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On water
I've always had that feeling of coming from another world, of being an alien. Perhaps it's the water in me. After all, we're more water... -
The TTC’s technology failures
Waiting is the worst thing, especially when you don’t know if what you’re waiting for is really coming or not. I’m not referring to the... -
Nik Beat R.I.P.
Toronto's poetry community is mourning the passing of one of its mainstays, longtime CIUT Howl host, poet and singer-songwriter, Nik Beat, a.k.a. Michael Barry. Beat... -
The Butterfly effect
A little like her namesake, Julia Butterfly Hill - who got her middle name when a butterfly alighted on her finger and stayed there for... -
Gift economy gives back
My smile would be a jagged maw of cracked and crumbling stumps now but for a present from musician/artist Mendelson Joe of some of his... -
Farewell to poet Raymond Souster 1921-2012
Somehow we don't expect poets to be bankers. But Raymond Souster who passed away on October 19, at the age of 91 combined the job... -
Are libraries throwing the book at us?
Speaking as a sometime space cadet, I have often slipped into the kind of deep time ruminations that result in lapses of attention to library... -
Milton Acorn: Returning to the scene of the rhyme
An act of civil disobedience begins in Allan Gardens. The speaker, a burly fellow with a face that might've been carved by a woodcutter's axe... -
Joanna Macy’s parade
"Gratitude is politically subversive." So says eco-philosopher Joanna Macy to a sold-out crowd at the OISE auditorium on Friday night, June 22. To ecstatic applause,... -
Literary Press Group funding safe!
Good news! The Canadian Heritage Department has overturned its decision to cut a $200,000 grant to the Literary Press Group, an umbrella of small literary... -
Small presses get the squeeze
UPDATE: Read here for good news on the funding for the Literary Press Group. If your main goal were to get Canadian books into Canadian... -
Banking on the arts
What do big banks and art have in common? They're both too big to fail. They both need bailouts, or as the financial community likes... -
After 20 years, a change in Ward 29
At long last, there is going to be a change in Toronto Danforth, Ward 29, where for 20 years Case Ootes has contaminated city policymaking... -
Suffer the little fishes
With research apparently way ahead of the consumer curve, I'd say it's time we stopped swallowing the convenient lie about fish suffering.A few months back,... -
Rights left
Barack Obama often talks about teaching moments. But there are learning moments too - times when events require skillful adaptation and serious thought for the...
