1st
10:46 am

[PHOTO] Annex fence iris



03:30 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



06:07 pm

[LINK] Al Jazeera on religion among American Druze



06:10 pm

[LINK] "Made in Chindia: Two Paths Toward Industrialization"



06:12 pm

[LINK] "Chinese counterfeits leave Ghanaian textiles hanging by a thread"



06:16 pm

[LINK] "Why Europe can't let Greek economy crumble"



06:19 pm

[ISL] "Halifax woman opening her home to P.E.I. women needing abortions"



06:21 pm

[LINK] Liu Cixin at Tor on science fiction in China



07:59 pm

[WRITING] "Writers in Canada make less than in 1998"



10:11 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the pro-gay transformation of Michael Coren



2nd
09:42 am

[PHOTO] Before sunset at Dovercourt Park



02:00 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



06:13 pm

[LINK] "Charity offers hope to Mexico's Mixtec elderly"



06:16 pm

[LINK] "Latin America Already Has the Trade Deal It Needs"



06:21 pm

[LINK] "Germany's Bad Idea to Legalize Pot"



06:27 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "New data finds Scarborough subway routes run through ‘extremely low density’ areas"



06:31 pm

[LINK] On how David Broockman undercovered the sociological fraud of Michael LaCour



11:37 pm

[LINK] "Write back (not) in anger (#SFWApro)", or, a badly-informed Sad Puppy writer at work



3rd
12:43 pm

[PHOTO] Hidden under the escalator at Eglinton



03:08 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



06:14 pm

[LINK] "Why Are Nigerians Flocking to Work in Texas Prisons?"



06:17 pm

[LINK] "Why Dinosaurs Would Have Never Built Spaceships"



06:23 pm

[LINK] "The future of the Icelandic language may lie in its past"



06:25 pm

[LINK] "A tranquil U.S. Muslim hamlet in the Catskills – until the attack plot"



06:28 pm

[LINK] "Autistic Coders Get Jobs as Microsoft, SAP Woo Software Sleuths"



06:31 pm

[LINK] "Younger workers more likely to see less income in retirement, CIBC says"



09:00 pm

[LINK] "3-way federal race would have unpredictable outcome"



11:44 pm

[DM] "Some assorted blog links"



4th
12:29 pm

[PHOTO] Condos at Yonge and Eglinton KO



03:31 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



06:23 pm

[ISL] "Azorean Diaspora Can’t Resist the Powerful Pull of Home"



06:27 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Costly City Housing Is an Economic Drag"



06:29 pm

[LINK] "Daughters of Diaspora: two Algerian sisters, one in Texas, one in Paris"



06:31 pm

[LINK] "Russian Church Becomes Islamic-Finance Ally as Sanctions Hurt"



06:36 pm

[LINK] "Study explores how past Native-American settlement modified Western New York forests"



06:39 pm

[LINK] More on the odd Nova Vulpeculae 1670, aka CK Vulpeculae



10:18 pm

[PHOTO] Hugging my cat



5th
11:47 am

[PHOTO] The Humber River above the Old Mill Bridge



03:41 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Angling for dinner in Toronto’s Humber River"



03:45 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



06:38 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto street signs a reminder of First Nations heritage"



06:43 pm

[LINK] "Nunavut announces funds for a feasibility study for Arctic university"



06:48 pm

[LINK] "Odd Orbits Deepen Pluto’s Mystery"



06:50 pm

[LINK] "North Korean Defector Opens Up About Long-Held Secret: His Homosexuality"



06:54 pm

[LINK] "Intra-Arab discrimination in Dearborn"



06:58 pm

[MUSIC] "Why it’s time Sharon, Lois and Bram got their due"



09:02 pm

[LINK] "Without Wildrose or a divided right, the Alberta NDP would have still won"

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8th
10:28 am

[PHOTO] Lilacs in bloom, Riverside Drive



02:28 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On how this morning's TTC shutdown proves we need to pay to have nice things



04:27 pm

[LINK] "How Much Did Aboriginal Fire Impact the Australian Environment Over the Last 20,000 Years?"



