51In the 1960s, students from Ahuntsic School visited The Montreal Star and The Gazette; The Montreal Star folded in 1979; other newspapers across North America have folded more recentlySeptember 18, 2023/1 Comment/in Commentary, MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
52Ahuntsic School opened as a Protestant School Commission elementary school in 1922; it was built the previous yearSeptember 13, 2023/5 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
53America is more open to an authoritarian form of government than Canada – because the American Constitution has never been as awesome as it has been made out to beSeptember 12, 2023/4 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
54What are the prospects for keeping democracy alive in Canada? Another great topic – Aug. 29, 2023 MCHS picnic in TorontoSeptember 7, 2023/1 Comment/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
55Notes on a Writer’s Life: A Memoir (2023) by David Adams Richard is an excellent readAugust 22, 2023/0 Comments/in Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
56The careful, conservative language of science provided the springboard for a powerful, multi-decade, anti-science public relations campaign promoting catastrophic humanly enhanced combustionJune 20, 2023/3 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
57Storytelling depends upon the pragmatics of communication inherent in a conversation: the ball gets hit back and forth across the netJune 4, 2023/3 Comments/in Bullying, Commentary, Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Language usage, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
58In Seeing Like a State (1998), James C. Scott outlines a faith-based, uncritical, high-modernist ideology which gave rise to historic twentieth-century disastersApril 27, 2023/0 Comments/in Bullying, Commentary, Figure/Ground, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
59Toronto’s Multiplex Bylaw needs more work – please send an email by April 26, 2023April 24, 2023/0 Comments/in Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
60Silence and frame analysis: Whatever we talk about, what is left out is a key considerationNovember 18, 2022/1 Comment/in Commentary, Long Branch, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill