An occasional Newsletter from Preserved Stories.

Built Heritage News – Issue No. 204 – November 28, 2012

/0 Comments/in , , /by

From time to time, I like to post items from Built Heritage News. You can subscribe to this newsletter by visiting the website, which you can access through the link in the previous sentence. Click here for information about Built Heritage News. Click here for information about the Toronto branch of the Architectural Conservancy of […]

Read more

Council passes motion (34 to 4): Changes to Provincial Funding Approaches for Homeless Prevention and Social Assistance Programs

/0 Comments/in /by

Full details regarding the motion can be found here: Excerpts: City Council on October 30, 31 and November 1, 2012, adopted the following: 1.         City Council approve, subject to final confirmation from the Province, receipt of $96 million for the Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative (CHPI), with specific funding allocations for the homeless prevention services described in […]

Read more

City of Toronto Budget Process: Message from Councillor Grimes’ Office

/0 Comments/in /by

Message from Office of Councillor Mark Grimes Please find attached information no the Current City of Toronto Budget Process and how to have input into this important activity. City of Toronto launches 2013 tax supported operating Thank you Office of Councillor Mark Grimes

Read more

Answer to supplementary questions regarding Humber Bay Shores

/0 Comments/in /by

Update A July 7, 2016 post is entitled: On July 12, 2016 Toronto City Council Agenda: Investigation Report Regarding Conduct of Ward 6 Councillor Mark Grimes [End of update]   The following correspondence concerns questions raised earlier regarding Humber Bay Shores. Hello Ms. Grier: I can provide some information in response to your Section 37 […]

Read more

Lean into the interview

/2 Comments/in , /by

Seventeen years ago I switched from employment with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) to a new position as a teacher with the Peel District School Board (PDSB). When I retired from the latter board in 2006, I had been teaching for over thirty years, in one capacity or another, in schools across the Greater […]

Read more

Etobicoke-South Cycling Committee meets Dec. 13, 2012, 7:00 pm at LAMP

/0 Comments/in , /by

Etobicoke-South Cycling Committee DATE OF NEXT MEETING: Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 – 19:00 – 21:00 Location:  LAMP Community Health Centre 185 Fifth Street, on the Birmingham Bike Lane In partnership with the Lakeshore Planning Council Corp. and Cycle Toronto, the Etobicoke-South Etobicoke Cycling Committee will be holding a meeting on Dec. 13 from 7 to 9 PM. Our main issue is we […]

Read more

Toronto has no history! and other abstracts (Thorncrest Village in Etobicoke and Hamilton’s King Street West) from Urban History Review

/0 Comments/in , /by

Toronto has no history! (Victoria Jane Freeman) The following abstract is from Urban History Review, Vol. 38, No. 2 (2010). In 1884, during a week-long commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Toronto’s incorporation in 1834, tens of thousands celebrated Toronto’s history and its relation to British colonialism and imperialism. The author’s analysis of the historical tableaux […]

Read more

Enjoyed Dec. 1, 2012 Santa Claus Parade in Long Branch (in Toronto not New Jersey)

/0 Comments/in , /by

The photos on this page are by Jaan Pill. To enlarge a photo, click on the image. To enlarge it further, click again. I was delighted to have the opportunity, at the start of the Dec. 1, 2012 Santa Claus Parade in Long Branch and New Toronto, to hand out ‘Santa Stops Here’ signs on […]

Read more