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The Varsity (newspaper)
''The Varsity'' is the official student newspaper of the University of Toronto, in publication since 1880. Originally a broadsheet daily, it is now printed in compact form. The paper's primary focus is on tri-campus affairs and local news. The paper publishes weekly on all campuses during the fall and winter semesters and online throughout the year, along with two seasonal magazines. The paper is published by Varsity Publications, a not-for-profit corporation, and is primarily financed by advertisement revenues with subsidies from a student levy. History At the height of debate on coeducation in 1880, ''The Varsity'' published an article in its inaugural issue in favour of admitting women. In 1895, the suspension of ''The Varsitys editor, James Tucker, led Latin Professor Dale to publicly attack the administration in '' The Globe'', which in turn led to his own dismissal. University College students then approved a motion by ''Varsity'' editorial staff member William Lyon Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kesterton
Michael Kesterton (1946–2018) was a columnist with ''The Globe and Mail''. His weekday column, "Social Studies," was published from June 12, 1990 until July 1, 2013. Early life Kesterton's father was a professional photographer and trade publication writer and his mother was a real estate agent. The person he credits with inspiring his career in journalism was his uncle, Wilf Kesterton, a journalism professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.''Ryerson Review of Journalism''- Social Studies 101 retrieved on May 30, 2007 He attended the , where he studied |
Rhodes Scholar
The Rhodes Scholarship is an international Postgraduate education, postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom. The scholarship is open to people from all backgrounds around the world. Established in 1902, it is one of the oldest graduate scholarships in the world and one of the most prestigious international scholarship programs. Its founder, Cecil Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodes, wanted to promote unity among English-speaking nations and instill a sense of civic-minded leadership and moral fortitude in future leaders, irrespective of their chosen career paths. The scholarship committee selects candidates based on a combination of literary and academic achievements, athletic involvement, character traits like truth and courage, and leadership potential, originally assessed on a 200-point scale. In 2018, the criteria were revised to emphasize using one's talents and caring for others. The American Rhodes Scholarship is highly com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Rae
Robert Keith Rae (born August 2, 1948) is a Canadian diplomat and former politician who is the current Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations since 2020. He previously served as the 21st premier of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from 1982 to 1996, and Interim leader (Canada), interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011 to 2013. Between 1978 and 2013, he was elected 11 times to Government of Canada, federal (Broadview, Broadview-Greenwood, Toronto Centre) and Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario), provincial (York South) parliaments. Rae was a New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament from 1978 to 1982. He then moved to provincial politics, serving as leader of the Ontario NDP from February 7, 1982, to June 22, 1996. After leading his party to victory in the 1990 Ontario general election, 1990 provincial election he served as the List of premiers of Ontario, 21st Premier of Ontario from October 1, 1990, to June 26, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Walkom
Thomas Walkom is national affairs columnist for the ''Toronto Star''. Previously, he was the Star's Queen's Park columnist covering Ontario politics for eight years, including the governments of Premiers Bob Rae and Mike Harris. Walkom wrote a book, ''Rae Days: the rise and follies of the NDP'' about the Rae government. His full name is Thomas Lawrence Walkom, and he was born in 1950. In the 1980s, Walkom was a parliamentary reporter for ''The Globe and Mail'' based in Ottawa and then served as the newspaper's bureau chief in Tokyo Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most .... He has won two National Newspaper Awards for foreign reporting and column writing. During the Russo-Ukraine War, Walkom published a number of articles which were critical of Canada's support for Uk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands (Torstar), Daily News Brands division. The newspaper was established in 1892 as the ''Evening Star'' and was later renamed the ''Toronto Daily Star'' in 1900, under Joseph E. Atkinson. Atkinson was a major influence in shaping the editorial stance of the paper, with the paper reflecting his principles until his death in 1948. His son-in-law, Harry C. Hindmarsh, shared those principles as the paper's longtime managing editor while also helping to build circulation with sensational stories, bold headlines and dramatic photos. The paper was renamed the ''Toronto Star'' in 1971 and introduced a Sunday edition in 1977. History The ''Star'' was created in 1892 by striking ''Toronto News'' printers and writers, led by future mayor of Toronto and social reformer Horatio Clarence Hocke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda McQuaig
