Header: This image from Lisa Jackson’s Biidaaban depicts a decaying Toronto City Hall surrounded by forest, on the edge of a flooded Nathan Phillips Square.
Trying a bit of a new thing. I occasionally do linkdumps via Twitter threads, but I felt like doing something more permanent. Title inspired by this ever-relevant @TechnicallyRon tweet:
2007: It's called a smart phone, it can do everything!
2017: Stare into the nightmare rectangle and watch society collapse in real time— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) September 11, 2017
- A Check-up on Toronto’s Fiscal Health, 2018: IMFG releases a quick summary of Toronto’s fiscal trends as of 2018. No big surprises (expenditures and taxes low, high infrastructure needs, scraping the debt ceiling), but nice pie charts.
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Give the Wellesley Institute’s Healthy Budget Builder a try. See if you can balance the budget by raising or cutting things like childcare and recreation subsidies, parks maintenance, and TTC fares.
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Lisa Jackson’s VR film/installation Biidaaban, which previewed in September and is now being presented as part of the imagineNATIVE festival, imagines a Toronto reclaimed by nature and restored to Indigenous roots.
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The latest from David Hulchanski: Toronto is starkly divided into rich, white neighbourhoods and ethnically diverse, low-income ones.
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From this August, a new study from McGill uses citizen science to update the range of the northern black widow, Latrodectus variolus.
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It is commonly known that some plants parasitize other plants; here’s an interesting case of a plant parasitizing galls formed by insects.
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Many breast cancer patients choose to “go flat”, foregoing breast reconstruction, after mastectomies—only to find their doctors ignoring their wishes.
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Facebook use fuels anti-refugee attacks in Germany and has been manipulated to incite genocide in Myanmar.
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“‘Nobody who works should be poor,’ we say. That’s not good enough. Nobody in America should be poor, period.” Increasingly, work is no longer an antidote to poverty.
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Migrant children are being swept off to a vast tent city in West Texas, beyond the reach of child welfare regulations or legal aid.
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In some cases, children taken from migrant parents being deported have been adopted out to U. S. families.
Okay, now I can finally close all my tabs.