A Dec. 22, 2021 CBC article is entitled: “Hidden behind buildings, the last of Mimico’s opulent lakefront estates is still standing: Myrtle Villa was owned by businessman James Franceschini from 1925 to 1950”

What role (if any) does religion play with regard to trends in COVID-19 vaccination rates worldwide?

Hayden Bulbrook outlines the history of heritage houses (now under threat of demolition) along Stratford, Ontario heritage corridor

Nov. 6, 2021 CBC News Second Opinion article: COVID-19 spreads through the air. Here’s what you can do about it this winter. “Canada is now an outlier in terms of not acknowledging transmission through the air.”

Update from SORE (Save Our Rand Estate) regarding appeals related to Ontario Heritage Act in Niagara on the Lake; also: Rand subdivision concept announced by SORE

There are a lot of things in Stratford that have changed and a lot of them probably needed to be changed, but the 380-396 Ontario Street proposal is not one of them

How we frame things determines what we see and (sometimes) what occurs next. Here’s an excerpt: We Are All Treaty People: Prairie Essays (2008)

Oct. 26, 2021 CBC interactive feature: Saving Chinatown: The modern city is closing in on Montreal’s Chinatown and advocates fear the historic neighbourhood could disappear if more protections aren’t urgently implemented

On Sept. 2, 2021, we met for a high school picnic at an apartment parking lot with a great view of Lake Ontario. We learned how Bois-de-Saraguay in Montreal was saved from destruction.