- 1st
- 11:42 am
[PHOTO] Dufferin Gate Loop, 11:16 pm
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05:43 pm[LINK] "On Twitter, Bernie Sanders’s supporters are becoming one of his biggest problems"
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05:46 pm[LINK] "What is Putin thinking? How Russia could shake up Syria crisis."
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05:48 pm[LINK] "Trial of Ukrainian pilot accused of murdering Russian journalists begins"
05:50 pm[LINK] "Saudi-Iran Spat Grows as Arms Intercept Follows Hajj Crush"
Tags:- iran,
- links,
- middle east,
- migration,
- religion,
- saudi arabia,
- tourism,
- war,
- yemen
05:52 pm[LINK] "The Rise & Fall of Monosexuality"
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05:54 pm[LINK] "Scientists Tantalized as Dawn Yields Global Mineral and Topographic Maps of Ceres"
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05:56 pm[LINK] "The Last European: Romanian Driver Navigates the Soul of the EU"
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05:59 pm[LINK] "Why terrorist should keep his Canadian citizenship"
07:43 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
11:51 pm[MUSIC] Rihanna's "Umbrella", and the melancholy of love songs
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- 2nd
- 10:36 am
[PHOTO] Toronto, sign and City Hall
04:58 pm[URBAN NOTE] Spacing and Torontoist on Old City Hall, Toronto
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07:18 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- ceres,
- earth,
- economics,
- former soviet union,
- globalization,
- hebrew,
- history,
- ireland,
- israel,
- language,
- links,
- middle east,
- national identity,
- north caucasus,
- popular literature,
- racism,
- russia,
- social networking,
- social sciences,
- south asia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- syria,
- theatre,
- venus,
- war
09:04 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On how Peeple, an app to rate people Yelp-style, is a terrible idea
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11:44 pm[LINK] On WOW Air's $C 99 flights to Europe (well, Iceland)
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11:45 pm[LINK] "Ex-CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi pleads not guilty to sexual assault charges"
Tags:- cbc,
- crime,
- journalism,
- links,
- mass media,
- toronto
11:49 pm[LINK] "China Billionaire With Canal Dream Confronts Biggest Loss of '15"
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11:51 pm[ISL] "The Jewish and Muslim merchants of Djerba"
11:53 pm[LINK] "Catalonia, Scotland and the fluid concept of democracy"
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11:55 pm[LINK] "Humans have more primitive hands than chimpanzees"
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11:56 pm[LINK] "The siege of Damascus: an account of everyday life in Syria’s savage war"
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11:58 pm[LINK] "Is There a Kraken in Kraken Mare? What Kind of Life Would We Find on Titan?"
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- 3rd
- 11:20 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, in his bed
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09:44 pm[CAT] My maneki neko from Honest Ed's, at home
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- 4th
- 12:34 am
[PHOTO] Three Honest Ed's photos from the Alley (#snbto, #fringeto)
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01:52 pm[PHOTO] Alley of trees, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto
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11:45 pm[FORUM] Is social disconnection a greater threat than social inequality?
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- 5th
- 11:13 am
[PHOTO] Toronto flags on Nathan Philips Square
- 6th
- 10:38 am
[PHOTO] Eaton Centre, 12:39 am
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01:42 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s 905 suburbs turning into race between Tories and Liberals"
- 7th
- 11:22 am
[PHOTO] Ascending to City Hall, Toronto, Nuit Blanche
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01:05 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
04:51 pm[LINK] "Waterstones to stop selling Kindle as book sales surge"
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04:56 pm[LINK] "U.S. comic Sarah Silverman endorses Canadian NDP candidate"
05:00 pm[LINK] "Tories dump candidate who touts therapies to turn gay youth straight"
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05:02 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Homeless-shelter stunt raises eyebrows in Leaside"
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05:04 pm[URBAN NOTE] "In North America's Costliest City, Rich Chinese Take the Blame"
05:06 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto will say bonjour to new French-language bookstore"
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05:08 pm[LINK] "Do Crows Hold Funerals for Their Dead?"
