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  • Architectuul looks at the Portuguese architectural cooperative Ateliermob, here.

  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at how white dwarf WD J091405.30+191412.25 is literally vapourizing a planet in close orbit.

  • Caitlin Kelly at the Broadside Blog explains
  • Centauri Dreams looks at the slowing of the solar wind far from the Sun.

  • John Holbo at Crooked Timber considers the gap between ideals and actuals in the context of conspiracies and politics.

  • The Dragon's Tales reports on how the ESA is trying to solve a problem with the parachutes of the ExoMars probe.

  • Far Outliers reports on what Harry Truman thought about politicians.

  • Gizmodo reports on a new method for identifying potential Earth-like worlds.

  • io9 pays tribute to legendary writer, of Star Trek and much else, D.C. Fontana.

  • The Island Review reports on the football team of the Chagos Islands.

  • Joe. My. God. reports that gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy will compete for the United Kingdom in 2020.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at how early English imperialists saw America and empire through the lens of Ireland.

  • Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money does not like Pete Buttigieg.

  • The LRB Blog looks at the London Bridge terrorist attack.

  • The Map Room Blog shares a map of Prince William Sound, in Alaska, that is already out of date because of global warming.

  • Marginal Revolution questions if Cuba, in the Philippines, is the most typical city in the world.

  • The NYR Daily looks at gun violence among Arab Israelis.

  • The Planetary Society Blog considers what needs to be researched next on Mars.

  • Roads and Kingdoms tells the story of Sister Gracy, a Salesian nun at work in South Sudan.

  • The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper noting continued population growth expected in much of Europe, and the impact of this growth on the environment.

  • Strange Maps shares a map of fried chicken restaurants in London.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why a 70 solar mass black hole is not unexpected.

  • John Scalzi at Whatever gives his further thoughts on the Pixel 4.

  • Window on Eurasia notes that, last year, 37 thousand Russians died of HIV/AIDS.

  • Arnold Zwicky starts from a consideration of the 1948 film Kind Hearts and Coronets.

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  • Google has apologized for the negative shade its image search cast on Scarborough with a Twitter thread. Global News reports.

  • The National Post looks at the story of the architecturally remarkable Integral House, on sale for $C 21.5 million.

  • South Indian Dosa Mahal, a beloved Bloordale restaurant apparently displaced by landlords, has found a new home. blogTO reports.

  • The infamous Parkdale McDonald, at King and Dufferin, has officially been closed down, relocated. blogTO reports.

  • The Ontario Cannabis Store is experimenting with a same-day delivery program. NOW Toronto reports.

  • Lia Grainger writes at NOW Toronto about how poor city planning has resulted in multiple dangerous intersections. (I know of two in my broader neighbourhood.)

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  • 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.
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  • 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.

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  • A new project hopes to revitalize the Golden Mile of Scarborough, along Eglinton Avenue. The Toronto Star reports.

  • blogTO looks at how IKEA is going to be opening a new smaller store in downtown Toronto in the next two years, here.

  • blogTO looks at a plan to make 80 Bloor Street West, in Yorkville, into a golden skyscraper 79 stories tall.

  • Sadly, Chick-Fil-A at Yonge and Bloor still has long lines. blogTO reports.

  • Radheyan Simonpillai reviews the new Kevin Donovan book The Billionaire Murders, looking at the unsolved killings of the Shermans in 2017.

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  • blogTO looks at the Toronto of the 1950s, when Highway 2--Lake Shore and Kingston Road--was the way into the city.

  • Jamie Bradburn takes a look at a 1950 tourist guide to Ontario, specifically focusing on its descriptions of Toronto.

  • Jamie Bradburn looks at how, in the post-war era, dining at the Coxwell Kresge in-house restaurant was a thing.

  • blogTO notes how many in Leslieville are unhappy with the idea of the Ontario Line being built above-ground.

  • Samantha Edwards at NOW Toronto notes that there is going to be a Pride rally outside of Palmerston library where Meghan Murphy will be speaking.

  • Spacing looks at the connections between Nuit Blanche and the Toronto Biennial, for Toronto as an artistic city.

  • NOW Toronto shares some photos of Honest Ed's in its dying days.

  • Toronto Life tells the story of Peperonata Lane, a west-end laneway that took its name from a popular neighbourhood pepper-roasting event.

  • blogTO notes a new movie being filmed in Regent Park, here.

  • blogTO shares photos of the new Garrison Crossing pedestrian bridge, here.

