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[URBAN NOTE] Ten Montréal links
Dec. 19th, 2019 01:37 pm- MTL Blog shares this map of the Greater Montréal mass transit network, with a uniform design for all its networks, here.
- Exo commuters in Montréal are decidedly unhappy with the Exo chairperson for the unhelpful tips they gave. CTV News reports.
- Montréal has bought 140 acres of land in the West Island for its planned great park there. CTV News reports.
- Notre Dame East is set to be revamped as an urban boulevard. CTV News reports.
- Controversy over the Royalmount shopping complex grows. CBC reports.
- Montréal is reckoned by a Google team to be a major centre for game development. CTV News reports.
- A new fund seeks to increase the diversity of artists whose works are displayed in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. CTV News reports.
- Montréal mayor Valérie Plante promises to help out record stores fined for being opened past 5 on a weekend. CTV News reports.
- Royal LePage suggests that home values in Montréal will grow sharply in 2020, more than in any other major Canadian city. CTV News reports.
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[BLOG] Some Friday links
Dec. 6th, 2019 04:48 pm- Architectuul looks at the Portuguese architectural cooperative Ateliermob, here.
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at how white dwarf WD J091405.30+191412.25 is literally vapourizing a planet in close orbit.
- Caitlin Kelly at the Broadside Blog
explains - Centauri Dreams looks at the slowing of the solar wind far from the Sun.
- John Holbo at Crooked Timber considers the gap between ideals and actuals in the context of conspiracies and politics.
- The Dragon's Tales reports on how the ESA is trying to solve a problem with the parachutes of the ExoMars probe.
- Far Outliers reports on what Harry Truman thought about politicians.
- Gizmodo reports on a new method for identifying potential Earth-like worlds.
- io9 pays tribute to legendary writer, of Star Trek and much else, D.C. Fontana.
- The Island Review reports on the football team of the Chagos Islands.
- Joe. My. God. reports that gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy will compete for the United Kingdom in 2020.
- JSTOR Daily looks at how early English imperialists saw America and empire through the lens of Ireland.
- Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money does not like Pete Buttigieg.
- The LRB Blog looks at the London Bridge terrorist attack.
- The Map Room Blog shares a map of Prince William Sound, in Alaska, that is already out of date because of global warming.
- Marginal Revolution questions if Cuba, in the Philippines, is the most typical city in the world.
- The NYR Daily looks at gun violence among Arab Israelis.
- The Planetary Society Blog considers what needs to be researched next on Mars.
- Roads and Kingdoms tells the story of Sister Gracy, a Salesian nun at work in South Sudan.
- The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper noting continued population growth expected in much of Europe, and the impact of this growth on the environment.
- Strange Maps shares a map of fried chicken restaurants in London.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why a 70 solar mass black hole is not unexpected.
- John Scalzi at Whatever gives his further thoughts on the Pixel 4.
- Window on Eurasia notes that, last year, 37 thousand Russians died of HIV/AIDS.
- Arnold Zwicky starts from a consideration of the 1948 film Kind Hearts and Coronets.
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[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links
Nov. 28th, 2019 02:57 pm- Google has apologized for the negative shade its image search cast on Scarborough with a Twitter thread. Global News reports.
- The National Post looks at the story of the architecturally remarkable Integral House, on sale for $C 21.5 million.
- South Indian Dosa Mahal, a beloved Bloordale restaurant apparently displaced by landlords, has found a new home. blogTO reports.
- The infamous Parkdale McDonald, at King and Dufferin, has officially been closed down, relocated. blogTO reports.
- The Ontario Cannabis Store is experimenting with a same-day delivery program. NOW Toronto reports.
- Lia Grainger writes at NOW Toronto about how poor city planning has resulted in multiple dangerous intersections. (I know of two in my broader neighbourhood.)
[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Nov. 27th, 2019 02:06 pm- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the findings that the LISA Pathfinder satellite was impacted by hypervelocity comet fragments.
- Centauri Dreams reports on what we have learned about interstellar comet Borisov.
- Bruce Dorminey notes the ESA's Matisse instrument, capable of detecting nanodiamonds orbiting distant stars.
- Gizmodo reports a new study of the great auk, now extinct, suggesting that humans were wholly responsible for this extinction with their hunting.
- The Island Review links to articles noting the existential vulnerability of islands like Venice and Orkney to climate change.
- Joe. My. God. reports on the claim of Tucker Carlson--perhaps not believably retracted by him--to be supporting Russia versus Ukraine.
- Language Hat reports on the new Indigemoji, emoji created to reflect the culture and knowledge of Aboriginal groups in Australia.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes one of the sad consequences of the American president being a liar.
- James Butler at the LRB Blog writes about the optimism of the spending plans of Labour in the UK, a revived Keynesianism.
- Marginal Revolution notes the exceptional cost of apartments built for homeless people in San Francisco.
- Strange Maps looks at some remarkable gravity anomalies in parts of the US Midwest.
- Towleroad notes the support of Jamie Lee Curtis for outing LGBTQ people who are homophobic politicians.
- Understanding Society looks at organizations from the perspective of them as open systems.
- Whatever's John Scalzi gives a generally positive review of the Pixel 4.
- Arnold Zwicky notes the irony of sex pills at an outpost of British discount chain Poundland.
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[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links
Nov. 2nd, 2019 06:32 pm- Jamie Bradburn shares photos from his neighbourhood's East Lynn Pumpkin Parade, here.
- Sidewalk Labs is going to release details of all the data it wants to collect. The Toronto Star reports.
- NOW Toronto reports on the controversy in the NDP riding association for Parkdale-High Park over the nomination, here.
- There is a napping studio in Toronto, offering people the chance to nap for 25 minutes at $10 per nap. The National Post reports.
- CBC reports on a film about Little Jamaica, a neighbourhood along Eglinton Avenue West that might be transformed out of existence, here
- Daily Xtra looks at the legacy of the Meghan Murphy visit to Toronto.
- Spacing notes that the Toronto Reference Library has a large collection of Communist newspapers available for visitors.
- The idea of Metrolinx paying for the repair of damaged Eglinton Avenue does make a lot of intuitive sense. CBC reports.
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