On Sunday June 12, hundreds of members from Toronto's LGBTQ community and their supporters gathered in Barbara Hall Park in a candlelight vigil for the victims and survivors of the Orlando night massacre.
Early Sunday morning 49 people were killed and 53 people were injured in what is being called the worst mass shooting in U.S. history when a shooter opened fire in Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
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On Saturday March 5, thousands of people took to the streets of Toronto for the International Women's Day 2016 Rally, Fair and March.
The march was part of a global day on March 8 celebrating the achievements of women and this year's Toronto event named "All Women Rise Up" focused on three principles: No to violence and hate: Rise to reconciliation now; No to racism and Islamophobia: Black Lives Matter; and no to poverty: Justice on the job.
rabble.ca reporter H. G. Watson interviews Chris Hedges on the protests against Bill C-51 taking place in 50 cities across Canada. Hedges was on his way to the Toronto protest, but his flight was diverted to Windsor.
Recreational paddlers, sailors, and power boaters invite mayoral candidate Olivia Chow and Ward 20 City Council candidates, Anshul Kapoor, founder of NOJets TO, and Joe Cressy, to speak at their boater's protest against the proposed introduction of jets and expansion of Toronto Island Airport.
An architect, a doctor, a teacher & mother and a sailor tour Toronto Harbour and discuss the negative impacts the expansion of BIlly Bishop airport would have on the environment.
As a child, I listened to the great songs of the civil rights movement -- "We shall Overcome" and "Sinnerman" -- and as I grew older, and studied Martin Luther King's speech, "I had a Dream," and rallies against the Vietnam War, I had no idea that my principles would be put to the same test of integrity in my lifetime. On September 12, I was reeling from the news that Prime Minister Harper had ratified FIPA, and that we were on the verge of losing legal recourse to protect our own environment, trumped by China's right to invoke secretive tribunals to determine investor-state relations above our own Constitution.
"Hope is coming."
- Tim Hudak, televised leaders' debate on June 3
As they tour Lake Ontario's inner harbour, an urban planner, a doctor, a sailor and a mother and her daughter talk about how jet expansion would negatively impact Toronto's island park system, harbour and waterfront.
6:06 minutes
Directed by Teresa Ascencao and Elizabeth Littlejohn
Edited by Cathy Gulkin
To save Toronto's waterfront, please sign the NOJets TO petition at http://www.nojetsto.ca/take-action/
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers talk about why door-to-door delivery is an essential service, the future loss of 8,000 jobs, and the fight for pensions.
A short doc by Elizabeth Littlejohn.
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