Linda Joy McQuaig (born September 1951) is a Canadian journalist, columnist, author and social critic. She worked as a reporter investigating the Patti Starr affair. She wrote books and newspaper columns focusing on corporate influence in economic and social policy. Jonathan Kay of the ''National Post'' newspaper described her as "Canada's Michael Moore". In 2016, her book ''Shooting the Hippo: Death by Deficit and other Canadian Myths'' was named by the ''Literary Review of Canada'' as one of the 25 most influential Canadian books of the prior 25 years. Early years and personal life McQuaig was born to a middle-class Toronto family. Her father Jack wrote a half-dozen books on leadership and personal development. Her mother Audrey trained as a psychologist, but gave up her career to raise McQuaig, her sister and brothers. From 1963 to 1970 McQuaig attended Branksome Hall, a Toronto Private school, private girls school where she became president of the debating society, and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandler Levack
Chandler Levack is a Canadian writer, director, and filmmaker. Levack is best known for her work as an entertainment writer, and for her feature film directorial debut, ''I Like Movies'', which premiered in the Discovery program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim. Early life Levack was born in Toronto and raised in Brantford, Ontario. In 2004, Levack returned to live in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood. Career Early work Levack dropped out of her cinema studies courses at the University of Toronto to pursue a career as a writer. Since then, she has worked an arts and entertainment writer for publications including ''Toronto Life'', ''SPIN'', ''The Globe and Mail'', and the ''Toronto Star''. Levack is a two-time Juno Award nominee for Video of the Year, receiving nominations alongside Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux at the Juno Awards of 2015 for directing PUP's "Guilt Trip" music video, and at the Juno Awards of 2016 for directing PUP's "D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Megginson
David Megginson (born 1964) is a Canadian computer software consultant and developer, specializing in open-source software development and application. He was the lead developer and original maintainer of the Simple API for XML (SAX), a leading streaming API for XML. Megginson has been part of the SGML, and then XML, communities since 1991. For the World Wide Web Consortium, he served as chair of the XML Information Set Working Group, and as a member of both the XML Working Group and XML Co-ordination Group. In 2000, Sun Microsystems and JavaPro magazine awarded Megginson the Java Technology Achievement Award For Outstanding Individual Contribution to the Java Community. He made significant contributions to other open source software projects including FlightGear (a cross-platform flight simulator making use of XML), the NewsML Toolkit library for NewsML, the XMLWriter libraries for Perl and Java, RDF Filter, and SGMLSpm (a mid-1990s precursor to many XML functionalities). Meg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shock Doctrine
''The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism'' is a 2007 book by Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal economic policies promoted by Milton Friedman and the Chicago school of economics have risen to global prominence because of a deliberate strategy she calls "disaster capitalism". In this strategy, political actors exploit the chaos of natural disasters, wars, and other crises to push through unpopular policies such as deregulation and privatization. This economic " shock therapy" favors corporate interests while disadvantaging and disenfranchising citizens when they are too distracted and overwhelmed to respond or resist effectively. The book challenges the narrative that free market capitalist policies have been welcomed by the inhabitants of regions where they have been implemented, and it argues that several man-made events, including the Iraq War, were intentionally undertaken with the goal of pushing through thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Logo
''No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'' is a book by the Canadian author Naomi Klein. First published by Knopf Canada and Picador in December 1999, shortly after the 1999 Seattle WTO protests had generated media attention around such issues, it became one of the most influential books about the alter-globalization movement and an international bestseller. Focus The book focuses on branding and often makes connections with the anti-globalization movement. Throughout the four parts ("No Space", "No Choice", "No Jobs", and "No Logo"), Klein writes about issues such as sweatshops in the Americas and Asia, culture jamming, corporate censorship, and Reclaim the Streets. She pays special attention to the deeds and misdeeds of Nike, The Gap, McDonald's, Shell and Microsoft – and of their lawyers, contractors, and advertising agencies. While globalization appears frequently as a recurring theme, Klein rarely addresses the topic of globalization itself, and when she d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and Criticism of capitalism, capitalism. In 2021, Klein took up the UBC Professorship in Climate Justice, joining the University of British Columbia's Department of Geography. She has been the co-director of the newly launched Centre for Climate Justice since 2021. Klein first became known internationally for her alter-globalization book ''No Logo'' (1999). ''The Take (2004 film), The Take'' (2004), a documentary film about Buenos Aires, Argentine Workers' self-management, workers' self-managed factories, written by her and directed by her husband Avi Lewis, further increased her profile. ''The Shock Doctrine'' (2007), a critical analysis of the history of Neoliberalism, neoliberal economics, solidified her standing as a prominent activist on the international stage and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
