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Canada’s slavery secret: The whitewashing of 200 years of enslavement – June 28, 2018 CBC article & broadcast
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillA June 28, 2018 CBC Radio article is entitled: “Canada’s slavery secret: The whitewashing of 200 years of enslavement.” An excerpt reads: Canada’s towns, parks and universities abound with statues and street signs that have immortalized our “founding fathers.” But there is no sign of the men, women and children that some of these powerful […]
Terra Cotta Conservation Area well worth a visit during Sugarbush Maple Syrup Festival (March 10 – April 8, 2018)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillSome time back, I described a family visit to the Limehouse Conservation Area: Limehouse Conservation Area a great place to visit on a warm, sunny day in September More recently, we visited the Terra Cotta Conservation Area in Halton Hills for its Sugarbush Maple Syrup Festival (March 10 – April 8, 2018). The event features: Live entertainment Demonstrations Maple […]
Sept. 1, 2017 deadline for comments regarding proposed OMB Reform legislation
/0 Comments/in Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillClick here for previous posts regarding OMB > Among the posts in the above-noted list is one entitled: Proposed legislation brings “fundamental reform” to OMB: Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP Peter Milczyn Sept. 1, 2017 deadline for final comments Please refer to the Environmental Registry regarding the Sept. 1, 2017 deadline for comments regrading the province’s OMB Reform […]
Smoke Signals (1998) is adapted from a short story in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1994)
/1 Comment/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI have an interest in learning about the First Nations history of Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey). The human story of the area, where I have lived for 20 years, began about 10,000 years ago when Palaeo-Indian nomadic hunters first arrived in Southern Ontario at the end of the last Ice Age. After the arrival […]