Local Matters
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…
Read MoreNorbert 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.
Read MoreWally Hourback thinks Toronto has lost its mind, on several fronts
Read MoreMax Fawcett discovers that up north, names aren’t ever what they seem to be.
Read MoreBerlin goes to the polls to vote on religion versus ethics.
Read MoreMax Fawcett explores the worrisome decline of the Annex.
Read MoreBrian Fawcett tries to figure out what's getting so egregiously stinky in David Miller's supposedly sane, sensitive and social democratic Toronto
Read MoreBrian 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.
Read MoreYou 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.
Read MoreBrian 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
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