• Antipope Charlie Stross wonders about the interactions between parasite loads and the intelligence of the inhabitants of off-world colonies.
• Bad Astronomy shares a stunning mosaic of the Milky Way Galaxy.
• blogTO notes the construction of a viewing platform for Toronto plane spotters.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog examines why we call other people stupid ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes how an economic boom will let Sweden postpone hard decisions, looks at the popularity of the Korean Wave in China, suggests that subsidies are going to be a big issue for cash-short Arab governments, looks at the investigation in Bulgaria of groups which arrest refugees, and looks at the long-term problems of the Russian economy.
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• CBC notes a push, by Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo, to create a "Silicon Valley North" anchoring the two cities.
• The Toronto Star looks at how Mississauga is preparing for a new mass transit era.
• The Toronto Star reports on how the northeastern British Columbia city of Fort St. John is dangerous for First Nations women.
• The CBC reported about how ( Read more... )

First, the CBC:

The federal housing agency says there is a risk of correction in Canadian housing markets in several cities, especially Toronto, Saskatoon and Regina, because of overvaluation and overbuilding of real estate ( Read more... )

CBC News' Éric Grenier considers the prospects for a revival of the right in Canada. He's not convinced there will be much of an upwards bump outside of the Prairies.

Two provinces are heading to the polls in April, and in both cases the main right-of-centre party on the ballot is expected to win: the opposition Progressive Conservatives under ( Read more... )

CBC News reports on the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation's concern that some Canadian cities might be facing a real estate bubble.

Canada's housing market is in no danger of a correction nationally, but that's not the case in Toronto, Regina and Winnipeg where the CMHC says there's a "high risk" of a slowdown ( Read more... )

Ken MacQueen of MacLean's writes about the emergence of a serious HIV epidemic in Saskatchewan, concentrated in disadvantaged populations.\

Sometimes when Dr. Alex Wong wants to draw the attention of government policy-makers to the HIV epidemic in his home province of Saskatchewan, he entitles his statistical presentation “Africa on the Prairies ( Read more... )

Tamsin McMahon's article in The Globe and Mail noting how the condo boom is starting to bust in Canada outside of Toronto and Vancouver makes for worrisome reading. What will happen to the Canadian economy?

When the federal government tightened mortgage rules in 2012, overheated condo markets in Toronto and Vancouver were widely seen as the main ( Read more... )

CBC Saskatoon noted the wedding of a same-sex couple in a Mennonite church in Saskatchewan, the first of its kind in Canada.

New Year's Eve is a special time for many, and for Craig Friesen and Matt Wiens, it was especially meaningful ( Read more... )

CBC's coverage of the consequences of the Ontario premier's ill-timed speculations about the possibility of Canada's oil-driven currency precipitating a nation-wide case of "Dutch disease"--a high, even overvalued currency making industrial exports uncompetitive--is worth reading in full. Canadian regionalism: a force to watch out for?

Ontario ( Read more... )