![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
- The mayor of Ottawa is suggesting freezing Confederation Line fare increases in light of the system's problems. Global News reports.
- La Presse looks at the problems faced by the Marché Jean-Talon, here.
- Greater Moncton, arguably the leading metropolis of New Brunswick, wants to double its intake of immigrants. Global News reports.
- Jamie Bradburn looks at Lafayette Park in Detroit, designed by Mies van der Rohe.
- Will Vancouver be connected to Washington State by a high-speed train route? 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.
- Sean Marshall considers how recent changes in provincial policy are affecting the Ontario city of Brampton.
- There is some interest in the city of Kitchener in deeper integration of the Kitchener-Waterloo region, though not necessarily amalgamation. Global News reports.
- The Waterloo Record notes that Waterloo city council has voted unanimously against amalgamation.
- Taylor Noakes at CBC Montreal notes that a revived Expos baseball team, whartever its other merits, would not be an economic asset for the city.
- Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, unaccountably, was built on a lakebed regardless of the flooding risks. CBC Montreal reports.
- The Detroit Free Press looks at the impressive former home of Patti Smith in suburban St. Clair Shores.
- Guardian Cities reports on the upset of residents in Newcastle at a recent claim that their city's high street is the worst one in the United Kingdom.
- La Presse interviews one owner of a calèche, an iconic horse-and-carriage from Montréal, who claims that an impending ban will be devastating.
- blogTO notes the possibility, in the early 2020s, of a new passenger rail route connecting Toronto to Detroit.
- CityLab takes a look at The Shed, the performing arts centre in the controversial Manhattan development of Hudson Yards.
- Bloomberg makes the argument for India to create a purpose-built financial centre for Mumbai.
- Stu Neatby at The Guardian looks at the shortage of rental housing in the growing Charlottetown PE suburb of Stratford.
- CityLab shares newly unearthed photos of the destroyed Detroit neighbourhood of Black Bottom.
- The National Post reports that apparently the latest iteration of the Winter Carnival in Québec City has not met with popular approval.
- CityLab explored for Valentine's Day the notable history of Boston as a centre for the manufacture of candy.
- CityLab notes how the nascent condo boom in Queens' Long Island City, set to capitalize on the Amazon HQ2 there, has been undermined abruptly by Amazon's withdrawal.
- Ozy looks at the historic Uruguay town of Colonia del Sacramento.
Tags:
- Hazel McCallion, the nonagenarian former mayor of Mississauga, has been appointed an advisor to the Ford government in Ontario. Global News reports.
- A Simcoe County that faces a threat of amalgamation under the Ontario provincial government is already composed of communities feeling they lack adequate representation. The Toronto Star reports.
- CityLab notes how a history of racism complicated efforts to plant new trees in Detroit.
- Douglas Todd at the Vancouver Sun notes how ethnic tensions in multicultural South Burnaby surfaced in the former Liberal candidate's treatment of NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.
- The NYR Daily looks at what is going on in and around El Paso as the Mexican-American border facing further closing.
- CityLab looks at how, facing the impending closing of a General Motors plant that brutally displaced and mostly destroyed the (mostly) Detroit neighbourhood of Poletown, there is question about what to do with this space. Can Poletown live again?
- Taylor Lambert at Sprawl Calgary writes about how Calgary is learning to adopt Indigenous names for its growing communities and roads, and more, how Calgary is learning to do so respectfully.
- Guardian Cities notes the extreme sensitivity of the binational conurbations straddling the US-Mexico border in the Californias to the possibility of border closures.
- Guardian Cities notes how people in Kathmandu, struggling to rebuild their homes after the 2015 earthquake, are now facing terrible levels of debt.
- The Guardian reports on a remarkable rave/art party held in Chernobyl not far at all from the ruined reactor.
- The TVO show The Life-Sized City is spotlighting the revival of the binational conurbation of Detroit and Windsor. The Windsor Star reports.
- Owners of a house that is a rare survival of Africville, currently in Lower Sackville, are seeking heritage status for this building. CBC reports.
- VICE reports on how New York City is preparing for the L train shutdown.
