[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO shares photos of the Eaton Centre immediately after its opening in the 1970s.


• Crooked Timber's Chris Bertram comes out in favour of a federal United Kingdom.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that Australia is set to buy ten submarines from Japan.


• Eastern Approaches picks up on the travails of the Crimean Tatars.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes how Slovakia is a bad model for Scotland, not least because a large majority of Czechoslovaks wanted the country to survive.


• The Russian Demographics Blog links to a study that has a frankly optimistic projection for Iraq's Christian community over the next half-century or so.


• Spacing Toronto's John Lorinc describes Rob Ford's trajectory as a Greek tragedy. I'm inclined to agree.


• Torontoist and blogTO share reports of how Torontonians and others react to Rob Ford's cancer diagnosis.


• Towleroad notes European Union pressure on Serbia to improve its gay rights record.


• Window on Eurasia notes the issues of Crimean Tatars as well and suggests that the Russian government maintains bad population statistics.