[ISL] Five islands links: Toronto Islands, Ireland, Sicily, Japan, Halligen Islands

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that the Electric Island festival is slated to return to the Toronto Islands, after their wet 2017.


• Politico.eu notes that the European Union is making the maintenance of integration on the island of Ireland a requirement for the UK if it wants a deal.


• Jacobin Magazine shares a perfectly sensible article noting that the mafia of Sicily is intensely conservative, even reactionary, hardly deserving the romance with which it is too often represented.


• The depopulation of Japan, often particularly intense in its smaller islands, is creating serious dilemmas. What is to be done with these remote, emptying-out, territories? The Japan Times reports.


• The Halligen Islands of Germany's Frisian coast, facing the North Sea and almost effaced every tide, sound like a charming place to visit. The Guardian reports.