[CAT] Shakespeare, face on

[PHOTO] Four photos of Church and Wellesley at the start of October

[PHOTO] Four photos of Church and Wellesley at the start of October

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• Eszter Hargittai at Crooked Timber shares a painting from an exhibit of Star Wars-themed art near the Swiss city of Lausanne.


• D-Brief notes that scientists claim to have detected the gamma-ray signature from SS 433, a microquasar in our galaxy 15000 light-years away, as the black hole at its heart was eating a star.


• Language Hat takes a look again at the history of Chinook Jargon, the creole that in the 19th century was a major language in northwestern North America.


• Marginal Revolution notes that, in contemporary Scotland, a castle can be less expensive than a bottle of good single malt whiskey. What societies value varies over time.


• At the NYR Daily, Molly Crabapple tells a personal story of the history of the Bund, the Jewish socialist and nationalist union once a power in central and eastern Europe but now gone.


• Drew Rowsome praises the Paul Tremblay horror novel Disappearance at Devil's Rock.


• Towleroad shares a great new song from Charli XCX featuring Troye Sivan, the nostalgic "1999".


• Window on Eurasia notes that some question whether the 1944 annexation of Siberian Tannu Tuva into the Soviet Union, thence Russia, was legal or not.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Sidewalk, free mass transit, Dufferin Grove, MOCA, Jane Jacobs

• Saadia Muzaffar, a member of the advisory board to Sidewalk Labs, has resigned, expressing concern over the plans for the waterfront of Toronto. CBC reports.


• Edward Keenan is right to argue that making mass transit in Toronto free is a good goal, whether or not it can be implemented now. The Toronto Star has it.
  
• While I do not live in Dufferin Grove, this neighbourhood does neighbour me and I do visit it regularly. I'm glad that it has ranked so highly on one international ranking of neighbourhoods. blogTO reports.


• Toronto Life shares some photos from the inside of the completed Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. I'm glad to see that the promise I glimpsed on Doors Open has been fulfilled. I can't wait to visit!


• John Lorinc at Spacing >U>imagines what Jane Jacobs would do in Toronto now, faced with the Ford government. Certainly, he argues, she'd prepare for a long fight; certainly she would lead a civic resistance.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Cleveland, Osaka and San Francisco, Port City, Sihanoukville

• CityLab wonders how the new CAQ government of Québec will come into conflict with Valérie Laplante in Montréal, a city that wants mass transit not highways and that voted against the CAQ.


• CityLab considers what could become of The Mall, the neglected central park of Cleveland.


• Osaka just cut its ties with San Francisco over that city's erection of a monument honouring the comfort women of Second World War Japan. VICE reports.


• This article in Guardian Cities examining the Chinese creation of a virtually new and highly autonomous city, Port City, on Sri Lanka to support China's aspirations in the Indian Ocean is revealing.


• Kris Janssens at the Inter Press Service looks at how the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville is being transformed by Chinese investment and trade into a regional metropolis.

[ISL] Five islands links: Dufferin Islands, Antillia, Orkneys, Hawai'i, Stewart Island

• blogTO reports on the lovely Dufferin Islands of Niagara Falls, green creations in the river.


• Language Hat reports on the mythical island of Antillia, a phantom island reputed in late medieval Europe to lie far to the west of Iberia.


• Archeologists are racing to excavate and record and even protect hundreds, if not thousands, of archeological sites in the Orkney Islands ahead of rising sea levels. The National Post reports.


• JSTOR Daily takes a look at the factors that drew the 19th century kings of Hawai'i so strongly towards freemasonry.


• Janet Wainscott writes at The Island Review about her visit to New Zealand's Stewart Island, searching for the remnants of her family's homes and businesses there.

[ISL] Five PEI links: Charlottetown airport, Aman Sedighi, PEI Cannabis Store, workers, wages

• Peter Rukavina argues that the ease with which Charlottetown's airport can be reached by bus and by bike should be emphasized more.


• CBC profiles Iranian immigrant Aman Sedighi, now a successful farm owner.


• The PEI Cannabis Store is finishing up training its staff for its locations in Charlottetown, Montague, and Summerside, but O'Leary in the west of the Island lags. CBC reports.


• The Guardian quotes multiple business owners on PEI saying that the temporary worker program needs to be fixed to deal with their worker shortages.


• This editorial in The Guardian of Charlottetown makes the point that, with the lowest weekly earnings of any Canadian province, PEI needs to improve its wages if it is to avoid losing more people to out-migration.