[PHOTO] Six photos of a dawn departure from Charlottetown Airport, PEI (#pei)

I love the electric blue that pervades these scenes.

[PHOTO] Eleven photos of Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church, Toronto

I have been saving these photos of Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church on 520 Sherbourne Street, ten of the interior and one of the exterior, for a Sunday such a this. This ornate 19th century church has wonderful bones, sheltering the tangibly holy spaces inside.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• blogTO shares a raft of photos from Toronto in the 1910s.


• Daily JSTOR notes the profound democratic symbolism of the doughnut. Seriously.


• D-Brief notes a contentious argument that organic agriculture could, if well-managed, be productive enough to feed the population of the world.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a study of the complex environment of dust and debris around young protostar L1527.


• Far Outliers notes the central role of Hitler in avoiding the crushing of the BEF at Dunkirk. Apparently the British Empire and the Catholic Church were the two world forces he did not wish to crush.


• Hornet Stories makes the perfectly obvious point that websites which collect photos of attractive guys taken without their consent are actually sketchy, legally and ethically. Why it has to be made, I don't know.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money takes time from providing political coverage to share a recipe for a delicious-sounding slow-cooker corn/salmon/bacon chowder.


• The Map Room Blog notes the updated looks of Google Maps.


• The NYR Daily examines the ad hoc and DIY nature of disaster relief on Puerto Rico post-Maria.


• Seriously Science notes a paper suggesting that bearded men tend to be more sexist than non-bearded men.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel cautions against a tendency to pick up on astronomical mysteries as proof of dark matter's existence.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that wealthy Russians are quietly shifting their wealth and investing in property in Europe.


• Arnold Zwicky notes a new effort to employ the principles of Basic English, conveying as much meaning as possible with as few worlds as imaginable.

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto notes: elections, Parkdale, poverty, and three Torontos

• John Lorinc at Spacing takes a look at how demographic change, including economic polarization, may influence the 2018 municipal elections in Toronto.


• Laurie Monsebraaten reports on the growing income polarization of different neighbourhoods and communities in Toronto, over at the Toronto Star.


• Liam Barrington-Bush discusses, at NOW Toronto, the possibility of a massive new development at King and Dufferin being the tipping point for the gentrification of wider Parkdale.


• Joe Mihevc shares with NOW Toronto some of his strategies for fighting poverty in Toronto.

[ISL] Five islands links: Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Fiji

• I found, from somewhere in the blogosphere, a 1982 essay by June Jordan, "Report from the Bahamas." How can solidarity and identity be established across great distances, geographic and otherwise, in a globalized world?


• This analysis by Lyman Stone of the impact of Hurricane Maria on the already dire demographics of Puerto Rico is worth reading. Population decline will be at least as sharp as in Ireland and Corsica.


• Will making Cape Breton a province separate from Nova Scotia, as suggested by independent senator Dan Christmas, do anything to stop the island's sharp decline? The Cape Breton Post reports.


• Climate change and sea level rise may effectively make mainland Nova Scotia an island, cutting the dike-protected roads on the Isthmus of Chignecto. VICE reports.


• Fiji is preparing for an influx of climate change refugees from other, lower-lying and poorer, island nations in the Pacific. Bloomberg reports.

[NEWS] Five links about population in small centres: education, Ontario, Atlantic Canada

• Noah Smith at Bloomberg notes that universities, and other centres of higher education, can play a critical role in keeping small centres alive, in the US and elsewhere.


• Michelle McQuigge notes that the northern Ontario town of Smooth Rock Falls has seen success attracting potential new residents with sales of land for cheap, for the Canadian Press.


• Jessica Leeder tells the sad story about how the politics of a community radio station in Newfoundland's Bell Island tore the community apart, over at The Globe and Mail.


• CBC notes that the influx of Syrian refugees to Nova Scotia has reversed a trend of population decline. Will it last? More here.


• The government of Prince Edward Island has an ambitious strategy to boost the Island's population, through immigration, to 160 thousand by 2022. More here.