Calendar
NB. According to the FMTA, their "TAC" had a thing over Zoom on Tuesday August 25th. Another... session was supposed... to be on this week, possibly this evening, possibly this evening (Tuesday Sept. 29). TAC isn't the most communicative group but it's miles better than the other "clam shell" FMTA committees.
FoNTRA's thing at the Trinity-St. Paul's United Church on Bloor St. is Thursday evening. FoNTRA's web pages mention the "Ontario Renters Coalition" but there are no links.
Here's a chunk of the summer's visual calendar, going back to late May:
As mentioned, you may want to try this experimental link to a Google version of the calendar.
Notes: The people who put on the "Clean Air Toronto" presentation at the Swansea Town Hall encouraged citizens to take part in the subsequent Board of Health meeting. They made a point of calling out the City of Toronto's process which of course is a bit thin on peer-to-peer information products and proximity references. I in turn referenced the city-sponsored FMTA as another example of weak supports.
- Roman
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The FMTA's annual meeting on June 13th was very strange. Maybe 40 people in the room, most of whom just sat there. Quorum was 20 people, but it was also announced that the employee roster has grown to 20. Hmmm!
Information about the "TTC" town hall with DMRI Inc. and councillor Jon Burnside was not clear at first. It did not help that the councillor was saying it was HIS meeting! Anyway the whole thing seemed to turn on the fact that problems with the LRT were Metrolinx's show and the councillor could do nothing.
Anyway Burnside kept it short and free of meaningful details and timelines as per. In the end the meeting fell back onto Metrolinx's "holding all the cards" that had to do with, say, the "Don Valley Don Mills Road" LRT station and the elevated railway, and so many (most?) of the questions from the floor went un-answered! The councillor - who also showed up to sort of mediate an un-advertised meeting at 25 St. Dennis Drive on June 1st - will probably say "Oh, I held a TTC town hall for Don Mills residents", but he should support any such claim with physical notes from said meeting.
Separately the business of DMRI's recent general meeting was a bit of a surprise: I did not get the memo. I did not get the agenda or the previous minutes. Hopefully I was the only resident who was/is in the dark!
- Admin
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Note too that some recent local meetings were a bit strange; at least one town hall was very "push" oriented. We have not yet reviewed the proceedings of the March 10 one on Sakura Way, so check DMRI and other web pages for details about what all happened. Especially the part about the local woman who wanted to take on Meta in the "Whatsapp" space with - wait for it - locally developed software.
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January 28, 2026 was "Data Privacy Day". The web pages of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario contain information on their observation of the day. See also the city of Toronto's observation of Digital Inclusion Week (sic) this past October.
Did you know? World Braille Day is an international day on January 4th which celebrates awareness of the importance of braille as a means of communication for blind and visually impaired people. The date for the event was chosen by the United Nations General Assembly via a proclamation in November 2018, and marks the birthday of Louis Braille, creator of this writing system.
For a bit of background about the summer (2025) Council of The Federation events please refer to this sub-file.
Regarding the FRPO wingding (CORRECTION: that was mentioned during an Acorn meeting) please post your thoughts in the forums, or you may send e-mail to "admin" at 25 problems dot com (no spaces). Or write to 25 Problems, Box 771 Stn."A" Toronto M5W 1G3. It was fun to see the anxious faces of the FRPO minions when the YSWTU picketed their gala last year.
For background calendar notes please refer to the "calendar2" sub-file here: https://25problems.com/app.php/calendar2
Note that unlike most visual calendars - eg., the paper kind you buy to hang on the wall - Google's calendar is able to go forward and back, several years in each direction. It's not the penultimate in the way of usable, meaningful timelines... but for people with full vision it's probably better than nothing.
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FoNTRA's thing at the Trinity-St. Paul's United Church on Bloor St. is Thursday evening. FoNTRA's web pages mention the "Ontario Renters Coalition" but there are no links.
Here's a chunk of the summer's visual calendar, going back to late May:
As mentioned, you may want to try this experimental link to a Google version of the calendar.
Notes: The people who put on the "Clean Air Toronto" presentation at the Swansea Town Hall encouraged citizens to take part in the subsequent Board of Health meeting. They made a point of calling out the City of Toronto's process which of course is a bit thin on peer-to-peer information products and proximity references. I in turn referenced the city-sponsored FMTA as another example of weak supports.
- Roman
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The FMTA's annual meeting on June 13th was very strange. Maybe 40 people in the room, most of whom just sat there. Quorum was 20 people, but it was also announced that the employee roster has grown to 20. Hmmm!
Information about the "TTC" town hall with DMRI Inc. and councillor Jon Burnside was not clear at first. It did not help that the councillor was saying it was HIS meeting! Anyway the whole thing seemed to turn on the fact that problems with the LRT were Metrolinx's show and the councillor could do nothing.
Anyway Burnside kept it short and free of meaningful details and timelines as per. In the end the meeting fell back onto Metrolinx's "holding all the cards" that had to do with, say, the "Don Valley Don Mills Road" LRT station and the elevated railway, and so many (most?) of the questions from the floor went un-answered! The councillor - who also showed up to sort of mediate an un-advertised meeting at 25 St. Dennis Drive on June 1st - will probably say "Oh, I held a TTC town hall for Don Mills residents", but he should support any such claim with physical notes from said meeting.
Separately the business of DMRI's recent general meeting was a bit of a surprise: I did not get the memo. I did not get the agenda or the previous minutes. Hopefully I was the only resident who was/is in the dark!
- Admin
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Note too that some recent local meetings were a bit strange; at least one town hall was very "push" oriented. We have not yet reviewed the proceedings of the March 10 one on Sakura Way, so check DMRI and other web pages for details about what all happened. Especially the part about the local woman who wanted to take on Meta in the "Whatsapp" space with - wait for it - locally developed software.
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January 28, 2026 was "Data Privacy Day". The web pages of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario contain information on their observation of the day. See also the city of Toronto's observation of Digital Inclusion Week (sic) this past October.
Did you know? World Braille Day is an international day on January 4th which celebrates awareness of the importance of braille as a means of communication for blind and visually impaired people. The date for the event was chosen by the United Nations General Assembly via a proclamation in November 2018, and marks the birthday of Louis Braille, creator of this writing system.
For a bit of background about the summer (2025) Council of The Federation events please refer to this sub-file.
Regarding the FRPO wingding (CORRECTION: that was mentioned during an Acorn meeting) please post your thoughts in the forums, or you may send e-mail to "admin" at 25 problems dot com (no spaces). Or write to 25 Problems, Box 771 Stn."A" Toronto M5W 1G3. It was fun to see the anxious faces of the FRPO minions when the YSWTU picketed their gala last year.
For background calendar notes please refer to the "calendar2" sub-file here: https://25problems.com/app.php/calendar2
Note that unlike most visual calendars - eg., the paper kind you buy to hang on the wall - Google's calendar is able to go forward and back, several years in each direction. It's not the penultimate in the way of usable, meaningful timelines... but for people with full vision it's probably better than nothing.
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