[PHOTO] Ten photos of the Toronto skyline from the Chester Hill Lookout

Yesterday afternoon, I ventured out to Chester Hill Lookout. I first learned of this observation point, located in the east-end of Playter Estates north of the Danforth and west of Broadview overlooking the Don Valley, through an Instagram post. The views offered by this location of downtown Toronto to the south and west are amazing. I must go again on a clear day or night.

[NEWS] Four pop culture links: art in Parkdale, Wanda Nanibush, Balkan media, Canadian Thanksgiving

• The way art helped build a stronger community in Parkdale is the subject of this NOW Toronto article.


• The AGO has just landed a new curator of indigenous art, Anishinabe-kwe artist Wanda Nanibush.


• Transitions Online notes how, under Communism, different Balkan peoples kept looking to a different west for entertainment.


• MacLean's looks at the history of Canadian Thanksgiving.

[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: Metropolitan Community Church, Jeff Rock, PFLAG China, Indian lit, Satanism

• Hornet Stories looks at the long history of the explicitly LGBTQ-friendly Metropolitan Community Church.


• Jeff Rock will be the new pastor of Toronto's Metropolitan Community Church congregation, after Brent Hawkes. The Toronto Star reports.


• Quartz reports on a PFLAG China cruise, featuring queer people and their parents.


• Little India reports on the emerging field of gay literature in India, prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction.


• The Satanic Temple of Seattle is commissioning anti-gay bakers to bake them pro-Satanism cakes. Religious freedom, right? Bustle tells the story.

[ISL] Four islands links: Beothuk, Newfoundland outports, seasteading, Shetlands

• DNA tests of Beothuk remains reveal that the extinct group was related to neither Mi'kmaq nor Inuit. The Globe and Mail reports.


• Some Newfoundland outports are seeing many young professionals move in, to make homes and businesses. CBC reports.


• Marginal Revolution claims a group wanting to mount a seasteading effort off French Polynesia are getting close to their goals.


• Politico.eu notes that, in the Shetlands, while fishers hope Brexit will lead to the revival of the fisheries others fear a labour shortage without EU-27 migrants.