Our TRUE STORIES conversation series at WEP Central kicks off this Thursday at 7pm with Olivia Rania Bowden in conversation with Federal Justice Minister Arif Virani Limited tickets remain westendphoenix.com/shop/justice-m…

Sadly, we were informed this morning that Arif Virani will no longer be able to attend our planned conversation w him and Olivia Rania Bowden and as such, we have decided to postpone our kickoff event on Thurs June 6 at 7 PM

We will rebook a panel with Olivia and featured guests in the near future, as we feel a conversation on the Online Harm Act is important and a necessary part of this conversation, and will let you know when that is happening.

Days after the Afzaal family was killed, I wrote this piece for the Star. I was in tears as I wrote it. And 3 yrs later, one can’t help but wonder, has anything really changed? thestar.com/opinion/are-yo…

It’s a pity Canadian media is pushing out people like Anam who brings valuable perspectives to every table she sits at. “We want you to be seen at the table but not heard” is not progressiveness or even inclusion that is so touted by supposed progressives.

I spoke to movie critics and programmers about the unique importance of the Revue Cinema, which the landlord wants to turn into a for-profit business. “It would be a devastating blow to the film community in Toronto,” Corey Atad told me. thestar.com/entertainment/…

NEW: One of Frank Stronach’s accusers says she reported his alleged crimes against her to Toronto police nearly a decade ago, telling them the billionaire businessman sexually assaulted her when she was 20. She says she never heard back Toronto Star thestar.com/news/gta/he-wa…

Girl, so confusing: Charli xcx and the ‘brat-ification’ of Kamala Harris thestar.com/entertainment/…

Maplehurst jail guards are being accused of carrying out a brutal act of collective punishment against dozens of inmates in an incident that is now impacting court cases across the province. “They were basically just torturing us as payback" thestar.com/news/investiga…

CBC paid $18.4 million in bonuses after hundreds of jobs at the public broadcaster were eliminated. More than $3.3 million of that was paid to 45 executives, who got an average bonus of over $73,000, more than the median family income after taxes in 2022. thestar.com/news/canada/cb…

Just absolutely gross

NEW: The Liberal government is refusing to say if it approved a bonus for CBC CEO Catherine Tait. The department that supports cabinet and the prime minister is citing privacy laws — even though some of that information was made public in past years. ottawa.citynews.ca/2024/08/14/lib…

The underlying issue that needs more discussion is whether life or death policy decisions should be based on political ideology or whether we agree that health services should be evidence based, and trying to deliver the best outcomes for the population in the fairest way.

New: Ontario is shutting down TEN safe drug consumption sites, as one person dies of a drug overdose every three hours. This will sentence more drug users to death, and likely increase the spread of HIV. My story for Toronto Star: thestar.com/opinion/contri…

it’s been coming for a while, but data been showing that trust in mainstream media is flailing while trust in influencers (or individual journalists who curate an audience outside their legacy brands) are growing

Global refused to air two interviews critical of Israel’s war on Gaza and occupation of Palestine on its national broadcast, sources say. Both were by anchor Farah Nasser, who later parted ways with the network. The Maple readthemaple.com/global-news-re…

How can a child long in the care of Ontario child-protection agencies end up dead in a dumpster and no one came looking for her? Wendy Gillis & I investigated what happened to 4-year-old Neveah and how we failed her: thestar.com/news/gta/almos…

“Employers can create fake job openings…to get LMIAs approved, which are then sold to foreign workers, often with the worker unaware that selling LMIAs is an illegal practice. Many migrant workers come only to find their job does not exist” Latest for Toronto Star 👇

“The # of open work permits issued to vulnerable migrant workers facing abuse by Canadian employers have surged in the last five years, a development that points to rampant abuse in the federal temporary foreign worker program” Latest for Toronto Star 👇🏽 thestar.com/business/exper…

In the first piece from our new education series, A Thousand Cuts, Wency Leung lays out the consequences of decades of underinvestment in public education in eye-opening detail. thelocal.to/education-toro…