Aug. 26th, 2018

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  • 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.

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  • Port Hope, it turns out, is where the sequel to Stephen King's It will be filmed. Global News reports.
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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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