[PHOTO] My one Montréal souvenir (#stm, #metrodemontreal)

On this most recent trip to Montréal, I actually rode on all four lines of the Métro, orange and green and blue and even the yellow (île Sainte-Hélène was fun, even in the midst of Osheaga). This T-shirt, bought from a souvenir shop just across from the Marché Bonsecours, was thus an obvious choice for me.

[PHOTO] Rain dancing off pavement, Dufferin and Dupont

The rain hit very suddenly last night, not long after 9:20--I took this photo, having successfully hid from the torrents on the 29 Dufferin northbound, just before 9:30. My home is only a block east from the intersection of Dufferin and Dupont, minutes away, but I was drenched in that time. The rain has continued overnight and even into the morning, contributing to flash floods in parts of the city.

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about some of the less visible heroes of journalism, of support staff and the like.


• Centauri Dreams takes a look at astrophysicist Adam Frank's thoughts on extraterrestrial civilizations in the past, on "exoarcheology".


• D-Brief notes SIMP J01365663+0933473, a rogue superjovian planet 20 light years away with a powerful magnetic field and possibly even a major moon.


• Hornet Stories notes (possibly unfair) criticism of the Provincetown AIDS Memorial by Masha Gessen, who wishes it had more recognition of specifically gay victims and of the community's anger.


• JSTOR Daily takes a look at the challenges faced by the Outer Space Treaty, fifty years old and facing unprecedented challenges of a militarized space.


• Erik Loomis writes at Lawyers, Guns and Money about the need for the left to articulate a coherent and serious agenda on global trade.


• The Map Room Blog notes that the US military has told its personnel to turn off their portable devices' geolocation in sensitive areas.


• Marginal Revolution notes that, in some cities, people have begun to sleep rough in all-night McDonald's restaurants on account of the lack of affordable housing.


• Drew Rowsome interviews some of the actors involved in the queer play Box 4901, a new SummerWorks play written by playwright and novelist Brian Francis. Sounds exciting!


• The Speed River Journal's Van Waffle writes about how cicadas are important to him, and why.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel warns that Project Starshot and like interstellar propulsion methods, which would project engineless starships at relativistic speeds, could endanger life--and people--on the planets that these starships investigated.


• Strange Maps' Frank Jacobs notes/u> some people in the Turkish province of Batman want to bring their province's borders in line with those of the character.


• Arnold Zwicky shares Arthur's photo of the tasteful rainbow poles at the entrance to Montréal's Beaudry Métro station, in the heart of the Village gay.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: democracy, developers, Unilever, Vegandale vs Parkdale, Scarborough

• Shawn Micallef is quite right to note that the fight for local democracy is not just worth it, but that it can be won. The Toronto Star has it.


• Christopher Hume notes the leading role now played by developers in creating new neighbourhoods in Toronto, over at the Toronto Star.


• Dylan Reid at Spacing takes a look at the question of how the Unilever lands, the Unilever Precinct, need to be developed.


• Vice reports on the very recent meeting between Vegandale proponents and Parkdale residents. I have to say that many of the Vegandale types come off incredibly badly.


• Author Catherine Hernandez writes about CBC Arts about her Scarborough, a collection of restaurants and performance spaces and more.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Montréal links: language, HIV/AIDS in the village, heat, movies, Osheaga

• This older report notes Statistics Canada data suggesting that, of all the major cities in Canada, Montréal is the most trilingual. The Toronto Star has it.


• This paper/u> in Medicine Anthropology Theory by Gabriel Girard takes a look at how the HIV/AIDS epidemic is memorialized, and where, in Montréal's Village gay.


• Ici Radio-Canada reports on how Montréal is hoping to use green spaces old and new to fight warming temperatures.


• Movie-making in Montréal offers benefits but also drawbacks for local film and theatre. CTV News reports.


• CultMTL shares some photos of the fashion worn by Osheaga attendees this weekend past. I think I may have seen some of them went I went exploring after the remnants of Expo 67 on Ile Sainte-Hélène.

[ISL] Five #PEI links: food, potatoes, heat warning, immigration, affordable housing

• Bon Appetit has a mostly accurate listing of things to do and places to see and eat on Prince Edward Island.


• The warm dry summer means that Prince Edward Island faces a serious potato shortage with economic consequences. Global News reports.


• CBC Prince Edward Island notes that, according to Environment Canada, what counts as a heat warning on the Island might not be such in Toronto. Local conditions matter.


• A federal government probe has been opened up into immigration practices on the Island, as it is alleged that some immigrants connived with some motel owners to provide fake addresses. The National Post tells the story.


• The Guardian notes that senior citizens on the Island, with fixed incomes, are hit hard by the shortages of affordable rental housing.

[CAT] Dear Shakespeare

[CAT] Dear Shakespeare

International Cat Day is a lovely day.