WHERE: Yonge-Dundas Square WHEN: The afternoon of Saturday, March 10. WHAT: Several hundred members of Toronto’s Tibetan community and their supporters gathered in Parkdale and marched to Yonge-Dundas Square this weekend, to mark the anniversary of the 1959 rebellion against the occupation of Tibet by the army of the People’s Republic of China. (One poignant [...]

WHERE: Nathan Phillips Square WHEN: Wednesday, February 8 WHAT: A few hundred people gathered in front of City Hall as part of a global day of vigils to memorialize Tibetans who have died or been seriously injured as a result of self-immolation—a form of political protest against Chinese rule that has become increasingly common over [...]

In April 2007, “Premier McGuinty and Ontario police chiefs announce tough new measures to combat drunk driving and street racing.” Courtesy of the Office of the Premier. We become unreasonably annoyed when bands release self-titled (non-debut) albums. With the obvious exception of Beatles-biting Weezer-style colour-coding, this approach strikes us as lazy and uncreative—at best, a [...]

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 [...]

The latest census stats show conclusively that the poor are either getting poorer, or that they’re not. The Star toes the OCAP line, rambling about free trade and crappy jobs, while the Post weighs in for the plutocrats by observing that family incomes have actually grown across the board, and that the income stats are [...]

The Toronto Sun reports that Toronto has now gone 26 consecutive days without a murder, a streak unseen since the summer of 2006. A spokesman for the Toronto Association of Thugs expressed frustration at the dry spell, saying that their group was on track with shootings and stabbings but that their efforts were being stymied [...]

Copper theft in Toronto has reached record levels. Thieves just can’t get enough of that golden-brown stuff. You can do anything with it—sell it for four dollars per pound, or…well, actually that’s pretty much all a copper thief can do with copper, come to think. Jim Flaherty will have a nice sit-down with Dwight Duncan. [...]

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TTC workers may opt for a work-to-rule or slowdown campaign rather than an out-and-out strike—moves which could include actions such as refusing to collect fares, adhering to rules of the road, and not wearing uniforms. Union President Bob Kinnear’s comments indicate that they’d prefer the less drastic action so as not to antagonize the public. [...]

Over a thousand demonstrators marched through downtown Toronto Sunday in an emotional protest to demand freedom for Tibet and to draw attention to recent crackdowns by Chinese forces that have reportedly resulted in the deaths of over 100 Tibetans. With international attention focused on China and the upcoming Olympics in Beijing organizers called for Canadian [...]

Man stabs himself with katana. People may wonder how such a ridiculous accident came to occur, and our response is “he lived in Scarborough, what else is there to do?” Torontonians rally for a free Tibet. In response, the government of China immediately said it was very, very sorry and immediately began withdrawing troops and [...]