- 1st
- 03:06 pm
[PHOTO] Chechalk Lane, Toronto
- 2nd
- 11:00 am
[PHOTO] Stairwell snow
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12:59 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Vintage Toronto Ads: Hudson’s Bay Centre"
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03:09 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
05:33 pm[LINK] "Angry White Buddhists and the Dalai Lama"
05:38 pm[LINK] "Russia’s Waning Soft Power in Central Asia"
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05:43 pm[LINK] "Making Babies Makes a Comeback"
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05:46 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Medical marijuana smell overwhelms other businesses"
05:51 pm[LINK] "Sun News on 8 week Deathwatch"
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09:00 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the potential futures of tourism in Greece
11:56 pm[DM] "Two days to save the long-form census"
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- 3rd
- 11:05 am
[PHOTO] Snowy intersection, Dovercourt and Hallam
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03:12 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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06:29 pm[LINK] "A Russian Housewife Caught in Putin's War"
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06:31 pm[LINK] "The Cobweb"
06:34 pm[LINK] 'Mars has Lost Over 100 Million Cubic Kilometers of Water Since Formation"
06:37 pm[LINK] "Dedicated Quebec City-Windsor track would improve on-time performance, Via Rail CEO says"
06:39 pm[LINK] "Target Canada's liquidation sales add to worker chaos"
08:59 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the sudden resignation of Foreign Minister John Baird
11:49 pm[DM] "Three links from The Diplomat on demographic issues in Asia"
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- 4th
- 11:59 am
[PHOTO] Missing tile, Eglinton station
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02:23 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- ceres,
- clash of ideologies,
- crimean tatars,
- democracy,
- economics,
- education,
- europa,
- eurozone,
- greece,
- health,
- india,
- japan,
- jupiter,
- links,
- maps,
- medicine,
- military,
- popular literature,
- science,
- science fiction,
- siberia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- toronto,
- united states,
- writing
06:07 pm[LINK] "Nancy Reagan Turned Down Rock Hudson’s Plea For Help Nine Weeks Before He Died"
06:14 pm[LINK] "Uighurs flee China for Turkey in search of peace"
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06:17 pm[LINK] "CBSA learned of its own detainee’s death by accident – three weeks later"
06:21 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Those Wrapped-Up Boats off Queens Quay Have People Living in Them"
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06:24 pm[URBAN NOTE] "That’s a nice laneway, but it’s no woonerf"
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09:04 pm[LINK] What are the best known books of the countries of the world?
11:48 pm[DM] "'The Year Having Kids Became a Frivolous Luxury'"
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- 5th
- 11:08 am
[PHOTO] Underpass on Dufferin north of Dupont
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02:42 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- alternate history,
- architecture,
- astronomy,
- biology,
- blogging,
- blogs,
- clash of ideologies,
- coffee,
- education,
- europa,
- evolution,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- health,
- india,
- links,
- maps,
- mars,
- medicine,
- neighbourhoods,
- new york city,
- nuclear war,
- pluto,
- popular literature,
- restaurants,
- russia,
- space science,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states
05:52 pm[LINK] "The Myth of the Gay Community"
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05:54 pm[LINK] "Crimea’s Vanishing Religious Communities"
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05:56 pm[LINK] "Scotland poll shows a nation on the verge of abandoning Labour"
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05:59 pm[LINK] "It Looks Like an Asteroid Strike Can’t Cause a Worldwide, Dinosaur-Killing Firestorm"
06:02 pm[URBAN NOTE] "It's more buses or bust"
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09:12 pm[LINK] "I Married a Jew"
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11:53 pm[DM] "A possible compromise on the census?"
