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  • blogTO looks at the Toronto of the 1950s, when Highway 2--Lake Shore and Kingston Road--was the way into the city.

  • Jamie Bradburn takes a look at a 1950 tourist guide to Ontario, specifically focusing on its descriptions of Toronto.

  • Jamie Bradburn looks at how, in the post-war era, dining at the Coxwell Kresge in-house restaurant was a thing.

  • blogTO notes how many in Leslieville are unhappy with the idea of the Ontario Line being built above-ground.

  • Samantha Edwards at NOW Toronto notes that there is going to be a Pride rally outside of Palmerston library where Meghan Murphy will be speaking.

  • Spacing looks at the connections between Nuit Blanche and the Toronto Biennial, for Toronto as an artistic city.

  • NOW Toronto shares some photos of Honest Ed's in its dying days.

  • Toronto Life tells the story of Peperonata Lane, a west-end laneway that took its name from a popular neighbourhood pepper-roasting event.

  • blogTO notes a new movie being filmed in Regent Park, here.

  • blogTO shares photos of the new Garrison Crossing pedestrian bridge, here.

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  • MacLean's looks at how Justin Trudeau and the Liberals survived #elxn43, here.

  • Ajay Parasram at The Conversation looks at the new complications faced by Justin Trudeau.

  • Daily Xtra looks at the record of the Liberals on LGBTQ2 issues, here.

  • Daily Xtra looks at the four out LGBTQ2 MPs elected to Parliament, here.

  • Philippe Fournier at MacLean's argues that 338Canada stands vindicated in its predictions, with some 90% of the people it predicted would be elected being elected.

  • What will become of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer? The National Post considers.

  • Strategic voting and Doug Ford, Mark Gollom notes, kept the Conservatives from making a breakthrough in Ontario.

  • Robyn Urback at CBC notes that the narrow conservatism of Scheer kept the Conservatives from victory in a wary Canada.

  • Stephen Maher at MacLean's questions if the Bloc Québécois victory has much to do with separatism, per se.

  • Voters in Québec seem to be fine with election results, with a strong Bloc presence to keep the Liberals on notice. CBC has it.

  • Talk of separatism has taken off in Alberta following the #elxn43 results. Global News has it.

  • The premier of Saskatchewan has also talked of his province's alienation after #elxn43, here in the National Post.

  • CBC's As It Happens carries an interview with former Conservative MP Jay Hill, now an advocate for western Canadian separatism.

  • Atlantic Canada may provide new members for the cabinet of Justin Trudeau. The Toronto Star reports.

  • Jaime Battiste, Liberal, has been elected as the first Mi'kmaq MP from Nova Scotia. Global News has it.

  • The Green Party did not make its hoped-for breakthrough on Vancouver Island, but it will struggle on. Global News has it.

  • Did, as Politico suggested, Canada sleepwalk into the future with #elxn43?

  • We should be glad, Scott Gilmore argues in MacLean's, that given the global challenges to democracy #elxn43 in Canada was relatively boring.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes a study suggesting the Milky Way Galaxy took many of its current satellite galaxies from another, smaller one.

  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks of the importance of having dreams.

  • Centauri Dreams shares a study explaining how the debris polluting the atmospheres of white dwarfs reveals much about exoplanet chemistry.

  • D-Brief notes that the intense radiation of Jupiter would not destroy potential traces of subsurface life on the surface of Europa.

  • Dangerous Minds looks at the strange musical career of Vader Abraham, fan of the Smurfs and of the Weepuls.

  • Aneesa Bodiat at JSTOR Daily writes about how the early Muslim woman of Haajar inspires her as a Muslim.

  • Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how an influx of American guns destabilizes Mexico.

  • The LRB Blog looks at the American abandonment of the Kurds of Syria.

  • Marginal Revolution notes how many mass protests are driven by consumer complaints.

  • The NYR Daily has an interview with EU chief Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt, on the future of sovereignty.

  • Strange Company looks at the Dead Pig War between the US and the UK on San Juan Island in 1859.

  • Towleroad features the defense of Frank Ocean of his PrEP+ club night and the release of his new music.

