An occasional Newsletter from Preserved Stories.
I attended a presentation by the Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) in south Etobicoke a year ago, in May 2013. I was impressed with the quality and scope of information that Heather Marshall shared at that time. The work that TEA is doing is tremendously valuable and inspiring. Air quality is a topic that is of […]
Peter Mearns, Lynn Legge, and Jaan Pill will meet at lunch on Wednesday, May 21, 2014 in Kitchener, Ontario for our next Sixties Reunion planning meeting. Please let me know in the event you are a MCHS grad from the 1960s classes, who lives in the general area, and who’d like to join us for […]
I had a meeting with Peter Mearns on May 8, 2014 in Toronto. We met at the second-floor coffee shop at the Loblaws just east of the 427 on the south side of Burnamthorpe. Peter said (I paraphrase): “Well, it looks like this reunion is taking on a life of its own.” Here’s a brief […]
I’ve recently posted a blog item for the Toronto Walks Blog of the Jane’s Walk website. I’ve enjoyed writing this item, because it enables a person to consider the broader issues of interest to anybody who lives close to the Lake Ontario shoreline – in Mississauga, Toronto, or anywhere else along this or any other […]
I support Peter Milczyn as the Liberal party candidate in Etobicoke-Lakeshore. I agree with his choice of transit infrastructure as the key issue heading to the polls next month. As he noted in May 8, 2014 news article (p. 11) in the print version of the Etobicoke Guardian: “We’ve lost so many decades of not […]
As you may have noticed, the links at our website are now in bold. Walden Design has made this change after I had received comments from time to time that, in some cases, the links were hard to pick out from the rest of the text. As a result of the changes we have made, […]
I was delighted to view an archival aerial photo that Peter Halliday has let us know about, in a comment at a previous post about Raimbault Creek in Cartierville. One of the delightful features of the creek was that, at least in some sections, it was left free to meander, as contrasted to being channelized. […]
I’ve written extensively about Erving Goffman including the start of his academic career in Chicago and the year he spent immersed in field work at a mental hospital. I became interested in his Chicago days after reading about the history of urban planning in Chicago. The first-noted link (above) is among the most frequently read […]
Update You can listen to the Metro Morning interview, which took place on May 6, 2014, with Felix Skinner and his dad by clicking here. Our earlier post went as follows: The following message is from Andrew Harding, National Coordinator for the Canadian Stuttering Association: Laughters Voice Kids Camp update Hi everyone, Be sure to listen […]