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CBC Hamilton reports on the options of the City of Hamilton faced with its having hired a prominent former white supremacist.

CBC Ottawa reports that flood levels on the Ottawa River have reached record highs.

The Montreal Gazette considers possible solutions to crowding on the Montréal subway, including new cars and special buses.

Kingston is preparing for flooding, the city seeing a threat only in certain waterfront districts. Global News reports.

Vancouver is applying a zoning freeze in a future mass transit corridor. Global News reports.

CityLab looks at how the post-war dream of mass transit and densification for the Ohio city of Toledo never came about, and how it might now.

Guardian Cities looks at construction proposals for New York City that never were.

CityLab looks at how the California ghost town of Bodie is kept in good shape for tourists.

Vox notes that just over one in ten thousand people in San Francisco is a billionaire.

Leonid Bershidsky at Bloomberg considers why productivity in Berlin lags behind that in other European capital cities. Could it be that the young workers of Berlin are not devoted to earning income?

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes that methane hydrates on the ocean floor will only pose a catastrophic risk of climate change if we do nothing about climate change generally.

Centauri Dreams reports on the massive flare detected on L-dwarf ULAS J224940.13-011236.9.

Crooked Timber considers a philosophical conundrum: What should individuals do to combat climate change? What are they responsible for?

The Crux considers a few solar system locations that future generations of hikers might well want to explore on foot.

Joe. My. God. notes that Pete Buttigieg is becoming a big star in his father's homeland of Malta.

Language Log considers the idea of learning Cantonese as a second language.

Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the policy innovations of Elizabeth Warren.

The Map Room Blog looks at how the Russian government is apparently spoofing GPS signals.

Marginal Revolution reports a claim by Peter Thiel that the institutionalization of science since the Manhattan Project is slowing down technological advances. Is this plausible?

Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog notes that the Mars InSight probe has detected marsquakes.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that, finally, astronomers have found the first cold gas giants among the exoplanets, worlds in wide orbits like Jupiter and Saturn.

Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy notes how some of the praise for Daenerys Targaryen by Elizabeth Warren reveals interesting and worrisome blind spots. (Myself, I fear a "Dark Dany" scenario.)

Window on Eurasia suggests that Russia is not over the fact that Ukraine is moving on.

Frances Woolley at the Worthwhile Canadian Initiative takes issue with the argument of Andray Domise after an EKOS poll, that Canadians would not know much about the nature of migration flows.

For Easter, Arnold Zwicky considered red and white flowers, bearing the colours of the season.

Jamie Bradburn takes a look at the early 1980s genesis of the Ontario slogan "Yours to discover".

CBC examines how French's ketchup managed to take a lead over Heinz thanks to good marketing use of Canadian patriotism.

CBC reports on the east coast culinary festival of Sealfest, making use of seal products.

NOW Toronto praises Beauty in a Box, the new Cheryl Thompson book examining the African-Canadian beauty industry in all of its many facets through history.

This Toronto Star exposé takes a look at the disturbingly high rates of substance abuse among Alberta oilpatch workers.

Le Devoir wonders if excessive tourism will make Vieux-Québec unlivable for locals.

Sam Sklar at CityLab, native of the New Jersey community of Fort Lee, wonders when it will burst out from the shadow of New York City.

The question of how Vancouver in the era of legalization will celebrate 4/20 remains actively contested. The National Post reports.

CityLab reports on how the 2024 Paris Olympics may help regenerate Saint-Denis.

The story about how resettled refugees helped revive the Italian town of Sutera, on the island of Sicily, needs to be better-known. VICE reports.

Two British tourists were kicked out of their Niagara Falls hotel for supporting striking workers at an attached restaurant. CBC reports.

Members of different Christian minorities from the Middle East living in London, Ontario, have united to create a new community church. CBC reports.

Le Devoir looks at how Québec City is torn by a debate: Should it build a streetcar or a subway?

The British Columbia city of surrey is currently rounding up its rogue peacocks. Global News reports.

Guardian Cities reports on how the Japanese city of Onagawa, hit by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, is trying to rebuild without sprawl.

La Presse notes that the Bixi bike-sharing service in Montréal is celebrating its 11th anniversary.

Marginal Revolution notes how better policing cut into crime in Camden, New Jersey.

The NYR Daily looks at how Brexit and a hardened border will hit the Northern Ireland city of Derry.

Guardian Cities reports on the gang that goes around Rome at night making illegal repairs to crumbling infrastructure.

CityLab reports on how Cape Town is coping, one year after it nearly ran out of water.

Roads and Kingdoms shares tips for travellers visiting Hong Kong.

Guardian Cities reports on the families made refugees by Partition who tried to swap homes in Dhaka and Calcutta.

Bad Astronomy notes a push by astronomers to enlist help for giving trans-Neptunian object 2007-OR10 a name.

Centauri Dreams reflects on M87*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of M87 recently imaged, with its implications for galactic habitability.

Crooked Timber is right to note that Kirstjen Nielsen, architect of the cruel border policies of Trump, should not be allowed to resume a normal professional life.

The Crux looks at the Event Horizon Telescope Project that imaged M87*.

D-Brief notes that one-quarter of Japanese in their 20s and 30s have remained virgins, and explains why this might be the case.

Far Outliers notes the process of the writing of U.S. Grant's acclaimed memoirs.

Mark Graham highlights a BBC documentary, one he contributed to, asking if artificial intelligence will kill global development.

Gizmodo explains why the image of black hole M87* does not look exactly like the fictional one from the scientifically-grounded Interstellar.

Hornet Stories explains the joys of Hawai'i in fall.

io9 notes that the new Deep Space Nine anniversary documentary is scheduled for a one-day theatrical release. (Will it be in Toronto?)

JSTOR Daily makes the point that mass enfranchisement is the best way to ensure security for all.

Language Hat looks at the kitabs, the books written in Afrikaans using its original Arabic script kept by Cape Malays.

Language Log notes, with examples, some of the uses of the words "black" and "evil" in contemporary China.

Lawyers, Guns and Money makes the point that having a non-octogenarian president is a good idea.

Marginal Revolution shares the thoughts of Samir Varma on the new technologies--better computers, faster travel, artificial life--that may change the world in the near future.

The NYR Daily explores the subversive fairy tales of 19th century Frenchman Édouard Laboulaye.

The Planetary Society Blog notes the sad crash of the Beresheet probe on the surface of the Moon.

Drew Rowsome engages with the body of work of out horror writer John Saul.

Peter Rukavina maps out where Islanders will be voting, and the distances they will travel, in this month's election.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel engages with the possibility that we might be alone. What next? (Myself, I think the idea of humanity as an elder race is fascinating.)

Arnold Zwicky looks at the sort of humour that involves ambiguous adverbs.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports on the massive cloud of material detected around the active galaxy Cygnus A.

The Crux suggests our contemporary problems with wisdom teeth represent not a failure of evolution but rather a failure on our post-Neolithic parts to eat hard foods which stimulate the jaw growth capable of supporting wisdom teeth.

D-Brief notes how the astronomers involved in a planetary effort to image a black hole are preparing to make an announcement next week.

Gizmodo notes how the debris field created in orbit by India testing an anti-satellite weapon threatens the ISS.

Joe. My. God. notes that at least some hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei are deleting their social media profiles following protests over Brunei's violent anti-gay laws.

JSTOR Daily considers if, between the drop in fertility that developing China was likely to undergo anyway and the continuing resentments of the Chinese, the one-child policy was worth it.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money uses a recent New York Times profile to note the sheer influence of Rupert Murdoch worldwide.

The Map Room Blog notes a new exhibition, at the shop of a Manhattan rare book dealer, of a collection of vintage maps of New York City from its foundation, sharing some photos, even.

Marginal Revolution remarks on the rapid growth of Native American numbers in the United States over the past century.

The NYR Daily shares a report from Debbie Bookchin in North Syria arguing that the West needs to help Rojava.

Roads and Kingdoms provides some tips for first-time visitors to the capital of Uruguay, Montevideo.

The Russian Demographics Blog notes the continuing growth in numbers of dead from HIV infection in Russia, with Siberia being a new hotspot.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how the Event Horizon Telescope project will image a black hole's event horizon, and what questions exist around the project.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shares an Anish Kapoor map demonstrating the Brexit divides in the United Kingdom.

Daniel Little at Understanding Society considers the study of ethical disasters in capitalism, looking at OxyContin as an example.

Window on Eurasia notes continued threats, and continued protests to these threats, surrounding Lake Baikal in Siberia.

Arnold Zwicky has fun with a cartoon that plays on a pun between the words chants and chance.

Police in Hamilton explain why unauthorized marijuana shops are not easy to shut down. Theirs is a city of laws. Global News reports.

The small Nova Scotia community of Blacks Harbour has lost its only grocery store, presaging perhaps a future of decline. Global News reports.

New York City is getting congestions pricing for traffic setting a precedent for other cities. VICE reports.

