[VIDEO] Four clips of the Light Parade, Nuit Rose (#nuitroseto)

I attended the Church and Wellesley components of the Nuit Rose LGBTQ art festival last night. I have plenty of photos, images needing processing when I have time later this week. For now, please enjoy these short video clips I took of the Light Parade at different stages along its route, the first two on Alexander Street, the next at Church and Wellesley, and the last at Barbara Hall Park.

"Chant, Light Parade on Alexander" (Watch on YouTube)

"Samba on the Light Parade on Alexander" (Watch on YouTube)

"Light Parade at Church and Wellesley" (Watch on YouTube)

"Arrival of the Light Parade at Barbara Hall Park" (Watch on YouTube)

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait considers the question of where, exactly, the dwarf galaxy Segue-1 came from.


• Centauri Dreams considers the import of sodium chloride for the water oceans of Europa, and for what they might hold.


• D-Brief wonders if dark matter punched a holy in the Milky Way Galaxy.


• JSTOR Daily warns that the increasing number of satellites in orbit of Earth might hinder our appreciation of the night sky.


• The LRB Blog looks at the complications of democracy and politics in Mauritania.


• Marginal Revolution wonders about the nature of an apparently very decentralized city of Haifa.


• Corey S. Powell at Out There notes that, while our knowledge of the Big Bang is certainly imperfect, the odds of it being wrong are quite, quite low.


• The Planetary Society Blog looks at the Hayabusa 2 exploration of asteroid Ryugu.


• Vintage Space examines how Apollo astronauts successfully navigated their way to the Moon.


• Window on Eurasia looks at press discussion in Russia around the decriminalization of soft drugs like marijuana.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at a comic depicting a "mememobile."

[URBAN NOTE] Eight Toronto links: neighbourhoods, housing, mass transit, Great Lakes

• I do agree with the argument of Emma Teitel in the Toronto Star that, between the east and the west of Toronto, the west is the more snobbish. (West-ender, here.)


• blogTO notes that home prices in Toronto are ridiculously out of the reach of average millennials.


• Is multi-generational housing the solution to the housing shortage in Toronto? The Toronto Star reports.


• Toronto Life profiles the photos taken by Jesse Colin Jackson of the now-demolished Regent Park building of 14 Blevins Place.


• The story of the terrible, expensive architectural problems with the TTC's Pioneer Village station is appalling. The Toronto Star reports.


• Steve Munro notes how the TTC is decidedly unhappy with the failings of Presto.


• Christian Mittelstaedt writes at NOW Toronto about how the flooding of the Toronto Islands this year can be traced, in part, to problems with how Canada and the United States jointly manage the Great Lakes.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Hamilton, Québec City, San Jose, Tehran, Hong Kong

• Real estate in Hamilton, Ontario, is quite affordable by GTA standards. Global News reports.


• Québec City has a new farmer's market to replace an old. CBC reports.


• San Jose, California, is set to embark on a grand experiment in cohousing, CityLab reports.


• These vast abandoned apartment blocks in the desert outside of Tehran speak of economic underperformance, to say the least. Messynessychic has it.


• Now that Hong Kong has not just competition from other cities in China but is finding itself outmatched by the likes of Shenzhen and Shanghai, the city-state's bargaining power is accordingly limited. The SCMP reports.