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.

• Language Hat reports on the Wenzhounese of Italy.


• Language Log writes about the tones of Cantonese.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money writes about the costs of law school. (They are significant, and escalating hugely.)


• Marginal Revolution reports on the problems facing the Brazilian pension system, perhaps overgenerous for a relatively poor country facing rapid aging.


• Neuroskeptic reports on the latest re: the crisis of scientists not being able to replicate evidence, now even their own work being problematic.


• Personal Reflections considers the questions of how to preserve the dignity of people facing Alzheimer's.


• The Russian Demographics Blog notes a Financial Times article looking at the impact of aging on global real estate.


• Spacing Toronto talks about the campaign to name a school after Jean Earle Geeson, a teacher and activist who helped save Fort York.


• At Wave Without A Shore, C.J. Cherryh shares photos of her goldfish.


• Window on Eurasia notes growing instability in Daghestan, looks at the latest in Georgian historical memory, and shares an article arguing that Putin's actions have worsened Russia's reputation catastrophically.

• Asahi notes the problems of Uniqlo.


• Atlas Obscura looks at the effort to restore the Old Spanish Trail, an early American interstate highway.


• Bloomberg notes the travails of the coal industry in the Czech Republic.


• Bloomberg View notes South Africa's serious economic problems and looks at how the Panama Papers make centrism more difficult.


• CBC notes how a terrifyingly high suicide rate in Attawapiskat has triggered a state of emergency.


• Fusion looks at how default settings for online mapping services have left some people targets.


• The Boston Globe reports on how Boston cops can now be freely gay.


• The Inter Press Service notes the increasing alienation of Ethiopia's Oromo in the face of the corporatization of agriculture.


• MacLean's considers the future of the NDP, post-Mulcair.


• Space Daily looks at new research examining how neutron stars could, through mass accretion, become black holes.


• The Toronto Star looks at what happened to Mulcair at the NDP convention.


• The Weather Network notes the spread of goldfish into the lakes of Alberta.

• blogTO notes that yesterday morning's transit crunch led Uber to introduce surge pricing.


• Dangerous Minds links to the Tumblr blog Vintage Occult, which has a vast collection of vintage occult.


• Languages of the World's Asya Perelstvaig notes how the television show Castle badly misrepresented the Geordie dialect.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes a new archeological survey in Greenland.


• Marginal Revolution worries about the collapse of the Schengen zone.


• The Planetary Society Blog notes that Dawn has achieved its primary science work at Ceres.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer considers how Mexico might defend itself in response to a Trump administration. Read the comments.


• Shadow, Light and Colour's Elizabeth Beattie shares a photo of a koi she found living in the sheltered pools of the Evergreen BrickWorks.


• Torontoist examines Toronto's civic tech community.


• Towleroad notes Ian Thorpe did not come out because of media pressure when he was a teenager and looks at a British television documentary about a gay sex club.

Lurking beneath the calm surface of Toronto’s ponds and waterways lies an unexpected monster of the deep — giant goldfish.

It's no urban fish tale. Rick Portiss, a fish expert with the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority said goldfish consistently appear during Toronto fisheries surveys.

“They show up in the regular batches of fish, and every once in a while you get these big fat ones that look like pumpkins they’re so big and orange,” he said.

Most of these fish begin life in fishbowls or garden ponds as pets. They either escape during flooding or are released into public wetlands where they flourish.

Karen McDonald, a project manager with the TRCA said goldfish grow to the appropriate size of their environment.

“If you have a small goldfish bowl you’re not going to produce a three-pound goldfish. But when you release them into the wild and they have unfettered access to resources… they’re gonna gorge themselves. And it’s a large water body so they’re not going to be impacted by the small size of the container that they’re in,” she said.