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Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - 6:30pm - Thursday, July 3, 2014 - 8:30pm

Woodsworth College Rm 120 M5A 2N4, Toronto, ON, ca

119 George St

Toronto, ON

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Hello! we are researchers from Toronto who strongly feel that news is regurgitated, recycled, sensationalized and that many issues (that are given coverage) are not relevant to us, as readers or writers. We are interested to hear about local activist's who feel their concerns/issues are being side stepped by traditional media. In turn do not receive the coverage they deserve.
We welcome all those who are seriously engaged in local social activism, that have or want a global presence. These activists are people who want to bring a real voice to real issues.

I know this is a cliché this is for people who really do want to make a difference. Issues that matter In their local community but could have global implications. Also its these folks or groups and they're not receiving the coverage they deserve.

go to
www.meetup.ca go to calendar click onto Wednesday July 2nd or July 3rd meetup to rsvp

Wednesday July 2nd starting time 630pm to 830pm
Thursday July 3rd starting at 630 to 830 pm

These are open floor discussions

GETTING VOTES FROM CONDO GHETTO...

SILLY HALL SOLUTION

Opinion

Sugar Beach a sour taste for taxpayers

• There’s no reason for outrage over the cost of Waterfront Toronto’s umbrellas

  by Matt Elliott

WHERE ARE MARCHES BEING HELD NEXT WEEKEND?

I was wrong

By Michael Coren ,QMI Agency

First posted: Saturday, June 28, 2014 02:00 PM EDT 

 

I haven’t been asked to lead any marches at Pride this year and, frankly, I doubt that’s ever likely to happen!

I’m still regarded by many in the gay community as an enemy and I understand that reaction. I have said and written things in the past that, while never intentionally hateful, caused offence and pain. This isn’t necessarily relevant, in that truth cannot change according to response, but I could and would not say such things any longer. I was wrong.

In the past six months I have been parachuted into clouds of new realization and empathy regarding gay issues, largely and ironically because of the angry and hateful responses of some people to my defence of persecuted gay men and women in Africa and Russia. I saw an aspect of the anti-gay movement that shocked me. This wasn’t reasonable opposition but a tainted monomania with no understanding of humanity and an obsession with sex rather than love.

REALITY IN THE SWEAT LODGES...

Lavish First Nations subsidies promote fanciful thinking

By Lorne Gunter ,QMI Agency

First posted: Saturday, June 28, 2014 05:51 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, June 28, 2014 05:59 PM EDT 

 

Here’s a proposal for dealing with First Nations’ objections to resource development (and projects such as pipelines) on land they claim is theirs by tradition: Let’s have the federal government cut off annual subsidies to reserve governments.

That way, First Nations would have to decide whether or not to allow development based on the same criterion the rest of Canadians use to decide their financial priorities. Can we afford to? Can we afford not to?Without the billions in tax dollars annually showered on First Nations, chiefs and councillors would have to choose with their heads rather than their sentimental hearts.

IMHO another example of where our largesse DOESN'T reach those for who it was intended.... 

This is similar to my argument that Quebec should lose much of its annual equalization subsidy.
The Quebec government makes foolish fiscal choices all the time because it can. It doesn’t have to own up to its own poor judgment because it can count on Ottawa’s billions year after year.

... BUT  THERE IS SOME HOPE

 

Let’s celebrate Aboriginal business

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE...

...this "conversation would not be taking place if the USA, starting with CLINTON had ABANDONED THE UN (WHICH IS NOTHING MORE THAN A HAVEN FOR TERRORISTS/DICTATORS) formed a strong political and military alliance with ISRAEL...KICK ASS NOT KISS ASS

GOVERNING THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORK...

...start by reducing government offices and staff, eliminate Elections Canada and vote thru FACEBOOK, politician's constituency offices will be replaced by local Timmies and the lisit goes on and on!

"THE INMATES" Have Taken Over The Playing Field!

After aboriginal land title ruling, why not protect property rights of all Canadians?

Recall that the same Constitution that entrenched aboriginal rights, from which we now see derived aboriginal title, declined to protect the right to own property

 

CONGRATS...

REMEMBER WHEN MANY PUBLIC WASHROOMS WHERE THE BATTLEGROUND  FOR WORLD PRIDE?

 

• Men's rights group excluded from Toronto Pride parade
  
  

  Time to clean up Pride parade

  Published on Fri Jun 27 2014 Letters to the editor...

   

  Why are gay people allowed to hold a public parade showing what should be going on in the privacy of their bedroom? Is it really alright to prance about naked in the street wearing only a black leather thong and whip, leering suggestively with tongues licking lips at young children waving the Canadian flag?

  If we heterosexuals held a parade, I can guarantee that there would be quite a few raised eyebrows when my float passed by, but out of respect to my fellow Canadians this “aspect” of our life was restricted to the bedroom.

  Be gay, by all means, but the parade has passed all sense of respectability. It’s time to clean it up.
  
  Will SUGAR BEACH replace the St. Charles....
  
   Sugar Beach pink umbrellas deconstructed
  

  Whimsical and durable, Sugar Beach’s pink umbrellas are being called functional art, attracting the public and investors to Toronto’s waterfront. It was coupled into ARTS/CRAFTS...one you piss on and the other you piss in.

   

Some Questions..

* How much has "OTTAWA" transferred to "FIRST NATION?

* How much has "first nation" transferred to Ottawa/Provinces?

* HOW MANY "CRIMINAL ACTIONS" HAVE first nations COMMITTED WITHOUT EVEN A SLAP ON THE WRIST?

Getting beyond land claims, treaties

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BAN FIRST NATIONS...

FROM ACCESS TO "SECOND NATION" REVENUE SOURCES!

Court's B.C. land-claim ruling has staggering implications for Canadian resource projects

First Nations opposing projects such as Northern Gateway may no longer need to raise blockades or anticipate lengthy court battles in order to stop ‘intrusions’ 

• Dwight Newman: Pipeline prospects take a hit as Supreme Court grants land title to B.C. First Nation
• Supreme Court grants land title to B.C. First Nation in historic ruling that could impact Northern Gateway
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WE LOST ANOTHER NATIONAL ICON FOLKS...

Just Visited

Canada: Not worth living in unless they'll make you Prime Minister.

h/t Rob H

By Kate on June 24, 2014 10:55 AM |

The Government WE Deserve

The Government They Deserve

Oh, boo hoo - The "horror" stories of Hydro One customers over their bills have unleashed an unprecedented number of complaints to his office, Ontario ombudsman Andre Marin said Monday.
h/t Kevin B.

By Kate on June 25, 2014 3:27 PM

Toronto (METRO) WATERGATE

Your Tax Dollars At Work

Related! Waterfront Toronto spent more than $500,000 on two painted rocks and $11,565 on 36 pink umbrellas at Sugar Beach, a councillor has learned.

THANKS FOR YOUR EFFORTS TIM...

POWER BROKERS IN "SWEAT LODGES" REJOICING...

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• Strong Supreme Court ruling on native rights: Editorial

LETTING MARKETPLACE RULE...

Cheers to lower bar and restaurant beer prices

 

Court stops Toronto taxi rule changes implementation on July 1

...not simpleton politicians/bureaucrats.

MAKES HARPER LOOK LIKE WORLD STATESMAN...

...he had lots of help...

Barack Obama: cold-blooded realist

The President's comments on Iraq are remarkable, and a clear slap to the neocons who got the U.S. involved there in the first place.

• Kelly McParland: You can talk peace in the Middle East, but you can’t force them to stop killing
• Latest Iraq crisis could be all about the oil

ALL STATE INSURANCE...

...reluctant to renew/issue new policies to Ontarians?

YOU CAN'T BE A PLAYER UNLESS...

...you can impress those around you at the pride parade!

What the rainbow flag’s colours represent

Hot pink: sexuality
Red: life
Orange: healing
Yellow: sunlight
Green: nature
Turquoise: magic/art
Blue: serenity/harmony
Violet: spirit

HMMM...

 

Flames fires AGO

 

Pride show probes queer aesthetic

CONVERSATION ON THE PATIO...

Talking points: June 25 edition

 

All the news that's fit to blurb, including a look at Regent...

...drinking overpriced, imported beer complaining about the local "state of affairs."

YOU USE...YOU PAY!

 

The elephant in the room; Or, students bear the cost of the corporate university 

  

| Jun 25 2014 | Alexander Ervin, Howard Woodhouse |

What is going on at the University of Saskatchewan? The answer, in our new series on the corporatization of the university, is an appropriation of a younger generation's future wealth.

DO YOUR JOB...

Talentless buskers need not apply: Yellowknife introduces new rules to keep crappy performers off the streets

Critics are calling the rules 'harsh,' a draconian measure sure to eliminate that budding Canadian busker spirit, while others are applauding the move

...it might be appropriate to set the same standard for "performers" at your local city hall!

PROPOSED SIGNAGE SAYS IT ALL...

City asked to designate public spaces on private property

RIGHTS OF NON-INDEGINOUS...

Haldimand Council votes to dismantle Caledonia blockade

It was a long time coming, but Haldimand Council has announced that it will finally do something to reclaim the Caledonia occupation site–the Douglas Creek Estates subdivision–where so many of us volunteered to be repeatedly arrested for ‘trespassing’ and/or ‘breaching the peace’ simply for trying to walk on the public county-owned roads through the site which have been blocked by native militants since 2006...

