Toronto News: Hudak plunges into dangerous liaison with Rob Ford – thestar.com
According to the Toronto Star, Rob Ford’s popularity has been steadily since the election in Oct. 2010.
Ford’s popularity is sinking, according to polling data, as his h…
Continue readingQuebec will not be a priority for the Conservative Canadian Prime Minister during the next four years of his comfortable majority rule. That was the message Stephen Harper sent with his appointment this week of Angelo Persichilli as the new director of…
Continue readingInspired by these stories: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/new-toronto-port-lands-strategy-involved-private-talks-with-mall-operator/article2151189/and http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/09/01/pol-doer-oilsands.html
Continue readingToronto News: Australian firm eyeing waterfront mall – thestar.comThe driving force behind a member of city council should be the people he represents, the people of Toronto, not some rich foreign company!An Australian company that’s one of the world…
Continue readingToronto News: Police board refuses to promote G20 officers – thestar.comGood for the board! The Toronto police b…
Continue readingThe issue of gay-straight alliances in Catholic schools in Ontario has heated up again, this time in the Toronto Catholic District School Board, which voted this week to place denominational rights above other rights in implementing the provincial equi…
Continue readingDo you like Doug Ford’s preliminary plans for Toronto’s waterfront? – Your CommunityThey have to keep piling it up. One lie after another. The next one has to top the biggest one before. Regarding Doug Ford’s plans to mess up the Waterfront development…
Continue readingToronto News: Readers wonder: What’s lunch with Doug Ford without any gravy? – thestar.comThese groups that purport to be in support of taxpayers are nothing but a front for hard-right-wing conservatives and libertarians who care nothing for anyone b…
Continue readingThe buzz: Jack Layton‘s widow, Olivia Chow, will likely run for the leadership of the Federal NDP. Bad political decision if the MP for Trinity-Spadina, Toronto, does. The world over, political widows often capitalize on the legacies of depar…
Continue readingI know what I’d rather be on a hot day. Making women wear clothing for religious/cultural reasons is something most John Gormley listeners critcise, but only if those women are in Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan and it’s Islamic garb. If they are Westerners/Christians in Toronto or Regina, then those women had better follow customs and […]
This Summer I had the pleasure of using bike sharing in Ottawa. Had I know how easy it was, I’d have used it in Toronto too, and possibly Montreal while I was there. One thing I’m unclear about is if the Bixi Bikes in different cities are compatible, and billed as if they are one […]
Strutting And Fretting « All Fired Up In The Big SmokeRead the link for a story about someone getting a notice to remove graffiti from their back-alley garage door. The garage door is pretty much out of site. If Ford Nation is targeting situations lik…
Continue readingClick for pictures from Jack Layton’s final journey today from Toronto City Hall, and then Roy Thomson Hall. It was an emotion-packed, life-affirming day.
Continue readingWhere I was Thursday. I’m not very good at writing art review-style critiques using high-flown language, but I can say that I enjoyed Buskerfest a lot. There’s a bit of an edge to the performers. They generally live on the margins. They swear freely, even with children present. (O the horrors!) They’re tattooed and pierced, […]
Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada. Filed under: Our Proud History, Public Images of Nurses and Nursing Tagged: Hospital for Sick Children, Nurse uniform, Nurses, Nursing, Toronto
Via Hullabaloo today, one of the bloggers there is doing a bit of a shout out to a Democratic Assemblyman in California, Das Williams of Santa Barbara, in an effort to illustrate why Democrats should stick together and not implode over various Obama fa…
Continue readingAugust 20, 2011 Toronto, Ontario Dear Friends, Tens of thousands of Canadians have written to me in recent weeks to wish me well. I want to thank each and every one of you for your thoughtful, inspiring and often beautiful notes, cards and gifts. Your …
Continue readingI’m still shocked by the untimely passing this morning of the Federal NDP leader, Jack Layton, at the age of 61. Canada has lost a great champion. Jack will be greatly missed by the many people whose lives he touched deeply. I’m one of th…
Continue readingStolen by cancer. You will never be forgotten.
Continue readingThe vilified bike thief Kenk gets a complex treatment in this intriguing graphic novel.
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