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This mural by Canadian artist Isabella Vella, built around a quote from Canadian politician Rosemary Brown, decorates the front of the Sistering women's shelter in Bloorcourt.
Church and Wellesley bar Woody's has taken advantage of the CaféTO program, setting up tables on sidewalks and parking areas to make up for the inaccessibility of its interior spaces. The barriers protecting the street spaces of Woody's were painted with images of the bar's rhinoceros, each one with different colours and patterns.
I was walking last weekend west past Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Church, in the west of the neighbourhood of Parkdale, when I saw this statue of the Virgin Mary. I had wanted to take a photo of the tatue, framed so nicely by the window behind it and with a coat painted in an earnest sky blue, for aesthetic reasons. I also recalled the old tradition of asking the Virgin Mary to intercede with Christ for mercy in--for instance--times of plague.
This image has turned out to become one of my most popular photos on Instagram, largely because of apparently Lebanese users finding the image via hashtags.
This image has turned out to become one of my most popular photos on Instagram, largely because of apparently Lebanese users finding the image via hashtags.
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Saturday, the 21st of March, was a perfect day to see the public art works in the 2020 Winter Stations, the sadly diminished crowds enabling me to have a socially distanced trip down to Woodbine. There, the three of the four Winter Stations artworks that were not destroyed by errant children at play still stood, sounded even when designed to do so. The grey sky hung over the damp brown beach, and the pale green-blue sea lapped at the shore.
[NEWS] Fourteen links
Dec. 22nd, 2019 09:42 pm- 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.
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[BLOG] Five NYR Daily links (@nyrdaily)
Dec. 22nd, 2019 01:25 pm- Claire Messud writes at the NYR Daily about two art exhibits concerned with borders.
- Caitlin Chandler writes at the NYR Daily about the state of the experiment of Germany with mass reception and integration of refugees.
- The NYR Daily explores the modern Russian history of state-sponsored murder outside of its frontiers.
- Moroccan writer Hisham Aldi writes at NYR Daily about his relationship with Paul Bowles.
- The NYR Daily reports on a remarkable exhibit at the Barbican in London of notable nightclubs in 20th century culture.
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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] Fifteen Toronto links
Dec. 18th, 2019 11:29 am- blogTO reports that Toronto has been testing Eglinton Crosstown trains, here.
- What TTC routes might be changed by the Eglinton Crosstown? A map illustrates, over at blogTO.
- The new tower proposed for 888 Dupont, at Ossington, will even include a vertical farm. blogTO reports.
- Venerable Agincourt Mall is going to be a new condo development. blogTO reports.
- Is co-ownership actually the only way most people in Toronto will end up owning a home? blogTO considers.
- Residential tenants in a Leslieville building who complained about their landlord may end up getting evicted from a building never zoned for residents. CBC reports.
- The City of Toronto has taken over the deserted shopping arcade at Queen Street West and John. CBC reports.
- Katrina Onstad at Toronto Life tells the story of Katharine Mulherin, the Queen Street West gallery owner who changed her neighbourhood but was broken by gentrification.
- The bar Tequila Bookworm is closing, displaced by rising rents. NOW Toronto reports.
- NOW Toronto interviews night mayor Michael Thompson, here.
- Steve Munro considers the TTC's express bus services, here.
- Terra Lumina, the nighttime cultural event at the Toronto Zoo, looks fantastic in these photos over at Toronto Life.
- Oh, what the map of Toronto subways could have been if only we planned! blogTO shares one.
- Steve Munro examines the TTC's plan for 2020-2024, here.
- The TTC may not act to decrease overcrowding on some routes. blogTO reports on why.
- The town of Innisfil is looking forward to some very futuristic developments. Global News reports.
- Jeremy Deaton at CityLab reports on how, buffered by the Great Lakes, Buffalo NY may end gaining from climate change.
- The Ottawa chain Bridgehead Coffee has been sold to national chain Second Cup. Global News reports.
- Many of the more eye-raising installations in the Gay Village of Montréal have since been removed. CTV News reports.
- Warming huts for homeless people in Winnipeg were torn down because the builders did not follow procedures. Global News reports.
