1st
11:41 am

[PHOTO] One of the towers at College Park



03:10 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



06:16 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Crowdsourcing the City’s Narrative"



06:20 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The bloody Burlington Races and the war for Lake Ontario"



06:22 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Inside the Reference Library's new gift shop"



06:25 pm

[LINK] "Nicaragua’s Future Canal a Threat to the Environment"



06:27 pm

[LINK] "Water, Fire, and Costa Rica’s Carbon-Zero Year So Far"



06:31 pm

[LINK] "How Russia’s opposition learned to stop worrying and love Crimea"



09:00 pm

[LINK] On the impending war of Canada in Syria



09:57 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the January 2015 TTC constable fight videos



11:55 pm

[DM] "On the transformation of Canada's temporary foreign workers program"



2nd
11:47 am

[PHOTO] The Bloor/Gladstone Library aglow



03:44 pm

[LINK] "Senator’s complaint of cold Camembert accidentally sums up Senate’s problems "



03:49 pm

[LINK] "Euro Debate Ignites in East EU in Face of Public Skepticism"



03:51 pm

[LINK] "Greece-Russia Overtures Seen as Sideshow by Merkel, Hollande"



03:53 pm

[LINK] "Temporary foreign workers warned to leave Canada as required"



03:56 pm

[LINK] "Dawn Journal: Preparing to Photograph Ceres"



03:58 pm

[LINK] "The Economist wants to give you a sense of completeness, even if that’s an illusion"



06:07 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



08:57 pm

[MUSIC] Joni Mitchell, "Slouching toward Bethlehem"



3rd
02:43 pm

[PHOTO] Escalator, Dufferin subway station



03:55 pm

[OBSCURA] One photo and some links on the cherry blossoms of Japan



4th
12:16 pm

[CAT] Shakespeare, looking



04:39 pm

[CAT] On the very wealthy cat of Karl Lagerfeld, Choupette



04:46 pm

[CAT] "After six years apart, Cleo the cat and owner reunited during tearful airport scene"



04:49 pm

[CAT] "Phoenix truck driver rescues kitten from the trash"



11:56 pm

[DM] "On cat islands and the wider potential of rewilding"



5th
07:09 pm

[PHOTO] Dark Phoenix at Yonge and Dundas



11:51 pm

[DM] "Population Ageing and Global Externalities - What if QE is not temporary?"



6th
08:19 am

[PHOTO] On the site of the World's Biggest Bookstore



01:57 pm

[NEWS] Some Monday links


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05:27 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Sidney Furie and A Dangerous Age"



05:31 pm

[LINK] "Research findings back up Aboriginal legend on origin of Central Australian palm trees"



05:34 pm

[LINK] "Mathematical Pattern Found in Enigmatic Radio Bursts, But It’s Not E.T."



05:37 pm

[LINK] "Has Another Planet Been Found Orbiting Alpha Centauri B?"



05:40 pm

[LINK] "The Chemical Composition of τ Ceti and Possible Effects on Terrestrial Planets"



05:52 pm

[LINK] "A Beginner's Guide to More Mindful Media Consumption"



07:59 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



09:53 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the blessed impending arrival of cherry blossoms in Toronto



7th
10:32 am

[PHOTO] Two commuters at Eglinton



03:33 pm

[LINK] "Ethiopia Spends Very Little Money on Its Military — And It Works"



03:37 pm

[LINK] "Bakhtin's Europe and the Greek Novel"



03:39 pm

[LINK] "Will Turning Seawater Into Drinking Water Help Drought-Hit California?"



03:42 pm

[LINK] "Korean-language classes are growing in popularity at U.S. colleges"



03:45 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On how racism helped created New York's Central Park



03:48 pm

[LINK] "And just like that, you’re an illegal immigrant"



07:41 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



09:01 pm

[ISL] On the first day of the trial of Mike Duffy



8th
11:30 am

[PHOTO] Escalator down, Eaton Center by Best Buy



12:55 pm

[WRITING] "In Celebration of Old-School LiveJournal"



03:39 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



06:09 pm

[LINK] "Gazprom is the Biggest Loser of the War in Ukraine"



06:15 pm

[LINK] "A Bold Plan to Plant 1 Billion Trees a Year With Drones"



06:19 pm

[LINK] "Largest HIV outbreak in Indiana history hits tiny community"



06:21 pm

[LINK] "In Myanmar, white elephants are prized symbols of rulers"



06:24 pm

[LINK] "The writer’s life — MIA sources, LOIs, the quest for ideas"



09:00 pm

[LINK] "Mike Duffy 'probably ineligible' to be P.E.I. senator, Crown argues"



9th
11:48 am

[PHOTO] Train stopped on the tracks, Bartlett north of Dupont



03:42 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



06:36 pm

[LINK] "The suspension of intervention"



06:40 pm

[LINK] "What is going on in Alberta?"



06:43 pm

[ISL] "Stephen Harper should never have appointed Mike Duffy a P.E.I. senator"



06:46 pm

[LINK] "Catalan Leader Hopes EU Will Convince Spain to Discuss Split"



06:49 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Artists to take over Chester station newsstand"



06:52 pm

[ISL] "Happily Obscure: the Kingdom of Macaronesia"



09:00 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Vintage TTC streetcars on parade in the Beaches



11:41 pm

[WRITING] On the transience of blogging, or, is that all there is?



10th
10:10 am

[CAT] Shakespeare in bed



12:58 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto couples with kids must make $18.52 per hour each to get by, report finds"



03:15 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links


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05:41 pm

[LINK] "IOC cites low iron ore prices as it lays off 150 in Labrador City"



05:43 pm

[LINK] "An Official Language from a Foreign Land"



05:47 pm

[LINK] "Why The SNP Is Poised To Win In Scotland"



05:50 pm

[LINK] "Imagining a Post-Coal Appalachia"



05:52 pm

[LINK] "Rolling Stone’s story was never about rape on campus"



05:56 pm

[ISL] "China building artificial islands in the Pacific, stoking tensions with neighbours"



09:02 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] More on the Mike Duffy affair



11th
12:11 pm

[CAT] Shakespeare, pensive



07:35 pm

[CAT] "Chanel Lethbridge hopes to open Edmonton's first cat cafe"



07:38 pm

[CAT] "Cats' world domination continues With TIFF's Just for Cats Fest"



07:50 pm

[CAT] "What type of music is best for relaxing cats during surgery? (Hint: it’s not heavy metal.)"



07:54 pm

[CAT] "Bobcat Drags Shark Out of Florida Surf"



13th
11:57 am

[PHOTO] Late Saturday evening off of Dupont Street, Dovercourt Village



03:29 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Last-minute shoppers thwarted as GTA’s last Target closes early"



03:32 pm

[ISL] "Our Duffy, ourselves"



06:10 pm

[LINK] "Elephants are people too (or soon could be)"



06:13 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Farewell to Milwaukee's Classic, Hand-Crafted Bus Passes"



06:17 pm

[LINK] "‘The American People, Volume 1’ by Larry Kramer Retells History With Passion"



06:21 pm

[LINK] "What Did China’s First Daughter Find in America?"



06:23 pm

[LINK] "Just say ‘non’: The problem with French immersion"



07:57 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



14th
08:07 am

[PHOTO] Looking south on Yonge and Eglinton, 8 pm



12:58 pm

[ISL] "P.E.I. gunman given life sentence for deadly act of revenge over sister’s death in 1970"



03:08 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



06:13 pm

[LINK] "Boreal forest suffering 'significant' losses in Russia, Canada"



06:16 pm

[LINK] "Two mysterious bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres are not alike"



06:18 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Generational shift in real estate forces Gen Y to downsize"



06:20 pm

[LINK] "Statues Defaced as S. Africans Protest Colonial-Era Symbols"



06:23 pm

[ISL] "PEI denies breach of contract, conspiracy claims in eGaming lawsuit"



06:27 pm

[LINK] On the recent inbreeding but continued survival of the mountain gorilla



15th
10:11 am

[PHOTO] Mannequins at Mina's Fabric, 918 Bloor Street West



12:59 pm

[ISL] "Police act to keep lid on P.E.I. feud after death threats shouted during sentencing"



03:09 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



06:22 pm

[LINK] "Two Authors Withdraw Their Work From This Year's Hugo Awards"



06:25 pm

[LINK] "TV subscriber losses increased last year and will keep growing, report says"



06:31 pm

[LINK] "More bad news for Alberta Tories in latest election poll"



06:34 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Gardiner Debate Sheds Troubling Light on Infrastructure Investment Priorities"



06:38 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On a park crisis in Toronto, after Spacing



09:02 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Lesbians lead the way when it comes to neighbourhood gentrification, research shows"



16th
03:09 pm

[PHOTO] On a sky that was a Derek Jarman blue



18th
07:10 pm

[CAT] Shakespeare, looking up from bed



19th
01:57 am

[PHOTO] Looking east at downtown Toronto, evening



20th
02:21 pm

[PHOTO] Everybody's looking for something at College Park



05:39 pm

[LINK] "Jian Ghomeshi scandal exposes workplace markers"



05:43 pm

[LINK] "Ontario legal aid vows to ‘weed out’ bad refugee lawyers"



05:47 pm

[LINK] "Canadian-backed telescope construction delayed as Hawaiians defend Mauna Kea’s sacred summit



05:49 pm

[LINK] "The Drought Isn’t California’s Only Water Problem"



05:51 pm

[LINK] "Killer of Chilean folk singer Victor Jara to face US justice"



05:55 pm

[LINK] "Russian dissidents seek asylum in Kyiv"



07:59 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Anchored in hope: How Toronto is learning from Cleveland’s return to prosperity"



21st
03:32 pm

[PHOTO] Pillar, Yonge Eglinton Centre



30th
11:39 pm

[MUSIC] Kylie Minogue, "Je ne sais pourquoi"



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