Recent Posts
On Deadline: Above the Fold to -30-
Return To Blog Listing
As the world around us changes so does how we get our information, both inane and important.
I am tired of pitting blogging vs. journalism and I am trying to learn how to merge the two, post by post.
This is the news from my corner of the worl
Recent Posts Tagged With 'toronto'
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 ...
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...
The Saturday Six – Sept. 19
Some general observations from over the past week since we last visited the Saturday Six: 1. Our federal government did not fall with the NDP and Bloc supporting the Tories this week, leaving the Liberals with their guns drawn and no dancing partner ...
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...
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...
When in Ossington… on July 12
Now that is a breakfast. After a quiet and brilliantly sunny Sunday morning walk along the tightly packed residential streets in and around Ossington and Dundas, I treated myself to an awesome breakfast at the Sunset Grill on Dundas, near Dufferin. G...
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...
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...
Off to Japan!
Hello On Deadline readers, critics, fans and friends. The day is finally here, I am off to Japan today, a dream adventure and trip about to be realized, I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve when Christmas was still an exciting mystery. I am headed to T...
Toronto councillors inspect strip club - good or bad?
It has all the makings of an unsavory story, ripe for a daily newspaper, politics and sex. However, is it really that bad when you dig deeper? Three Toronto councillors were recently followed and observed entering a strip club in Toronto. The council...
Happy 175th birthday Toronto!
My hometown turns 175 today and for all of its failings, I still love it and call it home.There are glitzier cities. More cosmopolitan ones. More quaint towns. More historic and more beautiful ones but Toronto always remains tops for me. As for most ...
Is 3:40 enough for Toronto, or anywhere?
This post is not meant to be self-congratulatory nor illicit kudos but I am sure the cynics will think otherwise. As we buzz about checking things off our holiday gift list, with the chorus of economic doom and gloom and bailouts in the background, l...
Don’t let hot air kill offshore wind idea
Surprise, surprise. Some residents along the picturesque shoreline of Scarborough area do not want an offshore wind farm near them because it could ruin their view…two to four kilometres out in the middle of Lake Ontario. Let the fear monger...
Headed to The House that Ruth Built
This weekend OnDeadline will be walking through the grand old gates of The House that Ruth Built and among the ghosts and glory of the New York Yankees. It is not too often I indulge on this blog about my personal life, dreams and daily minutiae but ...
Fallout from Toronto Propane Explosion Explosive-Intro
“IT WAS A TERROR FROM THE SKY” At 3:49 a.m. on Sunday, August 10, this author was shaken awake from a heavy sleep. The photos hanging above my head banged against the wall. The windows in my bedroom shook. My bed swayed as if it were on a...
Wot R U Krayzee?! Texting will make us chimps…again
Thanks to texting we can regress far enough with written English and human evolution to begin acting like chimps and throw feces and bananas at each other. A British academic in a recent Reuters article has suggested that teachers and grammar hawks...
Get your gun out of my espresso and gelato
Italians are now safer with 3,000 Italian troops deployed to various cities in Italy to work with local law enforcement. The announcement by recently elected leader Silvio Berlusconi is more publicity stunt than proactive action in making city...
Chinese Olympics a five-ring circus already
The five rings which represent the Olympics merely represent a circus the international games became when China was chosen as host.. Even before the first starter’s gun has been fired these games have already been proven to be a sham, a mere sm...
Chop the Gardiner
Toronto needs to chop a portion of the Gardiner. Toronto needs to find the will and vision to take on such project before it falls even further behind other world class cities. After nearly two years the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation ...
Africentric school gets go-ahead
Toronto public school trustees have voted to give the go-ahead for an Africentric curriculum to begin fall 2009. The program will offered to students from JK to Grade Five and will be open to students of all ethnicity. The program will be housed in a...
I figured out why you are slow
After eight months now of being back on Toronto roads and highways daily- I have figured out one tiny portion of the madness on the 401. Drivers in the “collector” lanes must think “collector” means: you are now allowed to go slow, procee...
TTC strikes, all-black school site winner and trouble passing gas
Usually a Saturday morning is leisurely news surfing day. Time to catch up on light-hearted fare and make some futile attempts at the book ‘yet-to-be-written’ bouncing around in my mind. However, three items screamed up through the pre-co...
No one told me 50 would be this bad.
I never thought hitting 50 would be this bad. In fact, I hit 51 and the thought of going higher repulses me. Before you think I am about to slip down a slippery slope of age-angst, let me stop you right there. The 51 I am talking about is the $51 it ...
Jailed pregnant teen a frustrating case
The vision of a preganant teenaged mom in jail just does not sit well for most in a civilized society. Jail that teen because she would not answer a bench warrant for her to testify against her boyfriend, who she once alleged beat her, and it is a ni...
On the Drive In: April 8
As traffic rolled at its steady, mind bending slow pace home, a few things bounced about in my head which helped me keep awake at the wheel: - It is great everyone is up in arms about Tibet and China but there are plenty of human rights atrocities ha...
Regina crime-ridden and Toronto safe?
A Maclean’s magazine survey has found that Toronto’s crime rate ranks 26th in Canada, trailing far behind the Saskatchewan crime-ridden hot beds of Regina and Saskatoon. The rankings were reached using 2006 Canadian Centre of Justice St...
Yesteryear’s ‘loser’ Leafs loveable
With the Toronto Maple Leafs running off two impressive wins against the league-leading Detroit Red Wings and the front-running Montreal Canadiens let the illusion of a playoff contender continue. Sure the Buds have responded impressively after ...
Driving in snow like dancing at grade school
“Leave some room and keep your hands up,” this old directive from your grade school principal at school dances should be your guiding mantra as you drive on snow-filled roads. So Toronto gets at least 50 centimetres of snow over a one-we...
On The Drive In: Friday, Feb. 1, 2008
Brake. Accelerate. Brake. Accelerate. Click, click, click goes the signal clicker. A blaring horn here. A screech of tires there. Such is the symphony of my drive to work. Friday at On Deadline will be a random blogging day for random thoughts, s...
Toronto’s ‘All-Black’ school…what would Martin Luther King say?
Canada’s first-ever all-black school received the go-ahead from Toronto public school board trustees and I am still not sure where I sit on the issue. Proponents of the concept say it will help empower students and it’s about self-determin...
