[PHOTO] Shrine among the flowers in late evening, St. Mary of the Angels, Dufferin and Davenport

I was walking south on Dufferin Street towards St. Mary of the Angels, a Roman Catholic Church on the southeast corner of Davenport Road and Dufferin in Davenport, when I saw this shrine and these flowers.

[BLOG] Some Friday links

• Crooked Timber links the near-criminal destruction of Grenfell Tower with Thatcherism's deregulations and catastrophes.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes that TRAPPIST-1e is slated to be among the first observational targets of the James Webb Space Telescope.


• Far Outliers shares Edith Durham's account of an exciting St. John's Day in Albania in 1908.
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• Language Hat looks at a passage from Turgenev.


• What, the LRB wonders, will Emmanuel Macron do with his crushing victory after the parliamentary elections, too?


• Marginal Revolution wonders to what extent is Germany's support for Nord Stream consistent with Germany's concerns over NATO and Russia.


• Ed Jackson's Spacing Toronto article about the need to preserve queer public history in Toronto is a must-read.
  
• Torontoist's Alex Yerman notes the new activity of the Jewish left against a conservative establishment.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that modern Russia is repeating the Soviet Union's overmilitarization mistakes, only this time with fewer resources.

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links, from streetcar costs to food trucks to sidewalks to Lake Ontario

• Steve Munro looks at the complex issue of pricing the Queen streetcar. What are its competitors, for starters?


• Laura Howells reports in the Toronto Star on how Toronto is starting to become packed with food trucks.


• Alina Bykova reports how Queen West businesses are complaining of, in a novelty, protracted sidewalk construction.


• Kenny Sharpe and Eric Atkins report in The Globe and Mail on the ongoing accelerated release of Lake Ontario water down the St. Lawrence. How is it going, I wonder?