[PHOTO] Reprint, commemorative Confederation map of the Island, Long River Church

This reproduction of a map of the Island commemorating the different delegations attending the Charlottetown Conference hangs on the wall of the Long River Church. In the spirit of #Canada150, sharing it seems wise.

[PHOTO] Nearly home, Dupont at Dufferin

Wednesday evening, I was heading back home when I saw this scene as I was standing on the southeast corner of Davenport and Dupont.

[BLOG] Some Friday links

• Anthrodendum features a guest author talking about the need for artificial intelligence's introduction into our civilization to be managed.


• Dangerous Minds tells the story of how John Lennon and Yoko Ono met Marshall McLuhan.


• Cody Delistraty suggests Freud still matters, as a founder and as a pioneer of a new kind of thinking.


• The Dragon's Gaze reports on cloud circulation patterns of exoplanet HD 80606b.


• Far Outliers examines just how Chinese immigration to Southeast Asia, particularly Singapore, became so big.


• Hornet Stories interviews Moises Serrano, one of the many undocumented queer people victims of the repeal of DACA.


• Marginal Revolution notes a study suggesting some Indian students have math skills which do not translate into the classroom.


• The NYR Daily looks at the crackdown on free media in Cambodia.


• The Planetary Society Blog looks at a new set of recommendations for Canada's space future by the Space Advisory Board.


• Roads and Kingdoms reports from Burma, noting the prominence of social media in anti-Rohingya hate.


• Cheri Lucas Rowlands shares beautiful photos from the Sicilian community of Taormina.


• Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang talks about the mystery of some stars which appear to be older than the universe.


• Window on Eurasia is critical of a Russian proposal for UN peacekeepers in the Donbas making no mention of Russia.

[URBAN NOTE] Five links on a changing Toronto: the Ward, Yorkville development, school crowding

• Torontoist introduces its readers to the now-vanished neighbourhood of The Ward.


• The heated discussion of condo development in Yorkville has been taken to the level of community mediation.


• Yorkville is an ever-changing neighbourhood, evolving far past its low-rent hippie days of the 1960s. The Globe and Mail explores.


• NOW Toronto notes how the York Square development in Yorkville is set to be leveled, past value notwithstanding.


• Global News reports on how in some booming neighbourhoods, like Leslieville, local parents cannot find places for kids in local schools.

[NEWS] Five science and technology links: Chinese fields, Vancouver bananas, geothermal, space

• Bloomberg notes that the Chinese habit of wrapping farmers' fields in plastic has long-term negative consequences.


• It's difficult not to trace the ability of a man in Vancouver to raise bananas at home to climate change. CBC reports.


• The Caribbean island of Dominica is set to start to turn to geothermal power for its energy needs. The Inter Press Service reports.


• Universe Today notes the astrometric data provided by GAIA lets us track stars set for close encounters.


• The possible discovery of an intermediate-mass black hole very near the Galactic Centre is big in a lot of ways.

[NEWS] Four National Post links: Nootka Island, satanic panic, Iceland volcanoes, Norton anthology

• An unethical Victoria psychologist and his vulnerable patient helped spark the Satanic panic of the 1980s.


• There seems to be a romance to the life of the lighthouse keepers of Nootka Island.


• The Icelanders are watching very carefully for signs of the next big volcanic eruption. (Tourists are a concern.)


• Who can forget all the different Norton anthologies of literature? I still have mine. The National Post remembers in a brief piece.