- 1st
- 07:17 pm
[PHOTO] Scenes from the Kurdish protest of ISIS at College Park on Yonge Street, Toronto
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- 2nd
- 11:52 pm
[PHOTO] Halloween in the Village
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- 3rd
- 11:51 am
[PHOTO] Henry Moore in the Galleria Italia, Art Gallery of Ontario
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12:59 pm[LINK] "Jian Ghomeshi scandal becoming a tipping point for anger over mistreatment of women"
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03:44 pm[LINK] "Space Tourism Isn’t Worth Dying For"
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07:17 pm[LINK] "Slow translation and the revival of the Catalan language"
07:19 pm[LINK] "Central Asia Hurting as Russia’s Ruble Sinks"
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07:22 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Skyscraper Boom in Second-Largest Australian City Flags Glut"
07:24 pm[LINK] "China Growth May Slow Sharply From 2020: Conference Board"
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07:26 pm[LINK] "Sipekne'katik cranberry project anything but fruitful"
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09:04 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- africa,
- antarctica,
- anthropology,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- brazil,
- canada,
- central asia,
- china,
- chinese language,
- clash of ideologies,
- disasters,
- economics,
- environment,
- former soviet union,
- health,
- history,
- hiv/aids,
- hong kong,
- italy,
- kaliningrad,
- kazakhstan,
- language,
- liberia,
- links,
- maps,
- marriage rights,
- medicine,
- moon,
- oil,
- politics,
- puerto rico,
- regionalism,
- russia,
- separatism,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space colonization,
- space science,
- space travel,
- switzerland,
- terrorism,
- titan,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- uzbekistan,
- west africa
10:47 pm[NEWS] Some more Jian Ghomeshi abuse scandal links
Tags:- blogs,
- canada,
- cbc,
- crime,
- feminism,
- journalism,
- links,
- news,
- popular culture,
- sexuality
- 4th
- 09:56 am
[PHOTO] Looking up, Galleria Italia, Art Gallery of Ontario
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03:53 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- architecture,
- astronomy,
- australia,
- blogs,
- california,
- central asia,
- ceres,
- crime,
- crimean tatars,
- democracy,
- demographics,
- feminism,
- former soviet union,
- gender,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- links,
- mexico,
- neptune,
- politics,
- russia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- urban note,
- vesta,
- writing
06:35 pm[LINK] "Jian Ghomeshi’s Implosion Was Overdue"
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06:39 pm[LINK] "Lessons from the Jian Ghomeshi case: ‘There is nowhere to hide’"
Tags:- canada,
- cbc,
- crime,
- economics,
- feminism,
- gender,
- journalism,
- links,
- mass media
06:42 pm[LINK] "Lack of global knowledge cost BlackBerry Indonesia"
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06:44 pm[LINK] "In South Dakota’s Indian Country, getting to polls is half the struggle"
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06:46 pm[LINK] "N.B. women seek abortions in U.S. after clinic closure: staff"
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10:28 pm[LINK] "Stephen Poloz to jobless youth: Move out and work for free"
11:48 pm[LINK] "Jian Ghomeshi, Rob Ford and the cost of Canadian politeness"
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- 5th
- 11:42 am
[PHOTO] Coffee machine, Galleria Italia, Art Gallery of Ontario
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12:57 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
04:17 pm[LINK] "Dean Del Mastro, guilty of breaking election laws, resigns"
04:18 pm[LINK] "Liberal MPs Scott Andrews, Massimo Pacetti suspended from caucus amid harassment allegations
04:22 pm[LINK] "How an Ancient Angled Impact Created Vesta’s Groovy Belt"
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04:25 pm[LINK] "Jian Ghomeshi’s Poison Pen"
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04:29 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Reclaiming Spaces/Places: Restoring Indigenous street names in Toronto"
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06:06 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Why isn't Parkdale like Rexdale (politically)?"
