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pulation from declining further unable to find jobs on the island located to the south of mainland italy many people have decided to move toward the north where unemployment rates are much lower hence gangi s population has dwindled and the amount of empty houses has increased reflecting a broader sicilian problem written by randy mcdonald november 29 2014 at 3 05 am posted in demographics popular culture tagged with atlantic canada demographics italy links migration newfoundland real estate regionalism sicily link crimea is becoming more russian and less hospitable to minorities the toronto star shares michael birnbaum s washington post article looking at the situation for minorities ethnic and religious here the ukrainians in crimea eight months into the russian annexation of the black sea resort region of crimea traces of ukraine s 60 year rule here are rapidly being wiped away now ukrainians themselves worry that they are next the ukrainian language has vanished from school curriculums russia s two headed eagle has been bolted onto government buildings and russian laws are slowly taking hold and as the peninsula russifies ukrainians and other minority groups are finding that an area once renowned for its easygoing cosmopolitanism is now stifling some are fleeing their native home many complain that they have been written off both by the world and by ukraine itself which is focused on the bloody conflict in its southeast the turmoil is a harsh consequence of the first major land grab in europe since the second world war and it comes despite kremlin assurances that life would be better in crimea for russians and ukrainians alike the ukrainian orthodox church has quickly become a haven for ukrainian speakers in crimea who can gather on sunday mornings to gossip and to send up prayers in sanctuaries whose authorities sit in kyiv not moscow but archbishop kliment the leader of the church here fears for his future i get up worried and i go to bed worried he said speaking in the converted school building in simferopol that houses the church headquarters on this peninsula of 2 4 million they are closing down ukrainian schools ukrainian newspapers it s all closed and the ukrainian church is the only thing left one poll taken when crimea was still part of ukraine found that about 12 per cent of crimean residents or 280 000 people identified as ukrainian orthodox since the russian takeover the church leader says pressure has forced him to close almost a third of his congregations several of his priests have fled written by randy mcdonald november 29 2014 at 12 34 am posted in politics popular culture tagged with borders crimea ethnic conflict former soviet union links national identity russia ukraine link finland legalises gay marriage the guardian shares the good news the finnish parliament has narrowly approved a citizen s initiative to legalise same sex marriage gay couples in finland have been able to enter into registered partnerships since 2002 but until now the country was the only in the nordic region not to allow same sex marriage finland is now the 12th european state to do so in the vote 105 members of parliament supported the legal amendment while 92 opposed it the measure will end the distinction in finland between same sex unions and heterosexual marriages and give such couples equal rights to adopt children and share a surname written by randy mcdonald november 29 2014 at 12 32 am posted in politics popular culture tagged with finland glbt issues links marriage rights norden urban note on how the toronto real estate market is hard on renovators the globe and mail s denise balkissoon describes one unexpected effect of toronto s tight real estate market as toronto s real estate market continues its wild run it s not just potential homeowners who are having trouble finding affordable properties for infill developers and resellers otherwise known as flippers bidding wars and wild eyed buyers are making it hard to turn a profit rehabilitating broken homes for years improving distressed properties was our sole focus says bill crilly a structural engineer who runs 3 stones custom homes with general contractor chris lawrence the company focuses on what mr crilly calls dilapidated houses that no one would want to live in in the downtown toronto core completely gutting and restoring stately 100 year old brick houses and outfitting the insides with luxe contemporary design touches in the past year and a half the duo has found itself regularly outbid and for the past few months has found itself entirely without a house to fix up in early fall for example they tried for a house on euclid street near bathurst and college that was listed at 960 000 3 stones offered 1 035 000 planning to spend around 200 000 on a six month fix and sell for about 1 5 million the house sold for 1 220 000 almost 200 000 more than they were willing to pay the thing is we bought and restored the house right beside it we know what it needed mr lawrence says he says the eventual buyers are in for an unpleasant surprise if they think they can get away with a cosmetic renovation we planned a complete gut right back to the studs written by randy mcdonald november 29 2014 at 12 31 am posted in economics toronto urban note tagged with economics real estate toronto urban note isl wade maclauchlan announces p e i liberal leadership bid cbc prince edward island shares the news that upei s former president wade maclauchlan is running for the leadership of the pei liberal party and hence the premiership wade maclauchlan law professor author and former president of the university of prince edward island announced his bid to lead the p e i liberal party friday maclauchlan made the announcement at a news conference in york just outside of charlottetown if he is successful maclauchlan will automatically become p e i s next premier current liberal premier robert ghiz announced on nov 13 he would step down pending a leading convention which has since been scheduled for feb 20 21 maclauchlan took the stage with the majority of the liberal caucus standing behind him including prominent cabinet ministers who were rumoured to be interested in the leadership finance and energy minister wes sheridan health minister doug currie innovation and higher learning minister allen roach education minister alan mcisaac and agriculture minister george webster were all on the stage transportation minister robert vessey introduced maclauchlan and announced his candidacy written by randy mcdonald november 29 2014 at 12 23 am posted in canada politics tagged with atlantic canada canada islands maritimes politics prince edward island upei link cbc managers told of jian ghomeshi assault allegations back in june cbc notes that cbc managers apparently were told about jian ghomeshi s alleged crimes back in june of this year certain cbc managers were aware back in june of allegations of assault including punching and choking involving a series of women by former cbc radio host jian ghomeshi an investigation by the fifth estate has found until now there were few specifics about what cbc managers knew about the rumours that were circulating about ghomeshi but new information provides another layer of detail about what was going on at the time prompted by those allegations cbc says it conducted an internal investigation this summer involving a cross section of managers program leaders and q employees but it is