Using Food to Better the World
The West End Food Co-op in Toronto is looking to incorporate food production and consumption into bettering their local neighbourhood. The West End Food Co-op has 500 members so far,…
The West End Food Co-op in Toronto is looking to incorporate food production and consumption into bettering their local neighbourhood. The West End Food Co-op has 500 members so far,…
Toronto News: Man settles G20 lawsuit, claims police brass ordered false arrests – thestar.com Officers detaining Wall on June 27, 2010, told OPIRD investigators they were instructed to arrest people…
Serves you right (emphasis mine): Mayor Rob Ford’s proposed 2012 budget would close some swimming and wading pools and homeless shelters, cut programs for student nutrition, AIDS prevention and arts,…
I’ve never had a tweet of mine be ReTweeted so much. It was an excerpt from a Facebook post that got liked and shared by about 15 people by this…
There’s a history connection here, just wait for it! This weekend is Santa Claus Parade weekend in Toronto, where I grew up, and coincidentally in Guelph, where I live. It’s…
A few days ago, we had VSA come into the department. According to EMS, the patient had collapsed while grocery shopping down the road; CPR was started almost immediately by…
Meaning me, of course. I worked a (rare) Night 12 a few days ago. It was the usual dog’s breakfast of high acuity, walking wounded without end lining up at…
If Rob Ford goes through with his threat to forcibly remove peaceful Occupy Toronto next week, Anonymous warns that it is prepared to take action against Ford's administration by 'removing…
We live in a society that now ostensibly accepts equality and egalitarianism as a normative moral basis for our society. Not just the founding principles of classical liberalism with equal…
I think it’s time for Rob Ford to “leave” office, and “move on”. – Constitutional law expert and University of Saskatchewan professor Dwight Newman appeared on Richard Brown Wednesday afternoon,…
Has Toronto lost its way? That's been the word on the street, and pretty much everywhere else, since Mayor Ford took office a little less than a year ago.But as…
Last weekend, I spoke on a panel at the Annual Conference of the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association. The panel was inspired in large part by the recent debate in Toronto…
It is no secret that income inequity and poverty have grown while the middle class has been decimated in the past three decades, well here are two maps created by…
UforChange is all about using art and culture to make the world a better place! They focus on St. Jamestown in Toronto and have had great success engaging their community…
As much as I don't like the man's politics, I am starting to feel a bit sorry for Rob Ford.Whatever you may feel for Rob Ford, I can't imagine conservatives…
I didn't really want to write anything about this surrealistic confrontation, between Rob Ford, the grotesque Mayor of Toronto, and the Princess Warrior.Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is apologizing for using…
Toronto has joined other cities around the world in banning the consumption and commercialization of shark fins. The vote was almost unanimous with only three people in council (including the…
Remember when Toronto mayor June Rowlands banned the Barenaked Ladies from performing at a City Hall function?Here's Rob Ford's turn - he called the cops on Marg Delahunty.
CANADIAN POLITICS:STOP PUBLIC HOUSING PRIVATIZATION IN ONTARIO:The following appeal is from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).***************Stop the Sell Off of Toronto Community Housing!STOP THE SELL OFF OF TORONTO HOUSING!Statement…
NOW Magazine // Daily // News // Mammoliti slams door on councillorsGiorgio Mammoliti, acting on behalf of the mayor, barred councillors Kristyn Wong-Tam and Janet Davis from the recent Child…