Sakura trees in High Park during spring.

Having been in Toronto since the middle of winter, I’d been waiting for the time when the locals awake from hibernation and venture out from their dens. It would seem that the slumber is broken in time for a short window in early May where the Sakura trees are in full bloom. This was the most people I’d seen in one place since I’d been here. Every person, dog, and excited star jumper.

Part of the Parthenon Marbles, British Museum.

Unintended consequences of Brexit: harder bargaining from Greece for the Parthenon Marbles, removed by Lord Elgin in the early 1800s, to be returned to Greece.