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- 6th
- 12:58 pm
[PHOTO] Subway floor, Bloor-Danforth line
- 8th
- 01:36 pm
[PHOTO] Shorn at the barber's shop
11:43 pm[BLOG] Some Sunday links
Tags:- blogs,
- borders,
- california,
- central europe,
- christianity,
- condos,
- crime,
- earth,
- environment,
- feminism,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- internet,
- language,
- links,
- mars,
- mass media,
- middle east,
- oceans,
- popular literature,
- roman catholic church,
- russia,
- san francisco,
- science fiction,
- sexuality,
- shopping,
- slovakia,
- spadina avenue,
- subway,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- urban note,
- war,
- writing
- 9th
- 12:03 pm
[PHOTO] On the future of Geary Avenue, Toronto
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03:21 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s Changing Political Map"
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06:14 pm[LINK] "Brazil Dries Up and Blacks Out"
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06:18 pm[LINK] "Balkan wars: Serbia, Croatia did not commit genocide, UN court says"
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06:20 pm[LINK] "Humans met Neanderthals on way out of Africa, skull suggests"
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06:22 pm[LINK] "Putting a Czech Spin on Vinyl"
06:26 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On how social safety nets can encourage entrepreneurialism
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10:20 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- animal intelligence,
- anthropology,
- argentina,
- astronomy,
- baltic states,
- blogs,
- borders,
- central america,
- central europe,
- ceres,
- china,
- clash of ideologies,
- democracy,
- denmark,
- economics,
- education,
- eurozone,
- fascism,
- former soviet union,
- friends,
- futurology,
- glbt issues,
- in memoriam,
- iroquois,
- language,
- latin america,
- latvia,
- links,
- middle east,
- military,
- mongolia,
- nicaragua,
- norden,
- politics,
- primates,
- russia,
- russian language,
- scandinavia,
- science fiction,
- singapore,
- slovakia,
- social sciences,
- sociolinguistics,
- sociology,
- southeast asia,
- space colonization,
- space science,
- space travel,
- technology,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- war,
- writing
11:54 pm[DM] "A story of drinkers, genocide and unborn girls"
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- 10th
- 03:20 pm
[PHOTO] The steps at Ossington
06:31 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Discount hunters come up short at Target liquidation"
06:34 pm[LINK] "Row Erupts over Jamaica’s Bid to Slow Beach Erosion"
06:36 pm[LINK] "A new mission for Akatsuki, and status updates for Hayabusa 2 and Chang'e"
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06:39 pm[LINK] "Millions of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internet"
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06:43 pm[LINK] On the Francophone Indonesians of New Caledonia
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06:46 pm[LINK] "High household debt leaves Canada vulnerable, report warns"
10:26 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- 11th
- 12:06 pm
[PHOTO] The snow outside my window
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03:11 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto is a geologic force: the Lost Rivers guide to the PATH system"
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05:45 pm[URBAN NOTE] "City seeking "citizen-representatives" on the Toronto Transit Commission"
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05:47 pm[LINK] "Black Wedding: The Re-emergence of Lenie Clarke."
05:50 pm[LINK] "Germany Deserved Debt Relief, Greece Doesn't"
05:53 pm[LINK] "Inequality Fuels HIV Epidemic in the Caribbean"
05:57 pm[LINK] "Measles Still Kills Thousands of Children Each Year"
05:59 pm[LINK] "There’s a Good and a Bad Way to ‘Geoengineer’ the Planet"
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09:50 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- central america,
- chechnya,
- china,
- denmark,
- english language,
- ethnic cleansing,
- ethnic conflict,
- federalism,
- former soviet union,
- france,
- glbt issues,
- health,
- history,
- links,
- madonna,
- mars,
- medicine,
- nicaragua,
- oddities,
- philosophy,
- photos,
- popular music,
- regionalism,
- russia,
- social networking,
- space science,
- space travel,
- tatarstan,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- war
11:59 pm[DM] "Depopulation: An Investor's Guide to Value in the Twenty-First Century"
- 12th
- 03:41 pm
[LINK] "Oil's swoon sparks Alberta schadenfreude in rest of Canada"
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06:12 pm[LINK] "The Parliamentary Secretary for Multiculturalism Asks Iranian-Canadians "Why Are You Here?""