  • Understanding Society looks at the sociology of norms.

  • Window on Eurasia suggests Russia and Ukraine each have an interest in the Donbass being a frozen conflict.

  • Arnold Zwicky looks at the weird masculinity of the pink jock.

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  • The Greens took Fredericton on the grounds of their strong work there.

  • RM Vaughan, meanwhile, notes for Daily Xtra how LGBTQ voters in New Brunswick are gravitating towards the Greens.

  • Jason Kirby at MacLean's wonders how determinative Google Trends data suggesting a surge of positive interest for Jagmeet Singh will be for NDP results.

  • The robocalling intending to confuse people as to the date of the election in eastern Canada should meet with criminal prosecution. CBC reports.

  • The only non-Liberal elected in Newfoundland and Labrador is the NDP candidate Jack Harris, for St. John's East. Global News has it.

  • Chris Selley at the National Post blames the Conservative failure on the poor platform of Andrew Scheer, here.

  • Canada has a Liberal government again, this time a minority. Global News reports.

  • CBC notes that, despite Liberal weaknesses, the Conservatives simply did not break through into the 905.

  • Michel Auger at Radio-Canada looks at the challenges of the Liberals in Québec and in the West.

  • Greater Montréal is divided between Liberals on the island of Montréal and the Bloc on the mainland. Radio-Canada has it.

  • The Calgary Herald looks at reaction in Alberta to the Liberal minority government, here.

  • The results from British Columbia are interesti0ng. Was there much change at all? Global News reports.

  • Jody Wilson-Raybould, kicked out of the Liberal caucus, was re-elected as an independent for her riding of Vancouver Granville. Global News reports.

  • Fatima Syed at the National Observer looks at how indigenous voters are looking to the NDP for representation in the new government.

  • Jeremy Wildeman at The Conversation explains the disenchantment of progressives with Justin Trudeau.

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  • CTV News notes that election day is here in Canada.

  • CTV News shares a list of answers to frequently asked questions about #elxn43 requirements.

  • Philippe Fournier at MacLean's notes that #elxn43 is shaping to be perhaps the most uncertain federal election in Canada since 1979, at least.

  • Kai Cheng Thom at Daily Xtra addresses the despair of a voter wondering if they should vote at all. Even in dark times, there must be some room for hope, for creative responses.

  • Andrew Coyne at the National Post points out the obvious, that Canadians should not feel smug about dysfunction in the US and Britain.

  • Chris Selley at the National Post argues against electoral reform.

  • CBC shares stories of Syrian refugees, now citizens, voting for the first time in #elxn43.

  • The diffusion of extremist sentiments in Canada in the past few years is a real concern. NOW Toronto has it.

  • This CBC opinion suggests that expatriates from Canada, non-resident in the country, should not have a right to vote.

  • Andrew Scheer, once notable for his vocal support for Brexit, is now much quieter about the issue. CBC reports.

  • Peter Henderson at NOW Toronto argues that Ed the Sock has become the voice of a responsible conservatism.

  • The claims of Andrew Scheer that the political party that wins the most seats gets to form the government in the Canadian system are obviously wrong. Global News has it.

  • Who, exactly, forms the middle class in Canada, that demographic that Trudeau and Scheer have been claiming to address? CBC reports.

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  • Adam Fish at anthro{dendum} shares a new take on the atmosphere, as a common good.

  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares a photo of Earth taken from a hundred million kilometres away by the OSIRIS-REx probe.

  • The Crux tells the story of how the first exoplanets were found.

  • D-Brief notes that life could be possible on a planet orbiting a supermassive black hole, assuming it could deal with the blueshifting.

  • io9 looks at the latest bold move of Archie Comics.

  • JSTOR Daily explores cleaning stations, where small fish clean larger ones.

  • Dan Nexon at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the role China seeks to play in a remade international order.

  • The Map Room Blog looks at the new upcoming national atlas of Estonia.

  • Marginal Revolution touches on the great ambition of Louis XIV for a global empire.

  • Steve Baker of The Numerati shares photos from his recent trip to Spain.

