By Mick Sweetman Managing Editor Many people don’t bother to vote, let alone lobby their elected representatives, sit in public galleries, or attend protests. It’s not that people are apathetic or dumb. On the contrary, many people know that their votes and their voices really don’t count for much in our system. Once you cast…
By Mick Sweetman Managing editor Amanda Todd is now a household name, her story has been written about in media outlets large and small across the country, she has been invoked in the House of Commons around a proposed anti-bullying bill, and the emotional video she posted on youtube before she ended her life has…
By Mick Sweetman Managing editor Just when I think this city’s government is finally turning a corner and making some halfway reasonable decisions I find they’re not looking, drifting toward the curb and crushing the nearest cyclist with a five-ton truck. Oh well, what’s some blood on the road if it means that Rosedale’s drivers…
By Mick Sweetman Managing Editor Bill 115, the Orwellian-named Putting Students First Act, was passed in the Ontairo legislature last week stripping tens of thousands of teachers and education workers of their right to collective bargaining. You could hear the clucking of Premier Dalton McGuinty and Education Minister Loreal Broten as they patted themselves on…
By Mick Sweetman Managing editor The past several weeks have seen sexual assault attract an unusual amount of media attention for an issue that normally is very under-reported. This attention has happened not because there has been an increase in the priorities of the media about sexual assault in general, but because there has been…
By Mick Sweetman Managing editor Students are starting school this year in colleges across Ontario as the union representing faculty at the 24 colleges is drawing towards the deadline for a negotiated settlement with Colleges Ontario. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union is the union representing more than 10,000 faculty members at colleges across Ontario….