- Students seeking to set up Gay-Straight Alliances in Calgary Catholic schools are reportedly being hindered, even harassed, by hostile administrators despite provincial policy. Global News reports.
- This SCMP article suggests Shenzhen is a popular destination for daytrippers from Hong Kong, for people who seek a Hong Kong experience at affordable prices.
- The controversy over a new bridge connecting American Detroit to Canadian Windsor continues, on and on. The National Post reports.
- Jason Markusoff at MacLean's notes the tenuous position of the tens of thousands of people who live in Calgary's flood zones.
- Wired notes how the city of Los Angeles will need to spend billions of dollars to protect itself against sea level rise.
- The Guardian notes the shocking story of a mixed-income real estate development in London that excludes subsidized tenants from access to athletic facilities.
- Window on Eurasia notes how, on the basis of current trends, relatively sizable Russian cities including Novokuznetsk, Ivanovo, and Norilsk might depopulate by the end of the 21st century.
- blogTO reports on the efforts of York University to try to salvage the Markham campus cancelled by the Ontario provincial government.
- CTV News reports on the Bear Clan Patrol, a First Nations group that has taken to patrolling the streets of Winnipeg to watch out for the ongoing meth crisis.
- The Discourse wonders whether the new city council of Vancouver will be as committed to reconciliation with First Nations as the old one.
- Vice reports on the latest from the Michigan town of Bay View, where there is an almost incomprehensible reluctance among many in that Christian-founded town to allow non-Christians to own property there.
- Matthew Teller at Adventure writes about Ushuaia, the Argentine community that is the southernmost town in the world, and looks at this isolated community's difficulties.
- The small eastern Ontario town of Smiths Falls has been saved by a marijuana production boom that has brought hundreds of jobs to the community. The National Post reports.
- This Montreal Gazette article takes a look at the background behind the strong economic growth recently displayed in Montréal.
- CityLab looks at how Paris, under Mayor Anne Hidalgo, is preparing for global warming.
- Tom Perkins at The Guardian reports on how hopes for a redevelopment of downtown Detroit have been hindered, a supposed new core being transformed into a sea of parking lots.
- Stewart Bell at Global News reports on the sorry state of the city of Mosul after the end of ISIS.
Tags:
- If ever I make it to Detroit, the John K King bookstore would surely be a must-visit. Atlas Obscura reports.
- Metropolis, Illinois, is celebrating Superman. Where better to do so? Wired reports.
- Seattle, like so many cities around North America, is apparently facing a gentrification that makes it increasingly uncomfortable for too many. Crosscut has it.
- The San Francisco Bay area community of Foster City faces imminent danger from rising sea levels. CBC reports.
- Decades after the horrors of the mid-1990s, dogs in the Rwandan capital of Kigali are starting to be treated as potential pets again. National Geographic reports.
Tags:
- Ford Motors is redeveloping the abandoned Detroit Central Station to house workers' offices. Global News reports.
- JSTOR Daily takes a look at how Washington D.C. evolved over generations into a major tourist destination.
- Wired suggests that Los Angeles is doing quite a good job of managing its limited water resources.
- Restaurants in San Francisco are adapting to the high costs of labour in that city, with its expensive housing, by starting a shift to self-service models. The New York Times reports.
- The city of Rome makes compelling backgrounds for the films of Italian Michelangelo Antonioni. Spacing has it.
- Mark McNeil at the Hamilton Spectator notes that real estate prices in Hamilton, often thought of as Toronto's less expensive bedroom community, are also rising very quickly.
- The VICE article takes a look at the man who created Detroit's African Bead Museum.
- The former red-light district of Luxembourg City is also maneuvering to take advantage of the post-Brexit resettlement of Europeans financiers. Bloomberg reports.
- Architectuul looks at how architects in Lisbon are trying to take advantage of their changing city, to help make it more accessible to all.
- The Guardian has a photo essay focusing on Comrat, a decidedly Soviet-influenced city that is the capital of the autonomous region of Gagauzia, in Moldova.
- I only hope that Mississauga will do better with food trucks--will do better by food trucks--than Toronto. The Globe and Mail reports.
- Hamilton is now a risk area for Lyme disease, with black-legged ticks now present. Global News reports.
