2019-02-17

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2019-02-17 10:44 am

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: TTC, Port Lands, homelessness, Wilfrid Laurier, affordable housing


  • The upload of the TTC from Toronto to Ontario may well prove which level of government can do a better job of building transit, the city or the province, Ben Spurr notes at the Toronto Star.

  • Businesses in Toronto's Port Lands welcome increased development, for understandable reasons. The Toronto Star reports.

  • NOW Toronto notes that John Tory neglects mental health as not a cause but a consequence of homelessness, given the extraordinary stresses that imposes on people.

  • Jamie Bradburn looks at how Toronto responded to the death of former prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier back in 1919.

  • Cheryll Case at the Broadbent Blog notes the negative effect that the Finch and Eglinton LRTs can have on affordable housing in northwestern Toronto, where Toronto's black populations are most concentrated.

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2019-02-17 01:57 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Five links on cities: Star Trek, mass transit, California rail, Green New Deal, HQ2


  • The Conversation considers what Star Trek has to say about sustainable urban development.

  • This New York Times article looks at how, in the United States, it is the cities of the West that are leading the country in developing effective mass transit now.

  • CityLab looks at the retreat of California from its full vision of a high-speed rail connection.

  • CityLab considers what a Green new Deal could do to help suburbia.

  • The Atlantic thinks that the rejection of Amazon HQ2 by New York City is good if it leads to an end in competitive subsidies by different jurisdictions to attract businesses.

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2019-02-17 02:04 pm

[ISL] Five #islands links: Iles-de-la-Madeleine, St. Kilda, Heligoland, Rapa Nui, Tonga


  • Le Devoir took a look at the importance of the seal hunt for the Iles-de-la-Madeleine.

  • Alex Boyd at The Island Review details, with prose and photos, his visit to the now-deserted island of St. Kilda.

  • The Economist took a look at the German North Sea island of Heligoland.

  • Orlando Milesi writes at the Inter Press Service about the threats posed by climate changes to the iconic statues and marine resources of Rapa Nui.

  • VICE looks at the plight of people who, as convicted criminals, were deported to the Tonga where they held citizenship. How do they live in a homeland they may have no experience of?

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2019-02-17 02:17 pm

[ISL] Five #PEI links: Pogey Beach, Sea View home, Anne with an E, Neil Harpham, immigration


  • CBC's Q recently interviewed Jeremy Larter about his new film, Pogey Beach.The Journal-Pioneer reported on the rescue renovation of an old farm house in the PEI community of Sea View.

  • CBC Prince Edward Island notes that the show Anne with an E is hosting auditions for a Mi'kmaq character.

  • CBC Prince Edward Island pays tribute to the life of Neil Harpham, a taxi pioneer who recently benefitted from assisted dying.

  • CTV's W5 recently examined the controversies surrounding the controversial PEI immigration program intended to attract investor-immigrants.

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2019-02-17 04:08 pm

[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: advertising, fluidity in art, George Quaintance, Francophones, RuPaul


  • The Conversation looks at the question of how to increase the representation of same-sex couples in ads.

  • Them looks at how queer artists are representing their fluidity.

  • Hornet Stories looks at the art of George Quaintance.

  • CBC Windsor reports on why some non-binary people Francophones in Windsor-Essex avoid treatment in the French language.

  • RuPaul's Drag Race turns out to be playing a key role in keeping many gay bars in New York City thriving, Punchdrink reports.