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Articles by: David Gray-Donald

Hot Docs Festival

‘Nekai Walks’ Is a Heartfelt, Insightful Look at Gun Violence at Jane and Finch

Tagged
documentary, Gun Violence, Hot Docs, Jane and Finch, Toronto
The Grind
Politics

Israel Bombs and Invades Lebanon, Kills Over 1,000 in First Three Weeks

Issue
2026 Apr/May
Tagged
Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, War
Politics

Cuba Still Welcoming Tourists

Tagged
Blackout, blockade, Cuba, oil, United States
News

A Davenport for Ceasefire Supporter Was Attacked at Home; Suspect’s Case Could Be Nearing Resolution

Issue
2026 Apr/May
Tagged
Davenport for Ceasefire, Elly Dassas, Elly Goldberg-Dassas, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Toronto
News

OPINION: Paikin’s Israel Trip Is Another Troubling Sign of Pro-Israel Bias

Tagged
Israel, Journalism, Palestine, Steve Paikin
News

What’s Going on with the Changes to Recycling?

Issue
2026 Feb/Mar
Tagged
Municipal news, News, Ontario, Provincial News, Toronto
Arts & Culture

Review: Dinner With Friends

Issue
2025 Oct/Nov
Tagged
Dinner With Friends, film, Sasha Leigh Henry, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
Arts & Culture

Review: Nika & Madison

Issue
2025 Oct/Nov
Tagged
Ellyn Jade, Eva Thomas, film, Nika & Madison, Star Slade, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
Arts & Culture

Review: 100 Sunset

Issue
2025 Oct/Nov
Tagged
100 Sunset, Kunsang Kyirong, Parkdale, Sonam Choekyi, Tenzin Kunsel, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
Arts & Culture

Review: Dead Lover

Issue
2025 Oct/Nov
Tagged
Dead Lover, Grace Glowicki, horror film, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
Arts & Culture

Review: True North

Issue
2025 Oct/Nov
Tagged
Black Power, Montreal, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, True North
Arts & Culture

Review: The Voice of Hind Rajab

Issue
2025 Oct/Nov
Tagged
Israel, Kaouther Ben Hania, Palestine, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Voice of Hind Rajab
News

Former CSI Annex Location to Become City-owned Shelter

Issue
2026 Feb/Mar
Tagged
720 Bathurst, Centre for Social Innovation, CSI, CSI Annex, homelessness, Indigenous, shelters, Toronto
Environment

Enviro Groups Urge Toronto to Oppose Gas Plant Plan

Tagged
climate change, Ontario Clean Air Alliance, Portlands Energy Centre, Toronto City Council
News

IDF Soldier Manhandles Toronto Students Who Disrupted Event

Tagged
IDF soldiers, Israel, Jonathan Karten, Palestine, students, Students for Justice in Palestine, Students Supporting Israel, Toronto, Toronto police
Arts & Culture

‘Coexistence, My Ass!’ Review: A Rare Inside View of Mainstream Israeli Support for Apartheid and Genocide

Tagged
Amber Fares, documentary, Hot Docs, Israel, Noam Eliassi, Noam Shuster Eliassi, Palestine, Revue Cinema, Toronto Arab Film Festival
News

In Their Own Words: Torontonians on Opposing the Genocide for Two Years

Issue
2025 Oct/Nov
Tagged
genocide, Israel, Jalila Freve, Joey Nicholson-Landau, Nour Hadidi, Nyla Obaid, Palestine, Raed Hamdan, Torontonians, West Bank
Arts & Culture

Belcourt Revisits Northern Ontario Armed Occupation in ‘Ni-Naadamaadiz’

Issue
2025 Oct/Nov
Tagged
Anicinabe Park, Kenora, land back, Louie Cameron, Ni-Naadamaadiz, Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising, Ojibway Warriors Society, Ontario, Red Power Rising, Shane Belcourt, Tanya Talaga, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival
News

Toronto Vigil Held for Awdah Hathaleen, Collaborator on No Other Land Documentary 

Tagged
activism, Awdah Hathaleen, Canada, West Bank
News

People Keep Vandalizing Scotiabank Branches

Tagged
activism, Elbit Systems, Israel, Palestine, Scotiabank, Toronto, vandalism
News

No New Action from Canada as Israel Starves Gaza

Tagged
Anita Anand, Canada, CIFTA, CJPME, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, GHF, Global Affairs Canada, Israel, Palestine, starvation, Toronto
Theatre

Fringe Review: The Adding Machine

Tagged
Alice Lundy, Dani Zimmer, Fringe, Fringe Festival, Jamar Adams-Thompson, Jen McEwen, Leroy Rice, The Adding Machine, theatre, Tim Walker, Toronto Fringe
The Pomegranate Restaurant on College
Food

Stewed Up: The Pomegranate Restaurant Brings Fresh, Home-style Iranian Flavours

Issue
2025 Summer
Tagged
Ali Fakhrashrafi, Danielle Schrage, Iran, Persian food, Pomegranate
The Grind
News

Israel Starts War with Iran

Issue
2025 Summer
Red CBC logo in red with right side fading out of focus.
News

CBC Exec and Host Lash Out at CJPME’s Media Critic

Issue
2025 Summer
Tagged
Basem Boshra, Brodie Fenlon, Canadian media, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, CBC, CBC News, CJPME, David Cochrane, Israel, Jason Toney, Media, media criticism, Palestine
News

Are Toronto Police Lying About Hate Crime Stats?

