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Montreal Polytechnique massacre remembrance
Twenty years is a long time but it is not long enough for us to forget, or justify doing so. Twenty years ago today 14 women were shot to death by Marc Lepine at Montreal’s L’ecole Polytechnique in 1989.The crazed gunman that horrific fat...
Empire of the Word, explore your love for reading
Do you remember the first book you ever read and enjoyed? The first time the written words on the page jumped and ignited your imagination? Watch Empire of the Word on TVO and enjoy the journey which explores the act of reading. Most people who are &...
Breast Screening: use common sense, onus is on you
A BRIEF RUN THROUGH WITH ASHLEIGH As most women know medicine goes far beyond the ears nose and throat generally from the age of 18 and on. The process involves signing up for a series of yearly appointments, and waiting through what may seem like th...
Kidnapped journalist now free
Amanda Lindhout is now free after 15 months of being held captive and the profound relief and happiness of her family and friends must be off the scale. This space here at On Deadline has long thought about how its final post about Lindhout’s o...
Amanda Lindhout freed! Canadian journalist free!
What great news, after 15 months Amanda Lindhout is freed! Regular readers of On Deadline know we have been following her ordeal closely and as delicately as possible. We have posted our thoughts and support for efforts for her release and during tha...
The evolution of religion, what is faith to you?
Why can’t more religious discussions be like this? TVO’s The Agenda, with Steve Paikin, recently held a dynamite discussion about the evolution of religion. It pulled together five very engaging experts of various faiths. The discussion that unfo...
Cat City doc, a message for all of us
Look deep enough into Toronto’s alleyways or its quiet industrial and public areas and you will see them, feral cats fending for themselves and forgotten by so many. “On any given night in Toronto it is estimated that over 100,000 lost, a...
Remembrance Day, Canada, 2009
REMEMBER THEM ALL TODAY Their faces flash across the screens, another young boy not coming home, another family man never again to hug his kids, another young woman never to return and be daddy’s little girl again. When does this all end and how do...
Pan Am Games coming Toronto will work
Naysayers be damned, Toronto is finally getting an international sporting event, the 2015 Pan Am Games. Yes, taxpayers will be paying for the infrastructure and any cost overruns that will occur. Yes, most games, whatever their ilk, tend to never be ...
Are you “royally” interested in the Royal visit?
How royally interested are you in “The Royals”? With Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, the Duchess of Cornwall, arriving in Canada this week the discussion has begun again about our ties to the monarchy and the Queen. Confusion tends to r...
Terry Fox St. John’s memorial deserves better
When CBC held its “The Greatest Canadian” competition a few years back my vote was for Terry Fox, to millions of people around the world his run left us with a most precious gift: hope. During my recent stay in St. John’s a friend...
Miller Time no more, good bye Mr. Mayor
Time to close the city hall cooler, it is Miller Time no more. Toronto’s mayor has decided to go out on his own shield his way, instead of courtesy of an election loss, how gallant, how cowardly, how smart. David Miller has announced that he wi...
T.O. stimulus cash better than nothing
Toronto finally gets its long awaited federal stimulus funds and people still find time to cry. Ottawa’s recent $200 million in stimulus funds was met with some hoopla and Toronto’s mayor David Miller trying to put on a brave face. Mayor ...
The “little dumber boys” beat election war drums
The steady drumming of the federal election war drums in Canada is picking up speed, possibly hurtling the voters who still care into a fourth election in five years. Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and his team have unveiled “campaign style&#...
Toronto car and bike wars, have an answer?
The recent death of Toronto bike courier Darcy Allan Sheppard, in a road rage incident with former provincial attorney general Michael Bryant, is the ultimate ugly outcome so many of us, both in cars and on bikes, have likely found ourselves just sec...
Phoenix will not rise…so sad
For those of you in the Toronto and Greater Toronto Area you likely saw or heard the recent story about Phoenix, a five-year-old male chow that was found in horrible condition thanks to being neglected. The dog was given the name Phoenix by shelter w...
One year passes and Lindhout still not home
The Canadian Association of Journalists is again urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to help bring kidnapped Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout home. It has been one year since Ms. Lindhout was abducted in Somalia and there appears to be little pro...
Shinsedai Cinema Festival- a great start
A great start to a great idea. The Shinsedai Cinema Festival kicked off last night with screenings of Naked of Defenses and Hottentot Apron: A Sketch and what a wonderful introduction to new generation Japanese films those movies were. Unfortunatel...
One clicks helps Fill The Cup
Your clicks counted before and they can count again. Fill The Cup is the latest cause On Deadline has chosen to fundraise for after its successful assistance with raising online crisis support for To Write Love On Her Arms. This blog’s readers ...
Hiroshima… Never Again
Never again. The two words are almost always guaranteed to come up in any conversation, debate or literature about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the infamous date of August 6 1945. The deadly devastation that was unleashed on those two cities courtesy o...
I’ll take Canadian health care anyday
Canadian health care is just fine, thank you very much, and the sooner hard core American republicans stop spitting our fine system, the better. This post is not a story, or reporting, it is a rant, a column, so let us begin: Here’s the newsfla...
Was it worth it?
The staring contest is over and a city held hostage in the garbage is free. So what exactly did the 24,000 members or CUPE Local 416 and 79 accomplish? What kind of ground did the city gain in the tug-of-war? Once the ratification vote is done we wil...
CUPE stinks as much as the garbage
Kyle Enriquez, 5, lifts a bag of garbage during a community clean-up organized by the York Eglinton BIA. Though the event was organized before the CUPE strike, local businesses and residents welcomed it. Tim Hortons helped make the event possible. Ph...
Toronto now stinks…
The CUPE strike rolls on here in Toronto and all I can think of is how I am disappointed in my hometown, my stomping grounds, my Toronto. Our city is starting to stink and the sights at the garbage dumping areas makes my heart sink. Hard to believe w...
Click to help lift the darkness
It is time to make this blog earn its keep. Yes, I know, you are too busy to help or listen to or read a pitch about another worthy cause. Well, if you are one of our constant readers you know we tend to not bludgeon you too much on what you “s...
Mr. Harper, that is 100 per cent BULL!
A screen capture of the Harper government’s chest-thumbing website that claims 80 per cent of their economic action plan to tackle the recession has been implemented. 80 per cent you say? That is 100 per cent bull we say. Pardon any typos or fr...
Kidnapped Canadian reporter speaks to AFP
Agence France – Presse has made contact with kidnapped Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout. Dedicated readers of On Deadline know we have written about Amanda’s plight since we learned about it and have tried to follow it as ta...
Is the animal in all of us?
Is the animal in all of us? The above question is one I have asked myself quietly over the years while covering heart-wrenching stories of innocence lost and horror delivered by the worst of us. Many a reporter has these tales, it is an eerie and at ...
Protesting Tamils, Filipino caregivers and the working Joe
All media is a frenzy. Gone is the swine flu – remember that? The recession- what do you mean?- I just bought a low fat latte from Starbucks. Now we have protesting Tamils, angry Filipino caregivers and the general working Joe getting ticked of...
Putting his money where his mouth is
In today’s installment of On Deadline Snapshots we catch up with with realtor Brian McRobert, the brainchild of Commission for the Cure, a unique cancer fundraising initiative. Lawyers, reporters and realtors. These three professions tend to s...