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05:10 pm[LINK] "New Human Ancestor Walked Like Us, Climbed Like an Ape"
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08:16 pm[LINK] "Sons of Russian spies battle for their birthright"
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- 8th
- 10:58 am
[PHOTO] 7/11 at 1:54 am, Queen Street West, Toronto
01:15 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- alternate history,
- astronomy,
- belarus,
- blogs,
- buddhism,
- catalonia,
- china,
- christianity,
- condos,
- environment,
- ethnic cleansing,
- former soviet union,
- history,
- iran,
- links,
- military,
- russia,
- separatism,
- siberia,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- spain,
- subway,
- syria,
- tibet,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- ukraine,
- urban note,
- war
04:29 pm[LINK] "Manufacturing Moved South, Then Moved Out"
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04:32 pm[LINK] "Heroin, U.S.A.: How the middle class got addicted"
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04:37 pm[LINK] "Linguist documents dying languages still spoken in Toronto"
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04:40 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Australia's New Cities Minister Sounds Warning as Sydney Sprawls"
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04:42 pm[LINK] "Why Ukraine needs its own Harvey Milk"
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04:44 pm[LINK] "The silences of Argentina’s election"
04:46 pm[LINK] "Reconstructing the Lifestyles of Three Pre-Historic Amazonian Tribes"
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07:09 pm[LINK] "America’s First Satellite… Almost"
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11:46 pm[MUSIC] Annie, "Songs Remind Me of You"
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- 9th
- 09:17 am
[PHOTO] Traversing the Dufferin Street underpass early in the morning, Toronto
- 10th
- 02:54 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, looking about
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03:03 pm[LINK] "Liberals Most Likely to Form Canada Government, Macquarie Says"
03:08 pm[LINK] "A Mission to a Metal World: The Psyche Mission"
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03:10 pm[LINK] "Elephants' low cancer risk may hold prevention lessons for humans"
03:13 pm[LINK] "Concern for orangutan safety in Indonesia"
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03:14 pm[LINK] "Can the NDP be first place for First Nations?"
03:17 pm[LINK] "Android-powered Priv phone is a make-or-break venture for BlackBerry, CEO says"
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03:19 pm[URBAN NOTE] "What’s down the line for Eglinton Crosstown"
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03:22 pm[LINK] Three links on Belarus, elections, Svetlana Alexievich, and the future
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05:15 pm[BLOG] Some Saturday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- catalonia,
- crimean tatars,
- earth,
- economics,
- environment,
- facebook,
- feminism,
- gender,
- glbt issues,
- ireland,
- korea,
- language,
- libraries,
- links,
- maps,
- marriage rights,
- middle east,
- occitan,
- oceans,
- pluto,
- russia,
- separatism,
- social networking,
- space science,
- spain,
- sports,
- syria,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- urban note,
- war
07:53 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the Toronto Blue Jays championship run
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10:07 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the future of Nuit Blanche in Toronto
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- 11th
- 01:56 am
[FORUM] What are some major celebrations in your community?
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06:51 pm[PHOTO] Religious statues for sale, Parliament Street, Cabbagetown
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- 13th
- 03:18 pm
[PHOTO] A cup of coffee, Vesta Lunch
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- 14th
- 12:19 pm
[PHOTO] Hello Kitty by the falls, Allan Gardens
02:25 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- argentina,
- astronomy,
- baltic states,
- blogs,
- borders,
- california,
- catalan language,
- catalonia,
- census,
- china,
- chinese language,
- environment,
- estonia,
- extraterrestrial life,
- glbt issues,
- holidays,
- ireland,
- irish language,
- italy,
- latvia,
- links,
- maps,
- marriage rights,
- mass transit,
- national identity,
- oceans,
- pluto,
- politics,
- racism,
- russia,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- spain,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- ukraine,
- ukrainian language,
- urban note
03:27 pm[LINK] "Elections Canada says 3.6 million votes cast during advance polls"
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03:29 pm[LINK] The Volokh Conspiracy on Canadian expatriates and the right to vote
05:39 pm[LINK] "Evidence of earliest modern humans outside Africa found in China"
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05:42 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The tragic tale of Toronto’s first big baseball star"
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05:44 pm[LINK] "Impacts of and responses to the dense smoke haze from #Indonesia"
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05:46 pm[LINK] Paul Tapsell on being a Maori anthropologist
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05:52 pm[LINK] "Crowdfunding a revolution in Montenegro"
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05:53 pm[LINK] Bloomberg View on Truvada and PrEP
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08:29 pm[LINK] Two links on the appeal of the Shafia honour killings
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10:12 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the unknown extraordinaries of KIC 8462852
11:56 pm[DM] "Some links on the Syrian refugee crisis"
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- 15th
- 10:57 am
[PHOTO] The towers of King and Bay, Financial District
01:48 pm[BLOG] Some T
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05:11 pm[LINK] "Advance poll workers decry 'absolutely terrible' work conditions"
05:13 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Chow fans in Spadina-Fort York wary of Liberal surge"
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05:15 pm[URBAN NOTE] "To interchange or not to interchange: Spadina vs. St. George?"