- Open Democracy looks at innovative new public governance of the city budget in Amsterdam, here.
- Singapore, located in a well-positioned Southeast Asia and with working government, may take over from Hong Kong. Bloomberg View makes the case.
[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links
Nov. 12th, 2019 05:35 pm- blogTO notes the maps made by artist Peter Gorman showing the strange intersections of Toronto.
- This imagining of a wholly pedestrianized lower Yonge Street looks attractive. blogTO has it. <
- Jamie Bradburn tells how couples in Toronto during the Second World War expressed their love, here.
- This condo at 701 Dovercourt Road looks amazing. blogTO reports.
- Toronto Pearson Airport failed in its obligation to provide services for French-language travelers, the Official Languages Commissioner has ruled. CTV News reports.
- So-called "unicorn poutine" is offered for sale at a north Toronto restaurant. Global News reports.
[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Nov. 12th, 2019 05:23 pm- Centauri Dreams notes how gas giants on eccentric orbits can easily disrupt bodies on orbits inwards.
- Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber suggests that the political culture of England has been deformed by the trauma experienced by young children of the elites at boarding schools.
- Dangerous Minds looks at the haunting art of Paul Delvaux.
- The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the work of Tressie McMillan Cottom in investigating for-profit higher education.
- Far Outliers looks at Tripoli in 1801.
- Gizmodo shares the Boeing design for the moon lander it proposes for NASA in 2024.
- io9 shares words from cast of Terminator: Dark Fate about the importance of the Mexican-American frontier.
- JSTOR Daily makes a case against killing spiders trapped in one's home.
- Language Hat notes a recovered 17th century translation of a Dutch bible into the Austronesian language of Siraya, spoken in Taiwan.
- Language Log looks at the origin of the word "brogue".
- Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the payday lender industry.
- Marginal Revolution notes a new biography of Walter Raleigh, a maker of empire indeed.
- The NYR Daily looks at a new dance show using the rhythms of the words of writer Robert Walser.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how, in a quantum universe, time and space could still be continuous not discrete.
- Strange Company looks at a court case from 1910s Brooklyn, about a parrot that swore.
- The Volokh Conspiracy notes an affirmative action court case in which it was ruled that someone from Gibraltar did not count as Hispanic.
- Window on Eurasia notes rhetoric claiming that Russians are the largest divided people on the Earth.
- Arnold Zwicky looks at lizards and at California's legendary Highway 101.
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[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Nov. 6th, 2019 05:20 pm- {anthro}dendum features a post by Kimberly J. Lewis about stategies for anthropologists to write, and be human, after trauma.
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports on exoplanet LHC 3844b, a world that had its atmosphere burned away by its parent star.
- Centauri Dreams looks at Neptune from the perspective of exoplanets discovered near snow lines.
- D-Brief reports on the new Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, installed at Kitt Peak to help map galaxies and dark energy.
- Gizmodo
- looks at how Airbnb is dealing with party houses after a fatal mass shooting.
- The Island Review shares some drawings by Charlotte Watson, inspired by the subantarctic Auckland Islands.
- JSTOR Daily looks at the late 19th century hit novel Ramona, written by Helen Hunt Jackson to try to change American policy towards indigenous peoples.
- Language Hat looks at how, until recently, the Faroese language had taboos requiring certain words not to be used at sea.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at a proposal to partially privatize American national parks.
- The LRB Blog looks at what Nigel Farage will be doing next.
- Marginal Revolution looks at a speculative theory on the origins of American individualism in agrarian diversity.
- The NYR Daily looks at an exhibition of the artwork of John Ruskin.
- Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw remarks on a connection between Arthur Ransome and his region of New England.
- Drew Rowsome shares an interview with folk musician Michelle Shocked.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel emphasizes the importance of the dark energy mystery.
- Towleroad notes a posthumous single release by George Michael.
- Daniel Little at Understanding Society celebrates the 12th anniversary of his blog, and looks back at its history.
- Window on Eurasia looks at Ingushetia after 1991.
- Arnold Zwicky looks at All Saints Day.
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