[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links: street art, journalism, police, Cheri DiNovo, transit at Dundas West

• CBC notes that the Yonge and Dundas street artist scene is closing down under city regulations, including permits.


• Emily Mathieu talks about how she conducts her journalism with some of Toronto's most marginalized as subjects.


• The Globe and Mail notes the local controversy over having police officers permanently stationed in schools.


• The idea that police who actively undermine the Special Investigations Unit should be seriously punished seems obvious.
  
• Veteran NDP politican and LGBTQ rights advocate Cheri DiNovo is leaving politics to become a minister in church.


• Finally, the Dundas West TTC station will be connected to the GO Transit hub less than 300 metres away!

[NEWS] Five migration links: Canada, Latin America, DREAMers, Québec, LGBTQ refugees

• A Canadian proposal at the NAFTA negotiations to liberalize migration across borders got shot down by the US.


• Latin American governments have recently called for a radical liberalization of migration law worldwide.


• Canada is in a potential position to take advantage of the DREAMers, if they are forced to leave.


• Québec premier Philippe Couillard wants to encourage Anglos to move back to the province. Global News reports.


• The resettlement of LGBTQ refugees is especially complicated. VICE reports.

[NEWS] Four science links: Neanderthals, oceans and computers, Brazil rainforest, water on Vesta

• Neanderthals, like contemporary humans, had the sort of prolonged childhoods which lend themselves to intelligence. National Geographic reports.


• The cool chill water of oceans is starting to be used to cool data centres. VICE reports.


• Brazil is set to embark on a substantial process to restore Amazonian rainforest. VICE reports.


• The Dawn probe found evidence of subsurface ice on rocky asteroid-belt protoplanet Vesta. Universe Today reports.

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