- 1st
- 05:47 pm
[PHOTO] January 2016 Metropass
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11:10 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On thinking about Doris Lessing and prisons on New Year's Day
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- 2nd
- 07:33 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, striking a pose
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12:01 pm[PHOTO] Me by the CN Tower, Toronto
02:32 pm[BLOG] Some Saturday links
Tags:- armenia,
- astronomy,
- azerbaijan,
- baltic states,
- blogs,
- borders,
- canada,
- central asia,
- ceres,
- china,
- clash of ideologies,
- economics,
- ethnic conflict,
- european union,
- federalism,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- hong kong,
- internet,
- language,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- mass transit,
- ontario,
- popular literature,
- queen street,
- queen street west,
- russia,
- science fiction,
- south caucasus,
- space science,
- streetcar,
- toronto,
- ttc,
- ukraine
05:34 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Beach grooming could face city budget axe"
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05:37 pm[ISL] "Charlottetown company aims to rekindle interest in Maritime cheeses"
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05:42 pm[LINK] On the potential decline of Wikipedia
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05:46 pm[LINK] "More African Elephants May Be Sold to China This Year"
05:48 pm[LINK] "Can Social Insects Have a Civilization?"
05:53 pm[LINK] On the origins of high-tech New England in whaling
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05:56 pm[LINK] "Outside the box: a Sunni endgame in Syria, Iraq?"
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05:57 pm[LINK] "Recruiting Mercenaries for Middle East Fuels Rancor in Colombia"
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09:05 pm[DM] "Edward Hugh, Economist Who Foresaw Eurozone’s Struggles, Dies at 67"
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11:52 pm[FORUM] What do you think will happen in 2016?
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- 3rd
- 06:12 pm
[PHOTO] Yellow roses of Steven's, Bathurst Street, Toronto
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- 4th
- 04:39 am
[PHOTO] In the shadow of the CN Tower, condos
12:00 pm[OBSCURA] On Joel Goodman's photo of a New Year's Eve scene in Manchester
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12:18 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
Tags:- animal intelligence,
- astronomy,
- belarus,
- birds,
- blogs,
- brazil,
- central asia,
- crime,
- economics,
- england,
- ethnic conflict,
- federalism,
- former soviet union,
- history,
- hockey,
- japan,
- language,
- latin america,
- links,
- maps,
- migration,
- politics,
- popular literature,
- russia,
- south america,
- space science,
- sports,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united kingdom,
- writing
04:38 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The scars of war on Lebanon's Holiday Inn"
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04:41 pm[LINK] "Saudi Clash With Iran, Worst Since 1980s, Risks Deeper Conflict"
Tags:- geopolitics,
- iran,
- islam,
- links,
- middle east,
- oil,
- saudi arabia,
- war
04:44 pm[LINK] "Oil Giants Punish Venezuela through Dutch treaty"
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04:49 pm[LINK] "A day out in Calais"
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04:51 pm[LINK] Christopher Reynolds of the Toronto Star on the problems of WeChat
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04:56 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto Public Library gives commuters a ticket to read"
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04:59 pm[URBAN NOTE] "In Liberty Village, here comes the neighbourhood"
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05:01 pm[LINK] John Lorinc on fixing the federal vote
07:41 pm[NON BLOG] Thoughts on a ring pawned
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11:52 pm[DM] "A note on public health, or, how you get what you pay for"
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- 5th
- 09:58 am
[PHOTO] Tibetan prayer flags, Bathurst Street, Torotno
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12:16 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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04:07 pm[LINK] "Saudi Executions That Riled Iran Meant as Domestic Message"
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04:09 pm[LINK] "Saudi Arabia is paying a heavy price for Iran’s global rehabilitation"
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04:13 pm[LINK] "Should we solar panel the Sahara desert?"
