An April 14, 2018 article by CBC’s John Lancaster, investigative reporter, is entitled: “City council approves controversial development that comes with noise warning to buyers: Buyers will be told to keep ‘windows and exterior doors’ closed to cut down on noise from Metrolinx yard.” The article notes: Even before Dunpar submitted the most recent changes, […]
An April 10, 2018 opinion article in the Etobicoke Guardian is entitled: “Long Branch Character Guidelines seek to disrupt rampant lot-splitting: Character Guidelines document highly significant in the history Long Branch, writes Jaan Pill.” Commentary I am currently typing up additional transcripts, from the Nov. 14, 2017 Etobicoke York Community Council meeting, mentioned in the […]
In a recent post I celebrate the new-books list at the Toronto Public Library: Upgrades at Toronto Public Library website are highly impressive Here’s a recently published study that I came across on the new-books (nonfiction category) list at the Toronto Public Library (please note that many other nation-states, besides the United States are, in […]
For many years, I’ve been borrowing up to 50 books at a time, from the Toronto Public Library. With this amount of books to look at, I’ve also developed a protocol, whereby I go about accessing each of these texts. I look at one or two sentences in each book, to get a sense of […]
The topic of this post is Air Traffic Noise, a topic that I have addressed in previous posts of some time back; I have not addressed the issue recently. The following tweet is from @icao : While air traffic is increasing in Sweden, noise is actually decreasing. @TS_Nyheter explains here how ICAO standards contribute to […]
The Etobicoke York Committee of Adjustment champions subjectivity in its land-use decision making, as outlined at a recent post. In Long Branch, we have a history of developers coming in to split a lot, overbuilding on the resulting two tiny lots, hacking away at 100-year-old trees in the process, and then making a run for it, […]
A CBC Marketplace article is entitled: “Microplastics found in some Canadian bottled water: Tests show tiny particles but any effect on human health not known.” Excerpts: In total, 12 types of plastics, including the types in bottle caps and water bottles — polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) — were found in the water tested. Other […]
Following message is from Built Heritage News (I have broken text into shorter paragraphs for ease of online reading) Alex Bozikovic writes about the state of Toronto’s School Buildings, http://ow.ly/Fvuw30jlrkM He will be speaking at ACO Toronto’s School Buildings at Risk Symposium on Saturday April 7 http://ow.ly/4rpA30jlrmy Don’t miss! ACO Toronto hopes to draw attention […]