[NEWS] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bloomberg notes concern in Asia regarding Brexit, and reports on a Taiwanese call to China to heal from Tiananmen.


• CBC notes a shocking proposal to assemble a human being using an artificial genome.


• io9 notes the interest of the Chinese government in setting up a local science fiction award.


• MacLean's notes Russian crime gangs are blackmailing gay men.


• The National Post observes one suggestion that Stonehenge was originally Welsh, and reports on a Wildrose parliamentarian in Alberta who compared a carbon tax to the Ukrainian genocide.


• Open Democracy examines English identity in the context of Brexit and reports on South America's Operation Condor.


• The Toronto Star reports on an African grey parrot that may be a murder witness and notes Trudeau's statement that preserving indigenous languages is key to preventing youth suicides.