- 1st
- 04:09 pm
[PHOTO] The July Pan Am Metropass
05:09 pm[AH] More thoughts on Riven Lands: Canada and Laurentia from 1980
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- 2nd
- 08:28 am
[PHOTO] Downtown Toronto as seen from Bathurst and Dundas
03:54 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Vintage Toronto Ads: The 1999 Toronto Fringe Festival"
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04:54 pm[MUSIC] Ace of Base, "The Sign"
- 3rd
- 02:15 am
[PHOTO] Ziggurat on Bathurst Street
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05:19 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- berlin,
- blogging,
- blogs,
- burma,
- ceres,
- chechnya,
- computers,
- crime,
- demographics,
- earth,
- economics,
- european union,
- eurozone,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- graffiti,
- greece,
- historiography,
- history,
- hiv/aids,
- israel,
- language,
- links,
- migration,
- north caucasus,
- photos,
- racism,
- russia,
- southeast asia,
- space science,
- sports,
- technology,
- toronto,
- united states,
- war
- 4th
- 09:59 am
[PHOTO] Patriotic corner store, Dupont and Dufferin
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03:25 pm[REVIEW] Five reviews of the Toronto Fringe Festival
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- 6th
- 08:32 am
[PHOTO] Neighbourhood mural, Dovercourt Park
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11:51 am[BLOG] Some Monday links
02:58 pm[LINK] "Syrians see the limits of an education in refuge"
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03:01 pm[LINK] "Crimean Tatar TV back on air"
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03:04 pm[LINK] "Space Particles Are Helping Map the Inside of Fukushima"
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03:07 pm[LINK] "U.S. now the world’s second-largest Spanish-speaking nation"
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03:10 pm[URBAN NOTE] "New Queens Quay is lovely but potentially lethal"
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03:13 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Saving religious real estate from damnation"
- 7th
- 11:28 am
[PHOTO] Daylilies of Wychwood Park, by Davenport
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02:13 pm[LINK] "Panama and Nicaragua – Two Canals, One Shared Dream"
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02:18 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Bangkok is Sinking Into the Earth"
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02:20 pm[LINK] "Teens' attack on Chinese girl draws comparison to 'Lord of the Flies' from judge"
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02:22 pm[LINK] "The foodie traveller … on the revival of Native American cuisine in Minneapolis"
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02:24 pm[LINK] "Not Exactly Friends of Greece"
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02:26 pm[WRITING] Andrew Wheeler at Comics Alliance on gay characters in fiction
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05:21 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- anthropology,
- australia,
- blogging,
- blogs,
- clash of civilizations,
- clash of ideologies,
- demographics,
- european union,
- eurozone,
- federalism,
- feminism,
- former soviet union,
- gender,
- greece,
- history,
- humour,
- iceland,
- language,
- links,
- maps,
- middle east,
- national identity,
- neptune,
- norden,
- photos,
- pluto,
- popular literature,
- sexuality,
- social sciences,
- space science,
- space travel,
- ukraine,
- uranus,
- west norden
11:46 pm[AH] Peterson, Iroquoia Under Britain, 1783-1815
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- 8th
- 07:15 am
[PHOTO] Condo in the evening sun, Kensington Market
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02:54 pm[ISL] "Hooked on Cheticamp"
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02:58 pm[LINK] Two links on the economic meltdown in Greece
03:03 pm[LINK] "NDP viewed as clearest alternative to Conservatives, poll shows"
03:07 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Practical back alley or cottage dock? Waterfront debate splits Toronto"
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03:09 pm[URBAN NOTE] The National Post on smoke-drenched Vancouver
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03:12 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the presence, or not, of planets around Kapteyn's Star
05:30 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- biology,
- blogging,
- blogs,
- british empire,
- ceres,
- clash of ideologies,
- economics,
- elephants,
- feminism,
- former soviet union,
- gender,
- glbt issues,
- ireland,
- koreatown,
- language,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- pluto,
- popular literature,
- russia,
- saturn,
- science,
- second world war,
- separatism,
- space science,
- space travel,
- spain,
- the annex,
- toronto,
- vesta,
- video,
- war
09:04 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Torontoist Hits the Fringe"
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- 9th
- 11:11 am
[PHOTO] Lillian H. Smith Library in the evening
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03:26 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- blogs,
- books,
- central asia,
- china,
- computers,
- cuba,
- cyprus,
- economics,
- european union,
- eurozone,
- former soviet union,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- globalization,
- google,
- greece,
- human beings,
- links,
- london,
- marriage rights,
- middle east,
- military,
- pluto,
- politics,
- popular literature,
- regionalism,
- russia,
- separatism,
- space science,
- space travel,
- tajikistan,
- turkey,
- united states,
- yemen
06:24 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s rebel mayor and his pirate admiral"
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06:29 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Rob Ford skirts law by using HOV lanes while driving alone"
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06:31 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Vintage Toronto Ads: Please Walk on the Grass"
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06:33 pm[LINK] "Russians Live Without Parmesan as Italy Pays Sanctions Price"
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06:36 pm[LINK] "NDP and oilpatch continue awkward first dance"
06:38 pm[LINK] "AFN asks Ottawa to declare all aboriginal languages official"
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11:56 pm[MUSIC] What music do you listen to?
