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The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting exoplanet transits could start a galactic communications network.

The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the connections between eating and identity.

The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas looks at the need for a critical study of the relationship between technology and democracy.

Language Hat notes how nationalism split Hindustani into separate Hindi and Urdu languages.

Lawyers, Guns and Money reflects on the grim outlook in Somalia after the terrible recent Mogadishu bombing.

Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen thinks Trump's decertification of the Iran deal is a bad idea.

The Map Room Blog links to an article imagining a counter-mapping of the Amazon by indigenous peoples.

Neuroskeptic considers the possibility of Parkinson's being a prion disease, somewhat like mad cow disease.

The NYR Daily notes that a Brexit driven by a perceived need to take back control will not meet that need, at all.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw looks at the problem Sydney faces as it booms.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at the extent to which an independent Catalonia would be ravaged economically by a non-negotiated secession.

Peter Watts tells the sad story of an encounter between Toronto police and a homeless man he knows.

Window on Eurasia notes a Sakhalin bridge, like a Crimea bridge, may not come off because of Russian weakness.

DNA tests of Beothuk remains reveal that the extinct group was related to neither Mi'kmaq nor Inuit. The Globe and Mail reports.

Some Newfoundland outports are seeing many young professionals move in, to make homes and businesses. CBC reports.

Marginal Revolution claims a group wanting to mount a seasteading effort off French Polynesia are getting close to their goals.

Politico.eu notes that, in the Shetlands, while fishers hope Brexit will lead to the revival of the fisheries others fear a labour shortage without EU-27 migrants.

The way art helped build a stronger community in Parkdale is the subject of this NOW Toronto article.

The AGO has just landed a new curator of indigenous art, Anishinabe-kwe artist Wanda Nanibush.

Transitions Online notes how, under Communism, different Balkan peoples kept looking to a different west for entertainment.

MacLean's looks at the history of Canadian Thanksgiving.

The National Post notes that Toronto city council voted against naming a stadium after the late Rob Ford.

blogTO notes that Humber Bay Shores wants to run a private neighbourhood bus service, for want of a TTC presence.

Andrew Hunter, former Canadian curator at the AGO, calls for a decolonization of art galleries across Canada.

Joanna Lavoie describes the concrete sculptures of Duane Linklater newly installed across the Don valley.

At Torontoist, Dennis Duffy reports on the 19th century criminal gangs once populating the Don Valley. Seriously.

Hundreds of parrots in a Surrey sanctuary are still waiting for permanent homes. Global News reports.

NPR reports on how many Uighurs in China find success through their racially mixed appearances, as models.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer explains the rationale behind the Jones Act, with its stiff shipping charges for Puerto Rico.

The Chinese Buddhist fangsheng ritual, involving the release of captured animals into the wild, has issues. The Guardian reports.

Tyson Yunkaporta's essay takes a look at the appeal of SF/F, and post-apocalyptic fiction, for indigenous peoples.

In this unseasonably warm September, Toronto tenants need more air conditioning than some landlords provide. The Toronto Star reports.

NOW Toronto notes the launch of a new Kent Monkman canvas, this one depicting a Dutch-Iroquois treaty signing.

The bizarre story of an ISIS supporter who tried to attack people at a Canadian Tire store is getting more bizarre. The Toronto Star reports.

There is a possibility the Ontario minimum wage increase could hurt employment outside of well-off Toronto. The Globe and Mail reports.

Tory Senator Lynn Beyak's latest ignorant statements about First Nations have to disqualify her from public office. Global News reports.

Is the rebirth of Congo's palm oil exports sign of a return to normality? Can it occur? Will it last? Bloomberg examines.

Oli Mould is critical of the idea promoting the arts and public culture will do much for poorer urbanites, over at Open Democracy.

Tom Rowley profiles a book, drawn from a VKontakte group, examining the experiences of the former USSR in the 1990s, also at Open Democracy.

This VICE discussion about what "queer" means is fascinating.

