Posts Tagged ‘nova scotia’
[NEWS] Six links on journalism in Canada: Québec, Halifax, PEI, Guelph …
- La Presse carries the concern of a Québec journalist that the decline of daily papers could have a catastrophic impact on the province’s culture.
- The Québec government would like financially-stressed newspaper group to form a coop. CTV News reports.
- That the Toronto Star shut down its free Metro affiliates across Canada made the news in Halifax. CBC reports.
- The closure of the Transcontinental Media printing plant in Borden-Carleton means that PEI no longer has a local printer for its media. CBC reports.
- Sabrina Wilkinson writes at The Conversation about the increasingly tenuous nature of journalism in Canada, not least as an employer.
- This Alex Migdal piece looks at how Guelph, Ontario, has fared since the closure of the Guelph Mercury daily.
Written by Randy McDonald
December 7, 2019 at 8:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Economics, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences
Tagged with atlantic canada, canada, economics, guelph, journalism, links, mass media, nova scotia, ontario, politics, prince edward island, québec, toronto star
[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Gatineau, Montréal, Halifax, wild turkeys and monk parakeets, Venice, Kamza
- The city of Gatineau is going to take land with constructions devastated by flooding and make it into a buffer zone. CBC reports.
- There is controversy around the idea of naming a REM station in Montréal’s Griffintown neighbourhood after Bernard Landry. Global News reports.
- Halifax has a third heritage district. Global News reports.
- The wild turkey is now thriving in many American cities, in New Jersey’s Toms River and even in Washington D.C. CityLab reports.
- The monk parakeet is thriving in European cities like Madrid and London. CityLab reports.
- The Conversation suggests that Venice may yet benefit from the attention brought to its problems by the recent flooding.
- Guardian Cities looks at the remarkably rapid construction of the city in Albania of Kamza, driven by (among other factors) remittances from emigrants.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 27, 2019 at 8:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Urban Note
Tagged with albania, atlantic canada, birds, canada, cities, diaspora, disasters, european union, gatineau, griffintown, halifax, ireland, italy, kamza, mass transit, migration, monk parakeet, montréal, neighbourhoods, nova scotia, québec, united states, Urban Note, venice, wild turkey
[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
[NEWS] Eighteen #cdnpoli and #exln43 links
- MacLean’s looks at how Justin Trudeau and the Liberals survived #elxn43, here.
- Ajay Parasram at The Conversation looks at the new complications faced by Justin Trudeau.
- Daily Xtra looks at the record of the Liberals on LGBTQ2 issues, here.
- Daily Xtra looks at the four out LGBTQ2 MPs elected to Parliament, here.
- Philippe Fournier at MacLean’s argues that 338Canada stands vindicated in its predictions, with some 90% of the people it predicted would be elected being elected.
- What will become of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer? The National Post considers.
- Strategic voting and Doug Ford, Mark Gollom notes, kept the Conservatives from making a breakthrough in Ontario.
- Robyn Urback at CBC notes that the narrow conservatism of Scheer kept the Conservatives from victory in a wary Canada.
- Stephen Maher at MacLean’s questions if the Bloc Québécois victory has much to do with separatism, per se.
- Voters in Québec seem to be fine with election results, with a strong Bloc presence to keep the Liberals on notice. CBC has it.
- Talk of separatism has taken off in Alberta following the #elxn43 results. Global News has it.
- The premier of Saskatchewan has also talked of his province’s alienation after #elxn43, here in the National Post.
- CBC’s As It Happens carries an interview with former Conservative MP Jay Hill, now an advocate for western Canadian separatism.
- Atlantic Canada may provide new members for the cabinet of Justin Trudeau. The Toronto Star reports.
- Jaime Battiste, Liberal, has been elected as the first Mi’kmaq MP from Nova Scotia. Global News has it.
- The Green Party did not make its hoped-for breakthrough on Vancouver Island, but it will struggle on. Global News has it.
- Did, as Politico suggested, Canada sleepwalk into the future with #elxn43?
- We should be glad, Scott Gilmore argues in MacLean’s, that given the global challenges to democracy #elxn43 in Canada was relatively boring.
