1st
03:04 pm

[PHOTO] New Metropass for a new year



11:55 pm

[LINK] "What Do We Want, Really?"



2nd
12:58 pm

[PHOTO] A lovely fairy queen on Yonge



03:23 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



06:38 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Expect erratic weather in Toronto this weekend"



06:40 pm

[LINK] "Evidence of Leelah Alcorn's short life removed from Tumblr"



06:42 pm

[LINK] "When restorative justice isn’t enough"



06:45 pm

[LINK] Two Bloomberg links on economic crisis in Ukraine



08:59 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How a Ferry Ride Helped Make Brooklyn the Original Suburb"



10:15 pm

[LINK] "Say Goodbye to 'Made in China'"



11:40 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the close encounter of HIP 85605 with Sol in a few hundred thousand years



3rd
09:22 am

[CAT] Shakespeare, turning



01:42 pm

[PHOTO] More selected images from Welcome to Colville, Art Gallery of Ontario



4th
12:11 pm

[PHOTO] Osgoode Hall on Christmas


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5th
08:44 am

[PHOTO] Looking east on Armoury Street from University Avenue



12:46 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links


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03:53 pm

[LINK] "Julian Fantino out as veterans affairs minister"



06:41 pm

[LINK] "An Ohio transgender teen's suicide, a mother's anguish"



06:51 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "39% Of Households In The City Of Detroit Cannot Read This Post"



06:54 pm

[LINK] "Islam in Taiwan: Lost in tradition"



06:56 pm

[LINK] "How Scary Can Greece Get?"



06:59 pm

[LINK] "Sanskrit and English: there’s no competition"



09:57 pm

[LINK] "Facebook is the new AOL"



10:44 pm

[ISL] On the New Year's Day levee of Prince Edward Island



11:54 pm

[LINK] The anti-Castro extremist who will never give up his fight



6th
09:13 am

[PHOTO] Made in China, Maria Ezcurra, at Nuit Blanche



12:56 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Remember the greenhouse gases"



03:34 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



06:37 pm

[LINK] "Children Starving to Death in Pakistan’s Drought-Struck Tharparkar District"



06:40 pm

[LINK] "Why we're not going to see sub-orbital airliners"



06:45 pm

[LINK] "As Louisiana’s marshes erode, so does the Houma Indians way of life"



06:49 pm

[LINK] "Todd Spencer and Chris Boyce on leave of absence from CBC"


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06:52 pm

[LINK] On the lack of optimism of Michael Den Tandt for Thomas Mulcair



11:55 pm

[DM] "A few thoughts on the Eurabia of Houellebecq"



7th
08:21 am

[PHOTO] In memoriam for a homeless man at Yonge and Dundas



03:29 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



05:39 pm

[LINK] "California breaks ground on first US bullet train project"



05:41 pm

[LINK] "What Retirement? Singapore Older Workers Stay on the Job"



05:46 pm

[LINK] "Children Stolen by Chilean Dictatorship Finally Come to Light"



05:51 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "‘Crazy Indians Brotherhood’ dole kindness to Winnipeg’s homeless"



05:59 pm

[LINK] "This Curiosity Image Suggests Microbial Life Once Existed On Mars"



10:29 pm

[LINK] "Sharpening Contradictions: Why al-Qaeda attacked Satirists in Paris"



11:59 pm

[DM] "Houellebecq is as wrong today as he was yesterday"



8th
08:44 am

[PHOTO] Salt stains at Dufferin and Dupont



11:52 am

[NEWS] Some links on the Charlie Hebdo shooting



03:03 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



05:28 pm

[LINK] "Ferguson grand juror sues prosecutor"



05:30 pm

[LINK] "Crude Collapse Seen Boosting China’s South American Clout"



05:34 pm

[LINK] "Czechs Hope Chinese Romance Will Lure Thousands to Prague"



05:38 pm

[LINK] "New Year Won't End Argentina Bond Mess"



05:41 pm

[LINK] "Provocative Books Tap a Mood of Profound French Anxiety"



11:22 pm

[DM] "On systematically overestimating population sizes"



9th
09:21 am

[PHOTO] Old computer, new computer



12:22 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



01:57 pm

[LINK] "I Wear A Red Dog"



