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By at least one metric, New Brunswick now lags economically behind a more dynamic Prince Edward Island. CBC reports.

NOW Toronto looks at toxic fandoms. ("Stanning" sounds really creepy to me.)

This CityLab article looks at how the particular characteristics of Japan, including its high population density, helps keep alive there retail chains that have failed in the US.

MacLean's looks at Kent Monkman, enjoying a new level of success with his diptych Mistikôsiwak at the Met in NYC.

Can there be something that can be said for the idea of an Internet more strongly pillarized? Wired argues.

I reject utterly the idea of meaningful similarities between Drake and Leonard Cohen. CBC did it.

Toronto Life looks at the life of a Hamilton woman hurt badly by the cancellation of the basic income pilot, here.

Inspired by the death of Gord Downie, Ontario now has the office of poet-laureate. CBC reports.

Is Canada at risk, like Ireland, of experiencing two-tier health care? CBC considers.

A French immigrant couple has brought the art of artisanal vinegar to ile d'Orléans. CBC reports.

Shore erosion is complicating the lives of people along Lake Erie. CBC reports.

MacLean's notes how Via Rail making it difficult for people without credit cards to buy anything on their trains, hurting many.

Michelle Legro notes at Gen that the 2010s is the decade where conspiracy culture became mainstream.

This essay by Robert Greene at his blog talking about what history, and historians, can do in our era is thought-provoking.

Ending free coffee for municipal employees in the Québec community of Pierrefonds created massive controversy. CBC reports.

The mayor of the Francophone city of Edmundston in New Brunswick has encouraged immigrant Québec students hurt by immigration changes to come to his community. CTV News reports.

The price of crystal meth in Saskatoon is apparently as low as $3 a bag. Global News reports.

Guardian Cities notes how Louisville, low on trees, is trying to regreen the city as a way to deal with rising temperatures.

Open Democracy considers if the DUP is about to lose its strongholds in Belfast.

Guardian Cities looks at the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Kafr Aqab, a place where Palestinians can access their metropolis (and their partners).

CityLab shares photos of the wonderful new public library of Helsinki.

The Ottawa Citizen suggests a recent audit of OC Transpo should have offered warnings of the Confederation Line problems to come.

A project office has been set up for the extension of the Yellow Line in Longueuil and elsewhere on the south shore. CTV News reports.

La Presse looks at the concerns of some artists in Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie that they might be forced out by gentrification.

That the Bay Building in downtown Winnipeg has been evaluated as being of little value offers an opening to Heritage Winnipeg. Global News reports.

The New Brunswick government is forcing suburbs of Saint John to pay for city facilities that they also used. Global News reports.

Short-term rentals are having a negative effect on real estate markets in Halifax. Global News reports.

Downtown Lethbridge faces struggles to attract business. Global News reports.

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.

CBC looks at the internal splits within British Columbia, between the Liberal-leaning coast and the Alberta-leaning interior, here.

The legal departure of oil company EnCana from its Alberta headquarters is the cause of great upset. CBC reports.

Will Andrew Scheer survive as leader of the Conservative Party, with challengers like Peter MacKay? The National Observer reports.

People in Lloydminister, on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, reflect the frustrations of the populations of the two provinces. CBC reports.

Philippe Fournier at MacLean's writes about the sharp rural-urban political split in Canada.

Green Party Fredericton MP Jenica Atwin is interviewed by the National Observer about her goals, here.

The Treaty 8 chiefs have united in opposition to the separation of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Global News reports.

CBC reported on the multiple MP candidates who, genealogist Darryl Leroux found, falsely claimed indigenous ancestry.

Jessica Deer reported for CBC about the near-universal boycott by the Haudenosaunee of #elxn43, and the reasons for this boycott.

Scott Gilmore recently a href="https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-u-s-is-sinking-maybe-its-time-for-canada-to-jump-ship/">suggested at MacLean's that, noting American instability, Canada might do well to secure itself and promote its multilateralism by seeking to join the EU.

The Greens took Fredericton on the grounds of their strong work there.

RM Vaughan, meanwhile, notes for Daily Xtra how LGBTQ voters in New Brunswick are gravitating towards the Greens.

Jason Kirby at MacLean's wonders how determinative Google Trends data suggesting a surge of positive interest for Jagmeet Singh will be for NDP results.

The robocalling intending to confuse people as to the date of the election in eastern Canada should meet with criminal prosecution. CBC reports.

The only non-Liberal elected in Newfoundland and Labrador is the NDP candidate Jack Harris, for St. John's East. Global News has it.

Chris Selley at the National Post blames the Conservative failure on the poor platform of Andrew Scheer, here.

Canada has a Liberal government again, this time a minority. Global News reports.

CBC notes that, despite Liberal weaknesses, the Conservatives simply did not break through into the 905.

Michel Auger at Radio-Canada looks at the challenges of the Liberals in Québec and in the West.

Greater Montréal is divided between Liberals on the island of Montréal and the Bloc on the mainland. Radio-Canada has it.

The Calgary Herald looks at reaction in Alberta to the Liberal minority government, here.

The results from British Columbia are interesti0ng. Was there much change at all? Global News reports.

Jody Wilson-Raybould, kicked out of the Liberal caucus, was re-elected as an independent for her riding of Vancouver Granville. Global News reports.

Fatima Syed at the National Observer looks at how indigenous voters are looking to the NDP for representation in the new government.

Jeremy Wildeman at The Conversation explains the disenchantment of progressives with Justin Trudeau.

The Ottawa Citizen reports on the first week of the Confederation Line LRT.

The New Brunswick city of Moncton now has new affordable housing--20 units--for vulnerable people. Global News reports.

CityLab looks at one photographer's perspective of the New York City skyline, changed by the 9/11 attacks.

An alleyway in Calgary is being transformed by art. Global News reports.

Birth tourism might become an election issue in the British Columbia city of Richmond. Global News reports.

The flood-damaged community of Sainte-Marie, in the Beauce south of Québec City, may not recover from necessary demolitions of damaged and dangerous structures. CBC reports.

Erecting a barrier at an apparently suicide-attracting bridge like the Reversing Falls Bridge in Saint John makes perfect sense to me. Global News has it.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that, happily, voters in Phoenix have voted again in support of a light rail mass transit project.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution notes that the department of Paris has continued to lose population, contrary to the experience of growth elsewhere in other similar world cities.

CityLab makes the case for Changi Airport, in Singapore, as a world-class attraction in its own right.

La Presse looks at the challenges facing changing Lachine-Est, here.

The small New Brunswick town of Hillsborough may lose its only grocery store. Global News reports.

Guardian Cities looks at the vexed question of how, or if, the Northern Ireland city of Derry should celebrate its political murals.

Guardian Cities notes that Paris will soon host a substantial rooftop farm.

Tom van Laer and Elif Izberk-Bilgin at The Conversation explain why reviews of facilities in holy cities, like Mecca, tend to be so inflated.

The city of Fredericton hopes a new strategy to attracting international migration to the New Brunswick capital will help its grow its population by 25 thousand. Global News reports.

Guardian Cities notes the controversy in Amsterdam as users of moped find themselves being pushed from using bike lanes.

Guardian Cities looks at how many in Athens think the city might do well to unbury the rivers covered under concrete and construction in the second half of the 20th century.

The Sagrada Familia, after more than 130 years of construction, has finally received a permit for construction from Barcelona city authorities. Global News reports.

Evan Gershkovich at the Moscow Times reports on how the recent ousting of the mayor of the Latvian capital of Riga for corruption is also seem through a lens of ethnic conflict.

CBC Montreal reports on how a downsizing Montréal-area convent recently put on a very large yard sale.

Will the staged construction of a tramway in Québec City lead to the partial completion of that project? CBC examines the issue.

The New Brunswick city of Saint John recently celebrated its Loyalist heritage. Global News reports.

The new community garden in Moncton sounds lovely. Global News reports.

CityLab notes the sad precedent of the privatization of an old Carnegie Library in Washington D.C. into an Apple Store.

CityLab considers if cycling can make inroads in pro-car Dallas.

Open Democracy examines the controversy surrounding the contested construction of an Orthodox church in Yekaterinburg.

Another links post is up over at Demography Matters!

Skepticism about immigration in many traditional receiving countries appeared. Frances Woolley at the Worthwhile Canadian Initiative took issue with the argument of Andray Domise after an EKOS poll, that Canadians would not know much about the nature of migration flows. The Conversation observed how the rise of Vox in Spain means that country’s language on immigration is set to change towards greater skepticism. Elsewhere, the SCMP called on South Korea, facing pronounced population aging and workforce shrinkages, to become more open to immigrants and minorities.

Cities facing challenges were a recurring theme. This Irish Examiner article, part of a series, considers how the Republic of Ireland’s second city of Cork can best break free from the dominance of Dublin to develop its own potential. Also on Ireland, the NYR Daily looked at how Brexit and a hardened border will hit the Northern Ireland city of Derry, with its Catholic majority and its location neighbouring the Republic. CityLab reported on black migration patterns in different American cities, noting gains in the South, is fascinating. As for the threat of Donald Trump to send undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities in the United States has widely noted., at least one observer noted that sending undocumented immigrants to cities where they could connect with fellow diasporids and build secure lives might actually be a good solution.

Declining rural settlements featured, too. The Guardian reported from the Castilian town of Sayatón, a disappearing town that has become a symbol of depopulating rural Spain. Global News, similarly, noted that the loss by the small Nova Scotia community of Blacks Harbour of its only grocery store presaged perhaps a future of decline. VICE, meanwhile, reported on the very relevant story about how resettled refugees helped revive the Italian town of Sutera, on the island of Sicily. (The Guardian, to its credit, mentioned how immigration played a role in keeping up numbers in Sayatón, though the second generation did not stay.)

The position of Francophone minorities in Canada, meanwhile, also popped up at me.
This TVO article about the forces facing the École secondaire Confédération in the southern Ontario city of Welland is a fascinating study of minority dynamics. A brief article touches on efforts in the Franco-Manitoban community of Winnipeg to provide temporary shelter for new Francophone immigrants. CBC reported, meanwhile, that Francophones in New Brunswick continue to face pressure, with their numbers despite overall population growth and with Francophones being much more likely to be bilingual than Anglophones. This last fact is a particularly notable issue inasmuch as New Brunswick's Francophones constitute the second-largest Francophone community outside of Québec, and have traditionally been more resistant to language shift and assimilation than the more numerous Franco-Ontarians.

The Eurasia-focused links blog Window on Eurasia pointed to some issues. It considered if the new Russian policy of handing out passports to residents of the Donbas republics is related to a policy of trying to bolster the population of Russia, whether fictively or actually. (I'm skeptical there will be much change, myself: There has already been quite a lot of emigration from the Donbas republics to various destinations, and I suspect that more would see the sort of wholesale migration of entire families, even communities, that would add to Russian numbers but not necessarily alter population pyramids.) Migration within Russia was also touched upon, whether on in an attempt to explain the sharp drop in the ethnic Russian population of Tuva in the 1990s or in the argument of one Muslim community leader in the northern boomtown of Norilsk that a quarter of that city's population is of Muslim background.

Eurasian concerns also featured. The Russian Demographics Blog observed, correctly, that one reason why Ukrainians are more prone to emigration to Europe and points beyond than Russians is that Ukraine has long been included, in whole or in part, in various European states. As well, Marginal Revolution linked to a paper that examines the positions of Jews in the economies of eastern Europe as a “rural service minority”, and observed the substantial demographic shifts occurring in Kazakhstan since independence, with Kazakh majorities appearing throughout the country.
JSTOR Daily considered if, between the drop in fertility that developing China was likely to undergo anyway and the continuing resentments of the Chinese, the one-child policy was worth it. I'm inclined to say no, based not least on the evidence of the rapid fall in East Asian fertility outside of China.

What will Britons living in the EU-27 do, faced with Brexit? Bloomberg noted the challenge of British immigrant workers in Luxembourg faced with Brexit, as Politico Europe did their counterparts living in Brussels.

Finally, at the Inter Press Service, A.D. Mackenzie wrote about an interesting exhibit at the Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration in Paris on the contributions made by immigrants to popular music in Britain and France from the 1960s to the 1980s.

