[CAT] Shakespeare, not to be disturbed while getting water

[PHOTO] Looking south down Duncan Street at the CN Tower

[PHOTO] Into A&A Department Store, 251 Spadina Avenue

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• The Crux takes a look at how those people who actually are short sleepers work.


• D-Brief looks at a study noting how the moods of people are determined by the strengths of their phones' batteries.


• Dan Lainer-Vos at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at statistical certainty at a time of climate change.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how, and why, the New England Puritans believed human bone might have medical power.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the press coverage that created the alleged Clinton uranium scandal.


• The Map Room Blog shares maps noting that, already, since the late 19th century much of the world has warmed more than 2 degrees Celsius.


• Strange Company shares a diverse collection of links.


• Daniel Pfau at Towleroad writes about possible deep evolutionary roots of homosexuality.


• Window on Eurasia notes how the Russian republic of Karelia, despite its border with Finland, suffers from repression.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Montréal links: Ariel Kouakou, Depanneur, STM, Pointe Claire, U of M

• CBC Montreal notes how there is now a mural in memory of missing child Ariel Kouakou in a east-end Rosemont alley.


• CultMTL takes a look at an odd convenience store hidden in the basement of an apartment block near McGill University, here.


• CBC Montreal notes how mass transit is the top priority for mayor Valérie Plante, here.


• An archeological dig near Pointe Claire is revealing ruins dating back to the time of New France. Global News reports.


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  CBC Montreal looks at the new campus of the Université de Montréal, and controversy over its transformation of neighbourhoods.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Ottawa, Moncton, New York City, Calgary, Richmond

• The Ottawa Citizen reports on the first week of the Confederation Line LRT.


• The New Brunswick city of Moncton now has new affordable housing--20 units--for vulnerable people. Global News reports.


• CityLab looks at one photographer's perspective of the New York City skyline, changed by the 9/11 attacks.


• An alleyway in Calgary is being transformed by art. Global News reports.


• Birth tourism might become an election issue in the British Columbia city of Richmond. Global News reports.

[NEWS] News from around the world: Cheetos fashion, Gaspé yaks, NL slavery, Lebanon comics, Netflix

• Oh, why not a fashion show organized around the theme of Cheetos? VICE reports.


• A farmer in the Gaspé peninsula is trying to retrieve all of his missing yaks. CBC Montreal has it.


• A Newfoundland researcher and artist is examining the relationship of the island with Atlantic slavery. Global News reports.


• Atlas Obscura takes a look at the alternative comics scene in the Middle East, centered on Lebanon.


• Vanity Fair shares an account of how Netflix tried to sell itself, and its model, to Blockbuster and failed.