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  • Marginal Revolution features a critical if friendly review of the new Emmanuel Todd book, Lineages of Modernity.

  • Marginal Revolution considers the problems of excessive consumer activism, here.

  • Marginal Revolution notes a new book looking at natural gas economics in Europe, here.

  • Marginal Revolution notes new evidence that YouTube algorithms do not tend to radicalize users, here.

  • Marginal Revolution notes the few countries where the average person was richer in 2009 than in 2019, notably Greece and Venezuela.

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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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  • By at least one metric, New Brunswick now lags economically behind a more dynamic Prince Edward Island. CBC reports.

  • NOW Toronto looks at toxic fandoms. ("Stanning" sounds really creepy to me.)

  • This CityLab article looks at how the particular characteristics of Japan, including its high population density, helps keep alive there retail chains that have failed in the US.

  • MacLean's looks at Kent Monkman, enjoying a new level of success with his diptych Mistikôsiwak at the Met in NYC.

  • Can there be something that can be said for the idea of an Internet more strongly pillarized? Wired argues.

  • I reject utterly the idea of meaningful similarities between Drake and Leonard Cohen. CBC did it.

  • Toronto Life looks at the life of a Hamilton woman hurt badly by the cancellation of the basic income pilot, here.

  • Inspired by the death of Gord Downie, Ontario now has the office of poet-laureate. CBC reports.

  • Is Canada at risk, like Ireland, of experiencing two-tier health care? CBC considers.

  • A French immigrant couple has brought the art of artisanal vinegar to ile d'Orléans. CBC reports.

  • Shore erosion is complicating the lives of people along Lake Erie. CBC reports.

  • MacLean's notes how Via Rail making it difficult for people without credit cards to buy anything on their trains, hurting many.

  • Michelle Legro notes at Gen that the 2010s is the decade where conspiracy culture became mainstream.

  • This essay by Robert Greene at his blog talking about what history, and historians, can do in our era is thought-provoking.

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  • A historic bridge over the Credit River in Mississauga, happily, will not be demolished but instead will be repaired. CBC reports.

  • Now that automobile production has stopped at the Oshawa General Motors plant, what will become of that city? CBC reports.

  • The auditor-general of Ontario will investigate the claimed costs that led to the cancellation of the Hamilton LRT. Global News reports.

  • A new bus route now connects London, Ontario, to Sarnia. Global News reports.

  • Kingstonist reports that filming for the season finale of Star Trek: Discovery has just finished up in Kingston, at the pen.

  • Joe Buongiorno writes at CBC Montreal at his, specifically Italian Canadian, experiences with the Jean Talon Market in Montréal.

  • Le Devoir notes that many radio stations in Québec City are leading opposition to the proposed streetcar system.

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  • Charlie Stross at Antipope shares an essay he recently presented on artificial intelligence and its challenges for us.

  • P. Kerim Friedman writes at {anthro}dendum about the birth of the tea ceremony in the Taiwan of the 1970s.

  • Anthropology net reports on a cave painting nearly 44 thousand years old in Indonesia depicting a hunting story.

  • Architectuul looks at some temporary community gardens in London.

  • Bad Astronomy reports on the weird history of asteroid Ryugu.

  • The Buzz talks about the most popular titles borrowed from the Toronto Public Library in 2019.

  • Caitlin Kelly talks at the Broadside Blog about her particular love of radio.

  • Centauri Dreams talks about the role of amateur astronomers in searching for exoplanets, starting with LHS 1140 b.

  • John Quiggin at Crooked Timber looks at what is behind the rhetoric of "virtue signalling".

  • Dangerous Minds shares concert performance from Nirvana filmed the night before the release of Nevermind.

  • Bruce Dorminey notes new evidence that, even before the Chixculub impact, the late Cretaceous Earth was staggering under environmental pressures.

  • Myron Strong at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about how people of African descent in the US deal with the legacies of slavery in higher education.

  • Far Outliers reports on the plans in 1945 for an invasion of Japan by the US.

  • L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing gathers together a collection of the author's best writings there.

  • Gizmodo notes the immensity of the supermassive black hole, some 40 billion solar masses, at the heart of galaxy Holm 15A 700 million light-years away.

  • Russell Arben Fox at In Media Res writes about the issue of how Wichita is to organize its civic politics.

  • io9 argues that the 2010s were a decade where the culture of the spoiler became key.