  • Anya Schiffrin at the NRY Daily explains how American journalist Varian Fry helped her family, and others, escape the Nazis.

  • Drew Rowsome reviews the classic movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

  • Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shares a map looking at the barriers put up by the high-income world to people moving from outside.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel answers the complex question of how, exactly, the density of a black hole can be measured.

  • John Scalzi at Whatever reviews Gemini Man. Was the high frame rate worth it?

  • Window on Eurasia notes the deep hostility of Tuvins towards a large Russian population in Tuva.

  • Arnold Zwicky considers the existential question of self-aware cartoon characters.

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  • Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes new research on where the sun is located within the Milky Way Galaxy.

  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers the value of slow fashion.

  • Centauri Dreams notes the different gas giants that our early methods have yet to pick up.

  • Crooked Timber shares a lovely photo looking back at Venice from across its lagoon.

  • D-Brief notes that upcoming space telescopes might find hundreds of rogue planets thanks to microlensing.

  • io9 notes that Marvel will soon be producing Warhammer40K comics.

  • The Island Review shares some poetry and photography by Ken Cockburn inspired by the Isle of Jura.

  • JSTOR Daily notes that different humpback whale groups have different songs, different cultures.

  • Language Hat tries to find the meaning of the odd Soviet Yiddish word "kolvirt".

  • Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the history of Elizabeth Warren as a law teacher.

  • Map Room Blog shares information from Google Maps about its use of data.

  • Marginal Revolution notes that in 2016, not a single child born in the United Kingdom was given the name Nigel.

  • Peter Watts talks about AI and what else he is doing.

  • The NYR Daily marked the centennial of a horrible massacre of African-Americans centered on the Arkansas community of Elaine.

  • Emily Margolis at the Planetary Society Blog looks at how the Apollo moon missions helped galvanize tourism in Florida.

  • Noel Maurer at The Power and the Money looks at the constitutional crisis in Peru.

  • Drew Rowsome takes a look at A Streetcar Named Desire.

  • Peter Rukavina looks at a spreadsheet revealing the distribution of PEI public servants.

  • Spacing reviews a book imagining how small communities can rebuild themselves in neoliberalism.

  • Towleroad shares the criticism of Christine and the Queens of the allegedly opportunistic use of queer culture by Taylor Swift.

  • Understanding Society considers, sociologically, the way artifacts work.

  • The Volokh Conspiracy argues that the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic of China should be a day of mourning, on account of the high human toll of the PRC.

  • Window on Eurasia suggests the Russian generation of the 1970s was too small to create lasting change.

  • Arnold Zwicky looks at how underwear ads can be quite sexualized.

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  • blogTO shares photos from Yorkdale Mall during its power outage Saturday.

  • blogTO reports that Toronto hosts, by one measurement, one of the biggest housing bubbles in the world.

  • The story of how a neighbourhood project painted over the Ossington Laneway, vandalizing the graffiti there, is a sad one. blogTO has it.

  • Judging by his filmed confession, the only chance Alek Minassian has to avoid a very lengthy prison sentence is a perhaps-unlikely insanity plea. CBC reports.

  • NOW Toronto reports on the climate strike protests held Friday in Toronto.

  • The Toronto Star reports on the mass protests held on Sunday to keep homophobic Christians from marching into Church and Wellesley.

  • Steve Munro reports on the statistical sleight of hand apparently used to make the TTC Bombardier streetcars of the TTC look better.

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  • Bad Astronomer notes the latest news on interstellar comet 2/Borisov.

  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly emphasizes how every writer does need an editor.

  • Centauri Dreams notes how the gas giant GJ 3512 b, half the mass of Jupiter orbiting a red dwarf star closely, is an oddly massive exoplanet.

  • Gina Schouten at Crooked Timber looks at inter-generational clashes on parenting styles.

  • D-Brief looks at the methods of agriculture that could conceivably sustain a populous human colony on Mars.

  • Bruce Dorminey argues that we on Earth need something like Starfleet Academy, to help us advance into space.

  • Colby King at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at how the socio-spatial perspective helps us understand the development of cities.

