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Business As Usual In Bali, Pickton Convicted, Canadians Feeling Oppressed
After refusing to allow environmentalists into the official Canadian delegation at the Bali Climate Change Conference, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has raised some hackles by bringing businesspeople,...
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City Fees Might Increase, New Hampshire Primaries Tonight, And No Golden...
City service fees to increase? Toronto’s recreation department wants to increase user fees by 21 percent this year and a total of 81 percent over seven years. Because you know who doesn’t pay their...
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Historicist: Icy Discrimination
Every Saturday at noon, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mayor Robert H....
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“Israeli Apartheid” Doesn’t Violate City’s Anti-Discrimination Policy
Photo of Pride 2008 by Sweet One from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. City staff have determined that the phrase ‘Israeli Apartheid’ in and of itself does not violate the City’s Anti-discrimination policy...
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Historicist: “She certainly doesn’t play like a girl”
The star defenceman of a boys hockey team is revealed to be a nine-year-old girl. In the winter of 1956, nine-year-old Abby Hoffman strapped on skates to play organized hockey for the first time....
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Historicist: Banned in Buffalo
A Toronto teen was booted off a popular dance show in 1959 for dancing with a white girl. To a few irate viewers of WGR’s Dance Party, two Toronto teenagers had travelled down the QEW to commit an...
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Historicist: The KKK Took My Baby Away
The Ku Klux Klan raided an Oakville home in 1930 to prevent an interracial marriage. They saw themselves as valiant white knights of an “invisible empire,” avenging wrongs against good, solid,...
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Historicist: Strike Against Hitlerism
Thousands of Torontonians join a protest against fascism in July 1933. On the afternoon of Tuesday, July 11, 1933, people began gathering in the park at Wellington and Bathurst Streets. Most of the men...
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