Weston : Featured Stories

Letter from Yonge Street's new Managing Editor. 

One of Toronto's mostly intensely industrialized neighbourhoods, Mount Dennis was hit hard by the 2005 closure of the Kodak plant. But a strong identity, truly diverse population--and perhaps a new transit hub--might point the way toward a bright future.

Passion and organizing skills are keys to getting policies changed or projects revised. But the efforts of Code Blue and the Clean Train Coalition also demonstrate that timing and connections make a major difference.

Diaspora Dialogues is creating a Toronto (& Canadian) literary scene that reflects one of the world's most diverse cities, helping its writers tell new stories that allow us understand ourselves better. At the same time, the program is feeding new kinds of work into the ever-growing body of Canadian Literature.