[NEWS] Twenty news links

Dec. 23rd, 2019 09:43 pm
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  • NOW Toronto looks at the Pickering nuclear plant and its role in providing fuel for space travel.

  • In some places like California, traffic is so bad that airlines actually play a role for high-end commuters. CBC reports.

  • Goldfish released into the wild are a major issue for the environment in Québec, too. CTV News reports.

  • China's investments in Jamaica have good sides and bad sides. CBC reports.

  • A potato museum in Peru might help solve world hunger. The Guardian reports.

  • Is the Alberta-Saskatchewan alliance going to be a lasting one? Maclean's considers.

  • Is the fossil fuel industry collapsing? The Tyee makes the case.

  • Should Japan and Europe co-finance a EUrasia trade initiative to rival China's? Bloomberg argues.

  • Should websites receive protection as historically significant? VICE reports.

  • Food tourism in the Maritimes is a very good idea. Global News reports.

  • Atlantic Canada lobster exports to China thrive as New England gets hit by the trade war. CBC reports.

  • The Bloc Québécois experienced its revival by drawing on the same demographics as the provincial CAQ. Maclean's reports.

  • Population density is a factor that, in Canada, determines political issues, splitting urban and rural voters. The National Observer observes.

  • US border policies aimed against migration from Mexico have been harming businesses on the border with Canada. The National Post reports.

  • The warming of the ocean is changing the relationship of coastal communities with their seas. The Conversation looks.

  • Archival research in the digital age differs from what occurred in previous eras. The Conversation explains.

  • The Persian-language Wikipedia is an actively contested space. Open Democracy reports.

  • Vox notes how the US labour shortage has been driven partly by workers quitting the labour force, here.

  • Laurie Penny at WIRED has a stirring essay about hope, about the belief in some sort of future.

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[CAT] Seven #caturday links: Lil Bub, Pallas cats, Smudge, adoptions, expressions

Dec. 7th, 2019 01:19 pm
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  • This Wired obituary for Lil Bub, arguing that the time for the Internet to be a place fo whimsy is over, does make me sad.

  • Norwegian forest cats look amazing! The Dockyards has photos.

  • The Pallas cats newly in the Calgary Zoo are, rightfully, becoming big hits. Cottage Life has more.

  • Ottawa cat Smudge, already a meme hit, has become a celebrity. CBC Ottawa has more.

  • Unsurprisingly, cats bond with their owners in the same sort of way as dogs and even human infants. More here.

  • Happily, record numbers of cats are being adopted from shelters, given new homes. Global News reports.

  • Some few people are apparently good are deciphering the expressions of cats, 15% of the total in one study sample. VICE reports.

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[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Guelph, Innisfil, Montréal, Asbestos, Québec City, Alberta, Richmond

Nov. 28th, 2019 05:17 pm
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  • Guelph will be holding an open house to see what development will replace the Dolime Quarry. Global News reports.

  • The town of Innisfil has extended its Uber subsidy program for people in need of transit. Global News reports
  • Archeologists in Montréal have found a mass grave of Irish famine victims. CTV reports.

  • The Québec town of Asbestos is changing its name so as to avoid the link, in English, with the toxic mineral. CTV reports.

  • A subway, alas, would be too big for Québec City. Streetcars would work better. Le Devoir reports.

  • Can a hyperloop be built to plug Edmonton together with Calgary? Global News considers.

  • Richmond, British Columbia, has unveiled a cultural harmony strategy to help its diverse population get along. The National Post reports.

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[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Ottawa, Longueuil, Montréal, Winnipeg, Saint John, Halifax, Lethbridg

Nov. 25th, 2019 08:23 pm
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  • The Ottawa Citizen suggests a recent audit of OC Transpo should have offered warnings of the Confederation Line problems to come.

  • A project office has been set up for the extension of the Yellow Line in Longueuil and elsewhere on the south shore. CTV News reports.

  • La Presse looks at the concerns of some artists in Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie that they might be forced out by gentrification.

  • That the Bay Building in downtown Winnipeg has been evaluated as being of little value offers an opening to Heritage Winnipeg. Global News reports.

  • The New Brunswick government is forcing suburbs of Saint John to pay for city facilities that they also used. Global News reports.

  • Short-term rentals are having a negative effect on real estate markets in Halifax. Global News reports.

  • Downtown Lethbridge faces struggles to attract business. Global News reports.

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[NEWS] Ten #cdnpoli links

Nov. 6th, 2019 11:54 pm
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  • CBC looks at the internal splits within British Columbia, between the Liberal-leaning coast and the Alberta-leaning interior, here.

  • The legal departure of oil company EnCana from its Alberta headquarters is the cause of great upset. CBC reports.

  • Will Andrew Scheer survive as leader of the Conservative Party, with challengers like Peter MacKay? The National Observer reports.

  • People in Lloydminister, on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, reflect the frustrations of the populations of the two provinces. CBC reports.

