Posts Tagged ‘mississauga’
[NON BLOG] Hello from me, 21 times
I would like to say hello. I have been gone from here a long time, I think, the longest break I have ever taken from blogging.
What have I been doing all this time? In the main, I have been trying to live my strange new life this 2020 as best as I can. This includes thinking seriously about what I want to do with this space, and its neighbours. 2020 is many things, but one thing that it can be is a vital space to look back and reflect. (At least it can be those as fortunate as I to be able to use it so; I acknowledge my privilege.) This is going to be a year of transition.
In the meantime, I would like to share with you twenty-one selfies, taken by me in the course of my day-to-day life, at work and at play, all but one within the borders of the city of Toronto. (Oh, borders are things we have come to know too well.)
My last selfie is an unmasked one. Resolution aside, I quite like the photo that my Echo Show 5 took of me.
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Mississauga, Montréal, Thunder Bay, Port-au-Prince, London
- The City of Mississauga is encouraging residents to take part in a postal campaign to push for independence from Peel Region. Global News reports.
- A Montréal city councillor wants the city to try to get a world’s fair in 2030. CTV reports.
- April Lindgren at The Conversation considersthe important role that local media in Thunder Bay can play in dealing, with, among other issues, Indigenous concerns.
- Amy Wilentz considers at The Atlantic whether France, after the devastation of Notre-Dame in Paris, should perhaps contribute to the reconstruction of the cathedral of Port-au-Prince, a decade after its destruction in the earthquake that devastated an already poor ex-French Haiti.
- Ben Rogers at Open Democracy makes the case for seeing London, despite its position as a global city, as also a metropolis inextricably at the heart of England, too.