1st
01:01 pm

[PHOTO] Ten photos from Victoria-by-the-Sea, Prince Edward Island



02:37 pm

[PHOTO] The Toronto-Dominion Centre, Bay and King



05:41 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



05:52 pm

[NEWS] Some Monday links



06:04 pm

[ISL] "P.E.I. Pride parade called 'largest yet'"



06:06 pm

[ISL] "P.E.I. home sells for $4.7M"



07:48 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto to test mobile ticketing app for island ferry"



07:50 pm



07:53 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How Can Moss Park Avoid Alienating Residents As It Gentrifies?"



07:55 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "After the Games, Rio's Stadiums Won't Rot--They'll Transform"



11:25 pm

[DM] "Four article links on the aftermath of the 2016 Canada census"



2nd
09:20 am

[PHOTO] Ten photos of the harbour of Victoria-by-the-Sea at low tide



12:17 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



12:24 pm

[NEWS] Some Tuesday links


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12:34 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Councillor Carolyn Parrish fires back at ‘cranky constituent’"



04:11 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Bombardier gets $428M order for GO Transit rail cars"



04:15 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Why you need to take a day trip to the McMichael Gallery"



04:18 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Toronto Life on Lawren Harris



3rd
01:32 pm

[PHOTO] The welded sculptures of Eric Schurman, at the Eptek Centre, Summerside PEI



05:25 pm

[PHOTO] Batman amidst the cranes, Yonge and Eglinton, Toronto



05:29 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



08:42 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Cheri DiNovo drops NDP leadership bid"



08:45 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How One Young Gay Activist Fought Against Police Homophobia in Toronto"



08:47 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Escape the city at Camp Wavelength"



08:49 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Clothing-optional policy at Hanlan’s beach displays Toronto’s tolerance"



08:51 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "San Francisco Progressives Declare War on Affordable Housing"



08:53 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Here's An Idea: Hold The Olympics In Multiple Cities At Once"



11:54 pm

[OBSCURA] "Peterborough family bumps into wild Trudeau on hike"



5th
10:40 am

[PHOTO] Nine photos looking out at Spinnakers' Landing



12:53 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the proposed Rail Deck Park of Toronto



01:29 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



01:46 pm

[NEWS] Some Friday links



05:23 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "City asks Pokemon Go makers to remove pokestop from ferry terminal"



05:25 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "John Tory’s Impending Impasse Over TTC Budget Cuts"



05:27 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto says goodbye to legendary gay bar Zipperz"



05:29 pm

[ISL] "P.E.I. man goes door to door trying to become the next senator"



05:31 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How does Montreal maintain its enviably low rents?"



08:05 pm

[DM] "On the Jedi phenomenon and the Australian census"



6th
08:41 am

[CAT] Shakespeare, bothered



08:50 am

[URBAN NOTE] A lobster roll at the Granville Street Diner, Summerside



12:46 pm

[BLOG] Some Saturday links



03:38 pm

[NEWS] Some Saturday links


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03:39 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Rio Olympics sailor Lee Parkhill says Toronto Harbour 'almost worse than what I see he



03:41 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Motorists are Already Driving in the New Bloor Bike Lanes"



03:42 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Downed elevators plague Aura condo, residents say"



03:44 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Now and Then: George Luscombe and Toronto Workshop Productions"



03:46 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the impending move of Glad Day Bookshop to Church Street



7th
11:52 am

[URBAN NOTE] "Rio's Olympic Subway Boondoggle"



12:06 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "When a tree falls: A look at the daunting task of maintaining a city’s urban canopy"



12:08 pm

[ISL] "This $11 Million Island Home Is Within Commuting Distance of NYC"



12:11 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "TTC Lost Articles is Toronto's strangest lost and found"



02:25 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Why SlutWalk Toronto is as important as ever"



02:27 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Rage and racism on the TTC"



02:29 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "LRT will completely transform Mississauga"



02:32 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Two notes on the ill-thought campaign against the Toronto Metropass



06:49 pm

[PHOTO] Eleven photos from Water Street, Summerside, early on a Monday evening



11:26 pm

[PHOTO] Ten photos taken from the floor of the Don Valley via Rosedale Heights



8th
09:22 am

[PHOTO] The goats of Jewell's Country Market



10:20 am

[BLOG] Some Monday links



12:47 pm

[NEWS] Some Monday links



01:02 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "A Park Beneath New York City's Sidewalks"



03:24 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "We held a Pokémon Go meetup — who showed up?"