 Posted by Blazing Catfur at 9:26 PM |  11 Comments send email  |

A BOOST FOR THREE Rs...

$102,117 of Your Tax Money for a study of Queer Bathroom Sex

York University stinks.

The statement won’t surprise anybody who has dealt with that odious institution – it always manages to bring the idiocy of the political correctness one more notch down.

>>  Posted by Blazing Catfur at 5:31 PM |  34 Comments send email  |

...and in THE SILLY HALL SAND BOX...

• John Tory says Olivia Chow isn’t a ‘fiscal conservative,’ so let’s check his evidence

  'John Tory's political games are Balderdash': Olivia Chow responds to Twister stunt

  By Don Peat ,City Hall Bureau Chief

  First posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 09:31 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 09:56 AM EDT
  
  
  

  No Clue who wins this campaign scuffle. Toronto's mayoral campaign has gone from political games to board games. A day after the John Tory campaign tried to draw attention to rival Olivia Chow's flip-flops on transit by playing Twister Chow (a take-off on the popular board game), the Chow campaign unleashed enough board game puns to sink anyone's Battleship slagging Tory for his "Sorry! political games."

ONLY $24 BILLION...

1. 

   $24 billion in remittances left Canada in 2012. Here’s what happened to it

   ...IF YOU BELIEVE THAT FIGURE I HAVE SWAMP LAND IN FLORIDA.

HOLD YOUR NOSE,,,

...it ain't going to get any better!

WHERE DO WE START...

MIHEVIC would be a good start! Then let's go after the bureaucrats who select the contractors and monitor progress and approve issuing of payments, etc.

ONTARIO LIBERALS REIGN SUPREME...

...when it comes to screwing the voters.

CONTINUE SCREWING US...

SAME TACTICS

New tools to promote aboriginal self-empowerment

Not long ago, the notion of a ‘duty to consult’ was completely absent — today, it is an obligation.

• Max Faille: Learning the path to success
• Jesse Kline: Private property rights are key to the future prosperity of First Nations

Caledonia company's court victory a rare bit of justice in native occupation

GET OUT THE McGOONTY VASELINE...

Time for Wynne to confront her promises

 

Union contract showdown will put an end to Wynne’s charade of a painless fiscal balance

NUT DOESN'T FALL FAR FROM TREE...

Rex Murphy | June 21, 2014 12:01 AM ET

In Justin Trudeau's world, Christians need not apply

Is there room in public life for truly religious Canadians? Not when it comes to the federal Liberals.

• Kelly McParland: New open and inclusive Trudeau Liberal party welcomes all beliefs that match its own
• John Ivison: Even after bumbling on abortion leads to five weeks of bad press, Trudeau looks golden

ADDING GRIST TO THE MILL...

12 Trademarks

Declared Less Offensive Than Redskins.

By Kate on June 22, 2014 12:46 PM

TODAYS VERSION OF SOCIAL NETWORKING...

Joe Fiorito

• This highrise spies on its tenants:  Fiorito
•  

  There's Never A Fault Line Around When You Need It

  "Toronto's city planning staff are hoping council will approve bylaws that make pet amenities in new condos mandatory. This could include doggy baths and activity rooms."
  
  
  By Kate on June 21, 2014 1:40 AM |

"CULTURE" THRIVES...

What you need to know for Monday in Toronto: News, weather and headlines 

comments

...but kids still go to school hungry, get harassed by "bullies," fail when it comes to the 3Rs and the list goes on and on BUT they don't have to make decisions on what washroom to use!

• Canadian families desperately need a national child-care program: Editorial

ISN'T THAT THE TRUTH...

Cellphones do everything, just nothing useful

By John Robson ,Parliamentary Bureau

 

First posted: Sunday, June 22, 2014 11:18 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, June 22, 2014 11:24 PM EDT

Can I complain about technology here? Not my usual curmudgeonly bit about how machinery can’t save our souls, social media are stupid and electric light killed the night sky. I mean why are we surrounded by so much fancy stuff doing so little?
For instance, I’d sooner leave home without my wallet than my “cellphone” with 32 gigs of memory, lightning-fast processor and not just Plants vs. Zombies and Minesweeper but e-mail, Internet searches, my research files in the cloud and a terrific mapping app. Oh, and a 41 megapixel camera.
My Windows phone might attract ridicule from tattooed nonconformists all clutching a handful of trendy brands. But if I must have technology, give me this. And some apps from all those squaresville companies still thinking the Apple Store’s cutting edge. But I digress… slightly.

TURMOIL & DEATH IN THE MIDDLE EAST BUT

But As Canadians We set our turmoil willingly

OBAMA/USA LEADERSHIP