- If Ford really will buy the beautiful abandoned Michigan Central Station and rehabilitate this place into a functioning building, this will be a huge signal for Detroit. Detroit News a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2018/03/19/ford-talks-tenant-michigan-central-station/33088971/">reports.
- Is the new Edmonton Valley Line LRT route going to be able to handle near-future growth in traffic? Global News reports.
- Real estate prices are so high that well-paid tradespeople apparently have no plausible choice other than living in trailers beneath Skytrain tracks. MacLean's reports.
- Toronto Life takes a look at the new Aaniin community centre in Markham.
- The Tower, an anarchist centre in Hamilton, got vandalized in turn after a spate of pointless anarchist vandalism on Locke Street. CBC reports.
- Will the city of London get plugged into a high-speed rail route? One only hopes, and in the interim, one plans. Global News reports.
- Making the border crossing between Detroit and Windsor a model for Ireland post-Brexit is a terrible idea. CBC reports.
- Can Vancouver help solve the problem of housing for the young, including students, by having them rent rooms from compatible older folks? Global News examines the proposal.
- The Guardian reports on the Michigan town of Bay View, a community that literally forbids non-Christians from holding property locally.
- Net migration from the San Francisco area seems to be accelerating, with unaffordability being commonly cited as explanation. CBS reports.
- Will rapid wage increases in Houston be enough to protect the labour market of the city if much-needed undocumented workers are forced out in significant numbers? Bloomberg reports.
- Data from smartphones is being used to simulate what might happen if Washington D.C. was subjected to a nuclear attack. VICE reports.
- The tourist agencies of Montréal and Québec City are having a cute little online exchange. Global News reports.
Tags:
- Halifax, despite being the best candidate in the Maritimes, is not going to try to get a new CFL team. Global News reports.
- Will repairs to the Olympic Stadium of Montréal be enough to bring back that city's Expos? The consensus seems to be that it won't be. Global News tells the story.
- This report on how community activists and non-profits are trying to establish Internet access in Detroit for people neglected by big telecoms is actually inspiring. VICE reports.
- The former West German capital of Bonn, politico.eu reports, has built a new international role for itself as a UN-linked centre for environmental organizations.
- Justin Fox at Bloomberg notes that not only are rising prices for land and real estate a global problem, but that no one knows what to do about this inequality-aggravating issue.
Tags:
- Anything but the softest of Brexits is going to leave Dover, port of entry into the UK, with massive traffic jams. Bloomberg reports.
- The people of the largely Russian city of Narva, in Estonia, occupy an awkward but viable position. (For now.) Open Democracy reports.
- Detroit is making a come-back, but many of its long-time inhabitants are not enjoying the revival. VICE reports.
[BLOG] Some Sunday links
Aug. 6th, 2017 11:45 am- The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly re-introduces herself to her readers.
- Bruce Dorminey shares one man's theory about how extraterrestrials could use exoplanet sightings to build up a galactic communications network.
- Far Outliers shares some unusual Japanese words, starting with "amepotu" for American potato.
- Language Hat takes
- Did the spokeswoman of the NRA threaten to "fisk" the New York Times or threaten something else? Language Log reports.
- Drew Rowsome notes that, compared to San Francisco, Toronto does not have much of a public kink scene.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel examines the quantum reasons behind the explosion produced by sodium metal and water.
- Understanding Society takes rightful issue with The Guardian's shoddy coverage of Dearborn, Michigan, and that city's Muslims and/or Arabs.
- Unicorn Booty notes that Canada is, at last, starting to take in queer refugees from Chechnya.
- Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes the embarrassing support for Jean-Luc Mélenchon for Venezuela. Was opposing the US all he wanted?
Tags:
- astronomy,
- blogging,
- blogs,
- chechnya,
- english language,
- eurabia,
- extraterrestrial intelligence,
- france,
- glbt issues,
- japanese language,
- latin america,
- links,
- michigan,
- north caucasus,
- politics,
- refugees,
- russia,
- science,
- sexuality,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- south america,
- space science,
- telecommunications,
- toronto,
- united states,
- venezuela,
- writing