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  • Will a pedestrian death at Yonge and Eglinton lead to an easing of the nightmare for people faced with Eglinton Crosstown construction? blogTO ,a href="https://www.blogto.com/city/2019/09/yonge-eglinton-construction-pedestrian-nightmare/">reports.

  • An automated shuttle is set to pilot in 2020 in east-end Toronto. Global News reports.

  • Jamie Bradburn writes about the Labour Day celebrations in Toronto in 1929, here.

  • blogTO notes the construction of a much-needed pedestrian bridge in Liberty Village, here.

  • Guardian Cities notes official skepticism in Toronto over the Sidewalk Labs proposal in the Port Lands, here.

  • Andrew Wheeler, writing in the Toronto Star, notes that the appearance of institutionally homophobic Chick-fil-A just a few minutes walk from Church and Wellesley, poses a threat that needs to be fought.

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  • Tracey Lindeman writes at CityLab about how Montréal is trying to keep the redevelopment of the Molson-Coors Brewery site from killing the Centre-Sud.

  • In the Montréal neighbourhood of Park-Extension, evictions--renovictions, even--are on the rise. Global News reports.

  • Lac-Mégantic now has a train depot that bypasses the heart of this traumatized community. CBC Montreal reports.

  • Halifax is now celebrating the Mosaic Festival, celebrating its diversity. Global News reports.

  • Jill Croteau reports for Global News about Club Carousel, an underground club in Calgary that played a vital role in that city's LGBTQ history.

  • This business plan, aiming to bypass long lineups at the Edmonton outpost of the Jollibee chain, is ingenious. Global News reports.

  • The Iowa town of Pacific Junction, already staggering, may never recover from a recent bout of devastating flooding. VICE reports.

  • Avery Gregurich writes for CityLab about the Illinois town of Atlas, a crossroads seemingly on the verge of disappearing from Google Maps.

  • The proposal for Metropica, a new sort of suburb in Florida, certainly looks interesting. VICE reports.

  • Guardian Cities shares a cartoon looking affectionately at Lisbon.

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  • The federal and provincial governments on PEI are investing millions in Charlottetown transit, substantially in vehicles. Global News reports.
  • Kevin Yarr at CBC PEI reports on how housing prices in Charlottetown are rising to worryingly high levels, here.

  • The Founders' Hall food market in Charlottetown looks interesting. CBC PEI reports.

  • Establishing a national park reserve on the Hog Island Sandhills off northwestern PEI sounds like a good idea to me. CBC PEI reports.

  • CBC PEI reports on how what was intended to be a light-hearted joke on the chalkboard of Terre Rouge in Charlottetown ended up striking a media frenzy.

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  • Narcity notes the sad news that the last Zellers stores in Canada, including the one in Etobicoke, will be closed by January 2020.

  • Tanya Mok at blogTO looks at the successes of the Dufferin Mall.

  • blogTO looks at the William Meany Maze on the Toronto Islands.

  • Jamie Bradburn writes of the early history of Japanese restaurants in Toronto.

  • Melanie Zettler at Global News writes about the history of the Guild Park and Gardens, in Scarborough.

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  • Architectuul looks at some architecturally innovative pools.

  • Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait looks at Wolf 359, a star made famous in Star Trek for the Starfleet battle there against the Borg but also a noteworthy red dwarf star in its own right.

  • Centauri Dreams looks at how the NASA Deep Space Atomic Clock will play a vital role in interplanetary navigation.

  • The Crux considers the "drunken monkey" thesis, the idea that drinking alcohol might have been an evolutionary asset for early hominids.

  • D-Brief reports on what may be the next step for genetic engineering beyond CRISPR.

  • Bruce Dorminey looks at how artificial intelligence may play a key role in searching for threat asteroids.

  • The Island Review shares some poetry from Roseanne Watt, inspired by the Shetlands and using its dialect.

  • Livia Gershon writes at JSTOR Daily about how YouTube, by promising to make work fun, actually also makes fun work in psychologically problematic ways.

  • Marginal Revolution notes how the relatively small Taiwan has become a financial superpower.

  • Janine di Giovanni at the NYR Daily looks back at the 2000 intervention in Sierra Leone. Why did it work?

  • Jamais Cascio at Open the Future looks back at a 2004 futurological exercise, the rather accurate Participatory Panopticon. What did he anticipate correctly? How? What does it suggest for us now to our world?