Roads and Kingdoms is providing some tips to the Australian surfing resort of Byron Bay.

Bloomberg notes the plight of British immigrant workers in Luxembourg faced with Brexit.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait argues that the new American plan to put people on the Moon in 2024 is unlikely to succeed in that timeframe.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers whether or not women should travel alone, for safety reasons. (That choice is one I've not had to make myself, thanks to my male privilege; I'm very sorry others have to consider this.)

Centauri Dreams shares the thinking of Gregory Benford on Lurkers, self-replicating probes produced by another civilization not signaling their existence to Earth.

Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber argues that policy-making these days is often fundamentally ill-conceived, closing off possibilities for the future.

The Crux notes the remarkable powers of beet juice, as a tonic for athletes for instance.

D-Brief looks at the slot canyons of Titan, bearing similarities in structure and perhaps origin to like structures in Utah.

Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina, celebrating five years of blogging, links to his ten most popular posts.

Gizmodo notes the creation for a list of nearly two thousand nearby stars that the TESS planet-hunter might target for a search for Earth-like worlds.

Joe. My. God. notes that the Austrian president has confirmed the New Zealand shooter has made a financial donation to a far-right group in Austria.

JSTOR Daily looks at Inge Lehmann, the scientist who determined the nature of the inner core of the Earth.

Language Hat reports on a new scholarly publication, hundreds of pages long, gathering together the curses and profanities of the Middle East and North Africa.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money does not seem impressed by the argument of Mike Lee that pronatalism is a good response to global warming.

The Map Room Blog notes the impressive maps of Priscilla Spencer, created for fantasy books.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper that examines the positions of Jews in the economies of eastern Europe, as a "rural service minority".

The Russian Demographics Blog links to a paper noting the ways in which increased human development has, and has not, led to convergence in family structures around the world.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how, despite the expanding universe, we can still see very distant points.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps reports on the recent mistakes made by Google Maps in Japan.

Yorkshire Ranter Alexander Harrowell explains why the United Kingdom, after Brexit, does not automatically become a member of the European Economic Area.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the different factors, often unrecognized, going onto the formation of nonsense names, like those of the characters from Lilo and Stitch.

I ended up taking well over thirteen hundred photos in the course of my trip to Venice, not including the ones I have yet to copy over from my Fujifilm camera. I need to figure out how to organize and share these; until then, pointing you my readers over to the Facebook albums containing the photos I have uploaded seems like a good place to start.

The Union-Pearson Express is a fine way to depart downtown Toronto for Toronto Pearson, the line swiftly cutting a great arc across west-end Toronto.

My travels on the 5th of March took me from Toronto Pearson to Milan, with a very quick stopover at Newark.

I strongly recommend entering Venice by train, crossing over the Venetian Lagoon to Venezia Santa Lucia station on the fringes of the archipelago.

My first full evening in Venice, on the 6th, was magical, staying from a base in Dorsoduro along the Rio Del Magazen.

The 7th of March was a full day, exploring the neighbourhood and swinging by the Guidecca on a vaporetto and seeing St. Mark's and the colourful island of Burano and swinging down to base through the sestiere of Cannaregio.

Highlights of the 8th included a trip down the Grand Canal to the Rialto and then to St. Mark's in the morning fog, the Museo Correr, the bright glass-making island of Murano, and a wonderful ramble across Santa Croce and San Polo.

The 9th saw an in-depth exploration of Venice proper, rambling through to San Rocco and then further south to the Ca' Rezzonico and then the Peggy Guggenheim, before winding my way back via St. Mark's and the Rialto.

Leaving Venice on the 10th was sad, if necessary. The last sights of the city were lovely, and the train trip west through Lombardy-Veneto countryside to Milan was fun. I made Milan, but a traffic disruption by weather at Frankfurt let me overnight there.

My trip on the 11th from Frankfurt to Toronto was competently and quickly handled. Highlights for me included Frankfurt airport, the selection of in-flight movies including Anthropocene and Deadpool 2, and my arrival safe at home in Toronto.

The different proposals for the future of McGill College Avenue in Montréal sound very interesting. Global News reports.

Ozy reports on how Tromsø, largest city in Arctic Norway, has found new energy thanks to tourism.

Roads and Kingdoms has some tips for visitors to the French Mediterranean city of Marseilles.

Sean Marshall examines the question of why property taxes in the Ontario city of Brampton are so high. Can anything be done about them?

Guardian Cities notes how the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, like much of China's old rest belt, is facing stagnant economic growth.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the newly-named Neptune moon of Hippocamp, and how it came about as product of a massive collision with the larger moon of Proteus.