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09:53 pm[LINK] "Illegally mining Russia's 'Baltic gold'"
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11:52 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Guy Fawkes Night, 1864"
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- 6th
- 10:35 am
[PHOTO] Lining up at the Galleria Italia, Art Gallery of Ontario
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12:57 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
03:26 pm[LINK] "Let Australians live and work in Britain: London mayor Boris Johnson backs migration report"
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03:31 pm[LINK] "“Dream Come True” Chinese Gay Dating App Blued Raises $30 Million"
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05:27 pm[LINK] "Songbirds Share Our Musical Scales"
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05:30 pm[LINK] "Rogue stars outside galaxies may be everywhere"
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05:34 pm[LINK] "A step toward unraveling the mystery of Indus Valley script, and printing"
05:41 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Cumberland Terrace Tells the Story of Yorkville at a Glance"
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10:21 pm[LINK] Two links on the costs of living in Nunavut
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- 7th
- 12:19 am
[PHOTO] Woman sitting overlooking Dundas Street West, Galleria Italia, Art Gallery of Ontario
03:48 am[PHOTO] Unripe fruit on the branch, Rollo Bay, Prince Edward Island
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10:23 am[BLOG] Some Friday links
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04:10 pm[URBAN NOTE] "El Mocambo to be bought by Michael Wekerle of Dragons' Den"
06:25 pm[LINK] "How the Invasion of Ukraine Is Shaking Up the Global Crime Scene"
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06:27 pm[LINK] "Choosing Between Death and Death in Pakistan"
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06:29 pm[LINK] "If Anyone is Going to Attack Russia, It Will Be China – and When China Does So, It will Win"
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06:32 pm[LINK] "China's Missing Babies"
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06:35 pm[LINK] "Wind turbine noise not linked to health problems, Health Canada finds"
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10:01 pm[LINK] "Jian Ghomeshi: How he got away with it"
Tags:- canada,
- cbc,
- crime,
- feminism,
- gender,
- journalism,
- links,
- mass media
11:43 pm[META] What do you think about Medium?
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- 9th
- 05:53 pm
[PHOTO] My own chunk of the Berlin Wall
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- 10th
- 12:48 am
[PHOTO] Looking north at Dundas and McCaul
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03:32 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- asteroids,
- birds,
- blogs,
- central asia,
- chinese language,
- clash of ideologies,
- conspiracies,
- democracy,
- ethnic conflict,
- evolution,
- former soviet union,
- germany,
- globalization,
- hinduism,
- history,
- india,
- kazakhstan,
- korea,
- links,
- maps,
- middle east,
- new zealand,
- north korea,
- popular music,
- russia,
- slavery,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- south asia,
- space science,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- video
06:36 pm[LINK] "The Grapes of Wrath: France's Great Wines Are Feeling the Heat"
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06:44 pm[LINK] "How My Little Pony Became a Cult for Grown Men and Preteen Girls Alike"
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06:48 pm[LINK] "Bangladeshi migrants eke out a living in Rome"
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06:50 pm[LINK] "Voting in the Donetsk People’s Republic"
06:52 pm[LINK] "Does Putin's Russia Have a Future?"
09:02 pm[LINK] Five links about Berlin and East Germany, before and after the Wall
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10:22 pm[LINK] "Scientists Discover Genes That Helped Turn Fearsome Wildcats Into House Cats"
10:59 pm[URBAN NOTE] "TTC union vows to make next federal election the 'transit election'"
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11:55 pm[LINK] Corey Robin on migration restrictions after the fall of the Berlin Wall
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- 11th
- 10:31 am
[PHOTO] Looking east on Dundas Street West below the AGO
03:41 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
05:59 pm[LINK] On the latest foolishness of Ezra Levant, this time on Muslims and Remembrance Day
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06:05 pm[LINK] "Sousse: Seaside home of 'jihadist' volunteers"
06:08 pm[LINK] "'I took no prisoners' "
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06:13 pm[LINK] "Okinawa: Why They Chose Death"
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06:16 pm[LINK] "Syrian civil society in Lebanon: challenges and opportunities"
11:32 pm[LINK] "The blood antiquities funding ISIL"
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11:57 pm[LINK] "Rick Mercer Veterans Rant Targets Tory Cuts On Remembrance Day"
- 12th
- 07:06 am
[PHOTO] Looking west on Dundas below the Art Gallery of Ontario
03:03 pm[NEWS] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- catalonia,
- caucasus,
- citizenship,
- clash of ideologies,
- crime,
- economics,
- education,
- ethnic cleansing,
- ethnic conflict,
- european union,
- first nations,
- former soviet union,
- geopolitics,
- iroquois,
- islam,
- israel,
- japan,
- korea,
- language conflict,
- links,
- mass media,
