Jonah Kotzer On Friday, September 29th, former U.S. President Barack Obama spoke at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The event was hosted by Canada 2020 and drew an audience of 3,000 people, who paid $10,000 per table to attend. Students of University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance were invited to volunteer at…
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Singing Truth to Power
Liza Kobrinsky A couple of pages into American poet Walt Whitman’s Deathbed Edition of Leaves of Grass, you come across I Hear America Singing. In it Whitman describes a chorus of American labourers singing while they work: the mechanic, the carpenter, the shoemaker, and, even, the mother and the young wife. Whitman has “each singing…
Seen and Heard: Be it Resolved that Mitt Romney Should be the Next President of the United States
Mana Sadeghipour On Thursday November 1st 2012, the International University Clubs of Toronto (IUCT) hosted a debate on whether or not Mitt Romney should be the next president of the United States. In favour of Romney were author and lawyer Michael Alexander and CTV reporter Mercedes Stephenson, and arguing against were University of Toronto Professor…
The ‘Anti-Incumbency Tsunami’
[Ed: The opinions expressed are those of the author.] An anti-incumbency tsunami has ravaged North America in recent weeks. Voters both in Canada and the United States are turning out in record numbers to turf traditional career politicians in favour of political neophytes who have successfully tapped into a volatile electorate. Stylizing themselves as populists,…
