Entries by Jaan Pill

Mar. 1, 2013 news update – Councillor Grimes’ Office

Following update is from Councillor Grimes’ Office: Please find the newsletter attached in .pdf format: March 1, 2013 Registration begins for Toronto-run summer camps It’s time to start thinking about summer and what to do to help your children have a fun, safe and exciting experience. The City offers high quality camps across the city, […]

Brain Pickings is an interestingness digest

From the Brain Pickings website: Brain Picking has a free but, some have said, priceless weekly interestingness digest. It comes out on Sundays and offers the week’s best articles across art, science, design, history, and the usual miscellanea, alongside short highlights from other notable reads.

News highlights

Once or twice a week I send out news highlights to my email distribution list, which I set up as part of the Parkview School story, before I set up the Preserved Stories website. The news highlights, in turn, are based on my online Newsletter category. I set up the newsletter – a format that […]

Jane Jacobs was not an academic

I heard Jane Jacobs speak in Toronto around the early 1980s when I lived for a brief period on Toronto Island. In those years the Toronto Island community on Ward Island and Algonquin Island was facing eviction at the hands of the Metropolitan Toronto government whose political leadership had a strong desire to turn the […]

28 Daisy Avenue designation request from City of Toronto Staff accepted unanimously by Etobicoke York Community Council

At the Etobicoke York Community Council meeting on Feb. 26, 2013, following deputations from Denise Harris, Heritage Officer with the Etobicoke Heritage Society and Madeleine McDowell, Chair of the Humber Heritage Committee, the designation recommendation for 28 Daisy Avenue was unanimously accepted by the Community Council. This is good news for the community. We owe thanks […]

Discover Black History bus tour has been rescheduled to this Saturday, March 2, 2013

Following message is from Heritage Toronto: Due to the weather conditions on February on 9th, the Discover Black History bus tour has been rescheduled to this Saturday. There are still seats available! To purchase tickets call Heritage Toronto at 416.338.1339. Saturday March 2 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM DISCOVER BLACK HISTORY IN TORONTO Join us for a special […]

Feb. 25, 2013 Etobicoke Guardian article: Council rejects Grimes’ Mimico development incentives

The Feb. 25, 2013 Etobicoke Guardian article by David Nickle on the rejection by City Council of Mimico development incentives proposed by Ward 6 Councillor Mark Grimes can be found here. [To access the article, click on the link in previous sentence.] The opening paragraphs of the article read as follows: Council rejects Grimes’ Mimico […]