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- 10th
- 10:53 am
[PHOTO] Peonies' decline
03:10 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
05:39 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Man convicted in Via Rail terror plot may have schizophrenia"
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05:43 pm[LINK] "Poll shows Justin Trudeau’s Liberals slipping further behind"
05:48 pm[LINK] "Why The World Might Be Running Out Of Cocoa Farmers"
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05:50 pm[URBAN NOTE] Graeme Hamilton of the National Post on the Kahnawake Mohawks
05:53 pm[ISL] Bloomberg on the archipelago of Heligoland, Germany
05:57 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Let the Pan Am Games begin, already"
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08:01 pm[URBAN NOTE] John Lorinc on Toronto telling its history
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- 11th
- 01:32 pm
[CAT] Shakespeare, plotting
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- 12th
- 02:59 pm
[PHOTO] Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
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- 13th
- 01:47 pm
[PHOTO] Photos from the Toronto Fringe Festival, 2015
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- 14th
- 01:04 am
[PHOTO] Looking west down Bloor
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03:06 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- belgium,
- blogs,
- china,
- christianity,
- clash of ideologies,
- crime,
- democracy,
- demographics,
- economics,
- enceladus,
- environment,
- europa,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- iceland,
- islands,
- italy,
- jupiter,
- links,
- maps,
- mexico,
- middle east,
- netherlands,
- non blog,
- oceans,
- pluto,
- roman catholic church,
- russia,
- saturn,
- space science,
- titan,
- ukraine,
- united kingdom,
- war,
- yemen
06:26 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The oldest bit of Toronto subway opened 50 years ago"
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06:29 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Queens Condos Set Record as Manhattan Buyers Priced Out"
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06:31 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Salt mine keeps Goderich alive, 'youthful'"
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06:34 pm[LINK] "Malaysia Airlines MH17: Russia rebukes push for UN tribunal"
06:38 pm[LINK] Buzzfeed on the trials of Alan Gross and American democracy promotion
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06:43 pm[LINK] "Want to Become a Russian in Crimea? Join the Queue"
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10:25 pm[OBSCURA] "Gorgeous Pluto", courtesy NASA and New Horizons
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- 15th
- 10:56 am
[PHOTO] Storm coming, Wellesley at Yonge
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02:41 pm[LINK] Two Toronto Star reports on the mental issues of the alleged Via Rail terrorists
02:47 pm[URBAN NOTE] On how Torontonians (and other humans) benefit from trees
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02:50 pm[ISL] On how the recovery of Iceland from 2008 was not so miraculous
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02:55 pm[LINK] "Germany set to recognize genocide in colonial Namibia"
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02:57 pm[LINK] National Geographic on the challenges of the eulachon fisheries of British Columbia
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03:00 pm[LINK] Slavoj Žižek in the LRB on the Chinese model
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05:21 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- biology,
- blogs,
- books,
- crime,
- crimean tatars,
- dinosaurs,
- earth,
- english language,
- environment,
- european union,
- eurozone,
- former soviet union,
- genetics,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- internet,
- italian language,
- italy,
- language,
- libraries,
- links,
- military,
- philosophy,
- photos,
- popular culture,
- russia,
- space science,
- spain,
- terrorism,
- ukraine,
- war
08:03 pm[NEWS] Some Pluto links
- 16th
- 10:54 am
[PHOTO] The CN Tower as seen from Trinity Bellwoods
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02:17 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
05:25 pm[ISL] "Is East Timor Illegally Putting Together a National Soccer Team With Brazilian Players?"
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05:32 pm[LINK] "Greece, Argentina Provide Model as Ukraine Considers GDP Linkers"
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05:35 pm[LINK] "Moscow is Losing Serbia Just as It has Already Lost Ukraine,’ Kirillova Says"
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05:39 pm[LINK] "Putin is a Mussolini Not a Hitler, Inozemtsev Says"
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05:44 pm[LINK] "How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language"
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08:10 pm[NEWS] Some Pluto and Charon links
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- 17th
- 09:05 am
[PHOTO] Towers, from Yonge and Wellesley
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03:23 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- asteroids,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- borders,
- canada,
- christianity,
- demographics,
- disasters,
- earth,
- economics,
- espionage,
- former soviet union,
- germany,
- glbt issues,
- greece,
- holidays,
- islam,
- kazakhstan,
- links,
- mass media,
- middle east,
- migration,
- museums,
- north caucasus,
- popular culture,
- public art,
- religion,
- russia,
- singapore,
- space science,
- space travel,
- sports,
- theatre,
- toronto,
- united kingdom,
- yemen
06:29 pm[LINK] On the worldwide fanbase of the Esperanto language
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06:32 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the post-Oka Crisis decline of Kanesatake
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06:34 pm[URBAN NOTE] "For women, life is better in Victoria, Gatineau, Quebec City, Montreal, new study says
06:37 pm[URBAN NOTE] "El Jones, Halifax's poet laureate, moving to Iowa for work"
06:43 pm[LINK] "Israelis Feel Surrounded Yet Alone After Iran Deal"
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06:46 pm[LINK] "Pow! Gay Comic Book Characters Zap Stereotypes"
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08:04 pm[NEWS] Still more Pluto and Charon links
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- 18th
- 12:44 pm
[PHOTO] Shakespeare, in the dark
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06:29 pm[CAT] "Did Ancient Native Americans Try to Domesticate Bobcats?"
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06:32 pm[CAT] "To save big cats from extinction, scientists say we need to redefine ‘tiger’"
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06:35 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Cats Are City Slickers"
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06:37 pm[CAT] "Are Cats Really Wild Animals?"
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06:40 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the first cat café in Vancouver and the continuing lack in Toronto
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11:39 pm[FORUM] What do you think about ridiculously misused language?
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- 19th
- 03:50 pm
[PHOTO] Pan Am Games without Portuguese
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- 20th
- 09:58 am
[PHOTO] Toronto Hydro Headquarters, 14 Carlton Street
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- 21st
- 11:37 am
[PHOTO] Weeds by brick
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03:27 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- architecture,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- central asia,
- china,
- chinese language,
- cuba,
- ethnic conflict,
- former soviet union,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- greece,
- language,
- latin america,
- links,
- migration,
- mongolia,
- nuclear energy,
- photos,
- pluto,
- popular literature,
- racism,
- roman catholic church,
- russia,
- singapore,
- social networking,
- south africa,
- space science,
- space travel,
- tajikistan,
- turkey,
- twitter,
- united states,
- vancouver
06:51 pm[LINK] "Black Death Left a Mark on Human Genome"
06:54 pm[LINK] "Breakaway Transnistria region could become next flashpoint with Russia"
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06:57 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Free, fast Internet to come to New York City's poor"
07:00 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The dying beauty of old Bucharest"
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07:02 pm[LINK] "Come hell or high water: The disaster scenario that is South Florida"
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07:07 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Quebec City makes bid for NHL expansion team official"
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11:42 pm[AH] "What If Voyager Had Explored Pluto?"
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- 22nd
- 11:00 am
[OBSCURA] Planet Earth by EPIC
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03:29 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
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06:28 pm[LINK] "A lake in the Northwest Territories is about to fall off a cliff"
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06:31 pm[LINK] "Should we geoengineer larger ice caps?"
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06:39 pm[LINK] On evidence of Australian Aborigine ancestry in Amazonia
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06:43 pm[LINK] The Guardian interview with Tom Daley
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06:46 pm[URBAN NOTE] "What are you like at your job?"
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06:49 pm[URBAN NOTE] "UPX bells a whole new nuisance along tracks"
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09:56 pm[LINK] "Ontario, More Indebted Than California, Ignores S&P in Borrowing"
- 23rd
- 11:57 am
[PHOTO] Blue Sky
03:28 pm[LINK] On the discovery of Earth-like exoplanet Kepler-452b
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06:12 pm[LINK] "Japan to 'start over' on Tokyo Olympic stadium due to cost overruns"
06:15 pm[LINK] "Exxon’s Guyana Oil Discovery May Be 12 Times Larger Than Economy"
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06:17 pm[LINK] "Syrian refugees spark child labour boom in Istanbul"
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06:20 pm[LINK] "The future of Scots"
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06:24 pm[LINK] "Egg War: Why India's Vegetarian Elite Are Accused Of Keeping Kids Hungry"
06:28 pm[LINK] "First Nations set to battle Ottawa over contraband cigarettes"
09:38 pm[MUSIC] Annie Lennox and The Blue Nile, "The Downtown Lights"
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- 24th
- 11:43 am
[PHOTO] Herringbone clouds
02:57 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- chile,
- china,
- chinese language,
- computers,
- crime,
- economics,
- english language,
- ethnic conflict,
- extraterrestrial life,
- former soviet union,
- former yugoslavia,
- futurology,
- glbt issues,
- google,
- hiv/aids,
- hong kong,
- information,
- language,
- latin america,
- libraries,
- links,
- maps,
- new york city,
- nightclubbing,
- pluto,
- racism,
- serbia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- technology,
- telecommunications,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- urban note,
- war
05:36 pm[LINK] "Italy Leans While Greece Tumbles"
05:39 pm[LINK] "Saskatchewan’s HIV epidemic"
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05:42 pm[LINK] "Increasing tension over some Amish beliefs as communities grow"
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05:45 pm[LINK] "Serbia’s choice: EU membership or eastern promises?"