06:17 pm[LINK] "Bosnian-Americans shaken by indictment of six accused of supporting ISIL"
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06:20 pm[LINK] The Economist on the assimilated German-Americans
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06:22 pm[LINK] "In Less Than Two Years, a Smartphone Could Be Your Only Computer"
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06:25 pm[ISL] "How Two Small Rocks Stop Japan and South Korea Getting Along"
06:27 pm[LINK] "The A to Z of the oil crash"
- 13th
- 11:00 am
[PHOTO] Stairs, Yonge-Eglinton Center
03:05 pm[URBAN NOTE] On me and the fate of my neighbourhood, Dovercourt Park or Village
05:35 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On why Sun News died today
05:46 pm[LINK] "The Digital Future of TV Networks & The Original Series Crunch"
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05:50 pm[LINK] "Fearful of attacks, more LGBT Russians seeking US asylum"
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05:52 pm[LINK] "Putin Is Knocking Ukraine's Space Industry Out of Orbit"
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05:56 pm[LINK] "Rural Towns in El Salvador Join “War Tourism” Trend"
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05:59 pm[LINK] "The Intriguing New Science That Could Change Your Mind About Rats"
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10:29 pm[LINK] John Moyer on the importance of the footnote in writing
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- 14th
- 11:24 pm
[CAT] Shakespeare in the evening
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11:29 pm[CAT] "How do cats deal with being weightless?"
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11:50 pm[CAT] "L.A. County to weigh requiring pet cats to be spayed or neutered"
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11:55 pm[CAT] "Why Do Cats Love Boxes So Much?"
- 16th
- 05:54 pm
[OBSCURA] On the snow this winter in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
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07:59 pm[CAT] "Rudiger the cat digs out after snowstorm"
- 17th
- 11:05 am
[PHOTO] Bloorcourt alleyway in summer
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03:07 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- brazil,
- central america,
- china,
- clash of ideologies,
- demographics,
- economics,
- egypt,
- ethnic conflict,
- european union,
- eurozone,
- fascism,
- federalism,
- former yugoslavia,
- france,
- german language,
- glbt issues,
- greece,
- history,
- japan,
- korea,
- language,
- latin america,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- mass media,
- mass transit,
- military,
- neighbourhoods,
- new england,
- nicaragua,
- nuclear weapons,
- photos,
- popular culture,
- popular literature,
- russia,
- slovenia,
- social networking,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- south korea,
- space science,
- star trek,
- taiwan,
- television,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- united states,
- venezuela,
- winter
06:00 pm[LINK] "Made in Mexico: An emerging auto giant powers past Canada"
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06:03 pm[LINK] "Why southwestern Ontario's manufacturing rebound is missing in action"
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06:07 pm[LINK] "How to Survive Winter in Antarctica"
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06:10 pm[LINK] "Mystical amphibian venerated by Aztecs nears extinction"
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06:13 pm[LINK] "Being Chinese in Singapore"
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06:18 pm[URBAN NOTE] "I Sing The Body Politic"
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08:57 pm[LINK] "Danish 'hygge' is the antidote for a cold dark winter"
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- 18th
- 11:16 am
[OBSCURA] On how Prince Edward Island has been completely snowed in
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03:18 pm[LINK] "‘Anti-petroleum’ movement a growing security threat to Canada, RCMP say"
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06:06 pm[LINK] "How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life"
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06:09 pm[LINK] "No, India Isn't Growing Like China"
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06:11 pm[LINK] "Putin 21-Year Quest to Be Russian Guardian Began in Estonia"
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06:15 pm[LINK] "Long list of small businesses wait for cash as Target’s cheque bounces"
06:17 pm[ISL] "Will Pacific Island Nations Disappear as Seas Rise? Maybe Not"
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06:20 pm[LINK] "Why are Christian movies so painfully bad?"
