1st
09:33 am

[PHOTO] Three photos each of the seven Winter Stations, Toronto (#winterstations)



01:25 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



05:37 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "UP Express fare drop another blow to taxis: drivers group"



05:40 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Goodwill Toronto moving ahead with bankruptcy"



05:42 pm

[LINK] "Norway Seeks to Piggyback on ‘Brexit’ Deal to Escape EU's Grip"



05:48 pm

[LINK] "Turkey Seen Seeking to Reanimate GUAM as Anti-Russian Alliance"



05:52 pm

[LINK] "Dear GOP: We Can’t Save You If You Won’t Save Yourself"



05:52 pm

[LINK] "Mysterious Chimpanzee Behavior May Be Evidence of "Sacred" Rituals"



05:54 pm

[LINK] "In my guts, Trump is nuts"



07:51 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "What the TTC would look like if Toronto stuck to plans"



11:57 pm

[DM] "On Brexit and how limited free movement in the Commonwealth is a poor substitute for the EU"



2nd
09:53 am

[PHOTO] Point of convergence, Kew Beach looking onto Lake Ontario



11:04 am

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



11:36 am

[ISL] On the fate of the Confederation Bridge assembly yard at Amherst Point, Borden-Carleton, PEI



06:28 pm

[LINK] "Homosexual marriage in 19th-century Africa"



06:35 pm

[LINK] "Dodging Wind Farms and Bullets in the Arctic"



06:37 pm

[LINK] "The Curious Islamophobic Politics of Dem Congressmember Tulsi Gabbard"



06:40 pm

[LINK] "Airbus Draws Line at Giving China its Own Widebody Jet Plant"



06:43 pm

[LINK] "Self-Publishing Taking Off in Russia"



06:47 pm

[LINK] "The Interstellar Contract": Alex Ross on copyright and the Voyager Golden Record



06:56 pm

[LINK] "The Kijiji economy and what it says about Canadian households"



06:58 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Syrian refugees find ‘new family’ at first jobs in Canada"



11:50 pm

[FORUM] What blogs would you recommend?



3rd
12:27 pm

[PHOTO] The surf of Lake Ontario at Kew Beach



01:53 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



05:23 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Is this farm the last frontier of GTA sprawl?"



05:29 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "York Region pitches Justin Trudeau on Yonge subway extension"



05:31 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Airport and Portlands to be transit hubs of activity?"



05:34 pm

[URBAN NOTE] The latest news on the Union-Pearson Express, Metrolinx, and Kathy Haley



05:38 pm

[LINK] "ESA Planning To Build An International Village… On The Moon!"



05:40 pm

[LINK] On using the transit of the Earth of the Sun to look for extraterrestrial intelligence



05:43 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Hong Kong Bookseller Lee Confesses to Sneaking Into China"



05:45 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Mexico’s Chinampas – Wetlands Turned into Gardens – Fight Extinction"



08:03 pm

[MUSIC] Beyoncé, "Formation"



11:42 pm

[DM] "Some thoughts on the demographics of Japan and path dependency"



4th
04:52 am

[PHOTO] Fire Station No. 17 and TTC streetcar



11:43 am

[URBAN NOTE] "As London Bickers Over `Brexit,' History Shows a City Can Fade"



02:30 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "When Is a GO Train not a GO Train? When It’s UPX!"



02:33 pm

[LINK] "Target Canada nearing a deal with its key creditors"



02:35 pm

[LINK] "Missile Spat Cools Korean Consumer Stock Stars on China Threats"



02:37 pm

[LINK] "Whooping cranes are pretty terrible parents. Are humans to blame?"



02:41 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s First Mosques"



02:43 pm

[LINK] "Will We One Day Reunite as ‘Akhand Bharat’?"



02:46 pm

[LINK] "Mercury-blighted community of Grassy Narrows takes its case to the UN"



02:50 pm

[LINK] "In Mali and Egypt, as music goes, so does democracy"



02:52 pm

[LINK] "Curly-centric hair salon teaches Dominican women to love their pajón"



05:18 pm

[LINK] Eight links on the problems and challenges of Airbnb



11:55 pm

[FORUM] What news sources do you recommend?



5th
12:37 pm

[CAT] Shakespeare, on the edge



02:43 pm

[PHOTO] "The making of a popular photo app": Eszter Hargittai on Instagram



02:45 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The creation of Toronto’s first City Hall and market buildings"



02:49 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "What Toronto’s March 2016 Transit Reports Mean for the City’s Future"



02:51 pm

[LINK] "Saving the Self in the Age of the Selfie"



02:53 pm

[LINK] "Imperfect groceries can make perfect sense for budget shoppers, Loblaws program bets"



02:55 pm

[LINK] "Why Starbucks Will Win Over Italy: It Doesn’t Really Sell Coffee"



02:57 pm

[LINK] "Panama’s Expanded Canal Faces a Challenging Scenario"



02:59 pm

[LINK] Bloomberg on the relative strength of the economies of Central America



05:18 pm

[FORUM] What places in Toronto and southern Ontario would you like me to visit this year?



