71Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution (2023) and How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America (2021)May 18, 2023/0 Comments/in Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
72Sideways (2022) highlights how Google tried and failed to get a foothold in land use in Berlin and TorontoDecember 13, 2022/2 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
73Haberman (2022), Galeotti (2022), and O’Kane (2022) among others are exemplars of the gangster genre of literary nonfictionDecember 11, 2022/4 Comments/in Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
74Are there cultural differences, in how Mississauga and Toronto go about dealing with land use planning processes?January 11, 2022/0 Comments/in Commentary, Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Long Branch, Long Branch Character Guidelines, Long Branch Neighbourhood Association, Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
75A new laneway housing bylaw is now in effect in Toronto (Part 4)January 9, 2022/2 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
76I look at laneway housing, a broad topic with many facets, from a more general, abstract perspective than was the case when, in 2010, in connection with the former Parkview School in Long Branch, I first became interested in land use decision makingDecember 31, 2021/1 Comment/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
77The City of Toronto has passed a new bylaw regarding laneway housing; comments made during the drafting are featured at this post (Part 1)December 30, 2021/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
78A Dec. 22, 2021 CBC article is entitled: “Hidden behind buildings, the last of Mimico’s opulent lakefront estates is still standing: Myrtle Villa was owned by businessman James Franceschini from 1925 to 1950”December 26, 2021/2 Comments/in Commentary, Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Language usage, Long Branch, Long Branch Neighbourhood Association, Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
79Reflections regarding the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu of Romania in December 1989August 18, 2021/22 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
80From the Toronto Public Library website, you can access Erving Goffman’s 1982 presidential address to the American Sociological AssociationAugust 6, 2021/0 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill