May 2013
Globe investigation: The Ford Family's Narcolegacy
Well before the events of the past week, The Globe and Mail began to research the Ford brothers in an effort to chronicle their lives before rising to prominence in Canada’s largest city. Over the past 18 months, it has sought out and interviewed dozens of people who knew them in their formative years.
What has emerged is a portrait of a family once deeply immersed in the illegal drug scene....
Hold back a little...
alimaashfaq:
She’d done it again. She’d said something which was insensitive, sighing she pushed it aside, hoping no-one would notice. But deep down she felt bad, imagine if she’d hurt them, or perhaps they had judged her intent? She didn’t mean it, really it was a passing comment, a badly articulated judgement, but now - finally after contemplating perhaps it wasn’t that wise? Alone she...
Mayor Rob Ford dismissed as football coach at Don... →
fuckyeahtoronto:
Toronto’s Catholic school board has removed Mayor Rob Ford as head football coach at Etobicoke’s Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School, ending a decade-long affiliation that has brought Ford personal joy and political praise and criticism.
The school board’s decision does not appear to be related to the crack cocaine scandal Ford is now facing — which centres around a video in...
“It’s like watching an episode of The Simpsons, quite frankly. Although I think...”
– Councillor Adam Vaughan on Rob Ford (via tramampoline)
19 Things Worth Knowing About Toronto's... →
iaryl:
Rob Ford has gotten into approximately 1 million controversies.
A piece quite rightly filed under ‘other countries’ embarrassments’. How the fuck has this guy stayed in office since 2000?!!!
thepensivebrony:
“you shouldn’t be depressed, people have it worse than you”
finally, after years of searching, the person with the worst life ever is found. formally, they are granted permission to be sad. but only them. only they have earned it. no sads for anyone else at all ever
“The most significant differences between those who smoked marijuana and those...”
– The Atlantic’s Lindsay Abrams, reporting on the results of a recent study on the health effects of marijuana. In addition, regular pot smokers were skinnier than those who abstained, “even after adjusting for factors like age, sex, tobacco and alcohol use, and physical activity levels,” and had...
Corporate Win: Supreme Court Says Monsanto Has... →
the-lone-pamphleteer:
by Jacob Chamberlain for commondreams.org
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of biotech giant Monsanto, ordering Indiana farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman, 75, to pay Monsanto more than $84,000 for patent infringement for using second generation Monsanto seeds purchased second hand—a ruling which will have broad implications for the ownership of...
The "Jewish" Sticker, Israel, And Democratic...
letterstomycountry:
Palestinian-Israeli celebrity Mira Awad recently wrote a post on her facebook account about the patronizing experience of receiving a “Jewish” sticker on her passport at Ben-Gurion airport. Ami Kaufman helpfully translated Awad’s post into English:
So, I was checked at the airport, they asked the questions, put the stickers on, and I proceeded to the X-Ray machine....
“There is more at stake here than just a farmer and his few customers — this is...”
– Farmer Faces Over 2 Years Jail, $10K Fines for Feeding Community (via thakate)
We’re so screwed.
(via apoplecticskeptic)
Kendrick Johnson....
robot-heart-politics:
maine-stream:
We’re late again.
Here’s the brief story of Kendrick Johnson.
KJ was a 17 year old high school athlete who resides in Valdosta, Georgia. On January 10, 2013, KJ went to school like normal but sometime during the middle of the day, he went missing. No teachers, students or staff could account for where he went. Kendrick’s concerned father placed a missing...
April 2013
How abortion protests are coming to Toronto's high... →
Anti-abortion protesters from the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform are focusing on Toronto high school students, hoping to recruit a new generation of campaigners
“Hey, how many males reading this had to, in the last year, Google the phrase...”
– 6 New Kinds of Anxiety the Internet Gave Us | Cracked.com
protip: dismissing ‘rape culture’ as a ridiculously overwrought dispute equal to people who care too much about serif / sans serif or coke / pepsi? literally the definition of rape culture.
the cultural processes that minimize rape are...
nhaler:
Compare the media response in Boston to that of West, Texas: the explosion there was 100x as large, killed many more people, and literally shattered a poor community that will be forever scarred by that incident. And of all things, it could have been prevented, it could have been safer (why the fuck would you zone that next to hospitals and residences?). It was full of preventable...
A man is sexually assaulted by four women. Rosie... →
politicalcanuck:
stfusexists:
Enquiring minds are eager to know what the heck befell a young man who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a group of women in downtown Toronto.
**Trigger Warning: Rape culture, victim blaming - exercise caution before clicking the link or reading further**
After a man - who is alternately referred to as a teenager - in Toronto reported to the police that he...
March 2013
August 2012
Amber alert cancelled as police find 2 Ontario... →
