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WARD 5 – TORONTO POLICE/22 DIVISION UPDATE Parklawn Park Toronto Police say a lifeless body was discovered in Parklawn Park, near Parklawn Rd. and Kingspoint Dr., just after 7:30 a.m. Thursday. “The man has not yet been identified,” Const. Tony Vella said. Homicide detectives have been notified of the death, but it has not been […]
Update A June 4, 2018 CBC article is entitled: “This pastor closed his church: Graham Singh is saving a Montreal church by first closing the doors, then opening them wider than ever.” [End] The outcome of the Wesley Mimico redevelopment story will depend upon negotiations and discussions related to the Ontario Heritage Act and […]
What is worth preserving? Our attitudes toward ruins and historically significant buildings and cultural landscapes have a relationship to a wider conversation about what matters. After the Second World War, destruction of heritage properties and landscapes was the norm in much of the world, a practice which in some cases continues today. Jane Jacobs among […]
Previous posts have discussed 28 Daisy Avenue. You can find them by clicking on the link at the previous sentence, or through a Google search for “28 Daisy Avenue Preserved Stories.” I especially like the information that there was a time in the 1910s and later where you could see clear to Lake Ontario from […]
[Update: Highland Creek was highlighted in a CBC Radio Metro Morning broadcast in the fall of 2013. The CBC link (see previous sentence) introduces Highland Creek as follows: Highland Creek is in the south-east corner of Scarborough bordered … It has roots in the 1800s, and it’s been described as still having that “small village” […]
The following text is from Pamela Gough’s Office: Sent on behalf of Trustee Pamela Gough: Ward 3 Trustee Pamela Gough’s Canada Day Update June 28, 2013 Happy Canada Day! This will be my final newsletter for the academic year. I wish all readers a wonderful Canada Day and a safe and happy summer! Schools will […]
Update: A Feb. 21, 2014 New Yorker article is entitled: “Why is academic writing so academic?” [End of update] We can speak of rhetoric from a variety of perspectives. Rhetoric is a great topic for academic study. By way of example, early in his career Marshall McLuhan developed expertise in rhetoric as a field of […]
I found a Nov. 27, 2012 blog post by Stephanie E. Calvet of interest. I found the discussion, in Stephanie Calvet’s post, of the distinction between heritage landscape and cultural landscape of particular interest. I have, in this context, been researching back stories of relevance to the Wesley Mimico United Church redevelopment story. Deer Park […]
Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey) has many characteristics. The characterization depends upon the observer. I much appreciate a recent message from Colleen O’Marra (see below), which has given rise to this blog post. My friend Sid Olvet of Oakville has remarked that each person who encounters Long Branch encounters it according to the era, […]