The Politics of Football: 2012 Election Edition
By: Chris Dagonas The 2012 American Presidential Election Campaign has been framed around one major factor: Barack Obama’s “Socialist” vision of an America where the wealthy pay higher taxes to […]
Category Archives: Politics
Hudak, Ford and the Derailment of Toronto Transit
By: Ian Clark After 3 years of study that led to a plan, 3 years of finding money for said plan, and 1 year of fighting an ill-informed (or stubborn) […]
Thoughts on ‘Argo’: The Collision of Fact and Fiction
By: Daniel Reynolds Argo, the film based on a CIA (and Canadian!) led action to free Americans from Iran during the hostage crisis, opens with a clever conceit. Now, naturally, […]
Sister Cities and Trade Missions: What’s the Point?
By: Tom Woodhall Chicago and Toronto are two cities with a strikingly large number of similarities. Geographically, both are located on a great lake, with rivers working their way back […]
Travelling With Purpose – A Journey in Ethiopia
By: Stephanie McKean Surely all travel has a purpose. Whether it be it for business, relaxation, sight-seeing, maybe to see old friends, or make new ones – there is always […]
Let’s All Celebrate Yonge!
By: Kristen Morith If you’ve been downtown on Yonge Street lately you’ve probably noticed something a little bit different. Following the success of temporary pedestrianization projects in New York (Times […]
The Case For Lance Armstrong
By: Tom Woodhall Lance, Lance, Lance. Whatever should we think of you? As has been well covered by every major news outlet during the past week, Lance Armstrong, seven-time Tour […]
The Olympic G.O.A.T.? One Thing’s For Sure: It Ain’t Lewis
By: Dan Grant With the London Olympics in full swing, Same Page thought it might be appropriate – pertinent, even – for their only current contributing member who lives in […]
Toronto Transit City, OneCity and the Future – Part 2
Check out Part 1 of Ian Clark’s look at the recent transit history of Toronto HERE. By: Ian Clark Yesterday we left-off with the postponement of funding for many of […]
Toronto Transit City, OneCity and the Future – Part 1
By: Ian Clark Before breaking for the summer, Toronto City Council decided to dive into arguing the merits of another transit “plan”. The recently revealed OneCity document, presented by City […]