  • Russell Arben Fox at In Media Res listens to the Paul McCartney album Flaming Pie.
  • io9 looks at Proxima, a contemporary spaceflight film starring Eva Green.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at how the intense relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia began in, and reflected, the era of Jim Crow.

  • Language Hat notes a report suggesting that multilingualism helps ward off dementia.

  • Language Log takes issue with the names of the mascots of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the emergence of a ninth woman complaining about being harassed by Al Franken.

  • Marginal Revolution links to a new paper arguing that the Washington Consensus worked.

  • The NYR Daily shares an Aubrey Nolan cartoon illustrating the evacuation of war children in the United Kingdom during the Second World War.

  • At Out of Ambit, Diane Duane shares a nice collection of links for digital mapmakers.

  • The Planetary Society Blog looks at how the European Space Agency supports the cause of planetary defense.

  • Roads and Kingdoms interviews Kenyan writer Kevin Mwachiro at length.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on how a mysterious fast radio burst helped illuminate an equally mysterious galactic halo.

  • Strange Company reports on the mysterious and unsolved death in 1936 of Canadian student Thomas Moss in an Oxfordshire hayrick.

  • Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps notes how Mount Etna is a surpassingly rare decipoint.

  • Understanding Society considers the thought of Kojève, after Hegel, on freedom.

  • Window on Eurasia looks at the falling numbers of Russians, and of state support for Russian language and culture, in independent Central Asia.

  • Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at how individual consumer responses are much less effective than concerted collective action in triggering change.

  • Arnold Zwicky reports on some transgender fashion models.

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  • After Chilliwack, British Columbia, decided not to put in place a rainbow crosswalk, two residents painted their driveway in that colour scheme. The Mission City-Record reports.

  • Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, has received a substantial investment to boost LGBTQ tourism. Global News reports.

  • Erica Lenti at Daily Xtra wondered if Andrew Scheer could make a meaningful apology for his opposition to marriage equality.

  • Lauren Strapagiel at Daily Xtra is critical of efforts to find the biological basis for non-heterosexualities.

  • Marke B. at them writes about the queer potential and challenges of Eurovision.

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  • Architectuul profiles architectural photographer Lorenzo Zandri, here.

  • Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes a new study suggesting red dwarf stars, by far the most common stars in the universe, have plenty of planets.

  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly shares 11 tips for interviewers, reminding me of what I did for anthropology fieldwork.

  • Centauri Dreams notes how water ice ejected from Enceladus makes the inner moons of Saturn brilliant.

  • The Crux looks at the increasingly complicated question of when the first humans reached North America.

  • D-Brief notes a new discovery suggesting the hearts of humans, unlike the hearts of other closely related primates, evolved to require endurance activities to remain healthy.

  • Dangerous Minds shares with its readers the overlooked 1969 satire Putney Swope.

  • The Dragon's Tales notes that the WFIRST infrared telescope has passed its first design review.

  • Gizmodo notes how drought in Spain has revealed the megalithic Dolmen of Guadalperal for the first time in six decades.

  • io9 looks at the amazing Jonathan Hickman run on the X-Men so far, one that has established the mutants as eye-catching and deeply alien.

  • Joe. My. God. notes that the Pentagon has admitted that 2017 UFO videos do, in fact, depict some unidentified objects in the air.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at the origin of the equestrian horseback statue in ancient Rome.

  • Language Log shares a bilingual English/German pun from Berlin.

  • Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money reflects on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson at Jefferson's grave.

  • Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution looks at a new book arguing, contra Pinker perhaps, that the modern era is one of heightened violence.

  • The New APPS Blog seeks to reconcile the philosophy of Hobbes with that of Foucault on biopower.

  • Strange Company shares news clippings from 1970s Ohio about a pesky UFO.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why the idea of shooting garbage from Earth into the sun does not work.

  • Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps explains the appearance of Brasilia on a 1920s German map: It turns out the capital was nearly realized then.

  • Towleroad notes that Pete Buttigieg has taken to avoiding reading LGBTQ media because he dislikes their criticism of his gayness.

