The Globe and Mail's Brent Jang notes that Toronto's housing market is continuing to lead Vancouver's.

Canada’s two largest housing markets are going in different directions, with the Greater Toronto Area poised for another rally in 2017 while the Vancouver region girds for a decline ( Read more... )

Jeremy Willard's Daily Xtra article from early this month about Ottawa's Stonewall Wilde's gives me some hope this reconfigured LGBT shop can survive. I certainly think they're doing the sort of thing they need to do for this niche business to survive, in a manner not unlike Toronto's Glad Day.

As of Oct 1, 2016, the book and art store After ( Read more... )

CBC News reports on some potential developments that would be lovely for Ottawa.

The federal government has been presented with three leading ideas on what to do with the former U.S. embassy in Ottawa, which has stood vacant for nearly 20 years on prime real estate directly across from Parliament Hill ( Read more... )

• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith notes that his husky loves the winter that has descended on Ottawa.
• blogTO notes Toronto's continuing housing price spikes.
• D-Brief notes that chimpanzees apparently are built to recognize butts.
• Dead Things reports on discoveries of the first land vertebrates.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the weird patterns of KIC 8462852.

MacLean's carries the Canadian Press report about the exceptional costs associated with repairing 24 Sussex Drive, official residence of the Canadian prime minister.

A report from iPolitics says restoration and repairs to the prime minister’s residence at 24 Sussex Drive, including building a new annex with private quarters and a pool, could cost ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star and the CBC have more on the apparently overwhelming local opposition to this plan to remake a signature building in Ottawa.


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The Globe and Mail carries Joanna Smith's Canadian Press article. In theory, I've nothing at all against the idea of making the national capital bilingual.

Liberal MP Denis Paradis thinks it sounds obvious enough: Canada is an officially bilingual country, so its national capital should be too ( Read more... )

Daily Xtra's Jeremy Willard describes how two queer Ottawa businesses are resorting to crowdfunding to stay alive.

For the owners of After Stonewall and Wilde’s, it has never been just about the money. It’s about helping sustain queer culture in Ottawa - and now they’re asking for help to keep their businesses alive ( Read more... )

• At Apostrophen, 'Nathan Smith describes his experience at the CAN•CON conference in Ottawa.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper speculating about the consequences of observing a large extraterrestrial civilization.
• Far Outliers notes how Chinese soldiers in 1937 Shanghai did not want to take prisoners.
• The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas considers the ( Read more... )

Marie-Danielle Smith reports in the National Post's "‘An architectural gem’: Liberals seeking ideas on what to do with empty former U.S. embassy" about the debate in Ottawa on what to do with an empty attractive building in the heart of the city.

The Liberal government is dusting the cobwebs off the former U.S. embassy on Wellington Street in ( Read more... )