- National Observer argued, before Bernier broke, that his stances on immigration and multiculturalism bode ill for Canada, here.
- If a Canada that needs immigration to sustain its workforce turns against immigration, that would be the real crisis. Global News reports.
- The Golden Dawn movement of Greece, this essay argues, set precedents for alt-right movements across the developed world with its engagement with locals. The Conversation has it.
- Canada, despite everything, is still one of the most socially mobile countries in the world. MacLean's reports.
- Andrew Coyne wonders why Maxime Bernier chose to break from the Conservatives now, over at the National Post.
Aug. 26th, 2018
- Port Hope, it turns out, is where the sequel to Stephen King's It will be filmed. Global News reports. \
- CityLab suggests that plans to enlist developers to refurbish the subway stations of Buffalo will harm the integrity of its subway stations. (I must get there, I think.)
- CityLab notes how a television station in Omaha preserved an old train station it adopted as its home base, here.
- CityLab notes how the Singapore portrayed in hit film Crazy Rich Asians does not represent Singapore and its issues wholly accurately.
- Guardian Cities shares stunning photos of the architecture and design of the stations of the Tashkent metro, newly opened to photographers.
- This alarming VICE report notes the ways in which our phones--and other mobile devices, I'm sure--are in fact listening to us.
- This distressing story looks at how HIV denialism has become popular among many Russians, and the terrible toll this belief system inflicts on people victimized by it (children, particularly).
- Smithsonian Magazine notes how the 1856 discovery of the greenhouse effect created by carbon dioxide by pioneering scientist Eunice Foote was overlooked because she was a woman.
- The detonation of more than 100 substantial nuclear weapons, this report notes, would doom civilization through climate change and agricultural collapse. Motherboard has it.
- Asteroids in orbits linked to that of the Earth would be excellent first targets for asteroid mining, Universe Today reports.
- Hornet Stories tells of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, lover to King James I.
- The Daily Beast reports on the remarkable films showing ordinary LGBT lives as far back as the 1940s, recovered by filmmaker Stu Maddux.
- Radio Canada International reports on exciting plans to fundraise for a new museum to LGBTQ history in Canada based in Ottawa.
- Hornet Stories shares photos from Carnival in gay mecca Provincetown.
- Ashleigh Rae-Thomas writes at Daily Xtra about the importance of creating and maintaining queer spaces at Toronto's Carnival.