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- 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.
[NEWS] Ten Halloween links (#halloween)
Nov. 1st, 2019 06:03 pm- Jamie Bradburn took a look at now-effaced Toronto cemetery Potter's Field, here.
- Kingston, Ontario's Skeleton Park is a remarkable legacy. Global News reports.
- CBC Saskatoon reports on the origins of Halloween in harvest events.
- The Hong Kong protests took on a new tinge this Halloween. CBC reports.
- The Vancouver tradition of Halloween fireworks may be dying out. The National Post reports.
- Guardian Cities looks around the world, from Derry to West Hollywood, at local celebrations of Halloween.
- Gizmodo shares an image of a ghostly collision of galaxies in deep space.
- Dangerous Minds shared some album covers inspired by Halloween.
- CBC looks at the very low rate of candy tampering in Canada over the past decade.
- JSTOR Daily considers how the Great Pumpkin of Peanuts came to be so great.
- io9 notes that Taylor Swift is co-writing a song for the new Cats movie.
- Japan Times looks at a newly translated work by Taiyu Matusomoto, Cats of the Louvre.
- CTV News reports that Vancouver cat cafe Catfe offers life drawing classes featuring its cats as models.
- D-Brief shares a list of diseases that cats can pass on to humans, and of prevention measures.
- Global News looks at the feral cats of Little Bay Islands, a Newfoundland outport community about to be abandoned. What will happen to them?
- Rising real estate prices in Toronto are driving similar increases in communities far from the GTA like Belleville. The Toronto Star reports.
- VICE reports on how good food can lead the rehabilitation of Flint, Michigan.
- Kingston will take three years to build its latest bridge. Global News reports.
- Beaches like NYC's Rockaway Beach are facing pressures from climate change and from gentrification, CityLab reports.
- Many of the homeless camped in Vancouver's Oppenheimer Park are being rehoused, as part of a slow-moving campaign. Global News reports.
- CBC Hamilton reports on the options of the City of Hamilton faced with its having hired a prominent former white supremacist.
- CBC Ottawa reports that flood levels on the Ottawa River have reached record highs.
- The Montreal Gazette considers possible solutions to crowding on the Montréal subway, including new cars and special buses.
- Kingston is preparing for flooding, the city seeing a threat only in certain waterfront districts. Global News reports.
- Vancouver is applying a zoning freeze in a future mass transit corridor. Global News reports.
- CityLab looks at how the post-war dream of mass transit and densification for the Ohio city of Toledo never came about, and how it might now.
- Guardian Cities looks at construction proposals for New York City that never were.
- CityLab looks at how the California ghost town of Bodie is kept in good shape for tourists.
- Vox notes that just over one in ten thousand people in San Francisco is a billionaire.
- Leonid Bershidsky at Bloomberg considers why productivity in Berlin lags behind that in other European capital cities. Could it be that the young workers of Berlin are not devoted to earning income?
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- Le Devoir wonders if excessive tourism will make Vieux-Québec unlivable for locals.
- Sam Sklar at CityLab, native of the New Jersey community of Fort Lee, wonders when it will burst out from the shadow of New York City.
- The question of how Vancouver in the era of legalization will celebrate 4/20 remains actively contested. The National Post reports.
- CityLab reports on how the 2024 Paris Olympics may help regenerate Saint-Denis.
- The story about how resettled refugees helped revive the Italian town of Sutera, on the island of Sicily, needs to be better-known. VICE reports.
- Urban coyotes have been proven to prey in roaming domestic pets, including cats. The Guardian reports.
- The idea of a big cat sanctuary in the Ontario community of Grand Bend does appeal to me, but then it would. CBC reports.
- The Vancity Theatre in Vancouver will be hosting the 2019 Cat Video Fest. The Vancouver Sun reports.
- Lifehacker offers advice for cat-lovers with cat allergies.
- The cat of Julian Assange deserved better treatment; hopefully its new home will be much better. The Independent reports.
