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Thousands Rally At Toronto’s City Hall To Support A Coalition Government

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Thousands Rally At Toronto’s City Hall To Support A Coalition Government

Federal Liberal leader Stéphane Dion and NDP leader Jack Layton addressed thousands of cold braving supporters at Toronto City Hall’s Nathan Phillips Square yesterday, to pitch their plan of a Liberal-NDP...

created by Mike Wood | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Healthcare Incompetence And Emergency Room Waiting - Oh The Pain Of It All

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Healthcare Incompetence And Emergency Room Waiting - Oh The Pain Of It All

Op/Ed Our health care system has become nothing less than a joke. Anyone who has paid a visit to an emergency department, here in Toronto anyway, can attest to that. More of my story, opinion...

created by Mike Wood | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Demonstrators Rally For Release Of Guantanamo's Youngest Prisoner

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Demonstrators Rally For Release Of Guantanamo's Youngest Prisoner

The wind driven rain may have pounded the downtown Toronto streets on Saturday, but it wasn't enough to stop the hundred plus protesters who turned out in front of the American consulate, to demand the release of...

created by Mike Wood | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Explosion Rocks Toronto's East End - UPDATE

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Explosion Rocks Toronto's East End - UPDATE

The Sunday morning explosion that rattled the apartment building at 2 Secord Avenue in Toronto's East End caused extensive damage to the basement levels of the building, electrical room and the parking...

created by Mike Wood | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Explosion Rocks Toronto's East End

More than a hundred Firefighters, 45 trucks and 2 Hazmat units were at the scene of a five-alarm blaze at an apartment building on Secord Avenue, just NW of Dawes Road and Danforth Avenue today. The fire...

created by Mike Wood | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Graffiti At It's Finest - Toronto's Style In Progress...Revisited

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Graffiti At It's Finest - Toronto's Style In Progress...Revisited

A follow-up to "Graffiti At It's Finest - Toronto's Style In Progress" story here: http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/graffiti-its-finest-torontos-style-progress Another picture perfect sunny day in Graffiti Alley,...

created by Mike Wood | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Graffiti At Its Finest - Toronto's Style In Progress

Dozens of graffiti artists from all ages and skill, gathered yesterday in Toronto's "Graffiti Alley" for the 2008 Style In Progress, a legal event which spans from Spadina Avenue to Portland Street in the Queen...

created by Mike Wood | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Over A Thousand Marched Toronto Streets Supporting The Aboriginal National Day of Action

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Over A Thousand Marched Toronto Streets Supporting The Aboriginal National Da...

At the end of a four-day rally at Queen's Park yesterday, hundreds of Natives and non-Natives packed up their tents, dismantled their teepees and proceeded to march through the busy downtown Toronto streets...

created by Mike Wood | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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First Nations Rally In A Gathering of Mother Earth's Protectors

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First Nations Rally In A Gathering of Mother Earth's Protectors

A rally message to Dalton McGinty: First Nations have the right to say no to mining and clear-cut logging on their land. With the smell of burning sweet grass and the sound of beating drums, over a thousand First...

created by Mike Wood | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Helping The Environment One Bottle At A Time

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Helping The Environment One Bottle At A Time

With the launch of the new company Onebottle, founder Gary Joyner, along with Christina Topp - VP Marketing for World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Canada, and Mark Fernandez of Citizen’s Bank of Canada, were on hand...

created by Mike Wood | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Tibetan Freedom Torch Makes Toronto Appearance

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Tibetan Freedom Torch Makes Toronto Appearance

With rain pounding their umbrellas, close to 200 people gathered outside the Chinese Consulate in Toronto today for a march with the Tibetan Freedom Torch that wound through downtown streets and ended at Nathan...

created by Mike Wood | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Ontario Police Pay Tribute To Fallen Comrades: Remembrance - Heroes In Life Not Death

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Ontario Police Pay Tribute To Fallen Comrades: Remembrance - Heroes In Life N...

Thousands of police officers from across the province gathered at Queen's Park in Toronto today, as three names were added to the Police Memorial during the Ninth Annual Ontario Police Memorial Foundation...

created by Mike Wood | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Natives Rally Over Mining Act

Hundreds of First Nations citizens joined together in a rally at Queen's Park in Toronto today to show support for six incarcerated members of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) community in Northern...

created by Mike Wood | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Puffing Towards Legalization

Close to 1000 cannabis enthusiasts gathered at College Park in Toronto yesterday for a "Puff, Puff, Protest" calling for the legalization of marijuana.Originally started in California in the early 1970's, the...

created by Mike Wood | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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