[PHOTO] Looking west, Richmond at Church

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Ryan Anderson at Anthrodendum takes a look at how the threat posed to coastal properties by sea level rise reveals much about how human beings assign value.


• A BCer in Toronto's Jeff Jedras writes about the food at a Newfoundlander party in Ottawa.


• D-Brief considers how past ice ages might have been caused by the shifting poles.


• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at the work of Michelle Pannor Silver, looking at how retirement can influence the identities of individuals.


• Far Outliers notes that, in its first major wars, Japan treated prisoners of war well.


• JSTOR Daily examines a paper that takes a look at how the X-Men have achieved such resonance in pop culture, such power as symbols of minorities' persecution and survival.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money is critical of the effusive press coverage of Mitt Romney, new Republican senator.


• Geoffrey Pullum at Lingua Franca shares, for other English speakers, a lexicon of specialized words from the United Kingdom regarding Brexit.


• At the LRB Blog, Hyo Yoon Kang takes a look at a series of legal hearings investigating the possibility of assigning legal responsibility for global warming to "carbon majors" like big oil.


• Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution shares his argument that the history of the 21st century United States might look like that of the 19th century, with progress despite political disarray.


• The NYR Daily shares the arguments of scholar of populism, Jan-Werner Müller, looking at what Cold War liberalism has to say now.


• Peter Rukavina shares the story of his two visits to relatives around the Croatian city of Kutina, with photos.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how astronomers solved the mystery of the "Zone of Avoidance", the portions of space blotted out by the dense plane of our galaxy.


• Window on Eurasia reports from a conference on minority languages where speakers complain about Russian government pressures against their languages.


• Arnold Zwicky takes a look at tea, starting with tea-time aphorisms and going further afield.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: 1 Yorkville. Parkdale antiques, 501 Queen, Zoo maglev, York Pillars

• Urban Toronto shares a photo of the rising 1 Yorkville tower.


• Tanya Mok at blogTO takes a look at the fast-disappearing cluster of antique shops on westernmost Queen Street West in Parkdale, near Roncesvalles.


• Steve Munro takes a look at the effect of the King Street pilot project on 501 Queen transit times.


• Might the Toronto Zoo have its own maglev train? blogTO reports.


• A petition has been launched to save the York Pillars from demolition. I, for one, will sign it. Can you, too? Global News reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Five cities links: Hamilton, Oshawa, Vancouver, New York City, Fall River

• Le Devoir features an article pointing its readers to the many and verifiable attractions of the Ontario city of Hamilton.


• The closure of the GM plant in Oshawa hits employment across a frighteningly large chunk of the Canadian automotive sector. Global News reports.


• In Metro Vancouver, legislation aiming at preventing "monster home" construction on farmland is encountering opposition among farmers. Global News reports.


• Alex Carp at the NYR Daily takes a look at the new role of Ariel Palitz, effective mayor of nightlife in New York City.


• Le Devoir notes the impending closure of Saint Anne's Church, Église Sainte-Anne, in the New England town of Fall River, no longer a centerpiece of Franco-American community life.

[ISL] Five #PEI links: pets, diaspora, tourism, UPEI, Lawrence MacAulay

• A highly-publicized campaign to get Islanders to return to PEI failed to produce significant results, many arguing the government did nothing to create conditions for a return. CBC PEI reports.


• Tourism numbers have continued to grow on the Island, with 1.58 million recorded visits estimated by the end of this year. CBC PEI reports.


• Overall enrollment has continued to grow at UPEI, with particularly large spikes in international student enrollment. CBC PEI reports.


• Landlords on PEI can keep tenants from bringing their pets with them, sadly. (The contrast with other provinces is noteworthy.) CBC PEI reports.


• CBC PEI notes the political career of long-time Liberal MP Lawrence MacAulay, who has served for three decades.

[NEWS] Five #Indigenous links: McGill, Winnipeg, 1948 fire, British Columbia, cultural identity

• Forty students have graduated from a new program at McGill specializing in the promotion and revival of Indigenous languages. CBC reports.


• CBC reports on how newly-elected Winnipeg city councilor Sherri Rollins appropriates a "Huron-Wendat" identity, despite having only a single Huron ancestor who died at the end of the 18th century and lacking any membership in any Huron-Wendat polity.


• CBC reports on how survivors of a residential school that burned down in 1948 suspect the fire was set by a student.


• A new report suggests that the British Columbia government needs to do much more to live up to its promises to make a meaningful partnership between itself and indigenous groups. The Toronto Star reports.


• Wawmeesh Hamilton at The Discourse writes about how Indigenous identity and culture remains important for urban Indigenous people in Canada.