[PHOTO] The Towers of Parliament, St. James Town

The vast complex of apartment towers that make of Toronto's high-rise St. James Town can have a certain grandeur.

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• blogTO notes that the old HMV store in the Dufferin Mall is now a fidget spinner store. This has gone viral.
  
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about her week in Paris.


• Centauri Dreams notes one paper examining the complex formation of the dense TRAPPIST-1 system.


• Far Outliers reports from early 20th century Albania, about how tribal and language and ethnic identities overlap, and not.


• Language Log notes efforts to promote Cantonese in the face of Mandarin.


• The LRB Blog wonders if May's electoral defeat might lead to the United Kingdom changing its Brexit trajectory.


• Marginal Revolution notes that cars have more complex computer programming these days than fighter jets.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that the counter-cyclical Brazilian fiscal cap still makes no sense.


• Window on Eurasia argues that Russia is edging towards an acknowledgement of its involvement in the Ukrainian war.

[NEWS] Seven links, from British politics to minimum wages to the dead to non-robotic future

• The Independent notes a denial that Scotland's Conservatives will split from the national party. I wonder, thought, if Scotland's political spectrum is going to shift, like Québec's, from a left-right split to a separatist-unionist one?
  
• Owen Jones argues in The Guardian that the rampant prejudices of the DUP, including its homophobia, make it an unsuitable coalition partner.


• Andray Domise argues in MacLean's that a perceived need to fit in means that immigrants can be too ready to dismiss local racisms.


• Fast Company lets us know that the minimum wage increases in Seattle have not led to higher retail prices.


• CBC notes the death of Sam Panopoulous, the Canadian man who invented Hawaiian pizza.


• Adam West, the first man to play Batman on the screen, has died. We all, not just the fandom, are the poorer for his passing.


• Are the robots not poised to take over our world? What does their absence demonstrate about our underachieving economy? The Atlantic wonders.

[CAT] Shakespeare, not a willing poser