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Dec. 7th, 2019
- This Wired obituary for Lil Bub, arguing that the time for the Internet to be a place fo whimsy is over, does make me sad.
- Norwegian forest cats look amazing! The Dockyards has photos.
- The Pallas cats newly in the Calgary Zoo are, rightfully, becoming big hits. Cottage Life has more.
- Ottawa cat Smudge, already a meme hit, has become a celebrity. CBC Ottawa has more.
- Unsurprisingly, cats bond with their owners in the same sort of way as dogs and even human infants. More here.
- Happily, record numbers of cats are being adopted from shelters, given new homes. Global News reports.
- Some few people are apparently good are deciphering the expressions of cats, 15% of the total in one study sample. VICE reports.
- La Presse carries the concern of a Québec journalist that the decline of daily papers could have a catastrophic impact on the province's culture.
- The Québec government would like financially-stressed newspaper group to form a coop. CTV News reports.
- That the Toronto Star shut down its free Metro affiliates across Canada made the news in Halifax. CBC reports.
- The closure of the Transcontinental Media printing plant in Borden-Carleton means that PEI no longer has a local printer for its media. CBC reports.
- Sabrina Wilkinson writes at The Conversation about the increasingly tenuous nature of journalism in Canada, not least as an employer.
- This Alex Migdal piece looks at how Guelph, Ontario, has fared since the closure of the Guelph Mercury daily.
- The immigration fiasco in Québec shows the tension between different strains of local nationalism. The Conversation reports.
- The Québec labour market, Le Devoir notes, actually bears up well to a comparison with Ontario. Gaps in employment have been closed, and then some.
- Barry Saxifrage at the National Observer notes how, in terms of climate pollution, Alberta and Saskatchewan are heading in the opposite direction from the rest of Canada.
- Many Canadians, displaced by the collapse of the oil economy, have gone south to Texas. Global News reports.
- Will the divisions in the United States only get deeper? How bad will it get? MacLean's considers.
- The chaos in Iran, and the terrible death toll, deserve to be noted. Is the Islamic Republic nearing, if not its end, some other transition? Open Democracy theorizes.
- Terry Glavin at MacLean's notes how governments around the world are facing crises of legitimacy, here.
[PHOTO] Construction at Eglinton Station
Dec. 7th, 2019 11:28 pmFriday, I was on the rooftop patio at the Yonge Eglinton Centre, looking down at the Eglinton Crosstown-related construction at Eglinton station. The old bus terminal is now completely done, and they have excavated deeply.