Building two thousand affordable housing units in Toronto is a nice step forward. Will there be more steps? The Toronto Star reports.

This charming bit of improvised art down at Humber Bay Park reminds me that I really need to head down there. From the Toronto Star.

Montréal has stopped representing genocidal General Amherst on its flag, replacing it with a native pine tree. The National Post reports.

Emily Macrae at Torontoist suggests co-housing, drawn from a Québec model, is something Toronto might want to look into.

Richard Longley at NOW Toronto explores the Toronto Islands. Do they have a future? What will they need?

The Verge notes the Japanese cat island of Ainoshima has a music video in a bid to bring Ed Sheeran to its shores.

ABC notes new findings that Tasmanian Aborigines have used fire to manage their island's forests for 41k years.

The Independent notes the devastation of Barbuda by Hurricane Irma.

CBC looks at the causes of Salt Spring Island's divisions over the issue of becoming a municipality. (The antis won.)

If Greyhound pulls out of northern BC, and the rest of rural Canada, what will happen to these regions? CBC reports.

The militarized community policing describes in Bloomberg View in New York's famed Hamptons does say something worrisome of psyches.

A Bangladeshi observer makes the obvious point over at the Inter Press Service that Myanmar needs to radically change its treatment of the Rohingya.

Open Democracy looks at how the miliitarized US-Mexican border harms the Tohono O'odham, divided by said.

This Wired interview with Antonio Guillem, the photographer whose images made distracted boyfriend meme, is amazing.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how data mining of stellar surveys led to the discovery of a new star type, the BLAP.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly tells about her enjoyable recent stay at Fire Island.

Centauri Dreams notes the latest maneuvers of asteroid probe OSIRIS-REx.

The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper considering oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres as a biomarker.

Joe. My. God. notes how racist Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio is upset at being called a racist.

Language Log notes how China censored images of the Tibetan-language tattoo of MMA fighter Dan Hardy.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how deportees to Mexico are beset by that country's crime syndicates.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper considering how many sellers a market needs to be competitive.

The New APPS Blog considers the racism of Donald Trump in the light of Agamben's concept of the homo sacer.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw considers the issue of monuments in Australia in the context of Aborigines' sufferings by the subjects memorialized.

The Planetary Society Blog shows the Jupiter approach videos taken by the Voyager probes.

Towleroad explains why Diana, with her embrace of (among other things) fashion and AIDS victims, is a gay icon.

Arnold Zwicky notes the official registration in Scotland of a tartan for LGBT people.

Peter Geoghegan writes at Open Democracy about the mess that Brexit has made of Ireland, two decades after the Troubles' end.

Anthrodendum's Alex Golub notes that a North Korean attack on Guam, among other things, would threaten the Chamorro natives of the island.

The Toronto Star carries an excerpt from a book by Mark Dowie looking at how the Haida, of Haida Gwaii, managed to win government recognition of their existence.

CBC's Sameer Chhabra explores how Canadian students at Caribbean medical schools find it very difficult to get jobs back home.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the emergent evidence for exomoon Kepler-1625b-I.

Centauri Dreams looks at the future of technological civilizations: what if they do not always ascend, but stagnate?

D-Brief takes issue with the idea of the "digital native." Everyone needs to adopt new technology at some point.

Are Elon Musk and Space-X backing away from the Mars colony plans? The Dragon's Tales notes.

The Map Room Blog links to a map of massacres of Aborigines on the Australian frontiers.

Marginal Revolution wonders if widespread roboticization really will increase productivity much.

Roads and Kingdoms reports on the traditional rum of Newfoundland.

Drew Rowsome likes a new Toronto show, Permanence, in part for its take on male sexuality and sexual presence.

The Russian Demographics Blog notes that Russia leads the world in cat ownership.

Strange Company reports on coin-collecting 1920 cat Peter Pan Wass.

Understanding Society takes a look at the potential conflicts between "contingency" and "explanation."

