[NEWS] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Writing for the Postmedia syndicate, Andrew Coyne argues from a conservative perspective that the current situation in Canada, where moral and legal standards are defined by evidence of harm or not, is better than the traditional treatment.


• CBC notes that migration from Quebec is up substantially.


• Mini-Neptunes might be the most common form of planet, Universe Today suggests, or at least more common than imagined. These worlds would have the mass of super-Earths but have substantially hydrogen-helium atmospheres.


• The National Post reports that some Canadians argue that the lobster should become a national symbol. I'm up with that.


• Pacific Standard argues suburban sprawl may aid innovation.


• The Calgary Herald notes some photographers in Banff National Park are trying to get pictures of wild animals by baiting or provoking them. The failure modes are, well, imaginable.


• The good news is that reports Kim Jong Un's uncle was executed by being fed to wild dogs are quite likely false, The Guardian notes.


• Lily Tomlin, it is reported, has married her long-time partner Jane Wagner in New York.


• The Independent reports that an Alfred Hitchcock documentary on the evidence shelved by--among other things--post-war politics and Hitchcock's own upset is going to be released.


• Japan's population, the Japan Times notes, has fallen by a record near quarter-million in 2013.