51America 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
52What 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
53Notes 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
54The 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
55Storytelling 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
56In 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
57Toronto’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
58Silence 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
59The Death of Nature (1980) and The Culture of Nature (1991) offer complementary ways to look at natureOctober 24, 2022/1 Comment/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
60Breathing for speech entails the voicing of a suitable number of syllables, with each outward (expiratory) breath which leaves our lungsJune 6, 2022/2 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill