For some reason, our fair city seems to believe that we're special.  That the lessons learned on other cities for some reason do not apply to us. The people behind ...

You've noticed by now that our former vigorous posting schedule here on ScaleDown has dwindle to a trickle. Or a stop, many of my colleagues would say. It's hard to argue that point.  Lately, much of my attention ...

Big-box senior storage.  This is what we've come to.  I'm not going to get into the details of the ramifications of our societiys decision to remove our elders from the community at large.  We've made so many bone-headed decisions ...

Next is David Wonham's answer to my question which he emailed me personally but I do not beleive he objects to posting. The uninterrupted response is at very bottom that but I wanted to comment on this response, my comments in italics. Based on his response I need to repeat ...

Confession time. The previous post was unnecessarily harsh. Don't know if Dr. David Wonham is still Reading One thing that struck me in our conversation is I really believe he has benevolent intentions. When I made my case several times about why I thought holding the name was wrong, it was ...

Had a pleasant conversation with David Wonham. He thought my use of certain adjectives to describe his actions with the Chimzcuk money's, museum and name were disturbing. He said he was advised to take legal action. Although I told him I deleted them and would keep them off permanently. He thought ...

This practise is nothing new.  An older home in an established neighbourhood becomes a candidate for replacement.  Demolition permits are secured and contractors hired.  Immense amounts of time and money are invested in building the ...

When I read the Windsor Star article about how CS&P was chosen to design the university campus in the Armories and the Windsor Star buildings I nearly fell over. The Windsor Star first touted that CS&P had experience in Windsor designing the Windsor Police Headquarters and the Ontario Court building. That shouldn't ...