  • The Island Review points readers to the podcast Mother's Blood, Sister's Songs, an exploration of the links between Ireland and Iceland.

  • Joe. My. God. reports on the claim of the lawyer of the killer of a mob boss that the QAnon conspiracy inspired his actions. This strikes me as terribly dangerous.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at a study examining scholarly retractions.

  • Language Hat shares an amusing cartoon illustrating the relationships of the dialects of Arabic.

  • Language Log lists ten top new words in the Japanese language.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the dissipation of American diplomacy by Trump.

  • The LRB Blog looks at the many problems in Sparta, Greece, with accommodating refugees, for everyone concerned.

  • Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting the decline of the one-child policy in China has diminished child trafficking, among other crimes.

  • Sean Marshall, looking at transit in Brampton, argues that transit users need more protection from road traffic.

  • Russell Darnley shares excerpts from essays he wrote about the involvement of Australia in the Vietnam War.

  • Peter Watts talks about his recent visit to a con in Sofia, Bulgaria, and about the apocalypse, here.

  • The NYR Daily looks at the corporatization of the funeral industry, here.

  • Diane Duane writes, from her own personal history with Star Trek, about how one can be a writer who ends up writing for a media franchise.

  • Jim Belshaw at Personal Reflections considers the job of tasting, and rating, different cuts of lamb.

  • The Planetary Society Blog looks at a nondescript observatory in the Mojave desert of California that maps the asteroids of the solar system.

  • Roads and Kingdoms interviews Eduardo Chavarin about, among other things, Tijuana.

  • Drew Rowsome loves the SpongeBob musical.

  • Peter Rukavina announces that Charlottetown has its first public fast charger for electric vehicles.

  • The Russian Demographics Blog considers the impact of space medicine, here.

  • The Signal reports on how the Library of Congress is making its internet archives more readily available, here.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers how the incredibly isolated galaxy MCG+01-02-015 will decay almost to nothing over almost uncountable eons.

  • Strange Company reports on the trial and execution of Christopher Slaughterford for murder. Was there even a crime?

  • Strange Maps shares a Coudenhove-Kalergi map imagining the division of the world into five superstates.

  • Understanding Society considers entertainment as a valuable thing, here.

  • Denis Colombi at Une heure de peine announces his new book, Où va l'argent des pauvres?

  • John Scalzi at Whatever looks at how some mailed bread triggered a security alert, here.

  • Window on Eurasia reports on the massive amount of remittances sent to Tajikistan by migrant workers, here.

  • Arnold Zwicky notes a bizarre no-penguins sign for sale on Amazon.

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  • Marginal Revolution considers if the CFA franc system is dying out, here.

  • Marginal Revolution shares a link to a paper quantifying the effects of the old boys club, here.

  • Marginal Revolution contrasts and compares the old NAFTA and the new USMCA, here.

  • Marginal Revolution notes how Germany has access to nuclear weapons, here.

  • Marginal Revolution looks at the high rate of consainguineous marriage in Saudi Arabia, here.

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  • A new storyboard in Niagara Falls displays the importance of railways to the city. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • Niagara Falls city council is considering the idea of linking casinos by aerial car. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • Global News reports on a drug bust that saw two people arrested in Niagara Falls.

  • The Niagara Falls Review reports the number of reported homicides in Niagara Region tripled in 2019, to six.

  • The immersive live nativity hosted by a Niagara Falls church sounds interesting. More is here.

  • A recent discussion at Niagara Falls city council was dominated by discussion of housing issues and of homelessness. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • Most revenues from the casinos of Niagara Falls have been directed to the infrastructure of the city. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • City council in Niagara Falls has approved the construction of a 72-storey hotel. Construct Connect reports.

  • In November, the mayor announced the old city hall and courthouse in the downtown of Niagara Falls was scheduled to be demolished. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • The Bath House Hotel once was intended to be a centrepiece of local tourism. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • Carrie Bosco writes about the experience of a customer service associate working at the Niagara Falls Public Library, over at the Niagara Falls Review.

  • The Niagara Falls Public Library in winter is a happening place for locals. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • A Chinese developer hopes that a proposed $C 1.5 billion dollar project in south Niagara Falls will still go forward. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • Niagara Falls is going to have a hard time replacing city historian Sherman Zavitz. The Niagaa Falls Review reports.

  • Niagara News reports on the Winter Festival of Lights in Niagara Falls.

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  • La Presse carries the concern of a Québec journalist that the decline of daily papers could have a catastrophic impact on the province's culture.

  • The Québec government would like financially-stressed newspaper group to form a coop. CTV News reports.

  • That the Toronto Star shut down its free Metro affiliates across Canada made the news in Halifax. CBC reports.

  • The closure of the Transcontinental Media printing plant in Borden-Carleton means that PEI no longer has a local printer for its media. CBC reports.

  • Sabrina Wilkinson writes at The Conversation about the increasingly tenuous nature of journalism in Canada, not least as an employer.

  • This Alex Migdal piece looks at how Guelph, Ontario, has fared since the closure of the Guelph Mercury daily.

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  • The town of Innisfil is looking forward to some very futuristic developments. Global News reports.

  • Jeremy Deaton at CityLab reports on how, buffered by the Great Lakes, Buffalo NY may end gaining from climate change.

  • The Ottawa chain Bridgehead Coffee has been sold to national chain Second Cup. Global News reports.

  • Many of the more eye-raising installations in the Gay Village of Montréal have since been removed. CTV News reports.

  • Warming huts for homeless people in Winnipeg were torn down because the builders did not follow procedures. Global News reports.

  • Open Democracy looks at innovative new public governance of the city budget in Amsterdam, here.

  • Singapore, located in a well-positioned Southeast Asia and with working government, may take over from Hong Kong. Bloomberg View makes the case.

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  • Transit Toronto celebrates the life of photographer John Bromney, here.

  • blogTO explains, with photos, the cause of the subway shutdown on Line 1 Wednesday night.

  • blogTO notes that the TTC wants to create five transit corridor for buses, including one on Dufferin Street.

  • Toronto is apparently the top tech city in Canada. blogTO reports.

  • John Lorinc at Spacing considers what affordable housing actually is, especially in the context of real-world constraints less generous than often imagined.

  • The displaced residents of Gosford have seen nothing from their apartment block's owners about housing options. Global News reports.

  • The TTC plans to have even more subway closures in 2020 than in 2019. Global News reports.

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  • The Map Room Blog links to some old maps of Montréal.

  • Major English-language newspapers in Montréal, including the Montreal Gazette, are no longer being distributed to Québec City clients. CBC reports.

  • Radio-Canada employees' union is concerned over cost overruns in the construction of a new headquarters for the French-language chain. CTV NEws reports.

  • La Presse notes how the to-be-demolished Champlain Bridge is a home for, among others, falcons.

  • The Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice, after the latest delay, will have been closed for nearly two decades. La Presse reports.

  • The Montreal Children's Library is celebrating its 90th anniversary with a fundraiser. CBC reports.

  • CBC Montreal looks at how, even without a stadium, legendary mayor Jean Drapeau brought major league baseball to his city.

  • The anti-gentrification University of the Streets group has some interesting ideas. CBC reports.

  • The city government of Montréal is looking into the issue of the high retail vacancy rates in parts of the city. CBC reports.

  • At CBC Montreal, Ontario-born Jessica Brown writes about her struggles with employment in her adopted city.

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  • NOW Toronto reports on the long-time independent weekly's sale to a venture capital firm, here.

  • The Yonge-Eglinton Centre now hosts a venue where people can nap in peace. Toronto Life has photos, here.

  • The family of North York van attack victim Anne-Marie D'Amico hopes to raise one million dollars for a women's shelter. The National Post reports.

  • Toronto Community Housing, after a terrible accident, has banned its tenants from having window air conditioners. Global News reports.
  • blogTO reports on the ridiculous heights to which surge pricing took ride fares on Uber and Lyft during yesterday morning's shutdown.

  • blogTO notes that the Ontario government has provided funding to study the idea of extension of the Eglinton Crosstown west to Pearson Airport.

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  • Bad Astronomer considers how a stellar-mass black hole of 70 solar masses got so unaccountably huge.

  • Alex Tolley at Centauri Dreams considers the colours of photosynthesis, and how they might reveal the existence of life on exoplanets.

  • The Dragon's Tales shares some links on humans in the Paleolithic.

  • Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog considers the scripts of jokes.

  • Gizmodo reports on the repurposed China-Netherlands radio telescope operating from an orbit above the far side of the Moon.

  • JSTOR Daily considers the political rhetoric of declinism.

  • Language Log considers the controversy over the future of the apostrophe.

  • James Butler at the LRB Blog notes a YouGov prediction of a Conservative majority in the UK and how this prediction is not value-neutral.

