- 1st
- 03:16 pm
[URBAN NOTE] "How Glasgow's derelict land is limiting the city's ability to flourish"
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03:18 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Captain John’s coming apart at the last port"
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03:20 pm[LINK] "Rice farming in Ontario lake sparks fight over treaty and property rights"
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03:23 pm[LINK] Richard Warnica in the National Post on the insanity of Chiheb Esseghaier
03:25 pm[LINK] "Armenia as a bridge to Iran? Russia won't like it"
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03:28 pm[LINK] "Two Big Winners From China's Big Slowdown"
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03:31 pm[LINK] "The world’s most famous gorilla is showing signs of early speech"
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05:26 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- alaska,
- astronomy,
- australia,
- blogs,
- borders,
- china,
- clash of ideologies,
- economics,
- european union,
- extraterrestrial intelligence,
- first nations,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- globalization,
- links,
- non blog,
- philosophy,
- pluto,
- politics,
- russia,
- separatism,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- space travel,
- theatre,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- war
- 2nd
- 03:32 pm
[LINK] "Ivory Coast Has `No Fear' of Euro Peg, Maintains Growth Targets"
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03:35 pm[LINK] "FYI: Giving Birth in the Ocean with Wild Dolphins is *Still* a Fantastically Awful Idea"
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03:39 pm[LINK] "The Beaverton pulls controversial article on Ashley Callingbull"
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03:41 pm[LINK] "How We Can Tame Overlooked Wild Plants to Feed the World"
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03:44 pm[LINK] "Egypt's Nubians refuse to allow heritage to fall through cracks of history"
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03:46 pm[LINK] "Rich Gay Men Wanted: Spain’s Conservatives Make Tourist Appeal"
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03:49 pm[LINK] "Obama's Denali Divide"
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06:38 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- argentina,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- christianity,
- clash of ideologies,
- crime,
- demographics,
- earth,
- economics,
- environment,
- european union,
- extraterrestrial life,
- hebrew,
- high park,
- history,
- holidays,
- human beings,
- latin america,
- libraries,
- links,
- maps,
- national identity,
- neanderthals,
- olympics,
- russia,
- science fiction,
- second world war,
- social sciences,
- space science,
- spain,
- terrorism,
- theatre,
- toronto,
- urban note
08:59 pm[PHOTO] CN Tower and sky
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- 3rd
- 03:12 pm
[LINK] "Family of children found on Turkish beach were trying to come to Canada"
03:14 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Forgotten TTC architecture a reminder of nixed transit plans"
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03:18 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Olympic expert questions extraordinary secrecy around bid"
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03:20 pm[URBAN NOTE] "'Toronto' is an Iroquois word"
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03:22 pm[LINK] "Latin America's 100 Years of Slow Growth"
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03:26 pm[LINK] "Peel board won't exempt kids from learning about gay families, gender issues"
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03:28 pm[LINK] "China's Gas-Demand Growth Rate Below GDP Hinders Russian Deals"
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05:43 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
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09:35 pm[PHOTO] My garden pots, September 2015
11:59 pm[MUSIC] Eurythmics, "Julia"
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- 4th
- 11:05 am
[PHOTO] Cannons of Louisbourg, Hart House Circle, Toronto
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03:18 pm[LINK] "Amid refugee crisis, Hungary prime minister says Muslims not welcome"
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03:21 pm[LINK] Dale Carpenter on the dishonourable disobedience of Kim Davis
03:23 pm[URBAN NOTE] On how the GM smokestack was demolished in Windsor
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03:25 pm[LINK] "Scientists reveal New Zealand's prehistoric wildlife sanctuaries"
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03:26 pm[LINK] "Clues from ancient Maya reveal lasting impact on environment"
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03:29 pm[URBAN NOTE] Joe O'Connor of the National Post on change in The Junction, Toronto
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03:33 pm[LINK] "A warrior, a soldier and a photographer — remembering the Oka Crisis"
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03:33 pm[LINK] "A warrior, a soldier and a photographer — remembering the Oka Crisis"
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06:24 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- africa,
- argentina,
- blogs,
- brazil,
- clash of ideologies,
- demographics,
- diaspora,
- english language,
- european union,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- globalization,
- judaism,
- latin america,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- middle east,
- migration,
- photos,
- popular literature,
- refugees,
- russia,
- syria,
- united kingdom,
- united states
- 5th
- 11:36 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, in bed
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- 6th
- 01:58 pm
[PHOTO] Seven shots from Andy Warhol Revisited, in Toronto
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09:15 pm[FORUM] What do you think will be the outcome of the Syrian refugee crisis?
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11:52 pm[DM] "What do you think will be the outcome of the Syrian refugee crisis?"
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- 7th
- 01:02 pm
[PHOTO] Up and down and around the Scarborough Bluffs, Toronto
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11:59 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- afghanistan,
- argentina,
- astronomy,
- baltic states,
- belarus,
- blogs,
- books,
- china,
- chinese language,
- economics,
- european union,
- former soviet union,
- forums,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- hiv/aids,
- language,
- latin america,
- links,
- maps,
- marriage rights,
- medicine,
- national identity,
- non blog,
- oil,
- popular literature,
- rail,
- refugees,
- religion,
- russia,
- saturn,
- science fiction,
- social networking,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- spanish language,
- ukraine,
- ukrainian language,
- united states,
- war
- 8th
- 08:00 am
[PHOTO] Milton Acorn and Gwendolyn MacEwen on the Toronto Islands
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- 9th
- 09:46 am
[PHOTO] Pictures from the Toronto Islands, Labour Day
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01:19 pm[LINK] "For the love of god — or safety — Muslim refugees converting to Christianity in Berlin"
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01:23 pm[LINK] "Proposed mosque in Detroit suburb draws sharp opposition"
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01:25 pm[LINK] "EU law puts a dent in Scandinavian labor organizing"
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01:27 pm[URBAN NOTE] Politico on the anti-Greek pogroms in Istanbul of 1955
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01:29 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Athletes are gone, now it’s time to get village ready for residents"
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01:30 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Opening New City Hall"
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01:32 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Why the Tories’ mean-spirited refugee policy has awoken urban Canada"
03:53 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- caribbean,
- central europe,
- christianity,
- diaspora,
- dupont street,
- eastern europe,
- education,
- enceladus,
- haiti,
- hawaii,
- hiv/aids,
- japan,
- language,
- lebanon,
- links,
- lithuania,
- middle east,
- oceans,
- pluto,
- popular literature,
- russia,
- science fiction,
- space science,
- space travel,
- syria,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- united states,
- urban note
08:02 pm[LINK] "Amid US-Russia chill, Natives struggle to connect across Maritime border"
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10:49 pm[LINK] "National Geographic gives Fox control of media assets in $725 million deal"
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- 10th
- 10:06 am
[PHOTO] Centre Island seagull
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01:49 pm[LINK] "A Putin Crony's Unrequited Love for Europe"
01:50 pm[LINK] "N.L. oil industry avoiding Alberta-style job losses"
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01:56 pm[LINK] "Syrian refugee question provokes heckling, boos at Conservative campaign event"
01:59 pm[LINK] "New Istanbul bookstore-cafe focuses on Arab culture, refugee experience"
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02:00 pm[URBAN NOTE] "100-year-old train station time capsule opened"
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02:02 pm[URBAN NOTE] "A Carefully Curated Queen West Bookshop Takes Flight"
02:05 pm[LINK] "Sperm Whales' Language Reveals Hints of Culture"
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05:09 pm[LINK] On newly-discovered hominin species Homo naledi
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11:09 pm[MUSiC] Kylie, "Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head"
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- 11th
- 11:14 am
[PHOTO] Ward's Island, a NDP and Olivia Chow stronghold
02:58 pm[LINK] "Why Vladimir Putin Won't Be Helping OPEC to Cut Oil Production"
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03:01 pm[LINK] "In Angola we’re proud – we have the upper hand over our former coloniser"
03:03 pm[LINK] "10,000 zines and counting: a library's quest to save the history of fandom"
03:05 pm[LINK] "From Coalition to Catastrophe: The Electoral Meltdown of the Liberal Democrats"
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03:08 pm[LINK] "The Mean, Green, Tory-Killing Machine"
03:11 pm[LINK] "Elon Musk suggests nuking Mars, is promptly accused of being a super villain"
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03:13 pm[LINK] The National Post on how a Canadian couple is preserving the Kumzari language of Oman
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03:17 pm[ISL] "Harper defends Duffy's appointment as Senator from P.E.I."