- middle east,
- migration,
- news,
- north africa,
- north korea,
- oil,
- pakistan,
- palestinians,
- pets,
- russia,
- separatism,
- social networking,
- spain,
- television,
- united states
06:22 pm[LINK] "Rosetta mission lands its probe on a comet and makes history"
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06:27 pm[LINK] "Asteroids Offer Stepping-Stones to Mars, Expert Says"
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06:30 pm[LINK] "African migrants in Russia describe 'hell on Earth'"
06:32 pm[LINK] "Armenia warns Azeris over helicopter shooting"
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06:34 pm[LINK] "Ghomeshi video showed woman's bruises, cracked rib"
09:04 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
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10:45 pm[LINK] "Jian Ghomeshi allegations leave Iranian-Canadians feeling sad and betrayed"
11:52 pm[LINK] "Huawei courts Wynne with a futuristic vision she ‘could not have imagined’"
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- 13th
- 10:54 am
[PHOTO] Miniature ship models, Art Gallery of Ontario
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03:26 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- africa,
- alternate history,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- china,
- chinese language,
- disasters,
- earth,
- east asia,
- economics,
- european union,
- geopolitics,
- italy,
- kensington market,
- links,
- maps,
- mass transit,
- military,
- popular literature,
- regionalism,
- russia,
- social sciences,
- space science,
- subways,
- suicide,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- ukraine,
- urban note
07:39 pm[ISL] "Amish communities checking out province"
07:44 pm[LINK] "Catalonia has voted: now what?"
07:48 pm[ISL] "Prince Edward Island’s silver fox bubble"
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07:51 pm[LINK] "Uranus Bland? Nope, It’s A Stormy Planet With Interesting Insides"
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07:56 pm[LINK] "Former CBC employee 'frustrated' with union response to Jian Ghomeshi allegations"
10:33 pm[LINK] "Malls Rise in Soweto as South African Townships Boom: Cities"
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11:21 pm[LINK] "Poroshenko's choices"
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11:54 pm[LINK] "'Doctor' treating First Nations girls says cancer patients can heal themselves"
- 14th
- 10:46 am
[PHOTO] Ships, and for rent
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01:56 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
04:22 pm[CAT] On the non-appearance of cat cafés in Toronto
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06:45 pm[LINK] "Why 'Six Degrees of Separation' Breaks Down Inside Cities"
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06:49 pm[LINK] "The new cold war Russia (again) won't win"
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06:51 pm[LINK] "Eavesdropping on the Secret Social World of Giant Otters"
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06:53 pm[LINK] "How Green Are Those Solar Panels, Really?"
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06:56 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Aquaponics: urban growers gaining ground"
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10:04 pm[LINK] "It Turns Out That "Longevity Genes" Don't Exist"
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- 15th
- 11:15 am
[PHOTO] Getting ready for a wedding in Walker Court, Art Gallery of Ontario
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- 17th
- 07:05 am
[PHOTO] Selected images from Welcome to Colville, Art Gallery of Ontario
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03:25 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
05:36 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Kurdish bookshop turns page on dark past"
05:42 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The first (almost) Canadian President"
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05:45 pm[LINK] "Argentina’s Feeder System Drains Talent From Nation’s Top Division"
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05:48 pm[LINK] "Has Aspen Become Too Popular for Its Own Good?"
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05:51 pm[LINK] "Alone and Confused, Philae Breaks our Hearts"
09:00 pm[NEWS] Some Monday links
10:26 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the effectiveness of PReP in preventing HIV infection
11:57 pm[LINK] "The Best Time to Take the Measure of a New Technology"
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- 18th
- 11:48 am
[PHOTO] Two takes on Alex Colville, "To Prince Edward Island" (1963)
03:26 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- california,
- crimean tatars,
- democracy,
- demographics,
- elections,
- ethnic conflict,
- european union,
- former soviet union,
- france,
- germany,
- glbt issues,
- links,
- maps,
- marriage rights,
- maya,
- music videos,
- oddities,
- politics,
- popular culture,
- restaurants,
- romania,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- space travel,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- urban note,
- vesta
05:40 pm[LINK] "Venezuela and Russia Discuss Coordinating to Defend Oil Price"
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05:43 pm[LINK] "Merkel Concerned about Russian Influence in the Balkans"
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05:49 pm[LINK] "Summer and politics in Crimea"
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05:52 pm[LINK] "Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Once Spent an Afternoon Together. Here's What Happened."
