When we speak of military leadership we are speaking of the management of organized violence. A random thought, that has occurred to me, concerns the inter-connectedness of all things. What follows are some additional, accumulated random thoughts. Vladimir Putin and Erving Goffman I have a keen interest in the discussion in Mr. Putin: Operative in […]
This post concerns three books: The Moth, First Edition (2014) Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (2015) Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, First U.S. Edition. (2016) Each of these books focuses – with a high level of skill and originality – on the context of people’s lives and formative experiences, and the context […]
I have an interest in learning about the First Nations history of Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey). The human story of the area, where I have lived for 20 years, began about 10,000 years ago when Palaeo-Indian nomadic hunters first arrived in Southern Ontario at the end of the last Ice Age. After the arrival […]
Updates Please refer to more recent posts: Message from Lakeshore Planning Council regarding air traffic noise in Markland Wood, Alderwood, and Long Branch MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Etobicoke Centre) spoke most eloquently at the April 19, 2017 GTAA Air Traffic Noise meeting A late-April 2017 CTV news report is entitled: “Runway construction at Pearson leads to […]
Update At the May 2, 2017 EYCC meeting – Intent to Designate the Vincent Massey School in Long Branch was DEFERRED for the second time – Intent to Designate the Blue Goose/Windsor House was ADOPTED The intent to designate the Blue Goose/Windsor House will now travel to full Toronto City Council on May 24, 2017 […]
In the course of my life, I have been inspired by decency, honesty, fairness, and genuine (as opposed to fake) justice. It’s been my observation that the pursuit of such qualities as decency, honesty, and so on, appeals to some more than to others. Thus I must say that I was very moved – tears […]
John Stewart of Wiarton has added a comment to a previous post about the fire at the Long Branch hotel; he writes: “Our family grew up on 31 Arcadian Circle from 1939 to 1998. I remember the Long Branch hotel fire and even have slide pictures of it. It actually was during the winter early […]
Update At the May 2, 2017 EYCC meeting – Intent to Designate the Vincent Massey School in Long Branch was DEFERRED for the second time [End] Previous posts regarding Daisy Ave. in Long Branch and the Ontario Heritage Act can be accessed here. Here is a City of Toronto link regarding 68 Daisy Ave. […]
You can access the following message from Mississauga Culture at this link. The message reads: Indigenous Cultural Competency Training When: April 18, 2017 9 a.m. – noon Where: Mississauga Valley Community Centre, 1275 Mississauga Valley Blvd. “We acknowledge that this land is situated within the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit […]