TORONTO – More than 850,000 Canadians under the age of 29 are unemployed and without any post-secondary education or training, which could potentially cost the country billions. The data emerges from a new Deloitte report entitled “Failure to Launch” (you can download and/or read it here: Deloitte-Report-Failure-to-Launch), commissioned by the King’s Trust Canada, a charity founded by King Charles III, which works to create pathways to employment for young people facing barriers, providing them with free professional training, work experience, networking opportunities. (more…)
TORONTO – Once in a lifetime, when super concerts like the Eras Tour of Taylor Swift is held in your backyard, the temptation becomes monumental to not check it out. If people from far away places travel to the city just for this, why not a Torontonian like me. It is very seldom a super show comes to Toronto and the municipal government tries to help and boost the show. After all, it generates millions of dollars for its coffers. Surprisingly, the show is sold out despite the current struggling economy.
RIO DE JANEIRO – Twenty-two pages to reiterate, in 85 points, the commitment “to building a just world and a sustainable planet, while leaving no one behind” …maybe even taxing the super-rich properly. The final declaration adopted by the leaders of the G20, which concluded today in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, arrived after a difficult mediation between the diplomacies of such different countries and often with such distant positions (ranging from the USA to Russia via Argentina, India and China, to name a few). A mediation carried out by the Brazilian presidency which made everyone agree at least on the global alliance against fame and poverty, the Task Force on global mobilization against climate change and the call to action on governance reform global. (more…)
TORONTO – “…was a text on my reading list in my last year at University. It is a study, of the radical political response of the Puritans to disorder in the 18th century, as a first and unremitting determination to transform on the basis of an ideology the existing political and moral order. The religious zealots (the Orange Order and the Family Compact still operating in post-war Toronto) it spawned have not disappeared But this is not about them …entirely.”
(“The revolution of the saints. A study in the origins of radical politics” by Michael Walzer, 1965)
While cynical American politicos reduce all debates to their succinct basic arguments: “do we have a dog in the fight”; more politely put, which interests are we defending and how will they nurture our purposes and improve our [economic] goals.
TORONTO – Let us begin with an appeal to Premier Ford: for the love of anything sane and rational, please do not subject yourself to a review of the TCDSB video link here – from 24.11.14. Those who believed you when you promised the Archbishop of Toronto that you would uphold, if not protect, the [constitutional] continuity of Catholic schools, are likely to request that you place the Toronto C[haotic] School Board under supervision.