A community organization in Saint John, New Brunswick, is hoping to try to save some of the many abandoned buildings in that city. Global News reports.

Wired notes that a proposed Amazon expansion in Seattle has also been abandoned.

Bloomberg View suggests Hong Kong is being unduly conservative in not investing its budget surpluses.

Roads and Kingdoms tells the history of Singapore through ten local dishes.

Ars Technica suggests the medieval city of Angkor, in Cambodia, died slowly as its complex machineries gradually ground to a halt.

The 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie, originally planned for New Brunswick, have been taken up--provisionally--by the Québec city of Sherbrooke. HuffPostQuebec reports.

Carmen Arroyo at Inter Press Service writes about Pedro, a migrant from Oaxaca in Mexico who has lived in new York City for a dozen years without papers.

CityLab notes evidence that natural disasters can indeed advance gentrification, looking at the example of New Orleans.

Guardian Cities shares some cartoons by Carol Adlam about the English city of Nottingham, neither northern nor southern.

Civil servant magazine Apolitical takes a look at how Cape Town managed to escape its threatened water crisis.

This feature in The Guardian examines the sufferings of the people who have been made victims of conspiracy theories.

Global News takes a look at the strong support of New Brunswickers for the New England Patriots, rooted in a historical community that surely extends to the rest of Atlantic Canada.

Atlas Obscura examines the communities being knitted together across the world by North American immigrants from the Caribbean of at least partial Hakka descent.

The Guardian notes how, for many property-owners and residents, having Banksy graffiti on one of their walls might not be a blessing at all.

The Japan Times looks at how a gatekeeper in the infamous Aokigahara forest in Japan, a favoured destination of people planning suicide, is trying to inspire them to live.

The Conversation notes how New Brunswick, with its economic challenges and its language divide, represents in microcosm the problems of wider Canada.

This Los Angeles Times article notes how Rohingya Hindus see themselves, rightly, as sharing a different fate from their Muslim coethnics.

This New York Times article looks at how the Internet censors of China are trained, by letting them know about the actual history of their country first.

Bloomberg reports how on the Iranian government tries to engage selectively with the social networking platforms, like Instagram and Telegram, used by the outside world.

Bloomberg notes that the concern of Japan that the United Kingdom, Japanese companies' chosen platform for export to the EU, might engage in a hard Brexit is pressing.

A new LGBTQ lounge is set to open up in Moncton, filling a much-needed niche in the nightlife of the city, nay region. Huddle Today reports.

Toronto Life shares some photos of eight top Toronto drag queens.

NOW Toronto takes a look at the out queer life of musician Pete Shelley.

Hornet Stories notes the growing difficulties LGBTQ refugees face getting asylum around the world, even with ostensibly pro-LGBTQ countries.

Hornet Stories looks at how queer zines continue to thrive.

La Presse notes that reconstruction work planned for Montréal's Saint-Sulpice library has been delayed by a shortage of workers, given the wider city's construction boom.

CBC notes how the Halifax Explosion led to the Oland family building the Moosehead Brewery in Saint John.

The closure of Sydney-based call centre Servicom has left six hundred people unemployed just before Christmas. CBC reports.

Gothamist warns people in New York City which bars to avoid during this weekend's Santacon.

Politico Europe notes how, in the Polish city of Katowice at the heart of Upper Silesia, even there coal is falling out of the mix as a major employer.

CBC reports on how the New Brunswick village of Shipman briefly gave an official sanction to the so-called "straight pride" flag. What can I say but that rural decline in the Maritimes does not have its good points?

Mike Miksche at NewNowNext takes a look at flagging, something that is at once nightclubbing activity, performance art, and a uniquely queer sport.

Hornet Stories notes that "tongzhi," the Chinese word for comrade appropriated by queer men, is no longer used by the Communist Party of China in light of this appropriation.

CBC takes a look at the new explicitly queer opera by Rufus Wainwright, Hadrian.

Asia Times notes the disappointing slow progress of LGBTQ rights, including marriage equality, in Taiwan.

