[PHOTO] Towards North Rustico beach, PEI

The approach to North Rustico Beach, facing the Gulf of St. Lawrence, could not be better designed.

[PHOTO] Twenty photos of Ontario Place, Toronto (#ontarioplace)

Back on the 21st of September, I posted a series of photos that I took just east of Ontario Place, in the area of the new Trillium Park. I had continued exploring west of Trillium Park, into Ontario Place, but I had never gotten around to posting my photos of Ontario Place in all of its mid-20th century modernist grandeur.









































There will be more photos tomorrow.

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting exoplanet transits could start a galactic communications network.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the connections between eating and identity.


• The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas looks at the need for a critical study of the relationship between technology and democracy.


• Language Hat notes how nationalism split Hindustani into separate Hindi and Urdu languages.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money reflects on the grim outlook in Somalia after the terrible recent Mogadishu bombing.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen thinks Trump's decertification of the Iran deal is a bad idea.


• The Map Room Blog links to an article imagining a counter-mapping of the Amazon by indigenous peoples.


• Neuroskeptic considers the possibility of Parkinson's being a prion disease, somewhat like mad cow disease.


• The NYR Daily notes that a Brexit driven by a perceived need to take back control will not meet that need, at all.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw looks at the problem Sydney faces as it booms.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at the extent to which an independent Catalonia would be ravaged economically by a non-negotiated secession.


• Peter Watts tells the sad story of an encounter between Toronto police and a homeless man he knows.


• Window on Eurasia notes a Sakhalin bridge, like a Crimea bridge, may not come off because of Russian weakness.

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links: Bloor and Dundas, Green Room, archeology park, Hearn

• The scale of the changes impending for Bloor and Dundas is, literally, immense. blogTO reports.


• Alas, the venerable Green Room hidden behind Bloor and Brunswick is set to leave its abode. blogTO reports.


• I love this proposal at Spacing by Michael McClelland for an archeology park in storied downtown Toronto.


• I agree with Simon Bredin at Torontoist that it would be a shame for Torontonians to losing public access to the Hearn Generating Station.