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To the Lazy Ones

  By: Arthiga Arumansan   We go to school to learn right?   To become the big firemen we told our mothers and the doctors that cared for the others   To learn about the world and what the amazing...

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Street Voices Launch Poem

A Poem by Joel Zola Written for the founding of street voices magazine We live in the modern day world of cellphones, wikipedia, and social media Sexual messages are sexually transmitted like...

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Strike on the Horizon at UofT

By Nathaniel Jote and Liam Fox Tensions are running high at the University of Toronto between administrators and CUPE 3902, the union which represents 7000 T.A.s and sessional lecturers on three UofT...

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BASICS Speak to CUPE 3902 Representatives about Possible Strike at UofT

by Nathaniel Jote and Liam Fox The University of Toronto and CUPE 3902, which represents student and contract teaching staff on campus, are currently negotiating new collective bargaining agreements....

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“They gave up on the community”: Programmers and supporters fight to save...

by Michael Romandel   On May 1, 2015, the board of CHRY 105.5 FM—the York University community radio station—fired all of its volunteers and community programmers and re-branded itself as VIBE 105.5....

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The TPS Carding Debate: Confusion and Misinformation is the Point

By Nooria Alam On June 24th, the Toronto Baha’i Centre hosted a public forum called “Conversation on Carding”,  where community members came together to discuss the Toronto Police Service’s’ policy on...

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Islamophobia in Our Schools, Bombs on Our Homes

By Nooria Alam We put ourselves and our children through schools with the belief that it is a place to foster a love of learning amongst ourselves, not a place where we experience violence from the...

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Pink Saris and Bake Sales: The High School NGO Trap

By Priya Rabindranath Ad spaces in the TTC have recently been plastered with images of dejected brown and black girls captioned “Give child marriage the middle finger”.  These posters are part of a...

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Trustees Vote Cops Out of TDSB High Schools

by Shafiqullah Aziz Students, parents, teachers, and community organizers are celebrating after trustees of the Toronto District School Board voted to end the School Resource Officer program, which...

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Did Islamophobia contribute to the paramedics’ negligence in the death of...

by Harshita Singh On Saturday, December 2, 19-year-old Yosif Al-Hasnawi was shot two kilometres away from Hamilton’s Al-Mustafa Islamic Centre where he had just participated in a service. Witness...

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