05:21 pm

[BLOG] Some Saturday links



6th
12:24 pm

[PHOTO] Allan Gardens, Toronto, under snow



01:22 pm

[BLOG] Some Sunday links



07:02 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The Importance of Being Doris": Torontoist on Doris Anderson



07:05 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How the rest of the world limits foreign home buyers"



07:07 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto library workers launch ‘precarious work’ campaign"



07:10 pm

[LINK] From r/neutralpolitics: An answer to "Why isn't Bernie Sanders Doing Well With Black Voters?"



08:50 pm

[LINK] "Last Men Standing": On long-term survivors of HIV/AIDS in San Francisco



08:56 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The Men Who Want AIDS—and How It Improved Their Lives"



08:59 pm

[LINK] On PrEP in Canada



11:51 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the 182nd anniversary of the foundation of the City of Toronto



7th
12:05 pm

[PHOTO] On the giant silver koi, and other goldfish, of Allan Gardens, Toronto



02:57 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "'May-like' weather expected for the rest of March in Toronto"



06:00 pm

[LINK] "What It Will Take to Become an Interstellar Civilization"



06:03 pm

[LINK] "Stanford researchers using Toronto-based Wattpad's stories to inform artificial intelligence



06:06 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How a luxurious Toronto hotel gets turned into a condo"



06:08 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How Drake's nickname "the 6" made Toronto cool"



06:11 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How Exhibition Place got the retro Dufferin Gate"



06:13 pm

[LINK] "Cape Breton's new slogan: Waiting for Americans"



06:15 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Subway closures painful but ‘worth the wait’"



06:17 pm

[LINK] "Meet Jeff Lemire — the next big thing"



08:19 pm

[WRITING] On the deal for Will Baird's short story collections



08:23 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



8th
06:14 am

[PHOTO] Three photos from the Palm House, Allan Gardens, Toronto



02:47 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



06:59 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s Art Deco legacy celebrated": On the architecture of Benjamin Brown



07:01 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Why Vaughan should stay out of Toronto transportation planning"



07:03 pm

[LINK] "Is the fix for poverty as simple as a cheque in the mail?": Guaranteed minimum income in Ont



07:06 pm

[LINK] "Here To Stay: How Indian-Born Innkeepers Revolutionized America's Motels"



07:08 pm

[LINK] "Toothless tigers: Can a film please China and the West?"



07:10 pm

[LINK] "Rush for Irish passports brought on by Brexit fears"



07:12 pm

[LINK] "Japan's nuclear refugees face bleak return five years after Fukushima"



09:08 pm

[OBSCURA] Free Kesha, by Kris Anka (@kristaferanka)



11:53 pm

[DM] "On women and fertility, briefly"



9th
09:41 am

[PHOTO] Turtles and boxed flowers, Allan Gardens, Toronto



04:25 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



06:05 pm

[LINK] More on the possible location of Planet Nine



06:32 pm

[LINK] "How Do We Terraform Venus?"



06:35 pm

[LINK] "An Ancient Volcanic Cataclysm Spun Mars Off Its Poles"



06:38 pm

[LINK] "A vision for Western Sahara and the Moroccan protest movement"



06:40 pm

[LINK] "“Take My Iraqis and Give Me Some Syrians” – Europe to Turkey"



06:42 pm

[LINK] "Newfoundland and Labrador premier on economic state: ‘It’s terrible’"



06:43 pm

[LINK] "Ontario chipping in $16 million toward 5G jobs"



06:46 pm

[LINK] "Canadian porn producers face an increasingly competitive marketplace"



06:53 pm

[VIDEO] Underground with TTC repair crews, courtesy of Torontoist and Giordani Ciampini



10:58 pm

[META] Blogroll expansion!



10th
10:39 am

[PHOTO] Cumberland Terrace at night, through glass, two takes



12:35 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the advantages of the cheaper Union-Pearson Express



03:58 pm

[LINK] "African Elephants On Their Way to U.S. Zoos, Despite Protests"



04:02 pm

[LINK] "McCain heiress battles neighbours over access to Nova Scotia coastline"



04:04 pm

[LINK] "A brief history of Americans moving to Canada"



04:05 pm

[LINK] "Wall Street Is in Charge in Argentina (Again)"



04:07 pm

[LINK] "How Apple and Big Publishers Pushed E-Books Toward Failure"



04:13 pm

[LINK] On the impending end of the Barnes & Noble Nook



04:17 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Cassette Comeback: tapes and weirdo music go hand in hand"