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04:17 pm[LINK] "1980s Boom Years Living On in Korea's Outperforming Media Stocks"
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04:20 pm[LINK] "New Windsor-Detroit bridge may cost $3.5B more due to low loonie"
04:23 pm[LINK] "Talk to me, I'm Irish: Embracing a tricky tongue in Montreal"
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04:26 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Union Station makeover proposal adds vast fresh-food market, high-end shops"
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07:23 pm[URBAN NOTE] On throwing a Long Winter party in the Galleria Mall
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11:47 pm[OBSCURA] An isochronic map of the world from London, 2016
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- 6th
- 10:20 am
[PHOTO] Pigeons of Bathurst station, Toronto
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- 7th
- 03:26 pm
[PHOTO] Looking southeast at downtown Toronto, Bathurst at Dundas
04:00 pm[OBSCURA] "Snowy owl spotted soaring on Montreal traffic camera"
09:51 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Singapore's Elevated Park Will Stretch the Length of the Entire Island"
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09:55 pm[LINK] "Study: Climate change rapidly warming world's lakes"
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09:57 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Shovelling Montreal snowfall to an African beat"
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10:01 pm[LINK] "Aboriginal leaders warn climate change is impacting northern road networks"
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10:04 pm[LINK] "At least 2,250 veterans are homeless: analysis"
10:07 pm[LINK] "Soy Boom Revives Amazon Highway"
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10:14 pm[LINK] "Kitchen Gardens are Victory Gardens in Boosting Nutrition and Incomes in Western Kenya"
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10:18 pm[LINK] "ProPublica Launches the Dark Web’s First Major News Site"
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10:22 pm[LINK] "North Korea’s bomb test imperils already strained relations with China"
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11:45 pm[NON BLOG] On being in my body
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- 8th
- 09:26 am
[PHOTO] East-end flowers, Toronto
11:53 am[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- anthropology,
- astronomy,
- biology,
- blogs,
- borders,
- california,
- china,
- democracy,
- diaspora,
- economics,
- elections,
- environment,
- europa,
- federalism,
- former soviet union,
- german language,
- global warming,
- health,
- history,
- holidays,
- human beings,
- jupiter,
- language,
- links,
- maps,
- medicine,
- military,
- national identity,
- religion,
- russia,
- separatism,
- sexuality,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- space travel,
- tatarstan,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- urban note
03:59 pm[LINK] "Grindr, the Gay Dating App, Hooks Up With Fashion"
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04:01 pm[ISL] "Absinthe now available at P.E.I. distillery for adventurous drinkers"
04:03 pm[LINK] "Ebola-Free Sierra Leone Bets on Cocoa to Spark Recovery"
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04:05 pm[LINK] "Shock, Laughter Greet Plan for Saudi Arabia's Record Oil IPO"
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04:06 pm[LINK] "China to pay a steep price in Saudi-Iran conflict"
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07:54 pm[LINK] "Searching for the ‘Armenian Lobby’"
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07:58 pm[LINK] "Why Quebecois cinema finds itself trapped within its provincial borders"
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08:00 pm[LINK] "The rise and fall of Detroit as the driving force in the car world"
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08:03 pm[LINK] "London, Ont. defends Saudi arms deal as integral to region’s economy"
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10:56 pm[URBAN NOTE] "An Artist Sues to Save Her Landmark Detroit Mural"
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- 9th
- 11:29 am
[CAT] Shakespeare, poised
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- 10th
- 04:49 pm
[PHOTO] Foggy Sunday afternoon in January, Sorauren Avenue Park, Toronto
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- 11th
- 01:16 am
[PHOTO] Looking south on Roncesvalles at Howard Park, Toronto
12:33 pm[MUSIC] In memoriam David Bowie
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05:11 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Changesbowietoronto"
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05:16 pm[LINK] "Years After Its Curfew Killed Theater, Ghana Gets A Second Act"
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05:17 pm[LINK] "The Gambia fashions itself as a kind of Islamic state"
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05:20 pm[LINK] "Macaque monkey doesn’t own copyright to selfies, San Francisco judge rules"
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05:24 pm[LINK] "‘Mahu’ demonstrate Hawaii’s shifting attitudes toward LGBT life"
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05:27 pm[LINK] "Quebec opening market for local beer, wine"
05:30 pm[ISL] Gregory Howard on moving from PEI to Bermuda
05:32 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Queen streetcar riders get what they’ve waited for: more service"
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05:34 pm[URBAN NOTE] Chris Selley in the National Post on the cost of commuting to the Toronto Islands
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08:38 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
11:46 pm[NON BLOG] On the knee and the body
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- 12th
- 09:37 am
[PHOTO] Corner store flowers, Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto
02:04 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- clash of ideologies,
- crime,
- demographics,
- disasters,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- health,
- history,
