Imagining Toronto
Intersections of literature and place in the Toronto region.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Imagining Toronto: A Review of Pat Capponi’s Last Stop Sunnyside
A drunken, shouting woman is evicted one night from a Toronto rooming house; two weeks later her bruised body washes up at Sunnyside Beach. Meagre evidence suggests suicide; quickly the case is closed. Another [...]

By Joe Fiorito
Toronto Star
City Columnist Published On Mon Jun 29 2009
Comments (7)
Pat Capponi had an omelette and I had a glass of watermelon lemonade. We were at lunch in Parkdale. Oh, yes, you can get watermelon lemonade around here, and why would you not if you could?
Pat is a psych survivor, an expert [...]

Tao Thought: Skills and Tao te Ching Verse 23
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Zither, chess, book, painting, sword.
These symbolize classical skill.
There was once a wanderer who cared nothing for fame. Although he had many chances for position, he continued to search for teachers who could help him master five things: zither, chess, book, painting, and sword.
The zither gave him music, [...]

This is Lewis SOURCE www.mykawartha.com
“Let him go unrestrained and he does a good job” says mother Elyse Bruce
Lewis Schofield receives an award for his work with autism and Myasthenia Gravis awareness and fundraising
Date: 2009-10-23
By Joel Wiebe
Lewis Schofield tells it as it is, and tell he does.
He uses his website, videos, artwork, and music to [...]

News GTA Mexican woman deported to her death Nicholas Keung
IMMIGRATION REPORTER Published On Fri Oct 23 200
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Nuemi, left, and daughter Bebe sought refuge in Canada from a drug lord, but were sent back to Mexico when their refugee claims were rejected. (Oct. 18, 2009)
DAVID COOPER/TORONTO STAR
“A woman between the [...]

His mother would say her son was too sensitive
While she complained about being beaten by his father
Comparing herself to the lady upstairs who
Got smacked around every other day
She must be doing something wrong
His mother would say
Somehow inferring
How lucky he should be to have
Such a good mother,
She must be doing something right
His father would say his [...]

“Language is the armoury of the human mind … contain[ing] the trophies of its pasts and the weapons of its future conquests.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In advocacy circles “welfare” is a highly contested word. If anything this word should be considered politically incorrect. It is offensive to so-called welfare workers who act more as prisoner guards [...]

The Courage to Hope is a one-of-a-kind graduation ceremony that took place for the second year in a row at Toronto’s City Hall on June 15th, 2009. These graduates have completed a unique advocacy training program designed specifically for people who have otherwise been silenced. The graduates of this program have been transformed into “Agents [...]

Reflections on Buddhism and Deep Ecology
by David Orton
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“Buddhism as practiced in most Asian countries today serves mainly to
legitimize dictatorial regimes and multinational corporations.”
Sulak Sivaraksa, p. 121
Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism, edited by Stephanie
Kaza and Kenneth Kraft, Shambala, Boston & London, 2000, paperback,
ISBN 1-57062-475-5
Introduction
I have just finished reading the above anthology of essays, Dharma Rain: [...]

On September 11th, 2009 there was an introduction to a new global poverty project that began in Australia. The presentation took place at the Danforth Music Hall. There are two things that set this project apart from the rest. The first is what the “1.4 Billion” represents. The second is that The Global Poverty Project [...]