  • Philippe Fournier at MacLean's writes about the sharp rural-urban political split in Canada.

  • Green Party Fredericton MP Jenica Atwin is interviewed by the National Observer about her goals, here.

  • The Treaty 8 chiefs have united in opposition to the separation of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Global News reports.

  • CBC reported on the multiple MP candidates who, genealogist Darryl Leroux found, falsely claimed indigenous ancestry.

  • Jessica Deer reported for CBC about the near-universal boycott by the Haudenosaunee of #elxn43, and the reasons for this boycott.

  • Scott Gilmore recently a href="https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-u-s-is-sinking-maybe-its-time-for-canada-to-jump-ship/">suggested at MacLean's that, noting American instability, Canada might do well to secure itself and promote its multilateralism by seeking to join the EU.

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NEWS] Eighteen #cdnpoli and #exln43 links

Oct. 23rd, 2019 03:03 pm
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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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[NEWS] #cdnpoli and #elxn41 items from across Canada: BC, Alberta, Québec, PEI

Oct. 21st, 2019 07:11 pm
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  • The affordability of rent was an election issue in British Columbia. CBC reports.

  • Philippe Fournier notes at Maclean's that the sheer solidity of the Conservative vote in Alberta means that province will not get that much attention.

  • The Bloc Québécois has good reason to be exacerbating the clash between Québec and Alberta in the federal campaign. The National Post reports.

  • CBC reports on the growing unpopularity of the Liberals in Québec outside of Montréal, here.

  • That the Liberals had a campaign song that was initially translated very badly into French is a big gaffe. CTV News reports.

  • Philippe Fournier at Maclean's noted the legendary volatility of Québec politics, here.

  • Will the Orange Line extension in Montréal be guaranteed funding, no matter who gets elected? CBC reports.

  • The fate of NDP Berthier-Maskonge MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau, elected in the 2011 Orange Wave, may determine the fate of the NDP in Québec. CTV News reports.

  • Atlantic Canada is likely to see substantial losses for the Liberals, as reported here.

  • Stu Neatby reports that advance poll turnout on PEI rose by 13% compared to 2015.

  • Will the PEI riding of Egmont go Conservative? CBC considers.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Ottawa, Moncton, New York City, Calgary, Richmond

Sep. 21st, 2019 07:48 pm
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  • The Ottawa Citizen reports on the first week of the Confederation Line LRT.

  • The New Brunswick city of Moncton now has new affordable housing--20 units--for vulnerable people. Global News reports.

  • CityLab looks at one photographer's perspective of the New York City skyline, changed by the 9/11 attacks.

  • An alleyway in Calgary is being transformed by art. Global News reports.

  • Birth tourism might become an election issue in the British Columbia city of Richmond. Global News reports.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Kingston, Town of the Blue Mountains, Québec City, Calgary, Edmonton

Sep. 19th, 2019 04:26 pm
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  • Kingston will be hosting an open house discussion on the legacies of its most famous resident, John A. MacDonald. Global News reports.

  • The Toronto Star reports on a beach and land ownership controversy in the Georgian Bay resort Town of the Blue Mountains, here.

  • CBC Montreal reports on the closure of the Québec City church Très-Saint-Sacrement, after just under a century of operation, here.

  • Cost increases for the Green Line LRT in Calgary may lead to route changes. Global News reports.

  • The Brick has taken over the space of Sears in the West Edmonton Mall, offering hope to shopping malls of survival. Global News reports.

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[NEWS] Five politics links: Ontario, Québec, NDP, Prince Andrew, Alberta

Sep. 15th, 2019 10:07 pm
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  • Enzo DiMatteo suggests at NOW Toronto that Ford wants Scheer to lose, so Ford will have a chance with the federal Conservatives, here.

  • Jonathan Montpetit writes at CBC Montreal about the conservative nationalism that has become mainstream in Québec under the CAQ, here.

  • Robyn Urback writes at the CBC about the failure of the NDP under Jagmeet Singh to capitalize on the weakness of the two dominant parties, here.

  • I do think that the rumoured connections of Prince Andrew to the Epstein network could easily become a huge unexpected crisis for the British royal family. VICE reports.

  • Max Fawcett at MacLean's is probably right to note that, to be taken seriously, Alberta should stop voting Conservative. His arguments are here.

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[URBAN NOTE] Ten city links: Montréal, Lac-Mégantic, Halifax, Calgary, Edmonton ...

Sep. 1st, 2019 12:16 pm
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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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[CAT] Five links about cats: Peter Watts and Minion, Toronto, Alberta, sea lions, Marrakech

Aug. 31st, 2019 01:20 pm
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  • Author Peter Watts bids farewell to his noble companion cat, Minion.

  • Narcity notes that Toronto Animal Services is offering cats (and dogs) at a discount.

  • An Alberta organization aiming to rehouse cats from older owners has found itself overwhelmed. CBC reports.