Atlas Obscura takes a look at the history of Florent, the all-night diner in Manhattan's Meatpacking District that watched over a whole generation of LGBTQ history and community.

S. Bear Bergman writes at the Forward about how the introduction of the Trump administration's anti-trans laws are a Nuremberg Laws moment. Resistance is needed.

Queerty reports on the news, recently found by scientists, that the genes linked to non-heterosexual orientations are also linked to straight possessors of those genes having more sex. (You're welcome.)

Peter Armstrong at CBC reports on the patchwork of laws and different kinds of retail outlets governing marijuana across Canada starting tomorrow.

The different structures in stores and prices for marijuana in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia may drive substantial, even politically contentious, cross-border shopping. Global News reports.

Stu Neatby at the Charlottetown Guardian takes a look, complete with photos, at the Charlottetown retail outlet of P.E.I. Cannabis.

Fraser Snowdon at Global News takes a look at Smiths Falls, where cannabis is set to replace chocolate as the main driver of the eastern Ontario town's economy.

Illegal dispensaries in Ontario that do not close by the end of today, Tuesday the 17th, may never be able to operate legally. (Or will they?) The National Post reports.

Martin Regg Cohn at the Toronto Star writes about the practical legal void relating to regulation of cannabis sales in Ontario under Doug Ford.

Michelle Da Silva at NOW Toronto writes about all of the events scheduled to take place in Toronto tomorrow in celebration of the legalization of marijuana.

Roberta K. Timothy at The Conversation writes about how problematic it is that legalization of marijuana is not accompanied by an amnesty for past convictions, and how the anti-black and anti-indigenous racism that drove criminalization needs to be acknowledged.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution notes the impending legalization of marijuana in Canada, starting a fairly interesting discussion in the comments.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Ottawa, Moncton, New York City, Calgary, Richmond
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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Fredericton, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Riga
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[DM] Some links: immigration, cities, small towns, French Canada, Eurasia, China, Brexit, music
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Saint John, Seattle, Hong Kong, Singapore, Angkor
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Sherbrooke, New York City, New Orleans, Nottingham, Cape Town
[NEWS] Five culture links: conspiracies, Greater New England, Caribbean Hakka, Banksy, Aokigahara
[NEWS] Five divides: New Brunswick, Rohingya Hindus, Chinese censors, Iranian internet, Brexit
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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Saint John, Sydney, New York City, Katowice
[NEWS] Eight LGBTQ links: Shipman, flagging, tongzhi, Hadrian, China, Florent, Trump, genetics
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[NEWS] Fourteen links

[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Pierrefonds, Edmundston, Saskatoon, Louisville, Belfast, Jerusalem ..

[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Ottawa, Longueuil, Montréal, Winnipeg, Saint John, Halifax, Lethbridg

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: ottawa, Montréal, Moncton, Detroit, Vancouver

[NEWS] Ten #cdnpoli links

[NEWS] Five #cdnpoli and #elxn43 links from last night, ten from now

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Ottawa, Moncton, New York City, Calgary, Richmond

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Sainte-Marie, Saint John, Phoenix, Paris, Singapore

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Hillsborough, Derry, Paris, Mecca

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Fredericton, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Riga

[URBAN NOTE] Seven cities links: Montréal;, Québec City, Saint John, Moncton, D.C., Dallas, ...

[DM] Some links: immigration, cities, small towns, French Canada, Eurasia, China, Brexit, music

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Saint John, Seattle, Hong Kong, Singapore, Angkor

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Sherbrooke, New York City, New Orleans, Nottingham, Cape Town

[NEWS] Five culture links: conspiracies, Greater New England, Caribbean Hakka, Banksy, Aokigahara

[NEWS] Five divides: New Brunswick, Rohingya Hindus, Chinese censors, Iranian internet, Brexit

[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: Moncton, Toronto drag queens, Pete Shelley, refugees, zines

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Saint John, Sydney, New York City, Katowice

[NEWS] Eight LGBTQ links: Shipman, flagging, tongzhi, Hadrian, China, Florent, Trump, genetics

[NEWS] Nine links about marijuana legalization in Canada (#marijuana, #cannabis, #legalization)

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