04:31 pm

[LINK] "Chimpanzees have the brainpower, motivation to cook"



04:34 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto, Vancouver house prices soar amid spring rush"



04:36 pm

[LINK] "Comic Fan Outrage? It's Part of Being Human, Scientists Say"



04:39 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The White Torontonian’s Indian"



04:43 pm

[PHOTO] "Why photography matters"



07:59 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links


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10:04 pm

[DM] "Some migration-related news links"



9th
09:27 am

[PHOTO] Back yard peony in bloom



03:03 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



05:34 pm

[LINK] "Electing Mike Harris"



05:37 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Can families still afford Vancouver?"



05:40 pm

[LINK] "Australia’s ‘Stolen Generations’ Not a Closed Chapter"



05:43 pm

[PHOTO] "Google Photos and the Ideal of Passive Pervasive Documentation"



05:49 pm

[PHOTO] "Black's photography stores to close"



11:50 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Could Captain John's still live on?"



11:54 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Why the Gardiner East decision, whatever it is, won’t be “evidence based”"



10th
07:46 am

[PHOTO] The old Metro Theatre



12:00 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto Is Exactly the City Canada Deserves (to Bring Us Together in Mutual Loathing)"



03:25 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



06:31 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "These Are the 13 Cities Where Millennials Can't Afford a Home"



06:35 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The Canadian stop on the London Underground"



06:38 pm

[LINK] "Hudson’s Bay, Dollarama thrive as Canada’s retail landscape shifts"



06:41 pm

[LINK] "Is Solomon scandal the latest sign of a CBC celebrity culture?"



06:43 pm

[LINK] "The rise of the HDP - elections and democracy in Turkey"



06:47 pm

[LINK] "In West Hollywood, gay couples from China fulfill a dream: marriage"



09:42 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Rosie Prata on Power Ball XVII, "The Road of Excess"



11th
10:27 am

[PHOTO] Peony and bud



03:36 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



06:38 pm

[LINK] "Amid yachts of rich elite, Angola's poor crushed by oil price drop"



06:40 pm

[LINK] "A Chimera in Growing Cooperation Between China and Brazil"



06:42 pm

[LINK] "Native Communities in Mexico Demand to be Consulted on Wind Farms"



06:46 pm

[LINK] "Canada should replace colonial place names with Indigenous ones"



06:49 pm

[LINK] Two notes on primates who drink and have pet dogs



06:52 pm

[LINK] "How Gilles Duceppe's return to the Bloc changes the game in Quebec"



12th
10:20 am

[PHOTO] Photos of the TTC's Greenwood subway yards, Doors Open



11:59 am

[MUSIC] Bif Naked, "Spaceman"



03:30 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



06:28 pm

[LINK] "CRA poll shows federal NDP pass Conservatives in P.E.I."



06:31 pm

[LINK] "Mulcair poised for clear shot at becoming prime minister as NDP surges in polls"



06:36 pm

[LINK] "Is the Icelandic response to financial crisis generalizable?"



06:38 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Blending public and private space at Winchester Park"



06:42 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Gardiner East will be a hybrid solution, council votes "



06:49 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Edward Hertrich of the Walrus on life in Regent Park



09:53 pm

[DM] "On saving the American Community Survey from the fate of Canada's long-form census"



11:59 pm

[META] What other blogs do you read?



13th
12:37 pm

[PHOTO] Six photos from the last days of Target in the Stockyards, Toronto



06:53 pm

[CAT[ Shakespeare, my adorable killer



06:57 pm

[CAT] "Vladimir Putin Really Loves Tigers — And It's Actually Making a Difference in the World"



07:01 pm

[CAT] "Japanese robot cat Doraemon helps ease diplomatic tensions with China"



07:04 pm

[CAT] "What Cats Taught Us About Perception"



11:29 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] How Avengers/New Avengers can illuminate the failures of contemporary politics



14th
08:36 am

[PHOTO] On visiting the Zellers in the Kipling Queensway Mall, Toronto



15th
08:16 am

[PHOTO] Kipling Avenue, looking south below the Queensway



11:11 am

[DM] "Four Al Jazeera links on migration"



03:10 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



06:09 pm

[LINK] "Food Truck Revolution"



06:12 pm

[LINK] "Carmakers say adios to Canada as Mexico shifts into higher gear"



06:15 pm

[LINK] "BlackBerry may put Android software on new smartphone"



06:18 pm

[LINK] "Is Salmon Raised on Land the Future of Seafood?"



