Patti and I Kensington Marketed it up today. Neither of us had ever explored that part of Toronto, so it was a mutual first. It's a pretty quaint area of town. Very packed with people, cars, some hippies, a few trendier folks and one infoshop with reportedly sketchy labour practices. Overall cool place that I'll check out when I have a need for ( Read more... )

So I'm living in Toronto now. Patti and I have pretty much been staying in our apartment, unpacking our stuff and making our place feel like home. Today was our first trip out of our neighbourhood (which I have named the People's Democratic Republic of North Toronto,our apartment is it's headquarters). We wandered off to a movie theatre on ( Read more... )

You know what I hate? I hate it when I google the lyrics to a particular song, only to click on a link that tells me that they don't have the lyrics, but that I can submit them if I like. How useless is that?

ps: The Aggrolites' song By Her Side is awesome. Their song Brother Jacob basically sounds like a song Johnny Cash should have written if ( Read more... )

This is happening today! Right now! AAAHHH!


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Media rears racist head during protests
By Ashifa Kassam

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While mainstream media often finds it suffice to define protests by their cause, these ones have been defined by ethnicity. These protesters have not been labelled Canadians, but Tamil-Canadians, Tamils and sometimes even just as immigrants.

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Here are the lessons I've learned ( Read more... )

So I just got back from the Great Glebe Garage Sale, the one day of the year when yuppies, old hippies and university students all get together to sell their shit on their front lawns. There was a lot of good stuff, including a huge vinyl sale, but seeing that I'll be moving soon, I had to eep my spending in check. In the end, I only walked away ( Read more... )

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I wanted to write something about the Tamil protests that happened in Ottawa and that are still happening in Toronto, but sabotabby managed to say exactly what I wanted to say much better than I ever could have.

Freedom of expression, freedom of protest--as immaterial and abstract as these supposed rights are, we in the West profess a belief in them. These ( Read more... )

I don't care what anybody says, the new Star Trek movie is awesome. I didn't have my hopes up for this one and was worried it would be too 'sexy', which would have just killed it for me. Luckily, it wasn't and I left with my Star Trek craving quenched.

Also, did the guy who played McCoy do a good job or what?