A Bit More Detail

• Matt Gurney wonders if the losses of votes for the Conservatives in the Greater Toronto Area will doom Andrew Scheer, over at the National Post.


• Jamie Bradburn took a look at the opening of the Ontario Science Centre, here.


• Spacing shares an argument for density transition zones in Toronto, here.


• The Village Idiot Pub in Toronto, across Dundas from the AGO, will rebrand itself the Village Genius. Global News reports.


• Queen and Coxwell will soon host some new affordable housing. Global News reports.


• The closure of a flea market on Old Weston road, a year after a tragic shooting, is a shame. The Toronto Star
  
• I am going to see at least some of the works in this year's Toronto Biennial. NOW Toronto reports.

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.

• blogTO notes that Toronto is getting richer even as the rest of Canada is getting poorer, though growth in Toronto is drriven by debt.


• Steve Munro looks at the ongoing reconstruction of the intersection of Kingston Road and Queen.


• blogTO looks at the reopening of an illegal cannabis store.


• Jamie Bradburn looks at the different ways mass media in 1930 Toronto shared election results.


• Nicholas Sanderson writes at Spacing about what other cities can learn from the experience of Toronto with ride-hailing apps.

• 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.

• 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.

• CBC Prince Edward Island looks at the famous lupins of Prince Edward Island, here.


• There were mixed emotions, CBC Prince Edward Island reports, as non-residents of the Abegweit First Nation at Scotchfort were allowed to vote in band elections for the first time.


• Politicians report that, notwithstanding the lack of a formal agreement, right now it looks as if the minority Conservative government could last until 2023. CBC PEI has it.


• The raising of the pride flag in Charlottetown follows reports of homophobia outside of the capital, as small towns like Alberton refused requests. The Guardian reports.

• Architectuul notes the recent death of I.M. Pei.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes what, exactly, rubble-pile asteroids are.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about definitions of home.


• Centauri Dreams considers white dwarf planets.


• The Crux notes how ultra-processed foods are liked closely to weight gain.


• D-Brief observes that a thin layer of insulating ice might be saving the subsurface oceans of Pluto from freezing out.


• Bruce Dorminey notes the critical role played by Apollo 10 in getting NASA ready for the Moon landings.


• The Dragon's Tales notes the American government's expectation that China will seek to set up its own global network of military bases.


• Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina reports on the Soviet Union's Venera 5 and 6 missions to Venus.


• Far Outliers looks at the visit of U.S. Grant to Japan and China.


• Gizmodo notes a recent analysis of Neanderthal teeth suggesting that they split with Homo sapiens at a date substantially earlier than commonly believed.


• io9 notes the sheer scale of the Jonathan Hickman reboots for the X-Men comics of Marvel.


• Joe. My. God. shares the argument of Ted Cruz that people should stop making fun of his "space pirate" suggestion.I am inclined to think Cruz more right than not, actually.


• JSTOR Daily notes the wave of anti-black violence that hit the United States in 1919, often driven by returned veterans.


• Language Hat shares a recognizable complaint, written in ancient Akkadian, of bad customers.


• Language Log shares a report of a village in Brittany seeking people to decipher a mysterious etching.


• This Scott Lemieux report at Lawyers, Guns and Money about how British conservatives received Ben Shapiro is a must-read summary.


• Benjamin Markovits at the LRB Blog shares the reasons why he left his immigrant-heavy basketball team in Germany.


• Marginal Revolution looks at one effort in Brazil to separate people from their street gangs.


• The NYR Daily looks at how ISIS, deprived of its proto-state, has managed to thrive as a decentralized network.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw tells of his experiences and perceptions of his native region of New England, in southeastern Australia.


• The Planetary Society Blog notes how the Chang'e 4 rover may have found lunar mantle on the surface of the Moon.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that while Argentine president Mauricio Macri is polling badly, his opponents are not polling well.


• Roads and Kingdoms shares a list of things to do in see in the Peru capital of Lima.


• The Signal examines how the Library of Congress engages in photodocumentation.


• Van Waffle at the Speed River Journal explains how he is helping native insects by planting native plants in his garden.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how scientific illiteracy should never be seen as cool.


• Towleroad notes the questions of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as to why Truvada costs so much in the United States.


• Window on Eurasia notes how family structures in the North Caucasus are at once modernizing and becoming more conservative.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes how the distribution of US carriers and their fleets at present does not support the idea of a planned impending war with Iran.


• Arnold Zwicky examines the tent caterpillar of California.

• The shameful cuts to the Ontario public library system speak volumes about the attitude of Doug Ford towards education. The Toronto Star reports.


• Will this spring's flooding change the relationship of people in Québec to waterways like the St. Lawrence? CTV reports.
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• That the failures of infrastructure of Pacific Gas and Electric can be linked to so many catastrophic wildfires in California, and that nothing has been done despite this, shocks me. VICE reports.


• This Olivia Nuzzi profile of Pete Buttigieg and his presidential campaign at New York Magazine makes me like him all the more.


• This Open Democracy analysis of the amendment to the constitution of Brazil that sharply limits government expenditures, requiring unthinking austerity for the next two decades, is compelling.