For many years, I’ve been using Zoom H1 and Zoom H5 audio recorders as part of my work in preparing material for the Preserved Stories website and other projects. Initially, I was spending plenty of money, which adds up over the years, buying AA batteries to keep the Zoom recorders going. Finally, I decided to buy […]
Please click here for details > Mimico Residents Association Annual General Meeting Date: Thursday March 30, 2017 Time: 8:00-9:30 pm Location: Mimico Centennial Library, Auditorium (lower level) Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP Peter Milczyn will be attending to speak on OMB reform – please plan to attend! New and returning MRA Members welcome and can join/renew membership at […]
Family Skate with MPP Milczyn Date: Wednesday, March 15th Time: 2:00–4:00 pm Location: Mastercard Centre, 400 Kipling Ave Residents and stakeholders are invited to bring your skates and join Peter Milczyn for an afternoon of fun, skating on the Toronto Maple Leafs’ practice ice pad. Helmets are required – hot chocolate and light refreshments will […]
I have a strong interest in the work of Karl Polanyi. What he says makes sense to me. A blurb for Reconstructing Karl Polanyi : Excavation and Critique (2016) reads: Karl Polanyi was one of the most influential political economists of the twentieth century and is widely regarded as the most gifted of social democratic theorists. In […]
In a page at my website dealing with mindfulness meditation, I’ve discussed the uses and abuses of compassion. I’ve also discussed a range of viewpoints regarding empathy. A July 12, 2012 Wired article is entitled: “Compassion over empathy could help prevent emotional burnout.” A June 3, 2013 Harvard University Press article is entitled: Is Empathy […]
Reminder Please find attached a flyer [see above] with regard to my 3rd Annual March Break Free Family Skate, which will take place on Wednesday, March 15, 2017 from 2 – 4 pm at the MasterCard Centre for Hockey Excellence, 400 Kipling Avenue. Residents and stakeholders are invited to bring your skates and join me […]
The following text is from David Godley [I have added some notes in square brackets] * 1) Status of applications Severance Applications for 9 February Committee of Adjustment 75 41st Street, (2) 2 storey buildings, one existing and one proposed from density 0.35 to 0.63. Two storeys is a better fit for the street than […]
The DeGasperis Case, related to a July 2005 finding of the Divisional Court, concerns what I have come to view as a remarkable parallel universe or alternative reality. The alternate reality that I refer to – in which Up is Down, In is Out, and Minor is Major – concerns what takes place at the City of […]
A March 10, 2017 CBC article is entitled: “No Vacancy: Scarborough art exhibition takes look at Kingston Road motel strip: The exhibition features interviews with people who had personal experiences on the strip.” I look forward to attending this event, which I first learned about through listening to a CBC Metro Morning interview on March […]
I am very pleased that at a previous post about Morison School in Montreal, which I attended in the 1950s, we now have forty comments. I am pleased about the forty comments because I see such tremendous value in the sharing of a wide range of viewpoints and reminiscences at the Preserved Stories website. In […]