Torontoist » OHIP http://torontoist.com Torontoist is about Toronto and everything that happens in it Sun, 27 May 2012 03:02:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tibet Protesters Protest, Transgendered Get Health Coverage, And Russia Gets Back At Us For ’72

Tibet supporters demonstrated outside the Chinese consulate in Toronto yesterday, marching with the Tibetan Freedom Torch, which is supposed to be the symbolic opposite to the Olympic torch. Which doesn’t make sense, because how can a torch be the opposite of another torch? Shouldn’t it have been a large bowl of water instead? The Victoria [...]

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Photo of Owen Pallett by Heidi Slimane from his MySpace. News of Owen Pallett’s OHIP being revoked has been quickly met with a reaction: an open letter sent today to George Smitherman, the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, from France Gélinas and Rosario Marchese, NDP MPPs who insist that Pallett is “an award winning [...]

]]> http://torontoist.com/2008/02/none_of_you_wil/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=none_of_you_wil Banging Your Head Against the Wall of Government Bureaucracy

Vintage postcard of the Toronto General Hospital (1913) from Mars Discovery District. Encounters with government bureaucracy can be stressful ordeals at the best of times; at the worst, when things don’t go your way, they can be incredibly frustrating. Apparently, this is true even if you’re a Polaris Music Prize–winning musician. Former Torontoist contributor Carly [...]

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