[NEWS] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bloomberg notes the collapse of a Petrobras boomtown in Brazil, notes that Serbian bonds are resistant to Brexit fears because of Serbia's non-membership in the European Union, and wonders about the future of the smartphone market.


• CBC notes soaring real estate prices in the suburbs of Toronto and Vancouver.


• The Inter Press Service notes efforts to boost research and development in Africa.


• MacLean's notes, polemically, the importance of Canadian history in relation to current issues, like interprovincial limits on beer.


• The National Post notes a Russian initiative to try to promote Siberian settlement by offering its citizens free land, and looks at the decline of tea at the expense of coffee in the United Kingdom.


• Wired looks at the student art of Siberian indigenous students at a boarding school.