Lobbying by food industry means Canada food labels won’t list ‘added sugar’ – Dec. 16, 2016 CBC article

A Dec. 16, 2016 CBC article is entitled: “Sugar’s on the food label, but you’ll have to guess how much has been ‘added’: Lobbying by food industry means Canada food labels won’t list ‘added sugar’”. A Dec. 16, 2016 ‘Second Opinion’ newsletter by Kelly Crowe and Darryl Hol from CBC Health notes: How many ways can you […]

As chair has acknowledged (Sept. 29, 2016 meeting), Committee of Adjustment subjectively decides what is Minor, what is Major

I was at a Committee of Adjustment (COA) at the Etobicoke Civic Centre from 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Sept. 29, 2016. Many severances were accepted, some were rejected. Of all of the COA meetings I’ve attended in 2016, this meeting was a particularly memorable one. I’m pleased to share some highlights from the […]

Mayor John Tory delivers knockout punch in council spar with Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti – Dec. 14, 2016 Toronto Star

A Dec. 14, 2016 Toronto Star article is entitled: “Mayor John Tory delivers knockout punch in council spar with Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti: The mayor delivered a verbal smackdown at the end of a day-long debate over tolls and taxes where the gloves were off.” Congratulations, Mr. Mayor The purpose of this post is to congratulate John […]

OMB Review Town Hall Meetings – Deadline for OMB Review comments is Dec. 19. Please comment!

A previous post is entitled: OMB Town Hall Meetings – Nov. 9 (3850 Lake Shore Blvd. W.) and Nov. 16 (110 Jutland Road) The following text has been forwarded as an email by George Kettel of Leaside; the text was prepared by Magda and Peter; I do not know their full names OMB Review You can […]

How will Toronto weather the storms of climate change? Don’t ask the Committee of Adjustment; they would care less.

A Dec. 12, 2016 CBC article is entitled: “How will Toronto weather the storms of climate change?” I found the article of interest because the Etobicoke-York Committee of Adjustment would not care less, in its decision-making process, about the removal of trees as part of development in Etobicoke and it would not care less about […]

The Honourable Geoff Regan is Speaker of the House of Commons

A recent article that I’ve written for the Canadian Stuttering Association website is entitled: Speaker of the House of Commons, Geoff Regan A longer version of the article, which will appear at the Preserved Stories website, will be entitled: “Now Speaker of the House of Commons, in the summer of 1982, Geoff Regan dropped into […]

Editor of Long Branch Village Facebook page shares reflections following Dec. 8, 2016 COA meeting

Update: See also: How will Toronto weather the storms of climate change? Don’t ask the Committee of Adjustment; they would care less. [end]   The editor of the Long Branch Village Facebook page has shared the following reflections the morning after the Committee of Adjustment meeting on Dec. 8, 2016:   Last night watched #LongBranchTO residents […]

So, what did the Hosts and Hostesses do at MCHS in the early 1960s?

Do you know what the Hosts and Hostesses did at MCHS? If you do, please let us know. This post refers to a comment at an earlier post, the beginning of Graeme Decarie’s Autobiography Stories. The earlier post, that I refer to, is entitled: Chapter 1: Dick and Jane I’m devoting a separate post to […]