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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Click here for previous post about the OMB > A Nov. 17, 2016 Toronto Star article is entitled: “The Ontario Municipal Board needs to be reined in: Big land developers hire high-priced lawyers to pave the way for the paving of more farmland — and more monster homes.” Concerns overworked city planners can’t keep up A […]
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