The Volokh Conspiracy looks at how a Nassau County legislator wants to block a Roger Waters conconcert because of his support for an Israel boycott.

Window on Eurasia notes that Chinese outnumber Jews in the Far East's Jewish Autonomous Oblast. (Not many of both, mind.)

blogTO notes apartment complexes will soon be rezoned to allow them to host more businesses.

Torontoist's Tamara Yelland argues against Matt Gurney's dismissive take that people who can't afford Toronto housing should go.

Global News reports on the bidding wars for condo rentals in Toronto.

At CBC, Doug George-Kanentiio argues in favour of renaming Ryerson University, perhaps giving it a First Nations name.

The Toronto Star's Martin Regg Cohn reflects on his experiences around the world, seeing statues to past regimes taken down.

James Bow considers the idea of Christian privilege.

Centauri Dreams reports on the oddities of Ross 128.

D-Brief shares Matthew Buckley's proposal that it is possible to make planets out of dark matter.

Dead Things reports on the discoveries at Madjedbebe, in northern Australia, suggesting humans arrived 65 thousand years ago.

Bruce Dorminey reports on the idea that advanced civilizations may use sunshades to protect their worlds from overheating. (For terraforming purposes, too.)

Language Hat notes the struggles of some Scots in coming up with a rationalized spelling for Scots. What of "hert"?

The LRB Blog considers the way in which the unlimited power of Henry VIII will be recapitulated post-Brexit by the UK government.

Drew Rowsome quite likes the High Park production of King Lear.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers the idea that Pluto's moons, including Charon, might be legacies of a giant impact.

Unicorn Booty notes the terrible anti-trans "Civil Rights Uniformity Act." Americans, please act.

The Volokh Conspiracy considers/u> the perhaps-unique way a sitting American president might be charged with obstruction of justice.

Johann Hari writes for Open Democracy about what may be the beginning of the end of the drug war in Germany.

I am not in agreement with Joseph Couture's argument in NOW Toronto that the Internet has ended gay communities. (Convince me.)

Samantha Edwards reports in NOW Toronto controversy regarding the Parkdale feminist street art event. Was it really intersectional?

James Cooray Smith wonders--or "wonders"--why some Doctor Who fans are so upset with a woman portraying the Doctor.

In MacLean's, chief Perry Bellegarde argues that more Canadians should be concerned with the too-many deaths of young First Nations people in Thunder Bay.

The National Post tells the story of how Australian senator Larissa Walters had to unexpectedly resign her position on account of her Canadian birth.

Via James Nicoll, a paper claiming evidence of human presence in northern Australia, in Madjedbebe, 65k years ago.

National Geographic tells of the peculiar way some Gulf of Mexico dolphins prepare their catfish. Is it cultural, culinary even?

MacLean's Joe Castaldo notes the case for Sears Canada giving executives retention bonuses even as it shorts lesser workers.

CBC notes another, potentially more successful, search for Avro Arrow models in the depths of Lake Ontario.

VICE notes the history of white supremacism in Canada, extending to the point of a failed coup by some in Dominica.

Spacing reports on the Indigenous Place Making Council, intended to secure a place for increasingly urban First Nations in Canada.

What will happen to the legal records of those convicted of marijuana-related charges once legalization comes? The Toronto Star considers.

NOW Toronto reviews a new exhibit of First Nations-oriented work at the AGO.

NOW Toronto features an article showing how Toronto startup Wattpad is making celebrity fanfic (among other things) economically lucrative for writers.

Torontoist considers the idea of laneway suites as a way to deal with the city's housing crisis.

With news that Toronto police is now treating the disappearance of Andrew Kinsman from his Cabbagetown a week ago as suspicious, the search for Kinsman is taking on new importance. Please, if you can help in any way, let Toronto police or his friends--anybody--know.

The Toronto Star's Hina Alam reports on the huge crush over the Canada Day weekend to see the World's Largest Rubber Duck.

The Parkdale Villager's Hilary Caton reports on the push to make West Queen West a protected district.

