Toronto Community Housing (TCH) is a huge organization with a crucial mandate. Located in Canada’s most-populous city and the capital of the Province of Ontario, TCH provides housing for 164,000 low and moderate-income people in 58,500 homes. The age…
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Joe Fantauzzi: GOOD READING: @camilacore on the political economy of Uber in Toronto
Today, taxi drivers are demonstrating in Toronto over the city dragging its heels on regulating Uber. Cabbies have also let the politicians at Queen’s Park know how they feel. Ontario also has not moved to regulate Uber. The following post has …
Continue readingJoe Fantauzzi: A Brief Note On #Elxn42 And Moving Toward A New Left
This much is clear: with the NDP’s federal collapse last night, the neoliberal Third Way experiment can clearly be declared a failure. But now what? Now, to build ─ not rebuild on a broken foundation. But also this: pillory me as a post-structuralist if you must, but I’m not here for
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Ten Things to Know About Homelessness in Canada
This afternoon I gave a presentation at Raising the Roof’s Child & Family Homelessness Stakeholder Summit in Toronto. My slide deck can be downloaded here. To accompany the presentation, I’ve prepared the following list of “Ten Things to Know About Homelessness in Canada.” 1.Efforts to enumerate persons experiencing homeless have
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Dix Choses à Savoir sur l’Itinérance au Canada
Cet après-midi, j’ai fait une présentation au Child & Family Homelessness Stakeholder Summit, organisé par Chez Toit, à Toronto. Ma presentation, illustrée de diapositives, peut être téléchargée ici. Pour accompagner la présentation, je vous ai préparé la liste suivante des « Dix choses à savoir sur l’itinérance au Canada. »
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Toronto Star: RCMP tracked Toronto activists with fake Facebook profile
Would liking a page or an article about blacklivesmatter on your social profile get you tracked by the RCMP, looking for other “subversive” materials? Does sharing content about social equality make you an activist? Subversive? A target of the RCMP? And what’s next, under C-51… ? Article by Laurent Bastien
Continue readingThings Are Good: Another Way to Deal with Butts
Cigarette butts are usually aren’t disposed of properly (why do smokers think it’s OK to litter?) and this is a problem for many cities. Earlier this year we looked at the Pick Up Your Butts campaign and now a new strategy of dealing with butts has taken hold. A restaurant
Continue readingThings Are Good: Living Architecture Tour of Toronto
If you’re in Toronto or visiting you can now go on a special tour of the city that will reveal all the cool living architecture! It’s a free tour that you can download and go on anytime you’d like. Toronto abounds with green roofs and walls, but most people aren’t
Continue readingTHE WINGNUTERER: In Defense of Rob @TOMayorFord
Yes you read the headline correct, In defense of Rob Ford. In a few short hours Rob and brother Doug will be on the air the weekly clown show on CFRB1010, where we are expecting him to make an announcement. It could be anything, but if is an announcement from
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Rob Looks at reduce revues, that he didn’t reduce himself MORE RobFordLooksAtThings
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Rob Looks at fish I wonder where that fish has gone. You did love it so. You looked after it like a son. And it went wherever I did go. Is it in the cupboard? Yes! Yes! No!… Wouldn’t you like to know? It was a lovely little fish. And
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Rob Looks at an owl, owl looks for a way out. MORE RobFordLooksAtThings
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Rob Looks at being so very very very FUCKED! MORE RobFordLooksAtThings
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Rob Looks for an another apple MORE RobFordLooksAtThings
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Yup, another photo-op I couldn’t give a shit about,… but hey it is a photo-op MORE RobFordLooksAtThings
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Yup that’s a lot of empty offices, business as usual, everything is fine, anything else? MORE RobFordLooksAtThings
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These clowns will make me look more serious, right? MORE RobFordLooksAtThings
Continue readingArt Threat: Montreal Fringe: Three for the road
Cootie Catcher, written and performed by Lucas Brooks, focuses on Brooks’ close encounters of the transmissible kind. Using a cootie catcher, better known to some as a fortune teller, Brooks regales the audience with tales of all the times he thought he had been exposed to one STD or another,
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: June 20: How to recognize propaganda in the news.
It’s on B7 of the Moncton Times and Transcript. It’s a big story. “Crisis-hit Europeans say Greece must knuckle down with austerity like they did”. For a start, the crisis-hit Europeans he refers to are a children’s TV programmer, a salesman, a used-car salesman, a retired school-teacher. and a middle-aged
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The Globe and Mail: Wind Mobile brings cell service to Toronto subways
Great news for subway commuters users in Toronto, and yet another reason to escape the high prices and rampant abuse of the Big Three as new options become viable for CanadiansWe hope that other providers will follow Wind’s lead, and that the CRTC and Industry Canada will take bold steps
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