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Today's posting is another aggregation of Instagram photos I've taken in Toronto over the past week, on Bloor Street, near Yonge and Dundas, around Church and Wellesley, and finally in Kensington Market.

(Normal posting will hopefully resume tomorrow, when I actually get a working laptop.)

Planters of the future, on Bloor west of Dovercourt


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• Al Jazeera notes the inequitable terms of a trade agreement between the European Union and West Africa, observes that so far north Kazakhstan isn't vulnerable to Russian irredentism in the same way as east Ukraine, explores the Northern Gateway pipeline controversy, detects Kurdish-Turkmen tension in the city of Kirkuk, and looks at the Japanese- ( Read more... )

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This banner attached to the side of a utility pole on Bathurst Street above Bloor marks lower Bathurst Street's notability as a street hosting a variety of noteworthy independent theatres: Factory Theatre south of Queen Street West; Theatre Passe Muraille just north of Queen Street West; and, the Tarragon Theatre just north of Dupont.


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Walrus Magazine's Justin Robertson surprised me with news of a Canadian connection to Australian state-building, in the form of Canadian-born rebel and flag designer Henry Ross.

Dreck flew off Captain Henry Ross’s steel-capped boots with each step toward the mahogany-trimmed bar of the Star Hotel. He’d spent the previous twelve hours digging for ( Read more... )

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