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Bloomberg notes that the people and businesses leaving London for the EU-27 will enjoy lower rents.

DW reports on potential British interest in joining NAFTA, if Brexit talks with the EU collapse entirely.

The remarkable Bombardier deal with Airbus may yet save the Canadian company from American tariffs. Global News reports.

Global News takes a look at the provinces and economic sectors in Canada to be hit hardest by the end of NAFTA.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes a team of students who caught footage of the August solar eclipse from a high-altitude balloon.

D-Brief notes the discovery that the early Moon apparently had a very thin atmosphere for tens of millions of years.

The Dragon's Tales links to Elon Musk's descriptions of his space ambitions.

Hornet Stories notes that many on the alt-right are upset that game Wolfenstein is all about shooting Nazis.

The LRB Blog notes the almost ridiculous irony of Conservative Theresa May wearing a bracelet with the image of radical leftist Frida Kahlo.

Russell Darnley looks at efforts to get Singapore restaurants to shift away from using environmentally damaging palm oil.

The NYR Daily looks at the overwhelming power of the NRA in the modern United States.

The Planetary Society Blog considers ways we can do SETI better by having a less Eurocentric understanding of our own history.

Window on Eurasia wonders if Uzbekistan and Kyrgzystan could solve border issues through swapping enclaves.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at the corrosive effect of Bannon, and journalistic culture generally, on politics.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes that the most plausible explanation for Tabitha's Star, KIC 8462852, exists in partial eclipses of the star by dust clouds.

D-Brief notes that the giant stick insects of Lord Howe Island did survive in their forced diaspora.

The Dragon's Gaze takes a look at Kelt-9b, a planet so close to its star that it is literally melting away.

Language Hat looks at a website set up by inhabitants of the Faroe Islands to translate Faroese.

The LRB Blog shares some of the past appearances of Nobel-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro in the pages of the LRB.

Neal Ascherson at the NYR Daily looks at the mechanism of the referendum, in Scotland and Catalonia and elsewhere.

The Planetary Society Blog looks at the import of Mike Pence's promise to send Americans to the Moon again.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how the cosmic phenomenon of inflation explains the entire modern universe.

Window on Eurasia suggests Chechnya's Ramzan Kadyrov is trying to establish himself as a Russian political figure.

A new report suggests that, in Toronto, you need to learn at least twice minimum wage in order to thrive. The Toronto Star reports.

GO Transit users will apparently get half-price TTC fares. The Toronto Star reports.

From the former Stollery's, at 1 Bloor Street West, will rise Toronto's tallest condo tower. The Globe and Mail reports.

Torontoist shares an opinion piece looking at the infrastructure of environmental protection in the GTHA.

Politics in a small Newfoundland community seem to literally be a family matter, of Crockers and Blakes. The National Post reports.

Goldfish are taking over the water systems of the Alberta city of St. Albert's. The National Post reports.

This BBC feature looks at the lives of the inhabitants, survivors and not, of the 21st floor of Grenfell.

This Guardian feature looks at ways cities can protect themselves against disaster, especially with water.

blogTO notes that video rental store Videoflicks, on Avenue Road, is set to close down.

The TTC, blogTO notes, has begun "ghost service" on its half-dozen new subway stations.

Edward Keenan thinks that we may as well name a football stadium after Rob Ford. Why not? If it makes Ford Nation feel better ...

Spacing Toronto features John Lorinc looking at how community parks organizations, like at Ramsden, can exclude outsiders.

VICE notes on recent study suggesting the real estate market of Toronto is the most overvalued of world cities.

io9 looks at the surprising things we are continuing to learn from Tycho's supernova, SN 1572. https://gizmodo.com/a-famous-supernovas-mysteries-are-still-unraveling-hund-1818816208

Anthrodendum has a thoughtful interview between two anthropologists about their experiences as ethnographers. https://savageminds.org/2017/09/25/explaining-ethnography-in-the-field-a-conversation-between-pasang-yangjee-sherpa-and-carole-mcgranahan/

