I encourage you to set up your own website about local history and land use planning issues
I wrote the following post on May 8, 2017; I’ve recently added material to it. I’m reposting it, in order to bring attention to it: I encourage you to set up your own website about local history and land use planning issues
David Godley’s Long Branch Update – January 2019
You can access David Godley’s January 2018 Long Branch update here: david godley jan 2019 I don’t always get around to posting his updates, having moved to Stratford but sometimes I post them. The email from David has two Word documents which I’ve converted to PDFs: OPA320 Rogalski[1] 11stantlabpres1[1] Conversion of emails to PDF: Convenience; […]
Photo from Ulrich Laska (MCHS 1963) of Walter Rhead, Kathleen Dawson, and Ulrich Laska at their second annual reunion in Mexico
I’m very pleased to share with you this recent photo from Ulrich Laska (MCHS 1963). “It’s amazing,” Ulrich remarks in a Dec. 30, 2018 email, “how your preserved memories have slowly rebuilt what was a long lost web of connections. Thank you so very much for doing this.” He adds: “Walter Rhead and Kathy Dawson […]
Long Branch Neighbourhood Association mission statement is outcome of extensive survey
I strongly support the work of the Long Branch Neighbourhood Association (LBNA). The LBNA was launched, as noted at earlier posts at this website, as a result of an extensive (and suitably lengthy) series of intensive discussions and many meetings, in which a well-organized survey of potential members was a key ingredient in the build-up […]
Germany’s Hidden Crisis (2016)
Germany’s Hidden Crisis (2016) Previous posts underline that power speaks its own language; such a language is not necessarily congruent with everyday language. In the language that power speaks, at times big is small, small is big, and inside is outside – in short, reality – including history – is what power says it is. […]
Power speaks its own language: Contemporary social media propaganda focuses on denigration of standard perceptions of reality
Click here for previous posts about propaganda > A previous post is entitled: Power speaks its own language: Can historiography (generally, the writing of history featuring standard language usage) teach us anything of value with regard to extreme violence? As a follow-up to the post, I refer to a Dec. 18, 2018 New Yorker article […]
Settlement reached regarding City of Toronto Official Plan Amendment (OPA) 320 – You can access text and PDF at this post
I subscribe to the Toronto Edition of the Novae Res Urbis (NRU) newsletter. That’s how I learned about the settlement, that is the topic of the current post. A subscription to the NRU newsletter is tremendously valuable for any person seeking to keep track of land-use planning issues in Toronto. I make a point of […]