Heritage Bike Ride in Long Branch (that is, a Jane’s Ride/Walk) takes place on May 6, 2018

Updates Click here to access walk details at Jane’s Walk Toronto Facebook page > The walk is also listed for Sunday, May 6, 2018 at the Jane’s Walk Toronto website. [End] The Long Branch Neighbourhood Association has asked David Juliusson of Long Branch to help organize a Jane’s Walk/Ride for May 6, 2018. He has contacted […]

Work has begun on Jane’s Walk in Long Branch, led by MPP Peter Milczyn, starting 10:30 am on May 5, 2018

A previous Jane’s Walk led by Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP Peter Milczyn has been highlighted at two previous posts from May 2015: Spaghetti Junction – The Farewell Tour: 10:30 am, Saturday, May 2, 2015 Jane’s Walk hosted and led by MPP Peter Milczyn May 2, 2015 Jane’s Walks: (1) Spaghetti Junction – The Farewell Tour; (2) New […]

The Order of the Templars was a powerful, militarized monastic order which arose during the Crusader wars: Introductory remarks

A recent post is entitled: Upgrades at Toronto Public Library website are highly impressive. At the latter post, Bert Eccles has shared a most interesting Comment, about how he likes to be reading many books at the same time, as that makes for a more interesting reading experience, than would otherwise be the case. I very […]

CBC’s John Lancaster reports: Buyers will be told to keep ‘windows and exterior doors’ closed to cut down on noise from Metrolinx yard

An April 14, 2018 article by CBC’s John Lancaster, investigative reporter, is entitled: “City council approves controversial development that comes with noise warning to buyers: Buyers will be told to keep ‘windows and exterior doors’ closed to cut down on noise from Metrolinx yard.” The article notes: Even before Dunpar submitted the most recent changes, […]

Long Branch Character Guidelines seek to disrupt rampant lot-splitting: Character Guidelines document highly significant in the history Long Branch, writes Jaan Pill (Etobicoke Guardian, April 10, 2018)

An April 10, 2018 opinion article in the Etobicoke Guardian is entitled: “Long Branch Character Guidelines seek to disrupt rampant lot-splitting: Character Guidelines document highly significant in the history Long Branch, writes Jaan Pill.” Commentary I am currently typing up additional transcripts, from the Nov. 14, 2017 Etobicoke York Community Council meeting, mentioned in the […]

Upgrades at Toronto Public Library website are highly impressive

For many years, I’ve been borrowing up to 50 books at a time, from the Toronto Public Library. With this amount of books to look at, I’ve also developed a protocol, whereby I go about accessing each of these texts. I look at one or two sentences in each book, to get a sense of […]

Dealing with Air Traffic Noise, like dealing with Lot-Splitting/Overbuilding, is about mobilizing the community to exercise political clout

The topic of this post is Air Traffic Noise, a topic that I have addressed in previous posts of some time back; I have not addressed the issue recently. The following tweet is from @icao : While air traffic is increasing in Sweden, noise is actually decreasing. @TS_Nyheter explains here how ICAO standards contribute to […]

Etobicoke York Committee of Adjustment champions subjectivity in decision making

The Etobicoke York Committee of Adjustment champions subjectivity in its land-use decision making, as outlined at a recent post. In Long Branch, we have a history of developers coming in to split a lot, overbuilding on the resulting two tiny lots, hacking away at 100-year-old trees in the process, and then making a run for it, […]

After an April 4, 2018 meeting in Long Branch, I learned that prior permission from media relations at the city is not required, in order for a blogger to record what city officials say at a public meeting

Microplastics in water: Concern that particles of less than 150 microns can pass through intestinal wall & end up in bloodstream & organs

A CBC Marketplace article is entitled: “Microplastics found in some Canadian bottled water: Tests show tiny particles but any effect on human health not known.” Excerpts: In total, 12 types of plastics, including the types in bottle caps and water bottles — polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) — were found in the water tested. Other […]