2nd
10:25 am

[PHOTO] Grass wall, Ryerson University Student Learning Centre



11:21 am

[PHOTO] Ten photos from the Lake of Shining Waters, Cavendish



11:35 am

[BLOG] Some Friday links



03:43 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Two links on the deadline issues of Bombardier with the Eglinton Crosstown



03:46 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the record-breaking heat in Toronto this August



03:49 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Moss Park development sparks gentrification concerns"



03:52 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Italians worry quake-struck town will be abandoned, lost forever"



03:55 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "London's Subway Now Runs All Night, So Why Doesn't Yours?"



04:00 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s Baby Point seeks heritage status to fend off ‘monster homes’"



04:02 pm

[ISL] "Putin Sees Opening With Japan on World War II Island Dispute"



11:31 pm

[DM] "On the ongoing depopulation of Cape Breton"



3rd
09:39 am

[CAT] Shakespeare, looking down



09:51 am

[PHOTO] Eight photos from a sandstone beach at Cavendish



01:41 pm

[BLOG] Some Saturday links



01:51 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Is it time to rethink Toronto's air show?"



01:54 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "TTC promises fewer A/C issues on Line 2 next summer"



01:56 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Canadian Farmer's Almanac predicts icy cold, snowy winter"



01:58 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the transformation of Hickory Drive in Mississauga into a ghost town



04:54 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Mississauga First Nation celebrates 30 years of annual homecoming powwows"



04:56 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the experience of Ralph Benmergui in Hamilton



04:58 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "One hundred years after disappearing, Berlin (Ontario) shows signs of revival"



4th
01:12 pm

[PHOTO] Ten photos from North Rustico Harbour, facing the Gulf of St. Lawrence



02:38 pm

[PHOTO] From "Green Leaves" by John Packman



05:31 pm

[BLOG] Some Sunday links



05:40 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Gerrard East might be Toronto's next hot street"



05:42 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Torontoist on "How We Hyped the DVP"



05:44 pm

[URBAN NOTE] The National Post on the struggles of the Toronto International Film Festival



05:46 pm

[ISL] "Aruba vote on civil partnerships could finally extend LGBT rights to all Dutch citizens"



05:49 pm

[ISL] "Scotland enjoys the rebirth of its idyllic island life"



05:51 pm

[ISL] "Boughton Island is cleaner after garbage collection"



07:57 pm

[FORUM] What are you reading?



5th
03:52 pm

[PHOTO] Eight photos from North Rustico Harbour



08:18 pm

[PHOTO] Eight Star Trek photos from the Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto



11:59 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] Towards a queer reading of Matthew Cuthbert



6th
01:05 am

[PHOTO] Let's go to the Ex (via the Princes' Gates)!



03:39 pm

[PHOTO] Four photos from the Rustico Harbour Fisheries Museum



03:47 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



8th
12:03 pm

[PHOTO] Charlottetown Theatre, Summer 2016 season



12:41 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



06:36 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Common Cents: The Impact of Income on Cycling"



06:40 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On John Tory, the TTC, and his cuts



06:49 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto can overhaul public realm with Rail Deck Park"



06:57 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s Film Industry Is Booming"



07:03 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "TTC splits King Streetcar route into 2 during TIFF opening weekend"



07:05 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto breaks a heat record for September 7"



07:09 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Two links on the hot Toronto real estate market



09:51 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the 50th anniversary of Star Trek



11:51 pm

[MUSIC] Die Antwoord, "Banana Brain"



9th
10:01 am

[PHOTO] Five photos of downtown Charlottetown, summer 2016



10:08 am

[PHOTO] Seen from the fifth floor of the Toronto Reference Library



10:13 am

[BLOG] Some Friday links



02:01 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Is Canada Really Sitting on a Real Estate Bubble That’s About to Burst?"



02:03 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Metro Vancouver report makes case for more rental units near transit"



02:05 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Who’s Really Using Moss Park?"