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05:56 pm[URBAN NOTE] "That time when Train 48 left Union Station"
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10:43 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Dufferin Station "revitalization": TTC closes station, November 22 to 24"
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11:46 pm[LINK] "Homogeneous cosmology with aggressively expanding civilizations"
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- 19th
- 06:32 am
[PHOTO] Riding the subway, Bay Station, May 2013
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03:10 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
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10:19 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Dutch firm wants to replicate glow-in-the-dark bike path in Toronto"
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10:26 pm[LINK] "Thank Germany for Falling Prices of Solar Panels and Wind Turbines"
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10:28 pm[LINK] "Shale Oil Fuels Indigenous Conflict in Argentina"
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10:32 pm[LINK] " The 'Caliphate's' Colonies: Islamic State's Gradual Expansion into North Africa"
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10:35 pm[LINK] "Russians scorn Harper's 'shirt-fronting' of Putin"
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10:43 pm[LINK] "America’s Casino-Saturation Problem"
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- 20th
- 12:14 pm
[PHOTO] Condos rising over the Distillery District, December 2012
03:35 pm[ISL] On the sabotage of potatoes of Linkletter Farms, Prince Edward Island
06:09 pm[LINK] "CBC reverses ban on journalist over Ghomeshi-Mansbridge remark"
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06:12 pm[LINK] "The Real Lolita"
06:17 pm[LINK] "Did 'Liberal Studies' Enable Hong Kong's Youth Awakening?"
06:21 pm[LINK] "Byelection results show Liberals, NDP going in different directions"
06:24 pm[LINK] "Is the PQ ready for the Pierre Karl Peladeau show?"
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- 21st
- 02:54 am
[PHOTO] Me and an owl, April 2012
01:59 pm[URBAN NOTE] "John Tory, councillors attend transgender flag-raising ceremony"
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04:10 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- africa,
- animal intelligence,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- canada,
- cetaceans,
- crimean tatars,
- democracy,
- elections,
- europa,
- fisheries,
- glbt issues,
- iran,
- jupiter,
- liberia,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- middle east,
- parkdale,
- queen street west,
- refugees,
- regionalism,
- russia,
- saturn,
- separatism,
- shopping,
- space science,
- space travel,
- titan,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- war,
- west africa
06:26 pm[URBAN NOTE] "7 restaurants to eat Hong Kong style Western food in the GTA"
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06:28 pm[LINK] "Maria Mourani, ex-Bloc MP, signs NDP membership card"
06:29 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The Uncertain Future of the Finch LRT"
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06:32 pm[LINK] "Italian ‘Invasion’ Has Swiss Fuming as Foreigner Vote Looms"
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06:34 pm[LINK] "Japan Should Be More German"
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09:59 pm[LINK] "Were Neanderthals a sub-species of modern humans? New research says no"
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11:51 pm[LINK] Two Bloomberg links on the geopolitics of falling oil prices
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- 22nd
- 11:50 am
[PHOTO] Below Fort York and the Gardiner, April 2012
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03:36 pm[CAT] "Jim Davis on Garfield’s Influence in the Age of the Internet Cat"
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- 24th
- 08:35 am
[PHOTO] Shanghainese protesters in New York City outside the United Nations, 2012
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12:55 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- australia,
- blogs,
- bookstores,
- borders,
- brazil,
- catalonia,
- china,
- crimean tatars,
- demographics,
- european union,
- extraterrestrial life,
- former soviet union,
- ganymede,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- hiv/aids,
- jupiter,
- language,
- links,
- mass transit,
- migration,
- oil,
- russia,
- separatism,
- shopping,
- southeast asia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- spain,
- subways,
- taiwan,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- yonge and dundas
03:38 pm[NEWS] Some Monday links
07:18 pm[LINK] "Astronomers Find Quasars Are "Aligned" Across Billions Of Light-Years"
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07:21 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto, Queen’s Park, and the circus at the School Board"
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07:24 pm[LINK] "Korean Heroine Tortured by Japan Haunts Pages of History"
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07:27 pm[LINK] "Rewilding projects aim to turn back clock on environment"
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07:29 pm[LINK] "Castro Helped the Devil in Argentina"
09:00 pm[LINK] "What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change"
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10:35 pm[LINK] "Complex life may be possible in only 10% of all galaxies"
11:54 pm[DM] "Looking to the science fiction of Monica Hughes and the demographics of the future"
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- 25th
- 11:40 am
[PHOTO] The flags of Brazil and Portugal on Ossington Avenue
03:09 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- artificial intelligence,
- bathurst street,
- blogs,
- canada,
- demographics,
- denmark,
- diasporas,
- economics,
- eglinton avenue,
- environment,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- immigration,
- links,
- malta,
- mass transit,
- neighbourhoods,
- netherlands,
- norway,
- photos,
- russia,
- scandinavia,
- shopping,
- siberia,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- sweden,
- the annex,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- united states,
- urban note
05:50 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Mayor-elect [Tory] supports narrower city streets"
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05:54 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the second city of Ukraine, Kharkiv
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05:58 pm[LINK] "As Espresso Rises, Will 'Greek Coffee' Be Left To The Turks?"
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06:00 pm[LINK] "AIDS Is No. 1 Killer of African Teenagers"
06:03 pm[LINK] "The last Arab"
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09:57 pm[LINK] "New Gene Studies Suggest There Are Hundreds of Kinds of Autism"
11:58 pm[LINK] "NASA Aims To Slash Space Shipping Costs With Shiny 3-D Printer"
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- 26th
- 12:59 pm
[PHOTO] Third-generation Lusophonia at Dufferin and Dupont
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03:23 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- africa,
- alternate history,
- astronomy,
- australia,
- blogs,
- caucasus,
- cbc,
- crime,
- crimean tatars,
- don river,
- economics,
- ethnic conflict,
- europa,
- evolution,
- feminism,
- first nations,
- history,
- hockey,
- in memoriam,
- jupiter,
- language,
- links,
- moon,
- police,
- popular music,
- russia,
- space science,
- sports,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- war
06:25 pm[URBAN NOTE] "At a Gay-Specific Bookstore, Just Books on a Shelf Won’t Do"
06:28 pm[LINK] "The Sahel-Sahara between 'Arab spring' and 'black spring'"
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06:30 pm[LINK] "Kim Jong Un Sends Special Envoy to Russia Amid Cooler China Ties"
06:32 pm[LINK] "The World’s Tiniest Countries and the Eccentrics Who Rule Them"
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06:34 pm[LINK] "Faced With Invasive Snails, a Bird Learns to Use Tools"
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09:01 pm[LINK] "Kitty Queer"
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10:43 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Hazel McCallion honoured at emotional final Mississauga council meeting"
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- 27th
- 12:12 pm
[PHOTO] Me at Pride, 2011
04:15 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
11:35 pm[LINK] "Assad's secular sectarianism"
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11:37 pm[LINK] "Christian village welcomes fleeing Tatar Muslims"
11:41 pm[LINK] "Should Putin Fear the Man Who 'Pulled the Trigger' in Ukraine?"
11:44 pm[LINK] "Opportunists take advantage of east Ukraine leadership confusion"
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11:48 pm[LINK] "Hungary Retreats From Putin as Orban Rediscovers Germany"
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11:51 pm[LINK] "Greenlanders Vote as Oil Price Slump Kills Independence Dreams"
Tags:- denmark,
- greenland,
- inuit,
- islands,
- links,
- norden,
- oil,
- separatism,
- west norden
11:54 pm[LINK] "U.S. income gap a danger to Canada: TD"
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- 28th
- 04:36 am
[PHOTO] "But they weren't doing much, so we killed them all ... ?"
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01:54 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
03:53 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The Jihadists of Suburbia"
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07:18 pm[LINK] "CBC managers told of Jian Ghomeshi 'assault' allegations back in June"
07:21 pm[ISL] "Wade MacLauchlan announces P.E.I. Liberal leadership bid"
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07:30 pm[URBAN NOTE] On how the Toronto real estate market is hard on renovators
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07:31 pm[LINK] "Finland legalises gay marriage"
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07:32 pm[LINK] "Crimea is becoming more Russian — and less hospitable to minorities"
10:01 pm[LINK] "The Mediterranean town where houses are on sale for less than $2"
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- 30th
- 11:03 am
[PHOTO] At the Cavalcade of Lights, Nathan Phillips Square
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