TUMBLER RIDGE (British Columbia) – A school shooting, leaving 10 dead and 27 injured, has shattered the peace of the small community of Tumbler Ridge, more than a thousand kilometers north of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada.
TORONTO – In this climate of intense political polarization, the art of storytelling has all but died. Yes, writers like Dante, Shakespeare and Hemingway imbued their work with views so political that it led to exile, heavy government scrutiny and surveillance. But while these scribes wrote about the suffering of the working class, the dangers of authoritarianism and the corruptibility of the powerful, their works were layered masterpieces…
TORONTO – The Middle East’s Arab News Agency, Al Jazeera, was among the earliest – if not the first – to report on the death of Saif Gaddaffi. Saif was the son of President Muammar Gaddafi, former President of Lybia. It appears that four black-hooded assassins made their way into his quarters and saluted his fate to embark towards the afterlife with a hail of bullets…
TORONTO – So what is this new Line 5 subway really like, after being awaited by Torontonians for a full fifteen years? We tried it out right away, both on Sunday — the day of the official opening: read our article here — and on Monday, today, to test it under regular weekday conditions. And we did so not only as journalists, but also as commuters, since yours truly – the author of this piece – has been travelling along roughly the same route every day for almost three years to get to the Corriere Canadese newsroom. What follows, then, is our account of two trips on the “Eglinton Crosstown LRT”, better known as Line 5, “Eglinton,” or more simply as “the orange line.”
TORONTO – As of today, the long-awaited “Eglinton Crosstown West Extension,” or Line 5 of the subway, is operational. The Ontario government officially opened one of Toronto’s most significant new public transit projects: Line 5 “Eglinton” has entered service under the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), offering free rides to all passengers on its inaugural day.
