[NEWS] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdpei]

• CBC notes the baffling decision of New Brunswick to create a minister of Celtic Affairs.
• CNET notes the underperformance of the Blackberry Priv in the American market.
• Gawker reports from the scene of Mongolia's only gay bar.
• The Inter Press Service looks at urban poverty in Buenos Aires.
• The National Post reports the origins of a Bangladeshi Islamist

Comments

"Minister of Celtic Affairs"?

[dewline]

Saw that CBC report last night, and the whole thing struck me as somewhat weird. I remember the stories of wealth-backed resistance to NB being an officially and constitutionally bilingual province, though, so I suspect this is a concession to such...issues in places of high-level wealth.