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3 hours ago
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Letters to the Editor, July 13, 2025
Sunday letters Photo by Illustration / Toronto Sun TEACHING MOMENT This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Re 'Smarten up this summer' (Anthony Furey, July 8): Canada is on the cusp of succumbing to liberal woke ideology or realizing our potential as a great nation. According to the World Population Review, our 2022 PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) scores rank behind six Asian countries and Estonia in math, science and reading (except Hong Kong). Since then, in Ontario, which scores just above the Canadian average, we have endured school board decisions such as the suspension of a student who simply stated there are only two sexes and a balloon-breasted male shop teacher who never got fired. Our future will be determined by our children and our education system. Bravo, Premier Doug Ford and Education Minister Paul Calandra. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Larry Sylvester Acton, Ont. (These boards have denied parents the input into curriculum they deserve) SNOW JOB Even though I am not a resident of Toronto, I am very impressed with Olivia Chow. She was so smart to go to Ireland and England under the guise of using taxpayers' money to increase movies/films in Toronto, while her real agenda was to ask them how to remove snow from sidewalks and roads and to save lifeguards in hot weather. Dave Martin Pickering, Ont. (Busted!) SLICK MOVE Alberta is getting off the merry-go-round of insanity! Canada gladly takes our money from our oil Industry and then tries to make us feel guilty for producing oil. Well, in the 2026 referendum, we will say 'goodbye' to Canada's schizophrenic behaviour as we happily vote for Alberta independence. We will keep our annual billions of dollars in equalization, but we may leave a small donation when we leave for Canada to get some psychiatric help. Chris Robertson Stony Plain, Alta. (Send us a postcard) World Toronto & GTA Toronto & GTA Canada Toronto Raptors
Toronto Sun
3 hours ago
- Sport
- Toronto Sun
Andy Donato cartoon, July 13, 2025
Andy Donato's latest cartoon for July 13, 2025. Andy Donato Andy Donato's latest cartoon for July 13, 2025. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account World Toronto & GTA Toronto & GTA Canada Toronto Raptors
Calgary Herald
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
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Bluesfest Day 3: Rock night with Turnstile vs Pixies, plus Kurt Vile and Sue Foley
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Security helped crowd surfers and cooled off the fans with water from a hose. Photo by ASHLEY FRASER / POSTMEDIA Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. The string of new-generation headliners at Ottawa Bluesfest continued Saturday with an ambitious main-stage showing by Turnstile, a band that emerged from the Baltimore punk scene just a decade or so ago. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Calgary Herald ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. 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THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Fresh from a gig at Glastonbury but in front of Bluesfest's smallest audience so far this year, the intense rockers bounced between punk, pop, emo and electronica on a darkened stage, demonstrating the depth of their evolution beyond hardcore punk. At times they sounded like U2, other times it was Red Hot Chili Peppers mashed with a punishing rhythm section. Your weekday lunchtime roundup of curated links, news highlights, analysis and features. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again Livewire singer Brendan Yates ping ponged between his bandmates, screaming lyrics over the shifting song structures and demanding the crowd jump along. It was quite the cathartic outpouring of emotion, but Yates was also a sensitive soul who recognized the magic of the moment. 'This is a beautiful gathering to celebrate music,' he observed, before the limbs started flying in the mosh pit. Saturday was another sweat-a-thon at Bluesfest as temperatures soared beyond 30+ and the sun baked the plaza of the Canadian War Museum at LeBreton Flats Park. Seasoned festivalgoers wore hats, smelled like sunscreen and carried refillable bottles, while others fried themselves with alcohol and sunshine, and still others sought relief in the air-conditioned lobby of the museum. After the strong turnout of the festival's first two nights, the crowds seemed a little thin for the Saturday-night showcase of modern rock, which also featured a razor-sharp slice of college-rock nostalgia from the Pixies and a stellar ride with Kurt Vile and the Violators, plus outstanding shows by the Budos Band and Men I Trust on the side stages. Fewer people on site meant shorter lines for everything, less competition for the few shady spots and more elbow room in the crowd. However, one topic of discussion was whether the performance order should have been flipped, with Pixies headlining instead of Turnstile. An unnecessary debate, in my mind, I thought the order made sense. Besides, people didn't exactly swarm to the Pixies. The band attracted a modest number of aging Gen X fans, satisfying them by careening through a ferocious show that showed they've still got the ability to slay a crowd. This advertisement has not loaded yet. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Glistening with sweat, frontman Frank Black (aka Black Francis) growled and sang with a grimace, while guitarist Joey Santiago attacked his axe, producing a wall of fuzzified noise amid the angular melodies. Kim Deal-replacement bassist Emma Richardson held up the bottom end, and the white-haired wizard on the kit was original drummer David Lovering. Earlier, Kurt Vile and his band, the Violators, kicked off the festivities with a set that seemed to pull every classic-rock lick of the past, give them a twist and make it all fresh again. Vile, who's the former lead guitarist of the War on Drugs, played a different guitar on almost every tune, choosing from an impressive array of acoustic, electric and hollowbody instruments. With a compact but powerful band rocking out behind him, the long-haired American channeled the Neil Young-Lou Reid end of the stoner-rock spectrum, winding through a set heavy on early material like the melodic rocker Pretty Pimpin, the gently grooving Girl Called Alex and a snarling KV Crimes that bristled with Crazy Horse-like energy. In a grunge-hippie uniform of jeans and plaid shirt over a graphic T, the 45-year-old Vile spoke little between songs, except to he was 'hella stoked' to be on tour with Pixies, and to be able to see both them and Turnstile that night. Meanwhile, the daily dose of blues at Bluesfest came from the Ottawa-born, Texas-based guitarist Sue Foley, a Grammy nominee this year, and her band of Texans (plus a Canadian on bass). They dished out a tasty set of rocking blues on the LeBreton stage, filling the steamy tent with smouldering numbers by the likes of Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Stevie Ray Vaughan. There was also one of Foley's signature original tunes, titled Ice Queen, inspired by growing up in a cold capital city. 'I wrote this song about being from Ottawa,' she said, 'because we know all about ice here in Ottawa.' On a day in her hometown that she said was hotter than Texas, it was hard to conjure that image. Nonetheless, the Ice Queen of blues earned a warm welcome from friends, family and fans.
Toronto Sun
14 hours ago
- Business
- Toronto Sun
GOLDSTEIN: Removing all of Trump's tariffs no longer realistic
Negotiating a deal with the U.S. President that Canadians can live with is more realistic Get the latest from Lorrie Goldstein straight to your inbox U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions while departing the White House with first lady Melania Trump on July 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images While Canada's official goal in trade negotiations with the U.S is to remove all tariffs imposed on us by President Donald Trump, it's now clear this is an aspirational target rather than a realistic one. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The realistic one is to negotiate a deal with Trump that Canadians can live with, given that the U.S. President, a self-described 'tariff person,' is on a campaign to use them to demolish the existing global economic order in favour of the U.S. If Prime Minister Mark Carney can pull a rabbit out of his hat and get all of Trump's tariffs removed by Canada's new negotiating deadline of Aug. 1 – replacing the previous deadline of July 21 – all power to him, but that's a huge hill to climb. In fact, both of these dates were and are artificial lines drawn in the sand that put unnecessary pressure on Canada to reach a deal, when the real issue is what's in the deal, not when it's signed. Carney announced the July 21 deadline – saying Trump had agreed to it – at the G7 meeting Carney chaired in Kananaskis, Alberta in mid-June, following direct talks with the U.S. President and meetings between Canadian and U.S. negotiators. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. At the time, optimism was running high with Trump, while not publicly committing to any specific date, saying he thought a deal with Canada was possible. Read More In explaining his reasoning for the 30-day deadline, Carney said 'in negotiations, having a form of deadline is helpful to concentrate the mind.' But within days, Carney was downplaying whether it was possible to achieve an agreement by July 21, making the obvious point that despite having a so-called deadline, 'nothing's assured.' Since then, Trump has threatened to end the trade talks because of Canada's digital services tax on U.S. tech giants, which Carney quickly scrapped in order to restart the negotiations, raising legitimate criticism that folding so quickly was a far cry from his 'elbows up' rhetoric during the federal election. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Trump then announced a 50% tariff on copper and a 35% tariff on Canadian imports not covered by the Canada-US-Mexico Agreement Trump agreed to in his first term as president. Trump said both of those tariffs will come into effect on Aug. 1. Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during his closing G7 press conference in Kananaskis, Alta., Tuesday, June 17, 2025. Photo by Gavin Young / Postmedia Network In response, Carney said Canada is now working towards Trump's Aug. 1 deadline for imposing new tariffs, to come up with a deal, meaning Canadian negotiators are now working on a deadline imposed by Trump. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told CBC's The House on Saturday, correctly in my view, that it was a mistake for Carney to get into the game of deadline-setting with Trump. 'The challenge with a unilateral, self-imposed deadline is that it tells the counterparty that they have you on a clock – a clock that only applies to you,' Poilievre said. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'I personally think it would have been better not to show that up front to the Americans because we know that President Trump will try to take advantage of it.' Carney had previously said that if no trade deal was reached by July 21, Canada would impose counter-tariffs in response to Trump's announcement he would double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum to 50% – which he announced prior to the G7 meeting. In light of the new Trump-imposed deadline of Aug. 1, Canada now says it will delay that move pending the outcome of the negotiations by that deadline. RECOMMENDED VIDEO But counter-tariffs themselves are problematic because they raise the cost of living for Canadians on tariffed goods imported from the U.S. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. As Industry Minister Melanie Joly has noted, save for China, Canada is the 'only country in the world' to have already imposed 'so many' counter-tariffs on the U.S. The Carney government says it will use the increased revenue from its counter-tariffs to provide financial support to Canadian workers in tariff-vulnerable sectors of the economy. In terms of the political impact of all this on Carney, it will depend on what the deal with Trump says – if any deal is possible – rather than when it's signed. This with the caveat that it was Trump who started this tariff war and whether it would have been possible for any prime minister to achieve a good deal for Canada, using confrontation or capitulation tactics, against a determined and unpredictable American president armed with an economy 10 times the size of our own. lgoldstein@ Toronto Raptors World Columnists Editorial Cartoons Relationships
Toronto Sun
17 hours ago
- Business
- Toronto Sun
CHAUDHRI: Meta employment contract scrutinized in Ontario court
Bigger companies have bigger blind spots that are routinely laid bare in court In this photo illustration the app for Meta (formerly the Facebook company) is seen on a cellphone in Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb. 7, 2025. Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP via Getty Images We often think some things are too big to fail. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account A big idea, a big movement, a big company. The bigger they are, the stronger they appear. Chinks in the armour can't be seen – unless we take a closer look. As a lawyer, I dissect contracts drafted and distributed by very well resourced companies that are the titans of their industries. It is my job to figure out whether or not these contracts hold weight and if they will stand up in court. Of course, one would expect big companies to have ironclad contracts, vetted by an army of legal experts. But what is flat out shocking is that most of the time employment contracts prepared by even the biggest companies in the world contain errors that render them toothless. Today, I will tell you about a Facebook Canada (Meta) contract recently scrutinized by an Ontario court. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Daniel Wigdor, a tenured professor at the University of Toronto, founded Chatham Inc. – a company that provided technology consulting services to financial, legal and technological firms. In 2020, Meta acquired Chatham Inc. in a share purchase agreement. Wigdor was paid $20 million for the shares and was also given a significant amount of Meta restricted share units on the closing. RECOMMENDED VIDEO As part of the deal, Wigdor was hired at Meta as a Director of Research Science with a base salary of $253,100.37 with additional perks and benefits. Wigdor managed a team of 150 people until his termination in December 2023. He was 44 years old at that time. In Wigdor's termination letter, Meta offered him entitlements consistent with what was in his employment agreement at less than roughly five months of pay. Wigdor sued for wrongful dismissal damages. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. At a hearing of his case this year, Superior Court Justice Janet Leiper ruled that Facebook Canada's termination clause violated employment standards legislation and that Wigdor was entitled to wrongful dismissal damages under the common law. The court also noted that the employer acknowledged it made 'mistakes' post termination, including prematurely terminating the Wigdor's benefits and failing to pay his severance, which Meta characterized as an 'administrative error.' In determining the length of the notice period, the court accepted there were few comparable Canadian jobs that could offer similar pay to a highly skilled employee like Wigdor. He was awarded 10 months of reasonable notice. Read More This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. This case is immensely interesting for a few reasons. Firstly, the termination clause struck down by the court was from a 2020 contract. Even recently drafted termination provisions may still run afoul of current laws. Secondly, Wigdor was paid a huge sum on the acquisition of his company, Chatham Inc. While the court factored in the large, multi-million dollar payment, the court still awarded reasonable notice of 10 months after his three-and-a-quarter years at Meta. And lastly, big companies fail in court all the time. Contracts are consistently read in favour of employees and any error in the drafting of a contract will be read against the well resourced company that drafted it. The lesson? Bigger companies have bigger blind spots that are routinely laid bare in court. Have a workplace question? Maybe I can help! 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