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05:17 pm[LINK] On the murder of crows in Burnaby, B.C.
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05:19 pm[ISL] "Tilt Cove, Canada's smallest town, a big draw for tourists"
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05:21 pm[LINK] Katharine Schwab in The Atlantic on the rise of Buffy studies
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05:27 pm[LINK] "Cost of Ontario’s 1995 ‘welfare diet’ soars amid inadequate rates"
07:45 pm[LINK] "Nanos tracking: Liberals hit election high"
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10:13 pm[MUSIC] Love Inc., "Broken Bones"
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- 16th
- 01:30 pm
[PHOTO] An autumn day by the Rosedale Heights School of the Arts, Toronto
03:44 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the problems of "The Tories deserve another mandate – Stephen Harper doesn’t"
06:12 pm[URBAN NOTE] "With friends like these: Ford revelations leave Tories under fire"
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06:14 pm[URBAN NOTE] "TTC may sue Bombardier over mounting streetcar delays"
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06:16 pm[LINK] "Remembering Ken Taylor: ‘An unconventional diplomat’"
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06:18 pm[URBAN NOTE] "D.C. Barnes & Noble closing, leaving no more big bookstores in the city"
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06:21 pm[LINK] "When the Closet Travels with You: For Gay Expats, Life Abroad Brings Challenges"
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06:23 pm[LINK] "Why this Canadian election is like no other"
06:27 pm[LINK] "Where in the world could the first CRISPR baby be born?"
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06:30 pm[ISL] "For Turkey’s Greek minority, an island school provides fresh hope"
08:38 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
11:10 pm[BRIEF NOTE] Some more links about extraordinary KIC 8462852
- 17th
- 11:58 pm
[CAT] Shakespeare, held in front of the fridge
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- 18th
- 07:11 pm
[FORUM] How would you react if KIC 8462852 turned out to host alien megastructures?
- 19th
- 12:52 am
[FORUM] What will you be doing in #elxn42?
04:38 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Desperate Conservatives embrace the Fords as time runs out"
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09:03 pm[PHOTO] My Voter Information Card, #elxn42
- 20th
- 12:50 pm
[PHOTO] The morning after #elxn42 in maps
- 21st
- 12:43 am
[OBSCURA] Martian Sunset
01:55 pm[PHOTO] Photos from the Redpath Sugar Refinery during Doors Open Toronto
05:26 pm[LINK] "Throwout" by William Thorsell (#elxn42)
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05:29 pm[LINK] "Uncontacted tribe's encounters with civilization fuel ethical debate"
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05:32 pm[LINK] "Election for Native Hawaiians faces federal court challenge"
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05:35 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Neechi Commons: Winnipeg grocery store bucks trend in core neighbourhood"
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05:37 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Inner-Suburban Food Bank Use Soars"
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05:39 pm[URBAN NOTE] "GO and Smarttrack are one and the same service, says Metrolinx"
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05:41 pm[LINK] On the non-existence of Alpha Centauri Bb
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05:44 pm[LINK] "Can Lorin Stein Translate Michel Houellebecq Into a Great Writer?"
07:53 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
11:52 pm[LINK] How Deus Ex: Human Revolution predicted PM Justin Trudeau
- 22nd
- 11:26 am
[PHOTO] Wandering on the Beach(es), Toronto
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03:13 pm[LINK] "SETI Institute Undertakes Search for Alien Signal from Kepler Star KIC 8462852"
03:20 pm[LINK] "Keeping Crimea's Muslims in check"
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03:21 pm[LINK] "Ukraine Sees Signs Truce Can Last as Putin Juggles War and Peace"
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03:23 pm[LINK] "Mi'kmaq atlas reveals secrets behind Nova Scotia place names"
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03:24 pm[ISL] "Lucy Maud Montgomery schoolhouse struggles to stay open"
03:26 pm[LINK] "Not Even Community Could Save Yahoo’s TV Dreams"
03:28 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Ghost Towns of the 21st Century"
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03:30 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Beyond Words: Toronto Grows Its Own LGBTQ Literary Festival"
05:46 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
- 23rd
- 10:24 am
[PHOTO] At the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant, Toronto
02:40 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Mark Towhey, former Rob Ford aide, describes working for ex-mayor as 'roller-coaster'
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02:42 pm[URBAN NOTE] "What’s Next for Ontario’s Greenbelt?"
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02:44 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Adam Vaughan Declares Island Airport Expansion “Dead”"
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02:47 pm[LINK] "Camerawoman plans to sue refugee she infamously tripped, and Facebook"
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02:50 pm[LINK] "Swedish Housing Market in `Exceptional Situation,' Minister Says"
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02:53 pm[LINK] "Jehovah's Witness grandparents ordered to keep faith to themselves"
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02:55 pm[LINK] "Russian spies in Canada: new lessons from the Gouzenko defection"
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02:57 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the inevitable growing presence of Indians on Quora
05:11 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- ceres,
- clash of ideologies,
- first nations,
- former soviet union,
- former yugoslavia,
- glbt issues,
- journalism,
- korea,
- language,
- latin america,
- links,
- maps,
- marriage rights,
- mass transit,
- mexico,
- photos,
- politics,
- popular literature,
- russia,
- slovenia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- writing
07:30 pm[WRITING] "Anthropology as Theoretical Storytelling"
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10:31 pm[URBAN NOTE] On finding myself an unexpected Toronto Blue Jays fan
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- 26th
- 09:29 am
[PHOTO] A basket of corner store vegetables, Dovercourt and Hallam
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12:41 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Bidding Farewell to the 2015 Blue Jays"
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12:45 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The rise of Willowdale, Toronto’s hottest new neighbourhood"
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12:49 pm[LINK] "Justin Trudeau won't move in to 24 Sussex, says Margaret Trudeau"
12:53 pm[LINK] "Laser treatment could end pain for iconic ‘napalm girl’"
04:12 pm[LINK] "Ex-MP wants ‘new’ dropped from NDP name"
04:17 pm[LINK] "For Irish Illegally In U.S., A Life Locked In Place, Hoping For Change"
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04:18 pm[LINK] "Radicalisation in Georgia: a self-fulfilling prophecy?"
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04:20 pm[LINK] "The Playmobil Conundrum"
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04:22 pm[LINK] "How Saudi Arabia helped Isis take over the north of [Iraq]"
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07:28 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- brazil,
- china,
- chinese language,
- clash of ideologies,
- demographics,
- economics,
- enceladus,
- germany,
- health,
- history,
- hiv/aids,
- judaism,
- language,
- latin america,
- links,
- medicine,
- migration,
- oceans,
- peru,
- philosophy,
- popular culture,
- popular music,
- saturn,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- united states,
- yiddish
- 27th
- 12:29 pm
[PHOTO] Looking up at the cranes, Yonge and Eglinton
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02:28 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
05:00 pm[LINK] "Canada’s New Government May Be a New Beginning for Science"
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05:02 pm[LINK] "Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram"
05:05 pm[LINK] "California’s drought is hitting indigenous Latino workers hard"
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05:07 pm[LINK] "Climate change could push Persian Gulf temperatures to lethal extremes: report"
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05:10 pm[LINK] "China rides the rails of Ethiopia's development"
05:11 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The ‘shadow play’ of Budapest"
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05:15 pm[LINK] "The Paleo Recipe for Complex Life on Earth"
