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These videos, examining the housing crisis in Toronto through a human-rights lens, were made by the West End Phoenix with the support of the Maytree Foundation. In them, we meet locals advocating for solutions in an affordability climate that’s pushing residents to the brink.
Read MoreThere are more than 700,000 people under the age of 25 living in Toronto, many of them struggling to cope with our city’s skyrocketing housing costs, surging inflation and uneven access to services and resources. We canvassed front line workers at Toronto-based youth organizations for their toughest questions — and put them to 59 city council hopefuls from eight West End wards.
Read MoreWith The Guardian’s recent revelations about the use of Pegasus spyware by governments to repress their citizens, snooping is much on our minds. Can the freedom to speak survive in an age when all speech is suspect?
Read MoreYou’ve heard about it. You’ve seen other people doing it. Most likely you’ve experienced it yourself. In the years of COVID, we’re told, people walked more, appreciated nature more, smelled the roses, got pollen allergies and took up birdwatching for the first time. Here, to help you nurture, top-dress and root-feed your newfound passion for the Living World, are a few booky nuggets.
Read MoreIn view of the storming of the U.S. Capitol, I’ve got cults on the brain. Some people are now claiming to have had the best of intentions: It was in the interests of democracy that a violent mob was threatening to murder the elected representatives of that democracy, they say. By what hypnotic magic is a group hoping to save (fill in the blank) transformed into a cynical cult, run for the enrichment of a con-artist cult leader?
Read MoreFinal segment in the West End Phoenix “Between Neighbours” series by Alex Gladwell features conversations from last summer/fall with Aliénor Rougeot, Amber Morley, Chiara Padovani, Rayne Fisher-Quann, and Riley Peterson.
Read MoreThe brilliant artist and West End Phoenix contributor Chief Lady Bird talks about coming home in the penultimate episode of “Between Neighbours”, a 10-part WEP series by Alex Gladwell.
Read MoreThe great Ryan McMahon talks about the power of community in the newest segment of Alex Gladwell’s “Between Neighbours” series for the West End Phoenix.
Read More“Between Neighbours”, a 10-part West End Phoenix series by Alex Gladwell, continues with beloved WEP contributor Melissa Vincent talking about Jane Jacobs at Christie & Davenport.
Read More“Between Neighbours”, a new West End Phoenix series by Alex Gladwell, continues with Moscow Apartment at the Paradise Theatre.
Read More“Between Neighbours”, a new West End Phoenix series by Alex Gladwell, continues with WEP publisher Dave Bidini.
Read More“Between Neighbours”, a new WEP series by Alex Gladwell, continues with Public Policy Professional Brittany Andrew-Amofah and Racial Justice Lawyer Anthony N. Morgan at Albert's.
Read More“Between Neighbours”, a new WEP series by Alex Gladwell, continues with illustrator and musician Paterson Hodgson in Parkdale.
Read More“Between Neighbours”, a new WEP series by Alex Gladwell, continues with artist, writer and curator Chiedza Pasipanodya in Trinity Bellwoods.
Read MoreIntroducing “Between Neighbours” a new West End Phoenix series of 10 films by Alex Gladwell featuring a Toronto of the not-so-distant past filmed before all of this. We start things off with World Champion Toronto Raptors broadcaster Leo Rautins.
Read MoreHarry’s needed to be sniffed, not seen: the onion fry of your grandparent’s city, sweet grease fumes snaking out the creaking-sprocket front door. Harry’s is leaving.
Read MoreSince arriving in Canada thirty years ago via Singapore, Naomi Logan has found her happiness in preparing food for the people of Bloordale.
Read MoreMcNally always made me feel like I was in another city, or another realm, where one’s unshaken faith in literature was honoured.
Read MoreLa Hacienda was one of the first places in Toronto to serve Mexican food and for Queen Street artists and their friends, it was cheap and delicious in the dirty ’90s.
Read MoreThursday, June 20, marks World Refugee Day. There’s not a lot of cause for celebrating these days, but the Christie Refugee Welcome Centre (CRWC) is doing exactly that by holding a party in its parking lot. Because even when the coming days look dark, it’s important to celebrate what we still have today. While we can.
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