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I like from time to time to share reports, articles, and viewpoints from a wide range of visitors to the Preserved stories website. Such items do not necessarily represent my own views, and do not serve as my endorsement of particular viewpoints. The following text and photos – which you can enlarge by clicking on each […]
A previous post about the Machine in the Garden aesthetic of factory design included a large number of updates. For ease in reading of the original post, I’ve removed the updates and have included them (below) as a separate post: A May 8, 2021 New York Times article is entitled: “Seeing the Real Faces of […]
This post is a follow-up to an earlier post about Cartierville School. A useful reference, regarding topics in the post, is A Meeting of the People: School Boards and Protestant Communities in Quebec, 1801-1998 (2004). You can access the study online at Google Books. You can do a search for “Cartierville” at the link in the previous sentence. […]
The following text is from a CORRA email: CORRA Update REVUE CINEMA – “PUBLIC HEARING” February 20, 2014 To CORRA Members, Resident and Ratepayer Executives: Passing along a cinema event “Public Hearing” by James N. Kienitz Wilkins (2012) that may be of interest to you and your RA members. It makes its Canadian premiere in […]
Several overviews based upon the movie American Hustle (2013) – from The New Yorker, The Daily Beast, and The Telegraph, among other sources – are available online. The IMDb overview of the film sums up the story: “A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive British partner, Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild […]
I enjoy reading things by David Bryne, author of How Music Works (2012), and listening to interviews with him including a recent one on CBC Radio’s The Current. A recent blog post that he’s written is entitled “You Are The Target.” The opening paragraphs read: A few days ago Target revealed that they’d been hacked—beginning […]
The following message is from councillor Grimes Office: Ice Storm Update – Tuesday [Dec. 24, 2013] 10 a.m. City of Toronto ice storm update on Tuesday morning The City of Toronto is continuing to provide updated information this morning on ongoing impacts and the City’s response to the ice storm. Toronto Hydro Toronto Hydro is […]
For a course, which I much enjoyed, in film and sound editing that I’ve recently completed at Ryerson University, I’ve submitted a final assigned paragraph – which I’ve broken into shorter paragraphs for posting to this website – concerning the editing of a scene from a movie that I’ve chosen for analysis. Altogether, we were […]
Below is the text of the Nov. 22, 2013 e-News Update from Councillor Milczyn’s office: [To access the PDF version of the newsletter, click here.] Good morning. There is a lot of important information contained in this e-News update. I encourage you to take the time read it, and scroll down to the “Upcoming Events […]