Tic Tac Toe
As artists, we like to kid ourselves that we are in complete control of our creative faculties, but we are often on autopilot and we are resolving the world at the sub- and...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Growing up, my hero was Ray Bradbury, author of The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes. One of his most famous creations was The Illustrated Man. The title character...
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Relic
If it’s hanging on your wall as a decoration it’s not a guitar. Guitars are meant to be played, not to be put in vitrines or kept in their cases untouched in the...
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You’ve Got a Fan in Me
Ideas, like toys are made to be played with, and that’s what makes Toy Story 3 (and the entire trilogy) so very special. I watched the first two installments of the wildly successful...
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Prayer Drum
Although this was taken last Saturday, this image is representative of every post-G20 rally/demonstration I’ve photographed. A middle-aged man stands silently, spinning this prayer drum amidst the chants and orations. It is a...
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Humour and Activism at Rally for an Independent Public Inquiry into the G20 Summit
A couple of weeks ago at the Pride People’s Gala at the corner of Church and Maitland Streets, Ann Willats said that humour and activism were our best tools in fighting for change....
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Driver’s Side Mirror
My dad hated flying, so all our vacations were road trips. Because he was a long-haul trucker, he had to get us to our destination in a single stretch, without any sleep, stopping...
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Taking Back the Dyke
No permit. No police. No sponsors. No Barriers. Take Back the Dyke proved again that a grass-roots community-based Pride event can be both protest and party. Whose streets? Whose Pride? Ours!
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I am not a Number
Yesterday, on Canada Day, thousands gathered before the provincial legislature at Queen’s Park to demand a public inquiry into human rights violations and mass arrests during last week’s G20 summit, and to demand...
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Yesterday and Today: Peaceful Protest vs. Violence at the G20
With all hell having broken loose in Toronto today, let’s go back to the relative quiet of the beginning of yesterday’s peaceful march at Allan Gardens. Not that everything was okay. Protesters entering...
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