[NEWS] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bloomberg notes the dire state of Venezuela and looks at an effort to avoid deindustrialization in an Australia steel town.


• Bloomberg View looks at human beings' place in evolution and notes the shift to normal recruiting practices in the Ukrainian government.


• CBC looks at VIA Rail's interest in more regular passenger routes in Ontario and Québec.


• The Inter Press Service wonders if global climate change will leave much of the Middle East uninhabitable.


• MacLean's notes the particular plight of young unmarried men in the Canadian job market.


• The New York Times notes Saudi hostility to a new American law that might hold the country responsible for terrorist attacks.


• Quartz notes a new demographic study suggesting the way to get higher fertility rates is simple, and not related to cash bonuses.


• Universe Today considers travelling to Alpha Centauri and looks at odd hyper-fast binary PB3877.


• Wired looks at European Union data protection laws.