Local Matters

Fear of Ford strikes Toronto, sort of

By Brian Fawcett | October 6, 2010

Toronto is electing a new mayor on October 25th, and a lot of people in the city are hysterical over the possibility that Rob Ford, a controversial councillor from North Etobicoke, one of the city’s more suburban wards, is going to be the next mayor. The people who like the tow-headed, bull-necked Ford are mostly…

Germans and Indians

By Norbert Ruebsaat | May 26, 2010

Norbert Ruebsaat files a remarkable report on what it’s like to be German amongst the aboriginal and other native peoples on Canada’s West Coast.

The Silly Season comes to Toronto in January

By Wally Hourback | February 1, 2010

Wally Hourback thinks Toronto has lost its mind, on several fronts

The Northern Name Game

By Max Fawcett | June 11, 2009

Max Fawcett discovers that up north, names aren’t ever what they seem to be.

Letter from Berlin: The Twilight of the Gods

By Stan Persky | April 27, 2009

Berlin goes to the polls to vote on religion versus ethics.

The Life and Death of a Great Toronto Neighbourhood

By Max Fawcett | July 28, 2008

Max Fawcett explores the worrisome decline of the Annex.

David Miller’s Shame

By Brian Fawcett | April 29, 2008

Brian Fawcett tries to figure out what's getting so egregiously stinky in David Miller's supposedly sane, sensitive and social democratic Toronto

Finding Julia: A March Report on the Neighbourhood

By Brian Fawcett | March 6, 2007

Brian Fawcett has wandered down the street again, and offers a darkened sense of how the Bloor Street area where Dooney Cafe sits is evolving. And at Costco, he solves a local mystery.

Hark, the Herald Angels Sing: Welcome to Post-Gay

By Stan Persky | December 21, 2006

You may have already forgotten Canada’s let’s-hope-it’s-final debate about same-sex marriage and other affections. It happened way back when, a couple of weeks ago, or in the media’s amnesiac timeline, in a previous lifetime. Here’s what nobody bothered to say about it. 

Report on the Neighbourhood, October 2006

By Brian Fawcett | September 25, 2006

Brian Fawcett files a report on what’s going on in the area around Dooney’s Cafe, and offers a few ideas about what it all means