Just noticed on a local real estate blog that the Canadian government is taking advantage of the US real estate downturn to go on a little shopping spree in town — to the tune of one house and five condos apparently. This 4 bdrm/4bath 3,515 square foot house in leafy upper North West for $1.475 million had been assessed at over $2 million. And how could Ottawa resist: it’s located on Quebec Street.
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World
A royal honour? Thanks, but no thanks.
The roster of people who’ve snubbed the Queen reveals as much covert vanity as it does quiet principle
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Gothamatic 8.2.2012
Every day, Zoran Milich walks the streets of New York City, camera in hand
Jesse Brown
Evgeny Morozov: note to a grumpy pundit
It’s a pity to let the naysayer role obscure valid insights into Internet-savvy authoritarian regimes
Brian D. Johnson Unscreened
Nazis invade from the dark side of the moon!
If you do just one thing today, it should be to watch the trailer for ‘Iron Sky’
Canada
The Shafia honour killing trial—Chapter 2
The roots of a tortured clan
Capital Read
Dickens at 200: still the best we’ve got on being poor
His way of forcing the reader to see and smell the squalor of 19th century England is still unmatched in its moral force