04:29 pm

[NEWS] Some Friday links


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06:47 pm

[LINK] "Young members of Louisiana’s Houma Nation try to reclaim tribe’s lost language"



06:50 pm

[LINK] "Another Reactor Closes, Punctuating New Reality for U.S. Nuclear Power"



06:53 pm

[LINK] "Why Fighting Oligarchs Is a Bad Idea"



06:56 pm

[LINK] "New questions raised about U.S.-Saudi relationship"



06:58 pm

[LINK] jsburbidge on what actually is popular science fiction



10:05 pm

[DM] "On how China and Asia show how demographics alone is not destiny"



10th
04:23 pm

[CAT] Shakespeare, napping



07:31 pm

[DM] "Reflecting on migration in China through Taiwan and Hong Kong"



11th
05:47 pm

[PHOTO] Train paused at Dovercourt



11:43 pm

[DM] "On China becoming a country of immigrants"



12th
09:56 am

[PHOTO] Evening in my backyard


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02:29 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



06:18 pm

[LINK] "Nous sommes Charlie"



06:21 pm

[LINK] "Korea Shows the Way on 'Womenomics'"



06:22 pm

[LINK] "Venezuelans Throng Grocery Stores Under Military Protection"



06:24 pm

[LINK] "After the Spill: Life in West Virginia's Coal Country"



06:27 pm

[LINK] "Kyrzbekistan Isn't Funny"



09:27 pm

[LINK] Two Daily Kos links on the cartoons of Charlie Hebdo



10:50 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the 200th anniversary of the birth of John A. MacDonald



11:56 pm

[DM] "On recent post-colonial immigration to Africa"



13th
11:03 am

[PHOTO] Cumberland Terrace, quarter to 9



02:41 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



05:18 pm

[LINK] "Paris attacks: Who's next?"



05:21 pm

[LINK] "Ukraine’s Effort to Cut Russian-Gas Reliance Sees Explorers Exit"



05:23 pm

[LINK] "NAFTA scrutiny of oilsands tailings ponds opposed by Canada"



05:26 pm

[LINK] "Integrated Farming: The Only Way to Survive a Rising Sea"



05:29 pm

[LINK] "Being safe doesn't mean it has to be ugly"



09:38 pm

[LINK] "On the declining prospects of the young journalist"



11:54 pm

[DM] "On Steve Emerson, #foxnewsfacts, and bad pop demography"



14th
10:29 am

[PHOTO] Looking up Yonge at the new Ryerson centre



12:52 pm

[LINK] On what testing First Nations children at residential schools for ESP means



03:06 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



05:14 pm

[LINK] "Why Isn't Japan Inc. Helping Japan?"



05:19 pm

[LINK] "Australia's rising solar power 'revolution'"



05:21 pm

[LINK] "Russia Says Paris Terror Acts Show Need for ‘Urgent’ Cooperation"



05:24 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto condo rentals increase 15% in 2014"



05:26 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On how southwestern China and Southeast Asia are becoming an economic unit



09:00 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "What the Hebdo killings, and their aftermath, say about global cities"



15th
10:48 am

[PHOTO] Red and white



11:59 am

[LINK] "Target to close all 133 Canadian stores, gets CCAA protection"



03:16 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



05:42 pm

[ISL] "Fossil found by P.E.I. boy fills gap in reptile evolution"



05:47 pm

[LINK] "Commando Theft of Nazi Radar Turned Town Into Cyber Valley"



05:50 pm

[LINK] "Sri Lanka’s Minorities Choose “Unknown Angel” Over “Known Devil”"



05:53 pm

[LINK] "Post-War Ukraine ‘Natural’ as Warsaw Bourse Looks East"



05:57 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the imminent demise of Xtra! as a print publication



09:09 pm

[MUSIC] Todd Terje feat. Bryan Ferry, "Johnny and Mary"



11:52 pm

[DM] "Humanity’s Future: Below Replacement Fertility?"



16th
10:19 am

[PHOTO] Monument to North American Energy Security, Nuit Blanche



02:39 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



05:42 pm

[LINK] "A turn in the South"



05:45 pm

[LINK] "Costa Rica’s Quakers dodged US draft, now face perils of changing world"



05:48 pm

[LINK] "Indonesia Tops Southeast Asia Luring New Factories, Survey Shows"



05:50 pm

[LINK] "Why wages won't rise"



05:53 pm

[LINK] "Left-wing lock: Will the NDP and Liberals split the progressive vote?"