06:24 pm

[ISL] "Can Australia ever have sovereign borders? We never really have and the porosity is ancient"



06:27 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The Evidence is in—John Tory is the Mayor of the Status Quo"



06:31 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The Credit Village"



16th
08:54 am

[PHOTO] Abandoned on Bloorcourt



11:57 am

[URBAN NOTE] "We were promised Tory The Consensus Builder"



03:18 pm

[LINK] "Mercury levels rising in Canada's Grassy Narrows First Nation, study finds"



03:21 pm

[LINK] "Chechen Media Outlet Issues Death Threats against Russian Journalist"



03:23 pm

[LINK] Andrew Solomon on gay parenting



03:29 pm

[LINK] "Ontario's 'eye-popping' shift to low-wage work"



03:31 pm

[LINK] "Could Canada be tomorrow’s superpower?"



05:58 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



11:46 pm

[DM] "On the upcoming ethnic cleansing of supposed Haitians from the Dominican Republic"



17th
08:59 am

[PHOTO] Thunderbird Burial Mound, old Teiaiagon, Magwood Park, Toronto



11:59 am

[URBAN NOTE] "Wind Mobile to bring cell service to Toronto’s subway system"



03:27 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



06:25 pm

[LINK] "How Mexico Quietly Legalized Same-Sex Marriage"



06:29 pm

[LINK] "Will Israel reach out to Syrian Druze?"



06:31 pm

[LINK] "Rich Californians balk at limits: ‘We’re not all equal when it comes to water’"



06:34 pm

[LINK] "How an America-loving country became a jihadi hub"



06:36 pm

[LINK] "HDP: focus of left-wing opposition beyond pro-Kurdish mobilization"



06:39 pm

[LINK] On the discovery of exoplanet WASP-142b by teenager Tom Wagg



18th
11:56 am

[PHOTO] Roses going off the bloom



03:27 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



06:45 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Cyclist killed in Toronto accident lived for the outdoors"



06:48 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The fertile poverty of Toronto’s first immigrant neighbourhood"



06:51 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "For Cities, Big-Box Stores Are Becoming Even More of a Terrible Deal"



06:54 pm

[LINK] "Do Animals Laugh? Tickle Experiments Suggest They Do"



06:58 pm

[LINK] "‘Je Suis Favela’ – Bringing Brazilian Books to the French"



07:02 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "In push to modernize, Rwandan capital struggles to house its population"



09:44 pm

[MUSIC] The Pretenders, "Don't Get Me Wrong"



11:54 pm

[DM] "Notes on the emergent western Balkan route of migrants"



19th
09:25 am

[PHOTO] Yellow roses by the stoop



03:07 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links


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05:37 pm

[LINK] "New study favors cold, icy early Mars"



05:40 pm

[ISL] "The Monster of Montague"



05:45 pm

[LINK] "James Moore heads home"



05:47 pm

[URBAN NOTE] New York Magazine on fact-checking sociologist Alice Goffman



05:50 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Deadmau5 issues cease & desist to Toronto Fringe show"



05:52 pm

[URBAN NOTE] 'Toronto to recruit diverse citizens without city hall experience to offer advice"



20th
01:53 pm

[CAT] Shakespeare, unconvinced



06:55 pm

[CAT] "A man tried to smuggle heroin into Britain using cats"



06:58 pm

[CAT] "Study shows the paw-sitive effects of watching cat videos"



22nd
11:59 am

[PHOTO] End of the line, Neville Park, Queen Street



02:51 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s Mayor returns to Pride Festival"



02:54 pm

[LINK] "Why Stephen Harper’s ‘trade’ deals are losing their cachet"



02:58 pm

[LINK] "Why the Saudis Are Going Solar"



02:59 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Berlin Banking Billions Spent on Arts Yield Tourist Riches"



03:02 pm

[LINK] "Ancient Romanian jawbone sheds light on Neanderthal interbreeding"



03:05 pm

[LINK] "Slavery’s afterlife in the Euro-Mediterranean basin"



06:09 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Housing affordability improves, but not Toronto and Vancouver, RBC says"



06:13 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Henry Grabar of Slate on the San Francisco rent crisis



09:20 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



23rd
11:28 am

[PHOTO] Pride at Holt-Renfrew



03:29 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Tokens give way to Presto starting next year on TTC"



06:43 pm

[LINK] 'Footprints uncovered off B.C. coast could be oldest in North America"



