- 1st
- 08:13 am
[PHOTO] Stars, Union Station Holiday Market (#ushm), Toronto
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01:41 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Dupont at Zenith"
01:45 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Brutal baboon battle erupts for throne at Toronto Zoo after matriarch dies"
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01:50 pm[URBAN NOTE] The Toronto Star on Michelle DuBarry, oldest drag queen in the world
01:53 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s Tibetan community eagerly await a potentially historic election"
01:55 pm[LINK] "Xi's African Tour Highlights China's Expanding Security Role"
01:57 pm[LINK] The Economist on the struggles of Uniqlo
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04:26 pm[LINK] "Japan combats rise in hate speech"
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04:28 pm[LINK] "CBC suspends online comments on indigenous stories"
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04:31 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
09:21 pm[VIDEO] Scott Calonico on the AIDS humour of the Reagan Administration
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- 2nd
- 08:31 am
[PHOTO] Old vitrolite tiles of College Station, Toronto
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01:18 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- azerbaijan,
- belarus,
- blogs,
- borders,
- china,
- economics,
- ethnic conflict,
- former soviet union,
- gender,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- globalization,
- human beings,
- iran,
- links,
- mass transit,
- migration,
- military,
- national identity,
- nuclear weapons,
- ossington,
- philippines,
- russia,
- science,
- south caucasus,
- southeast asia,
- technology,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- ukraine,
- united kingdom,
- united states,
- war
03:32 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Aging TTC streetcars rattle into winter"
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03:38 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Subway fetish does injustice to Scarborough"
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03:43 pm[LINK] "Anti-abortion groups target IUD use"
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03:45 pm[LINK] "Euro to Bear Brunt of Yuan's Inclusion in Reserve-Currency Club"
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03:47 pm[LINK] "Wikipedia Deploys AI to Expand Its Ranks of Human Editors"
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03:49 pm[LINK] Luke Coffey at Al Jazeera on Russia and Turkey
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03:51 pm[LINK] "Target Canada creditors unsatisfied with recovery plan’s details"
03:53 pm[LINK] The Dragon's Tales on the United States and asteroid mining
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03:56 pm[WRITING] "Modern Textual Criticism"
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04:04 pm[PHOTO] On the decision of Anton Corbijn to stop his commercial photography
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- 3rd
- 09:37 am
[PHOTO] Closed for condos, Yonge Street below Wellesley, Toronto
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01:34 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- armenia,
- astronomy,
- australia,
- azerbaijan,
- blogs,
- caribbean,
- catalonia,
- chinese language,
- democracy,
- elections,
- ethnic conflict,
- federalism,
- feminism,
- first nations,
- former soviet union,
- georgia,
- glbt issues,
- hong kong,
- iran,
- language,
- links,
- multiculturalism,
- museums,
- popular culture,
- russia,
- separatism,
- south caucasus,
- space science,
- spain,
- streetcar,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- united states,
- urban note,
- venus
04:06 pm[LINK] "Bruce Power to invest $13B in nuclear station creating 23,000 jobs"
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04:09 pm[LINK] "The World’s Rarest Ape Lives—and Sings—on a Chinese Island"
04:11 pm[LINK] "Google shuts Songza, unveils free version of Google Play Music"
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04:13 pm[LINK] "Hidden For Decades, Pollocks, Rothkos And More Go On Display In Iran"
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04:14 pm[WRITING] "On The Dark Matter Of The Publishing Industry"
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04:18 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Shaping Toronto: Public Space Philanthropy"
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04:22 pm[URBAN NOTE] On issues of wealth and class in "Our Year of Living Airbnb"
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04:28 pm[URBAN NOTE] On two unfortunate deaths at the site of St. Thomas' High Line-style park
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- 4th
- 10:43 am
[PHOTO] Frosted couch, Dupont Street, Toronto
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11:43 am[URBAN NOTE] Some charts showing rising TTC fares over time
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02:08 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- abortion,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- canada,
- chinese language,
- christianity,
- clash of ideologies,
- computers,
- condos,
- dupont street,
- education,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- ireland,
- links,
- national identity,
- neighbourhoods,
- ontario,
- roman catholic church,
- russia,
- saturn,
- shopping,
- space science,
- technology,
- toronto,
- turkey,
- ukraine
05:08 pm[LINK] On the tremendous economic costs of destroying the Death Star
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05:10 pm[URBAN NOTE] On controversy in Vancouver around sex parties and public art
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05:14 pm[LINK] "Russian Border Anxiety Grows as Finland Beefs Up Military Budget
05:17 pm[LINK] "Nigeria's Buhari to Ask China's Xi to Restart Stalled Rail Work"
05:19 pm[LINK] "Royal Bank has record annual profit of $10B"
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05:21 pm[LINK] "Coke's 'outrageous' ad shows white hipsters bringing drinks to indigenous Mexicans"
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05:24 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Bike Lanes on Bloor Street’s Horizon"
05:26 pm[ISL] "Climate Change Will Increase Damage, Losses in Coastal Communities"
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05:29 pm[LINK] "Utopian and Dystopian Visions of Afrofuturism"
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- 5th
- 08:45 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, recumbent
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12:34 pm[H&F] [DM] "Refugee Crisis and the North"
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03:53 pm[FORUM] How is the Syrian refugee crisis playing out in your part of the world?
- 7th
- 08:40 am
[PHOTO] Waiting for Santa at the Galleria, Toronto
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12:29 pm[URBAN NOTE] "South Caucasus Minorities Within Minorities"
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12:32 pm[URBAN NOTE] "TTC Surface Route Statistics 2011-2014"
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12:34 pm[LINK] "The Japanese Barely Eat Whale. So Why Do They Keep Whaling?"
12:37 pm[LINK] "Vertical Farming – Agriculture of the Future"
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12:39 pm[LINK] "Antigua: Surrounded by Sea but Catchments are Empty"
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12:40 pm[LINK] "The Jungle: Migrant camp’s growth a symptom of refugee crisis"
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12:43 pm[LINK] "Smartphone Growth Is Slowing. That’s Great News for Apple"
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12:44 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Taking the ambiguity out of police carding"
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12:46 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Challenging Times at Brockton Town Hall"
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02:19 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- alpha centauri,
- astronomy,
- baltic states,
- blogs,
- borders,
- central africa,
- christianity,
- cities,
- demographics,
- economics,
- finland,
- georgia,
- history,
- humour,
- iran,
- islam,
- links,
- maps,
- middle east,
- military,
- norden,
- oddities,
- religion,
- russia,
- south ossetia,
- space science,
- subway,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- ukraine,
- urban note,
- war
10:42 pm[LINK] "Science-fictional shibboleths"
11:29 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The Interview: Richard Florida and the Future of Toronto"
11:59 pm[LINK] The Yorkshire Ranter on how computer models nuclear started a nuclear war in 1983
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- 8th
- 08:42 am
[PHOTO] Disembarking in front of the flags at the Royal York, Toronto
01:13 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- clash of ideologies,
- diaspora,
- georgia,
- glbt issues,
- hawaii,
- in memoriam,
- jupiter,
- links,
- migration,
- neighbourhoods,
- north caucasus,
- pacific islands,
- philippines,
- pluto,
- polynesia,
- refugees,
- russia,
- second world war,
- southeast asia,
- space science,
- subway,
- syria,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- urban note
05:15 pm[LINK] Elf Sternberg on imagining Obama laughing at white premature mortality
05:19 pm[LINK] "Icelanders flock to religion revering Sumerian gods and tax rebates"
05:22 pm[LINK] "Remote B.C. town living life without Internet after provider shuts down"
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05:23 pm[LINK] "China stuns analysts with $60-billion pledge for Africa"
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05:25 pm[LINK] "The challenges of post-Chávez Venezuela"
05:27 pm[LINK] "Saudis, shale and the high costs of cheap oil"
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05:28 pm[LINK] "Solar Kiosks Help Light up Rural Kenya"
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05:30 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Five lessons Toronto could learn from New York’s transportation shift"
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08:03 pm[ISL] "The fall of Jersey: how a tax haven goes bust"
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11:47 pm[AH] On the latest about the quiet end of Norse Greenland
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- 9th
- 09:25 am
[PHOTO] Looking up at the Royal York Hotel from Union Station, Toronto
12:25 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- baltic states,
- blogs,
- china,
- chinese language,
- clash of ideologies,
- crime,
- democracy,
- english language,
- environment,
- federalism,
- former soviet union,
- health,
- hiv/aids,
- latin america,
- links,
- medicine,
- non blog,
- russia,
- separatism,
- social networking,
- streetcar,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- united kingdom,
- united states,
- urban note,
- venezuela
03:04 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Torontoist Explains: The Municipal Land Transfer Tax"
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03:06 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto's Trump Tower should change its name says city councillor"
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03:09 pm[URBAN NOTE] blogTO on the history of Commerce Court North
03:13 pm[URBAN NOTE] "How about food bikes?"
