[PHOTO] Ten photos of the Humber River, from Étienne Brûlé Park through to Magwood Park

Early Wednesday evening, I had a lovely stroll north up the Humber River from Bloor, passing through first Étienne Brûlé Park then Magwood Park on the eastern shore of the Humber. These parks were well-populated, by people taking in the warmth of the sun and by Canada geese basking by the shore.

[META] On the latest two blogs on the blogroll

• I've added Sean CW Korsgaard's Korsgaard's Commentary, a blog focusing on cultural reviews. In one interesting recent post, Korsgaard makes the case for the excellence of the 1999 film The Mummy.


• Toronto writer and critic Drew Rowsome also has his own blog. He has recently shared his shortlist of picks for the Toronto Fringe festival.

[BLOG] Some Friday links

• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait talks about some new observations of the dusty ring of Fomalhaut.


• Centauri Dreams reports on a new theory about the magnetic fields of Uranus.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on a new Lin-Manuel Miranda mixtape referencing immigration, including the refugee crisis.


• The LRB Blog reports on the terrible psychological toll of Grenfell Tower for the survivors, including the very young.


• Neuroskeptic wonders if psychology papers might give criminals ideas.


• The Volokh Conspiracy reports on a Canadian court ruling ordering Google to remove search results worldwide.


• Window on Eurasia argues Russia must take care not to undermine protection for non-Russian languages in the republics, and describes a new total mobilization policy in Belarus possibly aimed against Russia.

[URBAN NOTE] Four notes about change, architectural and waterfront and demographic, in Toronto

• blogTO notes a pretty significant expansion of the University of Toronto's Robarts Library.


• Spacing Toronto's John Lorinc argues that the plan for waterfront revitalization could be a gamechanger for Toronto as a city.


• The Toronto Star's Laurie Monsebraaten notes that the number of young children in downtown Toronto is spiking.


• VICE notes that Toronto housing has become as unaffordable as it ever has been.

[NEWS] Four links about global warming and changing shorelines

• Ars Technica recommends five sights on the British coast to see before they are erased by global warming.


• This Syracuse.com report about the upstate New York town of Sandy Creek, beset by Lake Ontario flooding, is alarming.


• VICE's Kate Lunau notes the serious threat posed by sea level rise to coastal Canadian centres, from Halifax to Vancouver.


• Robinson Meyer in The Atlantic notes that the US South, already badly off, will be hit hard by global warming.