Archive for June, 2009
This Sunday morning as I waited for my laundry to dry, I was cruising the newspapers as I do every morning for interesting articles for the Scaledown News blog I post every Monday, when I came across this Opinion Main Street from the Wall Street Journal, dated June 16, 2009: ...
Well, I'm taking a road trip this weekend.
I've always wanted to head west to Kenosha, Wisconsin to check out their heritage ...
It seems that we have finally realized that we don't need legacy buildings to bring higher education to downtown. That higher education in today's world isn't and shouldn't be about the bricks and mortar, (or more likely concrete and glass) instead of what ...
St. Clair College is doing its best to create some opportunities for our community.
By now everyone probably knows that the college received $32 million to build a new Centre of Applied Health Science. That building will keep a number ...
While sitting in council chambers last night with my ScaleDown Radio cohost Andrew Foot, awaiting our turn to speak to the Ward Boundary Review report going before council (BTW - it was deferred until July 13, as ...
What's the use in fighting sprawl if the Province of Ontario doesn't care, when they ignore their own laws, commissions and make secret deals with developers!!!
A question of sprawl: Live in the past or plan for the future?
Too many stimulus projects are about pushing money ...
Sorry, I couldn't resist. I just watched the Red Bull Air Race coverage on Sportsnet. They showed Niagara Falls in the opening credits and when they came back from commercial. They may have shown it a couple more times (I had to go ...
Of course - the night of the big Ward Boundary Review meeting at city hall, there's this amazing design charrette happening north of the border. If you're on Facebook, check out the event listing HERE.
If ...

