"It's hard to beat the system / when we're standing at a distance / so we keep waiting / waiting on the world to change." - JOHN MAYER How Do You Get To Massey Hall? I don't know, I only came close. I can at least tell you that practice has nothing to do with it. I'd practiced my speech a lot. Last night I was invited to represent my party (the Green Party of......

The Ontario Coalition For Social Justice and Make Poverty History believe there need not always be dissonance when electioneering and rock n' roll meet. This Monday's Vote Out Poverty gala at Massey Hall promises to be a "coming together of people from all walks of life and political allegiances gathering for an evening of entertainment united by a desire to reduce poverty in Ontario, Canada and the world," and will feature a multi-partisan mashup......

Photo by + Photendo + from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Last night at the Factory Theatre, the four provincial candidates of the Trinity-Spadina riding were given a chance to debate an important issue that is often cast aside by campaigning politicians—child poverty. The debate was held by Make Poverty History, Campaign 2000, and the 25 in 5 Network, and hosted by playwright and poverty activist David S. Craig. Eccentric trumpeter and activist Michael Louis......

The Trinity-Spadina Make Poverty History group is helping jump-start discussion about the issue of child poverty by holding an All-Candidates' Meeting to discuss child poverty issues. All four provincial parties are going to be represented by their respective candidates from the riding, who will be able to talk about their plans to eliminate child poverty in Toronto and beyond. The meeting is being held tomorrow (September 19) at 7:00 p.m. at the Factory Theatre......

Instead of our usual categories like "News" or "City" or "Intellectualism," Torontoist should put up a category entitled "Activism" or "Abbie Hoffmanism" or perhaps even "Doing Stuff That We Hope Is Worthwhile." If we did put up said category, this would fall into it: Tomorrow is Wear a White Band day. According to MakePovertyHistory.com, that entails... Wearing the White Band in 2005 is about sending a message that you want to end poverty. And that......