John Turley-Ewart 
Art has long been a means for artists to express ideas, often offensive ones. Great art demands attention and is best when it is controversial, examples of which there is no shortage of. Yet in Toronto’s chi-chi Leslieville neighbourhood, a recently planned art exhibit and its cancellation is a case study … Read More
In case you’ve missed the Canadian business story of 2017, here is a snapshot of what it is – the stunning collapse in the share price of mortgage lender Home Capital Group, and now the ill-informed commentary from some who think there is a chance of “contagion,” that is a … Read More
So you found a credit card that pays you for using it, offered by a hip bank, Tangerine, that wants to share its profits with its customers by providing 2% cashback on purchases in two categories of the customer’s choice, 1% back on all other purchase, a 1.5% foreign currency … Read More
There are too many white kids going to Toronto’s publicly funded arts schools. That is the preliminary angle the Toronto Star ran with when it published this story on April 24, after receiving a copy of a soon to be published academic article produced by an associate professor at the … Read More
It’s here, the great disaster Canadians have been whispering about for some years. The dreaded “housing bubble” has arrived in Toronto and vicinity, says David Rosenberg, an economist famous for spotting such things. Now some housing bubbles are small, some middling-sized, others…, well this one is in the “other” category. … Read More