03:25 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Hunting for Pokemon with my son in historic Lunenburg, my doubts lifted"



03:27 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Water taxi driver charged after boat hits father and son in kayak"



03:28 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Vancouver rental market places people in a ‘lower class’"



03:30 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Can New York Be Saved in the Era of Global Warming?"



9th
01:13 pm

[PHOTO] Six photos of Dalvay-by-the-Sea, Prince Edward Island National Park



01:20 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



01:29 pm

[NEWS] Some Tuesday links



02:15 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The Case for Keeping Casey House in the Neighbourhood"



02:18 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Geary Avenue is still Toronto's most interesting street"



02:20 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto Might As Well Be Mars When It Comes To Storefront Weed"



02:27 pm

[CAT] On a Toronto nightclub that apparently hosted a lion cub



02:30 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The Weeknd donates $50,000 to U of T to launch Ethiopian Studies program"



08:02 pm

[PHOTO] Flag of Toronto, Bluffer's Park and Beach


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09:40 pm

[REVIEW] Coal from Hades, Nuit Rose



11:13 pm

[AH] Was an earlier gay rights movement possible?



10th
02:53 pm

[PHOTO] Eleven photos from Dalvay Beach, Prince Edward Island



03:13 pm

[PHOTO] From St. John's Norway Cemetery



11th
09:44 pm

[ISL] On the impending end of ocean beaches



12th
07:58 am

[PHOTO] Ten photos from Covehead Harbour, Prince Edward Island



10:24 am

[PHOTO] Six photos from the High Park Zoo



12:53 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



01:02 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "There is an end in sight to Toronto's heat wave"



04:19 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Pride Toronto executive director resigns after allegations of racism, sexual harassmen



04:24 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Huge party in Toronto to commemorate 2003 blackout"



04:26 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "City forced to refund portion of Scarborough subway development charges"



04:27 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "New flight service connecting Toronto and Niagara to launch in the fall"



04:29 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Pokemon Sued by Couple Claiming Neighborhood Unsafe With Gamers"



04:30 pm

[ISL] "When an Island’s Lone Caretaker Leaves"



13th
07:32 pm

[FORUM] What do you think about the future of Star Trek?



14th
01:54 pm

[PHOTO] Looking north at Rosedale station



01:58 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "McMichael Canadian Art Collection bets big on past for 50th anniversary"



04:42 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Bringing Toronto’s Don River back from the dead"



15th
01:45 pm

[PHOTO] The goats of the Great Canadian Soap Company, 2016 edition



01:52 pm

[PHOTO] Alley, Dovercourt at Northumberland



02:03 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



07:56 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "China wants to revive Brazil high-speed train project: sources"



07:58 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "From slave market to Olympic venue: variations of capitalist accumulation ..."



08:04 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "From Bar Volo to Zipperz, Toronto’s businesses uproot as condos sprout up"



08:08 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Rio, city of epithets: Olympic urbanism in context"



08:29 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Why our ravines are the city below Toronto"



08:41 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Two links about how Donald Trump is wrong about Detroit



09:35 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the possible detection of Proxima Centauri b



11:46 pm

[DM] "#CensusFail, or, how #Census2016 is not as big a hit in Australia as in Canada"



16th
09:29 am

[PHOTO] Dunes of Covehead, Prince Edward Island



09:33 am

[PHOTO] Start of Spadina, Queens Quay



12:49 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



12:56 pm

[ISL] Quartz on the Hong Kong independence movement



12:58 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "A city of two worlds, Yellowknife is an open book well worth reading"



03:35 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Excessive film shoots at Riverdale home irks neighbours"



03:38 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How public transit affects home values in Toronto"



03:40 pm



03:43 pm

[MUSIC] Two Toronto Star articles on Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip



17th
10:56 am

[PHOTO] Sculptures inside the Dunes Studio Gallery (mostly lobsters)



11:10 am

[PHOTO] The Caledonia for sale, Toronto Harbour


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11:31 am

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



11:57 pm

[URBAN NOTE] The CBC on the 50th anniversary of the final Beatles concert, in Toronto



