TheBulletin.ca Journal of Downtown Toronto
Gilda’s Club takes a chunk for outreach Community organizations in neighbourhoods across Toronto will receive $5,137,200 in community grants from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF). The 44 grants announced today by Caroline Di Cocco, Ontario’s Minister of Culture, will help ...
Read More »Downtown bar meningitis scare
519 Church community centre to hold vaccination clinic Toronto Public Health today issued a Meningitis C alert in response to the recent death of a 23 year old male resident and the possible exposure of patrons at a downtown bar. ...
Read More »A powerful network for Chinese Canadian domestic violence survivors
From the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter Up to 70 % of female murder victims are killed by their male partners! This accounts for more death and ill-health than cancer or traffic accidents. According to our experience on working ...
Read More »Distillery students land in the middle of the “nation” debate
School trip to the House of Commons question period minutes after Harper’s “nation” motion, gives Voice Intermediate students an eye-opening experience. At Voice Intermediate School, the bi-annual trip to Ottawa for students in grades five to seven is a regularly ...
Read More »Olivia Chow’s December E-Newsletter
Dear neighbours, Today is World AIDS Day. Every day 11,000 people lose their lives to AIDS. The Government has the power to help, yet as I write this update of what is happening in the House of Commons, Mr. Harper ...
Read More »Do window-breakers plague Cabbagetown?
By Angela Scappatura – Which came first, police overwhelmed with complaints to the point of inaction, or citizens not informing the cops when crimes are committed? Or is it either? Here’s an example of broken-windows theory Toronto style: When M.J. ...
Read More »Local mom stirs up a cookbook for her adopted son’s orphanage
By Angela Scappatura – Nicole Nel-Maynard decided to adopt a little boy from South Africa in Sept. 2005 and now, with contributions from family members other adoptive parents, she has released a cookbook to raise funds for the home where ...
Read More »Comstock: NDP Waffles as problems pile like pancakes
The NDP was founded in 1961. The party has had six leaders: T. C. Douglas (1961-71), David Lewis (1971-75), Ed Broadbent (1975-89), Audrey McLaughlin (1989-95), Alexa McDonough (1995-2003) and Jack Layton (2003-present). The federal NDP has averaged 15.4% of the ...
Read More »Be bold! Be oblivious!
One of the key villains in the horrid regime that Mike Harris cursed Ontario with is a windbag from the far eastern stretches of what some call the GTA: Whitby. Like that’s got anything to do with Toronto. But, since ...
Read More »Sometimes a bureaucrat can be a public treasure
By Frank Touby – No matter who gets elected, it’s the civil service who actually are the government. At the most intrusive array of their powers and tasks, they’re the ones who’ll chase you for taxes, stuff you in prison, ...
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