The most significant social initiatives in Toronto over the past year were made by unpaid volunteers: @VaxHuntersCan @TorTinyShelters and Community Fridges Toronto. Why are citizens coming up with better social programs than the city? Where is the creativity in our leadership? These initiatives have been wildly successful but CFTO and TTS have been met with resistance instead of collaboration because of vague “safety concerns” and archaic rules

If you look at a map of Toronto, you’ll see Little Italy, Chinatown, Little Portugal, Koreatown and Little Malta. But you won’t see the words Little Jamaica, even though this section of Eglinton West has been colloquially known by that name since at least the 1960s In the ‘70s + ‘80s, about 100,000 Jamaicans moved to Toronto, mostly settling in this area. Little Jamaica became a hotbed for reggae / soul (check out Jamaica to Toronto compilation) + a hub for Canada’s Caribbean diaspora. Here’s reggae legend Noel Ellis there checking records