[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Anatolia, Massey Hall, T.J. Atwood, Inside Out, wooden tower

• I believe I have been to this Turkish-Canadian restaurant in the west end of Toronto. CBC reports on Anatolia Restaurant.


• The missing Bach and Beethoven windows of Massey Hall have been recovered, safely boxed away in a basement. The Toronto Star reports.


• I quite liked this article about this athlete, T.J. Atwood, practising his surfing off of the Scarborough Bluffs. The Toronto Star reports.


• Drew Rowsome reports on the upcoming Inside Out LGBT film festival here in Toronto, here.


• A 14-story wooden tower at the University of Toronto would certainly be an eye-catching addition to the downtown skyline. The Toronto Star reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Edmonton, Vancouver, St. George, Kanepi, Moscow

• The City of Edmonton is considering the idea of intentionally creating a beach for sun-seekers on the North Saskatchewan River after last year's happy accident. Global News reports.


• There is controversy in Vancouver over the idea of investor immigrants gaining voting rights in the city. Global News reports.


• The Utah conurbation of St. George faces real problems of water scarcity. CityLab reports.


• The Estonian municipality of Kanepi has made the leaf of the cannabis plant its logo. CityLab reports.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the symbolism behind the vast and impressive Moscow subway system, here.

[NEWS] Five space science links: Moon, Mars, Planet Nine, white dwarfs, black holes

• Quanta Magazine looks at the latest theories seeking to explain the origins of the Moon. (At the very least, the collision that did form the Moon may have ben much more violent than originally thought.)


• Mars may be smaller than Venus and Earth because, in the early solar system, much mass was directed away from its orbit by the gas and ice giants. Universe Today reports.


• Gizmodo notes the discovery of another Kuiper Belt object with a strange orbit pointing to the possibility of Planet Nine.


• The Gaia satellite has turned up evidence for nearly fourteen thousand white dwarfs within 100 parsecs of our sun, a huge increase in numbers. Universe Today reports.


• The work and the thinking that went into proving the idea of thousands of black holes in close orbit of Sagittarius A* at the heart of our galaxy is impressive. Universe Today reports.

[NEWS] Five Canadian politics links: Doug Ford, Kathleen Wynne, Canadian citizens, Three Percenters

• Doug Ford hired a crowd of actors to pretend to be supporters. Is this astroturfing a sign of American influence on Canadian politics? The Toronto Star reports.


• Andrew MacDougall at MacLean's argues a question tossed off in passing by Doug Ford to Kathleen Wynne, asking where she lost her way, resonates at a deep level about her government. The article is ,a href="https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/doug-ford-nails-kathleen-wynne-to-a-losing-way/">here.


• Steve Paikin wonders about the extent to which an unvoiced homophobia may be contributing to the low popularity levels of a Kathleen Wynne who, herself, has not done much outright wrong. His TVO blog has it.


• NOW Toronto is entirely right to recommend people born Canadian citizens take witness, at least, of citizenship ceremonies for new Canadians. I can testify that it really is moving.


• The Three Percenters are the latest nativist social media-driven militia group in Canada, worthy of attention and concern. CBC reports.