Zach Ruiter
Elli Garlin
Are pigs people, too?
It’s the question judge in celebrated Pig Save trial refused to answer, calling defence’s attempt to get him to do so a publicity stunt. Another unanswered question: why was Anita Krajnc charged? more
May 10, 2017 9:32 PM News 1 Comments
How Toronto Pig Save's Anita Krajnc, inspired by Tolstoy, mobilized animal rights activists worldwide in 2016
Kranjc was charged with criminal mischief for giving water to pigs on their way to slaughter. The world took notice more
Dec 21, 2016 1:17 PM News 2 Comments
Zach Ruiter
Migrant workers say they're Canada's "modern-day slaves"
Tens of thousands of migrant farm workers toil in fields across Canada without the possibility of applying for permanent residency, health care coverage or basic labour rights more
Sep 27, 2016 3:49 PM News 12 Comments
Zach Ruiter
How Pride Toronto can fix its relationship with the trans community
The resignation of executive director Mathieu Chantelois offers a big chance to change what's been an adversarial alliance – and make Pride more inclusive more
Sep 12, 2016 5:40 PM News 4 Comments
Zach Ruiter
Video: Rob Ford remembered at Ford Fest 2016
Bruised but unbowed: Ford Nation gathers again for the first time after the death of its infamous namesake more
Sep 12, 2016 11:09 AM News 6 Comments
Zach Ruiter
Sunny ways, labour daze
Labour Day parade: enthusiasm was muted at the annual rite of summer as the situation for precarious work and the labour movement in Ontario turns grim more
Sep 7, 2016 5:30 PM News
Zach Ruiter
Dispatches from the Pig Save trial
Five takeaways from the trial of animal rights activist Anita Krajnc more
Aug 31, 2016 6:00 PM News 6 Comments
WMDs in the west end of Toronto?
After failed community attempts to shut it down, GE's uranium pellet plant on Lansdowne has just been bought by U.S.-based nuclear weapons manufacturer BWX Technologies more
Aug 24, 2016 9:15 PM News
Toronto Pig Save inspires global animal-rights activism
Activist Anita Krajnc’s weekly vigils at Toronto-area slaughterhouses have inspired an international movement to save animals more
Aug 10, 2016 8:08 PM News 3 Comments
Zach Ruiter
Why I run Line 9
Rachel Thevenard's 831-kilometre trek in support of First Nations' legal fight against Enbridge pipeline rushes through T.O. more
Dec 16, 2015 5:50 PM News
What these Torontonians have to say about Islamophobia needs to be heard
Thorncliffe and Flemingdon Park communities rally more
Nov 25, 2015 6:00 PM News 10 Comments
Zach Ruiter
Rockets red Blair
At election-night victory party, supporters mull over former Toronto top cop's rap sheet on carding and G20. Member of Liberals' candidate search committee says he made a "pragmatic" choice in backing Blair. more
Oct 22, 2015 1:41 PM News
Protesters confront anti-Islam rally at Queen’s Park
Tensions boil over at PEGIDA Canada demo featuring usual homophobes and leader of white nationalist group more
Sep 21, 2015 11:02 AM Think Free: The NOW Toronto blog
Warming Over the Climate Crisis
Runaway climate change continues to draw a slow response from policy makers more
Jul 15, 2015 7:15 PM News
Zach Ruiter
Climate Summit of the Americas hits pause button on climate crisis
Two degrees Celsius warming target in global mean temperature set at Toronto summit is less than half what the UN Environment Programme predicts the planet will warm by in 2050 more
Jul 13, 2015 10:35 AM News 1 Comments
In Photos: March for jobs, justice and climate
Celebrity and local activists unite for an economy for the people and the planet more
Jul 6, 2015 12:12 PM News 2 Comments
Zach Ruiter
BBQ with "Canada's next Prime Minister"
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair was in town Canada Day to answer what he calls "one of the most extraordinary questions I have ever been asked in my political career" – and it wasn't about that dalliance with the HarperCons in 2007 more
Jul 3, 2015 3:19 PM News 4 Comments
Zach Ruiter
H is for homophobia
VIDEO: Children's author Catherine Hernandez tells of the recent "homophobic backlash" over her queer-friendly book M Is For Mustache at two Toronto schools more
Jul 2, 2015 5:41 PM News 1 Comments
Zach Ruiter
Friday's Trans* March at Pride Week
Swelling numbers demonstrate an urgent need for gender identity protections more
Jun 29, 2015 10:45 AM News 1 Comments