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05:08 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- borders,
- ceres,
- china,
- clash of ideologies,
- crime,
- crimean tatars,
- democracy,
- economics,
- education,
- elections,
- english language,
- extraterrestrial life,
- former soviet union,
- globalization,
- iran,
- links,
- mass transit,
- middle east,
- migration,
- military,
- pakistan,
- photos,
- politics,
- refugees,
- russia,
- russian language,
- separatism,
- space science,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- writing
- 12th
- 12:13 am
[BRIEF NOTE] On 9/11, or, what a man with a vision can do
09:22 am[CAT] Shakespeare, claw stuck on my blanket
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01:24 pm[CAT] "A Cat's-Eye View of Japan"
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01:25 pm[CAT] "Island's Feral Cats Kill Surprisingly Few Birds, Video Shows"
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01:28 pm[CAT] "Cat café claws back mock election sign campaign in Chelsea, Que."
01:30 pm[CAT] On cats and their love (or otherwise) of their humans
03:05 pm[CAT] The cats of Ward's Island, Toronto Islands
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08:35 pm[CAT] Shakespeare, looking at books
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11:44 pm[CAT] On a refugee family from Syria and their cat Zayouna
- 13th
- 12:59 pm
[PHOTO] Rainbow and bear flags on Ward's Island, Toronto
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- 14th
- 12:26 pm
[PHOTO] Inaugurating the Moccasin Project in Swansea, Toronto
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- 15th
- 11:34 am
[PHOTO] Yolele!, by Pierre Thiam
02:54 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the decision of Toronto to not place a bid for the Olympics
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- 16th
- 08:17 am
[PHOTO] Native copper from Michigan, Royal Ontario Museum
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- 17th
- 11:08 am
[PHOTO} Malachite at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
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- 18th
- 05:23 am
[PHOTO] Sliced geode, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
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10:39 am[OBSCURA] A map of visible minorities in Toronto
10:43 am[OBSCURA] A map of visible minorities in Toronto
02:50 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
05:48 pm[LINK] "‘Old stock Canadians’ phrase chills profs, ignites Twitter"
05:54 pm[LINK] "Liberals and NDP poised for gains in Atlantic Canada"
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05:59 pm[LINK] "NDP poll shows it's ahead of Trudeau in his home riding of Papineau"
06:02 pm[LINK] "Paying Less in Slump Lifts Morocco Above Oil-Pumping Neighbors"
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06:04 pm[LINK] "Amazon unveils $50 tablet computer"
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06:05 pm[LINK] "NASA Struggles over Deep-Space Plutonium Power"
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06:08 pm[ISL] "China Still Reclaiming Land in South China Sea: CSIS"
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06:11 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Should Men Have the Vote?"
09:59 pm[LINK] Joseph Cain at The Mary Sue on the need for diversity in popular culture
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- 19th
- 08:37 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, reluctant poser
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06:15 pm[FORUM] How will we see the present in the longue durée?
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- 20th
- 12:00 pm
[PHOTO] Gold at the Royal Ontario Museum
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- 21st
- 01:35 pm
[PHOTO] Legends of Cthulhu for Sale, The Sidekick
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- 22nd
- 11:32 am
[PHOTO] Registered to vote
02:00 pm[URBAN NOTE] Jonathan Goldsbie in Now on #elxn42 in Toronto
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02:03 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Mulcair's Outremont, Trudeau's Papineau: A tale of two Montreal ridings"
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02:06 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Detroit’s white population up after decades of decline"
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02:08 pm[URBAN NOTE] "America’s loneliest grocer takes a stand"
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02:12 pm[LINK] "Oklahoma Pre-K teacher allegedly calls being left-handed ‘evil’ and ‘sinister’"
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02:14 pm[LINK] "Japan Dumbs Down Its Universities"
02:16 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Modernizing Ethiopia Opens $475-Million, China-Built Urban Rail"
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02:17 pm[LINK] "The PM, the Pig and musings on Power"
03:24 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- armenia,
- astronomy,
- azerbaijan,
- bicycles,
- blogs,
- borders,
- california,
- charlottetown,
- citizenship,
- cycling,
- economics,
- english language,
- first nations,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- globalization,
- language,
- links,
- lithuania,
- migration,
- military,
- neighbourhoods,
- nepal,
- photos,
- pluto,
- politics,
- popular culture,
- prince edward island,
- russia,
- south asia,
- south caucasus,
- space science,
- syria,
- theatre,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- urban note,
- war
09:48 pm[URBAN NOTE] "French new wave: A cultural shift for Toronto as ‘invisible francophones’ settle in"
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10:58 pm[DM] "On francophone immigration to Toronto and Ontario"
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- 23rd
- 08:44 am
[PHOTO] Crane over Yonge, Yonge and Eglinton
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12:56 pm[LINK] "CBC to sell all property across Canada"
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01:00 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Parkdale Community Groups Confront Gentrification"
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01:04 pm[PHOTO] "Selfie-crazed tourists prevent sea turtles from nesting in Costa Rica"
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01:06 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Affordable housing and the future of London as a creative city"
01:09 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Is Puebla like Bogotá? The geography of drug trafficking in Mexico"
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01:12 pm[LINK] "This Tower Purifies a Million Cubic Feet of Air an Hour"
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01:15 pm[LINK] "Canadian newspaper tries radical experiment with iTunes-style micropayments"
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01:17 pm[LINK] On recovering unique grape variants and developing their wines
Tags:- agriculture,
- france,
- genetics,
- greece,
- italy,
- links,
- science,
- technology,
- turkey
03:45 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- belarus,
- blogs,
- borders,
- canada,
- central asia,
- china,
- chinese language,
- crimean tatars,
- eaton centre,
- education,
- extraterrestrial intelligence,
- extraterrestrial life,
- former soviet union,
- france,
- history,
- islam,
- korea,
- language,
- links,
- maps,
- middle east,
- military,
- neptune,
- religion,
- russia,
- shopping,
- solar system,
- south korea,
- space science,
- syria,
- toronto,
- tourism,
- ukraine,
- ukrainian language,
- uranus,
- war
11:48 pm[DM] "On Joe Daniel, Syrian refugees, Eurabia, and the Canadian elections"
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- 24th
- 11:28 am
[PHOTO] Dufferin station in the September evening
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05:13 pm[LINK] "China Plans Lunar Far Side Landing by 2020"
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05:14 pm[LINK] "Facebook’s dominance deepens"
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05:17 pm[LINK] "Washington state and Native tribe strike deal on marijuana sales"
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05:19 pm[LINK] "Alan Poul To Helm ‘Dancer From The Dance’"
05:23 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto councillors want legal Grenadier Pond skating"
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05:25 pm[LINK] "Schoolkids Don’t Just Need iPads. They Need Data Plans"
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05:28 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The mysterious case of the grave of Stella Vanzant"
05:30 pm[ISL] "American Dream Relocates to Bermuda, Says Fishman, Blaming Taxes"
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08:08 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- belarus,
- blogs,
- cbc,
- cities,
- crime,
- crimean tatars,
- demographics,
- economics,
- extraterrestrial intelligence,
- former soviet union,
- history,
- islam,
- language,
- links,
- mass media,
- migration,
- popular culture,
- religion,
- russia,
- russian language,
- space science,
- television,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- ukrainian language,
- united kingdom,
- urban note
11:55 pm[MUSIC] Deep Forest with Peter Gabriel, "While the Earth Sleeps"
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- 25th
- 11:03 am
[PHOTO] Red begonia flowers on Dupont Street, Toronto
