[NEWS] Twenty news links

• NOW Toronto looks at the Pickering nuclear plant and its role in providing fuel for space travel.
• In some places like California, traffic is so bad that airlines actually play a role for high-end commuters. CBC reports.
• Goldfish released into the wild are a major issue for the environment in Québec, too. CTV News reports.
• China’s investments in Jamaica have good sides and bad sides. CBC reports.
• A potato museum in Peru might help solve world hunger. The Guardian reports.
• Is the Alberta-Saskatchewan alliance going to be a lasting one? Maclean’s considers.
• Is the fossil fuel industry collapsing? The Tyee makes the case.
• Should Japan and Europe co-finance a EUrasia trade initiative to rival China’s? Bloomberg argues.
• Should websites receive protection as historically significant? VICE reports.
• Food tourism in the Maritimes is a very good idea. Global News reports.
• Atlantic Canada lobster exports to China thrive as New England gets hit by the trade war. CBC reports.
• The Bloc Québécois experienced its revival by drawing on the same demographics as the provincial CAQ. Maclean’s reports.
• Population density is a factor that, in Canada, determines political issues, splitting urban and rural voters. The National Observer observes.
• US border policies aimed against migration from Mexico have been harming businesses on the border with Canada. The National Post reports.
• The warming of the ocean is changing the relationship of coastal communities with their seas. The Conversation looks.
• Archival research in the digital age differs from what occurred in previous eras. The Conversation explains.
• The Persian-language Wikipedia is an actively contested space. Open Democracy reports.
• Vox notes how the US labour shortage has been driven partly by workers quitting the labour force, here.
• Laurie Penny at WIRED has a stirring essay about hope, about the belief in some sort of future.

[ISL] Five #PEI links: National Park, Lennox Island, traffic, Charlottetown mass transit, Cornwall

• The Prince Edward Island National Park, unsurprisingly, was devastated by Hurricane Dorian. Global News reports.
• The Mi’kmaq community of Lennox Island lost large amounts of frozen lobster after Hurricane Dorian. CBC PEI reports.
• Peter Rukavina has mapped the busiest and sleepiest roads on PEI, here.
• Growth in ridership on Trius Transit in Charlottetown continues to outpace expectations, CBC PEI reports.
• The work that the Charlottetown suburb of Cornwall is doing, diverting the Trans-Canada Highway to build a Main Street, is authentically exciting urbanism. CBC PEI reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Port Hope, Montréal, Shediac, Halifax, Vancouver

• Finally, the remediation of the low-level radioactive waste scattered around Port Hope is starting. Global News reports.
• Will Montréal bring back the Expos? Global News gauges opinion.
• I congratulate Shediac for winning the world record for the longest lobster roll. Global News reports.
• The new Glitter Bean Café in Halifax sounds like a fun queer-oriented coffee shop. Global News reports.
• Terry Glavin argues that the city government of Vancouver is being terribly negligent in allowing the city to be undermined by unregulated income flows. MacLean’s has it.

[NEWS] Five notes on food: pork in Germany, California agriculture, NL clam, Maine lobster, food box

• Pork consumption in Germany is dropping, a consequence of changing demographics and changing dietary preferences. Bloomberg reports.
• Raids on illegal immigrants by ICE have the potential to badly hurt agriculture in California. Bloomberg reports.
• The story of how an effort to open up the Arctic surf clam fishery of Newfoundland, particularly to natives and non-natives alike became a big mess is sad. The National Post reports.
• Apparently, to cope with injuries and chronic pain, the lobster fishers of Maine are coping by using heroin. Is this going on in Atlantic Canada, too? VICE reports.
• Things like the Trump plan to substantially replace fresh foods with boxed non-perishable goods in food stamp problems have happened to Native Americans already. The dietary and health consequences are significantly negative. NPR reports.

[ISL] Five Prince Edward Island links

• News that lobsters experience pain when lowered into boiling water will have implications for the Island. CBC reports.
• The National Post reports on a Legion hall in Tignish that shamefully refused a Sikh man entry on account of his headdress.
• Happily, shipments of The Globe and Mail’s Saturday edition to Prince Edward Island have resumed. CBC goes into detail.
• The Prince Edward Island government has contracted with three companies to grow three million grams of marijuana for local sale. CBC reports.
• The University of Prince Edward Island will be offering a two-year Master’s program in tourism. CBC reports.