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03:15 pm[LINK] "Columbia engineers build biologically powered chip"
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03:18 pm[LINK] "Supermajority or Not, in Venezuela It's Still About Oil Prices"
03:20 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The Northern Powerhouse as ‘Real Mirage’"
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03:23 pm[URBAN NOTE] "A Look at Toronto’s Real Estate Developers"
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03:25 pm[WRITING] "Should Writing Be an Art or a Career?"
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03:28 pm[LINK] "When Nothing Is Cool"
11:55 pm[WRITING] What writing project would you like me to embark upon?
- 10th
- 09:37 am
[PHOTO] Waterfront condo towers, east of Union Station
10:56 am[BLOG] Some Thursday links
07:35 pm[LINK] On "Drug lord 'El Chapo' threatens to destroy ISIS in e-mail"
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07:40 pm[LINK] "Invaders Can't Expect Debt Repayment"
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07:44 pm[LINK] "Turkish-Russian war of words goes beyond downed plane"
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07:46 pm[LINK] "Coffee spill: Thousands of coffee cans wash up in Indialantic"
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07:49 pm[URBAN NOTE] "McDonalds opens first standalone McCafe at Union Station"
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07:51 pm[LINK] "Donald Trump Loses Luster When Words Reach the Middle East"
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07:56 pm[URBAN NOTE] "TTC Wi-Fi users need Twitter accounts this month"
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07:57 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Frustrated by cabbie protests? Good, that’s the point"
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11:58 pm[MUSIC] What music are you listening to?
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- 11th
- 09:46 am
[PHOTO] Looking up at the South Tower of the Royal Bank Plaza, Toronto
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12:07 pm[META] What are the stories behind my Livejournal userpics?
Tags:- cats,
- forum,
- livejournal,
- meta,
- non blog,
- obscura,
- photos,
- shakespeare
04:00 pm[LINK] On two serendipitous discoveries of objects in deep space
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04:05 pm[URBAN NOTE] Two notes on the Beck Taxi protests against Uber in Toronto
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04:07 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Vortex Records to close after nearly 40 years"
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04:09 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto council doesn't want Davenport rail bridge"
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04:11 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The Activist Group Suing the Suburbs for Bigger Buildings"
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04:14 pm[LINK] "To See the Future of Electric Cars, Look East"
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04:17 pm[LINK] "Uber can’t be defeated from the outside—but maybe from within"
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04:21 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Tomson Highway’s Wisdom"
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04:25 pm[LINK] "Canada’s New Typeface Unifies the Country’s Many Languages"
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07:25 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- biking,
- blogs,
- borders,
- british empire,
- christianity,
- cities,
- cycling,
- economics,
- environment,
- ethnic conflict,
- former soviet union,
- fort york,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- ireland,
- irish language,
- kaliningrad,
- libraries,
- links,
- neighbourhoods,
- new york city,
- philosophy,
- regionalism,
- religion,
- russia,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- subway,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- urban note
10:54 pm[LINK] "Meet the gay Caribbean man Canada wants to deport"
11:56 pm[META] What content of mine do you especially like?
- 12th
- 06:58 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, escaping a pose
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07:07 am[CAT] Army of maneki neko at Honest Ed's, Toronto
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08:41 am[PHOTO] Photos of the kitsch of Honest Ed's, Toronto
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08:12 pm[FORUM] Where do you find kitsch in your community?