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09:01 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
09:01 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
11:56 pm[DM] "Taiwan's growing multiculturalism"
- 19th
- 03:25 pm
[PHOTO] Watching the screen at Yonge and Bloor
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05:31 pm[LINK] "Venezuela Squanders Its Oil Wealth"
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05:33 pm[LINK] "Target Canada offering deeper discounts today"
05:37 pm[LINK] "Rising Sea Levels Are Already Making Miami’s Floods Worse"
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05:41 pm[LINK] "Scientists announce anti-HIV agent so powerful it can work in a vaccine"
05:44 pm[LINK] "54 Bombed in 1998. Now It's Been Resurrected as a Cult Gay Classic."
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05:49 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The Boring Secret of Great Cities"
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09:02 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- africa,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- borders,
- ceres,
- espionage,
- europa,
- european union,
- eurozone,
- fascism,
- feminism,
- france,
- gender,
- glbt issues,
- globalization,
- graphic novels,
- greece,
- history,
- imperialism,
- language,
- links,
- maps,
- national identity,
- russia,
- separatism,
- social sciences,
- space science,
- space travel,
- telecommunications,
- toronto,
- uganda,
- ukraine,
- urban note,
- yonge and eglinton
- 20th
- 05:40 am
[MUSIC] Róisín Murphy, "Gone Fishing"
12:59 pm[PHOTO] Looking between the cars, northbound train
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03:35 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- abkhazia,
- agriculture,
- astronomy,
- biology,
- blogs,
- borders,
- california,
- cambodia,
- clash of ideologies,
- demographics,
- extraterrestrial life,
- former soviet union,
- gender,
- genocide,
- georgia,
- history,
- internet,
- iran,
- links,
- military,
- oddities,
- racism,
- restaurants,
- russia,
- science,
- south ossetia,
- southeast asia,
- space science,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- urban note
05:54 pm[URBAN NOTE] "A Toronto statue from the graveyard of the British Empire"
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05:57 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Staggering Basquiat show a triumph for the AGO"
06:00 pm[LINK] "Life-destroying 'spice' drug engulfs Russia"
06:02 pm[LINK] "Alberta squandered oil wealth with big spending, Fraser Institute says"
06:04 pm[LINK] "Pizza Hut Returns to Africa"
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06:06 pm[LINK] "Rogue 'Electro-Fishing' Puts River Dolphins at Risk in Myanmar"
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09:01 pm[LINK] "China’s Harbin City courts Jews once again"
11:48 pm[DM] "Three links on African immigration to China"
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- 21st
- 04:36 pm
[CAT] Shakespeare, skeptical
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- 22nd
- 03:01 pm
[OBSCURA] "Bessie is starting to get a little nervous at Cavendish Boardwalk!"
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- 23rd
- 11:07 am
[PHOTO] Ryerson Student Learning Center, from the south
02:42 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- africa,
- architecture,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- cambodia,
- canada,
- cbc,
- china,
- christianity,
- computers,
- demographics,
- ethnic conflict,
- finland,
- former soviet union,
- france,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- human beings,
- india,
- kyrgyzstan,
- language,
- latin america,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- mass media,
- migration,
- military,
- national identity,
- norden,
- north caucasus,
- ontario,
- religion,
- russia,
- south asia,
- southeast asia,
- space science,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- urban note,
- venus,
- war,
- winter
06:36 pm[LINK] "The Search for Planets Around Proxima Centauri"
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06:40 pm[LINK] "The dark future of American space exploration"
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06:49 pm[LINK] "Will No One Rid Me of These Troublesome Canadians?"