[PHOTO] Fourteen photos of Ripley’s Aquarium

I visited Ripley’s Aquarium last months with my parents. It was one of the few major tourist sights in the downtown that I had not seen, and my parents were curious, so off we went!

I can’t say that Ripley’s Aquarium has much scientific value, but I can attest to the fact that it does an excellent job of displaying the vast diversity of marine life, piscine and otherwise. I enjoyed seeing these creatures, well-adapted to their differing aquatic environments, on display in something like their native habitats. I only hope they felt likewise.

These photos are less than half of the photos I’ve just posted on Flickr and Instagram, which in turn constitute half of the photos I will be posting. More there now, and there will be more–the rest, I think–tomorrow.

[PHOTO] Some lobster-related merchandise at the Cavendish Boardwalk, PEI

[NEWS] Four environment links: disasters, Tibetan soil flowing, lobsters, flooding

• Naomi Klein argues that this summer, of wildfires and disasters, marks an environmental turning point.
• National Geographic shares stunning video of defrosting Tibetan soil flowing.
• This dumping of illegally harvested lobsters as garbage on land in Nova Scotia is a terrible waste. CBC reports.
• Can we limit urban flooding only if we force landowners to contribute to the costs of stormwater infrastructure? MacLean’s makes the case.

[BLOG] Some Friday links

• The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly talks about her vacation in Croatia’s Istria.
• Centauri Dreams highlights the work of citizen scientists who are producing stunning images of Jupiter through Juno data.
• Cody Delistraty examines the unique history of Paris’ Maison de Verre, a house made entirely of glass.
• Bruce Dorminey notes a recent study suggesting red dwarfs tend to produce stellar winds stripping exo-Earths of their atmospheres.
• The LRB Blog looks at the mechanics of press censorship in a changing Burma.
• Language Log’s Geoff Nunberg points out that the phrase “… in the woodpile” is indelibly marked with racism.
• The NYR Daily remembers the life and notes the death of Xiu Liaobo.
• Pamela MacNaughtan at Roads and Kingdoms tells the story of how she found the perfect lobster roll on the Iles-de-la-Madeleine.
• The Signal shares a provocative discussion on the potential role and future decipherability of the emoji in language.
• Towleroad shares a comforting legal analysis suggesting that marriage equality is not yet threatened in the United States.
• Transit Toronto notes another weekend subway shutdown, this time on the Bloor line west from Ossington.
• Window on Eurasia argues that this year will be critical for Russia’s future relationship with Tatarstan.
• Unicorn Booty largely approves, as do I, of the controversial recent Teen Vogue guide to anal sex. Safe sex is informed sex.
• Arnold Zwicky shares photos of the purple-heavy gardens of his neighbourhood in California.

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Anthropology.net looks at the genetics of how the Inuit have adapted to cold weather.
• ‘Nathan Smith’s Apostrophen shares the author’s plans for the coming year.
• Beyond the Beyond’s Bruce Sterling shares Margaret Atwood’s commitment to fighting for freedom of expression.
• Crooked Timber asks its readers for recommendations in Anglophone science fiction.
• D-Brief notes the discovery of the human mesentery.
• The Dragon’s Gaze looks at the protoplanetary disk of LkCa 15 disk.
• Far Outliers looks at some lobsters imported to Japan from (a) Christmas Island.
• Joe. My. God. notes Janet Jackson has given birth.
• Language Hat examines the contrast often made between indigenous and immigrant languages.
• Language Log looks at the names of the stations of the Haifa subway.
• Steve Munro notes Bathurst Station’s goodbye to Honest Ed’s.
• The Planetary Society Blog examines the Dawn probe’s discoveries at Ceres in the past year.
• Window on Eurasia looks at how the permafrost of the Russian far north is melting and endangering entire cities, and contrasts the prosperity of the Estonian city of Narva relative to the decay of adjacent Ivangorod.