07:20 pm[BLOG] Some Canada and #elxn42 links, before and after
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11:47 pm[LINK] "Ancient civilization: Cracking the Indus script"
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- 28th
- 05:17 am
[PHOTO] Sidewalk grasses, Dovercourt north of Hallam
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02:29 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- alpha centauri,
- argentina,
- astronomy,
- australia,
- blogs,
- books,
- china,
- communism,
- democracy,
- denmark,
- economics,
- enceladus,
- european union,
- eurozone,
- extraterrestrial intelligence,
- extraterrestrial life,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- hiv/aids,
- italy,
- kaliningrad,
- links,
- maps,
- marriage rights,
- mars,
- middle east,
- north caucasus,
- oceans,
- politics,
- popular culture,
- religion,
- russia,
- saturn,
- space science,
- space travel,
- syria,
- war
04:57 pm[LINK] The Economist on the impending Chinese debt crisis
04:58 pm[LINK] CNBC on China and California agriculture
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05:00 pm[LINK] "Italy Reclaims Spot as World's Biggest Wine Producer From France"
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05:03 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Ryerson University's rooftop farm celebrates bumper harvest"
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05:05 pm[LINK] Rose and Rowe, "Northern cod comeback"
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05:07 pm[URBAN NOTE] Bloomberg of 36 East 57th Street, brownstone amid the condos
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05:10 pm[ISL] "Battle Over China's Artificial Islands Has Just Begun"
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05:11 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Searching for the Soul of John Tory’s Toronto"
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- 29th
- 07:48 am
[PHOTO] Morning glories, Dovercourt and Dupont
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12:50 pm[LINK] "China and the coming crisis"
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12:52 pm[LINK] "What’s It Like to Have Refugees Stream Into Your Town?"
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12:57 pm[LINK] "English Lessons for Free as Malaysia Tackles Drop in Proficiency"
12:59 pm[LINK] "How Indonesia's Fires Made it the Biggest Climate Polluter"
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01:01 pm[LINK] Claudia Gastrow at The Conversation on Angola after the oil boom
01:03 pm[URBAN NOTE] "TTC will sue Bombardier over late streetcars"
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01:04 pm[LINK] "Face/Off? The squirrely legend of Mark Hamill’s car crash"
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03:07 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
05:52 pm[CAT] Shakespeare, on #nationalcatday
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08:20 pm[DM] "Some thoughts on the 2015 Canadian election (#elxn42)"
- 30th
- 12:48 pm
[PHOTO] The multilingual TTC
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04:36 pm[LINK] "Iqaluit family in tent 1 of 170 on wait list for social housing in city"
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04:38 pm[LINK] National Geographic on the melting ice cellars of the Arctic
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04:42 pm[LINK] "Climate Change Is Wicked Bad for New England’s Cod"
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04:46 pm[ISL] "Court agrees to take up Philippines challenge to Beijing's maritime claims"
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04:47 pm[LINK] "Gas Makes Nuclear Power Radioactive"
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04:49 pm[LINK] "Putin Tests English Debt Law as Ukraine Feud Heads to London"
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04:52 pm[LINK] "Is this the worst time in Canadian history for Conservatives?"
04:54 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The man who dreams of old Mecca"
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06:48 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- bangladesh,
- blogs,
- book reviews,
- books,
- burma,
- china,
- demographics,
- enceladus,
- english language,
- environment,
- europa,
- former soviet union,
- french language,
- geopolitics,
- graffiti,
- india,
- jupiter,
- language,
- links,
- maps,
- military,
- moldova,
- oceans,
- oddities,
- photos,
- pluto,
- popular culture,
- popular music,
- religion,
- russia,
- saturn,
- south asia,
- southeast asia,
- space science,
- syria,
- tibet,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- war,
- writing
09:00 pm[VIDEO] A drone flight through High Park, Toronto, in autumn
11:54 pm[DM] "What do you think are some overlooked demographic issues?"
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- 31st
- 09:30 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, Saturday morning
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04:14 pm[CAT] "As Tiger Numbers Dwindle, Will Smugglers Target a Different Cat?"
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04:21 pm[CAT] "How A Photographer Captured The Beauty of Siberian Tigers"
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04:25 pm[CAT] "Are Cats Domesticated?"
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08:22 pm[CAT] On a reminder of the time when the Internet was so small
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