Issue
2025 April/May
Tagged
Palestine, police, Toronto
A scene from the film Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance, which will open the Hot Docs 2025 festival. Photo courtesy Hot Docs
Arts & Culture

Hot Docs Is Back

Issue
2025 April/May
Tagged
documentary, film, movies
A photograph of Pierre Poilievre giving a campaign speech, surrounded by hundreds of spectators and bright lights.
Analysis

The Poilievres’ Elite Circles

Issue
2025 April/May
Tagged
Conservatives, Poilievre, tech
A photo of Mark Carney striding in front of a huge red campaign bus that reads "CARNEY 2025"
News

Carney Campaigning to the Right

Issue
2025 April/May
Photo of a construction site with grain silos behind a fence. It is a sun and cloud day at Ontario Place on the Toronto lakeshore.
News

Commercial use allowed on 30% of Therme’s Ontario Place ‘public’ outdoor space. Plus: doubts about the ‘$200 million’ investment

Issue
2025 April/May
Tagged
30% Entitlement, Doug Ford, lakeshore, Ontario, Ontario Place, Ontario Place lease, park, public land, StrategyCorp, Toronto, West Island
Photo of TTC bus 124 on a snowy day.
News

How Premier Ford Took Away $1 Billion From the TTC

Issue
2025 Feb
Tagged
Toronto, transit, TTC
Photo of Queen's Park building in the winter.
News

What Does the Provincial Government Do?

Issue
2025 Feb
Tagged
governance, Ontario, politics
News

Metrolinx Shakes Little Jamaica. For 15 Years.

Tagged
Metrolinx, Subway, transit
News

The Dealmaker?

Issue
2025 Feb
Tagged
Beer store, EV Cars, failed deals, Ontario Place
yellow X
News

What Is Strategic Voting?

Issue
2025 Feb
Tagged
election, Green Party, GTA, Liberal, NDP, Ontario, Progressive Conservative, strategic voting, Toronto
News

The Palestine Exception in Action at The Toronto Star?

Issue
2024 Dec - 2025 Jan
Tagged
40 babies, Donovan Vincent, Jordan Himelfarb, media criticism, Oct. 7, Palestine exception, Toronto Star
Photo of Justin Trudeau speaking at a podium
News

OPINION: Liberal Letdowns Opened the Door

Issue
2024 Dec - 2025 Jan
News

Sudan’s Civil War, the U.S., U.A.E. and the Palestine Connection

Issue
2024 Oct/Nov
Image with Global News and Postmedia logos in the front and a burned out building of an Israeli kibbutz in the background.
News

Global News and Postmedia Refuse to Correct Oct. 7 Falsehoods

Issue
2024 Oct/Nov
Tagged
Beheaded babies rumour, Canadian media, CBC, CBC News, Disinformation, Gaza, Global, Global News, Israel, Journalism, Media, misinformation, National Post, Oct. 7, Palestine, Postmedia, Toronto Star
News

Toronto Police “Caused a Riot” Outside 51 Division After Pro-Palestinian Protest of UJA Event

Issue
2024 Oct/Nov
Tagged
Palestine, police, police brutality, pro-Palestinian, Toronto Police Services
Photo of an ad reading "Canadian LNG exports Will NOT Reduce Global Emissions" and the "CORRECTED". The "NOT" and "CORRECTED" are added in red. This looks like a bus stop add and someone who looks to be a doctor is standing next to it.
News

Greenwashing: A Hot Mess

Issue
2024 Summer
The Grind
News

Privatizing Hospital Services in Etobicoke?

Photo of the exterior of Hot Docs cinema on Bloor Street in Toronto.
Arts & Culture

What’s Next for Hot Docs?

Issue
2024 Summer
Photo of many copies of The Grind on a magazine rack.
News

Publisher’s Letter: How The Grind Is Keeping Independent Journalism Alive

Issue
2024 May/June
Photo of a press conference in the middle of a residential street in Toronto on an overcast day. Posters say "No Arms in the Arts" and "Scotiabank Funds Genocide"
News

Artists Call on Hot Docs’ Sponsor Scotiabank to Divest from Israeli Weapons Maker Elbit

Issue
2024 May/June
Tsakë ze’ Howilhkat Freda Huson and her sister Brenda Michell drum in ceremony as police enforce Coastal GasLink’s injunction at Unist’ot’en Healing Centre. Photo: Amber Bracken.
News

Must See at Hot Docs: Yintah

Issue
2024 May/June
Image of a pie chart with title "Breakdown of the purveyors of anti-Palestinian racism (ARP) based on examples identified by CJPME study. The top ones are: HonestReporting Canada (30%), Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation (17%), TheJ.ca (14%), The National Post (8%), The Suburban (5%), The Toronto Sun (3%), Others (23%).
Politics

The Deep Roots of Today’s Anti-Palestinian Racism

Issue
2024 May/June
Tagged
anti-Palestinian racism, CJPME, Palestine, Solidarity
Police attack demonstrators during Land Day march. photo by Joshua Best
News

About That Police Budget Increase…

Issue
2024 May/June
Tagged
police brutality, Toronto Police Services
Photo of a crowd in front of a banner reading "Amazon: Recognize the ALU!"
News

Must See at Hot Docs: Union

Issue
2024 May/June
Photo of several police and a pro-Palestine protester falling down amid all the police.
News

Violent Crackdown at Land Day March

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