WHAT: OCAP hit all the boxes in protest bingo today at the KPMG offices today. From playing Rage Against the Machine through speakers to a lone black balaclava anarchy flag–waver flipping off the skyscraper for photo ops. The crowd is more milling than marching in the heat, with little chanting or drama in evidence. KPMG was commissioned by the City of Toronto to produce a series of reports detailing potential budget savings. Those reports, currently being debated at City Hall, are widely seen as setting the stage for a long list of service cuts.

In this edition of Weekend Planner: help out the library by expanding your own, experience the best Parkdale has to offer, get acquainted with the next generation of theatre artists, agitate on behalf of social assistance, or get a super-early headstart on Toronto Beer Week.

Enduring bouts of rain and hail, about a thousand students, workers, and community members marched through downtown Toronto yesterday as part of the Drop Fees for a Poverty Free Ontario campaign. At 4 p.m., they arrived at Queen’s Park to demand that the provincial government start “investing in the people, ’cause we are the solution,” [...]

Anyone who’s read a newspaper or magazine in the last few months can verify: recession chic is the new black. The only thing more irritating than regularly seeing a decline in the figures on your RRSP statement, though, is the spate of sanctimonious and insulting articles on frugal living being churned out in economy-sized quantities [...]

A demonstration at City Hall yesterday by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty forced the Speaker to halt proceedings after the protest spilled onto the chamber floor. The action by OCAP was called after the discovery of a homeless man frozen to death in a downtown stairwell February 27. A statement by OCAP called the death [...]

Poor OCAP. They can’t even complain about the police watching them without the police watching them. At noon on Wednesday, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty held a press conference (not a rally or an action or a march but a press conference) at the northeast corner of Dundas and Sherbourne, and there was about one [...]