BECAUSE IT’S 2019

SUPPORT LOCAL WRITERS, ILLUSTRATORS, AND PHOTOGRAPHERS PRODUCING IMPORTANT WORK ABOUT TORONTO’S WEST END.

On Wednesday, January 17th, Prime Minster Justin Trudeau visited the West End Phoenix at our home in the Gladstone Hotel. We talked newspapers and art and life and the importance of conversation in our time. Two writers/photographers — Melissa Vincent and Alex Jacobs-Bloom — spoke about their work; we joked with Canada's head of state about the beauty and peril of home delivery; and we talked about what we are all trying hard to do, and will keep on doing for as long as we can.

For those beyond the west end, the West End Phoenix delivers across Toronto and we also mail to anywhere in Canada and the world!

If you’re outside of the catchment, send us a note at hello@westendphoenix.com to see if you’re on a delivery route!

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Slow print, small run, mighty and true, the non-profit, ad-free West End Phoenix is a periodical community newspaper dreamed up by writer and Rheostatic Dave Bidini, giving voice to the swirl of neighbourhoods that make up one of North America’s fastest evolving catchments.

Patron-supported and ad-free — and devoted to the magic and power of print — the Phoenix invites you to join the chorus of readers around the city as well as Canada’s best writers, photographers and illustrators as we produce a new broadsheet for our times.