It Can’t Happen Here: Dateline Toronto City Hall

Brian Fawcett reports on why Toronto elected Rob Ford, and what it means.

Fear of Ford strikes Toronto, sort of

Toronto is electing a new mayor on October 25th, and a lot of people in the city are hysterical over the possibility that Rob Ford, a controversial councillor from North Etobicoke, one of the city’s more suburban wards, is going to be the next mayor. The people who like the tow-headed, bull-necked Ford are mostly [...]

Germans and Indians

Norbert Ruebsaat files a remarkable report on what it’s like to be German amongst the aboriginal and other native peoples on Canada’s West Coast.

The Silly Season comes to Toronto in January

Wally Hourback thinks Toronto has lost its mind, on several fronts

The Northern Name Game

Max Fawcett discovers that up north, names aren’t ever what they seem to be.

Letter from Berlin: The Twilight of the Gods

Berlin goes to the polls to vote on religion versus ethics.

The Life and Death of a Great Toronto Neighbourhood

Max Fawcett explores the worrisome decline of the Annex.

David Miller’s Shame

Brian Fawcett tries to figure out what's getting so egregiously stinky in David Miller's supposedly sane, sensitive and social democratic Toronto

Finding Julia: A March Report on the Neighbourhood

Brian Fawcett has wandered down the street again, and offers a darkened sense of how the Bloor Street area where Dooney Cafe sits is evolving. And at Costco, he solves a local mystery.

Hark, the Herald Angels Sing: Welcome to Post-Gay

You may have already forgotten Canada’s let’s-hope-it’s-final debate about same-sex marriage and other affections. It happened way back when, a couple of weeks ago, or in the media’s amnesiac timeline, in a previous lifetime. Here’s what nobody bothered to say about it. 

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