John Lorinc's article in the Friday edition of The Globe and Mail reports on how Toronto's multicultural history can be intriguingly layered.

Growing up in the 1960s in Chinatown in a flat above her parents’ silk shop, Jennie Norman had no idea about the buried history beneath the Toronto Chinese United Church (TCUC), on Chestnut Street south of ( Read more... )

• ABC reports on the Sudanese-Australian basketball players who are transforming the game in Australia.
• Bloomberg reports on the potentially transformative scope of China's New Silk Road project.
• Bloomberg View likes the new Star Trek movie's shift beyond speciesism.
• CBC reports on the strength of pro-Trump support among non-voting Amish in Pennsylvania ( Read more... )

• The BBC reports from Asmara, Eritrea's capital, on the eve of war.
• Bloomberg notes the economic problems of Hong Kong and Singapore, looks at the final day of campaigning in the Brexit referendum, and notes the interim president of Brazil's desire to oust Rousseff.
• Bloomberg View takes issue with the rejection of nuclear energy in the name of the ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes that the rising Russian ruble is cutting wheat exports.
• Bloomberg View notes that a vote against Brexit will not produce a United Kingdom that is Europhile, and recommends higher inflation targets for Japan.
• The Globe and Mail notes that the Canadian government has been silent about Saudi blogger Raif Badawi.
• MacLean's wonders if ( Read more... )

Vice's Tamara Khandaker has a long-form article looking at the critical differences between the Black Lives Matters movement in Toronto and in the United States. Among other things, Canadian racism differs from the American sort, and the African Canadian community is generally speaking much younger and much more fragmented.

Canada's form of racism ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that Conrad Black's mansion is up for sale, and looks inside the climbing gym that replaced Koreatown's Metro Theatre.
• Centauri Dreams notes a new telescope optimized for detecting, among other things, Kuiper Belt objects.
• Dangerous Minds shares a video of South African cyclists chased by an ostrich.
• Far Outliers notes the existence of a ( Read more... )

A commenter at Reddit's Neutral Politics forum explained convincingly why Bernie Sanders has not made inroads among African-American voters. Most importantly, Sanders lacks the credentials that the Clintons have, and also seems--in the African-American historical context--not especially sincere.

Probably the biggest reason is that Bernie lacks ( Read more... )

Al Jazeera's report on the rampant HIV epidemic in Atlanta, particularly concentrated among blacks, is alarming. At a time when such progress is being made in preventing and controlling the epidemic, this is shameful.

“Atlanta is like New York was in the ’80s in the need to develop a public health response to a serious [HIV] epidemic,” said Devin- ( Read more... )

• Centauri Dreams reports on the non-existence of Alpha Centauri Bb.
  
• The Dragon's Tales notes the exciting new findings from Pluto, including news that it supports a subsurface ocean.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the power of student protests at the University of Missouri.
• Joe. My. God. notes the promise of anti-viral injections in treating HIV ( Read more... )

• The Big Picture has a photo essay about albino children in Panama.
• Crooked Timber considers African-American radicalism.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to one paper imagining the frequency of habitable planets in other universes, and links to another suggesting that to host habitable worlds exoplanet systems will need their worlds to have aligned orbits.
• Joe ( Read more... )