06:46 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "City of Vancouver formally declares city is on unceded Aboriginal territory"



06:50 pm

[LINK] "Ocean acidification is killing baby oysters"



06:52 pm

[LINK] "There are goldfish the size of dinner plates turning up in Alberta, biologists say"



06:54 pm

[LINK] "Wolves are better hunters when monkeys are around"



06:55 pm

[LINK] "Straightening Europe’s crooked timber into a democratic eurozone"



08:05 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



24th
11:55 am

[PHOTO] One McLobster



02:15 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



05:27 pm

[LINK] Ta-Nehisi Coates on what the Civil War was all about



05:35 pm

[ISL] "Ruining Rhodes: Greece's VAT proposal leaves islanders feeling deserted"



05:39 pm

[ISL] "Pitcairn Island passes gay marriage but has no wedding plans"



05:43 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Chinese envoy says lack of oversight behind Vancouver’s house-price crisis"



05:46 pm

[LINK] "Military parade with foreign troops an attempt to redraw China’s wartime past"



05:50 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "A tour of Queen & Spadina a hundred years ago"



25th
11:56 am

[PHOTO] Seen at the station



03:26 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



06:46 pm

[LINK] "Is memory enough? Remembering the racial legacies of slavery in France today"



06:51 pm

[LINK] "Renewables to Beat Fossil Fuels With $3.7 Trillion Solar Boom"



06:54 pm

[LINK] On why the Galilean moons, unlike Titan, lack atmospheres



06:58 pm

[LINK] "Federal Court orders government and RCMP to hand over all Quebec gun registry data"



07:02 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Chris Selley on how Bombardier failed Toronto with its streetcars



07:04 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The fall of Sir Henry Pellatt, king of Casa Loma"



09:25 pm

[MUSIC] Bif Naked, "I Love Myself Today"



26th
12:53 pm

[PHOTO] how some of my garden pots grow



03:09 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



06:22 pm

[LINK] "Group claiming to turn gay men straight committed consumer fraud, N.J. jury says"



06:26 pm

[LINK] "Keeping Farm Fish Locked Up Keeps Ecosystem Calamity at Bay"



06:27 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Giant goldfish swarm in Toronto waters"



06:31 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Kathleen Wynne says she’ll sign waivers to allow documentary’s release"



06:34 pm

[LINK] "Venezuela’s oil industry beset by pirates and scrap thieves"



06:36 pm

[LINK] "Committing Crimes during Fieldwork: Ethics, Ethnography, and “On The Run”"



06:39 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Free tours of Toronto's Graffiti Alley on this summer"



09:01 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On how Russia is run by unserious people and why this is a problem



27th
11:05 am

[CAT] Shakespeare, celebrating



28th
12:19 am

[PHOTO] Absolut Vodka at the LCBO



29th
10:46 am

[PHOTO] Roses at the AIDS Vigil, Barbara Hall Park



03:30 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links


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06:20 pm

[LINK] "Freedom has bitter, baffling taste for former Guantanamo inmates"



06:24 pm

[CAT] "Tama the cat: 3,000 attend elaborate funeral for Japan’s feline stationmaster"



06:28 pm

[LINK] "The war monument that’s polarizing Canada"



06:33 pm

[LINK] "WWII Lawsuits Muddy Effort to Ease Japan-South Korea Tension"



06:35 pm

[LINK] "Kadyrov and Putin: parallel lives"



06:39 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Yonge subway relief will last only about 15 years: Metrolinx"



06:48 pm

[LINK] "Lebanon Just Did a Whole Lot More Than Legalize Being Gay"



08:03 pm

[NEWS] Some Pride links



30th
10:09 am

[PHOTO] Financial District in the rain



03:20 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



06:29 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s connection to U.S. Supreme Court’s same sex marriage ruling"



06:31 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Blood & Fog: The Military’s Germ Warfare Tests in San Francisco"



06:34 pm

[LINK] On how Canadian television may break through in Ukraine



06:36 pm

[ISL] "Reward increased to $500,000 in potato tampering investigation in P.E.I."



06:39 pm

[LINK] "Prospects for a future Kurdistan"



06:41 pm

[LINK] "Venus and Jupiter Meet At Last"



08:59 pm

[FORUM] What are you planning on doing this Canada Day?



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