[PHOTO] Looking south at the Dominico Field baseball diamond, Christie Pit

Dominico Field, in the northeast of Christie Pit, can look rather impressive when seen from the northern lip of the park on Barton.

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Charley Ross notes the belated recovery and identification of Margret Dodd, four decades after her abduction and more than two after her body was found.


• D-Brief notes that the Pale Red Dot is extending their exoplanet search from Proxima Centauri to include Barnard's Star and Ross 154.


• Dangerous Minds shares colour autochromes of American women from a century ago.


• Gizmodo notes more evidence suggesting Mars' moons, Phobos and Deimos, are legacies of a massive Mars impact.


• The LRB Blog looks back at the 1951 "Festival of Britain".


• Roads and Kingdoms' Karen Dias looks at a girls' soccer team in Haryana, north India.


• Peter Rukavina shares a sketch of some of the work being done at Province House.


• The Volokh Conspiracy looks at the timeline for Russian influence on the Trump campaign.


• Window on Eurasia <a href="http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.ca/2017/07/three-worrisome-lessons-from-latest.html'><U>comes</u></a> to worrying conclusions about ethnic conflict in Daghestan.</li> </ul>

[URBAN NOTE] Three reports of crime and possible crimes in Toronto

• CBC reports on a Scarborough group trying to get the police to contact neighbourhood groups re: missing people.


• In the Toronto Star, Kristyn Wong-Tam reports Toronto police do not believe disappearances of men in Church and Wellesley are connected.


• VICE tells a shocking story of a man allegedly beaten by a policeman with a steel pipe, blinded in an eye. Coverup?

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto blog links, from feminist street art to the changing retail scene

• Steve Munro shares photos of the ongoing reconstruction of Dundas and Victoria, on the 505 Dundas streetcar route.


• blogTO notes that the steady increase in rental prices in Toronto came to a halt this month.


• John Lorinc at Spacing starts a series speculating on the safety of Toronto hi-rises for seniors.


• Torontoist reports on the achievements and the controversy of a feminist street art event in Parkdale.

[NEWS] Seven links, from drugs in Germany to dolphin cuisine to dual nations in Australia

• Johann Hari writes for Open Democracy about what may be the beginning of the end of the drug war in Germany.


• I am not in agreement with Joseph Couture's argument in NOW Toronto that the Internet has ended gay communities. (Convince me.)


• Samantha Edwards reports in NOW Toronto controversy regarding the Parkdale feminist street art event. Was it really intersectional?


• James Cooray Smith wonders--or "wonders"--why some Doctor Who fans are so upset with a woman portraying the Doctor.


• In MacLean's, chief Perry Bellegarde argues that more Canadians should be concerned with the too-many deaths of young First Nations people in Thunder Bay.


• The National Post tells the story of how Australian senator Larissa Walters had to unexpectedly resign her position on account of her Canadian birth.


• Via James Nicoll, a paper claiming evidence of human presence in northern Australia, in Madjedbebe, 65k years ago.


• National Geographic tells of the peculiar way some Gulf of Mexico dolphins prepare their catfish. Is it cultural, culinary even?

[PHOTO] Coffee Time, Dupont and Lansdowne

The Coffee Time restaurant located at 1005 Lansdowne Avenue, on the northeastern corner of Lansdowne and Dupont, has long had a bit of a scary reputation. The restaurant's lone reviewer at Yelp rates it only one star, noting that the crowd hanging out here, in a traditionally poor neighbourhood close to apartment towers once linked to crime including drugs and prositution, is "interesting."

The transformation of the neighbourhood into one populated by tall condos and relatively affordable rentals is ongoing. Will this Coffee Time survive, or will its legacy be reduced to passing mentions in archived discussion threads about a neigbourhood transformed beyond recognition, like here and here? And what will become of the crowd?