[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that the average price of a home in Toronto has risen above six hundred thousand dollars.


• D-Brief observes an acceleration in the deforestation of the Amazon.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the environment of close-orbiting exoplanets.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money mocks the standards of Rolling Stone, and Jann Wenner.


• Steve Munro studies the frequency of service on the St. Clair streetcar line.


• Peter Rukavina notes that the proportion of women running for political office in Prince Edward Island's election next week is far below their share of the population.


• Torontoist looks at homelessness and underhousing in the Toronto inner suburbs and explains the rights of tenants.


• The Volokh Conspiracy explains why a Colorado bakery could refuse to write an anti-gay inscription on a cake.


• Window on Eurasia looks at the writings of a Kalmyk Eurasianist and examines the popularity of ethnic nationalism in the Russian intelligensia.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell provides more evidence of the poor judgements of the United Kingdom's Liberal Democrats.