Tag: Toronto
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Fight for Social Housing
Regent Park TV (RPTV) recently conducted an enlightening interview with Gaetan Heroux from the 230 FightBack, spotlighting a critical issue at the heart of Toronto’s housing crisis. The vacant lot … Watch video »
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How KingSett Capital Hijacked Toronto’s Revitalization Plans
In March of 2021, Toronto’s City Council directed staff to find funding sources for the purchase or expropriation of 214-230 Sherbourne Street to build “deeply affordable and supportive housing” as … Keep reading »
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Bay Street has no Business at Dundas and Sherbourne
230 Fightback is fighting an epic battle against KingSett Capital who want to build a luxurious condo tower on the contested properties of 214-230 Sherbourne in Toronto. The three rooming … Watch video »
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More Cops? Not What Our Communities Need
Listening to Chief Myron Demkiw’s pitch for the 2023 budget request to the Toronto Police Services Board (TPS), it sounded like the rationale for the budgets put together by school … Keep reading »
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Ontario’s Strong Mayor Reforms: A New Shell for Urban Neoliberalism
Last month, Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell affixed her signature to Bill 39, the Better Municipal Governance Act, conferring Royal Assent upon the most substantial reconstruction of local democracy since … Keep reading »
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Ten Reasons to say No: A Primer on Sidewalk Labs’ Plan for Toronto
Review of Sidewalk Labs’ plans for Toronto’s waterfront and some of the reasons to say no to corporate control and to insist instead, on a democratic and citizen driven process. Keep reading »
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Toronto’s Buried History: The Dark Story of How Mining Built a City
On Sunday March 5th, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) hosted its 85th annual conference in downtown Toronto. With more than 20,000 attendees and 900 exhibitors, the conference … Keep reading »
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Toronto’s Plan to Push Out the Homeless
The Mayor’s Office in Toronto is today occupied by a much slicker operation than it was during the years of dysfunctional, bigoted buffoonery that unfolded under Rob Ford. Mayor John … Keep reading »
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A Women’s Labour History Walking Tour
This customized tour acknowledges the Mississauga of New Credit, the aboriginal nation whose ancestral lands the city is built on, and highlights the struggles, gains and losses of women in … Watch video »
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Poor People’s History of East Downtown Toronto
Toronto — 14 September 2013. For close to two centuries East Downtown Toronto has welcomed the unemployed, homeless and working poor. Infrastructures to support the unemployed, some of which date … Watch video »
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Toronto Transit Bans ‘Disappearing Palestine’ Ad Claiming Risk of Anti-Jewish Violence
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has rejected a group’s bus ad showing Israel’s expropriation of Palestinian land over time, claiming the ad could incite anti-Jewish discrimination and violence. The ad, … Keep reading »
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An Incomplete Victory or the Beginning of the End for Ford Nation?
Toronto Budget 2012 Does the 2012 City of Toronto budget represent an incomplete victory for the Rob Ford Administration or is it indicative of its impending demise? It really depends on … Keep reading »