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Bill 115 has changed rules for the hiring of teachers. What are the changes?
/0 Comments/in Long Branch/by Jaan PillOn Tuesday, October 16, 2012 I attended a Ward 3 Parent Forum at John English Junior Middle School in Etobicoke, organized by Ward 3 Toronto District School Board (TDSB) Trustee Pamela Gough. The event included a presentation by Chris Spence, TDSB Director of Education, and a panel discussion about the impact of Bill 115 on […]
Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP Laurel Broten announces $44-million upgrades at Mimico Go Station
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Toronto/by Jaan PillWe are pleased to share with you this message from the office of Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP Laurel Broten: “The announcement, by MPP Laurel Broten, of the Province of Ontario’s $44 million investment in upgrades and improvements to Mimico GO Station, took place at Mimico GO this Tuesday, October 9th, at 2:00 pm. “Laurel was accompanied by […]
Front-page Etobicoke Guardian article highlights efforts to preserve 28 Daisy Avenue in Long Branch
/0 Comments/in Long Branch/by Jaan PillA letter writing project is under way to show support for the nomination of 28 Daisy Avenue — the oldest remaining building in Long Branch — as a heritage building. Here’s a front-page article by Tamara Shephard in The Etobicoke Guardian highlighting the community effort to save this building. (Click on the link in the […]
Update regarding Amedeo Garden Court heritage buildings
/0 Comments/in Toronto/by Jaan PillWe are pleased to say that Ward 6 Etobicoke-Lakeshore Councillor Mark Grimes’ office has informed us that Longo Corporation will be keeping the heritage wall and gates at Amedeo Garden Court, and restoring the gardens for the public to access. As well, it’s our understanding that the house will be fully restored and it has […]
Connectedness comes from a key minority of nodes: Communication power (2009) and The information (2011)
/0 Comments/in Long Branch/by Jaan PillCommunication power (2009) by Manuel Castells is concerned with empirical evidence and political communication theories. I was impressed when I encountered the description by Peter Burke (2005) of how Castells has conceptualized city life and cities in the context of postmodernity. Castells has remarked that ‘The city is everywhere and in everything,’ and that networks constitute […]
Pankaj Mishra describes the arrival of modernity in South Asia
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter/by Jaan PillThe arrival of modernity has occurred at different times in different places. Prior to postmodernity, as Burke (2005) has noted, modernity held the stage. Charles Taylor, in Malaise of modernity (1992), highlights the cultural origins of modernity. Theodore Rabb, in The last days of the Renaissance and the path to modernity (2006) also outlines the steps to modernity. With regard to […]
Communication power (2009) by Manuel Castells
/1 Comment/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillUpdate: It may be added that the concept of a networked society is appealing but has limitations. [End of update] I’ve borrowed a Toronto Public Library copy of Communication power (2009) by Manuel Castells. I borrowed it after reading Burke (2005). As noted in the latter link, Castells argues that networks constitute the new ‘social […]
Jane Jacobs “helped us see that roads and buildings and streetscapes encapsulated information”
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan PillI like Alice Munro’s comparison between her way of reading a short story, and the experience a person has when visiting somebody’s house. We all know how a house works, she remarks in the anthology entitled The art of the short story (2206), and “how it encloses space and makes connections between one enclosed space and another and […]