Centauri Dreams reports on the LIGO/VIRGO detection of gravitational wave #GW170814 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=38557
D-Brief also notes the detection of #GW170814 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/09/27/gravitational-wave-virgo/
as does Starts With A Bang https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/09/27/ligo-virgo-detects-the-first-three-detector-gravitational-wave/

The Crux notes how ancient rocks on the Québec-Labrador frontier have preserved traces of very early life. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/09/27/earth-oldest-rocks-life/

D-Brief notes the potential discovery of a biomarker for CTE, something that may well help professional athletes. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/09/27/cte-biomarker/

Dangerous Minds looks at the time the Pet Shop Boys and Liza Minelli collaborated on an album. http://dangerousminds.net/comments/results_when_the_pet_shop_boys_met_liza_minnelli

The Dragon's Gaze looks at evidence that a sub-Saturn gas giant is forming around T Tauri star TW Hydrae. http://thedragonsgaze.blogspot.ca/2017/09/tw-hydrae-is-forming-subsaturn-gas-giant.html

Hornet Stories looks at the four lessons a professor took from gay porn, about sexuality and its representation. https://hornetapp.com/stories/gay-porn-professor/

Language Log looks at how Joseon Korea once used the wrong Chinese dialect to talk officially to China. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=34693

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes an odd defense of Hugh Hefner by a conservative. http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/09/hugh-hefner-good-now

The LRB Blog notes the oddly convention nature of Hugh Hefner. https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2017/09/28/august-kleinzahler/the-conventional-mr-hefner/

The Map Room Blog argues that faults found with fantasy maps actually reflect deeper issues with fantasy literature. http://www.maproomblog.com/2017/09/the-territory-is-not-the-map/

Marginal Revolution notes that IBM employs more people In India than in the United States.
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/09/india-fact-day-3.html

The NYR Daily notes a new art exhibition of work by Peter Saul dealing with Trump. http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/09/27/a-carnival-of-desecration-peter-saul-trump/

The Planetary Society Blog notes the Earth pictures taken by the OSIRIS-REx probe. http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2017/0928-earth-flyby-osiris-rex.html

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes a worrying new analysis justifying an American strike on North Korea, despite Seoul. http://noelmaurer.typepad.com/aab/2017/09/the-hawks-make-their-case-to-fight-north-korea.html

Drew Rowsome notes an amusing-sounding mystery, Undercover, playing at the Tarragon. http://drewrowsome.blogspot.ca/2017/09/undercover-case-of-comic-mystery.html

Towleroad links to fascinating ethnographic work of LGBT members of American street gangs. How do they do it? http://www.towleroad.com/2017/09/gay-gang/

The Ontario government is not backing down on rent control despite impending conversions of real estate to condos.

blogTO notes this last heat wave has made the Toronto Islands superb, at last. I visited Sunday--visit while you can.

The 401 Richmond arts centre is getting tax relief, letting it function as a home for culture in a booming downtown.

Christopher Hume argues amalgamation, by undermining old power structures, made progress in Toronto impossible.

CBC notes that the Yonge and Dundas street artist scene is closing down under city regulations, including permits.

Emily Mathieu talks about how she conducts her journalism with some of Toronto's most marginalized as subjects.

The Globe and Mail notes the local controversy over having police officers permanently stationed in schools.

The idea that police who actively undermine the Special Investigations Unit should be seriously punished seems obvious.
Veteran NDP politican and LGBTQ rights advocate Cheri DiNovo is leaving politics to become a minister in church.

Finally, the Dundas West TTC station will be connected to the GO Transit hub less than 300 metres away!

While I get why the TTC would promote its top ranking on its vehicles, the optics of significant cost for this promotion are terrible.

Bay and Bloor, Avenue Road and Bloor, Bay and King--these are the top intersections for condo resellers.

I get why Bombardier workers would want to support their employer versus Bombardier with a brief strike, and be justified in doing so. Just--well, optics.

Can the Centreville carousel be kept in Toronto? I suppose it would be nice if they could get the funding.

Anthrodendum offers resources for understanding race in the US post-Charlottesville.

D-Brief notes that exoplanet WASP-12b is a hot Jupiter that is both super-hot and pitch-black.

