Canada Is Set To Become The World’s Weed Dealer: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Canada is set to become the world’s weed dealer
From Justin Ling: “As big weed grows in Canada, it’s increasingly looking to take over the world.
“Canadian mary jane is showing up in Germany, Australia, Chile, and a raft of other countries worldwide who have given the green light to medical marijuana. At the rate things are going, Canadian weed will soon be unavoidable.”
2. 21.9% of Canadians are immigrants, the highest share in 85 years: StatsCan
“The share of immigrants in Canada has reached its highest level in almost a century, according to 2016 census figures released Wednesday.
“The Statistics Canada data also shows the Indigenous population is growing at more than four times the rate of the non-Indigenous population, reaching nearly 1.7 million in 2016.
“These are some of the findings of the latest data set from the 2016 census, focusing on the population related to immigration, ethnocultural diversity, housing and Indigenous people.”
– CBC News
3. China’s Xi Jinping unveils country’s new leaders, but no clear successor
“For the first time in a generation, the new Standing Committee did not include a younger leader who would be groomed as heir apparent. The decision to delay anointing a successor broke with the unwritten conventions that have ensured relatively stable leadership changes since the era of Deng Xiaoping, which was beset by schisms and purges.
“By setting himself up as the strongest ruler since Deng, Mr. Xi has pushed the world’s newest superpower into new and potentially dangerous political territory.”
4.Washington resumes talking about nuclear war
As the North Korean crisis escalates, the unthinkable has suddenly become discussable.
5. Can you track gentrification by mapping Edison bulbs? Yes, yes you can.
“The indicator species of gentrification are many—pop-up farmer’s markets, a front yard with a Little Free Library, thousand-dollar baby strollers. Among the most telling—certainly the most visible to a flâneur at twilight—are Edison-style incandescent light bulbs. Reproduction retro lighting is essential for any restaurateur or publican seeking an upscale clientele. Glowing tungsten filaments seem to draw graduate-degreed urbanites like moths to the proverbial flame—which is more than just a figure of speech, as we’ll see.”
– CityLab
