Inside Toronto - The Villager

ERIN HATFIELD

Sitting in a coffee shop on Queen Street West in Parkdale, surrounded by aging highrises and hundred-year-old homes, Peggy Nash said she can see the potential impact a greener Canada could have on Toronto's west end.

Toronto Star - Carol Goar

Parkdale-High Park in Toronto's west end is a female-friendly riding. It has sent women to Parliament in four of the past five general elections.

But it is also a constituency with deep loyalties. When Gerard Kennedy, its former representative at Queen's Park, returned to his old political turf to seek a federal seat last fall, he was warmly welcomed.

It was a difficult choice. Voters liked and respected Peggy Nash, the hard-working New Democratic incumbent. But they remembered Kennedy's energy and enthusiasm.

TORONTO SUN - PEGGY NASH AND WINNIE NG

Reading the tea leaves of federal politics is always fascinating. How will Nannygate or the isotope scandal play out in the corridors of power? Who will trigger an election and when?

In the grown up world of real life though, for many working people fear is turning to anger.

Too many people are losing their jobs because of risky or incompetent management behaviour; all the while the CEOs keep collecting stratospheric paychecks.

Toronto Star - Antonia Zerbisias

Not that all men are warmongers, but it's striking how, in recent years, the most outspoken, out-front, outrageous and out-there peace activists have been women.

And older women at that.

Is it because, as our baby-making hormones ebb, our anti-war-mones take over?

Here in Canada, we have the Raging Grannies, often seen at the front lines of demonstrations against everything from the U.S. attack on Iraq to the globalization of trade that exploits workers, including women and children, around the word.