• Language Hat reports on the Wenzhounese of Italy.
• Language Log writes about the tones of Cantonese.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money writes about the costs of law school. (They are significant, and escalating hugely.)
• Marginal Revolution reports on the problems facing the Brazilian pension system, perhaps overgenerous for a relatively poor country facing rapid ( Read more... )

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The Toronto Star's Jennifer Pagliaro notes a very good proposal for a new park on Bathurst below Fort York.

The King-Spadina neighbourhood is poised to get a significant boost in park space if two proposals along Front St. W. are approved at city hall ( Read more... )

blogTO's Derek Flack describes what I think is another very worthwhile initiative in Liberty Village.

One of Toronto's most congested neighbourhoods for traffic might get some much needed relief as plans for a new street in Liberty Village have received support from city staff. A recommendation to add the street to the city's Official Plan goes to ( Read more... )

Marcus Gee in The Globe and Mail argues Toronto's parks are neglected. I've been to Canoe Landing, by Fort York and Bathurst; his testimony is all too true.

When the City of Toronto assumed control of Canoe Landing, it was in pristine condition. The creative new park with its signature red canoe overlooking the Gardiner Expressway was built by the ( Read more... )

• The Dragon's Gaze considers detecting industrial civilizations through their ozone holes.
• Joe. My. God. notes the French National Front's opposition to the Pride parade in Paris.
• Language Log considers English names in China.
• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer is confused by Spanish policy towards Scotland in the era of Brexit.
• Spacing Toronto notes ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Francine Kopun reports on a powwow held this weekend past at Fort York.

Rain Foots, 18, rode the 509 streetcar across the lakeshore on Saturday to get to the outdoor powwow at Fort York, where he slipped into a self-styled native costume and danced under a blazing sun to applause ( Read more... )

I mentioned in my Monday Fort York photo post that I approached Fort York not from the east at Bathurst Street, but rather from the west at Strachan.


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My first stop at Doors Open was Fort York, a National Historic Site. The geography around Fort York has changed hugely: Once an outpost on the western fringes of Toronto, on the shore of Lake Ontario by the mouth of Garrison Creek, the fort is now at least two hundred metres inland. Even when I first moved to Toronto in 2004, it seemed as if all ( Read more... )

• blogTO shares ten facts about the Toronto Islands.
• Centauri Dreams features an article talking about "exoanthropology", a theoretical branch of that social science aimed at examining human adaptation to offworld environments.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper speculating that white dwarf NLTT19868 shows signs of having eaten a rocky world.
• The Dragon ( Read more... )