  • Arnold Zwicky looks at diners and changing menus and slavery.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports suggestions the bizarre happenings at Boyajian's Star could be explained by an evaporating exomoon.

  • Centauri Dreams looks at how the crowdsourced evScope telescope is being used to support the Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojans.

  • The Crux explains the phenomenon of misophobia.

  • D-Brief shares suggestions that an asteroid collision a half-billion years ago released clouds of dust that, reaching Earth, triggered the mid-Ordovician ice age.

  • Dangerous Minds shares video of a perhaps underwhelming meeting of William Burroughs with Francis Bacon.

  • io9 makes the case for more near-future space exploration movies like Ad Astra.

  • Joe. My. God. notes a Trump retweeting of the lie that Ilham Omar celebrated on 9/11.

  • JSTOR Daily notes how fire could destroy the stressed rainforest of the Amazon.

  • Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how few judges in the US have been impeached.

  • The LRB Blog looks at how the already tenuous position of Haitians in the Bahamas has been worsened by Dorian.

  • The Map Room Blog looks at the importance of the integrity of official maps in the era of Trump.

  • Marginal Revolution looks at the political importance of marriage ceremonies in Lebanon and Gaza.

  • Drew Rowsome interviews the Zakar Twins on the occasion of their new play Pray the Gay Away, playing in Toronto in October.

  • The Russian Demographic Blog shares statistics on birthrates in the different provinces of the Russian Empire circa 1906.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on the first experiment done on the photoelectric effect, revealing quantum mechanics.

  • Window on Eurasia looks at growing anti-Chinese sentiments in Central Asia.

  • Arnold Zwicky looks at "The Hurtful Dog", a Cyanide and Happiness cartoon.

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  • Drew Rowsome reviews the offerings at the Toronto Queer Theatre Festival, here.

  • blogTO notes the displeasure of the Junction at the removal of a wooden train platform, become a community hub, for condo construction.

  • Bloor West Village, blogTO notes, hosts a museum--newly reopened in a new location--devoted to the poetry of Taras Shevchenko.

  • Jamie Bradburn looks at vintage Toronto ads, these from the parties contending 1926 federal election.

  • In this long-form CBC feature, Ioanna Roumeliotis writes about the new things the TTC is doing to try to prevent suicides on the subway tracks.

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  • MacLean's reports from the GTA suburban city of Milton, a key battleground in the federal election.

  • Hamilton police continues to be caught up in controversy over its handling of Pride. Global News reports.

  • CityLab profiles new murals being created in New York City's Harlem, on 125th street, here.

  • Guardian Cities considers some ambitious plans for remodeling Mexico City, with vast new neighbourhoods and airports, which never came off.

  • Atlas Obscura looks at a notable library of books and other documents in the Yiddish language, housed out of a decrepit bus terminal in Tel Aviv.

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  • Will a pedestrian death at Yonge and Eglinton lead to an easing of the nightmare for people faced with Eglinton Crosstown construction? blogTO ,a href="https://www.blogto.com/city/2019/09/yonge-eglinton-construction-pedestrian-nightmare/">reports.

  • An automated shuttle is set to pilot in 2020 in east-end Toronto. Global News reports.

  • Jamie Bradburn writes about the Labour Day celebrations in Toronto in 1929, here.

  • blogTO notes the construction of a much-needed pedestrian bridge in Liberty Village, here.

  • Guardian Cities notes official skepticism in Toronto over the Sidewalk Labs proposal in the Port Lands, here.

  • Andrew Wheeler, writing in the Toronto Star, notes that the appearance of institutionally homophobic Chick-fil-A just a few minutes walk from Church and Wellesley, poses a threat that needs to be fought.

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  • Bad Astronomy notes the remarkably eccentric orbit of gas giant HR 5138b.

  • Centauri Dreams notes the impact that large-scale collisions have on the evolution of planets.

  • Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber noted yesterday that babies born on September 11th in 2001 are now 18 years old, adults.

  • The Crux notes that some of the hominins in the Sima de los Huesos site in Spain, ancestors to Neanderthals, may have been murdered.

  • D-Brief reports on the cryodrakon, a pterosaur that roamed the skies above what is now Canada 77 million years ago.

  • Dangerous Minds looks at the political artwork of Jan Pötter.

  • Gizmodo notes a poll suggesting a majority of Britons would support actively seeking to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations.

  • io9 has a loving critical review of the first Star Trek movie.

  • JSTOR Daily shares, from April 1939, an essay by the anonymous head of British intelligence looking at the international context on the eve of the Second World War.

  • Language Log notes a recent essay on the mysterious Voynich manuscript, one concluding that it is almost certainly a hoax of some kind.

  • Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the future of the labour movement in the United States.

  • Marginal Revolution considers what sort of industrial policy would work for the United States.

  • Yardena Schwartz writes at NYR Daily about the potential power of Arab voters in Israel.

  • Jim Belshaw at Personal Reflections explains why, despite interest, Australia did not launch a space program in the 1980s.

  • Drew Rowsome provides a queer review of It: Chapter Two.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how government censorship of science doomed the Soviet Union and could hurt the United States next.

  • Window on Eurasia notes how, in the Volga republics, recent educational policy changes have marginalized non-Russian languages.

  • Arnold Zwicky shares a glossy, fashion photography-style, reimagining of the central relationship in the James Baldwin classic Giovanni's Room, arranged by Hilton Als.

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  • The new Valley Land Trail in Scarborough looks amazing. blogTO explains.

  • John Lorinc writes at Spacing about the challenges posed by the legalization of e-scooters in Toronto.

  • Why are there not more apartment buildings being built in Toronto, given the pressing demand for rental housing? The Toronto Star reports.

  • David Sajecki at Spacing writes about how the construction of a low-rise apartment building at 1103 Dufferin Street, one that blends seamlessly into Wallace Emerson, points the way forward for the city.

  • At Toronto Life, Emily Landau profiles Toronto-born drag queen Brooke Lynn Hytes.

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  • La Presse notes the restoration of the old Archambault sign to its location at Sainte-Catherine and Berri. (I am reminded of the Sam the Record Man sign in Toronto.)

  • HuffPostQuebec notes that some of the strings of balls from 18 nuances de gai are up for sale.

  • Expelling Hong Kong activists from the Montréal pride parade should not have been done. CBC Montreal reports.

  • Camillien-Houde Way, on Mount Royal, will become more difficult for cyclists with the removal of a traffic light. CTV reports.

  • Les Forges de Montréal, heritage to the city's blacksmithing tradition, has been saved. Global News reports.

  • Historian Desmond Morton, of McGill, has died. CBC Montreal reports.

  • The City of Montréal is trying to fight against food insecurity. CBC Montreal U>reports.

  • Craig Desson at CBC Montreal reports on the lasting legacy of Moshe Safdie and Habitat 67, and the replication of this prefabricated concrete model in rising Asia.

  • Actions of clients are the leading causes of delays on the Metro. CBC Montreal reports.

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  • Tracey Lindeman writes at CityLab about how Montréal is trying to keep the redevelopment of the Molson-Coors Brewery site from killing the Centre-Sud.

  • In the Montréal neighbourhood of Park-Extension, evictions--renovictions, even--are on the rise. Global News reports.

  • Lac-Mégantic now has a train depot that bypasses the heart of this traumatized community. CBC Montreal reports.

  • Halifax is now celebrating the Mosaic Festival, celebrating its diversity. Global News reports.

  • Jill Croteau reports for Global News about Club Carousel, an underground club in Calgary that played a vital role in that city's LGBTQ history.

  • This business plan, aiming to bypass long lineups at the Edmonton outpost of the Jollibee chain, is ingenious. Global News reports.

  • The Iowa town of Pacific Junction, already staggering, may never recover from a recent bout of devastating flooding. VICE reports.

  • Avery Gregurich writes for CityLab about the Illinois town of Atlas, a crossroads seemingly on the verge of disappearing from Google Maps.

  • The proposal for Metropica, a new sort of suburb in Florida, certainly looks interesting. VICE reports.

  • Guardian Cities shares a cartoon looking affectionately at Lisbon.

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