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- 13th
- 11:56 am
[PHOTO] The Allan Gardens Conservatory, early December
- 14th
- 08:59 am
[PHOTO] Pink hibiscus in full bloom, Allan Gardens, Toronto
11:05 am[OBSCURA] An isochronic map of the world from London, 1914
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02:40 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
05:38 pm[LINK] "Putin's Quagmire in Syria Proves Obama Prescient"
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05:40 pm[LINK] "Dollarama earnings show most sales now priced at $1.25 and up"
05:43 pm[LINK] "Brazil’s Amazon River Ports Give Rise to Dreams and Nightmares"
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05:44 pm[LINK] "The Rise of the 1099 Economy"
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05:47 pm[LINK] "Thousands flee Eritrea monthly to avoid endless life in army"
05:50 pm[LINK] "The long road from Syria to Peterborough"
05:53 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the vinyl record collections of the Toronto Public Library
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05:57 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Norm Kelly Voted Canada’s Most Valuable Tweeter"
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- 15th
- 09:29 am
[PHOTO] Turtles of Allan Gardens, Toronto
12:39 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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03:51 pm[URBAN NOTE] "UberHOP pilot service starts December 15"
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03:56 pm[LINK] "Justin Trudeau's approval ratings remain high, even among New Democrats"
04:00 pm[LINK] "Closing the book on John Mark Tillmann’s stolen antiques"
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04:02 pm[LINK] "Greenland May Seek UN Climate Deal Opt-Out Amid Emissions Goal"
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04:04 pm[LINK] "The Weird, Sketchy History of Internet Cafes"
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04:07 pm[LINK] "ESA, Airbus Formalize Jupiter Icy Moons Contract"
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04:10 pm[LINK] "Immigration – Still a Pending Issue in Cuban-U.S. Relations"
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04:11 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Why Toronto Should Reframe Its Budget Debate"
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11:07 pm[DM] "On Paul Krugman, Portugal and debt and demographic debt spirals"
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11:39 pm[AH] On the erstwhile Portuguese colony in 16th century Cape Breton
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- 16th
- 09:03 am
[PHOTO] Goldfish of Allan Gardens, Toronto
01:51 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- borders,
- earth,
- environment,
- european union,
- food,
- former soviet union,
- former yugoslavia,
- france,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- jupiter,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- mars,
- mexico,
- military,
- north america,
- photos,
- russia,
- saturn,
- separatism,
- sexuality,
- slovenia,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- solar system,
- space science,
- terrorism,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- venus
04:08 pm[LINK] "The most likely spots for life in the Milky Way"
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04:11 pm[LINK] "Argentina's Macri Moves Quickly to Unwind Kirchner Policies"
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04:13 pm[LINK] "Africa Is Last Frontier for Carmakers on the Hunt for Growth"
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04:15 pm[LINK] "Oil Approaching $35 Final Blow to Greenland's Exploration Dreams"
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04:17 pm[URBAN NOTE] "TTC’s lawyers to examine UberHop commuting service"
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04:20 pm[LINK] NPR on the anti-Muslim policies of Angola
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04:22 pm[LINK] "Moscow graveyards upgraded to include free Wi-Fi"
04:26 pm[LINK] "How to do cephalopod philosophy"
04:28 pm[LINK] Wired on the new national flag of New Zealand
- 17th
- 10:23 am
[PHOTO] Tree in December, Church Street at Alexander, Toronto
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01:01 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
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11:39 pm[MUSIC] Crystal Castles feat. Robert Smith, "Not in Love"
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- 18th
- 09:05 am
[PHOTO] Spadina looking south, Toronto
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05:21 pm[LINK] "An unspoken option if climate talks fail: Geoengineering"
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05:24 pm[LINK] "From China to Europe without Russia?"
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05:27 pm[LINK] "To Fix China, Look to Korea"
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05:28 pm[LINK] "A Million to None: The U.K.’s Last Coal Miners Stop Work Today"
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05:31 pm[LINK] "How Yahoo!’s Identity Crisis Infected Tumblr"
05:32 pm[LINK] "Nunavut shrimp interests say Thailand slave-labour stock 'taints' entire industry"
05:36 pm[LINK] "The Salvation Army Still Hates Gays"
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05:39 pm[LINK] "Shaw to keep Wind Mobile a discount mobile carrier"
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05:41 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The Beaver Wars & Toronto in the 1600s"
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05:44 pm[LINK] "Farewell to Nova Scotia"
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08:12 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
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- 19th
- 09:46 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, in his bed
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- 21st
- 01:22 am
[PHOTO] Me and Yorkdale Fashion Santa (#yorkdalefashionsanta)
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03:05 pm[LINK] "Coral Reefs Provide Crystal Ball for Future Change"
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03:07 pm[LINK] "Great Lakes are warming more than twice as fast as the oceans, new study says"
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03:11 pm[LINK] "Merkel Allies Betray Growing Alarm `Brexit' Prospect Is Real"
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03:13 pm[LINK] "Ukraine Defaults on $3 Billion Bond to Russia"
03:15 pm[LINK] "Japan's Married-Name Law Isn't Just About Names"
03:18 pm[LINK] "Ontario to lose equalization payments as Alberta's economic fortunes fall"
03:20 pm[LINK] "The Donbass War. Assessing the Aftermath"
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03:23 pm[LINK] Joe O'Connor in the National Post on Syrians in Atlantic Canada
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03:25 pm[LINK] "Amazon Books: After a Month, Still Many Questions"
03:28 pm[WRITING] "Can an App Really Cure Writer's Block?"
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07:54 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- chinese language,
- clash of ideologies,
- demographics,
- economics,
- education,
- ethnic conflict,
- glbt issues,
- holidays,
- japanese language,
- kazakhstan,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- mass media,
- middle east,
- migration,
- mississauga,
- non blog,
- restaurants,
- russia,
- slovenia,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- syria,
- toronto,
- turkey,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- war
11:23 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On PrEP, and TaSP, and the imminent end of HIV/AIDS
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- 22nd
- 09:24 am
[PHOTO] Front window orchids, 4Life Natural Foods, Kensington Market, Toronto
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12:37 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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03:04 pm[LINK] "Greenland glaciers retreating at record pace"
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03:08 pm[LINK] "Elephant Social Bonds Withstand the Ravages of Poaching"
03:12 pm[LINK] "Oxygenation: Gradual Process, Profound Results"
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03:15 pm[ISL] "Canada and Denmark keep relations warm in Arctic island dispute"
03:17 pm[LINK] "Grand River: A waterway’s rise to its former greatness"
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03:21 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Milton — a snapshot of a region struggling with growth"
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03:22 pm[LINK] "Tapping the Outback Sun to Send Electricity to Australian Homes"
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03:24 pm[LINK] "The Saudi Town on the Frontline of Yemen's War"
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03:25 pm[LINK] "Will Syria become Russia's Vietnam?"
Tags:- geopolitics,
- israel,
- links,
- middle east,
- military,
- russia,
- syria,
- war
- 23rd
- 01:54 am
[PHOTO] Santa's castle, rear, Galleria Mall, Toronto
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10:07 am[OBSCURA] Dumping Leftover Tea at -40c
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02:07 pm[LINK] sadydoyle on the unusual likability of Hillary Rodham Clinton
02:11 pm[LINK] "Libya Peace Deal Won't Be Enough to Restore Former Oil Output"
02:12 pm[LINK] The Inter Press Service on India, Nepal and their relationship
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02:16 pm[LINK] "The Bridge That United Copenhagen and Malmo Is Now Dividing Them"
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02:18 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Muskoka town set to lose its only bank"
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02:24 pm[LINK] "Nestle confirms labor abuse among Thai seafood suppliers"
02:28 pm[LINK] "Plants, Electrified: Scientists Just Grew Conductive Wires Inside Real Roses"
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02:30 pm[LINK] "The first website went online 25 years ago today"
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02:33 pm[URBAN NOTE] Two Spacing Toronto links about UberHop
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05:52 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
06:20 pm[META] What do you think is the future of blogging?
- 24th
- 12:10 pm
[PHOTO] Old revealed tiles, Wellesley subway station, Toronto
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05:34 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
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- 25th
- 11:55 am
[PHOTO] Eaton's Centre Christmas Tree, Toronto
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- 26th
- 08:38 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, sitting
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11:27 am[PHOTO] Last Christmas trees at the lot, Dupont and Dufferin, Toronto
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01:47 pm[BLOG] Some Saturday links
Tags:- archeology,
- astronomy,
- azerbaijan,
- blogs,
- brazil,
- central america,
- chechnya,
- chinese language,
- clash of ideologies,
- economics,
- environment,
- feminism,
- first nations,
- former soviet union,
- gender,
- global warming,
- history,
- holidays,
- internet,
- latin america,
- links,
- mass transit,
- maya,
- mexico,
- oil,
- popular culture,
- russia,
- russian language,
- separatism,
- space science,
- toronto,
- ttc
04:38 pm[LINK] "The War on Jewish Christmas must be stopped"
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04:43 pm[LINK] "Warm December weather confuses even the flowers"
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04:46 pm[LINK] "Santa's Home Is Melting. Will We Ever Bring It Back?"
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04:50 pm[LINK] "Russia warming '2.5 times quicker' than global average: report"
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04:54 pm[LINK] "Record-breaking warm weather stuns parts of Canada on Christmas"
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04:56 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The Old Cabbagetown Tree Lot"
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09:38 pm[PHOTO] On the unnatural warmth and light of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, Toronto
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11:53 pm[FORUM] What do you think about the bizarrely warm Christmas weather?
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- 27th
- 06:52 pm
[PHOTO] Excavating in the shadow of College Park, Toronto
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11:55 pm[FORUM] Are online comments doomed?
