb to the Islamic state, and examines anti-Syrian sentiment in Lebanon.


• Wired examines teletext and notes the strength of China's Alibaba.