02:09 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "One Toronto neighbourhood wants to get rid of its Tim Hortons"



02:11 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Airbnb’s Toronto data is a confusing mess"



02:14 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Basra, Dystopian City"



09:09 pm

[OBSCURA] On satellite evidence of rapid global warming in the oceans



10th
09:39 am

[CAT] Shakespeare, listening to another cat



09:46 am

[PHOTO] Quiet home in summer, North River Road at Brighton



02:26 pm

[BLOG] Some Saturday links



02:29 pm

[ISL] "Chinese middle class wants Atlantic Canada's seafood"



02:31 pm

[ISL] "Inuit conference will bring traditional art and music to St. John’s"



02:33 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On how The Pas, Manitoba, is losing its paper mill



02:35 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s aging Ontario Place on cusp of mini-revival as it hosts dual festival"



02:37 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Vaughan’s new glass and metal marvel is not your grandmother’s library"



05:09 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "‘Prince of Pot' Marc Emery says landlord trying to evict him"



05:14 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "About time city embraced demand for Toronto memorabilia"



08:16 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Looking back on TTC Transit Stuff



11:55 pm

[FORUM] What do you think of the future?



11th
01:01 pm

[PHOTO] Four photos of Trinity United Church, Charlottetown



01:20 pm

[PHOTO] Air India Flight 182 Memorial Sundial, Humber Bay Park East



01:42 pm

[BLOG] Some Sunday links



07:04 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the import of "Double Check" in the post-9/11 world



12th
01:26 pm

[PHOTO] John Hamilton Grays on Great George Street, Charlottetown



01:32 pm

[PHOTO] Birch in the corner, Carr Hall, St. Michael's College



01:38 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



05:41 pm

[URBAN NOTE] New York Magazine on global warming and flooding in New York City



05:44 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Flock sticks with atheist United Church minister"



05:47 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Labour Day '29"



05:50 pm

[ISL] "50% of Lennox Island, P.E.I., could be underwater in 50 years"



05:52 pm

[ISL] "Debris from abandoned WW II-era Arctic military base polluting Greenland"



05:54 pm

[ISL] CBC News on the search for Viking remnants in Point Rosee, Newfoundland



07:54 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "In Hong Kong, Farming Is a Political Statement"



11:42 pm

[URBAN NOTE] The Art of Cartography, Toronto Reference Library



13th
08:49 am

[PHOTO] Angus Bernard MacEachern in the shadow of St. Dunstan's, Charlottetown



10:02 am

[PHOTO] Violet bean flowers



10:18 am

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



02:30 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How two queer Ottawa businesses are crowdfunding to stay alive"



02:32 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto students reconnect with indigenous culture"



02:34 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Flying Books, Toronto’s smallest and most portable bookseller, nesting soon near you"



02:38 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How Toronto’s latest mega tower got the green light"



02:42 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Postmedia News on the problems with cycling in Montréal



02:45 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Presto: A Botched Opportunity to Market Transit in Toronto?"



14th
10:54 pm

[PHOTO] John A. MacDonald on VIctoria Row, Charlottetown



11:54 pm

[PHOTO] Soon to go, 480-494 Yonge



15th
09:46 am

[PHOTO] Province House wrapped up in Charlottetown



09:50 am

[PHOTO] Summit of Aura, Toronto



10:04 am

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



01:48 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Carefully constructed wetland unveiled in Tommy Thompson Park"



01:51 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto reimagines the public park for the 21st century"



01:54 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "French Castles Cheaper to Rent Than San Francisco Apartments"



01:58 pm



02:00 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto leads Vancouver in luxury home market"



05:20 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Housing affordability, not hydro bills, is what’s really hurting Ontario"



16th
12:56 pm

[PHOTO] The Voices of Canada at the Confederation Centre of the Arts



01:03 pm

[PHOTO] Cranes of Wellesley, evening



01:05 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



05:16 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "TPL Friends' Book Sales x 2"



05:17 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Massive art and music fest In/Future brings Ontario Place back to life"



05:19 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Façadism isn’t a necessary evil; sometimes it’s just the right choice"



05:21 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Liberal committee chair eyes making City of Ottawa officially bilingual"



05:23 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the ill-judged addition to the Château Laurier in Ottawa



05:26 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Rail deck park could cost at least $1.05 billion"



05:28 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto’s Problem? Our Public Sector is Poor While Our Private Sector is Booming"



07:35 pm

[BRIEF NOTE] On the Gaia map of the Milky Way Galaxy



11:57 pm

[META] What blogs do you read?