06:55 pm[LINK] "China to neighbours: Send us your Uighurs"
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06:57 pm[LINK] "Poverty spurs mass migration from Kosovo"
06:59 pm[LINK] "Who Speaks for Earth? The Controversy over Interstellar Messaging"
09:41 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On how a new Maunder Minimum will not save Earth from global warming
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11:53 pm[LINK] On Mizae Mizumura and The Fall of Language in the Age of English
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- 24th
- 08:16 am
[PHOTO] Looking east at Yonge-Dundas Square
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02:39 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- baltic states,
- blogs,
- borders,
- chechnya,
- economics,
- enceladus,
- ethnic cleansing,
- ethnic conflict,
- feminism,
- former soviet union,
- gender,
- genetics,
- glbt issues,
- health,
- human beings,
- intelligence,
- language,
- latvia,
- links,
- medicine,
- north caucasus,
- oceans,
- rail,
- russia,
- russian language,
- saturn,
- science,
- space science,
- streetcar,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- urban note,
- war
05:44 pm[LINK] "Latvia Torn Between Money and Fear of Russia"
05:50 pm[LINK] "Canadian First Nations Seek to Protect Forest Homeland"
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05:54 pm[LINK] "Is Japan Asia's Next Autocracy?"
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05:57 pm[URBAN NOTE] "In many Canadian cities, unsold condos are stacking up"
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06:00 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto heritage in a dismal state"
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06:05 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the strange tunnel at York University, Toronto
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10:33 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the selection of Wade MacLauchlan as premier of Prince Edward Island
- 25th
- 01:00 pm
[PHOTO] Looking down the tracks, eastbound at Bathurst
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03:39 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- baltic states,
- blogs,
- book reviews,
- economics,
- education,
- european union,
- eurozone,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- greece,
- health,
- india,
- language,
- links,
- medicine,
- military,
- nato,
- neighbourhoods,
- politics,
- popular literature,
- restaurants,
- russia,
- space science,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- urban note,
- yorkville
06:22 pm[LINK] "'Rotisserie' Planets Could Host Alien Life — If Wet Enough"
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06:28 pm[LINK] "Most HIV Infections Come From Undiagnosed or Untreated People: Study"
06:31 pm[LINK] "Argentina Moves Towards Marriage of Convenience with China"
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06:34 pm[LINK] "The Origins of Separatism in Donetsk"
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06:36 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Detroit homeowners face new wave of foreclosures"
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06:39 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Poll Position: Toronto Wants a Downtown Relief Line (If They Live Downtown, at Least)"
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10:19 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the undeniable eloquence and political chops of Kathleen Wynne
- 26th
- 03:14 pm
[PHOTO] Looking north towards Rosedale, Yonge and Bloor
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06:09 pm[ISL] "Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land?"
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06:13 pm[ISL] "Wade MacLauchlan: P.E.I.’s optimist-in-chief"
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06:16 pm[LINK] "Lüderitz v !Nami≠nüs: dispute over town's name divides Namibia"
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06:22 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Al-Shabaab and the lure of West Edmonton Mall"
06:24 pm[LINK] "What Greece Can Learn From Israel About Tax Cheats"
06:27 pm[LINK] "Strategic Defense: Military Uses of the Moon & Asteroids (1983)"
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10:22 pm[MUSIC] Pet Shop Boys and David Bowie, "Hallo Spaceboy"
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- 27th
- 03:01 pm
[PHOTO] The brightly colored Dufferin subway station
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06:57 pm[LINK] "Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot dead in Moscow"
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07:02 pm[LINK] "Russia to keep its part of space station after its duty ends"
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07:06 pm[LINK] "Ceres' Deepening Mysteries"
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07:08 pm[LINK] "Facebook flags aboriginal names as not 'authentic'"
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07:10 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Should We Care About Douglas Coupland?"
07:16 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Fabricland Marks a Changing Neighbourhood’s Last Cheerful Stand"
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09:57 pm[ISL] "Damn Ice Dams: A Weekend Spent"
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- 28th
- 01:48 pm
[PHOTO] On the TTC, Lindsay Kelk, and the stock photography both use
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11:27 pm[CAT] Shakespeare, suspicious
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