What's closed?
Today's violence has closed the TTC and many key locations in downtown Toronto. A list of things that are affected are below:

Hospitals
Saint Michael's Hospital, Toronto General Hospital, Sick Kids Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital are on lockdown. Doors are closed, but still accepting emergencies.

Shops
Eaton Centre, many businesses on ( Read more... )

Medecins Sans Frontieres Releases 12th Annual "Top Ten" List


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This post is from the year-end letter Alex Neve, Secretary-General of AI Canada.

"Don’t worry about me. You are the ones who have such important work to do. You have to be sure to tell everyone about what is happening here."

Amnesty International Canada: Tell Everyone: A year end message from Alex Neve
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"President Obama, much to his credit, has forsworn the use of torture, but politics and policy makers change and democracy cannot rely merely on the good will of one president and his aides. Such good will did not exist in the last administration. And the inhumane and illegal treatment of detainees could make a return in a future administration ( Read more... )

"One innovative experiment to inject youthful vitality into Canada's aging farm sector looks a bit like the cast of the TV sitcom Friends transported from Manhattan to an organic farm 45 minutes east of Montreal ( Read more... )

TheStar.com | Ontario | Illegal to pick a trillium? Not quite

Rob Ferguson
QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU

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CBC.ca Sports

"The easier we make it for fans to follow tennis and understand, the more following there will be, and the stronger we'll be commercially," he said. "We would present the sport in a less fragmented way if it was together.

"An example: This tournament, if you're a fan in Europe, you watch the men's matches on one channel, the women's ( Read more... )

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