[PHOTO] East end, Queen Street East

I was standing here, three blocks east of the end of the 501 Queen route on Queen Street East just where Queen Street ends in the east, veering north to become Fallingbrook Road.

[PHOTO] Kate Sharpley, Tales of the Sea LightHouse (2016), Charlottetown

On display in a corner of the Confederation Centre Public Library is this sculpture, layering painted pages from discarded library books onto the scaffolding in the shape of the lighthouse. As described by Kate Sharpley, a Prince Edward Island art educator employed by the Confederation Centre of the Arts, the patterns painted reflect a variety of subjects and themes, from fish at the bottom to corvids on top.

[NEWS] Four links, on Lebanese and Lebanese food on the Island and mass media in rural areas

• At VICE, Mike Miksche writes about how being Lebanese in North America became much more complicated, after 9/11 and with Islamophobia.


• The story of how Cedar's Eatery helped Lebanese food become entrenched on Prince Edward Island is fascinating. VICE reports.


• CBC reports on how The Globe and Mail is going to stop print distribution in the Maritimes.


• Bloomberg notes that rural ideas need high-speed internet, too.

[URBAN NOTE] Three links about the Canadian National Exhibition (#letsgototheex)

• The Toronto Star challenges two journalists to find the best ways to spend $50 at the CNE.


• Transit Toronto talks about the history of mass transit and the Ex, sharing links.


• Toronto Life shares archival photos of the CNE going as far back as 1911.

[ISL] Four links about Pacific islands, from Guam and Yap to Norfolk and blackbirding

• North Korea's nuclear threats seem not to have deterred tourists from Guam. Might they make the island's tourism? Travel and Leisure reports.


• As National Geographic observes, Yap--an island state of the Federated States of Micronesia--is increasingly caught between China and the US.


• Can Norfolk Island, as proposed, actually break from Australia and join New Zealand? Does New Zealand want it? The Guardian describes this movement.


• The Guardian notes that calls for recognition, even belated justice, by descendants of Melanesian slaves in Queensland are growing louder.