[PHOTO] Looking north, Yonge at Front

[PHOTO] Under the tent at the Sunday Antique Market, looking east

[PHOTO] Looking west on Market Street at The Esplanade

[PHOTO] 314 Jarvis Street, destroyed

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• Bruce Dorminey notes that NASA plans to launch a CubeSat into lunar orbit for navigational purposes.


• Far Outliers looks at an instance of a knight seeking to avoid battle.


• io9 looks at how Boris Johnson ludicrously compared himself to the Hulk.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how climate change helped make civil war in Syria possible.


• Language Hat looks at a bad etymology for "province" published by a reputable source.


• Marginal Revolution notes that the United States has had below-average economic growth since 2005. (The new average, I suppose?)


• Drew Rowsome reviews the new Stephen King novel, The Institute.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains that, with K2-18b, we did not find water on an Earth-like exoplanet.


• Strange Company looks at a peculiar case of alleged reincarnation from mid-20th century Canada.


• Window on Eurasia notes how, although North Caucasians marry at higher rates than the Russian average, these marriages are often not reported to officialdom.


• Arnold Zwicky considers the possible meanings, salacious and otherwise, of a "Boy Party".

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Toronto Queer Theatre Festival, Junction, Shevchenko, 1926, suicide

• Drew Rowsome reviews the offerings at the Toronto Queer Theatre Festival, here.


• blogTO notes the displeasure of the Junction at the removal of a wooden train platform, become a community hub, for condo construction.


• Bloor West Village, blogTO notes, hosts a museum--newly reopened in a new location--devoted to the poetry of Taras Shevchenko.


• Jamie Bradburn looks at vintage Toronto ads, these from the parties contending 1926 federal election.


• In this long-form CBC feature, Ioanna Roumeliotis writes about the new things the TTC is doing to try to prevent suicides on the subway tracks.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Kingston, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Paris, Gibraltar, Brazzaville

• Kingston is experiencing a serious housing crisis, exacerbated by the return of students to such educational institutions as Queen's. Global News reports.


• CBC looks at how, on the eve of the federal election, issues like cost of living are big even in relatively affordable Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.


• CityLab looks at controversy in Paris over the reconstruction of the Gare du Nord station, here.


• Vice shares photos of Gibraltar on the eve of Brexit, here.


• Guardian Cities shares photos of the wordless images advertising shops in the city of Brazzaville, here.