Driverless cars create new challenges for old cities like Toronto
The future is barrelling down on us all – and by all accounts, it looks as though when it gets here it'll be driven by a robot.
View ArticleOPINION: Your Ward News is hateful, but courts will decide if it's criminal
It seems that even hate crime charges cannot deter Toronto-based Your Ward News from publishing and distributing its extremist tabloid. The latest edition – dated Winter 2018 and also available online...
View ArticleHelping readers distinguish 'news' from 'opinion'
We live in an age where the term ‘fake news’ is used like a shield to deflect criticism from those under public scrutiny.
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Warming up to the holidays
For many, the holiday season starts much too soon. At least the U.S. has the benefit of a late Thanksgiving date which happily delays the start of their festive season. There’s just something not...
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EDITORIAL: Toronto council to face conundrum that is the 2018 budget
In 2018, we can expect a small property tax increase — around 2 per cent seems likely, plus the additional half a per cent for transit infrastructure. That has been Mayor John Tory's promise from his...
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Transit in Toronto would get boost under Patrick Brown
Patrick Brown’s election platform has put the ‘Progressive’ back in Conservative, and Toronto and Ontario stands to benefit from what now should be a hotly contested provincial election next year....
View ArticleToronto residents light up the holidays with charity
Today, being Dec. 21, marks the shortest day of the year - the winter solstice. But walk anywhere throughout our city this long night and you will not find a shortage of light to be had. The world is...
View ArticleTwo elections will keep Toronto voters busy in new year
When 2018 dawns, we will be faced with choices on not one but two levels of government. There will be a provincial election first, then just a few months later, the municipal election. Municipal and...
View ArticleCalling on the army Toronto's only choice to house the homeless
Nineteen years ago, then-mayor Mel Lastman brought down nearly as much derision on Toronto as Mother Nature dumped snow. It was a lot of snow that came down in the early days of January 1999: enough...
View ArticleDriverless cars create new challenges for old cities like Toronto
The future is barrelling down on us all – and by all accounts, it looks as though when it gets here it'll be driven by a robot.
View ArticleOPINION: Your Ward News is hateful, but courts will decide if it's criminal
It seems that even hate crime charges cannot deter Toronto-based Your Ward News from publishing and distributing its extremist tabloid. The latest edition – dated Winter 2018 and also available online...
View ArticleHelping readers distinguish 'news' from 'opinion'
We live in an age where the term ‘fake news’ is used like a shield to deflect criticism from those under public scrutiny.
View ArticleProvincial election could get uncomfortable in Toronto with Brown gone
We in Toronto started the new year with a certain comfort. For the first time in recent memory, voters in the 416 area code were facing an unlikely feast — at least in the provincial election. The...
View ArticleEconomic reconciliation must be more than just another promise.
Reconciliation is on the minds of the nation. We feel the sting of collective guilt, finally beginning to glean the truth of Canada’s systemic racism and shameful treatment of First Nations people. As...
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Kingsway College School students laud Terry Fox as brave and strong
The Etobicoke Guardian’s Tamara Shephard recently visited Kingsway College School to lead the Etobicoke private school’s 41 Grade 5 students in an editorial-writing tutorial. The students were then...
View ArticleTrust and transparency matter in news media
The so-called digital age has brought us access to an abundance of news. But with all that information at our fingertips comes an equally unprecedented amount of misinformation, creating a system where...
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Governments must do better on cannabis sales
The continuing popularity of alternative means of purchasing marijuana and its byproducts shows the teething problems that were expected to follow legalization last October are far from over more than...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Governments must stand up to Big Tech
EDITORIAL: Provincial and federal governments must find the courage to regulate Facebook, Google
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Horoscopes for Wednesday, October 2, 2019
A baby born today has a Sun in Libra and a Moon in Scorpio until 7:44 a.m., when the Moon enters Sagittarius.
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Ford government can’t dodge responsibility for long-term care crisis
When nurses, personnel support workers, seniors’ advocates and families say long-term-care homes are a disaster in the making — as they have been for years — politicians are content to move slowly.
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