Toronto’s Mark the Litter Guy – Out on the streets

Our friend, Mark the Litter Guy, was featured in a story in the Toronto Star last week. If you are anywhere around Queen Street West in Toronto in the Spadina to Bathurst area, then you will be familiar with Mark.

photo -thestar.com
Mark works out on the street all day, sometimes for 10 or more hours picking [...]

Concert Fundraiser for Bloor Lansdowne Community Dinner

Bloor Lansdowne Community Dinner presents
A Cup of Cold Water

in concert, Saturday May 23rd at 7:00 pm
Where: 1307 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario
South side of Bloor Street, just west of Lansdowne, steps from the Lansdowne TTC subway stop, extra parking at the Value Village next door
Why?
A “Pay What You Can” fundraiser with all proceeds [...]

Toronto Tamil protest increasingly disruptive

Toronto Tamil Protest – latest demonstration
[read the full post here]
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The Tamil community has probably lost much moral support as a result of the disruptions yesterday. I first reported on their denigrating verbal assault on a defenceless homeless woman on University Avenue and the protesters attempts to dislodge her from the small patch of concrete she [...]

The distateful under-belly of the Tamil protest in Toronto

Discrimination and hate-speech mar protest
(read the rest here – Canada News)
Harassing the homeless: deplorable conduct
One incident, not reported in the news until now, revealed to me the distasteful underbelly of the Tamil protest movement in the GTA and their view of the community they have chosen to live in. I work for Project417 a [...]

Red River Flood Watch – Latest Update May 1 – Flooding south of Winnipeg like a 2,000 sq km lake

Extensive flooding south of Winnipeg:
The last update at the Canada News blog was 10 days ago and conditions for our friends in Manitoba have not improved much. This post is a mirror of the canayjun post…
The flooding south of Winnipeg, although it has dropped today by about a foot, is still extensive and looks more [...]