The Toronto stock market regained Friday most of the losses it booked in a sell-off a day earlier as stronger than expected North American jobs data from April buoyed stocks.

Legislation will enforce disability-friendly service Toronto Star About one in seven Ontarians have a disability and the number will continue to grow as the population ages. According to the Royal Bank of Canada, people with disabilities have an estimated spending power of about $25 billion annually across Canada. ... and more »

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Québec — «L'américanisation totale du Canada»: voilà le spectre qu'agitait mardi la chroniqueuse du Toronto Star Heather Mallick dans le journal britannique The Guardian, à la suite de la victoire de Stephen Harper.

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Game Report: Aaron Hill leads D-Jays Patch.com Aaron Hill the 7-year veteran of the Toronto Blue Jays is expected to play this weekend against Clearwater. By Bill Christie | Email the author | 9:00am Aaron Hill at the plate for the D-Jays. Aaron Hill last played for the Dunedin Blue Jays in 2003 ... and more »

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Tigers-Blue Jays Preview CBSSports.com The absence of reigning major league home run king Jose Bautista has left a major hole in the Toronto Blue Jays' lineup. Adam Lind is doing his part to fill that void. With Bautista expected to miss one more game, Lind and the Blue Jays will try to win ... Lind's slugging paces Jays to win over TigersToronto Star Blue Jays beat Tigers with batsMontreal Gazette Detroit Tigers have three-game winning streak ended in Toronto by Blue JaysMLive.com Globe and Mail -The Associated Press -Sacramento Bee all 323 news articles »

Geoff Rathbone, the city works manager who recently wrote a report recommending increased privatization of Toronto garbage collection, is himself moving to the private sector.

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Toronto 7, Detroit 4: Phil Coke knocked around; Tigers' bats don't respond Detroit Free Press Tigers starter Phil Coke gave up 11 hits, mostly singles, to the Blue Jays Friday night in Toronto. / NATHAN DENETTE/Associated Press Tigers centerfielder Austin Jackson reacts after striking out during the fifth inning of the Tigers' ... Detroit Tigers have three-game winning streak ended in Toronto by Blue JaysMLive.com Roundup: Jays spray season-hit 15 hits to top TigersCBSSports.com Lind's slugging paces Jays to win over TigersToronto Star Toronto Sun -Montreal Gazette -Sacramento Bee all 323 news articles »

Jean Chretien is urging Liberals to support Toronto MP Bob Rae as interim leader of the decimated federal party.

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After making the new song "Thrash Fuck Eat Sleep" available as a free download , Toronto party thrashers Fatality have now posted a video online for the track. You can check out the song in the clip below.



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"I know I’ve reached the zenith of my checkered career, as a fill-in between K’Naan and Alicia Keys performances," said Stephen Lewis at the Hope Rising! benefit concert, held Tuesday night at the Sony Centre in Toronto. Money raised from the star-studded evening will benefit Lewis’ foundation, which supports community-based organizations working to stop the AIDS pandemic in Africa. The A-list talent roster also included Harry Belafonte, Lorraine Segato and Rufus Wainwright, who joked about being the only white dude on stage, before singing a tear-inducing cover of Leonard Cohen’s "Hallelujah." But the message hit home the hardest when D’Bi Young, an African-Jamaican-Canadian dub poet, dramatically rapped, "I’m black and straight, this disease don’t discriminate." A sold-out crowd of 3200 people raised over $500,000.

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The Dalai Lama’s seven-page letter to the Tibetan parliament-in-exile in March 2011 announcing his full retirement of all political and administrative responsibilities is a historic political moment. Tibet’s spiritual leader, in exile in India since 1959, has in issuing it taken two positive steps: towards reforming the political authority of the highest religious institution in Tibet, and encouraging and empowering the young Tibetan democracy.

At 76, the Dalai Lama has long been conscious of his role as the symbol of Tibetan unity and independence; but he has always understood and emphasised that the Tibetan problem will remain after his demise. In spiritual terms, the Dalai Lama continues to represent an important moral voice in a world that poses hard questions about how to respond effectively and in non-violent ways to the violence of the age, and how to build a better world that struggles against the causes of war and terrorism.

The Dalai Lama’s democratic effort for Tibet is a strong expression of his Buddhist and Gandhian convictions, founded on two principles: self-reliance and non-violence. These two principles will remain central to any democratic measures taken by the new Tibetan prime minister, Lobsang Sangay, and to all future dialogue and compromise with Beijing.

In the view of the Dalai Lama, democracy is a source of power for the powerless and of hope to the hopeless. It offers a politics that is completely at odds with the logic of occupation and violation of human rights in which Tibet lives today.

In his acceptance speech on the occasion of the award of the Nobel peace prize in Oslo on 10 December 1989, the Dalai Lama proposed a wider vision: “the conversion of the entire Tibetan plateau into a zone of Ahimsa, a sanctuary of peace and non-violence where human beings and nature can live in peace and harmony.” 

China’s economic strategy in Tibet has been in the opposite direction, and has caused immense cultural and environmental damage and increased the social marginalisation of Tibetans. Chinese officialdom - which still describes its violent takeover of Tibet in 1950-51 as a "peaceful liberation" - has long hoped that Beijing’s economic and cultural policies in Tibet will create a new generation of Tibetans that are less influenced by Buddhist religion and that, with the passing of the Dalai Lama, will accept finally to be part of China.

In this context, the Dalai Lama’s decision to relinquish his duties as political head of the Tibetan people in exile has increased anxieties in Beijing. No wonder, for the Dalai Lama’s democratic strategy places him a step ahead of China in setting the terms for the tumultuous situation in Lhasa that might follow his death.

The revered Tibetan institution of the Dalai Lama has played a dual role of spiritual and political authority since 1642. Its political reform opens the way to one of the major tests of Tibet’s modern history, namely trying to strike a win-win deal that reformulates Tibetan autonomy within the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Much is at stake here: the capacity to resist Chinese efforts to restrict traditional rituals, to reverse the the neglect of the Tibetan language at the expense of Chinese, and to defend the ecosystem in the face of unbalanced development.

The political path

In his address to the European parliament in December 2008, the Dalai Lama reiterated Tibet’s desire for “genuine autonomy” within the PRC and reaffirmed the will of the Central Tibetan Administration to move beyond fear and help to promote a culture of trust between the two nations. The major task of the prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, Lobsang Sangay, is to promote such a culture. Will he make a difference to future dialogue between Beijing and Dharamsala?

So far, the 42-year-old Harvard law researcher has said that his top priority is to ask the Chinese authorities to review their "hardline" Tibet policy and take a "more moderate and liberal approach". This said, both Chinese and Tibetans will continue to expect the Dalai Lama to have an important influence on future negotiations between Tibet and China, and over the question of Tibetan autonomy. In the final analysis the leaders of Tibet’s reformed institutions, temporal and spiritual, need to work together to build and develop a new Tibet.

The road to Tibet’s autonomy is paved with many difficulties and challenges. That is why the election of Lobsang Sangay and the Dalai Lama's announced departure from political life are noteworthy. They mark a new chapter in the democratic exercise of the Tibetan community, which can show China and the world that even amid marginalisation and hardship the Tibetan community-in-exile is capable of forming a stable and transparent government.

The five years of Sangay’s prime-ministerial term offer Tibetans an opportunity to create a robust interface for the Chinese government to deal with. Even if Sangay does not succeed in convincing Beijing to abandon its hardline phase and accept the principle of autonomy for Tibet, his democratic election and the evolutionary move from the Dalai Lama reveal the anachronism of China’s authoritarian rule over Tibet. The Dalai Lama has once more proved to Tibetans and the world that he is not only a charismatic spiritual figure but a figure capable of bringing wisdom to democracy.

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Ramin Jahanbegloo is professor in the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto. He was previously Rajni Kothari professor of democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi. His twenty books include India Revisited: Conversations on Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, 2007). His website is here

Also by Ramin Jahanbegloo in openDemocracy:

"America's dreaming" (30 August 2004) - with Richard Rorty

"Richard Rorty: living in dialogue" (20 June 2007)

“The modern Gandhi” (30 January 2008)

"Olympics of shame" (9 April 2008)

"The new middle east: intellectuals and democracy" (3 February 2011)

"The new middle east: a civic revolution" (17 February 2011)

Plus - contributions to symposiums on Iran, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011

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