[PHOTO] Graffiti on a Bloorcourt alley

[PHOTO] SUV backing up in front of Bloor/Gladstone Library

[PHOTO] Back alley thanks, Anarres Apothecary

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• {anthro}dendum features a post by Kimberly J. Lewis about stategies for anthropologists to write, and be human, after trauma.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports on exoplanet LHC 3844b, a world that had its atmosphere burned away by its parent star.


• Centauri Dreams looks at Neptune from the perspective of exoplanets discovered near snow lines.


• D-Brief reports on the new Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, installed at Kitt Peak to help map galaxies and dark energy.


• Gizmodo
• looks at how Airbnb is dealing with party houses after a fatal mass shooting.


• The Island Review shares some drawings by Charlotte Watson, inspired by the subantarctic Auckland Islands.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the late 19th century hit novel Ramona, written by Helen Hunt Jackson to try to change American policy towards indigenous peoples.


• Language Hat looks at how, until recently, the Faroese language had taboos requiring certain words not to be used at sea.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at a proposal to partially privatize American national parks.


• The LRB Blog looks at what Nigel Farage will be doing next.


• Marginal Revolution looks at a speculative theory on the origins of American individualism in agrarian diversity.


• The NYR Daily looks at an exhibition of the artwork of John Ruskin.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw remarks on a connection between Arthur Ransome and his region of New England.


• Drew Rowsome shares an interview with folk musician Michelle Shocked.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel emphasizes the importance of the dark energy mystery.


• Towleroad notes a posthumous single release by George Michael.


• Daniel Little at Understanding Society celebrates the 12th anniversary of his blog, and looks back at its history.


• Window on Eurasia looks at Ingushetia after 1991.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at All Saints Day.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links

• A new project hopes to revitalize the Golden Mile of Scarborough, along Eglinton Avenue. The Toronto Star reports.


• blogTO looks at how IKEA is going to be opening a new smaller store in downtown Toronto in the next two years, here.


• blogTO looks at a plan to make 80 Bloor Street West, in Yorkville, into a golden skyscraper 79 stories tall.


• Sadly, Chick-Fil-A at Yonge and Bloor still has long lines. blogTO reports.


• Radheyan Simonpillai reviews the new Kevin Donovan book The Billionaire Murders, looking at the unsolved killings of the Shermans in 2017.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Montréal links

• Renovating the Oratoire St. Joseph will surely be costly. CTV News reports.


• CBC Montreal looks back to when the Montreal Expos seemed like they might not be bought.


• Le Devoir notes how, in Québec, the Liberals are concentrated on the islands of Montreal and in Laval, in their fortress.


• An old Montreal metro car has been repurposed as a hangout for Polytechnique students. CBC reports
  
• CBC Montreal reports on the proposal of Matt McLauchlin to name a plaza at Frontenac metro station after murdered activist Joe Rose. I like the idea.

[NEWS] Ten #cdnpoli links

• CBC looks at the internal splits within British Columbia, between the Liberal-leaning coast and the Alberta-leaning interior, here.


• The legal departure of oil company EnCana from its Alberta headquarters is the cause of great upset. CBC reports.


• Will Andrew Scheer survive as leader of the Conservative Party, with challengers like Peter MacKay? The National Observer reports.


• People in Lloydminister, on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, reflect the frustrations of the populations of the two provinces. CBC reports.


• Philippe Fournier at MacLean's writes about the sharp rural-urban political split in Canada.


• Green Party Fredericton MP Jenica Atwin is interviewed by the National Observer about her goals, here.


• The Treaty 8 chiefs have united in opposition to the separation of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Global News reports.


• CBC reported on the multiple MP candidates who, genealogist Darryl Leroux found, falsely claimed indigenous ancestry.


• Jessica Deer reported for CBC about the near-universal boycott by the Haudenosaunee of #elxn43, and the reasons for this boycott.


• Scott Gilmore recently a href="https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-u-s-is-sinking-maybe-its-time-for-canada-to-jump-ship/">suggested at MacLean's that, noting American instability, Canada might do well to secure itself and promote its multilateralism by seeking to join the EU.