The National Post shares the Canadian Press' poll reporting on general anxiety, including among the well-off, on affordable housing in Canada.

The Globe and Mail's Kenny Sharpe writes about controversy at Ryerson University over the legacy of founder Egerton Ryerson.

Nikhil Sharma at Torontoist looks at the latest City of Toronto TransformTO report on adapting to climate change.

The Toronto Star Fatima Syed looks at how community organizations in Toronto are getting involved in running local parks.

Politico.eu notes how Malta, despite having plenty of sun, is having difficulty getting solar energy (and other alternative energy) up and running.

The Inter Press Service examines the potential complexities involved in China's involvement in Argentina's nuclear energy program.

VICE reports on the desperate need to get Ojibwa consent before building a nuclear waste disposal site on their traditional lands.

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[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
[ISL] Four islands links: Beothuk, Newfoundland outports, seasteading, Shetlands
[NEWS] Four pop culture links: art in Parkdale, Wanda Nanibush, Balkan media, Canadian Thanksgiving
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Rob Ford, decolonizing art, Humber Bay bus, Don Valley art, crime
[NEWS] Five links about vulnerability: parrots, Uighurs, indigenous peoples, fangsheng, Jones Act
[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto notes: air conditioning, Kent Monkman, ISIS at Canadian Tire, minimum wage
[NEWS] Five links about a changing world: Beyak, Congo, creative cities, 1990s Russia, queer
[URBAN NOTE] Five links: Toronto affordable housing, public art, Montréal flag, co-housing, Islands
[ISL] Four links about Islands: Ainoshima and Ed Sheeran, Tasmania, Barbuda, Salt Spring Island
[NEWS] Five links: Greyhound in Canada, militarized Hamptons, Tohono O'odham, Rohingya, memes
[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
[ISL] Four links from islands, from dividing Ireland, to the Chamorro and Haida, to the Caribbean
[BLOG] Some Saturday links
[URBAN NOTE] Five links on Toronto, from housing issues to renaming Ryerson
[BLOG] Some Thursday links
[NEWS] Seven links, from drugs in Germany to dolphin cuisine to dual nations in Australia
[NEWS] Four links from Canada, from Sears Canada to the Avro Arrow to racism to First Nations
[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links, from marijuana laws to the AGO to Wattpad to laneway suites
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Entries tagged with first nations

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[ISL] Four islands links: Beothuk, Newfoundland outports, seasteading, Shetlands

[NEWS] Four pop culture links: art in Parkdale, Wanda Nanibush, Balkan media, Canadian Thanksgiving

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Rob Ford, decolonizing art, Humber Bay bus, Don Valley art, crime

[NEWS] Five links about vulnerability: parrots, Uighurs, indigenous peoples, fangsheng, Jones Act

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto notes: air conditioning, Kent Monkman, ISIS at Canadian Tire, minimum wage

[NEWS] Five links about a changing world: Beyak, Congo, creative cities, 1990s Russia, queer

[URBAN NOTE] Five links: Toronto affordable housing, public art, Montréal flag, co-housing, Islands

[ISL] Four links about Islands: Ainoshima and Ed Sheeran, Tasmania, Barbuda, Salt Spring Island

[NEWS] Five links: Greyhound in Canada, militarized Hamptons, Tohono O'odham, Rohingya, memes

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[ISL] Four links from islands, from dividing Ireland, to the Chamorro and Haida, to the Caribbean

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five links on Toronto, from housing issues to renaming Ryerson

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[NEWS] Seven links, from drugs in Germany to dolphin cuisine to dual nations in Australia

[NEWS] Four links from Canada, from Sears Canada to the Avro Arrow to racism to First Nations

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links, from marijuana laws to the AGO to Wattpad to laneway suites

[URBAN NOTE] Five links in Toronto, from Andrew Kinsman to West Queen West to Egerton Ryerson

[NEWS] Five links on infrastructure, from Toronto parks and climate change to nuclear energy

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