  • Marginal Revolution shares a paper from India noting how caste identities do affect the labour supply.

  • Ursula Lindsay at the NYR Daily considers if the political crisis in Lebanon, a product of economic pressures and sectarianism, might lead to a revolutionary transformation of the country away from sectarian politics.

  • Jim Belshaw at Personal Reflections looks at some of the many complicated and intermingled issues of contemporary Australia.

  • The Planetary Society Blog reports on the latest projects funded by the ESA.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares ten beautiful photos taken in 2019 by the Hubble.

  • Strange Company reports on the strange unsolved disappearance of Lillian Richey from her Idaho home in 1964.

  • Window on Eurasia shares a Russian criticism of the Ukrainian autocephalous church as a sort of papal Protestantism.

  • Arnold Zwicky considers the positive potential of homoeros.

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  • CBC reports on suggestions that Kingston should plan for a population expected to grow significantly in coming decades, to not just expand but to have intensified development downtown.

  • The rental housing market for Kingston is very tight, not only because of large student populations. Global News reports.

  • Kingstonist reports on Queen's plans to build a large new student residence on Albert Street, here.

  • The Whig-Standard carries an account of the new Queen's principal being interrogated by Kingston city council over issues of friction between school and city, including costs for policing (and not only at Homecoming weekend).

  • This summer, farmers in the Kingston area saw poor crop production as a consequence of the weather. Global News reports.

  • Happily, the budget of the city of Kingston was made to accommodate costs for Murney, the police force's horse. Global News reports.

  • Weston Food's plant in Kingston has seen forty jobs cut. Global News reports.

  • Lake Ontario Park, in the west of the city, may be reopened to limited camping. The Whig-Standard reports.

  • Kingston hockey player Rebecca Thompson is now playing for the team of Queen's. Global News reports.

  • Queen's University is not alone in urging its exchange students in Hong Kong to evacuate. The Whig-Standard reports.

  • Yesterday, a plane crashed in the west of Kingston, killing all seven people aboard. CBC reports.

  • Chris Morris at Kingstonist has a long feature examining the Kingston Street Mission, interviewing outreach worker Marilyn McLean about her work with the homeless of the city.

  • Kingston-born street nurse Cathy Crowe talks about homelessness, in Kingston and across Canada. Global News reports.

  • The family of Royal Military College cadet Joe Grozelle, who disappeared from his campus and was later found dead two decades ago, wants his fate reinvestigated. Global News reports.

  • A hundred students at a Kingston public school are being taught how to skate, part of a pilot program. Global News reports.

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  • 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.

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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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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait observes that a team may have discovered the elusive neutron star produced by Supernova 1987A, hidden behind a cloud of dust.

  • Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber shares a photo he made via the time-consuming 19th century wet-plate collodion method.

  • Drew Ex Machina's Andrew LePage looks at the Apollo 12 visit to the Surveyor 3 site to, among other things, see what it might suggest about future space archeology.

  • Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the story of rural poverty facing a family in Waverly, Ohio, observing how it is a systemic issue.

  • George Dvorsky at Gizmodo looks at how Mars' Jezero crater seems to have had a past relatively friendly to life, good for the next NASA rover.

  • Joe. My. God. reports on the latest ignorance displayed by Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter, this time regarding HIV.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at how Climategate was used to undermine popular opinion on climate change.

  • Language Hat links to an article explaining why so many works of classical literature were lost, among other things not making it onto school curricula.

  • Language Log shares a photo of a Muji eraser with an odd English label.

  • Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests Pete Buttigieg faces a campaign-limiting ceiling to his support among Democrats.

  • The LRB Blog argues that Macron's blocking of EU membership possibilities for the western Balkans is a terrible mistake.

  • The Map Room Blog shares a map depicting regional variations in Canada towards anthropogenic climate change. Despite data issues, the overall trend of oil-producing regions being skeptical is clear.

  • Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining the slowing pace of labour mobility in the US, suggesting that home attachment is a key factor.

  • Frederic Wehrey at the NYR Daily tells the story of Knud Holmboe, a Danish journalist who came to learn about the Arab world working against Italy in Libya.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why thermodynamics does not explain our perception of time.

  • Understanding Society's Dan Little looks at Electronic Health Records and how they can lead to medical mistakes.

  • Whatever's John Scalzi shares a remarkable photo of the night sky he took using the astrophotography mode on his Pixel 4 phone.

  • Window on Eurasia shares an opinion that the Intermarium countries, between Germany and Russia, can no longer count on the US and need to organize in their self-defense.

  • Arnold Zwicky shares a photo of his handsome late partner Jacques Transue, taken as a college student.

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  • The vicious homophobia exhibited by TCDSB trustee Mike Del Grande is, IMHO, another reason to defund public Catholic education in Ontario. Global News reports.

  • The CCLV streetcars of the TTC are set to be pulled by the end of November. Global News reports.

  • The Scarborough Bluffs are set to see some worthwhile investment. blogTO reports.

  • CBC notes growth in food bank usage in Toronto and Mississauga.

  • Presto users are being mischarged based on GPS mistakes. CBC reports.

  • Renovictions have spiked 300% over the past four years. blogTO reports.

  • The cost of rent continues to grow in Toronto. blogTO reports.

  • A new project hopes to make Yonge and Eglinton less congested. The Toronto Star reports.

  • New regulations about Airbnb should make the real estate market easier for renters. NOW Toronto reports.

  • Owing to family request, a new street in Etobicoke will not be named after former Toronto mayor Rob Ford. Global News reports.

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  • Work on the second stage of Ion expansion, south into Cambridge, will not even start until 2028, and is expected to cost at least $C 1.36 billion. Global News reports.

  • This proposal for regular two-way GO Transit rail connections between Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo, frankly, is desperately needed. The Record reports.

  • A cyclist faces charges for careless driving leading to a collision with a LRT in Kitchener. CBC reports.

  • A GoFundMe campaign for a woman hit by a train in Kitchener has raised more than $C14 thousand. The Record reports.

  • A school bus driver has been charged for stopping his vehicle dangerously close to a rail crossing in Cambridge. The Record reports.

  • Waterloo Region is a successful testbed for virtual doctor visits. The Record reports.

  • The Charles Street bus terminal in downtown Kitchener is not going to be redeveloped for at least a couple of years. The Record reports.

  • Waterloo Region hopes to create more than 600 affordable new homes, in five developments, over the next decade. CBC reports.

  • The number of single food bank users in Kitchener-Waterloo has doubled over the past five years. CBC reports.

  • Waterloo is spending $C 3 million to renovate and modernize a handsome old Carnegie Library. CBC reports.

  • A pop-up in Kitchener, Vivid Dreams, is charging customers up to $C 20 to use one of a dozen backgrounds for their Instagram photos. CBC reports.
  • A Kitchener woman, Heidi Bechtold, has a thriving new dog-related business, Complete K9. The Record reports.
  • The new digital lab at the Kitchener Public Library sounds great! The Record reports.

  • Andrew Coppolino at CBC Kitchener-Waterloo takes a look at some of the different cuisines and restaurants in Waterloo Region featuring noodles, here.

  • Andrew Coppolino at CBC Kitchener-Waterloo looks at the pastel de nata, the Portuguese egg custard, as an emerging commercial snack in Waterloo Region.

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  • Bad Astronomer notes a new study explaining how climate change makes hurricanes more destructive.

  • Centauri Dreams shares a mosaic photo of the sky with Alpha Centauri highlighted.

  • The Crux shares a paper explaining why the bubonic plague rarely becomes mass epidemics like the Black Death of the 14th century.

  • D-Brief notes the new ESA satellite ARIEL, which will be capable of determining of exoplanet skies are clear or not.

  • Gizmodo consults different experts on the subject of smart drugs. Do they work?

  • JSTOR Daily explains why Native Americans are so prominent in firefighting in the US Southwest.

  • Language Log looks at evidence for the diffusion of "horse master" between speakers of ancient Indo-European and Sinitic languages.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the election of Chesa Boudin as San Francisco District Attorney.

  • The LRB Blog considers the apparent pact between Farage and Johnson on Brexit.

  • Marginal Revolution looks at a paper examining longer-run effects of the integration of the US military on racial lines in the Korean War.

  • The NYR Daily looks at how Big Pharma in the US is trying to deal with the opioid epidemic.

  • The Signal explains how the Library of Congress is expanding its collections of digital material.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how future generations of telescopes will be able to directly measure the expansion of the universe.

  • The Volokh Conspiracy explains why DACA, giving succor to Dreamers, is legal.

  • Window on Eurasia notes that, after a century of tumult, the economy of Russia is back at the same relative ranking that it enjoyed a century ago.

  • Arnold Zwicky reports on an old butch cookbook.

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