CBC News' Kerry Campbell shares news from the slowly-unfolding online gambling scandal, revealing the identities of the three politicians whose E-mails went mysteriously missing.

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• blogTO shares some photos of Toronto in the gritty 1980s.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the habitable zones of post-main sequence stars.
• Far Outliers notes the ethnic rivalries among First World War prisoners in the Russian interior, and examines how Czechoslovakia got its independence.
• The Map Room Blog looks at the mapping technology ( Read more... )

blogTO notes this non-story.

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How far would you go to catch 'em all in Toronto? Well, one man is heading straight to court. Yes, Mark Correia, the guy who was filmed playing Pokemon Go on the subway tracks is now facing a $425 fine and a charge under the TTC's bylaws. He's slated to appear in court on September 16 ( Read more... )

Kartikay Mehrotra's Bloomberg article notes a potential downside to Pokémon Go: the end of secluded neighbourhoods.

Wahby Park in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, used to be a quiet spot for a dozen or so residents to go for a stroll around sunset. Then came hundreds of smartphone-wielding, garden-stomping Pokemon players ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes a raid of Amazon's Japan office by that country's competition agency.
• Bloomberg View looks at paranoia about Pokémon Go and suggests China is not trying to overturn the world order.
• CBC reports on the popular music and dance of Brazil's slums, and reports on the diet of ancient humans.
• The Inter Press Service notes that African farmers ( Read more... )

I really like Erin Anderssen's article in The Globe and Mail, also from mid-July, about time spending bonding with her son.

By the harbour, in front of the Bluenose Store, as a horse-drawn carriage carrying tourists clopped by, we captured a Jigglypuff. By the fire hydrant on Montague Street, a bouncing blue Nidoran was waiting. Not far away, a ( Read more... )

Oliver Sachgau's Toronto Star article appeared last month, before Pokémon Go's official release and while I was preparing for my Island trip. It's an interesting story, based around interviews with Pokémon players and the meaning they get from the game and its culture.

I was really worried no one was going to show up to my party ( Read more... )

This is amazing. From the Toronto Star's Oliver Sachgau:

After a few weeks of being the most popular mobile game in recent history, Pokemon Go is now facing backlash from the City of Toronto, who are trying to mitigate the crowds playing the game at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal ( Read more... )

• The Big Picture shares photos from Rio in advance of the Olympics.
• James Bow remembers Mel Hurtig, the recently dead Canadian nationalist.
• Centauri Dreams considers space-based collection of antimatter.
• Crooked Timber examines the tyranny of the ideal.
• Dangerous Minds looks at a charming early 1980s board game, Gay Monopoly.