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  • Memorial ride held for cyclist killed near Dufferin Mall

    Cycling advocates held a memorial ride Wednesday night (December 9) to pay tribute to 23-year old Alex Amaro. Hundreds of cyclists departed Bloor and Spadina...
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  • #BellLetsTalk campaign overlooks province’s inmates

    Bell Let’s Talk Day, Bell Canada's annual campaign to get people talking about mental health, is being marked today (January 29) by people across the...
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  • Pickering false alarm casts doubt on Toronto’s emergency plans

    Since last Sunday's false alarm about an incident at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, people living within 50 kilometres of the plant have placed more than...
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  • Animal rights activists picket Doug Fords house

    Paul McCartney once famously said that, “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.” Premier Doug Ford can attest to that. Ford told me...
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  • Chick-fil-A moves to expand in Toronto and tone down anti-gay image

    Toronto is getting more Chick-fil-A. One of the U.S.’s largest fast food chains is now expanding with a second location in the Yorkdale Shopping Mall...
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  • In photos: No War With Iran protest

    Several dozen demonstrators took part in a No War With Iran action across the street from the U.S. consulate in Toronto on Saturday (January 4). The...
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  • Uranium processing plant in city’s west end applies for 10-year licence renewal

    The BWXT (formerly GE-Hitachi) uranium processing plant at 1025 Lansdowne north of Dupont has applied to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) for a 10-year...
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  • Global Climate Strike: sex, death and signs of a climate crisis

    “Did you buy the planet dinner before you fucked it?” reads the sign of Erblin Hysi at the Toronto Global Climate Strike at Queen’s Park...
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  • Global Climate Strike: five reasons why you need to go

    Thousands are expected to attend the Global Climate Strike in Toronto Friday (September 27) which will meet at 11 am at Queen’s Park. The event coincides with 2019...
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  • Labour Day Parade 2019 in pictures

    Thousands of workers marched from Queen and University to the CNE's Dufferin Gates in Toronto's annual Labour Day Parade on Monday (September 2).   Labour Day has...
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  • Foodora workers say they’re not robots

    The thimble statue on the northwest corner of Richmond and Spadina that marks the centre of Toronto’s old fashion district is a popular bottleneck for Foodora...
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  • Locked out condo janitors are the new faces of precarious work

    A rally was held on July 24 to support five janitors who have been locked out of their jobs at the Icon Condominiums at 250...
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  • Killing cormorants: Is Ontario’s feathered pariah about to be culled out of existence?

    Post-Impressionist French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), known for his Moulin Rouge posters, had a pet cormorant named Tom. Toulouse-Lautrec was fascinated by the Japanese...
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  • The planet is having a cow

    A wildly simple path to halting ecological collapse is right in front of our mouths.  But like the federal government’s view of pipeline expansion schemes as...
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  • Video: A leaner and meaner Ford Fest 2018

    Ford Fest 2018 took place at the Veneto Centre at Highway 7 and Kipling in Vaughan on Saturday, September 22. The event was free, but for...
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