Article Archive for June 2009
By Dave Meslin
Crossposted from Mez Dispenser
Although the media virtually ignored it, there was a Leadership Convention this week for the provincial Conservative party (I know they’re officially called the ‘Progressive’ Conservatives, but …
The driver of a rented Home Depot truck allegedly attempted to dump his entire contents at the Sir Casimir Gzowksi Park temporary garbage dump site on Sunday evening June 28 2009.
Moments earlier, the driver had …
By Kathy Hammond
Living in Toronto and being the parent of a child who is disabled and uses a wheel chair to get around, sit in, and pretty much do everything except sleep in, I …
By John Bonnar
Two days before the June 12 elections in Iran, it already seemed possible that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could lose to his main rival, Mir Hussein Moussavi. On the eve of the election, …
By Leah Sandals
It was standing room only at "Town Hall: Demystifying the Creative City" the Richard Florida –critiquing panel and convo at Toronto Free Gallery last night. Even with the back room opened …
By John Bonnar
Toronto Social Justice Magazine
On a dull late spring Saturday morning at Regent and Dundas in Toronto, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and supporters have come to Regent Park with a …
From Toronto Social Justice Magazine
Eleven o’clock Tuesday morning at the Workers’ Action Centre. Media and supporters are jam-packed into a room to listen to representatives of the newly formed Caregivers Action Centre, comprised of …
By Angela Poon
On April 1st, 2009 the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) put into effect the notion that metropass holders would no longer receive free parking at… 16 lots they normally would? (Non-metropass holders paid to …
By Andre Rehal
As I sit here and write this blog entry I am at a loss. For words, for my inability to sleep and worst of all I am at a loss for a very …
From Toronto Social Justice Magazine
By 1:00 p.m. the barricades were up, streets were swept clean of cars, replaced with pedestrians, cyclists, buskers and street vendors. Just outside St. Stephen’s Community House on Augusta Avenue, two …