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03:31 pm[LINK] Two links on the evolution of La Presse, and journalism generally
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03:34 pm[LINK] Joe O'Connor in the National Post on the Nunavut suicide epidemic
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03:36 pm[LINK] "Serb-Croat Enmity Flares as Refugee Crisis Rekindles Anxiety"
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03:38 pm[LINK] Michael Petrou on the stampede in Mecca
03:40 pm[LINK] Two Bloomberg links in separatism in Catalonia
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03:44 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The Modest Metropolis" - Travel and Leisure on Toronto
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03:46 pm[URBAN NOTE] On suing suburbs of San Francisco for rental housing
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03:48 pm[URBAN NOTE] Adrian Weckler of the Irish Independent on how the tech boom killed San Francisco
05:28 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
08:06 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the law and the ethics of the monkey selfie
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- 27th
- 09:11 pm
[FORUM] How will you vote in the October federal election? (#elxn42)
09:39 pm[DM] "Two links on the census in Canada and on public institutional memory"
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- 28th
- 10:58 am
[PHOTO] Looking up at the CN Tower from Harbourfront
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01:14 pm[LINK] On the waters of Mars
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06:59 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
09:54 pm[LINK] "India’s Historic 1st Mission to Mars Celebrates 1 Year in Orbit at Red Planet"
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10:40 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Affordable housing shortage hurts Toronto: Mayor Tory"
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10:42 pm[URBAN NOTE] "What neighbourhood and gentrification mean for Berlin immigrants"
10:45 pm[ISL] "Bell Island collapse not an if, but a when, engineer says"
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10:49 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the Union-Pearson Express and mass transit in Toronto
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11:30 pm[LINK] "Small business can’t afford stronger worker protections, says lobby group"
11:32 pm[LINK] Rosemary Counter on surviving the Twitter mob
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11:37 pm[LINK] Languages of the World on the Basques and their history
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11:44 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the problems of a valid Iroquois passport
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- 29th
- 11:26 am
[PHOTO] Radish, flowering
01:52 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
03:13 pm[PHOTO] Coffeemaker with coffee
06:09 pm[LINK] "The Real Estate Crisis in North Dakota's Man Camps"
06:11 pm[LINK] On Cuban medical workers, Colombia, and the United States
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06:14 pm[LINK] "Thai bomb revenge for trafficking crackdown, police say"
06:16 pm[LINK] "Long-term expats find a pricey ‘loophole’ that allows them to vote"
06:19 pm[LINK] "The secret pool of surviving Bushmen at Chrissiesmeer"
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08:07 pm[LINK] Nick Eagland of Postmedia News on reviving two BC ghost towns
08:09 pm[LINK] Nick Eagland of Postmedia News on reviving two BC ghost towns
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10:13 pm[URBAN NOTE] "How Has Chinatown Stayed Chinatown?"
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11:55 pm[LINK] "A visit to the underworld: the unsolved mystery of the tunnels at Baiae"
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- 30th
- 10:22 am
[PHOTO] Ephemera of Leningrad, Gadabout Vintage, Toronto
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02:13 pm[URBAN NOTE] Vjosa Isai in the National Post on making Old City Hall a mall and museum
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05:53 pm[URBAN NOTE] "To remember the Galleria Mall is not to hate change"
05:55 pm[LINK] "Migrants find a new route to Norway, through the Arctic on bicycles"
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05:56 pm[LINK] "Diamond Trafficking Fuels Central African Republic Violence"
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05:59 pm[LINK] "India, Bangladesh to Swap Land in End to Decades-Old Border Spat"
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06:00 pm[LINK] "Iran Seeks $150 Billion to Target 8 Percent Annual Growth"
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06:02 pm[LINK] "What Content Bubble? Business Insider Scores Huge Sale"
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06:04 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Coun. John Filion's Rob Ford book to hit shelves in October"
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06:06 pm[WRITING] "Sometimes amateur writers need a professional opinion"
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07:49 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- clash of ideologies,
- demographics,
- disasters,
- economics,
- environment,
- former soviet union,
- genetics,
- germany,
- history,
- human beings,
- language,
- links,
- maps,
- mars,
- nuclear weapons,
- russian language,
- sexuality,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- space travel,
- telecommunications,
- terraforming,
- ukraine,
- united states
11:10 pm[REVIEW] Melissa Scott, Proud Helios
11:54 pm[DM] "On Population Matters, the Syrian refugee crisis, and the United Kingdom"
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