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Toilet trouble

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Philip Preville

It suddenly occurs to me that, since I previously linked readers to Shirley Hoy’s memo on the toilet-bowl story, I should also link to the city’s official list of everything they say I got wrong. I could deconstruct it just as I did with Hoy’s memo, but this has gone on long enough. Besides, not one but two press gallery wags have waded in as arbiters anyway. Wouldn’t want to pile on.

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dr December 22, 2007 at 12:19 p.m.

Re: Map of Toronto showing three cities emerging...

The correlation between low income or poverty and just about every form of affliction known to humankind is almost perfect!

Toronto has been declining since 1990. Things are only going to get worse until people wake up.

Good story!

Of related interest:

Poverty and Policy in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life by Dennis Raphael
Foreword by Jack Layton
http://tinyurl.com/2hg2df

Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, edited by Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant, and Marcia Rioux
Foreword by Gary Teeple
http://tinyurl.com/2zqrox

Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, edited by Dennis Raphael
Foreword by Roy Romanow
http://tinyurl.com/yptzae

See a lecture! The Politics of Population Health
http://msl.stream.yorku.ca/mediasite/vie...

Also, presentation on Politics and Health at the Centre for Health Disparities in Cleveland Ohio
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...

Dennis Raphael, PhD
Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
School of Health Policy and Management
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
416-736-2100, ext. 22134
email: draphael@yorku.ca
http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael


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Veteran freelance writer Philip Preville lived much of his life in Montreal and Edmonton before he was lured, like so many Torontonians before him, by the promise of more work and a better living. A National Magazine Award winner and former Canadian Journalism Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College, Preville writes Toronto Life’s politics column. He lives with his wife and one-year-old son in Riverdale, just close enough to the Don Valley Parkway that he can hear it when he steps outside his house—but just far enough away that it doesn’t keep him awake at night. On his office wall hangs a 1938–39 press pass belonging to his grandfather, Elias Gannon, who wrote for the Montreal Star.


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