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In Steeltown, a familiar refrain on light rail transit
HAMILTON - It is a rite of passage for newcomers to Hamilton to head to hip James Street North, the heart of the art district.... -
Poverty patchwork
It was an afternoon of tactical contrasts. On a bright, crisp autumn day last Thursday, October 17, two protests with distinctly different communications strategies targeted... -
Sorting out Syria
What should we be doing about Syria? Admittedly, it's a difficult question - so much so that the panelists at last Friday's (July 12) meeting... -
Aerial acrobatics
While the publication last week of a U.S. Justice Department memo has triggered the first major debate on drones south of the border, it's also... -
Canada’s secret war on drugs
Is Canada on the wrong side in the dust-up between the U.S. and Latin America over the future of the four-decades-old so-called war on drugs?... -
Who speaks for peace on Iran?
An international debate about whether protests against an attack on Iran should also embrace the Iranian pro-democracy movement has arrived in Toronto just in time... -
No easy angle on this war
As the last of the UN monitors leave Syria in despair, Toronto partisans of Syrian democracy are struggling to find their own common ground. The... -
Chris Hedges imagines next Occupy
Through his signature owlish metal-rimmed glasses, former foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges surveys a packed hall of rapt listeners at U of... -
Bank of Toronto?
Those who participated in Occupy Toronto last fall have fond memories of economist Jim Stanford at the protest mic in front of the bank towers... -
Credit rating rip-off
There's nothing like a credit rating threat to soften up the voting public ahead of fiscal restraint. Moody's warning last December that Ontario's rating would... -
Ship of fools
The temperature of the west's relations with Iran is hot and getting hotter, and activists North America-wide are getting out their "No war on Iran"... -
Libs set sights on hallowed NDP ground in Trinity
What a difference having a mayoral race under your belt makes for a hitherto unknown politico trying to knock off a two-decade incumbent. One might... -
Poverty pariah
OCAP heads to allan gardens this weekend for another of the org's legendary mass feed-ins to press for an increase in social assistance rates. Not... -
Trading in Silva for Cash?
My two separate canvasses with the candidates one cold and blustery day in Davenport offer quite differing models of local representation. First outing is with... -
Are we about to bomb again?
Shockingly, the west is actually once again contemplating a military intervention in a Muslim country. The protracted conflict between rebels and the still resilient forces...
