“On this day of giving thanks, those of us in the cultural world owe our gratitude to Stephen Harper. It was his self-destructive stupidity on the matter of funding cuts that opened the way for arts folks to turn this federal election campaign into a feel-good movie in which the oppressed rise up and the [...]
ELECTION NIGHT: Tuesday, October 14th, 8 pm on…
Gladstone Hotel
Melody Bar
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario
Join the Department of Culture at the Gladstone Hotel’s Melody Bar (1214 Queen St. W.) on Tuesday, October 14th at 8 pm to watch the election results come in.
We invite you to join us in raising a glass to our country; to all that the [...]
The Real News interviews DoC founding member Izida Zorde
The same ad, also ran in Whitby This Week with the appropriate substitutions.
Arts Gala
By Hooded Fang
Harper’s Ordinary Artists
by Rob Baker, Alastair Forbes, and Alex Hatz
A short time ago, on the Conservative campaign trail
by Tara Beagan
She maintains that the top priority is for voters to turf Stephen Harper as Prime Minister and replace him with Liberal leader Stéphane Dion. Yet she says in the vast majority of ridings, that still means people should vote Green. However, in close ridings, particularly in southern Ontario, she says Green voters worried about Mr. [...]
If you need a short, intelligent video to explain strategic voting to your friends, family and co-workers, here you go:
As of midnight this evening, Canada’s two most popular newspapers were running two contradictory headlines on their online Home Pages:
The Toronto Star, after endorsing Dion today:
Tory majority possible: poll
The Globe and Mail, after endorsing Harper yesterday:
Decline in support spells minority government for Tories: poll
These reports refer to two different polls in which the results vary [...]
Stephen reaches out to the First Nations
Written and performed by Yvette Nolan
Stephen plays dirty with his minority
Written by Michael Healey, performed by Pamela Sinha
Stephen meets the Historical Record
Written by Richard Sanger, performed by Clinton Walker
Stephen and the Hockey Mom
Written and performed by Diane Flacks
Not enough Americans talked to their families and look at the turkey they ended up with.
Yikes. Politics and family will collide this election like never before. The latest report from The Globe and Mail suggests 25% of voters remain undecided and most will make up their minds over the long weekend. You can see where [...]