08:03 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the global spread of the Lovebot of Matthew Del Degan



10:06 pm

[VIDEO] "Stan by your land"



17th
11:55 am

[CAT] Shakespeare up close



03:46 pm

[CAT] "Cats Are Finally Getting Geneticists’ Attention"



03:50 pm

[CAT] "This is what happens to stray cats in Toronto"



03:56 pm

[CAT] "The Powerful Authority of Cute Animals"



06:50 pm

[DM] "On what the attenuation of the Alberta advantage might mean"



18th
01:09 pm

[PHOTO] Wanwu: Metamorphosis



03:14 pm

[BLOG] Some Sunday links



09:46 pm

[NEWS] Some Sunday links



19th
11:33 am

[PHOTO] Union Station and Villa Toronto



03:41 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On Villa Toronto at Union Station



05:39 pm

[LINK] "Turkish sex worker dialect Lubunca liberates, stigmatizes LGBT community"



05:42 pm

[LINK] "North Koreans Walk Across Frozen River to Kill Chinese for Food"



05:45 pm

[LINK] "Iroquois Falls latest casualty of changing northern Ontario economy"



05:48 pm

[LINK] "From The Mouths Of Apes, Babble Hints At Origins of Human Speech"



05:51 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the Target collapse across Canada, including in Charlottetown



08:58 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



10:25 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the impending end of the Sackville United Church, New Brunswick



11:55 pm

[DM] "On the inevitability of out-migration from Atlantic Canada"



20th
08:03 am

[PHOTO] From IBID, Michael Portnoy



12:24 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



01:58 pm

[URBAN NOTE] The 192 Airport Rocket on the TTC subway map



04:08 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the increasingly unaffordable nature of rent in Toronto



06:47 pm

[LINK] "Cuban Diplomacy Looks Towards Both Brussels and Washington"



06:50 pm

[LINK] "The Dark Energy Survey Begins to Reveal Previously Unknown Trans-Neptunian Objects"



06:54 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Welcome To Whittier, Alaska, A Community Under One Roof"



06:57 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Shanghai on the Nile"



11:47 pm

[DM] "On 'Why the Muslim 'No-Go-Zone' Myth Won't Die'"



21st
11:01 am

[PHOTO] Dean Drever, Pass the Hat



03:31 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



06:48 pm

[LINK] "U.S. Has Global Economic Edge in Its Minorities"



06:51 pm

[LINK] "Argentine Judge Said to Find Dead Prosecutor Papers Credible"



06:54 pm

[LINK] "Manhattan Project Plutonium, Lost to Obscurity, Recovered by Scientists"



06:57 pm

[LINK] "First Hubble and Now Dawn Have Seen This White Spot on Ceres. What is it?"



06:59 pm

[LINK] "The Long Tail of Ebola: Depressing African Economic Progress"



09:03 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The new American streetcar: A visit to Detroit, Cincinnati, Atlanta, and Tampa"



11:38 pm

[DM] "Notes on Newfoundland and Labrador"



22nd
10:59 am

[PHOTO] Sculpture by Iris Häussler



03:10 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



06:35 pm

[LINK] "Catholic Church 'Allah' appeal shot down in Malaysia"



06:37 pm

[LINK] "Russia's Crisis Was Big Fun in Belarus Until the Economic Strife Spread"



06:39 pm

[LINK] "Spain’s Partido Popular’s snide attacks on Catalan"



06:42 pm

[LINK] "Navajo Nation president sworn in despite losing re-election"



06:44 pm

[LINK] "How Indigo plans to become the world’s first “cultural department store”"



09:08 pm

[MUSIC] Björk, "Hyperballad"



23rd
09:33 am

[PHOTO] Statue, Villa Toronto



02:23 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



04:48 pm

[LINK] Two links about the aftermath of Target Canada



04:51 pm

[LINK] "A Tiny Press Printed Only 15,000 Copies of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Autobiography. Big Mistak"



04:53 pm

[LINK] "Hungarian Franc-Loan Fix Provides Cautionary Tale"



04:55 pm

[LINK] "Saskatoon gay couple 1st to be married in Mennonite church"