Centauri Dreams also reports on the discovery of the Neptune moon of Hippocamp.

Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber notes how the attempt to revoke the citizenship of Shamima Begum sets a terribly dangerous precedent for the United Kingdom.

D-Brief notes new evidence suggesting the role of the Deccan Traps volcanic eruptions in triggering the Cretaceous extinction event, alongside the Chixculub asteroid impact.

Far Outliers notes the problems of Lawrence of Arabia with Indian soldiers and with Turks.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing takes issue with the state of philosophical contemplation about technology, at least in part a structural consequence of society.

Hornet Stories shares this feature examining the future of gay porn, in an environment where amateur porn undermines the existing studios.

JSTOR Daily considers the spotty history of casting African-American dancers in ballet.

Language Hat suggests that the Académie française will soon accept for French feminized nouns of nouns links to professionals ("écrivaine" for a female writer, for instance).

The LRB Blog considers the implications of the stripping of citizenship from Shamima Begum. Who is next? How badly is citizenship weakened in the United Kingdom?

Marginal Revolution notes the upset of Haiti over its banning by Expedia.

The NYR Daily notes the tension in Turkey between the country's liberal laws on divorce and marriage and rising Islamization.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the moment, in the history of the universe, when dark energy became the dominant factors in the universe's evolution.

Towleroad remembers Roy Cohn, the lawyer who was the collaborator of Trump up to the moment of Cohn's death from AIDS.

Understanding Society's Daniel Little takes a look at Marx's theories of how governments worked.

Window on Eurasia looks at the existential pressures facing many minority languages in Russia.

The Crux notes the discovery of a second impact crater in Greenland, hidden under the ice.

D-Brief notes new evidence that ancient Celts did, in fact, decapitate their enemies and preserve their heads.

Far Outliers notes how Pakhtun soldier Ayub Khan, in 1914-1915, engaged in some cunning espionage for the British Empire on the Western Front.

Kashmir Hill at Gizmodo notes how cutting out the big five tech giants for one week--Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft--made it almost impossible for her to carry on her life.

Hornet Stories notes that, unsurprisingly, LGBTQ couples are much more likely to have met online that their heterosexual counterparts.

At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox imagines Elizabeth Warren giving a speech that touches sensitively and intelligently on her former beliefs in her Cherokee ancestry.

Mónica Belevan at the Island Review writes, directly and allegorically, about the Galapagos Islands and her family and Darwin.

JSTOR Daily looks at the economics of the romance novel.

Language Hat notes the Mandombe script creating by the Kimbanguist movement in Congo.

Harry Stopes at the LRB Blog notes the problem with Greater Manchester Police making homeless people a subject of concern.

Ferguson activists, the NYR Daily notes, are being worn down by their protests.

Roads and Kingdoms lists some things visitors to the Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent should keep in mind.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel makes a case for supersymmetry being a failed prediction.

Towleroad notes the near-complete exclusion of LGBTQ subjects and themes from schools ordered by Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro.

Window on Eurasia notes a somewhat alarmist take on Central Asian immigrant neighbourhoods in Moscow.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the Kurds, their history, and his complicated sympathy for their concerns.

Sault Sainte-Marie hopes to recruit former GM workers from Oshawa to live in that less expensive city, Global News reports.

Robert Vandenwinkel at HuffPost Quebec makes the case for Québec City not developing a tramway but rather a subway.

Daily Hive notes that the British Columbia government has increased its funding into research into a high-speed rail link connecting Vancouver to points south.

CityLab notes that Edinburgh is imposing a tourist tax.

The Guardian shares images of some of the rejected designs for the famous Sydney Opera House.

Jamie Bradburn considers the history of the construction of the Toronto PATH network, and the surprising controversy. Many, it seems, did not want to live like moles.

VICE takes a look at how Airbnb is directly driving people out of their neighbourhoods.

The Toronto Star looks at a houseboat in the Scarborough Bluffs area that looks very homey.

The aging apartment buildings of Toronto need care, perhaps a lot of care, if they are to continue to house safely their many hundreds of thousands of inhabitants. CBC Toronto reports.

Postcity considers what, exactly, the slowing of development applications in Yonge and Eglinton means. Will the same hypertrophy spread to other neighbourhoods, soon to be overburdened?

This article at The Conversation examines the adverse effect of Airbnb on urban housing markets worldwide.

CityLab looks at how NIMBYism advanced to the point of blocking progress in cities generally.

