Entries by Jaan Pill

Public Event: Thursday, May 11, 2017 – Reconstructing the Six Points Interchange – A New Etobicoke Centre

Check here for details: Overview – Six Points Interchange Reconfiguration – Construction …   A previous post is entitled: May 2, 2015 Jane’s Walks: (1) Spaghetti Junction – The Farewell Tour; (2) New Toronto – Then and Now A March 1, 2017 CBC article is entitled: “City poised to redevelop Etobicoke’s ‘spaghetti’ junction: Design, welcomed by […]

Press report regarding Brown University research has some serious problems

Hal Roth of Brown University has shared a comment (please see below) regarding the previous version of the current post. He wrote: I am a co-author of the above study. The Press summary of the study is seriously erroneous and incredibly oversimplified. The Study did NOT conclude that men were not affected by studying mindfulness […]

MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Etobicoke Centre) spoke most eloquently at the April 19, 2017 GTAA Air Traffic Noise meeting

A previous post is entitled: Message from Lakeshore Planning Council regarding air traffic noise in Markland Woods, Alderwood, and Long Branch I attended part of the April 19, 2017 Community Environment and Noise Advisory Committee (CENAC) meeting at the GTAA Administration Building at 3111 Convair Drive in Mississauga. The previous post (above) features key information […]

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 […]

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 […]