Posts Tagged ‘airbnb’
[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Ottawa, Longueuil, Montréal, Winnipeg, Saint John, Halifax, Lethbridge
- The Ottawa Citizen suggests a recent audit of OC Transpo should have offered warnings of the Confederation Line problems to come.
- A project office has been set up for the extension of the Yellow Line in Longueuil and elsewhere on the south shore. CTV News reports.
- La Presse looks at the concerns of some artists in Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie that they might be forced out by gentrification.
- That the Bay Building in downtown Winnipeg has been evaluated as being of little value offers an opening to Heritage Winnipeg. Global News reports.
- The New Brunswick government is forcing suburbs of Saint John to pay for city facilities that they also used. Global News reports.
- Short-term rentals are having a negative effect on real estate markets in Halifax. Global News reports.
- Downtown Lethbridge faces struggles to attract business. Global News reports.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 25, 2019 at 11:45 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Urban Note
Tagged with airbnb, alberta, atlantic canada, borders, canada, cities, confederation line, economics, halifax, lethbridge, longueuil, manitoba, mass transit, montréal, neighbourhoods, new brunswick, nova scotia, oc transpo, ontario, ottawa, québec, real estate, rosemont, saint john, Urban Note, winnipeg, yellow line
[URBAN NOTE] Ten Toronto links
- The vicious homophobia exhibited by TCDSB trustee Mike Del Grande is, IMHO, another reason to defund public Catholic education in Ontario. Global News reports.
- The CCLV streetcars of the TTC are set to be pulled by the end of November. Global News reports.
- The Scarborough Bluffs are set to see some worthwhile investment. blogTO reports.
- CBC notes growth in food bank usage in Toronto and Mississauga.
- Presto users are being mischarged based on GPS mistakes. CBC reports.
- Renovictions have spiked 300% over the past four years. blogTO reports.
- The cost of rent continues to grow in Toronto. blogTO reports.
- A new project hopes to make Yonge and Eglinton less congested. The Toronto Star reports.
- New regulations about Airbnb should make the real estate market easier for renters. NOW Toronto reports.
- Owing to family request, a new street in Etobicoke will not be named after former Toronto mayor Rob Ford. Global News reports.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 23, 2019 at 6:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
Tagged with airbnb, christianity, economics, education, etobicoke, glbt issues, mass transit, mississauga, ontario, parks, politics, presto, real estate, rob ford, scarborough bluffs, streetcars, three torontos, toronto, ttc, Urban Note, yonge and eglinton
[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- {anthro}dendum features a post by Kimberly J. Lewis about strategies for anthropologists to write, and be human, after trauma.
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports on exoplanet LHC 3844b, a world that had its atmosphere burned away by its parent star.
- Centauri Dreams looks at Neptune from the perspective of exoplanets discovered near snow lines.
- D-Brief reports on the new Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, installed at Kitt Peak to help map galaxies and dark energy.
- Gizmodo
- looks at how Airbnb is dealing with party houses after a fatal mass shooting.
- The Island Review shares some drawings by Charlotte Watson, inspired by the subantarctic Auckland Islands.
- JSTOR Daily looks at the late 19th century hit novel Ramona, written by Helen Hunt Jackson to try to change American policy towards indigenous peoples.
- Language Hat looks at how, until recently, the Faroese language had taboos requiring certain words not to be used at sea.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at a proposal to partially privatize American national parks.
- The LRB Blog looks at what Nigel Farage will be doing next.
- Marginal Revolution looks at a speculative theory on the origins of American individualism in agrarian diversity.
- The NYR Daily looks at an exhibition of the artwork of John Ruskin.
- Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw remarks on a connection between Arthur Ransome and his region of New England.
- Drew Rowsome shares an interview with folk musician Michelle Shocked.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel emphasizes the importance of the dark energy mystery.
- Towleroad notes a posthumous single release by George Michael.
- Daniel Little at Understanding Society celebrates the 12th anniversary of his blog, and looks back at its history.