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- 28th
- 10:26 am
[PHOTO] A Chinese letter in the Galleria Dollarama, Toronto
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01:43 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- armenia,
- astronomy,
- azerbaijan,
- biology,
- blogs,
- borders,
- cantonese,
- chechnya,
- chinese language,
- economics,
- ethnic cleansing,
- ethnic conflict,
- former soviet union,
- france,
- georgia,
- glbt issues,
- links,
- photos,
- popular literature,
- religion,
- russian language,
- separatism,
- sexuality,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- south caucasus,
- space science,
- technology,
- toronto,
- ukraine
05:55 pm[LINK] "Deciphering Beluga Whales’ Bubble Language"
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06:19 pm[LINK] "Gay Leather Scene Tones Down From Hard-Core to Dress-Up"
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06:34 pm[LINK] "The Last King of Coal Makes His Stand as Mines Vanish Around Him"
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06:38 pm[LINK] "Sino-Russian energy relations reversed: a new little brother"
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06:40 pm[LINK] "Zimbabwe to adopt China's currency the yuan"
06:43 pm[LINK] "Ethiopia, Egypt dam feud drags on"
06:45 pm[LINK] "Turkey-Russia Conflict Divides South Caucasus"
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06:49 pm[LINK] "E-book sales plateau while print books hold place in readers' hearts"
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06:54 pm[LINK] "A poem becomes immortal embedded in bacterial DNA"
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10:06 pm[PHOTO] In defense of photographs at art galleries, even selfies
11:16 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the life and death of expanded universes, in Star Trek and Star Wars
- 29th
- 10:41 am
[LINK] "Vladimir Putin dissolved Roscosmos, Russia's federal space agency"
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10:45 am[LINK] "Amerindians in Guyana Leery of Emerging Oil Economy"
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10:47 am[ISL] On the fallout from the sale of passports by St. Kitts and Nevis
10:51 am[LINK] "Battle of St-Lawrence shipwrecks found off Gaspé coast with help of fisherman"
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10:55 am[LINK] On the newly alleged homosexuality of China's first premier, Zhou Enlai
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10:59 am[LINK] "Will Barnes And Noble Save Itself By Selling Alcohol?"
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11:01 am[LINK] "Post-Christmas boom in e-books expected to fade"
11:02 am[LINK] "A conflict of faith between Russia and Ukraine"
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03:28 pm[PHOTO] Grotto, St. Cecilia Catholic Church, Toronto
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07:11 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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11:49 pm[DM] "In memoriam Edward Hugh"
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- 30th
- 03:06 pm
[LINK] "A life worth living - reflections on the sudden death of Will Owen"
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03:13 pm[LINK] "U.S. Spy Net on Israel Snares Congress"
03:16 pm[LINK] "After string of defeats, will 2016 be start of conservative comeback?"
03:19 pm[LINK] "The Alberta NDP vs. budget reality"
03:21 pm[LINK] "The Rock’s in a hard place: Why things look bleak for Newfoundland"
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03:24 pm[LINK] "Chinese Trucks Seen Surpassing Japanese Rigs on Pakistan's Roads"
03:25 pm[LINK] "The Internet of Things Is Everywhere, But It Doesn’t Rule Yet"
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03:28 pm[LINK] "Alumnus donates $80M Rembrandt to Queen’s U."
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03:31 pm[LINK] "Why the floods mean you should support my politics"
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06:53 pm[PHOTO] Backyard, the day after the first snow, Toronto
09:03 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
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11:39 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the many problems with the Star Trek fan film Axanar
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- 31st
- 10:13 am
[PHOTO] Condos rising, Yonge and Eglinton, Toronto
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12:11 pm[LINK] "Russia and Ukraine Finally Break Up"
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12:12 pm[LINK] On the impending rush to develop Antarctica
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12:16 pm[LINK] On the impending defrosting of the permafrost of Alaska
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12:19 pm[LINK] "Weather anomaly puts North Pole temperatures at 4 C this week"
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12:23 pm[LINK] "Elon Musk `Stepping on Toes' in Space Race, Russia Official Says"
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12:26 pm[LINK] "Atlanta’s alarming HIV/AIDS epidemic reminiscent of New York in the ’80s"
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12:28 pm[LINK] "Resolute seeks more than $70-million in damages over revival of Nova Scotia paper mill"
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12:30 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Free rides, later service, New Year's Eve, December 31"
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12:32 pm[URBAN NOTE] Why I Love Toronto at year end
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03:35 pm[BLOG] Some Thursday links
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10:15 pm[FORUM] How will you be celebrating the end of 2015?
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