As I noted a while back, and mentioned earlier today, our new mayor begins his term tomorrow. Today is the last day that David Miller, the man that we’ve been lucky enough to call our mayor since December of 2003, will hold the office. I hope you’ll join me in thanking the mayor for seven […]

If you’ll allow me to shill for the company that hosts this site just one more time, Varial Technologies is offering new registrants 50% off the hosting fee on their first invoice. Enter “CYBERMONDAY” as your coupon code, and you’ll be good to go. The promotion applies to all available billing cycles; the longer the […]

Someone out there recently found my site as a result of searching for “not good multiculturalism.” A post I wrote back in October is apparently the second most popular result for that particular Google search. “Well,” I thought smugly, “I do know that a common complaint among people who worry about ‘not good multiculturalism’ is […]

At the risk of navel-gazing, I went out and got a haircut last night. I hadn’t gotten one since weeks before the wedding, and that haircut wasn’t done by my usual guy. So for lack of a better word, last night’s haircut was a bit of a reunion. And as much as I hate to […]

Yesterday, while I was busy talking about the recent UNAIDS announcement that the global HIV epidemic has been “halted,” the media was busy talking about a new drug called Truvada. As a piece on the CTV News website explains, Truvada is an antiretroviral drug used by HIV patients to reduce their viral load. But a […]

Last week, I shared a recent commentary by Davey D on the whole TSA hullabaloo. Today, I feel like it’s only right to link to this post by blogger SamuraiFrog over at the frequently clever (and often NSFW) Electronic Cerebrectomy. Like Davey D, he rises above all the shouting and makes a rather valid “big […]

Hey, remember last week when we were only talking about the Harper government simply standing in the way of progress on climate change, as opposed to taking an active role in making things much worse on a global level? In our names, and as our elected representatives? Well, according to the Globe and Mail, they’ve […]

Here’s a bit of great news from the BBC: according to the United Nations, the global figures for new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths are finally falling. Last year’s total of 2.6 million new HIV infections, while arguably staggering, is down nearly twenty percent from the peak of the AIDS epidemic in 1999. Meanwhile, the […]

My good friend Sofi, who you may remember from her blog, just had a piece published on Salon. Congratulations, Sofi! Let’s all go and read it!

Local DJ, Bruckbeat Radio co-host and good fellow Splattermonkey sent a message out to his community yesterday about the current CKLN 88.1 FM fundraising drive. Check it out, because there’s something in it for you. “If you support independent driven media and music in Toronto,” Splattermonkey said, “we hope you will pledge a few dollars […]