- indonesia,
- islam,
- korea,
- latin america,
- links,
- mexico,
- north america,
- north caucasus,
- north korea,
- racism,
- russia,
- science,
- slavery,
- social networking,
- space science,
- united states
05:53 pm[MUSIC] More David Bowie in memoriam
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06:01 pm[LINK] "'The Pass System' explores dark chapter in Canadian history"
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06:06 pm[LINK] "Expert says Michigan officials changed a Flint lead report to avoid federal action"
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06:09 pm[LINK] "Panama's Prosperity Has a Dark Side"
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06:10 pm[LINK] "African Sunshine Can Now Be Bought and Sold on the Bond Market"
06:14 pm[LINK] "Reform the EU? Changing the U.K. Matters More"
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06:18 pm[LINK] "European Space Agency Reiterates Its Plan to Build 3D Printed Base on the Moon"
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06:20 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Unearthing the City Grid That Would Have Been in Central Park"
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06:22 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The Hells Angels era in Leslieville goes out with a sale"
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07:40 pm[AH] On John Quiggin's imagining a different First World War
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- 13th
- 07:54 am
[PHOTO] Snowy sidewalk, Dupont Street, Toronto
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11:48 am[OBSCURA] Cyclops selling eyeglasses in Brampton, Ontario
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03:43 pm[LINK] "Manchu, Former Empire’s Language, Hangs On at China’s Edge"
03:47 pm[LINK] "India Could Edge Out China From Top Growth Spot in 2016"
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03:51 pm[LINK] "The Sorry Legacy of Internet Explorer"
03:53 pm[LINK] "Istanbul Bomb Targets Tourism Already Reeling on Putin Snub"
03:58 pm[LINK] "How Ukraine Weaned Itself Off Russian Gas"
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04:00 pm[ISL] "Jamaica’s Drought Tool Could Turn the Table on Climate Change"
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04:03 pm[LINK] "Is geoengineering the solution to saving the Earth?"
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04:05 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Davenport GO train bridge stirs opposition from residents"
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04:07 pm[URBAN NOTE] "What if City Council actually talked about buses?"
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07:12 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- anthropology,
- astronomy,
- baltic states,
- bjork,
- blogs,
- book reviews,
- california,
- china,
- chinese language,
- communism,
- cyprus,
- economics,
- extraterrestrial life,
- former soviet union,
- globalization,
- hong kong,
- japan,
- japanese language,
- links,
- lithuania,
- maps,
- neighbourhoods,
- pluto,
- popular music,
- regionalism,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- toronto,
- united states,
- urban note
09:55 pm[LINK] NOW Toronto's 2016 Body Issue
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- 14th
- 11:27 am
[PHOTO] Crane on Sorauren Avenue, Toronto, in early winter
02:13 pm[MUSIC] "Jiggy Stardust: Tracking David Bowie's Influence on Hip-Hop"
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11:42 pm[MUSIC] David Bowie, "I'm Afraid of Americans", again
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- 15th
- 10:59 am
[PHOTO] The Union-Pearson Express coming down the tracks, at Dundas Street West
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01:27 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
05:41 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Public Works: Replacing Phone Booths With Wi-Fi Kiosks"
05:43 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Metrolinx Finalizes Eglinton Crosstown Station Names"
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05:47 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s history in two buildings"
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06:07 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Shaping Toronto: Union Station"
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06:17 pm[LINK] "David Bowie Poised to Dethrone Adele on Album Sales Charts"
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06:18 pm[LINK] "Mammoth bones reveal early human presence in Arctic"
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06:21 pm[LINK] "The Great PC Decline Isn't As Bad As It Looks"
06:23 pm[LINK] "Saudi Life With $30 Oil"
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06:26 pm[LINK] "There’s No Place Like Home, Unless You’re a Repentant Jihadist"
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06:29 pm[LINK] On the latest Chang'e lunar missions of China
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06:51 pm[LINK] On the latest surprises from KIC 8462852
- 16th
- 01:44 pm
[CAT] Shakespeare, with X-Men
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05:21 pm[URBAN NOTE] "While other cities embrace street murals, Toronto staff reject it"
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05:23 pm[LINK] "A Tempest in a Digital Teapot"
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05:25 pm[LINK] "Big interest in CBU’s online Mi’kmaq course"
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05:28 pm[LINK] "Gulf of St. Lawrence hits record-high temperature"
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05:31 pm[LINK] "Ocean acidification behind rise in price of B.C. shellfish"
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05:33 pm[LINK] "Climate Change Is Throwing Ocean Food Webs Out of Whack"
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08:59 pm[CAT] David Bowie, "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)"
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09:02 pm[CAT] "Here's why cats have such weird eyes"
09:04 pm[CAT] "Cheetahs Are Hard"
09:07 pm[FORUM] Do you think that the United States will replay the 1920s now?