JSTOR Daily looks at how many vulnerable cities, especially on shorelines, are at risk of sinking.

Oliver Milman at Guardian Cities looks at how New York City, and other metropolises, are starting to study the soil they lie over. (I compost; at least I try to.)

Oliver Balch at Guardian Cities takes a look at anti-tours, tours of cities which self-consciously consider elements and areas of urban life often overlooked by regular tourists. (I love the mention of Jane's Walk--I went to the very walk by Union Station mentioned in the article!)

CityLab looks at the fight to resist the low-density urban sprawl of Québec City into surrounding farmland at Beauport.

CityLab looks at the vanished history of African-American tourism in Atlantic City.

The population of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in northern Alberta, around Fort McMurray, has fallen by 11% in the past few years. Global News reports.

Guardian Cities looks at how placemaking, the creation of innovation clusters attracting attention, is undermining social housing in London.

CityLab looks at the challenges faced by Copenhagen, with a questionable model of urban redevelopment set to climax in the production of artificial islands.

MacLean's looks at Dan Carver, mayor of Oshawa. Can this man, who overcame a very rough early adulthood, help the city survive the end of its automotive sector?

A park in Halifax has been named in honour of murdered LGBTQ activist Raymond Taavel. Global News reports.

Open Democracy notes how the rapid spread of rental accommodations in Porto, the second city of Lisbon, is threatening permanent residents with the loss of their homes.

CityLab notes how activists in Tel Aviv are trying to save the ficus trees planted along major avenues decades ago from mass transit construction.

Guardian Cities looks at how a lack of effective planning threatens to make Tehran unlivable for most of its residents.

Quartz notes that Japan this year is hoping to regain two of the Kuril Islands from Russia.

This sad report looks at how the wild horses of Chincoteague island, off the coast of Virginia, are endangered by an infectious fungus.

Guardian Cities notes how an energetic resistance in Heraklion, chief city of the island of Crete, helped drive out Golden Dawn.

Conservative Home shares an article noting that hopes for a tourism boom in the isolated South Atlantic island of St. Helena have come to naught because weather makes regular flights prohibitive.

Bloomberg reported last April that Fisher Island, off Miami, zip code 33109, is the richest zip code in the United States.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Québec City, Fort Lee, Vancouver, Paris and Saint-Denis, Sutera
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Niagara Falls, London, Québec City, Surrey, Onagawa
[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Montréal, Camden, Derry, Rome, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Dhaka & Calcutta
[BLOG] Some Saturday links
[BLOG] Some Thursday links
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Hamilton, Blacks Harbour, New York City, Byron Bay, Luxembourg
[BLOG] Some Thursday links
[PHOTO] What I saw on my trip, day by day
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Tromsø, Marseilles, Brampton, Harbin
[BLOG] Some Friday links
[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Oshawa and Sault Ste Marie, Québec City, Vancouver, Edinburgh, Sydney
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: PATH, Airbnb, houseboat, apartment towers, neighbourhoods
[URBAN NOTE] Five notes about cities: Airbnb, NIMBYism, sinking, soil, anti-tours and Jane's Walk
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Québec City, Atlantic City, Wood Buffalo, London, Copenhagen
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Oshawa, Halifax, Porto, Tel Aviv, Tehran
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Entries tagged with tourism

[URBAN NOTE] Ten city links: Hamilton, Ottawa, Montréal, Kingston, Vancouver, Toledo, NYC, Bodie ...

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[NEWS] Five Canadian culture links: Ontario, French's, Sealfest, Beauty in a Box, oilpatch & drugs

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Québec City, Fort Lee, Vancouver, Paris and Saint-Denis, Sutera

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Niagara Falls, London, Québec City, Surrey, Onagawa

[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Montréal, Camden, Derry, Rome, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Dhaka & Calcutta

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Hamilton, Blacks Harbour, New York City, Byron Bay, Luxembourg

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[PHOTO] What I saw on my trip, day by day

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Tromsø, Marseilles, Brampton, Harbin

[BLOG] Some Friday links

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Oshawa and Sault Ste Marie, Québec City, Vancouver, Edinburgh, Sydney

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: PATH, Airbnb, houseboat, apartment towers, neighbourhoods

[URBAN NOTE] Five notes about cities: Airbnb, NIMBYism, sinking, soil, anti-tours and Jane's Walk

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Québec City, Atlantic City, Wood Buffalo, London, Copenhagen

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Oshawa, Halifax, Porto, Tel Aviv, Tehran

[ISL] Five #islands links: Kurils, Chincoteague, Crete, St. Helena, Fisher Island