[PHOTO] Wallace Emerson Community Centre in spring

I love these arches, and will be sad to see them go with the impending condo development at Dupont and Dufferin.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Language Log reports on the transliterations of "Trump" into Chinese and Chinese social networks.


• Marginal Revolution shares Jill Lepore's argument that modern dystopian fiction deals with submission to the worst, not resistance.


• At the NYRB Daily, Tim Flannery notes how Trump's withdrawal from Paris is bad for the environment and for the American economy.


• Peter Rukavina's photo of stormclouds over Charlottetown is eye-catching. (I have not heard of "dark off" myself.)
  
• Savage Minds announces a MOOC ANTH 101 course starting tomorrow.


• Window on Eurasia argues that Putin can afford to be aggressive because he is not constrained by Communist ideology.

[URBAN NOTE] Five notes from in and around Toronto, from apartments to politics to museums

• blogTO's post talking about how apartment seekers can find a place is revealing.


• The Toronto Star story of a First Nations man, John Fox, demanding answers to the death of his daughter Cheyenne is sad.


• The Toronto Star notes that Black Lives Matter is not marching in this year's Toronto Pride parade and that no one knows why.


• The Toronto Star notes that, in the recent Conservative leadership race, social conservatives had string support in the suburbs.


• Torontoist tells the story of how the Royal Ontario Museum became a world-class museum.

[URBAN NOTE] Three articles on cycling bike lanes in Toronto

• NOW Toronto's Tammy Thorne looks at the reasons given for the lack of bike lanes on the Entertainment District's John Street.


• The Toronto Star's Ben Spurr reports on the success of bike lanes on Bloor Street.


• The Star carries Liam Lacey's Canadian Press article on Gregory Becarich, maker of ghost bike memorials in Toronto.