This startup has done a better job on shopping local
Does Not-Amazon really make shopping local easier? (NOW Online, December 1) I think the Toronto startup Nishe has done a better job. They are working with businesses rather than just crowdsource listings – and they’re not rude.
Madeline Kurpeikis – From nowtoronto.com
Critical acclaim – not for NOW critics
Re NOW Critics Pick The Best Movies Of 2020 (NOW Online, December 8). OMG your critics are pretentious wankers. Striving to be oh-so-hip and serious, they prove themselves exactly the opposite. LMAO.
David Reville – From nowtoronto.com
Liberals’ economic update puts Canada in a financial vortex
Re Op-ed: A Feminist Fiscal Update For The History Books by Trish Hennessy (NOW Online, December 2). Jesus, Mary and Joseph where is the fiscal responsibility? Chrystia Freeland’s economic update may sound good on paper, but it’s a financial disaster. The Liberals are using COVID-19 to put us into a fiduciary vortex. A 3-year plan involving $70-$100 billion dollars? A stimulus package? A child care secretariat? What utter nonsense!
Joseph Kilburn – From nowtoronto.com
Access to public washrooms should be a human right
It’s next to impossible for homeless people to find a washroom during lockdown – nevermind a discreet place when you have an urgent bowel movement. It should be a human right to have 24-hour access to a washroom in Toronto. Maybe people should go to the mayor’s or the premier’s to relieve themselves so governments might get the message?
Robert Dunlop – From nowtoronto.com
Toward a post-pandemic future
We are in the middle of a global pandemic, a climate emergency and an economic recession. These compounding crises demand a bold response. In the 1930s and 40s, Canada mobilized at an unprecedented scale for World War II. The government created 28 new Crown corporations to meet the urgent needs of that time. We need to mobilize at the same scale to create publicly owned renewable energy, a high-speed rail service across the country and a program to retrain workers. That’s the kind of action we need.
Noella Kyser – Toronto
Undoing misogyny the only way to combat gun violence
The disparity that exists between Indigenous women and their Caucasian counterparts plainly shows that women of colour ought to fear misogyny far more than guns. The PM’s gun ban remarks to mark the anniversary of the massacre at École Polytechnique (NOW Online, December 6) are helpful but futile as the only obvious way to prevent such attacks is by combatting misogyny itself.
Christopher Mansour – From nowtoronto.com
A little piece of Weston‘s Masonic history
I really appreciate you mentioning Weston in your ongoing Hidden Toronto series on Toronto heritage. I was not aware that Weston was known for its Masonic history but I do know that Weston’s first settlers did not live in Little Avenue Park. That is where a sign sits that talks about the Founding of Weston, but Weston’s first permanent settler was a blacksmith. Weston was a milling area with mills up and down the Humber River. The 1850 flood, the largest in a series of floods up until that time, swept away the homes, businesses and most of the mills on the west side of the river. Many relocated to the east side, causing Weston to grow and prosper.
Cherri Hurst – President, Weston Historical Society
Toronto preservationist Doug Taylor remembered
Thanks to Richard Longley for noting the death of the amateur historian Doug Taylor (NOW Online, August 16). The persistence of people who lean into the wind of change and do their best to preserve elements of the past before they are strewn is truly remarkable.
Hamish Greenland – From nowtoronto.com
From Pickering with love
I love NOW! We don’t get it in Pickering but I pick one up every time I am in the city and read it cover to cover. I like the integrity and candour of its writers and the scope of its coverage.
David Caruana – From nowtoronto.com
