[CAT] Shakespeare, by some ill-organized books

[PHOTO] Ten photos from the Cloud Gardens Conservatory, Toronto

The Cloud Gardens Conservatory, surrounded by park and overshadowed by the solid brick of Hudson's Bay Queen Street to the north an more distantly by the Bay Adelaide Centre to the south, is a fine place to retreat to on a chilly November day. The mist fogging on the windows helps make the sense of immersion in rainforest all the more complete.

[CAT] Three cat links: Félicette, cats as liquids, adopting a ginger

• VICE notes that Félicette, the first cat in space thanks to the French, is going to have a monument built in her honour through fundraising.


• Marc-Antoine Fardin explains at The Conversation why the question of whether cats are, in fact, liquid is a useful one to ask.


• Nigel Kendall at the Guardian explains how he ended up finding himself companion to a stray ginger cat.

[NEWS] Four links: Ryerson poverty, Scarborough subway, G20 kettling, mapping the war dead of Canada

• Ryerson University students' dependence on food banks only says terrible things about Toronto, higher education, and income inequality. CBC reports.


• John Michael McGrath at TVO notes that the Scarborough subway simply cannot make sense as an economic transit project.


• The rampant insincerity I am not only in detecting from the Toronto police service in the aftermath of the 2010 G20 kittling incident surely cannot serve them well. The Toronto Star reports.


• Cartographer Patrick Cain maps the war dead of Canada, in cities across the country and in multiple conflicts. The sheer density of the dead is eye-opening. The maps are at Global News.