17th
10:09 am

[CAT] Shakespeare, on his side in bed



10:16 am

[PHOTO] View from an empty lot, west of downtown Charlottetown



10:25 am

[BLOG] Some Saturday links



02:42 pm

[URBAN NOTE] The National Post on the sale on Toronto's Integral House



02:45 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On In/Future at Ontario Place



02:49 pm

[VIDEO] "Ontario’s catchy ‘A place to stand’ theme grows up"



02:52 pm

[ISL] "Giant Tiger opening store in Charlottetown next summer"



02:55 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "TTC looking for ways to cover $172M budget gap"



02:57 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Yorkdale Mall brought shopping into the 20th century"



02:59 pm

[LINK] Two links about the arrival of Nordstrom in Canada



11:58 pm

[FORUM] What do you plan to do tomorrow?



19th
12:52 pm

[PHOTO] Selfie with North Shore, Lake Superior



03:51 pm

[PHOTO] Ten photos from The Idea of North, Art Gallery of Ontario (#harrisago)



07:45 pm

[PHOTO] Five photos from the Brighton shore, Charlottetown



08:21 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



09:56 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Torontoist on how the Junction went dry in 1904



10:02 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto grapples with the effects of extreme weather"



10:07 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "New Moss Park community centre would be 'transformative’ designers say"



10:09 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Phase-out of TTC tokens worries advocates for the poor"



10:14 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "When the Toronto police illegally spied on their own bosses"



10:26 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "NYC's Subway Gridlock Could Trigger a Transit Renaissance"



10:29 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "TTC 2017 Operations: A Budget Meeting With No Budget"



10:32 pm

[LINK] "Ontario group to showcase importance of Great Lakes"



11:15 pm

[URBAN NOTE] blogTO on towns and daytrip destinations to visit from Toronto



20th
08:52 am

[PHOTO] Book abandoned on the Brighton shore, Charlottetown



08:56 am

[PHOTO] White orchids in the Galleria Italia, 2



09:54 am

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



12:45 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "To get the rail-deck park, Toronto needs to work with developers"



12:48 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Influx of Syrian refugees helps drive rise in use of food banks"



12:50 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Ontario will need to implement foreign buyer tax on housing, CIBC says"



12:53 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Goodbye Vancouver: Foreign buyers now flooding Seattle and Toronto real estate markets



12:55 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Class-action lawsuit filed against B.C.'s foreign buyer property tax"



01:00 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Nearly triple the number of subway trains shut down by TTC because of extreme heat"



07:07 pm

[DM] "On the physical constraints to the independence of Statistics Canada"



07:13 pm

[AH] WI the Mid-Canada Development Corridor was realized?



21st
05:26 pm

[PHOTO] Columbus Parkette, Dundas at Sorauren, night



22nd
07:48 pm

[PHOTO] Beaconsfield Historic House, Charlottetown



08:01 pm

[PHOTO] Three non-Harris works from The Idea of North



11:56 pm

[MUSIC] Samuel Barber, "Adagio for Strings", performed by William Orbit



23rd
08:08 am

[PHOTO] Government House, multilingual



08:11 am

[PHOTO] Abandoned plush, Dovercourt at Hallam



08:23 am

[BLOG] Some Friday links



06:55 pm

[ISL] On dual member proportional representation and the Island



24th
10:49 am

[PHOTO] Shakespeare, in bed



10:59 am

[PHOTO] Seven photos from Victoria Park, Charlottetown



03:07 pm

[BLOG] Some Saturday links



05:39 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Goodbye summer, hello warm fall"



05:43 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Brad Trost compares Ontario sex ed to residential schools"



05:47 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Too few seats filled, WestJet nixes Toronto-Brandon flights"



05:51 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Bay St. condos cost more than those on Yonge corridor, study says"



05:53 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "The space age Parkway Plaza, Toronto’s first heritage supermarket"



05:55 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Rome's new mayor nixes bid for 2024 Olympic Games"



05:57 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Mexico City’s Expansion Creates Tension between Residents and Authorities"



08:55 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Beauty and the East": On ruin porn and post-Communist Europe



09:00 pm

[FORUM] Are there ruins near you? How do you engage with them?



