[PHOTO] Three photos taken underneath the Gardiner Expressway at Fort York

Wandering late Saturday night underneath the Gardiner Expressway, west of Bathurst Street in the high-rise condo neighbourhood of Fort York, I was decidedly impressed by the concrete immensity of the highway above and around me.

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Centauri Dreams takes a look at how new technology makes access to deep-sky astronomical images easier than ever, allowing for the recovery of more data.


• The Crux considers the factors that make humans so inclined to believe in the existence of god and the supernatural, including our pattern-recognition skills.


• D-Brief sharesa the latest research into the origins of the atmospheric haze of Titan.


• Todd Schoepflin at the Everyday Sociology Blog has an intriguing post performing ethnography on the fans of the Buffalo Bills.


• At A Fistful of Euros, Alexander Harrowell notes one thing to take from the elections in Bavaria is the remarkable strength of the Greens, nearing the CDU/CSU nationally.


• io9 shares the delightful Alien-themed maternity photos of a British Columbia couple.


• JSTOR Daily looks at contesting visions of motherhood among American feminists in the 1960s and 1970s.


• Language Hat reports on "The Midnight Court", a poem written in the 19th century in a now-extinct dialect of Irish.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes one astounding possible defense of Saudi Arabia faced with Jamal Khashoggi, that his death was accidental.


• Christine Gordon Manley shares with her readers her words and her photos of Newfoundland's dramatic Signal Hill.


• The NYR Daily shares the witness of Käthe Kollwitz to the end of the First World War and the German Empire in 1918-1919.


• Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog criticizes First Man for not showing the excitement of Armstrong and the other Apollo astronauts.


• Roads and Kingdoms reports on one woman's search for the Korean cornbread remembered by her mother as a Korean War refugee.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares images of some of the most distant objects in the universe images by us so far.


• Strange Company expands upon the interesting life of early modern English travel writer Thomas Coryat, who indeed does deserve more attention.


• Window on Eurasia wonders where protests in Ingushetia regarding border changes with Chechnya are going.


• Arnold Zwicky explores the fable of the forest that identified too closely with the wooden handle of an ax.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: #topoli, The Matador, Union Station, police at Pride, gun violence

• Christopher Hume at the Toronto Star is entirely right to note that conventional politics will not build the Toronto we dream of, here.


• Local club The Matador is up for sale. NOW Toronto reports.


• Urban Toronto shares some photos from the never-ending reconstruction of Union Station, here.


• Toronto Police will be allowed to walk in 2019's Pride parade. CTV reports.


• Lucas Powers at CBC News has a compelling long-form feature looking at the slow recoveries of survivors of gun violence in Toronto.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Manhattan, La Tabatière, Dunkirk, Hong Kong, Sydney and Melbourne

• Derek Thompson at CityLab writes about how, despite or even because it is so wealthy, real estate costs in Manhattan are so high as to drive out the sorts of mixed and eclectic neighbourhoods that Jane Jacobs loved.


• The town of La Tabatière, on the fisheries-dependent Lower North Shore of Québec, has transitioned to the growing of honeyberries after the local fish plant closed down. CBC reports.


• Guardian Cities notes how free local transport in the French city of Dunkirk has had a major effect on locals' lives.


• CityLab takes a look at the stunning black-and-white photographs taken by Pascal Greco of the concrete towers of Hong Kong.


• Slate responds to the new plan of the Australian federal government to limit inflows of immigrants to Sydney and Melbourne, instead trying to distribute them more evenly around the country.

[ISL] Five #PEI links: Loki 7, Anne of Green Gables, tourism, North Shore, night photos

• Sally Pitt at CBC PEI writes at length abot the bombing campaign of Loki 7, by far the Island's most notable terrorist, here.


• Unsurprisingly, Anne of Green Gables: The Musical was the top show of this year's Charlottetown Festival. CBC reports.
  
• Massachusetts man Charles Rogers has been visiting PEI every summer for six decades. CBC reports.


• The health of the watersheds of Covehead and Brackley Bay, on the north shore of PEI, is open to question given falling oxygen levels and rising pollution. CBC reports.


• Stephen Desroches at CBC PEI has assembled a beautiful collection of night photos from the Island, here.

[NEWS] Nine links about marijuana legalization in Canada (#marijuana, #cannabis, #legalization)

• Peter Armstrong at CBC reports on the patchwork of laws and different kinds of retail outlets governing marijuana across Canada starting tomorrow.


• The different structures in stores and prices for marijuana in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia may drive substantial, even politically contentious, cross-border shopping. Global News reports.


• Stu Neatby at the Charlottetown Guardian takes a look, complete with photos, at the Charlottetown retail outlet of P.E.I. Cannabis.


• Fraser Snowdon at Global News takes a look at Smiths Falls, where cannabis is set to replace chocolate as the main driver of the eastern Ontario town's economy.


• Illegal dispensaries in Ontario that do not close by the end of today, Tuesday the 17th, may never be able to operate legally. (Or will they?) The National Post reports.


• Martin Regg Cohn at the Toronto Star writes about the practical legal void relating to regulation of cannabis sales in Ontario under Doug Ford.


• Michelle Da Silva at NOW Toronto writes about all of the events scheduled to take place in Toronto tomorrow in celebration of the legalization of marijuana.


• Roberta K. Timothy at The Conversation writes about how problematic it is that legalization of marijuana is not accompanied by an amnesty for past convictions, and how the anti-black and anti-indigenous racism that drove criminalization needs to be acknowledged.


• Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution notes the impending legalization of marijuana in Canada, starting a fairly interesting discussion in the comments.