QuAIA and Pride... Again
Yours truly. Toronto's Ryerson University Theatre played host to a some candidates Mayoral debate put on by proudTOvote on Friday, September 19th. I say, "some" candidates because there were two: Olivia Chow and John Tory . Just this week we learned that incumbent Toronto Mayor Rob Ford had been diagnosed with liposarcoma , triggering a last-minute candidacy switch , with his brother, City Councillor Doug Ford, running for Mayor in Rob's stead. With his campaign not quite started, Mr Ford declined to attend this debate. I doubt attendees harboured expectations of either Ford turning up. But something bigger was brewing that day, only hours before the debate. From The Toronto Star newspaper's Daniel Dale: The gay Pride festival should be denied city funding if the activist group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid is allowed to participate, mayoral candidate John Tory said at a debate held by a Jewish group on Friday — reigniting a long-running city hal...