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The following item is from the City of Toronto website [to view original document, click on link below]. The story leading up to this motion at City Council can be found in an Etobicoke Guardian article entitled “Grimes seeks development incentives.” City Council adopted this item on February 20, 2013 with amendments. This item was considered […]
In a previous blog post, I’ve noted that the final chapter of Climate Wars (2012) refers (pp. 182-83) to a discussion in Tristes Tropiques in which Claude Lévi-Strauss describes the institutions, morals, and customs that he’s spent a lifetime studying as “the transient efflorescence of a creation in relation to which they have no meaning, […]
The haves and have-nots (2011) is a valuable and readable book. The subtitle is: A brief and idiosyncratic history of global inequality. The book includes an extensive list of resources for Further Reading. I became interested in the above-noted book after reading an article by Chrystia Freeland whose column, which often deals with global inequality, […]
The event had a good turnout Gary Miedema of Heritage Toronto did a great job of coordinating the publicity for this event, one of a series of 1812 lectures occurring this year across Toronto. Gary Miedema is Chief Historian and Associate Director at Heritage Toronto. He’s also the author of For Canada’s Sake: Public Religion, Centennial […]