• blogTO notes Niagara Falls' new light show.
• Body Horrors reports on a 1980 epidemic of MRSA among Detroit drug users.
• Centauri Dreams describes the final orbits of Cassini around Saturn.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting Tabby's Star is being star-mined.
• Language Log looks at an element of Chinese slang regarding telecommunications.

The Toronto Star's Nicholas Keung tells the sad story of a man who hid from the Canadian government for five decades in the belief he lacked legal immigrant status, only to find out otherwise. I'm not sure if this story can be used to indicate anything, policy-wise; it sounds almost too extreme.

For more than half a century, Steven Dugalin ( Read more... )

The Guardian's Esther Addley reports about the Britons who are strategically rediscovering their Irish ancestries, the better to retain access to the European Union.

Last weekend, shortly before he sat down to watch Ireland play England in the rugby Six Nations championship, Kevin Warnes posted the application form to renew his Irish passport. ( Read more... )

Nicholas Keung's Toronto Star story takes a look at an interesting consequence of Canadian citizenship law. Two young men, born in Canada to Russian spy parents who had faked identities, were stripped of their citizenship as a result of this, and they want to get it back.

Alexander Vavilov, 21, and his older brother, Timothy, 25, are in the midst ( Read more... )

I agree wholeheartedly with Thomas Walkom's Toronto Star column about the profound flaws with the idea that denationalizing people for crimes could ever be OK.

“A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian,” an impassioned Trudeau said during Monday’s televised leaders’ debate ( Read more... )

Sarah Moses' Syracuse.com article "Team England arrives on Onondaga Nation to get passports stamped" caught some attention on Facebook earlier this month.

Members of Team England arrived on the Onondaga Nation this morning to get their passports stamped and practice for the 2015 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship, which starts Friday ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that Toronto has been ranked the 12th most expensive city in the world.
• Centauri Dreams is impressed by Pluto's diverse landscapes.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes that the debris disk of AU Microscopii hints at planetary formation.
• The Dragon's Tales observes Russia's fear of American hypersonic weapons.
• Joe. My. God. notes a GoFundMe campaign ( Read more... )

• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that stars commonly ingest hot Jupiters.
• The Dragon's Tales reports on the spread of robots.
• Far Outliers shares terms for making shoyu.
• Joe. My. God. notes that Ashley Madison nearly bought Grindr.
• Language Log notes the changing usage of "hemp" as a political term.

The Moscow Times' Eva Hartog reports on how becoming a Russian citizen if you are one of the nearly two million people of Crimea can be difficult, even if you want to be a citizen.

At least 100,000 Crimeans were unable to obtain Russian citizenship in the year following the peninsula's annexation by Russia, federal human rights ombudswoman Ella ( Read more... )

In the National Post, Audrey Macklin writes about the aftermath of the recent regulatory crackdown on tempoirary foreign workers.

[B]y April 1, 2015, all temporary foreign workers who arrived on or before April 1, 2011 (no one knows the exact number) are expected to pack up and go home. But some will not go back. They will remain living and ( Read more... )