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- 17th
- 11:08 am
[PHOTO] Three images of Dundas Street West and Sorauren Avenue, Toronto
- 18th
- 01:03 am
[PHOTO] Streetcar exiting Dundas West, passing south past the Crossways, Toronto
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06:50 am[OBSCURA] Changing world population balances, 1800 to 2100
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10:56 am(no subject)
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- clash of ideologies,
- economics,
- enceladus,
- european union,
- former soviet union,
- genetics,
- glbt issues,
- health,
- history,
- hiv/aids,
- human beings,
- ireland,
- japan,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- medicine,
- moscow,
- politics,
- racism,
- russia,
- russian language,
- saturn,
- space science,
- space travel,
- taiwan,
- tatarstan,
- titan,
- tourism,
- travel,
- united states
03:13 pm[MUSIC] "David Bowie's 'Blackstar' Album Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart"
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03:19 pm[LINK] "A rebirth for Manchu?"
03:24 pm[LINK] "Strong Franc Chokes Swiss Manufacturers Fighting for Life"
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03:26 pm[LINK] "Taiwan: Polls Harken End of Nuclear Power"
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03:28 pm[LINK] "Nuclear energy still king in Ontario; little power from wind and solar"
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03:30 pm[LINK] "Venezuela Economy Head Calls for Creativity as Oil Hits Low"
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03:32 pm[LINK] "Postmedia posts loss; to cut $50M by May"
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03:33 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Spadina subway extension could cost an additional $400 million"
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06:03 pm[MUSIC] On David Bowie, his music, and creativity
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- 19th
- 02:13 pm
[PHOTO] Looking south on Yonge at Bloor, Toronto
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- 20th
- 12:33 am
[PHOTO] Looking west on Wellesley, Toronto
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01:07 pm[URBAN NOTE] "10 ways Toronto used to be more seedy than it is today"
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01:09 pm[URBAN NOTE] "The East End Pop-Up Shop for Syrian Refugees"
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01:10 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Canada ‘like heaven’ for Tibetan refugee"
01:12 pm[LINK] "Can Animals Think Abstractly?"
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03:11 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s dream of landing NFL fading fast"
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03:14 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Quebec City’s NHL dream most viable with franchise relocation"
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03:16 pm[LINK] "Euroradio: from Warsaw for Belarus"
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03:18 pm[LINK] "When a Video-Game World Ends"
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03:20 pm[LINK] On how the Wow! signal of 1977 might be an artifact of cometary hydrogen
05:51 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- bangladesh,
- blogs,
- borders,
- china,
- christianity,
- clash of ideologies,
- democracy,
- demographics,
- elections,
- former soviet union,
- genocide,
- geopolitics,
- globalization,
- human rights,
- italy,
- king street,
- language,
- links,
- maps,
- neighbourhoods,
- north caucasus,
- oil,
- popular literature,
- racism,
- religion,
- russia,
- south asia,
- space science,
- taiwan,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- urban note
10:02 pm[LINK] On the possibility of our solar system's Planet Nine
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11:50 pm[OBSCURA] "Behold! The First Zinnia to Bloom in Space"
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- 21st
- 08:34 am
[PHOTO] Menu, Coach House Restaurant on Yonge, Toronto
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11:03 am[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Tags:- algeria,
- alpha centauri,
- anthropology,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- borders,
- central asia,
- chechnya,
- demographics,
- economics,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- in memoriam,
- links,
- mississauga,
- north caucasus,
- popular culture,
- popular literature,
- québec,
- russia,
- russian language,
- science fiction,
- shopping,
- social sciences,
- space science,
- tajikistan,
- tatarstan,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- urban note
03:11 pm[URBAN NOTE] "New Scarborough transit plan ‘buys peace in the land’"
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03:14 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Uber’s Rise Draws a Big Boost in Number of Female Cab Drivers"
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03:16 pm[LINK] "The Pioneer Plaque: Science as a Universal Language"
03:22 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the imminent end of Suspect Video in Toronto
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03:27 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Which track is Smart Track on?"
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03:29 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Artscape Youngplace: Creative spirit haunts the halls of Shaw Street School"
03:31 pm[LINK] "Is Canada-EU trade getting bogged down?"
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03:32 pm[LINK] "With Ivory Ban Imminent, What Will Happen to China’s Legal Stockpile?"