18th
01:29 pm

[PHOTO] "and so get lost": The Alley at Honest Ed's



03:33 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "‘Transit renaissance’ on tap for GTA if funds found, report finds"



03:34 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "CNE snacks include crispy cricket dogs and pulled-pork cinnamon buns"



03:36 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the future extension south of the West Toronto Railpath



03:38 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Dhaka Could Be Underwater in a Decade"



03:40 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the fate of the former American embassy in Ottawa



03:42 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On a possible case for Calgary to host the 2026 Winter Olympics



10:23 pm

[MUSIC] David Bowie, "Lazarus"



19th
09:06 am

[PHOTO] Canada goose on the beach, Humber Bay Park East



04:46 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



04:53 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Daily Xtra on the sale of Little Sister's



04:57 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Man charged after shooting Pokemon Go video on TTC"



07:48 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "City of Toronto challenges Queen's Park over affordable housing"



07:51 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "A Love Letter to Light-Rail Transit"



07:53 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Steve Munro on TTC Service in 1928



07:58 pm

[ISL] "Haida clan strips titles from two hereditary chiefs for supporting Northern Gateway pipeline"



08:00 pm

[ISL] "Fear of Rattlesnake Island"



09:33 pm

[ISL] "P.E.I. potato growers welcome rainfall"



21st
11:00 am

[PHOTO] Looking across the Davisville TTC platform after 1 am



22nd
12:00 pm

[PHOTO] Statues of the Dunes Studio Gallery, Brackley Beach



12:03 pm

[PHOTO] Gardens of the Dunes Studio Gallery as seen from above, Brackley Beach



03:27 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



03:44 pm

[NEWS] Five links on the Tragically Hip, Bobcaygeon, and their Kingston Concert



06:42 pm

[LINK] Two notes on tourism at the poles



06:50 pm

[ISL] "Whale watchers spot battle between orcas, humpbacks near Vancouver Island"



06:52 pm

[ISL] "Mining the Ocean Floor: Good Idea?"



06:53 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s Twice-Annual Avian Massacre Begins Now"



06:55 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Victoria mayor seeks power to tax empty homes"



06:58 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Return of road hockey to Toronto’s streets brings echoes of childhood"



09:33 pm

[PHOTO] Eleven photos from the garden of the Dunes Studio Gallery, Brackley Beach



11:57 pm

[MUSIC] "The Tragically Hip August 12 2016 Live in Toronto Full Concert in HD"



23rd
02:03 pm

[PHOTO] Three photos from the Cavendish Road, Prince Edward Island



03:51 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



08:06 pm

[URBAN NOTE] CBC News on the recent train derailment in midtown Toronto



08:12 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Beach residents eagerly await Penny Oleksiak’s homecoming"



08:27 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Behind one Toronto library's seedy initiative with a lot of growth potential"



08:33 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Embrace new transit technology or else, U of T study says"



08:35 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "CNE touts ‘extremely aggressive’ waste-diversion"



08:38 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Great Hall renovation shows Toronto is finally learning to appreciate its past"



11:40 pm

[AH] WI there was a Venus-sized planet between Mars and Jupiter?



24th
08:17 am

[PHOTO] Three photos of merchandise from Avonlea Village, Cavendish



08:25 am

[PHOTO] Six photos from Trinity Bellwoods Park



11:31 am

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



11:47 am

[NEWS] Some Wednesday links



09:06 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto Should Get Angry About How Council Has Failed to Address the City’s Social Hou



09:09 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "More crumbling Toronto Community Housing units to close amid budget pressures: CEO"



09:14 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "High-rise living increasingly part of GTA’s high-priced housing"



09:29 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "TTC gets $500M boost from Ottawa"



09:31 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "City rules on street sales drive food cart owner bananas"



25th
11:56 am

[PHOTO] Looking towards Etobicoke from Hanlan's Point



12:51 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



03:46 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Where Does Ottawa’s New Transit Funding Fit In Toronto’s Budget?"



03:49 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The life and death of Peter Dickinson and The Inn on the Park"



03:50 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "WMDs in the west end of Toronto?"



