Sunday, 14 December 2025
This hliday shop Torontothe Better, Canada - Toronto the Good was not so, TorontotheBetter: BETTER
Wednesday, 10 December 2025
Russia. Qatar, USA, Saudi Arabia…
Leaders of recent and future “Whirled Cup” host countries have something in common and it is not a trespect for human rights. True football lovers must take action FIFA’s downward path is to be stopped. Will the World Cup bring democracy to dictatorships? Not until FIFA makes clear its opposition to the undemocratic.
Monday, 8 December 2025
Salut a Montreal
TorontotheBetter has learned from a friend in Montreal of a remarkable community achievement: the recent naming of La Place Balconville in Verdun, as a tribute to an inner city neighborhood made famous by the 1979 play of the same name by Montreal writer David Fennario.On behalf of all working for just, inclusive and creative cities in Canada and beyond we honour the legacy of all in Balconville. Solidarite et fratenite a tous.
Friday, 5 December 2025
FIFA reinvents peace with prize for Donald Trump
An event long in the making, to assure football/soccer governing body FIFA of future revenues and boost the ego of a tarnished US president has now taken place as, with straight faces, Donald Trump and FIFA president Gianni Infantino preside over the handover of a symbolic "peace" token to a warmonger. Troops on the streets of U.S. cities evidently do not deter FIFA from the "greater good" of presidential flattery. If insults and militaristic threats fit well with peace then we live in a satirically topsy-turvy world order. The award ceremony on December 5, 2025 should at least give heart and motivation to World Cup 2026 co-hosts Canada and Mexico, to set the record straight and re-align the world's most popular sport with the values of wholesome athletic endeavour that were its origin.
As predicted here the chorus of “beatiful game citation is well under way with Canadian PM Carney using his December meeting with Donald Trump to praise football as both beautiful and unifying. His words sound very hollow in the context of a belligerent North American partner.
Monday, 1 December 2025
Welcome,Toronto Star
With over 20 years operating non profit social economy gateway TorontotheBetter, worker cooperative Libra Information Services was pleased to learn recently of the Toronto Star newspaper's Better Toronto programme, a compatriot we recognize in our lengthy social economy struggle to keep Toronto “great”, that is, as a just, creative and inclusive city. By celebrating enterprises that incorporate social values in their missions TorontothrBeter helps to ensure that all in Toronto can contribute to a better city when they make purchases at the designated TorontotheBetter stores in our directory. Making Toronto better never got easier than chossing to spend at enterprises that contrbute to workers, the environoment and the community wea live in.
Taodhg for TorontotheBetter (TorontotheBetter.net) [tim@TorontotheBetter.net) MA MLIS PhD [ABD]