05:48 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the sad failure of Goodwill in Ontario
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08:49 pm[MUSIC] David Bowie, "Blackstar"
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- 22nd
- 03:02 am
[PHOTO] The curves of the Toronto Reference Library
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11:12 am[LINK] On maps of China with dreams of empire
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03:42 pm[ISL] "The History of Clow’s Store"
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03:45 pm[LINK] "Coffee Harvest in Indonesia to Tumble From Record on El Nino"
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03:48 pm[LINK] "Jumping Spiders Can Think Ahead, Plan Detours"
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03:51 pm[LINK] On the disappearance of Lake Poopo, second-largest lake of Bolivia
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03:55 pm[URBAN NOTE] "'Cool' London is dead, and the rich kids are to blame"
03:57 pm[URBAN NOTE] "More Companies May Start Helping Employees Buy Homes"
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03:59 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Want a Job? Go to Brooklyn"
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04:02 pm[LINK] "If software looks like a brain and acts like a brain—will we treat it like one?"
06:45 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
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10:21 pm[MUSIC] Five more David Bowie links
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- 23rd
- 09:07 am
[PHOTO] Shakespeare, caught
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12:42 pm[WRITING] "Speedy typing kills student essays as words spew out faster than thoughts, study shows"
12:46 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Discarded goldfish are taking over Hamilton's harbour"
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12:49 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Chinatown development has locals worried about neighbourhood’s future"
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12:51 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Ikea to open much-anticipated full-size store in Halifax region"
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12:53 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Once Upon A City: Art finds a home on The Grange"
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12:56 pm[PHOTO] "Your Smartphone Camera Should Suck. Here’s Why It Doesn’t"
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12:59 pm[LINK] "At 15, Wikipedia Is Finally Finding Its Way to the Truth"
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01:01 pm[LINK] "No compelling case for Mulcair to stay as NDP leader"
03:07 pm[BLOG] Some Saturday links
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11:30 pm[FORUM] What vintage pop culture artifacts are you enjoying these days?
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- 24th
- 09:21 am
[PHOTO] Relics of the Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory, University of Toronto
- 25th
- 09:18 am
[PHOTO] A plaster cast body from Pompeii at the Royal Ontario Museum
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02:40 pm[LINK] "Niagara Falls is going to go dry – again"
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02:42 pm[LINK] "China, Iran Agree to Expand Trade to $600 Billion in a Decade"
02:45 pm[LINK] "Half of local TV could go off air by 2020 without funding, CRTC warned"
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02:48 pm[URBAN NOTE] "McAdam, New Brunswick and the struggle of small communities"
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02:51 pm[LINK] "Ceuta, An Enclave For Migrating Birds Not Humans"
02:53 pm[LINK] "Is France's unloved AZERTY keyboard heading for the scrapheap?"
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02:57 pm[LINK] "#SpeakGwichinToMe: Using social media to reclaim language"
02:59 pm[URBAN NOTE] Torontoist's Jamie Bradburn on the ousting of Sewell
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03:02 pm[LINK] "Antarctic permafrost may not be habitable for microbes – so is Mars?"
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05:08 pm[BLOG] Some Monday links
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08:26 pm[OBSCURA] One scenario imagining the collapse of the Russian Federation
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09:49 pm[WRITING] On the death of Livejournal, part x (Kazakhstan)
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11:50 pm[DM] "On Alberta, and Canada, after the end of the oil advantage"
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- 26th
- 08:47 am
[PHOTO] Morning traffic on the TTC, subway near Spadina
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11:44 am[LINK] "Wal-Mart: It Came, It Conquered, Now It's Packing Up and Leaving"
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11:46 am[LINK] "Let Coal Die. Save Coal Country."
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11:49 am[ISL] "Seychelles Plans Blue Bonds to Develop Sustainable Fisheries"
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11:51 am[ISL] "When chickens go wild"
11:56 am[LINK] "Once Upon a Time, Yahoo Was the Most Important Internet Company"
11:59 am[LINK] "Can the North Caucasus adapt to political change?"
