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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, First U.S. Edition (2016)
/3 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillThis post concerns three books: The Moth, First Edition (2014) Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (2015) Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, First U.S. Edition. (2016) Each of these books focuses – with a high level of skill and originality – on the context of people’s lives and formative experiences, and the context […]
John Stewart of Wiarton has added a comment to a previous post about the 1958 fire at the Long Branch Hotel
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillJohn Stewart of Wiarton has added a comment to a previous post about the fire at the Long Branch hotel; he writes: “Our family grew up on 31 Arcadian Circle from 1939 to 1998. I remember the Long Branch hotel fire and even have slide pictures of it. It actually was during the winter early […]
Skepticism with regard to the concept of “learning styles” is hugely warranted, no matter how popular the concept may be
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA March 13, 2017 Guardian article is entitled: “Teachers must ditch ‘neuromyth’ of learning styles, say scientists: Eminent academics from worlds of neuroscience, education and psychology voice concerns over popularity of method.” An excerpt from the article reads: The letter, organised by Prof Bruce Hood, chair of developmental psychology in society at the University of Bristol, […]
Narcoland (2013) describes a disastrous “war on drugs” that has led to more than 80,000 deaths in Mexico since its inception in 2006
/1 Comment/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillOver the years, I’ve written several posts about the War on Drugs. One post, by way of example, is entitled: The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973 (Kathleen J. Frydl, 2013) A key point in the above-noted study is that national drug laws have to do with power. It has to do with the assertion, enactment, and […]
I was impressed with first episode of CBC TV’s This Is High School
/9 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillUpdate Click here to watch the First Episode: Grade Nine is the Worst Year > [end of update] I was impressed with the first episode of This Is High School, a TV series that the CBC Media Centre (see link in the sentence you are now reading) describes as follows. The episode, which I learned of […]
Chapter 3: The War
/0 Comments/in Autobiography Stories - G. Decarie, Newsletter/by Jaan PillThis is Chapter 3 in Graeme’s Decarie’s Autobiography Stories, which he is writing for his children. Click here for previous posts regarding Autobiography Stories – Graeme Decarie > The War “Mrs. Danielson, what’s war?” It was September of 1939, and I’d heard the grown-ups and the man on the radio talking about this thing called […]
New 3-minute video from Heritage Mississauga features Small Arms Ltd. wartime munitions plant in Lakeview
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillThis post – along with future posts featuring interviews that I recorded on Aug. 25, 2016 – is concerned with an impressive, engaging 3-minute YouTube video about the Small Arms Ltd. munitions factory that was located in Lakeview, Mississauga just west of Long Branch during the Second World War. The Small Arms Building along with a […]