The tagline is: “Thunderbird: Unique in all the world.” Click on the ad to enlarge it. Click again to enlarge it further. The early 1960s ad reads: What to tell your wife before the Thunderbird comes You won’t have to tell her how beautiful a Thunderbird is. She can see that no other car has […]
The Parkview School story remains a source of inspiration and celebration for local residents in South Etobicoke. The school in question, as we learned in October 2010, was being sold by the Toronto District School Board as the property was surplus to its needs. In the end, it was sold to the French public school […]
The following message concerning the Jan. 15, 2015 Review of the Toronto District School Board, which has been discussed at previous posts at this website, is from TDSB Ward 3 Trustee Pamela Gough’s office. The Ward Forum will also discuss the proposed TDSB budget for 2015-2016. I became involved with local community self-organizing, in Long […]
In a previous post, I’ve noted that our plan was to replace the website’s home page banner – the one that features the photo of Aquaview Condominiums in Toronto at Lake Shore Blvd. West and Forty Second Street as it appeared during early construction – with a banner for the MCHS 2015 Reunion. We’ve made […]
The following message is from Edith George: “The 400th anniversary of the Étienne Brûlé and the Carrying Place Trail will be in September of 2015. The initial meeting of interest groups will be Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. at 12 Division Toronto Police Services. Located at the corner of Trethewey and Black Creek. […]
A February 2015 Harvard Business Review article is entitled “The Problem With Authenticity: When it’s OK to fake it till you make it.” I enjoy reading articles in the Harvard Business Review. The research on which the articles are based appears to be of value. The relationship of HBR to the 1% that will soon […]
Updates: A Feb. 25, 2017 Atlantic article is entitled: “The Meaning of Kim Jong Nam’s Murder: His death has punctured the myth of the Kims’ holy bloodline.” A Feb. 28, 2017 CBC article is entitled: “Friendship on the rocks? China, North Korea clash over nuclear and chemical weapons: North Korea’s reaction was so strong that some Chinese […]
Geoff Kettel of Toronto has passed along the following City of Toronto news release: News Release January 23, 2015 Toronto’s Market Gallery features city in black and white through the lenses of three Toronto photographers The Market Gallery will present an exhibition from January 24 to May 9 featuring about 80 black-and-white photographs by three […]
A member of our MCHS 60s Reunion organizing committee has remarked: “Now it had been established that we have a dress code. “BUT…….it seems to have concerned a few. “In retrospect dress code was perhaps not necessarily the best term. After all it is a high school reunion. Not a return to high school. “I […]
Updates: A Jan. 29, 2016 Guardian article is entitled: “Was there ever a time when so few people controlled so much wealth?” An April 5, 2016 Foreign Policy article is entitled: “Taxpayers of the World, Unite! The Panama Papers confirm that the world’s elite cheat, lie, and steal. Will the masses finally do something about […]