07:56 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



09:48 pm

[MUSIC] Pukka Orchestra, "Listen to the Radio"



11th
05:10 am

[PHOTO] Ben Wicks, in memory, on Parliament Street



10:23 am

[OBSCURA] "Sailor Kiss", 2012 and 2013



03:27 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the closing down of the Sleepless Goat of Kingston



05:56 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



06:13 pm

[PHOTO] On the alleged Flickr crisis



06:24 pm

[LINK] "Straight People Are Going on Grindr to Make Gay Best Friends"



06:28 pm

[LINK] On the consequences of the identification of Banksy



06:31 pm

[LINK] "LGBTory makes progress with Conservatives on gay marriage"



06:34 pm

[LINK] On the interest of Russia in nuclear rocketry



06:37 pm

[LINK] On the first harvests from simulated lunar and Martian soil



06:40 pm

[LINK] "Even Snakes Have Friends—One More Reason Not to Slaughter Them"



06:43 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "A Look Back At Toronto’s Gross Indecency Laws"



06:45 pm

[LINK] "Social Networks, Interlocking Directorates, and the Power Elite"



12th
12:39 am

[CAT] Neighbourhood cat seen through the basement window



01:32 am

[CAT] Shakespeare, intent



10:42 am

[URBAN NOTE] "Dispatches from Dunedin: Reuniting With The Jays"



01:32 pm

[LINK] "The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google’s AI Play Go"



01:34 pm

[LINK] "Do We Already Have Cyborgs in Our Midst?"



01:36 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How Buffy The Vampire Slayer helps Gord Perks be a better politician"



01:39 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Dozens of ‘British home children’ lie forgotten in Etobicoke cemetery"



01:44 pm

[LINK] "Nigeria plotting return of bronze cock as Cambridge students push for its repatriation"



01:47 pm

[LINK] "Dropping loonies squeezes library budgets as costs for materials climb"



01:48 pm

[CAT] "Woman with 107 cats in home found guilty of animal cruelty"



04:16 pm

[CAT] "Trump, Putin and Obama cat scratching posts"



04:19 pm

[BLOG] Some Saturday links



11:50 pm

[FORUM] What do you think of the ongoing American election campaign?



13th
01:18 pm

[PHOTO] Flowers by the window, Allan Gardens



06:27 pm

[ISL] "Kansas town of Olathe has P.E.I.-themed subdivision — who knew?"



06:31 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Guelph a preferred option over Toronto"



06:33 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto Zoo forced to adapt to survive as attendance falls"



06:36 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Over-the-air TV opens up the world outside your door"



06:40 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "When Mississauga Was “Toronto”"



06:42 pm

[LINK] "Under the Crushing Weight of the Tuscan Sun"



06:44 pm

[LINK] "The Arab World is at war with itself"



06:46 pm

[LINK] "Explore idea of guaranteed minimum income, parliamentary committee says"



08:28 pm

[BLOG] Some Sunday links



11:30 pm

[DM] Some followups



14th
07:57 am

[PHOTO] Vesta Lunch through the 26 Dupont bus window



15th
04:06 pm

[PHOTO] Rosedale Valley Road at night



05:35 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The KKK Took My Baby Away"



05:37 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "TTC to receive four streetcars a month starting in April"



05:43 pm



05:45 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "TDSB approves cutting teacher jobs as enrolment dips"



05:49 pm

[LINK] "Low loonie a 'silver lining' for province's tourism operators"



05:50 pm

[LINK] The Economist on the Wallenberg industrial dynasty of Sweden



05:52 pm

[LINK] "Migrants stranded in Greece becoming desperate"



05:54 pm

[LINK] "Canadians support visa-free travel between some countries: poll"



08:40 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



16th
05:56 pm

[PHOTO] Bloor/Gladstone Library, under lights



05:59 pm

[OBSCURA] "The diving horse at Hanlan's Point"



06:04 pm

[LINK] "French's Canadian ketchup gives Leamington lift"



06:05 pm

[LINK] "Postmedia sale complicated by unsustainable debt and sagging business model"



06:07 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Factory Theatre drops curtain on layoffs, union drive"



07:56 pm

[LINK] "Japan is worried about China, but the U.S. may not be able to help them"



07:59 pm

[LINK] "Two Coal Barons, One Overdue Bond Payment and the End of an Era "



08:01 pm

[LINK] "A Russian-Cuban Entrepreneur Is New Face of Florida"



08:04 pm

[LINK] "Why the New Poland Offers Handouts for Kids That Exceed Norway's"



08:07 pm

[LINK] "Donald Trump’s success a ‘wake-up call’ for Michigan’s Muslims"



11:09 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



17th
11:13 am

[PHOTO] Wedding dresses for display, Ferré Sposa (934 Bloor Street West)