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12:02 pm[LINK] On the possible rarity of sustainable extraterrestrial life as an answer to the Fermi paradox
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03:32 pm[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Tags:- alpha centauri,
- astronomy,
- biology,
- blogs,
- central asia,
- clash of ideologies,
- crime,
- earth,
- former soviet union,
- kyrgyzstan,
- language,
- links,
- mass transit,
- middle east,
- migration,
- oceans,
- philippines,
- politics,
- popular literature,
- russia,
- science fiction,
- southeast asia,
- space science,
- syria,
- tajikistan,
- toronto,
- united states,
- uzbekistan,
- war
03:41 pm[LINK] "Alberta's 2015 job losses worst since early 1980s recession: Statscan"
- 28th
- 10:50 am
[PHOTO] Late night at Eglinton Station as the train comes in
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02:10 pm[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Tags:- alternate history,
- astronomy,
- australia,
- blogs,
- chechnya,
- china,
- comics,
- disasters,
- economics,
- extraterrestrial life,
- federalism,
- former soviet union,
- germany,
- glbt issues,
- globalization,
- history,
- holidays,
- links,
- migration,
- neighbourhoods,
- refugees,
- space science,
- subways,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- urban note
04:56 pm[LINK] "With a little pill, could one city’s AIDS epidemic be ending?"
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05:01 pm[LINK] "Japan Won’t Give Up Sharp Without a Fight"
05:02 pm[LINK] "Webcam search engine raises privacy concerns for connected devices"
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05:09 pm[LINK] "Your paper brain and your Kindle brain aren't the same thing"
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05:13 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Condo buying frenzy in Waterloo as Google moves in"
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05:17 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Two Cheers for the One Stop Subway Extension"
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05:19 pm[URBAN NOTE] "How Trump Bungled the Deal of a Lifetime"
05:21 pm[URBAN NOTE] "How to Experience David Bowie’s New York"
08:06 pm[BRIEF NOTE] On the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster
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- 29th
- 07:59 am
[PHOTO] On the platform at St. Patrick, Toronto
03:09 pm[LINK] On the meaning of the Challenger disaster for manned spaceflight
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03:14 pm[LINK] "Guelph Mercury’s demise: Graphic novelist Seth on what we lose when local papers close"
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03:18 pm[LINK] NOW Toronto on the need for Canada to protect its news media
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03:20 pm[LINK] "Let’s Talk About The Corporatization of Mental Health"
03:24 pm[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s most deadly disaster: the nightmare on the SS Noronic"
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03:25 pm[LINK] "Lonely But Not Alone: A Planet Orbits its Star at 1 Trillion Kilometres"
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03:27 pm[LINK] "Plastic now pollutes every corner of Earth"
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03:29 pm[LINK] "Azerbaijan Turns to IMF, World Bank After Collapse in Crude"
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03:30 pm[ISL] "Deirdre Kessler named P.E.I.'s 6th poet laureate"
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05:34 pm[BLOG] Some Friday links
Tags:- anthropology,
- astronomy,
- australia,
- blogs,
- cephalopods,
- charlottetown,
- china,
- christianity,
- clash of ideologies,
- disasters,
- economics,
- extraterrestrial intelligence,
- former soviet union,
- germany,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- ireland,
- links,
- marriage rights,
- mass transit,
- moon,
- national identity,
- prince edward island,
- science,
- social sciences,
- space science,
- toronto,
- ukraine
09:08 pm[LINK] "The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain--And Almost Lost His Mind"
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11:44 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the arrest of our Toronto police officers charged with obstructing justice,
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- 30th
- 01:20 pm
[CAT] Shakespeare, waiting
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04:21 pm[BLOG] Some Saturday links
Tags:- astronomy,
- blogs,
- canada,
- china,
- democracy,
- demographics,
- economics,
- elections,
- ethnic cleansing,
- georgia,
- glbt issues,
- history,
- links,
- neighbourhoods,
- nuclear weapons,
- philippines,
- popular culture,
- public art,
- racism,
- russia,
- southeast asia,
- space science,
- spanish language,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united states,
- war
05:08 pm[LINK] "Last call for bartenders"
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05:13 pm[LINK] "The End of Twitter"
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05:16 pm[LINK] "New York Is Going to Turn Off Niagara Falls. Here’s How"
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05:21 pm[LINK] "China Can't Postpone the Pain Forever"
05:24 pm[LINK] "Venezuela is on the brink of a complete economic collapse"
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05:27 pm[LINK] "Chavez's Dream of Unity Stumbles Ahead of Latin American Summit"
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05:30 pm[LINK] On the late Soviet project to use mirrors to transform night into day
05:54 pm[URBAN NOTE] "City proposes Queen Street route for Toronto’s downtown relief line"
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06:43 pm[URBAN NOTE] On the impending end of the old Galleria Mall in a changing Toronto
07:22 pm[FORUM] How has your neighbourhood been changing?
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- 31st
- 04:18 pm
[PHOTO] Front yard robot, Kensington Market, Toronto
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