Archive for October, 2010

Vote TO. 1 week left. George or Rob?

Vote TO. 1 week left. George or Rob?

By Jeff Nijsse, Monday, October 18, 2010.

There is now only a week left in the campaign for Toronto’s new Mayor, and as of today it looks like there are 3 men standing in a 2 man race. Four men were left as the front-running vote collectors two weeks ago, but Rocco Rossi’s announcement last week...

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Blue Jays Managerial Candidates – Part 1

Blue Jays Managerial Candidates – Part 1

By Andrew Chan, Sunday, October 17, 2010.

As Cito Gaston’s second tenure with the Toronto Blue Jays came to a respectable end last month, the Blue Jays have already began the interview process for Cito’s successor.  From reading various reports, it appears GM Alex Anthopoulos have a wide range of possible candidates in mind interviewing up...

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Canada Loses Security Council Seat

By B Cole, Saturday, October 16, 2010.

2010 was supposed to be Canada’s year.  Starting with the Olympics, hosting the G8, the G20 and ending up on the most important decision making body in the entire world, the United Nation’s Security Council. It didn’t quite happen as planned. The Olympics went over fantastically, inside of Canada. ...

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Pitching Headlines NLCS

Pitching Headlines NLCS

By Andrew Chan, Saturday, October 16, 2010.

If you enjoy good starting pitching, grab some popcorn and take a seat, you’re in for a treat. The NLCS starts Saturday and baseball fans everywhere are in for a treat. The starting pitching depth between the two clubs definitely provides the more interesting match-up between the two Championship...

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Leafs Give Fans Reasons to be Optimistic

Leafs Give Fans Reasons to be Optimistic

By Andrew Chan, Friday, October 15, 2010.

In one of the first true test of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ young season, the Leafs’ came out victorious against the 2009 Stanley Cup Champions The Pittsburgh Penguins.  Although the Leafs played on their heels second half of the game they received clutch goaltending from goaltender Jonas Gustavsson who...

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Cautious Optimism

Cautious Optimism

By Andrew Chan, Thursday, October 14, 2010.

This post is written by DSP guest contributor Andrew Chan: The City of Toronto has a recent to be thankful this weekend with the recent 2-0 start for the Toronto Maple Leafs 2010-2011 season; however this Maple Leaf fan just isn’t buying the hype yet. Although the newly look...

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Wooly Mammoth Film Short of the Day

By Jeff Nijsse, Tuesday, October 12, 2010.

Today I stumbled across this whilst doing some very unrelated work. It’s a short film called Wooly Mammoth by Rick Palidwor, a film instructor at Hart House, at the University of Toronto. Rick has made several short-films including the somewhat well known Sleep Always. It’s only 2½ minutes long...

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Will the Tea Party divide Republicans?

Will the Tea Party divide Republicans?

By B Cole, Tuesday, October 12, 2010.

Will the Tea Party divide the right in the USA? It could happen. In 1987 a protest party in Western Canada was formed by the son of a former Premier. The Reform Party, which in less than six years replaced the Conservative Party of Canada as the right wing party. ...

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Slacktivism (slutty, stadium and otherwise)

Slacktivism (slutty, stadium and otherwise)

By B Cole, Monday, October 11, 2010.

A friend of mine recently posted this article on her facebook wall.  It is by Stephanie Fusco, a writer who went to Queens and is doing something with Public Relations and actually gets more than 10 people on her site each month (of which I’m jealous for). Anyhow, it’s...

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Happy Thanksgiving

By Detroit Street Press, Sunday, October 10, 2010.

The contributors of DSP wish everyone north of the 49th parallel a very happy thanksgiving. To those of you who live south of the border, just wait it out. Your “fake” thanksgiving will come soon enough. If you live elsewhere, what can I say. Turkey is delicious.

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