The following message is from the Lakeshore Planning Council: CITY OF TORONTO – OFFICIAL PLAN REVIEW ENVIRONMENT OPEN HOUSE – 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. – Thursday November 27, Etobicoke Civic Centre, Council Chamber/Foyer, 399 The West Mall There is a draft proposal to include the lakefill portion of Sam Smith Park in the City’s […]
Old Mill Toronto has a close connection with military history. By way of example, I recently learned, on a CBC The Current broadcast, that Veronica Foster – also known as Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl during the Second World War – performed as a musician at Old Mill Toronto during the postwar years. Despite the […]
In the following Q & A with Graeme Decarie, I’ve added some headings for ease in reading of the text. Jaan Pill: You worked for CBC and private radio for quite a few years. I would be interested in your comments (for my website) about a recent article by Linden MacIntyre: Why I Left The CBC […]
You can access an Oct. 22, 2014 Huffington Post article, entitled “Why I Left The CBC And Its Toxic Atmosphere,” by Linden MacIntyre here. It’s a long article and warrants a close read. “Normal” obnoxiousness that proceeds along the abuse continuum An excerpt reads: “The harder part is coming to terms with the individual and institutional blindness […]
For many years, I’ve had several projects on the go at the same time, and am always looking for better ways to get things done. Among the resources that I’ve found helpful are the following: Ellen Langer’s concept – a particular version, as she conceptualizes it – of mindfulness is useful. I’ve outlined her approach […]
We owe many thanks to Peter for locating one of the images that we’ve been looking for, as described in a previous post. Peter Halliday writes: Bingo! Go here and download photo 10-159. I think it’s exactly what you’re looking for. http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/dataset/vues-aeriennes-de-la-ville-de-montreal-1958/resource/5bc20660-c4c0-4594-ac30-398ec6d86aa0 [End of message from Peter Halliday] You can access the image at the […]
Peter Halliday, who has shared with us an aerial photo featuring Raimbault Creek in Cartierville, which I’ve posted to this site in the past, has shared the following links. Peter Halliday writes: This is the archives I’ve been poking around in: http://archivesdemontreal.com/greffe/vues-aeriennes-archives/jpeg/VM97-3_7P9-59.jpg The indication on the image is 24-29 and you can access the photo […]
An Oct. 22, 2014 New York Times article is entitled: “What if age is nothing but a mind-set?” The article describes an experiment in which a group of subjects in their senior years, who had graduated from high school many decades earlier, were provided an intensive array of sensory cues – such as music from the 1950s, […]