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- After years of renovations, the Kingston Frontenac Public Library is set to reopen to the public this weekend. Global News reports.
- McGill is taking care of the tens of thousands of ants in a colony displaced from the Insectarium in Montréal during renovations there. CBC reports.
- Russell Arben Fox writes about the politics and economics of funding a new baseball stadium in the Kansas city of Wichita.
- Where will the 4/20 marijuana celebration be held in Vancouver in 2020? Global News reports.
- This article at Slate explains how lower Manhattan can only be protected from rising sea levels by land reclamation.
- CBC Ottawa reports on the impressive scope of the new light rail mass transit planned for the wider city of Ottawa.
- Richard Florida, writing at CityLab, notes a study tracing the second of two clusters of skyscrapers in Manhattan, in Midtown, to a late 19th century specialty in shopping.
- The Tyee notes how activist Yuly Chan helped mobilize people to protect Chinatown in Vancouver from gentrification.
- JSTOR Daily looks at the history of the free people of colour of New Orleans, a group established under the French period but who faced increasing pressures following Americanization.
- At Open Democracy, Christophe Solioz considers what is to be done to help protect the peace in Derry, second city of Northern Ireland, in the era of Brexit.
- Sault Sainte-Marie hopes to recruit former GM workers from Oshawa to live in that less expensive city, Global News reports.
- Robert Vandenwinkel at HuffPost Quebec makes the case for Québec City not developing a tramway but rather a subway.
- Daily Hive notes that the British Columbia government has increased its funding into research into a high-speed rail link connecting Vancouver to points south.
- CityLab notes that Edinburgh is imposing a tourist tax.
- The Guardian shares images of some of the rejected designs for the famous Sydney Opera House.
- CBC Hamilton recently reported on a new Facebook group intended to help Torontonians find their footing in neighbouring Hamilton.
- Will the new designs of the Montreal Alouettes be enough to reverse the CFL team's dwindling fanbase? Global News considers.
- CityLab points to the overlooked architectural heritage of Queens, in New York City.
- Guardian Cities reports on plans to rehabilitate roadside grandstands in Berlin abandoned for nearly a century.
- Georgia Straight reports on a proposal for supposedly affordable rental housing in Vancouver that is no such thing. Below-market rates are not enough when prices are so high already.
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- Gilbert Ngabo writes about how Niagara Falls, New York, would love the GO Train to cross the border into his city, his article featuring in the Niagara Falls Review.
- Michelle Da Silva writes at NOW Toronto about how the Montréal Igloofest is such a great idea.
- The tax on empty homes in Vancouver may yet be increased, to discourage speculation. Global News reports.
- Guardian Cities notes how tensions between police and locals in the Bairro do Jamaico in Lisbon reveal problems of integration for African immigrants and their descendants.
- CityLab notes how the popular novels of Elena Ferrante may drive gentrification in the Naples neighbourhood of Rione Luzzatti.
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- CBC reports on the new book of unofficial Montréal mascot Ponto.
- This CityLab article looks at Co-op City, an affordable housing complex in the Bronx, and what it has to offer.
- This proposal from Vancouver to give kids free transit and subsidies to low-income adults makes perfect sense to me.
- Scientific American notes how many refugees from Fukushima, facing economic pressures, have been forced to return to communities they feel unsafe in.
- This SCMP feature looks at how Asian immigrant shopkeepers in Palermo have been successfully resisting the mafia.
- 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.
- The auditor of Ontario is investigating two proposed Metrolinx stations, one in Scarborough and one in Vaughan, that may have been placed for the benefit of political incumbents. CBC reports.
- CBC Hamilton reports that some Hamilton neighbourhoods continued to see strong interest and continued price rises despite a general slowdown.
- La Presse reports on the disruption to traffic and the environment that will be caused by the repair of a tunnel linking the island of Montréal to the South Shore.
- The annual ice castle in Edmonton seems to be doing well, what with cold weather locally. Global News reports.
