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Tenants' advocacy groups face possible $100,000 funding cut

By John Bonnar
| January 14, 2011

Tenants will be left to fend for themselves if the City of Toronto follows through with its proposed funding cuts to tenant programs and services, said a non-profit tenants' rights group in a statement released Thursday.

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Funding cools but docs still hot

From the film Detropia.

"People keep saying to me 'this is the Golden Age of Documentary,'" sighs Lisa Fitzgibbons, executive director of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC). "But there's a huge disconnect between what people think and the reality."

What Fitzgibbons is referring to is the storm of recent bad news that's shredding up the documentary industry in Canada. In the weeks before the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto (April 26 to May 6) -- the largest one in North America -- the industry was hit with announcements of colossal cuts at the NFB, CBC and Telefilm.

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The Harper house rules: An intervention

By Erika Shaker
| January 17, 2012

Stephen:

We recognize that no roommate is perfect, and from time to time we have all gotten on each other's nerves. But you take the cake (and let's be honest, sharing anything -- including cake -- is not exactly your thing).

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The closure of women's centres and the 'Walmartization' of services

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| How are funding restructuring and funding cuts impacting communities when they result in the closure of specialized women's services?

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Tories slash funding to immigrant services

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