Check out the Observer’s rundown of notable music fests hitting Toronto this summer, including Riot Fest, Veld Music Festival, CARIBANA, Electronic Island, Edgefest, OVO, Digital Dreams, NXNE, and TD Jazz Fest.
Thursday April 9, 2015 was Vimy Ridge Day in Canada, a day to commemorate the 12,000 lives lost and what many historians call one of Canada’s most successful military campaigns. This year marks the 98th anniversary…
Police conducted pre-dawn raids in a highrise apartment complex around Chalkfarm Drive this morning.
“This ain’t Canada right now,” Sgt. Charlebois said to Paul Figueiras. The incident that happened during the 2010 tumultuous G20 in Toronto was settled in a lower court today.
Former mayor and current Ward 2 councillor Rob Ford apologized at city council for his past behaviour.
McCallum was a staunch opponent of amalgamation — the merger of East York and the other formerly autonomous “Metro Toronto” municipalities into the ‘megacity’ of Toronto that the provincial government of Mike Harris forced in 1998. In fact, her home was still carrying a sign saying ‘Say No on the MegaCity’ at the time of her death.
The allegations in the film extend far beyond just the improper takeover of land. They include charges of violence, like the alleged beating death of a Guatemalan land rights activist who had been working for the Mayans and the alleged sexual assault of 11 women, followed by the burning of their homes on the contested land.
If staging a play is a challenge, director Anne Harper has helped East Side Players rise to the occasion with its production of “Speaking in Tongues.” “They like to do things a little more challenging in this theatre company,” she said in an interview.