[URBAN NOTE] Five Montréal links: weather, coyotes, archeology, Mies van der Rohe, Doug Ford

• The scale of the heat wave in Montréal this weekend is not to be underestimated. CBC reports.

Montréal, like so many other cities and regions, now has coyotes. CBC reports.

• Archeologists working at Peel and Sherbourne, in downtown Montréal, are continuing to recover remains of what may be an Iroquois village. CTV reports.


• Jérome Delgado at Le Devoir takes a look at the Mies van der Rohe-designed service station on Ile-des-Soeurs.


• This Martin Patriquin column in the Montreal Gazette praising Doug Ford for his reduction in Toronto city council's size, arguing this kind of reduction is needed on the island of Montreal, made me raise my eyebrows.

[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: London, Ontario Pride, Ontario sex-ed, PrEP, lobster emoji, Don Bachardy

• The pride parade in London, Ontario, was a success. Global News reports.


• Arshy Mann at Daily Xtra notes how one key argument in the argument against the sex-ed curriculum, that a pedophile wrote the curriculum, is part of a wider homophobic argument.


• Sky Gilbert at The Conversation contributes a full-throated defense of queer men's right to sexual self-determination in this era of PrEP.


• Hornet Stories notes that trans people, for want of an explicitly trans emoji, have made the lobster emoji their own.


• JJ Geiger at Them shares photographs of Don Bachardy while talking about how Bachardy's love with Isherwood was a key model for him while growing up.

[PHOTO] Last tiger lily

The tiger lilies are slowly growing old and dying, but there are still some around.

[PHOTO] Three photos of the Toronto Coach Terminal (#torontocoachterminal)

I am off for four days to Montréal for some adventures with friends new and old. You will here, and see, more of this in the future.

For now, here are some photos of the venerable Toronto Coach Terminal. These were not taken in the eastern half of the building by Bay Street, but in the newer more functional half. still, in this space's openness and business, I see much that is attractive.

[PHOTO] Three photos of Toronto seen exiting the city

[PHOTO] Five photos north of Kingston by the Cataraqui on Highway 401 (#kingstonon)

Highway 401 skirts far to the north of the city of Kingston proper, only touching the upper lengths of the Cataraqui River.