Jul. 27th, 2018

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  • Utterly changing the boundaries of Toronto's wards through an unwanted amalgamation just before an election will create chaos. The Toronto Star reports.

  • Jennifer Pagliaro notes how the City of Toronto is considering changing its definition of "affordable housing" into something more realistic, over at the Toronto Star.

  • Urban Toronto contrasts two photos recently taken on Bremner Boulevard, in the heart of the South Core.

  • Steve Maich writes in MacLean's about what tragedies, like the Danforth shooting, do and do not say about cities.

  • Enzo Dimatteo at NOW Toronto notes how the alt-right has been making use of the Danforth shooting.

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  • Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps takes a look at the regularity, and otherwise, of different cities' street grids.

  • CityLab notes how the city of Baltimore is suing Big Oil over the effects of climate change, including flooding.

  • The Lake Huron resort community of Wasaga Beach turns out to have strong connections with the Lithuanian-Canadian community.

  • CityLab takes a look at the love food critic Jonathan Gold expressed for the city of Los Angeles in his writing.

  • The SCMP notes that the British government in the 1980s was so opposed to Hong Kongers gaining the right to live in the UK that they tried to get Portugal to strip full citizenship from eligible Macanese.
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  • Guardian Cities reports on how prices for land in Ontario are propelling a Mennonite migration to Prince Edward Island.

  • Peter Rukavina takes a look at the regularity, or not, of the street grids of major Island communities.

  • Civil wedding ceremonies on PEI are starting to outnumber religious ones. CBC reports.

  • A heritage log cabin in Charlottetown, dating back to the mid-19th century, is being torn down by its owner for wanting of funding to help preserve it. CBC reports.

  • Construction of the Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society's headquarters, in the eastern PEI community of Heatherdale, is being slowed down by construction and other issues. CBC reports.

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  • At the CLGA, Craig Jennex writes about the early activism of Canadian LGBT activist Jim Egan, writing letters to defend gay people in post-war homophobic times.

  • Them profiles the Queer Appalachia Instagram account and its creators.

  • Them reports on a survey suggesting that one-fifth of young Latinx people in the US identify as queer.

  • JSTOR Daily reports on a lesbian sex scandal at a Renaissance Italy convent.

  • The Nib shares a delightful, and historically accurate, cartoon describing how out German aristocrat Baron von Steuben played a critical role in the success of the Americans in their war of independence.

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  • Jon Cohen at Science Magazine describes the ever-worsening HIV/AIDS epidemic in Florida, with governmental inaction made worse by the diversity of the epidemic's pathways.

  • Maine coastal landowners are taking Nova Scotia business Acadian Seaplants to court over its harvesting of rockweed, and the legal fight centres over whether rockweed is an animal or a plant by state law. The National Post reports.

  • Wood Buffalo National Park, in northern Alberta, is undergoing serious degradation. Are the tar sands to blame? The National Post reports.

  • In some polar areas of Europa, sheltered from the radiation of Jupiter by ice, signs of life might be detectable mere centimetres below the surface. VICE's Motherboard reports.

  • Universe Today reports on the discovery of a star in galaxy NGC 7424, partner to supernova SN 2001ig, that survived its partner's explosion.

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