- Window on Eurasia looks at Ingushetia after 1991.
- Arnold Zwicky looks at All Saints Day.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 6, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with airbnb, all saints' day, anthropology, arthur ransome, astronomy, auckland islands, australia, blogging, blogs, clash of ideologies, crime, european union, exoplanets, faroes, first nations, george michael, glbt issues, holidays, islands, language, lhc 3844b, links, michelle shocked, neptune, new england, north caucasus, physics, politics, popular literature, popular music, public art, russia, separatism, snow line, social sciences, sociology, space science, technology, united kingdom, united states, west norden, writing
[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links
- Steve Munro looks at a recent examination by the Toronto auditor-general about the problems of Presto, here.
- blogTO notes that, on the weekend of the 22nd, the Toronto Reference Library will host another book sale.
- Spacing lets someone evicted for putting his apartment up for Airbnb tell his story.
- Global News tells the story of Charlie’s Friend Art Café in Bloordale, here.
- This Toronto Life account of the life and crimes of Alek Minassian remains authentically disturbing to me.
- The idea of a Toronto city charter, a constitution to protect the city’s prerogatives, does sound pretty good to me. CBC reports.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 5, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
Tagged with airbnb, alek minassian, bloor street west, bloordale, books, coffee, crime, gender, incels, libraries, mass transit, ontario, parkdale, politics, popular literature, presto, technology, terrorism, toronto, toronto reference library, Urban Note
[BLOG] Some Thursday links
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait tells readers how the orbit of a newly-discovered object, like one of the newly found moons of Saturn, is calculated.
- D-Brief looks at the import of observations of the young HD 163296 system, where gas has been detected flowing onto young planets. Is this where atmospheres come from?
- Gizmodo notes the recent claim by Google to have achieved a quantum computing milestone.
- JSTOR Daily looks at how, in the early 20th century, old unpaved country roads gave way to modern ones.
- The LRB Blog looks at the latest on Brexit and British politics.
- Marginal Revolution notes an article arguing Airbnb has helped undermine trust even in Himalayan villages.
- The NYR Daily looks at a landmark exhibition of the works of William Blake at the Tate Britain.
- Rocky Planet shows how the hyper-precise records of ice cores can be used to identify not just the existence but the locations of volcanic eruptions.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel looks at a newly-founded mysterious dark ancient massive galaxy that may have insights on the processes of the wider universe.
- Window on Eurasia looks at a UN report examining how Russia, occupying Crimea, has promoted demographic transformations.
- Arnold Zwicky tells of his experiences with OUTiL, an organization he helped form in 1991 that brought together out linguists.
Written by Randy McDonald
October 24, 2019 at 4:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with airbnb, astronomy, blogs, borders, computers, democracy, earth, electons, exoplanets, glbt issues, globalization, google, hd 163296, history, imperialism, language, linguistics, links, phyiscs, politics, roads, russia, saturn, separatism, space science, technology, ukraine, united kingdom, volcanoes, william blake
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: politics, real estate, transit, rainbow tunnel
- John Lorinc at Spacing looks at how the idea of municipal autonomy for Toronto should not be seen as a final solution.
- blogTO notes the contracting number of neighbourhoods open for first-time buyers, here.
- Airbnb, blogTO notes, is definitely impacting the wider real estate network.
- King Street’s transit operations should be taken as a model for wider Toronto. Spacing has it.
- The story of the rainbow tunnel visible on the northbound DVP is a sad one worth knowing. Global News has it.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 25, 2019 at 8:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Toronto, Urban Note
Tagged with airbnb, economics, king street, mass transit, neighbourhoods, oddities, ontario, politics, real estate, toronto, ttc, Urban Note
[ISL] Five #PEI links: Airbnb, Charlottetown Mall, Crapaud, Région Évangéline, seaweed pie
- CBC Prince Edward Island notes the proportionally extreme impact of Airbnb on the very tight housing market in Charlottetown.
