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Alberta Diary: Why libraries – and library users – need their librarians and other library workers to be union members

By David Climenhaga, on November 14th, 2014

Maureen O’Reilly, president of the Toronto Public Library Workers Union, speaking in Toronto last weekend. Below: Renowned author Margaret Atwood on an Alberta union picket line, circa 2000, Doug Ford and his Brother Rob.

Doug Ford? Doug Ford? Who is Doug Ford again?

I think he’s Rob Ford’s brother?

OK. Who is . . . → Read More: Alberta Diary: Why libraries – and library users – need their librarians and other library workers to be union members

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Politics and its Discontents: One Book

By Lorne, on February 28th, 2013

Although it has been many years since I read it, I was very pleased to see that the Toronto Public Library has chosen Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 for its One Book annual community reading event. Although first published in 1953, this eerily prescient novel tells the story of a world where people are globally . . . → Read More: Politics and its Discontents: One Book

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Politics and its Discontents: Toronto Library Strike

By Lorne, on March 21st, 2012

As a lifelong user of public libraries (I can still remember the very first book I took out as a child) and one who aspires to practise critical thinking on a regular basis, I feel for the people of Toronto who are now without this invaluable resource.

Despite the inability of the brothers . . . → Read More: Politics and its Discontents: Toronto Library Strike

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