The remaining staff at Toronto’s NOW Magazine haven’t gotten a regular paycheque in months. But as the beloved alt-weekly disintegrated around them, they kept on putting out issues. Norm Wilner, who spent 14 years as NOW’s film writer, joins former colleague Jonathan Goldsbie on Short Cuts to consider the slow decay of a publication that served as the city’s internet, before the internet was a thing. They also look at the Toronto Star’s successful battle to overturn a strange publication ban masking the identity of an upper-crust private school.

Previous editors and owners paying invoices out-of-pocket

The rise and fall of Canada’s alt-weekly magazines.

Magazine management says the article removals were not approved

Drake, born Aubrey Graham in a city where almost one in ten people are black, is black. Toronto's greatest civic triumphalist since Jane Jacobs is...