Toronto It was amazing to be with more than eighty ACORN leaders, members, organizers, friends, supporters, and people who wanted to just know more about the organization and its history at the Steelworkers union hall in Toronto at the special screening of “The Organizer” documentary. The hunger and passion for change and willingness to do …
Ontario, Canada is Populist Battleground in Coming Elections
Toronto The late Rob Ford gave steady and staid Toronto an international profile as mayor that wasn’t at the top of the local tourist board’s wish list. He had ridden into office on a wave of populist discontent from the outer, working and middle-income districts of the city of Toronto, and he rode out on …
Let the Children Lead Us on Guns
Toronto According the Wall Street Journal, more than one-million students walked out of their classes to commemorate the lives of seventeen, mostly fellow students, killed by gunfire in Florida only weeks ago. The national map of where students undertook the seventeen-minute strike showed clearly that these actions were distributed throughout the country in hundreds and …