John Lancaster is a first-rate CBC journalist

I have been following John Lancaster’s news reports for many years. I also follow him on Twitter. We are most fortunate that CBC has the resources in place, to enable a journalist of John Lancaster’s calibre to go about his work, day after day, year after year. His work is of tremendous benefit, in a […]

I became a supporter of Pamela Gough in 2011, when she played a key role in ensuring that Parkview School, near the Long Branch Go station, stayed in public hands

I became a supporter of Pamela Gough in 2011, when she played a key role in ensuring that Parkview School, at 85 Forty First St. near the Long Branch Go station, stayed in public hands. In any such successful community self-organizing project, many people usually play a key role. That is the nature of such […]

Enthusiasm for local history is not enough, by itself, to preserve and repurpose heritage buildings

A recent rental was a four-level cottage along a steep, heavily forested hillside at a lakeside in Ontario

Noteworthy photo from Taste of the Kingsway, Sept. 8, 2018

We have sold our house in Long Branch and are enjoying a nomadic lifestyle, most recently travelling to Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Tallinn and currently enjoying cottage country near Peterborough. I remain active in documenting life in south Etobicoke and am pleased to share with you a photo that a Long Branch resident (whose help in […]

After intensive, two-stage letter writing campaign in 2011, former Parkview School site in Long Branch remains in public hands

A local resident seeks photos of the original Long Branch Public and Continuation School that once faced Lake Shore Blvd. West

The following message is from a south Etobicoke resident named Stephen; if you can help him in his photo-search, please let us know!: I am a lover of history and have grown up in the area of Mimico and have family ties to Long Branch. I love this history that you share here. I currently work at […]

Land-use decision making along the Lake Ontario shoreline is of much interest

By way of a news update, in the event anybody has an interest in such topics, we’ve recently sold our house on Villa Road and no longer live in Toronto. We have sold our house on Villa Road with thanks to great work by a great real estate team: http://www.19villaroad.com In my new role as […]

Toronto residents have the right to record public meetings, related to land-use decision making, and to publish news reports based upon direct quotations from such meetings

The purpose of the current post is to underline that residents of Toronto and other municipalities have the right to record public meetings and to report on them, through blogs and other means. As a long-time blogger, I attended a public meeting, organized by the Long Branch Neighbourhood Association, on April 4, 2018: Opposition to […]