[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO posts a history of the Toronto Islands, and how a peninsula became an archipelago.


• Crooked Timber makes the argument that cross-national intelligence undermines national democracies.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that there may be a hundred million worlds in our galaxy capable of supporting life.


• Imageo shows the startling depth of the drought in California.


• Joe. My. God. notes that the victim of a gay-bashing in New York City allegedly by members of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish street patrol is suing them.


• Language Hat announces that twenty previously unknown Pablo Neruda poems have been found in Chile.


• Marginal Revolution notes the increasing walkability of Los Angeles.


• Registan notes continuing issues for women in Azerbaijan.


• The Russian Demographics Blog is skeptical of the possibilities that the Donetsk basin in the east could be reconciled to wider Ukraine after this war is over, raising the spectre of Catalonia in post-Franco Spain.


• Spacing Toronto shares a story of an investigation to an unscenic pair of billboards placed at the intersection of Davenport Road and Bathurst Street.


• Torontoist notes a local protest by migrant rights' activists against the shutdown of the temporary foreign worker program.


• The Transit Toronto blog commemorates the end of the 28 Davisville bus route.