I spent this past weekend in the city of Waterloo, as an invited guest for the final installment of TVO's The Agenda ...

  The Future of News forum was nothing but a discussion about the past and present. You had a panel that discussed afghanistan, CBC's failure to report against the Liberals and how the news model was broken. There was no discussion of the future. 4 bloggers in a group at Phog, ...

It was a great pedestrian-powered show today on ScaleDown Radio. Andrew and Mark were joined via the telephone by Windsor native Michael Johnson of the band The New Kings, as well as Toronto ...

Toronto's mother of all suburbs: Don Mills When businessman E.P. Taylor unveiled plans in 1953 for Toronto's first master-planned suburb, Don Mills, the world gasped. North York's planning department called the vision for the 850-hectare site "preposterous." Media from around the world critically eyed the subdivision. The city at large ...

A while back I promised a list and description of Downtown Local independant retailers. Here they are. The ones whose description I'm missing is World Cottage, the Asian grocery market on Pelissier, Ray and Kim's variety and the variety in Victoria place apartments. These variety stores sell ...

This just in from CJAM's station manager, Adam Fox. Thanks to everyone for helping give community radio a definite future here in Windsor. CJAM RECEIVES CRTC APPROVAL FOR PROTECTED STATUS AT 99.1 FM March 26, 2009 Today the CRTC approved the application for CJAM FM to move its broadcasting undertaking from 91.5FM ...

It's sooooo hard to stay away! I found this on a "Hyperlocavore" blog and thought I'd pass it along.  I'm convinced in the power of community building as an ...

Here's today's episode of ScaleDown Radio. Everything Austin - Watch Mark fumble with the board at CJAM and make several errors.  I stumbled along with guest Mark Schincariol just a friend that ...