Last week, Canadian authorities greeted a cargo ship carrying nearly 500 refugees from Sri Lanka. While their case is being reviewed, one boy wrote a letter to his father. Besides describing it as “heartfelt,” what else did the Gazette have to say about the kid’s letter?
There’s a lot of work to be done when the Olympics come to your town. Just ask Vancouver’s prostitutes: A Canadian agency that provides support services for the city’s sex workers is preparing a brochure and training to inform prostitutes about their rights and how to deal with the international media when they descend on [...]
For American foodies, getting back to basics has been the latest thing for a few years. (File under: nose-to-tail dining, the 100-mile diet, Omnivore’s Dilemma and so on.) If you’re a Canadian foodie, “back to basics” means tucking into seal meat: Seal, hunted as food for generations in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence, is now [...]
Is Toronto really so white-bread that selling souvlaki required government intervention? Apparently: Seemab Ahmad, a civil engineer turned cook, is about to take the food of his homeland to the streets of Toronto.Under a city pilot project finally unveiled yesterday, the 50-year-old Pakistani and seven other chefs from diverse ethnic backgrounds will serve hot dishes [...]