Written by Randy McDonald
October 23, 2019 at 3:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences
Tagged with alberta, andrew scheer, atlantic canada, bloc québécois, borders, british columbia, canada, clash of ideologies, conservatives, democracy, doug ford, elections, federalism, first nations, glbt issues, green party, justin trudeau, liberals, links, mi'kmaq, news, nova scotia, ontario, politics, québec, separatism, statistics, vancouver island
[URBAN NOTE] Ten city links: Montréal, Lac-Mégantic, Halifax, Calgary, Edmonton …
- Tracey Lindeman writes at CityLab about how Montréal is trying to keep the redevelopment of the Molson-Coors Brewery site from killing the Centre-Sud.
- In the Montréal neighbourhood of Park-Extension, evictions–renovictions, even–are on the rise. Global News reports.
- Lac-Mégantic now has a train depot that bypasses the heart of this traumatized community. CBC Montreal reports.
- Halifax is now celebrating the Mosaic Festival, celebrating its diversity. Global News reports.
- Jill Croteau reports for Global News about Club Carousel, an underground club in Calgary that played a vital role in that city’s LGBTQ history.
- This business plan, aiming to bypass long lineups at the Edmonton outpost of the Jollibee chain, is ingenious. Global News reports.
- The Iowa town of Pacific Junction, already staggering, may never recover from a recent bout of devastating flooding. VICE reports.
- Avery Gregurich writes for CityLab about the Illinois town of Atlas, a crossroads seemingly on the verge of disappearing from Google Maps.
- The proposal for Metropica, a new sort of suburb in Florida, certainly looks interesting. VICE reports.
- Guardian Cities shares a cartoon looking affectionately at Lisbon.
Written by Randy McDonald
September 1, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Urban Note
Tagged with alberta, atlantic canada, atlas, calgary, canada, cartoons, centre-sud, cities, diaspora, disasters, edmonton, florida, food, glbt issues, google, google maps, halifax, history, hollibee, illinois, iowa, lac-mégantic, lisbon, metropica, montréal, neighbourhoods, nova scotia, pacific junction, park-extension, philippines, portugal, québec, rail, restaurants, united states, Urban Note, village gay
[NEWS] Five cultural links: Hitler, Internet, Nova Scotia roads, BC gangs, Pontic Greek
- The BBC takes a look at Pontic Greek, a Greek dialect that survives precariously in exile from its homeland in Anatolia.
- Klaus Meyer writes at The Conversation about how Hitler, in his rise to power, became a German citizen.
- Low-income families in the Toronto area face serious challenges in getting affordable Internet access. CBC reports.
- Jeremy Keefe at Global News takes a look at Steve Skafte, an explorer of abandoned roads in Nova Scotia.
- In some communities in British Columbia, middle-class people have joined criminal gangs for social reasons. CBC reports.
Written by Randy McDonald
August 27, 2019 at 10:15 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Toronto
Tagged with abandoned, adolf hitler, atlantic canada, austria, british columbia, canada, citizenship, clash of ideologies, crime, cultural capital, diaspora, fascism, germany, greece, internet, language, links, nazi germany, news, nova scotia, pontic greek, popular culture, three torontos, toronto, turkey, \
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Guelph, Hamilton, Lethbridge, Moncton, Halifax
- blogTO suggests some things people could do on a day trip to Guelph (and commenters come up with more suggestions).
- The lack of explicitly queer spaces in Hamilton is one thing that has come up in a recent study. Global News reports.
- The Alberta city of Lethbridge, third-largest in the province, now has a population of more than one hundred thousand people. Global News reports.
- Will the city of Moncton get rainbow crosswalks? Global News reports.
- Halifax has faced complications in trying to pursue a commuter rail option. Global News reports.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 26, 2019 at 8:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Urban Note
Tagged with alberta, canada, cities, Demographics, glbt issues, guelph, halifax, hamilton, lethbridge, mass transit, moncton, new brunswickk, nightclubbing, nova scotia, ontario, rail, rainbow, tourism, travel, Urban Note