Author Archive for: Jaan Pill
Entries by Jaan Pill
Message from Lakeshore Planning Council regarding air traffic noise in Markland Wood, Alderwood, and Long Branch
The Lakeshore Planning Council has on April 19, 2017 shared the following message: We signed in for the Community Environment and Noise Advisory Committee (CENAC) meeting this evening [April 19, 2017] and obtained the following information. (1) Use of the Pearson North/South runway, which has precipitated recent aircraft noise over Alderwood and Long Branch, is […]
Tactics, strategy, and logistics drive the management of organized violence
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 […]
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, First U.S. Edition (2016)
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 […]
Smoke Signals (1998) is adapted from a short story in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1994)
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 […]
Noise complaints regarding increased aircraft traffic in Alderwood, Long Branch, and Markland Wood; meeting on April 19, 2017
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 […]
Toronto Preservation Board to consider designation of the historic Blue Goose Public House (Windsor House) in Mimico on April 20, 2017
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 […]
Hidden Figures (2016): A great movie; I recommend it highly
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 1958 fire at the Long Branch Hotel
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 […]
Etobicoke York Community Council postpones designation of 68 Daisy Ave. under Ontario Heritage Act
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. […]