Tag Archives: Toronto
Poet Priscila Uppal’s Toronto
My latest column for blogTO looks at the city from poet and writer Priscila Uppal’s view – preferably from the top of the Hyatt with a glass of champagne. Listen to my favourite part here, Priscila reading her poem,” A_Divorce_or_Spanish_Lessons?“ … Continue reading
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Insider’s guide to Toronto – new blogTO column
If you could ask City Hall to change one thing about the city right now, what would it be? Paul Ngyuen, founding editor of jane-finch.com, wants politicians “to pay more attention to the so-called priority neighborhoods. They’ve gotta come on … Continue reading
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Adbusters OK to sue CBC; From Mounties to Bolsheviks?; Toronto gets into movie biz but pussyfoots over coffee cups; Fighting attacks in Vancouver’s gay village; Poolside Breast-Feeding – HEADLINES 7 April 2009
Here are my picks for national news, written for Take 5′s morning newscast on 7 April 2009. Will unionization turn RCMP officers into a bunch of Bolsheviks? Yesterday an Ontario Superior Court awarded the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force the … Continue reading
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$11.5 billion to care for Afghan veterans; Media gets Vancouver’s Eastside Wrong; Toronto Transit Merger – 31 March 2009 Headlines
Post traumatic stress disorder is expensive A new Tyee series reports that caring for Canada’s Afghanistan veterans could cost as much as $11 and a half billion dollars. Carleton University researcher David Perry estimates that by July 2011, 41,000 Canadians … Continue reading
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