The following message is from MPP Peter Milczyn’s Office: Dear Neighbour, With winter conditions upon us, I would like to remind you to take extra caution and allow more time when driving and walking. Please join myself, MPP Yvan Baker and Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca for a Transit Town Hall. The Minister will be speaking […]
A Jan. 28, 2016 Etobicoke Guardian article is entitled: “Rising heritage costs, bureaucracy the main reasons behind Wesley Mimico Place project’s cancellation: Mixed-use facility was to house seniors apartments and a community kitchen.” A Jan. 21, 2016 Etobicoke Guardian article is entitled: “LAMP community kitchen may be in jeopardy after Wesley Mimico Place development cancelled: […]
This post is dedicated to internal coherence in storytelling. The discussion concerns culture and materiality. Based upon the work of novelist Yiyun Li (2014) and researcher Luigi Tomba (2015), as discussed at a separate page, at and of the work of students of the relationship between Buddhisms and violence as discussed at still another separate webpage, […]
Recent Long Branch Neighbourhood Watch item: 35th Street Lots of sketchy characters on 35th St lately. They sell “something” on the street, they hang out at the rbc. Usually 2 women ( 1 tall, thin, blonde ad the other stout and rotund and grey/blonde both in their 40’s?) They make a great deal of noise […]
The following message has arrived my way through the Long Branch Neighbourhood Watch Facebook group, and I am pleased to pass it along: **Please “share” & discuss this with your friends & neighbors** Toronto Police (54 division) states … “Criminals don’t want to break into your home if they think someone’s home. So how do […]
Please note these updates: LAMP community kitchen may be in jeopardy after Wesley Mimico Place development cancelled – Jan. 21, 2016 Etobicoke Guardian A Jan. 28, 2016 Etobicoke Guardian article is entitled: “Rising heritage costs, bureaucracy the main reasons behind Wesley Mimico Place project’s cancellation: Mixed-use facility was to house seniors apartments and a community […]
A Jan. 14, 2016 CBC article is entitled: “Toronto front-yard parking pad ban mulled by council: Moratorium on parking spot permits could extend to Scarborough, North York, Etobicoke.” Some years ago, a local family went to the Committee of Adjustment and got approval to install a slightly wider driveway at their house than had been in […]
A passage by Chris Bailey (pp. 4-5) in The Productivity Project (2016) describes campuses in the 1960s and 1970s that were built without any paths: “During the 1960s and 1970s, the University of California at Irvine was one of a group of universities that decided to build their campuses without any paths. (I went to school in Canada, […]
A Jan. 13, 2016 Guardian article is entitled: “Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena wins 2016 Pritzker prize.” The subhead reads: “Social housing visionary, who engaged residents in designing their own homes, urges architects to address issues of poverty, pollution and segregation.” Alejandro Aravena: architect, equaliser, el visionario The opening paragraph reads: “The radical Chilean architect Alejandro […]
Through reading a publication from Ryerson University, I recently came across a story, which I found inspiring, about Toni Morgan, a Ryerson graduate. An April 15, 2015 Toronto Star article outlines the story. The article is entitled: “Homeless to Harvard: Toronto dropout accepted to Ivy league school.” The subhead reads: “Toni Morgan, 32, is crowdfunding […]