Local Trade in Toronto, ON by LOCAL Trade Zone™ - Empowering localism NOW!™
Sustainable, self-governing, SECURE communities ARE POSSIBLE in Toronto, Ontario, Canada! Here's what's happening in the exciting Canadian social evolution called LOCALISM! The LOCAL Trade Zone™ NETWORK is here to connect you with: Toronto local classified ads, independent small businesses, locally-made products, locally-grown produce, healthy food, eco-friendly homes, alternative energy solutions, and MORE! Harmonize with Torontonian kindred spirits, buy/sell/trade locally, work for a living wage, and barter cash-free to support YOUR local Toronto economy and community!
Toronto Business Reviews (ON - 2012-05-09). -- "I bought several discount packages on-line. Don't be fooled the reviews on their website, [in my opinion] they are NOT from people who bought discount packages on-line (ie Groupon). My experience proves this. I purchased almost $1000 of services. I was treated like a second class customer. For example, during one particular treatment Hanna the spa Manager knocks on the door and tell us (myself and the laser hair removal technician) that we must change rooms because another customer wants this room. I was completely disrobed - you can imagine I was not pleased. I was given a robe and literally carried my clothes and shoes as the "long-time, customer who bought many services" was given the room...".
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Toronto Business Reviews (ON - 2012-05-03). -- "Their hand-made house line called rapp eyewear is beautiful, interesting, different and definitely made in North Toronto...".
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For any novice gardener who has tried to use a conventional sink for doing their garden business, the wisdom of getting a proper garden wash basin may be sinking in by now. Gardening places special requirements on the tools of the trade - sinks are no exception to this. Check out local garden centre and be sure to take advantage of the best deals for all your gardening needs!
Toronto Business Reviews (ON - 2012-04-23). -- "I have been using IBX Services for over 5 years and I am very satisfied with their services. They have been very loyal and very professional. Always honest and low prices. They have great teams for the services they provide. There is never any surprises with their quotes...".
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Toronto Business Reviews (ON - 2012-04-22). -- "I go to Bellair Laser Clinic for laser hair removal and chemical peels. I don't have bad skin so I just like to brighten my complexion with light glycolic peels. When I first went to Bellair I felt very comfortable...".
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Toronto Business Reviews (ON - 2012-04-16). -- "With the amount of landscapers in the Toronto area, this would be the one you [might] not wish to hire. Unfortunately we have made that mistake. The company first of all has no direction of productivity to get a project done...".
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Toronto Business Reviews (ON - 2012-04-16). -- "Franks pizza great pizza place not your standered restaurant. Home made cooking all the way through the menu...".
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When the summer temperature and humidity skyrockets in Toronto, what better way to cool down with a minimal carbon footprint than making your own breeze with a garden swing in your backyard. If what they say about temperatures rising with global warming is true, and fossil fuels are not the solution, then every little bit will help. Urban gardens across the city can make a huge difference to the social environment of Toronto and other cities across Ontario, and Canada!
The Canadian Chief Electoral Officer is clearly NOT buying any Conservative back-paddling or excuses for what currently amounts to at least 800 (EIGHT HUNDRED) complaints MERITING INVESTIGATION. According to the Chief Electoral Officer, "We are talking about people deliberately pretending to be Elections Canada employees, here. That does not happen because of errors in an address list!". The scope of the potentially criminal activities tainted the integrity of voting in about 200 different ridings in all 10 provinces and one territory, and grouped into 250 case files!
Karl Nerenberg. "Hill Dispatches: Chief Electoral Officer says robocalls are 'absolutely outrageous'". rabble.ca, March 30, 2012, online. Retrieved 2012.03.30 -- On the one hand, the Conservative members say that even one person denied the right to vote is too many, and then, almost in the same breath, they pooh-pooh the total number of complaints as being so small as to be almost insignificant.
The stage seems set like a rerun of the last American election. Americans were so fed up and fearful of continued rampant Bush-style Republicanism (not to be confused with authentic conservatism), that they seemed to forget to nail down their demands of the "shoe-in" pres. But, given Obama's consistent record of essentially codifying and extending the most egregious aspects of the Bush/Cheney era, many Americans are now regretting not having secured a more explicit mandate from "Mr. Change". The temptation to focus on "anyone, as long as they will stand up against Harper" may be subject to similar historically verifiable electoral blind-spots - which know no borders!
rabble staff. "rabble.ca weekly blog roundup!". rabble.ca, March 30, 2012, online. Retrieved 2012.03.30 -- This week, the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup takes an in-depth look at the NDP leadership results and new leader Thomas Mulcair among others!
Recent, last-minute scutttlebut regarding the new leader, Tom Mulcair's, apparent troubling "associations" with pro-Israel (aka anti-Palestinian) factions in Canada, have not gone unnoticed by all NDP followers. While the leadership race may be over, the facts surrounding Tom Mulcair's leadership campaign staff may deserve additional scrutiny and consideration. New Democrats may not be able to undo the leadership results, but for those who have traditionally supported the federal NDP, this may be the tipping point to sway them over to the Green Party.
Brian Topp. "A thank-you from Brian Topp". rabble.ca, March 30, 2012, online. Retrieved 2012.03.30 -- When it's over, it's over. And like all New Democrats all across Canada, there must be only one thing on all of our minds from now on -- unity behind our new leader.
If you're still stuck in the outdated ideology of "censorship protects children", turn on your family filter (it comes with your computer) and move on! There are far more pressing concerns being hidden behind the grossly exaggerated claims by "conservatives" and theo-fundamentalists about the need to have government control over content on the web - yes, by the very people who claim to be against big government. Consider what you have learned through the web over the past 2 years. Did you manage to find out about something mainstream media wasn't telling you? Do you want to go back to the dark info ages when books had to be approved by a very elite minority before being legally permitted to be printed? A free internet is vital to local communities - especially those which don't want to be cookie cutter replicas of global corporatism.
Lindsey Pinto. "Taking it in stride: Weekly news update from OpenMedia.ca". rabble.ca, March 29, 2012, online. Retrieved 2012.03.29 -- Canadians have made some big strides forward in the fight for the open and affordable Internet. This week, the CRTC emerged as a site of change, shifting toward a model in the public interest.
Perhaps the most powerful aspect of how this book is written is the way that it creates a complex analysis for the reader without anything even vaguely resembling the kind of difficult, obscure writing found in the work of so many university-based theorists.
Scott Neigh. "Eli Clare's Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation". rabble.ca, March 29, 2012, online. Retrieved 2012.03.29 -- Exile and Pride is a memoir by activist, author and poet Eli Clare, who moves through the world as a white transguy (formerly lesbian) with cerebral palsy.
Regardless of industry sector, it seems that the consistent disconnect in equity between management/shareholders and the workers of a corporate machine holds true to the last financial breaths of the enterprise. Corporations report (brag) and reward shareholders with record profits/dividends while workers suffer record job layoffs, losses, pension depreciations, and get the lions share of corporate media spotlight (as the cause of all the problems). Until there is a shift in this reality, it is unlikely that private and publicly traded corporations, especially transnational, will win many humanitarian awards - outside of their own peer group.
Humberto DaSilva. "Not Rex: Adios Aveos". rabble.ca, March 29, 2012, online. Retrieved 2012.03.29 -- Vulture Capital firm Ace Aviation Holdings is about to distribute $300 million to its shareholders. But employees of Aveos, a former Ace holding, were left holding the bag.
Toronto Business Reviews (ON - 2012-03-29). -- "True Italian restaurant on St Clair West 30 seats or so with the best panzerotti in Toronto...".
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While greeted by the friendliest indigenous people up his arrival to the Americas, the agenda of Christopher Columbus, and those who have followed since, has been consistent, and marked in the red indigenous blood of globalism. From the days of Columbus to the G-20, the savage expropriation of indigenous resources and humanity has become fine tuned through technology to the point that the 1% is running out of planet and peoples to grind into their personal wealth.
Dan Kellar, AW@L Radio, Adam Lewis. "Eco justice and indigenous resistance updates and report". rabble.ca, March 21, 2012, online. Retrieved 2012.03.21 -- Adam Lewis joins the conversation looking at acts of indigenous resistance to Canadian mining and continued colonialism, and some updates from eco justice warriors.
While so (too) many seem to invoke "9-11" as a turning point in the ways of the western world, any oppressed individual, or community, knows that the tragic "events" of 2001 came long after decades and even centuries of relentless assaults on humanity - organized global attacks, by those who prefer to horde their riches and exploit with shameless brute force. We live in a strange world today. And deep down in our rabbit hole of global corporatism, words are used opposite their meaning and the minority rules with a vengence. Such times demand appropriate tools.
Krystalline Kraus. "Activist Communique: The Ally's Toolkit". rabble.ca, March 21, 2012, online. Retrieved 2012.03.21 -- Check out this amazing new resource for anti-oppression activists and allies.
If you still consider 1492 as an historic day of trans-Atlantic discovery rather than the first steps of brutal European colonialism on the "Americas" (or more so, the indigenous peoples of the Americas), you better hurry up and get with the program! Racism, something you may have heard of, is not only alive and kicking (good people to the ground), but it is facing stiff competition from many other forms of classic and contemporary discrimination. You may be part of the "99%" but that brings in a large croud of genders, races, and relative social positions. Yes, even the 99% discriminate amongst themselves!
Michele Landsberg. "Unpacking the knapsack of race privilege". rabble.ca, March 21, 2012, online. Retrieved 2012.03.21 -- It's the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and several weeks after Black History Month; have you checked your racial awareness recently?
Peaceful democratic dissent has been the target of systemic marginalization and criminalization by those who are selfishly extracting the wealth and permanently undermining the social well-being of communities around the world for many years. As one example, the list of potential "terror suspects" as managed by the FBI reveals more about the makers of the list than serving as a credible humane guide to protecting society. Regardless, when you add the codification and re-enabling of "being poor crimes", it seems that many, if not most of us are already "guilty of something". When did being human become a crime?
Dan Kellar, AW@L Radio, Adam Lewis. "Conversation with Adam Lewis on prisons and police". rabble.ca, March 21, 2012, online. Retrieved 2012.03.21 -- An in-depth conversation with recently released AW@Ler Adam Lewis on prison and continuing the struggle. Plus, a full #ACAB report including an update from the Coalition Justice for Levi Schaffer.
We know that blatent ignorance of the majority is commonplace in today's Canadian federal government, but it would seem that even down to the local municipal level, "stewards" of the community act in ways which go against the majority of public opinion. So now we have communities supporting workers forced to strike. What ever happened to city hall keeping a pulse on the community and RESPECTING democratic charge according to the public mandate?
John Bonnar. "Toronto public library workers forced to strike over job security". rabble.ca, March 21, 2012, online. Retrieved 2012.03.21 -- In a Toronto poll that CUPE commissioned last week, two-thirds of Torontonians agreed that it was a good idea for library workers to strike over job security.
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