  • The Planetary Society Blog notes that LightSail 2 will launch before the end of June.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how the discovery of gas between galaxies helps solve a dark matter question.

  • Strange Company shares a broad collection of links.

  • Window on Eurasia makes the obvious observation that the West prefers a North Caucasus controlled by Russia to one controlled by Islamists.

  • Arnold Zwicky takes a look at American diner culture, including American Chinese food.

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  • Transit Toronto notes that both the Eglinton Crosstown yards and Lower Bay station were open this weekend past for Doors Open. I got to see both!

  • Urban Toronto looks at the newly revealed Eglinton Crosstown vehicles.

  • blogTO observes the rapid flooding faced not only by the Toronto Islands but by the waterfront generally.

  • blogTO reports on the exciting possibility of a ferry connecting Etobicoke, at Humber Bay Shores, to the downtown.

  • Building a linear park over the subway trench between Davisville and Eglinton stations in midtown Toronto is an idea that appeals to me. blogTO reports.

  • NOW Toronto reports on a slew of original coffee shops around Toronto, including a laundromat hybrid on Dufferin.

  • Urban Toronto celebrates the Ron Arad sculpture Safe Hands at One Bloor East.

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  • This blogTO ranking of the best and the worst McDonald's restaurants in Toronto makes sense to me.

  • I look forward to what an audit of the campaign finances of alt-right poster child Faith Goldy's mayoral campaign will reveal. The Toronto Star reports.

  • This article at TVO notes that cuts in school lunches for needy children in Toronto should not necessarily be blamed on the Ford government.

  • Urban Toronto looks back at Yonge and College before yet another of the intersection's transformations.

  • This initiative by a Scarborough church to rebuild itself in such a way as to create affordable housing for its neighbourhood is certainly innovative. The Toronto Star reports.

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  • This imagining of what Eglinton Avenue West will look like after LRT construction is done is actually pretty compelling. blogTO has it.

  • Union Station renovations might actually be complete by the end of 2020. Global News reports.

  • Highway 401 is being widened in the GTA to allow for recent increases in traffic. blogTO reports.

  • Queen Street West is getting a cookie dough cafe. blogTO reports.

  • The Meadoway, a vast linear park connection downtown Toronto with Scarborough, looks fine in this imagining. CBC Toronto has it.

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  • The Toronto Star looks at how buildings destined for demolition for condos are, in the interim, enjoying some innovative alternative uses.

  • CBC Toronto takes a look at the efforts of photographer Jon Simo, owner of Neon Demon Studios, to preserve and promote neon signs. (I went to the pop-up museum this weekend; photos to come.)

  • Toronto Life shares old photos of the Drake Hotel predating its transformation into a west-end hub.

  • blogTO lists the best, and the worst, Pizza Pizza locations in Toronto.

  • blogTO shares photos of Let's Survive Together, the Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror room bought by the AGO for its permanent collection.

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  • blogTO shares a new map depicting prices for new homes at different stations on the GO Transit network, here.

  • This real-estate ad offering an actively used office as someone's home for a mere $C 1695 a month is ridiculous on so many levels. The Toronto Star reports.

  • Transit Toronto notes that GO Transit has dropped fares on trips shorter than 10 kilometres while raising them for longer trips.

  • 98% of the material used in these modern houses worth $C 1.7 million is made of recycled materials. The Toronto Star reports.

  • The irony of a posh pop-up restaurant being created underneath the Gardiner Expressway while, just a bit to the east, homeless people living under the highway were driven from their shelter, is shocking. CBC reports.

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  • Edward Keenan notes at the Toronto Star, drawing from an analysis of TTC budgets by Steve Munro, that things are not likely to get better for riders on the Bloor-Danforth line for at least another decade.

  • blogTO notes a protest of vegans outside of Queen Street West butcher shop Cumbrae's, the protesters pretending to sell dog meat.

  • Gilbert Ngabo writes at the Toronto Star about the mystery regarding the ownership of two Parkdale restaurants which loudly claim not to be part of the unpopular Vegandale.

  • Priyanka Vittal writes at NOW Toronto about how it might make sense for Toronto to sue oil companies for the costs of global warming-related environmental disasters.

  • Toronto Life notes the hyperrealistic city scenes of oil painter Peter Harris.

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Yesterday, I got an espresso at the Caffè Cinquecento to remind me of Italy.

Espresso #toronto #northyork #columbuscentre #caffecinquecento #coffee #espresso

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