Dennis Hanagan – Moving Regent Park residents temporarily to the Rivertowne neighbourhood isn’t fair to the latter as it tries to build a stable community, says Councillor Paula Fletcher. “The notion is to create a new, healthy stable community,” she ...

Robin Careless – Every year, the Windmill Line Cooperative in the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood designates $1500 of its annual budget to go to charitable organizations. It then becomes the task of the co-op’s outreach committee to decide how that money ...

Kimberly Spice – A crucial step for comedian Allison Price in writing skits for a performance is the laugh factor. If the material makes her laugh then most likely others will enjoy it too but she and the Second City ...

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) applauded the Wynne government for the introduction of the Public Sector and MPP Accountability and Transparency Act, 2014. This legislation would, among other things, force all cabinet ministers, MPPs and political staff to post their expenses online. ...

Imagine you are a trustee of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). You were elected to this position by your community to represent the needs of students and parents. The position is defined by the trust the public has placed ...

There is a solution to bring our province and Canada out of this depression that started in 2007. It’s a common-sense resolution that would pay off big for most of us. Let’s take a look at it. It’s not really ...

You might think mayoralty candidates would be the first to jump on any cases of racial discrimination and issue strong condemnations. Apparently not. The most egregious examples of persistent discrimination against people on the basis of the colour of their ...

This is a good time to ask a basic question of democracy: Do our governments today truly represent the views of our population as expressed by the voters? Within the next year and a half we are faced with three, ...

Frank Touby — Dreadlocked-candidate Sarah Thomson claims a poll puts her in 5th place, rising above Councillor Karen Stintz and compares herself to ex-mayor David Miller in the early stages of his campaign. In a release, Thomson, who was laughed ...

Elizabeth May — Keystone hurts the Canadian economy: The Keystone pipeline — along with the other proposed pipelines across the country — would carry unrefined bitumen mixed with “diluents” (dilbit). These projects would make Canada’s economy even more dependent on ...