  • A parasite spread by housecats, Smithsonian reports, is responsible for mass deaths in sea lion colonies in California.

  • The suffering of the stray cats of Marrakech, Morocco, prone to all sorts of illness and cruelty, sounds terrible. Morocco World News has it.

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[NEWS] Five links about politics: pro-Bernier billboard, elx2019, Alberta, #mayorpete, Andrew Yang

Aug. 26th, 2019 09:55 pm
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  • The way this pro-Maxine Bernier anti-immigrant billboard campaign ended up collapsing so completely pleases me. Global News reports.

  • The CBC polls different experts to see if the unpopularity of Doug Ford in Ontario will undermine the Conservatives across Canada.

  • I will be interested to see if separatism in Alberta will take off. The National Post reports.

  • The proposal of Pete Buttigieg to get mental health care funded by insurance makes sense to me. VICE has it.

  • Michael Kruse writes at POLITICO about the growing appeal of Andrew Yang to many voters in the US.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Windsor, Calgary, Mulhouse, Naples, Dhaka

Jun. 2nd, 2019 03:33 pm
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  • This Shane Mitchell op-ed at Spacing warns about how plans for a new hospital in Windsor can threaten to promote sprawl.

  • Debates over bike traffic laws are ongoing in Calgary. Global News reports.

  • Guardian Cities looks at how the downtown of the French city of Mulhouse has been successfully regenerated.

  • Guardian Cities looks at how the infamous housing estate of Scampia outside of Naples, famously derelict and a nexus for crime, is finally being torn down.

  • Atlas Obscura notes an Armenian church in Dhaka, last remnant of a once-vast Armenian trading diaspora that extended out to Bengal.

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

Apr. 22nd, 2019 09:26 pm
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  • 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.

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[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: loonie, Alberta, Jess Guilbeaux, Grindr and Blued, The Matrix

Apr. 21st, 2019 12:47 pm
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  • CBC reports on the controversies surrounding the creation of a loonie one-dollar coin celebrating the 50th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality.

  • Daily Xtra reports on the consequences of the election of Jason Kenney and the rise of the UCP to power in Alberta for LGBTQ people.

  • This VICE interview with Queer Eye subject Jess Guilbeaux on her experiences being black and lesbian in Kansas is inspiring.

  • This Radiichina article, noting American concerns over Chinese ownership of Grindr, looks on China's similar and arguably more successful app Blued.

  • This fascinating Vox article by Emily Sandalwood looks at how the Wachowskis represented the trans experience in the Matrix trilogy.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Thunder Bay, London, Hong Kong, Edmonton

Mar. 29th, 2019 05:32 pm
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  • CTV News reports the exceptional popularity of a Toronto Blue Jays away game in Montréal.

  • A library n Thunder Bay is playing a critical role in helping treat the ills of that city. Tanya Talaga writes at the Toronto Star.

  • Guardian Cities reports on how poor children in mixed-use housing in London are being kept from using public playgrounds.

  • The Financial Times reports on the rapid growth of the French immigrant community in Hong Kong, now numbering tens of thousands of people.

  • Céline von Engelhardt writes at MacLean's about how Sobey's has secured for itself, in the new north-central Edmonton neighbourhood of Griesbach, restrictive covenants that exclude any possible retail competition elsewhere in the neighbourhood.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Lethbridge, Tuktoyaktuk, Hong Kong, Berlin

Mar. 18th, 2019 04:07 pm
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  • MTLBlog reports from each borough of Montréal to see what a monthly rent of $C 1000 can get a hopeful tenant. The results will shock you, especially if you are used to Toronto rents (or higher!).

  • The Alberta city of Lethbridge hopes, coming the 2020 census, its population will finally reach the mark of one hundred thousand residents. Global News reports.

  • The northern Canadian town of Tuktoyaktuk is literally falling into the Arctic Ocean, as the ground crumbles while the sea rises. The National Post reports.

  • The aging of the population of taxi drivers of Hong Kong leaves open the question of who, or what, will take their place. Bloomberg reports.

  • CityLab reports on the remarkable ambition of the new transit plan of Berlin.

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[NEWS] Five Indigenous links: Toronto housing, Kahnawake, Mohawk language, archive, Wilson-Raybould

Mar. 1st, 2019 07:22 pm
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  • CBC reports on the exceptional problems facing Indigenous people hoping to rent housing in Toronto.

  • The Mohawk community of Kahnawake is divided by a new proposal to open up slot machines. CBC reports.

  • Kanesatake has a new app aiming to promote knowledge of the Mohawk language among its users. CBC reports.

  • An Edmonton man is trying to compile an archive of Indigenous audiovisual material for future generations, Global News reports.

  • This article at The Conversation places Jody Wilson-Raybould in a tradition of Indigenous women who were tellers of truths to power.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Brooklyn and Queens, Calgary, El Paso, Sheffield, Nairobi

Feb. 9th, 2019 12:49 pm
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