[PHOTO] Behind the fence, 2221 Yonge Street

2221 Yonge Street is slated to become the site of a condo tower. For now, there is just a very deep hole.

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• Anthropology.net notes on how a fossil tooth led eventually to the identification of the fourth Denisovan individual known.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about reasons for people to travel solo.


• The Dragon's Tales' Will Baird notes that the INF Treaty is on the verge of collapse.


• Mathew Ingram uses a recent GIF of Trump with the Polish president's wife to show how these lie and mislead.


• Joe. My. God. notes a sharp collapse in London's LGBT venues--more than half in the past decade!


• Marginal Revolution reports on British actors who take up tutoring as a second job to support their careers.


• The NYR Daily takes a look at the latest concerns of South Koreans regarding their northern neighbour.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw takes issue with proposed Australian government surveillance of the local Internet.


• Progressive Download's John Farrell dissects the origins of the false claim that Copernicus was a Catholic priest.


• Unicorn Booty has a fantastic interview with a scholar, Jamie Bernthal, who makes a case for queer content in Agatha Christie.


• Window on Eurasia notes that methane bubble explosions in Siberia could wreck Russian pipelines.

[URBAN NOTE] Five notes on Toronto, including the condo explosion and TTC planning

• The National Post's Victor Ferreira notes that CAMH will be driven from its College Street home by its landlord to make room for condos.


• blogTO notes the site of a former heritage building at Yonge and Eglinton will become--surprise!--a condo site.


• The Toronto Star's Ben Spurr notes the deputy mayor wants to encourage the TTC to buy future streetcars not from Bombardier.


• Steve Munro looks in detail at the amended plan to give priority on King Street to mass transit.


• Tricia Wood at Torontoist talks about ways the TTC can improve bus service, starting with better scheduling.

[URBAN NOTE] Four notes on changing cities from Germany, from Frankfurt to Hamburg to Berlin

• Bloomberg's Steven Arons and Gavin Finch observe that Brexit may let Frankfurt emerge as a truly global financial centre.


• Der Spiegel's Alexander Smoltczyk describes how north German port Hamburg is starting to inch towards a bigger global role.
  
• Deutsche Welle reports on how, after the G20 meeting, far-left and anarchist groups in Berlin are facing a crackdown.


• Global News shares Joseph Nasr's Reuters article reporting on the incomprehension of Arab refugees in Hamburg at that city's G20 rioters. Why are they doing it?

[NEWS] Four Canada links, from the innocence of Khadr to the joking alt-right to CanCon workings

• Sandy Garossino considers the furor over Omar Khadr. What if the 15 year old was actually not guilty of the crimes of which he was accused?


• The Globe and Mail's Tabatha Southey points out, after the Proud Boys incident in Halifax, how the alt-right's claims to be joking reveals their intent. Hannah Arendt knew these kinds of people.


• The CBC's Haydn Watters describes how one Ottawa couple is planning to visit in 2018 every location involved in every one of the 87 Heritage Minutes.


• Ben Paynter at Fast Company writes about the system of funding and other support that keeps Canadian pop music thriving.