- The Guardian notes the redevelopment of the Charlottetown Mall will see new stores and several hundred new housing units.
- Peter Rukavina reports on his successful electronic mapping of every building in the community of Crapaud.
- CBC Prince Edward Island notes that a move to amalgamate the predominantly Francophone and Acadian west-end Région Évangéline into a single municipality has halted.
- Atlas Obscura reports on the PEI dish of seaweed pie, made from Irish moss, once in the community of Miminegash and now available at the Canadian Potato Museum in O’Leary.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 10, 2019 at 9:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Economics, History, Popular Culture, Social Sciences
Tagged with acadians, airbnb, atlantic canada, canada, canadian potato museum, charlotettown mall, charlottetown, economics, food, irish moss, links, miminegash, news, o'leary, oceans, politics, potatoes, prince edward island, région évangéline, real estate, restaurants, seaweed pie, tourism, travel
[URBAN NOTE] Five Montréal links: Québec, real estate, Berri, Dorchester Square, Airbnb
- La Presse writes about the lack of rapport between the government of Québec and the metropolis of Montréal, and the looks at the consequences of said.
- A new CMHC study suggests that, between rising prices for housing on the island of Montréal and improved transit off-Island, it might be cheaper for many to live on the mainland. The Montreal Gazette reports.
- Turning the abandoned Berri bus station into a distribution depot sounds like a good idea to me. CTV News reports.
- The newly renovated Dorchester Square looks lovely. Global News reports.
- The Montreal Gazette looks at new strict rules on Airbnb that will hopefully limit the impact on the rental housing sector.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 7, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Economics, Politics, Popular Culture, Urban Note
Tagged with airbnb, canada, dorchester square, economics, mass transit, montréal, parks, politics, québec, real estate, regionalism, tourism, travel, Urban Note
[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: Galleria, Gerrard Square, real estate, Don, Scarborough, #onpoli
- CBC Toronto notes the latest stage in the documentation, by Toronto artist Shari Kasman, of the now-disappearing Galleria Mall.
- The Gerrard Square Mall, blogTO suggests, is actually doing quite nicely these days.
- Airbnb listings in Toronto, taking up 1% of the rental market of Toronto, are causing significant harm to renters despite this seemingly small percentage. CBC reports.
- John Lorinc is quite right to note at Spacing that the City of Toronto is not helping the housing crisis by selling off vacant land.
- The Don River can now be celebrated, noting its rather improved status from its mid-20th century nadir. CBC Toronto reports.
- The Scarborough RT line faced near-critical shortages of usable vehicles recently. The Toronto Star reports.
- Steve Munro takes</a. a look at the details of the law uploading new Toronto transit services to the province of Ontario.
Written by Randy McDonald
May 7, 2019 at 4:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
Tagged with airbnb, galleria mall, gerrard square, mass transit, neighbourhoods, ontario, politics, popular culture, real estate, scarborough, scarborough rt, shopping, three torontos, toronto, ttc, Urban Note
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: anti-racist protest, AI at U of T, naloxone, TTC, Airbnb
- National Observer notes how, in Toronto, hundreds of anti-racist protesters blocked a far-right group.
- A $C 100 million donation has recently been made to the University of Toronto, to fund artificial intelligence research. CBC reports.
- Harm reduction activists want TTC operators to be trained in the usage of naloxone kits, to aid overdose victims. CBC reports.
- Transit Toronto notes its new Family of Services concept, intended to help Wheel-Trans users access wider city transit.
- Samantha Edwards writes at NOW Toronto about how Airbnb is worsening the living experiences of permanent residents in condo developments, by encouraging a more transient crowd less invested in local communities.
Written by Randy McDonald
March 26, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Economics, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
Tagged with airbnb, artificial intelligence, clash of ideologies, condos, drugs, health, mass transit, neighbourhoods, politics, toronto, ttc, university of toronto, Urban Note