also unclear to whom senior managers talked in a survey by cbc tv s the fifth estate almost all known staffers on ghomeshi s radio show q said they were not contacted by cbc management as part of any investigation the documentary also explores what happened when cbc managers were first shown images of ghomeshi s alleged violence against a woman chris boyce the head of cbc radio and a central figure in the story said in hindsight it is a good question whether cbc should have gone to the police at that time written by randy mcdonald november 29 2014 at 12 21 am posted in popular culture tagged with cbc crime feminism jian ghomeshi links urban note the jihadists of suburbia i ve followed the aftermath of an alleged 2013 plot by two canadian muslim radicals to derail a via rail train i linked to various articles on the plot soon after it was revealed by the police noted that the concerned father of suspect raed jaser came forward with his concerns and noted the eccentricities of tunisian born chiheb esseghaier who insisted on finding a lawyer who would defend him according to islamic law in toronto life naheed mustafa has an article taking a look at the lives of the two men they both seem to have been sadly disconnected from their environments raed jaser was 15 years old when he and his family arrived in toronto in 1993 during the gulf war his palestinian parents mohammed and sabah had been forced to leave the united arab emirates mohammed worked as an ad sales rep at a newspaper and had refused to give in to emirati government agents demands that he spy on other palestinians to avoid persecution the jasers headed to czechoslovakia then to germany and finally to canada with them were raed s younger brothers 11 year old nabil and 10 year old shadi and sabah jaser was some five months pregnant with another boy the immigration officer who interviewed the family noted in their file that their refugee case should be sorted out as soon as possible before the baby was born the immigration and refugee board didn t believe the family s story and rejected their claim but four years later they were accepted under a now defunct program that allowed refugee claimants to stay if they were stateless and therefore had no country to be deported to raed however didn t qualify while his parents were navigating the refugee system he d earned a criminal record in 1997 he was convicted of fraud offences totalling more than 15 000 for various big ticket items including a gas oven and sound equipment he ignored the order to leave the country two years later still living in the gta he was arrested again this time for uttering a death threat to a manager of a richmond hill pub he was sentenced to two years probation and fined 1 000 raed jaser spent most of his spare time at suburban mosques including the jam e masjid in markham which is colloquially known as middlefield for the road it sits on the mosque is large and white with arched windows and traditional domes and minarets the people who attend it are mostly middle class south asian canadians who live nearby at middlefield jaser would often spend his free time proselytizing to other muslims it seems an odd thing preaching to those already praying but it s not uncommon among devout muslims you may already be an observant muslim but you can always use a boost to stay on the right track when he wasn t proselytizing he d watch youtube lectures given by celebrity scholars and preachers like abdur raheem green bilal philips and farhat hashmi their lectures are not unlike the kinds of sermons a conservative christian might hear at a megachurch a mix of scripture and motivational talk about how to live a moral life by applying religious principles to everyday problems part history lesson part advice part fear of god s wrath all wrapped up in a slick production in 2010 jaser met a man at middlefield who shared his obsessions chiheb esseghaier then a 28 year old tunisian doctoral student at the université du québec specialized in nano technology and biosensors he had a full beard an intense gaze behind metal rimmed glasses and the withdrawn personality of a bookworm even though they came from very different backgrounds they fell into long conversations about religion politics and esseghaier s studies esseghaier began visiting jaser in toronto often crashing at his home he never spoke to jaser s wife even though she was in the apartment which isn t that unusual in jaser and esseghaier s strict interpretation of the muslim faith men and women who are unrelated simply do not interact the men talked about how they believed muslims were oppressed by the west they talked about how wrong it was that canada had troops in afghanistan with the nato mission nato in esseghaier s view was intent on colonizing the country and forcing secularism upon muslims written by randy mcdonald november 28 2014 at 9 03 pm posted in canada politics popular culture tagged with canada chiheb esseghaier clash of civilizations clash of ideologies islam montréal raed jaser rail terrorism toronto blog some friday links blogto covers spacing s new toronto store crooked timber has a measured response to the death of mystery novelist p d james the dragon s tales links to a paper modeling the development of river deltas on titan and on earth far outliers notes the awkward advantages of japanese koreans in north korea joe my god features a guest post from carl siciliano operator of a shelter for glbt youth language hat notes a recent study suggesting that even forgotten languages are not truly forgotten by humans once exposed to them marginal revolution looks at the complications of france s 35 hour work week the russian demographics blog notes the hajnal line dividing european population and observes the return of natural increase in russia the signal has a fascinating interview about the complexities of digital art preservation transit toronto notes john tory s order to restore cut bus service to dozens of routes including my dupont bus window on eurasia suggests chinese dams might dry up kazakhstan s lake balkhash and examines the consequence of russia s stripping expatriates of their citizenship written by randy mcdonald november 28 2014 at 7 01 pm posted in assorted canada demographics economics history politics popular culture science social sciences toronto urban note tagged with astronomy blogs china computers demographics diasporas dupont street earth economics environment european union france glbt issues history human beings in memoriam japan john tory kazakhstan korea language links mass transit north korea popular art russia shopping space science technology titan toronto ttc urban note photo but they weren t doing much so we killed them all this may 2013 photo was taken as i was walking with my father down the former course of garrison creek along bathurst street near fort york on the side of a stairway leading from the street towards the fort builders had erected a wall with a potted history of the toronto area the only entry relating to native peoples being a notation that first nations settled the area circa 9000 bc below that entry someone had scrawled some graffiti but they weren t doing much so we killed them all first nations erasure is a major problem in canadian history in this particular case the graffiti artist missed a singular point about toronto s pre european history that there were no mass killings of indingenous peoples by europeans that the main mass killings were conducte...