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Lakeview Waterfront Connection project: Nov. 16, 2015 Meeting Summary and Display Materials
/3 Comments/in Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillFollowing message is from Credit Valley Conservation: Meeting Summary and Display Materials On behalf of the Lakeview Waterfront Connection (LWC) project team, thank you to those who attended the public meeting and open house on Monday, November 16, 2015 at Clarke Memorial Hall in Port Credit. In total, 75 residents were on hand to share […]
Balkans travel report from David Godley of Long Branch
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI’m pleased to share the following travel report from David Godley, who from time to time has shared such reports at this website in the past. David writes: Balkans, Fall 2015. I was approached menacingly by an enormous Bosnian. His dobradan (good day) did not sound sincere. I was in the grounds of a 6th […]
A story about a former Toronto mayor
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI’ve recently read a great study by John Filion about a former Toronto mayor. Newspaper journalists do not necessarily do a great job of it when they write a full-length book. The skills associated with journalism may or may not make for a great book-length text. John Filion has been a City of Toronto councillor for 15 […]
Sometimes, I could not get out any words at all; that was a long time ago
/1 Comment/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillFor many years, I was involved in community self-organizing on behalf of people who stutter. Years ago I formed a Toronto-based self-help group for people who stutter; our first meeting took place in September 1988 at the North York Central Library. That meeting, for which I had made plans for several months beforehand, led in […]
Bloor Street Culture Corridor – October 2015
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillPlease note I’ve lost track of how to copy and paste text messages with embedded links to WordPress. For that reason, I don’t have formatting (bold; plus active links) for this post, which I’ve copied from a formatted email message, and I don’t have time to format the page manually, at this point. Anyway, the […]
Bill Rawson shares a story about the time a horse stuck its nose into his brother’s crib. In the 1930s or thereabouts.
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillDuring the past week, I stopped to visit Bill Rawson, owner of the Long Branch Furniture store at 3153 Lake Shore Blvd. West. A previous post about Bill, with a link to a video, is entitled: What Elvis liked to do in his spare time I was out for a walk and stopped for a chat. For […]