Toronto’s annual Summerworks theatre and music festival has just lost its funding from the federal government’s Department of Canadian Heritage. The annual grant, which would have provided an estimated $48,000, represents about 20% of the total budget for the festival, which is scheduled to begin in just a few weeks. Critics of the announcement suggest […]

My opposite-sex wife sent me a link this morning to an opinion piece on the CNN website by journalist and former Bush speechwriter David Frum. Fourteen years after a lengthy debate with fellow conservative Andrew Sullivan on the issue of same-sex marriage, Frum is now compelled to argue that he was wrong to oppose it. […]

Many thanks to Toby Milton for his generous donation this week! It’s been a little less than three weeks since I signed up to do this year’s AIDS Walk for Life, and I’m glad to say that we’ve already achieved 22% of my goal of raising $1,000 for the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Get on […]

It’s been about a month since I decided to quit drinking for a while, and on the whole, I’m enjoying the results. I’ve managed to go four weeks and counting without a drink, and I’m feeling better, sleeping better, and getting more done since I put the drinking on hold. Mind you, it hasn’t been […]

As you may have heard, the Toronto Police Service released their G20 After-Action Review this week. It’s an extensive seventy-page document providing a review of the service’s operation during the summit. The review is publicly available, and you can download it in PDF format courtesy of the service.

From today’s Morning Brief, courtesy of iPolitics: “Later today Prime Minister Stephen Harper was scheduled to be in Thetford Mines, Que., to partake in a St-Jean Baptiste holiday barbecue. If you recall from Grade 7 geography, Thetford Mines is home to one of the largest asbestos deposits in the world. “It’s perhaps no coincidence then that, […]

The problem I have with Winston Blackmore, the excommunicated bishop and leader of Canada’s largest polygamist group, isn’t the fact that he was kicked out of his fundamentalist Mormon church, or the fact that he’s been arrested for polygamy, or the fact that he’s been married twenty-five times and fathered a hundred and twenty-one children. […]

Tonight at 6:00 PM, the provincial NDP will host a nomination meeting for the Toronto Centre riding at the Ryerson Student Centre. Street nurse and homeless advocate Cathy Crowe will receive the nomination for the riding. You may remember Cathy representing the NDP back in February of 2010, when a byelection was held to fill […]

If you’ve been reading democracy101.ca, then first of all, thank you. If you’ve been following it through my personal account on Twitter, or through posts on my Facebook wall, then I’m afraid I’ll need you to start looking elsewhere. Those channels were getting pretty cluttered, so as of today, I’m no longer posting new content […]

There’s a small but promising fast food chain called TacoTime that’s more than happy to sell you five tacos for five dollars. They’ve got a franchise down in the underground mall at Dundas and Yonge in Toronto. Pay them a visit, give them five bucks, and brother, they’ll give you five tacos. This is not […]