Come out to ‘Suburbs vs Downtown: the 416, the 905, and race and ethnicity’
Posted by Jef in Politics, Race, Toronto on 19. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
As you may have heard, there’s a heated war going on between the GTA’s downtowners and suburbanites. Or maybe there’s not. Who can say? You can – we’d like to invite you to a very, very informal talk session about the 416, the 905, and what race and ethnicity have got to do with it. [...]
That time I was racist
Posted by Jef in Comedy, Race on 06. May, 2011 | 3 Comments
The funniest joke I’ve ever heard goes like this, maybe you’ve heard it: Q: What do you call a Paki priest? (Pause with a shit-eating grin.) A: HOLY SHIT. I can’t even remember how young I was when I heard that joke or who it was during recess that told it to me, but I [...]
Ask a Filipino person
Posted by Jef in Race on 23. Dec, 2010 | 8 Comments
We here at the Ashcan are a multi-ethnic motley crew. Think of us as the Captain Planet of blogs, with disparate elements from far-reaching corners of the world coming together to form a heroic, mullet topped defender of environmental justice. We’ve been taking advantage of our non-mandated diversity to ask each other stupid questions about [...]
‘Too White?’: the Maclean’s magazine archives
Posted by Jef in media, Race on 11. Nov, 2010 | 12 Comments
Yesterday’s article from Maclean’s about certain universities being “Too Asian” was a lot of fun, wasn’t it? Even Jezebel got in on it. It seemed like the mag’s website even took the offending article down sometime last night, but don’t worry, it’s back. Because you can’t take fun like that away from us! Comparing today’s [...]
It also Gets Better in Canada
Posted by Anupa in Canada, Politics, Pop Culture on 03. Nov, 2010 | 6 Comments
Openly gay Canadians like Rick Mercer, Mark Tewksbury, designers David Dixon and Joeffer Caoc as well as Toronto mayoral canadiate (and first openly gay member of the Ontario legislature) George Smitherman are just some of the many voices in this Canadian contribution to Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” project. Along with all of the positive [...]
