Humber Valley Village Residents Association members pay for alternative design to controversial Humbertown Plaza plans – March 21, 2013 Etobicoke Guardian
The article referred to in this blog post can be accessed here. [Click at link above to access the article.] Below is the headline and opening paragraphs of an article by Cynthia Reason in The Etobicoke Guardian. HVVRA members pay for alternative design to controversial Humbertown Plaza plans Etobicoke Guardian by Cynthia Reason March 21, […]
News update – Councillor Grimes’ Office – April 5, 2013
Following message is from Ward 6 Councillor Mark Grimes’ Office: Please find the complete newsletter attached as a PDF file: April 4, 2013 [To access the PDF file click on the link directly above.] Mimico 20/20 Draft Secondary Plan –Have Your Say! After years of consultations, studies and meetings, the Mimico 20/20 project will debut […]
The Tyburn Walk is a traditional English event occurring on the first Sunday in May
In a previous blog post I described what Steve Roud (2006) has characterized as a traditional English event occurring in the first Saturday in May. That is a day that corresponds with Saturday, May 4, 2013. In the context of the Sunday, May 5, 2013 Jane’s Walk in South Long Branch, we turn next to what […]
‘Beach’ plans for the Lakeview – and Long Branch – side of Marie Curtis Park
Update: This topic is also discussed in another blog post. It’s also discussed at this blog post highlighting comments from David Switzer of Long Branch. I didn’t have the opportunity to attend the recent consultation about the Lakeview Waterfront Connection Project Environmental Assessment in Mississauga. It’s my understanding, however, that one of the options would involve […]
3560, 3580 and 3600 Lake Shore Blvd. West – Community Consultation – April 11, 2013 at 6:30 pm at Assembly Hall
It’s my understanding that the latest proposal is for an 8 storey apartment with 201 units and commercial at grade, a single storey retail/commercial building, and 300 townhouses. Community Consultation: Thursday April, 2013 at 6.30 p.m. in the East Community Room at the Assembly Hall, 1 Col. Sam Smith Park Drive (Kipling and Lakeshore) The […]
Whatever happened to the Colonel Smith homestead artifacts found in 1984?
C. O’Marra writes: Did you ever find out what happened to the Colonel Smith homestead artifacts found almost thirty years ago? I read an incredibly detailed description of the dig. The only maddening thing. Not ONE blessed word of artifacts found, not one. Why all the secrecy? Was this a private company project ? (C. […]
Please write an email in support of the designation of Mimico Estates under Ontario Heritage Act. The item is on the agenda for Apr 9 Community Council meeting.
I strongly urge you to write an email in support of the designation discussed below. The following message of March 27, 2013 is from the City Clerk’s Office: On April 9, 2013, starting at 9:30 a.m.The Etobicoke York Community Council will meet in The Council Chamber, Main Floor, Etobicoke Civic Centre, 399 The West Mall. The […]
Parent Engagement Spring Workshops – Message from Ward 3 TDSB Pamela Gough’s Office
Following message is from Trustee Gough’s Office: Good Afternoon, There are Parent Engagement Workshops being held at various locations during April, May and June of 2013. If you are able to attend any of these workshops, could you please advise Trustee Gough’s office at Debbie.Wagdin@tdsb.on.ca. We would be interested in hearing your feedback on the […]
City Planning staff’s Final Report for Mimico-by-the-Lake Secondary Plan is available on Apr. 9 Community Council agenda
Message from Matthew Premru: Hello to All, just a quick reminder that the link to City Planning staff’s Final Report for the Mimico-by-the-Lake Secondary Plan is available on the April 9, 2013 Etobicoke York Community Council agenda page (scroll down to Background Information): http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2013.EY23.6 Thank you.
Gawthorpe Celebrations is a traditional English holiday event occurring on the first Saturday in May
As Eric Hobsbawm has remarked in a classic study, The invention of tradition (1983), traditions don’t spring out of nowhere. They have to be invented. The same can be said of nation states, which Benedict Arnold famously spoke of as imagined communities. As a March 28, 2013 Globe and Mail article indicates, sometimes these imagined communities have a limited impact on […]