25th
09:35 am

[PHOTO] From photo of future Nathan Philips Square, 16 October 1961



09:53 am

[BLOG] Some Sunday links



01:45 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "John Bentley Mays’ Emerald Toronto"



01:48 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Why is it so hard for Toronto to think big?"



01:50 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Ambitious project will give Mississauga new coastline"



01:53 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Street party greets opening of new Alexandra Park homes"



01:56 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Huge changes coming to Toronto's Junction Triangle"



01:57 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Heritage conservation districts are long overdue"



02:00 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "This Arts Festival is Revitalizing Ontario Place"



10:11 pm

[PHOTO] Flag of Prince Edward Island, caught on a breeze



26th
01:10 pm

[PHOTO] Nine photos from the Prince Edward Battery, Charlottetown



02:14 pm

[PHOTO] Spray-painted silver



04:27 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links



04:39 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "People power fuelled rebuild of Lakeview power plant site"



04:43 pm

[LINK] "Statistics Canada sees record census response, sends 347 compliance letters"



04:45 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto Metros-Croatia, 1976 Soccer Bowl Champions"



04:46 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "That time the CN Tower had the highest nightclub ever"



04:48 pm

[ISL] "Rural Internet Access Town Hall"



04:50 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Why Victoria is the perfect place to begin the royal tour"



07:08 pm

[WRITING] Maciej Cegłowski, "Shuffleboard At McMurdo"



07:12 pm

[DM] Andrew Coyne in the National Post on the contingent nature of liberalism in Canada



27th
01:52 pm

[PHOTO] Lampost beneath the Prince Edward Battery, Charlottetown



03:58 pm

[PHOTO] Blue sky with wires, Dufferin Street south of Dupont



04:00 pm

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links



10:04 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Will Crosstown LRT builders keep their local jobs pledge?"



10:08 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Vancouver's housing-bubble risk unmatched on the planet, says Swiss bank"



10:21 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Amazon Prime to offer same-day delivery in Toronto, Vancouver"



10:29 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Province considering 600 requests to remove Greenbelt land"



10:35 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Monarchy over multiculturalism, says Leamington mayor"



10:53 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "This city's skyline is a doppelganger for Toronto"



11:46 pm

[AH] Could Tecumseh's confederacy have succeeded?



28th
01:53 pm

[PHOTO] Three photos from a walk east from Victoria Park, Charlottetown



02:04 pm

[PHOTO] Four Group of Seven works from the Art Gallery of Ontario



02:58 pm

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links



02:59 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Vancouver, London Top List of Cities at Risk of Housing Bubble"



03:01 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "London Mayor Khan Urges Labour to Win Cities in Push for Power"



06:46 pm

[URBAN NOTE] On the new Toronto PATH map (#path360)



29th
12:42 pm

[PHOTO] Four Impressionist paintings from the Art Gallery of Ontario



12:48 pm

[BLOG] Some Thursday links



12:56 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Why Public Transit Must Be Fast, Cheap, and Convenient"



12:58 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Would You Want to Live in a 10-Tower Mississauga Condo Complex Developed By Rogers?"



12:59 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Report sounds alarm on big TTC projects"



03:51 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto library finds savings, misses council's target"



03:55 pm

[ISL] "HST hike on P.E.I. coming Saturday"



03:59 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "After the Umbrella movement, Hong Kong now faces an identity crisis"



11:26 pm

[PHOTO] Red fire engine, Charlottetown Fire Hall



11:53 pm

[MUSIC] Björk, "Big Time Sensuality"



30th
10:25 am

[PHOTO] A corner full of tourist goods, Charlottetown



12:11 pm

[PHOTO] West on St. Clair at Yonge, evening



12:43 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links



06:05 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How Local Farms Connect Torontonians With Food Security"



06:10 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "How (Not) To Restore Urban Waterways"



06:13 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Who owns the air that Rail Deck park would be built on?"



06:15 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Falling glass shut down Bay St. for second day in a row"



06:19 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Plan to develop Toronto’s Galleria mall raises ire of city councillors, residents"



06:22 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "What is Vancouver doing with Airbnb, and what does it mean for Toronto?"



06:26 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Mayors seek $12.6-billion from federal Liberals for affordable housing"



08:58 pm

[URBAN NOTE] "Ghost towns, gay villages and missing faces"



10:50 pm

[DM] "On the growth and the aging of Canada's population"



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