A Bit More Detail

• 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.

• John Lorinc at Spacing considers the complication idea of a city charter for Toronto. Is it worth it? Does it ignore other governance issues?


• Tourism is booming in Toronto, transforming the economy of the metropolis. The Toronto Star reports.


• NOW Toronto notes how the Toronto District School Board is introducing educational courses intended to prepare students for careers in hospitality.


• Legal controversy surrounding the governance of Mount Pleasant Cemetery, and other like cemeteries in Toronto, is ongoing. The Toronto Star reports.


• In Milton, the owner of an illegal rooming house where one tenant died has been found financially liable. CBC reports.


• The Toronto Star tells the story of soldiers returning from the First World War who attacked Chinatown and its inhabitants, here.


• NOW Toronto points to an exhibition of photos created in solidarity with Hong Kong journalists.

• 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.

• Carl Newport at WIRED argues that past generations have never been as suspicious of technology as we now think, here.


• Anthropologist Darren Byler at The Conversation argues, based on his fieldwork in Xinjiang, how Uighurs became accustomed to the opportunities of new technologies until they were suddenly caught in a trap.


• James Verini at WIRED notes how the fighting around Mosul in the fall of ISIS could be called the first smartphone war.


• National Observer looks at how Québec is so far leading Canada in the development of clean technologies, including vehicles.


• VICE reports on how a Christian rock LP from the 1980s also hosted a Commodore 64 computer program.


• Megan Molteni at WIRED looks at a new, more precise, CRISPR technique that could be used to fix perhaps most genetic diseases.

Canada 2019 federal elections result map, from Wikipedia

• 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.

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how a photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud makes him recognize it as an irregular spiral, not a blob.


• Centauri Dreams celebrates the life of cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.


• John Quiggin at Crooked Timber takes issue with one particular claim about the benefits of war and empire.


• The Crux looks at fatal familial insomnia, a genetic disease that kills through inflicting sleeplessness on its victims.


• D-Brief looks at suggestions that magnetars are formed by the collisions of stars.


• Dangerous Minds introduces readers to the fantasy art of Arthur Rackham.


• Cody Delistraty considers some evidence suggesting that plants have a particular kind of intelligence.


• The Dragon's Tales notes the expansion by Russia of its airbase in Hneymim, Syria.


• Karen Sternheimer writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about the critical and changing position of libraries as public spaces in our cities.


• Gizmodo looks at one marvelous way scientists have found to cheat quantum mechanics.


• Information is Beautiful outlines a sensible proposal to state to cultivate seaweed a as source of food and fuel.


• io9 notes that, in the exciting new X-Men relaunch, immortal Moira MacTaggart is getting her own solo book.


• JSTOR Daily notes how the now-defunct Thomas Cook travel agency played a role in supporting British imperialism, back in the day.


• Language Log notes that the Oxford English Dictionary is citing the blog on the use of "their" as a singular.


• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the grounds for impeaching Donald Trump.


• The LRB Blog looks at the politics of Mozambique at the country approaches dangerous times.


• Sean Marshall notes the southern Ontario roads that run to Paris and to London.


• Neuroskeptic notes a problematic scientific study that tried to use rabbits to study the female human orgasm.


• Steve Baker at The Numerati looks at a new book on journalism by veteran Peter Copeland.


• The NYR Daily makes the point that depending on biomass as a green energy solution is foolish.


• The Planetary Science Blog notes a 1983 letter by then-president Carl Sagan calling for a NASA mission to Saturn and Titan.


• Roads and Kingdoms interviews photojournalist Eduardo Leal on his home city of Porto, particularly as transformed by tourism.


• Drew Rowsome notes the book Dreamland, an examination of the early amusement park.


• The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper considering, in broad detail, how the consequence of population aging could be mitigated in the labour market of the European Union.


• Strange Company reports on a bizarre poltergeist in a British garden shed.


• Window on Eurasia notes the new strength of a civic national identity in Kazakhstan, based on extensive polling.


• Arnold Zwicky, surely as qualified a linguist as any, examines current verb of the American moment, "depose".

• 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.

• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait shares a video of the expansion of supernova remnant Cas A.


• James Bow shares an alternate history Toronto transit map from his new novel The Night Girl.


• Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber notes the Boris Johnson coup.


• The Crux notes a flawed study claiming that some plants had a recognizable intelligence.


• D-Brief notes the mysterious absorbers in the clouds of Venus. Are they life?


• Dangerous Minds shares, apropos of nothing, the Jah Wabbles song "A Very British Coup."


• Cody Delistraty looks at bullfighting.


• Dead Things notes the discovery of stone tools sixteen thousand years old in Idaho which are evidence of the first humans in the Americas.


• io9 features an interview with authors Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz on worldbuilding.


• Joe. My. God. notes that a bill in Thailand to establish civil unions is nearing approval.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how using plastic in road construction can reduce pollution in oceans.


• Language Log looks to see if some police in Hong Kong are speaking Cantonese or Putonghua.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the perplexing ramblings and--generously--inaccuracy of Joe Biden.


• The LRB Blog asks why the United Kingdom is involved in the Yemen war, with Saudi Arabia.


• The Map Room Blog looks at the different efforts aiming to map the fires of Amazonia.


• Marginal Revolution reports on how some southern US communities, perhaps because they lack other sources of income, depend heavily on fines.


• The NYR Daily looks at the complex literary career of Louisa May Alcott, writing for all sorts of markets.


• Window on Eurasia reports on the apparently sincere belief of Stalin, based on new documents, that in 1934 he faced a threat from the Soviet army.


• Arnold Zwicky takes a look at fixings, or fixins, as the case may be.