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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 […]
Playlist for MCHS ’60s Reunion on Oct. 7, 2015 at Old Mill Toronto
/0 Comments/in MCHS 2015 Reunion, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillWe owe many thanks to Gina (Davis) Cayer (MCHS 1967) who has compiled the following playlist for our Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015 MCHS ’60s Reunion starting at 6:00 pm at Old Mill Toronto at 21 Old Mill Road. We are also having a get-together at the Conference Room at the Stay Inn at 560 Evans Ave. […]
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 […]
Essentialism as an element of postmodernist discourse
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillIn August 2012, I spent time writing blog posts about a book by the historian Peter Burke dealing with the role of cultural theory in the study of history. I was interested to learn, in the foreword or introduction to the book, that Peter Burke had began his study of this topic when he was asked to […]
Would a workplace without managers work?
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA July 29, 2015 Globe and Mail article is entitled: “Holacracy: Would a workplace without managers work?” The article highlights an approach to getting things done that strongly appeals to me. In 30 years of volunteer work, it’s been my anecdotal experience that what I like to call a flat-hierachy approach to getting things done […]
The solution is located within the problem; the solution gives rise to another great problem
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA July 25, 2015 article at the Canadian Stuttering Association website is entitled: Community Involvement and Stuttering. The text, based upon a draft that I wrote on the morning of July 24, 2015 while on vacation in Prince Edward Island, reads as follows: It all began with a problem. The problem was that, fifty years […]
William Davies (2015) speaks of a happiness industry
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillTh title of the book is: The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being (2015). I find the study of interest for several reasons. First, I am interested in the fact that, from a publishing perspective, the book seeks to address a niche market – which, roughly speaking, is the market […]