03:54 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Behind the scenes of Toronto’s $15,000 capybara caper"



03:56 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "A seat at the bar: Issues of race and class in the world of specialty coffee"



03:58 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "One Tiny Ski Town Is Defying Japan’s Scary Population Slump"



09:34 pm

[NEWS] Some links about the discovery of Proxima Centauri b



26th
10:40 am

[PHOTO] Six of my favourite photos from the Toronto Islands, 24 August 2016



10:55 am

[PHOTO] On how Graffiti Alley in Toronto has the world's longest Instagram photo



02:46 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



02:51 pm

[ISL] "Ottawa backs request for return of Beothuk remains from Scotland"



02:53 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Norway’s sailor king: Why Harald V has been sleeping on a yacht moored on Toronto’s wa



02:55 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto parks suffer from lack of pride"



02:57 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How to get it right with the Rail Deck Park"



02:58 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The West Toronto Railpath Finally Gets Funding For Expansion"



03:01 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The Great Hall is branching out from indie rock"



05:15 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Steve Munro on the moving of Campbell House



07:49 pm

[PHOTO] Night game in Dovercourt Park



27th
08:13 am

[PHOTO] Six photos of Avonlea Village, Cavendish



09:54 am

[BLOG] Some Saturday links



01:15 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Gay Caribbean man granted refugee status after three year fight"



01:19 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Man lay low for five decades believing he was illegal"



01:22 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Would Germany Be Wealthier if Berlin Didn't Exist?"



01:25 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the struggle of North Preston to rebrand



01:28 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Why Toronto loves nostalgia events right now"



01:30 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Two links on the questionable prospects of the Arctic port of Churchill, Manitoba



04:12 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On tonight's conjunction of Venus and Jupiter



28th
09:53 am

[PHOTO] Eight photos from the Bloorcourt Arts & Crafts Fair (#bloorcourtfestival)



10:28 am

[PHOTO] Around the Long River Church, Avonlea Village, Cavendish



02:20 pm

[BLOG] Some Sunday links



04:43 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "TTC operator slashed with 'edged weapon' at Eglinton station"



04:48 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Tunnel Visions: The KC Streetcar"



04:51 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Sarnia mayor invites 1,500 American ‘invaders’ to return to city as tourists"



04:54 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Walking the grid of freedom"



04:56 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Radical Flâneuserie"



04:58 pm

[ISL] "Last mammoths on Alaska island likely died of thirst"



10:08 pm

[NEWS] Some more links about Proxima Centauri b



11:45 pm

[FORUM] What do you think about Proxima Centauri b?



29th
10:25 am

[PHOTO] Cows on the Boardwalk, Cavendish



10:31 am

[PHOTO] Seen over the tracks, Bartlett Avenue


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10:36 am

[BLOG] Some Monday links



10:57 am

[URBAN NOTE] On the afterlife of the Yiddish sign of Mandel's in Baldwin Village



02:42 pm

[WRITING] "The interactive novel is an old-fashioned and unpopular idea"



02:46 pm

[WRITING] "On Editing, Blogging, Writing, Working"


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02:50 pm

[WRITING] "Blogs, Papers, Plagiarism and Bitcoin"



02:52 pm

[WRITING] "Addressing the Dangers of Freelance Journalism"



02:53 pm

[WRITING] "Journey between Two Languages"



02:56 pm

[WRITING] "The lost infrastructure of social media"



05:10 pm

[NEWS] Some Friday links



09:38 pm

[META] What do you think about blogging?



30th
11:31 am

[PHOTO] To Cavendish Main Beach



31st
11:04 am

[PHOTO] Eleven photos from the rooftop patio of the Yonge-Eglinton Centre



12:24 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



03:34 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How Toronto saved the North American streetcar"



03:38 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Torontoist on one senior Torontonian's experience of the TTC



03:42 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Ryerson students make Toronto residence their new home"



03:44 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "After fight at City Hall, artists get their first road mural at Kensington Market"



03:46 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "CNE Youth Day in jeopardy after fights, crowds force shutdown"



03:48 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Pride Toronto to decide future of police parade floats through review panel"



03:49 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Why are Toronto’s Queer-Inclusive Shops Shutting Down?"



06:31 pm

[ISL] On the effort of Farmer's Daughter to recruit people to live in Cape Breton



09:53 pm

[PHOTO] Eleven photos of Cavendish Beach, towards evening



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