[PHOTO] Shakespeare, on blue with red against white

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[PHOTO] Yonge and Eglinton crowding in

[PHOTO] Dufferin Grove after the first snow last Thursday

Last Thursday after the first snow of fall, I took a walk down to Dufferin Grove Park. The snow, already beginning to melt in the relative warmth, dressed the park up nicely.

[URBAN NOTE] Ten Toronto links

• The vicious homophobia exhibited by TCDSB trustee Mike Del Grande is, IMHO, another reason to defund public Catholic education in Ontario. Global News reports.


• The CCLV streetcars of the TTC are set to be pulled by the end of November. Global News reports.


• The Scarborough Bluffs are set to see some worthwhile investment. blogTO reports.


• CBC notes growth in food bank usage in Toronto and Mississauga.


• Presto users are being mischarged based on GPS mistakes. CBC reports.


• Renovictions have spiked 300% over the past four years. blogTO reports.


• The cost of rent continues to grow in Toronto. blogTO reports.


• A new project hopes to make Yonge and Eglinton less congested. The Toronto Star reports.


• New regulations about Airbnb should make the real estate market easier for renters. NOW Toronto reports.


• Owing to family request, a new street in Etobicoke will not be named after former Toronto mayor Rob Ford. Global News reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Fifteen urban links

• It has been forty years since a train derailment that threatened to unleash toxic chemicals on Mississauga resulted in a remarkably successful mass evacuation. CBC reports.


• There is a Vimy display in Kingston's Communications and Electronics Museum. Global News reports.


• It is unsettling that the Ontario city of Hamilton reports such a high levels of hate crimes. CBC reports.


• Le Devoir shares a warning that inattention to language means that Longueuil could end up becoming as English/French bilingual as the West Island.


• VICE reports on how the dying desert town of California City is hoping for a revival based on cannabis, here
  
• MacLean's tells the story about how an encounter of koi with local otters in Vancouver reflects a human culture clash, too.


• SCMP looks at how planners want to use big data to make Shenzhen a "smart socialist" city, here.


• CityLab hosts an article by Andrew Kenney looking at the importance of an old map of Denver for he, a newcomer to the city.


• These photos of the recent acqua alta in Venice are heartbreaking. CityLab has them.


• JSTOR Daily tells the story of an ill-timed parade in 1918 Philadelphia that helped the Spanish flu spread throughout the city.


• The LRB Blog looks at a corner of Berlin marked by the history of German Southwest Africa.


• Guardian Cities shares a remarkable ambitious plan to remake Addis Ababa into a global city.


• Durban, in South Africa, may offer lessons for other southern African metropolises. Guardian Cities reports.


• The NYR Daily recently took a look at what happened to so completely gentrify the West Village of New York City.


• Feargus O'Sullivan at CityLab takes a look at a new documentary, If New York Was Called Angouleme. What if the site of New York City was colonized by the French in the early 16th century?

[NEWS] Five Centauri Dreams links: ARIEL Ryugu, Titan, electric sail, exoplanets (@centauri_dreams)

• Centauri Dreams reports on the emergent ARIEL telescope, here.


• Centauri Dreams reports on the return of Hayabusa2 from Ryugu, here.


• Centauri Dreams shares a new map showing all of the landforms of Titan.


• Centauri Dreams looks at the propulsion technology of the electric sail.


• Centauri Dreams looks at the once-surprising number of planets found in multiple star systems.

[NEWS] Five JSTOR Daily links: ch'arki, pisco, X-rays, lavender scare, language (@jstor_daily)

• JSTOR Daily examines ch'arki, an Andean food like jerky.


• JSTOR Daily reports on how Peru and Chile contest claims to being the origins of pisco.


• JSTOR Daily explores the X-ray craze of 1896, here.


• JSTOR Daily explores the "lavender scare" of the 1950s that saw dozens of queer men purged from the American government.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how linguists are using Urban Dictionary to study the evolution of language.

[NEWS] Four Language Log links: Chinese, mare, Ukrainian, Yorkshire

• Victor Mair at Language Log takes a look at the many and varied colloquialisms in the different varieties of Chinese.


• Robert Hymes writes a guest post at Language Log examining the word "mare" and its relatives across language families.


• Mark Liberman at Language Log considers how the name of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, is to be pronounced.


• Victor Mair at Language Log takes a look at the English dialect of Yorkshire.