The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining various models of ice-covered worlds and their oceans' habitability.

The Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at the value placed by society on different methods of transport.

Far Outliers looks at how Chinese migrants were recruited in the 19th century.

Hornet Stories notes that the authorship of famously bad fanfic, "My Immortal", has been claimed, by one Rose Christo.

Marginal Revolution notes one explanation for why men are not earning more. (Bad beginnings matter.)

Peter Watts has it with facile (and statistically ill-grounded) rhetoric about punching Nazis.

At the NYR Daily, Masha Gessen is worried by signs of degeneration in the American body politic.

Livejournal's pollotenchegg maps the strength of Ukrainian political divisions in 2006 and 2010.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer is afraid what AI-enabled propaganda might do to American democracy in the foreseeable future.

Roads and Kingdoms notes an enjoyable bagel breakfast at Pondichéry's Auroville Café.

Drew Rowsome celebrates the introduction of ultra-low-cost carriers for flyers in Canada.

Strange Company notes the 19th century haunting of an English mill.

Window on Eurasia notes that Crimean Tatars, and Muslims in Crimea, are facing more repression.

blogTO argues East Chinatown, at Broadview and Gerrard, is an up-and-coming neighbourhood.

East-end Toronto, from Leslieville to points east, definitely is up-and-coming. The Globe and Mail reports.

It looks like the Kirby GO Station was approved for political reasons, not because of actual local need. The Toronto Star reports.

Steve Munro notes that, on the 23rd, the TTC Overhead Shop will have an open house explaining the streetcars' pantograph.

In July, Torontoist looked at Toronto architect Eden Smith, connected to the Arts and Crafts Movement in Canada.

Far Outliers notes how the new Suez Canal helped create a network of coal-using port cities across Eurasia.

Hornet Stories notes that Serbia's out lesbian Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, marched in Belgrade's pride parade.

Joe. My. God. notes a statement by the Pentagon that transgender troops can still re-enlist for the next few months.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes a fundamentally ill-thought defense of colonialism by Bruce Gilley.

Marginal Revolutions notes that Swedish support for the far right is linked to perceptions of foreign threats to employment.

Out There looks at the last days of Cassini at Saturn.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw notes real estate shenanigans in greater Sydney.

Drew Rowsome has a critical, but positive, review of closeted gay author Frank M. Robinson's autobiography.

The Volokh Conspiracy sums up the outcome of the controversial monkey selfie copyright case.

Window on Eurasia suggests that Russian challenges to language legislation in Tatarstan hint at future challenges.

blogTO notes an exciting open house on the 28th of October for three of the new University Line subway stations.

Alex Bozikovic praises the architectural innovation behind the new stations on the Eglinton Crosstown line.

Christopher Hume's argument (from August) that Toronto will, despite itself, have to invest in its future works.

Centauri Dreams celebrates the science behind Cassini.

Crooked Timber's Henry Farrell is breaking from Harvard's Kennedy Centre over its revocation of an invitation to Chelsea Manning.

The Crux points to the ways in which the legacy of Cassini will still be active.

D-Brief notes that some tool-using macaques of Thailand are overfishing their environment.

Hornet Stories notes the eulogy given by Hillary Clinton at the funeral of Edie Windsor.

Inkfish notes one way to define separate bird species: ask the birds what they think. (Literally.)

The LRB Blog notes the recent passing of Margot Hielscher, veteran German star and one-time crush of Goebbels.

The NYR Daily notes the chilling effects on discourse in India of a string of murders of Indian journalists and writers.

At the Planetary Science Blog, Emily Lakdawalla bids farewell to the noble Cassini probe.

Roads and Kingdoms notes a breakfast in Bangladesh complicated by child marriage.

Towleroad notes an Australian church cancelled an opposite-sex couple's wedding because the bride supports equality.

Arnold Zwicky notes the marmots of, among other places, cosmopolitan and multilingual Swiss canton of Graubünden.

Centauri Dreams considers the idea of uploading a digital "Golden Record" into the memory of New Horizons.

Crooked Timber takes a look at American legal writer (and judge) Richard Posner's embrace of pragmatism. What does it mean?

