[URBAN NOTE] Ten Montréal links

• The Map Room Blog links to some old maps of Montréal.


• Major English-language newspapers in Montréal, including the Montreal Gazette, are no longer being distributed to Québec City clients. CBC reports.


• Radio-Canada employees' union is concerned over cost overruns in the construction of a new headquarters for the French-language chain. CTV NEws reports.


• La Presse notes how the to-be-demolished Champlain Bridge is a home for, among others, falcons.


• The Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice, after the latest delay, will have been closed for nearly two decades. La Presse reports.


• The Montreal Children's Library is celebrating its 90th anniversary with a fundraiser. CBC reports.


• CBC Montreal looks at how, even without a stadium, legendary mayor Jean Drapeau brought major league baseball to his city.


• The anti-gentrification University of the Streets group has some interesting ideas. CBC reports.


• The city government of Montréal is looking into the issue of the high retail vacancy rates in parts of the city. CBC reports.


• At CBC Montreal, Ontario-born Jessica Brown writes about her struggles with employment in her adopted city.

[URBAN NOTE] Ten city links: Laval, Calgary, Vancouver, Cleveland, Machu Picchu, London, Görlitz ...

• The Québec city of Laval now has a cemetery where pets can be buried alongside their owners. CBC reports.


• Talk of Alberta separatism has already cost Calgary at least one high-profile non-oil investment, it seems. Global News reports.


• A new piece of public art in Vancouver, a spinning chandelier, has proven to be a lightning rod for controversy. CBC reports.


• Guardian Cities looks at the continuing fight against lead contamination in Cleveland.


• Machu Picchu was built in a high remote corner of the Andes for good reasons, it is being argued. The National Post reports.


• Wired looks at how rivals to Uber are currently fighting for dominance in London, here.


• Guardian Cities shares a cartoon history of the birth of Nairobi, here.


• The east German city of Gorlitz offered interested people one month's free residence. The Guardian reports.


• JSTOR Daily notes that Hong Kong was born as a city from refugee migrations.


• Is Tokyo, despite tis size and wealth, too detached from Asia to take over from Hong Kong as a regional financial centre? Bloomberg View is not encouraging.

[NEWS] Six cetacean links

• Apparently upwards of 95% of dolphins are right-handed. Global News reports.


• A dead sperm whale has been found in Scotland, choked on a hundred kilograms of plastic waste. CBC reports.


• Tracking the heart rate of a blue whale is something that we can do. CBC reports.


• Nearly a hundred cetaceans held in a Russian facility seem to be doing well after being released to their ocean home. CBC reports.


• The policies of Elizabeth Warren could, if she was elected, impact the seafood industry of Atlantic Canada. (As, I think, they should.) CBC reports.


• Whale populations can, if we treat them well, help save the climate from catastrophe. VICE makes the case.