04:57 pm

[LINK] "Farewell to Florida"



08:02 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How Davenport is giving new meaning to gentrification"



10:00 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "A Toronto historical map of London, England"



11:36 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Beware, countryfolk: the rural hipster may soon be among you"

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24th
11:04 am

[CAT] Shakespeare, resting



25th
03:50 pm

[PHOTO] Looking up from Union Station, Toronto



26th
02:33 pm

[PHOTO] Filming an anti-bullying ad for RioCan, Yonge and Eglinton Centre



05:16 pm

[LINK] "Islamophobic Bus Ads In San Francisco Are Being Defaced With Kamala Khan"



05:23 pm

[LINK] "Watch Jumbo Squid Speak by 'Flashing' Each Other"



05:25 pm

[LINK] "X-Rays Reveal Snippets From Papyrus Scrolls That Survived Mount Vesuvius"



05:28 pm

[LINK] "Off-Target: How a U.S. retail giant misread the Canadian market"



05:32 pm

[LINK] "The Crimean ‘question’"



07:59 pm

[LINK] Two articles on the obsolescence of the stand-alone telephone



10:45 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



11:53 pm

[DM] "On why demographics mean a near-term recovery in Greece is unlikely"



27th
11:19 am

[PHOTO] WiFi on the Toronto subway



12:57 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "A guide to Indigenous Toronto"



04:56 pm

[LINK] "Ethnographers as Writers: Write First Drafts in One Go"



04:59 pm

[LINK] "The Invisible Woman"



05:03 pm

[LINK] "Mac and me — on celebrating the 31st birthday of the Apple 128K"



07:06 pm

[LINK] On the discovery of ancient planets around Kepler-444



07:12 pm

[LINK] On the circumplanetary disk of super-Saturn J1407b



10:53 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



11:56 pm

[DM] "'Greece: The Impact of Austerity on Migration'"



28th
10:46 am

[PHOTO] Flag of Lebanon, Dundas West



03:09 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



06:20 pm

[LINK] Two links on the foreign relations of Greece under Syriza



06:24 pm

[LINK] "Polish GDP Growth Surges on Consumer Spending, Investment"



06:27 pm

[LINK] "Tending the 'Stolen' Sheep in Latin America's Booming Bible Belt"



06:28 pm

[LINK] "Telus may be closing its pager network, but the beeper isn't dead yet"



06:31 pm

[LINK] "How #stormchips became a Maritime phenomenon"



09:01 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "We need to reframe how we talk about our city"



10:24 pm

[LINK] "The Value of Remembering Ordinary Moments"



10:56 pm

[LINK] Three articles on the shift of Belarus away from Russia



29th
11:26 am

[PHOTO] Phone reading



12:59 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "No jail for Toronto police officer convicted of G20 assault"



03:05 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



06:31 pm

[LINK] "What the %@&*! Happened to Free Speech?"



06:33 pm

[LINK] "Landscape and Austen"



06:37 pm

[LINK] "Independent Catalonia Would Have Investment Grade: Study"



06:40 pm

[LINK] "Mars had its own mini, Iron Theia"



06:44 pm

[LINK] "How Oily Is Canada's Housing Bubble?"



11:54 pm

[DM] "Damage from cancelled census as bad as feared, researchers say"



30th
10:39 am

[PHOTO] Snow on newspaper boxes, Bloor and Dufferin



02:07 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



05:39 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto, Montreal best places to live, Economist says"



05:45 pm

[LINK] "Trinity Western law students OK to practise in Nova Scotia"



05:49 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s RUNT-naissance"



05:52 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Exploring “downtown” Centreville in the winter: A ghost town in more ways than one"



05:56 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the New York City video archives of Nelson Sullivan



08:00 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Millennials Are Moving To Buffalo & Living Like Kings"



10:46 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Rust Belt revival: Lessons for southwest Ontario from America’s industrial heartland"



31st
07:59 am

[CAT] Shakespeare, as if posing



01:16 pm

[CAT] "India's Tigers May Be Rebounding, in Rare Success for Endangered Species"



01:25 pm

[CAT] "Vietnam Seizes Thousands Of Cats Smuggled From China For Consumption"



01:37 pm

[CAT] "Gay Man Creates $50,000 Indoor Playland for His 15 Rescued Cats"



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