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05:48 pm[LINK] "Reporting Srebrenica: Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil"
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05:50 pm[LINK] "Former B.C. Mountie gets two-year perjury sentence in Robert Dziekanski case"
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08:03 pm[LINK] Three cautionary Kepler-452b links
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09:05 pm[DM] "On 'The Wetsuitman'"
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- 25th
- 09:35 am
[PHOTO] Against the condo
12:24 pm[CAT] Shakespeare, in profile
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10:09 pm[FORUM] Do you read tie-in fiction?
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- 26th
- 02:21 pm
[PHOTO] Sprig of flowers on bench, Trinity Bellwoods
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11:46 pm[FORUM] What is the last movie you've seen?
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- 27th
- 12:02 am
[FORUM] What is the last movie you've seen?
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11:50 am[PHOTO] Dupont sunflower
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03:30 pm[LINK] "The lessons of Newfoundland’s 1948 referendum"
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03:36 pm[LINK] Maddy Crowell of Slate on the problems of Auroville
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03:39 pm[LINK] Cas Mudde of Open Democracy on the failures of Syriza
03:41 pm[LINK] "Can Arabic literature ever be fully understood in English?"
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03:46 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s Yiddish Playhouse"
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03:48 pm[PHOTO] "What We're Really Looking at When We're Looking at Pluto"
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05:39 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- anthropology,
- astronomy,
- belarus,
- blogs,
- borders,
- chile,
- chinese language,
- clash of ideologies,
- economics,
- extraterrestrial intelligence,
- extraterrestrial life,
- facebook,
- federalism,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- in memoriam,
- jamaica,
- japanese language,
- kazakhstan,
- links,
- maine,
- marriage rights,
- migration,
- movie reviews,
- national identity,
- olympics,
- popular music,
- regionalism,
- russia,
- science fiction,
- slavery,
- social networking,
- social sciences,
- space science,
- sweden,
- taiwan,
- tatarstan,
- toronto,
- tourism,
- travel,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- urban note,
- writing
- 28th
- 03:21 pm
[PHOTO] Emergency vehicle on Yonge at Wellesley
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06:06 pm[LINK] "Flora MacDonald, longtime politician, dead at 89"
06:12 pm[LINK] "The sorry saga of Eve Adams puts Trudeau’s judgment in question again"
06:16 pm[LINK] "Spock the Impaler: A Belated Retrospective on Vulcan Ethics"
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- 29th
- 11:17 am
[PHOTO] Video game machines at the Galleria Mall, Toronto
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03:24 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
06:19 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Olivia Chow launches federal run for NDP in Spadina-Fort York"
06:22 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Anger grows at NY archdiocese for closing dozens of churches"
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06:24 pm[LINK] "Ceres Resembles Saturn’s Icy Moons"
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06:26 pm[LINK] "Catalans Spur the Remaking of Spain With Battle for Independence"
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06:28 pm[LINK] "Alarm Bell Rings in Tokyo at Rapid Rise in German Exports to China"
06:30 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Falling apart: a glimpse of life in Cairo"
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10:17 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the Anonymous threat to reveal the secrets of John Baird
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- 30th
- 11:54 am
[PHOTO] Rosedale through the window
- 31st
- 12:43 pm
[PHOTO] Bilbo, at rest
03:26 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- africa,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- borders,
- california,
- cats,
- ceres,
- china,
- clash of ideologies,
- computers,
- crimean tatars,
- demographics,
- diasporas,
- disasters,
- earth,
- english language,
- environment,
- evolution,
- former soviet union,
- games,
- internet,
- journalism,
- links,
- london,
- mars,
- migration,
- pluto,
- russia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- terrorism,
- toronto,
- turkey,
- ukraine,
- united kingdom,
- united states,
- war,
- writing
06:22 pm[LINK] "Half of Canadian voters back NDP-Liberal coalition, poll shows"
06:37 pm[LINK] "The EKOS poll: Vote-splitting in Ontario boosting Conservative hopes"
06:39 pm[LINK] "Porter passenger says she was asked to move for another passenger’s religious accommodation"
06:40 pm[LINK] "Fort Folly First Nation attempts to bring back Mi'kmaq language"
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06:44 pm[LINK] "Asteroid Miners Can Learn a Lot From Philae’s Bumpy Landing"
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06:46 pm[LINK] On nearby exoplanet HD 219134b
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10:59 pm[ISL] "You Just Bought a Private Island. Now What?"
11:59 pm[URBAN NOTE] Two links on Toronto and the Olympics, in 2008 and 2024
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