02:35 pm

[LINK] "U.K. trade could face cold reception from former colonies such as Canada"



02:39 pm

[LINK] "London Could Lose Its Euro Trading If U.K. Leaves EU"



02:43 pm

[LINK] "Ireland and Britain, a hundred years later"



02:45 pm

[LINK] "Venezuela to Shut Down for a Week to Cope With Electricity Crisis"



02:48 pm

[ISL] "St. Kitts keeps its soul, retirees keep their wealth"



02:52 pm

[LINK] "The non-EU workers who’ll be deported for earning less than £35,000"



02:56 pm

[MUSIC] "Toronto hip-hop musicians fundraise for poisoned ­residents of Flint, Michigan"



02:58 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Torontoist's Jamie Bradburn on the shaping of Queen West



06:19 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



18th
12:39 pm

[PHOTO] Corner store azaleas, Bloorcourt



12:47 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Union Pearson Express ridership spikes after fare reduction"



12:49 pm

[LINK] "Jobseekers resort to ‘resumé whitening' to get a foot in the door, study shows"



12:56 pm

[LINK] Universe Today on the ExoMars mission



12:58 pm



03:37 pm

[LINK] "A Computer With a Great Eye Is About to Transform Botany"



03:42 pm

[LINK] "18 Billion Solar Mass Black Hole Rotates At 1/3 Speed Of Light"



03:44 pm

[LINK] "CBC to require online commenters to use real names"



03:46 pm

[LINK] "Cuba’s Cold Shoulder"



03:49 pm

[WRITING] Peter Watts on the problems with Young Adult fiction



06:35 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



19th
02:27 pm

[CAT] Shakespeare, mid-twist



02:29 pm

[PHOTO] There will be condos, Yonge at Maitland



03:05 pm

[BLOG] Some Saturday links



20th
06:53 am

[PHOTO] Seven photos of the Luminous Veil in action, Prince Edward Viaduct



12:30 pm

[BLOG] Some Sunday links



04:09 pm

[LINK] Steven Attewell on the transformation of Magneto into Miltonian anti-hero



04:13 pm

[LINK] "Computer Algorithm Can Spot a Drunken Tweeter"



04:15 pm

[LINK] "Psychologists Throw Open The “File Drawer”"



04:18 pm

[LINK] "Basic income—a radical idea for eliminating poverty"



04:21 pm

[ISL] On the one-room schoolhouse of Nova Scotia's Big Tancook Island



04:24 pm

[ISL] On archeology on Sable Island



04:27 pm

[LINK] "Teaching Irish in Newfoundland, the most Irish place outside Ireland"



07:34 pm

[NEWS] Four blogTO links on real estate in Toronto



21st
10:34 am

[PHOTO] Still abandoned on Bloorcourt



02:30 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



05:39 pm

[URBAN NOTE] A walking map of the TTC network, courtesy Pavlo Kalyta



05:44 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "SmartTrack is a little old plan that we can't get untethered"



05:46 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Provincial Housing Strategy an Unusual Show of Responsibility"



05:48 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Keep 'newcomer high' at Greenwood, students plead"



05:51 pm

[ISL] "The First U.S. Climate Refugees"



05:54 pm

[LINK] "The Violent Remaking of Appalachia"



06:01 pm

[LINK] "Decades after Club Med closure, Haiti offers all-inclusive tourism again"



06:03 pm

[LINK] "Sweden proposes EU ban of live North American lobster"



06:05 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Rob Ford sedated, receiving palliative care, chief of staff says"



22nd
02:51 pm

[PHOTO] Waiting at the Sacré-Cœur



23rd
10:34 am

[PHOTO] Corner store at Yonge and Wellesley, in the evening



01:54 pm

[ISL] "As Cuba Rises, Puerto Rico Falls"



01:56 pm

[LINK] "Brazil in free fall"



01:57 pm

[LINK] "Climate change, the elephant in the Gulf"



02:00 pm

[LINK] "Argentina’s ‘Shale Capital’ Suffers from Slowdown"



02:02 pm

[LINK] "Ancient Pluto May Have Had Lakes And Rivers Of Nitrogen"



02:05 pm

[LINK] "French's ketchup plans to move production to Ontario"



02:07 pm

[LINK] "Quebec's maple-syrup industry being challenged"



02:09 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "UPX boss resigns over troubled airport train service"



02:12 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "After decades of ‘woe is us,’ there’s a new spirit of optimism in Buffalo"



03:21 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



24th
01:19 pm

[PHOTO] Dufferin Station at night



25th
12:55 pm

[PHOTO] Crosswalk, Dupont at Bartlett



28th
11:18 am

[PHOTO] "Hop on the UP!"



30th
02:24 pm

[PHOTO] Crane above, Yonge and Eglinton



31st
12:52 pm

[PHOTO] Laneway south of Dupont



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