- "Renovictions"--buyouts of tenants--are a growing trend in Vancouver that some local activists are warning against. The Toronto Star reports.
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- Kyle Cicerella at the Canadian Press reports on the close link in Oshawa between GM workers and their local OHL hockey team, the Oshawa Generals. The Global News hosts the article.
- This long feature at Global News about the impact of the fentanyl epidemic in Simcoe County is heart-rending.
- VICE reports on how the May Wah SRO hotel, an affordable haven for elderly Chinese-Canadians in downtown Toronto, managed to survive the threat of gentrification.
- Guardian Cities reports on how Dublin is facing a serious homelessness crisis despite there being more than thirty thousand empty homes, held by landlord investors.
- The English-language Dubrovnik Times reports that, apparently on the basis of thriving tourism, Dubrovnik stands out in Croatia as a place that has seen population growth.
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[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Nov. 28th, 2018 12:00 pm- Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber considers democracy as an information system.
- The Crux shares what we have learned from our studies of the tusks of the mammoths.
- D-Brief notes another landmark of the InSight mission: It brought two CubeSats with it to Mars.
- JSTOR Daily takes a look at the odaliques of Matisse, paintings of North African women in intimate positions, in the contexts of colonialism and #metoo. What untold stories are there with these images?
- Anakana Schofield writes at the LRB Blog about her problems finding CBD oil post-marijuana legalization in greater Vancouver.
- The Map Room Blog notes the support of Popular Mechanics for paper maps, even in the digital age.
- Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution praises Toby Green's new history of West Africa, A Fistful of Shells, a book that emphasizes the influence of West Africa in the Americas and the wider Atlantic world.
- The NYR Daily carries a Tim Parks essay questioning whether it is worthwhile for an author to consciously seek out literary glory.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on the possibility that rocky planets might get large moons only if they suffer large impacts.
- Window on Eurasia reports on the insulting remarks of Russian liberal Oleg Kashin towards Ukrainians, and Tatars too, suggesting even liberal Russians might well be inclined to be anti-Ukrainian.
- Arnold Zwicky notes a remarkable word error in noting the 40th anniversary of the deaths of George Moscone and Harvey Milk, changing "assassination" into "assignation".
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- Le Devoir features an article pointing its readers to the many and verifiable attractions of the Ontario city of Hamilton.
- The closure of the GM plant in Oshawa hits employment across a frighteningly large chunk of the Canadian automotive sector. Global News reports.
- In Metro Vancouver, legislation aiming at preventing "monster home" construction on farmland is encountering opposition among farmers. Global News reports.
- Alex Carp at the NYR Daily takes a look at the new role of Ariel Palitz, effective mayor of nightlife in New York City.
- Le Devoir notes the impending closure of Saint Anne's Church, Église Sainte-Anne, in the New England town of Fall River, no longer a centerpiece of Franco-American community life.
- CBC Hamilton shares the arguments of local housing advocates that removing rent control will not encourage the construction of more affordable housing.
- La Presse notes that Québec City is moving towards construction of a tramway system.
- Christopher Hume writes in the Toronto Star about the new Aaniin Community Centre in Markham, here.
- CityLab looks at redlining in Cleveland, here.
- This pair of videos, taken 52 years apart, does a great job of showing the remarkable transformation of the skyline of Vancouver. Global News has it.
- Hamilton City Centre, a large complex in the heart of downtown Hamilton housing shops and offices, is up for sale. Global News reports.
- CTV News reports on how some patients in Montréal can get free passes to local museums on the grounds of their positive health effects.
- There is ongoing controversy in Québec City regarding a proposal to build a 65-story tower in this old French colonial capital. Will it boost the city's development or detract from its prospects? Global News carries the article.
- The new Central Library in Calgary looks spectacular. Well done! CBC reports, with photos.
- The City of Vancouver, the mayor-elect notes, is not going to go to great lengths to close unlicensed marijuana shops. CBC reports.
