[PHOTO] Crane against twilight sky over the Honest Ed's site

[PHOTO] Pedestrian crossing Dupont at Vesta Lunch

[PHOTO] Sunset behind tree at Christie Pits

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• D-Brief reports on the abundance of plastic waste found buried in the beaches of the Cocos Islands.


• Joe. My. God. notes that the US has imposed tariffs against India.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the strange history of phrenology.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money takes note of the Trump Administration's honouring of Arthur Laffer.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at the electricity price crisis that might determine who gets to be elected president of Argentina.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how the Pauli Exclusion Principle makes matter possible.


• Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy argues against importing the principles of the Berlin Wall to the US-Mexico border.


• Window on Eurasia shares concerns that Russia is trying to expand its influence in the east of Belarus.

[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: Lake Ontario, fly, Ontario Place, Port Lands, parks

• Measured at Toronto, Lake Ontario has reached its highest point in recorded history. blogTO reports.


• Beach season has to be put off in Toronto until mid-June at least, on account of the record high water. blogTO reports.


• Legendary queer nightclub fly--or fly 2.0--is shutting down this Pride. blogTO reports.


• The provincial government call for development proposals for Ontario Place, happily, makes no mention of casinos. The National Post reports.


• This BBC article takes a convenient outsider's look at the controversy over the Google involvement in the Port Lands development project.


• Tanya Mok at blogTO introduces readers to the very unusual June Callwood Park, designed around a voiceprint of the late journalist and activist.


• Samantha Edwards at NOW Toronto looks at the impromptu party being Daniel Rotsztain to celebrate The Pillars at Queens Quay at York this evening. (I think I'll be there.)

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Windsor, Calgary, Mulhouse, Naples, Dhaka

• This Shane Mitchell op-ed at Spacing warns about how plans for a new hospital in Windsor can threaten to promote sprawl.


• Debates over bike traffic laws are ongoing in Calgary. Global News reports.


• Guardian Cities looks at how the downtown of the French city of Mulhouse has been successfully regenerated.


• Guardian Cities looks at how the infamous housing estate of Scampia outside of Naples, famously derelict and a nexus for crime, is finally being torn down.


• Atlas Obscura notes an Armenian church in Dhaka, last remnant of a once-vast Armenian trading diaspora that extended out to Bengal.

[URBAN NOTE] Ten links on cities, in all their dimensions

• The Conversation notes how Canadian cities need new revenue sources as their economies evolve.


• Can Canada learn from a New Jersey trying to move homes and residents out of flood-prone areas? CBC reports.


• CityLab looks at how St. Louis is finally removing the artificial concrete barriers blocking its streets and neighbourhoods.
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• The controversial "new towns" of the United Kingdom are the subject of this Guardian Cities feature.


• Bloomberg looks at how second-tier cities in China like Wuhan are also competing for white-collar migrants.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how urban architecture can be made to work better.


• CityLab looks at the extent to which Millennials in North America really do like cities, and why.


• CityLab examines the various reasons why Americans have become less mobile than many before, from a love for their community to note being able to move.


• This Guardian Cities article looking at how British cities have become dependent on alcohol sales and nightclubbing, despite the social toll, is disturbing.


• Justin Fox at Bloomberg looks at how cities like Buffalo and Pittsburgh can thrive despite losing population.