Harperites plan to sneak through approval of a scheme that puts China in the catbird seat and benefits big corporations at the expense of everyone else By Elizabeth May – Although Stephen Harper prefers to keep Canadians in the dark ...

Kevin Cooper – Each year, as part of the curriculum, students of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson participate in projects that team up groups of students with actual clients to take on real world planning tasks. ...

Anthony Marcusa – Even though their scores improved while its score dropped, none of the three other Downtown high schools were able to beat out St. Michael’s Choir School for top honours in the Fraser Institutes’s annual ranking of secondary ...

Mayor Rob Ford has built his entire successful political career on labelling Toronto residents as “taxpayers” instead of “citizens.” It is a simple-minded but effective emotional appeal to a Ford Nation comprising one third of voters. It ignores the responsibilities ...

A great number of us have visited a casino at one point or another. Happy sounds come from the slot machines, the lighting is just right, the seating is comfy, free drinks are offered and there are no windows or ...

Jack Layton and I were very close. He always recognized me, even when running into me on the street when no one could know we’d be in the same place that time. So I believed he really knew me and ...

I was really sorry to see that the Nicholas Hoare bookstore on Front Street with its old world look, creaky wooden floors and well-stacked shelves has closed. But I’m not surprised because bookstores seem to be going the way of ...

The very big, very bright spotlight is on. The mike stands alone, except for a single stool, on which you will place your beer glass, for this is stand-up comedy, so you… stand up. You are one of eight or ...

Commffest, the global community film festival that makes its home in the Performing Arts Lodge (PAL) and the area immediately around the St. Lawrence Market, entered its seventh year of existence. The documentary film festival tries to make a difference ...

One Downtown resident and long-time supply teacher is turning his experience interacting with kids into an exciting piece of fiction targeted at the curious children and young adults. Queen’s Quay and Spadina resident Randy Coates has taught students from kindergarten ...