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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.
- 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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[NEWS] Ten Halloween links (#halloween)
Nov. 1st, 2019 06:03 pm- Jamie Bradburn took a look at now-effaced Toronto cemetery Potter's Field, here.
- Kingston, Ontario's Skeleton Park is a remarkable legacy. Global News reports.
- CBC Saskatoon reports on the origins of Halloween in harvest events.
- The Hong Kong protests took on a new tinge this Halloween. CBC reports.
- The Vancouver tradition of Halloween fireworks may be dying out. The National Post reports.
- Guardian Cities looks around the world, from Derry to West Hollywood, at local celebrations of Halloween.
- Gizmodo shares an image of a ghostly collision of galaxies in deep space.
- Dangerous Minds shared some album covers inspired by Halloween.
- CBC looks at the very low rate of candy tampering in Canada over the past decade.
- JSTOR Daily considers how the Great Pumpkin of Peanuts came to be so great.
- Hamilton, Ontario, now has a wall open to public street art. Global News reports.
- An early immigrant to Kingston, Ontario, explains what it was like to move to this eastern Ontario hub. Global News reports.
- MTL Blog notes that Montréal mayor has cancelled the construction of a condo tower because it was not including social housing.
- A museum exhibit in Saskatoon is offering free HIV testing and blood donation services in the fight against stigma. Global News reports.
- Ellen Mauro at CBC explains to readers the movement to make Washington D.C. into the 51st American state.
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- Kingston will be hosting an open house discussion on the legacies of its most famous resident, John A. MacDonald. Global News reports.
- The Toronto Star reports on a beach and land ownership controversy in the Georgian Bay resort Town of the Blue Mountains, here.
- CBC Montreal reports on the closure of the Québec City church Très-Saint-Sacrement, after just under a century of operation, here.
- Cost increases for the Green Line LRT in Calgary may lead to route changes. Global News reports.
- The Brick has taken over the space of Sears in the West Edmonton Mall, offering hope to shopping malls of survival. Global News reports.
- Kingston is experiencing a serious housing crisis, exacerbated by the return of students to such educational institutions as Queen's. Global News reports.
- CBC looks at how, on the eve of the federal election, issues like cost of living are big even in relatively affordable Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
- CityLab looks at controversy in Paris over the reconstruction of the Gare du Nord station, here.
- Vice shares photos of Gibraltar on the eve of Brexit, here.
- Guardian Cities shares photos of the wordless images advertising shops in the city of Brazzaville, here.
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- Rising real estate prices in Toronto are driving similar increases in communities far from the GTA like Belleville. The Toronto Star reports.
- VICE reports on how good food can lead the rehabilitation of Flint, Michigan.
- Kingston will take three years to build its latest bridge. Global News reports.
- Beaches like NYC's Rockaway Beach are facing pressures from climate change and from gentrification, CityLab reports.
- Many of the homeless camped in Vancouver's Oppenheimer Park are being rehoused, as part of a slow-moving campaign. Global News reports.
- Peterborough is facing a serious shortage of housing. Global News reports.
- In Kingston, the restoration of the Bellevue House that was home to John A MacDonald continues. Global News reports.
- The federal government will provide funding for the new streetcar route in Québec City. CTV News reports.
- Will the Detroit television documentary series filmed by Anthony Bourdain see a release? One hopes.
- Richmond, a Vancouver suburb home for decades to a substantial diaspora from Hong Kong, is deeply affected by the ongoing protests there. The Toronto Star reports.
- Kingston, Ontario, is currently doing its best to cope with flood risk from the rising Lake Ontario. Global News reports.
- MacLean's reports on an appalling expansion of the iconic Chateau Laurier in Ottawa.
- CityLab reports on how Amsterdam is trying to avoid being overwhelmed by tourism.
- Guardian Cities reports on how the new government in Madrid plans to scrap a low-emissions zone because of a belief that congestion is a Madrid tradition.
- Roads and Kingdoms shares some tips for visitors to Yerevan.
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- Grand River Transit, in Kitchener-Waterloo, is running a contest giving a winner a chance to ride the first Ion train. Global News reports.
- Can the eastern GTA city of Bowmanville get included in Metrolinx's plans for GO Transit expansion? Global News reports.
- Kingston, Ontario, is preparing for a new tourist season, capitalizing on its many museums and history sites. Global News reports.
- Le Devoir reports a new REM train station in Laval might be in a flood risk area.
- This year, Québec City is trying to balance the needs of tourists and residents in Vieux-Québec. CTV News reports.
- CBC Hamilton reports on the options of the City of Hamilton faced with its having hired a prominent former white supremacist.
- CBC Ottawa reports that flood levels on the Ottawa River have reached record highs.
- The Montreal Gazette considers possible solutions to crowding on the Montréal subway, including new cars and special buses.
- Kingston is preparing for flooding, the city seeing a threat only in certain waterfront districts. Global News reports.
- Vancouver is applying a zoning freeze in a future mass transit corridor. Global News reports.
- CityLab looks at how the post-war dream of mass transit and densification for the Ohio city of Toledo never came about, and how it might now.
- Guardian Cities looks at construction proposals for New York City that never were.
- CityLab looks at how the California ghost town of Bodie is kept in good shape for tourists.
- Vox notes that just over one in ten thousand people in San Francisco is a billionaire.
- Leonid Bershidsky at Bloomberg considers why productivity in Berlin lags behind that in other European capital cities. Could it be that the young workers of Berlin are not devoted to earning income?
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- If you are a subscribing reader to the New York Review of Books, read this Sue Halpern review essay on the public library.
- CBC Hamilton reports on how Ontario provincial cuts will hurt many libraries around Hamilton, especially rural ones.
- Many libraries, in the area of eastern Ontario Kingston and Perth, will also suffer from the cuts. Global News reports.
- This CBC As It Happens interview with Dayna DeBenedet, CEO of the Dryden Public Library, looks at how the cuts will hurt already underserved communities hardest.
- Jane Gerster at Global News notes how the library funding cuts will have a much larger negative economic effect than many might think.
- After years of renovations, the Kingston Frontenac Public Library is set to reopen to the public this weekend. Global News reports.
- McGill is taking care of the tens of thousands of ants in a colony displaced from the Insectarium in Montréal during renovations there. CBC reports.
- Russell Arben Fox writes about the politics and economics of funding a new baseball stadium in the Kansas city of Wichita.
- Where will the 4/20 marijuana celebration be held in Vancouver in 2020? Global News reports.
- This article at Slate explains how lower Manhattan can only be protected from rising sea levels by land reclamation.
- This article by Mirjana Milovanovic at VICE interviewing self-described cat ladies and letting them explain why they prefer cats to men was informative, and fun.
- Vulture reported that the new Carly Rae Jepsen video, "Now That I Found You", is all about the love of a woman for her cat.
- The plight of feral cats in Kingston and wider Frontenac County is serious, but volunteers are doing their best to help. Global News reports.
- Are cats not psychopaths, but simply misunderstood? The Atlantic makes the case for human ignorance.
- The Guardian shares photos from the Brooklyn Cat Café, where yoga with cats is a thing.
- Emma Stefansky at Thrillist interviewed cat trainer Ursula Brauner, about cats in movies generally and the cats featuring in Captain Marvel specifically. (I really liked Goose.)
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- The LeBreton Flats in Ottawa are now planned to experience a phased development. Global News reports.
- Kingston has recently celebrated the 175th anniversary of its brief history as capital of Canada (the Province of Canada, to be precise). Global News reports.
- The Independent reports on the comeback story of Winnipeg.
- Guardian Cities shares some of the different unfulfilled proposals for the development of the English city of Bristol.
- CityLab reports from Dessau, the eastern German city literally made by the Bauhaus school.
- Plans for a residential development in Kingston's west-end Graceland district have raised environmental concerns. Global News reports.
- HuffPostQuebec shares the exciting plans for expanding and modernizing the complex around the Oratoire Saint-Joseph.
- CityLab notes how, despite having a declining black population, Chicago is set to elect a black mayor.
- VICE looks at the bars and nightclubs in uptown New Orleans that, in the 1970s, hosted the city's jazz and funk scenes.
- Guardian Cities reports on the murga, the latest dance/pop culture craze in Buenos Aires.
- CBC reports on how Ottawa is storing its ever-growing mountain of snow removed from its streets.
- The city of Kingston, Ontario, is facing a growing shortage of family doctors despite it being a regional hub. Global News reports.
- The centenary of anti-Chinese riots in Halifax has just passed. (Would you believe I never learned of these at school?) Global News reports.
- VICE tells the story of how most people can, or cannot, afford to live in an ever-pricier city of Chicago.
- The SCMP reports on the "Greater Bay Area" plan just announced by China, an integration of the Pearl River area into a single global powerhouse. How will Hong Kong fit into this?
- Urban Toronto notes the rising towers of the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, at the western end of Line 1.
- People in the city of Kingston are concerned by the implications of new Ontario government bills. Global News reports.
- This CityLab article takes look at the potential, actual and lost and potential, of immigration to save the declining Ohio city of Youngstown.
- Washington D.C, CityLab notes, is the latest city to be consumed by a debate over whether or not mass transit should be free.
- Guardian Cities reports on the remarkable discovery of long-hidden public art in the former Kazakhstan capital of Almaty.
- CBC Hamilton reports on an exciting experiment: For one year, as part of a test holders of Hamilton library cards will enjoy free access to the city's museums.
- The City of Kingston is apparently seeking to rebrand itself. (How, I wonder, is it currently perceived?) Global News reports.
- The National Observer reports on the effect that an influx of tech companies has had on the residents of the Garment District of Montréal.
- Is there a pedestrian safety issue emerging in Halifax? CBC reports.
- Laura Bliss at CityLab reports on why a new tax in Los Angeles aiming to encourage mass transit use has not had that effect.
- The reopening of Bellevue House, the old Kingston home of John A. MacDonald, has been delayed by Parks Canada. Global News reports.
- MTL Blog shares a video taken by two people who visited each and every one of the nearly 70 stops of the Montréal subway system in just four hours.The mayors of Reynosa in Mexico and McAllen in the United States, sister cities on the Texas frontier, oppose policies and structures that would divide their binational community. VICE reports.
- Guardian Cities reports on the difficulties of getting accessible Internet for many in Sao Paulo.
- Guardian Cities looks on how Dar es Salaam, the emerging megacity of Tanzania, has developed an affordable and rapid bus system.
