Chris Moise — On June 20th in a byelection held for Toronto Centre-Rosedale I was elected trustee for the Toronto District School Board. I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who contributed and helped me in my campaign ...
Read More »On Moise’s column about the Orlando massacre
Hello Mr. [Chris] Moise, I am surprised by your comment about the shooter who massacred all those people. For someone who claims to understand diversity, you seem quite unknowledgeable about the large Muslim population who live amongst us. You claim he’s ...
Read More »Letter: Mystery corner at Jarvis and Shuter
I have been looking for what stood at the northwest corner of Jarvis and Shuter for a while now. I have heard it was a bar, flophouse, rooming house—a three-storey building of some sort. But can’t find anything. I work ...
Read More »Letter: Directionally challenged
On page 12 the article by Jose Gonzalez was headlined ‘Plan for Queen’s Quay West is to create a new community’. However, the article was about Queen’s Quay EAST !! If you need an excellent proofreader please let me know. ...
Read More »The huge downside of flying to NYC via Newark
Rachel Wong — Whether it’s to visit family, to attend an event or for work, New York City is a place I travel to quite often. I’ve flown into all three of the city’s major airports at some point or another, ...
Read More »How do we break the pattern of racial and sexual discrimination?
Chris Moise — Since taking office and being sworn in as the new trustee for the Toronto District School Board on June 22 of this year I have had the pleasure to hand out medals to students and to participate ...
Read More »Mayor John Tory’s pipedream of a subway may become the taxpayers’ nightmare
Stig Harvor — A ray of sunshine has broken through the clouds of doom that still surround our city’s convoluted, confusing and endlessly debated public transit plans. On June 19, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) opened traffic on its ...
Read More »Letter: Lost your shine
I’ve been receiving your newspaper publication for a long while now, and have always loved the simple fact that it was printed on nice paper. It felt nice, read nice, and was something I kinda kept around for a bit. ...
Read More »Viewpoint: Moss Park: Whose park? Whose ‘redevelopment’?
The Context: Social Exclusion and Gentrification The Downtown East has already been the target of major attempts to push homeless and poor people out of our communities, including through a major loss of shelter beds and services.The Downtown East is ...
Read More »Letter: The Eatons church that never was
Dear Mr Bell, I considerably enjoyed your article on Eatons and the Eaton family, mostly because every member of my (originally) Northern Irish extended family–including myself one summer when I was a student–worked there at one time or another, beginning ...
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