Seated on the second level of the Megabus as it drove east through the Ontario countryside in the afternoon, I got great views but relatively few good pictures. The kind of speed that the Megabus travels at makes good photography shot en passing difficult. Easily the best I could take was as we were leaving Kingston, Ontario, the only stop on the ( Read more... )

CBC News' Christine Pagulayan reports on the belated delivery of the much-promised test car from Bombardier.

A prototype light-rail vehicle for Toronto's Eglinton Crosstown and Finch West LRT lines is en route to undergo testing - two years after Bombardier was supposed to deliver the project's first test car ( Read more... )

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly responds to Canada's mourning of the Tragically Hip. Why did they matter? She explains it.
• In the Toronto Star, Vinay Menon explains how the band became so big.
• MacLean's and the Toronto Star reflect on the town of Bobcaygeon made famous by the Hip.
• MacLean's shares photos from Kingston, the band's hometown and where ( 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... )

• blogTO looks at the history of the Kingston Road.
• The Dragon's Gaze considers the birth of carbon planets.
• Language Log notes that a speaking parrot may well be used as evidence I an American court.
• The LRB Blog looks at the aftermath of Brexit.
• Marginal Revolution considers Brexit from the perspective of a Japan-style isolationism.

My Facebook feed Wednesday night was filled with the complaints of my old Kingston friends that the Sleepless Goat Café, on 91 Princess Street in the heart of Kingston, was going to be closing this weekend, with a special commemoration to be held at the restaurant itself at 7 o'clock this evening. The sad economics behind the closing were described ( Read more... )

The historic lack of anti-Semitism at my alma mater, Queen's University, in the 1930s is responsible for my school's acquisition of so many works of art, as described by the Toronto Star's Sarah-Joyce Battersby.

Queen’s University has been crowned the king of Rembrandt after an alumnus gifted the school with a multimillion-dollar painting by the ( Read more... )

CBC carried the news that three people convicted of carrying out an honour killing directed towards four female family members have lodged an appeal.

A Montreal couple and their son who were convicted of first-degree murder in the so-called honour killings of four female family members are appealing for a new trial ( Read more... )

I've decided to go back to an old Tuesday night habit of posting DBWI reviews of books from alternate histories. Reactions, please ( Read more... )

Desmond Cole's Toronto Life cover article, "The Skin I'm In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times-all because I’m black", remains noteworthy weeks after its release. The things people like me are personally lucky enough to miss, the things others suffer unnoticed.

The summer I was nine, my teenage cousin Sana came from England to ( Read more... )