Darfur on Hold
Now Rwanda looms in the background. The mass murder of civilians that began three and a half years ago in Darfur, an area in western …
Posts in category Fall 2006
City News Goes to the Blogs
The sun is still nestled well beneath the horizon in the early hours of June 29. Across Toronto, delivery trucks slip through the streets, stopping …
It’s a Shame About Pay
In spite of the rain, the Word on the Street festival site in Toronto buzzes with local readers and writers looking for a good deal …
The Little Paper That Shrank
On the night of Tuesday, September 19, Toronto Sun city hall reporter Rob Granatstein heard something that upset him. Please say it isn’t so, wrote …
Pssst … Try the Back Door to Cyberspace
In the belly of the red sandstone Munk Centre at the University of Toronto, down two flights of stairs and hallways that twist and turn, …
The Game of the Name
It’s mid-morning. Tu Thanh Ha is at work writing a story about a Canadian astronaut’s spacewalk. He’s been up since 4 a.m. covering the event …
Watching the Media Detectives
MONTREAL — The woman to my left probably wants me removed from the premises. Ten people have already tried to steal my seat and I’m …
For Those About to be Babes of the Month
Number 29 bends so low the photographer’s camera lens is centred with the crack of cleavage between her breasts – and he’s crouching on the …
Reality is the New Black
Julie Montpetit is preparing for her close-up. The camera pans from her black platform pumps to the nut-coloured leather belt cinched high on her waist. …
Right or Wong?
On Wednesday, September 13, the calm of a rainy early afternoon at Montreal’s Dawson College was broken by gunfire. Kimveer Gill entered the campus carrying …
