Although she only lived in Toronto on three occasions over a 14-year period, and never for more than a year and a half at a time, Emma Goldman had an outsized cultural impact on the city. The well-known anarchist and feminist whom J. Edgar Hoover dubbed “the most dangerous woman in America” filled local lecture halls for talks on topics ranging from birth control and women’s rights to literature, communism, and anarchism. After her death in Toronto in 1940, she become a feature of the Toronto literary landscape, appearing as a character in John Miller’s A Sharp Intake of Breath (2006) and Steven Hayward’s The Secret Mitzah of Lucio Burke (2005). But she spent much her time in Toronto trying to leave it, desperate to return to the United States. Read More…
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair after today's police board meeting.
So, almost two years later, the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD) has finally released its comprehensive Systemic Review Report of what went down, policing-wise, at the 2010 G20 summit. The report attempts to comprehensively study and address all of the police overreaching that occurred during the G20 weekend. At 286 pages, this is a lot of comprehensiveness. And it is not a bad assessment of things.
It does, however, suffer from some significant flaws. Read More…
ALL CLEAR: The delay southbound at Eglinton Stn has now cleared and full service has resumed on the Yonge University Spadina line. #TTC | 7:59 PM Apr 5
Trains are currently holding southbound at Eglinton Stn due to a Passenger Assistance Alarm activated on a train. #TTC | 7:54 PM Apr 5
ALL CLEAR: The delay southbound at Spadina and Queen has now cleared and full service on the 510 Spadina Streetcar line has resumed. #TTC | 5:50 PM Apr 5
