11The city of Berlin, Ontario was renamed Kitchener in 1916; in 2020 the debate about changing the name once again was being revisitedNovember 21, 2023/2 Comments/in Commentary, MCHS 2015 Reunion, MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Some Popular Posts - Past & Present, Southwestern Ontario, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
12Many Russian studies programs have engendered serious academic ignorance – regarding Ukraine and its neighbours: Tomasz Kamusella, New Eastern Europe, August 11, 2023October 2, 2023/1 Comment/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
13Reading series of plays-in-translation features some of the best of Ukraine’s theatre, created since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion – Stratford Festival, Sept. 23-24, 2023September 29, 2023/1 Comment/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
14Our most recent MCHS picnic took place on July 26, 2023 in Stratford, OntarioJuly 28, 2023/5 Comments/in Commentary, MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
15Fire Weather (2023) presents a compelling biography of The Beast which drove 88,000 people out of Fort McMurray in May 2016June 18, 2023/0 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
16Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution (2023) and How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America (2021)May 18, 2023/0 Comments/in Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
17Peter J. Hotez, The Deadly Rise of Anti-science: A Scientist’s Warning (2023)May 16, 2023/0 Comments/in Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
18Sideways (2022) highlights how Google tried and failed to get a foothold in land use in Berlin and TorontoDecember 13, 2022/2 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
19Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics (2023) is among many books I’ve read about the topicDecember 12, 2022/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
20Haberman (2022), Galeotti (2022), and O’Kane (2022) among others are exemplars of the gangster genre of literary nonfictionDecember 11, 2022/4 Comments/in Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill