The Danforth Speaks

  • A photo of the Bloor Viaduct, a tall wire safety barrier, overlaid with a photo, in black-and-white, which depicts the silhouette of a person walking.
    The Danforth Speaks

    The Luminous Veil

    by Katherine Zheng Photo credits: Paul Bica, Bob Price, and tortoon; digitally altered by Hafsah Jasat This article contains discussion of suicide. Reader discretion is advised. I spent a lot of time on the bridge commonly known as the Bloor Viaduct. I passed through it twice a day, 5 days a week for 4 years. It has high-wire bars 5 metres tall, preventing anybody from getting close to the edge. It prevents me from getting close to the edge. It arches high above the trees, so that birds can see its span of 494 metres of concrete and steel, 40 metres above the Don Valley. It would be a nice…

  • The Danforth Speaks

    ALL SIGNS POINT TO YES

    by Anne Marie Kirsten Photo credits: Stephen Mease, tortoon Have you ever mulled something over for so long that when you finally made a decision, it had nothing to do with the pros or cons, but was instead based off of the result of an arbitrary coin toss? I’d been quietly agonizing over something for approximately one year and three months, flipping imaginary coins, when the answer finally appeared in my inbox last week. Let’s be clear: that email had nothing to do with the dilemma in question. But I took it as a divine sign that pointed to “yes.” Ok, here comes the quandary, and brace yourself, First World…