[NEWS] Five politics links: Canada, Maxine Bernier, Golden Dawn

• 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.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Port Hope, Buffalo, Omaha, Singapore, Tashkent

• 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.

[NEWS] Five sci-tech links: listening phones, HIV denialism, Euncie Foote, nuclear war, asteroids

• 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.

[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: George Villiers, LGBT films, Ottawa museum, Provincetown, Carnival

• 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.