D-Brief notes the rapid melting of the glaciers that feed the major rivers of Asia.

The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper considering ways to detect planets in orbit of red giants.

The LRB Blog considers the potential for political tumult in Saudi Arabia, in the wake of arrests and rumours.

The Map Room Blog links to a new gravity map of Mars, revealing the crust of that world to be less dense and more variable than thought.

The NYR Daily looks at the South China Sea dispute in the wake of Indonesia's newly restated claims.

Roads and Kingdoms looks at Philadelphia's seasonal cookie--spiced wafer--wars.

Drew Rowsome is a big fan of the movie adaptation of It.

Window on Eurasia suggests that, for want of better options, the Donbas republics' people might return to Ukraine.

I am decidedly unimpressed by the marijuana dispensary owners who set their employees up for criminal charges.

Is the Ontario proposal for a licensed provincial marijuana retailer going to be economically viable? Maybe not. CBC reports.

Steve Munro looks at the new 509 Harboufront streetcars with their pantograph power collection units.

Edward Keenan makes a well-meaning call to Torontonians to stop speculating about the winner of the 2018 election. (Won't happen, alas.)

Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton reacts to the series premiere of Orville, finding it oddly retrograde and unoriginal.

Centauri Dreams shares Larry Klaes' article considering the impact of the 1956 classic Forbidden Planet on science and science fiction alike.

The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper wondering if it is by chance that Earth orbits a yellow dwarf, not a dimmer star.

Drone360 shares a stunning video of a drone flying into Hurricane Irma.

Hornet Stories celebrates the 10th anniversary of Chris Crocker's "Leave Britney Alone!" video. (It was important.)

Lawyers, Guns and Money wonders if 16 years are long enough to let people move beyond taboo images, like those of the jumpers.

The LRB Blog takes a look at the young Dreamers, students, who have been left scrambling by the repeal of DACA.

The Map Room Blog notes how a Québec plan to name islands in the north created by hydro flooding after literature got complicated by issues of ethnicity and language.

Marginal Revolution notes the rise of internal tourism in China, and soon, of Chinese tourists in the wider world.

The NYR Daily has an interview arguing that the tendency to make consciousness aphysical or inexplicable is harmful to proper study.

Roads and Kingdoms has a brief account of a good experience with Indonesian wine.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell links to five reports about Syria. They are grim reading.

The Verge notes the Japanese cat island of Ainoshima has a music video in a bid to bring Ed Sheeran to its shores.

ABC notes new findings that Tasmanian Aborigines have used fire to manage their island's forests for 41k years.

The Independent notes the devastation of Barbuda by Hurricane Irma.

CBC looks at the causes of Salt Spring Island's divisions over the issue of becoming a municipality. (The antis won.)

At Spacing, John Lorinc is rightly concerned with the impending Doug Ford run for the mayoralty.

Spacing takes a look at the futuristic parking garages of mid-20th century Toronto.

blogTO looks at the classic department stores of mid-20th century Toronto, at the apogee of this retail model.

This Toronto Star feature on the plight of temp workers in Toronto is upsetting. Is this the future we have made?

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Entries tagged with politics

[NEWS] Four links about transatlantic populism and economics: Brexit, NAFTA, Bombardier

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[BLOG] Some Friday links

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links: urban poverty, GO Transit subsidies, 1 Bloor West, environment

[URBAN NOTE] Four community links: Newfoundland politics, goldfish, Grenfell tower, water disasters

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Videoflicks, ghost service, Rob Ford football, parks, real estate

[BLOG] Some Friday links

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links: rent control, Toronto Islands, 401 Richmond, amalgamation

[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links: street art, journalism, police, Cheri DiNovo, transit at Dundas West

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links: TTC promotion, condo intersections, Bombardier, Centreville

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: East Chinatown, Leslieville and east, Kirby GO, TTC, Eden Smith

[BLOG] Some Monday links

[URBAN NOTE] Three notes about the future of mass transit and infrastructure in Toronto

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[URBAN NOTE] Four notes about politics and mass transit in Toronto