[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO lists some interesting things to do and see in Toronto's American neighbour, Buffalo.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly strongly defends contemporary journalism as essential for understanding the world.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money rightly takes issue with the claim identity politics hinders the US left. Remember New Deal coalitions?


• Marginal Revolution notes just how expensive it is to run Harvard.


• Otto Pohl notes the upcoming 76th anniversary of the Soviet deportation of the Volga Germans.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer reports on the remarkably fluent code-switching between English and French of some Washington D.C. subway riders.


• Strange Maps notes rival food and fabric maps of India and Pakistan.


• Tricia Wood at Torontoist argues that, for environmental and economic reasons, Ontario needs high-speed rail.


• Window on Eurasia suggests Tatarstan has done a poor job of defending its sovereignty from the Russian government.